MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by davydm | 2025-10-13 06:33:57+00:00
I don't understand the outrage.

Yes, DHH is a weapons-grade plum, confidently wrong on a range of topics. I'm not here to defend him in the slightest.

We use stuff made by people with questionable pasts all the time. You know anyone who drinks Fanta? Do you call them nazi? Probably not. They're just drinking some soda/pop/whatever you want to call it.

Whilst I haven't actually tried omarchy, I understand that (a) a lot of people are liking the results and (b) I'm probably never going to try it because people who are confidently wrong on a range of topics often choose the most bizarre stuff as "normal". And I'd rather just load up the linux machine that I want, since I have a pretty good idea of what that is after decades of usage. I'm also a little disappointed in arch with recent events (esp around AUR), and I probably have an even lower opinion because I'm using Manjaro which apparently side-steps the arch way in a few cases (eg kernel). At any rate, I'd rather spend the time and get a gentoo machine up next time. But I digress.

I just think it's petulently childish to throw a fit that a company making hardware is surfacing a software setup that some of its users are finding productive. Just because it's (yet another) DHH thing. Use it or don't use it. This (like most things to do with DHH) is more "much ado about nothing". People like getting mad. DHH likes making people mad - I think people like that feel special when they do so, from all the attention. This whole topic is likely giving DHH little pleasure-thrills all the while people cry about it.

DON'T FEED THE TROLLS.
by matheusmoreira | 2025-10-13 06:34:05+00:00
> they just dont care enough for this shit

That is the definition of idiot. A person who's so alienated they don't participate in these public matters.

> they do care if the situation get worse

By the point normal people start caring, the system will be so thoroughly entrenched that violent revolution will be the only option avaliable to them.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-10-13 06:34:11+00:00
> Most people have enough drama in their life and find ads and sitting on hold with tech support to be preferable.

What if I told ya that facebook allegedly detected when teen girls deleted selfies so it could serve them beauty ads.

Did you know that? Do most population know how deeply privacy invasive ads are.

Yes, we might be vocal about it but that's because we care. We care enough for the world to not want it to be a privacy nightmare dystopia and we are advocating it in ways we can take action in. There are people on the political side of things too which are taking action on stronger regulation but I deeply think that politics is so bundled with corruption all across the world that instead of us relying on politics to fix these companies, we need to use open source/stop watching closed algorithmic things and use things like mastodon to slowly get more normal so that we can then discuss things and fix politics/politicians to remove corruption.

How can we do this if the world has created a divide between two parties all across the world and its only fueled by the proprietory algorithmic worlds? How can people care about it if they can't even care about open source in general. I think that if people care about open source/privacy it can be gateway to a better future for us all & this is why we share it.

> If you want to change people you have to be willing to be changed by them.

Like, okay but we change people through logic and reasoning and discussion. Everyone gets changed by a good discussion, you take in more perspectives, I took from this conversation that open source is a chicken and egg problem. People want good UI/UX and support but how many people donate to open source so that either it can get to that state or just have more people willing to open source instead of making yet another saas... not many

Now, that being said, we can reason about things, maybe I can convince you, maybe not.

I just believe this notion to be a little anti-scientific really in the sense, that the mere idea of me wanting to change them shouldn't make me change myself, but that I am always willing to be changed if they can provide reason but from a bird's eye view, I am pretty comfortable that my logic doesn't have much gaps, I have thought about it for atleast a month straight. But I am more than willing to correct myself but the way you word it makes me feel like you want me to change more than be willing to change yourself as well and you might feel the same for me but we are both so convinced by two different realities that we live in. But if you put that aside and genuinely just want a discussion, not wanting to change me or change you but this notion of should we even change people or how can we change people, I am more than willing to discuss. And also maybe change isn't that bad after all :)
by Sauerlaender | 2025-10-13 06:34:45+00:00
The service gets operated by Dataport AöR. Dataport is the primary service provider / datacenter of some german federal states and owned by them.

They client is mainly Open-Xchange AppSuite Web UI, some people use Thunderbird on top. There are also thousands of mobile devices, syncing via IMAP, SMTP, CalDAV, CardDAV.
by HelloUsername | 2025-10-13 06:35:13+00:00
Yup, came here to say that too.

iOS Settings - Accessibility - Audio & Visual - Background Sounds

Offers the same as OP's app, except mixing. The only thing I miss is a a fade out possibility. For example, set timer at 01:00 minute and it slowly fades out over that whole minute. Much better than such an abrupt end. Not sure if OP's app does offer that.
by nginity | 2025-10-13 06:35:24+00:00
15-minute technical read with working code examples

Hours into debugging, I watched user sessions bleed across accounts in production.

The AI-generated authentication code looked flawless. Clean syntax. Thoughtful comments. Proper error handling. It passed every test I threw at it locally.

But under concurrent load, everything fell apart. The AI had confidently generated a singleton pattern where none should exist — a mistake no senior developer would make, hidden inside code that looked professional enough to ship.
by necovek | 2025-10-13 06:35:51+00:00
I did use "supposedly" in there. While media lobbies are strong, that's not how they are convincing governments to line up: it's about protecting the naive, non-techy user in this tech-heavy world.

To me, that's why we need to rise and say: I need no protection! Media companies can do what they please and still insist on "secure attestation" (like Netflix does with Chrome on Linux, still limiting to lower quality streams), without essential services like government services, banking services, communication services etc. being allowed to do the same if the user decides against that "protection".
by blub | 2025-10-13 06:35:59+00:00
If AI is really making developers so much more productive, companies should invest that productivity into offering better technical solutions. This means native applications for each platform.

I’m not a customer of Fastmail, because the laws in Australia are very anti-privacy and Fastmail is at their mercy. But my mail provider has exactly the same problem: a lame web app.

This is not a “technical person” complaint. These so-called apps look and behave worse on macOS.
by jkrejcha | 2025-10-13 06:36:01+00:00
The one that gets me is the fact that there's no user-editable combobox. There's a select drop down, and "input + datalist" (and that doesn't help when there's effectively 0 hint about what the things you can use actually are), but no way to have the two combined.

It's actually a little surprising to me since these are somewhat basic controls that have been around in UI toolkits for decades. It's in that weird sweet spot where the building blocks are almost usable enough to build rich applications, but it's just out of reach.
by emrekutlu | 2025-10-13 06:36:10+00:00
https://cafe.io

It is a DNS service for AWS EC2 to keep the ever changing IPs when you cannot use the Elastic IP like ASG or when you don't want to install any third party clients to your instances.

It fetches the IPs regularly via AWS API and assign them to fixed subdomains.

It is pretty new :) still developing actively.
by phartenfeller | 2025-10-13 06:36:54+00:00
We are also working on a database linter. Currently focusing on Oracle but we will support Postgres soon too.

Rules can either run queries against the DB (e. g. foreign key without index) or use our parser to check code SQL, PL/SQL, and pgSQL soon (naming standards, security and performance issues, etc.). We currently have over 280 rules [1]. The tool runs as a lange server during development or as a CLI so you can use it in your automations. Its more enterprise focused, an admin can create configurations that get applied to all developmers.

[1]: https://dblinter-rules.united-codes.com/all-rules/
by kijin | 2025-10-13 06:36:59+00:00
Most restaurants of this style have the full set pre-arranged on trays, stacked on shelves, ready to serve. Most of the banchan are a combination of dry, fermented, and strongly seasoned, so they don't spoil easily. When it's time to clean up, all the plates stack neatly on top of one another.

In terms of the total number of plates that the staff needs to serve and clean, it's probably not much different from a European meal that consists of several courses.
by ncruces | 2025-10-13 06:37:35+00:00
The Litestream read replicas they announced, just for my Go SQLite driver.

They mostly work already, would appreciate testing from anyone who already has a larger, real-world Litestream v0.5.0 setup running.

https://fly.io/blog/litestream-revamped/#lightweight-read-re...

https://github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/tree/litestream/litest...
by Sauerlaender | 2025-10-13 06:37:43+00:00
There are no high scalability improvements, it is a regular Dovecot Pro setup.

44.000 mailboxes is not really big from Dovecot Pro point of view, there are dozens of other service provider customers running six to eight digit mailbox numbers on it. Biggest European installation serves 40M mailboxes although these are consumer / SMB mailboxes which lower load provide and size compared to Schleswig-Holstein.
by n1c | 2025-10-13 06:38:07+00:00
I mentioned https://pageday.org last month, still keen to get it going as a slow burner.

Also been doing small little prototypes with cursor/claude for a game I'd love to tinker on more.

https://prototype-actions.prefire.app/

https://prototype-fov.prefire.app/

It's quite an interesting process to vibe code game stuff where I have a vague concept of how to achieve things but no experience/muscle memory with three.js & friends.
by drnick1 | 2025-10-13 06:38:24+00:00
Free software may have won on the infrastructure side, but it is people's computing that deserves freedom first and foremost. The good news is that Linux is gaining ground on the desktop, and we may eventually see the "year of the Linux desktop."

The issue is that most people's computing has now shifted to mobile devices, and these are quickly becoming fully locked down. Apple has been a lost cause for a long time, but Google is now aggressively attempting to kill Android as a FOSS platform. Projects like Lineage and Graphene are more important than ever for this reason.
by anonymousiam | 2025-10-13 06:38:42+00:00
What makes this case particularly egregious is that the criminal was never inside the premises. The police were apparently so cowardly that they were too afraid to enter and search, without first lobbing 30 tear gas canisters through the walls that they tore down.

Seems like they could have used some mm-wave radar, or other means to sense whether or not somebody was inside, before destroying somebody else's house.
by vazkus | 2025-10-13 06:38:43+00:00
https://metriffic.com/about

- What: Sun Grid Engine–style scheduler + Docker on System-on-Module (SoM) boards for reproducible tests/benchmarks and interactive SSH sessions (remote dev). - Who: Robotics/embedded engineers comparing SoMs and tuning models/pipelines on target platforms. - Why: Reproducible runs, easy board access, comparable reports.

Pulled this side project off the shelf — something I started after covid, when I was working at one of the consumer robotics companies (used to be the largest back then). Got it mostly working, but never actually released. I tend to dust it off and push it along a bit whenever I’m between jobs. Like now... Feels good to be back at it.
by gspr | 2025-10-13 06:38:47+00:00
> Agreed. But the median American has one the highest consumer spending and disposable incomes in the world.

Absoutely. But the differences are no longer insane when considering medians: US at 43 kUSD, and the rest of top 5 at 42, 41, 39, 37. While for the means, the US is 50% ahead of number 5 (top 5 goes 62, 47, 47, 42, 41). That's yaw-dropping, while the lead in medians is not. Randomly sourced from https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/disposabl... , which I assume is at least in the ballpark.

> OK. But housing in American cities is generally larger than the equivalent in European cities. And housing in American suburbs is likewise larger than in European suburbs.

Sure. But it's still important to compare apples to apples. And when doing so, the difference, like for disposable income, is far less stark.
by piskov | 2025-10-13 06:39:08+00:00
> as it gets better

See how airjets progressed in the last 50 years (they haven’t).

—

This thing you are talking about doesn’t understand its output.

I would love this to progress however.

— If you are interested in human-level AI don’t work on LLMs

https://www.newsweek.com/nw-ai/ai-impact-interview-yann-lecu...
by kace91 | 2025-10-13 06:39:18+00:00
>I explicitly stated that insurance should reimburse the victim and then the insurance company can pursue damages for police wrongdoing after.

I meant public funds, regardless of insurance. As in, if you (or the insurer) need to pursue damages then state payment is tied to wrongdoing. My point was that if public action results in a loss it should be reimbursed period.

A citizen doesn’t care (only) that protocol was followed, they care about a broken house either way.
by vinhnx | 2025-10-13 06:39:39+00:00
I'm currently building my own coding agent, VT Code. VT Code is a Rust-based terminal coding agent with semantic code intelligence via Tree-sitter (parsers for Rust, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Go, Java) and ast-grep (structural pattern matching and refactoring).

It supports multiple LLM providers: OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, DeepSeek, Gemini, OpenRouter, Z.AI, Moonshot AI, all with automatic failover, prompt caching, and token-efficient context management. Configuration occurs entirely through vtcode.toml, sourcing constants from vtcode-core/src/config/constants.rs and model IDs from docs/models.json to ensure reproducibility and avoid hardcoding. [0], [1], [2]

Recently I've added Agent Client Protocol (ACP) integration. VT Code is now a fully compatible ACP agent, works with any ACP-clients: Zed (first-class support), Neovim, marimo notebook. [3]

[0] https://github.com/vinhnx/vtcode

[1] https://crates.io/crates/vtcode

[2] https://docs.rs/vtcode

[3] https://agentclientprotocol.com/overview/agents

Thank you!
by conflio | 2025-10-13 06:40:35+00:00
Building Conflio – a personal AI newsletter tool.

I was tired of only having 1 or 2 things per newsletter that interested me, multiplied by however many newsletters I've subscribed to. Trying to solve that.

The idea: design newsletter sections on whatever topics you want (football scores, tech news, new restaurants in your area, etc.), choose your tone and length preferences, then get a fully cited digest delivered weekly to your inbox. Completely automated after initial setup (but you can refine it anytime).

Have the architecture sorted and a pretty good dev plan, but collecting interest before I invest a ton of time into it.

If you feel this pain too, waitlist is here: https://www.conflio.app/

(Or maybe I'm just too lazy about staying informed haha)
by hagbard_c | 2025-10-13 06:40:42+00:00
There are plenty of 'open source'/free software projects which are run by people with deeply extremist views but they tend to be deeply extreme _left_ views. I guess this is different here which is why it is a 'news' item. I support neither the extreme left nor the extreme right so it would be good if it also were newsworthy to point out the former.
by chr1ss_code | 2025-10-13 06:41:27+00:00
Happy Birthday! :)

The msn.com article is only the half read and has a 'Read more' link to: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13991405/Mic....

and that article is archived here: https://archive.ph/PReWq

Also, if you wonder, this article is nearly one year old, yet the release date of Excel is September 30, 1985.

Thanks for sharing :) cheers

More to read - History of Excel: https://tomasz-kandula.medium.com/the-history-of-excel-f621c...
by ljf | 2025-10-13 06:42:47+00:00
I feel very lucky to have seen coral reefs first hand in the sea, but unlucky also have seen huge coral graveyards collapsing into ocean rubble out in Greece.

I am very unsure if my children will be able to see natural coral reefs, that feels hugely unfair from the point of view of environmental loss and as part of the beauty of the ocean.
by pjmlp | 2025-10-13 06:42:47+00:00
In most places that I have been, free software is basically the way to not pay for software, for most companies free === gratis.

In the 1980's and 1990's, the same kind of places would be pirating software.

In Portugal, we used to have shops with catalogs during those days, hardly anyone at goverment level cared about software sales, nowadays it is controlled by an economic agency and those kind of shops aren't as easy to find as they were up to early 2000's.

Free software allows them to now be in a legal state, yet the authors get the same as before most of the time, nothing.

Which is why in the end many FOSS projects end up pivoting for something commercial, preferbly in ways where even piracy isn't possible, like SaaS.
by avhception | 2025-10-13 06:43:15+00:00
I don't think so. Yes, there are open source components in there. But there's also a huge amount of their own code, and can iirc present as a whole MS Exchange server to an Outlook client. There's also a user-customizable web frontend with groupware-like features. The whole package is a lot different than just combining a few packages into a bare-bones email service.
by pwdisswordfishy | 2025-10-13 06:43:21+00:00
> From Linux and K8s to Postgres and Python, it is the infra of the internet.

I may be unable to control the software in the device I am holding in my hands right now, but the important thing is that a few corporations can externalize the costs of maintaining their infrastructure to "the open-source community". And even get free publicity from doing so!
by merelysounds | 2025-10-13 06:43:27+00:00
Nonoverse, a nonogram puzzle game: https://lab174.com/nonoverse

Slice and Share; framing, diptychs, also helps share photos on social media without cropping: https://apps.apple.com/app/slice-and-share/id6752774728

Both are free, no ads, no account required. I use them myself; I’m looking to improve them too so feedback is very welcome.
by LelouBil | 2025-10-13 06:44:25+00:00
I started experimenting with Cue https://cuelang.org/ (for Kubernetes mostly, though I also used their tasks features) and it is wonderful!

If you squint it looks and works like a functional programming language, but instead of actually being one (like Dhall for example) it simply looks like configuration : keys and values.

The "types are values" and "values defined multiple times must unify" rules are really simple, and enable easy comprehension of what's happening and are powerful enough without it being a full blown programming language.

In a way it kinda reminds me of the TypeScript structural type system in the ways you manipulate types like values, which I like as well.
by pawelkobojek | 2025-10-13 06:44:25+00:00
I'm working on Penteglot - a fork of Emacs's Eglot LSP client with multi-server support.

The main feature: you can run multiple language servers simultaneously for the same buffer.

One of the main reasons people stick with lsp-mode over Eglot has been the lack of multi-server support. Eglot is otherwise the most "emacsy" LSP client, so I'm working on filling that gap and I hope it could be merged into Emacs one day.

This is still WIP but I've been using it for a while for Python (basedpyright or pyrefly + ruff for linting) and TypeScript (ts-ls + eslint + tailwind language server).

GitHub: https://github.com/pawelkobojek/penteglot
by rubenvanwyk | 2025-10-13 06:44:34+00:00
Interesting how much cross-pollination is happening in the Python ecosystem with Rust.

I think the NiceGUI example is good but quite advanced, might be beneficial to contact the teams from Reflex or FastHTML, because if you could use PyTauri to create potential local apps with those popular frameworks, it could be a big win for them and that can help with marketing around the project.
by bruce511 | 2025-10-13 06:45:00+00:00
Yes, the grid votes into play. Especially for commercial solar installations. If I drop a 200Mw facility in a sunny area the grid needs updating to accept that 200Mw at that point.

Bit that's "boring" infrastructure. Cables, trenches, transformers. It can be done in "months" (perhaps a couple years) not decades.

For residential solar of course it's a non issue. The inverter caps the amount sent to the grid, and that cap is most often set to 0. (The 16% return I mentioned earlier is before feeding to the grid.)