MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by toast0 | 2025-12-08 22:21:06+00:00
APNIC has some addresses [1] and will assign up to two /24s to qualified new accounts within the region. There are also carve outs for National Internet Registries and Internet eXchange Points.

[1] as of Nov 2025, approximately 3 million or a little more than 12,000 /24s https://www.apnic.net/manage-ip/ipv4-exhaustion/#how-to-tras...
Show HN: I built a system for active note-taking in regular meetings like 1-1s
by davnicwil | 2025-12-08 22:21:26+00:00
Hey HN! Like most here regular meetings have always been a big part of my work.

Over the years I've learned the value of active note taking in these meetings. Meaning: not minutes, not transcriptions or AI summaries, but me using my brain to actively pull out the key points in short form bullet-like notes, as the meeting is going on, as I'm talking and listening (and probably typing with one hand). This could be agenda points to cover, any interesting sidebars raised, insights gotten to in a discussion, actions agreed to (and a way to track whether they got done next time!).

It's both useful just to track what's going on in all these different meetings week to week (at one point I was doing about a dozen 1-1s per week, and it just becomes impossible to hold it in RAM) but also really valuable over time when you can look back and see the full history of a particular meeting, what was discussed when, how themes and structure are changing, is the meetings effective, etc.

Anyway, I've tried a bunch of different tools for taking these notes over the years. All the obvious ones you've probably used too. And I've always just been not quite satisfied with the experience. They work, obviously (it's just text based notes at the end of the day) but nothing is first-class for this usecase.

So, I decided to build the tool I've always felt I want to use, specifically for regular 1-1s and other types of regular meetings. I've been using it myself and with friends for a while already now, and I think it's got to that point where I actually prefer to reach for it over other general purpose note taking tools now, and I want to share it more widely.

There's a free tier so you can use it right away, in fact without even signing up.

If you've also been wanting a better system to manage your notes for regular meetings, give it a go and let me know what you think!
by ElijahLynn | 2025-12-08 22:21:38+00:00
Valid points by those concerned with taking over the sidewalks.

I will also say, people riding electric scooters shouldn't be zooming along at 20mph (or pedal bikes) on sidewalks either, which are a true safety hazard.

And on the other side, much better for our environment, to have a lighter weight robot delivering a burrito than a 2,000lb vehicle, in terms of net energy consumption/expenditure.
by samsolomon | 2025-12-08 22:22:00+00:00
Honestly, the JIRA example points out one of the main cases where I'm not exactly sure how to replace a toast. You don't have to be on the board to create a ticket in JIRA—so it may not be obvious in context.

I understand there are accessibility issues, but if the thing I am attempting to create will not be visible on the current view, what's the best approach?

Honestly, the same could be set for a large list or Kanban board. Just because of the number of records it may not be evident that the intended action occurred.
by jasonwatkinspdx | 2025-12-08 22:22:02+00:00
This is simply not what happened historically.

Drones were not discussed much when the requirements for the F-35 were formed.

The F-22 was considered very open and upgradable for it's era. It's just that freakin' old where FireWire was the unproven new hotness.

Current AF efforts do focus on drone and loyal wingman concepts, but these don't have much material impact on avionics. There everything the AF is talking about is agility in deliverin capabilities through open systems architecture. That's why they're doing things like trying out k8s on military aircraft. It's not about drones specifically but things like delivering new EW capabilities in days or hours instead of decades.

For a dive on the latter stuff look into what Dr Will Roper was talking about during his tenure.
by SilverElfin | 2025-12-08 22:22:22+00:00
This criticism may be correct on its own, but I would say it still unbalanced because it leaves out some relevant things. America has a lot of debt and a lot of spending on social programs as well. There is debt everywhere - the federal government, states, cities, companies, and people. This will become a problem soon. It is propped up by the reserve currency status of the Dollar but that may go away before the end of this century or a lot sooner.

Calling Europe a de facto US protectorate is also ignoring the fact that the US has a geographical advantage of being relatively separated from hostile world powers, which let it avoid most of the effects of the world wars - and that’s really pretty recent in historical terms. Is that really something America gets credit for, or is it just luck?

Finally, the US had benefited a lot from immigration but the most vocal American voices that attack Europe seem to ignore this reality, and are also clamoring for a shutdown of programs like F1, H1B, etc. - despite half the biggest American companies being founded by immigrants or their children. If you glimpse into the future, is America any more “strategically serious” than Europe? Or is it just another has been that turns to racism and isolationism to deal with its problems?
by dismantlethesun | 2025-12-08 22:22:29+00:00
I'm not the OP, but I do have an annectote.

We've got an backend pipeline that does image processing. At every step of the pipeline, it would make copies of small (less than 10MB) files from an S3 storage source, do a task, then copy the results back up to the storage source.

Originally, it was using AWS but years ago it was decided that AWS was not cost effective so we turned to another partner OVH and Backblaze.

Unfortunately, the reliability and throughput of both of them isn't as consistent as AWS and this has been a constant headache.

We were going to go back to AWS or find a new partner, but I nominated we use NFS. So we build nothing, pay nothing, get POSIX semantics back, and speed has gone up 3x. At peak, we only copy 40GB of files per day, so it was never really necessary to use S3 except that our servers were distributed and that was the only way anyone previously could think to give each server the same storage source.

While this isn't exactly what the OP and you are talking about, I think it illustrates a fact: SaaS software was seen as the hammer to all nails, giving you solutions and externalizing problems and accountability.

Now that either the industry has matured, building in-house is easier, or cost centers need to be reduced, SaaS is going be re-evaluated under the context of 'do we really need it'?

I think the answer to many people is going to be no, you don't need enterprise level solutions at all levels of your company, especially if you're not anywhere near the Fortune 1000.
by martinald | 2025-12-08 22:22:34+00:00
Just to be clear, they weren't stupid 'is 1+1=2' type tests.

I had the agent scan the UX of the app being built, find all the common flows and save them to a markdown file.

I then asked the agent to find edge cases for them and come up with tests for those scenarios. I then set off parallel subagents to develop the the test suite.

It found some really interesting edge cases running them - so even if they never failed again there is value there.

I do realise in hindsight it makes it sound like the tests were just a load of nonsense. I was blown away with how well Claude Code + Opus 4.5 + 6 parallel subagents handled this.
by bitwize | 2025-12-08 22:23:59+00:00
> "The future is signed code with deep identity verification for every instruction." Holy hell. You're not describing a security feature, you're describing a prison. You're literally fantasising about a world where every line of code needs corporate permission to execute. That's techno feudalism with RGB lighting.

Yeah. It's gonna suck for us but the consumer market will eat it up. An Xbox that runs Excel. It's not a fantasy. What do you think the Windows 11 hardware requirements were all about? It's Microsoft's way of getting people to get rid of their old PCs without the necessary security hardware, so that when Windows 12 comes out the PC will be a fully locked down platform.

Again, consumers ate up the NES. They ate up the iPhone. This happened partially because of, not in spite of, the iron grip the vendor had over the platform, because they came with a guarantee (a golden seal even, in Nintendo's case!) that no bad stuff would slip through. It filtered out a lot of good stuff, too, but the market has shown that's a price it's willing to pay for some measure of assurance that the bad stuff will be stopped at the source. It's a business strategy that works in the broader market, even though it harms techies. Techies are a tiny, tiny minority, and it's time they learned their place in the grand scheme of things.
by hinkley | 2025-12-08 22:24:22+00:00
No, Newline was its own division of WB, but during the financial bubble bursting, and shortly after Golden Compass lost $100M they gutted it and drastically reduced their scope of operations. It's still technically its own division but now it's more of a sock puppet.

The Hobbit for instance is a WB production, not Newline.

Apparently sometime shortly before they got the axe they paid Susanna Clarke a 7 figure sum to option Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell. I don't know a whole lot about options but 7 figures sounds like about 8-16x what people usually do especially for a 3 year old book by an unknown author. IIRC, that's more than Andy Weir got for The Martian. And more than Lev Grossman is worth today, and he got five seasons out of three books.

That option expired unused and BBC One and Cuba Pictures made it into a very good miniseries. Does feel a bit like a pattern of financial exuberence.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-12-08 22:24:50+00:00
>I love HN, but I'm not sure how much longer HN will be a place I can frequent in this respect. Have the hills not eroded? What of childlike curiosity?

Culture shifts, even If you want to pretend you're beyond trends. I know HN wants to say "we're not Reddit" but cultural osmosis from Reddit and the internet at large will change how you interact even here.

That said:

>I wish writers maintained the contract of spending at least as much energy writing out ideas as they expect their audience to expend while reading them.

Maybe they did. Thing is that it's rare to be a skilled orator and a highly technical person (AKA the audience here). I could spend 20 hours writing this piece (after researching) and it'd be worse than someone who spent 2 hours writing it up but basically write full time. Don't let aptitude be confused with effort.
by vkou | 2025-12-08 22:24:53+00:00
And yet, investors and landlords are scooping up every rental property they can, and are as a class, making mountains of money in those states.

It's wild that as a whole they are so advantaged that they are still net-in the green when they let properties sit empty and unused.

It's just as wild that you continue digging deeper. Reality in the big picture isn't compatible with your 'correct' viewpoint, so you keep drilling down to microdetails.
by 0manrho | 2025-12-08 22:24:57+00:00
I'm not sold on the circular funding argument either, though it certainly wouldn't surprise me if it (or some other form of corruption/collusion) turned out to be true to some extent. Personally, I firmly believe that Silicon Valley jumped-the-gun early on AI investment for fear of being left behind and over-estimating the potential of LLM-based AI (at least in the short term), and now are stuck in the awkward position of not being able to admit it without shaking investor confidence which they don't want to do as they still need significant more investment to mature the tech to a point that it starts paying significant returns with respect to the investment.

> Michael Burry is betting against AI growth translating into real profits as a whole, not the circular funding.

It's not even so much that he's betting against that translating into profits, but rather that the pace of infrastructure investments is too out of sync with the timeline of realizing those profits, and also that throwing money at the problem doesn't necessarily move that break-even ROI timetable forward in a sustainable way (beyond a certain point).

That's what popped the DotCom bubble. It was the fundamental fallacy that potential profits and revenues were directly proportional to and/or dependent on investment, and even more specifically that more investment would realize not just greater returns, but the belief that more investment yielded greater return sooner which just wasn't true - at least not beyond a certain point. So while many people associate the Pets.com flop with the dotcom bubble, it was actually over investment in and by Cisco (chiefly, but not solely) that really precipitated the bubble bursting.

A lot of people see lots of parallels with the AI bubble in that context. If the ROI timeframe is greater than the viable lifecycle of hardware bought today, how wise is it to spend big today? Does it accelerate the timeframe if you spend more, and if so by how much, and up to what point? There's also something to be said about market momentum and strategic positioning, but that's hard to quantify, especially in the context of forecasting how impactful it will be on realizing your ROI at some indefinite point in the future.
by fsflover | 2025-12-08 22:25:33+00:00
> You link three things, that doesnt equate to "every independent organization".

Seriouslu, is this the only counter-argument you could invent? I didn't have the goal to list all independent organizations in the world. Now, you have to find one saying the opposite to EFF.

> If you dont trust a site to not send data to third party domains directly, why do you trust it to not send it indirectly?

Because there were examples when 3rd-party ads delivered malware to clients: https://www.networkworld.com/article/946902/forbes-malware-a...

Also, because FBI recommends it: https://www.pcmag.com/news/fbi-recommends-installing-an-ad-b...

> MV3 helps against tracking

Against tracking by whom? By FLOSS add-ons intentionally installed by user and verified by the community? In contrast to random, untrusted websites running megabytes of proprietary JS?
by quickthrowman | 2025-12-08 22:25:37+00:00
> First, no, power can be delivered by wires made out of aluminum and indeed, it often is, I don't think that much of the transmission grid is copper

Seconded, aluminum works just fine as a conductor. I’m pretty sure that all overhead utility distribution conductors are a steel core wrapped with aluminum conductors and air for insulation, and I’d bet that underground distribution conductors are also aluminum.

SER cable from the utility transformer secondary to your meter socket also uses aluminum conductors.

You usually need to go up a couple of sizes for aluminum vs copper (#1/0 Cu ~= #3/0 Al) but it depends on the specific ampacity.
by written-beyond | 2025-12-08 22:25:43+00:00
> I like Rust's result-handling system, I don't think it works very well if you try to bring it to the entire ecosystem that already is standardized on error throwing.

I disagree, it's very useful even in languages that have exception throwing conventions. It's good enough for the return type for Promise.allSettled api.

The problem is when I don't have the result type I end up approximating it anyway through other ways. For a quick project I'd stick with exceptions but depending on my codebase I usually use the Go style ok, err tuple (it's usually clunkier in ts though) or a rust style result type ok err enum.
by SunshineTheCat | 2025-12-08 22:26:01+00:00
What's crazy is you're starting to see an overreaction to this fact as well.

The other day I posted a short showcasing some artwork I made for a TCG I'm in the process of creating.

Comments poured in saying it was "doomed to fail" because it was just "AI slop"

In the video itself I explained how I made them, in Adobe Illustrator (even showing some of the layers, elements, etc).

Next I'm actually posting a recording of me making a character from start to finish, a timelapse.

Will be interesting if I get any more "AI slop" comments, but it's becoming increasingly difficult to share anything drawn now because people immediately assume it's generated.
by stale2002 | 2025-12-08 22:26:13+00:00
> People claimed GPT-3 was great at coding when it launched.

Ok and they were wrong, but now people are right that it is great at coding.

> That has continued to be the case in every generation.

If something gets better over time, it is definitionally true that it was bad for every case in the past until it becomes good. But then it is good.

Thats how that works. For everything. You are talking in tautologies while not understanding the implication of your arguments and how it applies to very general things like "A thing that improves over time".
Show HN: RamScout – Search eBay RAM Listings by Price per GB (US/UK)
by chinskee | 2025-12-08 22:26:14+00:00
I built a small weekend project to help track RAM prices, since DDR3/DDR4/DDR5 costs have suddenly jumped recently and I was struggling to find good deals for my NAS build.

RamScout scans eBay (UK/US) and ranks RAM listings by price per GB, with filters for type, capacity, speed, condition, etc. It’s a simple MVP — no frills, no accounts, no ads — just a fast way to spot unusually cheap listings.

Would appreciate any feedback, especially on performance, UI, and whether expanding to more regions/vendors would be useful. Thanks!
by liampulles | 2025-12-08 22:26:22+00:00
I contracted briefly on a post-LLM-boom Excel modernization project (which ended up being consulting mainly, because I had to spend all my time explaining key considerations for a long-running software project that would fit their domain).

The company had already tried to push 2 poor data analysts who kind of new Python into the role of vibe coding a Python desktop application that they would then distribute to users. In the best case scenario, these people would have vibe coded an application where the state was held in the UI, with no concept of architectural seperation and no prospects of understanding what the code was doing a couple months from inception (except through the lens of AI sycophancy), all packaged as a desktop application which would generate excel spreadsheets that they would then send to each other via Email (for some reason, this is what they wanted - probably because it is what they know).

You can't blame the business for this, because there are no technical people in these orgs. They were very smart people in this case, doing high-end consultancy work themselves, but they are not technical. If I tried to do vibe chemistry, I'm sure it would be equally disastrous.

The only thing vibe coding unlocks for these orgs by themselves is to run headfirst into an application which does horrendous things with customer data. It doesn't free up time for me as the experienced dev to bring the cost down, because again, there is so much work needed to bring these orgs to the point where they can actually run and own an internal piece of software that I'm not doing much coding anyway.
by SilverElfin | 2025-12-08 22:26:30+00:00
I agree that a man with a beard in a dress is shocking and perhaps even radicalizing to many or most people - not just in America but Europe itself. The trans issue remains a big controversy. But most Americans have probably never even heard of Eurovision. Maybe they saw a meme about it or something like that, but I don’t think this is what causes Americans to criticize Europe. In recent times, I would say the biggest topics are crimes committed in Europe by Islamic Arab refugees/immigrants (especially against women and minors), and attacks against American companies or free speech.

There is a lot of truth and justification for Americans to be concerned about both these topics - but judging by the kind of things posted by Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and the web of politicians/businessmen connected to them, I would say a bit part of why Americans “hate” Europe is simply because they have been radicalized by the extremist rhetoric used by the people they follow or look up to.
by Sophira | 2025-12-08 22:26:55+00:00
Those still only work for text. What I'm trying to say is that it's possible Stallman was considering that "screenshot" means "dumping a graphics buffer to disk". In the case of text mode without the framebuffer, there is no graphics buffer to dump (at least, not one that's accessible on the computer), therefore the best you can do is dumping a text buffer instead.

You can of course synthesize a new image based on the contents of that text buffer (and that would almost certainly have been fine for the purposes of the question), but you can't dump a graphics buffer that doesn't exist.

He would absolutely have known about script(1).
by lm28469 | 2025-12-08 22:27:06+00:00
> The concern about “raising insurance costs significantly for everyone” in US only exists because of the way healthcare is set up here.

100% definitely not lol, you need 2-3 months to see any kind of specialist in germany, 5-10 hours before someone sees you in the emergency room. The healthcare system of every western EU country is getting worse year after year because of the aging population, and on top of that we're taxed more, for shittier services.

I pay 800+ a month and it doesn't even include a yearly blood work unless I beg for it. Just look at your own link, in germany we screen for two cancers for each gender and it's already so fucking expensive, there are dozens of cancers you could theoretically screen for.

Skin cancer screening is actually a good example, we diagnose way more than before, and it has virtually no impact on death stats: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/premium/article/melanoma-...

> More than 80,000 Americans are told each year they have melanoma skin cancer. If that sounds like a lot, it’s because the numbers are six times higher than they were 40 years ago.

> Overdiagnosis is one of the most harmful and costly problems in medicine
by jayd16 | 2025-12-08 22:27:24+00:00
I mean, we have had the tech to crank out some little app for a long time. The point of the Saas used to be that you had a neck to strangle when things went south. I guess these days that's just impossible anyhow and the prices aren't worth it so we're rediscovering that software can be made instead of bought?

There have been a lot of little blogs about "home cooking" style apps that you make for yourself. Maybe AI is the microwave meal version.
Show HN: Axis – A semantics-first logic language co-designed with AI
by fixpointflow | 2025-12-08 22:27:31+00:00
Axis is an experiment in designing a small, deterministic, semantics-first logic language with an AI collaborator. The goal is to explore whether a minimal, rigorously defined semantic layer can help AI systems generate safer and more consistent code across different host languages.

The repo contains the draft whitepaper, early semantics. This is very early work — I’m sharing it now to get feedback from people working in PL theory, compilers, formal methods, and AI tooling.

Repo: https://github.com/axis-foundation/axis-research

Whitepaper (PDF): https://github.com/axis-foundation/axis-research/blob/main/p...

I’m particularly interested in where this overlaps with existing research, where the ideas may be flawed, and whether the overall direction seems useful or misguided. All feedback welcome.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-12-08 22:28:51+00:00
>should be taking that into account

There's a lot of "shoulds" that go out the window when you're basically in a hype cycle. We're high stakes rolling at this point. It's a matter of when the house goes broke.

>Michael Burry is betting against AI growth translating into real profits as a whole, not the circular funding.

One can lead to the other.