MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lukan | 2025-10-08 14:13:36+00:00
Sure. That is why the former boss had to step down. But by now they surely weeded out all the nazi sympathisers?

Are you aware of the NSU case?

"They don't at all claim that the AfD plans a "fascist takeover""

But no, they don't claim that. They claim parts of the AfD plan a fascist takeover.
by pixl97 | 2025-10-08 14:14:29+00:00
>especially Customer Support would step up and complain about such a decision

As a life long customer support person I disagree.

Customer support would 100% complain about this as they get to deal with pissed customers that have a completely good, decent manufacture drive that won't work and you are the anvil of which they will beat their hammer upon. R&D/Product are much more separated from the pissed customers. Support is the first group that gets beat by issues like this, followed by sales.
Show HN: Todout – a local-first todo outliner
by pacifika | 2025-10-08 14:14:36+00:00
Todout is a local-first hierarchical todo outliner with powerful filtering, tagging, and keyboard-driven organization. I built it after using many outliners and task managements apps and needing a hybrid of both for tracking engineering tasks.

It works well on mobile, and hoping to get some feedback from folks that have relevant experience.

This is an MVP, but thinking of an upsell, I'm considering adding an low cost account system?

Key Features:

Hierarchical tasks with unlimited nesting and collapsible structure.

Inline #tags, priority (!) levels, and due dates (YYYY-MM-DD or YYYY/MM/DD) auto-detected.

Powerful filtering by tag, priority, and date range; full-text search; focus mode.

Keyboard-first: Alt+N new task, Tab/Shift+Tab indent, Ctrl/Cmd+Z undo, etc.

Status tracking (active/completed/archived), bulk operations, full undo/redo.

Local-first: all data stored in browser, no server, instant performance, full privacy.

Fast, local, and distraction-free—like a modern outliner built for productivity rather than project management overhead.

I'm looking forward to your responses.
by Brajeshwar | 2025-10-08 14:14:40+00:00
I’m trying some sort of a routine and patterns of habits with my kids, and so far are full of misses. I made a checklist based weekly routine on a spreadsheet with task such as racking the dishwasher, and pushing the right buttons on it, the same goes for clothes — learn to separate clothes based on color, and other characteristics etc.

This a simple printed paper stuck near the kitchen for them to just run their fingers on the checklist to see if they have to do for the day of the week. There is no specific time or a deadline but I’m training them to look at in the morning, after school, and before bed. For instance, the before bed routine makes sure we run the dishwasher while we sleep to have fresh washed dishes the next morning.

Besides the usual rewards of extra game-time, chocolates, etc. we have also introduced a “Daughter of the Month” with special privileges.
by jbstack | 2025-10-08 14:14:42+00:00
> I think people would be outraged if someone told them it belonged to the bank.

You might find it interesting to read about 2013 Cyprus bank levy then. The government unilaterally raided people's savings accounts, taking between 6.75% and 10% as a one-off tax with essentially no warning. When you put money in the bank you are implicitly accepting the (small but real) risk that the government will come along and say "I'm having some of that" and there's nothing you can do about it.

More anecdotally, I once had to help a family friend sue a bank for several tens of thousands of pounds in the UK because they refused to pay him back his balance when he closed the account and refused to explain the reason. It took a little over 6 months to get the money back. While researching the case, I discovered countless other cases in which businesses had gone bankrupt because of delays in recovering their money from the bank. Under UK legislation, banks can and do do this if they have "suspicions" of money laundering (which can be triggered for any reason whatsoever - the suspicion doesn't have to be reasonable). Not only do they not have to explain to the customer what those suspicious are, they are legally required not to. They can hold onto your money for up to 31 days and this can be extended to up to 6 months by a court order after a hearing which you will be excluded from and likely not even know took place until after the fact.

Legally you do not own your money in the bank. Instead you own a "chose in action" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chose) which is the right to sue the bank for the money. Although it sounds similar to outright ownership, it's not the same thing.
by lostmsu | 2025-10-08 14:15:05+00:00
> "Demonstrated abilities" are not heritable, because they presuppose achievements and you cannot inherit someone's achievements.

You seriously need to look up the word "heritability". Here's one from M-W: the proportion of observed variation in a particular trait (such as height) that can be attributed to inherited genetic factors in contrast to environmental ones.

> I'm not going to bother lecturing you on correlation and causation. You wouldn't read what I wrote anyway.

It's a good thing heritability does not require causation then. Because it sounds like you figured out my understanding of causation vs correlation on the incorrect premise that the former is required.
by blurbleblurble | 2025-10-08 14:15:07+00:00
Absolutely not. These jerks are very clearly posturing to consolidate all the power into ICE and private contractors to punish political and ideological opposition to their little ethnic nationalism project.

She gets credit for being complicit in a violent overthrow of the Democratic government of the united States.

Go read the latest national security memo and ask yourself, if they carry that through as written will you feel safe to show up at the airport?
by evertedsphere | 2025-10-08 14:15:09+00:00
In the past I've considered forking Chromium so every asset that it downloads (images, scripts, etc) is saved somewhere to produce a sort of "passive scraper".

This article made me consider creating a new CDP domain as a possible option, but tbf I haven't thought about this problem in ages so maybe there's something less stupid that I could do.
by SaverioMazzi | 2025-10-08 14:15:09+00:00
After years building Express APIs, I wanted to see how Hexagonal Architecture could improve structure and testability in Node.js apps.

So I built Create Express Auth, a minimal authentication boilerplate in Express and TypeScript that isolates domain logic from frameworks and infrastructure — aiming for a codebase that’s easy to extend, test, and reason about.

Key ideas: - Clear separation between core domain, use-cases, and adapters - Type-safe configuration and dependency injection - Ready-to-use authentication flow (register/login) with Prisma

Article explaining the design: https://dev.to/francemazzi/create-express-auth-a-clean-archi...

I’d love feedback from developers who’ve experimented with TypeScript or architecture patterns in Node.js.

Any thoughts on balancing simplicity vs abstraction in Clean Architecture setups?
by agentultra | 2025-10-08 14:15:14+00:00
Sadly true. Most companies don’t even care if the software is sloppy, slow, and ridden with errors that cause data loss or privacy breaches. They care about exploiting workers and extracting value.

Is it ethical? Probably not. It took a few bridges falling and buildings caving in before traditional engineering became a profession.

In this post-Reagan world I’m not sure software has the right context to make that happen. I’m pretty sure we’ll stay the course where the big tech companies like it: very little regulation, loose liability, and terrible software for everyone.
by kasey_junk | 2025-10-08 14:15:29+00:00
Each exchange can make its own rules for what it will list and how it will trade (within the broader SEC regulations).

So yes it’s just a way to capture fees from listers who like your exchange better as the primary listing exchange and from market participants that must be in every exchange (latency sensitive HFT).

None of the many exchanges that have started have made a dent in the existing duopoly for real share listings that Nasdaq/nyse have. But some exchanges have made good business off of other products like etfs.
by bell-cot | 2025-10-08 14:16:21+00:00
In one sense, your checklist is whatever you wrote down before starting:

> Clausewitz also famously wrote, “No one starts a war—or rather, no one in his senses ought to do so—without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by that war and how he intends to conduct it.”

You could also make a checklist of stuff like "reduce effectiveness of enemy's forces" and "minimize damage to your own ability to wage war" - but that's basics which any upperclassman at a military academy could recite, in regard to pretty much any war ever.

It's been 2 centuries since Clausewitz was writing about military theory. He's still widely read because his ideas are big-picture abstractions. Bridging the gap between his abstractions and what to do, with whatever current-day/recent-tech forces you happen to have - that's the job of your flag officers and their staffs. Though their "checklists" will keep changing, as the war progresses.
by whizzter | 2025-10-08 14:16:22+00:00
And that was the downfall..

1: Standardization was made by committee lovers and/or architecture astronauts leaving us with overly convoluted (sometimes to fit lacklustre object models in early OO languages) and complex ways of working.

2: Complexity that introduced security vulnerabilities

Sure, there was some great tooling available, but how much of it was needed because all complexity made it hopeless to work with without the tooling?

I used it for configuration and serialization in some projects, and it was actually great but I almost always diverged from the bloated norms and defaults for readability/writeability (that made it a bit annoying to specify serialization rules).

I mean, why did people prefer?

<object><property name="somename"><int32>123</int32></property></object>

Over just?

<object somename="123"/>

Yeah there is so much "flexibility" in those above designs but it wasn't needed 99% of the time.

JSON was and is so far the best popular compromise between "just plain data" and "some" structure to make automated processing non-painful.

Also as an improvement over XML collections (do you created a container element to specify container target leading to bloat or just map some of the sub-elements to specific collections and hope you don't run into ambiguities?) is that collections are just specific lists to a property.

The biggest drawback of JSON is that we never had a way to handle type specializations/subtyping but had we done that we might have not gotten the universal acceptance across languages.

Yes, comments but whenever you need that you can make a single-line regexp to strip a useful subset of them without affecting anything by the standard by removing matches of

/^\s*\/\/[^\r\n]*/mg
by alvaropaco | 2025-10-08 14:16:42+00:00
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Under the hood: - P2P core: Hyperswarm’s DHT handles NAT traversal and encrypted Noise streams for secure peer discovery. - Scalable by design: Stateless nodes enable effortless horizontal scaling across peers. - Resilient & fault-tolerant: Self-healing mesh — if one node drops, others keep serving requests. - Observable: Integrated metrics, logs, and tracing via OpenTelemetry for full visibility. - Modern stack: TypeScript, Fastify, Docker, Prometheus/Grafana for observability, and CI/CD ready.

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by jghn | 2025-10-08 14:17:16+00:00
Agreed. it was a pretty freak issue, albeit one that had a well known fix. I stated it here in full disclosure and did state that this was beyond what most people would consider tolerable. And I'll admit that I came very close to throwing it in the garbage and buying a new one.

Still, other than replacing old drives, something that'd happen regardless of solution, that's the only fiddling I ever had to do.
by elijahcarrel | 2025-10-08 14:17:55+00:00
I'm sorry but this reads like AI slop. Or maybe it's not AI slop, it's just regular human-generated slop, but regardless: it's useless.

For one: it's intentionally completely unverifiable. Sure, maybe the writer's not brave enough to break their NDA by sharing names. But it's also convenient: nobody can ever poke holes in the story, or add their own context to it. The story just gets to live on its own and earn internet karma regardless of whether it's at all true.

For two: completely inconsistent. Let's take these two paragraphs:

> A few years earlier, a major public institution - let’s call it Agency A - was still running an ancient Exchange mail server. It hadn’t received security updates for ages, the anti-spam was completely ineffective, and the new regulations were clear: embrace Open Source solutions whenever possible.

> They had already received a proposal - expensive but seemingly reasonable - for a managed service, hosted by an external provider, built on an open source mail stack. The company offered a managed version with its own proprietary additions and enterprise support. The catch? The price was absurd, and Agency A already had solid infrastructure - reputable IP classes, redundant datacenters, everything working fine. We had built and maintained that environment for years, and it was still running perfectly.

So we have just learned in paragraph 1 that the current system is dated and full of security holes and missing features. In paragraph 2 we have learned that the current system's infrastructure is "solid" and "working fine". Can you really say the infrastructure is solid and working fine if it's preventing you from upgrading your Exchange mail server?

And let's take paragraph two: it says the proposal is "expensive but seemingly reasonable" and then one sentence later says "the catch? The price is absurd". How can the price be both "reasonable" and "absurd?"

Overall an annoying read.
by vlovich123 | 2025-10-08 14:18:02+00:00
That only works in the long term if the investments pay off, generating enough returns to then create a new generation of entrepreneurs and investors who simulate the economy further. If they don’t, that money kind of vanishes - it pays for salaries partially but those aren’t generally enough to stimulate meaningful amounts of angel investors. It also buys capex equipment that depreciates in value (and presents a fixed value amount of sales for the manufacturers of said equipment, not reliably repeating sales over a long time period ).
by procaryote | 2025-10-08 14:18:05+00:00
If you use a couple of magnetic disks, the pi is fast enough. The disks will be the bottleneck. There are sata cards that allow up to four magnetic disks, and where you power that card which in turn powers the pi. It's very doable.

It's of course more work to set up than synology, and if you want a neat box, you have to figure that out yourself
by kianN | 2025-10-08 14:18:14+00:00
Hi author here. The goal of this post was to do a data driven analysis on the investment trends of companies that are leveraging LLMs. I used YC company descriptions to get a granular sense of the use cases in which LLMs are gaining and losing momentum. I used YC as a proxy for the VC industry. I do question how representative it is of the VC industry as a whole but my impression is it's a good leading indicator.
by easyprotech | 2025-10-08 14:18:29+00:00
BRS-GPT — open platform combining deterministic vulnerability scanning (context-aware XSS, SQLi, SSRF, XXE, port recon) with a multi-agent AI layer for correlation, prioritization and executive reporting. Docker/CI/CD/REST API ready; designed for integration into dev pipelines and automated red/blue workflows. Cost transparency and real-time OpenAI usage tracking included. Repo + docs: GitHub / EPTLLC/brs-gpt.
by Jaepa | 2025-10-08 14:18:47+00:00
They did that though. They have doubled down and told the users they were wrong & that this was a needed

Eventually relenting because of the consequences isn't a laudable accomplishment. Also it very much appears as they not really relenting, just trying to recover some PR

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Synology-only-partially-removes...
by Jolter | 2025-10-08 14:18:56+00:00
Yes, but severing would end up in court versus a very belligerent party, who would do their utmost to cost you money. An organization that prioritizes safety over ethics will just suck up the extra cost, apparently.

There are companies and organizations out there fighting for what’s right in courtrooms. Invalidating troll-owned patents, striking down unfair contracts etc. Agency A was obviously not one of those organizations.
Show HN: Speak to AI – offline speech-to-text for Linux (alternative to Dragon)
by AshBuk | 2025-10-08 14:19:09+00:00
I couldn’t find a privacy-friendly and reliable voice typing app for my daily Linux use, so I built one.

This project uses Whisper.cpp for offline speech recognition and is written in Go. It works both on X11 and Wayland and aims to be a drop-in solution for dictation and voice commands on Linux desktops.

The goal is to provide a fast, local, and privacy-respecting alternative to Dragon or cloud-based STT tools.

Repo: https://github.com/AshBuk/speak-to-ai Issues: https://github.com/AshBuk/speak-to-ai/issues

I’d appreciate feedback, testing on different distros/desktops, and any contributions or ideas for improvement.
Show HN: Polyglot Web Assembler done using AI
by srid68 | 2025-10-08 14:19:54+00:00
This is an experiment i did in the past 3 weeks where i used AI (GPT 4.1 and Claude 4) to recreate my Declarative framework in c# which uses Html + Json in 6 languages.

I was suprised that AI can not only implement the logic in multiple languages, it can go from static typeed languages like c#, rust and go to dynamic languages like php and javascript in node.js to javascript at the client.

Another think i was suprised is that AI can even create the Index page by itself using the 4 declarative rules for which AI implemented the logic.

Even though it is not vibe code, since i controlled the structure of the implementation and asked ai to implemented extensive features like testing, structure dumps to validate the implementation, i have not reviewed the implementation and only in c# which i am familiar with i have briefly reviewed and i can see it is not optimal for implementating future declarative abstractions, but it works.

The implementation is complete to build static web apps using any client side framework

My takeaway using AI is implementing interative loops where you ask something, but also show how the AI can verify whether it has satisfied your requirement was the trick which helped it to complete the implementation in c# and using C# as the prompt helped AI to complete the other langs iteratively.

The output is published in smallest machine in fly under 6 different apps, namely https://csharpassembler.fly.dev/, https://rustassembler.fly.dev/, https://goassembler.fly.dev/, https://nodeassembler.fly.dev/, https://jsassembler.fly.dev/
by ecshafer | 2025-10-08 14:20:53+00:00
That website shows California as currently worse. It looks like Larger states just have more power outages, which is to be expected. Texas also is a weird state that is very large it gets Tornadoes, extreme heat, and hurricanes, while also having several very large metro areas in it. There also isn't anything indicated differences in grid monitoring, are all grids (like large rural grids) monitored to the same levels?
by 8fingerlouie | 2025-10-08 14:20:53+00:00
Apple uses a mix of Google Cloud and AWS, as well as their own data centers. As for Google and AWS, they are using multi geographic redundancy, and I can only assume they do that for their own data centers as well. The data in the 3rd party data centers is encrypted.

That means, at least for Google and AWS, that your data is being stored with redundancy not only in a single data center, but in multiple data centers, so that if one data center completely vanishes, your data will still be available.

That being said, it's always good to make a local backup. I use a tool called Parachute Backup (https://parachuteapps.com) on my Mac to automatically export photos from Apple Photos to my NAS. It also works on "iCloud optimized storage", so it won't just backup size optimized photos.

I've tested it against Photosync (https://www.photosync-app.com/home) as well as a manual export of unmodified originals, and in a library consisting of 180k photos and videos, I had 300 compare errors, most of which were Live Photos, that are not exported identically.

Both Parachute and Photosync offers the ability to export unmodified originals along with AAE files, so that if you need to rebuild your Apple Photos library, everything including undo history is preserved (AAE files contains edits).

Tools like Synology Photos and Immich (and more) only exports the "latest" version, whatever that may be, meaning if you have edited the photo on your phone, that edited version is exported, and if you later restore from your NAS backup, there is no undo history. In other words, they apply the edits in a destructive way.

For backing up from the NAS to another location I use Arq Backup (https://www.arqbackup.com), which also supports backing up iCloud Drive files that are cloud only.
by re-thc | 2025-10-08 14:20:57+00:00
> Sad for folks inside tech not interested in/working on AI either

Not true. With this much money and more coming it means other roles will benefit too. The whole tech sector will grow - maybe less than AI specific, but still.

It's better than the alternative of no or negative growth.

Some comments assume the funds exist and will be spent elsewhere in the US or the markets they refer to but maybe not. If no AI, US funds could invest in Vietnam (that is receiving a FTSE market upgrade), China, EU or just about anywhere else.

Don't assume you'd benefit by wishing AI to begone. When you wanted crypto to go away you got AI.
by jjk166 | 2025-10-08 14:21:04+00:00
> Reality is there are tax and regulatory advantages. The courts are setup in a way that is favorable to business. They read a very strict interpretation of contracts which is good in some scenarios.

> Texas politics is a train wreck, but their bureaucracy is pretty good for a business - things like permitting and other regulatory processes are faster. They also will firehouse you with incentives.

None of that is really relevant to a stock exchange though. Being on the Texas stock exchange doesn't mean you are subject to Texas laws and regulations just like being on the New York Stock Exchange doesn't subject you to New York laws and regulations.
by coherentpony | 2025-10-08 14:21:27+00:00
You originally called someone a redditor making a cringe joke for highlighting a serious historical problem. It wasn't clear to me that it was a joke at all, but my impression is that it seemed clear to you that it was a joke.

What if that person has also lived in Texas for 30 years? And what if they had a family member that died during that power grid failure in 2021? I personally would find it quite difficult to communicate to them the nuance of a local problem and a state-wide problem when the end result is the same: no power.

In the future, you might consider approaching an interaction online with more balanced judgement.

Edit: Actually, looking back at the original comment, it's not even clear they're talking about the Texas power outage in 2021. All they said was "Hope they have ample backup power." Seems like a reasonable thing to hope for what might be critical infrastructure.