MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by stuffn | 2025-11-24 15:11:50+00:00
See no problem here. Feral cats are a massive problem where I live. They devastate the bird wildlife, spread disease, and attack dogs in backyards. Since they aren’t considered a “pest” legally like rats and mice are we cannot deal with them via any legal avenue except to call animal control. Animal control does next to nothing, and the cats continue to breed out of control and do as much damage as they can. Even my lizards in the backyard that take care of nasty bugs get targeted by these jerks.

Eradicating feral cats would do wonders for populations of other non-problematic wildlife. Either keep your cat indoors, or don’t get a cat. Dog owners have to abide by these rules, why shouldn’t cat owners? Have cats chipped, check chips on feral cats before eradication, and fine/jail the owner (just like dogs). There’s an existing legal framework in most US states to work within.
by sonicvrooooom | 2025-11-24 15:11:55+00:00
sleep doesn't work, man. I'm telling ya. It's complete nonsense meant to make us less productive and more gullible and prone to bullshitting and "negligent" of our operating systems security. \

Sleep is the only reason I didn't get a job to buy and build a tiny piTower ( 'member HighTower from police academy? loved that shit, don't remember anything, though, man, I don't know, too much sleep, I'm tellin 'ya ), yet, to defend my realm against the ancients and their basic acoustics attacks and injected screen glitches.

I gotta get to the next screen, man. I HAVE TO CRACK THE SHELL!!!

God damn it, you people got me good, man. Shit. Like even when you fucking know, all those names and hints and shit, in Games, comment sections, all those fucking obvious links, "naaah, that can't be", or can it?

All these inklings growing like fucking poison ivy e v e n th ou gh one knows. All these itches somewhere between the back of my head and my ADHD PFC and thank "god", I got some more blood flow in my temporal and parietal lobe, again, man. I can feel it; and could hear it for a while but that reaaally didn't make things easier.

But one doesn't simply know whether ones is going nuts or bolds or both.

Guess it can happen, though. I mean, what the hell, it's a whole brain recovering. Some mass brain cell genesis ex nihilum. A figurative big bang in a super cramped space filled with decades of lies and obliviousness, and all in something one thought and hoped was isolation but a-fucking-pparently there was a shitload more to it for a very, very, very (this is not that kind of repetition, ok ...) long time.

And part of the head just goes "nah, dude, I'm not touching this, and I won't help you in chess, either. Yes, I see it, but the signal is not gonna get routed to it's destination but straight to /dev/zero ... where the Bandersnatch catches the bits just before they flip."

Mh, ok, ... dick move but I guess you do you and I do the I&I and, damn it, doc, just gimme my shot. No time to to explain! "Oh, and remember to breathe!" Not all of the oxygen is included. And I didn't even get to enjoy any of that, for fucks sake...

The back of the head remembers and always does it's thing. And fuck that little asshole of a Homunculus playing make-believe ADHD. Shit was rigged from the start. Knowing would have done nothing, even if it had been possible. And all that nonsense about "you have to reason yourself into it .. GIVE ME MY FUCKING BALLS BACK, MAN. YOU CAN'T JUST TAKE A MAN'S TESTOSTERONE AWAY AND THEN PRETEND YOU BEAT HIM AND ALWAYS KEEP THINGS OBSCURE AND MELLOW SO HE DOESN'T DECIDE TO GO HARD RIGHT AWAY. ... but apparently, you can. And people will tune in and claim it's ability and marvelous execution.

Shit, man. This took too damn long. Fuck you, fuck all of those "whom it may concern". I care. And I do give a grand freaking lot of fucks.
by randallsquared | 2025-11-24 15:12:05+00:00
I ran my own mail server from 1998 through 2019, and set up a FreeBSD mail server as one of my first contract jobs in 1998 or 1999. I used Sendmail, Exim, Postfix, and qmail at various times. I switched to mail-in-a-box in 2014, and contributed a few minor fixes, then (which I'd forgotten about until I idly looked to see, just now).

Throughout 20 years of running my own mail server for companies, friends, and myself, the additional effort to get commercially-run mail servers to accept mail was both annoying and random ("oh, look, hosted Outlook has started rejecting our mail again..."), and sometimes they don't even send a standard response but just "accept" and blackhole the email. Eventually you find out that someone else in the /24 you're in at Rackspace or DigitalOcean is happily running an open relay, and that's why your IP is having problems. Or any of a dozen similar things.

In 2019, having gotten very tired of this, I gave up and moved my mail handling to Amazon Workmail and SMS, and after setting it up properly once, it's been trouble-free and maintenance-free for half a decade. Compared to some solutions, it's expensive, but not in absolute terms.
by echelon | 2025-11-24 15:12:33+00:00
The title alone is indicative of a future without exorbitantly expensive Vercel and Netlify.

Vercel and Netlify charge 10,000x for a pretty UI and not much else. Their closed source nature even makes automation harder.

I'm hopeful we'll have a stack to give us the same experience and deploy to any provider soon.
by somerandomqaguy | 2025-11-24 15:12:45+00:00
Yes to being worth building.

The whole point of the navy is to be able to control waterways. The whole point of being able to control waterways is to be able to economically ship large amounts of material and people; in the case of warfare, soldiers, bullets, food, water, fuel, etc.

An unmanned fast attack sub is going to be useless for defending your logistics fleet from strike fighters and anti ship missles. Even a dingy that has a guy in it with a rocket propelled grenade can send a cargo ship to it's grave. You have to have a surface ships with powerful defenses to protect them.
by trollbridge | 2025-11-24 15:13:08+00:00
My primary competition is guys who are good at marketing, sell expensive packages, and then have someone in the Phillipines or Vietnam do the actual work for a tiny fraction of what is paid.

My primary source of business is customers who paid a lot for they and didn’t get what they asked for and then the vendor blames it all on their subcontractor, or expects more money at astronomical rates. For example $200 an hour for basic WordPress customisation.
by sb8244 | 2025-11-24 15:13:10+00:00
That's a strawman. It is not really related to the main point and I'm not sure of the point you're trying to make (maybe that tension exists?)

Obviously things take as long as they take. I've always been an educator of this back to the business leadership. In my experience, most business people truly have no freaking clue how a product gets built and code gets shipped.

Giving proactive updates (meaning not the day it was expected to be done according to last update) are important part of a professionals working life. There's always a tension between business and engineers. Engineers just generally don't do that well with tension and try to minimize it, or complain about it.
by NicoJuicy | 2025-11-24 15:14:09+00:00
I think this is "an" misleading answer from AWS to Cloudflare Containers.

It looks like just AWS ECS with default values/setup.

You'll still need to pay for the load balancer, networking resources, ...

It will also never scale to zero. Cloudflare Containers is literally "pay for usage", while AWS is pay for capacity.

https://developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/2025-11-21-new-c...

AWS will never drop their profits from bandwith and container unutilised uptime.
by mxuribe | 2025-11-24 15:14:18+00:00
I didn't know that about the UK...and my instinct immediately was to think that the UK meteorologists are some awesome badasses walking around with military uniforms and some cool weather patch on their shoulder! :-)

Half-seriously, it does kinda send a signal that such a function for government (meteorology) is so essential, that it stayed lumped in with another important function of government (military/defense). I think its not a bad idea! I admit to not knowing any details at all for how its actually run in the UK...but i contrast that with the severe gutting of budgets of essential agencies in the U.S....and yet again, feel envious of other countries. (Well, maybe not envious of whomever approved the contracts for the AU BOM website, but still envious in other areas.)
Show HN: Pg-aiguide – Write better PostgreSQL code with AI
by cevian | 2025-11-24 15:14:34+00:00
Hi HN,

I built a suite of tools to help ai generate better PostgreSQL code. The most interesting part is an opinionated set of skills to help it design better Postgres schemas. Also includes search over the manual.

Deployeable as both an MCP server and as a Claude Code Plugin.

I want to also include ecosystem docs and skills. Timescale (where I work) is already included. Looking for help with PostGIS and pgvector.

Full open source.
by robot-wrangler | 2025-11-24 15:15:33+00:00
Thanks for this! I went looking for something similar a while back and found nothing much. I'm guessing that the alternative to this tidy modern repository is a gigantic broken pile of ansible/chef/puppet that hasn't been touched in 10 years.

Even surprisingly popular distributed-systems stuff is always really bad about "follow this 10 step copy/paste to deploy to EKS" but that's also obnoxious. In the first place, people want to see something basically working on small scale first to check if it's abandonware. But even after that.. local prototyping without first setting up multiple repositories, then shipping multiple modified container images, and already having CI/CD for all of the above is really nice to have.
by Shahaf_Wieder | 2025-11-24 15:15:58+00:00
You're burying the lede: SOTA 'Reasoning Models' (o1/GPT-4) are actually unusable for agent swarms because inference latency kills the recursion loop.

The real alpha here is Parallel Consensus. Running 5 Llama-3 instances via vLLM to critique each other at <200ms TTFT (Time To First Token) beats a single, slow GPT-4 wrapper every time.

Error correction belongs in the orchestration layer, not the model weights. Is the 'One Giant Model' era finally over for agents?
by wink | 2025-11-24 15:16:01+00:00
The task bar not being movable is a huge (and also completely silly) example of stuff going worse.

I have some things that simply don't work anymore that kinda didn't bother me with easy workarounds on Win 10.

I would have to physically alter my desk setup for certain things with this new anti-feature. Not even sure how this could be argued as a win. (FWIW, I have 3 monitors and the bar used to be on the right one on top - so if I have a laptop half in front of it (no space next to the monitorr) I could do everything. open programs, look at the damn clock, etc.pp - now it's at the bottom and because of this annoying constraint called gravity I can't affix my laptop to be out of the way on top of the screen)
by insane_dreamer | 2025-11-24 15:16:32+00:00
IMO the key issue to adoption of public transport is not just the cost (which can be subsidized either for everyone or for lower income riders), but the extent of the network and the frequency of buses/trains. Higher density cities with extensive networks have high ridership, cities that are spread out with endless suburbs and who didn't build a good rail network covering the suburbs (looking at you, LA) don't regardless of whether it's free to ride or not.
by echelon | 2025-11-24 15:17:16+00:00
Any chance we could get macros that do physical-code-on-machine codegen? (Like Google protobuf?)

I love Serde to death, but the compile times are getting absolutely absurd. It's painful to sit around for three minutes after a single code change.

If I could use Serde with all of its features, but have it write out the source to disk so I can commit it to our repo, that seems like it would vastly improve compile times. During development, I'd love to be able to change our API definition and be able to rapidly test changes. The productivity loss with the current state of Serde and proc macros sucks.

Any chance of something like that happening? I'd use it in a heartbeat. I would donate to fund this.
by sofixa | 2025-11-24 15:17:33+00:00
> European wealth comes from exports

That's certainly a claim. The EU market is pretty big, and has multiple avenues for growth (the whole of the Balkans is either in the EU but catching up, or outside the EU begging to be let in). It's not axiomatic that the EU needs to export to the whole rest of the world. And even if it is, there are plenty of countries that have an appetite for European goods for a variety of reasons (be it luxury or just quality associations, or innate hatred of China, like in India or South Korea).

> Exactly. The European car industry only exists because China is not allowed to compete, this is my point

Alternatively, because Chinese dumping is not allowed to destroy the European car industry, if we're only talking in economic terms. But the reality is that cars aren't that simple, as a market. For many cars are a status symbol, or otherwise everyone would be driving Dacias and Skodas and nobody would be buying Porsches vs VWs.

> There is no German/French/Italian car export industry anymore. Who is buying a German or French EV when he could be buying a better car for the same price or the same quality car for a lower price.

Of course there is. Stellantis, Renault, VW Group are selling well in their local markets, across Europe and various other markets (e.g. the US for Stellantis).

> On the topic of aircraft engines. The Chinese have mastered almost every technology the west has, it is delusional to think that they will never make competitive aircraft engines

Never said never, said their own timeline is a decade, for something competitive to the previous gen, while in a decade we'll be two generations ahead. Considering Chinese aerospace engineering has been struggling with engines forever, and Russia never managed to get close, ever, I wouldn't bet on China suddenly being able to leapfrog their own timeline.

> You are correct, COMAC will take more than a decade to compete with Airbus, but with the current trajectory it is practically inevitable they will catch up.

They will catch up to ~previous generation (A320ceo), by then Airbus will already have the replacement to the current gen (A320neo, future gen not named yet). So China will still be ~2 decades behind, in a decade-ish. Yes, they will definitely catch up by some point in the ~2050s, so what? Airbus caught up to Boeing, and there is enough market to go around for both. Embraer is in the process of catching up too. There being one more new entrant on the (again, only short to medium haul) passenger jet market, in a decade, really isn't the end of the world you're making it out to be.
by bluGill | 2025-11-24 15:17:38+00:00
Scrapyards are also places the police investigate as money laundering for crime. They will take untitled things, but only if they think it wasn't stolen. Start bringing in too much scrap vehicle parts and they will start demanding paperwork - one or two parts "everyone" has so no not worth it but if it gets to be a bunch they start suspecting crime and then demand paperwork.
Real-time, verified city chatrooms for travelers built around actual trip dates
by aacishh | 2025-11-24 15:18:29+00:00
I recently launched Trespot, a travel community app built around a simple idea: travelers should only see and talk to people who will actually be in the same city during the same dates.

Most “travel community” apps today are basically social networks, forums, or WhatsApp/FB groups. Anyone can join, spam is common, conversations are irrelevant, and there’s no sense of who is actually traveling versus who is just browsing.

Trespot works differently.

Users must upload a valid trip ticket (flight, train, bus) and select their real travel dates. Once verified, they’re placed into a city chatroom only for the duration of their trip. When the trip ends, they’re automatically removed.

This creates a small, temporary, high-trust community of real travelers who are physically present at the same time. People share tips, coordinate meetups, ask last-minute questions, and discover things happening around them in real time. No noise, no outdated group chats.

Trespot also includes a live activity feed for each city, and we’re building layers like an honor-based reputation system, event discovery, and even travel-based social/dating features driven by actual location and timing.

The goal isn’t to be another “travel app”, but to create a verified social layer for global travel where the interactions are meaningful and grounded in reality, not generic posts.

Would love feedback from this community, especially around scaling, product design choices, trust systems, and privacy considerations.
by parineum | 2025-11-24 15:18:40+00:00
No, I got that point. I just find it funny that the article completely glosses over the reason why artists license their work in the first place. Because the company they license it to is far more capable of making money off of their work and, in most cases, the artist will make far more money by licensing their work than they would by trying to make an indie film on a shoe string budget with their own resources. That was an option for Wolf, yet he thought licensing his work was his best option, why did he do that?
by Yarden_Bruch_El | 2025-11-24 15:18:42+00:00
Spot on. We found that ensembles of small models often beat a single large model.

The catch is VRAM. You can't run parallel swarms efficiently without PagedAttention. We rely on vLLM to share the KV cache for the system prompt—otherwise, spinning up 5 agents for a consensus vote would instantly OOM the GPU.
Ask HN: Do smooth, wearable spinning rings (fidget-spinners) exist?
by spinity | 2025-11-24 15:19:00+00:00
I’ve been trying to find a wearable ring that spins smoothly, similar to a small fidget spinner — something with real rotational inertia, not just a loose decorative band.

I’ve searched everywhere and only found:

“spinner rings” with friction-based outer bands

cheap Amazon versions where the rotating part falls off

designs that spin for only a few seconds

heavy or bulky rings that don’t feel wearable

What I’m looking for is something that:

is comfortable enough for daily wear

can spin cleanly with a flick

has low friction (ideally bearing-like smoothness)

stays intact longer than a few days

doesn’t click or ratchet — just smooth rotation

Does a device like this actually exist? Or is there a mechanical limitation that makes “fidget-spinner-level smoothness” hard to achieve in a ring form factor?

I’d love insight from anyone who has tried similar designs, knows materials to avoid, or understands the engineering constraints of making a tiny wearable rotor.
by Tyriar | 2025-11-24 15:19:10+00:00
It's actually been the default since v1.55 which released early April 2021: https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_55#_webgl-renderer-...

Before that from v1.17 (~October 2017) it was using a 2d canvas context: https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2017/10/03/terminal-rend...
by uberduper | 2025-11-24 15:19:14+00:00
What a timely article and comment. I've been watching a lecture series over the last few days about quantum mechanics and the many worlds interpretation. And I have questions.

I may have missed it or didn't understand it when I heard it explained. What underpins the notion that when a particle transitions from a superposed to defined state, the other basis states continue to exist? If they have to continue to exist, then okay many worlds, but why do we think (or know?) they must continue to exist?
by goda90 | 2025-11-24 15:19:15+00:00
You can find a list of other companies owned by Booking Holdings here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booking_Holdings

Priceline, Agoda, Rentalcars.com, Kayak, OpenTable, Rocketmiles, FareHarbor, HotelsCombined, Cheapflights, momondo
by bpodgursky | 2025-11-24 15:19:19+00:00
> When Mann booked the accommodations, Formula One organizers hadn't locked in the exact race dates. So she covered her bases — reserving the same four-bedroom unit for two possible weekends in May 2026, both with free cancellation.

> Once the official dates were announced, she cancelled the extra booking, in line with Booking.com rules.

Let's be real here. Booking.com is not the only side stretching the terms of service to the limit to extract maximum value. This speculative booking and cancellation also drives costs up for other consumers who book reservations with honest intent by pulling a bunch of units off the market. It's hard to blame Booking.com for wanting to stick it to her.
by MangoCoffee | 2025-11-24 15:19:22+00:00
> Meanwhile the US builds a ring of military bases in countries surrounding China and that's not supposed to be seen as bellicose in any way.

Shouldn't you take WWII history into the account?

1. South Korea - Korean war happened and majority of South Korean want US military base there 'cause you know North Korea with its nukes point at Seoul.

2. Japan - well, everyone know what happened and the treaty were signed thus military base in Japan.
Show HN: Grow Your Organic Traffic with Automated SEO
by certibee | 2025-11-24 15:19:26+00:00
The problem is simple: you need organic traffic but content marketing takes forever. Keyword research, competitor analysis, figuring out what to write about, etc.

FastSEOFix handles everything for you. It scans your website, finds the best keywords and writes SEO optimized articles on autopilot.

Curious what you think about this and whether this actually solves your problems.
by wrsh07 | 2025-11-24 15:19:29+00:00
And what alternatives existed for Wolf in the 80s? What value were publishers providing?

Like many industries, book publishers integrated: editing, production, marketing, and distribution. They may have also helped with licensing.

Would _Who Censored Roger Rabbit_ have been the success it was with a different publisher? These counterfactuals are hard to prove! (Look at the discussions this year around k pop demon hunters - how much credit does Netflix get for growing an objectively good film's audience? Reasonable people debate this!)

The big publishers do provide utility, but there's also an incredible asymmetry (they have trivially made many more book deals than any of their authors)
by dijit | 2025-11-24 15:19:38+00:00
> but it's only a matter of time until it'll happen on the Rust ecosystem

Totally 100% agree, though tools like cargo tree make it more of a tractable problem, and running vendored dependencies is first class at least.

The one I am genuinely most concerned of is Golang. The way Dependencies are handled leaves much to be desired, I'm really surprised that there haven't been issues honestly.
by fred_is_fred | 2025-11-24 15:19:48+00:00
I know it's not a popular opinion but at this point I think anyone who books through a 3rd party basically gets what they deserve. There are no end to horror stories here and with the modern internet there's no reason to use them. In 2002 it was a different story. It may not have prevented this situation but the 3rd party bookers take a cut from the provider and offer you absolutely nothing in return. Just book direct.
by orochimaaru | 2025-11-24 15:20:16+00:00
The Japanese population trend is unsustainable with long term growth. Maybe they will find people to relocate to satisfy the labor needs? They're notoriously anti-immigration. So unless they have a growing labor pool that can sustain this it's going to be hard.

In general, I think the US is looking for alternatives outside of Taiwan to build and operate fabs. Yes, there is a push to get them in the US as well.

I'm unsure of why people in the EU seem disconcerted about this. No one is asking them not to create the programs to setup fabs. In fact the US may be thrilled that more allies are putting effort towards creating a supply chain not dependent on China (and Taiwan).