MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by chubot | 2025-10-30 16:24:04+00:00
BUT, I think the author is looking for deviance in some of the wrong places

In the section at the end, he does admit that possibility:

The internet ethnographer Katherine Dee argues that the most interesting art is happening in domains we don’t yet consider “art”, like social media personalities, TikTok sketch comedy, and Pinterest mood boards.

https://culture.ghost.io/why-its-hard-to-argue-about-cultura...

I think that is true

But I also think he's right about movies, music, architecture, corporate logos, etc.

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off grid living, tiny homes, non-standard pets, lake culture, trail rides, guerilla playgrounds, CPNS, take-overs, pull up concerts, unlicnensed popups, dump truck beaches, etc

Hm interesting. It feels like the Internet has made off-grid living more feasible. Well I only know from YouTube :-/

But from watching those videos, it does seem like there is a ton of information that can be a matter of life and death ... which you can either find out (1) the hard way (2) from a book or a neighbor (the old ways), or (3) through the Internet !

So the Internet can make new(-ish) things more possible, but I also think it has a dampening/homogenizing effect, as many others said in this thread
by Dracophoenix | 2025-10-30 16:24:12+00:00
The protocols were made open by necessity, not by design. The motive was to connect academic , government, and commercial institutions across the country, all of which operated on incompatible operating systems and data networks. However, the common man would not have benefited from this before 1993, as the government effectively operated as a semi-competent firewall against commercial content and the broader public. They even sued ISPs that permitted legitimate accounts from remotely accessing the net through PPP or SLIP protocols. Not even commercial news feeds were permitted until the late 80s.

The only Internet the common man interacted with is the one that began to flourish as the government relinquished control. The Internet since the mid-90s is and has been a purely commercial achievement.
by matheusmoreira | 2025-10-30 16:24:14+00:00
Over the years I've gotten really tired of this obsession with "normal people" and not just because I'm one of the so called power users. This is really part of a growing effort to hide the computer away as an implementation detail.

https://contemporary-home-computing.org/RUE/

That's what "UX" is all about. "Scripting the users", minimizing and channeling their interactions within the system. Providing one button that does exactly what they want. No need to "scare" them with magical computer technology. No need for them to have access to any of it.

It's something that should be resisted, not encouraged. Otherwise you get generations of technologically illiterate people who don't know what a directory is. Most importantly, this is how corporations justify locking us out of our own devices.

> We are giving up our last rights and freedoms for “experiences,” for the questionable comfort of “natural interaction.” But there is no natural interaction, and there are no invisible computers, there only hidden ones.

> Every victory of experience design: a new product “telling the story,” or an interface meeting the “exact needs of the customer, without fuss or bother” widens the gap in between a person and a personal computer.

> The morning after “experience design:” interface-less, desposible hardware, personal hard disc shredders, primitive customization via mechanical means, rewiring, reassembling, making holes into hard disks, in order to to delete, to logout, to “view offline.”
by griffzhowl | 2025-10-30 16:24:28+00:00
The quote seems perfectly fine in illustrating the idea that reality will always transcend our language or thought (to the extent that can be expressed in any language).

And if you appreciate Hindu scripture, that particular quote could have been lifted almost verbatim from the Upanishads.

I don't appreciate the dogmatism that is associated with a lot of orthodox Islam either, but this is something similar to a lot of conservative religious outlooks, as you can find among people identifying as Hindu, Buddhist, Christian, etc. But in fact this particular quote can be seen as antithetical to any such dogmatic position, and it's worthwhile to recognize points of agreement even though you might disagree in other areas.
by ivape | 2025-10-30 16:24:41+00:00
Actively invested retirement funds throughout 30+ years can also catch more concentrated moves if you are educated on a sector. For example, choosing the mag7 in the early 2010s vs just the SPY. Following the market could also let you pull out during serious world events.

There is definitely money left on the table when you ignore the market, even in a retirement fund.
by sougou | 2025-10-30 16:24:54+00:00
Hi HN, this is a series on a way to generalize consensus protocols and how to adapt them to existing systems.

This is part 6: It covers Revocation and Candidacy, the prerequisites for a leader change. We explain how to revoke previous leaderships and recruit for a new candidacy. It's a bit complex, but there are plenty of animations to help you along.

One of our goals is to make this approach work for Postgres via Multigres. But the principles can be used to implement your own solutions also. This will make Durability and High Availability more accessible for users.
by orliesaurus | 2025-10-30 16:25:19+00:00
Interesting move by this company to expand into the creative suite space...

BUT I'm curious how they'll handle interoperability with existing workflows... Are there import/export paths for PSD, Sketch, Figma... Without that it's just another silo...

ALSO for freelancers and small teams licensing models matter... a subscription tied to an account can be a hurdle if you need to collaborate with clients outside the ecosystem...

Would love to see more clarity on offline use, local file formats and plugin APIs... those details make or break a creative suite...
by dtagames | 2025-10-30 16:25:23+00:00
I adore a good art installation, but this is not the art crowd. For my own art inspiration, I like to look at what theme parks, museums, expos, and other large scale edutainment art Venus have done and are doing.

Everyone has all the same tools available as you do, just like we have the same paints and brushes. I think the best installation will come from something you imagine that has never been made from those tools before, rather that a pre-existing idea from someone else.

But that's 'cause I'm an artist, too! In any case I wish you good traction and great success with your project.
by madcaptenor | 2025-10-30 16:26:02+00:00
This is better than my answer, at least if you can get your brain to interpret it in base b. In that case the first two lines would become

1/(b-1) = 0.1111... 1/((b-1)^2) = 1/b * 1/b = 0.111... * 0.111... =
by OliverGuy | 2025-10-30 16:26:41+00:00
Tbh, for most companies/orgs the cost/complexity of multi region just isn't worth it.

The cost of a work days worth of downtime is rarely enough to justify the expense of trying to deploy across multiple regions or clouds.

Esp if you are public facing and not internal. You just go 'well everyone else was down to because of aws' and your customers just go 'ah okay fair enough'
by ageitgey | 2025-10-30 16:26:50+00:00
> The problem is that everyone wants a different 20% of the functionality.

I'm not disagreeing with your basic take, but I think this part is a little more subtle.

I'd argue that 80% of users (by raw user count) do want roughly the same 20% of functionality, most of the time.

The problem in FOSS is that average user in the FOSS ecosystem is not remotely close to the profile of that 80%. The average FOSS user is part of the 1% of power users. They actively want something different and don't even understand the mindset of the other 80% of users.

When someone comes along to a FOSS project and honestly tries to rebuild it for the 80% of users, they often end up getting a lot of hate from the established FOSS community because they just have totally different needs. It's like they don't even speak the same language.
by jtf23 | 2025-10-30 16:26:51+00:00
“You going to just stare at that coffee?” Lillian asked.

I smiled at being caught in an unguarded state of preoccupation with my dark thoughts. Then I took a sip of the decaf.

“It’s good. Tastes like the real thing,” I said, and this time I was telling the truth.

“Nothing hard about making a good cup of coffee,” Lillian said to this customer as she lit up another cigarette.

And that statement provided something of an answer to my questions about Lillian and her business. Because the coffee at the Metro Diner didn’t have to be as good as it was, nor did the excellent food served there have to be so carefully prepared or so reasonably priced. That was not how we did things where I happened to work. The company that employed me strived only to serve up the cheapest fare that its customers would tolerate, churn it out as fast as possible, and charge as much as they could get away with. If it were possible to do so, the company would sell what all businesses of its kind dream about selling, creating that which all our efforts were tacitly supposed to achieve: the ultimate product –– Nothing. And for this product they would command the ultimate price –– Everything.
by kingnothing | 2025-10-30 16:27:01+00:00
You need to have compliance certifications or no one will use this. Think along the lines of SOC2, HIPAA, willingness to sign BAAs, etc. The hardest part of this company is going to be sales. You're not selling to small businesses who will pop in a credit card number -- this is an offering for enterprises with annual agreements and longer sales cycles.

Also, consider supporting CCPA for California businesses.
by graemep | 2025-10-30 16:27:04+00:00
How do you know whether that is caused by climate change or worse management of forests.

I suspect many governments are spending less on prevention because they can blame the consequences on climate change - whereas if climate change is increasing the risk they should be spending more on reducing it.

> Planting trees could be great for the environment, but without the moisture it could become a tinderbox for wildfires.

Trees also change the climate locally so might be part of the solution for that too.
by mikkupikku | 2025-10-30 16:27:11+00:00
"I am new to GitHub and I have lots to say I DONT GIVE A FUCK ABOUT THE FUCKING CODE! i just want to download this stupid fucking application and use it.

WHY IS THERE CODE??? MAKE A FUCKING .EXE FILE AND GIVE IT TO ME. these dumbfucks think that everyone is a developer and understands code. well i am not and i don't understand it. I only know to download and install applications. SO WHY THE FUCK IS THERE CODE? make an EXE file and give it to me. STUPID FUCKING SMELLY NERDS"
by tmuhlestein | 2025-10-30 16:27:17+00:00
In most ad systems, the logic is simple: highest bid wins. But simple doesn’t mean smart.

At GoDaddy, we asked a harder question: Can we optimize both revenue and user satisfaction—without sacrificing either?

So, we built DeepAd: a deep learning ranking model that blends monetization, behavior, and intent to deliver ads that are both profitable and meaningful.

Core Concepts

• Context-aware ranking: Goes beyond “highest bid wins,” factoring in intent, engagement, and diversity. • Transfer learning from DeepRank: Leveraging billions of domain-search interactions to give our ad model a head start. • ReTiRe framework: Balancing Relevance, Time, and Revenue for a truly adaptive signal mix. • Real behavioral supervision: Learning directly from shopper actions — what they clicked, bought, or skipped.

Why this matters:

• Shoppers see domains that actually fit their intent. • Registries get fair exposure — niche top-level domain (TLD) can compete on merit, not budget. • GoDaddy achieves sustainable revenue without degrading user trust.

Key takeaway: Building intelligent ad systems isn’t just about monetization — it’s about aligning incentives between users, advertisers, and platforms through smarter modeling.

Dive into the technical deep dive: Balancing Revenue and Relevance: Optimizing TLD Ad Rankings https://www.godaddy.com/resources/news/balancing-revenue-and...

Curious to hear your perspective — share your thoughts below!
by insane_dreamer | 2025-10-30 16:27:18+00:00
They seem to have removed Affinity from the Mac App Store.

For those who want a lifetime license instead of freemium, Amandine* is similar to Affinity ($30 on Mac Store).

(I have no connection to either app).

* Edit: It's Amadine, not Amandine (my typo)
by glimshe | 2025-10-30 16:27:31+00:00
Nooooooo!

I'm a loyal Serif customer and paid for their software. I LOVE Affinity. And I HATE "free" commercial products because they need to extract revenue from subscription services, ads, data selling etc.

This is the first step toward making Affinity become another rental application like Photoshop. Escaping Adobe's predatory business model is exactly why I became a Serif customer in the first place.
by jessep | 2025-10-30 16:29:19+00:00
That doesn't make sense. The free part is the marketing, the more people like it, the faster it spreads. I run a freemium business and all the motivation internally is to increase growth by improving the free product. Once you achieve a good conversion to pro, any more will slow down growth. At that point, all you care about is improving the product for free users to generate word of mouth, and building features that will do so.
by opazazzyzen | 2025-10-30 16:29:35+00:00
I've worked with founders who've seen higher conversion rates working with niche influencers (<100k followers) than with mega-celebs like Selena Gomez.

The follower is a personal cheerleader watching their "friend" succeed with a brand deal. There are elements of a parasocial relationship. There's a level of trust.

I haven’t found research on this—this is just my hypothesis—but I expect the readers of a trusted newsletter likely transfer that trust to the startups featured there—just like followers of niche influencers are more likely to take action on a brand being promoted.

In my opinion, readers may view your early-stage startup more favorably in a respected journalist’s newsletter (like Alex Konrad's) than in the publication they left (like Forbes).

Thoughts?
by turtlebro | 2025-10-30 16:29:41+00:00
Circus? And why do you think you payed for nothing?

Looks like they unified Designer/Photo/Publisher into one app, will take a bit to to get used to, but overall nice, the split between Photo & Designer was always a bit silly I feel. Also added GenAI features, for $12/m, not in a hurry to subscribe atm, but could come in handy. Cool to see the suite is still alive and getting updates.
by throwwgisgreat | 2025-10-30 16:29:45+00:00
> Wireguard can't punch through NATs or firewalls without third party software like Tailscale.

That's a false or incorrect statement, I've been using Wireguard and a cheap VPS (actually free on OCI) for several years, and with a cheap VPS at AWS Lightsail before that. No third party software in use at all. The only thing running on the VPS is Wireguard. The only thing running on my peers is Wireguard.

> Also I'm pretty sure each peer to peer connection needs to be individually set up in a config file ahead of time

That's how I do it but there are tools available to make it easy.
by rramadass | 2025-10-30 16:30:42+00:00
I dislike unnecessary religiosity being dragged in where there is no reason for it.

> I happen to familiar with both

I don't think you are. No Quantum Physicist has ever quoted anything from Quran since there is nothing there (it is the youngest of all religions being only from 7th century AD) which has not been already elaborated in Hindu/Buddhist/Greek/Chinese/Christian philosophies/worldviews. That is why most scientists quoted from those ancient scriptures. There is no need to try and hoist your opinions on them.

Moreover the article specifically mentions Carlo Rovelli drawing inspiration from Nagarjuna's Buddhist philosophy and hence that is the model we should look at to try and understand what he means (and not drag in all and sundry others).
by skwee357 | 2025-10-30 16:31:37+00:00
Don't worry, I sleep tight and don't grind my teeth (at least not over Affinity).

What bothers me, however, is that I bought Affinity tools in the first place in order to avoid marrying myself with Adobe and their predatory business practices. I, and many people here on HN, shared this sentiment of Adobe. However, I'm kind of baffled by the amount of people who seems to celebrate these free tools, as this is a 101 in predatory business making: acquire a good product, make it free but with an account, deprecate said good product and force everyone to use your SaaS offering with monthly subscription. I might be wrong, time will tell.

I wonder when people will learn the real value of "free" offering by For Profit Big Corp (c)
by u-mesh | 2025-10-30 16:32:28+00:00
Hey everyone, I wanted to share my story. This year in February, I came up with some notion (mostly just pissed) that we couldn't use AI models as good as claude locally to design. The fact that they had all this training and design data held behind a wall (which you had to pay for) was super unnatural so I just started learning about AI and wanted to train my own model.

The very first model that I trained, I put it on huggingface and it went trending overnight. It was on the front page right next to DeepSeek etc and people kept asking me who did all that? Was I part of a research group or academic? And I was just like no... just 22 year old with a laptop lol. Ever since then, I used my off hours from my full time job to train models and code software, with the intention of keeping everything open source. (Just angry again that we don't have gpus haha).The future of AI is definitely open source.

Along the way I kept talking to people and realized that AI assisted coding is the future as well, freeing up mental capacity and space to do better things with your time like architecture and proper planning. Technology enabled a lot more people to become builders and I thought that was so cool, until I realized... Not open sourced again. Loveable, Cursor, etc.. Just a system prompt and tools. Why can I not change my own system prompts? Everythings closed source these days. So I built the opposite. My goal is to make coding models that look as good as Claude and a tool to use said coding models.

So I built Tesslate Studio. Its open sourced, Apache 2.0. Bring your own models (llama.cpp, ollama, openrouter, lm studio, Litellm or your own urls), Bring your own agents (you can define the system prompt or tools or add in a new agent with the factory), and bring your own github urls to start with. AI should be open sourced and accessible to everyone. I don't want people changing my system prompts again as well as I would like to choose on my own when I would want to change the prompt for the stuff I'm building.

https://github.com/TesslateAI/Studio

Each project also gets a Kanban board, notes. You can switch the agent whenever you want and try other people's agents if you have it hosted in a multi user environment. Drop any model in. use any agents with whatever tools you define. I am actively developing this and will continue to improve it based on feedback. The open source project will always be 100% free and I'm definitely looking for contributions, suggestions, issues, etc. Would love to work with some talented engineers.

I have it hosted online for (free, Free GPT-5 and Qwen-coder) at https://tesslate.com using cloud credits until they run out on the 12th of November.

Thank You for taking the time to read this, I appreciate it!
by GreenWatermelon | 2025-10-30 16:32:51+00:00
EU govs siding with google in this move would be catastrophically stupid, it's equivalent to ceding their digital sovereignty to the US. All it would take to knee-cap Europe is for the US to command google to suspend all european developers' accounts, and suddenly Europe is fucked. No banking apps, no government services, no nothing.

The only rational step for the EU is to support open everything: Open Software, Open Hardware, Open platforms, etc...

Beggars can't be choosers. Until they pony up the cache to fork android, they're beholden to the US.
by wubrr | 2025-10-30 16:33:12+00:00
> It's not at the same level as other large frontier models from American companies

Cool story

> The value of goods manufactured in the US has never been higher... Manufacturing has disappeared as a share of GDP, but that's not because we make less stuff.

You're seriously going to try to argue how US manufacturing (which was the greatest share of global manufacturing by far) didn't decline, to support a point about how China (Shenzhen) is apparently an unreplicable manufacturing hub due to 'cluster effect'? It's funny that you don't see the contradiction. For the record, US manufacturing as a share of global manufacturing has significantly declined over the years. [0][1]

" > The United States' share of global manufacturing activity declined from 28% in 2002, following the end of the 2001 U.S. recession, to 16.5% in 2011

> China displaced the United States as the largest manufacturing country in 2010

> Manufacturing output, measured in each country's local currency adjusted for inflation, has been growing more slowly in the United States than in China, South Korea, Germany, and Mexico "

> You do generally have to physically be present to make deals.

If you need to be physically present for a meeting, you make a trip. There is absolutely zero benefit to living in close proximity to investors the rest of the time.

> It is obviously theoretically possible to run a world-leading software company fully remote.

It is obviously not just theoretically possible, and many companies do so.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_in_the_United_St... [1] https://www.bcg.com/press/21september2023-north-american-com...
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-10-30 16:33:35+00:00
The issue is that Android won’t have an AI first experience where you depend on local inference because most Android phones being sold are cheap crappy devices and Android users don’t monetize.

But there is much more to a phone than “just doing stuff agentically”. Either way, you give way too much credit for Google to ever make a good end user product and be able to sell it. Google’s sells of pixels for a year are about the same number Apple sells in three weeks.

Apple’s hardware/ecosystem has been a most for 50 years.

Also Google is non existent in the country that has 1/5 of the worlds population.
by strictnein | 2025-10-30 16:33:38+00:00
Signing on to bad treaties is bad. Treaties can both restrict what you can do and compel you to do things that you don't want to.

For example: "Compelled Technical Assistance: The draft requires countries to adopt laws enabling authorities to compel anyone with knowledge of a particular computer system to provide *necessary information* to facilitate access."

The US would have to have laws that would force you to provide login information to systems if the government wanted access to it. This would run contrary to the 5th amendment.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/07/effs-concerns-about-un...
by dannyw | 2025-10-30 16:33:58+00:00
Hi, Canva employee & Affinity user+lover for 10+ years (pre-acquisition) here.

That’s not true. We really do want to make all design, including professional design, as widely accessible as possible; including those who can’t afford it.

I understand this could be interpreted as ‘corporate PR’, but even from a game-theory sense, you’d want to maximize the top of your funnel, which is free users.
by GuB-42 | 2025-10-30 16:34:07+00:00
Isn't it essentially the same thing, but less formal

0.1111... is just a notation for (x + x^2 + x^3 + x^4 + ...) with x = 1/10

1/9 = 0.1111... is a direct application of the x/(1-x) formula

The sum of 0.0111... + 0.00111... ... = 0.012345... part is the same as the "(x + 2 x^2 + 3 x^3 + ...) = (x + x^2 + x^3 + x^4 + ...) + (x^2 + x^3 + x^4 + x^5 + ...)" part (but divided by 10)

And 1/81 = 1/9 * 1/9 ... part is the x/(1-x)^2 result