MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by VladVladikoff | 2025-10-01 11:25:54+00:00
There are actual reasons to self host that aren’t discussed here.

1) BEC filters. I run mail servers for several mid size companies that I am part owner of. We are constantly inundated by BEC scammers. But I now have filter lists that block it. You can’t email my staff using any manager or boss’s name and a e-mail that doesn’t match. It basically shuts down the whole BEC scam. I have one business still on Google apps, and we have now had two employees in that business get fooled by the scammers.

2) speed. Amazon AWS SES is great until you want to send 150,000 emails a day. At this point you’re running into issues with network transfer speeds for each request taking too much time, causing the full outbound send to take too long to complete.
by littlecranky67 | 2025-10-01 11:26:37+00:00
"Microsoft 365 however apparently will hate your email no matter what. you learn to live with it"

The entire thread is bullshit then, because you simply cannot learn to live without M365. M365 is one of the largest group of recipients, and especially in the business world (and business is where the money is). So I inbox my friends on GMail, but when I send my CV or an invoice to a business, my email is not received. How does that qualify as "self-hosting is easy and doable". The delusion is strong in this one.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-10-01 11:26:45+00:00
The hosting is terribly inefficient, but ultimately peanuts in cost. It's labor to worry about, as usual.

That's exactly why this AI hype is a capitalists wet dream. Even if the overall cost doesn't go down, it's the potential to produce products without any uppity employees demanding raises, or pushing back on your clearly brilliant idea that you totally didn't need experts for. With workers who work 24/7 who will never threaten to leave, and no pesky labor laws to worry about.
by distances | 2025-10-01 11:26:55+00:00
Totally agree. Even the 2014 invasion of Crimea didn't cause widespread anger in Europe towards Russia. And the Chechen wars were definitely seen as an internal event.

This war is different. My generation and the one growing up now will hostile to Russia for our lifetimes. No Russian culture will be willingly ingested, no Russian products will be willingly purchased. I do hope that Ukraine manages to take that cultural spot though, including but not limited to changing all existing multilingual signs from Russian to Ukrainian.
by wlesieutre | 2025-10-01 11:26:59+00:00
Yes, it mostly exists for people who absolutely require PCI slots, except you can’t use AMD/Nvidia GPUs anymore so the utility of that is limited.

Apple has their “Afterburner” card for ProRes media encoding, you could add even more ports, or there’s probably weird AV interface cards, but the vast majority of people can save a few thousand dollars and get a Mac Studio instead.

Since the Mac Studio has more than 10 customers it gets updated more frequently.

There were rumors about the Mac Pro getting a higher tier of “we stuck twice as many cores together in the SoC” but it didn’t pan out, likely not worth the development time compared to the higher volume products. But it could hypothetically still happen.
by codethief | 2025-10-01 11:27:21+00:00
Cool idea. I just installed the app and it seems quite well-engineered! However, here are a few things I'd love to see improved:

- Allow me to have a single feed (as opposed to one tab/feed per category). Also, to prevent that feed from becoming too long, allow me to set a maximum number of news items or maximum number of minutes I'd like to spend. Prioritize/leave out news items accordingly. In other words: While I might be interested in sports, I'm not interested in reading or scrolling through as many news items about sports as about, say, world politics.

- "Highlights" and "perspectives" below the article text read like useless AI slop that merely reiterates the text, and artificially prolong an otherwise neatly concise page.

- Allow me to intersect categories and/or choose a regional "focus". Non-regional categories like "sports", "business", "technology" currently seem to aggregate news from across the world. However, I might be particularly¹ interested in a regional subset of e.g. business or sports news.

¹) I.e. not exclusively so. I'm still interested in world news but only when it comes to major events (in the sports case, say, world cups and championships).
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by hirokiyn | 2025-10-01 11:27:48+00:00
I built Epismo because I was tired of leaving meetings thinking: “Wait, who’s actually doing this?” Too often, teams (mine included) lost sight of the goal while tasks got scattered and momentum stalled. This is my first step as a founder, and I’d love your thoughts.

I just launched on Product Hunt. Would love your thoughts & feedback! https://www.producthunt.com/products/epismo
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-10-01 11:28:13+00:00
I can see this, it's extremely impressive from a technological standpoint, and I've already been caught by the first convincing fakes on Reddit (an army person giving an anti-Trump speech). But I'm also worried, as it's a super easy channel to create convincing fakes, mass produced 'content' for mass consumption, etc.

Now these things aren't new, fake videos / images go back decades if not a century. But they took some effort to make, whereas this technology makes it possible for it to take less effort than it took for me to write this comment.

Of course, it's always my choice; if I stop visiting Reddit and touch grass instead it really won't affect me directly.
by tpm | 2025-10-01 11:28:15+00:00
> But it was very interesting to see how quickly the Ukraine war turned Russias image (at least in Europe) from "slightly crazy, badass" into overt contempt.

I think this is because while much of the Europe was willing to 'turn the page' from 90s onwards, that changed during the 2008 war in Georgia. Since then there was enough attention in the media to the 'frozen conflicts' (Abkhazia, Transdnistria), then since 2014 we have the situation in Ukraine including MH17. Also how Russia dealt with its own political opposition. So in 2022 while the war itself was surprising, it did not require a total change of worldview to change the image of Russia.
by dboreham | 2025-10-01 11:28:27+00:00
In case anyone else is confused: I saw the word "loop" and wondered what the point is to run an LLM in a loop? Like, what's the goal here? You want to write N different React todo web apps, or something?

After reading the article a bit, I realized this isn't about "loops" at all. What it is about is "bypassing the yes/no human check on each step the LLM wants to take in completing some multi-step task". You can already to this with, for example, claude code. However, one of the points of having a human approve LLM actions is to prevent it doing something stupid or destructive. So now you have a second problem: how to prevent the LLM from poking holes in spacetime?

Answer: sandbox it.

And that's what the article is about.
by SilverBirch | 2025-10-01 11:28:41+00:00
If I don't want my child doing something, it's up to me to enforce that. I don't want my kid eating snacks before dinner, have I called upon the UK government to shut down the biscuit aisle at Tesco from 3pm-5pm?

The core of this issue is a kind of backwards notion that the internet needs to be a safe place, that the UK government says it can legislate that everyone on the internet has to verify who is accessing their site and then enforcing the UK's laws around it. It's nuts.

It's also not solving a problem. If you want to control what your kid sees on the internet there are already safeguards you can use, you can set up content restrictions on basically any device today. This law appears to be in place to be the mummy of children whose own mummies don't want to enforce certain restrictions on internet access.

I hear next month the M25 is going to be prosecuted for letting a child walk down the hard shoulder.
by comrade1234 | 2025-10-01 11:28:46+00:00
I have no problems with my current home ip address (here in Switzerland with the provider init7) but years ago (~20) when I moved my server to a Colo the ip address was marked as a spammer because of the previous owner of the address. It didn't take long to make the ip address clean though - some online processes and also sending some emails. This was so long ago I barely remember what I had to do and I'm sure the process is different now because back then you could contact an actual human...
by sjw987 | 2025-10-01 11:29:00+00:00
The internet became shit not when governments got involved, but when millions of people came online and pushed early enthusiasts into a minority.

The invasion of normal people onto the internet was the seed for handing the web to a small selection of companies, and a decline in etiquette which is now reflected in the real world (misinformation, political polarisation, bullying and group radicalism).

It was inevitable that regulation would need to come as soon as this group came online. Many regulations were postponed way too much, because politicians of the time didn't understand what they were dealing with.

There is nothing wrong with governments putting in regulations about child safety on the internet, so long as that's the real purpose (in the UK, this isn't it). It's not right for companies like Facebook to be misusing the data of child (nor should it be for adults either).
by Bender | 2025-10-01 11:30:09+00:00
I would love to blame highly processed foods for a recent spike but those are not new. They are surely a factor and have been since at least the 1970's but there are newer factors that nobody will appreciate me linking. [1][2]

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayfRq-CPF6I [video][18 mins]

[2] - https://biomarkerres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s403...
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-10-01 11:31:36+00:00
Yup, which is also why various social media owners bent the knee to the administration, and now TikTok is about to become state-controlled too. The long term effects of subtle social media propaganda will become apparent in the years to come. Or, will be vocalized, they already are apparent - I'm convinced social media and related, 24/7 "news" media are a big factor in the right shift in politics worldwide.
by xoa | 2025-10-01 11:32:21+00:00
My biggest issue with hosted email for awhile was the disconnect that has developed between how most services now seem to bill and how over the now many decades (yeesh!) I've ended up using email. I have my own domains, on a technical level mailboxes ("accounts") are effectively free. So I've used them freely for separating usage (servers and services can all have their own accounts for emailing me notifications, I can use "accounting@mydomain.tld" for financial institutions, etc. For my own servers/services in particular it's good that they have their own isolated email accounts with their own passwords or keys and no ability to spam the world, only email me. It also makes it really easy to use white lists and ensure hard barriers and rules for important stuff so that even if an email address leaks it's irrelevant, and irrelevant in a deterministic manner. I still of course have general addresses that must accept traffic from the world and thus have to worry about spam, but a lot of the most key stuff where I never want to miss a message is from a pretty small circle.

All the typical recommended services though tend to treat mailboxes as the same thing as a person, charging an entire new fee for every single one, and then have hacks like aliases or catch-alls on top. Obviously that works for most and if you're setting up a new workflow can go with that and use other mechanisms for notifications, but for me changing at this point would be brutal. Self-hosted + relay (Amazon SES) works ok though.

That said, I've discovered two nice services (Migadu and MXroute, probably there are more out there somewhere) that charge along my own usage model. Migadu I think has been featured on HN before, and it seems solid. You can make arbitrary accounts under your domain as you wish, the charge is for storage and outgoing mail. So I'm now hybrid, and I could see that making me lazy enough to switch entirely. But I still think knowing how to do it yourself isn't a bad thing, there's some empowerment in having the fallback and remembering how it all works underneath. If nothing else as part of self-hosting you can run your own notifications through it.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-10-01 11:32:34+00:00
>Speaking of which, apparently PearAI deleted their apology in the intervening year.

So, "sorry not sorry" and then back to the grind. Ethics be damned.

A real shame. I went though a mandatory software ethics class and my FOSS exposure made me think a lot of the concepts were simply common sense. Read and respect licenses, don't endanger client data, don't do illegal shit. College me would have no idea how many people really needed to take that course.
by ChadNauseam | 2025-10-01 11:32:50+00:00
I'm making a free/unmonetized language learning app as my side project. (I made it out of anger at duolingo, lol.) You can check it out at https://yap.town . It's sophisticated in some ways but simplistic in others, for example there are not yet any stories. If you want to collaborate, hit me up, my email is in my bio. I think the world needs an actually-good language learning app
by bonoboTP | 2025-10-01 11:34:05+00:00
I'm not sure we are built for this on a societal scale. I understand the reasoning rationally. Sure, nobody pitied the horseshoe-maker blacksmith who was proud of his craft when the car was invented. Or the tailors when clothing became cheaply mass-produced. Or even the miners after many mines closed. Yeah I get it. "You learned a craft and it's no longer needed. Sucks to suck. Try to be useful in some other way or get bent."

Having to reinvent your career when you are 30+/40+/50+ is not so simple. You studied something, amassed experience and tacit knowledge, taste and work habits.

It used to be the case that you learned as an apprentice (or simply grew up on a farm and saw the work) and then continued it the rest of your life.

We will be more and more efficient at pumping more wealth to the owner classes, but people will be spiritually ground down.
by adriand | 2025-10-01 11:34:17+00:00
There are some new AI apps out there that I would put in the “hack” category for being a lot more effective than all the stuff I used in the past (which also included Duolingo, Anki, etc). The one I used the most over three months to refresh my Spanish is Langua (bad name with too much competition, but I put the link below).

This app, and I’m sure others, is a polished “overlay” of sorts on top of one LLM or another, but it’s very well done. By far the best way of learning a language is conversation with a native speaker. This puts 90% of that in your pocket on demand. You can chat (out loud) on various topics, or any topic, and this is augmented with various tools, way to save words to a vocabulary list with a flash card UI, etc. After each conversation you get an evaluation. I found it a lot more fun, and a lot more effective, than anything else I’ve tried.

https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/langua-ai-language-learning/id...
by incomingpain | 2025-10-01 11:34:26+00:00
Alcohol, NSAIDs, stress, obesity, or chronic inflammation

Which given all of these factors are high in society. It's not exactly a surprise. The liver typically gets overloaded and unable to help as well.

This theory as well explains autoimmune and a myriad of other diseases that medicine "dont understand" but that's mainly because this theory is censored. You wont be able to read a page about it on wiki.
by brnt | 2025-10-01 11:34:42+00:00
I see however that DNG support is still read-only-ish, e.g. libraw still can't convert to DNG [1]. Most camera's still output raw in their own formats, which may not and probably should not be what you store them as, long term.

[1] https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/6344
by deevus | 2025-10-01 11:35:08+00:00
Fantastic article. I'm always looking for better ways to work with agents. I am personally using Claude Code, and want to try some more YOLO type stuff.

My problem is I often give it too much to do. I'm usually overly optimistic about how effective it can be.

I have found Sonnet 4.5 to be quite the improvement over Sonnet 4 however.
by mrjay42 | 2025-10-01 11:35:23+00:00
Yep good catch.

To be fair, I discovered this article today, and I read it with passion.

Because, even though I'm 43yo, I'm too young to have worked professionally with other OSes than Windows and Linux. And it's super interesting for me to discover that astronomers had software solutions which were discarded and when they tried to protect what they had, they faced the "priesthood" mindset that is so well described in this article.

I'm not trying to troll, but I feel that this priesthood mindset is exactly the same as the one used when people destroy anyone who dares to criticize git. I think this quote from Douglas Adams and from that article fits perfectly: "their fundamental design flaws are completely hidden by their superficial design flaws".
by aenis | 2025-10-01 11:35:34+00:00
- a fraction of the board gets all gung ho on buying something

- board-1 gets marching orders to do due diligence. those people are typically aware of the sentiment in the board. they delegate to their underlings and share what they think the board wants,

- if you say no, you are guaranteed to upset one of your bosses. if you say yes, its typically a positive (your boss is happy),

- most M&As are typically bad ideas. Its typically nobody's fault when the thing is written off by the next management and nobody seems to mind that much. People who waved through the due dilligence are proper executives by then and the cycle continues.

Incentives are mis-aligned, and on top of this there is usually (a) not a lot of time and (b) a veil of secrecy. Missing those fake emails does not surprise me.
by isaachinman | 2025-10-01 11:35:47+00:00
We built a cross-platform offline-first IMAP client:

https://marcoapp.io

Search is single-digit ms. All metadata stored on the client.

I built this over the course of a year, literally driven by my frustration with Apple Mail. Maybe give it a try!

Edit: Also, extremely brave of you to upgrade to Tahoe. No chance for me
by BoppreH | 2025-10-01 11:35:54+00:00
The fees come from fulfilling legal requirements like detection of money laundering and terrorism financing, and also customer security features like fraud detection and multi-factor authentication.

There are fintechs for customers who want lower fees and don't need e.g. physical branches or phone support. That's perfectly fine.

But a fintech that didn't perform KYC would be shut down pretty quickly by the police, so there's a floor on how low fees can be while remaining legal.
by krageon | 2025-10-01 11:36:03+00:00
> their employer is their enemy

Without significant safeguards and in the average case, the employer seeks to extract more from you than it gives back. You on the other hand, must work or you will die. This is a power dynamic that positively stimulates the growth of bad behaviour. Knowing that has nothing to do with Reddit, it is an inherent fact of this system.
by serial_dev | 2025-10-01 11:36:44+00:00
> you're discounting the actual purpose of CoCs, which is to make it clear who your space is for

Code of conduct is not about that. It's about how to behave. My community is not that special that you need a user manual on how to behave, you should have learned it by age 10, latest.

Technology Z meetup / user group is a space for people who are interested in Technology Z. Repository Y is a space for people who are interested in Repository Y.

If someone needs a CoC to figure that out, bad luck.

You want to start discussion about War X, vilify everyone just by being born in that country, please do it outside my repo / user group. Plenty of spaces you can do it and there, you'll be welcome to do so. Want to talk about evil black / white / DEI / right wing people, please also leave my group out of it.
by jim-jim-jim | 2025-10-01 11:37:20+00:00
The bro science I've heard around this is that emulsifiers and fake sugars aren't easily digested, and therefore sit around in the GI tract as fuel for pathogens.

My mind was kinda blown recently when I couldn't find a single ice cream brand that didn't have some form of nasty thickener. It's insidious.
by crucialfelix | 2025-10-01 11:38:27+00:00
They don't have ads, it's paid members only. You can see other people's images, including the prompts, so it's an interesting way to learn what works, and to mutate prompts and images. There are many ways of recombining or breeding images.

They have an onboarding flow where you rate images and it tunes into your aesthetic preferences. You can create mood boards for specific projects.

So I would say it's more community than social media.
by xoa | 2025-10-01 11:38:34+00:00
And now you're pretending republicans aren't actively destroying institutions as fast as they can, let alone merely not wanting to. And that they haven't actively gutted the filibuster repeatedly, including again not just this year but literally earlier this month [0, 1]! And dead silence on massive Trump violations of the impoundment act, since in Flanked-evergl World "wanting to fund government" = wanting to cut whatever the POTUS feels like regardless of Congress whenever he feels like it!

Whew. And this is putting aside that they're demanding votes to make up for their own missing votes while literally saying they will offer zero compromises to win those votes whatsoever. This is all 100% on the Republicans and only the Republicans.

The term for what you're doing is "gaslighting" btw.

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0: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/senate-republicans...

1: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/19/us-senate-approves-...
by SideburnsOfDoom | 2025-10-01 11:39:14+00:00
> Back then facebook did not exist. ... so government comes in and makes things worse for everyone.

I really do not agree at all. The power consolidation that Facebook is a good example of is just not a government regulation thing at all. The opposite in fact. Government regulation being hands-off allowed the internet to become "5 giant websites that share screenshots from the other 4". And that they're largely uncountable.

The internet as it is today, with very little governance over the large websites that exist today, is terrible for the people who are online today. I stand by that. Removing regulation won't help, as the bad actors are already pretty much unregulated already.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-10-01 11:40:10+00:00
They're struggling, it seems; AI can generate anything, but that includes stuff that goes against laws and morals, so they spend a lot of time to lock it down to avoid that, but people's creativity with prompts and escaping the safeguards knows no bounds. It's basically like the fight against spam, an endless game of whack-a-mole where usefulness fights with decency.
by danaris | 2025-10-01 11:41:40+00:00
This comment is saying "the percentage of any given 200 programmers applying for a job that are, in the end, reasonably fit to do the job depends on the job being applied for".

If the job is a mid-level C++ programmer job at an insurance company, many more of them are likely to be good fits than if it's a senior embedded systems architect job at an aerospace firm.
by heavyset_go | 2025-10-01 11:42:45+00:00
On Linux with an AMD i/dGPU, you can set the `virtual_display` module parameter for `amdgpu`[1] and do what you want without the need for an HDMI dummy or weird software. It's also hardware accelerated.

> virtual_display (charp)

> Set to enable virtual display feature. This feature provides a virtual display hardware on headless boards or in virtualized environments. It will be set like xxxx:xx:xx.x,x;xxxx:xx:xx.x,x. It’s the pci address of the device, plus the number of crtcs to expose. E.g., 0000:26:00.0,4 would enable 4 virtual crtcs on the pci device at 26:00.0. The default is NULL.

[1]https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/gpu/amdgpu/module-par...