MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mlrtime | 2025-10-17 11:44:24+00:00
Yes, voting does have consequences. My head isn't buried, I'm not easily manipulated by loud internet activists that resort to name calling.

Idk about Epstein or the files, doesn't affect me or 99% of the daily lives of the average wage earner in America. If you think that makes him a pedophile or anyone who supports him a pedophile, well good luck with that.
by alhirzel | 2025-10-17 11:44:34+00:00
I have had some really good results with Alpine.js and back-end templating for simpler apps (especially served from non-traditional embedded web servers). This base plus the combo of what kids these days call "vanilla JS" and whatever other libraries make sense has worked for me for small-to-medium complexity sites. It would easily grow to larger efforts as long as the team did. I think if my sites grew to need larger teams, there would be some value in using frameworks other people have used; this basically means "match the big guys" to make brainpower a little more fungible, even if the tools aren't perfect for the job.
by lossyalgo | 2025-10-17 11:45:08+00:00
I thought it was implied with "No RAID?" in response to data loss (wherein they mentioned that they had a backup :)

I'm personally very skeptical as I have been using/used RAID for 20+ years, and I have lost data due to:

- crappy/faulty RAID controllers: who actually spends money to buy a good hardware controller, when a cheap version is included in most Motherboards built in the last 15+ years? In one case (a build for a friend), the onboard controller was writing corrupt data to BOTH drives in a RAID-0, so when we tried to recover, the data on both drives was corrupt.

- Windows 8 beta which nuked my 8-drive partition during install
by amiga386 | 2025-10-17 11:45:16+00:00
They do have that right, but at the same time, a chaotic and vindictive adminstration can revoke the visa of, and then physically abduct, a non-citizen. They can then make statements that plainly make it clear they did that because of what the non-citizen wrote.

They can also contravene a number of other legal safeguards along the way, and disregard judges' orders.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detention_of_R%C3%BCmeysa_%C3%...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation_of_Rasha_Alawieh

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detention_of_Mahmoud_Khalil

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detention_of_Mohsen_Mahdawi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activist_deportations_in_the_s...

It appears the US has elected an administration that wants to turn the country into a lawless shithole, where the powerful do whatever the fuck they want, and they deliberately fuck with laws and safeguards, and deliberately target their political enemies (e.g. student activists), to flex how powerful they are.
by OutOfHere | 2025-10-17 11:45:27+00:00
Edited. Not only have I read numerous reports of it both on this site and on Reddit, but it personally happened to me around 2022. The number of such reports that I have read is easily 12x that of AWS. In contrast, AWS or any other cloud never did anything like this to me.

This is risked if the CPU or another resource is using close to 100% for a couple of months. Hetzner likes customers that pay for what they don't use.
by matheusmoreira | 2025-10-17 11:45:32+00:00
Then the court is either stupid or subservient to corporate interests. In both of these cases they deserve zero respect.

> Equally cynically, it's fair use because if it isn't, the entire economy collapses overnight.

Sounds about right. If they had the moral fortitude to apply the laws as they were supposed to, they'd do the right thing and if it collapses the economy then so be it. The fact they didn't reveals political calculation in their judgements.

When laws are stripped of their moral advantage, resistance to laws, courts and authorities becomes civil disobedience and a moral imperative of citizens. We cannot have mutually exclusive ideas existing simultaneously. That's how we get distortions like "you citizen must pay outta the nose for everything but the elite corporations can do whatever they want with complete impunity". The only acceptable way for them to resolve their conundrum is to either hold corporations accountable for their copyright infringement or abolish copyright for all. Anything else can and should cause civil unrest.
by bestest | 2025-10-17 11:46:50+00:00
It depends on the target product.

I'm working with JS for already 25 years. Tried all of the frameworks, and continue on doing it. And every time I try something new, the refactoring flow turns most of them into NextJS (if it's very UI rich or customer facing or something very web-oriented), or Vite+React+Tailwind (client) and Hono (backend) if it's more of a tinker toy needing more custom solutions.

The boilerplate with NextJS is cleanest (compared to all the other frameworks) and API is the most straightforward one, and you can safely ignore the vendor lock in. Its just a pretext to hate on NextJS. They all have some kind of a "vendor" lock in. Be it a vendor-or-a-specific-approach-or-whatever-lock-in.

And Vite+React+Hono — simplest to set up for quick experiments, and very powerful with minimal boilerplate. Will probably create a starter for this one, as I have been using this stack quite a lot lately.

EDIT:

You can pretend vanilla JS is all you need, but then your app grows, then you suddenly need types, and state, and more events and their handlers, and SSR or something else. Thus React has been the most stable bet for quite a while for me now.
by esjeon | 2025-10-17 11:47:04+00:00
> The companies that win won’t be those with the most or even the best features. AI will democratize those. The winners will be built on a data model that captures something true about their market, which in turn creates compounding advantages competitors can’t replicate.

And that's why I think the future of the software industry is data-driven, and we will end up with another GNU-like movement around free and open data models/schemas. I think we already have a good starting point: Linked Data[1] and schema.org[2]

[1]: https://www.w3.org/wiki/LinkedData

[2]: https://schema.org/
by electric_muse | 2025-10-17 11:47:21+00:00
Hey, did you read the article? The newsworthy point is that the EVs depreciate faster than gas counterparts.

But hey, that just means better used EV prices for the rest of us. You can get some high end gently used ones for a great price.

—

“ For Tesla owners in the U.S., their 2023 Model Ys are worth 42% less than what they paid two years ago, while a Ford F-150 truck bought the same year depreciated just 20%. Older EV models depreciate even faster than newer ones. ”
by emmelaich | 2025-10-17 11:47:27+00:00
I'd just like to mention Roy Calne, transplant pioneer, humanist, skeptic. Only died last year, at 93.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Calne

> Sir Roy Yorke Calne FRS FRCS (30 December 1930 – 6 January 2024) was a British surgeon and pioneer in organ transplantation. He was part of the team that performed the first liver transplantation operation in Europe in 1968, the world's first liver, heart and lung transplantation in 1987, the first intestinal transplant in the UK in 1992 and the first successful combined stomach, intestine, pancreas, liver and kidney cluster transplantation in 1994.
by saalweachter | 2025-10-17 11:47:33+00:00
So the reason the plural of anecdote is not, in fact, evidence is because science doesn't actually work by piling up data in favor of a hypothesis. It works by disproving other hypotheses until only one (or more excitingly, zero) is left.

An anecdote like this doesn't disprove the null hypothesis of "the patient just got better after awhile, because people frequently just get better after awhile". It doesn't matter how many similar anecdotes you stack up, because the null hypothesis still hasn't been disproved. You could have millions of perfectly true, identical anecdotes, and it still wouldn't change the situation, so why should anyone listen to one?

(Now, anecdotes are useful for identifying avenues of search, but that means the only thing you should be doing after reading an anecdote like this is running off to do a lit search for any actual studies, not trying it yourself or yes-anding with your own anecdotes.)

On the other hand, there are situations where an anecdote provides ample evidence. If a reiki practitioner walked up to a patient with a complete dissection of the lower spine, verified on X-ray, waves his hands over the patient, and a week later the patient is up and walking, holy shit, reiki works! There is no "people sometimes get better"[0], so the null hypothesis of "the patient will still be paralyzed" would have been disproven adequately by a single anecdote, assuming fraud was ruled out.

[0]I don't actually know for sure that people don't spontaneously get better from such a injury, but it was the clearest example I could think of.
by choo-t | 2025-10-17 11:47:56+00:00
> Can someone tell me another effective way to combat book piracy that is not Amazon's way?

There simply no effective way to lock a book from copy while being able to read it. It will simply slow the process to free the book, at worst it will result in error or information loss (some links and fancy layout)

> There are authors to these books on Kindle, and they don't want their books free on the internet, it's Amazon's jobs to combat this. They have no choice but to DRM

We, as a civilisation, don't have to respect their wish. Free (as in beer) books are a necessity for a lot of people, and free (as in speak) book should be the norm, DRM introduce plenty of problem fir thé reader, with not a single added value for the customer.
by vidarh | 2025-10-17 11:48:28+00:00
They're cheap, so I'd expect they get a substantially higher proportion of users who might think their account termination is unfair, but that were actually flouting the rules, so I wouldn't be surprised if there were a higher proportion of claims of unfair account termination... I've recommended Hetzner to people since 2008-2009, and know lots of people who use it, and I've never heard first-hand accounts of termination of any kind. But anecdotes vs. data and all that.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-10-17 11:49:03+00:00
This is the general problem with having a bunch of laws sitting around that allow the government to punish people for things ordinary people regularly do, but then exercise the "discretion" not to punish them until they do something the government doesn't like.

Because then you don't really have any rights. They can't formally punish you for speech but they can punish you for breaking the same unrelated law a million other people broke without knowing and that only you were prosecuted for, "coincidentally" right after you said something they didn't like.
by mdhb | 2025-10-17 11:49:33+00:00
As someone who does both a lot of app development and web development I’m always kind of confused about how insanely far behind the majority of the web crowd is on these topics and I largely put it at the feet of React who went off on a wildly different direction and ended up making a huge mess in my opinion that huge numbers of people will swear is somehow a “best practice”.

My advice is to go and learn a proper architecture (MVVM is a great fit in my opinion for MOST things) and then figure out how to implement that with something you enjoy using. My only bit of advice here is that the closer you stick to the underlying web platform the better off you’re going to be so if you want a concrete recommendation something like Lit here gives you all the primitives you need along with great performance, documentation and developer experience.
by jruohonen | 2025-10-17 11:50:18+00:00
"We also propose another solution aimed at fundamentally reducing citation errors: the development of “Reference-Accurate” academic LLM by major global publishers. Leading journals could develop their own specialized LLM, trained exclusively on rigorously verified academic literature from robust databases. This targeted training would ensure that every generated reference is accurate and directly traceable to published work. Ideally, these publisher-backed LLMs would be made freely available to promote open science."

I don't think it works like that. RAGs might provide something, yes, but they're not applicable due to paywalls. Funnily enough, some implementations in this space (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44274487) do not even give access to the papers so you're basically point-blank trusting a LLM.
by whizzter | 2025-10-17 11:50:52+00:00
I agree with the Next shitshow, but webpack/CRA was always shaky while Vite's sane defaults (and great reloading) has been a great improvement for us outside of the Next world and functional components now feels like a fairly non-error prone and simple way to work so I don't see that going away for a long time (and has already lasted a bunch of years).

I think the only shaky moving part for us right now is styled components being left behind due to the RSC changes, but there's both mostly source compatible rewrites as well as perhaps even better alternatives (vanilla-extract).
by OutOfHere | 2025-10-17 11:51:00+00:00
If you haven't read first-hand reports, then you haven't read all that much. If you search on Reddit, you may see many reports. It happened to me personally after I started using their CPU at nearly 100% for about two months. That's a report for you. They're cheap because they don't actually want people using what they're paying for. This is a theme that I have seen with German services.

Speaking of their rules, those are a bit insane too. Speaking of "flouting rules", any prospective user should think about whether it's okay for a cloud vendor to keep spying on which processes the user is running, even without a court order; it is not okay.

If you keep moving the goalpost, then you will understand nothing. You might as well be an employee of Hetzner.
by Qasaur | 2025-10-17 11:51:28+00:00
Hetzner is great for dedicated servers, but for those of us who need smaller-scale secure/confidential VMs I'm afraid that there isn't really any other choice than hyperscalers.

Does anyone know if there is a VM vendor that sits somewhere in between a dedicated server host like Hetzner in terms of performance + cost-effectiveness and AWS/GCP in terms of security?

Basically TPM/vTPM + AMD SEV/SEV-SNP + UEFI Secure Boot support. I've scoured the internet and can't seem to find anyone who provides virtualised trusted computing other than AWS/GCP. Hetzner does not provide a TPM for their VMs, they do not mention any data-in-use encryption, and they explicitly state that they do not support UEFI secure boot - all of these are critical requirements for high-assurance use cases.
by etothet | 2025-10-17 11:51:31+00:00
These are good points and I generally agree with you.

My guess is that, as I understand it, Anthropic’s belief is that subagents are usually not the proper tool for most tasks. In their guides and videos about proper use of subagents, they seem to really try to steer you toward “workflows” rather than subagents.

Maybe it’s time they rethink the overall strategy so that each new concept doesn’t have to be its own distinct feature (skills, plugins, marketplaces, subagents, etc).

https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/building-effective-age...
by cdfsdsadsa | 2025-10-17 11:52:17+00:00
>I don't want the government to decide which thoughts I can access and which ones I can't

That would be an interesting discussion in itself, but even so - accessing material in isolation over the internet removes all of the benefits of cultural and community self-regulation.

>freely run undercover propaganda and/or destabilization campaigns

I'm of the opinion that WWW3 has already happened - it was a war for hearts and minds waged over the internet, and we've already lost.
by klecansky | 2025-10-17 11:52:41+00:00
I had a similar experience when learning Elixir. I really like the language, but I ran into a lot of issues with the LSP not working properly. It might be because I’m using Windows with WSL, but I’m really looking forward to the new official LSP (https://github.com/elixir-lang/expert), and I hope it will make things better.
by npteljes | 2025-10-17 11:52:46+00:00
No, that legislation is perfectly fine! It's the pesky websites who can't get their grubby hands off of private data. They could very well do away with some of the tracking, and have no popup at all, fully legally! But they all chose not to, and would rather annoy everyone with the pop-up.

I'd welcome a ramp-up of the legislation: outlaw the kind of tracking that needs the banners currently outright. I'm sure a lot of websites would just geo-block EU as a result (like how some did because of GDPR), but I bet the EU-compliant visitor tracking solutions would suddenly skyrocket, and overall, nothing of value would be lost, neither for the users, nor for the website administrators.
by vidarh | 2025-10-17 11:53:10+00:00
You'll even see people in a lot of the HN threads on the subject refusing to believe AWS is expensive, even in the face of a lot of us with expensive (EDIT: meant "extensive". but will leave it there as the tpo is also apt...) experience running systems on both AWS and alternatives.

The biggest innovation AWS delivered was to convince engineers they are cheap, while wresting control of provisioning away from the people with actual visibility into the costs.
by moron4hire | 2025-10-17 11:54:10+00:00
The reality is that DOM is pretty high-level already. It's just not that hard to do. The only things that have improved my productivity over the years are:

A) getting better at handling graph data structure, B) learning how to use Regular Expressions as a code editing tool, C) quit chasing every new thing, and D) Typescript.

Having spent the last 20+ years building Web apps, I've only just started using React, due to company policy change. And quite frankly, I think it makes it much harder to maintain a large project. My company switched to React to make apps "easier to maintain for everyone" and in the process I've been the only one that has managed to learn React well enough to be productive in it. Most everyone else is really struggling with getting anything beyond the most basic stuff to work.

JSX encourages sloppy HTML. Props are are overly verbose. Hooks are a nightmare. Contexts are gross. Portals are a stupid hack for the very, very stupid reason of making it nearly impossible for parent elements to read anything about their children. The whole "props down, events up" paradigm is woefully naive and half of React exists to get around it because of that.

So yeah, if all you know is react, you've already been on the hard path.
by motorest | 2025-10-17 11:55:41+00:00
> There was no law to restrict that, so they just made something up.

That's a rather facetious interpretation. You're complaining that there was no law preventing software being distributed, and as there was a need to prevent that then lawmakers fixed that problem. That's hardly surprising, isn't it?

You also seem surprised that including cryptography software in existing lists designed to prevent export of military and/or dual-use technology is also surprising, unexpected, or outlandish. If you actually think about it, is it really?
by a3w | 2025-10-17 11:56:39+00:00
gas-powered cars will become much more expensive to operate. Perhaps not in the US and A, but everywhere the Climate treaty of Paris has any value.

In Germany, you can buy used luxury cars at high discount due to being fuel inefficient for years now, and that is with barely a price increase for gas and barely 1 l/100km to through 3 l/100km cars taking up more market share.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-10-17 11:56:42+00:00
> Obviously the act of circumvention itself qualifies, as does the code in the GitHub repository the post links to, but can you point to any prosecution of someone for a _prose description_ of circumvention (as opposed to actually making code available)?

There used to be some debate about whether a prose description is equivalent to computer code even though there are proofs in information theory that they are. English and C are just two different languages in which you can encode the same information.

But we don't even have to go there anymore. LLMs mean there are now machines that can execute a prose description. Code is speech and speech is code.
by Flamingoat | 2025-10-17 11:57:14+00:00
This happened enough that I think it was partially fixed in 3.5.

At the time 3.0 came out I was still in University and every other student I spoke to had the same experience. People also experienced in my first place of work in 2009.

This problem was ultimately fixed with 4.0 when they did something different with how multi-tab worked.
by e12e | 2025-10-17 11:57:18+00:00
With these patterns emerging, does anyone know how local LLMs are faring?

It seems to me that by combining MCP and "skills", we are adopting LLMs to be more useful tools; with MCP we restrict input and output when dealing with APIs so that the LLM can do what it is good at; translate between languages - in this case from English to various json subsets - and back.

And with skills we're serializing and formalizing prompts/context - narrowing the search space.

So that "summarize q1 numbers" gets reduced to "pick between these tools/MCP calls and parameterize on q1" - rather than the open ended task of "locate the data" and "try to match a sequence of tokens representing numbers - and generate tokens that look like a summary".

Given that - can we get away with much stupider LLMs for these types of use cases now - vs before we had these patterns?
by chipsrafferty | 2025-10-17 11:57:22+00:00
As someone who uses adblock, it is likely that they will encounter this problem every day. A massive amount of sites don't work or don't work fully with adblock. They can be trained to "whenever a site doesn't seem to work, try to turn of adblock for the site as a first measure". They won't forget it because they will do it every day.
by nick__m | 2025-10-17 11:58:01+00:00
Someone tried to enter by the window next to my front porch door, it prompted me to install a video doorbell because the dude that frightened my wife only received a ticket because there was no proof he tried (and fail) to force open a window and did not enter the house. If I had a recording he would have spent the night at the station and it would have been a criminal offense instead of a civil one.

Even if it only provides deterrence, and a slight chance of after the fact punishment, I don't feel idiotic for buying a "doorstep Webcam", the door is visible from the street so there is no expectation of privacy and I really don't care that someone else could access those recordings.

If I had indoors cameras they would be in a private network. But for a front porch camera the easiest to install IOT junk is perfectly serviceable.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-10-17 11:58:23+00:00
Tesla lowered the prices dramatically in Jan 2023:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1F5IQOynIawoXiJPV...

It does not seem remarkable that a new product takes some time to find its market price, and COGS goes down as supply chain improvements are made.

And there was a $7,500 tax credit at time of purchase introduced in Jan 2023. At least the graph comparing Model Y to Ford F150 seems expected.