MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Terr_ | 2025-10-13 05:57:36+00:00
For example, companies wielding DMCA "anti-circumvention" section 1201 [0] to put people in jail.

Or tricks like Nintendo designing their hardware only boot games which show the Nintendo logo on the screen, so that they can shut down any third-party games for trademark infringement.

[0] https://www.eff.org/pages/unintended-consequences-fifteen-ye...
by rozenmd | 2025-10-13 05:58:11+00:00
Still a one-person project (since 2021): https://onlineornot.com

I'm still rebuilding OnlineOrNot's frontend to be powered by the public REST API. Uptime checks are now fully powered by a public API (still have heartbeat checks, maintenance windows, and status pages to go).

Doing this both as a means of dogfooding, and adding features to the REST API that I easily dumped into the private GraphQL API without thinking too hard. That, and after I finish the first milestone (uptime checks + heartbeat/cron job monitors), I'll be able to start building a proper terraform provider, and audit logs.

Basically at the start of the year I realised GraphQL has taken me as far as it can, and I should've gone with REST to start with.
by EmanuelB | 2025-10-13 05:58:22+00:00
One man project for 4 years: https://kastanj.ch/

Most recipes are a failure for beginners on the first try. I aim to make recipes bulletproof so anyone can pick up any recipe and it will just work.

The goal is to make the best recipe app ever. On a technical level recipes are built as graphs and assembled on demand. This makes multilanguage support easy, any recipe can use any unit imaginable, blind people could have custom recipe settings for their needs, search becomes OP, and there is also a wikipedia like database with information that links to all recipes. Because of the graphs; nutritional information, environmental impact, cost etc. can simply be calculated accurately by following linked graphs. Most recipe apps are very targeted to specific geographical regions and languages, this graph system removes a lot of barriers between countries and will also be a blessing to expats. Imagine an American in Europe that wish to use imperial units, english recipes, but with ingredients native to their new homeland. No problem, just follow a different set of nodes and the recipe is created that way for them.

The website is slightly outdated but gives a good idea of what is coming. Current goal is to do beta launch in 2026.
by rtpg | 2025-10-13 05:58:59+00:00
I know Fastmail isn't the hugest place in the world and the set of skills involved but it feels a bit insulting to roll this out rather than contribute into Thunderbird in a way to get what Fastmail feels is necessary out there.

Thunderbird has had a good number of QoL improvements, and the calendar plugins etc are quite niec. Just if one day search could... uhh... work, that would be nice
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-10-13 06:02:43+00:00
> you are being obtuse, so i'll counter your obnoxious wikipedia link with my own and never reply to you again.

And you are being myopic, so I will counter your trite response with my own link which explains why LLM's are very useful for what they are, but in no way what the hype proclaims them to be, and never reply to you again either.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2501.09223v2
by hunterpayne | 2025-10-13 06:03:09+00:00
The industrial park also takes a tiny fraction of the amount of land as does growing food. Even better, it allows enough food to be grown on a fraction of the land. So on balance, that powerplant allows far more land to be returned to a natural state. Ironic but true. Its why we shouldn't allow the scientifically illiterate to make decisions about this type of thing.
by tfourb | 2025-10-13 06:03:21+00:00
For consumer spending and disposable income, as for gdp per capita, averages are irrelevant as they can (and are) skewed by high earners/spenders and tell us little about the experience of the other 70% of the population.

Air conditioning is simply not necessary in many places in Europe. Either because of climate or building standards (ie proper insulation and/or traditional building styles with a lot of thermal mass).

The size of housing is more due to limitations on development permits designed to limit urban sprawl, as well as differing traditions and preferences.

Having top universities is nice, but won’t help you if the rest of your education system sucks, because 99% of people do not visit the top universities.

Same with wealth and quality of life: the strength of a society is probably measured best by asking where you’d rather be poor, than where you’d rather be rich.
by ccjiang | 2025-10-13 06:04:11+00:00
I’ve been working on https://redditdeep.com to solve a problem I’ve had for a while.

I regularly browse Reddit (and Hacker News) to keep up with new trends and research topics, but it's really time-consuming.

- It’s hard to find the right communities. Search and recommendation features aren’t quite there, and I don’t want to just passively scroll a feed.

- Going through all the comments takes too long. I just want to quickly grasp the main points people are making. If interested, I can dive in further.

So I started this project to help streamline that process—kind of like a “deep research” workflow for my own browsing.

It’s still early, but it’s already saving me time. If anyone knows of similar tools out there, I’d love to hear about them.
by raphinou | 2025-10-13 06:04:26+00:00
Working on a multisig solution for authenticated file distribution, initially targeting GitHub releases. Based on minisig and git.

I think this project is an interesting addition as a software supply chain solution, but generating interest in the project in this early stage proves difficult.

For those interested, I maintain a spec in parallel of the development at https://github.com/asfaload/spec
by hvb2 | 2025-10-13 06:05:48+00:00
> Germany is an elite outcome for Europe for example. Population 83 million. Show me what the top 83 million in the US look like by comparison (roughly the top 25% of the US).

I don't know where you learned statistics but this is like comically bad.

I suggest you pick an even smaller country like Andorra ~82K people and compare that with the top 82K people in the US.

Seriously, it's well known the US is skewed towards the top and it's actually a problem... We all remember how Warren Buffet had to say it was weird how he played a lower marginal tax rate than his secretary, right?
by epistasis | 2025-10-13 06:06:27+00:00
The US is being run according to what a weak and cowardly person thinks a strong person looks like.

It's bad decisions again and again, fundamentally from insecurity and incompetence. It all with the idea of trying to impress some really scared people with blustery demonstrations of force, because the scared people imagine themselves using lots of force if they were ever to have power in their lives.
by isolatedsystem | 2025-10-13 06:06:44+00:00
Yes. I'm over the hatred for Electron too. Programmers have few options if they want cross-platform compatibility without Electron. What else are they going to use? QT? Please, give me a break. Some angelic developers like the KeepassXC guys still use QT, but that is a tough road to go down on. For the rest of them, Electron Or Bust I'm afraid.
by Hitechbpo | 2025-10-13 06:07:05+00:00
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by gspr | 2025-10-13 06:07:35+00:00
I do not believe for a single second that the lack of those in southern Europe is a matter of cost or availability. To me, as a European (albeit a northerner, where mosquitoes are very annoying, but not a source of disease), those screens are just incredibly tacky and disgusting. They scream American.

If it were a matter of cost/availability, then surely they'd be everywhere on wealthy homes in affected areas in Europe?
by eszed | 2025-10-13 06:08:01+00:00
I know. I probably hadn't thought of that number even once in the preceeding fifteen years, and yet it was still there. I had a stroke in 2020, prior to which random detritus like my ICQ number stuck around, along with genuinely useful things like a dozen or two poems that I love. Some of those I've tried to re-learn, and they no longer stick for very long. It is what it is, and I'm not objectively badly off - I'm still able to do a cognitively-demanding job, for instance - but I miss those little things.
by intermerda | 2025-10-13 06:09:54+00:00
Yes, Biden's Inflation Reduction Act had tons of provisions to help out renewables in general and solar energy in particular. Most of them were in form of tax credits which I'm sure helped Texas a lot. Many of Biden's policies helped out red states quite a lot.

Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill (ugh..) has already rolled back most of those policies. Additionally DOE and EPA have announced termination of many projects, canceled previously approved funding, banned words such as "climate change", among tons of measures aimed at curbing the progress made.

You, of course, knew that and were being disingenuous.

Or you didn't know what and are simply ignorant.
by matheusmoreira | 2025-10-13 06:10:45+00:00
DMCA anti-circumvention laws have made it attractive to add computers to otherwise simple products in order to reify a business model. Breaking those locks by doing things such as using "pirate" ink cartridge turns legitimate competition into a violation the DMCA. We live in the era of felony contempt of business model:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/06/felony-contempt-busine...

The trademark security system you mentioned produced such wonderful case law. Not only was it found that this "infringement" was fair use, judges decided that it was the trademark holders themselves who were at fault for creating this stupid system where competitors had to infringe their trademarks in order to create perfectly legal interoperable software.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_v._Accolade

> Accolade's decompilation of the Sega software constituted fair use.

> the use of the software was non-exploitative, despite being commercial

> the trademark infringement, being required by the TMSS for a Genesis game to run on the system, was inadvertently triggered by a fair use act and the fault of Sega for causing false labeling

That's what the world was like before the DMCA. Corporations would invent all this "clever" nonsense and they'd get destroyed in court. Not anymore.
by bobjordan | 2025-10-13 06:11:30+00:00
This is one reason why as I’ve entered my 50’s, I’ve decided to take every advantage of modern medicine including hormone management and performance enhancing drugs. I started three years ago at 47 and now I’m living my best life at 50, in the best physical condition that I’ve been in since my early twenties. Although I’d certainly like to live a lot more years, I care more about my quality of life than the quantity of years. If I make it to my 80’s, it’ll be with the testosterone of a man in his 20’s and muscle mass on my body.
by Lio | 2025-10-13 06:12:01+00:00
I once went to an art exhibition in Ipswich[1] where Tim took everyone’s photograph with a giant pinhole instant camera he’d made from an old road-sign.

1. Tim is from Suffolk and also runs a sister amusements at the Under The Pier Show in Southwold[2]

I believe the machines are circulated between the two venues.

2. https://www.underthepier.com/
by admiralrohan | 2025-10-13 06:12:51+00:00
Working on a original algorithm to explain human behavior from 3rd person perspective (1st stage). The whole research is divided into 6 stages.

In 2nd stage, I will mathematically establish the best course of action as an individual given the base theory.

In 3rd stage, I will explain common psychological phenomenon through the theory, things like narcissism, anxiety, self-doubt, how to forgive others, etc.

In 4th stage, I will explain how the theory is the fastest way to learn across multiple domains and anyone can become a generalist and critical thinker.

In 5th stage, I will explain how society will unfold if everyone can become generalist and critical thinker through the theory. And how this is the next big societal breakthrough like Industrial revolution.

In 6th and last stage, I will think about how to use this theory to make India the next superpower, as this theory can give us the demographic advantage.

Shared more about the algorithm here https://x.com/admiralrohan/status/1973312855114998185
by follower | 2025-10-13 06:13:21+00:00
I vaguely wondered if FreeHand would make an appearance in this thread. :)

Two features that come to mind as IIRC being unique (as compared to Illustrator) were multi-page documents and multiple page size multi-page documents. Ideal for the complete standard set of company branded print documents: business card, "With Compliments" slip, and letterhead. :D

Adobe's acquisition of Macromedia and subsequent killing of (the IMO superior) FreeHand contributed directly to my subsequent decision to avoid closed source application software--especially for creative tools--even if alternatives were "technically inferior".

(And, indeed, "creative tool killed/hampered for business reasons" is a story which has been repeated elsewhere multiple times in the quarter century[0] since.)

While Inkscape is still missing features compared to FreeHand it is however also still here many years later and is what I've used ever since when I need 2D vector design software. (Although I've also been keeping an eye on Graphite: https://graphite.rs)

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[0] Oh, weird, apparently it's actually less than 25 years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_FreeHand#Adobe_FreeHand Seems I've been holding the grudge for less time than I thought. :D
by davidlstanton | 2025-10-13 06:13:46+00:00
One of the following is true:

I really don’t know what a full complement of good tools mean! your team is very large your team is very cheap You spend an awful lot on Ai tooling!

We spend about £50 - £200 a head per month on AI tooling.

Assuming everyone was at the top of of that scale (most aren’t) it’s like ai for 50 employees = cost of 1 employee.
by ukblewis | 2025-10-13 06:13:51+00:00
Israeli officials say 48 hostages are still in Gaza, including 20 who are believed to be alive. Israel is expected to release some 2,000 Palestinian prisoners, of whom 250 are serving life sentences and about 1,700 others who have been detained since the Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack, in exchange for the release of the Israeli hostages.
by hilbert42 | 2025-10-13 06:14:01+00:00
Yeah, absolutely. Remember, Lánczos was one of those amazing Hungarian "Martians" whose intelligence seemed to defy all logic and reasoning.

I had a Hungarian physicist friend who unfortunately is now deceased who I used to rib over the brilliance of these Hungarian scientists. I'd ask him "what's in the water over there, what magic potion were they on?" and he'd just shrug his shoulders and say something like "I think it's the education system".

I can't say I was fully satisfied with his answers (although as I've just learned from the video on his life, Lánczos himself adds support for Hungary's strong education system).

When one lists the many remarkable achievements of these exceptionally gifted individuals it really does seem they're aliens from another world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martians_(scientists)

:-)
by yehat | 2025-10-13 06:14:21+00:00
While everyone's right that it doesn't look cheap compared to the consumer AIO weather stations on the market, that's not a fair comparison. The reason is that this project aims for a meteorologic quality implementation, where the consumer ones, even the so called "Pro" are definitely not. The requirements of the mounting of the different sensors are quite different - off-the-shelf all-in-one are not meeting those. Wind vanes must be at a certain height, which is a different than the one for the temperature and for rainfall measurement. The quality of the sensors is very important too - for stable, trustworthy measurements. And looking at the cost from the perspective of a trusted source of meteo-data installation, one can see that the real professional offerings are in the range of thousands ($$$$). Having said that, I'm pretty sure there's a room for further cost optimization without sacrificing data quality.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-10-13 06:14:34+00:00
> So yeah, stop selling the "license". Nobody cares about the license. If you like Postgres then evangelize that. The license is completely irrelevant.

People care about the license because if the license is, let's say source available and a commercial license on the side, then the problem is that the software stops being permanent and relies on that company.

Why so? Because if the company let's say enshittens the project in one version, and the community starts using the last version that wasn't enshittened, they inevitably lose out on bug fixes / qol updates etc.

now you might say that people should fork it. But nobody really likes forking a repository with source available license either because of the license or because the company itself would benefit more from the code updates that they write and use it themselves or sell their version as well due to the commerical offerings or the dev's would simply be less willing to due to all of such things.

I am not a license purist. I like https://anticapitalist.software/ (Acap license) the most, its because I don't like some commercial usage which would've just taken my labour for it is and not donate to me if I write some software

In general, the ACSL is a good match for software that would have otherwise been permissively licensed under MIT, ISC, or BSD but with restrictions against corporate usage. Here is an excerpt from ACSL:

The ACSL is right for you if you want your code to empower students, artists, hobbyists, collectives, cooperatives and nonprofits to survive under capitalism while not contributing free labor to corporations.

The ACSL is right for you if you reject the status quo, believe better things are possible, and want to act on your beliefs.

The ACSL is right for you if you carry a new world in your heart, and in your code.

That being said, I don't mind licenses that much, source available can be fine too for a peace of mind at-least. If there is any source available license which requires a one time license or something,I think its okay. So I am not sure how somebody is selling the license. The license is a little important, but the battle is against proprietory vs source-code available. The battle is between complete black box vs something you can look inside and have peace of mind.
by tallytarik | 2025-10-13 06:14:34+00:00
Working on improving the data pipeline for https://iplocate.io - an IP intelligence service I've worked on since 2017.

Recent focus has been on geolocation accuracy, and in particular being able to share more data about why we say a resource is in a certain place.

Lots of folks seem to be interested in this data, and there's very little out there. Most other industry players don't talk about their methodology, and those that do aren't overly honest about how X or Y strategy actually leads to a given prediction, or the realistic scale or inaccuracies of a given strategy, and so on. So this is an area I'm very interested in at the moment and I'm confident we can do better in. And it's overall a fascinating data challenge!
by gspr | 2025-10-13 06:14:52+00:00
> - Consumer spending;

> - Disposable income;

While it is undeniable that the US leads in these areas, it should be pointed out that the distribution of who spends and who has disposable income does matter. As in: if you and your 100 closest neighbors live in poverty, it matters very little if you have a multi-billionaire on the block who brings up the average disposable income.

> - Size of housing afforded;

Europe is a lot more densely populated than the US. You really should be comparing urban areas in both, or rural areas in both.

> - Top university rankings;

> - Research and development;

I'll grant you these.

> Europe suffers from many things that would be hard to imagine in the US. Only 20% of European homes have air conditioning vs 88% of American homes. This causes real problems. In 2024, there were 62,700 Europeans who died from extreme heat, compared to ~3,000 Americans.

As others have pointed out: European homes tend to be much better insulated, and have much greater thermal mass, than American ones. Moreover, a far bigger percentage of the American population lives in warmer climates than in Europe.

That being said, the deaths from extreme heat do show that something needs to change here in order to meet the warming climate. And things are. The push for heat pumps in Europe also opens the door to running them as coolers when needed (when they're the air-to-air type).
by epistasis | 2025-10-13 06:15:12+00:00
It's a growing industry around the world but Trump is trying to reverse that. The only "propaganda" is your own.

Just two days ago, what would be rhe US's largest solar project, the 6.2 GW Esmeralda, was listed as cancelled by the BLM:

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/energy-and-environ...

After many months of delay because Trump said he was going to be really hard on the permit review, it was apparently cancelled for no reason.

Previously, Trump tried to retroactively revoke permits on offshore wind projects that were mid construction, with billions spent. Even if he didn't win in court, the scheduling of ships for this is so delicate that a delay of months could scuttle the build for years as ships move on to other engagements, basically ending any profitability.

This is having a huge chilling effect on our renewables buildout as the magus shakedowns are capricious and massive increase investment risk.

Even if there is growing investment in renewables in the US, it will be a shadow of what it would be otherwise.

And with gas turbines on many year back order, Trump is locking in higher electricity prices fire to shortages because he's trying to block one of the only fast ways to bring new generation into the grid.
by necovek | 2025-10-13 06:16:21+00:00
While I, for the most part, agree to this in principle, at the moment, general compute hardware production is relatively safe (or so it seems).

But when it comes to humongous costs, the fact that even "open source AI models" don't have their training data available (the actual "source") is one thing, but even if it was, it'd be impossible to retrain a model "at home". But if data was available, I am sure any of the existing free software foundations, or a new one, could rally users around sponsoring one DC.

We are back in the "mainframe" days where top-end compute is accessible only to few (with lots of money).
by AtlasBarfed | 2025-10-13 06:17:10+00:00
If you are writing a software system that needs potentially human edited config files, yaml is the best for human edited files if you, software architect, use a footgun less parser.

Yaml is popular like python because indentation as a scope depth indicator is far more visually intuitive for low skill programmers than braces (c,json) or counting/matching parents in lisp or begin end tags in xml.

Sorry your kubernetes ecosystem didn't do that. Why not get them to change parsers? A hell of a lot easier than changing k8s to toml or maml.

Because ultimately that's what the frustration of yaml comes from, right? Kubernetes config?