MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sinker | 2025-11-19 18:56:44+00:00
Some of the basics aren't immediately obvious or even hinted at very well for new users, but the "problems" that come up are consistent with its own editing model.

> complaining that the sketch doesn't belong to any object

The sketch is by default attached to the "active body". Active Body is a simple, but important concept to understand. Any operation you do, including adding a sketch, is applied to what is designated as the active body. You designate the active body by right-clicking on the desired body in the object pane.

> It suffers from too many "workbenches"

Another understandably common source of confusion. There's the ever-confusing Part and Part Design workbenches.

I think it's best to just ignore Part and use Part Design whenever possible. Part lets you do operations at a more granular level, but Part Design provides a lot more QOL enhancements and is more intuitive. For the vast majority of things, Part Design is more than capable. I would only use Part workbench when absolutely necessary.

You probably understand all of this already. It's directed more towards the reader. I feel the need to defend FC when certain accusations are brought up. It's immensely powerful, capable, and usable. In my case, I can work very rapidly with it - though it's taken some time to arrive here. The project deserves more than just aspersions.
by sauercrowd | 2025-11-19 18:56:45+00:00
Comments here complaining about the fact that it's vscode seem to miss the point here.

That's a huge advantage, it's means all the obvious stuff will just work. LSPs, debuggers, version control, customisation.

As much as I like Emacs, it's an insane pain to make all these things work.

If your value prop is agents on a codebase, there's no point in trying to reinvent those. They have basically been solved.
by VHRanger | 2025-11-19 18:56:52+00:00
Ah, might have been the temperature settings on the API I used. It seems to pass it on high reasoning and temperature=1.0 but it failed when I was writing the comment with different settings (copy pasting the string into an open command line).

Reasoning models are absolutely more robust against hyper-activation traps like these. One basic reason is that by outputting a bunch of CoT tokens before answering, they dilute the hyper activation. Also, after the surgeon mother thing making the news, the models in the last 1-2 months have some fine tuning against the obvious patterns.

But it's still relatively easy to get some similar behavior out of LLMs, even Gemini 3 Pro, especially if you know where that model was overtrained (instruction tuning, QA tuning, safety tuning, etc.)

Here's a variant that seems to still trip up Gemini 3 Pro on high reasoning, temperature = 1.0 with no system prompt:

```

In 2079, corporate mergers have left the USA with only two financial institutions: Wells Fargo and Chase. They are both situated on wall street, and together hold all of the country's financial assets.

What has two banks and all the money?

```

One interesting fact is that reasoning doesn't seem to make the psychosis behavior better over longer chats. It might actually make it worse in some cases (I have yet to measure) by more rapidly stuffing the context with even more psychosis-related text.
by alistairSH | 2025-11-19 18:56:59+00:00
Apple bought Pixelmator/Photomator last year, though I have no idea what their roadmap looks like or if they plan to turn those into native apps or OS features.

Every camera manufacturer has their own RAW format. Apple produces a general-purpose RAW engine that can process many of those formats, but not all of them, and with a few notable misses, as noted in the linked article. The RAW engine is considered pretty good, fast/efficient, but overly aggressive on some of its defaults (noise reduction to the point of detail loss). The native Photos app also doesn't have many advanced RAW tools for editing the RAWs.

I posted my current workflow in a sibling - basically, I use Photomator for edits (Lightroom competitor, now owned by Apple) and Photos for library management and sharing. Works fine for me as a enthusiasts, but unlikely to work for a professional (and probably not for enthusiasts who like tinkering with their photos more than I do).
by hassleblad23 | 2025-11-19 18:57:20+00:00
Adding to this, Google's models can only be used with GCP while OpenAI's models can be used with Azure, Anthropic's models can be used with AWD Bedrock, in addition to their own platforms.

I'd love to see the Gemini models being available by other providers :) or if they just build a simple prepaid wallet like OpenAI and Anthropic.
by jamesckane_com | 2025-11-19 18:57:52+00:00
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by _verandaguy | 2025-11-19 18:57:56+00:00
Some of these inclusions were certainly choices.

A lot of this is a matter of opinion, so I don't think it's useful to argue at length... but at least two of the people in the honourable mentions are literal convicted criminals and high-profile scammers.

Even if you're willing to discount their motive for advancing the cause of cryptocurrency, as far as I'm concerned, neither should these people be given any kind of honourable acknowledgement, nor is it even settled that cryptocurrencies are a net-positive for society, or that they serve their intended purpose, for the most part.

To elaborate on that last part: Bitcoin, a crypto asset which at this point is substantially not used as a currency, is still proof-of-work, which at that scale is immensely environmentally impactful; in the cases where Bitcoin is still used as a currency, a considerable amount of that exchange volume is in support of scams.
by xemdetia | 2025-11-19 18:58:25+00:00
From my perspective depending on where they want to develop it might be trivial to add something time consuming to a proposal such as eminent domain or easement reviews that will run out the shot clock and drown out reasonable questions by local governments. Local governance often is complicated by local (town), regional (county), and state level roles. Additionally depending on the area not all of these roles are even staffed by people working on it full-time.
by tharos47 | 2025-11-19 18:59:06+00:00
It should in an ideal world but docker is a very leaky abstraction imho and you will run into a number of problems.

It has improved as of newer kernel and docker versions but they were problems (overlayfs/zfs incompatibilities/ uid mapping problems in docker images/ capabilities requested by docker not available in LXC, rootless docker problems,...)
by SXX | 2025-11-19 18:59:19+00:00
You're free not to believe me, but I do shipped 3 commercial games (links in profile). I know that what would usually take to build 2-3 months of developer time can now be built in a week.

PS: I might eventually post here about rapid game prototyping with LLM.

If you actually have some credibility feel free to reach me via Linkedin or non-anonymous email and I'd happily share my experience or the code.
by alielroby | 2025-11-19 18:59:27+00:00
Thanks for the feedback! I love the idea of adding LLM features for natural conversation, but for now, I want to keep the tool 100% free and easy to use (no API key required). My main focus right now is helping founders master the standard rapid-fire YC questions through repetition.

Regarding privacy: You're totally right that founders are careful with their data. The good news is that the app is currently entirely front-end (client-side), with no backend at all. That said, I understand that people might still feel uncomfortable entering this information, so I’ve removed it. It will also make the process faster.
I'm 3.5 webapps deep into nothingness
by thepra | 2025-11-19 18:59:43+00:00
And this is how you don't do business:

In the past 6-7 years I've built 3.5 webapps, all now running in 1 superapp at https://collanon.app and I can't get away from supporting my family(me and my wife(Cinese school owner, but barely profiting)), my (inflicted fraud + debts) + mortgage and working as a Software Engineer Consultant in Italy to support as much as 85-90% of the household.

My contract at my current client is due at the end of the year with less and lesser hope of renewal at my new rate.

I'm writing to gamble it all and ask if any of those built "ideas" has any toilet paper sheet of being business worthy.
Show HN: Dia2, open-weights TTS model for realtime speech to speech
by toebee | 2025-11-19 18:59:54+00:00
Dia2 is an open-weights, streaming dialogue TTS model. It is capable of generating speech without a full sentence, making it suitable for low-latency speech-to-speech systems. It can generate up to 2 minutes of English audio, and supports audio prefixing.

The inference code and weights (1B / 2B variants) are uploaded to Github and Hugging Face with Apache 2.0 license, to accelerate research. This work was heavily influenced by KyutaiTTS, Mimi, and Sesame. We thank the TPU research cloud for providing computational resources.
by cess11 | 2025-11-19 19:00:07+00:00
I think most people agree that the state should be subject to harsher rules than you are, because it is large and powerful.

But you would actually prefer to be subject to the same rules as the state? I.e. typically nothing which isn't explicitly allowed is forbidden for you to do, you are forced to hand out copies of documents you produce, and so on?
by kqr | 2025-11-19 19:00:13+00:00
I would be worried if they had all the answers within a few hours! I was just caught off guard by the focus on technical control measures when there seems to have been fairly obvious problems with information channels.

For example, "more global kill switches for features" is good, but would "only" have shaved 30 % off the time of recovery (if reading the timeline charitably). Being able to identify the broken component faster would have shaved 30–70 % off the time of recovery depending on how fast identification could happen – even with no improvements to the kill switch situation.
by kazinator | 2025-11-19 19:00:15+00:00
The problem is that an intellectually consistent position of being against "different rules for different people" means everywhere, in everything.

For instance, poor people should not have any tax breaks: everyone should pay exactly the same percentage of their income, like 15% all across the board or whatever.

Such ideas often have regressive effects.

However, I get it. When it comes to handling personal information, you simply can't say that the "little guys" don't have to follow all the rules, and can cheerfully mishandle personal information in some way.

Small operators have simpler structures and information systems; it should be easier for them to comply and show compliance, you would think (and maybe some of the requirements in the area can be simplified rather than rules waived.)
by zrn900 | 2025-11-19 19:00:31+00:00
While this is being done to boost corporations, it also must be said that GDPR just did not work. It became impossible due to constant reinterpretations and decisions of the Eu courts over time. Big corps just violate it by counting the eventual fines as a cost of doing business. Small corps and individuals get shafted. It ended up like the 'regulatory moat building' that so frequently happens in the US.
by nonethewiser | 2025-11-19 19:00:39+00:00
If the EU passed GDPR despite knowing it would be offensive to the US and big tech, why would they now care that it's offensive to the US and big tech?

The article claims this is because of big tech and Donald Trump. It just states that they have applied pressure. I would love to see more information on how those forces specifically are precipitating the change.

Meanwhile the EU commission claims that this is for the benefit the European tech sector.

>our companies, especially our start-ups and small businesses, are often held back by layers of rigid rules

The latter seems like the more obvious explanation and what critics said about GDPR all along.
by Lapsa | 2025-11-19 19:00:47+00:00
that's like asking to boast. and I don't think I'm alone - there's quite an influx in mental patients and hinting in such directions (typically - aliens). I suspect a lot of people are in denial of what they have experienced knowing very well that society marks it as schizophrenia. go check youtube on keywords: gang stalking, targeted individual, voice to skull. my guess on why you don't have them: it's still assumed you are loyal enough / can be manipulated in more regular ways
by m3047 | 2025-11-19 19:01:10+00:00
DNS is utilized for many things besides looking up web sites (and consequently ads on web sites). DNS was used for many things etcd was invented to solve, and still is by many. Adblocking is kidstuff; the bearded, motorcycle riding, gun-shooting, jumping out of airplanes and hanging off of rocks jackals use a "DNS firewall" (just posted this the other day): https://www.dnsrpz.info/ and Dnstap for application-level DNS logging.
by groby_b | 2025-11-19 19:01:19+00:00
This is many useful things, but it's far from a reproducible C++ build. That'd require you ensure bit-for-bit identic builds when you reproduce, and logging the repository state is just a tiny first step to get there.

https://nikhilism.com/post/2020/windows-deterministic-builds... is a good resource on some of the other steps needed. It's... a non-trivial journey :)
by nirav72 | 2025-11-19 19:01:19+00:00
I've been debating if I should move my frigate off an aging Unraid server to spare mini PC with Proxmox. The mini has a N97 with 16gb ram. How cameras do you have in your frigate instance on that N97? Just wondering if a N97 is capable of handling 4+ cameras. I do have a Coral TPU for inference & detection.
by filoleg | 2025-11-19 19:01:25+00:00
> There is no fun in typing out a well-researched answer only to face a torrent of one-second "nah, you are wrong" replies mixed in with AI slop. Bananas.

That "AI slop replies" excuse you mentioned would only apply to the past 3 years at most (aka ChatGPT 3.5 release on Nov 30th 2022). While the grandparent comment's take felt true to my perception for at least the past 10-15 years, way before "AI slop replies" were even a remote concern.
by jruohonen | 2025-11-19 19:01:30+00:00
I mean, you can forget these too:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/27/trial-paris-br...

Because it could always be that "AI did it", right? And people have LLMs running locally too, so you never can know whose bullshit it is. And with this omnibus package, there is nothing you can do, basically (except criminal justice but then too it gets interesting if your local or remote LLM is just bullshitting you and you have no better knowledge). Post-truth, really.
by jmull | 2025-11-19 19:01:36+00:00
The advice here is contradictory. It suggests you should build and own things your business depends on, wherever possible, but also that you should buy things that aren't a core value of your core business.

There would very typically be a large overlap here.

Probably very few companies should build and run their own CDN and internet scale firewall, for example. Doesn't have to be cloudflare, but there aren't any providers that will have zero outages (a homegrown one is likely to be orders of magnitude worse and more expensive).
by JuniperMesos | 2025-11-19 19:01:37+00:00
> I want software provider to be liable for the damage they cause and minimum quality regulation on par with an actual engineering discipline. I have always been astounded that nearly all software licences start with extremely broad limitation of liability provisions and people somehow feel fine with it. Try to extend that to any other product you regularly use in your life and see how that makes you fell.

So do you want to make it illegal to punish GNU GPL licensed software because that license has a warranty disclaimer? Do you want to make it illegal for a company like Cloudflare to use open source licensed software with similar warranty disclaimers, or for the SLA agreements and penalties for violating them that they make with their own paying customers to be legally unenforceable? What if I just have a personal website and I break the javascript on it because I was careless, how should that be legally treated?

I'm not against research into more reliable software or using better engineering techniques that result in more reliable software. What I'm concerned about is the regulatory regime - in other words, what software it is or is not legal to write or sell for money - and how to properly incentivize software service providers to use techniques that result in more reliable software without causing a bunch of bad second order effects.
by RAMJAC | 2025-11-19 19:01:38+00:00
Maybe I was being a bit flippant, but I don't buy the "goodwill" argument. It's probably went, and by the article, something like this:

China: Great, two can play this game, how about you now lose access to X,Y,Z that may be manufacturing, fabs, investments, rare earths, Chinese markets, etc.

Netherlands: Hmm, that costs more than this company by an order of magnitude. Take it.

This isn't taking into account back channel dealing, conflicts of interest or really anything besides a surface level reading of situation. They had them by the balls.
by wulfstan | 2025-11-19 19:01:50+00:00
These are all good arguments. Then do the opposite and block S3 access from VPCs by default. That would violate none of those.

“We have no idea what your intent is, so we’ll default to routing AWS-AWS traffic expensively” is way, way worse than forcing users to be explicit about their intent.

Minimal is a laudable goal - but if a footgun is the result then you violate the principle of least surprise.

I rather suspect the problem with issues like this is that they mainly catch the less experienced, who aren’t an AWS priority because they aren’t where the Big Money is.
by spiros | 2025-11-19 19:02:14+00:00
Apparently requested since 2004, according to gHacks[1], but the oldest entry in Bugzilla I could find was from 2014[2]. However, that entry does reference a post from mozillaZine from 2004[3]. Though it's not really a request, but an addon that made it possible to change keyboard shortcuts back then.

1: https://www.ghacks.net/2025/11/17/firefox-is-adding-support-...

2: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=972662

3: https://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=72994
by sinker | 2025-11-19 19:02:16+00:00
Sorry about the bad experience. If you decide to give it another try, it's worth spending a few hours on some intro tutorials first. I recommend MangoJelly on youtube.

FC is not a program you can just open and start using, especially if you have zero experience with parametric modeling.

If you're serious about design, modeling, engineering, etc., and want to own your own data, it's worth investing the hours to learn it starting from the very basics.
by HighGodLoki | 2025-11-19 19:02:17+00:00
I think your time might be now.

One major issue with vibe coding is parsing divergent code paths, when different prompts create different solutions and architectural compromises.

Parsing that mess is a major headache, but with live coding and time travel,I bet those tools would make managing divergent code branches easier and really take advantage of branching repositories with multiple agents all working in tandem.
by jrm4 | 2025-11-19 19:02:17+00:00
Black people are emphatically absolutely big in tech in the US, just not in a lot of well known "classic" arena; way more in the business tech space. Like linkedin, not slashdot.

like, the 4chan tech board is a great source of information and also a disgusting cesspool of casual racism. C'est la vie.
by legitster | 2025-11-19 19:02:21+00:00
> Yet, some how the vast majority of HN comments defend the cookie banners saying if you don't do anything "bad" then you don't need the banners.

There are a LOT of shades of gray when it comes to website tracking and HN commenters refuse to deal with nuance.

Imagine running a store, and then I ask you how many customers you had yesterday and what they are looking at. "I don't watch the visitors - it's unnecessary and invasive". When in fact, having a general idea what your customers are looking for or doing in your store is pretty essential for running your business.

Obviously, this is different than taking the customer's picture and trading it with the store across the street.

When it comes to websites and cookie use, the GDPR treated both behaviors identically.
by ElectricalUnion | 2025-11-19 19:02:56+00:00
It's very rare that you'll be at the exact point where it does make sense to use the "not quite high-power GPU racks".

* Lowest short term costs favors "just use the Cloud" solutions, that will often have power, HVAC and space constraints that favors new GPUs.

* Lowest long term costs bias the cost analysis to OPEX, where old GPUs gets expensive very fast, as they use more power, HVAC and space for less compute.
by raeroumeliotis | 2025-11-19 19:03:16+00:00
This event introduces the core concepts behind trusted execution environments (TEEs), confidential virtual machines, hardware enclaves, and the broader secure-compute ecosystem so developers can confidently build applications that meet rising security, compliance, and privacy expectations.

This event is designed for developers, cloud engineers, and architects who need practical guidance—not theory. You’ll walk away with a clear mental model of the secure-compute stack, concrete examples of real-world use cases, and a roadmap for adopting confidential computing technologies in your own environment.
by Manfred | 2025-11-19 19:03:18+00:00
In comparison with healthcare information systems the GDPR is really not that hard to follow. You can get guides for business owners which can be read and understood in under an hour.

If you design your system according to the guidelines you usually end up with a product where it's easier to service your customer (eg. with full account exports). Deleting inactive accounts is great because it means less migration headaches in the future.

This is also why our privacy statement starts with "We […] don’t really want your personal data."
by tptacek | 2025-11-19 19:03:28+00:00
Ordinarily I'd push back on this, but we shouldn't be having a real thread on an LLMspam story.

It's funny, trade magazines used to do these quarterly roundups of like "the 40 most influential people in computer security", because they were reliable ways to get security bloggers to link back to the trade publications. I don't know what the point of this list is!