MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by disgruntledphd2 | 2025-12-24 11:41:32+00:00
> Can you give me a set of non-EU countries with better cross-country capital markets, that are as such now instead the place to build this? Especially for a set size bigger than 3? Serious question, as I've never heard of one and am fairly sure it doesn't exist, though I'd love to be proven wrong.

This does not exist, however the EU single market is also pretty unique in terms of how many countries are involved. If you include the EEA and the customs union, it's definitely the largest.

Given that there's an obvious currency union, the capital markets thing is relatively plausible (difficult but not impossible), and I personally think it would be great.

Note that I am biased, as I live in a small EU country and our financial and insurance providers are both expensive and terrible. And obviously the EU tech industry would benefit, which would also help me.

I think the real reason this hasn't happened is hangover from the EZ crisis, as sharing risk for banks across nations was toxic in many countries as a result of the financial and EZ crises. But now seems like a good time to at least start it.

As I said above, the biggest problem here would be where to put it, and the UK's absence from the EU makes the obvious place politically a non-runner (unfortunately).
by exasperaited | 2025-12-24 11:41:35+00:00
The day will come when we ban Steve Bannon, Elon Musk and JD Vance from the UK and I think for some that day is getting closer.

(I personally expect Vance to be banned from the UK - along with Denmark and Greenland - as soon as he is no longer VP. But then I suspect his days of international travel will end then more generally.)

But since diplomacy requires proportionality, maybe we start with Bannon, or Nick Fuentes, or Andrew Auernheimer. (They really should be banned from travel here like Matthew Heimbach and Richard Spencer already are.)
by ithkuil | 2025-12-24 11:41:50+00:00
If the word you need to redact is also an English verb there is a risk that you accidentally mark the name of person in a context where that redacted word has a clear meaning in that context and can be used as a proof that such a term has been accidentally redacted because a large scale search&mark has taken place.

According to a random dictionary I found:

To trump. Verb. Surpass (something) by saying or doing something better.
by kim100 | 2025-12-24 11:42:10+00:00
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by latexr | 2025-12-24 11:42:55+00:00
Ignoring the specifics, your first paragraph applies to me. You simply decided to assume it doesn’t and stoke a fire which, as far as I was concerned, was already out.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46079583

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43092745

> Feel free to ignore me as is your right.

Please don’t do that. It’s not the first time I see it. You come in, say what you want, then leave and say “you can ignore it”. So can you! You could’ve ignored it. I guarantee you that the overwhelming majority of times you do that, you’ll just make the other person mad and the situation worse. If you want to do better, and I believe you do, those backhanded dismissals need to stop.
by bravetraveler | 2025-12-24 11:44:24+00:00
Ah, so you're part of why I'm working so hard!

Well, you see, life has demanded I trade a certain meaning for value creation. Hence my attitude. There's that complex I told you about.

That's great for you. Sarcastic this time. I truly meant well, now I don't care.

Nice implication on my life meaning, bro. Sorry, sir.
by albert_e | 2025-12-24 11:44:25+00:00
This looks interesting though niche -- am yet to think of a compelling use case.

I am sure @simonw has some ideas :) -- he recently blogged about HTML tools which is also one or my favorite use cases for LLMs.

Maybe similar to SVG generation, this could be a more powerful / flexible way to generate complex images / screen mockups and the like on-the-fly.

PS: How do the economics work -- how is this free to use?

PS2: The live HTML editor seems buggy. Cursor is off by one position and messes up editing. (chrome on windows)
by owisd | 2025-12-24 11:45:59+00:00
That’s an argument that sounds convincing in principle, but in reality I can walk into any independent bookstore and find it’s not filled with porn and AI slop, so clearly there is a successful vetting process going on. Namely, the publishers vet the books then the bookstore owner only has to vet the publishers. A proof of concept internet equivalent is if I scrape a bunch of trusted YouTube channels onto a NAS and give my kids access to that NAS but block YouTube access otherwise.
Cloudflare Stream + Backblaze vs. GCP for Short Form Video?
by slroger | 2025-12-24 11:46:50+00:00
Hi HN, I'm building a short form video app(avg clip length 40 seconds, expecting 10-50,000 plays per day, growing, with 20% of traffic outside the US,80% in the US, mostly mobile). I'm deciding between:

1.) CloudflareStream + Backblaze(B2):
Pros: Simple product, minutes viewed pricing(possibly cheaper than GCP for video streaming), built in transcoding.
Concern: not sure if their ABR quality will match the quality of say GCP's which was really good in prior use.

2. GCP(GCS+TranscoderAPI+MediaCDN)
Pros: I used this set up previously and it was robust, storage was cheap, network costs were low and the streaming quality was excellent. And the console was fairly easy to navigate(especially compared to AWS) I left GCP because of non Video Streaming related issues(Video Intelligence API was exceptionally expensive) but considering going back just for Video storage and streaming
Cons: There were some issues configuring the transcoder API and also concerned there may be gotcha prices as I get more users

So if you've used Cloudflare Stream or GCP's video streamin services I'd love your take on:
Real world playback quality for short videos especially 1080p/720p behaviour and bitrate ladders on CloudStream.

Any gotchas in pricing when it comes to either CloudStream or GCP Video Streaming services

Reliability/Operational issues you've run into.

I'm currently leaning on Cloudflare Streaming as it seems cheaper/better deal but concerned about reliability and quality of video streams. So maybe going back to GCP for video streaming wouldnt be so bad.

So looking forward to your thoughts, thank you
by zipy124 | 2025-12-24 11:47:26+00:00
It is certainly not, I'm not sure where the commentor gets that view. Most likely because alongside their primary journalistic content they also produce secondary reporting like these short pieces, disseminating niche viewership content to a wider audience. I can see how it might be easy to see it as blog spam given the latter is almost entirely their purview, but it should not be misconstrued as such in this case.
by kim100 | 2025-12-24 11:47:33+00:00
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by gaigalas | 2025-12-24 11:47:43+00:00
Anthony Jackson interview from 1992:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS-xDsic84Q

Please listen to it.

> The machines are here.

> We have to live with that. Things are different.

> Hopefully, if one has done his homework, one can continue to pick and choose what to do.

> If you keep your skills up, there is a place for you. If you don't, then there isn't. Very simple equation.

> I will not permit myself to be outplayed by someone using the machine.

---

Anthony Jackson is regarded as one of the most talented bassists that ever lived. He did, in fact, outplayed the machine, re-invented his own tone and technique, and proved over and over again that synthesizers could not do what he did. Synthetisers could replace thousands of pop musicians (they still do), but not him.

So yeah, do the grind. Don't break the machines, don't bow to them. Instead, outplay them. Keep your skills up, so you are free to pick and choose.
by pdimitar | 2025-12-24 11:50:47+00:00
I keep hearing this and yet history has proved, time and again, that any overly greedy monopolist achieves the reverse effect of monopoly.

Don't get too worried. People still can and do vote with their wallets. Additional vector of attack against greedy capitalists is also the fact that the economy is not doing great either.

They cannot increase prices too much.

I also predict that the DDR5 RAM price hikes will not last until 2027 or even 2028 as many others think. I give it maximum one year, I'd even think the prices will start slightly coming down during summer 2026.

Reading and understanding economy is neat and all but in the modern age some people forget that the total addressable market is not infinite and that the regular customers have relatively tight budgets.
by fakedang | 2025-12-24 11:51:45+00:00
LinkedIn blocked my account for security reasons and is apparently asking for more information, so I don't care. I simply quit LinkedIn.

And is it just me, or has LinkedIn Recruiter become all the more useless after the LLM age? At least we're not renewing that abomination next year, opting to use more flesh-and-blood headhunters.
by franze | 2025-12-24 11:52:47+00:00
well, you can create an image that reports the internal, this is what i got:

- IP: 104.28.157.29
- Org: Cloudflare (AS13335)
- Location: Narita, Chiba, Japan
- Browser: Chrome 126.0.0.0 headless
- Automation: Puppeteer/Playwright
- navigator.webdriver: true
- Platform: Linux x86_64
- CPU cores: 4
- WebGL: ANGLE + Vulkan 1.3.0 + SwiftShader
- GPU: SwiftShader (software rendering)
- Screen: 1024x768 virtual
- DevicePixelRatio: 2
- Color depth: 16 bit
- Window: 500x88 outer (headless)
- Languages: en-US
- Plugins: 5
- Frontend: Nuxt.js
- Storage: ephemeral blob
by anal_reactor | 2025-12-24 11:53:18+00:00
This is exactly why my dream is to save enough money so that I can retire and fuck off and just smoke weed and play vidya until I die. People speak of "hedonistic treadmill" but there's also "achievement treadmill" where you want to achieve more and more and more and it never ends. The biggest perk of my current job is that the company is completely dysfunctional, so it's normal for me to spend entire day doing nothing and I don't even need to be at the office. At first my body reacted with panic because I was used to being a slave, but I'm slowly adapting to think "wait, I'm actually winning"
by AshBuk | 2025-12-24 11:53:25+00:00
I've published a COPR repository providing Hyprland 0.52+ builds for Fedora 43+.

Fedora 42 shipped Hyprland 0.45, but Fedora 43 currently does not ship Hyprland at all, while upstream has moved on.

This is a clean, spec-compliant RPM build:
no duplicated system libraries, isolated vendor deps, deterministic dynamic linking, no LD_LIBRARY_PATH hacks.

Repo:
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/ashbuk/Hyprland-Fedo...

GitHub (specs):
https://github.com/AshBuk/Hyprland-Fedora
by bgun | 2025-12-24 11:53:56+00:00
Isn’t “paying for what you use” the ultimate expression of personal responsibility, though? Is unlimited high-speed internet a basic human right? (I’d argue _access_ is, given its necessity in participation in modern society, but not unlimited data).

The point may end up being moot, however, since the dark patterns feeding the social media-data harvesting pipeline are driven by keeping most people hooked on algorithmic infinitely scrolling feeds, and that attention-selling system will fight any attempt to rein it in, whether cultural or governmental.
by seydor | 2025-12-24 11:54:11+00:00
It's funny how the US administration thinks people like Breton acted ideologically. Brusselocrats are career politicians caring more about their CV than the spirit of their actions. They do populist flashy things, it's not like they'd lose an election or anything. Ban them all you want, you re just buttering their bread , it's another bullet in their CV, a badge of honor.

Then again, Trump has to win the election, and the Bell curve is symmetrical. Sanctioning EU politicians is less like sanctioning elected national politicians, and more like sanctioning artists. No nation was offended
by albert_e | 2025-12-24 11:54:15+00:00
Not trying to counter your post but this reminded me of this --

"Have you ever noticed that everyone who drives slower than you is an idiot, and everyone who drives faster than you is a maniac?"

Though I agree there are some folks who resist change while others who seem to jump into new things without enough care about hard lessons of the past. And sometimes you are the one trying to keep things sane and mitigate risks while majority of your team seem to treat you as a joyless guy who always sees risks and drawbacks.
by throwaway2037 | 2025-12-24 11:54:16+00:00
> Maybe there's something to be said for left-hand driving

Is this written in jest, or is there something more serious behind it? Off the top of my head, I cannot think of an obvious reason why "road handedness" (left vs right) would matter for road safety. Could it something about more people are right-handed so there is some 2nd order safety effect that I am overlooking?
by klibertp | 2025-12-24 11:54:35+00:00
Arainach:

> Using proper language is how I think.

logicprog:

> because it's closer to how I think them — usually in something like the mental form of full sentences

Yeah, I'm the same. However, I'm also very aware that not everyone thinks like that.

I'm sensitive to sounds, and most of my thinking has to be vocalized (in the background) to make sense to me. It's incredibly hard for me to read non-Latin scripts, for example, because even if I learned the alphabet, I don't recognize the word easily before piecing together all the letter clusters that need to be spoken specially. (I especially hate the thing in Russian where "o" is either "o" or "a" depending on how many of those are in the word. It slows my reading of Cyrillic script down to a crawl.)

Many people - probably most of them, even - don't need that. Those who think in pictures, for example, have it much easier to solve Sudoku or read foreign scripts. They don't need that much linguistic baggage to think. At the same time, when they write, they often struggle to form coherent sentences above a certain length, because they have to encode their thought process (that can be parallel and 3D) into a 1D sequence of tokens.

I don't know whether this distinction between types of thinking has any scientific basis - I'm using it as a crutch to explain some observable phenomena in human-to-human communication. I think I picked up the notion from some pseudo-scientific books I read as a teen (I was fascinated by "neuro-linguistic programming," which tends to list three distinct types of thinking: visual, auditory, and kinesthetic). It unexpectedly finds applications in human-computer interfaces, too, but LLMs have made it even easier to notice. While "the three NLP modalities" can well be bullshit, there seems to be something that differs between people, and that's where threads like this one seem to come from.
by redhale | 2025-12-24 11:55:06+00:00
Agree. I agree with many of the article's points, but not its conclusion.

> “You got way more productive, so we’re letting you go” is not a sentence that makes a lot of sense.

Actually, this sentence makes perfect sense if you tweak it slightly:

> You and your teammate got way more productive, so we’re letting (just) you go

This literally happens all the time with automation. Does anyone think the number of people employed in the field of accounting would be the same or higher without the use of calculators or computers?
by sakex | 2025-12-24 11:55:13+00:00
What Trump is doing to the EU is basically what the EU has been doing to us forever. Forced trade deals, forced tariffs, placing us on some lists. If we don't comply, they will impose sanctions. They are even trying to make gun ownership illegal in Switzerland...

I don't have love for Trump, but seeing the EU wining about being bullied by a bigger union is really funny to me.
by throwaway2037 | 2025-12-24 11:56:42+00:00
Yeah, HN just loves the term "The West" / "Western", which weirdly includes Australia and New Zealand, but excludes Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. (What about South Africa? Unsure.) To me, it is better to say something like "G7-like" (or OECD) nations, because that includes all highly developed nations.
by tomhow | 2025-12-24 11:56:43+00:00
> all of my most recent comments received one downvote

From what I can see, in the most recent handful of comments, there were some downvotes but not by moderators and not by the same community members (and unfair downvotes get detected and dropped on HN). And I think at least one comment that was downvoted when you posted your edit has now received enough upvotes to be back in the positive.

Of the first two pages of comments (60), covering most of the past 3 days, only 9 have any downvotes and they're from different users. The "most recent" comments are mostly unaffected by downvotes; prior to this one, only two of the past 23 comments had any downvotes.

> including the one that just straightforwardly answers someone's question

That one was odd, and it seemed like an unfair downvote so we've reversed it. But that just one of only two of the past 23 comments that was downvoted.

But really, why do people keep coming up with these false/exaggerated claims to try to cast doubt on our integrity? (Also, in the case of this claim, users can tell if comments have been downvoted from the comment text's shade of grey.)
Ask HN: What is the most modular sync engine?
by olivieropinotti | 2025-12-24 11:57:04+00:00
Hey HN!

For a new app I'm developing I'd like to give it the fast and responsive feel that apps like Linear have. By having real-time querying, syncing and write operations.

I'm no expert on the matter, so feel free to educate me. I have looked into a couple of options such as Convex, ElectricSQL, Zero, Liveblocks, etc..

I feel like they always come short in a couple of ways and the best way to summarize that is their modularity.

What I would love in a sync engine:
- Being able to use my database (Postgres, AWS RDS)
- Being able to form and execute queries in my backend (suppose I have frontend in Next.js (Vercel) with an API route to my FastAPI server (AWS ECS) where I have all of my auth / permission middleware, etc.)
- Have a simple and familiar way to declare the schemas to the sync engine (like re-using SQLalchemy's or Drizzle's schemas)
- A simple SDK to form queries that uses SQL

Further, I wonder how such a system would work with connection pooling, sharding, replication etc.

Does something like this exist? Or what are the major challenges that prevent this from existing?
by rixed | 2025-12-24 11:57:12+00:00
Oh come on!

Every state has a long history of opressing others, I'm sure Russia did it too, but to be honest being from western Europe I have my own colonial history to come to terms with before looking at others'. What I know about XXth century Russia, though, is that at some point and in some places at least they went as far as inventing writing systems for local languages that had none so that teaching could be done in that language; so that exemple alone is enough to tell me that your viewpoint lacks nuance, to put it very mildly.

History of civilizations is certainly interresting but this is not even the point; the point was: why should the interrest of a text from Nabokov about the Russian language be seen through the lense of some modern episode of political violence? This is obvious nonsense, yet it appears to come up frequently, sometimes, with some people. Why? And what can be done to stop the contagion before mankind revert back to clan warfare? (because if we want to look for reasons to hate each others in past or modern politics, sure enough we will get there!)
by zkmon | 2025-12-24 11:57:32+00:00
That's very correct, but only in ideal world, isolated from the mess of the real world. We are not in ideal world. So what makes you a senior person is also to be aware that you are not operating in an idealized context and how your actions and thoughts relate to that context.

When a powerful person is lecturing about public key and forgot to address private key, and if you thoughtfully ask "but sir what about private key?", you might be shown the door. It actually happens.
by fancyfredbot | 2025-12-24 12:00:19+00:00
Google are really firing on all cylinders recently. It's almost shocking to read all they've done in the last year.

The fact they caught up with OpenAI you almost expect. But the Nobel winning contributions to quantum computing, the advances in healthcare and medicine, the cutting edge AI hardware, and the best in class weather models go way beyond what you might have expected. Google could have been an advertising company with a search engine. I'm glad they aren't.
by exceptione | 2025-12-24 12:00:19+00:00
That is the rationalization, but don't be surprised if the US would not confront China at all.

The main flow of capital in the US had been going to the mil.industry, but that is not the case anymore. It is mainly surveillance tech that is receiving capital. In a very unhealthy economy, this all looks eerily pre-'30s.

The US right now is only threatening weak countries, they don't have the industrial power to confront China, nor do they want it. This shouldn't be a surprise, some ideologues behind this maga-project belief in an America from one pole to the other. They believe in "spheres of influence", and as such China has their own sphere of influence. A sphere of influence means a kind of colony, where natural resources, people and industry are all resources to be extracted by them. It is the Russian model, it is the model of criminal mobs, it is might makes right, it is a multi-polar world.

Meanwhile, re-industrialization projects have been scrapped, partners have been scared of, and tariffs have hit the industry that was still left in America.

Monopolists are parasites on the economy, and the US is already very weakened from that. As the Japanese said, the US is still a great power, but the throne is empty. I suspect there will be skirmishes with other "great powers" over exploitative resources, like Africa, Middle East, Europe, but I don't expect the current crop to go all-in on China.
by hopelite | 2025-12-24 12:00:37+00:00
I’m not emotional at all. What are you imagining in your own mind? Do you want to talk about why you are projecting things? It may do up well to do so.

Your logic also does not hold, as is expected. But you clearly have not figured that out. Here’s a hint, it’s a question of short vs long term value.

You can also save yourself the nonsense about hate done it’s just narcissistic, manipulative, abusive projection that is no longer going to work. You should try to get your abusive nature under control.
by OKRainbowKid | 2025-12-24 12:00:44+00:00
Which "leftists" have monopolized the EU? What positions do they have to exert that kind of power, and what parties are they affiliated with?

Or is the EPP with the likes of Weber and von der Leyen "leftist" now? You have move quite far towards the extreme right for traditional conservative politicians to appear "leftist" to you.