MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by wulfstan | 2025-11-19 15:28:14+00:00
Yes, this. You lock it into Terraform or some equivalent.

And ok, this is a mistake you will probably only make once - I know, because I too have made it on a much smaller scale, and thankfully in a cost-insensitive customer's account - but surely if you're an infrastructure provider you want to try to ensure that you are vigilantly removing footguns.
by wantlotsofcurry | 2025-11-19 15:28:16+00:00
I was looking to setup Proxmox for my homelab soon but this comment got me interested in Incus. Mostly because I've never heard of any Proxmox alternatives before this. You can try out Incus in your browser here: https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/try-it/

The demo does take ~10m to get into a working instance.
by radicalbyte | 2025-11-19 15:28:21+00:00
I spent less on getting my MiSTer up and running than I did getting my A500+ and a lot less than getting my A1200 setup running. And I have the original Ultimate MiSTer setup.

With the RetroRemake and QMTech setup you're up and running for the 8/16-bits for under $200 all-in which for most people in tech in the US isn't a big ask. The experience is also much better than emulation IMHO.
by gbear605 | 2025-11-19 15:28:26+00:00
I think you’re talking about a different thing? The bad practice from AWS et al is that you post-pay for your usage, so usage can be any amount. With all the AI things I’ve seen, either: - you prepay a fixed amount (“$200/mo for ChatGPT Max”) - you deposit money upfront into a wallet, if the wallet runs out of cash then you can’t generate any more tokens - it’s free!

I haven’t seen any of the major model providers have a system where you use as many tokens as you want and then they bill you, like AWS has.
by immibis | 2025-11-19 15:28:27+00:00
Yes. That's also part of the technical experience that also changes the resulting social landscape. I used to think "what's the point of banning something if people can get it anyway" but after seeing how cannabis became hyper-commercialized in the USA, I see that both the ban and evasion are just part of the game. (Which nobody should get prison for)
by GrinningFool | 2025-11-19 15:28:46+00:00
> That's when they're needed most; my eyes have already adjusted to the other car's headlights

On a purely practical note from someone who is very light-sensitive, a combination of partially closing the eye closest to the light and fixing your gaze on the the outer edge of your lane (such as lane marker or eode of road) almost eliminates this problem, even for modern stupid-bright headlights.

Added benefit of letting you see more of your own lane in spite of the oncoming lights.
by bryanlarsen | 2025-11-19 15:28:51+00:00
Processing is important. It's well known that that the grinding of flour has significant digestion effects, especially in diabetics. It takes a lot longer to digest a bulgur wheat salad than a slice of bread made with finely ground flour. This time difference makes a massive difference in insulin response.

P.S. That being said, I still hate the term ultra-processed. "Junk food" implies the non-specificity better. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45979589
by ljm | 2025-11-19 15:28:58+00:00
I knew one person--shared a flat with them--who was heavily into that sort of spiritual-esque alternative health, the sort you'd connect to the so-called Woo-to-Q pipeline these days, who would subject themselves to that kind of thing. It was all about the 'cleanse':

1. Fast on water for a week 2. Drink a cup of olive oil, straight 3. Multiple enemas several times a week 4. Maintain a raw vegan diet in between

Throw in the occasional ayahuasca weekend (another cleaning ritual involving a rather extreme amount of, uh, purging). And for good measure dose yourself on some kind of poisonous frog venom for more of the same.

If I didn't know any better I would say there was some cult mentality going on, the gateway to manipulation being past childhood trauma and a borderline eating disorder. None of it seemed particularly healthy.

Although with 40+ enemas a day I don't know how you'd have time to do anything else.
by stetrain | 2025-11-19 15:29:09+00:00
My point is that transmitting whatever you want doesn't mean the devices around you will "blow up", devices also have controls on how they receive radio transmissions.

A malicious transmitter could likely jam signals, but this is already illegal and that comment said "If they break the law, that's another question"

Your hypothetical doesn't make sense. People can already hack around with radios and transmit whatever they want, doing so doesn't result in devices around them blowing up or hurting people.
by NotPractical | 2025-11-19 15:29:23+00:00
> I can’t say for sure that preferring web versions of services helps with censorship

The linked article isn't enough to convince you? Look up Gab or Parler. (Yes, I find most of the speech there reprehensible. No, I don't think they should be denied the right to publish and distribute an app.)

Using a social media app instead of a website, as most people do, means that everything you are seeing has essentially been pre-approved by Apple and Google.

If the tide swings even a little further to the right on X, expect the X app to be banned as well. I was secretly hoping that it would be banned when Musk took over just to remind the right of why centralized app stores are a terrible idea. But with ICEBlock the left has finally been alerted to that fact as well, which might be even more beneficial to the cause of software freedom in the long run, since the left is generally less afraid of the proper solution to this problem, regulation.

In the meantime, keep using web apps instead of native apps.
by 130nrd | 2025-11-19 15:29:24+00:00
I've tried the app. It's an interesting idea and I appreciate the focus on anonymous, free conversation. The interface is simple and lets you jump into discussions without any friction. One suggestion: it might be helpful to support non-realtime (async) conversations too, since not everyone can stand by in a room all the time. Looking forward to seeing how you handle moderation and keep the community constructive as it grows. Nice work!
by taeric | 2025-11-19 15:29:30+00:00
Right, but my point is that you are still guarding a calculation, there. I suppose it is fair to say that this code just describes the paying for it side of things. My point is that I often want the code to describe everything I can actively do while the machine is in use by someone else.

To that end, if I was to "script out" a trip to the laundry mat, it would not be as simple as "reserve both, when successful, pay." It would be "Confirm driers are working, find an empty washer to fill, if found fill it if not check times and plan to come back later if above a threshold start over when I'm back, otherwise pay it, come back later when it is it done, ...."
by joshstrange | 2025-11-19 15:29:38+00:00
> at least as of 3.0

And this is what I find so galling, it took them to version 3.0 to decide to do that?

My quick googling shows:

v1: 2016

v2: 2017

v3: 2025

So, yes "by default" in the current year it supports it but no one (including google) is using 3.0 yet. Apple has pledged to do it in iOS 26 (currently using 2.4) and Google has some proprietary e2ee on top of 2.6.

It's just all a mess, the furthest thing possible from an "open standard" (not saying anyone claimed it was, that's just what I would have prefered if we were trying to replace SMS/MMS), and hopelessly behind all other messaging platforms.
by weavermarquez | 2025-11-19 15:29:42+00:00
Even as a huge Linux tinkerer I've been really pleased with Zo setting things up for me that I wouldn't have expected to get done on a server like this. I've started to experiment with installing Guix and serving Lem, and made a personal Telegram bot as an alternative interface. They really focus on keeping out of your way, and the Zo agent is quite persistent and gets things done that I didn't think was feasible.

The price is right for the specs of two hetzner boxes plus a convenient agentic web interface (I like my Cockpit, but it is honestly so nice to be able to just send a Telegram message to get a service set up or to grab a file just by speaking). I use all the LLM apps but, it's like comparing SMS vs. Telegram, it's just not the same?

I was a bit wary of adding my google accounts at first, but I've tried using it to send me daily images through Telegram and it's actually pretty dang nice!

One thing I would really like though is Whisper on Zo. Oh, maybe I should just get that set up on Telegram...
by unop | 2025-11-19 15:29:48+00:00
I spent 10 years in perl and created a lot in it - it taught me a lot about code as a culture,importance of tests, TIMTOWTDI, etc. I think I owe a lot to it.

I found myself defending it more and more online against the folks who were nay sayers - those who complained about its syntax and it's quirks - but that wasn't a problem for unixers who used sed/awk/vim and all the other arcane tools. Perl wawa means to and end and it was the best tool to reach for (the glorious Swiss army knife).

I guess there was an infection period - the brain drain to python and Ruby meant it was harder to find decent quality libs on CPAN anymore as folks would only do things in python. And Yea, while CPAN is still rich, it's not the first hit on Google anymore.

Today, the map-sort-map Schwarzian transform is still the easiest to do in perl than any other language and it helps me whip up the throwaway scripts quick. Wouldn't change the language - I really love it!
by Tade0 | 2025-11-19 15:30:00+00:00
> A person who is immune to cult recruitment is a person who never feels isolation, desire, loneliness, grief, hope, fear of loss or lack of control, a person who never wants a hug or someone to talk to, who feels nothing at a smile from a stranger or the giggle of a baby.

You're describing a cult leader BTW. I've met one. Scary person underneath that mask he was wearing.

Also I now know what a degree in business management is good for.
by HeinzStuckeIt | 2025-11-19 15:30:06+00:00
There’s got to be a chronological point where older Greek gets much easier, though. Or at least, there was back when Greeks still had to work with katharevousa in school. I learned both Ancient Greek and then, though a year spent in Greece, Modern Greek. When I pick up late Hellenistic literature like Achilles Tatius, I feel like it is activating more the Modern Greek part of my brain than the 5th-century BC Athens part of my brain.
by linsomniac | 2025-11-19 15:30:22+00:00
Just to quantify it, most "restomods" start at $100K USD.

Decades ago I had a buddy that did something similar with a VW Bug that he did "on the cheap" doing almost all the work himself and things like paint through connections he had, I never talked price on it but it was at least $30K I'd bet and probably more like in the $50Ks, and took around a decade.
by BunsanSpace | 2025-11-19 15:30:41+00:00
1. A lot of math crops up in unexpected ways in everyday life. Trig in construction & wood working, calculus & integration when doing finance, &c.

2. It's not about teaching how to crunch numbers, it's also teaching general problem solving, and using tools to break down complex problems using your various tools to solve it. This translates directly to everyday life.

As a programmer we use calculus and integration all the time in performance testing and stats when we aggregate the data and pull insights. I have started getting into making canopies for events and I have todo a lot of trig to calculate the dimensions of the shapes before I send them to the printer. Hell I even use lots of my high school physics when I go to calculate the load to choose to right type of rope or metal wire and to determine if anchoring points are safe or not. We also use a lot math when calculating generator loads and building power grids for raves & festivals. I also do aerial circus and we use lots of physics when setting up rigging points and determining safety margins. Hell just having a basic physics understanding is really important to figure out if the carabiner you're using is going to kill you or not.

So yea math is really fucking important, and you do use it everyday even if it's just the problem solving it teaches.
by radicalbyte | 2025-11-19 15:31:09+00:00
Totally agree with you, I'd like to see it for the C64, Spectrum, Atari ST, Amstrad etc too. It makes the system into something which is really close to "plug in and play".

I'm also hoping that we start seeing USB external Amiga / C64 keyboards for the real enthusiasts. That might be a little too niche though.
by FatherOfCurses | 2025-11-19 15:31:30+00:00
This gives off "I Am Very Smart" vibes.

I was in a gifted program in grades 5-7, stopped going mainly because I had to travel to another school to attend and it was inconvenient.

I didn't "suffer" being in classes with folks who weren't at my level. The teaching staff did a great job and I never felt like I was being shortchanged. My undiagnosed ADHD means I goofed around a lot, but several of my friends told me after high school that they appreciated me because I helped them see learning from a different angle than their parents or the teachers.
by nerdponx | 2025-11-19 15:31:33+00:00
Not true at all IMO. Reading code is reading code regardless of whether you have a fancy IDE or not.

S-expressions are indisputably harder to learn to read. Most languages have some flexibility in how you can format your code before it becomes unreadable or confusing. C has some, Lua has some, Ruby has some, and Python has maybe fewer but only because you're more tightly constrained by the whitespace syntax. Sexpr family languages meanwhile rely heavily on very very specific indentation structure to just make the code intelligible, let alone actually readable. It's not uncommon to see things like ))))))))) at the end of a paragraph of code. Yes, you can learn to see past it, but it's there and it's an acquired skill that simply isn't necessary for other syntax styles.

And moreover, the attitude in the Lisp community that you need an IDE kind of illustrates my point.

To write a Python script you can pop open literally any text editor and have a decent time just banging out your code. This can scale up to 100s or even 1000s of LoC.

You can do that with Lisp or Scheme too, but it's harder, and the stacks of parentheses can get painful even if you know what you're doing, at which point you really start to benefit from a paren matcher or something more powerful like Paredit.

You don't really need the full powered IDE for Lisp any more than you need it for Python. In terms of runtime-based code analysis Python or Ruby are about on par with Lisp, especially if you use a commercial IDE like Jetbrains. IDEs can and do keep a running copy of any of those interpreters in memory and dynamically pull up docstrings, look for call sites, rename methods, run a REPL, etc. Hot-reloading is almost as sketchy in Lisp as it is in Python, it's just more culturally acceptable to do it in Lisp.

The difference is that Python and Ruby syntax is not uniform and therefore is much easier to work with using static analysis tools. There's a middle ground between "dumb code editor" and "full-power IDE" where Python and Ruby can exist in an editor like Neovim and a user can be surprisingly productive without any intelligent completion, or using some clunky open-source LSP integration developed by some 22 year old in his spare time. With Lisp you don't have as much middle ground of tooling, precisely because it's harder to write useful tooling for it without a running image. And this is even more painful with Scheme than with Lisp because Scheme dialects are often not equipped to do anything like that.

All that is to say: s-exprs are hard to deal with for humans. They aren't for humans to read and write code. They never were. And that's OK! I love Lisp and Scheme (especially Gauche). It's just wrong to assert that everyone is brain damaged and that's why they don't use Lisp.
by the_snooze | 2025-11-19 15:31:41+00:00
> Apple's extreme of restricting the installation of anything outside of the App Store... is a step too far.

This is the key for me right here. I think it's fine to offer preferred services and distribution platforms on a piece of hardware. But actively preventing other software from running on that hardware is silly. The user really doesn't own the thing at that point.

Contrast Apple's treatment of iPhones and iPads with Valve's position on the upcoming Steam Machine:

>Yes, Steam Machine is optimized for gaming, but it's still your PC. Install your own apps, or even another operating system. Who are we to tell you how to use your computer?
by swiftcoder | 2025-11-19 15:31:49+00:00
> Without the "generally considered to be extremist or false" it would be quite hard to even identify a cult.

The extremism is an integral part of what makes folks regard something a cult. Would anyone have cared that NXIVM was running dodgy self-improvement seminars upstate, if they hadn't also been coercing and branding women?

> I consider that to be a cult, if one of the milder religious ones

Various sects within the various organised religions certainly qualify as cults. I think a fair case could be made for many of the milder ones as well, on the basis of how they tend to treat women/children/etc (restrictive rules about clothing/education/personal-freedom/etc)
by thinkcontext | 2025-11-19 15:31:55+00:00
The US Navy doesn't build them, private companies do. None of the SMR companies that I am aware of have attempted to use designs from naval reactors. Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that they use highly enriched fuel which is a no-no for civilian reactors.

In any event, if your more general point is that naval reactors indicate its possible that SMRs can be built on time and budget, I don't disagree. It certainly is possible. NuScale was the furthest along of the SMR companies and had their project implode before it got off the ground. So, its also possible for them to crash and burn.

So, I'll stick with my classification of SMRs as "maybe it will work out, maybe not".
by micromacrofoot | 2025-11-19 15:32:09+00:00
A lot of this goes away when you stop spending so much time on social media, which is a very poor reflection of "reality." Part of the problem is that there are a number of people who can't really look away, because they've built their livelihoods on it. Traditional media in many ways has come to rely on it too. Unfortunate mistake.

Prominent figures on social media change their minds all the time, but they'll re-sculpt their reality around the basis that they were always right anyway. Just take a look at how the story around the Epstein files changes with the way the wind blows. It feels very familiar to the "Narcissist's Prayer."
by immibis | 2025-11-19 15:32:17+00:00
So until daddy's credit card runs out, plus two days. A shame, but it still doesn't cause meaningful harm.

Or get a different provider. Some are faster to respond. I had a false positive DDoS detection from netcup once (I was scraping an FTP site in active mode) and they automatically routed my IP through a DDoS scrubbing service, and automatically stopped that when an attack was no longer detected. I don't know what they have set up to be able to reroute a single IP globally like that - they agreed with some of their upstreams, to allow the occasional /32 for DDoS protection purposes.
by anon291 | 2025-11-19 15:33:32+00:00
You're allowed to disparage whomever you want. As I've aged, realizing that many migrants to this country do not have similar views on speech as most Americans has somewhat radicalized me. And I say this as the child of immigrants. With 51 million migrants here today, thats a significant portion of the country and enough to push for cultural change.

I love new cultures, but there are some things I'm not willing to give up like speech.
by weberer | 2025-11-19 15:33:54+00:00
>What would some good examples of those be?

There is haproxy-protection, which I believe is the basis of Kiwiflare. Clients making new connections have to solve a proof-of-work challenge that take about 3 seconds of compute time.

Enterprise: https://www.haproxy.com/solutions/ddos-protection-and-rate-l...

FOSS: https://gitgud.io/fatchan/haproxy-protection
by lysace | 2025-11-19 15:34:33+00:00
15-20 years ago this wouldn't have been a company. It would have been a strong but informal open collaboration where smart and just people funded by various entities around the world kept it running.

Then the opportunity to get rich by offering an open source product combined with closed source extras+support was invented. I don't like this new world.

Edit: Somewhere along the line, we also lost the concept of having a sysadmin/developer person working at like a municipality contributring like 20% of their time towards maintenance of such projects. Invaluable when keeping things running.
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by npslaney | 2025-11-19 15:35:08+00:00
Hi HN, I'm Nick Slaney and my team is building moneydevkit (https://moneydevkit.com). moneydevkit is the fastest way for anyone to add payments to their website.

It's so fast, I just set the Website to Production Payments speed run WR (4:38.94). Check it out here, I bet you can't beat it (https://x.com/nickslaney/status/1991151978953789614).

We started moneydevkit with the goal of making a payment product that anyone can use. With the rise of AI assisted development, the bar to create value online has never been lower, but a simple search of "stripe rejected" on x or reddit quickly reveals that current payment solutions are not keeping up.

Whether you're in India, Bangladesh, or the Philippines, have a business that is legitimate but "unsupported," and even if you're on the cutting edge of AI development, many people are not able to easily accept value online, and the pain of putting your time into something to not be able to get value out of that time is immense.

moneydevkit has been built with friendly developer tools like supabase and better-auth in mind. As we've built websites ourselves, we've seen how these low / no-code solutions are supercharged by AI development. Being able to hand off a part of your stack that is not your core innovation is incredibly valuable.

It's the first time that payments have been this easy and global. And the way we do it is with Bitcoin under the hood. Why Bitcoin?

+ self-custody Bitcoin is globally accessible + Huge fintech apps like CashApp let users spend with Bitcoin without owning / thinking about it + Alternatives like stablecoins are fragmented, have bad UX (kills conversion) and are on the path to not be as accessible as Bitcoin

There's a ton more to it, but the key is this: people who cannot accept value online do not care about xyz coin, they care about getting value from their work. moneydevkit makes it easy for these people to accept value online, and in the future we'll make it easy for them to get that value to their local currency.

Excited for you all to try it. There's a lot going on under the hood to make this happen in an easy, developer tool way and there's a lot more to come.
by array_key_first | 2025-11-19 15:35:19+00:00
Nope, if you go out and buy a cheapish android phone from a carrier in the US today, it will have a ton of shit preinstalled that is carrier specific. Including sometimes messages, visual voicemail, etc.

Apple has basically had the balls to tell carriers to go fuck themselves and do it their way, and it's been a huge boon. Google still hasn't done this enough, IMO.
by joncrane | 2025-11-19 15:35:25+00:00
Nearly impossible. For the same price and effort, you can probably get a high end Porsche 911 or similar which will be way more practical.

The next level up would be to get a modified car from a company that has very strong ties to the manufacturer, such as Ruf with Porsche, Roush or Saleen with Ford Mustangs, etc.

Trust me either of those options will be more than anyone but the 1% top skilled or thrill seeking individuals can handle.