MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Atalocke | 2025-10-31 17:20:33+00:00
I've been using the affinity suite since v1 for nearly a decade. Upgraded to v2 when that came out, and use it weekly on my iPad and Desktop. I was warry of Canva for a while, but my wife really got into it for designing and printing signage, invitations, and cards for our wedding. She's a light prosumer, and seeing her be able to create some really awesome stuff and fuel her creativity made me quite happy. Well worth the $15/m for pro to see her smile and be proud of herself.

I was worried when they bought Serif, but this new Affinity gives me hope. Canva makes good design products but they've been missing from the pro market. We all know Adobe runs that arena, and that most consumers are sick of their business practices. Canva is probably the best company positioned right now to compete with Adobe, and they have a huge incentive to bring users over. Keeping the base app free while enabling an optional subscriptions for the only remote component with operating costs lets Canva keep their top level funnel wide open. Even if most users don't pay for AI, that's still a huge number of people in the Canva ecosystem.

Of all the companies to buy Serif, Canva is probably the best case scenario.
by piltdownman | 2025-10-31 17:20:53+00:00
>> who invented Detroit techno, which inspired Belgian techno, that inspired the UK rave scene that brought the future of electronic music (jungle, drum n bass, grime, etc).

Lol, Belgian acts like Technotronic's with 'Pump Up the Jam' and the hyper-commercialisation of the Eurodance scene were not really comparable with the Aceeeed Overpass Parties typified by the likes of Guy Called Gerald, 808 State etc... leading into FSOL, 4Hero and charting a path to something like Goldie eventually.

Belgian Techno > UK Acid House is not a natural progression versus the dozens of new-wave and synth bands influencing everything from Autechre to 808 State via two specific Madchester studios and the Hacienda/FACT scene spurred on by Tony Wilson following his post-punk departure from Granada. The end of the doc 'Synth Brittania' and the Coogan masterpiece '24 Hour Party People' chart the influences and cross-pollination of the scenes at the time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_Studios https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00n93c6

>> They are the seed that modern electronic music grew from

_A_ seed certainly. Huge debt owed to the 70s UK heads birthing multiple genres just by abusing an EMS VCS 3 if you want to track it directly. Berlin School electronica is a thing as well, with the likes of Tangerine Dream predating Kraftwerk. That's without even getting into Schaeffer, Stockhausen or Carlos in terms of cause/effect.

>> I think, aside from some interesting recording techniques pioneered at Abbey Road by George Martin, they’re not that influential

I mean 'Helter Skelter' alone is a legitimate precursor to Heavy Metal as a Genre, and the amount of double-tracking and tape-loop tricks they introduced post-musique concréte alone would fill a wiki, but asides from that:

- First ever band to perform in a Stadium - First rock band with a backwards guitar solo - First band to use a Symphony Orchestra - First rock band concept Album - First band to print lyrics on the back of an album cover - First rock band to use a Moog Synthesiser - First to use feedback deliberately and intentionally on a rock recording - First band to use Artificial Double Tracking (ADT) - First band to Multi-mike drum-kits

Abbey Road alone probably has a dozen more 'firsts' fwiw.
by uvaursi | 2025-10-31 17:21:00+00:00
Do we have any write ups or post mortems from WhatsApp employees prior to the acquisition and the massive buy out?

I want to (artificially perhaps) peg my projects to a smaller cohort of employees if it means the stress to them is worth it if they have the autonomy to ship stuff on their own accord, for a general feeling of having a successful and useful career.
by dbspin | 2025-10-31 17:21:11+00:00
The problem is not that memories can't be repressed. There's plenty of research demonstrating repression does exist as a defence mechanism. The problem is that even highly evocative memories can also relatively easily be falsified, or modified through elicitation and reframing. Since there's no neurological stenographer, there is no mechanism even in principle to identify the difference between the two. With potential consequences like the satanic panic of recovered and elicited memories of sexual abuse. That's what Elizabeth Loftus and others have shown, and shown so thoroughly that eye witness testimony should never be trusted.
by consumer451 | 2025-10-31 17:21:19+00:00
> Key Points

> Question - For inpatients with moderate to severe depression, is repeated intravenous ketamine superior to a psychoactive placebo (midazolam) in reducing depressive symptoms?

> Findings - In this randomized clinical trial, there was no statistically significant difference in the primary outcome, end-of-treatment Montgomery-Åsberg Depression Rating Scale score, between the ketamine and midazolam groups. No significant differences were observed on secondary efficacy, cognitive, economic, or quality-of-life outcomes.

> Meaning - These findings do not support a superior antidepressant effect for serial intravenous ketamine infusions as an adjunctive therapy to usual inpatient care for moderate to severe depression.
Show HN: GPU-accelerated sandboxes for running AI coding agents in parallel [video]
by lewq | 2025-10-31 17:22:05+00:00
Hey HN! I've been building a system to run multiple AI coding agents in parallel, each in their own GPU-accelerated sandbox. The problem I kept running into: when you're working with AI assistants on real projects, you want them doing multiple things at once (refactoring module A, implementing feature B, writing tests for C), but coordinating all that is a mess. You lose track of what's happening, agents step on each other, and you end up babysitting instead of building. So I built HADES - think of it as a desktop environment for each agent, running on GPU-accelerated VDI backends. You write high-level specs, spin up multiple agents in isolated environments, and they each work on their own branch with their own MCP tools and RAG sources. The demo shows me creating two Snake games simultaneously (Python and Rust versions), then jumping into one with Moonlight streaming to pair-program with the agent in real-time. The latency is wild - sub-20ms, feels completely local. Each agent writes out structured spec files as it works, so you get this 30,000-foot view of everything happening in parallel. When they're done, they make PRs that humans review and merge. Built this on top of our HPC infrastructure (we normally deploy ML workloads on Slurm clusters for supercomputing customers). Turns out the same tech that schedules thousands of GPU jobs is pretty good at orchestrating AI agents. Currently running private beta. Also shout-out to the folks in our Discord who've already got this running on macOS - that's not even something I've tested yet! Tech stack: Slurm, NVIDIA Container Toolkit, Wayland screencopy, Moonlight protocol, Docker/Harbor. Would love feedback, especially from folks doing multi-agent development or running dev environments at scale.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-10-31 17:22:41+00:00
People overestimate the technology required to build the utility stack, from physical servers to the first bit from an http server. Is it easy? It's straightforward. Can there be downtime? Tell me what us-east-1, Azure Front Door, Github, etc have looked like lately. Everyone uses cloud as an excuse for more uptime, but they're still down frequently, so this argument doesn't hold water. Eat some downtime, you're going to regardless if you manage your own infra or outsource. Can't build it yourself? That's fine, people like Oxide can build it for you, and you own all of it.

The profits you don't pay to hyperscalers is investment in your sovereignty. Easy case to prioritize stakeholders over Google, Microsoft, and AWS shareholders, and the US government's ability to rug pull your access and data at any time. The argument isn't bare metal vs virtualized; the argument is "Do you own it?" You are spending a certain amount no matter what to get the technology capabilities needed.

37signals Leaves the Cloud - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33260061 - October 2022

https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-cloud-is-just-someone-else...

https://oxide.computer/

(have built cloud infra for startups, fortune 100s, financial services firms, and on prem infra for high energy physics, non profits, public goods, etc; thoughts and opinions always my own)
by jjice | 2025-10-31 17:22:44+00:00
I've had similar confusion to what you've said (same sources too). From what I've tested (iPhone 16 Pro), yes it's all on device. That may only be on more recent devices though. If you disable anything that can connect you to a network, it still functions as expected, at the same speed, and at the same quality (from what I can tell).
Show HN: Aurca AI – Find Mispriced Event Contracts on Prediction Markets
by zaidtashman | 2025-10-31 17:22:50+00:00
I’ve built Aurca.ai, a web app to help people betting on prediction markets spot mispricing opportunities. It analyzes contracts using statistical models and machine learning by evaluating odds (from data) and uncover where the market might be off. I’ve been tinkering with this for a while, combining my love for data science and financial markets, and it’s finally ready for others to try.

You can jump in and check it out at aurca.ai/dashboard—no signup needed to play around with the core features. Just pick a prediction market contract (it supports Kalshi for now, with more to be added later), and it’ll show you the model results. My approach uses historical data, probabilistic models, and machine learning to predict events and evaluate their occurrence probability and compare that with the market price.

It’s early days, so expect rough edges—I’m here for feedback! What works? What’s confusing? Any features you’d want? I’ll be around to answer questions and tweak things based on what you think.

P.S. All Models are trained using Bayesian methods, and the tool used to train is Numpyro on JAX.
by aprilthird2021 | 2025-10-31 17:22:53+00:00
Because there is a cause to revert the intentional damage done to Irish by the former rulers of the land. With Frisian there was no resistance to it. I think official language status helps provide resources to conservationists of various languages. And trying to conserve a language most of the speakers don't care about us a lot different than trying to conserve a language people do care about but we're forced to suppress for many years so have less ability to conserve it
by Atalocke | 2025-10-31 17:23:43+00:00
I think a lot of commentor here forget that Canva is a large, profitable company that has a long track record of putting its consumers first. I'm not going to pretend that the fruit won't ever sour, but a company that wants to get more people in design, upsell them on fremium optional features, and has other profitable businesses to support the funnel is a hell of a lot better than Adobe.

If Serif was going to be acquired, I can't think of a better company to have done it.
Show HN: Mach, a new systems language that focuses on being simple and explicit
by octalide | 2025-10-31 17:23:55+00:00
Hey guys. Mach is a pet project of mine that I've been designing and implementing for the better part of two years now. It's a C-like systems programming languages that takes inspiration from and attempts to combine the best parts of languages like C, Rust, Zig, and Golang in particular.

Modern systems programming languages focus so much on "features" like fancy memory management, large amounts of syntax sugar for less typing, unique type systems, fancy interop, and more that just gets in the way. Mach is an attempt to bring all that back down to earth.

In practice, Mach should feel like writing C with a few extra nice-to-haves.

The project is in a very alpha stage, but does have a fully operational bootstrap compiler implementation as well as a full (scrappy at best) language documentation. I'm looking right now to involve people that would like to contribute or nitpick the project. It's not perfect -- far from it, but the philosophy is sound.

Take a look and let me know what you think, or, better yet, join the discord and tell me what you hate about it there. Mach is at the phase right now where what it needs is heavy scrutiny and criticism to lock it down into a distinct forward path. If you can provide that, please do!
by woile | 2025-10-31 17:24:05+00:00
I just got a AMD AI 9 HX 370 with 128GB RAM from laptopwithlinux.com and I've started using zed + ollama. I'm super happy with the machine and the service.

Here's my ollama config:

https://github.com/woile/nix-config/blob/main/hosts/aconcagu...

I'm not an AI power user. I like to code, and I like the AI to autocomplete snippets that are "logical", I don't use agents, and for that, it's good enough.
by SilentM68 | 2025-10-31 17:24:13+00:00
That is very interesting. I have a somewhat related issue with sleep cycles. This issue, waking around 3:00am every morning then not going back to sleep until 6 or 7am, is not really a productive sleep cycle. I read somewhere that taking a spoon of sugary substance, like Raw Honey, MCT or Collagen, before going to bed can replenish the brain of this energy, so it becomes easier to fall asleep. I've been trying it with two to three spoons of honey, right before hitting the sack to see if it can help me fall asleep again. It seems to be having a somewhat positive effect as it does not take me too long to go back to sleep.
by jetsnoc | 2025-10-31 17:24:31+00:00
Models gpt-oss-120b, Meta Llama 3.2, or Gemma (just depends on what I’m doing) Hardware - Apple M4 Max (128 GB RAM) paired with a GPD Win 4 running Ubuntu 24.04 over USB-C networking Software - Claude Code - RA.Aid - llama.cpp For CUDA computing, I use an older NVIDIA RTX 2080 in an old System76 workstation. Process I create a good INSTRUCTIONS.md for Claude/Raid that specifies a task & production process with a task list it maintains. I use Claude Agents with an Agent Organizer that helps determine which agents to use. It creates the architecture, prd and security design, writes the code, and then lints, tests and does a code review.
by brabel | 2025-10-31 17:25:36+00:00
> your example seems to be made entirely of regular Latin alphabets.

Portuguese is a direct descendant of Latin. But it has quite a bit of punctuation, OP just ignored that as the programming language, C, does not support it. In Common Lisp you can happily go:

(when verificação (print “pessoa é maior de idade”))

You could even go all the way:

(defmacro quando (cond corpo) ‘(when ,cond ,@corpo) (defun imprime (x) (print x)) ; now we can do this (quando verificação (imprime “pessoa é maior de idade”))
by palmotea | 2025-10-31 17:25:39+00:00
> I'm starting to think offshoring is better for America. Because house prices are unaffordable. Should a simple house really be $2 million ?

Do you really think it would be better for the rest of America to become like Detroit? Too few have jobs, so housing craters?

The solution to housing affordability is to build more housing (or relocate jobs to where housing is more affordable), it's not to make the common people poor.
by potato3732842 | 2025-10-31 17:26:00+00:00
My initial comment was a reference to the TV series "24" which came out in the early 2000s and was pretty transparently .gov propaganda to get people on board with or at least more open to the fact that the CIA was denying people their rights and torturing them and this was officially sanctioned.

By "good guys got the bad guys" what I am referring to is that the arctic frost stuff resulted in federal prosecutions. First off, you can't really use conviction as a bellwether for whether serious wrong was actually done. Federal prosecution is intentionally ruinous for anyone without huge, huge resources and even if you beat the flagship charge the laws are such that if they want you they'll still get you and they're only really constrained by political optics. Martha is probably the best example of this. And second, even if the prosecution is being done in pursuit of people who have legitimately done wrong (note I did not say "violated the law" because the laws are so broad), I'm not sure that prosecuting sitting politicians is a door that ought to be opened because due to the ruinous nature of of having the feds after you it basically hands a ton of power to the executive to harass politicians to get what they want.

This ties us back to 24 and the CIA because they were theoretically torturing people to "save american lives" and "prevent terrorism" which, while noble goals, are still not justification for going from "torture is never acceptable" to "torture is acceptable sometimes".
by weinzierl | 2025-10-31 17:26:01+00:00
I think there are compelling reasons to support:

1. Unremovable

2. Uninstallable while keeping the data available

3. Removing the release completely (while keeping an audit log that this happened)

1 is for use-cases where availability trumps security. I'd argue this should never be the case but at the same time it is how our world ticks by and large. Hard to take this away from people.

2 is for security, forensics and heritage but at the cost of availability. Uninstallable could mean to only offer the artifacts in an archive.

3 must always be possible as a last resort for illegal content that slipped through all previous safeguard layers.
by zoeysmithe | 2025-10-31 17:26:17+00:00
Both those things are like the root account to one's data. If there is a hypervisor backdoor (or if your vendor is told by the government to stop giving you updates or sell you product, or even pull your keys) then its game over. DB's too because they're so mission critical and not trivial to move off.

As far as cloud goes, how many shops are now looking at bringing stuff back in because eventually cloud maximizes its profit margins and captured clients can't say no to ever increasing prices. I imagine leaving the US-owned cloud also means an opportunity to reconfigure what is on the cloud and if it needs to be there.

Here's hope desktop linux comes back into play.

As for Munich moving back to windows, who knows how much of that was 'checkbook diplomacy' of the USA demanding they go back to US products or the US will pull unrelated support or whatever. Now that the USA has become isolationist, if not a threat to the EU, those favors/checks aren't being cashed anymore. So much of this is not a meritocracy but instead the crony capitalism that defines the modern world. Maybe there's potential for actual merit now that the USA is losing global prominence in so many ways.

The EU liberated from US influence can lead to great things and this is a good start. For all the doom and gloom of politics today, the US's century of influence ending can only be a universally good thing, imho.
by tetha | 2025-10-31 17:27:20+00:00
Yeah, when I was looking into the plausibility and function of polyphasic sleep, I stumbled across studies from the US Airforce. Their conclusion was similar: In a controlled enviroment, it can be spectacular and work really, really well.

However, it is very, very fragile to any kind of interruption, so they stopped looking into it.
by astrobe_ | 2025-10-31 17:27:23+00:00
I think that's why the * is generally preferred over the & for this purpose. It also can give some hints about ownership issues. This "pass by reference" thing is syntactic sugar and sometimes is great to have, but as Perlis said, "Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon" [1].

[1] https://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis-alan/quotes.html
by bodiekane | 2025-10-31 17:27:27+00:00
And yet, millions of people work 40 hour weeks and take a couple vacations per year while working in razor-thin margin industries like grocery stores and low margin restaurants, manufacturing, agriculture, construction, retail, trucking and services ranging from hair stylists to accounting.

Sane working hours and vacation time should be taken as a given in the modern economy. Unusually long work hours should be reserved for unusually highly paid professions like investment banking and surgeons.
by ArcHound | 2025-10-31 17:27:46+00:00
These are great news. I was quite pessimistic about this transformation, but seems there are plenty institutions willing to make the leap.

Are you aware of any tracking web that would display all these efforts? Wiki seems a bit outdated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adoption_of_free_and_open-sour...

EDIT: this seems to be a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45732485
by Forgeties79 | 2025-10-31 17:28:30+00:00
Try looking at this another way: people who are tech savvy may be more likely to have parents who are also tech savvy when compared to the average person.

If we don’t buy that theory: There are also a lot of people who visit and comment on this site, meaning there are tons of people who have parents who have not successfully switched over to Linux. The ones who have had success are the ones speaking up, which is currently in the single digits - nothing outlandish about that.

This is no different than somebody talking about a 35mm film camera and a bunch of people jumping in with their experience with 35mm film cameras. Are you as critical/skeptical of those conversations as well? You shouldn’t be and I would be surprised if so! So the logic is basically the same.

For the record my parents do not run Linux. I could maybe vaguely see my mom getting a handle on it, but unlikely and definitely not unless she made some big commitment to do it. However, I do have a friend whose mom is a gamer using a Linux laptop. This stuff does happen!
by UI_at_80x24 | 2025-10-31 17:29:37+00:00
Its the screen (size) that mattered. While screens make terrible input devices, for content consumption they are king. And that is the dividing line between blackberry/iphones. An argument can also be made for "boring business blackberry" vs "fun" iphone.

The apps were worse, but you had that HUGE screen to look at. And compared to other non-blackberry phones where you were limited to T9 text input, it was a game changer.
by legitster | 2025-10-31 17:29:51+00:00
From Jassy's blog post in September:

>It’s created artifacts that we’d like to change (e.g., pre-meetings for the pre-meetings for the decision meetings, a longer line of managers feeling like they need to review a topic before it moves forward, owners of initiatives feeling less like they should make recommendations because the decision will be made elsewhere, etc.) [...] So, we’re asking each s-team organization to increase the ratio of individual contributors to managers by at least 15% by the end of Q1 2025. Having fewer managers will remove layers and flatten organizations more than they are today.

Amazon is a meatgrinder on its workforce, but I will give credit where it's due - I think thinning out management is a noble goal and endeavor. If it's true that these layoffs don't impact as many IC roles, it's probably worth calling that out.

(It's just awful convenient that the timing of this is also when everyone is staring down a rough economy)