MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by icy | 2025-10-11 09:26:02+00:00
Hey HN, co-founder of Tangled here!

We recently shipped a change to switch out our OAuth library—which introduced a regression, preventing new users from being added to the default knot and spindle (the git hosting server & CI runner). We just discovered this and pushed a fix—please log out and log back in again and you should be able to create repositories!

Otherwise, happy to answer any questions!
by tialaramex | 2025-10-11 09:26:04+00:00
I've been paid to write software in C, Java, Python, C#, Perl, PHP, Bourne shell, and doubtless many more I've forgotten over decades.

If you consider "People who use Free Software" to be users you can doubtless add a dozen more languages, including (which was a surprise to me 25+ years later) Scheme apparently, but most recently only Rust because that's what I'd prefer to write. If you've used Rust's compiler, a tiny portion of that was written by me.
by austin-cheney | 2025-10-11 09:26:11+00:00
I can see this having extreme value 20 years ago. Then it could take more than a minute to asynchronously get data back and you needed to tell people what content on the page changed.

Now, the bottleneck is entirely the database first and the framework second. Those can be switched if the framework code is extra garbage. When those are taken out of the equation I am seeing text update to the screen in about 5-15ms in response to a user interaction that requires execution on the localhost server, 45ms for networked server.

At that speed you don’t need to alert the user of any content changes. You only need to structure the content such that walking the DOM, using a screen reader, from point of interaction to area of output is direct and logical, expected, for a human.
by nosianu | 2025-10-11 09:26:18+00:00
Added:

I just checked and it's Microsoft 365 Copilot: 28,10 € per user and month.

That is way, WAYYY too much. The MS 365 Business Standard licenses we usually buy are only 11,70 € per user and month, and they are for what we actually need (Email, Office, OneDrive, basic identity).

They want me to pay almost two and a half times as much again for optional add-on functionality at best???

Whatever Copilot offers, even if it's something super-great, in the end it is optional and not the core of what we want from Microsoft.
by Devasta | 2025-10-11 09:26:58+00:00
Because no one cares about HTML except as a payload carrier for the real website: the JavaScript output from React/Tailwind/Typescript compilation.

You have to remember, this is an industry that thinks having code without syntax errors was too unreasonable a requirement for XHTML, there is no reason to expect them to know anything beyond div and maybe a dozen other tags.
by shantara | 2025-10-11 09:28:00+00:00
Our large commercial apps were certified to pass the WCAG accessibility requirements, which we need to comply with for legal reasons. If we did’t enable the compatibility flag and opt out of the glass altogether, this would have meant massive breakages and regressions, which would require the designer and developer time to fix, and the financial burden of having to go through the certification process again. And all because of Apple’s whims and zero benefits for our customers or our developers. Why would we blindly choose to follow Apple’s missteps instead of having our own design system and standards?
Show HN: ObolusFinanz – Simple finance tools (German tax and investment)
by sanzation | 2025-10-11 09:28:45+00:00
Hi HN,

I had some time between jobs and used it to scratch my own itch: building the simple, non-cluttered finance calculators I was always looking for but couldn't find without heavy tracking or confusing UIs.

I focused on privacy and simplicity from the start. The tools are free and collect zero data.

What I built:

A precise German Payroll Deduction Calculator (for planning job changes/salary negotiations).

Maybe i want to add a tool for personal budgeting & investing.

Current Tech Stack: Ive started for the tax app with python backend and the frontend in nextjs. The second app for investing im builing in sveltekit rn which I like alot more. SVGs are self-drawn paths

I'm sharing this to get feedback on the tools themselves. If you have any suggestions for the UI/UX, or other simple finance problems worth solving, let me know! Thanks alot!
Show HN: Built a complete personal finance app with AI at 18
by asaws | 2025-10-11 09:29:07+00:00
I'm Muhammed Mufinuddin Afraz, an 18-year-old developer who built WealthAI, a personal finance application with some unique features.

Key features: - Progressive Web App with offline functionality - AI financial assistant using OpenRouter API - Voice call system with specifically 3 male voice options - Multi-currency support (150+ currencies) - Advanced charting with Chart.js - All data stored locally for privacy

Technologies: HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Chart.js, Web Speech API

This was a learning project that taught me a tremendous amount about web development and fintech. I'm sharing it with the community to get feedback and potentially find interested parties who might want to take it further.

What makes this interesting: 1. Complete client-side implementation with no backend 2. Voice system with 3 specifically selected male voices 3. Privacy-focused approach (all data stays local) 4. Works completely offline

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. I'm also open to discussing potential opportunities with interested developers or startups.

Demo: https://wealthaiappdemo.netlify.app
by magicalhippo | 2025-10-11 09:30:23+00:00
Note the paper discusses some proposals of positive-energy warp drives. The well-known Alcubierre drive[1] requires negative energy density. So while it dodges the critique of this paper, negative energy is highly likely to be unphysical. And no, what Michio Kaku fantasized on that Discovery show won't work as the Casimir effect isn't due to vacuum energy[2][3] and thus you can't get negative energy that way.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive

[2]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.04143

[3]: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0503158
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-10-11 09:31:03+00:00
I won’t use UIViewRepresentable. I feel that it’s a kludge, and kind of negates the whole purpose of SwiftUI. I know that some of the “native” types are probably UIViewRepresentable, under the covers (like maps), but I feel as if it’s a “duct tape” solution. Also, some of the code gymnastics that I need to do, in order to implement “non-standard” functionality, are pretty crazy. SwiftUI makes it absurdly easy to do stuff that follows the intended workflow, but completely falls down, if you stray off the path. UIKit complains, but grudgingly goes along with you.

I actually want SwiftUI to work. I think they have a good idea, but it’s a massive undertaking, and really, breathtakingly ambitious, when you consider what it’s trying to do.

UIKit represents a mature tech that has been refined since 2008, and a lot of that is based on lessons learned, implementing AppKit, which has been around forever (especially if you consider that it came from NeXTSTEP, which probably started in the 1980s). With AutoLayout and UIKit, I can do pretty much anything I want.
by bobnamob | 2025-10-11 09:31:40+00:00
Not op, but in my case a lifetime of colourblindness has desensitised me to colour as an indicator.

I have my editor configured with zero highlighting for keywords and syntactic elements. Admittedly, I have compilation/lint/syntax/type check errors set to invert the erroneous block, black background white text.

Syntax and keyword highlighting is just noise given I’ve been trained by decades of colourblind unfriendly interfaces
by aidos | 2025-10-11 09:34:45+00:00
To play devil’s advocate - where do you draw the line? They say they’re not going to push further into competing, but what if they did? I don’t know enough about either platform to really comment on how much of a big it is / how much they crossover. I do feel that it shows somewhat bad judgement on behalf of the intern to build something in exactly the same space as a former employer. One of the great things about software is that you can always move into another domain with your skills.

Obviously, I love the likes of Tailscale for embracing and supporting this behaviour - but that’s super exceptional (because they’re a strong team).
by MedAzizBenSalem | 2025-10-11 09:35:04+00:00
This is such a great write-up it highlights a truth that’s been hiding in plain sight for years: we’ve optimized Wi-Fi for headline speeds, not human experience. Emphasis on throughput reminds one of the "megapixel wars" of early digital photography a simple, clear-cut figure that completely misrepresents actual quality. Responsiveness and reliability are the actual measures that control day to day satisfaction, but they are harder to define and won't neatly go on a store shelf. What is fascinating here is that speed tests themselves actively degrade the network performance. It's like taking your pulse by first dashing a lap in sprinting mode. Whether we'll see more router makers or ISPs start offering "responsiveness scores" instead of speed numbers once the consumer pays attention to latency and airtime contention remains to be seen. At any rate, this post nails the broader cultural problem in networking: the industry still chases awe inspiring numbers instead of better experiences.
Show HN: I made a tool to create your own OpenAI award and got noticed by them
by stemonteduro | 2025-10-11 09:36:17+00:00
Basically, the other day there was this wave of posts on X from people who had received OpenAI awards based on token usage after DevDay.

So I thought, well, since we all use OpenAI tokens, why shouldn’t we all recognize ourselves with an award?

At first, I just wanted to make a simple editable image. But in the end it turned into a project where you can actually edit a 3D model, render it with NanoBanana, and now even upload your own custom logo to fully personalize the award.

But the coolest thing happened yesterday, when Edwin, who is basically the OpenAI guy, head of community management and the one who created this whole award project, wrote to me saying he found my tool incredible.

And he said that some people in the comments were saying they could sue me.

I love the internet
by simianparrot | 2025-10-11 09:37:43+00:00
For you to live comfortably off society without contributing anything back means someone else is paying for your comfort both monetarily (like taxes) or with their time and energy, maintaining all the services to facilitate your lifestyle.

If you don’t see that as at least a little immoral that’s up to you, but I would never be comfortable doing so. It goes against my fundamental character. Society only works through cooperation, it’s not about a “debt”.
by samus | 2025-10-11 09:38:07+00:00
Oh, on re-reading your comment I find that I actually agree with you:

> It doesn’t matter if every expert concurred, arguments from authority can not lead to opinion X becoming superior to opinion Y.

> At least not in a logically valid way.

But that's not what happened. What happened is that Apple dropped their argument Y without much fighting, which they previously upheld in face of government pressure.
by andybak | 2025-10-11 09:38:08+00:00
I code in the sun a fair amount just with a Macbook. Not direct direct sun - but outdoors on an English summer's day.

Main things are:

1. Use light mode not dark mode

2. Max out screen brightness (obvs) - there are hacks for HDR displays to make them even brighter but my Macbook is too old.

Coding is fine but anything that requires looking at images (low contrast UI design in particular) sucks. However this probably forces you to design good accessible UIs!

I also use a Quest 3 as a display when I can as that also solves the sunlight problem and gives me a huge virtual display to boot.

The biggest thing I'm lacking is a remote desktop app that doesn't mess with my muscle memory. Keys like escape and alt-tab often aren't handled correctly over remote desktop (Chrome Remote Desktop is the best thing I've found so far but that still doesn't handle alt-tab between Mac and PC)
by rTX5CMRXIfFG | 2025-10-11 09:38:12+00:00
Er… is that really a bad thing and is it as big a problem as you’re making it to be? Supply chains are global and what happens in one corner of the world will most certainly have an impact on your local economy. And this is how news are being reported even before the rise of smartphones.

And besides, you don’t have to care. The news are just out there, free to be ignored. I just don’t see why you think that for those who care, it’s a bad thing to be aware and be moved by the struggles of other humans on the other side of the planet.
by genezeta | 2025-10-11 09:39:13+00:00
It appears you're looking for sjdz: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32768590

But they don't seem to have any contact information on their profile, sorry: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=sjdz

On the other hand, they do have a contact page at https://www.modernhn.com/contact which mentions an email address support@modernhn.com
by uecker | 2025-10-11 09:39:29+00:00
I don't think this is the only takeway. My point is that you can reliably identify signed integer overflow using sanitizers and you can also reliably mitigate related attacks by trapping for signed integer overflow (it still may be a DoS, but you can stop more serious harm). Both does not work with unsigned types except in a tightly controlled project where you treat unsigned wraparound as a bug, but this fails the moment you introduce other idiomatic C code that does not follow this.
by rendall | 2025-10-11 09:40:19+00:00
You raise fair points about the history and flexibility of hardware design. Stacks and subroutines definitely predate C, and C has run well on many architectures without dedicated frame pointers. Those are valid technical observations.

But the article is about conceptual lock-in: how decades of mutual optimization between C-style abstractions and mainstream CPUs have made certain design assumptions feel "natural" or "inevitable." The author’s "Stockholm Syndrome" metaphor is provocative, sure, but it points to that inertia, not to a claim that hardware can’t do anything else.

So I'd say your comment addresses implementation details that are historically accurate, while the article is pointing to the sociotechnical feedback loop: how co-evolution between C and hardware subtly shapes what we think of as efficient or possible.

In my opinion, your point about radical CPU designs failing actually reinforces the article's argument more than it refutes it. The very reason such designs tend to fail is that the entire ecosystem of compilers, operating systems, and developer habits has been optimized around C-like models of computation. In other words, the co-evolution you describe is precisely the "Stockholm Syndrome" the author means. Hardware and software have adapted to each other so thoroughly that alternatives struggle to survive, not because they are inherently worse, but because they don’t fit the entrenched assumptions of the current hardware–software compact.
by pjmlp | 2025-10-11 09:40:33+00:00
Although I tend to bash WebGL and WebGPU for what they offer versus existing hardware, lagging a decade behind, they have a very important quality for me.

They are the only set of 3D APIs that have been adopted in the mainstream computing, designed for managed languages, instead of year another thing to be consumed by C.

Technically Metal is also used by a managed language, but it was designed for Objective-C/C++ first, with Swift as official binding.

Microsoft gave up on Managed Direct X and XNA, and even with all the safety talks, Direct X team doesn't care to provide official COM bindings to C#.

Thus that leaves us WebGL and WebGPU for managed languages fans, which even if lagging behind, as PlayCanvas and ShaderToy show, there are enough capabilities on the shader languages that have not yet taken off.
by knorker | 2025-10-11 09:43:47+00:00
Is this still true with OFDM and subchannels or whatever it's called?

Also MIMO.

And don't think it's relevant to compare what to do in a large space with what one should do at home. The requirements are entirely different.

In a large space with many users I'd use small channels and many access points. I want it to work good enough for everyone to have calls, and have good aggregate throughput.

In a two bed home I'd use large channels and probably only one AP. Peak single device speed is MUCH more important than aggregate speed.

And in a home it matters much more what channels are being busyed by neighbors.

For latency, of course, there is only wired. Even with few devices.
by bilbo0s | 2025-10-11 09:45:44+00:00
What I'm saying is if those people had been the people we generally do this to, as opposed to immigrants, we would have simply dropped a bomb on them instead of dropping tactical teams.

Again, I'm not agreeing with any of these tactics. I'm only saying that these kinds of actions have been normalized over the last 30-40 years, so we've all got to at least consider the possibility of such actions being taken against us if we fall afoul of the law.
by b_e_n_t_o_n | 2025-10-11 09:47:10+00:00
It sounds like there is one client and multiple servers, so I assumed that it would be easier to change the single client versus multiple servers. I guess it also depends on what the in-house developers are experienced with.

But I'm not so sure that it really minimises future work. Like if they decided they want a button that toggles both the sound and lights in a room, that's trivially implemented on the client. Or if they want to reposition a button from the top of a stack to the bottom. My assumption rests on the idea that changing the client is easier though.
by keyringlight | 2025-10-11 09:47:45+00:00
Two aspects I keep thinking about:

-How difficult it must be for the art/technical teams at game studios to figure out for all the detail they are capable of putting on screen how much of it will be appreciated by gamers. Essentially making sure that anything they're going to be budgeting significant amount of worker time to creating, gamers aren't going to run right past it and ignore or doesn't contribute meaningfully to 'more than the sum of its parts'.

-As much as technology is an enabler for art, alongside the install base issue how well does pursuing new methods fit how their studio is used to working, and is the payoff there if they spend time adapting. A lot of gaming business is about shipping product, and the studios concern is primarily about getting content to gamers than chasing tech as that is what lets their business continue, selling GPUs/consoles is another company's business.
by IshKebab | 2025-10-11 09:48:22+00:00
We must be reaching the limit at which video codecs can only achieve better quality by synthesizing details. That's already pretty prevalent in still images - phone cameras do it, and there are lots of AI resizing algorithms that do it.

It doesn't look like AV2 does any of that yet though fortunately (except film grain synthesis but I think that's fine).
by IanCal | 2025-10-11 09:48:38+00:00
I’ve ripped a bunch of cds which I think is not technically legal here but I have no moral issue, an we’d bought some.

Other than that with setups like music assistant you can stream from these services, it’s just a different trigger. I know that’s not quite what you asked but it’s a clean solution to play on the speakers you’d already stream on.
by b_e_n_t_o_n | 2025-10-11 09:49:15+00:00
Have you played it? I haven't so I'm just basing my opinion on some YouTube footage I've seen.

BF1 is genuinely gorgeous, I can't lie. I think it's the photogrammetry. Do you think the lighting is better in BF1? I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that BF6's lighting is more dynamic.
by tvali | 2025-10-11 09:49:36+00:00
This is a website about spiritual programming. It's my concept but even if you are complete materialist, it's very hard to invent initially, what is spiritual programming.

Y Combinator's hacker news brought me some 100 readers in a day for my AI deep learning lesson at github, 4 of who gave me stars - so I will link hacker news along with other portals and forums, as soon as I have credits. Also, the given site here has some broken details: I'll fix them when I get credits from lovable, but otherwise it's fine.

https://laespi-spiritual-code.lovable.app/ - this is the website. https://github.com/tambetvali/LaegnaAIBasics - this is my website, which brought "many" people from here. https://spireason.neocities.org/ - this is my main website, rather about spirituality and math than "neutral" AI programming :) Comes without warranty and provides not much atheos, but neutral views and math models :/
by andersmurphy | 2025-10-11 09:51:22+00:00
If the datastar team was capable of such a coordinated marketing effort I doubt they'd be in the business of running a non profit, or building a niche HTML streaming framework. Or having a one off purchase model for pro.

I mean unless you consider me linking my dumb demos everytime someone accuses hypermedia of not being suitable for realtime/collaborative apps. That I'm 100% guilty of.
by imiric | 2025-10-11 09:52:59+00:00
> despite your good intentions, you don't seem to have even the slightest understanding of open source

Please. Resorting to ad hominem when you don't have good arguments against someone's opinion is intellectually lazy.

> At no point does it say anything like "I am obliged to maintain this for you forever, or even at all, let alone to your liking"

I'm well familiar with most OSS licenses. I never claimed they said this.

My point was about an unwritten social contract of not being an asshole. When you do a public deed, such as publishing OSS, and that project gains users, you have certain obligations to those users at a more fundamental level than the license you chose, whether you want to acknowledge this or not.

When you ignore and intentionally alienate users, you can't be surprised when you receive backlash for it. We can blame this on users and say that they're greedy, and that as a developer you're allowed to do whatever you want, becuase—hey, these people are leeching off your hard work!—but that's simply hostile.

The point of free software is to provide a good to the world. If your intention is to just throw something over the fence and not take users into consideration—which are ultimately the main reason we build and publish software in the first place—then you're simply abusing this relationship. You want to reap the benefits of exposure that free software provides, while having zero obligations. That's incredibly entitled, and it would've been better for everyone involved if you had kept the software private.
by meindnoch | 2025-10-11 09:53:56+00:00
Most sites today are not using HTML in the way it was originally envisioned. They use something called "DHTML" instead. The D stands for DIV, because people seldom use any other tag. E.g. in normal HTML you would use the TABLE, TR and TD tags to build a table. In modern DHTML (aka DIV-HTML) people build the table from fixed size DIVs, and calculate the column sizes via JavaScript.
by jimaek | 2025-10-11 09:54:01+00:00
Yes I played it on a 4090. The game is good but graphics are underwhelming.

To my eyes everything looked better in BF1.

Maybe it's trickery but it doesn't matter to me. BF6, new COD, and other games all look pretty bad. At least compared to what I would expect from games in 2025.

I don't see any real differences from similar games released 10 years ago.
by grumbel | 2025-10-11 09:54:44+00:00
It's also due to browser not doing anything useful with the additional tags, if I use <article>, <section> or <div> doesn't make any difference, my browser doesn't use that to generate a TOC or let me open an <article> in a new Tab. Even the, in theory, incredible useful <time> tag seems to be completely invisible to my browser and many other potentialy useful tags don't exist in the first place (e.g. <unit> would be useful).