MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by soraminazuki | 2025-12-02 14:19:19+00:00
Great for ... shareholders? Because you can't possibly be talking about users. Windows is an OS that forces cloud logins, tracks and records every interaction, steals email credentials, shoves ads and full screen nags everywhere, sabotages competing software, turns perfectly good hardware into e-waste, and won't take no for an answer from users. It serves the interest of billionaires, not common people.

For paying users, this is the definition of an unmitigated disaster. Windows 11 expands on all of the worst aspects of Windows 10. Inconsistent UI, duplicated settings, two context menus, laggy start menu with React in it, and on and on and on the list goes. It's obvious why people hate it.

No other OS has shown this much level of outright contempt towards its users. Modern Windows is, without doubt, the worst desktop OS to ever exist in the history of computing.
by officeplant | 2025-12-02 14:19:36+00:00
> I came of age making beats in Fruity Loops

Fruity Loops 4 was my first DAW, and yeah it has been hard to ever leave computer based production behind since then.

The only hardware sequencing that has ever clicked for me is the Polyend Tracker, which is just a tracker so I hesitate to even call it hardware sequencing. I also dig Elektron's sequencing, but its an entirely different headspace I have to spend time in to get used to everytime I fire one up.

I'm lucky that most of my projects only use 4-12 channels of midi/audio, because I can't stand massive projects with 40+ channels of things going on like some friends I've worked with. Hard to imagine trying to do that in hardware alone.
by throwaway150 | 2025-12-02 14:19:52+00:00
Forgive me but a lot of the examples seem like strawman.

> The dream of “multimedia” became commonplace and everyone just accepted it as normal. I’m not aware of any industries that collapsed dramatically due to multimedia.

But "multimedia" was never purported to be something that would lead to collapse of any segment of the industry, much less industries. If anything, the multimedia hype was purported to increase IT work which it did for some years.

> In 2000 a coworker took me aside and showed me his brand-new copy of IntelliJ IDE. “It’s over for us,” he said, “this thing makes it so programmers aren’t strictly necessary, like one person can operate this tool and they can lay the rest of us off.”

I've a hard time believing this. Literally nobody I've met was ever mistaken that IntelliJ would mean the doom of software engineering work. It's a great IDE and all IDE including IntelliJ required engineers to write code with them. Nobody was foolish enough to really think one engineer or one manager or one salesperson can "operate" IntelliJ and generate all the code to meet business requirements.

> And then he showed me the killer feature “that’s going to get us all out of a job:” the refactoring tools.

I'll bet there was no such "coworker". No sane person would think "refactoring" could mean "magically understand business requirements and write code"? All of this sounds like strawman setup so that the author could go on to making their next point like the bit where he challenged his "coworker" and asked if refactoring tools can write new code.

Don't get me wrong. The rest of the post is on money though. I just think the post would do better without these fake stories to set up strawmans only to take them down. Feels a bit forced!
by DrPimienta | 2025-12-02 14:21:01+00:00
If they bring in tons of new French language teachers and nurses, that suppresses the wages of people here. Those companies would have to raise wages to find workers, and if there aren't any workers, they'd have to raise wages to fight for what few workers there are, which might help some of our OWN UNEMPLOYED PEOPLE find LUCRATIVE WORK as they see they can become a nurse or language teacher and make a healthy living doing so.

The only people who need immigrants are greedy businesses. It makes life worse for literally everyone else in a nation.
by malfist | 2025-12-02 14:21:20+00:00
Ha! That's a right of passage, lithium ion batteries state of charge drops to almost 0 when it's below freezing. If you left your phone out with your laptop it'd have the same problem. There's actually special phones you can get that are meant to keep functioning below freezing, usually by means of a battery heater.

I too have done the same thing you experienced.

Now I run everything off of a minipc with a lead acid UPS.

This is also why most of your power packs to run astronomy gear are still lead acid and not lithium. Celestron's not just trying to sell you last generation equipment at a steep mark up, there's a reason for it
by carlos_rpn | 2025-12-02 14:21:34+00:00
Good looking, acessible, "default" themes for popular CSS frameworks?

Like "here's Bootstrap5 default theme, here's another for high contrast, here's another for X problem, etc..."?

Not hidden away in some github repo you find on HN or Reddit, but either collected in some "resources for acessibility" website, or actively promoted by the frameworks themselves.

Maybe an AI tool to get a page source, a screen capture and generate alt texts and aria-roles?
by giarc | 2025-12-02 14:21:39+00:00
Will they lose a small customer or two to custom vibe coded solutions, yes. Will they be "competed away" due to vibe coding, definitely not.

You have to remember that no one gets fired for selecting an established software provider. Zoho is a 'safe' pick for SMBs because you know it will work compared to some custom CRM that Bill from accounting vibe coded in an afternoon.
by bradly | 2025-12-02 14:21:41+00:00
Great sound!

This Sonic Pi example really blew my mind when I first heard it. Such a rich sound out of three notes.

use_synth :hollow with_fx :reverb, mix: 0.7 do live_loop :note1 do play choose([:D4,:E4]), attack: 6, release: 6 sleep 8 end live_loop :note2 do play choose([:Fs4,:G4]), attack: 4, release: 5 sleep 10 end live_loop :note3 do play choose([:A4, :Cs5]), attack: 5, release: 5 sleep 11 end end
Show HN: Piperead – An AI librarian to find your next book
by sirinnes | 2025-12-02 14:22:10+00:00
Hi HN, Piperead is a free web tool that uses AI to act as a personalized librarian. Instead of just genre tags, we use specific "personas" to generate recommendations.

The goal was to make something simple, fast, and free. Because we achieved to keep minimum cost.

The site is live at https://piperead.com

We are trying to fine-tune the recommendation quality. Feedback on the UX and the recommendation relevance is very welcome.
by dwedge | 2025-12-02 14:22:30+00:00
In my opinion rpis have been living off their name/first to market for a long time now with exaggerated low-power usage, and there may come a point where your "too high" scenario happens.

I know I'm comparing apples to oranges here (new to used), but I started buying used 1L PCs instead (Lenovo thinkcentres) for about $20 the cost of a RPi 5 - but with the benefit of it actually coming with the cooling and storage it needs to run and is upgradable, plus runs Intel.

The amount of times I've had a Pi just self-destruct on me is ridiculous. They are known for melting SD cards, and just this week I had one blow the power regulator over USB power and still get hot enough in 2 minutes that it burnt me to touch it. They are considered cheap commodity computing and they aren't cheap enough for that any more.
by inanutshellus | 2025-12-02 14:22:38+00:00
> they all say they are happy with copyright being lifetime of the owner + XX years

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it." ~Upton Sinclair

Copyright is meant to reward innovators while it's still an innovation, and reward society once it has been fully inculcated.

Would the original creator prefer to rest on his laurels and collect checks instead? yep.

Would all the hundreds of people out there wanting to innovate on that copyrighted idea also like to make a buck? yep.

It's all a balance of competing interests.

Well. It's supposed to be.
by stavros | 2025-12-02 14:22:50+00:00
Any sort of atrophy of anything is because you don't need the skill any more. If you need the skill, it won't atrophy. It doesn't matter if it's LLMs or calculators or what, atrophy is always a non-issue, provided the technology won't go away (you don't want to have forgotten how to forage for food if civilization collapses).
by austin-cheney | 2025-12-02 14:23:31+00:00
Apple is a walled garden with the intention to force use of their tools and platform at all stages. It is unintentionally hostile to the maximum to keep the world Apple.

You can work around this to a very limited extent by making web applications that work in the browser. There are still limitations in that Apple disables some browser APIs for iOS, for example some parts of the file system API. There are also some artificial memory limitations in the browser that will prevent processing large data in one step.

In my case these limitations exist so that people use the App Store and if Apple blocks solutions from the App Store then they want you to use iTunes. Here is what I had to do to build something that works on an iPhone that Apple goes way out of the way to block.

I was wanting something like WinAmp for playing music from files I have locally from a large playlist. Even solutions that cost money from the App Store were garbage with regard to playlists and were often filled with ads and spyware. So I wrote a local web page that solved this problem.

Because Apple blocks some use of the file system API the playlist has to be dynamically assembled on the server. Because it’s to large to parse in a single step the browser has to request the playlist data from the server in 9 different requests. It works well allowing the playing of audio in MP3 format directly from the browser in the way I want without paying Apple or streaming from the internet.

That is the level you have to go to for working around the Apple profit garden.
by lalithaar | 2025-12-02 14:23:43+00:00
Not into investments, but I do feel like AI is more of a shift the way cars were from bullock carts - So most probably it wouldn't take over to the point of AGU anytime soon ( especially w.r.t to hardware robotic AI models ) anytime soon But neither would it disappear, we will just have a slightly modernised way to work than we would have than if AI wasn't there
by The_President | 2025-12-02 14:23:43+00:00
Trusting your chat activity and availability to any XMPP server on the internet that allows free public registration is not ideal. If you want reliability then pay for it or use what you perceive as a highly credible free server. I do not run any public facing XMPP services so I do not have any input on that and as with Matrix I wouldn't roll your own unless you know exactly what you're doing due to inherit risks associated with these platforms in certain states of configuration or exposure.
by colinramsay | 2025-12-02 14:23:53+00:00
Location: Cornwall UK

Remote: Yes

Relocate: No

Technologies: Backend, Frontend, DevOps, most recently full stack React

CV: on request

Email: colinramsay at gmail.com

https://colinramsay.co.uk/

I’ve most recently been tech director for a software agency and I'm now looking for something new. I enjoy problem solving and have experience across lots of different technologies and domains.
by hombre_fatal | 2025-12-02 14:23:57+00:00
He will be right at some point. The question is when.

I'm already vibe coding complex things like GUIs, my desktop environment (NixOS), and last week a Wayland layer shell client that would have taken me quite a lot of work if I had to do them myself from scratch from docs, and I have 20 years of software experience.

The things I spend time building and polishing today with my own time are just next year's vibe-coded minutia.

Some people are going to have a very hard time swallowing this pill, though.
by coldpie | 2025-12-02 14:24:26+00:00
> I started to become interested in programming around late 90s and I don't remember anyone floating the idea that OOP, libraries or IDEs will make programming obsolete as a profession.

The version of this hype that I remember from circa 2004 was UML[1] was going to make most programming automated. You'd have an architect that would draw out your problem's architecture in a GUI[2], press a button to automate all the code to build that architecture, and have a programmer fill in a couple dozen lines of business logic. Boom, program done by two or three people in a couple weeks, let's all go home. It uh, didn't work out that way.

You can read a lot more about all this by following the various links to concepts & products from Rational's Wikipedia page, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_Software (the Rational Unified Process page in particular brings back some memories). It wasn't badly intentioned, but it was a bit of a phase that the industry went through that ultimately didn't work out.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UML

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Component-based-Software-...
by swores | 2025-12-02 14:24:51+00:00
Counter anecdote: I also have a British accent, and while I find Siri as shit as everyone else in this thread the dictation built into the iOS keyboard very rarely has a problem with my accent. I'm fairly close to Received Pronunciation, which I'd guess is one of the easier British accents for Siri to understand.

(I do often get frustrated with dictation quirks that don't have anything to do with my accent, like it choosing the obviously wrong option when their are multiple words that sound the same, especially its insistence on assuming I'm saying the name of a contact rather than the common noun that sounds the same.)
by dhurst1 | 2025-12-02 14:25:00+00:00
Location: UK Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Next.js, React, TypeScript, Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Supabase, Google Cloud, Docker, Terraform, OpenAI/Anthropic/Gemini APIs Résumé/CV: Available on request Email: dan@updatagroup.com

SaaS Software Developer with experience building production SaaS from scratch. Most recently co-built a brand monitoring platform processing 50k+ daily queries with multi-provider LLM integration (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google). Comfortable across the stack: React/Next.js frontends, Python/FastAPI backends, PostgreSQL, and cloud infrastructure. Strong with AI/LLM integration and data-heavy applications. Looking for contract or project work, particularly interested in AI/data projects or early stage products where I can have real impact.
by sota_pop | 2025-12-02 14:25:12+00:00
Exactly this… seeing ads on a service for which I’ve already paid makes me absolutely irate. Almost as bad as having to purchase content on a service I already pay for (Apple comes to mind although more do this as well).

And there is absolutely nothing stopping any company inserting ads at any time just to meet some product manager’s Q3 revenue target at any given time.
by joshstrange | 2025-12-02 14:25:49+00:00
This.

If I think about who's "site" HN is then PG or Dang are front of mind. I know Dang is /just/ a mod but he is who is visible. I've never once cared who actually ran YC, I didn't care when Sam Altman ran it and I don't care about Gary Tan either, they are 100% immaterial to the discussions that happen on this site IMHO.
by redhale | 2025-12-02 14:26:09+00:00
Congrats on your work ethic. But consider that this may simply not be the case for every working adult on earth, and may not even be true for every working adult in your company.

Not everyone is like you. I am, but I know people (some of whom are former and current coworkers) who are much more easily distracted, and are meaningfully less able to compete their work in a timely manner when they work from home.

I'll probably be downvoted, but I just don't think most of these execs are engaging in some larger "authoritarian" play with these moves (maybe some are, but I think incompetence is more likely than malice in most cases). But maybe I'm naive.

As one point, consider the case of Tokyo's "Manuscript Cafe" [0] where patrons intentionally visit to have a cafe owner "force" them to compete a task they may have been procrastinating on. I read this as: being in a "work" location surrounded by other working people is conducive to productivity for some people.

[0] https://www.vice.com/en/article/manuscript-cafe-japan-remote...
Show HN: Interactive Chromaticity and 3D Color Gamut Visualization
by clubers | 2025-12-02 14:26:37+00:00
A simple interactive visualization of chromaticity and display gamuts using animated point clouds. It compares sRGB, P3, Rec.2020, and a computed “max gamut,” shows how the visible spectrum maps onto chromaticities, and highlights out-of-gamut regions through desaturation.
by basch | 2025-12-02 14:26:45+00:00
The Windows version numbers are not used often but really do help group Windows into distinct "early vs late" product cycle tiers. They didn't really skip straight to 10, they just named 9 8.1 for reasons.

Windows 5.0-5.2 is Win 2000, Win XP, Win XP64.

Windows 6.0-6.3 is Vista, 7, 8, 8.1.
by gostsamo | 2025-12-02 14:26:47+00:00
The figure tag has both image and caption tags that link them. As far as I remember, some content could be marked as screen reader only if you don't want for the table to be visible to the rest of the users.

Additionally, recently I've been a participant in accessibility studies where charts, diagrams and the like have been structured to be easier to explore with a sr. Those needed js to work and some of them looked custom, but they are also an alternative way to layer data.
by yoavm | 2025-12-02 14:27:05+00:00
> Why pay $30/seat/month for over bundled SaaS when soon even nontech ops ppl can vibe-code a custom solution in a weekend?

I don't get his suggestion. I'm paying Zoho for email hosting. What am I even supposed to vibe-code successfully for me to drop Zoho? There's no shortage of open-source IMAP/SMTP servers, in fact Zoho is probably using them too. Sure I can spin one myself, but I'm paying for Zoho for the *service*, not the software.
Show HN: Genlook – Virtual try-on for Shopify stores
by thibaultmthh | 2025-12-02 14:27:19+00:00
I built this to bring virtual try-on to Shopify stores. The backend wraps Google's new VTO model, so the "AI" part was solved.

The real challenge was the UX: building a zero-friction experience for shoppers to maximize conversion. I’ve run a some of A/B tests on the widget design and copy, and learned not to trust my intuition, multiple times, the "best" variant wasn't the one I expected.

It's hard to gather strict numbers without large-scale data yet, but early estimates show that customers who engage with the try-on are ~25% more likely to buy.

Live demo here: https://demo.genlook.app
by falcor84 | 2025-12-02 14:27:48+00:00
Of course. Obviously a PM who isn't talking to the devs isn't doing their job.

But having said that, a PM is the person who owns the roadmap, and after talking to the devs, they may at times choose a course of action that goes against the devs' preferences (assuming the devs even have a consensus), because the PM has a lot of additional considerations. There are for example situations when the choice is either to crunch, take on massive technical debt, and still arrive at a feature with a somewhat lower quality than we'd like, or to lose a big business opportunity and possibly to have to let people go.

Most PMs that I've worked with are actually not that good at their job, and some were definitely detrimental to the org, but the good ones, who have an extensive understanding of the business domain and the technical situation, and have a clear vision (and strong opinions held loosely), are worth their weight in gold. And seeing how I did a short stint in a product role and don't want to go back to that sort of responsibility, I am grateful for the ones who are willing to take this on, and to take ownership when things don't go according to plan (and they usually don't, even in the best orgs).
by throw10920 | 2025-12-02 14:27:59+00:00
> It's funny because this isn't even a hypothetical, you're actually just wrong!

Citation needed. Strong assertions like "you're just wrong" are automatically false if evidence isn't provided. Where's your evidence for this?

> The majority of people who play competitive matchmade games online didn't get consulted, the developers put anti-cheat in after the audience was already entrenched.

Completely irrelevant to anything we're talking about here. Although I'm not surprised, given that it's coming from someone with other utterly insane statements like "I would not be shocked if simple vote-kick outperforms every anti-cheat on the market." that suggest that you've never played competitive matchmade games or interacted with trolls on the internet, or completely failed to respond to hombre_fatal's question (whether due to bad faith or lack of reading comprehension is unclear) and just made some unrelated snide statement.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-12-02 14:28:43+00:00
This is the documentation for using Amazon Bedrock hosted models from Python.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/code-library/latest/ug/python_3_...

Every model family has its own request format.

When I said it was “trivial” to write a library, I should have been more honest. “It’s trivial to point ChatGPT to the documentation and have it one shot creating a Python library for the models you want to support”.
by francisofascii | 2025-12-02 14:28:44+00:00
I kinda hope so. When I started my career companies and orgs had in-house developers to make custom software for the org. The developers understood the business and were part of the culture. Then the labor market got tight, developers left for higher paying jobs, managers became afraid of going custom because they would lose the developers, so they starting buying overpriced SAAS products and contractors. If the job market is flush again with capable devs armed with AI, maybe we can go back to in-house developers again.
by kube-system | 2025-12-02 14:29:01+00:00
Yes, but those "certain areas" are mandatory for functioning in society. And that ID is managed by a single central authority.

The US by contrast, has a distributed system where there are many authorities that can issue IDs that are valid for the activities of daily life.

The only common nationally issued ID in the US is a passport and people only get that for international travel -- and it wasn't even until 2024 that a majority of Americans even had one.
by iamnothere | 2025-12-02 14:29:29+00:00
Services do not regularly query your SSN or DL to determine if it is actively “in service” or is blocked. In fact most types of businesses don’t touch SSNs at all (the potential liability for mishandling it is radioactive). And the few that request licenses typically are only using it as part of a one-time KYC flow, there is no ongoing link to a central provider.
by gwbas1c | 2025-12-02 14:29:31+00:00
I think we should mix in some compulsory licensing: IE, the copyright holder has exclusive rights for a period of time, and then afterwards there is a formula that's used to allow anyone to re-publish.

It will help handle abandonware where the rightsholder can't be bothered to publish something; tries to limit where something is published; or otherwise tries to hold the fee artificially high.

(This could be used, for example, to force a luddite to publish a book in electronic form, force a show that's locked into a single app to print a bluray, ect, ect. A copyright holder shouldn't have exclusive control over which media and stores sell their work.)
by ivape | 2025-12-02 14:29:33+00:00
To add things to videos you create with your phone. TikTok and Insta will probably add this soon, but I suppose Apple is trying to provide this feature on “some level”. That means you don’t have to send your video through a social media platform first to creatively edit it (the platforms being the few tools that let you do generative video).

They should really buy Snapchat.