MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Aachen | 2025-12-18 08:15:52+00:00
What trend? All I'm seeing here is further centralisation:

Search engines try to fight slop results with collateral damage mostly in small or even personal websites. Restaurants are happy to be on one platform only: Google Maps. Who needs an expensive website if you're on there and someone posts your menu as one of the pictures? (Ideally an old version so the prices seem cheaper and you can't be pinned down for false advertising.) Open source communities use Github, sometimes Gitlab or Codeberg, instead of setting up a Forgejo (I host a ton of things myself but notice that the community effect is real and also moved away from self hosting a forge). The cherry in top is when projects use Discord chats as documentation and bug reporting "form". Privacy people use Signal en masse, where Matrix is still as niche as it was when I first heard of it. The binaries referred to as open source just because they're downloadable can be found on huggingface, even the big players use that exclusively afaik. Some smaller projects may be hosted on Github but I have yet to see a self-hosted one. Static websites go on (e.g. Github) Pages and back-ends are put on Firebase. Instead of a NAS, individuals as well as small businesses use a storage service like Onedrive or Icloud. Some more advanced users may put their files on Backblaze B2. Those who newly dip their toes in self-hosting increasingly use a relay server to reach their own network, not because they need it but to avoid dealing with port forwarding or setting up a way to privately reach internal services. Security cameras are another good example of this: you used to install it, set a password, and forward the port so you can watch it outside the home. Nowadays people expect that "it just works" on their phone when they plug it in, no matter where they are. That this relies on Google/Amazon and that they can watch all the feeds is acceptable for the convenience. And that's all not even mentioning the death of the web: people who don't use websites anymore the way they were meant (as hyperlinked pages) but work with an LLM as their one-stop shop

Not that the increased convenience, usability, and thus universal accessibility of e.g. storage and private chats is necessarily bad, but the trend doesn't seem to me as you seem to think it is

I can't think of any example of something that became increasingly often self-hosted instead of less across the last 1, 5, or 10 years

If you see a glimmer of hope for the distributed internet, do share because I feel increasingly as the last person among my friends who hosts their own stuff
by fullstackchris | 2025-12-18 08:16:42+00:00
I have a variety of education (books, courses) and run fintech SaaS, which combined are finally providing around $2K/month in profits since around July this year (for a long time, was hovering around that $500 mark)

My first successful SaaS, The Wheel Screener, a screener optimized for selling options: https://wheelscreener.com

A sister spin-off LEAPS Screener, for buying LEAPS options: https://leapsscreener.com

And, just launched in November, but already profitable, VannaCharm, a dashboard to view and watch in real time dealer hedging metrics: https://vannacharm.com

Looking to launch 1-2 more SaaS in 2026, trying to get to the point where I can do this full-time, let's get it folks!
by stubish | 2025-12-18 08:16:48+00:00
Yes, you only hear about the initial breakthrough. The regular news doesn't report the trials unless things go spectacularly wrong. And you don't hear about the successes using the therapy on patients where traditional treatments didn't work. And you don't hear about the treatments successful enough that they replace the traditional treatments. But they are there, being used and saving lives. A family member's prostate cancer metastasized after 20 years of hormone therapy, they refused chemotherapy, and had their life saved by radioligand therapy, a treatment not available just months earlier. No side effects beyond a dry mouth, and now off the more debilitating hormone treatments.
by abstractspoon | 2025-12-18 08:16:52+00:00
It hurts because your core (abs, glutes, ad/abductors, etc) have weakened to the point where any underlying genetic hip disorders (however minor) will start to play a bigger part in hip rotations.

I broke my pelvis in a 5m fall a few years back (I'm 60) and the surgery required to fix it cut through my glutes. This resulted in a much weaker right glute and abductors. Until I implemented a regime of core-specific exercises combined with nightly glute stretching and twice weekly use of a roller on my lower back, my right glute would always seize up after a few months and I'd need to see a professional. I haven't had any problems in the last year and provided I maintain that core strength I do not anticipate any further problems.
by Etheon | 2025-12-18 08:17:37+00:00
I created Multy 5 years ago. Thanks to a post on HN at that time, it was a small success (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25870504)

Since then, I continue to maintain the website and I have around 50k lists, 8k users, and around 400€ MRR (ads and subscriptions).

I'd love to see more users, but I'm glad of what I did with multy !

If you want to check: https://multy.me
by cakealert | 2025-12-18 08:18:05+00:00
The answer to that is simple: They hate AI and the environment angle is just an excuse, much like their concern over AI art. Human psychology is such that many of these people actually believe the excuse too.

It helps when you put yourself in the shoes of people like that and ask yourself, if I find out tomorrow that the evidence that AI is actually good for the environment is stronger, will I believe it? Will it even matter for my opposition to AI? The answer is no.
by TrianguloY | 2025-12-18 08:18:15+00:00
I personally use Google forms for a very similar feature. You don't even need to display the google form itself, you can create your own and then perform a fetch.

I even have it connected to a google sheet and google scripts, to send me emails for entries matching some patterns.

Heavily depends on Google, yes, but for something free that honestly I won't care if stops working (like a prototype) I'm ok with it.
by richardfeynman | 2025-12-18 08:18:22+00:00
You’re still arguing with a sentence I did not write.

I did not use a “religion-specific metric to argue about hate crimes in general.” I said, explicitly, “69% of religious-based hate crimes.” Then, when you insisted on the “general” denominator, I gave that too: anti‑Jewish incidents are 15.4% of all hate crime incidents in 2023, still ~7–8x disproportionate for a ~2% population. Both numbers come from the same DOJ/FBI table. https://www.justice.gov/crs/news/2023-hate-crime-statistics

So the “category substitution / base-rate neglect” lecture is just a rhetorical reset button. You keep pretending I implied “69% of all hate crimes” because that’s the only way your critique has a target.

At this point the pattern is clear: 1) miss what I actually wrote, 2) accuse me of lying/AI, 3) admit you missed it, 4) reframe anyway by inventing a broader claim I never made, 5) argue against your invention.

I’m not doing more laps of that. If you want to dispute the DOJ/FBI numbers or show actual evidence of systematic inflation, present a dataset and method. Otherwise we’re done here.
by fractallyte | 2025-12-18 08:18:30+00:00
Silicon Milkroundabout – in London, UK – is the Real Thing: https://www.siliconmilkroundabout.com/

Not just HR, but actual team leads and members who you can talk to and mutually evaluate each other, face to face. It's a superb event, highly recommended!

(Looks like they've introduced a new digital system too. Intriguing...)
by phatskat | 2025-12-18 08:19:21+00:00
Might be getting hugged - some of the answers in the first chapter failed to load images, and then the second page failed to load.

This is a really neat page and, while I doubt I’ll ever get far into learning any of it, it’s really cool! For some reason I never stopped to wonder just how much we knew about hieroglyphs and assumed it wasn’t much, and I’m happily surprised!
by csomar | 2025-12-18 08:19:52+00:00
It is not clear what exactly you are looking for?

> “Just post it on Hacker News or Reddit and show that people love it.”

From my experience, both HN and Reddit have the worst traffic. I got "tens of thousands" of visitors from both with exactly zero conversion. I am now getting a few hundreds a month from Google and other sources and the conversion rate is roughly 20-25%. So pretty much not worth it to pursue HN/Reddit for your startup though your mileage would probably vary.

I'd use HackerNews for what it is, a news site for casual/mixed information with sometimes interesting discussions. You could have much better levers in other places.
by brzezmac | 2025-12-18 08:19:53+00:00
I'm building a "mail merge for PowerPoint": - https://pptxmailmerge.com

Still in MVP mode - but it already made some sales.

What's different about it from similar solutions is the way you can get data from an Excel file (most other companies have the JSON and CSV figured out).

It supports Excel style addressing so it's pretty flexible on how you reach for the data inside a PowerPoint template (access every sheet, every cell, named range or table to use it in merging process).

People use it for various kinds of use-cases - creating certificates, automating pricing offers, delivering employee feedback forms, preparing market research presentations and even subtitles for a theatrical play.
by baamahmed | 2025-12-18 08:20:48+00:00
https://tryscrawl.com - minimal handwritten note-taking app for the iPad with optional, built-in AI querying (using handwritten/spoken interfaces instead of typed text).

Intention is to make a free, local, and simple notetaking app for the iPad since Notability/Goodnotes seem to have become overly bloated, and then add optional AI features that are actually useful, and which stay out of the users way unless really needed.

launched v1 on the App Store about a week or so ago, currently have about 130 downloads and 2 users paying for the AI tier
by M95D | 2025-12-18 08:21:43+00:00
Smart young people left for rich EU countries: doctors, engineers, even construction workers left. It took time until the old generation that remained behind retired and now we have the effects of that: better paid jobs.

When I started working as a doctor in 2007, my salary was ~150 euro/month. It is now ~2000 euro/month. Some of it is experience/seniority, but most of it is just jobs competition from richer EU countries.
by skwee357 | 2025-12-18 08:22:14+00:00
I run a dead-simple, one-time, online fax service called JustFax Online[0]. While I don't have a recurring revenue as I operate one one-time payment, for the past months I have been consistently grossing over €500/mo.

This also brings tears to my eyes, as I remember[1] browsing these threads and being amazed (still am) by all the people who make side projects and make money from them, and at the same time thinking that I will never reach this milestone, and yet, here I am.

[0]: https://justfaxonline.com [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39110194#39141819
by asim | 2025-12-18 08:23:29+00:00
To echo what dang said in the thread. It's a place to hang out and learn about new things. Or sometimes old things. It's news, it's history. All with a tech skew. I've had this account since 2008. In that time I've used it in many different ways, including getting stuff onto the front page. Honestly trying to game it doesn't work. Post something people genuinely find interesting and it will make it to the front page and in the case it doesn't sometimes the mod will see that and think it should get another shot.
by al_borland | 2025-12-18 08:24:06+00:00
One could argue that the only product that really matters is the ability to have a default search engine. I checked out their Wikipedia[0] article and their financials table has a column dedicated to the percent of revenue derived from Google—81-95%, depending on the year.

It feels a little like when Microsoft invested in Apple back in the 90s. Microsoft needed Apple so they didn’t look like too much of a monopoly. Google has been funding Mozilla’s whole existence for at least 20 years. At first it may have purely been do dominate search, but at some point I think the incentives shifted to Google needing Firefox so they can claim they aren’t a monopoly in the browser space and competition exists.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation
by mxxc | 2025-12-18 08:24:50+00:00
regardless of firewalls and best practices and all, i'd just put all sorts of admin-related stuff behind tailscale (or similar), including ssh. hetzner allows you to have ssh closed in your public ip and still open a terminal via the console if ssh-on-tailscale fails. for the web stuff you should do a similar trick. blog and public websites on the public address, while admin stuff goes on tailscale. and if you do it nicely with letsencrypt you can even have nice hostnames pointing to your private stuff.
by littlestymaar | 2025-12-18 08:25:05+00:00
> Apple doesn't collect your browsing data

That's what their marketing want you to believe, at least.

Their privacy policy is very clear it's not the case though:

> we may collect a variety of information, including:

> […]

> Usage Data. Data about your activity on and use of our offerings, such as app launches within our services, including browsing history; search history;

(emphasis mine)
by fleebee | 2025-12-18 08:25:07+00:00
I don't think this is true at all.

At slow, manageable tempos, you can afford to use motions that don't scale to fast tempos. If you only ever play "what you can manage" with meticulous, tiny BPM increments, you'll never have to take the leap of faith and most likely will hit a wall, never getting past like 120-130 BPM 16ths comfortably. Don't ask how I know this.

What got me past that point was short bursts at BPMs way past my comfort zone and building synchrony _after_ I stumbled upon more efficient motions that scaled. IIRC, this is what Shawn Lane advocated as well.

I recommend checking out Troy Grady's (Cracking The Code) videos on YouTube if you're interested in guitar speed picking. Troy's content has cleared up many myths with an evidence-based approach and helped me get past the invisible wall. He recently uploaded a video pertaining to this very topic[0].

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=craA3CLqvkM
by crote | 2025-12-18 08:25:46+00:00
Do either of them work for container-to-container traffic?

Imagine container A which exposes tightly-coupled services X and Y. Container B should be able to access only X, container C should be able to accesd only Y.

For some reason there just isn't a convenient way to do this with Docker or Podman. Last time I looked into it, it required having to manually juggle the IP addressed assigned to the container and having the service explicitly bind to it - which is just needlessly complicated. Can firewalls solve this?
by ZuoCen_Liu | 2025-12-18 08:26:53+00:00
The 'Lifetime Service' promise feels like a strategic red flag for a product that relies on hosted relay infrastructure. Unless this is strictly a P2P tool with zero coordination server dependency (which is difficult for cross-network SSH), the provider is essentially incurring a perpetual marginal cost for a one-time fee.

My question to the team: How do you plan to sustain the bandwidth and orchestration costs five years from now? Is there a self-hosted 'exit ramp' for users if the central coordination server goes dark?
by pilaf | 2025-12-18 08:27:01+00:00
> You might have noticed that there aren’t any vowels in the alphabet

Then in the next table:

> 𓄿 is pronounced “ah” as in “yacht”

> 𓇋 is pronounced “ee” as in “feet”

> 𓅱 𓏲 is pronounced “oo” as in “blue”

Are those vowel-sounding hieroglyphs only used in special occasions?

Also, does anyone know what the reason for omitting vowels altogether may have been?
by HNisCIS | 2025-12-18 08:27:10+00:00
Having been on the other end of this repeatedly (as an engineer with a desk near the door, not a hiring manager) and I hate it when people do this.

People are becoming much more adverse to bring panhandled or solicited in a way they cannot ignore, in the same way spam calls are more annoying than spam texts. It's not "initiative" or "extra mile" shit, it's taking advantage of someone's politeness to waste their time.

It also looks hopelessly boomerish, up there with expecting the firmness of a handshake to land a job. I've seen this happen dozens of times and the resumes always end up in the trash within minutes. I've never seen anyone hired this way.
by nly | 2025-12-18 08:27:52+00:00
I guess one aspect of it is that in really high performance fields where you're taking in lots of stringy real inputs (FIX messages coming from trading venues for example, containing prices and quantities) you would simply parse directly to a fixed point decimal format, and only accept fixed (not scientific) notation inputs. Except for trailing or leading zeros there is no normalisation to be done.

Parsing a decimal ASCII string to a decimal value already optimizes well, because you can scale each digit by it's power of 10 in parallel and just add up the result.
by MathiasPius | 2025-12-18 08:29:20+00:00
In 2023 I quoted a customer some 30 hours to deploy a Kubernetes cluster to Hetzner specifically to run self-hosted GitHub Actions Runners.

After 10-ish hours the cluster was operational. The remaining 18 (plus 30-something unbillable to satisfy my conscience) were spent trying and failing to diagnose an issue which is still unsolved to this day[1].

[1]: https://github.com/actions/runner-container-hooks/issues/113
by atoav | 2025-12-18 08:29:22+00:00
Looks good to me. Have you considered adding a really practical realworld example? As someone who loves looking at examples I like your small examples in the readme, but it still leaves me wondering a bit what I actually would use this library for.

Many people don't know what you would use wavelets for or where they really shine. I for example know wavelets are used in image compression algorithms but that's about it. I am curious where else this could be applied.
by lukan | 2025-12-18 08:29:35+00:00
What? You have to do a lot of curation and fighting the service itself (hiding shorts) to get to a bearable level. And I did not spend hours clicking things I don't like. I mostly just watch movies/clips I want, but my recommendations are full of clickbait manipulative garbage. So yes, one can find jewels in it - but only if digging through the garbage first.
by esperent | 2025-12-18 08:30:18+00:00
> There are no "levers".

Everyone wants to believe that their community doesn't have levers. But this is just wishful thinking, ego talking. Of course HN has levers, of course the community here can be manipulated.

The easiest way I can see would be to frame a helpful, curious question to which your service just happens to be the answer. So then you most an Ask HN like "can anyone help me to understand why people do X" followed by a few sentences of your thoughts, then at the end say "I've been working on a service to help with this but we don't seem to be getting much to traction, here's a link".

Another approach would be "nerd sniping". Post your site but don't mention anything about what it's for and instead say "I'm having a problem with SSR rendering with NextJS on my site" or something like that. You'll get massive engagement.
by mlitwiniuk | 2025-12-18 08:30:45+00:00
Humadroid (https://humadroid.io) - AI-Assisted SOC 2 & ISO 27001 compliance for small teams. $125/month flat (for now, during beta).

Recently crossed the $500/month mark after a painful pivot from HR tech earlier this year. The whole thing started because I did ISO 27001 back in 2019 and was completely lost - overpaid for consultants, got lost with policies and controls, figured it out the hard way.

Passed SOC 2 Type I earlier this year using only Humadroid (yes, dogfooding a compliance tool through an actual audit was... an experience).

Currently finishing automated evidence collection (AWS and GitHub integrations first). Pretty proud of that one - compliance shouldn't mean "panic-screenshot everything before audit."
by littlestymaar | 2025-12-18 08:31:18+00:00
> The only way you can possibly view Safari as "the modern day IE" is if you consider the authoritative source for What Features Should Be Supported to be Chrome.

No. Safari is the modern IE in the sense that it's the default browser on a widely used OS, and it's update cycle is tied to the update of the OS itself by the user, and it drags the web behind by many years because you cannot not support its captive user-base.

It's even worse than IE in a sense, because Apple prevents the existence of an alternative browser on that particular OS (every non-safari OSes on iOS are just a UI on top of Safari).
by PeaseErnest | 2025-12-18 08:31:57+00:00
I built BertUI because I was tired of the slow, complex setup of modern React frameworks.I wanted a tool that felt instant for both development and production, without sacrificing the benefits of an SSG (like file-based routing and optimized builds).I chose to build BertUI on Bun because it allowed me to leverage native speed for everything, from the package manager to the runtime.The Key Achievement:Our production build time is consistently measuring around $\sim38\text{ms}$ for a minimal project (verified on Vercel), which we believe is significantly faster than comparable builds using Vite/Rollup. The speed is tangible: our quick start video (linked in the docs) shows the full installation in under a minute.What BertUI does:Blazing fast, Bun-native compilation.Zero-config, simple file-based routing.React and TSX support out-of-the-box.Try it out in seconds: bunx create-bertui my-appI'd love to hear your thoughts on the performance and any suggestions for pushing the speed even further. Are these compile times something you'd expect from a Bun-based tool?
by dandare | 2025-12-18 08:32:19+00:00
I am not sure if more regulation is a solution, but the lack of respect for job seekers is a real problem.

And not just with ghost jobs. My recent experience as a job seeker was harrowing - even with large, proud companies. I would pass multiple rounds of interviews with senior/director-level interviewers only to never hear back from the company - even after a direct request for an update or feedback. Just total ignorance. Again, this happened with a FAANG+ company.
by YmiYugy | 2025-12-18 08:32:34+00:00
This seems analogous to the following. A company asks users to fill out an online survey in exchange for participation in some raffle, except the company never pays out any prize. As with the job application there was never a guaranteed reward, but it's still easy to see the damage. The company induced to you to provide them with an economically valuable asset (filled out survey/application) for which you expected a fair chance at a reward. It seems plausible that you could claim damages at least up to the expected value.
by Animats | 2025-12-18 08:33:06+00:00
It works because it discusses important things that are of interest to reasonably smart people. The top 5 items right now.

- Gut bacteria from amphibians and reptiles achieve tumor elimination in mice

Ah, progress on cancer. But in mice, where lots of things work but don't transfer to humans.

- What Is an Elliptic Curve?

A core concept in modern cryptography which I don't understand. The article helped.

- Learn Egyptian Hieroglyphs

Only HN would put something like this near the top of of the forum.

- Gemini 3 Flash: Frontier intelligence built for speed

This week in LLMs. Have to keep up.

- OBS Studio Gets a New Renderer

They're using Apple's Metal for talking to the GPU? How does portability work? OBS runs on Linux and Windows, too, but Metal runs only on Apple machines.

These are all interesting things, but they are not popular things. Or even commercially interesting things.