MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Bikashhh | 2025-10-12 21:31:42+00:00
My coworker from my Business Development and Investor Relations teams often reply to emails from scam domains, people pretending to be investors from Switzerland, Dubai, and other places. In my experience, less technical or newer team members often struggle to identify fake websites, so I built this simple tool. It shows you how many visitors a domain has, its age, tech-stack and overall traffic patterns.

It’s not 100% accurate yet, and I’m looking for people who can help me improve it.

Eventually, I plan to open-source this project, so if you have any feedback, please do let me know.
by shmerl | 2025-10-12 21:32:15+00:00
Wong wording may be, but the point of the post is correct. Mint just lags behind with Wayland support and in being up to date for handling recent hardware especially.

The former is Mint's specific problem, while the latter is a general problem of all long period release distros that don't take care of updating Linux kernel, Mesa and etc. to actual recent releases.
by skanga | 2025-10-12 21:32:18+00:00
I'm working on Conductor

https://github.com/skanga/Conductor

Conductor is a LLM agnostic framework for building sophisticated AI applications using a subagent architecture. It provides a robust platform for orchestrating multiple specialized AI agents to accomplish complex tasks, with features like LLM-based planning, memory persistence, and dynamic tool use.

It provides a robust and flexible platform for orchestrating multiple specialized AI agents to accomplish complex tasks. This project is inspired by the concepts outlined in "The Rise of Subagents" by Phil Schmid at https://www.philschmid.de/the-rise-of-subagents and it aims to provide a practical implementation of this powerful architectural pattern.
by pinkmuffinere | 2025-10-12 21:32:19+00:00
This is misleading, because it assumes that i/I naturally represent one vowel, which is just not the case. i/I represents one vowel in _English_, when written with a latin script. ̶I̶n̶ ̶f̶a̶c̶t̶ ̶e̶v̶e̶n̶ ̶t̶h̶i̶s̶ ̶i̶s̶n̶'̶t̶ ̶c̶o̶r̶r̶e̶c̶t̶,̶ ̶i̶/̶I̶ ̶r̶e̶p̶r̶e̶s̶e̶n̶t̶s̶ ̶o̶n̶e̶ ̶p̶h̶o̶n̶e̶m̶e̶,̶ ̶n̶o̶t̶ ̶o̶n̶e̶ ̶v̶o̶w̶e̶l̶.̶ <see troad's comment for correction>

There is no reason to assume that the English representation is in general "correct", "standard", or even "first". The modern script for Turkish was adopted around the 1920's, so you could argue perhaps that most typewriters presented a standard that should have been followed. However, there was variation even between different typewriters, and I strongly suspect that typewriters weren't common in Turkey when the change was made.
by cjflog | 2025-10-12 21:33:53+00:00
Currently a one-man side project: https://laboratory.love

Last year, PlasticList found plastic chemicals in 86% of tested foods—including 100% of baby foods they tested. Around the same time, the EU lowered its “safe” BPA limit by 20,000×, while the FDA still allows levels roughly 100× higher than Europe’s new standard.

That seemed solvable.

Laboratory.love lets you crowdfund independent lab testing of the specific products you actually buy. Think Consumer Reports × Kickstarter, but focused on detecting endocrine disruptors in your yogurt, your kid’s snacks, or whatever you’re curious about.

Find a product (or suggest one), contribute to its testing fund, and get full lab results when testing completes. If a product doesn’t reach its goal within 365 days, you’re automatically refunded. All results are published publicly.

We use the same ISO 17025-accredited methodology as PlasticList.org, testing three separate production lots per product and detecting down to parts-per-billion. The entire protocol is open.

Since last month’s “What are you working on?” post:

- 4 more products have been fully funded (now 10 total!)

- That’s 30 individual samples (we do triplicate testing on different batches) and 60 total chemical panels (two separate tests for each sample, BPA/BPS/BPF and phthalates)

- 6 results published, 4 in progress

The goal is simple: make supply chains transparent enough that cleaner ones win. When consumers have real data, markets shift.

Browse funded tests, propose your own, or just follow along: https://laboratory.love
by troupo | 2025-10-12 21:34:01+00:00
> It's not insane that you have to explain it to me, because your premise is _wrong_.

Are you saying that "if something is shipped in a browser (especially dominant one like Chrome), it will be there, and people will end up dependent on it, and it will be hard to change or remove" is the wrong premise?

> I keep pointing out, Apple is the only party that has undermined it:

I've updated my reply, addressing this claim, too.

"Apple is the only one that undermined the process", but Chrome is blameless because "Blin's process is rigorous and without fail, and everyone ships anything they want anyway"?

> Voluntary adoption is foundational to the entire effort

Yes, and Google abuses this by shipping whatever it wants at neck-breaking pace regardless of any possible differing view.

Basically you're literally saying "because adoption is voluntary Chrome has the right to do whatever it wants. However, no one else is allowed to do whatever they want (e.g. not adopting Chrome-only non-standards) because whatever Chrome ships is law".

Edit: note how you call standards that Chrome ships "fundamental web standards that Safari must implement because it just must". But Chrome is fully absolved of any blame.

Late edit: This quote is absolutely hilarious: "Apple alone must be on the hook to implement any and every web platform feature shipped by any and every other engine. "

So much for "voluntary". "Whatever Chrome ships is law".
by MyOutfitIsVague | 2025-10-12 21:34:06+00:00
It's probably because I've experienced a family member's suffering that I wouldn't wish anybody to do through, and also had health events myself that led to such a "reduced quality of life" (read: constant discomfort bordering on torment, allowing no comfort, relaxation, sleep, or ability to focus on anything even mildly enjoyable.) for several months on end that I considered that if believed it would never get better from that point, I really wouldn't want to live anymore. It was effectively an anxiety attack that stayed at maximum intensity for three months solid, and didn't respond to any kinds of drugs, even benzos. I was constantly terrified that I was going to die, and I couldn't hold conversations during the entire period. During this period, I considered that there are people who experienced my condition as a lifelong experience, rather than a temporary, albeit long, episode. For people with dissociative disorders and dementia, they experience something like that, but with significantly higher terror and without even a reasonable grasp on reality. My horrible experience that made me ponder how much more I could survive is somebody else's "good day".

"It's going to get better" is a reasonable position. "It's not going to get better, but still keep hanging on while you experience intolerable torment for all the time you have left, however long it may be" is sadistic and sick.
by nullc | 2025-10-12 21:34:24+00:00
Sorry, but you're relaying a false memory. Conversation on the subject on HN and Reddit (for example) was extremely well informed and grounded in the specifics of the proposal.

Just as an example, part of my responses here were to develop and publish a second-preimage attack on their hash function-- simply to make the point concrete that varrious bad scenarios would be facilitated by the existence of one.
by geoctl | 2025-10-12 21:34:28+00:00
While WireGuard makes every sense for an FPGA due to its minimal design, I wonder why there isn't much interest in using QUIC as a modern tunneling protocol, especially for corporate use cases. QUIC already provides an almost complete WireGuard-alternative via its datagrams that can be easily combined with TUN devices and custom authentication schemes (e.g. mTLS, bearer tokens obtained via OAuth2 and OIDC authentication, etc...) to build your own VPN. While I am not sure about performance, at least when compared to kernel-mode WireGuard, since QUIC is obviously a more complex state machine that's running in userspace and it depends on the implementation and optimizations offered by the OS (e.g. GRO/GSO), QUIC isn't just a yet another tunneling protocol, it actually offers lots of benefits such as working well with dynamic endpoints with DNS instead of just using static IP addrs, it uses modern TLSv1.3 and therefore it's compliant with FIPS for example, it uses AES which can be accelerated by the underlying hardware (e.g. AES-NI), it currently has implementations in almost every major programming language, it can work well in the future with proxies and load balancers, you can bring your own custom, more fine-grained authentication scheme (e.g. bearer tokens, mTLS, etc...), it masquerades as just another QUIC/HTTP3 traffic that's used by almost all major websites now and therefore less susceptible to dropping by any nodes in between, and other less obvious benefits such as congestion control and PMTUD.
by tw04 | 2025-10-12 21:35:32+00:00
IPSec isn’t running out of steam anytime soon. Every commercial firewall vendor uses it, and it’s mandatory in any federal government installation.

WireGuard isn’t certified for any federal installation that I’m aware of and I haven’t heard of any vendors willing to take on the work of getting it certified when its “superiority” is of limited relevance in an enterprise situation.
by bigbadfeline | 2025-10-12 21:35:50+00:00
> “The growth in data center load and the expected future growth in data center load are unique and unprecedented and uncertain, and require a different approach than simply asserting that it is just supply and demand.”

Yeah, not all demand is the same, thus not all prices should be the same. New business customers with high electricity consumption should pay double and triple the household rate, whatever is necessary to make the books make sense.
by shadowpho | 2025-10-12 21:36:03+00:00
Same here. With openvpn my somewhat modern cpu takes out a whole core @100% at like 200 megabits/s.

With WireGuard I instead max out the internet bandwidth (400 megabits/s) with like 20% cpu usage if that.

I really don’t understand why. We have AES acceleration. AES-NI can easily do more bps… why is openvpn so slow?
by trollbridge | 2025-10-12 21:36:27+00:00
Any chance you'll take a look at power tools next?

There are some Amish people who rebuild Dewalt, Milwaukee etc battery packs. I'd like a repairable/sustainable platform where I can actually check the health of the battery packs and replace worn out cells as needed.

To give you an idea of the market, original batteries are about $149, and their knockoffs are around $100.
by Liftyee | 2025-10-12 21:36:28+00:00
Neat idea, though I didn't fully understand the details since I'm not experienced in constraint solvers. Might have to look into it.

Games often lead to interesting computational problems. Another example - I was designing a solver for Flow [0] which made me think about graph problems and applications in e.g. circuit board wire routing. Intuitively it's easy, but translating that into logic is more challenging.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_Free
by godelski | 2025-10-12 21:36:52+00:00
>> men who could not have imagined cotton candy

It's a funny example since it looks like cotton candy might have been around in their time [0]. Machines spun cotton candy came about much later but I'm not overly suspicious of the claims in [0] as meringue[1] certainly existed in their lifetimes and the process isn't dissimilar. I'm certain these men could understand "like meringue, but with sugar!" And "a machine that spins fast!" These would not be great leaps for people at this time. It seems to make them out to be idiots rather than not being prophetic (presumably the intended meaning)

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20150701005917/http://www.cotton...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meringue
by steezeburger | 2025-10-12 21:36:58+00:00
I don’t think that’s the right way to think about it. It’s not like they were Latinizing Turkish with ASCII in mind. They wanted a one-to-one mapping between letters and sounds. The dot versus no dot marks where in your mouth or throat the vowel is formed. They didn’t have this concept that capital I automatically pairs with lowercase i. The dot was always part of the letter itself. The reform wasn’t trying to fit existing Western conventions, it was trying to map the Turkish sounds to symbols.
by nullc | 2025-10-12 21:37:01+00:00
> once the system is created it’s easy to envision governments putting whatever images they want to know people have into the phone

A key point is that the system was designed to make sure the database was strongly cryptographically private against review. -- that's actually where 95% of the technical complexity in the proposal came from: to make absolutely sure the public could never discover exactly what government organizations were or weren't scanning for.
by BusterBladeZX | 2025-10-12 21:37:02+00:00
I really like the idea! One issue though is that the content seems to "stream" much slower than what's being spoken. The result is that I'm sitting there waiting to see whats going to come, even though its already been said which makes it hard to focus on whatever new information is coming.

The animations / drawings themselves are solid too. I think there's more to play with wrt the dimensions and space of the background. It would be nice to see it zoom in and out for example.
by ajd555 | 2025-10-12 21:37:16+00:00
I'm currently working on building a local delivery service using electric cargo bikes in NYC: https://hudsonshipping.co. We are planning to launch our first pilot in early 2026 with our first customers in Brooklyn. We've built all of the tech in-house to manage the fleet, deliveries and optimize our routes. If you know of anyone that would like to be a part of the pilot program, feel free to reach out to me!
by npteljes | 2025-10-12 21:37:50+00:00
These dark patterns are the zeitgeist really, for many years now. And they work very well, because of the combinations of vendor lock-in, product bundling, and companies getting better and better at PR.

Usually there is an easy workaround. For example with One Drive shenanigans, you just need to save the files outside of Documents, Pictures etc, and that's it. I got fed up many years ago and moved to Linux, because I like my fights with Linux better. With Microsoft (and most other corporations), it's their way, or the highway. And it always have been.
by vladoh | 2025-10-12 21:38:42+00:00
I'm working on a open-source tool to create photo galleries from a folder of photos: https://simple.photo. It creates galleries as static sites that are easy to self-host.

I started this out of frustration that there is no good tool I could use to share photos from my travel and of my kids with friends and family. I wanted to have a beautiful web gallery that works on all devices, where I can add rich descriptions and that I could share with a simple link.

Turned out more people wanted this (got 200+ GitHub stars for the V1) so I recently released the V2 and I'm working on it with another dev. Down the road we plan a SaaS offer for people that don't want to fiddle with the CLI and self-host the gallery.
by andreygrehov | 2025-10-12 21:38:44+00:00
Building a tool that automatically generates living infrastructure diagrams from your IaC files and turns them into real-time incident dashboards. Think Figma meets Datadog - beautiful visualization that updates during outages to show you exactly what's failing and how to fix it.

The insight: your architecture diagram shouldn't be a stale PNG in Confluence. It should be your war room during incidents.

Going to be available as both web app and native desktop.
by longcovidthrowa | 2025-10-12 21:39:17+00:00
Thank you for the information, and I'm sorry to hear about your struggles.

> The first is that it might not be permanent alveoli damage (which do not regenerate in humans) but rather obstruction from a "hydrogel" that forms during active covid and takes many many months if not years to dissipate entirely

I didn't go into too much detail in my original post, but we think this is likely what happened to my daughter. Post-COVID, she could still go for long durations at 80% but when she pushed her limits, she would hit a wall and start to experience asthma like symptoms along with the feeling like she had mucous in her lungs that she couldn't get out. It took close to 2 years for her to stop experiencing those symptoms, at which point her competitive running peers had passed her by. She's happy to be able to enjoy running again but she did lose out on the competition part.
by sigmoid10 | 2025-10-12 21:39:34+00:00
>I can't see how this problem becomes realistically solvable without hitting AGI

How would AGI solve this? The most common definition of AGI is "as good as average humans on all human tasks" - but in case of ITsec, that's a very low bar. We'd simply see prompt injections get more and more similar to social engineering as we approach AGI. Even if you replace "average" with "the best" it would still fall short, because human thought is not perfect. You'd really need some sort of closely aligned ASI that transcends human thought altogether. And I'm not sure if those properties aren't mutually exclusive.
by pessimizer | 2025-10-12 21:39:52+00:00
The rest of the world has had forever to do sovereignty, and the blessing of a FOSS ecosystem (that doesn't exist in fully 85% of alternate universes) which would make it absurdly easy. Europe has the same bosses as everybody else, and they pretty much pilot authoritarian overreach there before they try it in the US against a stronger constitution and clear Bill of Rights.

The reason Europe isn't independent is because they like that the US goes through their citizens' data, and are happy for Microsoft (or whoever, I guess Palantir, Crowdstrike, and 18 Israeli military startups) to package it up and send it to them. They love to not spend on tech and talk the future, just like they love to not spend on the military and talk tough.

The reason they talk about US tech domination is to whip up a "nationalism" which is, of course, an EU federalism and a usurpation of the self-determination of the various nations of Europe for the sake of the deep pockets that dogwalk the EU to where they want it to be. It also keeps France and Germany in the center of Europe forever. They don't talk about "tech independence" because they mean anything by it.

They've had 30 years to grab FOSS and run with it, and infinite cash. Instead, you got cookie banners, social media monitoring, and in a minute, chat control.

The only people who are seriously working on digital sovereignty are the Chinese.

edit: I'd like to add that I'm all for Europe going all-in on FOSS, or (less-so) even coming up with a full proprietary ecosystem completely independent of US tech overlords. This would be nothing but a benefit to me. It will just never, ever happen. Any European who would be expected to pay for it is already heavily invested with US tech overlords, because billionaires aren't nationalists, they're narcissists.
by leptons | 2025-10-12 21:40:00+00:00
>doing micro services or loads of small serverless functions way too early

That hasn't been my experience at all. Your "1000x" claim is so far off the mark. In my experience it's maybe 1.001x more difficult, if not less difficult in so many ways.

I built my startup's tech stack on serverless functions and serverless database, and serverless storage, and it's been really very easy. I don't have any server that can go down, I don't have to worry about server maintenance, but I do have to worry about AWS removing older Lambda runtimes and needing to update my code to run on the new ones when necessary, which isn't all that often. But that's about it. It just runs, 24/7/365, and costs me practically nothing while building out the company. My total AWS bill for the last 2 years is about $0.40/month (less than $10 total for 2 years), and the product is mature and launching soon.

And the great thing is, this is built to scale from day 1. I don't have to worry about load balancers or bursts of traffic or anything that would bring a company down right as it's getting traction.
by tsimionescu | 2025-10-12 21:41:01+00:00
You very much are your experiences. You are the sum result of your formative experiences and memories - no more and no less. Sure, I've grown since I was 9 years old, but there is an uninterrupted stream of experiences from when I was 9 years old up to now, and some of the things I learned back then are a part of who I am today. The raw concept of consciousness as the observer of your mental states, the "thing that reads your experiences", is not recognizable as a real mind - if it has no experiences of its own, it is a blank slate, with no desires, fears, intentions etc: those all come from formative experiences and lessons learned.

Alzheimers destroys this stream. All of a sudden, key formative experiences that made me me disappear irreparably, and so what survives is not me, it is a new consciousness formed of other experiences (mostly a subset of the ones I had, though Alzheimers can also sometimes create fake memories from pieces of real memoeies, conjectures, maybe even dreams or old desires etc). And while this is a consciousness, it is not a regular human consciousness, since it doesn't have anything similar to the regular human uninterrupted stream of experience, it is a consciousness made up of fragments of the consciousness of another person. And it is uniquely well positioned to hurt the people that the original person loved the most in the world, without realizing they are doing so. Plus, the life of the new person inhabiting your mind will be, inevitably, horrible. Because, again, they will be in constant shock and confusion because of their missing, incomplete, disordered memories.

So yes, the person we're talking about took a choice to avoid this horrid change. He was afraid of change, yes, because he knew well how horrible said change is, entirely inevitably so. It's normal to be afraid of horrible change. If someone is about to cut your leg without anesthesia, it's normal and good to be afraid of said change, and try to avoid it if you can.
by rootusrootus | 2025-10-12 21:41:18+00:00
I get a new batch of CS interns for my team every year, and I use Claude Code every day. I think Claude is pretty amazing and it definitely provides value for me, but I would choose the intern every time. I am really skeptical of any claims of getting the kind of productivity and capability growth out of an LLM that would make it an adequate replacement for a human developer.