MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by beslanb | 2025-12-05 09:32:09+00:00
Hey everyone, Puzl Cloud team here. Over the last months we’ve been packing our internal Python utils for Kubernetes into kubesdk, a modern k8s client and model generator. We open-sourced it a few days ago, and we’d love feedback from the community.

We needed something ergonomic for day-to-day production Kubernetes automation and multi-cluster workflows, so we built an SDK that provides: Async-first client with minimal external dependencies Fully typed client methods and models for all built-in Kubernetes resources Model generator (provide your k8s API - get Python dataclasses instantly) Unified client surface for core resources and custom resources High throughput for large-scale workloads with multi-cluster support built into the client

Repo link: https://github.com/puzl-cloud/kubesdk
Show HN: PromoPilot – automated 3-level backlink cascade for fast SEO growth
by ksanyokm | 2025-12-05 09:32:10+00:00
PromoPilot is an automated three-level link-building system designed for safe, scalable, and affordable SEO growth.

The platform builds a natural backlink profile using a cascade model:

L1: 5 high-authority Web2.0 posts

L2: ~50 contextual links pointing to L1

L3: ~500 fast-indexing tier-3 links

The average market price for similar DR-level backlinks is $150–250 per link. PromoPilot provides an entire 3-tier cascade for $30, with a current cost of ~$0.50 per cascade due to deep automation.

We’re currently in open beta with 50+ Web2.0 networks integrated. Early testers reported strong ranking improvements and quick indexing times.

Would love your feedback — especially on reliability, safety patterns, and new features you’d like to see in the link-building workflow.
by AbbeFaria | 2025-12-05 09:32:28+00:00
Sad news. HBO has a veritable treasure trove of TV shows like The Sopranos, The Wire, Six Feet Under, Silicon Valley etc. Even their more recent ones like White Lotus, How to With John Wilson are leagues above Netflix. Only HBO can bet on artists’ vision like that.

I cancelled my Netflix subscription 7 years ago, 99% of their content is algorithmic drivel. Mindhunter, Dahmer, House of Cards were something I liked but nothing beyond that. I knew they were trash once I saw the sheer number of spinoffs they have just on Pablo Escobar. They had had one decent run of Narcos but then they just tried to extract every drop of juice out of that one persona. Most of Netflix dramas are just the equivalent of abhorrent and ugly graffiti. Their shows are Exhibit A in what happens if you give into algorithmic drivel and have no human touch to curate them.

HBO has some timeless TV classics that I keep rewatching every year even though I have watched them multiple times. Netflix can’t produce TV dramas like that, ain’t in their blood. Completely different DNAs.

Netflix does deserve all the plaudits wrt to their streaming experience though.
by ozim | 2025-12-05 09:32:32+00:00
Most of services are not really critical but customers want to have 99.999% on the paper.

Most of the time people will just get by and ignore even full day of downtime as minor inconvenience. Loss of revenue for the day - well you most likely will have to eat that, because going to court and having lawyers fighting over it most likely will cost you as much as just forgetting about it.

If your company goes bankrupt because AWS/Cloudflare/GCP/Azure is down for a day or two - guess what - you won't have money to sue them ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ and most likely will have bunch of more pressing problems on your hand.
by reconnecting | 2025-12-05 09:32:34+00:00
I've been operating a relatively small digital platform for 15 years. We don't use Cloudflare, for bots, we use tirreno (1), which we specifically created to filter malicious traffic.

For hosting, we use a local and sovereign EU provider.

If tomorrow Cloudflare, Amazon, and Microsoft were to somehow disappear or go permanently down, I wouldn't even notice.

1. https://github.com/tirrenotechnologies/tirreno
by JohnKemeny | 2025-12-05 09:33:46+00:00
On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
by keepamovin | 2025-12-05 09:35:07+00:00
Some motivations and design decisions I have for this:

- fail-fast semantics. Programs should be correct, any bug is a fatal error. The "last bug you'll ever see" philosophy. External conditions are not errors or bugs, they are modeled states. Every freelang program immediately exits with "fall <message>" a bug is encountered. This is no error recovery.

- value audit-ability, and easy-to-reason about, concurrent semantics over raw-throughput or memory efficiency. Let the OS carry the weight of task scheduling because it's good at it, rather than writing our own trampoline or event loop. Clarify inter process boundaries: no shared memory, inputs and outputs are passed through the filesystem. Every job has a "job directory" where it can be replayed, and even signed for a cryptographic audit trail.

- no libc, etc. Avoid a giant black box of libc vulnerabilities and legacy baggage. Nothing but syscalls/kernel32.dll. Some things will eventually require an external library (HTTP/2, TLS, maybe BearSSL), but simpl HTTP, Net are fully available via syscalls/Win32 kernel.

- Output raw assembly to keep it straightforward, auditable and concise. We have an clear IR, and multiple backends (currently Linux ELF opcodes, and Macho ASM, both x86_64, and currently working on the same for Windows PE). 250+ tests already.

- And many other little choices that make this unique.

Ultimately it will be a fully cross platform minimal systems scripting language with a security and audtiability focus. It can eventually replace bash glue, Python glue, and other scripts. Particularly targeted at small vendors who don't want to give a client a bash script, and have them never pay again, as client just takes over "maintenance". It's valuable in industries where strict audibiility, and deterministic fail states (no limping) are important.

The future road map includes the integration of the AMULET licensing system currently used for BrowserBox to permit these tiny binaries (minimal tests are commonly 10KB), to have license enforcement capabilities to increase payment compliance.

We have a basic mark and sweep GC (currently full on Linux, and safepointed on Macos) and a bump allocator used everywhere. Our memory layout is deterministic, and the compiler has basic runtime-tree-shaking capabilities. Don't allocate to heap? You get a deterministic stack with no GC/allocator in the executable. Don't use files? The FS intrinsics are omitted. And so on.

It's exciting working on exactly what I want.
by qustrolabe | 2025-12-05 09:35:54+00:00
"the current platform direction and climate combined with an algorithm that prioritises hatred, polarisation, and sensationalism, alongside growing privacy and data protection concerns"

While I agree that this platform has a lot of hateful people, it's definitely possible after some basic internet hygiene end up with nice recommendations feed especially after forming solid following list with good people, no hatred no politics only coolest people doing cool things. I like it there. It's the place where things happen that you read about on other cites only weeks later in some twisted form
by raphinou | 2025-12-05 09:36:12+00:00
Swarm is not far from my dream deploy solution, but here are some points that might be better, some of them being already better in uncloud I think:

- energy in the community is low, it's hard to find an active discussion channel of swarm users

- swarm does not support the complete compose file format. This is really annoying

- sometimes, deploys fail for unclear reasons (eg a network was not found, but why as it's defined in the compose file?) and work the next try. This is never lead to problems, but doesn't feel right

- working with authenticate/custom registries is somewhat cumbersome

- having to work with registries to have the same image deployed on all nodes is sometimes annoying. It could be cool to have images spreading across nodes.

- there's no contact between devs and users. I've just discovered uncloud and I've had more contact with its devs here than in years of using swarm!

- the firewalling is not always clear/clean

- logs accessibility (service vs container) and containers identification: when a container fails to start, it's sometimes harder than needed to debug (esp when it is because the image is not available)
by wittjeff | 2025-12-05 09:37:15+00:00
I bought a Dell Precision 7910 2x Xeon E5-2687W v3 (10 cores, 20 threads each) with 32GB RAM and 512GB SSD for $425 including shipping. I found that Windows 11 Pro will recognize only 20 of the virtual cores/threads. I don't feel a need to upgrade to more expensive Microsoft OSs at this time, so I just run Ubuntu natively on that box, which recognizes all of it. Assuming used DDR4 RAM returns to more reasonable prices at some point, I intend to load that box up to the 768GB max.
by inglor_cz | 2025-12-05 09:37:23+00:00
The most ironic thing to me is just how fast the political pendulum swings.

One day you have kente cloths and taking the knee everywhere, and before you know it, right-winger bloggers are running the law enforcement.

This is no way to live, 80%+ of the population is neither committed progressives nor committed conservatives/reactionaries, but they rule (or ruled) the social networks and thus dominate(d) in elections.

By the grace of the algorithm, you majesty the king.
by beAbU | 2025-12-05 09:37:50+00:00
I think it's a German thing to be honest. I've wrenched on Mercedes Benz and VW personally, and I've heard horror stories from Audi as well.

My merc exposure is both on very old (70s) and modern. So I would actually argue that over engineering shit is in their DNA, they don't know how not to do it.

My brother had an old W123 body Merc for a while. It had fucking vacuum lines running to all the doors for central locking. I had a SsangYong with an old-school Merc OM617 diesel engine in it. Great engine, and it was relatively easy to work on, but the oil filter was positioned such that you can't replace it without spilling oil all over the engine bay. Infuriating!
by the_other | 2025-12-05 09:38:26+00:00
In my opinion, here in the UK, the cinema/theatre business killed itself. Cinemas are horrible places to visit:

- they smell bad (stale junk food)

- they have oppressive lighting (mostly extremely dark but with garish turquoise and pink dazzle, accentuating the most confusing aspects of their architecture)

- the sound systems are thunderously loud (I'll be taking earplugs the next time I go to one)

- most of them are expensive

- most of them only programme big, loud, contemporary Hollywood offerings (which are simiarly horrible high contrast junk food only out to assault the audience); there's little appreciation for the art of cinema

They're like nightclubs, but without the dancing, social interaction, or resistance (a nebulous concept I'm not going into here).

You can say "this is what the market wants", but I wont't believe you. Such an argument is like saying social media (surveilled attention management) is what the market wants. The truth is much closer to "this is what the market can bear before it breaks".
by Doohickey-d | 2025-12-05 09:39:30+00:00
Antenna gain isn't everything: I've set up the LTE6 for people, and in some cases I was able to get more speed in the same location with the latest iPhone.

In locations where you're at the edge of coverage, and your phone is not getting anything at all, it's great.

I sometimes suspected that the modem in these LTE / 5G routers is less well tuned and tested with various network than what you have e.g. in an iPhone.
by Olivia8 | 2025-12-05 09:40:11+00:00
I too was excited when transformer-based models burst onto the scene — chatbots suddenly seemed smarter and more flexible than the old rule-based AI systems. Those early models were rough around the edges and sometimes produced garbage, but when they hit, it really felt like a step forward. The problem now is that these models always pick a next token — even when they have no good basis for it — so they can generate plausible but wrong or misleading content, and you often can’t tell the difference. That fundamental limitation means they aren’t reliable enough for high-stakes tasks like medicine, law, or financial decisions. Meanwhile, voice-based AI has also been growing rapidly this year, Coldi AI is a good example, with many more people and companies adopting assistants and voice interfaces.
by Quothling | 2025-12-05 09:40:53+00:00
It was called special aid, but the reason I can't come up with a defining term is because it was a class with all the trouble kids across age spans from 6 to 14 years old gathered together. Then when the government mandated that schools had to help dyslexic children, they threw them into the mix. I'm not sure how anyone thought that was a good idea. It's no wonder that parents at the time would actively fight any sort of diagnosis because their children would be send into those "special" classes.

Anyway. It used to be that dyslexic children didn't go very far in the education system, and today they do. In part because they can get extra time during tests. I imagine there are similar stories for ADHD and whatever else you have these days.
by moogly | 2025-12-05 09:41:00+00:00
On the Model 3, you have to drop the HV battery pack to replace the brake lines that prematurely rust in wintery climates, so Tesla is not fully immune either.

And check some videos of what you have to do to swap the door-actuating motor (which gets guaranteed water ingress) in the front doors (yes, not the gullwings) of a Model X.
by robomartin | 2025-12-05 09:41:02+00:00
This entire thread is emblematic of the type of willful ignorance that seems to permeate certain HN discussions going back quite a few years. A full display of ignorant outrage for all to see.

First, this dates back to MAY of this year. Nothing new.

Second, it is obvious that nobody took the time to research, read the policy and understand it. Most comments are nonsense based on a complete lack of context.

Finally,

The restrictions apply to foreign nationals who are involved in:

- Issuing or threatening legal action, such as arrest warrants, against US citizens or residents for social media posts made while they are physically present on US soil.

So, any foreign official or person who threatens to, for example, arrest a US citizen based on what you post online WHILE YOU ARE IN THE US will be denied a visa.

What's your objection to this?

- Demanding that US tech platforms adopt content moderation policies or engage in censorship that extends beyond the foreign government's jurisdiction and affects protected speech in the US.

Someone not from the US who tries to censor you in the US and beyond the limits of their own national jurisdiction will be denied a visa. Or, government officials in Peru demanding that HN prevent you from posting your drivel while in the US (outside their government's jurisdiction) will be denied a visa.

What's your objection to this one?

- Directing or participating in content moderation initiatives or "fact-checking" that the US administration considers a form of censorship of Americans' speech.

Anyone that, from foreign soil, attempts to limit your right to free speech in the US while hiding under the "fact checking" or "content moderation" excuse will be denied a visa. Remember that your constitutional right of free speech in the US does not come with a fact-checking or content moderation limitation. As this thread easily demonstrates, you can post absolutely nonsense, lies and distortions and you would be protected. Fact-checking isn't a magical tool that allows someone to bypass constitutional rights to silence someone else.

What's your problem with this?

Of course, there are nuanced and not so nuanced elements to what constitutes free speech, where and under what circumstances. The key here is that outsiders don't get to mess with it or try to arrest you for this right you have in the US. If they do try, it's OK, they just can't get a visa to come here. Small price to pay.

So, yeah, nothing to see here. This is actually good. It means someone who, from, for example, Poland, acts to affect your free speech rights in the US or have you arrested while you visit Europe for something you posted online while in the US will not be allowed to come into the US.

Stop being lazy and ignorant. Take the time to research, read and understand before forming ideas and, worse, opening your mouth.
by polotics | 2025-12-05 09:41:09+00:00
I think this is relevant to HN because the HN crowd understanding hyper-exposed themes better is a net positive.. So:

One of the very many supersad things in this: the Broadcaster weakened here (Kan), as the public broadcaster, has been one of the voices or resistance against the deranged government that, starting from a point of 100% sympathy after the Oct 7 attack, has managed to provoke the blowback seen here.
by ben_w | 2025-12-05 09:41:43+00:00
> problematic

This is so vague as to be meaningless.

Like, of course it's "problematic", that's why you're talking about it. Be more specific or it sounds like an applause light.

To show the outside view: I'm thinking of a recent (pointless) discussion I had, it's akin to when people who hate asylum seekers say most of those asylum seekers are "fighting age": of course most of them are, very few others are fit enough to make the trip.

(If I judge you right from a very short comment, you'd describe the phrase "fighting age" as itself "problematic"?)
by yaxu | 2025-12-05 09:41:57+00:00
Kind of - that's switching between a fast version and a slow version of the track though if that makes sense, rather than changing the global tempo, so you'll get discontinuities in the music.

You can change the global tempo with something like

.cps("[0.75|1.75]")

and make it happen less often like

.cps("[0.75|1.75]/8")
by hug | 2025-12-05 09:42:14+00:00
If you don’t think Chrome could be way more RAM efficient, and especially if you don’t think the things running inside Chrome could be more efficient, I have a bridge to sell you.

If you think acknowledging that fact (and the fact that there’s really not a great way to make LLMs more efficient) is “apologetics”, I cannot engage with you in good faith.
by jacquesm | 2025-12-05 09:42:52+00:00
Whoever sold that part deserves to be sued. I'm not from the 'sue happy' department but this was extremely irresponsible and unless the swap for PLA was accidental (which can easily be proven, they must have sold more than just one of these). At a minimum they should recall each and every one of these they have made and on top of that they should review all of the other parts that person has made for similar issues.
by johncolanduoni | 2025-12-05 09:44:20+00:00
The controller is annoying and changes completely every 6 months, and for home I use basically none of its features beyond configuring the AP. Virtualy all the issues I’ve had with Unifi APs were controller bugs, telling the AP firmware to do stupid things when it could have done literally nothing.

That said, I have some concerns that the OpenWRT AP firmware is not as optimized as the Unifi firmware is for that specific hardware. Mostly for wireless performance, but I also don’t want to hit some weird CPU bottleneck.
by evek | 2025-12-05 09:44:37+00:00
Company incentives will always trump individual functions, no matter if it’s UX, QA, etc.

Good UX is still possible, but requires a supportive business model as an enabler.

A lot of designers who joined the field recently weren’t thought the “we’re saving the world; we’re responsible for the empathy” trap that was so prevelent 10-15 years ago, and I’m seeing more realistic worldview and less shattering disillusionment because there was no belief in UX to start with - it’s just a job, not a calling.
by balupton | 2025-12-05 09:44:43+00:00
If all you use them for is caching, then they could provide webhooks for their scheduled maintenance so customers can disable cloudflare during the maintenance and reenable it once it's all good.

However, for customers using other things, perhaps we need an independent cloudflare for cloudflare service that serves its own cache of your site when cloudflare is inaccessible.

Could combine the two ideas so when there is scheduled cloudflare maintenance, it switches dns to the cloudflare for cloudflare service that uses cloudflare if online but if cloudflare is offline then serves cache, and once cloudflare maintenance is finished then restore cloudflare dns.

Plex, Plexamp, and accounts in Sonos went down.
by ianberdin | 2025-12-05 09:45:05+00:00
Thank you for sending these alternatives, they look good. And, of course, the most important thing is that Cloudflare is free, while these alternatives cost money. And they cost hundreds of dollars at my traffic volume of tens of terabytes. Of course, I really don't want to pay. So, as they say, mice wept and jabbed, but they kept gnawing on the cactus.
by lazide | 2025-12-05 09:45:29+00:00
That’s actually impossible (everyone gets the same benefits).

You’re talking about a lottery, which randomly distributes them - which is only fairer in the sense it’s unpredictable, not that anyone that actually needs it would get what they need.

It’s typical gaming of the system, and shortly it’s going to have to switch to punishing those gaming it or it will spiral even more out of control.
by latexr | 2025-12-05 09:45:55+00:00
> I think it's a mistake to imply that just because a comment is dead because it was flagged that it is hateful.

I wish people would stop inventing arguments and “reading between the lines” when interpreting comments from people they don’t know. There was no implication. Whatever you think you read is only in your head.

Of course not every flagged and dead comment is hateful. But hateful comments do get flagged so that’s where you’ll find them.
by psd1 | 2025-12-05 09:46:34+00:00
They don't come with all the downsides. They externalise the reduced forward visibility for people behind you, the headlights spinning onto other users' cabins, the running over of toddlers, and, my favourite, the driving in the middle of the road rather than risk getting mud on their fucking tyres

No tax rate is too high. Rebates for agricultural workers maybe.
by pjmlp | 2025-12-05 09:46:41+00:00
Something missed out of that great article is that the Lisa efforts contributed to Clascal and the creation of Object Pascal with Nitklaus Wirth blessing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clascal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_Pascal

Which eventually got adopted by Borland, giving great projection to one of their engineers, which not only took Object Pascal beyond Apple's original design, ended up creating Delphi, contributing to J++, creation of C#, TypeScript, and influencing other programming languages whose authors got inspired by his work.

Anders Hejlsberg contributions to the computing industry, probably would have taken a different path had Apple Lisa never come to be.

Kind of interesting how these kind of events are all interwined.
by techpression | 2025-12-05 09:46:41+00:00
Compression is great and all, but Netflix is overdoing it and their content looks like an over-sharpened mess with lego blocks in high intensity scenes. And no, it's not my connection, Apple TV does it far better and so does Prime.

It's really sad that most people never get to experience a good 4K Blu-ray, where the grain is actually part of the image as mastered and there's enough bitrate to not rely on sharpening.