MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by CaptainOfCoit | 2025-10-21 11:08:21+00:00
I remember getting excited about KDE Connect but then being completely disappointed that it basically non-functional on iOS...

As I remember it (tried it last year I think), the application needs to be in the foreground in order to do anything at all, because of Apple's (purposeful) limitations of doing things in the background.

So if you were hoping to be able to install this and sync stuff without effort and having to leave the app open all the time, Apple seems to be vehemently against anything like that, probably because they have their own solutions for this...

Edit: The GitHub repository actually goes through the Apple-induced problem:

> iOS is very much designed around foreground interactions. Therefore, background “daemon-style” applications don’t really exist under conventional means, so the behavior where KDE Connect iOS is unresponsive in the background is more or less intended. There are technically some special categories and "hacky" methods to try to get it to run in the background, but in general, there is no intended/by-design method of keeping a "daemon-style" app running forever in the background. For more information, see this post on the Apple Dev Forums

https://github.com/KDE/kdeconnect-ios
by maxZZzzz | 2025-10-21 11:09:35+00:00
I don't know. Having all scientific knowledge written down and being indexed for research seams to scale better. Also I am not sure what point the article is trying to make. It seams a bit vague.

I feel with the sentiment for the "loss of skill" due to convenience tech.

But hey, these days many people have the choice (meaning the time and money), to keep some of the skills alive. The internet gives you the possibility to find any person teaching the skill set you seek. For more common stuff even Youtube is a trove often for free.
by Fade_Dance | 2025-10-21 11:09:45+00:00
The concern is more about speculation specifically. Internet armchair-investigations regularly get out of control and fills discussion with what reliably later turns out to be misinformation, in addition to being disrespectful at sensitive time.

Low quality blogs and "news" reporters also directly pull from online discussions, and before you know it, hypothetical drug use is a major discussion point, which is unfortunate.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-10-21 11:10:22+00:00
All 26 OSes thus far fall into the same shit gambit Microsoft plays to constantly ruin hardware to later act as a Karma Drama Triangle "hero" either by some future promised software upgrade or payment for hardware. The root cause is unrestrained greed and a customer-unaligned, bureaucratic orgchart pyramid of having too many designers constantly trying to justify their existence instead of leaving things alone. The problem is they sometimes do their job too well and create Microsoft Vista instead.
by jeroenhd | 2025-10-21 11:11:27+00:00
KDE Connect leverages mDNS on the network (non-Bluetooth) side, which relies on broadcasts. That means it'll break across networks without a VPN of some kind. For some VPNs (Wireguard, OpenVPN in TUN mode) that also means connectivity is impossible.

You can, if you want, open ports and configure KDE connect to reach out across the internet (practically only feasible with one device behind your router on IPv4, any on IPv6), but because it doesn't use "real" DNS, you can't just enter a DDNS hostname, you have to specify the full IP address.
by brainless | 2025-10-21 11:13:30+00:00
It is not easy to support multiple providers at each layer of our tech stack but if we do not then a few players become easier to pick and then they monopolize.

I am trying to stay vendor neutral with my own coding agent (1). To approach this, I created a desktop app that connects to coding agent running on either my own infra or yours (local or your cloud server). Desktop app and coding agent are separate binaries.

If you host on your own infra then you can bring your own AI provider too. Similarly, I want to give choice for git host. Right now I am targetting GitHub but I want to add Gitlab soon after MVP. All this has made the path to my MVP longer but I see a clear long-term aim for myself - we should have choices.

1. https://github.com/brainless/nocodo
Ask HN: What is the best way to preserve, and continue to use chats in Claude?
by asimpleusecase | 2025-10-21 11:14:21+00:00
I use Claude Ai frequently, the other day I was working on a project and got interrupted and came back to that chat a few days later, only to find it was not in my chat list. I did a search and Claude seemed to find part of the chat but not all of it. Then I realized how naive I have been in my usage. The chat history looked like it was keeping all these threads for me to reference and continue to work with - I was treating it like browser tabs in a way. But now I see many of my chats do not appear in the chat list and some are only partly recovered by search or at times even search does not find them. I have now looked around and find all kinds of ways to save the chats locally or on online services. I would like two core features 1) a record of all my chats saved so I can review them and search them. 2) there are many chats I would like to “park” and continue the conversation later, maybe that would be saving a conversation and using that as a prompt to carry on later?

How do you manage this? I’m finding that I am using Claude like a scratch pad for ideas, but it is like doing so with disappearing ink.
Can universal productivity apps ever include a "finance organizer"?
by Salama_23 | 2025-10-21 11:15:03+00:00
The answer is YES — but there’s a catch: developers have to build on a universal human habit.

Hi HN- here is my story,

About ten years ago, I started to deeply internalize the challenge of simplifying expense tracking. I badly needed to track certain spending in my life (not everything), but had no viable way to do it efficiently, effectively, and in a lasting manner.

Being a senior finance controller at the time, failing that challenge felt extra annoying. A few years later, fixing this problem became my first startup, Entries, through which I tested five different apps. With each app, the idea evolved through hours of research, ideation, conception, UX sketches, Figma designs, and user testing— and so did “the problem” we pitched at each launch.

Eventually, it distilled into two questions that still guide me today:

- Why has no personal budgeting or expense-tracking app become truly universal?

- Why hasn’t any finance organizer reached the same adoption as calendars, note apps, or file drives? is money less important!

The more I searched for an answer, the clearer the gap became. Productivity tools that reached universality are built on habits people already have, with almost no learning curve.

Today, after all these years, I reckon I’ve answered those two questions — and finally found a universal, ancient human habit. I’ve built a new app from Entries around it, and launching it soon.

Can't wait to sharing it with you.

Salama, Founder at Entries.
by Joel_Mckay | 2025-10-21 11:15:07+00:00
SSH File sync applications are reliable...

Android: "Transfer Files To Computer, PC" ( Michal Bukáček includes GPL git URI, YMMV as we still need to audit it for traffic)

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cz.bukacek.fil...

iPhone: PhotoSync is free to transfer movies and low-resolution images

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/photosync-transfer-photos/id41...

MacOS:

https://github.com/macfuse/macfuse/releases

Windows 11: sshfs is slow, but allows user account constrained access to remote shares

winget install -h -e --id "WinFsp.WinFsp"

winget install -h -e --id "SSHFS-Win.SSHFS-Win"

https://github.com/winfsp/sshfs-win

Windows 11 system tray sshfs link manager:

https://github.com/evsar3/sshfs-win-manager

Windows 11: Local OpenSSH service setup

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administrat...

If your home router is dynamic DNS only, the ISP will usually still support ports >1000:

https://www.noip.com/

Or DIY with your own DNS solution with cloudflare:

https://linuxconfig.org/automate-dynamic-ip-updates-for-your...

Also tried KDE connect a few years back, but didn't like the idea of giving a buggy phone access to shoulder-surf root accounts. Transferring stuff out of a VM with a local samba instance also works, but samba should also be containerized.

Best regards, =3
by thaumasiotes | 2025-10-21 11:15:30+00:00
Possibly something more like "people who have non-imaginary dairy allergies aren't likely to go into an ice cream shop, and even if they do, they obviously won't order without emphasizing their dairy allergy".

It's kind of similar to the Whole Wheat Bakery asking you whether you're OK with gluten. If you aren't, you made a big mistake walking in.
by carlosjobim | 2025-10-21 11:15:31+00:00
Of course they can, why not? The example in the article is really good and perfectly believable.

People at that time would wander around a lot in their everyday life, and it would be very easy to remember these small stories which are connected to the landscape. A father would tell his son when they were walking past this feature of the landscape, and the son would later tell his son and so on.

Why? Because they didn't have cell phones to scroll on while wandering, or a radio to listen to. And they weren't thinking about their mortgage or about primaries. When you live in a world like this, it is very easy to remember a bunch of unusual stories, and when they're connected to the landscape instead of to people, it is almost a guarantee that they will be passed on for generations.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-10-21 11:16:17+00:00
Public-private "partnerships" and the similar are like private equity: only good for businesses in the long run. And facilitated by some university bureaucrats it is unbelievably sneaky, deceitful, and treacherous.

Students and workers should walkout and strike, or they are the product ruled by gangsters. Force the scumbags to resign and return what wasn't theirs.
Show HN: City-aware PTO optimizer with block/prefer day constraints
by mabolivar | 2025-10-21 11:17:01+00:00
Correct link is here → https://somniaplanner.com/en/barcelona/2026.

I built SomniaPlanner, a web app that maximizes your time off by aligning PTO with city-level public holidays and weekends.

What’s different: (1) you can mark block (must-work) and prefer (must-take) days as hard constraints—the optimizer must satisfy them. (2) A linear calendar view for planning fans.

Why: this was a first step toward a parental-leave planner for Spain; PTO planning lets me validate the constraint UX and solver.

How: a client-side dynamic programming algorithm enumerates feasible ranges and scores them by days-off/PTO, with a small balance term to trade off one long streak versus several shorter breaks. Runs fully in the browser (<20ms); no backend. Optimization engine written in TypeScript.

Try it: San Francisco 2026 - https://somniaplanner.com/en/san-francisco/2026 Barcelona 2026 - https://somniaplanner.com/en/barcelona/2026 Bogota 2026 - https://somniaplanner.com/en/bogota/2026 Browse all cities: https://somniaplanner.com/en

Feedback: – What drawbacks do you see from running client-side only? – Are the block/prefer interactions intuitive and explanations clear? – Any ideas for extending this app (e.g. parental-leave planner or Travel-aware planning — budget + flights/hotels)?
by radarsat1 | 2025-10-21 11:17:40+00:00
I'm curious, what is the use case for open-ended labeling like this? I can think of clustering ie finding similar tweets but that can also just be done via vector similarity. Otherwise maybe the labels contain interesting semantics but 6000 sounds like too many to analyze by hand. Maybe you are using LLMs to do further clustering and working on a graph or hierarchical "ontology" of tweets?
by luis_cho | 2025-10-21 11:18:15+00:00
> Europe and US have decreased fossil fuel consumption a bit We did not decreased fossil consumption we externalised the fossil consumption to developed countries production.

Developed countries use a lot of fossil fuels but most of that is to promote the lifestyle of developed countries.

Oxfam estimates that 1% of the richest people emit double the carbon emission of the half the poorest of humanity

https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/carbon-emissions-ric...
by georgehopkin | 2025-10-21 11:18:36+00:00
Roughly 95 per cent of organisations see no measurable return on their generative AI investments, but finance functions are achieving substantial value by embedding AI into automated workflows rather than running experimental pilots, according to research from MIT and Anthropic.

MIT’s State of AI in Business 2025 shows the earliest and clearest returns from AI are appearing in support functions such as finance, procurement and operations through reduced external spending, faster cycles and tighter controls, reports Bain & Company.
by vidarh | 2025-10-21 11:19:15+00:00
Registries main purpose of existence is to be a single source of truth for the zone(s) they are responsible for...

That hasn't changed, though Network Solutions is now just a registrar, not a registry after Verisign sold it off. Verisign, however, held on to and still operates the registry for most of the TLDs NSI did, and a few new ones, as well as 2 out of 13 root servers (up from 1 out of 9)
by pbronez | 2025-10-21 11:19:16+00:00
The slowmo guys did a video about a similar setup at CalTech https://youtu.be/7Ys_yKGNFRQ

It’s super cool that AlphaPhoenix is able to get comparable results on his garage. These academic versions use huge lab bench optic setups. They wind up with technically higher quality results, but AlphaPhonix’s video is more compelling.
by ben_w | 2025-10-21 11:20:24+00:00
The current method to get 10 tons to low orbit is to burn chemical fuel at a thermal power output of around a gigawatt. This consumes something like 20 times the mass of the payload as propellant, and only barely avoids catastrophic failure 95% of the time. GEO is harder.

From what I've seen nobody currently directly launches more than 4.9 tons direct to GEO (Vulcan Centaur VC4). Starship is supposed do 27 to GTO (not GEO) when finished, but it's not finished.

If a space elevator lasts long enough to amortise the construction costs (nobody knows, what with them not being buildable yet), they would represent an improvement on launch costs relative to current methods, even if you were limited to 10 tons at a time and each GEO being a 2 hour trip.
by FinnLobsien | 2025-10-21 11:20:31+00:00
My take having grown up in Germany: Germany has risen to one of the world's top economies with products known for precision manufacturing, exacting standards and a general assumption that "We do things the right way".

So Germans became convinced they know the exactly correct way to do things because that's how they became the top of the world. So now that things are getting worse (economy, housing etc.), many Germans are convinced they just need a bit more of the exactly correct way to do things.

The same perfectionist mindset that lets you manufacture some of the world's best physical products is the mindset that makes it impossible for the government to use the internet.
by comrade1234 | 2025-10-21 11:20:46+00:00
I was talking to a German engineer that moved to here (Switzerland) for work. At some point he had to register his car for Switzerland, transferring it from Germany. He thought the process would be like in Germany and would take hours so he took a half-day off work. Ends up it was just a few minutes of someone stamping some paper and printing his new car registration...
by masto | 2025-10-21 11:21:11+00:00
LED matrix panels are tons of fun! I strung a bunch of them together to make a marquee across my basement soffit: https://youtu.be/W0_3rzvq9Ks?si=aTT_uOZfOYh9NLUi

I have to resist the urge to tile every surface with blinky lights. I think part of the appeal goes back to why I enjoyed writing programs on my C64 to bounce my name around the screen. It’s a limited playground, and limitations inspire creativity.
by SideburnsOfDoom | 2025-10-21 11:23:29+00:00
While that deals with deliberate poisoning, when it comes to environmental contaminants such as lead and other heavy metals, or PM10s from vehicle exhausts, the other by-products of coal power stations and wood fires etc. I suspect that long-term exposure to these is not something where "you can build a tolerance" is a useful framing at all. Even if you technically do, it's irrelevant to the harm caused over time to whole populations.
by account42 | 2025-10-21 11:24:09+00:00
You can always "do more" yourself. I think we all can agree that it would not be reasonable to build your own server (including) from first principles so it's always a question of where you want to draw the line. IMO what matters is how much you influence the end result and how well you are equipped to deal with bs from those your solution depends on. A VPS just means you let someone else deal with hardware issues but are still fully controlling the software - and the interface between the two is a relatively standard virtual machine which makes it easy to migrate elsewhere when the provider decides to sequeeze you.
by crispyambulance | 2025-10-21 11:24:25+00:00
It is ironic that the essay comes from UPenn in Philadelphia.

Many of you may find it shocking or unbelievable, but literacy is slipping in many parts of the US (like Philadelphia). The number of functionally illiterate people is increasing, schools are failing to educate students for a constellation of reasons.

The reality is that we instead suffer from a "tyranny" of illiteracy. I think those folks in their ivory towers, like upenn, should help to address that before starting the pearl-clutching about what has been lost because of widespread literacy.
by zokier | 2025-10-21 11:25:01+00:00
Kingbright recently released 01005 (0.45mm x 0.25mm x 0.2mm) sized LEDs, which afaik are one of the smallest ones easily available. One neat idea would be to pack those on DIP14 sized pcb, making tiny neat character display. I guess something like 5x7 or 6x8 matrix could be doable with small mcu to drive them.

For those 1mm addressable RGB LEDs I've been thinking how you could do cool cyberpunk looks by stringing them on some hairthin magnet wire and sticking them on your body/face/hair/etc. Blend them in with some latex or something if needed. Just need to hide the controller/battery somewhere.
by wdr1 | 2025-10-21 11:25:16+00:00
> Democrat governments don't seem to purge information.

This flies in the face of what we all lived through during the Biden administration.

All the major tech outlets[1, 2, 3] have come forward to say that Biden administration pressured them to remove content, including things like the negative impact on children of school closing during COVID.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/technology/zuckerberg-says-biden-adm... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_Files [3] https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/google-says-biden-admin-...
by burnt-resistor | 2025-10-21 11:25:36+00:00
All objects placed in Class A airspace should be required to have ADS-B Out. Without this, it's Tragedy of the Commons until another preventable collision happens again. Notifying authorities offline that some free-floating objects may be in a massive region isn't anywhere close to as good as real-time updates that ADS-B In on commercial aircraft can recognize and avoid. ADB-B In for all aircraft operating in class A should be made mandatory instead of optional for this reason. The peeps will squeak about "cost" and "complexity", but some safety standards need to be advanced before they are written in more than arm blood.
by account42 | 2025-10-21 11:26:01+00:00
But are you really self hosting if you don't build your server silicon from first principles :)

I think in your analogy a VPS is more like renting a (normal) car rather than buying one - you're still in control over where it goes and its up to you to obey the traffic laws but if there are any major issues that are not your fault it's up to the rental company to make sure you get a replacement.

I'm curious what your goal is with your language crusade? Being precise with your language can be important when the distinction matters, but does it really matter here?

> If you depend on anything which has “cloud” in its name, you are not “self-hosting”.

What if it didn't have cloud in its name when I signed up but some marketing bozo adjusted the description since then? Did it stop being self hosting even though nothing technical about the setup changed.
by drcongo | 2025-10-21 11:26:16+00:00
I believe Cage had a massive tax bill to pay at some point which led to him appearing in basically anything he was offered, including what is without doubt the worst film I have ever watched, Left Behind [1]. One review I read said something along the lines of "phoning it in would be too kind a description, Cage is so devoid of effort or emotion in this film he regularly appears to have been photoshopped in afterwards" which really summed it up perfectly.

Having said that, both before and after the money trouble, he made some superb movie choices and put in some outstanding performances - think Wild at Heart, Pig, Unbearable Weight etc. Hats off to you Nick.

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2467046/
Automation with AI voice agents handling inbound and outbound calls
by Olivia8 | 2025-10-21 11:26:28+00:00
In 2025, automation with AI voice agents has reached a new level of realism, reshaping how businesses manage inbound and outbound calls. Modern systems no longer rely on pre-recorded scripts — they use neural speech synthesis and large language models trained on billions of voice samples to produce natural intonation, rhythm, and emotional nuance. Technologies such as prosody modeling, dynamic pause control, and context-aware inflection allow AI voices to adapt tone and pacing in real time based on the user’s mood or conversation flow. Leaders like Coldi AI, PolyAI, Replicant, and Observe.AI are pioneering emotionally intelligent voice agents capable of detecting sentiment through acoustic patterns and tailoring responses accordingly. These systems leverage end-to-end transformer architectures for voice generation and speech-to-intent pipelines for natural, human-like conversation. The result: AI agents that can handle complex dialogues, schedule appointments, qualify leads, and close deals — all while sounding convincingly human, empathetic, and contextually aware. And which Voice AI do you use in the customer service?
by kpcyrd | 2025-10-21 11:26:39+00:00
The post also mentions this is only a problem because of closed source, I think "I want to keep my government identity private, but here's the source code" would be a fair compromise.

If one wants to be extra "there's nothing up my sleeve" they could also publish instructions for how to do reproducible builds for the compiled artifacts (which does require publishing the source code however).
Show HN: NewsletterStack – Discover the tools behind successful newsletters
by zackho | 2025-10-21 11:27:04+00:00
NewsletterStack is a curated directory of tools and platforms powering today’s most successful newsletters. Discover what creators actually use to send, grow, and monetize their audience. Compare pricing across email platforms, explore tech stacks behind leading publications, and find resources to help you build a sustainable newsletter business.
by reddozen | 2025-10-21 11:27:55+00:00
> Instead they were led thru the halls of the Capitol (by the police!) ... but the premise that they intended to overthrow the govt

You could have just said you didn't read the John Eastman memo and left it there. Or any of the Jack Smith findings. There was a coordinated top-down plan to violate the Electoral Count Act, its not even hidden. Just say you have no clue what you're talking about next time