MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kameit00 | 2025-10-08 08:00:53+00:00
I am using my own Mail Server (mailcow) beside my old gmail and other adresses. But for convenient, searchable offline Backups, I use Mailsteward (macOS) ... if it is of interest for someone: https://mailsteward.com

(alternatives for other OS: https://alternativeto.net/software/mailsteward/)

Then I put the database on multiple backup locations regularly.

Another thing, some people do not already know: If you don't need a throwaway-adress for some services, and you just want to make your mailbox more structured, you can use '+' before the '@' to add another word to your email adress.

Like: your.name+randomName@gmail.com

The +randomName will be ignored and the emails are received at your.name@gmail.com. But most Servers (I use) will put a '[randomName]' before the subject of the received email. Which can be quite handy for handling your emails. Even more, if the company uses multiple different adresses to send you emails.
by MindBreaker2605 | 2025-10-08 08:00:54+00:00
What's happening right now with Openai and these big tech deals is a simple chicken and egg problem Openai needs GPUs, Nvidia gives GPUs and calls it an "investment", both their valuations shoot up, AMD and Oracle jump in too same play. It's all "you boost my value, I boost yours," and suddenly everyone's rich on paper. But heres the catch if even one of these deals cracks, the whole thing could blow up like an overhyped balloon.
by ofalkaed | 2025-10-08 08:02:29+00:00
If you split a few seconds off of a couple long files and then joined those two short clips, how would it read that join in a way safe for low latency realtime audio? Pretty sure that would get hairy no matter how you did it once load gets high or memory gets low, safest would be keep the join in RAM and that would not be an issue for something short but what if it is a long track pieced together from a dozen takes which were recorded at 192khz? What does Ableton do if you have loads of copy and pastes and splits from a single file that you then delete? do you loose all those copy and pastes? Creating files for each edit is simple and effective, doing it for joins is probably a decent middle ground but it would not surprise me if Ableton also does it for more complex edits.

Making a new file for a reverse makes sense, only simple/efficient way to do that without a copy is to dump it backwards into a buffer but that eats RAM. I have only started in on doing realtime audio programming but I think to just read the file backwards in realtime would require you to create a counter specific to each reverse? But I am not much of a programmer and just starting in on the audio stuff, I could be missing something obvious.
by sofixa | 2025-10-08 08:02:34+00:00
Are there any, anywhere in the developed world? Le Figaro in France might count, but pracically every explicitly socially conservative media I can think of has had at least some suspicious events that have lowered or destroyed its reputation.

Be it Fox News lying and then claiming they're entertainment, not news, so they're allowed to lie; The Telegraph giving a soapbox to various climate skeptics and COVID deniers and having to retract them, or publishing flat out lies by folks like Boris Johnson; the Sun needs no explanation; Sky News Australia (same owner as Fox News) having a "Misinformation and conspiracy theories" section on their Wikipedia; etc.
by Hercuros | 2025-10-08 08:02:43+00:00
“Expression” is a bit of an overloaded word here. Carrying a swastika is considered similar to hate speech. Just like you cannot just make death threats in the U.S., even though you are just “expressing” yourself as long as you do not carry out the threat. Not saying those are exactly the same, but there are limits to expression, and spreading hate against large swathes of people is considered like that in Europe. Especially because that kind of speech can at some point turn into actual physical violence against the groups in question.
by piva00 | 2025-10-08 08:02:47+00:00
Completely agree, the American government has become incompetent in delivering any real big project to its citizenry, it went through a whole ideological process of gutting its abilities to do so.

It was designed to lose this ability, and to lean onto private enterprises to do anything but in the past the government was able to rollout highways, go to the moon, build dams, bridges, power plants.

If both the government and VCs are now unreliable to shepherd capital to direct it to the improvement of society at large you might need to rethink the whole system, and work to nudge it into a better path.
by joarxpablo | 2025-10-08 08:02:56+00:00
I think that's the wrong lesson to take. The realist approach to international relations where states are controlled from the top as you describe is more legible. Instead I agree that it's really based on interpersonal relationships, but that those relationships are between CEOs, diplomats, immigrant communities, military officers, and of course also country leaders. This illegible network is what guides actually guides policy.
by munksbeer | 2025-10-08 08:03:27+00:00
Every thread on this I have to post the same thing, which I hope will make people inform themselves, because we need our attention to be directed at the correct people.

> The EU tries something like this every few years.

This is NOT the EU trying it (I'm not even sure you know what you mean when you say "The EU"). This is certain groups of politicians from certain EU member states raising it again and again.

Please keep yourselves informed, don't spread an incorrect message, because this is an important issue to fight and needs accurate information.
by citeguised | 2025-10-08 08:04:17+00:00
Yes and especially with new developments, like "$Framework now has Signals!", my thought is "I don't really care since in some years, it won't matter anyways". I don't see how I can build this lower level knowledge by almost never actually using it. I don't even want to think about job-interviews after a year+ of vibing and then being asked how RxJS works.

I'm preparing mentally for my day-job to stop being fun (it still beats most other occupations I guess), and keep my side/hobby-projects strictly AI-free, to keep my sanity and prevent athropy.

I just hope we'll get out of this weird limbo at some time, where AI is too good to ignore, but too unreliable to be left alone. I don't want to deal with two pressures at work.
by lukan | 2025-10-08 08:04:35+00:00
"and for sure they won't have any good stuff like doctors with a surgery room."

Depends how big the project/village is.

Also the basic idea is to be as self sufficient as possible. Not as a dogma.

And the benefit once it runs is, you don't have to go make war around the globe, because your economy is threatened. You can just stay at home minding your own buisness.
by Xelbair | 2025-10-08 08:05:11+00:00
There's distinction between legality, reality and morality. Most of the time no one uses full formal legal terms in normal conversation.

I don't support AfD, I'm not German either - i just agree with parent poster's observation that for some reason left extremism(and I'm talking actual eco-terrorism for example) is more widely 'accepted' in public space when talking to Germans. Meanwhile mentioning even slightly Right ideas gets you lynched, and any form of discussions stops.

And from small sample size of Germans i know, this is the reason that did push quite few of those people towards AfD.

Frankly AfD is a perfect marker of your own policy making - are more people pushed towards it? you probably are doing something severely wrong as a policymaker.
by thesz | 2025-10-08 08:06:00+00:00
You may not encounter a situation where cache oblivious structure is needed, but the knowledge that some algorithms are cache oblivious can help.

For example, if you represent a set of values as an ordered array, you can perform many set operations with the (array) merge algorithm, which is cache oblivious one. You can avoid pointer chasing, etc, but your structure becomes static instead of dynamic as with, say, red-black trees. This is already a win because you can save memory and compute if at least one of your sets does not change much.

But, if you apply logarithmic method [1] you can have dynamic data structure (over static one, a sorted array) and still perform most of operations without pointer chasing and with cache oblivious merging.

[1] https://www.scilit.com/publications/4dd8074c2d05ecc9ed96b5cf...
by jeroenhd | 2025-10-08 08:08:05+00:00
Even if you don't do dealings with shady registrars or TLDs (.af was a fun TLD until the Taliban returned to power...), you can lose your domain. For instance, lots of British people lost their .eu domains when they were no longer EU citizens thanks to Brexit.

On the one hand, using national TLDs can be a problem if the area you live in is no longer considered part of your country (I imagine .ua owners may have that problem in the future with the way things are going). On the other hand, using TLDs like .com/.net/.ai/.io puts your domain under control of foreign law enforcement (US for .com/.net, UK for .ai/.io).
by wcrossbow | 2025-10-08 08:09:03+00:00
I'm not a go developer and this kind of thing is far from my area of expertise. Do you mind giving some examples?

As far as I can tell skimming the code, and as I said, without knowledge of Go or the domain, the "shape" of the code isn't bad. If I got any vibes (:))from it, it was lack of error handling and over reliance on exactly matching strings. Generally speaking, it looks quite fragile.

FWIW I don't think the conclusion is wrong. With limited knowledge he managed to build a useful program for himself to solve a problem he had. Without AI tools that wouldn't have happened.
by madaxe_again | 2025-10-08 08:09:08+00:00
In theory. In practice, you go to the financas, they hunt around on their computer for a while, and then they tell you it’s not possible without a citizen card. I’ve tried repeatedly, as it’s a pain in the arse not having one, and have repeatedly been told it would be easiest for me to get citizenship first.

And yes, believe it or not, Trás-os-Montes exists. I know you think Coimbra is the northern limit of the country, but people do live up here, and the nearest service desk for many things is Porto.

Anyway, you go vote chega, or whatever it is you do.
by kryptiskt | 2025-10-08 08:09:22+00:00
There are other stuff that goes into it. But they still do nearly all of that for the web site, so a print catalogue in addition wouldn't be such a massive undertaking.

The problem really is the distribution costs, it used to be delivered to every home in Sweden, doing it on that scale is expensive. If they were satisfied with doing a print catalogue for the biggest fans, it would be an insignificant cost.
by lxgr | 2025-10-08 08:09:28+00:00
The reason is probably that anything faster than USB 2.0 (480 Mbit/s) and supporting power over 3A/60V will need to have an active marker, and to read that, you'll need something slightly more complex than a connection tester.

That said, these things do seem to exist at this point, as sibling comments have pointed out.

As an aside, it's a real shame devices with USB-C ports don't offer this out of the box. They need to be able to read the marker anyway for regular operation!
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-10-08 08:10:14+00:00
Ugh. I appreciate the tool and I suppose I can appreciate AI for making the barrier to entry for writing such a tool lower. I just don't like AI, and I will continue with my current software development practices and standards for production-grade code - code coverage, linting, manual code reviews, things like that.

At the same time though I'm at a point in my career where I'm cynical and thinking it really doesn't matter because whatever I build today will be gone in 5-10 years anyway (front-end mainly).
by jqpabc123 | 2025-10-08 08:11:58+00:00
Same stuff, different day.

Results are probabilistic (not deterministic) and expensive (compute time/energy consumed).

More of the same (training/data) won't change this fundamental design characteristic/limitation.

Examples of misapplication and factual inaccuracies/BS start to spread across industry. For example:

https://apnews.com/article/australia-ai-errors-deloitte-ab54...

https://originality.ai/blog/ai-hallucination-factual-error-p...

Stay tuned for widespread legal liability cases and declining financial markets as the AI hype bubble starts to pop.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-10-08 08:12:06+00:00
USB cables push the boundaries of signal integrity hard enough that unless it's a 1 foot passive cable you're not really going to get any surprise speed boosts.

And when they upped the max voltage they didn't do it for preexisting cables, no matter what the design was.

> those features depend on compatibility from both sides of the plug

That's easy to understand. Cable supports (or doesn't support) device, it can't give new abilities to the device. It doesn't make labeling less valuable.
by Diti | 2025-10-08 08:12:42+00:00
A good old NAS, mounted into the filesystem, because the UI/UX is well-known and anything else than that is confusing for my family.

I just made them install Tailscale (because internet-facing NAS was getting attacked/probed all the time), and I configured the ACLs on my end so they could see the NAS’ at its ts.net address.
by lloeki | 2025-10-08 08:13:03+00:00
On clear days from the Vosges mountains you can easily see the French Alps (and even part of Austrian Alps if lucky), and especially the Mont Blanc. e.g places like the Ballon D'Alsace, and even all the way up north to Donon or Nideck+Schneeberg†.

Quite a bit shorter in distance (between 200 and 300km depending on where you sit) but visually stunning.

I seem to recall in older times there used to be some light semaphore infrastructure to communicate over these distances.

https://web.archive.org/web/20251008080738mp_/https://i72.se...

https://www.vosgesmatin.fr/environnement/2023/12/19/quand-le...

https://www.vosgesmatin.fr/environnement/2022/11/12/quand-le...

† Which I hiked this year, unfortunately only had a phone so all I get is the memory of seeing the Mont Blanc from there.
by thesz | 2025-10-08 08:13:28+00:00
B+-tree is an optimization for slightly faster sequential read, when leafs are organized into a list.

LSM allow for very compact data representation because most levels of the tree do not change much through time, and this is what we are talking about here. This compact representation makes LSM trees faster at sequential reads too (less pointer chasing).

Also, you can differently construct LSM trees for different operations: higher LSM tree with more narrow levels allows for faster writes, flatter LSM tree with less but wider levels allow for faster reads.
by aDyslecticCrow | 2025-10-08 08:14:19+00:00
You found a really great CAD guy, pay them well. Others struggle to find people to hire with the right knowledge, or struggle to train up the knowledge without existing in-house expertise.

Parts also vary in complexity; throwing a CAD guy without CNC knowledge in front of a 5 axis CNC and telling them to make a injection mold, doesn't feel too far off from giving a soldering iron to a software guy and asking them to design a circuit-board. It may work out if it's simple, but be prepared to invest a-lot of time letting them fail and build up a skill-set if you need something complex.

I have heard from an acquaintance that once you have a good mold, there is no reason to not just injection-mold nationally.
by tornikeo | 2025-10-08 08:14:53+00:00
I did not expect that ending.

From "I've spent the last six months working on a deep learning system to improve virtual screening for drug discovery"

To "I’m currently working on a new startup in the blockchain space with a couple co-founders."

I don't get why invest time in PhD if your work afterwards seems totally unrelated to your expertise. Is this how most of the PhD stories end, working at a completely-unrelated-to-your-expertise job for a good pay?
by zarzavat | 2025-10-08 08:14:59+00:00
Compared to the 90s, all the systems that existed to live without the internet have disappeared or been degraded. There are no more paper phone books or phone booths for example. If I want to apply for various government services I have to do so online, in the 90s there were paper forms.

I don't know how digitised the Canadian government is, but banning people from accessing the government is cruel.
by onli | 2025-10-08 08:15:33+00:00
That's incorrect on every level.

The greens are not filled with communists. They would feel very unwelcome there, given the capitalist move the party did in the 90s.

Die Linke is also not a communist party. It supports capitalism, but targets a social capitalism, like the CDU did in the 50s and the SPD did until the 80s. There are communist parties in Germany, like the MLPD, but they do not get many votes. Background here is that in a divided Germany the communists were not popular in West germany, also most of them got killed by the Nazis before, and on top of that West Germany banned the main communist party already 1956.

Also, rightwing politicians do call "Die Linke" (incorrectly) extreme left, and accordingly the CDU/CSU has a mandate to never cooperate with them.
Show HN: Oh Yah – Routine management app I built for my sons
by gantengx | 2025-10-08 08:15:49+00:00
Hi HN! I built Oh Yah! to help my sons (age 7 and 10) stick to daily routines without constant reminders. The core idea: minimal distractions during tasks by locking navigation when a timer is running, plus optional photo-based task completion for accountability

Built with React Native/Expo and Firebase. The trickiest part was designing the UX to be simple enough for kids with minimal distractions while giving parents enough control – ended up with a task-definition system that lets parents create weekly schedules with daily toggles instead of duplicating tasks across days

It's on the App Store now after a few months of dogfooding with my family. There's a 1-month free trial, then it's subscription-based. Would love feedback from other parents dealing with similar challenges
by zwnow | 2025-10-08 08:16:08+00:00
What about the accessibility of software development? Its completely vanishing for people that can not afford to pay for these agents. It used to be a field where you could get a laptop from the scrapyard and learn from there. It feels pointless. Also agents do not invent things, the creativity part is gone with them. They simply use what they've already seen, repeat the same mistakes a person made a few years ago. Its a dystopian way of working. Sure it enables one to spew out slop that might make companies money, but there is no passion, sense of exploration, personal growth. Its all just directing parrots with thumbs...
by schnitzelstoat | 2025-10-08 08:17:01+00:00
It's healthier in the physical sense probably because we walk a lot more.

But beyond that I think it's a bit silly to ignore the economic advantages America has. Much of Europe has sky-high youth unemployment which takes a serious toll on the mental health of those people and strains family relations as well.

Housing is much more expensive, especially given the small size of most housing. And of course, salaries are much, much lower, especially net salaries given the higher rates of taxation as well.

I guess many of these things aren't as apparent to a travel writer because he doesn't live here, and if he does, he probably brings his American money with him.
by oooyay | 2025-10-08 08:17:40+00:00
It's hard to say without turning back time that this would've changed things. I could see a seasoned cleaner arguing that the diff of x and y dividends would be impactful to their lives and that I could be pressured to build a less efficient, decentralized system that compliments the existing decentralized system because when I signed up inefficiency was already built in.

Having voting power didn't actually change my position as someone making a proposal. It actually made it worse because now instead of convincing one slightly less informed king I'm trying to convince a room full of even lesser informed peasantry. It'd be like if the cleaners tried to convince me to buy the new line of vac truck with technology advancements that can clean a complex sewer in ten minutes instead of 30. Reflexively, having never dropped down in waders into a sewer I'd say, "Well, what's 20 more minutes of contractual time?"

That's ultimately the social mechanics that were at play: "Okay nerd, why do you need better efficiency and audit ability? This industry has gotten by just fine filing physical hard drives into physical filing systems for a long time." Without being required to empathize with the problem, and without being necessitated to have experienced decision making it's like democracy with pure bureaucracy and no subject matter experts.
by joarxpablo | 2025-10-08 08:17:52+00:00
I also don't think that autocracy is more productive than democracy, but the industrial revolution is absolutely not dependent on democracy.

Imperial Germany was a practically feudal political system and yet it still managed to drive some of the most important inventions of its time and rivaled the UK and US in its economy. France under Napoleon III was by no means democratic, but had no trouble growing its economy.

More recently China has moved from an almost purely agricultural society to a fully industrialized country entirely under the auspices of an authoritarian communist party. Opening up and reform still happened under autocracy, it did not lead to any further political freedoms. The Soviet Union actually did have tremendous growth during the Great Depression but of course also stagnated after WW2 (perhaps due to its very high military spending trying to keep up with the US).

I think in general there is just a correlation between economic growth and democracy, but that they are not causally related (democracy might rather be caused by economic growth, but that is still debatable).
by pjmlp | 2025-10-08 08:17:52+00:00
AOLServer was the inspiration to the product I worked on, during my first experience working at a dotcom startup.

We had something similar, however it would plug into Apache and IIS, more configurable across several UNIXes and RDMS, and eventually even got an IDE coded in VB, for those folks not wanting to use the Emacs based tooling.

Eventually we also became a victim of the dotcom burst, however many of those ideas were the genesis of OutSytems platform, then rebooted on top of .NET, and still going strong on the market nowadays.
by raxxorraxor | 2025-10-08 08:17:56+00:00
Not only conservatives. Social democrats now positioned themselves against this, but they only do when convenient. They very much support increased surveillance attempts.

But if you look up past decisions, you will quickly notice that they have very similar ambitions here.

At some point they were against ISP saving connection info, only to switch in the last moment and then fully support and even pushing for it.

Aside from privacy violations, this did not have any positive effect on crime at all. It also showed that the German constitution is more or less a paper tiger.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-10-08 08:18:14+00:00
But is there much of a demand for it? VR has been a feature of video games for over a decade now, last time I used it I thought it was good enough (that was 6-7 years ago), technology wise. But it's nowhere near as popular as e.g. regular displays.

Any movie depictions of VR are fully immersive - Ready Player One (at least the film) takes some liberties in depicting the game world as if it's immersive, even though the guy plays with VR glasses and force feedback gloves/suits, all current-day technology. Most others have a direct brain interface. Some (Star Trek) model a realistic immersive environment around the player, but both of those are very much science fiction still.

There's some brain / tech interfaces, but if I recall correctly the brain has to learn to handle the signals first, there's no way to create a perfect, instant link.