MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: To Bring your project in front of 4000 people, how much should I charge?
by karanveer | 2025-11-27 11:56:08+00:00
I posted this 2 months ago and forget to follow up in comments.

Hi guys, I have a newsletter with 8k members and im looking if anyone would be willing to sponsor my newsletter. I have never had a sponsor before, but I would be happy to my first go here on HackerNews, and happy to learn about this way of monetization and publicly discussing too.

Niche - TV ShowBiz News - Weekly Mails. Members - ~8.5k

Open rate 30-35%. Demographics: USA & Canada majorly.

Lmk what you guys think!
by podgorniy | 2025-11-27 11:56:08+00:00
Right wing activists working with and within government (think taxation, immigration, housing, environment, race, gender) have made a mess of government and society, and are calling anyone who criticizes the current mess as far radical left. This is stupid and dangerous, but an obvious deflection from the root cause, concervatives who have made quality of life worse prompting an angry reaction that threatens their power.

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The phrases constructed by your pattern don't bring any clarity, ability to distinguish one from another. It's pure flow of emotion and abstraction which would work only among same-way-thinkers. Good for groups bonding, bad for any communication outside of the group.

You use universally true patterns without even realizing that.
by jve | 2025-11-27 11:56:19+00:00
Elon Musk must be one. Seems enough techy to me: Tesla, SpaceX, Starlink - software being used for the hardware in innovative ways.

Edit: Oh, wow, mentioning this guy is surely controversial, sorry. However discussing whether he is a nerd, understands engineering on very deep level/gets his hands dirty OR he only manages people - there must be some psychological aspect related, a form of disagreement to discredit or have a hard time believing it can actually be true.

Here is a list of credible persons commenting on Musk whether he understands engineering or not. With all the sources: https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/comments/k1e0ta/eviden...
by 0xy | 2025-11-27 11:56:28+00:00
This is a misrepresentation. Some of these people entered on the K1 which REQUIRES marriage within 3 months. They get married 18 months later and wonder why they're getting deported for a giant visa overstay. It's fraudulent, you enter on a visa, explicitly promise to marry quickly, do not do so and expect no repercussions.
by falcor84 | 2025-11-27 11:56:33+00:00
I don't think there's any redefinition here, and it's exactly this dichotomy that makes this a big issue. Vulnerability is indeed not "a good thing", but the issue is that the struggle to constantly keep yourself invulnerable at all times is a "worse thing", leading to many stress-related issues (amongst other problems). So the modern psychological advice, as I understand it, is to find particular people, spaces and opportunities where we can let our guard down, even at the risk of being open to attack, because the alternative is worse.

There's a stoic quote I love:

> our ideal wise man feels his troubles, but overcomes them

- Seneca, Moral letters to Lucilius/Letter 9 https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Moral_letters_to_Lucilius/Let...

The way I see it, if you never let yourself be vulnerable, you can never fully feel your troubles, and you cannot fully overcome them.
by Tarks | 2025-11-27 11:56:38+00:00
My take is you've got the right reasoning but the wrong conclusion, I agree with your contextless definition of vulnerability and with the use of it in this context, vulnerability makes people vulnerable, by definition.

From my experience, the reason you'd risk being vulnerable is there are some things you can't achieve without doing so, it'd be like trying to do surgery with a scalpel on someone wearing platemail, or trying to detect radiation with a Geiger counter behind 20 meters of lead, for some tools to work properly they're required to be in a position where they're 'vulnerable', like eyes.

I think it's sad that performative emotions & vulnerability seem to be a popular thing to have to signal for acceptance. Which in my opinion is worse than nothing as at least when you're not faking something it's easier to agree that you haven't really tried it.
by veeti | 2025-11-27 11:56:43+00:00
So what? If you spend any amount of time traveling outside the EU, there are dozens of copies of your passport floating around on hotel scrap paper, random employees personal phones and the like. Not to mention any other services, including those in the EU, that require KYC authentication. Just to add a data point I sent Hetzner my passport in 2009 and nothing bad happened.
by roblabla | 2025-11-27 11:56:53+00:00
> For instance, it no longer includes mandatory client-side scanning.

It's still unclear whether it really is removed. They turned scanning into something voluntary, and then said big chat providers must do _something_ to monitor abuse. It seems _very_ likely that the regulatory bodies/courts will decide that the bar they must clear to meet this "something" is client-side scanning.

And I agree that the regulation still has a lot of hoops to jump through to be implemented, and will likely be further tweaked. But it's _very_ important to keep raising our concerns, otherwise there will be no pressure to change the currently problematic legislation.
by mm0lqf | 2025-11-27 11:57:17+00:00
Tape drives are generally SAS so you will need a controller card

I've got a HP StorageWorks Ultrium 3000 drive (It's LTO-5 format) connected to one (LSI SAS SAS9300-4i), in my NAS/file server (HP Z420 workstation chassis). Don't go lower than LTO-5 as you will want LTFS support.

About £150 all in for the card and drive (including SFF-8643 to SFF-8482 cables etc..) on EBay

Tapes are 1.5TB uncompressed, and about £10/each on Ebay, you'll also want to pick up a cleaning cartridge.

I use this and RDX (1TB cartridges are 2-4 times the price, but drives are a lot cheaper, and SATA/USB3, and you can use them like a disk) for offline backup of stuff at home.
by surgical_fire | 2025-11-27 11:57:41+00:00
> One of them is the nation's constitution, the other is a decision from Brussels, and people from politicians down to the regular cop will have to choose their allegiance, A or B.

I am presuming that this nation is a democracy, with a legitimately elected government. "Brussels" (i.e.: The European Union), whether you like it or not, also is a democratic institution, with a legitimately elected parliament and other representatives appointed by the government of member states (all of those democracies; and also Hungary).

In the event where there is a contradiction (and there eventually are some), those should be solved by politicians, courts, governments. It's not up to a cop to choose allegiances. He should follow the law, to the best understanding and direction of the institution he serves.

The police is subject to local and national governments. The direction will come from those. And then it is up to this hypothetical nation government to sort out its differences with the bloc through the established channels.

Because, again, a serious and respectable country honors its commitments. When something becomes law in the EU, to my understanding, there is a period until this has to be adopted in the member states as part of their law as well.

> They are held in higher emotional regard, as they have behind them a long legacy of struggle and memory of people whose lives were martyred in a fight for national freedom.

This ks absolutely irrelevant, and not how a serious country conducts itself. The constitution is not immutable. There are avenues for it to change, following established procedure. You for some reason pretend the constitution is overridden when no such thing happens.

> Which is actually why Brussels shouldn't push some things too hard.

The irony here is that the "Brussels" that in your view is "pushing" too hard, typically is the EU council or EU commission.

Those bodies are either formed by the heads of state and of each country, or by officials appointed by those same heads of state.

The countries are all in on those changes you think is being "imposed".
by Maakuth | 2025-11-27 11:57:52+00:00
Z2 means you'll have two parity disks, like in RAID-6. That should be okay. The trouble with RAID-5 are the rebuild times that rise to multiple days with modern disk sizes. The duration of time you run effectively without redundancy grows uncomfortably large. Especially if you don't have a hot or even cold spare around.
by podgorniy | 2025-11-27 11:59:35+00:00
Now it goes beyond money: they are aiming at shaping societies. From mars colonies (imagine musks tantrums when they vote him out) to project 2025 type of political works.

When you have too much money, it's kinda boring to keep making more of them. You want self-expression to the max extent the society will allow you.
by hobofan | 2025-11-27 11:59:56+00:00
> I wish they'd tried

I'm sure they've tried. From what I recall they've had serious reliability issues on the preview units. So I'd be skeptical if it would have even turned into a successfully delivered Kickstarter. They would have to deliver on that first before even concerning themselves with how to scale up.

So maybe they didn't even get handsomely paid in the acquisition, but were given an option to save face.
by furyofantares | 2025-11-27 12:00:36+00:00
I think it's both. For sure Curtis Yarvin, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and others all have some extremely out there beliefs, lots of power, a desire to wield it, and connections to POTUS and the vice president who both seem to be about gaining and wielding as much power as possible.

I haven't read the book but I've read some stuff on a website of the same name, and the way it ties it all together felt very tinfoil hat to me. I think these guys all mutually tolerate each other's insanity in their common lust for ever more power and insatiable egos.
by embedding-shape | 2025-11-27 12:00:48+00:00
Not OP, but similar situation, trying to figure out tape archiving, already using SAS.

However, is there no open formats? The whole LTO ecosystem of course reeks of enterprise, and I'd expect by now at least one hardware hacker had picked together some off-the-shelf components to build something that is magnitude cheaper to acquire, maintain and upgrade.
by saubeidl | 2025-11-27 12:01:11+00:00
I think the mistake of Yugoslavia was letting reactionaries and nationalists creep back in after Tito's death. To me, it proves the necessity of some domestic repression to keep our worst impulses in check.

Regarding worker cooperatives and competitiveness, as a socialist I do not believe the market is a good indicator of a systems quality. This, too, can be solved with a bit of state force. If the only legal structure for a company is a worker's coop, then we don't need to worry about talent loss to non-coop companies.
by adev_ | 2025-11-27 12:01:23+00:00
> Elon Musk must be one

Spoiler: He is not. But he is very good at faking it.

Anytime he tries to give a serious opinion on anything related to computers: It is laughably bad and out of touch (SQL, compilers, languages, performance, etc... ).

He definitively has a scientific background but definitively not "Tech" as far as computer are concerned.
by marvinborner | 2025-11-27 12:02:22+00:00
The annihilating interaction between abstraction and application nodes is well-known in the area of interaction net research to ~correspond to β-reduction, as is also explained in the associated research paper [1].

α-conversion is not required in interaction nets. η-reduction is an additional rule not typically discussed, but see for example [2].

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.20314

[2] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030439750...
by Dylan16807 | 2025-11-27 12:02:41+00:00
> I would expect such a critical piece of code to be able to hot-load and validate a new configuration before it is put into action.

And if that config doesn't validate, what should the process do? Maybe it had a previous config, maybe it didn't. And if it keeps running the old config, that adds extra complication to gradual rollout and makes it harder to understand what state the system is in.

> I would expect such a change to be rolled out gradually, or at least as gradually as required to ensure that it functions properly before it is able to crash the system wholesale.

Me too. Note that doing a gradual rollout doesn't care whether the process uses unwrap or uses something gentler to reject a bad config.

> I can say that crashing a presently working system because of a config fuckup should not be in the range of possible expected outcomes.

By "working system" do you mean the whole thing shouldn't go down, or the single process shouldn't go down? I agree with the former but not the latter.
by konart | 2025-11-27 12:03:18+00:00
>Are facial recognition models, AI LLMs to spew out spam and addictive social media algorithms not backed by code?

Sure, just like tank is backed by metallurgy and engineers.

>The kings and dictators of the past had a lot more capital than Silicon Valley, but could only dream of building such surveillance and propaganda capabilities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinal_Richelieu (and not only him most likely) would disagree.

Soviet union had surveillance and propaganda capabilities you can't even imagine without any of LLM etc.

Surely new tech makes things easier and cheeper, but doesn't change the basic principles.

My point is exactly this: code makes things move faster for everyone, so you can really remove if from the sentence and nothing will change. In adds no meaningful context. It mostly sells.
by embedding-shape | 2025-11-27 12:03:29+00:00
> any sort of pwm control if the fan is plugged in, so it's either full blast or nothing

Got a new network switch that runs somewhat hot (TP-Link) and it's behaving the same way, built-in fan runs either not at all, or at 100% (and noisy at that). Installed OpenWRT on it briefly, before discovering 10Gbe NIC didn't work with OpenWRT, and it had much better fan control. Why is it so hard to just place a basic curve on the fan control based on the hardware temperature? All the sensors and controllers are there apparently, just a software thing...
by LunaSea | 2025-11-27 12:03:49+00:00
This is about the vote on the EU Constitution in the early 2000s during which both French and Dutch people voted against. Later the EU decided to pass it without a referendum to side step this "democracy issue". Something you would have know about if you actually understood the topic.

So no, "even closer union" is not something that most europeans want, especially not in the current climate of corruption and fuckups by the commission.
by LexGray | 2025-11-27 12:04:00+00:00
Public interest does not seem to be the driving factor.

Everyone owns kitchen appliances and even if there is network support it generally requires a specific app that is out of support very early in the device lifetime. Vehicles barely support operability with phones at all and there is no standard UI or phone side vehicle monitoring.

At least personally I would like enforced open device standards on home appliances and vehicles far before I care about something like AirDrop that has work arounds.
by LAC-Tech | 2025-11-27 12:04:33+00:00
I think a good comparison would be the word "puritan". At one point puritanism was an existing social movement that mattered, and lead to a lot of upheaval.

But the context in which it existed is gone. So if someone calls someone a puritan now, they don't mean they're trying to rid the Church of England of catholic influences. The reformation is over. It's now a fuzzier kind of "cultural" insult.

I think people are finding hard to let the word "fascist" go. For so long you could use it to immediately put people on the defensive. But much like puritan, the sting is basically all gone. Hard for people to grasp here as I know this place trends older and more left wing, but time marches on.
by jstummbillig | 2025-11-27 12:06:18+00:00
I hope you are not writing this in reference to my question, because this does not in any way capture the feelings or thoughts I had while asking. Just some mild curiosity living in a strange new world.

In case this is not obvious: I am aware that you could just not answer honestly. If I thought this was a critical issue and that you were likely to be dishonest about it, I would not have asked to begin with.
by embedding-shape | 2025-11-27 12:06:19+00:00
Eh, cheap motherboards aren't a panacea that can't hurt the rest of the hardware, I personally don't skimp on motherboards, and would much rather skimp on the drives themselves as I have redundancy and 1-2 drives failing wouldn't hurt too much. And data retention is my top priority.

Motherboards have fried connected hardware before, poor grounding/ESD protections, firmware bugs together with aggressive power management, wiring weirdness and power related faults have broken people's drives before.

What I've never heard about is a drive breaking something else in a system, but broken motherboards have taken friends with them more than once.
Show HN: Ioc-Arise
by stormsidali2001 | 2025-11-27 12:06:31+00:00
I used to handle dependency inversion with Inversify, but I was constantly annoyed by two things:

You have to import the @inject decorator everywhere, which ends up polluting your domain code.

Writing the boilerplate dependency binding code was so repetitive that I wished I could just type a single command — “arise” — and have it done automatically.

So I decided to create my own DI container, coupled with a CLI that performs AST-based code analysis and generates all the registration boilerplate for you.

Some of the features:

• No decorators and no vendor lock-in. • Supports injecting typed objects, factory functions, and classes implementing interfaces or inheriting abstract classes. • Multiple lifecycles (singleton and transient). The CLI detects them using JS comments like “@scope singleton” or “@scope transient.” • Factory functions and value objects are detected via JSDoc annotations like “@factory” or “@value.”

You can learn more here: https://ioc-arise.notjustcoders.com/
by alias_neo | 2025-11-27 12:07:47+00:00
Just skimming over the article, I feel like the blue link coloured word "Topton" has been seared into my retinas.

That aside, as someone who has been building computers for nearly 3 decades, and NAS's for a decade plus, I dislike almost everything about this build.

Spending a lot on the PSU is a good move, but the motherboard is a bad choice for the price when a much more capable socketed board + CPU could be had for around the same price, and the use of no-name SSD and NVMe is an absolute no-no for me.

The impression I got from so many linked mentions of Topton this and Topton that, is that this was mostly done to push that particular brand for a sponsorship or affiliate program.

Youtube has already long gone the way of being untrustworthy for advice on this sort of thing due to sponsorships and affiliates etc, perhaps I should blog my advice and experience that no body pays to influence, in a more generic sense for those who actually need guidance on where to focus when building hardware like PCs and NASs.

I'm not going to suggest that hardware I chose for my "NAS" as it would be universlly bad advice for most people, but there is some generic knowledge to be shared here.

Sometimes it feels just like telling my kids to "learn from my mistakes", does anyone actually want to hear it?
by senordevnyc | 2025-11-27 12:07:52+00:00
Do you like not being able to write apps and distribute them to customers? It's okay to pay their fee, jump through their hoops, be locked to release trains, pay 30%, forced to lose your customer relationship, forced to use their payment and user rails, forced to update on their whim to meet their new standards - on their cadence and not yours?

Most of this isn’t even true. It’s 15% for most app sellers, you don’t have to use their user auth, you can maintain a direct customer relationship just fine, you’re not locked onto a release train, you only have to update when things change if you want your app to work (like literally any platform).
by s-macke | 2025-11-27 12:08:06+00:00
While the methods are similar in that they both ray-march through the scene to compute per-pixel fluence, the algorithm presented in the blog post scales linearly with the number of light sources, whereas Radiance Cascades can handle an arbitrary distribution of light sources with constant time by benefiting from geometric properties of lighting. Radiance Cascades are also not limited to SDFs for smooth shadows.
by sam-cop-vimes | 2025-11-27 12:08:07+00:00
It shouldn't matter whether the leaders are actual technical nerds. They are highly focused and motivated individuals who are harnessing tech for the stated purpose. Maybe this is by design and a coordinated movement - or maybe it is the inevitable consequence of uncontrolled and unregulated capitalism.

If profit maximisation is the ultimate goal every smart individual chases, the current trajectory seems inevitable?
by qsort | 2025-11-27 12:09:07+00:00
Yes.

To be transparent: I don't understand this stuff all that well and it's entirely possible I'm missing something, but everything here is weird AF.

- Who is the author? Why he has no affiliation?

- What is the main result of the paper? How does it improve on the state of the art? Even for stuff that's way beyond my pay grade, I can usually tell from the abstract. I'm completely baffled here.

- Why do they introduce graphical notation without corresponding formal definitions?

- Why is it written in this weird style where theorems are left implicit? Usually, there's at least a sketch of proof.

- Why does it not address that the thing they're claiming to do isn't elementary recursive as per https://doi.org/10.1006/inco.2001.2869?

Again, it's entirely possible that it's a skill issue on my part and I'd love to be corrected, but I'm completely baffled and I still have absolutely no idea of what I'm looking at. Am I the stupid one and it's obvious to everyone else?
by alexfoo | 2025-11-27 12:10:29+00:00
The old Warner stand at Lord's cricket ground used to be where the press watched from (before the new Media Centre was built). The urinals in old stand used to have windows above them looking out over the pitch so that the journalists wouldn't miss anything whilst they urinated.

Image: https://d3rcx32iafnn0o.cloudfront.net/Pictures/980x653fitpad...

The three square windows under the second tier, just below where the sportingbet.com and Jaguar advertising boards meet.
by delichon | 2025-11-27 12:11:18+00:00
Unlike the more common pattern, Elon doesn't hesitate to make straight up engineering decisions for his businesses, including ones that look unnecessarily high risk to a lot of his own engineers. Chopsticks catching spaceships made of stainless steel and self driving cars without lidar are well known examples. The success of those choices earns him legit nerd cred.
by dgroshev | 2025-11-27 12:11:35+00:00
It seems small in absolute terms, but it's suprisingly visible, even to "normal" people, which was the entire point of making a physical object!

I gave that object to a dozen people without explanation. Only one of them was a designer. All of them preferred G3 after comparing corners by look and touch for a few seconds. Honestly, I was surprised that it was this unanimous; I deliberately made the difference small.
by StrLght | 2025-11-27 12:11:57+00:00
I am more worried about them in the long-term. Reviews are usually not as detailed as I'd like them to be (shout out to ServeTheHome – they're doing a great job in terms of that), or they're nearly impossible to find.

For me personally, there are two things I am concerned about:

1. Issues that can only be resolved via BIOS update. Almost all obscure Chinese SBCs won't get any updates, so you're stuck with whatever issues you encounter.

2. In case of hardware failures, there's a 0% chance for RMA. You are not getting a replacement or your money back.