MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by super256 | 2025-09-04 16:47:51+00:00
I use crypto often. I can pay my server with it, I can pay my domains with it, I support my torrent ALT with it, I buy my drugs with it.

People use it for selling accounts, usernames, cheats and probably much more for it. Many of these also use Stripe (major cheat providers offer payments via Stripe and crypto, so why shouldn't Stripe also try to capture the value of Crypto payments?).
by ricokatayama | 2025-09-04 16:47:58+00:00
They messed with Dia thing. Arc had a clear value proposition, a better browser for power users. I'd pay for that, mostly because the browser itself, but also because they had pretty straightforward approaches on their communication, how small things work, how bad features should be removed and so on...

I never understood Dia. ofc I downloaded Dia and tried using it a while, but never clicked on the agent bar. They told somewhere sometime that they were seeking a bigger user base. Dia definitely is not that place. A browser powered by AI definitely is nothing something beyond the geek/early adopter crew.

Things become worse when we think about how they handled this whole situation. Sometimes shady, sometimes with a lot of arrogance and always shunning off their loyal users.

We don't have the whole information, of course the team and maybe investors know better in details what happened, but definitely things weren't going well. The recent tweet from the design guy cheering up the side bar is almost a suffocated scream from the team imo.

From the company journey perspective that's a depressing way to have an exit. Wish them the best, but I'm deleting any traces of TBC from my computer.
by munificent | 2025-09-04 16:48:04+00:00
When I travel for work, being in meetings all day and in an unusual place can be draining. Many years ago, I developed the habit of when I get back to my hotel room:

* Turn off all the lights

* Lay flat on my back in bed

* Put on headphones

* Listen to a few songs and give them my full attention

It very much helps me unwind after a long day. But it's also astonishing how much more I hear in the music itself when I do this. I remember the first time I listened to Portishead's "Wandering Stars" this way, I could immediately hear the slight push and pull where the organ riff isn't exactly on beat. I'd never noticed that (consciously) before.
by int_19h | 2025-09-04 16:48:31+00:00
KDE was going equally strong at the time though. Anecdotally, it feels like more people were running KDE 2/3 around that time period than Gnome. And while Gnome did get an overall user count boost from becoming the "enterprise Linux DE", that same thing also turned off some people, with projects like Xfce getting a boost. So I wouldn't say it ever really "reign supreme".
by thavarshan | 2025-09-04 16:48:41+00:00
I built Altus 4 because I was frustrated with spinning up Elasticsearch/Solr just to get decent search. Many apps already use MySQL, but its built-in FULLTEXT search is often too basic.

Altus 4 bridges that gap: - Adds AI-powered semantic search on top of MySQL FULLTEXT - Handles natural language queries ("show me users from last month in London") - Optimizes queries and provides performance insights - Works across multiple databases without extra infrastructure - Includes analytics, monitoring, and API key auth out of the box

It’s open source (Apache 2.0) and runs in Node.js + TypeScript, with MySQL + Redis underneath. You can be up and running in minutes without migrating your stack.

- Project website: https://altus4.thavarshan.com/ - GitHub: https://github.com/altus4/core - Docs: https://altus4.thavarshan.com/docs/ - Why I built it (Dev.to): https://dev.to/thavarshan/building-altus-4-why-i-created-an-...

I’d love feedback — especially from people running MySQL in production. Does this scratch an itch for you? What would make it more useful?
by scott_w | 2025-09-04 16:48:41+00:00
> I'm saying they're going to update the contracts to match the labor laws.

No they're not. This ruling makes no difference to the legal, employment or contractual landscape of the UK. Reading the ruling, it was resolved in exactly the way any competent HR lawyer would expect. The employer was bang out of order and was rightly slapped down by the court.

> If the labor laws say you have to have fireable offenses explicitly enumerated

No they don't. As others have pointed out: the ruling flags that the contract itself enumerates gross misconduct offences. Some of which include "excessive swearing" or "swearing at customers." Given the context of what the contract does enumerate, the court found that the contract does not consider this, obviously, lesser misconduct was out of scope of gross misconduct, as per the terms of the contract.

If the contract did not include such a specific list, but merely described a more broad category of things that are considered gross misconduct, then the court might have ruled differently.
by fauigerzigerk | 2025-09-04 16:48:49+00:00
>I live in the US, but if I were a European, I would be all in on supporting Mistral. Strengthen your own country and region

That's a bit of a double edged sword. My support goes as far as giving local offerings a try when I might not have done otherwise. But at that point they need to be able to compete on merit.
by giardini | 2025-09-04 16:48:55+00:00
taneq SAYS "i don’t think that’s what ablation is about. It’s more like blowing parts off a bus until it ceases to be a bus."

Different people have different goals. You want some form of minimal bus and I want a Lotus 7. There's no guarantee either of us reach our goal.

Ablation is about disassembling something randomly, whether little by little or on an arbitrary scale until [SOMETHING INTERESTING OR DESIRABLE HAPPENS].

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ablation_(artificial_intellige...

Ablation is laughable but sometimes useful. It is also easy, mostly brainless, NOT guaranteed to provide any useful information (so you've an excuse for the wasted resources), and occasionally provides insight. It's a good tool for software engineers who have no (or seek no) understanding of their system, so I think of ablation as a "last resort" solutions (e.g., another being to randomly modify code until it "works") that I disdain.

But I'm old so I'm probably wrong! Burn those CPU towers down, boys and girls!
by gs17 | 2025-09-04 16:49:03+00:00
> Said deputy selects and overfits data from systems like this to obtain a warrant against said individual.

Or no warrant at all, the chief just wants to stalk his ex: https://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article29105...

> A Sedgwick, Kansas, police chief used Flock Safety license plate readers to track his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend’s vehicles 228 times over four-plus months and used his police vehicle to follow them out of town, according to a city official and a report released this week by the agency that oversees police certifications.

> Nygaard’s reasons included “suspicious” and “missing child” and “drug investigation” and “drugs” and “narcotics investigation” and “suspicious activity” and “drug invest” and “drug use,” according to the KSCPOST order.

> Nygaard won’t face any charges, but he did lose his police certification.
by mindslight | 2025-09-04 16:49:10+00:00
Please don't engage in simplistic whataboutism to push your tangential hobby horse about cars. Surveillance cameras will just as easily track pedestrians, bicycles [0], and public transit use.

And if you're actually trying to champion the benefits of increased accountability by tracking where every car goes, then it is incumbent upon you to first push for real effective privacy laws that prevent the already-ongoing abuses of such systems.

[0] can also easily be mandated to have identifying number plates on public roads, especially now with this surveillance infrastructure in place
by charcircuit | 2025-09-04 16:49:15+00:00
In practice they will not just do open source and people will exploit them for free work since there are significant barriers to access employers able to pay market rate. Even open source itself can potentially be exploitative due to being free work.

While open source may be okay for coding, there are other skills which may not be so easy to do from your own home. In practice they will not just do open source and people will exploit them for free work
by bawolff | 2025-09-04 16:49:58+00:00
There has been this trend recently of calling Wikipedia the last good thing on the internet.

And i agree its great, i spend an inordinate amount of my time on Wikimedia related things.

But i think there is a danger here with all these articles putting Wikipedia too much on a pedestal. It isn't perfect. It isn't perfectly neutral or perfectly reliable. It has flaws.

The true best part of Wikipedia is that its a work in progress and people are working to make it a little better everyday. We shouldn't lose sight of the fact we aren't there yet. We'll never be "there". But hopefully we'll continue to be a little bit closer every day. And that is what makes Wikipedia great.
by judah | 2025-09-04 16:50:02+00:00
Cache is super useful for making web apps available offline.

I run a guitar chord chart site[0] that uses cache to enable offline experience; any chord charts you view while online are then available offline thanks to cache. It works pretty great. You service worker intercepts HTTP requests and can first check the cache for cached request/responses.

[0]: https://messianicchords.com
by mullingitover | 2025-09-04 16:50:07+00:00
Meanwhile China is on track to install as much solar power in the past year as the US has in its entire history. The US has maintained steep tariffs on solar panels.

Clean energy isn't even some virtuous thing, it's just no-brainer smart energy policy. The only reason for Google to be backpedaling on its pledge is political. It's in a backsliding petrostate and it has to play the political game.
Show HN: StripeMeter – Open-Source Usage Metering for Stripe Billing
by geminimir | 2025-09-04 16:50:27+00:00
We built StripeMeter, an open-source usage metering platform that plugs directly into Stripe. It solves the classic SaaS pain of “why is my bill higher than expected?” by giving both developers and customers real-time usage tracking with live cost projections. Why it matters: - Transparency: Customers see exactly what Stripe will bill them (within 0.5% parity).

- Exactly-once guarantee: No double billing, ever.

- Fast & scalable: Sub-minute freshness with Redis + Postgres counters.

We’d love feedback from SaaS builders, especially if you’ve struggled with Stripe’s metered billing. Does this solve a real pain for you? What would you need before trusting it in production?
by godelski | 2025-09-04 16:50:30+00:00
Sorry, I've just been hearing this response for years now... GPT-5 not SOTA enough for you all now? I remember when people told me to just use 3.5

- Gemini 2.5 Pro[0], the top model on LLM Arena. This SOTA enough for you? It even hallucinated Python code! - Claude Opus 4.1, sharing that chat shares my name, so here's a screenshot[1]. I'll leave that one for you to check. - Grok4 getting the right answer but using bad logic[2] - Kimi K2[3] - Mistral[4]

I'm sorry, but you can fuck off with your goal post moving. They all do it. Check yourself.

> I am being serious

Don't lie to yourself, you never were

People like you have been using that copy-paste piss-poor logic since the GPT-3 days. The same exact error existed since those days on all those models just as it does today. You all were highly disingenuous then, and still are now. I know this comment isn't going to change your mind because you never cared about the evidence. You could have checked yourself! So you and your paperclip cult can just fuck off

[0] https://g.co/gemini/share/259b33fb64cc

[1] https://0x0.st/KXWf.png

[2] https://grok.com/s/c2hhcmQtNA%3D%3D_e15bb008-d252-4b4d-8233-...

[3] http://0x0.st/KXWv.png

[4] https://chat.mistral.ai/chat/8e94be15-61f4-4f74-be26-3a4289d...
by kebsup | 2025-09-04 16:50:34+00:00
Nice to see someone taking the concept of card variations to all concepts.

I'm taking this to extreme with Vocabuo[1] for language learning. For a single word, I have cloze cards, reverse cloze, definition cards, dialogs, audio and a few more.

At some point, I'd like to take the card type into account when calculating the next repetition stage, but that's a bit far into the future.

[1] https://vocabuo.com
by porridgeraisin | 2025-09-04 16:50:37+00:00
I haven't kept track for a while, but whoever I knew that used arc, they found it hard to go back to standard browsers after getting used to its various UI affordances. Even when they pulled the "you need an account" thing most people I knew just sucked it up and created an account. I am assuming a good portion of them will submit to whatever atlassian demands.
by digitcatphd | 2025-09-04 16:51:00+00:00
I really hate to be the curmudgeon here but won't foundation models end up having their own AI workflows like the GPT store but with MCP?

I could really envision saving an 'AI Workflow' template with integrated MCP clients that will balloon once adoption is reached. Right now adoption is low so its not a priority for them, once it is, they will tack it on.

I really wish this the best of luck its a great concept, but surely you must be thinking ahead to plan for this situation.
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-09-04 16:51:42+00:00
I have to hard agree with a commenter from that article: I had no fucking idea NordVPN even had this feature, and as a fully self-admitted addict of video essays, I have seen a LOT of fucking NordVPN ads.

It wouldn't make me buy it, I'm just not in the market, but that's an insane feature to just not advertise. And its not surprising it never got much attention.
by scott_w | 2025-09-04 16:51:46+00:00
Yes, poor performance could be one. Breach of contract is another, for example, doing something counter to your job. This is different from gross misconduct, as gross misconduct doesn't have to be enumerated in your contract. For example, punching your colleague is both illegal and will likely get you fired for gross misconduct. My contract doesn't have a clause that says "don't assault your colleagues."
by joecool1029 | 2025-09-04 16:51:56+00:00
Not a subscriber but I read the comments and apparently they offered this service to non-subscribers as well? My guess was it was a nice loss-leader to attract new customers and they've decided they no longer need it (since signups presumably skyrocketing with all the recent law changes).

Don't know why they didn't just restrict it to paying subs or charge extra for it instead of getting rid of it, seems a stupid business decision that's going to cause lots of cancellations from subscribers that did use it and saw it as a differentiating feature from the competition.

At least when mullvad nuked port forwarding they conveyed their reasoning quite clearly (they kept getting legal claims for people hosting illegal content or torrenting).
by throw0101d | 2025-09-04 16:51:57+00:00
NIST's Blockchain Overview, IR 8202, document often comes top of mind when "blockchain" is mentioned:

* https://www.nist.gov/blockchain

Specifically the yes/no flowchart on whether "you may have a useful blockchain use case" (Figure 6 - DHS Science & Technology Directorate Flowchart):

* https://csrc.nist.gov/CSRC/media/Projects/enhanced-distribut...
by JohnFen | 2025-09-04 16:52:10+00:00
> We should not be expending effort trying to regulate the state's ability to observe and record any publicly observable thing.

But then what can we do? Are we supposed to just never leave our homes? If we can't regulate the power of the state to minimize the harm it can cause, then all is lost.

Also, Flock isn't just a "power of the state" sort of thing. It's a private company and is often used by private entities.
by saurik | 2025-09-04 16:53:29+00:00
The ICE car industry has been externalizing its damage for a long time, and if anything should stop being "propped up" its them; if you don't want to actively hand money to Tesla, that's fine, but Tesla is still going to have a natural advantage in a world where we stop letting people who insist on driving ICE cars fuck the world up without paying for it.
by gs17 | 2025-09-04 16:54:07+00:00
It seems to be the opposite near me. There's a few well off neighborhoods that I've noticed have cameras all over, but the area near my work where there's new piles of broken glass every morning has nothing (not that I want more surveillance, but it makes the intent clear).

The neighborhoods that are less well off I spend less time in, so maybe I just haven't seen them, but usually surveillance there seems to be in the form of parking lot camera trailers.
by lif | 2025-09-04 16:54:11+00:00
Good on folks encouraging the reading of books, literature, even.

That said, one might make the case that the list of Prof Boxall is rather severely skewed. (Not that there was any objective claim made as to why one must read the listed books before any others.) E.g., at a glance, there are quite a few utter masterpieces missing.

Hence, why not make your own 'top' list?

(And if anyone has a better tool than: https://johnbintz.com/prioritize/

please do share!)
by FloorEgg | 2025-09-04 16:54:36+00:00
This is true, I was only comparing functional information density (unique functional genome bps), not read/write speeds.

I was also taking the information from a genome and then dividing it by the volume of a cell, but there are many instances of the genome in a cell. I didn't count all instances because they aren't unique.

There's a lot to unpack with this comparison and my approximation was crude, but the more I've dug into this comparison the more apparent how incredibly efficient life is at managing and processing and storing information. Especially if you also consider the amino acids, proteins, etc as information. No matter how you slice it, life seems orders of magnitude more efficient by every metric.

I'd like to think there's a paper somewhere where someone has carefully unpacked this and formally quantified it all.
by antinomicus | 2025-09-04 16:55:09+00:00
I’m pretty shocked to hear that someone like you exists already. Lots of questions. First, now that you spend so much time in VR, why does that kill your need to take notes? Are you somehow taking notes in VR? Do you find that these notes are as effective and personal as real writing? Do you put everything you write into an LLM now and trust that it’ll be searchable forever and the AI won’t lose its context?
by freedomben | 2025-09-04 16:55:10+00:00
Network protocol stuff on Wikipedia has been top notch and my go-to since at least 2010. It really is highly underrated for that. I had to implement a layer 7 protocol on top of UDP back in the day, and it required a lot of understanding/fiddling with UDP and IP packet details to get it working right, and even required some router config (IP fragmentation became a huge problem, gotta love protocols designed by committee D-:)
by DebtDeflation | 2025-09-04 16:55:27+00:00
Don't believe the narrative that these layoffs are being driven by AI replacing humans. They're being driven by a need to meet Wall Street's EPS expectation during a time of slower Revenue growth. In some cases the jobs aren't even being eliminated, they're just being moved to India. In other cases these CEOs think they can replicate what Musk did with Twitter when he bought them and fired all the workers (except they aren't Twitter). AI replacing jobs right now is just a fairy tale being told to investors.
by vunderba | 2025-09-04 16:55:31+00:00
You have to associate variations as a single "owner card" otherwise you're adding in unnecessary reviews. You want to review 100 cards (which display a random variation on demand) not 500 cards. That's why you need to use a bit of Anki JS to randomize the "multiple fronts" on a single card to achieve the same results.

Source: This is what I do on my Anki decks
by Nevermark | 2025-09-04 16:55:52+00:00
That is interesting.

A factor might be that they are trained to behave like people who can see letters.

During training they have no ability to not comply, and during inference they have no ability to choose to operate differently than during training.

A pre-prompt or co-prompt that requested they only answer questions about sub-token information if they believed they actually had reason to know the answer, would be a better test.
by limagnolia | 2025-09-04 16:55:55+00:00
As others have pointed out in other comments, accepting cash has its own cost. I leave it up to business owners/managers to decide how much it costs them and if they want to offer me a better price if I pay by card or by cash, and if they make the policy clear, I am more than happy to determine which payment method to use based on their own pricing policy.
Show HN: ZipZen – Lightweight Release Hosting for Binaries
by gabor-boros | 2025-09-04 16:55:56+00:00
GitHub Releases is the default for many open source projects when sharing binaries. It works, but it was never really designed for proper distribution.

Common issues:

- Users have to manually download files, no easy automation.

- No download stats, so you never know which versions are popular.

- Limited CI/CD support beyond uploading artifacts.

- No repository integrations

ZipZen is a lightweight release hosting service built specifically for developers. You get:

- CLI & API integration

- Support for Helm package hosting that requires NO configuration

- Support for Linux package repos (APT/YUM) that requires NO configuration

- Download statistics

- Reliable binary hosting

If you are looking for release hosting or frustrated with GitHub Releases for distributing binaries, ZipZen is designed to make this easier. https://www.zipzen.dev
by billconan | 2025-09-04 16:56:18+00:00
I have used both claude code and cursor heavily. TBH, I don't like the terminal ui of claude code. it is difficult to send an images for it to view (I have to hold shift), text wrapping messes up when you resize the panel, (I have to do this often on my small laptop), and you get weird ui refresh when you type once your terminal gets very long (likely they are doing some kind of text reflow).

I like the cursor experience more.
by schlauerfox | 2025-09-04 16:56:33+00:00
There is a thriving cult following of 2d animation on Youtube, but like many things this has a fractured audience, no longer a unified pop culture. Sparklehorse has Hazbin Hotel and Helluva Boss. Glitch Productions has The Amazing Digital Circus which is retro-3d, but seems to also be producing the former Disney Owl House creator to make Knights of Guinevere.
by salawat | 2025-09-04 16:56:38+00:00
No problem interspersed through >7 layers of abstraction in different codebases across different feature sets and implementations is trivial even if at the end of the day the symbolic representation is "number went up". If you're relying on abstraction, and you don't intimately know the abstraction well enough, you're in danger of writing posts like these. The solution to all problems is debugging and attention to the change stream. All 240 hours 'wasted' were, in fact, a valuable training exercise, that is a part of doing business in the field.
by rafaelmn | 2025-09-04 16:56:48+00:00
Down 2/3 in a year because it failed to capitalize on an early score compared to US competition. Not saying EU has no companies just that they get left behind by competition. On the industry side its falling behind to Asia, finance and tech is losing to US. The only thing growing is luxury brands - kind of ironic that the only thing EU does well is selling pretentiousness.