MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by al_borland | 2025-10-08 16:16:50+00:00
I thought about going this route, but I have 73GB of photos currently, which will only continue to grow over time.

While not the biggest library, it’s approaching the point where I’d need to start buying upgraded storage on any new Mac I buy, or use external storage for my Photos library. One of the things I like about iCloud Photos is my computer doesn’t need much local storage, Photos will manage it, downloading full res images on demand and purging them as needed.

I’d want a backup solution that is optimized for this, to allow for backups of the originals, without having to have them all downloaded all the time.
by jerlam | 2025-10-08 16:17:05+00:00
It's a strange filter. With a single Steam sale, you could buy enough games for the entire year for less than the cost a new, single, full-priced game and would probably have a better experience. If you can wait a year, you can buy that same new game for half off or more. And subscription services like XBox Game Pass make buying games at all seem antiquated.
by rossdavidh | 2025-10-08 16:17:08+00:00
While the story is infuriating, it is also:

1) completely from one person's version of events

2) absolutely unverifiable

I can't help shaking the feeling that it could be ragebait? Which ended up on HN as a result? Sure, companies act like bullies sometimes, but I don't know that I think this story is more likely than "person I've never heard of makes up outrageous story for attention". Both seem equally plausible.
by citizenpaul | 2025-10-08 16:17:27+00:00
>a bully with a legal department

This basically sums up modern corporate status quo. T

> "pretty aggressive"

The legal system has been weaponized against the average person. This is the veil it hides behind. A legal department can be downright boring yet vicious at the same time. Like how they slow roll any employee legal dispute to the maximum legal time limit in expectation that they can financially out wait the employee. Which they almost always can.
by tabbytown | 2025-10-08 16:17:44+00:00
Pixel 9 owner and F-Droid user. I voiced my opposition by filling out this form (thanks azalemeth, from the earlier discussion):

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfN3UQeNspQsZCO2ITk...

Hopefully some reasonable people are listening at Google and just need to know that > 5 people use F-Droid.

> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45409794#45411497
by idiotsecant | 2025-10-08 16:17:45+00:00
It's you. You contracted with someone to make them a product. Maybe you can go sue your subcontractors for providing bad components if you think you've got a case, but unless your contract specifies otherwise it's your fault if you use faulty components and deliver a faulty product.

If I make roller skates and I use a bearing that results in the wheels falling off at speed and someone gets hurt, they don't sue the ball bearing manufacturer. They sue me.
by subarctic | 2025-10-08 16:18:01+00:00
Thanks for this, I like your idea about breaking into areas I don't have experience with. E.g. in my case I might make a mobile app which I've never done before, and in theory it should be a lot easier with Claude than it would've been with just googling and reading documentation. Although I did kind of like that process of reading documentation and learning something new but you can't learn everything, you only have so much time on this planet
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-10-08 16:18:04+00:00
I see this kind of idea a lot, and it's wrong.

The surface way it's wrong is that investors could have invested in Nvidia 10 years ago instead of gold. Because they didn't, their investments "eroded" even more.

The deeper way it's wrong is that people who say this almost always have the unstated premise that gold is "real" money, that every price should be measured against it. That premise is false.

When gold was allowed to float in terms of the US dollar, it went up to $200, then dropped down to $100. When it dropped to $100, the dollar didn't become worth twice as much. Or, to use a more recent example, there has not been a factor of 4 inflation over the last 10 years. So gold is not a fixed measuring stick, against which all other things are measured.
by whizzter | 2025-10-08 16:18:04+00:00
Someone building their own probably isn't too afraid of missing out on a webgui or installing something like FreeNAS or whatever is the popular choice these days.

I think the NAS market is in for an upheaval due to the markups for fairly crappy hardware and then squeezed from the bottom by cloud storages.

RPI 5 can be got with 16gb of memory and has a PCI-E port, some might complain about the lack of ECC ram but does all those cheap ARM cpu's on lower end NAS'es really have that?

I think the biggest factor might be that case manufacturers haven't found it to be a high enough margin, but it only takes one to decide that they want to take a bite out of the enthusiast NAS market.
by jfengel | 2025-10-08 16:18:16+00:00
I always thought "reality has a well-known left-wing bias" to be a joke in rather poor taste. It just smacks of self-congratulation. It might be funny when delivered in a self-deprecating way (by a left-winger), but I get queasy thinking of somebody taking it as real.

And yet here we are, with the right wing trying to make it a legitimate statement. They're making their own thought-terminating cliche: everybody who disagrees with me is not merely wrong, but is actively conspiring against me. They've created their own self-enclosed ecosystem, and any time reality contradicts them, they'll find support within that ecosystem. They'll claim that they're critiquing some orthodoxy, without giving anywhere near that kind of critique to their own sources.
by Aachen | 2025-10-08 16:18:34+00:00
Ah, I meant on our planet. Of course, we wouldn't wonder if it's evident that there is aliens (other intelligent life from another object) at a similar time as when we evolve this level of intelligence. This would be far before we can make technological means to rule out intelligent life on nearby celestial objects, or someone would probably have come up with the question why we don't talk with (the equivalent of) apes and dolphins and such. The other intelligent life would have to be either among us, or visible from where we live (mountains, ocean surface, idk) with whatever we have for senses (like eyesight good enough to observe structures in orbit that are clearly not natural, as an example)
by NoLinkToMe | 2025-10-08 16:18:49+00:00
No you couldn't.

In my example, seats must be assigned. You can't seat people safely in an airplane without seat assignment.

You can assign it as an airline, or you can let the customer assign.

Not all customers care about assignment equally. Thus there is a market. And in a market you allow people to trade their value.

Pay more for preferred seating, or pay less and accept random seating. Both groups win, total welfare increases. Group A values seat-assignment more than money and gets the more valuable of the two. Group A values money more than seat-assignment, and gets the more valuable of the two. It's a classic trade scenario where both win.

The airline merely functions as the marketplace to allow people to trade, and to get to a more optimal scenario (pareto improving) where the total utility/welfare goes up.

Random seating ensures that everyone makes this trade, and thus ensures you get the closest to max pareto efficiency.

Without random seating you'd get the free-rider problem: those who don't care (or care only a little) about seat-assignment, don't get a discount that they value more. These people are not paying for a feature they don't value, and subsidise those people who do value it and are willing to pay for it independently! While those that care a lot about seating, aren't guaranteed the seat they want, despite wanting to pay for it. This decreases total welfare, it's a destruction of value.

Your punching example is different because it's introducing a harm for everyone. Everyone cares about not getting punched, it's below the baseline service. The baseline service is a ticket to safely go from A to B. Seat assignment is an extra feature above the baseline that some want to pay for, and others don't. Not getting punched in the face is a deterioration below the baseline, it's a nonsense idea to introduce it. That's why it's different. I

Of course the market mechanisms will work just the same, that's certainly true. But the morality or logic behind the airline introducing this is completely different.
by kqr | 2025-10-08 16:18:59+00:00
I used Feeder on my Android phone for the longest time. Recently set up a NixOS server and enabled FreshRSS on it, with FocusReader as the Android client. It is very nice to manage feeds on a server and have the read/unread status sync across devices.

If you have only used device-local readers before and have a server to spare, I recommend at least trying it!
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-10-08 16:19:04+00:00
But to be fair…

“Unambitious Loser With Happy, Fulfilling Life Still Lives In Hometown”

https://theonion.com/unambitious-loser-with-happy-fulfilling...

Read the article, it’s a condemnation of people who think the guy is “a loser”. It’s not an insult to people who decide to stay in small towns.
Show HN: I built GEOfast to make your websites readable by AI
by glossardi | 2025-10-08 16:20:11+00:00
It's a single, asynchronous JavaScript snippet you add to your site's <head>. It automatically converts it to clean Markdown, and makes it available for generative engines to consume.

Think of it as creating a compliant, machine-readable layer for your website—without any cloaking or negative impact on SEO or page speed.

The goal is Generative Engine Optimization (GEO): helping you control your narrative in AI and get cited as a trusted source.

The backend is built on Supabase, and it's privacy-focused: it does not track you or your visitors, only anonymous usage counts.

It's in a free beta right now. I'm looking for direct feedback from developers, SEOs, and anyone managing a web property. I'd love to know:

What's your biggest headache with how AI engines use your content?

Is the async JS-snippet approach the right one for your stack?

What features would make this a must-have tool for you?

Cheers, and I appreciate you taking a look.
by kkukshtel | 2025-10-08 16:20:25+00:00
This is a nice overview but is also obviously content marketing for Lighthouse, which, fine.

I use Feedly, and generally like it, but the issue with RSS has very little to do with reader front ends and largely to do with how a lot of people don't publish full articles on RSS, images don't work, etc. The demo images of all the readers are like best case scenario - most non-personal sites only publish a paragraph or two, if that, making the reader more of a link aggregator.
by westurner | 2025-10-08 16:20:58+00:00
It looks like Narwhals; "Narwhals and scikit-Lego came together to achieve dataframe-agnosticism" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40950813 :

> Narwhals: https://narwhals-dev.github.io/narwhals/ :

>> Extremely lightweight compatibility layer between [pandas, Polars, cuDF, Modin]

> Lancedb/lance works with [Pandas, DuckDB, Polars, Pyarrow,]; https://github.com/lancedb/lance

SymPy has Solvers for ODEs and PDEs and other libraries do convex optimization. SymPy also has lambdify to compile from a relatively slow symbolic expression tree to faster 'vectorized' functions

From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40683777 re: warp :

> sympy.utilities.lambdify.lambdify() https://github.com/sympy/sympy/blob/master/sympy/utilities/l... :

>>> """Convert a SymPy expression into a function that allows for fast numeric evaluation""" [with e.g. the CPython math module, mpmath, NumPy, SciPy, CuPy, JAX, TensorFlow, PyTorch (*), SymPy, numexpr, but not yet cmath]
by kace91 | 2025-10-08 16:21:39+00:00
>Can you even define "best" for creative media? Sure, there's obvious junk that most people will agree can be discarded, but culture is very subjective.

I think all disciplines start “hard” and objective, getting into the subjective at a more advanced stage - at the very least it is easy for a knowledgeable reader to know when an author is actively choosing to disregard an established rule and when it is incapable of following it.

Saramago, the novelist, is famous for writing unconventionally, with long phrases and sparse punctuation, but nobody doubts he could have written conventionally. Same for Picasso rejecting realism.

Many famous authors right now would clearly have a hard time following the “base” rules, and that for me warrants judging them by hard rules. If they could, and got into the twisting rules phase, then I agree it becomes a far more subjective matter.
by lxgr | 2025-10-08 16:21:51+00:00
No, there really is an intrinsic orientation, at least once a cable is plugged in.

The receptacles are symmetric, but a full connection is not. The cable only connects CC through end-to-end on one of A5 or B5, but not both, which lets the DFP detect which of A5 or B5 should be CC. The one not used for CC is then used to power the e-marker in the cable, if any.

This is also true for legacy adapters; for example, for C-to-A USB 3 adapters, the host needs to know which of the two high-speed pairs to use (as USB 3 over A/B connectors only supports one lane, while C supports two).
by al_borland | 2025-10-08 16:22:06+00:00
Parachute Backup looks very promising, thanks. I’ll have to spend a little more time later checking it out and seeing if that’s the direction I’ll go.

I do have my NAS backed up to Synology’s cloud backup service. I don’t love it, and it seems expensive, but it was easy to setup at the time and gave me some peace of mind for that data. The big issue I see is that I feel like I’d be stuck buying another Synology to restore of my current one fails.
by ddtaylor | 2025-10-08 16:22:40+00:00
> What is interesting here is that Synology leadership is quite technical

They probably used bad data to make the decision. They probably thought they had accurate and high quality information that led them to believe nobody cared about this. My guess is they had some metric like "Only 0.0001% of customers use custom drives" or similar. They did the cost-benefit analysis of losing all those customers and a little bit of backlash and concluded it was worth it to force huge margins on vendor lock-in drives.
by billy99k | 2025-10-08 16:22:57+00:00
"Then, the tech bros came for the delivery drivers, and I said nothing. Calling them gig workers, working them insane hours, stripping them of their basic rights and dignity, forcing them to pee in Coke bottles, demanding that they dance and smile for me."

Forced? How so. There are plenty of jobs out there.

"Next, the tech bros came for the taxi drivers, and I said nothing. Undercutting them and stripping away their ability to make a decent living, making them work horrendous hours, and tracking them, always tracking them, turning them into data points chasing ratings."

Taxi drivers had the medallion system. It costs $1,000,000 for a medallion in most major cities and only a select few could get one and make a decent living driving a Taxi (while also having debt for life).

Uber and Lyft made it so anyone could make extra money driving their own car. There was never a promise of a living. I know lots of people that made good money driving Uber and Lyft, until the unions started suing.

"Next, the tech bros came for the musicians, and I said nothing. Stealing their music outright and making megabucks. Then, when they couldn’t simply steal it anymore, paying musicians less than peanuts, impoverishing them and stripping them of dignity and the opportunity to make a decent living."

LOL. Where were you in the 2000s? Piracy destroyed the market for musicians. I knew tons of people that made a living as an independent artist. Rampant piracy made music a commodity and as a result: Only large labels were able to make money selling music because nobody is willing to pay for it anymore.

"Then, the tech bros came for the writers and creative artists, and I said nothing. Stealing all the data to feed to their AI so that it could pretend to be the humans it stole from, while stealing their jobs and their talents by churning out quick, cheap trashy, lying versions of everything."

I should use some of the same arguments here that I've seen over the years when it comes to piracy of software and music. I'm kind of glad many of the same people that justified piracy all of these years are now losing their shirts to the same thing. You can't download a car!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"Then, the tech bros came for democracy, and I said nothing. Flooding the environment with misinformation, feeding and nurturing the very worst in us, monetizing our hate, promoting the fascists who promised them more power."

Funny you mention this, when the Biden administration colluded with all of the major tech organizations to spread misinformation and censor Americans. In addition to this, Google just had to admit in court that they censored content creators over their political opinions.

There was almost a law that forced you to get an experimental vaccine (with no way to go after companies for injuries) and people were put in prison over J6 for years just walking near the capital.

I can't take any of this seriously, when we had facism for years and people like you cheered it on and then denied that it even happened.
by trollbridge | 2025-10-08 16:23:16+00:00
I’m also on a nonprofit board. They have an independent LLC and an independent nonprofit which signs contracts for various services like that, and then contracts with the “real” nonprofit to actually use the services. Was advised to set it up this way by an experienced nonprofit consultant.

We had to shred a bad contract (oddly enough, also for a printer / copier) and simply abandoned the LLC and declared it defunct. The service provider never has even showed up to pick up the printer. It was a pay per page contract where they unilaterally raised the price about 200% for no reason.

We also abandoned a water cooler and water cooler service after the vendor simply refused to answer our requests to end the service. (It’s $20 a month. There was no long term contract signed.) Apparently nonprofits are a target for this sort of thing, so we now don’t even mention we are a nonprofit and handle business relationships via the LLC.

It’s absurd things have become this way.
by mooreds | 2025-10-08 16:23:18+00:00
Author here.

I think buying someone a coffee or beer in person is great if you are in the same location. I have done that for more than one colleague and asked them for their thoughts. You probably can't do that for everyone, but it's a good idea for the folks you know well who are in your area.

There's so much nuance and emotion around grievances that I'd want to have the conversation in person.
by mmajzoobi | 2025-10-08 16:23:38+00:00
I have been frustrated that hardware devices are either (a) designed solely for consumers with polished intuitive UX but are not open source, hackable, developer friendly or (b) they are open source, hackable, but lack polished UX, and/or build quality that can appeal to less technic savvy audience.

Also, the software running on open source hardware devices is often an afterthought and there are very few devices that have hardware and software co-designed and tightly integrated to work together seamlessly and be developer friendly.

This drove me to design Ubo Pod that closes the gap between a developer-friendly platform and a polished product ready for end-user deployment.

Ubo creates a multi-modal user experience by bringing together voice, vision, and declarative GUI (embedded and WebUI). It supports over 50 cloud AI service providers (bring your API keys) as well as on-device/on-premise model hosting options.

The work behind Ubo Pod is the culmination of my decade long experience designing and building hardware products from initial concept to mass production. I am proud of the work me and my teammates have put into designing polished hardware and sub-modules, sophisticated software stack, agile manufacturing, global supply chain, automated test/QA.

I hope the open source hardware and software design can serve as a blueprint and inspiration for a new class of open devices that can tailor to both everyday consumers and professional developers.
by ArchD | 2025-10-08 16:24:02+00:00
This article is only saying that ZFS can mitigate disk data corruption caused by bad RAM, mainly through using checksums, not that it can completely prevent disk data corruption.

Also, it does not talk about the scenario where the in-RAM data being corrupted does not come with checksum. For example, data received from the network by the NFS/SMB server to be written to a file, before it gets passed to ZFS. This data is stored somewhere in RAM by the NFS/SMB server without any checksum before it gets passed on to ZFS. ZFS does not do any work here to detect or repair the corruption.

So, ZFS does not prevent on-disk data corruption caused by bad RAM, and only mitigates it. Using ECC RAM results in a huge relative reduction of such corruption, even though some people may consider the non-ECC probability to be already low enough.
by kragen | 2025-10-08 16:24:17+00:00
You think I'm the one who's failing here?

You said:

"(...) if you had AGI tomorrow and asked it to figure out FTL warp drives, it would just explain to you how it's not going to happen. It is impossible, the end. In fact the request is fantasy, nigh nonsensical and self-contradictory."

"Isn’t that what the greatest minds in physics would say as well? Yes, yes it is."

That is not in fact what the greatest minds in physics would say. Your meta-knowledge of physics has failed you here, resulting in you posting embarrassing misinformation. I'm just having to correct it to prevent you from misleading anyone else.
by ddtaylor | 2025-10-08 16:24:22+00:00
This is why I don't use NAS from them. I don't understand why I would want to be limited in these strange ways. I have multiple NAS that I have created myself for myself, my family and my friends. If I want to have h264, h265, AV1, or whatever I just install it.

I have zero respect for software patents and will not be structuring my life differently to respect them.
by array_key_first | 2025-10-08 16:24:33+00:00
My main issue with putting state in the frontend is that you introduced sync points, which is where, like, 90% of the bugs happen.

Take form input and validation. Great, let's write out the validation on the frontend. But that doesn't mean much. We need to sync it.

Okay... So let's just write the validation, again, on the backend. Hope it's the same validation. It never is, so we just introduced a whole class of bugs around that.

Or just take a look at routing. Okay, let's route on the frontend. But what about access control? Okay, let's do a little routing logic on the backend too. Oh and now we've run into the same problem.

When you do rich frontend and backend, you always have a minimum of two application states. You have two apps. You cannot get rid of the backend state, it's non-negotiable.

So you have to keep them in sync, or more accurately, try to keep them in sync.
by jurakovic | 2025-10-08 16:24:48+00:00
Here is my "rss reader" https://jurakovic.github.io/dev-links/news/

I wanted to have a list of latest posts of blogs I follow and that I can access it quickly from both PC and mobile phone without any signing in. Then I decided to do it myself like that. There is a github workflow that runs automatically every 6 hours and updates that page.