MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
Show HN: Floww – A code-first alternative to n8n
by ToonDN | 2025-12-02 17:07:06+00:00
Hi HN,

I'm a creator of Floww, a self-hostable workflow automation tool designed for developers who got frustrated by the limitations of visual builders like n8n. It's still a very early prototype, but the goal is to provide these same features in a code-first approach which allows for building and maintaining more complex workflows more easily.

Example:

import { Discord, GitHub } from "floww"; const discord = new Discord() const github = new GitHub() github.triggers.onPush({ branch: "main", owner: "usefloww", repository: "floww-dashboard", handler: async (ctx, event) => { const user = event.body.sender.login; const repository = event.body.repository.name; await discord.actions.sendMessage({ channelId: "1436671493651169290", content: New push to ${repository} by ${user} }) }, });

Would love to hear what you think, and what functionality we need to add for you to consider this for your next automation
by kingroyobey | 2025-12-02 17:07:09+00:00
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by pavel_lishin | 2025-12-02 17:07:10+00:00
I definitely agree with you about (1), though this can be somewhat mitigated by having a good culture of agreeing to hop into impromptu video calls.

(2) feels weird to me; if the work is getting done, is there an issue? Does it matter if I spend 4 hours or 2 hours on a design doc, if the result is a good design doc?
by IAmBroom | 2025-12-02 17:07:19+00:00
Some odd and unsupported claims in that article, such as the assertion that the breakup of Pangaea caused an explosion of life due to more phosphorus becoming available.

That would be interesting if true, but I can't find much supporting it. There are theories that the breakup increased diversity through shallow seabeds - where the mineral runoff from landmasses accumulated where solar energy could also be harvested.
by nickjj | 2025-12-02 17:07:52+00:00
Windows 10 has some really weird UI quirks.

I have my taskbar set up to be the small view on the bottom but I have the double stacked time + date so I can always see what time it is and today's date. It does this without making the taskbar taller.

50% of the time when I reboot, the date disappears and re-appears on its own after some time (sometimes hours, sometimes days, even without another reboot).

I'm taking 2 weeks off around Christmas and I'm absolutely dedicating some of those days to finally switch to native Linux to be control of my machine. I was trying for almost 10 years but was always road blocked on something not working. I think things are good enough now. I'll be making serious compromises on my video editing workflow but everything else is much better minus games with kernel level anti-cheat and I'm willing to take that hit.
by windexh8er | 2025-12-02 17:07:54+00:00
I think it's more and more evident that the ultra rich (and their circles of subordinates) don't actually care about the common divisive topical areas. It seems to be the playbook that they have a divisive stance to put them in a specific camp (at their convenience). History has shown us that those ultra rich have no regard to flip flopping as it sees fit to their outcomes. It has nothing to do with self hate or being savvy - the reality is: it doesn't matter for them because nobody in their circle cares. I think that's very evident with Thiel.

If you don't think so, play this game: how would things change for Peter Thiel if he was of a different race? It wouldn't. Greed is blind to these superficial facets that drive the normies up the wall. It's truly by design. And it's so broadly accepted you don't even need to hide these things anymore which only adds insult to injury.
by fifilura | 2025-12-02 17:08:21+00:00
I have not work with Polars, but I would imagine any incompatibility with existing libraries (e.g. plotting libraries like plotnine, bokeh) would quickly put me off.

It is a curse I know. I would also choose a better interface. Performance is meh to me, I use SQL if i want to do something at scale that involves row/column data.
Dose anyone know how much this costs?
by somesigmaperson | 2025-12-02 17:08:49+00:00
I'm trying to find the value of a handy-cam iv had for a while and all I know is its from 2010 and its a sony handycam blue 9.2 megapixels but I cant find a full value the only one I could find was $200(USD) for just the camera but I have a tripod that comes with it and I cant find the value for that ither it is used and the only damaged is a faded logo on the hand strap
by bikenaga | 2025-12-02 17:09:21+00:00
Abstract:"The Decentralized Finance (DeFi) ecosystem has experienced over $10 billion in direct losses due to crime events. Beyond these immediate losses, such events often trigger broader market reactions, including price declines, trading activity changes, and reductions in market capitalization. Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) govern DeFi applications through tradable governance assets that function like corporate shares for voting and decision-making. Leveraging DeFi's granular trading data, we conduct an event study on 22 crime events between 2020 and 2022 to assess their economic impact on governance asset prices, trading volumes, and market capitalization. Using a dynamic difference-in-differences (DiD) framework with counterfactual governance assets, we aim for causal inference of intraday temporal effects. Our results show that 55% of crime events lead to significant negative price impacts, with an average decline of about 14 %. Additionally, 68% of crime events lead to increased governance asset trading volume. Based on these impacts, we estimate indirect economic losses of over $1.3 billion in DAO market capitalization, far exceeding direct victim costs and accounting for 74% of total losses. Our study provides valuable insights into how crime events shape market dynamics and affect DAOs. Moreover, our methodological approach is reproducible and applicable beyond DAOs, offering a framework to assess the indirect economic impact on other cryptoassets."
by cwillu | 2025-12-02 17:09:24+00:00
“[Print] To meet security goals and support new print capabilities, this update transitions Windows printing components from MSVCRT to a modern Universal C Runtime Library.

As a result of this change, print clients running versions of Windows prior to Windows 10, version 2004 and Windows Server, version 2004 (Build number 19041) will intentionally fail to print to remote print servers running Windows 11, versions 24H2 or 25H2, and Windows Server 2025, that have installed this update, or later updates. Attempting to print from an unsupported print client to an updated print server will fail with one of the following errors: ”

Wow.
by hobs | 2025-12-02 17:09:33+00:00
Nothing the GP said had anything to do with taking away people's voice because they are rich, they are saying just because they are rich they don't automatically deserve a microphone.

HN seems very ready to defend the rich and powerful from attacks that don't even exist and its weird to come here and say how great he is while also seeing what his efforts have actually wrought - nothing positive on education or government overreach via the Trump admin. Paypal may have been ok at one point, but is generally considered to be a terrible company to work with, Palantir is a murderer for hire, and SpaceX burns billions to get us not very much with its continued explosions in the sky with hilarious mars shot promises regardless of its other commercial successes.
by Traubenfuchs | 2025-12-02 17:09:34+00:00
> curing HIV isn't something we now know how to do.

Technically we do but we will never ever give someone a stem cell transplant to cure their HIV because there are SIX highly effective different classes of medication to treat HIV. Majorly treatment resistant high fitness HIV is NOT a concern on the horizon.

> The second point is: this did not give us a significant new insight into the causes or mechanisms of treatment of HIV

The first unique cases of both variants of this DID lead to significant, valuable insights in several areas. But further cases, not so much. Myeloablation clearing the HIV reservoirs while the patient continues being on ART leading to a total cure does not excite any knowledgeable scientist anymore in 2025.
by clickety_clack | 2025-12-02 17:09:54+00:00
The R ecosystem has had a similar evolution with the tidyverse, it was just a little further ago. As for Matlab, I initially learned statistical programming with it a long time ago, but I’m not sure I’ve ever seen it in the wild. I don’t know what’s going on there.

I’m actually quite partial to R myself, and I used to use it extensively back when quick analysis was more valuable to my career. Things have probably progressed, but I dropped it in favor of python because python can integrate into production systems whereas R was (and maybe still is) geared towards writing reports. One of the best things to happen recently in data science is the plotnine library, bringing the grammar of graphics to python imho.

The fact is that today, if you want career opportunities as a data scientist, you need to be fluent in python.
by granra | 2025-12-02 17:10:00+00:00
I'm the author of nixtml. It's already doing IFD by using python to parse markdown content + metadata and superhtml to format the final HTML (a bit unnecessary, but I liked it while developing it).

I really wanted the templates to just be nix functions. It shouldn't be an issue to pass the context to an external program with `pkgs.runCommand` or something and then read the result (IFD like you mentioned).

Edit: I'm glad to hear you like it :)
Show HN: Ask Anything over NeurIPS 2025 Papers (Free, No Signup)
by ghita_ | 2025-12-02 17:10:02+00:00
Hey! We’re the founders of ZeroEntropy (www.zeroentropy.dev), we train models for information retrieval, and also provide an end-to-end hybrid search API.

Last night, we decided to release a free tool that lets you ask natural language questions over the 2025 NeurIPS papers.

We hope it will be useful to this community, whether you are at the conference or just curious to learn more about the papers that made the cut this year.

No account required. Just type a question and get a sourced answer from relevant papers.

Try it: https://neurips.zeroentropy.dev

Let us know if something doesn’t work we’ll fix it!
by sipofwater | 2025-12-02 17:10:14+00:00
"NFS is so much better than SMB (for me) it's unbelievable how much I missed out over the years using SMB": https://old.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/1mov16o/nfs_is_so_... (old.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/1mov16o/nfs_is_so_much_better_than_smb_for_me_its/)
by Centigonal | 2025-12-02 17:10:24+00:00
Today, the super-wealthy have a megaphone for their worldview that is orders of magnitude more effective than anything anyone else has got. It's not just Thiel: Bezos, Soros, Musk, Paul Singer, and others all are or have been promulgating their worldviews at a scale formerly reserved for nation-states. If unchecked, this inequity will bring us to a world not dissimilar to Byzantine Europe, where the "word of god," as filtered through your lord of choice, utterly dominates the marketplace of ideas.
by garvn | 2025-12-02 17:10:31+00:00
I'm a CS/Math student at Northeastern, former Specialist at Apple, and builder whose interests range from personal AI assistants (I built Garvis, an AI assistant for myself), to fraud detection (for which I built VaultOS, a fraud detection algorithm and financial dashboard for automating savings), to social interaction dynamics (I'm building HuskyPortals, a local 5G social experiment connecting dorm lounges through real-time portals at Northeastern). I'm looking for internships/co-ops in systems, backend, and ML engineering. I love working with infra and reasoning systems.

Location: Boston, MA Remote: No Willing to relocate: Within the United States Technologies: Python, Java, FastAPI, React, PostgreSQL, AWS Website: https://garvn.dev/ Github: https://github.com/garvnn Email: garvnarang@gmail.com
by next_xibalba | 2025-12-02 17:10:40+00:00
Having listened to a fair amount of Thiel, he tends to be very, very mischaracterized. He relies on metaphor and allegory to describe the world, and is very philosophical and analytical–all of which opens the door to broad interpretation. For instance, his use of the phrase "Antichrist" has been wildly (and deliberately, IMO) misinterpreted by the commentariat and intelligentsia that dominate our sense making institutions. I'm not suggesting anyone should agree with everything (or anything!) he says, but I think the dismissal of him is to one's own detriment as much of it is very interesting and thoughtful.
by nallana | 2025-12-02 17:10:44+00:00
Thanks!! It was originally for Octave users whose scripts were running painfully slow.

The goal was to keep the MATLAB frontend capture syntax, but run it fast.

When we dug into why people were still using Octave, it was because it let them focus on their math, and was easier for them to read - was especially important for people that aren’t programmers; eg scientists and engineers.

I suppose this is also why we write in higher level languages than assembly.

The goal of this project is now: let’s make the fastest runtime in the world to run math.

Turned out, the MATLAB syntax offers a large amount of compiler time hinting in (it is meant for math intent capture after all).

We’ve found as we built this that if we take a domain specific approach (eg we’re going to make every optimization for what’s best for people wanting to focus on the math part), we can outperform general purpose languages like Python by a large mile on the math part.

For example, internals like keeping tensor shapes + broadcasting intent within the AST, and having the computation graph available for profitable GPU/CPU threshold detection isn’t something that makes practical sense to build into a general purpose runtime like Python, but —

It lets RunMat speed up elementwise math orders of magnitude (eg 1B points going through 5-6 element wise ops like sin/cos/+/- etc are 80x faster on my MBP vs Python/PyTorch).

So Tl;dr — started as for Octave users. Goal is to build the fastest runtime for math for those that are looking to use computers to do math.

Obligatory disclosure because we’re engineers: you can still get faster by writing your own CUDA / GPU code. We’re betting 99% of the people that are trying to run math using computers don’t want to do that (ML community notwithstanding).
by hudson-trading | 2025-12-02 17:10:53+00:00
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by mindslight | 2025-12-02 17:11:26+00:00
Personally I find that quote tired and trite. But so-called "conservatives" could certainly stand to clear up the matter by articulating what their constructive political stances actually are these days - that is beyond merely vice signalling, performative cruelty, and a cult of personality around Dear Leader.

As a libertarian, I certainly have my problems with the progressive orthodoxy. But every time I've tried to work out current conservative principles, by generally appealing to what they claim to be, I've basically just gotten a brush off of why those traditional ideals are not applicable and then a bunch of whataboutism to justify why they have to kill our society to purportedly save it.
by danans | 2025-12-02 17:11:29+00:00
> It's one thing to have concentrated wealth. It's a very different thing to have concentrated wealth and people's attention.

Because of human nature, the two are inseparable, and influence over people's attention is power, especially when those people hold seats of power.

The question is about what perspective society takes towards wealth/power concentration at any given time, and that usually ends up correlated with how the non-wealthy and non-powerful are feeling.
by sipofwater | 2025-12-02 17:11:40+00:00
"Testing: Termux, proot-distro, Network File System (NFS)": https://gist.github.com/NoteAfterNote/e1719f4029b91918d99621... (gist.github.com/NoteAfterNote/e1719f4029b91918d996216939d5bff2)
by linuxhansl | 2025-12-02 17:11:50+00:00
Hmm... If anybody meets the definition of his antichrist, it might be him.

The notion that there is an antichrist and that "international agencies, environmentalism and guardrails on technology could quicken its rise" is ludicrous.

The only reason we listen to his nonsense is because he has money, and with that comes power in this country.

I suggest he take some shrooms and chill...
by dpark | 2025-12-02 17:12:25+00:00
> In NYC, billionaires are like supervillains.

This is absurd to the point of being cartoonish. No one treats billionaires like supervillains. How many billionaires are in supermax prisons right now in New York?

> Nobody particularly likes them

This is not relevant, regardless of whether it’s true. A ton of people hate Thiel and Trump. Disliking a billionaire doesn’t take away their power.
by bilbo0s | 2025-12-02 17:13:12+00:00
Mmmm..

I don’t know man?

I actually don’t mind 14+14 for corps. Because corps could conceivably never “die”. (In fact, I wouldn’t even be too opposed to getting rid of the +14 part).

But for individual people who make things, I think if they’re alive, it should be theirs. And I’m a guy who’s not a creative.

I just think if you come up with a painting, or story, or video game, why should a big corporate be able to swoop in and just copy it while you’re alive without paying you?

The copyright should lapse after a reasonable amount of time following your death. But while you’re alive, what you made should be yours.
by nickpsecurity | 2025-12-02 17:13:24+00:00
No doubt. I had a few ideas for what might be done:

1. Put the tokenizers or other lower-performance parts on the NPU.

2. Pipelining that moves things through different models or layers on different hardware.

3. If multiple layers, put most of them on the fastest part with a small number on the others. Like with hardware clocking, the ratio is decided to ensure the slower ones don't drag down overall performance.

In things like game or real-time AI's, esp multimodal, there's even more potential as some parts could be on different chips.
by nolamikey | 2025-12-02 17:13:53+00:00
Personally I can't wait for the "type hype" to die down. I see the utility of type hints for optimization, but I'm tired of people acting like you can't safely write code without types. Mostly they trot out examples of types guarding against the most trivial errors. You can do just as much within an object oriented message-passing paradigm. Objects ARE types, as far as I'm concerned, with the bonus of also defining operations on those types in a (for lack of a better term) type-specific way. Bolting types on to JavaScript isn't going to make all the warts go away, and forcing them into Ruby wouldn't be transformational (at least I hope not). There's crystal for that sort of thing.

Setting aside performance for the moment, the valid criticisms of languages like Ruby center around the amount of magic that can happen behind the scenes (and what can happen to programmers who use libraries without understanding said magic). Magic isn't intrinsically bad, though. Yes, it can make programming in the large more difficult, but its also a force multiplier that can make it much easier. We shouldn't make programming suck for everyone because there's a shortage of good programmers. We should be figuring out how to make more good programmers-- and that is one thing I think Ruby can definitely help with. It's accessible, and it has support of all kinds of programming paradigms despite being an OO language. You can explore all kinds of things with it. By the time someone has outgrown Ruby, they should be in a good position to understand why and evaluate the tradeoffs of changing horses.
by Cerium | 2025-12-02 17:14:03+00:00
Keep your eyes open for a better job? The work you do should have impact of some kind. In the corporate world there is business impact (increase revenue, decrease direct costs or improve system efficiency), social impact (make a product that directly helps people in some way), or personal impact (work on something that you find intrinsically interesting or helps you grow your skills or understanding).

I don't see any reason to permanently stay in a role filled with mundane triviality .
by pizlonator | 2025-12-02 17:14:09+00:00
I saw so many red flags:

- How is Rust only one order of magnitude faster than Python?

- How is Python that much faster than Node.js?

So I looked at the benchmark repo.

These benchmarks mean nothing folks!

Each of these benchmarks is just a SHA256 hash. This is NOT a valid way to compare CPUs, except if the only thing you will ever do with the CPU is to execute SHA256 hashes.

Hash functions are not representative of the performance of:

- Compression or decompression (of text, video, or anything really)

- Parsing

- Business logic (which is often dominated by pointer chasing)

So, you can safely ignore the claims of this post. They mean nothing.