MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by deeteeess | 2025-10-17 10:24:18+00:00
There is also a couple of other things being factored in, such as whether the hotel location has moved, but you're right, it requires deeper analysis of even just the account history of those leaving reviews. This is just a simple surface level tool evaluating the overall rating rather than assessing the quality of the individual reviews. I'm sure an LLM could help a lot here too however given this is a free extension and the google maps API is not cheap, it's fit for purpose in it's current state. I can envision more holistic cross checking across more service providers too - if demand suddenly jumps up (:D) I could probably do some affiliate link thing to keep it cost free for everyone while delivering a more thorough analysis. At the moment it's just leveraging the fact that it's a larger hurdle to sign up for Google than it is for Booking.com, so definitely not bullet or future proof
by Hyperway | 2025-10-17 10:27:20+00:00
Open-source Veo 3.1/Imagen4-powered social app built with Flutter + Firebase .... Includes a mock mode so you can run it locally with no cloud costs.

Feeds: Private / Interests / Hot / Random

“Include Me” toggle with consent guardrails

MIT, clean structure, env example, screenshots Repo: https://github.com/FractalQuandry/veo-social-app
by lm28469 | 2025-10-17 10:27:52+00:00
> It's not just the states, pretty much all of Europe

Everywhere you go pastries are not even 10% as good as in France. You can pick anything in a semi decent french bakery and it'll be miles ahead of the best pastries you'll find in most places

That's one of the greatest mystery of life to me, all they have to do is copy super simple hundred years old recipes. Why don't they make flans ? eclairs ? croissants ? madeleines ? sablés ? Everyone else seems dead set on baking the sweetest or greasiest things
by ViewTrick1002 | 2025-10-17 10:28:33+00:00
Given the cleanup costs of the early nuclear program maybe they learned a thing or two preventing the externalization of costs?

DOE report: Cost to finish cleaning up Hanford site could exceed $589 billion

https://www.ans.org/news/2025-04-17/article-6942/doe-report-...

Sellafield cleanup cost rises to £136bn amid tensions with Treasury

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/oct/23/sellafield-...
by djoldman | 2025-10-17 10:28:46+00:00
If I could measure only two things when hiring but I got an exact measurement of them, they would be initiative/drive and interest.

In my experience, those who are truly interested in something and have an innate need to get things done by taking the initiative themselves almost always beat natural talent.

It just so happens that lots of people with those traits end up looking like people with natural talent.
by potato3732842 | 2025-10-17 10:28:49+00:00
>elected government

Elected in part by the useful idiots on HN and many other places. They were so ignorant of how government actually works they were happy to give it this power. They foresaw the jackboot being used to stomp petty criminals and fellow middle class types who don't "pay their fair share". But they had never cracked open a history book because if they had they would know that sort of stuff is never a top priority.
by zaptheimpaler | 2025-10-17 10:29:30+00:00
Some books are available to buy DRM-free if you search a little - sometimes from the publisher or the Kobo store. It's also just possible to buy a book and also download a pirated copy. You're not just hurting Amazon, you're hurting the author and I don't think we want to encourage a world where no one writes books because its impossible to get paid for them.
by CaptainOfCoit | 2025-10-17 10:30:19+00:00
Best feature of (some) the dedicated servers Hetzner offers is the unmetered bandwidth. I'm hosting a couple of image-heavy websites (mostly modding related) and since moving to Hetzner I sleep much better knowing I'll pay the same price every single month, and have been for the ~3 years I've been a happy Hetzner customer.
by nirui | 2025-10-17 10:31:57+00:00
People are more likely to have good intentions when they expect a good payback (including non-monetary as well as monetary ones) from the good intentions they gave out. It's more of a trade than care.

Organisms on this planet require resource to survive, but resource is limited. The nature is fundamentally a zero-sum game so that's what everything tends to fall back to when hard time comes. This is so predictable, played again and again, like we're cogs in a machine. Well, maybe we really are.
by probably_wrong | 2025-10-17 10:32:09+00:00
Someone is doing that right now - there's a proposed class-action lawsuit [1] that reads in part "On its website, Defendant tells consumers the option to ‘buy’ or ‘purchase’ digital copies of these audiovisual works. But when consumers ‘buy’ digital versions of audiovisual works through Amazon’s website, they do not obtain the full bundle of sticks of rights we traditionally think of as owning property. Instead, they receive ‘non-exclusive, nontransferable, non-sublicensable, limited license’ to access the digital audiovisual work, which is maintained at Defendant’s sole discretion".

[1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/08/i-like-plaintiffs-ch...
by CuriouslyC | 2025-10-17 10:32:55+00:00
I use Hetzner for this reason, but there are caveats. They're great but their uptime isn't as good as AWS and they don't have great region coverage. I strongly advise people to pair them with Cloudflare. Use Hetzner for your core with K8s, and use R2/D1/KV with Container Durable Objects to add edge coprocessing. I also like to shard customer data to individual DOs, this takes a ton of scaling pressure off your data layer, while being more secure/private.
by LunaSea | 2025-10-17 10:33:05+00:00
This is also what we did at my company.

We kept most smaller-scale, stateless services in AWS but migrated databases and high-scale / high-performance services to bare metal servers.

Backups are stored in S3 so we still benefit from their availability.

Performance is much higher thanks to physically attached SSDs and DDR5 on-die RAM.

Costs are drastically lower and for much larger server sizes which means we are no getting stressed about eventually needing to scale up our RDS / EC2 costs.
by thegeomaster | 2025-10-17 10:33:12+00:00
It's interesting to also compare this to getting a bare metal instance and provisioning microVMs on it using Firecracker. (Obviously something you shouldn't roll yourself in most cases.)

You can get a bare metal AX162 from Hetzner for 200 EUR/mo, with 48 cores and 128GB of RAM. For 4:1 virtual:physical oversubscription, you could run 192 guests on such a machine, yielding a cost of 200/192 = 1.04 EUR/mo, and giving each guest a bit over 1GiB of RAM. Interestingly, that's not groundbreakingly cheaper than just getting one of Hetzner's virtual machines!
by vidarh | 2025-10-17 10:33:22+00:00
My favorite Jeff Bezos quote is one that applies very much to AWS: "your margin is my opportunity".

Clearly when Amazon realised the enormous potential in AWS, they scrapped that principle. But the idea behind it - that an organisation used to fat margins will not be able to adapt in the face of a competitor built from the ground to live of razor thing margins - still applies.

AWS is ripe for the picking. They "can't" drop prices much, because their big competitors have similar margins, and a price war with them would devastate the earnings of all of them no matter how much extra market share they were to win.

The challenge is the enormous mindshare they have, and how many people are emotionally invested even in believing AWS is actually cost effective.
by drbacem | 2025-10-17 10:33:33+00:00
Built a free tool for professionals who use AI for drafting but need human-quality output for their final work.

RealiWrite takes AI-generated text and refines it with: - Readability control (Simple/Standard/Advanced) - Tone selection (General/Academic/Professional/SEO) - Fine-tuning sliders for creativity, sentence variation, and word choice - "Human-Writer" score to measure naturalness

The problem I kept seeing: teams use ChatGPT or other AI tools for first drafts, but the output is too robotic for client-facing work. You can't just copy-paste it into a proposal or report. Someone has to spend time rewriting it to sound professional.

This automates that process. Pick "Professional" tone, adjust readability to your audience, and get output that sounds like a skilled writer produced it.

Real-world use cases: - Business reports and proposals that need to sound polished - Marketing copy for emails and landing pages - Technical documentation that needs to be clear and engaging - Academic writing that maintains proper tone - SEO content that ranks well and reads naturally

The "Human-Writer" score gives objective feedback. High scores (90+) mean it passes as human writing; lower scores mean you might need to adjust settings and try again.

Made it free because I think good writing tools should be accessible. The fine-tune controls are there for users who want more precision.

I know there are ethical questions here, especially around academic use. My perspective: AI assistance is already ubiquitous. This tool helps ensure the final output is quality work, not obviously machine-generated garbage.

Would love feedback from others using AI in professional workflows. How do you handle the "robotic AI output" problem? ```
by CaptainOfCoit | 2025-10-17 10:33:58+00:00
Less biased view of "Hetzner on HN": https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... (skipping all comments from this submission)

In the end, Hetzner is a provider of "cheap but not 100% uptime" infrastructure, probably why it's so cheap in the first place.

As every other provider, if you want 100% uptime (or getting close to it), you really need at least N+1 instances of everything, as every hosting provider end up fucking something up, sooner or later.
by lisperforlife | 2025-10-17 10:34:50+00:00
I think you can get much farther with dedicated servers. I run a couple of nodes on Hetzner. The performance you get from a dedicated machine even if it is a 3 year old machine that you can get on server auction is absolutely bonkers and cannot be compared to VMs. The thing is that most of the server hardware is focused towards high core count, low clock speed processors that optimize for I/O rather than compute. It is overprovisioned by all cloud providers. Even the I/O part of the disk is crazy. It uses all sorts of shenanigans to get a drive that sitting on a NAS and emulating a local disk. Most startups do not need the hyper virtualized, NAS based drive. You can go much farther and much more cost-effectively with dedicated server rentals from Hetzner. I would love to know if they are any north-american (particularly canadian) companies that can compete with price and the quality of service like Hetzner. I know of OVH but I would love to know others in the same space.
by potato3732842 | 2025-10-17 10:35:21+00:00
Ah, yes, because those <checks notes> communists and <checks notes again> feudal lords, theocratic regimes, monarchs and all manner of other non-capitalist societies have such a stellar track record of treating people well.

This isn't a capitalist or any other "ist" problem. It is a problem with society and social norms.

The cameras are there because people want them to be. The cameras get used because it is not politically toxic to do so. The use continues because the people objecting to the current abuse don't object on a principal level, they love the jackboot. They'd just rather see it used to levy ruinous fines upon middle class scofflaws (got I hate that word and the people who use it unironically) than whisk brown people off the street. Sure, different people would screech if the powers that be pivoted in that direction but at no point does the screeching add up to change because only the people who hate a specific abuse screech at any one time.
by npteljes | 2025-10-17 10:35:44+00:00
People can take, and do take a lot. A lot of actual abuse is happening in relationships, from corporations, politicians, pollution from the environment, and so on. And change always seems HARD, and very uncomfortable. So, people tolerate.

And that's why you don't see many GNU/Linux offerings around - if there was a real market, corporations would adapt in a heartbeat. For example, Steam Deck is estimated to be sold 4-5M items, Chromebooks upwards from 20M. If there is a market gap where people actually want the thing, it will sell.

Another factor is of course Microsoft's business strategy. They are pushing Windows hardcore, so it would take a lot to disrupt the desktop space. Even now, but it would have been even harder between 2000-2020.
by account42 | 2025-10-17 10:36:35+00:00
Neither the free software definition nor the open source definition see someone else using your software as something that you need protection from. This kind of thinking is contrary to the entire idea of open culture.

Someone using your software (for whatever purpose) does not negatively affect you unless you depend on holding a monopoly over some aspect of your software - in which case you have already decided that your priorities lie elsewhere than free software - e.g. you want to build a business.
by refurb | 2025-10-17 10:36:43+00:00
Indeed. I spent a while in Vietnam and it was a regular occurrence of news stories about locals being rescued from all sorts of situation, not just scam centers - casinos, massage parlors.

The stories ranged from video of people running away from these places to escape, to Vietnamese police bribing people back to Vietnam who had been lured with the promise of a good job.

Cambodia really is the Wild West of this stuff.
by jokethrowaway | 2025-10-17 10:36:46+00:00
Having deployed servers well before AWS was a thing, AWS alwyas felt incredibly overpriced.

The only benefit you get is reliability, temporary network issues on AWS are not a thing.

On DigitalOcean they are fairly bad (I lose thousands of requests almost every month and I get pennies in credit back when I complain - while my users churning cost way more), on Hetzner I've heard mixed reviews.

Some people complains, some say it's extremely reliable.

I'm looking forward to try Hetzner out!
by 1718627440 | 2025-10-17 10:37:09+00:00
I do not now the meaning of something where badness != misuse.

> Well, friend, that's the meaning of natural. "Found in nature"

That's one meaning of nature. Other meanings are the nature of X, as in what is an intrinsic motivation or purpose, and natural law, but I guess you don't recognize that as valid concept.

Would you agree to "Killing others is natural"? You wouldn't expect "natural" to have the first meaning there either.

A lot of disagreements boil down to a different usage of a word, so "word games" are not fruitless in a discussion.

If it is important, then I would define misuse of a drug by motivation (high or low) and by application (whether the dose fits the motivation). misuse = low || dose != motivation; And I would say that this is bad, because low motivation doesn't satisfy the harm any drugs causes and a wrong does doesn't achieve the intended outcome.
by CaptainOfCoit | 2025-10-17 10:38:26+00:00
> . I know of OVH but I would love to know others in the same space.

When I've needed dedicated servers in the US I've used Vultr in the past, relatively nice pricing, only missing unmetered bandwidth for it to be my go-to. But all those US-specific cases been others paying for it, so hasn't bothered me, compared to personal/community stuff I host at Hetzner and pay for myself.
by breadislove | 2025-10-17 10:39:06+00:00
Hetzner is really great until you try to scale with them. We started building our service on top of Hetzner and had couple 100s of VMs running and during peak time we had to scale them to over 1000 VMs. And here couple of problems started, you get pretty often IPs which are black listed, so if you try to connect to services hosted by Google, AWS like S3 etc. you can't reach them. Also at one point there were no VMs available anymore in our region, which caused a lot of issues.

But in general if you don't need to scale crazy Hetzner is amazing, we still have a lot of stuff running on Hetzner but fan out to other services when we need to scale.
by libraryofbabel | 2025-10-17 10:39:19+00:00
I remember reading in one of Simon Willison's recent blog posts his half-joking point that MCP got so much traction so fast because adding a remote MCP server allowed tech management at big companies whose C-suite is asking them for an "AI Strategy" to show that they were doing something. I'm sure that is a little bit true - a project framed as "make our API better and more open and well-documented" would likely never have got off the ground at many such places. But that is exactly what this is, really.

At least it's something we all reap the benefits of, even if MCP is really mostly just an api wrapper dressed up as "Advanced AI Technology."
by CaptainOfCoit | 2025-10-17 10:40:21+00:00
> Having deployed servers well before AWS was a thing, AWS alwyas felt incredibly overpriced.

Yeah, I remember when AWS first appeared, and the value proposition was basically "It's expensive but you can press a button and a minute later you have a new instance, so we can scale really quickly". For the companies that know more or less the workload they have during a week don't really get any benefits, just more expensive monthly bills.

But somewhere along the line, people started thinking it was easier to use AWS than the alternatives, and I even heard people saying it's cheaper...
by oblio | 2025-10-17 10:41:03+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity_in_China

> Obesity in China is a major health concern according to the WHO, with overall rates of obesity between 5% and 6% for the country,[2] but greater than 20% in some cities where fast food is popular.

> Rapid motorization has drastically reduced levels of cycling and walking in China. Reports in 2002 and 2012 have revealed a direct correlation between ownership of motorized transport by households in China and increasing obesity related problems in children and adults.

> A leading child-health researcher, Ji Chengye, has stated that, "China has entered the era of obesity. The speed of growth is shocking."

You're sooooo clever.

Edit: extra LOL at creating the account to criticize and then downvote facts in the reply.
by spinningslate | 2025-10-17 10:41:38+00:00
Related: Michael Kennedy moved TalkPython [0] hosting to Hetner in 2024. There's a blog about the move here [1] and a follow up after Hetzner changed some pricing policy [2].

He's also just released a book on hosting scale production Python apps [3]. Haven't read yet though would assume it'll get covered there in more detail too.

--

[0] https://talkpython.fm/

[1] https://talkpython.fm/blog/posts/we-have-moved-to-hetzner/

[2] https://talkpython.fm/blog/posts/update-on-hetzner-changes-p...

[3] https://talkpython.fm/books/python-in-production
by CaptainOfCoit | 2025-10-17 10:42:20+00:00
You can tell if a project is a toy or not based on the bill? How about actually looking at what they do? https://digitalsociety.coop/

It's literally a agency doing professional development for others, among other services. Clearly not "toys".

HN dismissals are going down in quality, at least they used to be well researched some years ago. Now people just spew out the first thing that comes up in their mind, and zero validation before hitting that "reply" button.
by Topfi | 2025-10-17 10:43:04+00:00
Gorilla is a great resource and it isn't unreasonable to suspect Z.AI has it in their data sets. I'd suspect most other frontier labs as well (pure speculation, but why not use it as a resource).

Problem is, while Gorilla was an amazing resource back in 2023 and continues to be a great dataset to lean on, but most ways we use LLMs in multi step tasks have since evolved greatly, not just with structured JSON (which GorillaOpenFunctionsV2, v4 eval does multi too), but more with the scaffolding around models (Claude Code vs Codex vs OpenCode, etc.). Likely why good performance with Gorilla doesn't necessarily map onto multiple step workloads with day-to-day tooling, which I tend to go for and reason why, despite there being FOSS options already, most labs either built their own coding assistant tooling (and most open source that too) or feel the need to fork others (Qwen with Geminis repo).

Purely speculative, but GLM-4.6 I evaluated using the same tasks as other models via Claude Code with their endpoint as that is what they advertise as the official way to use the model, same reason I use e.g. Codex for GPT-5. More focused on results in the best case, over e.g. using opencode for all models to give a more level playing field.
by jfim | 2025-10-17 10:44:24+00:00
It's totally doable to block YouTube with pihole, and also to make it blocked only on certain devices.

The regex are: (^|\.)youtubei\.googleapis\.com$ (^|\.)ytstatic\.l\.google\.com$ (^|\.)ytimg\.l\.google\.com$ (^|\.)youtube-ui\.l\.google\.com$ (^|\.)youtube\.com$ (^|\.)ytimg\.com$ (^|\.)googlevideo\.com$

You can create groups and assign devices to them, and assign the block rules only to certain groups.

The only annoyance with this is that it blocks logging into Google since they redirect to YouTube to set a login cookie as part of the Google login process. If you're already logged into Google though, everything works as normal, and you can always disable pihole for five minutes if for some reason you got logged out and need to log back in.
by potato3732842 | 2025-10-17 10:45:20+00:00
Nobody is being "actively" poisoned except perhaps the consumers of your rhetoric.

The lead develops a layer that keeps it from dissolving into water (much like aluminum develops an oxide layer) and won't hurt anyone as long as the water source doesn't pull a Flint. This is true for pipes both in houses and city pipes upstream.

Is it more dangerous than not, yes. But it's not really an "active" problem.
by bakugo | 2025-10-17 10:46:39+00:00
Be warned though that, when renting dedicated servers, there are certain issues you might have to deal with that usually aren't a factor when renting a VPS.

For example, I got a dedicated server from Hetzner earlier this year with a consumer Ryzen CPU that had unstable SIMD (ZFS checksums would randomly fail, and mprime also reported errors). Opened a ticket about it and they basically told me it wasn't an issue because their diagnostics couldn't detect it.
by CaptainOfCoit | 2025-10-17 10:46:46+00:00
> EC2 machines with the same spec perform much worse than Hetzner machines

Yeah, even when you move to "EC2 Dedicated Instances" you end up sharing the hardware with other instances, unless you go for "EC2 Dedicated Hosts", and even then the performance seems worse than other providers.

Not sure how they managed to do so for even the dedicated stuff, would require some dedicated effort.
by adamors | 2025-10-17 10:48:05+00:00
> Rails Hotwire really caught my attention, especially because of how fast you can build an MVP with Rails. But I still needed background jobs, real-time updates, and two-way communication that just works. Those things are possible in Rails and Laravel, but they take a bit more effort to set up.

All of this is built into Rails tho.

That’s why I didn’t like this article, feel free to pick whatever you want and explain the benefits, but if you do comparisions at least try to come accross as well informed. But it sounds like you haven’t started a Rails project in years