MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gethly | 2025-11-27 08:29:26+00:00
I never worked a full-timer job. Always part-time or freelancing. Mostly I worked 4h at the office and spent the rest of the day working on my stuff. Working for someone else makes me die inside every day I had to do it. It just goes against my personality. What kept me going all those years was working on my own stuff. I had no issue taking less pay just so I can have more free time and this setup and I ignored the corporate ladder and career because of this(objectively, it was a mistake, subjectively I just am individualist and prefer to be free to do my own things). Longest side-project I worked on was 10 years, with little breaks. Yes, 10 years. I rewrote it 4 times, never made it into production. It started easy but then it grew in complexity and functionality into something else altogether. I think that after some time, it became more of a habit an an escape from reality, giving me hope, than actual business. A reason to get out of bed each morning and kept me sane throughout the years. Initial idea was simple and then it grew into something larger that I thought I could make happen by investing time instead of money. After 10y I was ready to admit to myself that no, this cannot get off the ground without money. It was not a skill issue after all. Nevertheless, this is how I got so much practice and learnt so much tech.

After I was done with it I tried different projects. None got completed or succeeded after launch as the online environment changed tremendously and it was no longer the golden age of 2000s and 2010s where anything was possible. Then through life circumstances I got into investing and after few years I quit working altogether. I did not want to lose all my skill, so I wanted to do another project to kill time. It was hard as I knew what would be waiting for me at the end, I've been there many times. I did not want to waste time on something I knew would end up going nowhere again. I also had money to spend this time, not just time. Luckily, I found it. It took me 2 years to launch, 2.5y in total with breaks, and a lot of money(mostly business related). But as I said, the internet has changed and the challenges for running a digital service business, especially in EU, are tremendous(meaning, hard to get noticed, to get customers, to make money).

I now have no desire to work on anything new. This is it for me. I tried too many times and failed too many times. The suitable environment to do this is gone for good. I am not sure what I'll do in the future. I hate to lose my skills by not doing though.

Anyway, good luck. Don't give up but also don't be a fool and take opportunists to make money along the way if you can.
Show HN: Fixing LLM memory degradation in long coding sessions
by robertomisuraca | 2025-11-27 08:29:43+00:00
Long-session LLM memory degradation (entropy) is the silent killer of complex coding projects. Models like Gemini, GPT-4, and Claude all suffer from it, leading to hallucinations and lost context.

I've developed an open-source protocol that temporarily "fixes" this issue by structuring the dialogue. It's not the final architectural solution, but it’s a proven patch for developers working right now.

Looking for feedback from the community on how we can solve this structurally. https://github.com/robertomisuraca-blip/LLM-Entropy-Fix-Prot...
by inglor_cz | 2025-11-27 08:29:59+00:00
"The will of the people never mattered. All that matters is ideology and force to execute on it."

OK, hence your admiration of China. Now I understand.

"Yeah, what's attractive for former Eastern Block countries is mooching off Western Europe, taking our money"

As of now, places like Germany are stagnating so much that they are called "the sick man of Europe" again, while places like Poland show enormous economic upswing. You can lie to yourself that this is caused by "taking our money", but what really kills growth in the West is bureaucracy running amok + deep anti-growth mindset of the Green part of the political spectrum. Which is negligible here, and which is both a self-inflicted wound in the West.

"and then blocking any progress"

How dare those uppity Slavs have any ideas that conflict with our better wisdom, right?

I will tell you where this sea change began: in the "wir schaffen das" autumn of 2015. That is when the eastern half of the EU found out that Western elites are suicidal or, at best, totally unrealistic, and that we cannot simply follow them into their abyss of stupidity.

Ten years later, only fanatics will call the Wilkommenskultur a success. We were right, you were wrong, and you have to live with the consequences.

"and electing regressive autocrats".

Says Austria, which elected a Nazi president (Kurt Waldheim) and introduced the FPÖ into its federal government already in the 20th century? I still remember the boycotts that resulted from that move.

"In some ways, it was better when you were one of our (Austrian) colonies."

Neither Czech lands, nor Slovenia, Galicia etc. were, in any sense, Austrian colonies. It was an amalgamation of old medieval kingdoms under one ruling house. As citizens of the old empire, we were all equal under the law - not a colonial situation where the natives are usually second-class people.

"At least we managed to drag you into modernity against your will."

Half of the people who dragged Austria-Hungary into modernity were Jewish intellectuals and businesspeople who were then massacred by German nationalists in one of the greatest crimes of history, and Austria was a massive hotbed of anti-Semitism since the era of Georg von Schönerer and Karl Lüger. Not to mention a certain unsuccessful painter on the top of it.

So thanks for precisely nothing. The worst of the rot started in Vienna, which even had the gall to call a neighboring capital "Judapest".

But you have shown your colors pretty well. Force, ideology, subjugation, agree with us or else. Fortunately modern Austria or Europe isn't really made for people like you anymore. Still a surprise to meet someone like you here on Hacker News.
Show HN: Flux 2–High-Fidelity Image Generation with Multi-Reference Consistency
by lu794377 | 2025-11-27 08:29:59+00:00
Hi HN,

We’ve been building Flux 2, a production-oriented image generation system focused on realism, consistency, and structured control. It’s designed for creators, developers, and teams who need visually reliable assets — not just demos.

Key Features of Flux 2 AI

• Multi-reference consistency – Use up to 10 reference images to maintain character, product, and style continuity.

• Photoreal detail – Improved textures, lighting, and realism for product shots and visualization.

• Complex text rendering – Flux 2 handles clear, readable text for UI, infographics, and memes.

• Structured prompt adherence – Follow multi-part prompts and compositional constraints with high coherence.

• 4MP image editing – Edit and enhance images at up to 4 megapixels while preserving structure.

• Flexible ratios – Generate and edit in multiple aspect ratios for layout-friendly workflows.

• Pro + Flex modes – Pro for max quality/speed; Flex exposes parameters for fine-grained control.

• Open innovation path – Includes Flux 2 [dev], a 32B open-weight model for local workflows.

We’d love feedback on:

• How you’d use Flux 2 in your production pipeline

• What API or workflow tools would help your team integrate it faster

Try it here: https://www.fluxproai.net/?i=d1d5k
by supermatt | 2025-11-27 08:30:13+00:00
ZFS is about end-to-end integrity, not just redundancy. It stores checksums of data when writing, checks them when reading, and can perform automatic restores from mirror members if mismatches occur. During writes, ZFS generates checksums from blocks in RAM. If a bit flips in memory before the block is written, ZFS will store a checksum matching the corrupted data, breaking the integrity guarantee. That’s why ECC RAM is particularly important for ZFS - without it you risk undermining the filesystem’s end-to-end integrity. Other filesystems usually lack such guarantees.
by kqr | 2025-11-27 08:32:03+00:00
I agree bathroom doors are sensible when traveling with company. When staying alone, though, I prefer no doors. If there is a door, I tend to use a small piece of gaffers' tape to hold it open. I don't spend a lot of time in the hotel room, so while I'm in there I want my movement unimpeded.

The worst I've experienced was a sliding barn door which covered either the bathroom or the clothes rack. If I wanted my clothes to breathe, I had to shut the bathroom with a door that only impedes movement and does not provide privacy. If I wanted to move around freely, I had to shut my clothes in!
by jacquesm | 2025-11-27 08:32:18+00:00
It is perfectly possible to engineer for faster cycles without losing control over what your code can and can not do. It is harder, for sure. But I do not think it is a matter of this absolutely not working, that's black-and-white and it never is black and white, it is always some shade of gray.

For instance: validating a configuration before loading it is fairly standard practice, as are smoke tests and gradual roll-outs. Configuration fuck-ups are fairly common so you engineer with that in mind.
by throwaway150 | 2025-11-27 08:32:31+00:00
It's not a stealth edit. It's an open edit. HN allows edits for 2 hours for good reason. I misspoke first when I thought the CoC applies to him. Obviously I don't know for sure since I hadn't read the CoC. So I corrected myself to be less sure.

But you chose to reply to my outdated message although at the time you were replying my message said that I wasn't sure whether the CoC applies or not.
by faragon | 2025-11-27 08:33:03+00:00
Empathy and humility are ok when shown by behavior, not when used as a "manipulative card" against "ego". E.g., when the "empathy card" is used to manipulate others in "you're an ego-driven person that always knows better than me". In my opinion there are less confrontative ways, e.g., a team lead handling the frictions with procedures, diplomacy, and other soft skills.
Show HN: Whisper Money – A privacy‑first, E2E encrypted personal finance app
by falcon_ | 2025-11-27 08:34:10+00:00
Hi HN,

I built Whisper Money because I wanted a way to track and categorize my finances without exposing my transaction history to third-party aggregators or cloud providers that might sell the data.

It is a privacy-first, self-hostable personal finance application.

Key Features

- End-to-end encryption: Data is encrypted to ensure privacy.

- Automation: Rules to auto-categorize transactions based on merchant or description.

- Insights: Standard spending patterns and graphs.
by gethly | 2025-11-27 08:34:58+00:00
Not a tool but my accountants cost me more than my 13 servers large infrastructure whilst I have 2 incoming invoices a month and no outgoing ones. All because of VAT and EU bullshit. I have no idea why this cannot be a simple 5€/month tool. Don't get me wrong, my accountants are absolutely amazing superstars and they did amazing things for me. But still, the money I pay for such a ridiculous service is atrocious.
by jacquesm | 2025-11-27 08:35:19+00:00
Companies use sub-processors all the time, OpenAI is no different. Unless you want to have everybody get a major case of NIH tomorrow (I wouldn't mind, then we can get rid of third party cookies and all advertising as well while we're at it).

Every time a google tag is included on a page a ton of sensitive data gets sent to another party than the one whose website you are visiting.

Whether it was wise or not for OpenAI to share this information with Mixpanel is another thing, personally I think they should not have but OpenAI in turn is also used by lots of companies and given their private data and so on.

This layercake of trust only needs on party to mess up for a breach to become reality. What I'm interested in is whether or not it was just OpenAI's data that was lifted or also other Mixpanel customers.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-11-27 08:35:41+00:00
There is Aider (aider.chat), and it has been there for couple years now. Great tool.

Alas, you don't install Claude Code or Gemini CLI for the actual CLI tool. You install it because the only way agentic coding makes sense is through subscription billing at the vendor - SOTA models burns through tokens too fast for pay-per-use API billing to make sense here; we're talking literally a day of basic use costing more than a monthly subscription to the Max plan at $200 or so.
by globular-toast | 2025-11-27 08:35:42+00:00
My personal "travel hack" for a while now is to poo in communal facilities that hardly ever seem to be in use in any hotel I've stayed in. I don't understand why anyone wants to poo a metre from their bed, regardless of a door.

As for showering, I don't really care to be honest. I'm cleaning my naked body. It's not some super secret affair that nobody is allowed to see.

Having said that I've yet to encounter a hotel where the toilet/shower isn't private.

What I really care about when travelling is being able to sleep which means the correct noise level and temperature. Far too many hotel rooms are simply too warm. Who the hell can sleep at 23 degrees with gigantic fluffy duvets designed for Nordic countries and no fan/airflow?

I've thought about making a similar site for this issue before but, ultimately, I don't travel anywhere near enough for it to be worth it. These days I just assume travelling will be shit sleep, and if it isn't then it's a bonus.
by graemep | 2025-11-27 08:36:01+00:00
>Even "only" ECS users often benefit from load balancing there. Other clouds sometimes have their own (Hetzner), but generally it's kind of a hard problem to do well, if you don't have a cloud service like Elastic IP's that you can use to handle fail over.

Pretty much everyone offers load balancing and IPs that can be moved between servers and VPSs. Even if you have to switch to new IPs DNS propagation will not take as long as waiting out an AWS shutdown.

10% of what? Users, instances/capacity...? If its users then its a lot higher because it it gets commoner the smaller users are.

> There's still a strong perception that other people managing services is a wonderful freedom.

The argument is really about whether that is a perception of a reality. If you can fit everything on one box (which is a LOT these days) then its easy to manage your own stuff. if you cannot you are probably big enough to employ people to manage it (which is discussed in other comments) and you still have to deal with the complexity of AWS (also discussed elsewhere in the comments).
by madaxe_again | 2025-11-27 08:36:10+00:00
Sounds like the various RAF bases I did stints at as a cadet - the ablutions were just a great big room full of loos, showers, and bathtubs, all with dark brown water, and absolutely zero privacy of any variety.

The exposed loos were a novelty for me, at school we at least had shoulder height partitions - but we had communal showers and baths so it wasn’t a huge leap.

I also spent a year or so living in a studio where the loo was in the kitchen area - we at least installed a curtain.
by internet_points | 2025-11-27 08:36:31+00:00
Nice. I tried to look up when the poem was written and came across

https://gradesfixer.com/free-essay-examples/lust-and-resigna...

> it is the word “stock” that remains the most meticulous justification for the virtuous intent of the poet. The word “stock,” in addition to a hard stalk, is a term used in the art of grafting, a process by which two plants are woven into each other and continue to grow mutually. The “stock” (23), then, is the true nature of the speaker's “mortal part”

hahahah that's one way to see it, if you want to "redeem" the author (just completely ignore the more overt imagery of the soft vine turning into a hard stalk). To me the ending just looked like yet another lascivious pun :-)
by Hetzner_OL | 2025-11-27 08:36:32+00:00
1. Thanks for the feedback! That's a nice pick-me-up. :D 2. Glad to hear that worked out. 3. I understand that many people have reservations about sharing personal documents, and for very valid reasons. We understand that there is a lot of trust involved with this, and we take that responsibility very seriously. If people want more specific information, I genuinely recommend that they write to our data protection team. --Katie
by saubeidl | 2025-11-27 08:36:34+00:00
> How dare those uppity Slavs have any ideas that conflict with our better wisdom, right?

I am an uppity Slav myself, brate.

> Neither Czech lands, nor Slovenia, Galicia etc. were, in any sense, Austrian colonies. It was an amalgamation of old medieval kingdoms under one ruling house. As citizens of the old empire, we were all equal under the law - not a colonial situation where the natives are usually second-class people.

Sure, just like in the Soviet Union ;)

> Half of the people who dragged Austria-Hungary into modernity were Jewish intellectuals and businesspeople who were then massacred by German nationalists in one of the greatest crimes of history.

Thank you for proving my point that nationalism is a poison to be overcome - by finally getting rid of our little tribal chiefdoms and creating a unitary state not defined by national identity.

> Force, ideology, subjugation, agree with us or else. Fortunately modern Austria or Europe isn't really made for people like you anymore. Still a surprise to meet someone like you here on Hacker News.

This is the way the world works, like it or not. The reason Europe has been doing poorly lately is because of deluded utopists thinking it isn't. It's the way the US operates. It's the way China operates. Only we in Europe think we're special little snowflakes and better than everyone else.
by theshrike79 | 2025-11-27 08:37:43+00:00
The most worrying bit is that politicians are super concerned about "algorithmic content" for kids, like TikTok or Instagram Reels or Snapchat.

Youtube Shorts? Crickets.

It's IMPOSSIBLE to disable it with parental controls and it has the exact same slop as the other vertical video services.

Which kinda sucks because I'm fine with my kids watching horizontal youtube videos by certain creators, but I'd rather not they have access to the infinite pool of shorts unfiltered.
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-11-27 08:37:46+00:00
Isn’t this mostly drying time and the fact that hardly any driers in Europe are vented (so either heat pump based or condensation)? Or is this the uses less water type washing machines? Europe tends to have higher rates on water and electricity to make efficiency worth while.

My Bosch dishwasher takes 3 hours I guess due to efficiency, it seems reasonable. I didn’t go with a European washer dryer combo though (my laundry room has a vent and I’ve heard that heat pump tech still isn’t good enough).
by joelreymont | 2025-11-27 08:37:51+00:00
Why would you be unwilling to merge AI code at all?

Consider my other PR against the Zig compiler [1]... I was careful to make it small and properly document it but there's a strict anti-AI policy for Zig and they closed the PR.

Why?

Is it not small? Not carefully documented? Is there no value it int?

I'm not complaining or arguing for justice. I'm genuinely interested in how people think in this instance. If the sausage looks good and tastes great, and was made observing the proper health standards, do you still care how the sausage was made?!

[1] https://github.com/joelreymont/zig/pull/1 [2] https://ziggit.dev/t/bug-wrong-segment-ordering-for-macos-us...
by fmajid | 2025-11-27 08:37:58+00:00
I upgraded my home backup server a couple of months ago to a Minisforum N5 Pro, and am very happy with it. It only has 4 3.5” drive slots, but I only use two with 2x20TB drives mirrored, and two 14TB external drives for offsite backups. The AMD AI 370 CPU is plenty fast so I also run Immich on it, and it has ECC RAM and 10G Ethernet.
by mhd | 2025-11-27 08:38:00+00:00
Seems everyone has. Which is weird, given how bad everything looks despite this focus.

I'm not sure what's going on in the design world. I mean, of course there's the influence of the web design spheres. The web didn't have the GUI standards that e.g. Macs were known for. In the beginning, they couldn't emulate the desktops. Toolkits like ExtJS tried, but you stated with the basic problem that you didn't know what desktop you wanted to emulate. Windows? Mac?

By the time the browser caught up, the damage already had been done, and the stop-gap solutions and styles more suitable for ads created a "web style". Flashy, flat, deserts of whitespace. The aesthetic stranglehold this had then not only persisted, but crossed over first into mobile (the somewhat standardized look & feel of early iOS quickly vanished), then the desktop.

And now nobody knows where they're going, despite having more people solely focused on "UX" than ever before. But you need to do something to justify your position/salary, and that's how we get the Microsoft/Apple designs of the last decade or so. And not having any ideas beyond type systems or init replacements, the open source world just emulates that.
Tell HN: Stall AI progress for the benefit of humanity
by blutoot | 2025-11-27 08:38:04+00:00
https://iceberg.mit.edu has got me spooked. If AI is going to be so disruptive to our way of life in such a short span of time causing immense economic pains to almost entire humanity, then every country's Government should take over and artificially control its progress. Civilian population should not be allowed to profit from it or spread it around even for free in the society. AI should be treated like a nuclear or a biological weapon. Countries should have non-proliferation treaties among themselves with perhaps mutually assured destruction.

Humanity's survival through a forced slow progress in automation is more important than being forced to "enjoy" the magic of automation. This isn't like replacing horses with cars.
by pilaf | 2025-11-27 08:38:29+00:00
It looks pretty but it's so low resolution I can barely make out any words. Found a higher res version though (embedded in a PDF, page 7):

https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/194/2022/01/GIANTS_...

It's interesting that all lines in the sketch are straight, and circles are perfect, so it seems Whitfield took a ruler and a compass on that plane.
by robot-wrangler | 2025-11-27 08:38:31+00:00
> So you can count 83 elements or 90 elements as the components of Earth, but not 92.

Not that it matters.. but actually we might hit 92 since 2 new alkaline earth metals are works in progress: ununennium and unbinilium. Fingers crossed for that island of stability

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unbinilium https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ununennium
by tgsovlerkhgsel | 2025-11-27 08:40:20+00:00
EU ecodesign rules require washing machines to meet certain low energy/water consumption standards in the "default" program. Washing machine designers implement this by making these programs ridiculously long. The EU has now capped them at 3h because they realized that if these programs grow even longer nobody will use them.

Even regular programs in front-loading machines (at least in the European countries I've been to, these make up the absolute vast majority of machines) are longer than typical top loaders. Top loaders are faster but put more wear on the clothes and use more energy and water. A regular, "non-EU" cycle will typically take around 2h. The EU one will typically max out the 3h limit.
by joelreymont | 2025-11-27 08:40:59+00:00
Note that this PR works, was tested, etc.

I was careful to have AI run through the examples in the PR, run lldb on the sample code and make sure the output matches.

Some of the changes didn't make it in before the PR was closed but I don't think anyone bothered to actually check the work. All the discussion focused on the inappropriateness of the huge PR itself (yes, I agree), on it being written by AI... and on the AI somehow "stealing" work code.