MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by reactordev | 2025-10-11 23:06:13+00:00
I’m of the mind to stop using consumer tech entirely. TV’s with ads before ads when you just want to watch a show. Tablets opening store pages on their own. Alexa listening in on every conversation. Smartphones tracking your every movement, app, contact, network, website you visit.

It’s completely fucked.

I got rid of social media a couple years ago and never looked back. I think I might take it even further and just remove all consumer tech from my life. Just a linux box.
by leakycap | 2025-10-11 23:06:19+00:00
> pretty opinionated, geared toward quick setup and intelligent defaults

This doesn't sound like it would fit the reality of the needs of small churches

> Do you think there's a need for something like this, or is the market already too crowded?

It sounds uninspiring, do you have a passion to market your services to churches after you've built it?

This kind of sounds like a nightmare to build out for what I'd expect would be very small license fees. It can't fail so it has to be reliable and fast even though many of your services will only be used 2-3 times a week all at the same time, you'll be working weekends & late Wednesday nights forever, and you'll learn that many churches are using a Microsoft Works template from 1998 to print things on a LaserJet from 2002 - tough customers to claim as your own.
Show HN: Scout – micro-game teaser for a map-based cycling RPG
by zackham | 2025-10-11 23:06:27+00:00
One-day experiment using claude code and grok heavy to build a tiny teaser for Scout, a map-based cycling RPG we’re about to release in Portland, OR. I’m a founder of Ride with GPS, and figured a playable prototype would be more fun than a static email form.

Gameplay:

- Click an icon -> fetches a real route from our routing service -> auto-rides it (~400×, 12 mph). - Collect items, reveal more. Arrow keys + spacebar for free roam + fireballs. - Add ?edit=1 to open the in-browser item editor to see how I put the items on the map. - No signup to poke at it (just req email for invites).

Under the hood: preloads a few static tiles from our map server, dynamically recolors them for the game theme, simple sprites for N/NE/E/etc facing cyclist, some misc CSS animations and canvas based stuff.

Goal: give a 30-second glimpse of the full RPG world we’re building.

Looking for any tips on making it more effective in generating interest in the game we're about to release.
Show HN: I built a local-first timeboxing app that never leaves your computer
by akarnam37 | 2025-10-11 23:06:53+00:00
Hi HN

I built FocusBox.dev — a local-first, distraction-free timeboxing app that runs entirely in your browser.

It’s designed for developers and makers who want to focus without sign-ups, analytics, or cloud sync. Everything — tasks, timers, preferences — lives only on your device.

Built with: React + Vite Storage: localStorage (no backend, no API calls) Features: – Timeboxing / Pomodoro sessions – Persistent local tasks – Minimal dark-mode UI – Works offline (PWA-ready)

I built FocusBox because I wanted a simple focus tool that respected attention and privacy — no login walls, no tracking, no noise.

Open source on GitHub: https://github.com/adityak74/focusbox.dev

Would love your feedback — especially from folks interested in local-first apps, frontend-only design, or mindful productivity.
by bsimpson | 2025-10-11 23:07:22+00:00
Elementary has been around for a long time. From what I recall, it tries to ape the Mac style on Linux the same way that KDE has been accused of aping Windows.

The original founder (Cassidy James Blaede) is now a designer for GNOME: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJq8Cq9LixE

I wonder why this is on the front page today.
by scuff3d | 2025-10-11 23:07:36+00:00
Yeah, I get their motivation for putting it all together, not wanting people to have FOMO and keeping the purchase options simple. But 300 bucks is a lot for an individual to spend. I feel like maybe breaking it up a bit and letting people pick what matters to them, but then you have to be careful not to let it feel like nickel and diming people. It's a tough line to walk.
by 1a527dd5 | 2025-10-11 23:08:45+00:00
I owe Java a lot. Programming clicked for me when I was taught OOP in Java, my other programming module with event-driven design in C# which I hated.

Fast forward a few years later, and I'm actually at a C# shop.

Fast forward a decade, I'm at the same shop. I adore C# and I fondly remember my foray into Java.

I left Java around the time Streams were becoming a thing. I thought it looked like a mess, and then I ran into LINQ in C# land. Swings (pun intended) and roundabouts.
by infamia | 2025-10-11 23:08:45+00:00
The data attributes they moved to Pro was mostly a result of watching folks use Datastar and seeing the anti-patterns develop. Those anti-patterns have been moved to Pro.

> If it's stable, no v2, plugins aren't needed, it's a 501c3, there's no shares, equity... what's the point of Pro? "The goal is to fund the work and draw a clear support boundary," What are they funding?

I assume it is because charitable organizations need accountants and other things (along with all the other stuff like web hosting and the like).
by moderation | 2025-10-11 23:09:12+00:00
The CEO of Sourcegraph Quinn was pretty negative on coding agents and agentic development only about 10 months ago [0]. He had 'agentic stuff' in the Deader category (Used rarely, Reviewing it aint worth it). In fairness, he did say it was the future but 'is not there yet'. Since then, Sourcregraph's code assistant plugin Cody has been deprecated an they are all in on agents and agentic with Amp.

0.https://youtu.be/Up6WVA07QdE?si=xU_iu2rQAWoHXPpO&t=898
by exasperaited | 2025-10-11 23:09:47+00:00
Right. But then the AI firms did that deliberately, didn't they? Started the big philosophical argument to move the focus away from the things they were doing (epic misappropriation of intellectual property) and the very things their customers intended to do: fire huge numbers of staff on an international, multi-industry scale, replace them with AI, and replace already limited human accountability with simple disclaimers.

The biggest worry would always be that the tools would be stultifying and shit but executives would use them to drive layoffs on an epic scale anyway.

And hey now here we are: the tools are stultifying and shit, the projects have largely failed, and the only way to fix the losses is: layoffs.
by hashmash | 2025-10-11 23:09:55+00:00
Directly or indirectly many (or most) projects ended up depending on something which was using an unsupported backdoor API because it provided a marginally useful capability. The module system restricted access to these APIs and everything stopped working, unless you added some magic command line arguments to gain access again.

So for most people, the initial impression of modules is negative, and then they just decided to rule the feature out completely. This has created a sea of useless criticism, and any constructive criticism is hardly observed. Improvements to module configuration (combine it with the classpath), would go a long way towards making modules "just work" without the naysayers getting in the way.
by 827a | 2025-10-11 23:10:08+00:00
While it didn't work in 2000, "just stick ads on it" does work for Google and Meta, driving over $400B in combined annual advertising revenue. Their model, today, is far more relevant than calling back to antiquated banner advertising models from 25 years ago; you'll have to convince me that Google and Meta's model cannot work for OpenAI, which you have not adequately done.
by belorn | 2025-10-11 23:10:11+00:00
In Sweden when the green party met the conservatives in a debate over replacing existing oil power plant with a nuclear power plant, the green leader said something like this:

"The oil burning power plant is a natural part of the reserve energy plan, and replacing it with nuclear would be way too expensive."

After that debate, the green party (in combination with their other coalition parties) has now green lit the construction of a new natural gas power plant, as part of the strategy of using wind and solar during optimal weather conditions and fossil fuels in poor weather conditions. This strategy goes under the long-term plan of using green hydrogen in the future. Currently there exist a experiment of using green hydrogen for steel production, which has yet to become economical viable, and experts in the field of green hydrogen is predicting around ~50 years until green hydrogen may become economical viable for electricity production. Until then the plan is to continue expanding the fleet of fossil fuel burning power plants.

To me its very obvious who is trying to sell fossil fuels for another 50 or so years. It is those that fund, approve and build new ones. The people responsible for those decisions are responsible for the fossil fuels that will get burned, and in turn delaying implementation of non-fossil fueled solutions.
by zackham | 2025-10-11 23:11:11+00:00
Hey - OP here. I've been working on Ride with GPS since 2006 (!) and the game we've built is the most fun I've had in a long time. We're launching in PDX and if that is a success, we'll double down on it and roll it out to a bunch more cities. I want to do everything I can to stack the deck in our favor since I believe in this project.

I put together this landing page start to finish yesterday (thanks claude/grok), and am hoping it's effective in generating some initial interest. Looking for any feedback you have, small/large, however blunt, to dial it in and make it work for us.
by jongjong | 2025-10-11 23:11:13+00:00
Great point. I chuckle at the fact that 'addressing the root cause' is what naturopaths and 'holistic medicine' practitioners are selling themselves on... Claiming that modern medicine is focused on selling drugs to mask symptoms and doesn't address the root cause... Though their solutions are often even more superficial on average... Besides maybe their approach vitamin deficiencies and supplements.
by sipofwater | 2025-10-11 23:11:30+00:00
"Motorola moto g play 2024 Smartphone, Android 14 Operating System, Termux, And cryptsetup: Linux Unified Key Setup (LUKS) Encryption/Decryption And The ext4 Filesystem Without Using root Access, Without Using proot-distro, And Without Using QEMU": https://old.reddit.com/r/MotoG/comments/1jkl0f8/motorola_mot... (old.reddit.com/r/MotoG/comments/1jkl0f8/motorola_moto_g_play_2024_smartphone_android_14/)
by ofalkaed | 2025-10-11 23:12:31+00:00
Non Daw. Its breaking up each function of the DAW into its own application gave a better experience in each of those functions, especially when you only needed that aspect, you were not working around everything else that the DAW offers. The integration between the various parts was not all that it could be but I think the idea has some real potential.

https://non.tuxfamily.org
by satisfice | 2025-10-11 23:12:47+00:00
When someone claims that a system can search “approximately” or “semantically” that means there some sort of statistical behavior. There will be error. That error can be systematically characterized with enough data. But if it can’t or isn’t, then it’s a toy.

A problem I have with LLMs and the way they are marketed is that are being treated as and offered as if they were toys.

You’ve given a few tantalizing details, but what I would really admire is a link to full details about exactly what you did to collect sufficient evidence that this system can be trusted and in what ways it can be trusted.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-11 23:13:50+00:00
"In 2023, New Jersey had a total summer capacity of 16,838 MW through all of its power plants, and a net generation of 64,228 GWh.[2] In 2024, the electrical energy generation mix was 49.6% natural gas, 45% nuclear, 2.9% solar, 1.1% biomass, 0.3% other gases, less than 0.1% petroleum and wind, and 1% other" [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_power_stations_in_New_...
by jncfhnb | 2025-10-11 23:14:50+00:00
> If you think you’ll be a burden on your loved ones can we really say they’re your loved ones? This is a serious question. If you’re thinking that you’ll be a burden do you think that these people really love you?

I think it’s a pretty fuckin dumb question.

Gatekeeping “love” behind service of ceaseless emotional toil with a smile is ridiculous.
by araes | 2025-10-11 23:15:22+00:00
Top personal issue, be nice if it could just attach to an <input> and list the result. Like:

<input type="range" id="example_id" name="example_nm" min="0" max="50"> <output name="example_result" for="example_id"></output>

And it would just show you the input value. Maybe with a "type" specifier like talked about. Maybe the ::before or ::after css and it would allow content: updates or something.

Bunch of <input> types that there's a reasonable case for. Especially if it allowed for formatting. Did you put in the type="tel" the way you believed? It prints it out formatted.

'checkbox, color, date, datetime-local, file, month, number, radio, range, tel, time, url, week' might all have possible uses. Some of the text cases might have uses in specific conditions. 'email, text, url'

Also be nice if the for="" attribute actually did very much. The attachment seems mostly irrelevant in the examples seen. Most example just use a variation on:

<output name="result"> <form oninput="result.value=...">
by haunter | 2025-10-11 23:15:27+00:00
Fedora Kinoite https://fedoraproject.org/atomic-desktops/kinoite/

I really do think that immutable distros are the future especially if you want something that don’t break. And imo KDE is arguably the best DE right now, that is if you believe DEs should follow the WinNT era UX principles.

But there is a version with GNOME too or Cosmic

https://fedoraproject.org/atomic-desktops/silverblue/

https://fedoraproject.org/atomic-desktops/cosmic/
by toomuchtodo | 2025-10-11 23:15:52+00:00
Data centers in the PJM RTO are driving up rates.

> Even as the N.J. Board of Public Utilities increased its electric bill relief for eligible customers, a full recovery from surging electric costs doesn’t look to be part of the long-term prognosis for high energy bills as data center growth is at the epicenter of capacity market conditions.

> “The current conditions in the capacity market are almost entirely the result of large load additions from data centers, both actual historical and forecast,” the first part of a multi-layered and comprehensive report prepared for PJM found. “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.”

https://www.thesandpaper.net/articles/data-center-demand-fue...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PJM_Interconnection

https://www.datacenterwatch.org/report
by bcrl | 2025-10-11 23:16:22+00:00
You may need a third access point in the middle of the house then which would enable you to further reduce tx power on the access points while maintaining good reception of client transmissions by the APs, as clients won't roam unless the other access point is of a sufficiently better signal strength. With only 2 access points the signal level in the middle of the house may be too low for either AP to maintain good reception. As always it depends on the materials in the walls, the placement of large metal obstacles like ductwork or appliances, the antenna orientation on the access points.... You would have to measure the signal levels and build up a heat map to figure that out.

Of course with 3 APs instead of 2 the best layout is different.

People are almost always better off more cheap access points than fewer expensive access points, but that's not how most regular folk reason.
by dannyobrien | 2025-10-11 23:16:47+00:00
Midori, Microsoft's capability-based security OS[1]. Rumor has it that it was getting to the point where it was able to run Windows code, so it was killed through internal politics, but who knows! It was the Fuchsia of its time...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midori_%28operating_system%29
by netsharc | 2025-10-11 23:16:47+00:00
The iPhone killed Flash, probably because it would've been a way to create apps for it, more probably because it would've been laggy in the 2007 hardware, and people would've considered the iPhone "a piece of junk".

Interesting how Flash became the almost universal way to play videos in the browser, in the latter half of the 2000's (damn I'm old...).
by badsectoracula | 2025-10-11 23:18:19+00:00
AFAIK in practice Turbo Pascal won because it was cheaper, faster and provided all the necessary tools that standard Pascal didn't - though those tools were largely inspired from UCSD Pascal and after Turbo Pascal other Pascal implementations basically replicated its syntax, so in a way Turbo Pascal became the defacto standard.

I find it kinda amusing that Free Pascal was Turbo Pascal compatible from 1997 but it only fully implemented a standard Pascal mode (the compiler supports multiple dialects) just ~10 years ago (and still doesn't support the Extended Pascal syntax).
by tavavex | 2025-10-11 23:18:40+00:00
That's surprising, I hadn't heard about that. I had assumed that this was a blanket rule that generally applied to these treaties. I wonder how the UK justified it...

Also, one other differentiator here is that the man, as you described him, was a French citizen. The post up above implies extraditing foreigners from their countries of residence to the US, which is on a whole other level of insanity. Imagine what would've happened if France tried to extradite a Scottish man from within the UK for online posts.
by nz3000 | 2025-10-11 23:18:50+00:00
Internet drama aside, if you develop applications for the web, know Go, and are at all curious about what you can do with Datastar I have a boilerplate / template project that I've had much success with called northstar. In it you'll find a TODO app, and some smaller examples that show off some patterns of success when using Datastar. It's intended to be hacked on / apart, so bring your own patterns of success and put on your hacker hat.

- https://github.com/zangster300/northstar
by crote | 2025-10-11 23:19:18+00:00
On the other hand, "successful arrival of passengers at their chosen destination" doesn't say much either. That's the absolute bare minimum. It's like saying that the product of airplanes is to not crash. Technically true, but meaningless on its own. "Passenger arrives at destination" is also nothing more than a requirement which describes the service - and that could even be met by sending me a taxi!

You're absolutely right that a fancy timetable with all its trains getting cancelled is worthless, but so is a train service which doesn't provide useful routes, which is delayed by hours, and which only runs once a week. When I am looking into commute options, they are selling me the timetable: if they don't provide meaningful transit options, they aren't getting my ass home anyways.

The product they are selling is the promise of a convenient transit option - which is presented in the form of a timetable, and delivered in the form of a train. And yes, if they can't reliably deliver on that transit option by not getting me from A to B as promised, I will be asking my money back.
by pixelmelt | 2025-10-11 23:20:05+00:00
I've been working on exactly this! After buying a book and having an awful exerience in their native reader I realized they no longer let you download your ebooks. Thus began the war on their web reader, they have some interesting defenses on how they encode the book, its basically a bunch of SVG paths that render to letters that are mapped to IDs that change on every request to fetch book data (the most you can fetch at once is 5 pages) the SVG paths also contain micro variations so an A on one page will never have the same path on another, you have to render and fill in every unique letter in the book and compare it to every other to create a unified mapping and THEN compare it to the letters of the actual font its using to actually find out what letter each character actually is. The only thing I have left to do is get newlines working properly and package it all up nicely for release.
by exp1orer | 2025-10-11 23:20:33+00:00
It might be too soon to call it abandoned, but I was very intrigued by the Austral [1] language. The spec [2] is worth reading, it has an unusual clarity of thought and originality, and I was hoping that it would find some traction. Unfortunately it seems that the author is no longer actively working on it.

[1] https://austral-lang.org/ [2] https://austral-lang.org/spec/spec.html
by daseiner1 | 2025-10-11 23:21:11+00:00
"my type". based on what, exactly?

i don't like this administration — at all — and I believe we're definitionally in a fascist state now.

the lives of many of my friends & family have been devastated by drugs. 80k+ americans die every year from overdose. i understand why you may disagree with me with and i'm not going to dismiss your concerns out-of-hand but multinational illegal drug enterprises are absolutely an assault on this country in my view. i'm talking about organized criminal enterprises, not dudes pitching eight balls in nightclub bathrooms.
by neilv | 2025-10-11 23:21:13+00:00
Good question. This is a locked-down device that's controlled more by the company than by me.

Which I bought for pragmatic business reasons.

Don't worry, I have a home full of Debian, OpenWrt, Coreboot, a non-'smart' TV, GrapheneOS, etc.

There are no IoT devices, and I go out of my way to avoid buying devices with IoT shoved in. For reasons obvious to people who know how they work, and who know what their business priorities and track records are.

Also, in startups, I usually use open source, avoid unwarranted vendor lock-in and certain known-jerk companies, and try to work with people who are similarly-minded about such practices (it's a useful signal of better-than-average people who care, IME).
by quitit | 2025-10-11 23:22:24+00:00
This week I have received numerous reminders from Microsoft to renew my Skype credit..

Everything I see from that company is farcical. Massive security lapses, lazy AI features with huge privacy flaws, steamrolling OS updates that add no value whatsoever, and heavily relying on their old playbook of just buying anything that looks like it could disrupt them.

P.S. The skype acquisition was $8.5B in 2011 (That's $12.24B in today's money.)
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-11 23:22:26+00:00
> my immediate interpretation of it was that the obligation to procure the money and pay up is on his side, not that the $200k must be 'his' in some other way

I suppose. I honestly read it as suggesting he, personally, had to come up with that money. The law is cruel. But as positioned, it seems like you'd just have an industry of secondary lenders.
by leros | 2025-10-11 23:22:32+00:00
It's true for things other than developer tools. I built a free utility that became popular and people started asking for more features. I spent several months working full-time on building out improvement and put 10% of the new features behind a paywall. I took nothing away and made 90% of the new features free too. The stuff I put behind a paywall is stuff I thought would only apply to professional business users. Just the fact that I had paid features made people upset. I got a ton of angry emails asking why the tool was no longer free. I also used to make some money via donations through BuyMeACoffee and those nearly completely stopped.