MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by raducu | 2025-11-18 11:08:17+00:00
> CBT works pretty well for adhd.

I want to share my counter example -- no amount of therapy could help me not almost loose it every time I drove my daughter in heavy traffic or deal with her just being a toddler.

But after 2 weeks being on concerta made lasting changes even months off the drug.

It was the best type o therapy -- you just do the thing that triggers you minus the bad part and learn it's not so bad and you can do it, it has profound implications.
by ben_w | 2025-11-18 11:08:43+00:00
> apparently super volcanoes are also right up there. And I don't think there is a damn thing we can do about them

I'm not sure about that.

Don't get me wrong, an example of a super-volcano is Yellowstone National Park, so I agree we can't prevent them

Rather, looking at the pandemic response and various wars, I think (most) world governments are competent enough to re-organise labour and national diets to mitigate the problems one would cause: covering farms in poly-tunnels, having "national service" that's about building/repurposing farming infrastructure rather than military function, food rationing, changes to farming laws to make sure livestock is only on land that doesn't support intensive crops, etc.
Show HN: Dboxed – My attempt on building a cloud alternative
by codablock | 2025-11-18 11:08:58+00:00
Hi, I'm the creator of Dboxed, a fully Open Source cloud alternative. I'll also start a paid SaaS/PaaS offering in the future.

GitHub link: https://github.com/dboxed/dboxed/

The idea behind Dboxed came after working with Kubernetes and different Cloud providers for many years. I was not willing to accept that the solutions always kept running into some form of vendor-lockin, even with Kubernetes involved.

My thought was always that the things provided by cloud-providers should be possible to implement without the dependence on the individual cloud-providers. At the same time, I was not happy to just build an abstraction on-top.

You can try it on https://app.test.dboxed.io or self-host by following the docs (please report back on how this went).

Main features:

1. "Boxes" run on "machines" (any server with a recent Kernel and at least outbound internet access). A box is fully sandboxed and uses and uses Docker Compose for the workload definition.

2. "Networks" based on P2P VPN (Netbird to be specific, so it's Wireguard under the hood) are used to connect boxes, crossing machine and provider boundaries.

3. "Volumes" are used kind of like volumes in a cloud (e.g. EBS), but internally use incremental backups into S3. Volumes can seamlessly move between boxes and machines.

4. "Load Balancers" auto-created internet-facing boxes running in networks and can expose other boxes to the public internet. Using Caddy and Letsencrypt here.

My philosophy is: Don't get dependent on cloud-providers, but leverage their features for optimisation. For example, a VPC would drastically improve network performance, but won't stop you from moving to a another provider (or bare-metal). I will later also use EBS (and other providers volumes features) to improve reliability of volumes and speed up moving between boxes, but it will always be seamless to move away from AWS.

My future cloud SaaS/PaaS offering will follow the same principle. Not make you dependent, but still optimise for convenience (e.g. built-in S3, built-in Netbird, build-in machines, and so on...).
by disgruntledphd2 | 2025-11-18 11:09:09+00:00
> This… is a think that people believe, but it’s not as simple as that.

This is a thing people believe because pharmaceutical companies keep repeating it. And to be fair, they're not entirely wrong in that getting a drug/treatment from the lab to the pharmacy is incredibly expensive because most drugs don't work and clinical trials are super expensive.

It does seem to me that a better system would be to split out the research/development and manufacturing of pharmaceuticals into the lab development (scientists), the clinical trials (should be government funded) and the manufacturing (this could easily be done via contract).
by Joeboy | 2025-11-18 11:09:24+00:00
The work I do is / was largely funded by USAID so I'm biased, but from literally everything I've seen EA people are unanimously horrified by the gutting of USAID. And EA people are overwhelmingly pro "tax the rich".

But again, I recognize the appeal of your narrative so you're on safer ground than I am as far as HN popularity goes.
by StackBPoppin | 2025-11-18 11:09:41+00:00
As a child one of my favourite scenes from Twister was the successful deployment of "Dorothy" and the data streaming into the laptop with cool colourful visualisations.

Over 20 years later, as a software engineer I decided to recreate the software to finally fulfil that childhood dream!

Link to the software: https://twister-prop-store.square.site/product/dorothy-1-4b-...
by ndsipa_pomu | 2025-11-18 11:10:29+00:00
If it's a windows-based server, there's probably little need to do much text editing, so installing Notepad++ wouldn't be needed or desired. Then, you suddenly need to copy/paste/amend some text, so you end up opening Notepad. My use of it is typically if I'm connecting remotely to the Windows desktop and am not sure if the keymap is correct when typing in a password, so I type it into Notepad to make sure I'm putting in what I think I'm typing.
by lukebrandon | 2025-11-18 11:10:42+00:00
In The React Native Rewind #22: Snapchat drops Valdi, a WebGPU-powered Jelly Slider arrives in React Native, and Meta throws $1.5M at a Horizon VR hackathon. Also: macOS support isn’t just a side quest anymore.

If you’re enjoying the Rewind, your shares and feedback keep this nerdy train rolling
How did early-stage founders get noticed by investors?
by D___R___ | 2025-11-18 11:10:46+00:00
I’m an early-stage founder and trying to understand what actually worked for others during early fundraising.

Did investors discover you organically, or did you have to do all the outreach manually (cold emails, short pitch decks, demo calls, etc.)?

What steps made the biggest difference for you?
by matthewsanders | 2025-11-18 11:11:40+00:00
How does Hikugen sandbox, constrain, and audit the LLM-generated Python extraction code to prevent arbitrary code execution (e.g., filesystem writes, network egress, or imports outside stdlib), and does it enforce a deterministic execution environment (via AST rewriting, syscall filtering, seccomp profiles, or a WASM/Python sandbox) to guarantee that regenerated scrapers cannot drift into unsafe or non-reproducible states?
by npteljes | 2025-11-18 11:12:21+00:00
I agree with you, and I too find this "funny". Frankly, being in such an intimate relationship with something, and not trusting it, and constantly going against it just made me feel unhealthy. Like they are out to get me, but this "they" has complete access to my computer, and therefore my life, since I live a significant part of it on the computer. It's like being in an abusive relationship, or a toxic family dynamic.

It helped me to make up my mind. Can I accept Microsoft, or not? I arrived at the answer that I can't. So, I migrated my life away from them.

In a practical term, one cannot consistently go against the grain, and be successful in it. There will be a time where one slips up, clicks the wrong thing, accepts the terms because they are in a hurry, or an auto-update arrives that overrides the previous settings. So, I think it makes the most sense to either accept the things, or at least accept the risks, or move away.
by matthewsanders | 2025-11-18 11:12:49+00:00
How are you parsing the natural-language expense inputs into balanced double-entry transactions—are you using a rule-based grammar, a fine-tuned model, or an LLM-prompted parser, and how do you guarantee correctness (e.g., preventing unbalanced postings, ambiguous account inference, currency formatting drift, or daylight-saving-related timestamp inconsistencies) before writing to the ledger?
by antonymoose | 2025-11-18 11:13:07+00:00
It’s all relative to your locale. When I lived in the city it was a scourge no matter the time of day, didn’t matter which part of town I would go to, some entitled persons would leave their shopping carts in random parking spaces, or in the plant beds, grass medians, etc. with an empty cart return rack mere steps away.

Living in small town rural America today, it’s just not a problem, folks simply don’t do it. The only exception to that statement is you will occasionally see a very elderly and infirm customer leaving their cart in the non-parking portions of the handicap parking. Of course you’ll also see just as many folks taking those carts with them inside. It’s a nice little balance. Perhaps coincidentally this area is very calm and very low crime.
by kragen | 2025-11-18 11:13:28+00:00
It's a lot more expensive in the US. Three years of ribociclib is US$100k here in Argentina, which dwarfs the usual costs of things like chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and surgical resection. (All of which is normally paid for either by a health plan or by the public hospital system.) In the US, if you have to go through all of that, I think the cost is going to be at least an order of magnitude higher.
by Lio | 2025-11-18 11:15:05+00:00
The problem as I see it is that for EVs more of the total cost of ownership is in the inital purchase price so they are very expensive to buy new.

That means that the used price can also quite high because of that initial purchase price. For a lot of people it's still a bit of a reach without some kind of finance.

However, with new cars there are all sorts of discounts, grants and 0% interest purchase deals depending on where you live.

With used EVs all the loans I've seen have much higher interest rates and so don't end up costing much less than buying new with a 0% deal.

Why pay a bank for used when you pay the same to the manufacturer's finance company for new?

With the current rate of improvement of EVs I wonder if leasing isn't the best deal currently.
by npteljes | 2025-11-18 11:16:19+00:00
I absolutely cannot understand that. I'm aware that actual scams are illegal, as in, advertising a feature, and selling the thing without the feature, for example. But, are they not selling PC and PC software in the countries you refer to? Or if they do, why didn't they sue CD Projekt / GOG / Steam when they launched Cyberpunk 2077, and win a bunch of money?

I just cannot see this logic applied to software. And the lack of documented effort suggests to me that there is more to this than "not perfectly working software = illegal".

Do you have sources on this being illegal, or legal proceedings regarding this issue?

Not to mention, with Steam, you can refund the game if it ends up not working, "within 14 days of purchase and less than 2 hours of playtime".
by pjc50 | 2025-11-18 11:16:42+00:00
> EA people

I have a lot of sympathy for the ideas of EA, but I do think a lot of this is down to EA-as-brand rather than whatever is happening at grassroots level. Perhaps it's in the same place as Communism; just as advocates need a good answer to "how did this go from a worker's rights movement to Stalin", EA needs an answer to "how did EA become most publicly associated with a famous fraudster".
by mikkupikku | 2025-11-18 11:16:44+00:00
> Marijuana often seems to promote thinking "outside the box"

Hard disagree. Cannabis induces a sensation of profundity. It makes ordinary mundane thoughts feel insightful and novel. The ideas you have when on cannabis seem like insightful out of the box ideas, but that's a perceptual illusion created by the drug. The best it can do is provide you the encouragement to see ideas through to the end, but of course this is tempered by the way it generally has a negative effect on motivation, so most often users are left thinking of ideas they think are wonderful, but not actually executing on those ideas. End result is usually a couch potato lost in unproductive thoughts.
by darkwater | 2025-11-18 11:17:27+00:00
> and stop trying to program in a configuration language

Many people don't program with a configuration language like HCL. We use it as what it is - a DSL - that covers its main use case in an elegant manner. Maybe I never touched complex enough infra that twists a DSL into a general-use language, but in my experience there are simply no real benefits when using something like CDK (I never tried Pulumi to be fair).
by gxnxcxcx | 2025-11-18 11:17:49+00:00
> I've read far too many stories of people who don't clean up after themselves at a store or restaurant, justified by "no need - they pay someone to do this" or even "it's a good thing I do this otherwise you wouldn't have a job" to know it's simply intellectual ability.

That they can barely articulate a verbalized post-hoc rationalization* for that kind of behavior doesn't prevent them from lacking the minimum processing power needed to achieve awareness of how they are leaving ungreased the machinery of the commons. Into which they will keep being embedded, pulling levers left and right all day long.

Even a moderately zero-sum minded sociopath can be aware of the perks of investing a modicum of well-placed niceness; if for no other reason, just to avoid losing social capital.

* And probably a memetic one, hardly an original thought.
by jon-wood | 2025-11-18 11:19:44+00:00
CBT is effective in treating people whose problems mostly stem from an inaccurate view of themselves or the world around them, because CBT is training people to take a step back and reassess what they're seeing. If you're suffering from some forms of OCD for example it can be incredibly effective, it helps to reframe things.

It is not effective, and I would argue actively worsens, situations where you're feeling bad about your accurate view of things, such as when you're depressed because you're unable to ever get any of the things you need to do done despite knowing they need to be done. CBT is unable to help in that situation because most people can't simply go "oh, well its ok, its a mental health condition" - employer, while sometimes supportive, aren't going to continue employing someone who doesn't do the work they're being paid for, and reframing that would eventually result in losing their job.
by K0balt | 2025-11-18 11:20:36+00:00
I think many of the “manipulations” are actually more like dances; both people engage in a consensual proxy display of willingness to cooperate. Any “manipulation” occurs only when one person is unaware that the “dance” exists and mistakes a protocol negotiation for a call to action, or where one person is deceptive and intentionally mis-signals their intentions.

I can see why someone not understanding the “dance” could easily mistake it for “innocent” manipulation… but when it’s basically a scripted give-and-take that serves as a symbolic representation of a persons willingness to cooperate and their advertised intentions, it isn’t really manipulation at all, but rather a type of communication that allows (hazy) inferences about a person’s character and intellect in the guise of insignificant banter.
by aurareturn | 2025-11-18 11:21:48+00:00
The question is: is the value generated by AI aligned with the market projected value as currently priced in AI companies valuation? That's what's more difficult to assess.

I agree it is difficult to assess. Right now, competitive pressure is causing big players to go all in or get left behind.

That said, I don't think the bubble is done growing nor do I think it is about to burst.

I personally think we are in 1995 of the dotcom bubble equivalent. When it bursts, it will still be much bigger than in November 2025.
by amszmidt | 2025-11-18 11:22:10+00:00
> Wait a sec. IANAL, but if I license something to you under the GPLv3, you may not license it to someone else under AGPLv3 or a commercial license.

Not exactly the above case, but from the GNU GPL version 3 (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt):

13. Use with the GNU Affero General Public License. Notwithstanding any other provision of this License, you have permission to link or combine any covered work with a work licensed under version 3 of the GNU Affero General Public License into a single combined work, and to convey the resulting work. The terms of this License will continue to apply to the part which is the covered work, but the special requirements of the GNU Affero General Public License, section 13, concerning interaction through a network will apply to the combination as such.
by pjmlp | 2025-11-18 11:24:52+00:00
The irony, is that it suffices Microsoft to turn WSL[0] into a more out of the box experience, running a Windows like desktop environment, to have that as the product most OEMs will actually bother to sell.

Similar to Chromebooks, and Android tablets with keyboard, versus having anyone selling any GNU/Linux hardware at PC stores, past the oldie netbooks wave.

[0] - https://github.com/microsoft/azurelinux
by Della97 | 2025-11-18 11:26:56+00:00
We just finished an 8-month Systematic Literature Review on serverless computing for HPC, AI, and Big Data. The review covers the last 7 years of research and synthesizes 122 peer-reviewed studies across performance, cost, cold-start behavior, network characteristics, parallel execution patterns, MPI/collectives, accelerators support, and workflow orchestration. The study also includes a co-authorship analysis of 496 authors, a taxonomy of current research directions, and an outlook on where the field seems to be heading. Everything is fully reproducible: all data, scripts, and analysis steps are available on GitHub. Given the time invested and the rigor of the methodology, we are particularly interested in opinions on the quality and usefulness of the work from people familiar with HPC or serverless research. Paper: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11250936 Reproducible dataset + code: https://github.com/Della97/survey-artifact
by M95D | 2025-11-18 11:27:13+00:00
I do use Gentoo currently, but it's so very hard to keep programs from monitoring what happens in the system via dbus and the only firewall for outgoing connections, OpenSnitch, hard-depends on it. Running every major program in a container is NOT a solution.

So far Linus has kept these things outside the kernel, but he won't live forever.
by matt-p | 2025-11-18 11:27:57+00:00
The economic costs of that fall on the (residential) ISPs and they aren't really incurring very much cost in additional bandwidth from the outgoing attacks. In most cases it will be 0. It's not 'good', as it could affect quality to a certain extent for other subscribers and it's theoretically possible it could result in a slightly higher transit bill, but ultimately it's just not really a problem for them.

Setting up the infrastructure to email customers and tell them they've got an infected device is just going to cause the subscriber to: A) Call customer support and tie up an agent who can't really tell them much - you're also going to have to train all your CS agents on these letters and what they mean. B) Complain on faceybook/Churn off your network. or C) They'll ignore it

About one in a million will fix the issue themselves.
by ndsipa_pomu | 2025-11-18 11:28:04+00:00
Slang? Possibly, but you can go anywhere in the UK and ask "What's on the telly tonight?" and people know what you're asking. I'd claim that it's informal rather than regional slang. There's even an L.A. company using it as their name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telly_(company)

(I was addressing the parent's claim of 'But English also has no word for "television"')
by HenriTEL | 2025-11-18 11:28:06+00:00
With that it becomes clear that some service is self hosted (the DNS record points to a private IP). It can be a security issue when the Whois record or the domain name allows the identification of the hosting entity. Finding its physical address can be an easy task depending on its social presence.

Then probably the hosting place is an easier target than a data center.
by K0balt | 2025-11-18 11:29:29+00:00
You might not be understanding what is annoying to people, or you might understand it quite well and are using that adopted identity as a shield. You can’t lose what you don’t have.

Either way, if you aren’t content with your situation in this regard, I would recommend study, introspection, and perhaps therapy. Dale Carnegie produced some excellent work in this regard, aiming towards win/win interactions. He’s more business oriented, but that context is easy to strip away, and the principles stand on their own.
by zozbot234 | 2025-11-18 11:30:38+00:00
You're right that temper tantrums might be natural and excusable from young children and toddlers, but the obvious argument would be that people really should know better at some point as they develop mentally and are able to reflect about the deeper consequences of that kind of behavior. This is not advocating for systematically bottling up emotions, of course; even the ancients were well aware of the difference between temporarily restraining a negative emotion in order to avert its detrimental effects in the moment, as opposed to addressing its root causes (often in terms of unfulfilled expectations and desires) through inner self-reflection and mental exercises.
by weird-eye-issue | 2025-11-18 11:31:41+00:00
> jobs that are easy to consolidate into existing roles

I think you are on to something here. AI is what gives people the ability to consolidate many roles into one.

Like in my example, when I fired my front-end developer, I now can easily do that task.

Or, a marketing generalist can now create blog posts using ChatGPT instead of needing to also have a content writer

To your point about "non-essential": "Front-end development" is not necessarily something I would consider non-essential, but maybe "front-end developer" is now. Something to think about
by rvz | 2025-11-18 11:31:58+00:00
> The training dataset also includes: publicly available datasets that are readily downloadable; data obtained by crawlers; licensed data obtained via commercial licensing agreements; user data (i.e., data collected from users of Google products and services to train AI models, along with user interactions with the model) in accordance with Google’s relevant terms of service, privacy policy, service-specific policies, and pursuant to user controls, where appropriate; other datasets that Google acquires or generates in the course of its business operations, or directly from its workforce; and AI-generated synthetic data.

Well don't complain when you are using Gmail and your emails are being trained to develop Gemini.
by francescopace | 2025-11-18 11:34:25+00:00
Thanks for the insights Quinnjh! Would love to hear more about your invisible strings tuning system!

The ESP32-S3 extracts a moving variance signal from spatial turbulence (updates at 20-50 Hz), and I want to map this directly to audio frequency using a passive buzzer + PWM (square wave, 200-2000 Hz range).

Two quick questions:

1. Do you see any pitfalls with updating PWM frequency at 20-50 Hz for responsive theremin-like behavior?

2. Any recommendations on mapping strategies - linear, logarithmic (musical scale), or quantized to specific notes?
by AndrewDucker | 2025-11-18 11:35:00+00:00
Let's say 4 kids per carer, 10 hours per day, minimum wage of £12/hour, an overhead multiplier of 3 (to cover rent, maintenance, insurance, taxes, sickness cover, etc), and you get to £72 per day per child.

Or about £1,500 per month.

Now, you can increase that to 8 kids per carer with older kids, but that's really stretching things if you want to run at all smoothly.
by masklinn | 2025-11-18 11:37:05+00:00
OP is really tying themselves into knots.

Symbols are special cased pseudo-strings for langages which have either extremely inefficient strings (erlang) or mutable ones (ruby). That’s about the extent of it.

Python or Java don’t really have a use for them because their strings are immutable, and likely interned when metaprogramming is relevant (e.g. method or attribute names).