MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by poszlem | 2025-08-15 17:31:36+00:00
Good riddance.

The latest chapter of America’s cultural revolution has been driven largely by radical currents in the humanities and by students eager to impose them beyond campus.

It is finally time for universities to reconsider what they truly want to teach. They need to stop producing ideological foot soldiers and focus instead on real learning,including the humanities, when they are done honestly and not just used to push one narrow worldview.

With so much changing in the world right now, we urgently need the humanities to recover their integrity and purpose.
by DudeOpotomus | 2025-08-15 17:31:49+00:00
I'd say that this is a take only for your time, not for all time. For all time, learning about the humanities has shown to further one's ability to reason, create and imagine. IMHO Curiosity paired with an understanding of humanity (social skills) will become the most valuable job skills. The ability to talk and connect with people will outweigh any technical skill. You can only do this by understanding humanity and living in a society that promotes and fosters humanity.

In the near term, AI will override any and all non-physical skills. However AI is not able to create or imagine, it can only mimic and regurgitate. Additionally, it cannot fix a leaking shower, and it cannot make your bed. Add in physical real-world limitations and complexities,(randomness and disorder), and you have a world where physical skills and artistic abilities will dominate.

People will value authenticity, human touch and the magic that is human creativity (love) more and more as the non-physical world becomes less and less real.

Makers, Do-ers, Designers and Caretakers will dominate the workforce in 25 years.
by flakiness | 2025-08-15 17:32:08+00:00
hardware-wise, this seems like a NVIDIA TensorCore? via https://huggingface.co/Arm/neural-super-sampling/blob/main/2...

- https://github.com/KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs/blob/5d386163f25... Adding tensor ops to the shader kernel vocaborary (SPIR-V). Promising.

- https://github.com/KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs/blob/5d386163f25... Adding TenforFlow/NNAPI/-like graph API. Good luck.
by tracker1 | 2025-08-15 17:32:23+00:00
I don't mind monospace too much, but definitely not the font chosen... the spacing is just awkward to say the least, my eyes just want to wander when trying to read... and I look at monospace fonts in a code editor all day. Fira Code or Inconsolata.

That said, I'd probably just stick to "sans-serif" and let the browser/os preference hold. It's likely a helvetica/arial alike anyway and can be set by user preference if really wanted.
by Telaneo | 2025-08-15 17:32:33+00:00
> I would be in favor of some kind of vetting program, where you (the ad network) commit to ensuring your (customers') ads aren't scammy, e.g. advertising on software download sites with an ad that looks like a download button. Much like spam, if your ads get reported and they're verified as being in violation, you get taken off the whitelist.

On principle I'd disagree, and say that those types of ads should be illegal to begin with. It's amazing how many straight up scams are being advertised on otherwise trusted platforms, like Youtube. You should be responsible for what ads you put up and make sure you aren't perpetuating something illegal.

I also have no faith in the ad companies not using this as the thin end of the wedge and opportunity to start chipping away at what constitutes a non-intrusive ad. Today they only allow static ads, in two years they'll allow gifs, and in five they'll allow autoplaying audio.

If a serious bargain could be made with the ad industry that we allow them to show non-intrusive ads, and don't block them, and in exchange, they behave like human beings, then I'd take that, but I'm still not convinced the people who work in those industries are quite human to begin with. And that bargain probably wouldn't even fix the 'site loads super slow because it has to download 5 GBs of JS bloat', which is something ad blockers and the like also help to manage.
by croes | 2025-08-15 17:32:34+00:00
No, it isn’t. The court said:

>The plaintiff's activities centered on the theories of Karl Marx are fundamentally at odds with the free democratic basic order.

For example, because of his talk of the dictatorship of the proletariat, which excludes other groups, which is undemocratic.

The only reason the case was dismissed is because the group was insignificant enough and not “actively combative”.
by random3 | 2025-08-15 17:32:55+00:00
> blog author didn't disclose that his opinion piece is directly tied to the business model of his startup

You mean other than stating in the "About" section of his *blog*?

You seem to be confusing blogging "standards" with conflict of interest disclosures for research publications and see a problem with founders being subjective by actually having an overlap in their beliefs and their companies.
by techMac111 | 2025-08-15 17:32:55+00:00
No core AI model, Its a wrapper, And valuation at $18 billion is just fabricated fake PR, After deep seek and other free Core AI models based AI tools it has no future and its CEO knows that is why he is just focusing on public stunts & then raising as much as he can and withdraw by packing massive paychecks to himself.
by hnbad | 2025-08-15 17:33:21+00:00
This article and some of the comments suffers from a misunderstanding about the German court system. The court did not rule anything unconstitutional - it only declared it as such in its ruling about the specific case. The decision can be appealed and does not set precedent the way it works in common law systems like in the US. Only the constitutional court could rule Marxism unconstitutional and it hasn't done so in the past and is unlikely to do so in the future.

The argument is also extremely dodgy, at least the way it is being presented here. The court seemingly argues that whether or not Marxism necessarily requires a violent overthrow of the government is irrelevant because the "dictatorship of the proletariat" would be an undemocratic rule to the exclusion of a demographic group (presumably capitalists) but this is paper thin.

Communism would abolish "capitalists" as a concept, not as a demographic group. It's more like the abolition of chattel slavery - it simply stopped providing a legal mechanism to be a slave owner, it didn't "discriminate against slave owners" because that was no longer a thing you could meaningfully be (or at least not more than "human trafficker").

The German constitution does not actually establish capitalism as integral to the "liberal democratic order". It's true that it includes protections of "private property" but it also contains a hierarchy of interests that allows for private property to be socialized for the benefit of the public and ultimately yields to "human dignity" above all else. It does not give special protections to capital and certainly not exceeding those offered to humans (regardless of citizenship or residence by the way - this is why German "sex tourism" abroad is still subject to concerns in Germany like the age of consent, and consent in general).

It's also worth mentioning that the constitutional court has previously ruled that some aspects of the constitution including special protections can be informed by changing cultural attitudes. Specifically this was used to argue in favor of same-sex relationships being included in protections of "family" - a change that certain conservatives also saw as a breakdown of the "public order".
by dfxm12 | 2025-08-15 17:33:25+00:00
It’s great to see homages to the 80’s such as this design by James White of Signalnoise for the Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon video game — chrome, check; grid, check; lightning, check. Yep, that’s the 80’s.

Does anyone else (maybe over 40 yo) see the FarCry 3 logo and not recognize it as an homage to the 80s, but as a clear example of the synthwave style, which was popular when the game came out?

The pink, blue, purple color scheme emblematic of synthwave. From the 80s examples given, we don't see any combination of "chrome" + grid. There's an added scanline effect that isn't visible in the period examples (why would we think of scanlines in the 80s?), and the background lacks the gradients we especially see in the Heavy Metal and Yars' Revenge examples.
by mrguyorama | 2025-08-15 17:33:27+00:00
Why have they built innovative Taiwan invasion barges if they do not want war?

Building weapons to sink American carriers and boats and having a limited nuclear arsenal can be seen as trying to prevent the US from being able to blockade China from it's food and energy imports.

But there is no possible way to wave away the literal Taiwan invasion barges and the planning they signal. That's not something you build unless you plan on invading your island neighbor.
by notfromhere | 2025-08-15 17:34:20+00:00
Do you have ADHD? Because as someone that has it, it's definitely very much something that heavily impacts the individual with it, and not just society.

It's hard to consistent do things, form habits, maintain attention. You have almost a lack of object permanence, a hard time remembering long-term memories, etc. There are so many problems it causes that aren't even occupational related but lead to negative outcomes outside of your personal engagement in social and economic environments.

Yes, society isn't really designed for folks with ADHD, but also the prevalence of ADHD was somewhat disguised by the fact that mental health had a social stigma and that smoking was incredibly common and people were basically microdosing stimulants every hour as such. It's not that shocking to think that the decline in smoking made adhd much more apparent.
Show HN: Fecusio – Feature flagging and release management tool
by markogg | 2025-08-15 17:34:22+00:00
Hello everyone!

To briefly introduce myself, I'm mainly a backend developer, working in the industry for the past 7 years.

On one of the products I was working on we were heavily using a custom feature flagging system. Basically, any functionality we were building was starting with a new feature flag. It was useful because:

1. We were able to silently deploy a feature to production for real environment testing 2. We would enable feature flag for specific users across our team, like marketing, sales, so everyone can check it out, test and prepare for the release 3. We were restricting certain features across pricing plans or organizations 4. We were sometimes initially only releasing to customers that requested the feature, or a small group

There were more use cases, but all in all, feature flagging was deeply integrated in the product.

As someone who has a lot of experience with this topic, I decided to build a new feature flagging tool in a way how I would imagine it to work.

Additionally, I always wanted to go on a journey with my own product, going through the entire process from seeing an empty page on my localhost to having a finished, well documented and working product.

The product is now live and working, although still with a "Beta" badge as it lacks some real-world testing.

The stack I'm using: 1. Laravel framework for the main app with Interia.js and Tailwind CSS for styling 2. Postgres/Redis for data storage 3. Astro for the marketing website and (Starlight) for the documentation

The main app is deployed on Hetzner with Kubernetes.

One of the main issues I was worried about is the latency, as flags evaluation must be fast otherwise it is not very appealing to use an external tool for that. I solved it by caching evaluations on Cloudflare Edge network close to users around the world. I've set up a worker that is responsible for managing the flag evaluation content. I have some ideas to improve this approach in future, but for v1 I think it does a pretty good job.

Marketing website is also on Cloudflare worker.

I would like to invite you to try it out and provide some feedback if you have, at https://fecusio.com/

To understand how the product is intended to be used, you can read the Quickstart guide: https://fecusio.com/docs/quickstart/quickstart/

Thanks!
by mnahkies | 2025-08-15 17:34:23+00:00
+1 - I used GOG for the first time the other week to get a copy of Morrowind so I could see how https://openmw.org/ was these days, and it was a really good experience.

I did have to use some obscure tool to extract it being on Linux but it's nice to know I won't have to purchase another copy again. There's a number of games I've had to repeat purchase (mostly from disk to digital), and with modding the forced auto updates on steam can also be a pain
by doright | 2025-08-15 17:34:34+00:00
I can unfortunately think of some fairly recent counterexamples to "why not reach out." They didn't justify keeping imaginary fences up, rather they justified cutting those people out of my life entirely, because they just don't fit into the overly tidy script of "might as well try."

Just as it is important to not deny yourself positive social experiences with people you trust, it is just as important not to hold out too much hope for change and be generous when it is not merited, as the consequences can lead straight back to maladaptive coping patterns.
Show HN: Edka – Kubernetes clusters on your own Hetzner account
by camil | 2025-08-15 17:34:54+00:00
Hi HN,

I’ve been working with Kubernetes for over a decade, since the alpha days, and was involved in kube-aws project before AWS launched EKS. For the past four years, I’ve been helping friends and small businesses cut costs by running Kubernetes on Hetzner Cloud, which I’ve found to be rock solid and by far the best priced provider.

Provisioning a cluster on Hetzner is now straightforward, thanks to tools like k3s and hetzner-k3s, but configuring it for your specific needs still takes time and expertise. I built Edka to make that part easy: spin up a production ready cluster in ~2 minutes, then choose how low level or automated you want to go.

How it works:

Layer 1 – Cluster provisioning - Creates a k3s-based Kubernetes cluster on Hetzner (lightweight, easy to manage, scales well).

Layer 2 – Add-ons - One-click deploy for metrics-server, cert-manager, and various operators; preconfigured for Hetzner, no extra setup needed.

Layer 3 – Applications - Minimal config UIs for apps built on top of add-ons. - Example: Need PostgreSQL? Fill a few fields → platform installs CloudNativePG → provisions HA PostgreSQL with PITR → gives ready to use endpoints. Backups can be restored to any point in time with a click. Quick demo: https://edka.io/apps/

Layer 4 – Deployments - Connect your CI to push container images to a public/private registry. - Edka updates deployments automatically (with semantic versioning rules), supports instant rollbacks, autoscaling, persistent volumes, secrets/env imports, and quick public exposure. Quick demo: https://edka.io/deployments/

Tech stack: TypeScript, React + Tailwind CSS, PostgreSQL, Redis, BullMQ, Vault + AWS KMS to encrypted sensitive data.

The platform is still in beta and I’m building it in my spare time, so there are some rough edges, but I’d love feedback from anyone running Kubernetes on Hetzner, exploring alternatives to EKS/GKE/AKS or looking to automate their infrastructure with Kubernetes.

More details: https://edka.io/

Thank you!
by bri3d | 2025-08-15 17:35:14+00:00
This is a perfect summary of C++: substantially more complicated for substantial convenience.

Add Boost to the mix, as in this bug, and C++ becomes quite ludicrous really, but it can also combine efficiency, interoperability, and performance in a way that's quite difficult to achieve in other languages.

IMO, starting a good C++ project is an exercise in defining a specific language based on a subset of C++ more than anything else: done right, it can be a big lever, done wrong, it can be a big foot-gun.
by alecco | 2025-08-15 17:35:19+00:00
I agree in a theoretical way. But in the real world corporations don't have skilled infosec/cyber people and they wouldn't even know how to find them [1]. So they end up with incompetent departments imposing ridiculous limitations for theater. And these worsen end user aversion to security. Younger generations care less and less about security and privacy. And the growing corporate disdain of employees (in particular to the ones who sacrificed to the company) make employees care even less. There were recent cases of employees selling corporate secrets for peanuts. And many gangs just reach out to employees being laid off to gain access. I know from second-hand this was the way it happened in one of the biggest ransomware scandals a couple of years ago.

I really don't know how to fix this situation. In fact, it seems to be deteriorating very fast.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons#Conditio...
by zahlman | 2025-08-15 17:35:37+00:00
I actually don't understand who Anubis is supposed to "make sure you're not a bot". It seems to be more of a rate limiter than anything else. It self-describes:

> Anubis sits in the background and weighs the risk of incoming requests. If it asks a client to complete a challenge, no user interaction is required.

> Anubis uses a proof-of-work challenge to ensure that clients are using a modern browser and are able to calculate SHA-256 checksums. Anubis has a customizable difficulty for this proof-of-work challenge, but defaults to 5 leading zeroes.

When I go to Codeberg or any other site using it, I'm never asked to perform any kind of in-browser task. It just has my browser run some JavaScript to do that calculation, or uses a signed JWT to let me have that process cached.

Why shouldn't an automated agent be able to deal with that just as easily, by just feeding that JavaScript to its own interpreter?
by fkyoureadthedoc | 2025-08-15 17:35:53+00:00
First you said a mobile app developer doesn't have to worry about various screen sizes. But Android devices come in a ton of sizes and form factors. iPad apps are windowed and resizable, and a native Mac app runs on a system that connects to a monitor of arbitrary size.

So give that point was completely bunk, you changed it to something about the total number of internet connected devices. I have absolutely no clue why that is relevant, and you haven't explained why it is either.
by switchbak | 2025-08-15 17:35:58+00:00
I think there's nuance missing from his take that people gloss over.

To me it's more like "don't over-invest on the early thing you're going to throw away". That implies that:

- You're making a thing, and making it quickly - optimizing for rapid market/customer feedback

- You're making it in such a way that you can replace it

- You have real plans and a sincere intention to actually replace it if you start to scale

I have no problem with those, but what I see at a bunch of startups is:

- Make a thing, don't worry about paining yourself into a corner because "we're moving fast"

- The thing hobbles along, the product gets some interest

- It's incredibly hard to maintain, replace or otherwise improve

- Original authors leave to other pastures because this isn't fun any more

- Other folks come along and have to work miracles to try to undo the gordian knots that were made

In other words: I like the idea of moving fast early on. Duct tape programming, love it. We also have to pay attention to the long term impacts of the decisions we're making. Some things are easy to fix/replace/undo, others are brutally hard.

Say you write a prototype in {Ruby/Python/Perl/??}, now you have mass adoption and you rewrite a slow part of it in {sexy_modern_language}. That's great.

Say instead that you decided to store all of your data in some bizarre format, hosted on IPFS, accessed via bittorrent, through an onion network, via ZModem, with CORBA - and you bake this in to such a degree that it's intermingled everywhere. Now you have a dilema:

- you have a business, making money

- you have increasing interest

- you have a system that's effectively impossible to change or reason about

- you can't really improve things to match the customer interest

- you're wedded to the design because things are so interwoven

- your only option is essentially a ground-up redesign and rewrite

Now - if the product is simple enough, rewrite away! (think early Twitter), but if it's not? Good luck to you.

I've seen this pattern more times than I haven't, and I think it deserves more nuanced thought and care when it comes to the economics at play.
by kube-system | 2025-08-15 17:36:05+00:00
> I guess world will essentially loop back into "thin-client" model as the connections are getting faster and lower latency than ever.

Things have been going this direction as long as "the cloud" has been a phrase.

Endpoint management is a pain for a lot of reasons other than ransomware, there's a lot that is solved in an enterprise by making your endpoints dumb and controlling your production environment centrally.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-08-15 17:36:25+00:00
It cannot be overstated how critical good defaults and “just works” are for any kind of mass-market product.

Knobs and toggles to allow enthusiasts to dial in everything perfectly aren’t a bad thing. You don’t need make your product a featureless orb. That said, users shouldn’t need to tinker around with any of them to get up and running or for basic use.

This is where Bambu excels. More involved printers are simply not interesting for many people outside of the 3D printing sphere, even if they’d become enthusiasts after buying a printer. They need a “gateway drug” of a printer that’s dead simple to use and get good results out of to even consider buying one. After that they might go down the rabbithole and seek out more technical options, but jumping straight to tinkerville is just too far of a leap for most.
by anonymars | 2025-08-15 17:36:34+00:00
In broad strokes I agree, but my overall point was exactly about this facet, which I excerpt:

> even with the scientific brain drain due to Nazi persection of jews and dissidents of all stripes

My point was precisely about that brain drain, in particular the dismissal of "Jewish Physics" (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Physik), which drove the atomic physicists right into America's open arms

So to watch the US destroy its seed corn with its own xenophobic brain drain is particularly ironic
by WillPostForFood | 2025-08-15 17:36:45+00:00
The purpose of a safety on the trigger is to prevent the trigger from moving due to inertia if it is dropped. There are many different safety mechanisms on guns, this is just one, for one specific case.

Sig has good engineering videos where they walk through many of the mechanisms on the M17/18/320.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPKMu47uWXQ
by neilv | 2025-08-15 17:36:55+00:00
> - Interview failed founders, not successful ones: They'll tell you why things actually break (co-founder fights, cash flow, timing) instead of survivorship bias fairy tales.

I like this idea a lot, if it can be done well.

Is there already trove of failed tech startup stories that are genuine, and maybe analyzed like business case studies? Is it publicly-accessible, or could it be?

I think the biggest challenge is getting truthful and complete information. (People will have made embarrassing mistakes, no matter how much brilliant heroism the team also pulled off. There will be things the failed founders don't want past customers/partners/investors to know. There will be things investors don't want known about their own behavior. For growth startups, there may be investment fraud at some level, for example. Or backstabbing. There will be differences of perspective on what really happened. There may be personality disorders. Etc.)

A lot of people will tolerate a disposable "incredible journey" post to put a less-negative spin on failure, but AFAICT usually no one involved really wants all the truth to get out.

Also, if you do it, ideally it would be for all startups. If you only do it for some, without all being humbled simultaneously, then current convention is to look down upon those with the transparency, while pretending the non-transparent ones are better. It's a pretty dim-witted and petty culture, and we have to structure with that in mind.