MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nilsherzig | 2025-08-16 19:46:52+00:00
Couple ideas (can’t test them now):

They list guns.lol as one of their projects. Looks like a linktree type of personal website hosting service. Some traffic might come from that network of pages, but if that would be the case I would expect google to have indexed their claim links by now. Same thing goes for the captcha service they are running.

They also have a cracked version of a Minecraft cheat client on GitHub. It’s very common to use residential proxies while cheating (or cracking Minecraft accounts), so that might be another option (obviously not for all of the IPs). Someone should scan the IPs claimed by them for common proxy ports.

Might be a good idea to run their claims through a geoip db, even tho they are pretty spread out over different subnets, there still might be a correlation there (like mostly Spanish speaking countries or something like that).

Looks like the gameserver provides some more insights at /statusz, notably there a basically no „image claims“. So it would have to be iframes or script src requests (?).

Might also be fun to monitor your local network for requests to ipv4.games, I will set a notification with my firewall and report back :).
by sho_hn | 2025-08-16 19:47:35+00:00
This is definitely a thing, but I hope KDE specifically on average has a rep of being easy to get into and owning our mistakes. At least this is really the culture we try to cultivate broadly.

For example, we also have some devs who proactively read or watch negative reviews and extract the good points into tickets (it's a nice low cost source of one form of user testing), and we've over the last half-decade or so built a strong culture of paying attention to user pain points, change defaults to match expectations, etc.

I know this thread reads pretty negatively, but I can say confidently our userbase has never been happier and the total number of users we serve well has grown significantly. You can even see it in the metrics - our monetary user donations have tripled in the last couple of years.

You can teach this pony new tricks!
by bakugo | 2025-08-16 19:47:36+00:00
> Vietnam, Brazil and Angola

Curiously, these are some of the top countries I see when analyzing traffic from malicious scraping bots that disguise themselves as old Chrome versions on my websites.

So it's possible that one of those botnet-ish residential proxy services is being used here. The ones that use things like compromised browser extensions to turn unknowing users into exit nodes.

Edit: Yep, it's residential proxies, someone on the linked page mentioned a website where you can look up the IPs and all of them come up as proxies.
by zer00eyz | 2025-08-16 19:47:39+00:00
This is a chord, this is another chord, this is a third chord.

Now start a band.

I dont think tech ever expected to have a "punk" phase but this is it. Do the math on how big your app has to be to make 240k a year (before tax). Now host that on something reasonable (not aws/cloud markup trash) and you can make a comfortable living. Payment processing apple/google store or square or ... CS, you dont need it any more! Accounting: software for that and a once a year with a professional. Payroll and insurance: there is a platform for that if you want to go into business with friends. Incorporation: tons of online tools will hand hold you through the process.

Your startup doesn't need to be a unicorn, it needs to pay for YOU.
by superstarryeyes | 2025-08-16 19:48:02+00:00
thanks for your insight! i started to build this project mainly for the tts features but you can certainly just read text on it.

it saves the state of having the narration on or off, so if you ever open the book again you don't hear any voice. also the reading progress and state is automatically saved to your system log files. I'm pretty sure with a few settings in the config.py file you could direct them to your server.

about the monospace fonts. yes, they're not the prettiest but they're very easy to read! easier than many much more beautiful fonts. and if you're tired of reading, just switch on the tts. ;)
by hamandcheese | 2025-08-16 19:48:05+00:00
> In fact, it will add more constraints to your design, because now you have different consumers and potentially writers all competing for the same resource with potentially different access patterns. Plus the maintenance overhead that migrations of such shared tables come with. And eventually you might have data in this table that are only needed for some of the services, so you now need to implement views and access controls at the DB level.

PostgreSQL, to name one example, can handle every one of these challenges.
by LouisSayers | 2025-08-16 19:48:24+00:00
> When these necessary resources are gifted to a person, there is a lower chance that they will decide to take part in economically productive behavior.

Source?

Even if that's true though, who cares if AI and robots are doing the work?

What's so bad about allowing people leisure, time to do whatever they want? What are you afraid of?
by pachevjoseph | 2025-08-16 19:49:10+00:00
I use Coolify for my own personal static site and it’s just like that. Git pushes redeploy my site and I get a discord notification once’s it’s done. The only manual thing I did was use a cloudlfare tunnel So it’s available to the public, since I am using my homelab to host Coolify.

I host maybe 8 different side projects on Coolify like this. Most don’t even have a Dockerfile in the repo. I use the standard nix packs option, and builds, rolling deployments etc are auto handled.
by jama211 | 2025-08-16 19:49:51+00:00
From the article itself (and it’s just one of many use cases it mentions)

- Here’s when it’s the perfect choice: You have a high-volume, well-defined task. Ideal for functions like sentiment analysis, entity extraction, query routing, unstructured to structured text processing, creative writing, and compliance checks.

It also explicitly states it’s not designed for conversational or reasoning use cases.

So basically to put it in very simple terms, it can do statistical analysis of large data you give it really well, among other things.
by herval | 2025-08-16 19:50:07+00:00
There’s still idealists and inventors around.

The problem is that the bulk of investment money these days comes through professional finance people (not the stereotypical “engineer who made a lot of money and now wants to help others”), who prioritize others who think like them, creating this self-fulfilling spiral of value extraction above all else. It’s the kind of thing you always see in “late stage” industries (eg aviation in the 1980s vs 1970s). It’s not irreversible though (eg there’s a small resurgence in hardware innovation happening right now, with companies like Framework, being funded by “idealist” investors, Pebble coming back, etc).

I think lots of people expected AI to be that too (the new “world of opportunity” that would come with a new “platform”), although so far it seems to be shaping up as FAANG players fighting for control (which is a bit disappointing from a user’s perspective)
by IX-103 | 2025-08-16 19:50:27+00:00
> But they're not just "stochastic parrots." They can model the world and reason about it, albeit imperfectly and not like humans do.

I've not seen anything from a model to persuade me they're not just stochastic parrots. Maybe I just have higher expectations of stochastic parrots than you do.

I agree with you that AI will have a big impact. We're talking about somewhere between "invention of the internet" and "invention of language" levels of impact, but it's going to take a couple of decades for this to ripple through the economy.
by ninetyninenine | 2025-08-16 19:50:46+00:00
>I didn't mean us two. I meant the collective consensus. >You didn't win. You lost. Read Free Culture by Lessig.

Who you had a conversation with is meaningless. The winner is what most of the world follows. Not who you personally define who "we" is.

>Who the hell is "nobody"?

Most of the modern world. Most readers on HN. The overwhelming majority of people on this earth are against your opinion.

This "we" you're referring to is an overwhelming minority of opinions.

>Go back to pirating your games while decrying the harm it does. Your position is so inconsistent it makes no sense to debate you.

My position is consistent. I take the role of the villain. I'm a serial killer who is aware that killing is wrong. But I want to be wrong and I don't care for being right.

You're the one who is inconsistent. You're the one rewiring reality to fit your immoral actions. You can't handle the fact that you yourself are a self fish actor.

You want to help the world. Yet you justify paying for things you didn't create because it's more "convenient".
by righthand | 2025-08-16 19:51:10+00:00
This is more than “just following orders”, this is “intentionally jumping in line to follow fascist orders”.

Why aren’t these good people quitting if they are just following orders they don’t agree with. There was ignorance about this kind of thing that was an excuse to follow orders back in 1930s but that excuse is no longer a “whoopsie get out of jail free” card.

If you know someone participating don’t let them pretend we all agree they’re “just protecting their country”. They’re not.
by lizknope | 2025-08-16 19:51:55+00:00
WordPerfect was bought by Novell in 1994 and then they sold it to Corel in 1996.

Corel even released their own ARM based computer running Linux. The Netwinder.

https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3288

https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/50921/Corel-Netwinde...

A friend of mine got WordPerfect for SCO Unix running under Linux using the iBCS subsystem to run other x86 Unix binaries on Linux.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Binary_Compatibility_Sta...
by foobarian | 2025-08-16 19:52:14+00:00
Do you think so? The problem with adtech is that it subsidizes the products by trading a margin of annoyance for extra revenue, allowing lower consumer prices. I would argue that the current market already does have many evenly matched players, and they naturally gravitate toward an equilibrium where they have as many revenue-bearing annoying features as the market will bear. As an example of a correction I recall the old days of popover and popunder windows that were worse than today's run of the mill site.

This is why it's hard to find an affordable dumb modern TV. They do exist, but they are pricy and made in small volumes. The market has spoken loud and clear.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-08-16 19:52:46+00:00
>Trivia: Saverin still owns 2% of Facebook.

It also helps that he was financially well off before Facebook too and could afford top lawyers. I imagine things would have gone differently if he were some broke immigrant kid on a visa, getting buried by Zuck's lawyers.

Justice may be blind, but it's definitely not free.
by nicomt | 2025-08-16 19:53:33+00:00
I find this really interesting, I can see a few different ideas on GitHub to claim IPs, but I don't see any of those reaching that scale.

https://github.com/search?q=ipv4.games%2Fclaim&type=code&p=1

While running ads is definitely a possibility, reaching 9% of all available IPs sounds like a crazy expensive campaign. I don't know what the ratio of people to public IP is but I doubt it's one.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-08-16 19:53:38+00:00
Yep. It's easy to be happy, bubbly, carefree and say money is not important to to you when you're set for life and don't ever have to worry about paying the mortgage, healthcare, childcare, bills, etc in one of the most expensive regions on the planet, but people without seven figures in the bank might disagree.

Sure, he's not Musk, Bezos or Zuckerberg levels of rich, but compared to average folk who need to work for a living till retirement, he's still very, VERY rich.
by coffeeling | 2025-08-16 19:54:10+00:00
In the real world nobody is masochistic enough to not adopt spaces if writing without kanji.

Old Japanese videogames couldn't use kanji due to technical limitations. They wrote in all kana but used spaces to make the text easier to read.

Modern Japanese children's books and eg. even Pokemon games still? Same thing, kana and spaces.

When Korean transitioned away from Japanese-style mixed script to purely alphabetic writing, what did they do? They adopted spacing.

The only time "but Japanese doesn't have spaces" comes up, ever, is when people argue against the removal of kanji. It's not a realistic scenario, in light of very recent history and current practice.
by spwa4 | 2025-08-16 19:55:03+00:00
Well, this one doesn't distort angles, and tries to get the entire world in a paper for practicality. Whilst you can change the parameters, you cannot make anything near the equator big.

Maps like Mercator are the only square maps where if you measure an angle to a destination where you stand and on the map, and then follow the resulting angle in a straight line, you actually get where you're going. This is especially important for ships, as they travel long distances, and the longer the distance, the more wrong other maps will lead you.

But politicians, of course, declare that ego is more important.

I love what most local maps do in atlasses these days. They use local projections, and for anything up to the size of, say, the state of New York (or smaller) that will have very, very close to the properties of a globe. This does of course show that atlasses try to be practical and produce useful maps. Not ego-based maps.
by ninkendo | 2025-08-16 19:55:14+00:00
Talking about foundational software but no mention of the biggest missing part of rust IMO: an ABI.

If you want to write an OS in rust and provide rich services for applications to use, you need to offer libraries they can call without needing to recompile when the OS is upgraded. Windows mostly does this with COM, Apple historically had ObjC’s dynamic dispatch (and now Swift’s ABI), Android does this with a JVM and bytecode… Rust can only really offer extern "C", and that really limits how useful dynamic libraries can be.

Doing an ABI without a VM-like layer (JVM, .NET) is really difficult though, and requires you to commit to certain implementation details without ever changing them, so I can understand why it’s not a priority. To my knowledge the only success stories are Swift (which faced the problem head-on) and COM (which has a language-independent IDL and other pain points.) ObjC has such extreme late binding that it almost feels like cheating.

If rust had a full-featured ABI it would be nearly the perfect language. (It would improve compile times as well, because we’d move to a world where dependencies could just be binaries, which would cut compile times massively.)
by nialv7 | 2025-08-16 19:56:47+00:00
It is just sad we are in a time where measures like Anubis is necessary. The author's efforts are admirable, so I don't mean this personally: but Anubis is a bad product IMHO.

It doesn't quite do what it is advertised to do, as evidenced by this post; and it degrades user experience for everybody. And it also stops the website from being indexed by search engines (unless specifically configured otherwise). For example, gitlab.freedesktop.org pages have just disappeared from Google.

We need to find a better way.
by ninetyninenine | 2025-08-16 19:57:10+00:00
>I didn't refuse to participate in society. I refused to participate in activities I personally believe are wrong. I don't really plan to take advantage of monopolies if I can avoid it. Whatever privileges I have that allow me to make this choice, I hope I can maintain them indefinitely.

If you refuse to participate in activities that you personally believe are wrong then based off of what you told me, you in actuality refuse to participate in society from an OVERALL perspective.

>I'm suffering nothing. There is no "blowback". I'm merely explaining to you why I don't believe in intellectual property. Because you asked.

This is the blowback:

>I do have a GitHub Sponsors. For about a year, I had exactly one sponsor. Now I have zero.

Negligible economic gain for your open source work. You may choose to personally not classify that as blowback, but my language is not referencing your personal opinion. You can think of it as saying: separate from your own opinion, basically everyone on the face of the earth things you suffer from "blowback".

Not that it means anything of course. Only your opinion really matters. I'm just communicating my thoughts. Like you.
by metalman | 2025-08-16 19:58:02+00:00
just remember that the trump epstien clinton crowd employes( has employed) countless imigrants as menial service labourers and staff at all of there fancy fully catered and staffed luxo dedautchurey palaces, who might have recieved large tips to not have seen things, 8f you hav3 been around, then you know people who were there, drove the cars flew the jets, or perhaps got even closer for a while....before working on a cruise ship....say
by kelseyfrog | 2025-08-16 19:58:15+00:00
There's three important beliefs at play in the A(G)I story:

1. When(if) AGI will arrive. It's likely going to be smeared out over a couple months to years, but relative to everything else, it's a historical blip. This really is the most contention belief with the most variability. It is currently predicted to be 8 years[1].

2. What percentage of jobs will be replaceable with AGI? Current estimates between 80-95% of professions. The remaining professions "culturally require" humans. Think live performance, artisanal goods, in-person care.

3. How quickly will AGI supplant human labor? What is the duration of replacement from inception to saturation? Replacement won't happen evenly, some professions are much easier to replace with AGI, some much more difficult. Let's estimate a 20-30 years horizon for the most stubborn to replace professions.

What we have is a ticking time bomb of labor change at least an order of magnitude greater than the transition from an agricultural economy to an industrial economy or from an industrial economy to a service economy.

Those happened over the course of several generations. Society: culture, education, the legal system, the economy, where able to absorb the changes over 100-200 years. Yet we're talking about a change on the same scale happening 10 times faster - within the timeline of one's professional career. And still, with previous revolutions we had incredible unrest, and social change. Taken as a whole, we'll have possibly the majority of the economy operating outside the territory of society, the legal system, and the existing economy. A kid born on the the "day" AGI arrives will become an adult in a profoundly different world as if born on a farm in 1850 and reaching adulthood in a city in 2000.

1. https://www.metaculus.com/questions/5121/date-of-artificial-...
by troupo | 2025-08-16 19:58:30+00:00
The currently flagged comment and the discussion below it actually do have a salient point.

Comment: How about get an actual published language standard? How about get more implementations of it?

In the discussion, @infogulch: If you are aiming to be the foundation of an entire industry it doesn't seem unreasonable to ask for some specifications. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44926375

I agree with @infogulch
by jakelazaroff | 2025-08-16 19:59:08+00:00
15 years later, we've reinvented Path: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_(social_network)

> Path was a social networking-enabled photo sharing and messaging service for mobile devices that was launched on 14 November 2010. The service allowed users to share up to a total of 50 contacts with their close friends and family.
by tstrimple | 2025-08-16 19:59:32+00:00
Those are called jigs and they really separate the good from great woodworkers. Tamar from 3x3Custom is probably one of my favorite YouTube woodworkers because she's all about making and using jigs. Typically they are trying to eliminate manual measurements for repeatable parts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOTqqSEtvng
by spwa4 | 2025-08-16 19:59:39+00:00
Mercator maps aren't used because of ego but because they are the ONLY maps that have 2 properties:

1) straight lines in reality are straight lines on the map. Which enables the following: measure an angle on the map and walk in that direction to get to a destination (e.g. compared to THAT mountaintop, go 30degrees to it's right and walk in a straight line, to get to your destination)

In all other map types (including an actual globe I might add), you have to walk a curve. A "geodesic".

2) straight lines in reality are straight lines on the map. So walking a straight line actually gets you where the line on the map is going (meaning you don't need those absurdly huge compasses to construct ellipses to approximate your path on the map that you see in certain old paintings or in some movies)

But of course, the only reason someone might want these properties on maps is ego. That's the only thing.
by immibis | 2025-08-16 20:00:17+00:00
There might be no good solution. In that case, you can still implement the least bad solution, but it's better to know that it's merely the least bad, than to fool yourself into thinking it's good - in particular, knowing that it's not a good solution should make you more open to hearing other ideas.

BlueSky is already quite bad like old Twitter, though not like X. It's not filled with Nazis, but it is very bland and corporate with no substance.