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by danenania | 2025-10-03 15:41:37+00:00
For a cloud service, I think it comes down to whether you’ll ever want more than one app server.

If you’re building something as a hobby project and you know it will always fit on one server, sqlite is perfect.

If it’s meant to be a startup and grow quickly, you don’t want to have to change your database to horizontally scale.

Deploying without downtime is also much easier with multiple servers. So again, it depends whether you’re doing something serious enough that you can’t tolerate dropping any requests during deploys.
by Andrew_nenakhov | 2025-10-03 15:41:39+00:00
On the contrary, xmpp is a very good protocol. The problem with it is that most of extensions are bad: half-baked, often contradict or duplicate other extensions, and sometimes solve only part of the problem that they intend to solve.

Disclosure: my team and I are actively working on improving xmpp, but in a rather orthogonal direction to general XSF council route.
by whizzter | 2025-10-03 15:41:46+00:00
No it was definitely Blender 2.8, and honestly the buzz around 2.8 was substantial in gamedev circles that hadn't talked much about Blender before (rather complained about the Autodesk monopoly).

Just compare the 2 videos below,

2.8, here the layout/modelling/sculpting/UV-edit/animation,etc workload tabs are on top (main workload context), to the top-left inside the viewport you notice object mode (that can change to mesh,mode,etc), in mesh-mode iirc the vertex/line/face selection will then appear inside the viewport to the right of the mode selector (so reading workload/mode/option goes top->down, left->right and all contained in the upper part of the UI).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILqOWe3zAbk&list=PLa1F2ddGya...

Now let's go back to 2.7, here you notice that object/mesh-mode selector (2nd level context) is at the bottom just above the timeline view.

Heck knows where the workload and vertex/line/face modes are (was it windows presents or smth like that?), but I distinctly remember being dumbfounded by their relative locations when I realized where they were when I went back to research why I hated blender previously.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lY6KPrc4uMw

Now if you consider that cosmetic, sure you were probably a fan from before and managed by key shortcuts, but from a general UI perspective that makes the difference from being stumped by random locations of things to being able to get things done from the get-go with previous 3d modelling knowledge without reading the entire manual.
by lowbloodsugar | 2025-10-03 15:42:03+00:00
An RX-V4A is under $500 and has all that. It’s Roon-tested too. But yeah, then you gotta get speakers and that means matching them. I’ve become a fan of powered digital speakers and just slapping a source in front of them like a WiiM , though that doesn’t solve your TV surround needs.
Show HN: AI Executive Coaching
by mikexhuang | 2025-10-03 15:42:18+00:00
Hey, I'm Mike and this is an AI executive coach, meant to help entrepreneurs, managers, leaders, etc to unblock their careers, improve team leadership skills and/or fix blind spots in their professional behavior.

High quality coaching is normally fairly expensive (I make a joke out of it in my pricing page) so I wanted to give a similar level of coaching for a far more accessible price. My background includes working as both as an executive coach and a product manager, so I also thought this would a fun project to see where it could go.

FYI, this is a solo project and I know that many consumers use the default chat LLMs and wrapper apps (such as the journaling ones) as pseudo therapy. I'm also aware of enterprise level solutions that are similar to this (albeit not completely the same).

Despite all that, I felt like these apps didn't go deep enough and were often too prescriptive. What I wanted to replicate was the lightbulb experience that I could usually help my clients get to when I was coaching them. Something that made them go "Oh, I never realized this could have been a problem" or "Wow, I didn't know that would make such a difference" about the way they show up as leaders or to their business. This was harder to do with just a system prompt.

This really made for long periods of testing as I built this MVP since I knew what my evals were from personal experience. I broke down my skillset into various components and gave them as tools to my LLM coach. I had to experiment with context windows and how to keep the high level goal consistent over a long conversation. I haven't done any actual fine tuning yet. I don't think this is highly polished by any means but would love feedback to see if this is of interest to anyone and if it's worth continuing to build on.

Additional Context:

- There are both text and voice coaching options. The latter is more limited to users since voice APIs aren't cheap...but the coaching engine behind the two are the same.

- Coaching is not therapy, consulting or mentoring. The principle behind coaching is that no one can make you change your mind. You need to realize it yourself to come up with a solution that resonates with you. Coaching guides you towards that. For example, giving you 3 options to fix your problem is not coaching.

- There is a free trial but I can extend your testing indefinitely with a code, please contact me if you want this.

- Happy to chat if you'd like to give me a brain dump over a call or such. I'm especially interested in what use cases resonate with you or others that you can relate with.

- Also happy to do an actual coaching session with me if you'd like to A/B test coaching with me vs the AI based one.

- If you happen to work at a company that has bought/integrated with AI coaching, I'd super appreciate a high level comparison. I know about Pinnacle since that came across my desk as an angel investment.

If you need to contact me for anything - my email is michaelhhuang@gmail.com
by dotancohen | 2025-10-03 15:42:25+00:00
I won't dispute that 50 people were killed yesterday, I have no idea, and I don't know how many of them were killed by Hamas and how many of them were killed by Israel. The Arab media reports all of them as being martyrs because that is their culture. The Western media just translates with the Arab media says. I do know that yesterday, Yom Kippur or the Jew's holiest day of the year, Hamas shot barrages of rockets at Israeli cities and towns. I don't know how many of those rockets fell back into the Gaza strip, typically a third of them do. So go figure how many of the 50 Gazans were killed by Hamas own rockets. In any case, when the Gazans decide that they've suffered too much then they are invited and welcomed to return the hostages. The war will be over that minute.

It is very telling that the side which has the ability to end the suffering now, by returning the hostages, chooses not to do that.
by cnity | 2025-10-03 15:42:26+00:00
When I moved to London I used to love listening to ambient electronic music and taking the tube at night, and many of the quieter lines and back routes up emergency staircases and so on evoke what I suspect is a similar feeling (at least I think it's similar because it too reminds me of the HL aesthetic).

I wonder if growing up with particular kinds of video game experiences produces a particular affinity with certain situations in real life.
by BrandoElFollito | 2025-10-03 15:42:54+00:00
> My mother in law is confused between contacts, contacts in messages, contacts in phone (we should have one place to do one thing: store names she wants to contact. She doesn't get that it's the same thing in each app).

I am confused too (o, Android), after discussing with developers and reading documentation. Some things simply do not work despite the producer telling you they do.

Contacts is one of the worst offenders.
by glenneroo | 2025-10-03 15:43:47+00:00
How do you ignore ads when you ask for a recipe and it suggests using <insert brand-name here> ingredients, due to their superior flavors, textures, ability to mesh with the other ingredients, etc? Sure, you can decide to go with another brand, but over time, that stuff has the ability to stick in your brain. There have been many billions sunk into how to psychologically manipulate humans to get them to come buy your products, for instance McDs figured out decades ago through research that by giving away free toys in children's meals, the kids will whine and pester parents after seeing a commercial for a new toy from the latest superhero movie they just saw. Some parents will say no, but enough parents, after a long day/week of working will just give in.

Sure my example of asking for a recipe is contrived but imagine that for every query you make, that AI suggests using this framework for your web development, or basically any query you can think of will make subtle suggestions to use a specific product with compelling reasons why e.g. the competition has known bugs that will affect you personally!

The possibilities are endless.
by m000 | 2025-10-03 15:44:10+00:00
I'm not sure that's the case (see [1]):

Fall Detection requires a satellite connection, cellular connection, or Wi-Fi Calling with an internet connection from your Apple Watch or nearby iPhone. You can use cellular models of Apple Watch to make an emergency call in many locations, provided that cellular service is available.

If an iPhone is indeed required even if your Apple Watch has a cellular connection, then that's just a lock-in "feature".

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/108896
by fredalgolia | 2025-10-03 15:44:36+00:00
Algolia | Software and data engineers | Full-time | Bucharest hybrid

At Algolia, we are expanding our team in Bucharest and have five roles we are actively hiring for!

Algolia was built to help users deliver an intuitive search-as-you-type experience on their websites and mobile apps. We provide a search API used by thousands of customers in more than 100 countries. Billions of search queries are answered every month thanks to the code we push into production every day.

I am personally hiring three roles in my teams and I am looking for engineers with Go experience (or a willingness to learn) to help grow the Usage team and be the founding members of the Events team.

- Senior Software Engineer, Usage - mostly backend, all in golang, mature product that we continue to grow and evolve - Senior Data Engineer, Events - looking for a data engineer with a systems and software mindset, or a software engineer with deep data knowledge and experience - Full-stack Software Engineer, Events - we have mostly a backend focus, but do have customer facing front end work (React+Rails) and integrations into other frontend platforms

My colleagues are also hiring across their teams:

- Senior UI Software Engineer, Connectors Platform - building Typescript+React UIs for our customers for data ingestion and enrichment - Software Engineer, Control - building full stack products for our customers in Typescript, React, Ruby and Golang

You can find all of these roles on our careers page https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/algolia?offices%5B%5D=40048...
by wagram | 2025-10-03 15:44:41+00:00
The problem is that the author is referring to a body of arguments that most people aren't familiar with, and wouldn't agree with if they were. Within certain leftist circles these are well known, and it's standard to assume the usefulness of ideas from French poststructuralist writers from the 1960s and 1970s, as well as Frankfurt School writers from 1920s and 1930s. These are sometimes called "critical theory".

"Surveillance and discipline" comes from Foucault's book "Surveiller et punir," which was translated into English as "Discipline and Punish". It argues that the logic of surveillance from prisons has worked its way into a bunch of institutions in modern society.

Articles in this style feel to me like a word salad of leftist shibboleths that never really amount to an actual argument: capitalism, resistance, settler-colonialism, domination, class rule.
by j1elo | 2025-10-03 15:44:48+00:00
"At company x, they had a kitchen and a couple meeting rooms. Devs started using the rooms for cooking, and the kitchen for team standups."

Tools are just there, it's people who misuse them. If devs at company x are incapable of understanding that you shouldn't be cooking an omelette in the meeting room, to be honest that's on the dev, not on the separation of concerns that was put there for them.

Probably what's missing there is training to set the expectations, policing on their actions, and a soft reprimand when the typical first time mistake is done. But if the metaphorical rooms have no indicators, no name tags, and no obvious usage guidelines, because no one bothered to set them up, then yeah expect board meetings to end up happening in the kitchen.
by gjsman-1000 | 2025-10-03 15:44:53+00:00
I'm also giving it just 2-3 years before the scores from high schoolers are so bad, across the board, that a politician calls for age verification on AI platforms. Even if solely to force them to do school, other harms ignored. Especially on Windows 11: Who in Microsoft decided educators needed to compete with a colorful taskbar button that can't be turned off with parental controls?

Watch the engagement plunge, and with that, the dreams of profit.
by tracker1 | 2025-10-03 15:45:16+00:00
They're a bit overpriced, but I've been exceedingly happy with Shield TV (Pro) boxes since they first came out... all the major streaming services are supported with full res as well as Kodi for lan and most other apps direct or side loaded.

I'm able to playback H.265 and AV1 video content at 4k@60 without any issues.
by nekusar | 2025-10-03 15:45:33+00:00
I missed that.

However Im looking at the primary image there https://gw.hacdn.io/media/images/Tiktok_investigation_screen...

In the first picture, there's the nude->rude replacement games, bikini (which is not nudity), models (which is not nudity). Unshaven girl could mean legs, armpits, and/or public area.

The second picture also has no nude people in it. The closest "skin" picture is another bikini, which again, is not nudity.

The 3rd picture is too blocked out, but likely more bikini pictures. Again, yes, you can see the labia bunching up (cameltoe). But this again is completely legal and normally seen in water parks and beaches.

I also note they said "We have deliberately not included examples of the hardcore pornography that was shown to us.". So yes, I do doubt they exist for any length of time here.

And the text search autocomplete is also hard, because many words are banned. So nude becomes rude. ICE protest and similar becomes party. Drones are "dior bags". And banning the stringing replacement words together is basically whack-a-mole.

But no, this whole operation smells like "let us do anything in the name of ThE ChiLDrEn", including that scourge Chat Control.

And to be fair, I'd rather adolescents look at titties. Sexuality is completely natural. And the fact this article is targeting 13 year olds, remember - they're already going or gone through puberty. Sexuality, and wanting to see what the other sex looks like is completely natural. This weird quazi-religious shaming is just terrible for everyone.
by infecto | 2025-10-03 15:45:39+00:00
I cannot say for your work but for classification steps and data structuring it’s quite accurate and this is with regular testing. I cannot speak for your work but for mine and folks in adjacent industries, LLM are fantastic and adding a lot of value to our workflows. You’re honestly holding on to this dead idea that LLM outputs are full of hallucinations. Throwaway account with throwaway comment.
by spookie | 2025-10-03 15:46:08+00:00
Be careful. There are still showstoppers in wayland implementations, if you do anything that isn't common for a Linux user. Example: I am still unable to change the orientation of my drawing tablet.

There are many like this. It mostly works, but it isn't as flawless as just using X11 (unless we are talking about displays and stuff).

Nvidia works since driver 570.

(Edit: grammar and Nvidia note)
by filoleg | 2025-10-03 15:46:14+00:00
The difference is that NFT always seemed to be just hype for hype’s sake, with zero functional/helpful use-case at all. No, “trading cards [more like hashes/serial numbers receipts of those tbh], but digital” is not a functional use-case.

And afaik, that was the only use of NFTs that actually worked. The whole “omg you can buy skin in this one game as an nft, and then have it across multiple games” (as well as other bs of a similar nature) was always a ridiculous thing, as it still requires gamedevs to collab and actually do all the required integration work (which is rather infeasible). And even if they decided to ever do that, they would almost certainly find it much easier to accomplish without relying on NFT tech.

AI also has a ton of hype and pipedreams that are vaporware, of course (just look at all the batches of chatgpt wrapper startups in thr past couple of years). However, what the AI hype has (that NFT never did) is a number of actual functional use-cases, and people utilize it heavily for actual work/productivity/daily help with great success.

Claud Code/Gemini CLI alone can be such a boon in the hands of a good software engineer, it is undeniable.
by goldenManatee | 2025-10-03 15:46:24+00:00
Before 1948 the Palestinians were peasants living under foreign rule. But at least they were alive. When Zionist interests moved in, backed by English and American militancy to enforce land purchase contracts, the Palestinians were not a centrally organized collective. You cannot “offer” to people who are not organized, and that’s what Israel has exploited. Jews went on a 2,000 year holiday in Europe, then came back and expected they could relive the glory days of a kingdom from over 2,000 years ago. The issue has been the presumption that you can “offer” to people who have occupied the land consistently for thousands of years. Their lack of central government as peasants does not negate their humanity. Except in the Israeli government’s expansionist eyes.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-10-03 15:46:25+00:00
The easiest thing to tap into for an uncomfortable populace is fear. Once you do that, the easiest thing to do is to redirect that fear to literally anything or anyone else. Social media is easy mode for fascism to do this the world over.

By the time you type out a subtle conversation and make a short and long term plans, the mobs will already form. The way engagement on social media works just amplifies the extremes and culls the subtlety.
by eig | 2025-10-03 15:47:02+00:00
Glad to see this! We need better treatments for OA short of a joint replacement.

I'm not too surprised that this treatment works. It's essentially like localized steroids to just the joint- killing off the immune cells causing inflammation.

Good features is that it's localized (so no systemic immunosuppression) and the risk of cancer is low since you rarely get radiation-induced cancer in joints because there's not enough dividing cells. Unfortunately heading to radiotherapy is a logistical challenge, but there are enough people suffering from OA that would happily do this to get relief.
by ESibio | 2025-10-03 15:47:16+00:00
This is really good insight. Were able to sell a basic annual sub in the range you're talking about, and our highest tier annual sub price is 1k/yr.

The edu market, and AI course generators in particular are pretty saturated right now. When we started none existed, and we were the first to market, but because I dont have deep connections we didnt raise 3 million to build it.

Do you think there is more of a market for this in pivoting to consumer sales? Elearning is saturated, but being able to make whatever course youre looking for on demand is kindve awesome. I personally use it and love it, I have tried other tools and really none of them compare to what we do.
by keernan | 2025-10-03 15:47:27+00:00
When openAI made its Nov 2022 chatGPT announcement, why did they try so hard to hype it in anthropomorphic terms? Why did they push the idea it was a 'black box' that they didn't understand how it worked? That it was a serious threat to humanity and that government oversight was urgently needed (leading to a meeting at the White House)?

I'm not suggesting GPT has no value. But in hindsight everything I described above was pure bull. I suppose it could be suggested that Sam Altman and his engineers didn't understand their own algorithms. But I don't buy that fairytale.
by dotancohen | 2025-10-03 15:47:41+00:00
I am Israeli and I completely oppose the war ending until the hostages are all returned. You said it yourself, hostages are returned and the war ceases. Return the remaining hostages and we will have no more need for war.

At the very least, acknowledge that war is expensive and one of the most common tropes thrown at the Jews is that we are cheap. We don't want this expensive war either.
by lostlogin | 2025-10-03 15:49:06+00:00
I’m running the mini on 7w (averaged over a month). It’s networked at 10gb, which is hard to do on mini pc/nuc without using a lot more power. My other Nucs use 70ish (nuc 9 extreme) or 35 (nuc 10 with thunderbolt dongle).

The mini is also much more powerful.

The is was a bit of a nightmare to tame but I’ve got it sorted now.
by coolThingsFirst | 2025-10-03 15:49:19+00:00
But it's not that difficult to implement that functionality, if company posts more than 3 times a year you can ping them if they really are hiring.

We are not asking for policing but every publicly available forum is swamped with ghost jobs and consultancies which are basically farming resumes and personal data. It makes the internet barely usable. These are not good faith actors.
by leakycap | 2025-10-03 15:49:30+00:00
It’s as if DHH is so confident in their own work that they skip all the foundational steps and best practices -- even on an operating system project.

The un-squashed commits are just the tip of the iceberg, but the installation method is the most egregious.

Omarchy's distribution and install is the kind of thing I'd expect to see from a college project, not a leader in the tech world. I don't see DHH as a leader in anything except controversy and clicks these days, though, so the cheerleading around Oma-anything confuses me.
by mikeyouse | 2025-10-03 15:49:43+00:00
"The Radical Left in Congress shut down the government" is a 'Fact' you think is appropriate to be displayed via a popup to every visitor on HUD.gov?

"The radical left has chosen to shut down the United States government in the name of reckless spending and obstructionism." is an appropriate message for Treasury.gov when it's illegal to use Federal resources for political messaging?

Be serious.
by stevenjgarner | 2025-10-03 15:49:50+00:00
Shameless plug for my homeland. The book titled Newzild [1] is the 1966 light-hearted "dictionary" New Zild and how to speak it, by author Arch Acker. The title mimics the broad New Zealand accent, which shortens the pronunciation of "New Zealand". It opens with 'Air gun?' (or 'Acid gun?', I honestly no longer remember) – a humorous pronunciation of the common colloquial greeting 'how are you going?'

[1] https://teara.govt.nz/en/document/40118/new-zild-and-how-to-...
by gopalv | 2025-10-03 15:49:57+00:00
> if you are into load balancing, you might also want to look into the 'power of 2 choices'.

You can do that better if you don't use a random number for the hash, instead flip a coin (well, check a bit of the hash of a hash), to make sure hash expansion works well.

This trick means that when you go from N -> N+1, all the keys move to the N+1 bucket instead of being rearranged across all of them.

I've seen this two decades ago and after seeing your comment, felt like getting Claude to recreate what I remembered from back then & write a fake paper [1] out of it.

See the MSB bit in the implementation.

That said, consistent hashes can split ranges by traffic not popularity, so back when I worked in this, the Membase protocol used capacity & traffic load to split the virtual buckets across real machines.

Hot partition rebalancing is hard with a fixed algorithm.

[1] - https://github.com/t3rmin4t0r/magic-partitioning/blob/main/M...