MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pjmlp | 2025-10-07 11:50:46+00:00
Vercel is like other big corporations that places like HN and Reddit like to hate, most C suites signing off consulting contracts and partner deals couldn't care less.

As such there are plenty of deployments, where the only deployment option is between Vercel, Netlify and co, usually Vercel ends up winning on the portfolio and partner deals.

You don't see geeks selling their Apple gear in droves, despite the deals that its CEO has been doing as well.
by pragma_x | 2025-10-07 11:51:12+00:00
Lately, what I've been asking people is: what do you use Windows for, exactly?

When the overwhelming majority of their stuff is in a browser, Steam, or Office, it's pretty easy to lay out Linux as an alternative. Nobody actually _uses_ windows itself, unless you're running some specialized software that requires it.

Also, a lot of people treat computers as appliances: boxes of fixed capability that ship from a factory as-is. Basically, a very complicated toaster. Windows machines run windows, Apples run MacOS, and so on. The idea that you can deviate from factory spec is, frankly, not even a thought most carry around. One must take the time to be kind and show the path through this wilderness of choices and technology decisions.

As for the MS Office thing, O365 and LibreOffice are the Linux-compatible choices I recommend. Depending on their use-cases, the latter is usually enough. I'll give O365 credit for multi-user Office and 1:1 capability with the current desktop option. That said, those aren't always compelling uses for the home-gamer.
by CuriouslyC | 2025-10-07 11:52:50+00:00
Not trying to be dismissive here but if you're deploying regularly and you have plans to scale anything putting the time into learn and automate K8s pays off very quickly. What you're doing here gives me ORM vibes - good for training wheels and helping people that don't know stuff to be productive quickly, but ultimately a source of lots of problems that you wouldn't encounter if you didn't invest in a leaky abstraction.
by dspillett | 2025-10-07 11:53:27+00:00
While I don't disagree with you at all, I'd advise against calling the OS “Windoze” (or “Winblows”, or the company “Micro$oft”). This gives off a very “From my parent's basement, I stab at thee!” impression and reduces how seriously a lot of people will take you and what you are saying, and those people could apply the same impression to the rest of us too. I used to do the same thing, about 1½-to-2 decades ago.
by physicsguy | 2025-10-07 11:53:27+00:00
That's true but I still don't see that so much because the core libraries are not as mature and often they're just thin wrappers around the C/C++/Fortran API without examples. Just as an example, I'd count this SUNDAILS library as like that: https://docs.rs/sundials/0.3.2/sundials/

Nothing wrong with that as a starting point of course, but it's easier just to compile it as a dependency and look at the core documentation if you're familiar with C++; you'll need to be reading the C++ examples anyway to write Rust code with it.
by noduerme | 2025-10-07 11:54:36+00:00
Funny you should bring that up, because FB is a perfect example of a visual relic from the late '00s which didn't age well. Much of the post-dot-com-crash world of design in the web and early mobile space was defined by a rejection of the excessive - wild crazy idiotic irreverent and often incoherent - typography and design of the '90s web. So, super basic fonts, white backgrounds, and what they thought was "minimalism". However, because they relied on the tooling rather than creating their own cues, (and also because their UI turned into a towering nightmare of crap) Facebook looks extremely dated to most people's eyes now. It looks like a 20 year old website...and not a particularly good one.

My outside opinion is that Meta does not give a shit at all about how Facebook looks at this point. I'm not here to make the case that revolutionizing their design would improve their onboarding rate now or something. I'm making the case that if you are some nobody with no network effects and no billion dollars, you have a better chance at getting people to read your content if you take the time to (a) get it out of system-ui fonts and (b) make a bunch of other aesthetic decisions that trigger certain pleasing feelings in your audience.
by oersted | 2025-10-07 11:55:20+00:00
This is a great opportunity to get HN's take on these tools: systems to streamline the management of containerized services deployed on self-managed hardware.

We've been running both CapRover and Coolify for a couple years. We quite like renting real dedicated servers (Hetzner, OVH), it is so much cheaper than the cloud and a minor management burden. These tools make it easy to bridge the gap and treat these physical servers like PaaS.

We have dozens of apps and services deployed on a couple large-ish servers with backups. Most modern back-ends do so little computationally and lots of containers can comfortably live together. 128GB of RAM and 64 cores can go a long way and surprisingly cheap in Hetzner, and having that fixed monthly cost removes a mental burden. It is cheap, simple and availability issues are so much rarer than people expect, maybe a couple mishaps a year that are easy to recover from and don't really have a meaningful impact for a startup.

Coolify feels more complete and mature, but frankly, after using both a lot, we now steer more towards the simplicity of CapRover. I see that Dokploy is also a major alternative to Coolify, don't know much about it.

How does /dev/push compare? Do you have any other recommendations in this vein? Or differing opinions on the tools I mentioned?
by rasengan | 2025-10-07 11:55:35+00:00
> so for a period of time, people working for Proton were employed by Tesonet, since Proton had no local subsidiary that could hire them. These were not "shared employees", they worked exclusively for Proton. In 2016, Proton created its own subsidiary, and these people are now employed by Proton. But for this historical reason, the ProtonVPN keystore on Android still lists Tesonet as the organization name, even though it is fully controlled by Proton.

So either:

1. Tesonet/Nord are loose with their private keys.

2. Proton isn’t being truthful.

Anyone who understands crypto and key management knows “not your keys, not your _____.”

If those staffers worked for Proton and not Nord, why did they have Nord’s key?

This level of negligence with private key management really can’t be explained away.
by Muromec | 2025-10-07 11:55:55+00:00
>Europe is so poor compared to other first world countries.

is it?

>Who exactly benefits from a business going under? Its bigger competitors? The less well off are the ones that suffer the most from oligarchic sectors and cartels.

The big thing going under right now is legacy auto manufacturers in Germany. That's sad, but the same happened in US without all the labor protections. It's just a lifecycle of industries -- they got fat and comfortable.

The way German manufacturers managed to outlive US ones while having stronger labor laws seems to contradict you story big time.
by ivolimmen | 2025-10-07 11:56:48+00:00
Well I never had any issue as I never put my machine to sleep. I actually turn my machine off and on. Yes that includes my laptops, sbc's and desktops. I also advise everyone (even Microsoft users) to never use hibernation. It's not that faster than a full reboot cycle and can cause issues you really do not want. Sorry I am old-fashioned.
Show HN: Cjam – a modern MP3 file editor
by cutandjoin | 2025-10-07 11:56:52+00:00
Cjam is an MP3 editing and playback tool for Windows.

The MP3 format itself has been stable for decades, but advances in CPU power and memory have shifted the relationship between files and hardware, creating room for new approaches to working with MP3s.

Cjam provides both a GUI and scripting interface that allow you to process large numbers of files at the frame level. This improves on existing tools, offering faster and more flexible editing and playback.
by DoneWithAllThat | 2025-10-07 11:56:52+00:00
This is a random aside but somewhere I have some slightly obscure early 2000s anime with fan subs, and in one of them they accidentally left an additional “working notes” subtitle track that I find fascinating. It basically has all the little messages between the participants discussing whether a given translation is accurate or should be changed, alternative ideas, disagreements over proper translation, etc. It really illustrates how subtitling is nowhere near an exact science and oftentimes whether a given translation is the best is highly subjective. You basically need to be a good writer to be a good translator.
by rsolva | 2025-10-07 11:57:06+00:00
You are right, but I had the creeps that sought power in mind. Internet was for sure inhabited by countless other kinds of creeps of various flavours, but none of them had such a negative impact on human civilization as a whole as the power hungry creeps. They effectively captured and curtailed the promises of the early, distributed web.

Maybe it was destined to develop the way it did, given the permissionless nature of the web, and that the ideal of an open and distributed web would be choked out at some point anyway, as a natural consequence of collective human behaviour.

And maybe, if the web could have had a few more years without the power hungry forces we now know, we would have developed a stronger immunity against such behaviour? We will never know, I guess.

Non the less, I'll forever hold a deep grudge towards the power hungry creeps for the catastrophic effects they unleashed on the world and for ruining the potential of a truly open, diverse and vibrant web. In a generation or two, I do think we will look back at the founders of Big Tech companies as creeps that harmed the world in unthinkable ways, just as we do with brutal powerful people in earlier history.

They shaped the world in countless ways, and the negatives are just now beginning to gain space in the collective consciousness.
by perching_aix | 2025-10-07 11:57:45+00:00
> anybody engaging with the medium beyond surface level would know.

I'll readily admit to not caring about the people or the process behind how anime are made. I consider that a separate side of the hobby entirely. It is an unfortunate side effect of social media that I can less and less ignore these aspects, including VAs blackwashing characters and other utterly puzzling antics. It's not something I seek out myself, I watch the shows for themselves. 0% apologetic about this too

That said, if there's such an influence on the translations, I'd prefer to be rid of it of course. Which brings us to...

> Then you have not paid attention at all. Almost every season there is a case like this

That is entirely possible. Do you maybe have like a short list of examples? From the last few seasons then, at least a handful. Cause "infamous anime localizers that are gloating on Twitter how they fix anime by pushed there political agenda" sounds very readily bad, and yet a quick search (via AI, of course) left me completely empty handed beyond the high profile case of "Dragon Maid", and the lesser but still talked about "My first girlfriend is a gyaru" (which didn't do much other than namedropping SJWs iirc, a now outdated term).
by bityard | 2025-10-07 11:58:42+00:00
Not just Usenet, although it's the most well remembered example. Anywhere people could congregate on the early internet had its share of dark alleys where people would trade porn, warez, and political diatribe. IRC especially but also on the web if you accidentally strayed too far off the beaten path.

The modern Internet is basically less like a city and more like a shopping mall now.
by mschuster91 | 2025-10-07 11:58:51+00:00
The problem at the root is the financialization of everything.

Public hospitals are one thing, there incentive structures revolve around saving money - yeeting patients out of the door far faster than you'd have don in the past, to a large degree made possible by new operation technologies (minimally invasive surgeries).

But private run hospitals? They see you as a cash cow, extract as much money as possible from you. And yes, often enough that includes outright billing fraud.
by amiga386 | 2025-10-07 11:59:12+00:00
My understanding - from https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crkep1vx3mro - is that.

1. Gas-powered electricity generation sets the wholesale rate (for _all_ forms of generation) more often than not, and gas is expensive, especially after we had to find alternative sources in order to punish Russia for invading Ukraine.

2. Other than the wholesale rate, we need to _build_ all this clean energy, we need to attract investment, and it's our promise to pay for that CapEx over 15-20 years (the strike price) that we'll be paying for in our bills once gas is out of the picture, moreso than the actual cost of generation.

Also, Tories in 2023 failed to attract any investment, no capacity added: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66749344

Whereas Labour in 2025: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly8ynegwn4o

... we will find out if this worked, after the auction is finished and they announce the results (around November 2025 - February 2026)
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-10-07 11:59:35+00:00
Ads have become integrated into everything.

It's not new. Probably one of the most infamous examples, is why red and white are associated with Santa Claus. That's because they are Coca-Cola's corporate colors, and they heavily advertised and gave away a lot of swag, back at the beginning of last century. If you look at older depictions of Saint Nick, he's usually wearing some green.

I get sick of ads designed to look like copy, and presented inline in stories. That's going to get a lot worse, as LLMs are probably excellent at customising marketing drivel to fit into legit content.

Brand-building is important [to corporations]. Things like what words TV presenters and actors use can be manipulated to reinforce a corporate glossary.

Whenever you see a couple of actors enjoying a beer in a TV show, you'll notice the bottle labels are usually turned away from the camera. If you can see the label, it was generally paid.

I used to work for a famous camera company. I would often see actors using our cameras, but with the name blacked out (sometimes, you could see the electrical tape).
by haskellshill | 2025-10-07 12:00:17+00:00
> I trust Mullvad more than I trust some random hotels WiFi

For what exactly? All sites are HTTPS now anyway, so the only thing you're leaking is the hostnames / IPs you visit. I don't exactly see how the whole "hotel WIFI" thing is relevant at all, except as a dishonest marketing strategy by VPN salesmen
by domenbukovac | 2025-10-07 12:01:21+00:00
> Due to the way the Android Play store works, this keystore can unfortunately never be changed, but it remains under our sole control.

Out of curiosity, why not release the new version as a separate app under a new package name. I realise that’s not an ideal solution since it would mean starting fresh with installs and reviews, but it could allow you to move forward without being locked into the old key.
by dijit | 2025-10-07 12:01:27+00:00
Surface battery life is something like 1/2 of a Macbook or iPad in real world scenarios.

Certainly not a bad amount (5hrs) but enough that it becomes a conscious "I will have to charge this thing if I use it all day" thought.

I'm not trying to nitpick, this is genuinely what makes my brain hesitate.
by hunvreus | 2025-10-07 12:01:49+00:00
/dev/push is really trying to recreate the UX of Vercel, so more user-friendly/prettier than CapRover..?

Additionally, for most cases you can select a runtime and deploy your app without any Docker config. Easier to get up and running if all you care about is deploy a Python/Go/Node.js app with simple requirements.

I do plan on offering the ability to use custom Docker images soon though.
by TrackerFF | 2025-10-07 12:02:08+00:00
Say you're some business, government agency, or whatever. You mainly focus on one or few core things (the product, or service you're providing).

Suddenly you face change, maybe the markets are changing, or tech has come a long way - but in any case, it is in something which is either outside your area of expertise, or you don't have the resources to do it yourself.

So instead of hiring N people to do that one thing, you pay external people to do it for you. This is especially attractive in agencies where you have budgets to consider, can't just hire workers on a whim, and where firing workers can be equally difficult.

That's where consulting firms come in. Most big consulting firms tend to be huge, and have expert networks all over the world - so there's a decent likelihood they'll have someone that have knowledge in the problem you're looking to get solved. And they hire smart enough people that will toil away.

In a good scenario the consultants will have interviewed you, taken a deep dive look into your organization, analyzed the data, and either answered out your problem, or laid out exactly what you need to solve that problem. Usually on the strategy side.

For the implementation itself, you can either go to step 1 and hire people to do it, or hire some other consulting agency to actually do the implementation work.

That's at least the ideal situation. Sometimes consultants are just hired to rubber stamp controversial leadership decisions, and to back up things that leadership can't get internal backing for.
by imcritic | 2025-10-07 12:03:42+00:00
I struggle to grasp what it does. What's Vercel and what that does? Someone here in the comments mentioned coolify.io and Dokploy as more alternatives. None of those projects have a good description of what they do. They just "ship anything to anywhere". That's too broad, I need details, I need a short explanation of their basic mechanisms.

Tiresome!
by techdmn | 2025-10-07 12:04:06+00:00
Slavery never went away, it just changed its name to Prison Labor. For fun here's a pair of stories about people being held past their release dates:

* https://promiseofjustice.org/news/louisianans-illegally-kept...

* https://www.corrections1.com/law-and-legislation/articles/re...
by rajnathani | 2025-10-07 12:04:08+00:00
41% [1] of S&P500 companies' (~Top 500 US stocks index which for example doesn't include TSMC, as it's only for US-listed companies) revenue comes from outside of the US. So really, people are buying into global companies when they're buying the S&P500.

[1] https://www.apolloacademy.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/011...
by CuriouslyC | 2025-10-07 12:04:22+00:00
I started out really hyped for Deno, but I feel like in most cases Bun or WASM end up being better options. WASM is a great option because it has real security unlike Deno, it's a bit more involved to work with but that project setup cost gets amortized over the life of a big project, so the main downside is build chain speed, but Go is pretty good there.
by graycreate | 2025-10-07 12:04:46+00:00
This smells like session hijack rather than a straight password/2FA bypass. If an attacker stole a valid cookie (phishing page, malicious extension, or compromised machine), they can ride your session without hitting the 2FA gate. The US IPs plus sudden content spam fits that pattern.

The pragmatic checklist I’d run: log out all devices, rotate password and 2FA, switch to a hardware key/WebAuthn, audit browser extensions (disable anything non‑essential), scan the box, and revoke any third‑party app access tied to Reddit. On the policy side, keep a clear timeline of IPs and actions; in my experience, a concise paper trail sometimes gets a human review even when the first appeal doesn’t. Glad the account is back—hopefully it sticks.
by pancsta | 2025-10-07 12:05:26+00:00
> Taskfile and Just are fantastic for single-project task automation. They're lightweight and easy to set up, but they weren't designed with monorepos in mind. While you can have multiple Taskfiles/Justfiles in a repo, they don't provide unified task discovery, cross-project wildcards, or automatic tool/environment inheritance across projects.

Not true, Taskfile supports inheritance of both itself and dotenvs. The main selling point of mice seems to be tamed multilang mixing. In case of pure-golang monorepos, mice seems like a lot of extra bloat.

For less developed / standardized platforms like py/node, it may come in handy. Of course it had to be written in rust…
by mishagale | 2025-10-07 12:06:18+00:00
Bear in mind that in the UK, a large chunk of the populations lives in either rented accommodation, high-rise flats, or both. And also, standard housing policy in London is for new developments to have fewer parking spaces than homes (to encourage public transport use over cars).

For many people in the UK, having an EV charging port on the side of your house isn't possible, because they don't have a house, or they don't have a parking space near their house.
by jodrellblank | 2025-10-07 12:06:43+00:00
> "You pay for an ad-subsidized version of amazon prime video."

Apparently so. But that isn't what I signed up for. That isn't the product I started out paying for. And that isn't the product I agreed to switch to, except by some weasel words on their part.

Your original argument is that people don't pay for things because people are crybabies. My counter argument is that people do and did pay for things and companies abused that, and now people are "once bitten, twice shy" not "entitled". People paid for NetFlix and then when that became a success, content companies pulled their content and made their own streaming services. People paid for YouTube Premium to avoid ads and then YouTube showed 'sponsorships' which are ads in all but name.

https://old.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/18ll7y6/i_have_you...
by Simulacra | 2025-10-07 12:06:48+00:00
I have come to terms with the fact that these cameras and processors will get smaller, and smaller, until one day you won't know if the glasses worn by the person in front of you have a camera or not. It's inevitable. Like deamon operative glasses, people will wear them, will abuse them, and there's not a lot we can do about it. It's like any other camera, staring at us when we go in public of which there are many, many, many.
by dkural | 2025-10-07 12:06:50+00:00
From that viewpoint of all of chemistry and biology is just a consequence of theoretical physics. A lot of the 'consequences' of physics are very surprising and not at all obvious from the fundamental equations. There's a great paper you might want to read:

https://www.tkm.kit.edu/downloads/TKM1_2011_more_is_differen...

He also won a Nobel by the way.

Many great discoveries follow from new instrumentation leading to better and novel data, and less often some conceptual leap. This is why the genius of Einstein is all the more remarkable in coming up with relativity. Interestingly, he got his Nobel for something else :)
by bobmcnamara | 2025-10-07 12:06:54+00:00
> The mental image I'm getting from your description is a high speed o-scope probe copy-pasted 80 times, which would obviously be insane

It's a thing. It's expensive though. At some point you copy-paste scopes and trigger sync them.

Edit: https://www.teledynelecroy.com/oscilloscope/oscilloscopeseri...