MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kristopherleads | 2025-10-09 15:07:16+00:00
Full disclosure, I'm incredibly biased here as I'm a DevRel at FlowFuse, but there's a reason I joined them instead of n8n. On the surface they're comparable, but I think Node-RED (and FlowFuse) is a better solution for a lot of reasons:

First off, Node-RED handles real-time event data much, much better in my experience. Because of where Node-RED came from, there's much better support for IoT, MQTT, Modbus, OPC UA, edge protocols, etc. n8n is much more limited in this regard, and the fact that the Node-RED and FlowFuse community has literally thousands of custom nodes makes the calculus pretty clear.

I also think that FlowFuse/Node-RED has better integration of AI workloads. In theory n8n is designed around AI, but it treats it the same way OpenAI's AgentKit does - as sort of opaque connections. FlowFuse/Node-RED instead treats it as an actual message payload (both in terms of how you connect to the APIs and how you interact with what's generated), so instead of throwing your request into the void and hoping for the best, you can control every minute part of the flow.

That also makes for much more transparent debugging and visual data flow - the whole idea of these low-code environments is to give you the same control as high-code without the headache. Abstracting that away too much gives you less control, which is sort of the antithesis of this approach.

Like I said though, SUPER biased here.
by PetitPrince | 2025-10-09 15:07:38+00:00
"Don't judge a book by its cover" indeed (and litteraly in that case), but also "first impression matters".

In that case throwing a generated image without touch up shows the lack of care of the author for a work that's not as fleeting as a podcast. It's not that hard to type the correct words and/or a non wobbly font with Paint.NET / Photopea / Gimp / Affinity Photo / Photoshop / <your favorite pixel editor here>. It also shows an usage of AI without supervision which is kind of a red flag.

I used to listen to Michael Kennedy a lot when my day job was Python, and still occasionally do so this may get a pass, but it's still a bad signal in my books.
by bryanlarsen | 2025-10-09 15:07:58+00:00
Your liability is covered by your insurance company. And it costs you on the order of $1000 a year for that privilege.

If the self-driving car company takes on that liability it'll save you the $1000/year. So assume they're either going to charge you an extra $10K up front or an extra $1000/year. For that kind of cash they should be quite willing to take on the risk or they can find an insurance company to do so, if their car is actually safer than an average driver.

This should work in most countries. Perhaps not the US with its pattern of massive punitive damage awards.
by kkukshtel | 2025-10-09 15:08:01+00:00
They truly feel like a match made in heaven. Krasznahorkai's own writing is lovely and lyrical, and Tarr's interpretation of it projects the same ideas onto the films but also in a way that makes it stand distinct as a medium.

I could watch this scene from Werckmeister Harmonies every day for the rest of my life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d5X2t_s9g8

And The Turin Horse as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wPCkjN3n6s

Think of some magical Tarr adaptation of Seiobo There Below...
by xnorswap | 2025-10-09 15:08:10+00:00
If you're going to write code snippets, please make sure they compile!

The final example has signature List<Product> but tries to return IOrderedEnumerable<Product>.

I recognise that this is very much a taster rather than even a full introduction, so the author didn't want to explain IOrderedEnumerable<T>, but please when writing blogs, run through your code examples and make sure they compile.

This means that your audience can follow along.

( It just needs a .ToList() on the end. )
by gamerdonkey | 2025-10-09 15:08:16+00:00
Everyone, please, don't fight.

It's both.

The companies wouldn't have this specific data if it wasn't for the age verification laws. Companies also work to amass as much private data as possible about their users without any influence from government and are often not good stewards of it.

Let's also not forget that companies like Discord often support and work with governments on these kind of laws because they prefer a consolidated regulatory structure and it has the added benefit of making life more difficult for smaller competitors that may enter the space.
by mananaysiempre | 2025-10-09 15:08:32+00:00
Ehh I wouldn’t say so (thanks for the correct link for ARM64 though in any case). What you need to be comparing to here is DWARF[1,2] section 6.4, and while it’s not as bad as other parts of DWARF, I still think it’s plenty complicated.

[1] https://dwarfstd.org/doc/DWARF5.pdf#page=171

[2] Slightly modified by psABI[3] section 3.7 for x86-64 or the LSB[4] section 11.6 for ARM64, but at this point that’s a drop in the bucket as far as overall complexity is concerned.

[3] https://gitlab.com/x86-psABIs/x86-64-ABI/-/jobs/artifacts/ma...

[4] https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/LSB_4.0.0/LSB-Core-gene...
by pizzafeelsright | 2025-10-09 15:09:06+00:00
I run a walled garden. Full freedom of the garden within the confines of the wall. My kids: wake up - make your bed. Prep breakfast for self or others, play until breakfast. Then clean up, homeschool, then freedom until I get off work. Then a period of quiet time where we do not interact with others unless invited. Then it is "bless another" for an hour where we work on something for someone else.

The only timer is for video games because time passes differently when playing. And video game time is purchased through exercise.

I try to model and build schedules to maximize their ability to balance managing themselves, a business, their time, and their family.
by pelorat | 2025-10-09 15:09:45+00:00
Wait until you hear about the gluon, the mediator of the strong force, which is an excitation in the gluon field, and is also the only other particle that is massless and moves at C. However unlike the photon the excitation has a really short range because gluons interact with gluons and form flux tubes between quarks, the further you pull two quarks apart, the more energy you need to use, eventually the energy is so great that it spawns a new quark from the vacuum.

Compared to EM it's just weird as hell and tbh I don't like it.
by j-krieger | 2025-10-09 15:10:12+00:00
> @j-krieger Arguing that the existence of regulations makes an economy non-capitalist is something I've only ever seen extreme left and extreme right-wing people make.

Good thing I haven't argued that at all. I was arguing that Germany, which calls its economic system "Social Economics" in fact employs this very economic strategy, which is defined as not being straight forward capitalist but as a mixture of capitalism and socialism.

> Germany's market is an example of welfare capitalism, which is a type of capitalism.

Germany's market is per definition not welfare capitalism, but "social economics". This term exists, it is well defined, you can look it up.
by simonw | 2025-10-09 15:10:13+00:00
The existence of Tailscale has made me a lot less scared of self-hosing than I used to be, since it provides a method of securing access that's both robust and easy to setup.

... but I still worry about backups. Having encrypted off-site backups is essential for this to work, and they need to be frequently tested as well.

There are good tools for that too (I've had good experiences with restic to Cloudflare B2) but assembling them is still a fair amount of overhead, and making sure they keep working needs discipline that I may want to reserve for other problems!
by mindslight | 2025-10-09 15:10:33+00:00
That's what I meant by "high latency". Workflow would be something like go to sign up to a site, site issues a challenge which is stored in your browser, then sometime in the next week/month/year you stop by the vending machine which generates a proof for the challenge, then you can finish the signup flow for the site in the next week/month/year.

Of course, this would require people to exercise some restraint with regards to their timing.

But the real problem is that nobody actually wants these types of systems, so there is no organic demand. The motivation only comes as directives from governments, so it's not about the technically best system but rather whatever corporate lobbyists can manage to get mandated.
by JohnFen | 2025-10-09 15:10:40+00:00
Trust is critical, but it is earned over time. The most that marketing messaging can do is buy a minimal level of trust required to get someone to try a product out. It can't buy enough trust to get actual dev customers in any real quantity.

However, a couple of the items recommended in the article immediately reduces my trust in the companies that do them:

> Here’s a missed opportunity I see constantly: developer tool companies that don’t capture email addresses from visitors who aren’t ready to convert.

Asking for my email before I'm at the point of wanting to try a product is a negative signal to me. The list of "compelling reasons" why I might want to provide an email address is the opposite of compelling -- the risk of getting stuff like that is one of the big reasons why I don't want to give my email address to companies.

> Do you have testimonials from recognizable companies? Are respected developers advocating for your tool?

The existence of testimonials in marketing materials is a negative signal to me. If the product was actually good, the company wouldn't need to provide me with them at all. I don't care what some famous dev somewhere thinks about the product anyway -- I don't know what their tastes and needs are, so I can't put their comments into the proper context. The only testimonials that matter are those from devs I personally know and respect.

> Are your founders visible and opinionated? Do they contribute to the broader conversation?

The more I hear directly from founders (particularly if they're opinionated), the more suspicious I get of the product.

Anyway, all that is a bit of nitpicking and, of course, is only relevant to how I form decisions about what I will and will not use. I'll leave this with agreeing wholeheartedly with what I think is the main point of the piece:

> Developer tools marketing isn’t about quick conversions or viral growth hacks. It’s about systematically building trust through consistent, valuable interactions with the developer community.
by Ianjit | 2025-10-09 15:10:41+00:00
"If you build too slowly and superintelligence is possible in 3 years, but you built it out assuming it is possible in 5 years, then you are out of position on the most important technology"

This made me think Zuck sees it as a question of when rather than if. I.e its more a question of 3 vs 5 years rather than possible vs non possible.
by hdgvhicv | 2025-10-09 15:10:44+00:00
Everyone hates db. They’re a laughing stock across Europe. Switzerland have started banning them from running trains due to the knock on affects. If your long distance twin is under 2 hours late that’s a good day.

The only people who thing db are good are idiotic Brits who go “privatisation is bad we should run our railway like Germany with twice the subsidise and half the reliability”.
by Braxton1980 | 2025-10-09 15:11:29+00:00
>I very much do blame the corporations and governments that push for these kinds of policies in some way or another

71% want age verification

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/10/31/81-of-us-...

How that's done is the issue but you can't blame the government and corporations from making it happen.
by BobbyTables2 | 2025-10-09 15:11:44+00:00
For me the Math isn’t Mathing.

Hiring 50 fairly well paid developers is roughly $15M/year, maybe more if one insists on SV compensation which always seem a bit absurd.

$240M total funding is a lot of money. They’ve only been around for about 5 years and probably didn’t start out fully staffed.

So they’re basically covered for the next 10-15 years even if they had zero sales ?

Having 500 employees won’t speed things up and would actually slow down development - so why so much funding?

Or who actually waits that long? The first version of Windows 10 was released about 10 years ago and soon will be EOL.

I feel software investment is like some oil ETFs — there is more investment money than the thing to invest in…
by jamwil | 2025-10-09 15:12:01+00:00
If Discord says they delete the PII they collect and they ultimately fail to do that, whether by malice or negligence Discord owns 100% of the blame.

If I get drunk and drive the wrong way down the highway and cause a wreck, the blame is not shared because the victim was driving a vehicle which is known to be a risky activity. I am culpable, full stop.
by OskarS | 2025-10-09 15:12:22+00:00
Your argument is that it’s not ok to think of all Jewish people as a monolithic group, and therefore his statement where he considered all arabs as a monolithic group is ”legitimate”? Seriously?

Just like it’s not ok to see all jews as part of the same murderous conspiracy, it’s not ok to see all arabs as part of one either.
by mihaaly | 2025-10-09 15:12:31+00:00
It is difficult to say 'we' here for me, when the common ground with these remarkable people are only the country of origin and most of the time the language spoken. Also when it is based on achievements that are mostly theirs, which I have nothing to do with.

I am glad that these people could achive so much coming from a place like Hungary, that is providing inadequate possibilities for these kinds of achivements so they reach it in other countries too many times. Or sometimes even put obstacles in their ways - which is actually good/ok in the end as they seek out the places allowing their success.

But I am glad for any Nobel price winners, regardless of their origins. They give us so much.
by Goronmon | 2025-10-09 15:12:39+00:00
To a lot of people, Russian is just a state of mind. It simply means that you disagree with them, or the regime that they support. Also, the mods on reddit are overwhelmingly these people, banning all opposing opinions, or banning people for being Russian, or Iranian, or Chinese, etc...

Pretending that there aren't concerted efforts to exert political influence on Reddit isn't helpful, and comes across as pretty disingenuous.

All governance in the western world has become weak as hell. You only need a few bucks to corrupt anything, unless somebody with a few more bucks is already corrupting it.

Yes, corruption and bribery exist exclusive in "western" governments. Thankfully "eastern" governments are completely immune to these issues.

And I know, "I never said those exact words!" but that at was the obvious intention.
by BMorearty | 2025-10-09 15:12:42+00:00
I’m not trying to follow the latest Ruby dustup and don’t have a stake in it but as an Airbnb alum I did find this part particularly identifiable:

“Yet, Ruby and Rails remain the default stack at Shopify, and the only reason for that is the CEO. Every Shopify employee knows that suggesting straying away from Ruby wouldn’t fly there. And I’m convinced that if it were anyone else at the helm, Shopify would have joined the long list of companies that attempted to migrate to something else and are now stuck with both a Ruby monolith and a ton of half-migrated micro-services in Java or Go.”
by HelloMcFly | 2025-10-09 15:12:51+00:00
Agreed on TWoWS. Kind of loved every scene in the movie, but actually strongly dislike the movie in full. I also think that despite what seems like an attempt to critique the destructive lifestyle, it does the opposite and glorifies it. Mostly not a fan of his later career work, but I do really like Killers of the Flower Moon and Shutter Island.
Show HN: Tonkotsu – a developer app for managing a team of AI coding agents
by derekcheng08 | 2025-10-09 15:12:53+00:00
Hey HN, I’m Derek, part of a small team of ex-Facebook engineers and designer building Tonkotsu.

We strongly believe that the future of software development requires every developer to become the tech lead of a team of agents. That shift requires new tools and workflows that go beyond existing IDEs or terminal agents.

Tonkotsu is our take on that next-gen tool. It’s a desktop app that lets developers plan technical work, delegate many coding tasks in parallel, and then review the diffs — all in one place. Our main difference is that we tightly integrate this plan > delegate > verify loop and scale it up so that every engineer can use it to manage a team of agents working in parallel.

Current status:

- macOS + Windows desktop app

- Free to use during early access

Demo video (2 min): https://www.tonkotsu.ai/demo

Download: https://www.tonkotsu.ai

We’re really curious to hear from people who are using multiple agents in parallel already. What do your workflows look like? Where are the bottlenecks?
by sim7c00 | 2025-10-09 15:13:06+00:00
really nicely written. inrespect this is maybe known / unneeded comment, but why bother with basic auth at all, especially when there is no TLS?

i understand other auth schemes are more complicated, and maybe theres no desire to pull in big libraries. just that if theres no TLS or proper auth, you can also just skip basic auth. its only use would be to trick someone who's not familiar (unlikely with such a repo but not impossible) into a false sense of security.

ofc, not really an issue with the code, and its an excellent base to look into how this stuff works and if you want since its pretty clean and easy to ready, expand upon it. well done! love ppl churning out good ol C projects. respect!
Show HN: AI Desk – Help desk software that auto-improves with your business
by leewenjie | 2025-10-09 15:13:12+00:00
The full-service platform learns from your business and support queries to improve over time.

- Deploys in under 10 minutes - Auto ticket routing and self-learning response generation

Try it at https://aidesk.us and let me know what you think.
by piltdownman | 2025-10-09 15:13:15+00:00
Reddit being Reddit wasn't a problem until it became a source of truth and subsequently afforded consensus and an unwarranted sheen of credence by Agentic AI. As the author beautifully (albeit somewhat nihilistically) summarises:

"We have to remember that Reddit isn’t just Reddit anymore. The powers that be have decided that Reddit is infallible, a reliable set of training data for LLMs, and should be featured fucking everywhere."
by cls59 | 2025-10-09 15:13:15+00:00
The control plane of Tailscale can even be self-hosted via the Headscale project:

https://github.com/juanfont/headscale

As for backups, I like both https://github.com/restic/restic and https://github.com/kopia/kopia/. Encryption is done client-side, so the only thing the offsite host receives is encrypted blobs.
by jlokier | 2025-10-09 15:13:45+00:00
Their point is that's a sad design choice, caused by firewalls forcing QUIC to take a first-class TCP-like internet protocol and wrap it with encrypted headers inside UDP for the sole purpose of preventing firewalls from blocking it or making it break in myriad subtle ways. Even QUICs unencrypted header parts are designed to be difficult for intermediate network equipment to track and modify, because of their history of making other protocols over TCP unreliable by doing this.

SCTP is another high-performance protocol that provides many of the same network and performance features as QUIC, but it has been around for ~25 years. It was widely implemented. It was even in Linux 2.4 and available for Windows XP and MacOS. WebRTC in browsers can use SCTP, which makes sense (it predates QUIC) but is actually a bit of a problem if you want wide interoperability with WebRTC.

But despite SCTP being around and widely implemented, and doing many of the good things QUIC does, SCTP was never widely adopted, nor seriously considered for HTTP, mainly because of the problem of firewalls. (And to be fair, some operating system API limitations).

Basically, if TCP were invented today, it could not be deployed succesfully over much of the internet unless it was wrapped in UDP and encrypted.

UDP-with-encryption is now playing the role that the IP protocol is supposed to play, just because too many firewalls block nearly every IP packet that doesn't have type TCP or UDP. If UDP is used but without encryption for a popular protocol, eventually too many firewalls deep-packet-inspect that UDP protocol too, and do the same kinds of blocking, tampering or making protocols break.

This sad problem is called protocol ossification. As Google's AI puts it: "QUIC is the first IETF transport protocol to deliberately minimise its wire image to avoid ossification.". See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_ossification and https://http3-explained.haxx.se/en/why-quic/why-ossification

There are some downsides to QUIC's ossification resistance. I did some work for a mobile equipment manufacter who adaptively manage the queues for multiple TCP streams from different users and different applications from the same user, to help ensure a better, fairer and lower-latency experience. QUICs properties made it difficult to measure what's going on at the protocol level, forcing the queue management to use crude statistical estimators instead, which don't work well on bursty protocols.
by Retric | 2025-10-09 15:13:54+00:00
Not really what I’m talking about. There’s quite a lot spent to avoid known failures and little way to know what the minimum they can get away with.

3 mile island wasn’t a public health hazard but lack of maintenance cost billions by destroying the reactor. Thus prompting the industry to spend significantly more money on maintaining reactors. The problem is it’s really difficult to determine what’s overkill here.

There’s something like 600,000 US bridges and sometimes people look a failure and say it’s rare enough not to be worth doing anything about.
by nradov | 2025-10-09 15:13:56+00:00
Of course we will have private-use self-driving cars. Auto manufacturers will get that technology one way or another, either by developing it themselves or licensing it from others. If there's consumer demand then they'll sell it: Mercedes-Benz is already selling level 3 autonomous cars to consumers. Most regular people prefer to own (or at least lease) their own private cars so that they can go wherever they want whenever they want and keep some of their stuff inside.
by zahlman | 2025-10-09 15:14:05+00:00
> You left out the fact that you can’t post to /r/conservative until

You present this as if it were somehow evidence that somehow justifies the bans from the other unrelated subs.

There is no morally justifiable reason why having mainstream conservative viewpoints (which is to say, ones held by a very large fraction of the general populace) should bar someone from non-political participation in non-political subreddits.

The bans in fact are another symptom of the same cause: every kind of right-wing enclave on Reddit gets trolled constantly. The generally left-wing userbase does whatever they can to ostracize right-wingers, or perceived right-wingers. Which includes both banning them from other spaces, and mocking them in their own.

> It’s a moderator-curated echo chamber.

This describes every vaguely political or ideological themed subreddit. Except maybe the general r/politics, which might still be "letting the votes decide" if you don't have the "acceptable" views on every issue. I have literally seen subreddits that would ban people for "ableism" for using the word "stupid" to describe an idea or proposal. And that was like a decade ago and it was getting clearly worse year after year.