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Ask HN: How to share documents, notes, photos, etc. (within a family)
by maddimini | 2025-10-08 07:37:54+00:00
I’m currently trying to find a good solution for the digital storage of documents, notes, and photos, as well as their organization and sharing within the family.

Which (cloud) services or software/technologies do you use to store and share 1. documents (e.g., scans of documents like tax records), 2. notes/to-do lists (e.g., shopping lists), and 3. photos?
by jasode | 2025-10-08 07:38:50+00:00
It's just because vibe coding is still "new" and various people have mixed results with it. This means that anecdotes today of either success or failure still carry some "signal".

It will take some time (maybe more than a decade) for vibe coding to be "old" and consistently correct enough where it's no longer mentioned.

Same thing happened 30 years ago with "The Information Superhighway" or "the internet". Back then, people really did say things like, "I got tomorrow's weather forecast of rain from the internet."

Why would they even need to mention the "internet" at all?!? Because it was the new thing back then and the speaker was making a point that they didn't get the weather info from the newspaper or tv news. It took some time for everybody to just say, "it's going to rain tomorrow" with no mentions of internet or smartphones.
by hvb2 | 2025-10-08 07:39:21+00:00
> yet electricity prices around the world are mostly increasing

Part of that is a result of not pricing in externalities so we've never paid the actual cost. On the other hand, demand is going up a lot which means a lot more investment on the grid side as well.

If you have a level 2 charger for your ev for example, that can draw 20kW... If you asked an electrician in the 80s what the peak power a residential home could consume is, you would probably get 1 maybe 2kW at best. So all of that infra is very undersized if we stop burning stuff.

And finally, recently there's been a few disruptions in main sources of fossil fuels (looking at you, Russia)
by thaumasiotes | 2025-10-08 07:39:43+00:00
> You can pick a point that sits on the first line to meet the carb goal. You can pick a point that sits on the second line to meet the protein goal. But you need a point that sits on both lines to hit both goals.

> How would a point sit on both lines? Well, it would be where the lines cross. Since these are straight lines, the lines cross only once, which makes sense because there’s only a single milk and bread combo that would get you to exactly five grams of carbs and seven grams of protein.

Geez. It's obvious that two straight lines can only cross once. It's not obvious that there's only one combination of discrete servings of bread and milk that can hit a particular target.

(It's so non-obvious that, in the general case, it isn't even true. Elimination might give you a row with all zeros.)

The fact that the solution is unique makes sense if you realize it must sit on these two lines. It makes far less sense to explain the fact that the two lines only cross once by channeling the external knowledge that the solution is unique. How did we learn that?
by nine_k | 2025-10-08 07:40:01+00:00
"Socialism is bookkeeping", as Vladimir Lenin used to say. If you think that late-stage megacorp capitalism is pathologically bureaucratic (which it sometimes is), refresh your memory of how the Soviet bloc handled that.

I would say that these pathologies come from the lack of trust, and thus the need to surveil and control. The problem of trust does not usually occur in a small team. It does not usually occur in a commune of like-minded people, too. It's not about the economy and property rights, it's about communication and game theory.
by antirez | 2025-10-08 07:40:06+00:00
Yep the STM32 has certain advantages, even if they are usually complicated to program. With the Flipper Zero I programmed a low level timer interrupt and had to setup don't know how many registers... And the documentation is lacking. Also I love the fact that the STM32 comes in 5v variants that are great to interface it directly with things like a Commodore 64 or a Spectrum.
by dash2 | 2025-10-08 07:40:31+00:00
> One of the lesser spoken truths of working productively with LLMs as a software engineer on non-toy-projects is that it’s difficult.

I mean, the AI companies have an incentive to make it easier, right? The next iteration of coding agents will be better at working with their human PHBs to divine intent and turn vague specifications into something workable - a key skill of human engineers.

Is this really any different from how Google learned to understand search queries?
by indigo945 | 2025-10-08 07:40:46+00:00
The OP claimed that people's homes got raided for "daring to insult the ruling class", your source claims that people's homes got raided for posting extremist racist speech online. Unless you believe in some ridiculous conspiracy where ZE JEWS CONTROL ZE BANKS, this has absolutely no relation to your ability to insult the ruling class: Black people and Muslims are not "the ruling class".

And if you do believe in such a conspiracy, please post your personal information such that I can forward it to the relevant agencies and have your house raided. Because we have been through that shit in this country and have no desire to ever see it again.
by davedx | 2025-10-08 07:40:48+00:00
Absolutely!

I've noticed that almost immediately after people discovered GPT could write code, this happened -- startups I worked with started rapidly expanding the scope of what they wanted to make. Suddenly all MVP's had to be multi-tenant with complex authorization, impersonation, microservices, monitoring, all the stuff that we used to build after we got users has now been pulled right to the starting gate of development -- because AI makes it easy to build all that stuff quickly. But it doesn't tell us if we should.
by geon | 2025-10-08 07:40:55+00:00
TL;DR: Fixed a bug in the C64 version of Bubble Bobble where the game ends even if you still have credits left. Now it only ends when you're actually out of credits. Did it by patching the raw binary.

Also, there is a remastered version out now on https://daves-retro-forge.itch.io/bubble-bobble-c64-remaster...
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-10-08 07:41:12+00:00
> try explaining why that isn’t technically possible in Python (at least during an interview) without using a third-party library.

You're more likely to impress the interviewer by asking questions like "should I assume the input is only ASCII characters or the complete possible UTF-8 character set?"

A job interview is there to prove you can do the job, not prove your knowledge and intellect. It's valuable to know the intricacies of Python and strings for sure, but it's mostly irrellevant for a job interview or the job itself (unless the job involves heavy UTF-8 shenanigans, but those are very rare)
by astrange | 2025-10-08 07:41:35+00:00
Which of these are acceptable/unacceptable to you?

- posting about saying it "with a hard R"

- posting TikToks of yourself yelling "dirty clanker" at delivery robots on the street

- posting TikToks of yourself saying it in a sketch where you're a waitress in the South in the 1950s

- replying to people with prosthetic robot arms calling them "half clankas"

Cause those are all real. It's the internet, you should assume anything bad you can imagine is real.

https://www.tiktok.com/@supervilliansprax/video/754524076599...
by businessmate | 2025-10-08 07:41:56+00:00
Most marketers still optimise for “AI visibility” as if large language models (LLMs) share a single index.

They do not.

Each assistant has its own ingestion pipeline, retrieval weighting, and update cadence. Treating them as one channel is equivalent to running the same media plan across Google, Meta, and TikTok without accounting for format or audience.

The result: wasted spend, inconsistent presence, and unmeasurable leakage.
by stinkbeetle | 2025-10-08 07:42:05+00:00
> The power given to the masses vs the ruling class is always in flux. The light may go out, but it won't be forever.

Impossible to be so sure.

> I'm also hopeful that the requirement for a well educated workforce will nudge societies towards more freedom than the historical norm.

"The educated" have been among the most susceptible to authoritarian tendencies and propaganda, so I would not be too hopeful of that.

https://jacobin.com/2022/10/chahla-chafiq-iranian-left-khome...

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

https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/pot_pol.shtml

Also there have been demonstrated to be other ways around the problem of educated population. Divide them against other classes of the population for example. Or subsidize and encourage non-productive people.

And even if everyone was educated and wanted better, how would they ever vote for more individual rights and freedoms if the suppression of those rights is the only thing keeping them safe from other groups in their country?
by self_awareness | 2025-10-08 07:42:16+00:00
Someone once told me that their mistake wasn’t theirs, but rather it was ChatGPT being wrong.

I think you have a good point about why people say it was vibe coded.

It might also be because they want to join the trend -- without mentioning vibe coding, I don't think this tool would ever reach #1 on Hacker News.
by hnlmorg | 2025-10-08 07:42:42+00:00
What license would that be? GPLv3 for GNU? GPLv2 for busybox? Or BSD for Toybox (Android)

Or BSD/ISC for FreeBSD, OpenBSD, macOS etc coreutils? All of which also have subtly different implementations from each other.

Or maybe you are talking about other UNIXs like CDDL for OpenSolaris?

Or perhaps you meant a proprietary license like Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Tru64 UNIX and so on?

Or maybe we just agree that there isn’t a standard license for coreutils and developers should be free to chose to license their own code however they wish?
by thaumasiotes | 2025-10-08 07:42:42+00:00
> You didn’t explain the what, why, or when behind it

>> The trouble starts when you have two variables, and you need to combine them in different ways to hit two different numbers. That’s when Gaussian elimination comes in.

>> In the last one we were trying to make 23 cents with nickels and pennies. Here we have two foods. One is milk, the other is bread. They both have some macros in terms of carbs and protein:

>> and now we want to figure out how many of each we need to eat to hit this target of 5 carbs and 7 protein.
by gambiting | 2025-10-08 07:42:50+00:00
>>Why they are okay with calling out the far right but not okay calling out the far left I will never understand

So help me out here. "Far right" is usually full of brilliant ideas like lets round people up and deport them without due process, doesn't matter where - or starting to look into getting rid of people with fully legal right to stay, or saying that they haven't seen a single white face in a town somehow isn't racist and is a perfectly normal thing to say.

In the meantime far left is doing.....what exactly. Saying that we need to tax the rich? That everyone should have healthcare? That people should be free to decide their gender?

Honestly, help me out - what are those "far left" ideas that you say should be labeled as "extreme"?
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-10-08 07:42:55+00:00
You can't parse [X]HTML with regex. Because HTML can't be parsed by regex. Regex is not a tool that can be used to correctly parse HTML. As I have answered in HTML-and-regex questions here so many times before, the use of regex will not allow you to consume HTML. Regular expressions are a tool that is insufficiently sophisticated to understand the constructs employed by HTML.

etc. https://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454
by mytailorisrich | 2025-10-08 07:42:58+00:00
> Big city Europe is in the process of being conformed, changed, and ultimately smoothed into a generic boring singular entity. A soulless Americanization that’s accelerated dramatically over the last few decades.

It goes beyond "Americanization". Cynics, or conspiracy theorists, would argue that there is a plan at play to erode all traces of uniqueness and specificity in Europe, and in "Europeans" as different people, in order to turn everywhere into a bland, 'standard' part of the EU.
by kakacik | 2025-10-08 07:43:07+00:00
Ah yes my very recent experience. We fully redid kitchen and went for Ikea (forsbacka oak, actually decently looking stuff, we will see about longevity). Our kitchen is very restricted, its on all 4 walls and everything needs to fit exactly, plus we have slanted roof on one side, making fitting a rather complex exercise.

So I bought bosch laser meter to be sure I don't mess up planning in their online planning software. We even asked Ikea to send a company that usually builds entire kitchen for them (aka their local partners), just to come for measuring and confirm my numbers (especially the angle of that roof, defines how tall and wide cabinets can fit underneath). It took forever, and the person doing measurements f*cked up badly, adding 30cm width to the place under the roof by mistake. He was re-measuring it but came with same number. I was suspicious of such a huge difference and luckily found his mistake, reverting back to my numbers (so we just wasted 1 month waiting for this company, even ignoring the fee).

Anyway, even with all their planning, in-person consultation, they messed up delivery and few items were missing, and they added few unnecessary items. Since delivery consists of 80+ brown boxes of all sizes that are just dumped on you, there is no way to find any mismatch out before building the actual kitchen. A lot of "fun" around that, I burned some vacation from this year on just chasing their mistakes.

Coming back to original topic - plinths or whatever goes under bottom cabinets to cover the gaping hole where legs are, were insufficient so we now have 0.5m hole there, waiting for item delivery while workers are long gone. Nothing is immediately available for pickup here, so waiting few weeks on piece of plastic weighting 1kg, 2.4m long, that costs cca 30$. Delivery - 100$, no way to even get it delivered to their shop, it needs to be a home delivery.

This is Switzerland, one would expect a bit better service in 2025 for their visibly elevated prices compared to EU all around. I did order the item in French Ikea instead, delivery was 'only' 40$. Not much competition for that price point here, but stellar quality service it certainly wasn't.

/rant
by thesz | 2025-10-08 07:43:41+00:00
We are talking about cache friendliness here, including compact data representation.

B-trees algorithm requires leaf nodes to be filled up to some prespecified fill factor, usually from 50% to 70%. This is not compact by any measures.

Both LSM trees and COLA allow for much more compact storage. They also pretty cache friendly in the "cache oblivious" sense.
by cramcgrab | 2025-10-08 07:44:17+00:00
If pbs was only balanced or apolitical. There were several high profile blunders they refused to apologize or change. Would have been the same outcome if things were reversed. Heck, they could have done a pbs right and pbs left channel. But they know better. Such is the reason why so many are deserting the left, they’ve drifted way too far left.
by piva00 | 2025-10-08 07:44:21+00:00
Isn't the core issue that this deluge of spending on the hype inflates away adjacent companies valuation (Meta, Google, Tesla, Nvidia, etc.) where people's pensions and savings get directed towards since they become the growth stocks in the index, and when it inevitably corrects there's second/third-order effects on non-rich people?

> They would just as likely hoover up housing around the country or some such insanity to capitalize on the scarcity.

Another core issue in a hyper-financialised economy, the money doesn't get invested in what would be best for society, it keeps chasing either risky endeavours or parked in presumed safe assets (such as housing), inflating away asset classes. Where are the incentives to invest in foundational areas which do compound to make a society have resilient growth, like infrastructure: energy, transportation, etc.? It feels like without government direction to spend in big projects there's simply no appetite from the private, hyper-financialised, system to do the work, unless there's potential to get 10-100x returns. Is that good for society at large?

If hyper-financialisation is not helping the overall economy, and society to become better, why the hell should we still (in the Western world) pursue that? If all it can do is increasingly chase the extremes: hyper-growth vs extremely safe assets, is it any good anymore?
by jart | 2025-10-08 07:44:43+00:00
The fed doesn't even publish M3 anymore (which is what tells us how much fiat there is in circulation). So we really don't know. We do know that as of 2020 America no longer uses fractional reserve banking. The collateral requirements for banks are now zero. There's more kinds of inflation than just M3 growth. There's also loss of faith in the dollar. Loss of creditworthiness of the USG. But most importantly, the loss of people willing and able to work. Gold measures all of them. The value proposition of treasuries is they pay yields which means you can extract surplus value from American labor. However with such a sickly aged population, it's more of a risk that Americans will exploit the dollar to fund their own retirements instead. Goldman Sachs said a month ago when gold was $3500 that if just 1% of treasury holders decide that a rock which doesn't do anything is a safer better investment than the American people, then gold is going to go to $5000.
by BrandoElFollito | 2025-10-08 07:45:12+00:00
I was looking for a USB cable tester (where I would plug in both ends of my cable and it would test it (power, data, ...).

There are plenty for Ethernet, but none such ones for USB. Was I looking with the wrong keywords or such device does not exist?

Note: I have a dongle that measures the power when inserted between the laptop and the charger, this is not what I am looking for
by PetitPrince | 2025-10-08 07:45:18+00:00
> They were highly optimized so for a language change we only had to switch the black cylinders.

What an ingenious solution; I bet very few people would notice that everything is written in black(1). "Good design is invisible" indeed !

(1) except some of the product line (Ivar, Lack, etc), but those are invariant in all languages.
by simianwords | 2025-10-08 07:45:20+00:00
It is very interesting to see two completely different positions on the economics AI but come to the same conclusion that AI is a bubble

1. LLM's are so economically unfeasible that companies won't be able to make a profit and investing in datacenters will turn out to be a bad bet because AI companies themselves are a bubble

2. LLM's will become so cheap that datacenters will be useless and people will just use local models so investing in datacenters is a bad bet

I see both positions in this thread so which one is true?
by mrweasel | 2025-10-08 07:46:32+00:00
No one should be allowed to use "engineering" in the context of producing something with LLMs until they learn to say "No, I'll not help you cut corners on this, and if you persist I will report you".

If you're fine with an AI designed bridge, where the builder tweaked the prompt to get the LLM to suggest cutting out all safety features, then okay, go with vibe engineering.
by buralog | 2025-10-08 07:47:30+00:00
Hi there, app looks great and it has really clean UI. One small issue is the landing page has no related screenshots of the app so I cant see how app looks like before I try it. I think you should add screenshots to the main page, even maybe with clear explanations with them, that would be really helpful to understand how app looks and works, how it differs from others and how catchy UI it has! Wishing you the best!
by bilekas | 2025-10-08 07:47:58+00:00
I'm completely with you on this. I think a lot has to do with Alex Kurtzman. He has that particular opinionated way and he needs to inject it in everything he touches, very "Hollywood safe and committee approved"

The earlier Star Treks went AGAINST the norm. Not the 'current' trend. There's a huge difference and as you say, it feels as if they see the viewer as stupid and unable to read between the lines.
by bcraven | 2025-10-08 07:48:00+00:00
https://support.plex.tv/articles/200890058-authentication-fo...

In rare cases, you may decide that you wish to allow very specific access from the local network without authentication. You might do this if using a third-party Plex app, which doesn’t support authentication, for instance (though all modern official and third-party apps should already support authentication).

To make an exception, look in your Plex Media Server’s advanced network settings, under Settings > Server > Network > List of IP addresses and networks that are allowed without auth.

Here, you can specify LAN addresses as either a specific IP or a IP/netmask (to specify a range). Separate multiple values by a comma and be sure not to include any whitespace (e.g. spaces).
by wakawaka28 | 2025-10-08 07:48:33+00:00
What you seem to be missing is that people don't solely derive value estimates based on the opinions of others. There are business fundamentals which can lead to one or more value estimates under different assumptions. If you don't do your own calculations, you may still read calculations from other people and reach a conclusion as to whether the true value of the stock is higher or lower than the market price.

EMH is about the tendency of the market to be efficient over time. It is purely of academic interest to dream up hypothetical scenarios where everyone is equally rational and informed, etc. There are degrees of efficiency and information, and it's useful to talk about this to try to understand how real markets work and can be made to work better.
by nine_k | 2025-10-08 07:49:07+00:00
These attacks were so successful that Russia is having fuel shortages right now, and decreased its exports of oil products by about 10%. It is estimated that about 30% of Russia's refining capacity is disabled by now. (E.g. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czx020k4056o)

So no, these are not isolated incidents, this is a big hole in air defense, and Russia used to produce some competent air defense systems. They are just not geared towards the drones, much like Patriot air defense systems are not either.
by simianwords | 2025-10-08 07:49:12+00:00
> It becomes feasible when people are willing to pay more than it costs to run it.

This is what I want to challenge. At what point do you think people will pay more than it costs? Lets try to come up with a number because the price of LLMs have dropped more than 30 times in the last 2 years.

It may continue to drop and AI companies will continue to be in loss because the new things will be unlocked due to new efficiences and the same debate over LLM economics will continue.

I think it is already profitable and people are more than willing to pay for the actual costs.