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Show HN: Astrae – Landing Page Templates for React, Tailwind, and Framer Motion
by aretecodes | 2025-09-08 23:51:49+00:00
Hey everyone,

I just launched Astrae v2, a library of modern Next.js landing page templates and animated components.

The goal is to make it easier for developers and designers to build beautiful, production-ready sites fast, without spending hours on layout, animations, or responsiveness.

What’s new in v2:

• More templates (landing pages, SaaS, portfolio, etc.) • Polished UI with Framer Motion animations • Design Figma files • Copy-paste ready components (cards, hero sections, pricing tables, etc.) • Improved code quality for easier customization

This started as a personal project for my client work, but it’s grown into something I wanted to share with the community. I’d love your feedback, what works, what doesn’t, and what you’d like to see in future updates.

To celebrate launch day, I’m running a 20% discount (today only) Use code CF59AP at checkout.

Thanks for checking it out.
by sfpotter | 2025-09-08 23:52:11+00:00
None of this is contradictory.

1. Compiler optimizations can be disabled. If a compiler optimization violates IEEE754 and there is no way to disable it, this is a compiler bug and is understood as such.

2. This is as advertised and follows from IEEE754. Floating point operations aren't associative. You must be aware of the way they work in order to use them productively: this means understanding their limitations.

3. Again, as advertised. The rounding mode is part of the spec and can be controlled. Understand it, use it.
by avianlyric | 2025-09-08 23:52:13+00:00
It’s South Kensington, part of council that’s notorious for its hatred of anything that even vaguely looks like a bike or a bike lane. Their attitudes to road design are despicable, with a clear priority for cars over any other road user. It often feels like they only provide pedestrian or cycle infrastructure as a grudging acknowledgement of the fact the vast majority of people walk or cycle, and car users are in the minority.

All of that is a long way of saying that any road infrastructure South Kensington designed is going to be a long way behind best practice for pedestrian safety, even when they’re trying.
by hsbauauvhabzb | 2025-09-08 23:52:30+00:00
Do I need any? Automated tools cannot prevent malicious code being injected. While they can make attempts to evaluate common heuristics and will catch low hanging malware, they are not fool proof against highly targeted attacks.

Either way, the parent post is clearly ambulance chasing rather than having a productive conversation, which should really be about whether or not automatically downloading and executing huge hierarchal trees of code is absolutely fucking crazy, rather than a blatant attempt to make money off an ongoing problem without actually solving anything.
by matthewdgreen | 2025-09-08 23:53:51+00:00
China has been running a side-by-side experiment building both nuclear and solar. Here's one rendering of the result:

https://www.reddit.com/r/EconomyCharts/comments/1l5h5e2/sola...

Nuclear may be a big part of the future (assuming storage prices don't plummet) but it's not going to be the bulk of the power we ever receive. It'll be the 10% that stabilizes the grid and provides baseload, at most.
by Someone1234 | 2025-09-08 23:54:08+00:00
I've done so within the last year, successfully. Cost $7 for a single password in just compute and took about 17 hours (lowest, cheapest priority).

So please explain your reply further. Also recall their claim for context of what I was replying to, and what you're here defending now.

If their claim is credible what I did and what you're reiterating wasn't possible.
by ggm | 2025-09-08 23:54:12+00:00
I think the Judge is right to ask hard questions. Payouts to authors are going to be distinctly non-linear. 450,000 works is an under-estimate, it's just the ones which can be agreed are involved, but other copyright regimes could reasonably assert their works are also there, and need to be addressed: this isn't the last lawsuit risk by a country mile.

I am also really unsure a simple judgement "it's ok" gets them out of jail free. Contextually, THIS judge ruled it meets some bar for SOME use of the works. Other judges, other courts could still disagree, IPR in printed works is complicated.

Personally I've always disliked the scofflaw aspect of how the training happened. Using the torrents.. that was an amazing act. Not that it isn't entirely rational, but it beggars belief the perps didn't think it posed risks, given their gaming on the other side of the table (individually, if not collectively) to assert IPR controls and avoid risks of abuse when asked by the rights agencies in music and video works.

"smart" companies who use lawyers to say "it's ok when your rich, you can do anything, grab any pussy (book)" are not the legal and ethical model we want from corporates are they?
by icameron | 2025-09-08 23:54:43+00:00
Appreciate it- thanks for the feedback. I was admittedly being inflammatory, much in the spirit of the network we are discussing. In my perception it was not always this way and when it first came out I remember liking it. It was generally "fair and balanced" as their slogan was (they dropped it around 2017 when Obama left the WH). I have only been paying attention the last 30 years or so, and what started with AM radio on the fringe seems to have become mainstream in the last 25 years since 9/11 basically and has accelerated to the point we are at now in the US.
by 33a | 2025-09-08 23:54:51+00:00
We use a mix of static analysis and AI. Flagged packages are escalated to a human review team. If we catch a malicious package, we notify our users, block installation and report them to the upstream package registries. Suspected malicious packages that have not yet been reviewed by a human are blocked for our users, but we don't try to get them removed until after they have been triaged by a human.

In this incident, we detected the packages quickly, reported them, and they were taken down shortly after. Given how high profile the attack was we also published an analysis soon after, as did others in the ecosystem.

We try to be transparent with how Socket work. We've published the details of our systems in several papers, and I've also given a few talks on how our malware scanner works at various conferences:

* https://arxiv.org/html/2403.12196v2

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxJPiMwoIyY
by zahlman | 2025-09-08 23:54:56+00:00
> The source code is stored locally in an internal file tied directly to the runtime image. You can export/import code through "traditional" avenues, but not just anything, it needs to be structured source code. You can't readily move raw text in and out.

Okay, and what happens when you want to use version control?

And what happens when people want to use other text editors? Or are you proposing that each language should have its own complete Smalltalk-style "environment"?

> not worrying about interoperating with everyone else.

Many programming language ecosystems (notably Python's) would be severely hobbled without all the existing structure built for inter-operation (notably with C, and to a lesser extent Fortran). You can do a lot with pure Python code, but especially for performance reasons Python could never have drawn anywhere near the audience it has without libraries like NumPy.
by windows2020 | 2025-09-08 23:55:42+00:00
Perhaps the bottleneck is public perception after the accident at Three Mile Island, and then everyone wasting time on alternate (insufficient) renewables. But now it's not about migrating from dirty to clean energy (which nuclear is), it's we need more power and it's time to get serious. Welcome back, nuclear. Microsoft entering an agreement with Three Mile Island nicely concludes a period in energy history. The next one should be most exciting.
by ottaborra | 2025-09-08 23:55:57+00:00
I think the same could be said of anything resembling technical writing. As an example aside from code writing, I think more than half of the machine learning papers out there are horribly written in the sense they rush a point or give no rhyme or reason for certain parts

And the best part, most people shallow read all of them and decide the details are needless till they are forced to deal with the details and then their understanding falls apart in front of them
by fps-hero | 2025-09-08 23:56:21+00:00
This would introduce a bias towards countries that are large and have extensive motorway networks. They would appear safer than countries that have a smaller portion of motorway miles.

> If we look at the number of deaths per billion miles driven, we see that motorways are roughly four times safer than urban roads, and more than five times safer than rural roads. This is not specific to the UK: among 24 OECD countries, approximately 5% of road deaths occurred on motorways.5 In almost all countries, it was less than 10%.
by tialaramex | 2025-09-08 23:56:22+00:00
I think it's important to distinguish that what happened is they did not really understand why Fogbank worked, they just thought they did.

Consider fire. Or fluorescent lamps. Or radio. There's a trick, we don't really understand what's going on, yet there is clearly something here worth more investigation and gradually we get a better understanding.

A give away is often that there's perceived to be an "art" to making it work, and then once we understand properly the art dissolves, replaced by science. Making fudge without modern technology involves hard to learn judgement to get the right temperatures, but, today you can buy an accurate digital probe and use the recipe and that'll work reliably because it's just sugar chemistry, no art needed.

Cost does factor into it. They're never going to make more of those last gasp Walkmans, where the device is barely bigger than the tape and it has excellent sound quality and long battery life. Not because it's somehow lost technology but because it doesn't make economic sense any more. It's worse along so many dimensions at once than what we have today, and yet it'd be incredibly expensive, so it won't happen.
by stale2002 | 2025-09-08 23:57:19+00:00
> when you said "crypto won" you weren't talking about a regulation war

Yes that is what I was talking about. Its why I said:

'Crypto won. Beyond everyone's most extreme expectations. The "regulators" lost. '

You see that 'The "regulators" lost' part? That is where I was referencing the regulation war. Its why I used the word regulators. Crypto won, extremely, in the regulation war.

It was in direct response to this statement: "but what you can't do is suggest throwing them out altogether"

> trump coin is obviously illegal

Ok. So then yes crypto was able to throw out the rules altogether. The rules are gone. They have been thrown out. Your original statement of "you can't do is suggest throwing them out altogether" isn't true.
by dannyobrien | 2025-09-08 23:57:38+00:00
My GOD yes. I spent too much of my life explaining this distinction, not just to vendors, but increasingly to others who think that the vulnerability disclosure model in infosec should be imported to other disciplines (perhaps), but with a little "extra responsibility" (that's not how this was negotiated in infosec, and that's certainly not the way to start exploring the trade-offs in your own area of concern.)
by nosignono | 2025-09-08 23:58:23+00:00
No one is saying this is a genocide at the "hands of the Jews". Jews are not a monoculture, and while there are Jewish people involved in this genocide, this is clearly at the hands of the current state of Israel (and more specifically at the hands of the IDF).

Conflicts have rules, and Israel could absolutely have a conflict with Hamas (whom, it should be noted, I do not support) without eradicating the civilian population in Gaza.

There are plenty of military conflicts around the world. And arguably many war crimes committed by all parties. What the IDF is doing in Gaza is uniquely terrible, absolutely targets civilians, and much of the violence and harm perpetrated is wholly unrelated to defeating Hamas.
by ggm | 2025-09-08 23:58:31+00:00
Nuclear fuel, like lithium is a supply chain problem not an Erlich/Simons end-of-resources problem. Nuclear fuel UNLIKE lithium, has bizarre qualities that the waste stream from some kinds of reactors in turn, is valuable fuel. Not that we want prolifration from breeder reactors, but the point "fuel is the bottleneck" has some caveats. Supply chain logistics around fuel, including whole-of-life treatment of the outputs, is a problem.
by bryanrasmussen | 2025-09-08 23:58:32+00:00
I've had some IQ tests, one company is now bankrupt, was quite a famous Danish bankruptcy (they offered me the job but I turned it down which looked prescient a couple years later when they went bankrupt), another was Klarna, Boozt also uses a cognitive assessment.

Klarna's seemed like the most proper IQ test although it had at least one question that was wrong.
by ashirviskas | 2025-09-08 23:58:37+00:00
I assume you use Xiaomi or other chinese device. Those are the only ones that break navigation on purpose.

They tie essentials with the spyware so it would be nearly impossible to get rid of it without gimping the device.

I already forgot most of the details, but afaik even xiaomi apk installer has meta and bytedance trackers, in addition to like 20 more. Their mostly useless "Security" app has like 60 trackers (Includes even yandex ;) ). And you can't even really get rid of it.
by delta_p_delta_x | 2025-09-08 23:58:40+00:00
Very nice, I really like the vector animations :)

One thing I'd say is to apply some anti-aliasing (MSAA, SMAA?)—even on a 4K display with a pixel density of 64.3 px/cm, the jaggies are visible, especially because of the extreme contrast of the caustics behind the dark background.
by alex1138 | 2025-09-08 23:59:02+00:00
I've seen some people right here on HN say that Whatsapp was an inspired acquisition and Zuck is a great product guy, knows what to buy and who to hire

Counterpoint: he's a monopolist and scummy person (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1692122) who refuses to stop (https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/09/snapchat-reporte...) from the early days onwards (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1169354)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15007454
by strbean | 2025-09-08 23:59:19+00:00
> The safe zone, introduced in October 2022, bans activity in favour or against abortion services, including protests, harassment and vigils.

> During the case, brought by BCP Council, the court heard Smith-Connor had emailed the council the day before to inform it about his silent vigil, as he had done on previous occasions.

> On the day, he was asked to leave the area by a community officer who spoke to him for an hour and 40 minutes - but he refused.

- https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g9kp7r00vo

So he told the council he was going to have a silent vigil against abortion, and then it had to take place within the buffer area to protect women from anti-abortion activism.

He was totally free to walk a few yards away and do whatever he wanted, but he refused.

Sounds like he wanted to stir the pot to preserve the right to menace women seeking medical care.
by dlivingston | 2025-09-08 23:59:43+00:00
> Any image file or an executable program can be regarded as simply a very large binary number.

This had never occurred to me before but is totally obvious in hindsight. An interesting corollary is that, given an infinite natural number space, all programs that have ever and will ever exist can be found as a single point on this natural number plane. The larger the number, the more complex the program. What else is emergent from this property?
by defrost | 2025-09-08 23:59:53+00:00
> dark-academiaish tweed skirts

A fashion is merely a form of ugliness so absolutely unbearable that we have to alter it every six months

~ https://ia801302.us.archive.org/20/items/ThePhilosophyOfDres...

Appello, non ad Caesarem, sed ad Caesaris uxorem
by proc0 | 2025-09-09 00:00:03+00:00
> All it takes is one developer to show one project that was delivered in less time than they'd have been able to do otherwise and bingo-bango: AI tools as they exist today—flawed as they might be—can do something a human couldn't have done otherwise

Author forgot one problem with this. If AI creates one good project (or even image/audio for that matter) it does not automatically mean it can produce anything else in that space. On the contrary, I think this IS the main obstacle for LLMs to achieve any semblance of AGI. Right it's more about finding what subspaces AI is good at, and even then the output will still be incosistent.
by mcv | 2025-09-09 00:00:41+00:00
The author does have a point that you need to specify what you think the bubble is. Obviously AI is real technology with interesting applications. The tech itself is not the bubble. The bubble is (as always) the inflated expectations.

From the article:

> But if they think the bubble is the idea that AI will cause foundational change in business, the economy, and human work, then—in my opinion—they're just wrong

That's just the author's opinion, not a fact. People claiming it's a bubble disagree with this part. And they might be right. As far as I understand, no massive productivity gains have been detected yet. Some expected gains weren't there. Some kinds of work might benefit some, but so far, nothing that justifies the enormous investments.

It's not the AI itself that's the bubble, but the "use more AI" attitude. The idea that the AI is a genius and better than people. Every company doing something with AI because they need to be seen doing something with AI. That's the bubble.

After it pops, there will still be AI, and some companies will be wildly successful with it, just like many .coms survived the .com crash. But investors will finally see that it's not going to meet the inflated investor expectations.
by sterlind | 2025-09-09 00:01:18+00:00
so you encrypt your image, send it to the government, the government runs its CSAM detector on the encrypted image and gets... an encrypted result.

then what? you decrypt the answer and send it back to them? promise that you totally didn't change the answer?

FHE is the wrong tool for the job. you'd want verifiable computation (e.g. ni-ZKP) instead. both are too complex and faaar too computationally expensive for actual use.
by sarchertech | 2025-09-09 00:01:49+00:00
A YouTube got 5 years in federal prison in 2023 for selling kits to convert a semi automatic rifle into a full automatic. In some cases you can be prosecuted just for possessing all the component parts to covert your rifle, much less selling them with instructions.

A tiny plastic 3d printed “glock switch” is itself actually classified as a machine gun under the law.
by kfrzcode | 2025-09-09 00:01:55+00:00
I don't outright buy the claim that a "failure" results in you getting hurt. Nuclear disasters like Fukushima or Chernobyl are acute, immediate events. You're getting 3x the yearly radiation from one cross-country flight NYC to SF than you would if you lived at the gates of a nuclear power plant for a year.

You are at a much higher risk of dying from a commercial airliner crash in your lifetime than you are of any nuclear operation - accidental disaster or normal operation. There have been zero (0) human deaths in the US from any operation or accident at a nuclear plant. There were zero human deaths from radiation at the Fukushima meltdown. In fact, more than 2,000 people died from the evacuation alone; the earthquake and tsunami killed 15x as many.

Nuclear power is safe. Carbon-friendly. Effective. Operationalized. Not scary, just malunderstood.

I call absolute bullshit on this line of thinking. Microsoft and other corporations have just as much if not more public interest in keeping their reactors safe and effective. Not to mention financial interests.
by ggm | 2025-09-09 00:02:25+00:00
Prediction #1: Miraculously, somehow the marginal cost of fuel at the pump will not fall as fast as raw input barrel costs suggest. Brisbane (Australia) has a 40c price swing from 170c to 210c per litre RON 90/91 with a marginal break for 10% ethanol and I would suggest this change in volume will not push the floor much below 140c, and the ceiling will not drop below 200c.

Prediction #2: perfectly normal laying-up of ships, ULCC in particular will be painted as a Munch-Scream crisis, despite happening every fuel-price cycle worldwide. This is how the industry copes: it sacks the maritime workers, it closes the refineries, it pushes back on the economies who single-income from oil, and it keeps the profit high inside the mainstream corporate ring fence.

Prediction #3: Much will be made of shifts in EV purchase with people also screaming "told you so" but the pace of EV adoption is not primarily driven by petrol prices. They're part of the story, sure. The cost of EV production is not strongly coupled to EV price in the market, and both have been declining for a decade. At some point, buying an ICE car will represent the less rational choice on e.g. maintenance cost alone. Likewise the pace of battery deployment into power networks and home. V2G alone would justify an EV for many people, its 4x or more the normal home battery size and is a good fit for people who don't barrel out of bed and demand to drive 400km immediately, but who do want to stop paying for electricity supply.

There is no "last barrel of oil" there is only a long, drawn out tail of demand for the next 30-50 years or more. Oil/Gas feedstock for pharma, plastics and fertilizer is a continuing need.
by netsharc | 2025-09-09 00:02:59+00:00
Ah, the IDF (or to use your own word: Jews), the righteous and moral people, who don't see the issue with dropping bombs on babies or starving them, because their enemy "started it".

What a great world to live in, if everyone behaved as morally as these IDF warmongers.

And I'd wager Israel would not stop inventing "terrorists" to kill even if Hamas surrenders.. if only it's a video game where we can save, see what happens with scenario A, and reload to the point where scenario A hasn't killed a few more tens of thousands of innocents as casually as in a relative clause of a sentence...

I want to find the article where a whistleblower said they'd lower the "threat rating" day by day depending on how many Palestinians they want to kill that day, but "IDF whistleblower" gives too many results...

But anyway, you won't be convinced, you've chosen your stance, and to change it means to admit you've been defending war crimes and genocide, and you'd rather construct your own complex reality (with all sorts of biases like confirmation bias) where you're right and I'm wrong, as long as it means you can convince yourself you remain a good and moral person...
by codethief | 2025-09-09 00:03:16+00:00
I get your point but is a large set of dictionary words or 5-digit numbers (see the current backup passphrase) so much better? At the end of the day, recording entropy will always be cumbersome and there is no way around it.

> Most people will screenshot it, and those screenshots will end up in unencrypted cloud backups.

At least on Android apps can disable screenshots, though, which might be a simple way to deter people from doing that?
by ignoramous | 2025-09-09 00:03:56+00:00
> Android apps is rarely a thing that you download once and use for multiple years.

I've been using FOSS apps, Amaze File Manager, Muzei (wallpaper manager), and Lawnchair (Launcher), for well over 8 years across multiple Android devices and versions, with nary an issue.

The situation with Nova (and SimpleMobileTools before it) is that developers are selling their popular projects. This isn't an "Android" thing, but more of an indictment of sustainability of indie FOSS projects. This isn't limited to consumer apps, though (see: Redis).