MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by layer8 | 2025-10-29 18:01:35+00:00
> The issue is that static content only sites do not exist

You’re exaggerating a bit. I have a static website that hasn’t changed in over 15 years. Okay, not completely static, as one page has a (static) HTML form that creates some file templates as a utility, but everything is working like it did in 2010. Except that I added TLS support at some point so that people don’t get scary warnings.
by astrobe_ | 2025-10-29 18:01:59+00:00
You can add the Flight Simulator series to the list, which spawned a vast ecosystem of add-ons, both free and commercial.

I believe though, that what you actually need as a big or small company, is good game first and foremost; the engine is secondary. When the community around a game reaches a critical mass, the very small percentage of its members who have the skills to modify things becomes significant as well.

For instance, Richard Burns Rally was not intended to be modded at all, yet the fans added new cars, new tracks, online scoreboards, etc.

In the Luanti [1] community (a voxel games engine/platform, designed to be moddable nearly from the start), one begins to see something similar as well: notable games gets mods, others don't (the former default game is a particular case; it is not exactly good but go tons of mods because of its status, and games based on it benefit from that ecosystem). Yet all use the same engine (perhaps Roblox is similar in that respect, I'm not sure if they have "reified" whole games like Luanti did).

[1] https://www.luanti.org/
by LocalPCGuy | 2025-10-29 18:02:45+00:00
Not invalidating your viewpoint and I'd bet we are pretty well aligned, I too have a pretty local-first view and that as a country we put too much emphasis, energy, and discussion on national politics and could all benefit from "getting outside". That said, I did want to point out that this comes across as a very self-centric viewpoint, one that would differ greatly depending on who you ask. Even as an anecdotal story, it offers very little to say about the current state of affairs related to how people voted, which would appear to be the intent of the response.

As a bit of a semi-related aside, while everyone has different motivations when voting, as a whole when folks are able to vote for their gov't, one hopes that enough people are thinking about what is good for the majority and society as a whole and not only what is good for themselves. And that has more impact at local and state levels usually. A bit idealistic, admittedly.
by quantified | 2025-10-29 18:03:07+00:00
If the religion is just some fallible oral tradition, it is no better than an institutionalized TV show. Its claims for humanity are far too important for that.

Remember, the Gospels weren't written contemporaneously. Only after something like 4-5 generations. And when have we heard of people changing or faking history to suit their own ends?

The Judeo-Christian god is a nacissistic, somewhat sadistic mob boss. Way too human.
by 12_throw_away | 2025-10-29 18:03:09+00:00
Nope, more than the portal. For instance, I just searched for "Azure Front Door" because I hadn't heard of it before (I now know it's a CDN), and neither the product page itself [1] nor the technical docs [2] are coming up for me.

[1] https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/frontdoor

[2] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/frontdoor/front-door...
by kevincox | 2025-10-29 18:03:13+00:00
I'm pretty excited this but for a slightly strange reason. I have a little monitor for the logs that posts things like player joins and deaths to a chat room. It is fun and also encourages people to hop on the server when someone joins.

However the source information was always missing and strange in the logs making matching some messages difficult. Hopefully this will make more messages more unique so that I can easily match the ones I am interested in.
by culebron21 | 2025-10-29 18:04:58+00:00
I've tried lots of German text books, and 99% of them are essentially very easy grammar tests, which you quickly learn to fill, without actually learning to speak. In Goethe Institut's courses you also simply fill many tests, but in a group. This may help preparing for an exam, but not to learn anything.

That said, I'd love to see excercises on a really hard matter: verb controlling the noun. E.g. ich vermeide <which prep?> <noun|infinitive>. And not just random verb + random object, but sequences of the same verb, to get it remembered.
by tmtvl | 2025-10-29 18:05:14+00:00
My mother uses Windows 11 and it's absolute misery. I had the eID stuff working under Firefox, then one day it just stopped working. After a lot of flailing about I couldn't get it working again and I eventually caved and installed Chrome. Then it worked for a few months and it stopped working again. Now I have her use Edge for eID stuff, but if that fails I'm just gonna get her a System 76 laptop with Linux Mint because it Just Works.
by dsego | 2025-10-29 18:05:19+00:00
You're right, I lost the plot. I still think it's mostly genetics, just because her hygiene and frequency of dentist visits are comparable to mine. I wish I was keeping record though, because little things can add up. I obviously placed low priority on morning brushing but on the other hand she never flosses, and here we're discussing the minute details of flossing technique.
by giraffe_lady | 2025-10-29 18:05:46+00:00
I mean they are flashbanging houses, teargassing residential neighborhoods, dragging parents away from their screaming children outside of elementary schools, shooting people, all in chicago right now. The things you mention were serious problems we needed to address 5, 10, 20 years ago. We did not and now we have a very different problem to solve. We will still have to address those things but we have to deal with this first.
by mikkupikku | 2025-10-29 18:05:55+00:00
There's no reason for them not to. Open source launchers using the "honor system" for account verification are already established and normalized. It's trivial to just comment out that verification. The jars and assets are free to download from Microsoft's servers without needing an account. It's a trivial game to get without paying, so I don't see any downside for them to open source the engine.
by out_sider | 2025-10-29 18:06:39+00:00
Thanks :). We don't use Azure as our registrar. It seems I'll have to plan for this then, we also had another issue, AFD has a hard 500ms tls handshake timeout (doesn't matter how much you put on the origin timeout settings) which means if our server was slow for some reason we would get 504 origin timeout.
by TZubiri | 2025-10-29 18:06:58+00:00
Very nice. Just yesterday I wrote about the 13-18 age group using ChatGPT and how I think it should be disallowed (without guardian consent), this was in the context of suicide cases.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45733618

On a similar note, I was completing my application for YC Startup School / Co-Founder matching program. And when listing possible ideas for startups I straight out explicitly mentioned I'm not interested in pursuing AI ideas at the moment, AI features are fine, but not as the main pitch.

It feels like at least for me the bubble has popped, I have talked also recently about the way in which the bubble might pop would be due to legal liability collapse in the courts. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45727060

This added with the fact that AI was always a vague folk category of software, it's being used for robotics, NLP and fake images, I just don't think it's a real taxon.

Similar to the crypto buzz from the last season, the reputable parties will exit and stop associating, while the grifters and free-associating mercenaries will remain.

Even if you are completely selfish, it's not even hugely beneficial to be in the "AI" space, at least in my experience, customers come in with huge expectations, and non-huge budgets. Even if you sell your soul to implement a chatbot that will replace 911 operators, at this point the major actors have already done so, or not, and you are left with small companies that want to be able to fire 5 employees and will pay you 3 months of employee salary if you can get it done by vibe code completing their vibe coded prototype within a 2-3 deadline.
by lapcat | 2025-10-29 18:07:24+00:00
> Well, it's a $5 app on the App Store. ~$3.20 will go towards paying the indie dev, and most of the remaining ~$1.50 will go directly into Apple's coffers as a reward for doing such a good job locking down their operating system.

This is not a defense but merely a correction: The small developer program is 85%/15% rather than 70%/30% for anyone making less than $1 million per year.
by mrbombastic | 2025-10-29 18:07:29+00:00
If you haven’t seen it this video is a dystopian display of this tech in action: https://www.reddit.com/r/EyesOnIce/comments/1ogm1qk/ice_agen...

I am struggling a bit personally with how to grapple with the fact that the career I have chosen has ended up bolstering all the horrible inclinations of those in power. I think we need some kind of tech workers collective and some version of the hippocratic oath to start pushing back against this bullshit.
by HowardStark | 2025-10-29 18:07:58+00:00
Nebula[0] addresses this and is IMO an improvement over WireGuard. Came out of Slack originally, and it supports peer discovery, NAT hole punching, and some other cool features. Also still uses the Noise Protocol.

In practice, the extra networking features + better first class peer config management baked in is very nice (Nebula’s “lighthouses” are configured with a tool similar to DSNet for Wireguard[1])

[0] https://github.com/slackhq/nebula [1] https://github.com/naggie/dsnet
by j2kun | 2025-10-29 18:08:25+00:00
Came here to say this, but with caveats. The particular domain has extra properties that allow their "stupider" algorithm to work better in their case. But a general graph drawing system has to deal with the inherent generality of the domain.

Usually there is a good middle ground: heuristic analysis of the input to see if it fits well with special-case "stupid and fast" algorithms, and sophisticated optimizations that are the fallback and work for everything and come with guarantees.
by smashed | 2025-10-29 18:08:32+00:00
They are an alternative to the tailscale operated DERP servers, which are cloud relays.

Even with the much touted NAT punching capabilities of tailscale, there are numerous instances where tailscale cannot establish a true p2p connection. The last fallback is the quite slow DERP relay and from experience it gets used very often.

If you have a peer in your tailscale network that has a good connection and that maybe you can even expose to the internet with a port forward on your router, you now have this relay setting that you can enable to avoid using the congested/shared DERP servers. So there is not really a new use-case for this. It's the same, just faster.
by camel-cdr | 2025-10-29 18:08:37+00:00
Yes, but keep in mind that I'm purposfully comparing development RTL on the open-source side with finished silicon product on the proprietary side.

Many companies have production ready/fully verified IP that are much faster than XiangShan, but they haven't taped out and productized it yet.

E.g. Tenstorrent Ascalon IP is available and at 21 SPECint2006/GHz. They want to release a lower clocked devboard on TSMC 12nm in 2026 Q2.

XiangShan is currently at 15 SPECint2006/GHz, but are targeting 22 SPECint2006/GHz in the next iteration, that is currently in the works. Well have to see who gets there first.

The inherent gap between RTL design and final product may be large enough that open-source RTL can keep up in terms of IPC, if XiangShan continues their momentum. But I think open-source trailing 1-3 years is a more realistic long term outcome.
by advisedwang | 2025-10-29 18:08:57+00:00
They legally can take a photo of you, sure.

But they aren't just taking a photo from across the street. They are also:

1. "briefly" detaining you to make you face a camera and take of hats etc for the app to get a good enough shot.

2. arresting you if it doesn't correctly identify you

3. using protected characteristics to decide who needs to get scanned.
by topspin | 2025-10-29 18:08:59+00:00
> Radxa Dragon Q6A looks great

Indeed. With 16GB RAM, NVME, integrated GPU, 1Gbps ethernet and Wi-Fi, it's basically the mean 2017-2018 laptop. External Wi-Fi antenna connectors (plural) is eye opening. Too bad it's Quectel AIC8800.
by GuinansEyebrows | 2025-10-29 18:09:00+00:00
look, i'm not comparing people who buy a stupid fridge with crime victims. but those people are not involved with the ability to push invasive advertising onto the stupid fridge -- it's the profit-motivated assholes who work for the corporation producing the fridge, and the shareholders who let them get away with lying about their intentions.

yes, there's some level of expecting to be screwed by a vendor based on past experience, but we should never shift the blame away from the people actually Doing The Bad Thing and we should always hold their feet to the fire before we say "you should have known better, dummy who needs to keep their food and medicine cold and thinks the shiny screen is neat".

It's not morally or ethically wrong to think the shiny screen is neat.
by amilich | 2025-10-29 18:09:08+00:00
Hey - really sorry to hear this - could you email me andrew@cursor.com? Here are 3 suggestions to try- 1. Reset your settings.json - if shared with vscode, sometimes settings can cause perf regressions 2. Could you try cmd-shift-p -> "capture and send debugging data"? Will send us some profiling data to debug 3. Clear your user data (will delete chats) as a last resort - cmd-shift-p, "reveal user data," close the app, then delete this folder and restart the app
by kvnn | 2025-10-29 18:09:19+00:00
I've been skeptical of NVIDIA products since playing with my Nano Jetson . The lack of various developers' success across different forums is striking. Also, the lack of actual support is striking (for example, it requires a downgraded Ubuntu host machine to receive flash updates).

My experience with Raspberry Pi products is a stark opposite. They just work.

As someone old to software but new to hardware, I'm not sure what to make of this.
by trollbridge | 2025-10-29 18:09:22+00:00
Twilio registered my business name as “My Twilio Account” and is unable to change it. My application for 10DLC also got rejected since I wanted to do something other than send marketing messages with it and I can’t figure out how to describe an opt-in only service that is strictly for employees, to their provided phone number, with a signature opting in to get payroll information texted to them.

As a test, I set up something to send junk quality marketing texts. Was approved.
by ivape | 2025-10-29 18:09:55+00:00
This is the only way. Tech companies cannot become like the police in many countries. The police in many countries are used as a "catch-all" function at the moment of, where they have to deal with the failure of other functions (parenting, community) exactly at the moment of (just-in time catch-all).

Your kid is on the fucking computer all day building an unhealthy relationship with essentially a computer game character. Step the fuck in. These companies absolutely have to make liability clear here. It's an 18+ product, watch your kids.
Show HN: Tiled Words, a daily puzzle inspired by board games and crosswords
by paulhebert | 2025-10-29 18:10:14+00:00
A week ago I launched Tiled Words, my own unique spin on the daily word puzzle genre.

Tiled Words merges tile-placing board game mechanics with crosswords. You rotate and rearrange tiles to find clues and rebuild a broken crossword. Every day there's a new themed puzzle for you to solve.

The game is web based: the graphics are SVGs, animations are powered by CSS, and Vue/Nuxt are used to power templating, reactivity, and routing. Most of the complex logic lives in TypeScript modules. The whole thing is responsive.

It's been a long time in the making. I started the first version in the Summer of 2024. The game was originally inspired by board games like Patchwork. I wanted to make a digital game where you placed tiles on a board. I explored layering a few different game mechanics on top of that but none of my prototypes felt fun to play, so I shelved the idea around September 2024. (At its most complex, I was developing a deck-building game about planting flowers to heal a broken land.)

This July while on a hike with my wife I had an idea: what if I put letters on the tiles and let you rotate and place them to build words. I whipped up a prototype and actually enjoyed playing it. Even better, my friends thought it was fun too. I was convinced to keep going when I shared it online and got a lot of positive feedback from strangers.

Since launch I've had several hundred people visit the site every day, and around ~350 people finish the daily puzzle every day. I've gotten a lot of sugI'm hoping to share this with a larger audience since people seem to enjoy it.

It's been a lot of fun to design and develop. I enjoy working with my wife to build new puzzles. (She's better at thinking of the clues than I am!) Please share it with your friends and check back tomorrow for a new puzzle!

(I hope it's okay that I'm sharing this again. Last time I tried, it didn't get much engagement but the people who did comment seemed interested.)
by Refreeze5224 | 2025-10-29 18:10:36+00:00
Once again, I'd like to see how supporters of the current administration, and states rights advocates generally, square this type of behavior.

I think we can all objectively say that the level of civil unrest that could theoretically need a National Guard response is basically zero, especially compared to, say, the Vietnam anti-war movement, or even the BLM protests in 2020.

There is no need for a federal response to the things happening right now, and the only logical reason for this sort of action is to consolidate federal control over the military, and prepare them to suppress dissent against Trump, especially around election season.
by hedayet | 2025-10-29 18:11:03+00:00
The sad thing is - $MSFT isn't even down by 1%. And IIRC, $AMZN actually went up during their previous outage.

So if we look at these companies' bottom lines, all those big wigs are actually doing something right. Sales and lobbying capacity is way more effective than reliability or good engineering (at least in the short term).
by saulpw | 2025-10-29 18:11:05+00:00
The community equivalent of Proof of Stake is reputation. You can't do anything until you've shown up for awhile and contributed in small ways, you gradually gain the ability to contribute in bigger ways, and if you are discovered to be malicious or corrupt or toxic, then your rights are revoked. The people who've gained this trust are presumably motivated to maintain it (although there's always the risk they sell their account/identity/soul for healthcare and do some damage before they're found out).
by davisr | 2025-10-29 18:11:20+00:00
So what? That sounds like competition, which is healthy in a free market.

And it's not a service, it's a copy. Customers are explicitly allowed to resell it, and they have. And I still earn enough cash to continue developing it.

And I have the search engine top hits. And I have thousands of social media comments linking to my website. Copying a business isn't just about copying the product. They have to copy my reputation, too. And my sales channels.

Stop being so afraid. Selling free software is good, and sustainable, and those who think otherwise are extremely naive, ignorant, or with ulterior motives.
Show HN: Lucent Chat – Create videos and images with Veo, Sora, etc. in one chat
by Tinos | 2025-10-29 18:11:20+00:00
Hey HN,

We built Lucent Chat because creating with AI has become a mess. You'd ask ChatGPT for a prompt, copy it into another tool, tweak settings, open three tabs, run into token limits, and lose your style halfway through. Iteration was slow, context vanished, and the process killed the creative flow.

Lucent Chat is our attempt to fix that - a single chat where you can generate, refine, and manage all your visuals and videos across Veo, Sora, Kling, Seedream, Nano Banana, and more. You describe what you want and Lucent handles the rest. It will find the right model, optimise your prompt + parameters behind the scenes.

Once you do generate something, it's dead simple to keep on going and iterate off it with remixing. You can also get inspiration from what others are creating.

We started this out of frustration with how fragmented creative AI had become, and now we're releasing it to the world.

We're giving out free credits (40 images or 4 videos with Sora 2) to early adopters from HN!

You can try it here: https://lucentchat.com?utm_source=hn

Feedback is hugely appreciated.
by drunx | 2025-10-29 18:11:44+00:00
Somehow I grew up with the expectation that coffee in US is exceptional everywhere. I guess from movies, pop culture - just how much coffee is part of American daily life.

Then later in life, when I traveled to US as an independent adult (after EU coffee culture upbringing), for work, and embraced the local coffee culture... I had a big disassociation between what my mind thought about how coffee in US should be and what it actually was.

I realized that majority of positive feedback about coffee drinks was based on all those other things people put into coffee...syrups, chocolate, marshmallows, cinnamon, milk, etc. Etc.

While the most basic espresso was... Vile:(
by stronglikedan | 2025-10-29 18:11:53+00:00
The Meta Quest is very easy to develop for. There's tons of games of all caliber from solo devs up to full studios. The reason the Metaverse is failing is because no one wants it, even though they keep shoving it down people's throats. VR gamers just want to play games, not dick around in "worlds". Meta is tone deaf to this.
by HypnoticOcelot | 2025-10-29 18:12:32+00:00
What do you mean by "really old"? My experience with games available on Steam has been fine(barring those big-budget ones), but I've had problems in the past setting up games from CD-ROMs that have DRM on them. Proton and Wine still don't play so well with SafeDisc or SecuROM, and traditional Windows workarounds(when applicable) often don't work on Linux.
by crims0n | 2025-10-29 18:12:44+00:00
The internet has made people believe they are smarter than they actually are, I fear AI is only going to exacerbate that trend. Worse yet, it dampens the motivation to be smarter because being smart is hard work, and why put in all that work when you can outsource it and achieve a similar result?

I feel like a live, in-person conversation is the only way to evaluate a person's intelligence these days.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-10-29 18:13:03+00:00
Ignore them? Operate outside of US reach. The tubes are global.

EDIT: Legally, you have no right to privacy in public, if your photo is captured in public (US centric), broadly speaking. You have the right to record law enforcement officers exercising their official duties in public.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/02/yes-you-have-right-fil...

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/08/federal-judge-upholds-...

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/02/fourth-circuit-individ...

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/07/victory-another-court-...
by PaulKeeble | 2025-10-29 18:13:46+00:00
As I understand it way back in the early Beta days of Minecraft obfuscation was added to avoid mods being embedded into the JAR and it being released as a combination enabling piracy of the game with mods embedded.

This has been a pain to workaround for years as the modding scene has gotten bigger. Hopefully this makes modding a bit more accessible.