MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
Show HN: Decentralized cloud on your phone – private, simple, no blockchain
by gsahu | 2025-09-18 12:00:06+00:00
Hey community,

I am building Cyphora, a decentralized cloud storage platform designed for everyday users who want to keep their data private and secure without relying on big tech or dealing with blockchain complexity. It’s all on your phone, fully decentralized, and easy to use.

Currently you can checkout:

Landing Page & Demo:https://cyphora.tech/ Short demo video:https://youtu.be/aFNcIW_jYUM

Why Cyphora?

-No single point of failure -No data leaks -No dependence on big companies.

My vision is to empowers users with a choice: decentralized, private storage instead of being locked into Big Tech.

We’d love your feedback, especially on:

Should we open-source parts of the platform for node hosting?

What would make you trust a decentralized cloud solution like this?

Thanks for checking it out and am excited to hear what you think.
by cahaya | 2025-09-18 12:00:54+00:00
Nice, but can somebody tell me if this performs better than my simple Postgres MCP using npx? My current setup uses the LLM to search through my local Postgres in multiple steps. I guess this Pgmcp is doing multiple steps in the background and returns the final result to the LLM calling the MCP tool?

Codex: ``` [mcp_servers.postgresMCP] command = "npx" args = ["-y", "@modelcontextprotocol/server-postgres", "postgresql://user:password@localhost:5432/db"] ```

Cursor: ``` "postgresMCP": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "-y", "@modelcontextprotocol/server-postgres", "postgresql://user:password@localhost:5432/db" ] }, ```

With my setup i can easily switch between LLM's
by mytailorisrich | 2025-09-18 12:01:27+00:00
Population cannot and will not grow indefinitely and that a lower global population is probably our best chance to continue to live on the planet in a non-dystopian way along with a thriving natural environment.

So dealing with a stagnating to slightly decreasing population will happen at some point, anyway. It's just that by kicking the can down the road by encouraging immigration for short term economic "gains" we will also have destroyed our identities, cultures, and people.

Europe has probably passed the point of no return at this point.
by 9cb14c1ec0 | 2025-09-18 12:01:36+00:00
It's a good deal for Nvidia, because custom x86 server CPUs have optimization potential for AI computing clusters, which matters now that Nvidia has competitors that they didn't just 2 years ago. I think that the next several years of Nvidia will be ones of fending off growing competition.

They basically baked in a massive investment profit into the deal. When you factor in the stock jump since this announcement, Nvidia has already made billions.
by liendolucas | 2025-09-18 12:02:31+00:00
Maybe we should really think twice when purchasing new amazing gadgets. It can be this, a drone, a phone or anything that comes to your mind.

The default has become to get consumers locked in as much as possible, be for your data or money exploitation or both (check the Slack thread for a non the non-profit HackClub).

If you pay 800 dollars for this device and a year after they ask you for your driver's license (as for the top comment). Are you willing to waste those 800 dollars you payed for it or will you upload any sensitive docs demanded from them? Or if they decide to phase it out early because there is no real adoption, will you get your money back? Will they make the device open so it can still be used by their "owners"?

So the way I see it: you give big money to already super rich companies. You also give them your data. You are forced to comply their rules and in even in any of those cases when they decide you shouldn't use it anymore they deprecate it and keep the device close. No, thanks.

The bottom line is this: do extensive research before making a single penny leave your wallet to try to minimize getting fucked up as much as you can.

We should educate as many people surrounding us as possible so they can make good or informed purchase decisions as well.

This should also be taught to children so from an early age they can understand very well that privacy and data has proven to be extremely profitable to virtually any company out there.
by croon | 2025-09-18 12:02:52+00:00
Unfortunately I think that is by design, by the administration.

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/07/nx-s1-5289315/trump-week-in-r...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/feb/11/musk-trum...

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/us/politics/trump-policy-...

If people can't keep up, or interest decays, the opposition lose weight.
Show HN: I made it easy to find and contact Streamers who would play your game
by csmets | 2025-09-18 12:03:17+00:00
When releasing my games on Steam I needed to find Streamers that would play my game as a form of marketing before release. I used a platform called Woovit which is now shut down. I liked the platform as I got to connect with Streamers and they played my game. What I found difficult was finding the right one and would have to dig through so many profiles.

For my next release I wanted to find an alternative way to be able to connect with Streamers. I wanted to contact them directly, but it's hard and labor intensive to do all the research and manually finding emails. There must be a better way. There's a few providers that have email lists, but it's not cheap.

I know that I'm not alone, so I've done the hard work and collected a bunch of emails and put a price that's super affordable compared to others in the market. I can now easily find the right group of streamers that would play my game and can easily contact them with very little effort and digging around. More time to do game dev and less time spent on finding emails for marketing.

My goal is to make marketing less painful for indie developers to give their game the best possible chance.
by JKCalhoun | 2025-09-18 12:03:55+00:00
You're right. I too have been frustrated when spending the effort to file a bug only to have it "auto-returned" with "cannot repro, please attach example project" or somesuch.

As an engineer on a framework, I take pride in the code and want those trickier-to-repro bugs. And to your point, yeah, I can probably reconstruct in my mind a scenario, knowing my code, where it may be vulnerable.

Whoever screens bugs though is likely trying to 1) handle the huge backlog and 2) trying to spare the engineers bugs delivered with a shrug.

(I had my ass kicked by one bug in particular where I created a FileDescriptor on the main thread, did some things and then released the FileDescriptor on a background thread. Who knew the FileDescriptor code hung some important data it needed on some kind of thread-based storage that essentially required the caller to destroy the FileDescriptor on the same thread it was created on. Fix was to dispatch back to main when ready to release the FileDescriptor.)
by sim7c00 | 2025-09-18 12:04:43+00:00
this is not wrong. i've had a bunch of ASUS and ASRock stuff that was completely unusable. all had 5 star reviews while tech forums all showed people unhappy, with broken network ports, CPUs blowing up the boards due to 'too much IOPS' and other silly things that you do not expect from running a new device with fully compatible components....

There are vendors which do better generally, or have less aggressive 5-star robots. I got an MSI board now which came at a fraction of the cost of an ASUS board. It has worse specifications, but in all honestly. It works. it does what it says on the box without any grief. -- maybe it was a lucky shipment -- , but I am not going back to ASUS or ASRock. rather have 2 FPS less but a device that stays operation and can do it's basic features...

A classic example of not giving a toss about performance is the _horrible_ integration done for Windows Hello protocol on many platforms. The protocol is really good, yet there are bypasses possible on a lot of devices due to bad/incorrect implementations, completely breaking an for-once-actually-good-thing that MS designed.

buying consumer hardware, especially for gaming, is like a lottery these days, and shops / vendors give a lot of grief often (not always..) declining refunds or blaming bad user practices for clear device defects.
by amalcon | 2025-09-18 12:05:05+00:00
There are two scenarios here. In one, the AI bubble bursts (so Nvidia is overpriced now) and almost any value stock deal is good for them. In the other, it doesn't, and this gives them a limited hedge against problems with their most critical strategic partner (TSMC).

It looks like a good deal either way and in any amount. But of course I am no expert.
by edent | 2025-09-18 12:05:29+00:00
I love this - and I applied the lessons to my own site. It was fascinating to see just how often I'd slapped a class on something which was never going to be re-used.

Similarly, WordPress spams tonnes of classes everywhere. Most are unused.

So I took a look at rewriting my CSS to target by logical structure, rather than just random names dotted about. It mostly worked well, although it did mean that I occasionally had to write a selector like:

`li[itemtype="Comment"] > article > div[itemprop="author"] {}`
by fidotron | 2025-09-18 12:05:34+00:00
Possibly more curious than the investment:

> Nvidia will also have Intel build custom x86 data center CPUs for its AI products for hyperscale and enterprise customers.

Hell has frozen over at Intel. Actually listening to people that want to buy your stuff, whatever next? Presumably someone over there doesn't want the AI wave to turn into a repeat of their famous success with mobile.

In the event Intel ever do get US based fabrication semi competitive again (and the national security motivation for doing so is intense) nVidia will likely have to be a major customer, so this does make sense. I remain doubtful that Intel can pull it off, and it will have to come from someone else.
by bellamoon544 | 2025-09-18 12:05:35+00:00
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With Tenki, engineering teams can: • Save up to 90% on infrastructure costs compared to GitHub-hosted runners. • Ship faster with 30% quicker job execution times. • Migrate in minutes, thanks to a one-line configuration change. • Scale effortlessly, without worrying about throttling or long queue times.

Tenki delivers the same familiar GitHub Actions developer experience: only faster, cheaper, and more reliable.
by zelphirkalt | 2025-09-18 12:06:17+00:00
The refresh page thing is, as I explained, a fallback for users, who don't want to run or cannot run JS. 99% or more of the users will never see this. I personally would be grateful, if web devs took precautions and paid attention to also having a no-JS workflow for things where it is relatively simple to implement. It also has to do with accessibility. A JS-only page, that results in a blank white page has exactly zero accessibility.
by opticfluorine | 2025-09-18 12:06:53+00:00
I have occasionally, just for fun, written benchmarks for some algorithm in C++ and an equivalent C# implementation, them tried to bring the managed performance in line with native using the methods you mention and others. I'm always surprised by how often I can match the performance of the unmanaged code (even when I'm trying to optimize my C++ to the limit) while still ending up with readable and maintainable C#.
by DarkNova6 | 2025-09-18 12:07:32+00:00
> Developers accustomed to language-specific dependency managers like npm or pip find it hard to grasp that for C++, the system's package manager (apt, dnf, brew) is the idiomatic way to handle dependencies.

This is a strawman argument. Just because pip and npm are a mess and security liabilities does not make the c++ situation less bad. A fair comparison would be for languages that got their act together and use cargo, maven or nuget.

Linus is also not alone with his opinion in favouring Rust over C++. I would be hard pressed to use his persona in a negative case.
by xtiansimon | 2025-09-18 12:07:39+00:00
> “The format…rewards the most inflammatory takes, the most emotionally manipulative tactics, and the most viral-ready soundbites. Anyone going into these situations with good faith gets steamrolled by participants who understand they’re playing a different game entirely.”

This seems to be the permanent _mode_ for the president (and all the appointees who manage to hold their positions).

I’ve hypothesized this is why the movement is so popular. Members want to learn the patterns because the bullying and trolling “wins”.

But you can’t argue this way within your group/tribe. It’s too demeaning, and undermining of people’s identity/self-worth.

And so, the president continually manufactures outsiders and targets. Publicly with personal attacks, and more recently (totally unscientific conclusion) it’s all “democrats” (democratic party).

Copy these arguments and win. Practice on these targets. Never target the group (and conveniently, never introspect/question your own actions).

What is this? A cult?

The second thing interesting in the article, “The “debate me bro” playbook is simple and effective…”

Reading the list of steps immediately give me the idea of an algorithm. We’ve struggled with the idea of the Social Media algorithm for years now.

What’s the difference between “the algorithm” and the “playbook”?
by kcplate | 2025-09-18 12:08:05+00:00
Trump is different. He is the executive branch. He has the ability to EO change without anyone else having to agree before the fact. The FCC operates as a commission. The chairman might set the agenda, but the commission has to agree by majority. You could argue that he has great influence within the FCC, but he is not the FCC.

When you make the leap from Carr to “the FCC” it’s roughly like if Sen. John Thune said something and you attributed his words to “the senate”.
by firstusers | 2025-09-18 12:08:43+00:00
I’ve been working on a small side project called firstusers.tech It’s basically like Tinder, but for startups and early adopters

Here’s how it works:

You submit your startup (it takes less than 2 minutes)

Early adopters sign up and pick their interests or needs (like marketing, design, productivity, etc.)

When you submit, the platform automatically matches you with people who actually care about that category

They get an email notification, and your startup shows up on their dashboard

The goal is to help startups get their very first users and feedback without having to spam social media or cold email strangers.

And yes it’s completely free to submit your startup or to join as an early adopter

http://firstusers.tech/
by robmccoll | 2025-09-18 12:09:01+00:00
Non-GCed languages will continue to manage memory themselves. Previously, GCed languages that wanted to run on WASM had to have an implementation of their runtime including GC compiled to WASM. The idea or hope here is that those languages can use the built-in GC instead and slim down the amount of WASM that needs to be delivered to run the application to only include a minimal runtime. The current scenario is closer to if a web app or node app built with JavaScript had to ship a significant portion of V8 with it to function.
by matheusmoreira | 2025-09-18 12:09:13+00:00
> A Brazilian Supreme Court justice has issued an arrest warrant for ... a naturalized U.S. citizen residing in Florida, over social media posts critical of Brazil's president and judiciary.

Enough said. That about sums up the current state of this country.

Just yesterday we watched astonished as politicians voted into effect a law that makes themselves immune to investigation, prosecution and judgement unless they consent to it as a class. Yes, now politicians must vote on the matter before an investigation into themselves is allowed to proceed. I find it difficult to explain the sheer absurdity of this.

Still I gotta admit that is the only thing you can possibly do when the supreme court usurps all power and starts monocratically running the nation as well as engaging in political censorship and persecution. At least these politicians have four year mandates, not lifetime mandates like these judges.
by ceejayoz | 2025-09-18 12:09:15+00:00
> The issue is removing people due to their political opinions.

No. The issue is who is doing that action. Illegal speech is not the same as rude speech. My boss can’t declare my opinions illegal. They can fire me.

> You are still free to associate with anyone freely, but there is an expectation that you behave like an adult and can withstand different opinions.

Nah. I can throw a tantrum, publicly decry you as an asshole and go no-contact with you. That’s legal, and part of my freedom of expression and association.

The government can’t confiscate my license over the tantrum.
by DonHopkins | 2025-09-18 12:09:20+00:00
Oh, so your screenshot utility has "long exposure" and an "ND" filter and "shutter speed" controls, just like a phone's camera? What kind of screenshot utility simulates optical camera effects? What purpose does that serve? Care to share a link to it?

>Obviously harder to expose a bright screen without some ND since the shutter speed is the phone's main exposure control

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutral-density_filter

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_speed
by qzw | 2025-09-18 12:10:14+00:00
Remember when Microsoft invested in Apple when Apple was down in the dumps? This is giving similar vibes. That deal was arguably what saved Apple near its nadir. I’m not a fan of Intel’s past monopolistic practices, but for the sake of sustaining competition in the CPU/GPU market, I hope this deal works out for them even half as well as the MS deal did for Apple.
by scrlk | 2025-09-18 12:12:32+00:00
> For personal computing, Intel will build and offer to the market x86 system-on-chips (SOCs) that integrate NVIDIA RTX GPU chiplets. These new x86 RTX SOCs will power a wide range of PCs that demand integration of world-class CPUs and GPUs.

https://www.intc.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1750/...

What’s old is new again: back in 2017, Intel tried something similar with AMD (Kaby Lake-G). They paired a Kaby Lake CPU with a Vega GPU and HBM, but the product flopped: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-discontinue-kaby-lak...
by Mistletoe | 2025-09-18 12:13:15+00:00
It’s the most important part of the story. It’s so gross that companies can just dilute and create stock out of thin air like this. Why hold stock in Intel if the only people that ever buy the real stock and create buy pressure are the plebs? Here is the previous time…

> Intel stock experienced dilution because the U.S. government converted CHIPS Act grants into an equity stake, acquiring a significant ownership percentage at a discounted price, which increased the total number of outstanding shares and reduced existing shareholders' ownership percentage, according to The Motley Fool and Investing.com. This led to roughly 11% dilution for existing shareholders
by robmccoll | 2025-09-18 12:14:49+00:00
What do you mean by the Java direction? It's a virtual machine with GC support, so I guess in that regard it's similar to the JVM, CLR, BEAM, et al. If anything, those VMs show performance improvement and better GC over time and a strong track record of giving legacy software longevity. The place where things seem to fall apart over the long term is when you get to the GUI, which is arguably a problem with all software.
by UncleMeat | 2025-09-18 12:15:42+00:00
I believe that you can.

"Well, we needed to acquiesce to fascism for our stock price" is not acceptable. Over and over and over we are told about how corporations are job creators and serve a valuable function in our society. We are told that having power distributed across corporations that are in competition with one another is a protection against tyranny.

Fat lot of good that did.
by __MatrixMan__ | 2025-09-18 12:15:47+00:00
Those are promises that npm intends to keep, but whether they do or not isn't something that you as a package user can verify. Plus there's also the possibility that the server you got those bits from was merely masquerading as npm.

The only immutability that counts is immutability that you can verify, which brings us back to cryptographic hashes.
by xg15 | 2025-09-18 12:16:52+00:00
Yeah, I was amazed at the brazenness of doublespeak present in that press release.

> It’s technology that keeps you tuned in to the world around you, not distracted from it.

Using this to sell a technology that will keep the wearer even longer in virtual spaces...

Marc evidently hasn't let go of his Metaverse dream and small details, like most of the population finding those ideas completely horrible, aren't gonna stop him...
Show HN: Hound – Relation-First Knowledge Graphs for Complex-System Reasoning
by berndtzl | 2025-09-18 12:17:14+00:00
Hound is a code security auditing tool that draws inspiration from human cognitive processes to enhance reasoning about large, complex systems. By modeling the target application as relation-first knowledge graphs (e.g., monetary/value flows, authentication/authorization roles, call graphs, and invariants with compact annotations), the agent enables multi-granular attention: it can "zoom in" on specific graph slices for detailed analysis while maintaining a summarized view of the entire system through broad mappings.

Complementing this is a persistent belief system that tracks hypotheses with explicit evidence and confidence levels, refining them over time as new evidence emerges—ensuring a disciplined lifecycle for findings that mirrors iterative human reasoning and belief updating.

Evaluated on a subset of the ScaBench benchmark, Hound shows improvements in vulnerability detection (31.2% true positives versus 8.3% for a baseline LLM analyzer) and F1 score (14.2% versus 9.8%).

While tailored for security audits, Hound's analyst-defined graphs and cognitive-inspired framework provide a solid basis for general complex-system reasoning. Released on September 15, 2025, the full paper is available on [Zenodo](https://zenodo.org/records/17129271), with the implementation hosted on [GitHub](https://github.com/scabench-org/hound) for further exploration and reproduction.
by morserer | 2025-09-18 12:17:30+00:00
I think what the parent comment was trying to emphasize is that making comments that don't contribute towards a discussion is against the guidelines of HN.

Comments like your original one, that only expresses your emotions, fall under this category, and are frowned upon. Not the opinion contained in your comment, but the comment itself.

HN users also use the downvote+flag buttons to enforce these guidelines. The downvote button is not an indication of user disagreement here the way it is on other sites.
by lelanthran | 2025-09-18 12:17:51+00:00
> If a special rate that better fits an organization's usage patterns is "charity", then any rate that is not extracting the maximum amount of money from the customer is also "charity", no?

Maybe, but that's not what happened here. It wasn't "a rate better suited to an organisation's usage patterns", it was, more precisely "A heavily/1% reduced rate."

No reasonable person can have the expectation that a discount of $195k on a $200k bill is going to continue forever!

At this discount, it really is charity.