MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bradleyy | 2025-10-22 16:01:16+00:00
It's pretty clear from my reading of the (EU) laws that giving prominence to "Accept all" and not having the same level of prominence for "Essential only" is not acceptable. US is a whole different story, but has some bright points: GPC is already required in several states, and spreading. This removes the need for a consent banner to show on screen, which is great.

Our primary job is to make our customers compliant, so we try to "push them into the valley of success". That means GPC and DNT "do the right thing" by default, no deceptive design (dark patterns), etc.
by sdoering | 2025-10-22 16:01:29+00:00
In addition to that dpa from Germany for German news. Yes, dpa has had issues, but it is in my experience by far the source trying to be as non partisan as possible. Not necessarily when they sell their online feed business, though.

Disclaimer: Started my career in onine journalism/aggregation. Hada 4 week internship with the dpa online daughter some 16 years ago.
Why do LMMs overuse these patterns of speech that aren't overused in the wild?
by jimbo808 | 2025-10-22 16:01:42+00:00
Here's a quote:

> "That’s not neuroscience — that’s cargo-cult reasoning wrapped in academic buzzwords."

I think most of us who use ChatGPT would immediately recognize this as being AI-generated. It's perfectly valid English and we could all imagine a real human saying it, but ChatGPT (or maybe LLMs more broadly) seem to have landed on certain patterns like this one that they use constantly. Is it some kind of overfitting? Post training where a biased toward this pattern was introduced? Something else?
Show HN: Xano 2.0 – AI-Generated Back Ends That Are Production-Ready
by DanielAtDev | 2025-10-22 16:01:45+00:00
Hi HN — I’m Daniel, DevRel at Xano.

Three years ago, Xano started as an internal tool at a software agency. We were rebuilding the same backend infrastructure for every client—auth, databases, APIs, file storage, scaling, security—over and over again.

To save time, the team built a platform that could generate production-grade backends in days instead of months. That internal tool evolved into Xano, which now powers products used by both startups and large enterprises.

Companies like Deriv, an online trading broker with over 3 million customers, use Xano to ship features faster without managing infrastructure. Independent builders use it to launch products without hiring backend engineers. And now, with Xano 2.0, we’re extending that same capability to AI developers and teams adopting an AI-first SDLC.

The Problem AI tools like Cursor and Claude Code make it easy to generate working prototypes in minutes. But getting a production-ready backend—auth, schemas, server-side logic, scaling, monitoring, microservices—still takes weeks. You’re stuck choosing between: Fast but fragile: AI-generated code that only works in demos

Slow but solid: Traditional backend setups that stall iteration

We wanted a third option: a production-grade backend that could support large scale apps, but built in minutes instead of weeks

What’s new in Xano 2.0 1. XanoScript — Your backend infrastructure and logic as code—with a visual layer that makes it easy to verify what’s being built A scripting language that mirrors our visual function builder. Developers can work entirely in code or visually—changes stay synchronized. AI tools can generate and modify backend logic because it’s expressed as real code, not configuration. 2. MCP Server — AI has context and can build and modify your backend Xano 2.0 exposes a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server so tools like Claude Code and Cursor can securely connect, inspect schemas, and push updates directly to production. 3. VS Code Extension — Native IDE integration Browse, edit, and version-control Xano resources in VS Code with linting, autocomplete, and one-click deploys.

Under the hood Every Xano instance runs on Google Cloud (BYOC for Enterprise), provisioned with Docker and orchestrated by Kubernetes — standardized with best practices so you don’t have to. Security, scaling, and compliance are already done-for-you, letting you focus on building the logic that drives value without having to manage DevOps and string together multiple tools.

Who it’s for - AI developers who want to ship prototypes that can scale to production - Teams that want backend speed without compromising reliability - Non-backend engineers who want to build production systems with help from AI tools

We’d love feedback from HN on the architecture, the AI integration model, and where this approach might fall short. I’ll be around in the comments to discuss!
by trashb | 2025-10-22 16:01:52+00:00
> Whereas if it could be installed from a website or from another store, there’s just no possible way that they could go around to every single host in existence and try to shut it down.

That doesn't make sense to me, couldn't the Trump administration just as easily make ISP's block the required pages. Similar to how the Pirate Bay is blocked in many countries?
by xxs | 2025-10-22 16:02:21+00:00
What would be the exact benefit for 48V?

Virtually all electronics need a step down (buck) converters as they run at lower voltages 5, 3.3, 1.8. 12V > 3.3- 1V would a single step. 48V ones would likely require an intermediate step. The only exception would be running some power systems where it'd require less current.
by babblingfish | 2025-10-22 16:02:25+00:00
The design looks nice!

I think the pitch needs some work. If you're an intermediate guitarist, then memorizing chords and practicing absolute pitch won't make you better at playing guitar. Theory does not equal practice. Gamification apps like Duolingo can trick people into thinking they're making progress on a hard skill when they're really doing something tangential and easier.

Harmony guitarists don't construct their chord progressions using music theory. It's done iteratively with a guitar, maybe with a band, by playing the actual chords and seeing how it sounds.
by kmeisthax | 2025-10-22 16:02:37+00:00
I'll believe quantum computing exists when someone releases the factors of an RSA or DSA keypair with economic value, or at least a keypair not generated by the same people factoring it. Something like the code signing keys for Apple's boot ROM, or the root key of a well-trusted CA. It doesn't even have to be their current keys, it can be something older / shorter, as long as it's outside the time horizon of classical factoring.
by 1dom | 2025-10-22 16:02:46+00:00
> No. There is no valid justification, and the suggestion otherwise suggests a lack of understanding of what exactly these rude individuals are demanding.

Like I said, the fact that people are human, and that minios did a thing repeatedly, is why the expectation is there. Saying it's not justified is like saying the sky isn't justified being blue, getting upset and frustrated about it is even more silly.

There's no need for people to be rude, I agree, but I don't really see any people being disproportionately rude in their comments, especially in the context of a provider who pulled part of their provisions without fair warning.
by kstrauser | 2025-10-22 16:02:51+00:00
I think it's our responsibility to make it a laughing matter in technical settings, such that it's universally understood that sharing your keys is a terrible idea and you should never do it because people will laugh at you for doing it, even if you're not 100% sure why.

Around non-technical people, explain why it's a bad idea, and be empathetic so that your friends, family, and coworkers feel comfortable asking you questions about things like that. Among your techie friends, absolutely, laugh away.
by noahjk | 2025-10-22 16:03:10+00:00
> they were eroding and moving up river at least three feet per year and eventually would reach Lake Ontario which would empty the lake.

It's not often we witness a large-scale geographic shift - while obviously we needed to preserve the lake in this scenario, imagine watching this unfold as a great lake disappears. That would be a sight to see! (Granted, assuming 36 miles between the falls and the lake, that would happen ~60,000 years from now)
by alsetmusic | 2025-10-22 16:03:33+00:00
I don't think you should announce your age on a public forum. Generally, no one should at any age (I break this rule, but no one is trying to groom middle-aged men). At your age, definitely don't.

Kill your account and start fresh with better opsec. You're inviting predators.

Oh, I only just scanned the description and it sounds like you're likely female (to a westerner, anyway). Holy crap, kill this account and never link back to it for the next decade or more.
by PaulHoule | 2025-10-22 16:03:34+00:00
I'm sure of it. I worked on a project to turn a MOF-based representation of the ISO 20022 standard to RDF (as well as being able to write the messages in RDF) and I wrote some tooling to do it, looking at the specs it seemed it should have been possible to bootstrap a UML 2 system using the same approach but I saw enough strange discontinuities that I didn't go forward, but had I invested two months I probably would have solved the "two Class" problem and made some major progres. But boy have I done some many 2 month projects where I got to the bottom of something like that and bootstrapped a system and then found the world just didn't care... I'd have the most productive 2 months of my career and make $0.00.
Show HN: Calen AI – an AI-first calendar that lets you schedule naturally
by mehuljd | 2025-10-22 16:03:48+00:00
We built Calen AI from the ground up with AI at the core — not bolted on. Instead of clicking through calendar interfaces, you can talk to it naturally through email, chat, or voice.

Example:

“Book a 30-minute sync with Sam next Tuesday afternoon.”

Calen AI understands intent, finds the right time, checks availability, and sends invites automatically. It can also handle reschedules, follow-ups, and group coordination without the usual back-and-forth. • Natural language scheduling via multiple channels (email, chat, voice) • Real-time availability and smart preferences

We built this for people who live in their calendars but don’t want to spend time managing them.

We’d love feedback from the community. What’s your biggest pain point with scheduling?
Show HN: Free DMARC Checker – Verify your domain meets sender requirements
by slonik | 2025-10-22 16:03:56+00:00
Mailbox providers are tightening up sender requirements for authentication, making DMARC crucial for bulk sending.

I made a DMARC validator where you can check out whether your setup is valid or needs any improvements.

It looks up _dmarc.<domain>, parses the TXT record, and displays policy (p/sp), alignment (adkim/aspf), reporting (rua/ruf), and options like pct, fo, ri, etc. It also gives you useful recommendations about your DMARC and helps you resolve potential issues.

It’s free and no sign-up.
by ongy | 2025-10-22 16:04:01+00:00
Oh yea, this is "srcfs the idea" but not "srcfs the project".

I.e. this isn't something battel tested for hundreds of thousands of developers 24/7 over the last years. But a simple commercial product sold by people that liked what they used.

Well, since android is their flagship example, anyone that wants to build custom android releases for some reason. With the way things are, you don't need billions of code of your own code to maybe benefit from tools that handle billions of lines of code.
by erelong | 2025-10-22 16:04:24+00:00
I think some of the detractors or skeptics of AI developments like this are highly underestimating the value of these kinds of innovations like Sora, maybe because they are focusing on less productive uses of video generation (so they seem to call a lot of it "slop")

I would think instead about educational or instructional videos: now instead of hunt for them online or producing them yourself somewhat "manually", you could just use AI technology to create them. That seems "massively" beneficial and useful.

To dismiss these kinds of developments sounds akin to dismissing the development of the ability to write because "people will only use writing to make erotic fiction or jokes" (!). No one would say that. Or to developing cameras because people will "only take indecent or goofy pictures with them" (!).

Maybe people are not making as much "useful" educational or instructional material, that's fair to say.
by Havoc | 2025-10-22 16:04:55+00:00
The whole debacle is a lesson in incentives.

You can't have laws that dictate the desired outcome in broad terms and trust companies to implement in good faith. Not when they have a direct financial incentive to implement it as obtusely as possible.

It's really unfortunately that in the public's eye the legislative attempt to steer towards a positive outcome is seen as the cause of the pain.
by danudey | 2025-10-22 16:05:07+00:00
The problem then is that you're making a valuable tool and giving it away and then wandering around hat in hand. That's not going to work for anyone. Also, taking away things that you've already given people for free so that they have to pay you to get them back is not going to engender any goodwill.

Unfortunately, the minio devs seem to have fallen into the common trap: make a great OSS project that works and that everyone likes, give it away for free, not know how to make money from it, and then start making user-hostile moves that piss off your users to try to make them customers - and who, surprisingly, do not want to be customers now that you've pissed them off.

It starts to feel more like a protection racket. You've got some great features here, would be a shame if something happened to them. Oh no, your docker containers! Oh, that's a tragedy what happened there, but you know, accidents happen.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-10-22 16:05:27+00:00
That's the thing - most AWS services didn't "go down", as in stop working entirely. There were specific operations of specific services that were failing. Increased API error rates, inability to start new EC2 instances, billing metrics unavailable, AWS console unavailable, etc.

The outage wasn't like "all our servers stopped running". It was dynamic, new, specific operations that failed. If you just had a Fargate container that was started a week ago, and you have no need to restart the container today, it just kept chugging along.

Our architecture is stuff that just keeps chugging along. Fargate, S3, RDS, CloudFront, CloudFlare, etc. From our perspective, there was no outage in us-east-1. Literally the only alert we got the entire time was "billing limit exceeded" - and that was a false alarm, because it was set to alarm if there is zero billing data.
by tapirl | 2025-10-22 16:05:45+00:00
The wording "Subtleties" used here is some weird/improper. I see nothing subtle here. They are all basic knowledge a qualified Go programmer should know about.

They are many real subtleties in Go, which even many professional Go programmers are not aware of. Here are some of them: https://go101.org/blog/2025-10-22-some-real-go-subtleties.ht...
by reaperducer | 2025-10-22 16:06:04+00:00
Before the mega monopolies took over, corps used to partner with universities to conduct this kind of research. Now we have bloated salaries, rich corporations, and expensive research while having under experienced graduates. These costs will get forwarded to the consumer. The future won’t have a lot of things that we have come to expect.

I don't disagree, but these days I'm happy to see any advanced research at all.

Granted, too often I see the world through HN-colored glasses, but it seems like so many technological achievements are variations on getting people addicted to something in order to show them ads.

Did Bellcore or Xerox PARC do a lot of university partnerships? I was into other things in those days.
by ksred | 2025-10-22 16:06:04+00:00
Hi HN! I am a huge user of AI coding tools, especially Claude Code and Cursor, but every session starts fresh. It doesn't remember yesterday's architectural decision or know your team's coding patterns.

I built Cont3xt.dev to give Claude (and other AI tools) persistent access to team context via MCP.

*How it works:*

1. Document your team's context once (architectural decisions, coding standards, patterns)

2. When Claude Code (or Claude.ai, Cursor, etc.) needs context, it fetches relevant info via MCP

3. Claude generates code that actually matches your team's approach

*Example:* You: "Create a user service" Without context: Claude might use different patterns than your existing services With Cont3xt: Claude knows you use repository pattern, knows your error handling approach, follows your naming conventions

*Features:*

- Rules library (prioritised - critical rules always included)

- Architectural Decision Records (why you chose X over Y)

- Smart filtering (only relevant context, respects token budgets)

- Analytics (track what's actually useful)

Looking for beta testers and lots of feedback. Free during beta.
by mindslight | 2025-10-22 16:06:05+00:00
Trumpists aren't actually deserving the label "conservative". They're the complete opposite - a mashed together hodgepodge of anti-everything grievance politics. Trump's main feature is a stream of drivel that sounds honest, opinionated, and assertive if you only listen to part of it. If you try to listen to everything he says and logically reconcile the statements, it's all contradictory. The only consistency is that grievance emotion. So it has created a big tent of follower-type people who value emotion over intelligence (think the stereotypical mind-blown hippie, man), from all sorts of (what are effectively) counter cultures. It doesn't matter that they aren't implementing good solutions, and that a lot of time there aren't any good solutions. The followers are just happy "someone is talking about it [, man]".
by PaulHoule | 2025-10-22 16:06:07+00:00
Out of 500 companies that access your data the majority might obey the law, but 50 of them won't.

There's also a basic imbalance of power -- for instance, if you don't fill out the paperwork to get medical care that says (1) everybody who could possibly have a reason to access your data can, and (2) we're going to do that at a cost 1000x more than just leaving all the paperwork out on the curb you don't get medical care.

People don't really real all those clickwrap licenses, I mean, Sony makes you scroll to the bottom of a 50 page contract just to play a video game.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-10-22 16:06:13+00:00
>People are willing to pay for things they value

No, they overwhelmingly are not. When given the opportunity to not pay, and do so anonymously (no social shame), the actual pay rates drop to the 1-5% range.

This is a clear trend from thousands of creators who give simple payment options to those who wish to support them directly. The conversion rates from "ad-supported (but blocked)" to "paying member" are usually around 5% of the active audience.

The numbers are atrocious despite the deafening virtue signalling of comment sections ("I always pay creators to support them!")
by codyb | 2025-10-22 16:06:17+00:00
According to the Enforcer's (https://www.youtube.com/@EnforcerOfficial) stream yesterday

They just use prevailing wind routes, and toss tons of balloons up, and have 'em float over the border cause cigarette taxes are so high in Europe that it's worth it.

And then there's people waiting along the wind path to pick up the balloons as they come down.

There's a lot of inefficiencies built into smuggling operations. You can absolutely grab huge amounts of smuggled items in busts and not end up denting profits for the smugglers cause they're smuggling so much (see cocaine, fentanyl, cigarettes in blue states in America).

I wouldn't entirely rule out the Russians or Belarussions doing probing moves, but the Enforcer's been a great source of information for these events as they occur.

There's a fair number of articles from previous encounters - https://fortune.com/2025/10/05/hot-air-balloons-smuggling-ci...

It's entirely possible that the operations are in cahoots and this is an intelligence operation being conducted as a smuggling operation.
by renewiltord | 2025-10-22 16:06:17+00:00
> The US's main contribution to that supply chain is (very expensive) software required in the design of an IC.

EUV tech is from American universities, licensed by choice by the US Government. In a world where Nikon was a much smaller optics player, they'd be the ones building EUV machines, and we'd be pretending Japan was the source of this tech.

The US's main contribution is doing the research required to make this whole thing possible.
by anonymous908213 | 2025-10-22 16:06:20+00:00
Sure, but you'd still expect people to know from seeing LLM outputs in their own language that it's not going to be "too good to be human". An LLM will write a better Chinese essay than I could because I don't speak Chinese very well at all, but it's quite a leap to get from "this writes Chinese essays better than myself, a non-speaker" to "wow, this writes Chinese better than any human!".
by masfuerte | 2025-10-22 16:06:38+00:00
It's really annoying. I also drink soft drinks very rarely but if I want, say, tonic water that doesn't taste like crap I need to splash out on a premium product. Other things (e.g. cranberry juice drink) are simply unavailable without artificial sweetener. Reduced salt snacks are also shite. It is hard to find a treat that is still actually a treat.
by rkomorn | 2025-10-22 16:06:39+00:00
The gist of their comment is:

The largest coke you can order at McDonald's in the US is 380 calories (100g sugar) (not sure what size because it's not obvious from their website).

The largest coke you can order at McDonald's in Portugal (where I happen to be) is 197 calories (49g sugar).

- https://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en-us/product/coca-cola-large.h...

- https://www.mcdonalds.pt/produtos/mcmenu/bebidas/coca-cola-5...
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-10-22 16:07:10+00:00
> Whenever you read the words malicious compliance within the context of this discussion you can just swap it with the word illegal which is the correct word for the behavior that is being bemoaned here.

I don't think that's the case. A number of people downthread are quite explicit that they find being asked at all annoying and don't think websites should be allowed to throw up cookie banners all the time.
by A_D_E_P_T | 2025-10-22 16:07:26+00:00
"It's not X, it's Y" (or "it's not just X, it's Y") is one of the most common tells, but there are many others. Here's a partial list:

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing

It's definitely post-training bias and reinforcement. This rhetorical structure isn't too common IRL. (Or wasn't, anyway, prior to LLMs...)
by fmajid | 2025-10-22 16:08:10+00:00
GPC compliance is already the law in California. I don’t know why the EU has been so slow at making it legally binding. That said, existing cookie popups that don’t have “Reject All” as prominently placed as “Accept All” are already illegal but widespread, in no small part due to deliberate sabotage by the Irish DPA, so don’t expect GPC compliance to fare any better until consumer rights associations like NOYB.eu are allowed to initiate direct enforcement actions.
by rconti | 2025-10-22 16:08:51+00:00
When the 12v battery is dying, at least in a Tesla, it warns you, and starts disabling certain features, more likely to help preserve the battery. For example, heated seats run off 12v. It makes sense that a lot of commodity auto industry parts would run off 12v because the supply chain is there, and because you want low voltage in the cabin anyway.

Like another poster in this thread, my original model 3 battery went ~5 years (typical 12v failure age in a car), and I bought it for $89(!!) at Tesla. Autozone wanted $125 for the same group battery. I did a DIY replacement. For some reason, that one failed after a year and a half. Just bad luck I guess.