MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by f1shear | 2025-10-08 08:49:27+00:00
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by lxgr | 2025-10-08 08:49:41+00:00
Yes, but send and receive paths don't have to be symmetric. It's perfectly fine to send via the third-party provider and receive to your own server and forward to the third-party provider.

The forwarding MX would need to support things like ARC and DKIM, though, or the forwarded emails themselves run a high risk of getting dropped as spam by the third-party provider.
by vladms | 2025-10-08 08:49:43+00:00
Hating a tool? And software developers with emotions ? (I get it for the artists :-p)

In my opinion AI makes visible more structural issues that were always there, but we could ignore. People addicted to various stuff (being substances or social networks or watching sports), social communities disappearing (no more going to the pub, stay at home with your TV), growing inequality (because capital is not taxed as labor), strange beliefs (all the conspiracy theories, which existed before) and others.

Find a use for the new tool to improve the situation if you can, but I think that hating tools can lead you on dark paths.
by geremiiah | 2025-10-08 08:49:53+00:00
Sorry, but lol. Germany even makes you pay to be able to piss in a toilet. Even public libraries aren't free! And let's not mention the health care system, which literally has two tiers, one for the poor and one for the rich, with of course the poor-tier being barely functional, and still expensive as fuck. "Social market economy" my ass. Germany is a country led by incompetent extremely paternalistic leaders, the major part of which come from the capitalist class, the rest of which are their Akademiker servants. The only people getting any kind of social benefits are the retired boomers and if you were to do the accounting, even they got massively shafted by the capitalists, because those boomers would be 3x richer if their lifetime savings were properly invested.
by hshdhdhehd | 2025-10-08 08:50:00+00:00
There is truth in what is said here but I dont think it is that extreme. I work at a circa 5k engineers company. So not small but not Amazon.

However I find most rules have a decent enough reason. Let's say you need 2 cose reviewers. This is to avoid mistakes going into prod. Not many reviews are rejected but if you had no code to reviews to prod I bet there would be more outages and cowboy code slings.

So it acts as a forcing function. Now I dont need to break that rule because lots of other things are not degenerate. But maybe I do one day. Maybe 90% of my team get pulled away to some high severity incident and so we left in the team cant get the reviews. Maybe we need to break the rule for a day to get a critical fix out. I think yhat would be OK because balancing the reason for the rule with the reason for the fix and the reason we cant follow the rule.

If there are rules you cant understand and feel like pure bureaucracy then I leave. Worked places like that where someone has a pet process and they'll shout "you holding it wrong". For most it is SCRUM but there are other ones. The people running things care more about process and ego than actual progress. Then leave.
by codethief | 2025-10-08 08:50:39+00:00
True, I guess I was thinking of the meaning of "government" in German for a second. Either way, though, if you consider "government" to include all three branches (executive, legislative, judicative), then there is really no way for the "the" government to take a stance on any issue, so "German government comes out against Chat Control" would be a rather nonsensical headline.
by slightwinder | 2025-10-08 08:51:17+00:00
AFDs operation-mode is to be always against the government and most others, so usually they are always debating against it, just because.. And in their case its far more than the usual playing opposition, they often switch even on their own stances.

Additionally, this is something that would be in their ideological background. I guess they just fear to become victims themselves.
by j-krieger | 2025-10-08 08:51:19+00:00
> Nuclear is not clean

The EU court agrees with me. I trust it to have more knowledge than either of us. Nuclear is low-carbon. End of story. You can deal with toxic waste easily. [1]

> adiating the humans of the future.

Gas and coal produce more radiation than nuclear energy.

> CO2 emissions are also still caused by it, and would grow when mining for nuclear material got harder by continued usage.

But they would not grow comparable to burning actual stuff. Not even close. You are being disingenious.

> No EU country has achieved that, to my knowledge. It would be very surprising giving the EU energy mix and the petrol based traffic sector. Sources please.

Sorry, mistake on my part, I meant low carbon electricity (so not burning literal poison, like Germany). Let's take France, the very country you critiqued [2]. Or Norway. Or Switzerland [3]. Now, compare it with Germany [4]. Note that every country that achieves a high score can either rely on geothermal energy or hydro, neither of which is reliably useable in Germany. So for anyone who can't make use of these technologies, nuclear is the only option.

> Which means 60% is renewable, and that part is actually growing.

There is a hard limit here for Germany. We are not a prime candidate for neither wind nor thermal energy, so our renewable mix actually decreased this year, back to 55%. [5] We need a flexible backup option for situations like this. The only option is either continuing to burn dirty fuel, go back to nuclear energy or to make ourselves eternally dependent to buy electricity from other EU states (which is the current plan).

[1]: https://apnews.com/article/europe-nuclear-energy-natural-gas...

[2]: https://lowcarbonpower.org/region/France

[3]: https://lowcarbonpower.org/region/Switzerland

[4]: https://lowcarbonpower.org/region/Germany

[5]: https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulat...
by AdamN | 2025-10-08 08:52:56+00:00
The nuclear energy thing is a lark. The German nuclear base was already old and minimal by the time those decisions were made (unless you're talking about Greens in the 90s - but they barely had any power). Fundamentally Fukushima happened and Merkel realized that the blast radius of full sized nuclear plants is too big for Germany and there's no expectation that Germany has better controls than Japan had.

Anyway, nuclear just wasn't driving big energy percentages at low prices so getting rid of it had minimal impact.

The big impact was Russian gas being severed.
by rhubarbtree | 2025-10-08 08:53:09+00:00
Well, the Wikipedia article is clearly incorrect - the lab leak hypothesis is supported by evidence. Even if you don’t think it’s true, you have to agree that there is at least some supporting evidence that adds weight to the hypothesis. Not a great advert for Wikipedia. The absolutist statement clearly indicates political bias rather than objective enquiry.

I knew that some people still think the market hypothesis is true (despite the lack of good evidence), I was more interested in the response to this particular testimonial? For example, did anyone push back on specific points?

I ran the doc through AI and asked it to form the strongest counter arguments it could muster. It didn’t do well and concluded lab leak was more likely than market.
by j-krieger | 2025-10-08 08:54:41+00:00
> Yes and North Korea is "Democratic People's Republic of Korea". Names don't reflect reality.

Our model came first, then came the name. I explained it's origins thoroughly, it is rooted in economic theory and it is what is really happening in Germany. It's codified in Articles 20 and 14 of our constitution. Social welfare is among the best in the world and covers a lot, but taxes are high. This would never happen in any free market economic models. I recommend you read up on it a bit before making snarky comments on the internet.
by geremiiah | 2025-10-08 08:54:49+00:00
100%. The biggest economic problem plaguing Germany and most of the EU is that all the capital is in the hands of incompetent old farts, so called, "business leaders", and the economic class system is way more hierarchical and old fashioned than in the US and I dare say, even China. Supposed "market capitalism", means your economy is planned, by diaper wearing boomers whose thinking and worldview are stuck in the 20th century.
by facesearch | 2025-10-08 08:54:55+00:00
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by camillomiller | 2025-10-08 08:55:19+00:00
I wonder what is the point of debating like this on the internet.

I say billionaires, you mention a "millionaire" chancellor.

We don't have anything against becoming rich. But if you think that Herr Merz, who I haven't voted for and politically dislike, is anything close to a tycoon, well I think we're swinging in two very different planes of reality.

He's a high-income lawyer who invested and has a net-worth of about 15 millions. If you think that's anything close to problematic, I don't know what to say. Maybe you should research the order-of-magnitude differences there are between a millionaire and a billionaire.

Re: free healthcare: if you have the means, and you work, you rightfully PAY INTO THE SYSTEM. If you can't and you are poor, it is free for you. That is how a social-democratic society work. The system is not perfect and could be better, but that is what "Free" healthcare is.

Also, we're so good at freedom that we do have private healthcare, so you could have payed into that system and gotten yourself your little indivisualim-tingling services.
by benterix | 2025-10-08 08:55:37+00:00
I upvoted you but strictly speaking it is not true. "AI" is such a broad term. You probably meant GenAI like LLMs, and even here there are some genuinely useful applications.

But in general, there is a lot of extremely fascinating stuff, both to exploit and explore, for example in the context of traditional (non-transforeme-based) ML/DL methods. The methods are getting better year by year, and the hardware needed to do anything useful is getting cheaper.

So while it's true that after the initial fascination developers might not be that interested in GenAI, and some even deliberately decided not to use these tools at all in order to keep their skills fresh and avoid problems related with constant review fatigue, many tech folks are interested in AI in a wider context and are getting good results.
by choonway | 2025-10-08 08:55:40+00:00
I’m from the self-replicating self-reconfigurable systems side.

The problem with this is not about making the machines but the human intervention to make use of them effectively. You really need end-to-end automation to solve this.

If i don’t remember wrongly all this started due to john deere implementing DRM in their equipment. this is a political problem because the issue can be resolved by just buying chinese equivalents and changing patent/ip law.
by praptak | 2025-10-08 08:55:57+00:00
Test in general (unit tests paticularly strongly) are prone to the streetlight effect. The more trivial or unimportant something is, the easier it is to test it. This creates the temptation to test the easy part rather than what's important. And this can be made even worse if the organization pushes for "legibility" via the easy "legible" metrics (e.g line coverage) rather than hard "illegible" metrics (i.e. a review of the tests by an experienced engineer).
by rckt | 2025-10-08 08:56:50+00:00
This feels like an attempt to sell vibe coding to skeptics. I don't feel there's a need to. People find their own workflows how to use AI. Some people go all in, some use it here and there, some use it to write tests, etc. I feel annoyed enough having the AI topic discussed and reviewed everywhere every day, I don't need more of this.
by ClassicOldSong | 2025-10-08 08:57:08+00:00
Maybe the world around you is just too kind to you.

> which we can all see in their licenses and in some file notices.

Not enough. If not they have lied to me, I won't care about the file-level attribution at all.

> I think the value should be what problem you are solving in a unique way

Yes, the code contain my own construction of a signal system implementation and my own algorithms that AI's can't get them shuffled or rewritten.

> which may put the other party off and force them not to collaborate with you

I actually assisted them pretty well at the beginning, until I discovered that they're lying. They reached me through NativeScript(which is proved to be another vitim of them later), and promise me that they're making a huge ambitious project that even Google and Meta failed.But they're making really really basic mistakes that even a noob should know where the problem is, and they didn't even try to address the problem themselves - I pointed out the problem, and they just refuse to investigate and debug, refusing it really hard. It's them that first starting to not cooperate.

> Also, Imagine someone added your own project to their hall of shame, you would no longer want to work with them would you?

This happens *after* their non-cooperation.

> which it seems if they where introduced by NativeScript.

NativeScript is also been lied to. They tell me that they plan to acquire NativeScript but failed at giving evidences that they have the ability to do so. When I asked NativeScript side about the acquision, they're shocked to hear this, and denied the possibility of being acquired as it is now a OpenJS Foundation project.

> Since they where introduced to you by a trusted party

That's their trick. They claim they worked for Nvidia, it tricks NativeScript and then they can use NativeScript's introduction to trick me. It is almost impossible to verify that they really worked for NV but it tricks people into beliving they're capable of something big, but actually they can't even debug such a simple problem on their own.

> Also you mentioned they Sponsored you in the hall of shame this is not the behavior of people with bad intentions.

It's also their trick. They want to get much more from me beyond the project itself, totally ignoring that I have my own projects and plan. Also the price they claim to pay for what I'm going to do is really really low, considering how ambitious the project is and how incapable themselves are.
by bayindirh | 2025-10-08 08:57:44+00:00
Thanks Synology, but it's too late. I have found out TrueNAS and ASUSTOR (which can run TrueNAS if I want to). I'll continue from that path.

Thanks for all the fish, that was an enlightening experience.

OTOH, I wish them luck. They look fine for un-techy folks to store their data locally. Would like them to stick around. Also, competition is always good.
by codethief | 2025-10-08 08:57:55+00:00
> which is comparable to the majority leader in the US Senate.

Not really. First of all, Jens Spahn doesn't lead a majority, he merely leads his party's parliamentary group, which has 208 of 630 seats. Second, he has already proven this year that he doesn't have the members of his own parliamentary group under control, so his stance on a matter should not be taken for more than it is.
by skeezyjefferson | 2025-10-08 08:57:58+00:00
we are decades away. its why carmack quit to pursue other avenues. the chasm between the state of the art (gaming) and where VR currently is (essentially, mobile) is too big not seem shitty in comparison. The then-recent proliferation of Arm and SoC made the industry think it was possible, they even convinced Carmack, but the bandwidth just isnt there. The innovation required on the software side is massive - so theyll just wait for hardware to get better.
by fennecbutt | 2025-10-08 08:58:20+00:00
I have a ds920 4 bay from synology.

It's a pretty decent product, their browser OS for it is incredibly good and useful, the performance is pretty good and I've stuck extra ram in it, ssd for caching reads/writes (altho I have it disabled for writes).

But after what they've done recently I don't know if I'd use em again.

I know everyone jusy says "build your own!!!11" I used to be like that too I love tech. But sometimes we just want a tool that just plugs in and works, so we can reach our final goal faster.

I definitely learnt that with 3d printing, used to spend so much time fiddling with printer and never really printing until I got a bambu - then the focus was just on printing as much as I wanted, not much having to muck about calibrating each time.
by arcfour | 2025-10-08 08:58:23+00:00
If you're really fast, you can even equip tank gear for your opponent's attack, then swap back to mage gear for your own. Very strong if you can pull it off consistently due to how paper thin mage robes are. Not sure how many other games are that...slow?

And yeah, a lot of people are quite predictable and easy to read. In fairness there are only a handful of things you could possibly do in a fight :-)
by nosianu | 2025-10-08 08:58:42+00:00
There must be more than that, another explanation, if they are slow. Ten year old CPUs were plenty fast already, far more than enough even, to power an NAS device.

My Windows 11 often takes many seconds to start some application (Sigil, Excel, whatever), and it sure isn't the fault of the CPU, even if it's "only" a laptop model (albeit a newish one, released December 2023, Intel Core Ultra 7 155H, 3800 (max 4800) Mhz, 16 Cores, 22 Logical Processors).

Whenever software feels slow as of the last 1+ decades, look at the software first and not the CPU as the culprit, unless you are really sure it's the workload and calculations.
by globular-toast | 2025-10-08 08:59:11+00:00
That's a shame IMO. Sometimes you need a little nudge to go down the right path. I built a NAS 5 years ago in a Fractal Design Node 804 and put TrueNAS Core on it (back then it was called FreeNAS). It's been totally "set and forget" for me. The only thing I've done in 5 years is upgrade TrueNAS, which has always worked flawlessly.

I do wish TrueNAS Core (FreeBSD based) would stick around (it's still going for now), but TrueNAS Scale (Linux based) is probably OK too. Scale has a bit too much focus on being an all-in-one "server with storage" than a simple NAS. I like my NAS to be completely separate from everything else and only accessible via NFS etc. That way I can trust ZFS is keeping snapshots and no software bugs or ransomware etc. can truly corrupt the data.
by mike_hearn | 2025-10-08 08:59:19+00:00
History doesn't necessarily repeat nor rhyme. For 15 years now there have been people wrongly calling a bubble. The justifications change but looking back we can say they were wrong - or at least, a "bubble" that never pops and people get bored of talking about might have just been actual, real economic growth.

September 2020: 2020 Tech Stock Bubble (Sunpointe Investments, tech in general)

https://sunpointeinvestments.com/2020-tech-stock-bubble/

August 2017: When Will The Tech Bubble Burst?" (NY Times)

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/05/opinion/sunday/when-will-...

March 2015: Why This Tech Bubble is Worse Than the Tech Bubble of 2000 (Mark Cuban, bubble is social media)

https://blogmaverick.com/2015/03/04/why-this-tech-bubble-is-...

May 2011: The New Tech Bubble (Economist, bubble is "web companies")

https://memex.naughtons.org/where-angels-dare-to-tread-the-n...

And of course I haven't even bothered listing all the people who said cryptocurrency is a bubble. That's 15+ years of continuous bubble-calling.

At some point you have to say that if the thing supposedly inflating the tech bubble changes four or five times over a period that lasts a big chunk of a century, then maybe it's not a bubble but simply that economic growth comes from only two sources: a bigger population and technological progress. If technological progress becomes concentrated in a "tech industry" then it's inevitable that people will start claiming there is a "tech bubble" even if that doesn't make much sense as a concept. It's sort like claiming there's a "progress bubble". I mean, sure, there can and will be bankruptcies and retrenchments, as there always are at the frontier of progress. But that doesn't mean there's going to be a mega-collapse.
Show HN: Claude Code front end deploying to GCP via deterministic infra back end
by kvgru | 2025-10-08 08:59:50+00:00
I’ve been exploring LLM-driven developer workflows and built a demo where Claude Code acts like a Replit-style frontend for infrastructure.

- You write a prompt in Claude - Claude generates a workload spec - Humanitec receives the spec and deterministically deploys infra to GCP (via Terraform) - App is up in under 1 minute — no pipelines, no DevOps tickets

The backend is policy-enforcing and built for enterprise use cases (used by large orgs like Apple, ABB, etc.), but the flow feels like magic for devs or agents.

demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvx9CgBSgG0

Repo: https://github.com/DemoKaspar/vibe-coding-template

Curious how others are thinking about agent-first infrastructure. What would you add/change?
by osivertsson | 2025-10-08 09:01:23+00:00
When leadership makes decisions that are so out of touch with their customers it also severely impacts internal morale.

Yeah, so they reversed eventually. But the technical and support people at Synology probably tried to fight this and lost. That feeling of being ignored despite having given this company your everything for many years. I bet many woke up feeling that the magic that made Synology a good place to work is gone.

My guess is they will continue to lose the most valuable employees unless they replace management with some internally well-respected staff that understands their customers well.