MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by matheusmoreira | 2025-09-18 16:42:58+00:00
It was very influential for me too. Here's another one, also from Zed Shaw:

https://web.archive.org/web/20120620103603/http://zedshaw.co...

> Why I (A/L)GPL

> Open source to open source, corporation to corporation.

> If you do open source, you’re my hero and I support you.

> If you’re a corporation, let’s talk business.

> I want people to appreciate the work I’ve done and the value of what I’ve made.

> Not pass on by waving “sucker” as they drive their fancy cars.
by KurSix | 2025-09-18 16:42:58+00:00
The way the author captures grief (not as a pathology, but as a form of learning, unlearning, and continuing to love) is so raw and honest it almost feels invasive to read. The line "grief is a terrible kind of learning" hit me like a freight train. There's such a deep humanity here, and also a quiet indictment of our culture's need to classify, contain, and "resolve" grief like it's a software bug. We talk a lot about resilience, but rarely about the kind that means simply keeping going while carrying a pain that doesn't lessen, only changes shape.
Show HN: Quarkkit, Django SaaS boilerplate optimized for AI coding
by jancek | 2025-09-18 16:43:01+00:00
Hi HN,

TL;DR: Django boilerplate with everything needed to launch SaaS. CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md files that prompt the AI specifically to follow Test Driven Development approach to get better results, alongside other useful conventions (boring code better than smart code). Boilerplate also includes some nice to have stuff like Posthog with session replays and analytics.

I built this Django boilerplate because I was tired of rebuilding the same essential features for every new SaaS idea. I was searching for existing solutions, but they were either outdated or really expensive for Django.

This boilerplate includes all the boring yet essential features needed to launch and also a specific focus on using AI for development. I've been experimenting with how to get the most out of AI coding tools and found that a Test Driven Development (TDD) approach is the best option because of the continuous feedback the AI gets.

What’s inside: - Optimized for AI: Includes CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md files with instructions to make AI assistants follow TDD and other best practices. - Modern Admin: A custom-styled admin page using the Django Unfold package with custom styling. - Complete Authentication: Full user auth system with social logins, registration, and password reset pages including templates for authentication pages and mails. - Stripe integration: Pre-built Stripe integration for handling subscriptions. - Dockerized Setup: A container-based setup for consistent development and deployment. - Simple Deployment: All it takes is to fill up the .env file, then you are ready to deploy. - Automated SSL: Automatically issues and renews SSL certificates. - Background Tasks: Asynchronous job processing with Celery. - Email Integration: Multiple email services to choose from, plus Mailpit for local development. - Monitoring: Error tracking with Sentry and user analytics/session replays with PostHog. - Frontend Stack: A clean and modern frontend using Alpine.js, HTMX, and Tailwind CSS. - and more

Future Plans: I'm planning to add a React integration option, but I'm starting with a Django templates/HTMX/Alpine.js to keep the initial complexity low. Also, most apps don’t even need React in the first place.
by doritosfan84 | 2025-09-18 16:43:04+00:00
This is close to a lot of what's happening at Glue. Threads are first-class, so you can start a thread within a group - let's talk about our GraphQL schema and that thread should live in the API Development group. You can also start a thread without a group - just me and another 2 coworkers need to discuss a specific point that would be noisy for everybody else.

Glue AI can be invoked at any time in any context and you can choose whether or not you want to share your conversation with other people after the fact. MCP is also well supported so you get good integration with lots of services like Linear or Notion.

The agent isn't quite as proactive as updating documentation without being prompted right now, but it's regularly done by telling Glue AI to update pages in Notion with info from a thread.

* https://glue.ai
by comechao | 2025-09-18 16:43:16+00:00
I have a friend who was hospitalized recently. He tried to take his own life multiple times. Before reaching this point, he was struggling for months, but he thought it was ok bc he was working. So it's hard to draw the line for some people. Obviously, everything in life is a tradeoff and can be risky. But seeking medical advice is probably the best thing you can do bc you can reach a point of no return, and you will not accept treatment. How to draw the line? Like you said, disruptive changes and also disruptive behaviors. It's a complex problem.
by amluto | 2025-09-18 16:43:19+00:00
This is just math, not physics. Suppose you have a thing vibrating in a periodic manner. You might imagine that it will vibrate the air so that the sound pressure is some periodic function of time. Fourier transform that function to get a spectrum, and it will have discrete peaks at the fundamental frequency (1 / period) and at integer multiples of that frequency. You don’t even need to decompose into sine and cosine functions for this to work — all that’s really going on is that you have f(t) = f(t + period), and you’re turning f into the sum of a bunch of other functions g_1, g_2, etc, all of which have the same property that g_i(t) = g_i(t + period). Of course, if a function g has the property that, for all t, g(t) = g(t + period/n) for any integer n, then you can iterate that property n times and you’ll also have g(t) = g(t + period). And these functions with the fundamental period, half the fundamental period, one third the fundamental period, etc, are the fundamental tone and its overtones. You could decompose into square waves or just about anything else and you would get the same result.

(In any discussion of Fourier transforms complete with equations, you’ll usually see a bunch of factors of 2π because the frequencies are angular frequencies. This is done for mathematical convenience and has no effect on any of this.)
by barbazoo | 2025-09-18 16:43:22+00:00
I don't and I'm ok with that. Let's go out and organize and influence the direction of our _communities_ first. No screen needed. That's the level you can impact as an ordinary person.

It makes me immediately suspicious when someone wants to reach _everbody_, that's never good and we shouldn't let them. Ideas will grow if they're good, if you have to spend money to make people listen, they're not.
by _fat_santa | 2025-09-18 16:44:01+00:00
Just to share a personal anecdote. The other day me and my wife were getting into an Uber that was a Model 3 and she said to me "I don't know how this door works, can you open it for me".

Sure they are not that hard to figure out but something like door handles shouldn't be something to "figure out" at all, it should be immediately obvious how to open the vehicle.

Beyond that I just dislike electronic door handles in general, yes I get the argument that an electronic handle puts less wear on the car as it can accurately actuate the door release and do it better than a human but every time I have to use a button to exit the car, I always get flashing sirens in my head going "this is a massive point of failure"
by x4D4242 | 2025-09-18 16:44:59+00:00
Based on California’s Automatic Renewal Law and contract principles, what you’ve described raises serious concerns:

In California, companies must provide clear written notice of any material change to renewal terms and obtain consent before billing under new terms. Changing pricing from a staff-only basis to billing every user—without a new contract or notice—appears inconsistent with that law.

Telling you to ignore invoices, then demanding immediate payment with a threat of total service shutoff, could be construed as coercive and in bad faith.

Recommendations:

Put everything in writing. Send Salesforce/Slack a formal letter citing Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code §§ 17600–17606 (Automatic Renewal Law) and demanding they extend service during resolution.

Request a 90-day transition period to migrate, framed as reasonable and legally necessary under consumer protection standards.

Escalate to Salesforce legal/compliance. If necessary, copy the California Attorney General’s consumer protection unit.

Preserve evidence. Save all communications, invoices, and contract copies.

This doesn’t mean you should stop negotiating, but you have a strong basis to demand more time and push back on the sudden payment demand.
by reify | 2025-09-18 16:45:00+00:00
Firstly, as a retired psychotherapist and play therapist, you are severely destroying the most important thing being a parent. TRUST!

I have two daughters and a son who are fully functioning adults.

I did not act like a control freak, or intervene in their lives. I educated them about the horrors of being online. I had a talk with them and trusted them to be safe. I made myself fully available if they had any problems online.

Why would any rational compassionate loving parent add any ai product to monitor their child.

My god man! Its like looking in her personal diary every day.

you are creating the perfect panopticon environment, and we know the damage that, that does to a human being.

A proper parent does it like this:

Be honest with your daughter and tell her you will be monitoring her PC/laptop to keep her safe.

Tell her you will manually turn off your router every night at 10pm, or whatever time you choose.

I would be extremely concerned about using any google stuff, after all they will be hoovering up every thing she does online. In my view this is more dangerous than giving her a free reign to do what she wants online. fuck off with the ai bullshit.

Its not the bogie men she needs to worry about. Its you and big tech.

I see another psychologically damaged child who eventually abandons you because you are a control freak.

I dont want any bonus points
by emchammer | 2025-09-18 16:45:08+00:00
It depends on where you draw the line for acting in good faith.

Justice Antonin Scalia's opening statement before a 2011 Senate Judiciary Committee hearing is worth watching. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ggz_gd--UO0

Even more worth reading are the Federalist Papers, cover-to-cover, as he suggested. The depth to which the Framers considered the kind of situations we are in today is amazing.
by dismalaf | 2025-09-18 16:45:10+00:00
I'm old enough that the first computer I used was an IBM PC. Running PC DOS. Granted, I was very young and only remember it because of the little turtle in Logo. Then it was Apple IIs. Then Windows. I actually used Linux in the 90's. I remember Windows 8, but mainly because of the complainers. I was Linux full time by then anyway.

But I do happen to enjoy having extraneous menus hidden. Why are they cluttering my screen and workspace when I'm using keyboard shortcuts anyway? I want to see my actual work, not some menu I don't need and will never click on...

Using a mouse to click on a bunch of tiny menus littered all over the place is horrible for productivity and screams "boomer"...
by BeetleB | 2025-09-18 16:45:11+00:00
In the early 80's, Congress passed some laws that allow people to buy undeveloped land, and declare it to be undeveloped for perpetuity (no one can develop on it even if sold). The owner gets some tax benefits from doing so.

It became a niche segment in the real estate. The idea is you find land that is cheap, but you have a feeling it has mineral wealth. You buy it cheap, get the survey done, and show that it was really worth a lot more. But instead of building a mine/oil well, you declare the land undeveloped for perpetuity. The tax benefit you receive is commensurate to the (now highly increased) value of the land.

You make a profit this way, and the environment benefits.

It's a very risky part of real estate. There are lots of environmental groups who closely monitor the land, and will file a lawsuit if they suspect you are developing on the land. Fighting lawsuits is part of the risk.

Anyway, the person who did the presentation showed some interesting statistics. Supposedly, for every 10 acres of land that is developed in a given year, roughly 9 acres are declared undevelopable for perpetuity. That's really significant (if true).
by BetterGeiger | 2025-09-18 16:45:26+00:00
Cool project! My business is Better Geiger (www.bettergeiger.com), I design and sell radiation detectors. I just hope people keep in mind the capabilities and limitations of those simple Geiger tubes. Radon was mentioned on the project website, yes technically radon decay products are detectable but pracfically a Geiger tube is reacting only to terrestrial, cosmic, and other sources of radiation, not anything to do with radon. Measuring radon generally requires a dedicated device (I recommend ecosense, at least until I get around to designing one). You correctly noted that such a tube can't accurately measure dose, that's because it is not energy compensated, so usually such a tube has a count to dose conversion factor for Cs-137 that will cause major overestimation in realistic scenarios. Those cheap tubes of that type also saturates easily in radiation fields that are really hazardous, making it fairly useless in an emergency situation. That is the main distinguishing feature of my products, high range and energy compensated. I have put out some YouTube videos that go into more detail about radiation dose, fallout and how to reduce risks, etc. I've given a lot of thought to doing a project like this with a scintillator, but I don't think the demand is there for me to do it before a lot of other ideas I have... When a cheapo standalone Geiger tube device can be had for $50, my products with scintillator go for $150 or $200 for the very high sensitivity version, then for $250-600 there are a few gamma spec products like radiacode, raysid, and radview with varying other features that are fun for hobbyists (though be aware none of those go to high dose rate range). For hackability mine offers access to the digital and analog outputs, but it's not really made for gamma spec so the spectrum quality is poor, but it can be a fun way to play. I've given a lot of thought to something designed more for DIY people, but in my experience very few people actually want that, most just want plug and play, and the ones that do request it usually don't even follow through. I've only communicated with a couple people that actually pulled a spec from a better geiger. Maybe that would be different if I designed a device specifically for DIY, something really small with simple serial comm output or something like that... Maybe some day.
by kokada | 2025-09-18 16:45:31+00:00
Because I had a good experience with KDE on SteamOS.

This whole system is setup as a SteamOS-like experience using Jovian-NixOS (I wrote about it here: https://kokada.dev/blog/from-gaming-rig-to-personal-computer...).

Still, as far I remember SteamOS is still on KDE5 and uses X11, while I am using KDE6 on Wayland. So not exactly the same.
by mleonhard | 2025-09-18 16:46:02+00:00
VPN providers do not have reputations for making secure or reliable software.

Here's a good privacy proxy (VPN) setup: Set up a second wifi router, enable the "Internet kill switch", and connect it with Wireguard to a reputable VPN service. I recommend GL.iNet routers and Mullvad.

With this setup, one can move individual devices between the privacy wifi and identity-broadcasting wifi.
by observationist | 2025-09-18 16:46:06+00:00
Open source for the PR, then switching to non-open licensing is a cowardly, bullshit move.

https://github.com/cactus-compute/cactus/commit/b1b5650d1132...

Use open source and stick with it, or don't touch it at all, and tell any VC shitheels saying otherwise to pound sand.

If your business is so fragile or unoriginal that it can't survive being open source, then it will fail anyway. If you make it open source, embrace the ethos and build community, then your product or service will be stronger for it. If the big players clone your work, you get instant underdog credibility and notoriety.
by billy99k | 2025-09-18 16:46:15+00:00
"You understand that the Twitter Files was an absolute nothingburger, correct? It showed that they needed a special database to keep track of the same requests from Republicans because they were submitting so much. There was no "collusion" as you put it."

Even left-leaning AI can't hide the fact that you are horribly incorrect. I will let you do the research yourself.

"The "hunter biden laptop" story is a dead horse that keeps being revived by the right wing fearmonger media which you're clearly very entrenched in."

Actually, it's pretty well known that the laptop was real. You are the one 'entrenched' in left-wing media:

It is now widely confirmed by multiple sources, including federal prosecutor and media outlets, that the laptop that was the subject of a 2020 New York Post story did belong to Hunter Biden. It has been used as evidence in his 2024 criminal trial.

Key developments and verifications

FBI and Justice Department confirmation

In December 2019, the FBI seized the laptop from a Delaware computer repair shop via a grand jury subpoena.

-FBI investigators concluded in 2019 that the laptop genuinely belonged to Hunter Biden and had not been manipulated. -During Hunter Biden's 2024 federal gun trial, the Justice Department's special counsel, David C. Weiss, introduced the laptop as evidence. An FBI agent testified about its contents, which were used to demonstrate Biden's drug use at the time of the firearm purchase. -Several news organizations have reported on the authenticity of content from the laptop. -The New York Times stated in March 2022 that it had obtained and authenticated some emails from a cache believed to be from the laptop.

Did you forget that Biden pardoned his entire family before he left office for past and future crimes?
by bArray | 2025-09-18 16:46:41+00:00
Re-reading a book is a lot like re-watching a film for me, I don't want to do it immediately, but there is value in doing it some years later where the details become less certain. I'm actively aware that even during tasks such as talking, my brain condenses and throws away most information. The import thing really is to develop and capture the right abstractions.

There are a few books I have gone back and read simply for enjoyment, for example Hitch Hiker's Guide to the galaxy was a pleasure to read. Some more dense materials that I know I will gain a lot from, I find it difficult to muster the motivation to re-read.
Show HN: Building an AI-native mini-OS for developers
by stephbeaugoss | 2025-09-18 16:46:41+00:00
TL;DR: Vibemind is an AI-native “mini OS” — a single canvas where you interact through thoughts, spaces, and flows instead of switching apps. Multi-agent orchestration, live knowledge graphs, and OCR-driven UI automation are built-in. We’re opening a small waitlist for early builders and power users: [your-waitlist-link].

What this is We built Vibemind because context switching is wasting everyone’s life. Instead of tabs and apps, you get a single workspace that spawns tiny agents (Planner, Coder, Researcher, Automator), links knowledge into a live graph, and can operate parts of your desktop through OCR + scripted flows. It’s part note-taking, part agent orchestra, part automation playground.

Why it might matter to you (technical folks) • Agent-first architecture: each task is an agent with capabilities and failure-memory, so retries get smarter. • Knowledge graph at runtime: nodes are live (files, API responses, chat snippets) — queries return provenance, not guesses. • OCR UI automation: pick a UI region, teach an agent, and it repeats actions reliably even on dynamic pages. • Developer-first: CLI + tiny SDK so you can extend agents, add custom fitness functions, or run components locally.

Current status & numbers (honest) • Prototype: frontend + working agent orchestration, knowledge-graph POC, OCR automation demo. • Team: small, product-driven. Open to early contributors. • Waitlist: limited early seats (beta invites will be staggered). We’re not pretending we have millions of users; we have a focused demo and want feedback from people who break things.

Privacy & safety (short) You can run agents locally or in our hosted environment. We log actions for reproducibility but plan fine-grained export/delete controls. We’re building with minimal data retention by default.

What we want from HN readers • Try the demo if you’re curious. • Sign the waitlist if you want early access and can give feedback. • Tell us what would make you replace a dozen tabs with one canvas.
by sekai | 2025-09-18 16:47:19+00:00
> Except that Nvidia, Inc. doesn't own any of that NVDA stock, other people do, and they cannot access that money. Nvidia, Inc. owns net profit, which is orders of magnitude less than market cap. Last year's net profit was just under $73 billion. ($5 billion is still very affordable, too be sure).

Not all deals are made in cash, they can borrow money against their market share.
by rafram | 2025-09-18 16:47:29+00:00
Two very, very different situations.

The UK is a small, densely populated country without large areas of true wilderness. Over 90% of the country's land is private. The one area of the UK where there are large expanses of land without many inhabitants is Scotland (due to the Clearances), but the land there is still mostly owned by large land barons, and so Scotland has a more permissive law that allows non-destructive access to almost all private land (Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003).

The US is almost half public land, it's absolutely gigantic, and it has numerous areas where you can be hundreds of miles away from the closest real settlement. We don't need traditional paths and easements and whatever when we have millions of acres of National Forest and BLM land that you can access freely. There are land barons in the US, but by absolute area, they did a fairly poor job of buying up the country's land before the federal government could protect it.
by mtlynch | 2025-09-18 16:47:31+00:00
I considered buying a Model 3 but the door handles were the dealbreaker for me.

The standard door handles don't work if the vehicle has a loss of power (such as after a collision).

In the front, there's a manual release in the front seat that's accessible if you know where to look, but would be easy to miss in an emergency.

In the rear, it's almost impossible to access the manual release in an emergency. You have to pull out a floor mat and then pop open a panel that requires a metal tool to extract, and then reach blindly into a hole to pull the release. And this process damages the car, so you can't really practice in a non-emergency.[0]

I couldn't believe I was actually understanding it correctly and that this could be legal in the US, so I called Tesla's hotline and asked how to exit the vehicle in an emergency. The Tesla rep said it's easy to activate the manual release if you know where to look, so I asked how passengers unfamiliar with the car are supposed to use it to escape in an emergency. The rep said, "Oh, it's just a quick 5-minute explanation when they get in."

Apparently, because Tesla decided to put this stupid design on their door rather than one that works without elecricity, it's now the car owner's responsibility to sit every passenger through a 5-minute safety briefing as if they hopped into a 747.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PbRBbIGnv4