MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ndrpnt | 2025-12-14 13:34:10+00:00
I'd say it's somewhere in between. Sure it's marketed in the CI space, but to me the selling point of Dagger is not so much "write your GitHub workflows/GitLab CI in JavaScript" but "local exec, sandboxing, determinism, and fine-grained (remote) caching for mere mortals". So comparing it to Bazel/Buck2 is reasonable.
by bonesss | 2025-12-14 13:34:26+00:00
Bourdain didn’t initiate the cultural practice of going on safari and congratulating one’s self. The Michelin guide was founded in 1900.

Bourdains travels also weren’t the curated tourist jaunts you’re describing. They often showing the grim and lesser known sides of conflicts and situations while presenting genuine local cuisines. It’s what the unconcerned tourist aspire to, not what they do.
by doomerhunter | 2025-12-14 13:34:31+00:00
Depends on your hobbies. I'm into cybsec, there's a ton of small events where you can either be on stage (so submit a proposal), but there is often what we call "rumps" which are usually unplanned 5 minutes talks about a subject. They're a great way to practice.

Besides that, i guess schools/student groups that seek professionals. Non-profits works as well, I did that when I was younger (advocacy).
by necovek | 2025-12-14 13:35:01+00:00
They don't have a monolith: they have a service that has a restricted domain of responsibility matched to the team that runs it.

There is nothing magic about their queue service, and it seems correctly tuned to the complexity that they've got to cover: yes, just like most queue implementations, it will get different types of messages (events). If anything, their previous implementation was too complex which caused lots of waste.

With hindsight, they should have evolved their original architecture into exactly what they pivoted to now: better fault tolerance in "processors" of different types.

I would hope that my general rule of "only solve exactly the problem you have in front of you" would have avoided the approach they took, but engineers love to abstract away things and introduce indirection layers and add accidental complexity that way. And ofc, "microservices great, me want microservices" too :)

Again, I am not saying this as a slight: I believe many of us have learned the limits of microservices by, well, living through them :) And now we tune our abstraction layers differently.
by davidbessis | 2025-12-14 13:36:48+00:00
No-one is denying heritability here. The only question is where the heritability figure lies, and how reliable are the estimates that have been put forward in the past. I don't see how anyone's "personal experience" could be a valid methodology for deciding whether the heritability of IQ is 30% or 80%. As for the "extreme ideological indoctrination" slander, it'd be great if you could just withdraw it.
by elif | 2025-12-14 13:36:58+00:00
Something about the way they aggressively released all their content, streaming it 24/7 on all platforms, removed the magic for me completely.

I used to love these, but now I can't sit through more than 5 minutes, because that sense of "oh this is special" is gone. I think for slow burn/buildup art, you have to kind of keep it special.
by nasmorn | 2025-12-14 13:37:29+00:00
I leave often to go to the mountains because I could not live an entirely domestic life.

It is just a day or two at a time but I realized at some point that this is what I have to do to be able to be a caring husband and father. If I don’t I will become depressed and miserable and no amount of loving them will overcome it. I am much more useful as a happy and functional human being 350 days a year than a miserable one for 365.
by dariosalvi78 | 2025-12-14 13:37:36+00:00
many banks have alternative methods in addition to the app, typically hardware keys or OTP devices.

Also, many banks allow loading apps on non-Google Androids like in this list: https://community.e.foundation/t/list-banking-apps-on-e-os/3...

there is life outside Google/Apple, and we should support it.
by squigz | 2025-12-14 13:37:53+00:00
Who cares? If people enjoy it, let them enjoy it. I've read a few YA novels as an adult that I enjoyed, even though I regularly read more complex stuff.

Most people, for most of history, have only ever enjoyed what might be considered "low quality" entertainment - pulp fiction, shitty plays, etc.

> real novel that isn't so bounded by tropes or genre limits.

Interestingly, even discounting YA and other stuff like that, you are only describing a very small subset of novels.
by pbasista | 2025-12-14 13:38:49+00:00
> 10-30% unmodified AI code in production

That is an interesting metric but I think it is not that important.

I would be careful with (AI-generated) code that no one at the team understands well. If that kind of code is put into production, it might become a source of dragging technical debt that no one is able to properly address.

In my opinion, putting AI-generated code to production is okay, as long it has been reviewed and there is a human who can understand it well, debug it and fix it if needed.

Or, alternatively, if it is a throwaway code that does not need to be understood well and no one cares about its quality or maintainability because it would not need to be maintained in the first place.
by usrme | 2025-12-14 13:39:22+00:00
When I got started it was much more difficult as you had to do a lot of manual work to get things started, and you really had to believe the promises that CUE offered (which I did...), but nowadays they've made so many steps in the right direction that getting something going is far quicker!

Here are a few links to whet your appetite:

- https://cue.dev/docs/getting-started-with-github-actions-cue...

- https://cue.dev/docs/drying-up-github-actions-workflows/

- https://cue.dev/docs/spotting-errors-earlier-github-actions-...

Definitely read through the CUE documentation (https://cuelang.org/docs/), watch their YouTube videos (https://www.youtube.com/@cuelang/videos), and join the community Slack channel (https://cuelang.org/community/). I've gotten a lot of help in the Slack from both enthusiastic community members and from the developers themselves whenever I've gotten stuck.
by realty_geek | 2025-12-14 13:39:59+00:00
Nice - I learnt something from that!

I always wondered why rails didn't produce a competitor to WordPress. It just hasn't excelled in content management.

I have an open source real estate website builder called propertywebbuilder which I am working on reviving and even with the help of Claude code the content management part of it is proving to be the most painful.
by xandrius | 2025-12-14 13:40:51+00:00
I'm not siding with the author for any interest in CMS but that comment is natural for anyone who thinks someone made a good enough short term decision which might backfire after the realities settle in.

And they didn't threat anything, they simply said: your simple system won't be too simple anymore as you keep on using it. To me it's a fair comment.

Of course, it might not backfire but predictions are personal and not always correct.
by billy99k | 2025-12-14 13:41:44+00:00
Most companies aren't going to help their competitor. Bad actions from candidates have consequences.

It's telling when you jump to 'ilegal behavor' yet think acting like a total unprofessional asshole by wasting everyone's time with a company doing the right thing, is totally acceptable.

I would never ghost a company or a candidate and expect other people to have the same courtesy.

It also shows that bias is perfectly acceptable against groups you dislike (companies you think are all acting the same, so they all somehow deserve the same shitty behavior) yet unacceptable to a group you support.
by aziaziazi | 2025-12-14 13:43:25+00:00
This is weird, most vegan I know spend less than with meat : beans, peas and lentils are bargain and tofu as well. Even local-organic quinoa is the about the same price as the cheapest chicken once watered. Of course there’s fancy expensive restaurants with a different price/taste ratio but that’s not specific to plant based food.
by necovek | 2025-12-14 13:44:43+00:00
That's not how things play out in practice. Say you do backwards incompatible changes "infrequently", say every 4 months, or 3 times per year. In 5 years, that's 15 versions with backwards incompatible changes.

Everybody is time pressured at least sometimes, and you miss one update, and now you've got multiple backwards-incompatible updates and you need to do it carefully the next time around, meaning more time needed, meaning it needs to be scheduled and planned along with other feature work now.

And then you end up with something close to a normal distribution of versions across ~140 services: some have the very old versions (v1-v4), majority are on some middle, not ancient versions but still ~7 versions behind on average (v5-v10), and only some are on the latest few versions (v11-v15). "Patch" versions can become even crazier, and yes, there will be bugs in them making them inadvertently not backwards compatible either (as not everybody updated right away to detect it).

But really, I always point out to good, long lived APIs that make compromises in their API for the sake of backwards compatibility (eg. we still live with "Referer" instead of "Referrer" in HTTP, 35 years later; and it is OK!).
by pinchen147 | 2025-12-14 13:45:33+00:00
I got tired of waiting for my PDF reader to open.

Modern software has a bloat problem. Subscriptions, slow load times, and cluttered interfaces filled with AI features I never asked for. (Yes, looking at you, Adobe).

As a student, I have simple needs: I want a clean window to read, focus, and highlight. That’s it.

Introducing PageFlow: The ultra-minimalist, native macOS PDF reader. I designed it with a specific philosophy:

Radical Minimalism: The interface disappears when you aren't using it. Native Speed: Built with Swift and PDFKit. It launches instantly. Zero Bloat: No ads. No subscriptions. No AI clutter. Privacy First: 100% offline. Your data stays on your Mac. It is completely free and open-source.

If you are a minimalist, want a 100% deep focus PDF viewing experience, or just miss the days when software did one thing perfectly, give it a try.
by doomerhunter | 2025-12-14 13:45:41+00:00
I did have a similar need. Built it around discord as a bot that would parse links and the various filetypes associated (github repos, tweets, blog posts, pdfs...) to both archive the content and extract some quality metrics / insights.

I'd say that summarizing only is a bit sad since you go away from the actual substance, but at least it helps targeting what you actually want to spend time digging into. Still a bit worried about where we are going to end up if we only read recaps of recaps of recaps (reminds of me of Fahrenheit 451 when the main character talks of books being abridged, then people reading recaps of these recaps)
by ra7 | 2025-12-14 13:46:04+00:00
> More isn't objectively better, less isn't objectively better.

Great, you finally got there. All it took was one round of correcting misinformation about LiDAR and another round of completely useless back-and-forth about sensor count.

The words you’re looking for are necessary and sufficient. Cameras are necessary, but not sufficient.

> There's only different strategies and actual real world outcomes.

Thanks for making my point. Actual real world outcomes are exactly what matter: 125M+ fully autonomous miles versus 0 fully autonomous miles.
by benregenspan | 2025-12-14 13:46:52+00:00
Having seen similar patterns play out at other companies, I'm curious about the organizational dynamics involved. Was there a larger dev team at the time you adopted microservices? Was there thinking involved like "we have 10 teams, each of which will have strong, ongoing ownership of ~14 services"?

Because from my perspective that's where microservices can especially break down: attrition or layoffs resulting in service ownership needing to be consolidated between fewer teams, which now spend an unforeseen amount of their time on per-service maintenance overhead. (For example, updating your runtime across all services becomes a massive chore, one that is doable when each team owns a certain number of services, but a morale-killer as soon as some threshold is crossed.)
by rsolva | 2025-12-14 13:46:56+00:00
I built something similar recently [0] with help from Claude Code (in Zed). It is still only a rough prototype, but I have tried it out on non-techy people for a project, and it has worked better than anything I have tried prior (Wordpress, Hugo etc).

I mount the folder with the content so they always has easy access to add and modify the website directly from the file explorer. It is quite powerful because there is not friction. You hit save, and it is live. This can off course be a drawback too, it is quicker to mess up stuff, but that is a trade off I am willing to make in 95% of the use cases I deal with.

[0] https://forge.dmz.skyfritt.net/ruben/folderweb
by abigail95 | 2025-12-14 13:48:19+00:00
You can file a claim for whatever you want in a court. You have a much higher chance of winning if your claim involves something like you paid a company for a service and they didn't give you it - and now you have damages.

If the company says they have a contract with you where you agreed to this, that's not a very good defense against the Consumer Legal Remedies Act or the Unfair Competition Law, one or both of those provide statutory damages, these are California laws that get enforced every day. You find a Superior Court in CA, pay a few hundred dollars to file, and let Apple respond.

It would be the same story in the UK as it is in California or Australia.
by dariosalvi78 | 2025-12-14 13:49:29+00:00
> Those are financial casinos, not real banks, operating with non-full banking licenses, peddling all the tech-bro bullshit:

Revolut is a licensed bank: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolut

N26 also has a license as a bank: https://n26.com/en-de

One that is not a bank is Wise: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wise_(company)

> > Shops can refuse cash > No, they cannot.

AFAIK, at least in Sweden, there is no law that obliges shops to accept cash. See this for example: https://www.riksbank.se/en-gb/payments--cash/payments-in-swe...
by sipofwater | 2025-12-14 13:50:33+00:00
* "A Linux VM on Android via AVF" by Jeongik Cha, ""Hall A2/3" (Toranomon Hills Mori Tower)": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbWkfbnJhGk&t=59m55s via https://www.youtube.com/@LinuxPlumbersConference/streams

* "LPC 2025 - A Linux VM on Android via AVF (Android MC).pdf": https://lpc.events/event/19/contributions/2123/attachments/1... (lpc.events/event/19/contributions/2123/attachments/1730/3786/LPC%202025%20-%20A%20Linux%20VM%20on%20Android%20via%20AVF%20(Android%20MC).pdf) via https://lpc.events/event/19/contributions/2123/
by R_D_Olivaw | 2025-12-14 13:50:40+00:00
You know, I think that might certainly have something to do with it, but I've also noticed that anytime I'm using tech (video call/voice call) the conversation is at a much faster pace.

It's as though the natural state of the machines and tech is so fast, that we're trying to keep the information transmission as dense as possible so we can end the call.

Side note, I was watching an interview with Cory Doctorow and because of the tv segment style, both he and the interviewer were BLASTING through their talking points.

I wonder how much of our speech is being affected by the "say as much as you can before commercial break" model.
by rdgthree | 2025-12-14 13:52:08+00:00
Not necessarily - I think it works like Daniel Kahneman's System 1 and System 2. Your conscious system is System 2 - when it's not working correctly, you just fall back to System 1.

Independently, since the whole idea relies on resonance, it may be the case that an fMRI doesn't actually interfere with the "stochastic resonance" mechanic quite like TMS (transcranial magnetic simulation) seems to.

If you model the brain this way, dementia looks like a clear breakdown of System 2, which is an interesting thought experiment even if the mechanics aren't perfect: https://1393.xyz/writing/alzheimers-is-the-symptom-not-the-p...
by Kim_Bruning | 2025-12-14 13:52:17+00:00
How can I forget Harry Potter And The Methods Of Rationality [1].

HPMOR is written by Eliezer Yudkowsky to promote rationalist concepts, and is somewhat influential in startup and AI circles.

Directly: Emmet Shear {co-founder of Twitch (YC S07)} is apparently superfan and gets a cameo.

So for once I get to post something that's almost on-topic for yc. :-P

[1] https://hpmor.com/

[2] https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/21/what-does-a-harry-potter-f...
by ris | 2025-12-14 13:54:05+00:00
Zscaler enrages me with their use of the term "zero trust" in marketing, because due to their MitM-ing of TLS, they become a single-point-of-interception for all your organisation's traffic. "100%-trust" would better describe it for me, as you have to have 100% trust of Zscaler and anyone who has admin access to your organisation's Zscaler account.
by thorawaytrav | 2025-12-14 13:54:07+00:00
>>“99.99 percent of the people I’ve met have been the very best in humanity,” he said. “The world is a much kinder, nicer place than it often seems.”

I’ve had the exact opposite experience. For me, the ratio is like 75% "worst of humanity." Traveling actually taught me to be wary of anyone who approaches me, especially if they are strangers.

Of course, I’ve had a few good moments like someone sharing water with me even though he was thirsty too, or an American tourist in Italy letting me use his phone to call even on theirs expensive roaming . In my hometown, I even lost my wallet twice and had it returned. But on the road, the ratio of bad to good is much worse. It’s frustrating because nobody wants to hear about this; they just tell me to shut up and stop being negative when I simply want to vent.

I was scammed by an "official tourist bus" agency that sold me a bus+ferry ticket, only to find out it was bus-only, and they demanded money for the ferry in the middle of nowhere (I couldn't do anything). I’ve been stolen from countless times: pickpocketed in Italy and in Spain my phone was grabbed right off the table. I got scammed with a non-existent apartment reservation (had to fight with Booking) and was sold another place that had bed bugs. I was once refused water when I was severely dehydrated in the mountains; the guy in the closed shelter just ignored my screaming and begging while he smoked and washed dishes. I ended up drinking shady water from the river. I’ve even been asked to leave places just because someone wanted to pick a fight with me in rural areas.
by ghaff | 2025-12-14 13:54:18+00:00
On the one hand, I tend to not do formal rehearsals a lot of the time. On the other, I also find that if I give a live talk for the second or third time, it often is better because I find some things that worked in my head don't work as well on stage.

All that said, an overly-rehearsed talk can come across as stilted/reading from a script.
Show HN: I built a tool that converts plain language into AI video prompts
by Nair0 | 2025-12-14 13:54:40+00:00
Hi HN,

I built Movyo because I was unable to get good results from other AI video generation tools without learning a lot of prompt engineering.

Movyo takes a plain language idea and turns it into a detailed, model-optimized prompt using structured templates instead of just "making the prompt longer" like other tools do.

It's early, and I'm mainly looking for feedback from people who've tried AI video tools before.

I've been working on this as my very first full-stack project since I went solo, so anything is greatly appreciated. Thanks!
by ben_w | 2025-12-14 13:55:49+00:00
Of "control everything" and "execute anyone who disagrees", only the former is useful; the latter is kinda why Russia (and the USSR before it) are failing despite also having a government that could control everything.

You only achieve greatness when your control gets you to do the correct thing. Strong governments make decisions faster, not better. Freedom to debate, to speak out against bad governance, to speak truth to power, democracy, all that's a system to keep a government pointing in the right direction, it slows down decision making but (generally) also increases the accuracy of that decision making.

Same deal with free markets in capitalism: its a feedback mechanism, Tim Cook can announce the Vision Pro and Zuckerberg the Metaverse, direct their teams to spend whatever number of billions was necessary to develop them, market says no.
by anonym29 | 2025-12-14 13:55:51+00:00
I remember when the IDF guy did this right after getting arrested at DEFCON earlier this year!

https://www.timesofisrael.com/senior-israeli-cyber-official-...

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-865532

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/19/how-was-an-alleged-...
by ishi | 2025-12-14 13:57:19+00:00
It isn't a "telemetry-/ad- surveillance dragnet". Kitenet's product is a "Private Data Network (PDN) to control, monitor, and secure data exchanged between people, machines, and systems across user collaboration, automated workflows, and enterprise AI".

It stands to reason that ex-cryptographers from Unit 8200 would use the expertise they gained to launch legitimate companies that provide cybersecurity solutions.
by kelipso | 2025-12-14 13:57:35+00:00
It’s just Bayesian thinking. Too much open mindedness to scientific papers can have you frequently changing your beliefs based on some recent scientific paper that came out, or even worse based on a recent college graduate journalist’s summary of a recent scientific paper from some random university..

As opposed to holding on to a belief that has been reinforced via personal experience countless times until very strong evidence proves otherwise. You end up with a set of beliefs that have a much higher chance of being true this way.
by kokau | 2025-12-14 13:58:55+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m the maker of Brandolia — an AI tool that generates a complete brand identity in a few minutes.

Not just a logo, but:

logo concepts

color palette

typography

slogan & brand story

brand guidelines (like a mini brand book)

The idea came from a simple frustration: Every side project I built died early because branding took too much time (or money).

Instead of hiring an agency or stitching together 5 different tools, I wanted one system that does everything, instantly.

How it works (high level):

You describe your project (name, industry, vibe, audience)

The AI generates all brand assets consistently

You can iterate like with a real agency (refine, regenerate, adjust)

Who it’s for:

indie hackers & solo founders

early-stage startups

creators launching quickly

agencies that want to speed up client work

Tech stack (simplified):

React

Supabase

Edge Functions

OpenAI models

I’m not claiming this replaces top-tier agencies — but it’s been extremely useful for fast launches and MVPs.

Would love honest feedback from the HN community:

What feels missing?

What would stop you from using something like this?

Is branding still a pain point for you?

Happy to answer questions. Brandolia → https://brandolia.io
by ghaff | 2025-12-14 13:58:55+00:00
Which is something I have zero interest in doing. If it's a good/interesting podcast, it's not about getting fed information "efficiently" for me.

That said, I have recorded some podcasts with people where I felt I really needed to go into Audacity and have it automatically cut out a bunch of pauses because there were just too many of them.

I've also found that having both video and audio of yourself is a great way to uncover both visual and audio quirks.