MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
Show HN: A PRIVACY first intimate tracker
by xiaoyehua | 2026-02-05 11:54:55+00:00
Sexual health is health. We believe that understanding your intimate life is key to a happier, healthier you.

Why Choose Do?

A Beautiful Intimacy Journal
Forget boring lists. Do? offers a stunning, calendar-based diary to log your solo sessions and partner encounters. It’s designed to be as private and personal as the moments you record.

Visualize Your Passion
Sync seamlessly with HealthKit and Apple Watch. Watch your heart rate climb and see exactly how many calories you burn during intimacy. Turn your passion into tangible health data and see your "Peak Moments" and "Slow Burns."

Discover Hidden Patterns
Are you more active on weekends? Do you prefer mornings or late nights? Our GitHub-style heatmaps and detailed charts reveal the trends of your desire, helping you understand your body like never before.

Privacy First, Always
Your secrets are safe with us. Do? is built with privacy at its core. Your data stays on your device or your private iCloud. We have zero access to your personal life. FaceID/TouchID lock is supported for that extra layer of peace of mind.

Stay in the Moment
With our standalone Apple Watch app, you can start, pause, and stop recordings without ever reaching for your phone. Focus on the experience, and let us handle the tracking.

Key Features:
• Detailed Logging: Track duration, positions, locations, and protection methods.
• Partner Journal: Manage memories with different partners respectfully and organized.
• Insightful Stats: Analyze your performance and preferences over weeks, months, and years.
• Customizable Experience: Tailor the app with custom themes, icons, and tags to fit your style.
by wulfstan | 2026-02-05 11:54:56+00:00
I've just shifted my SWE infrastructure from AWS to Hetzner (literally in the last month). My current analysis looks like it will be about 15-20% of the cost - £240 vs 40-50 euros.

Expect a significant exit expense, though, especially if you are shifting large volumes of S3 data. That's been our biggest expense. I've moved this to Wasabi at about 8 euros a month (vs about $70-80 a month on S3), but I've paid transit fees of about $180 - and it was more expensive because I used DataSync.

Retrospectively, I should have just DIYed the transfer, but maybe others can benefit from my error...
by vidarh | 2026-02-05 11:54:58+00:00
> Budget hosts such as Hetzner/OVH have been known to suddenly pull the plug for no reason.

The same would apply for any number of hosts. Hetzner/OVH are cheap, but as your own numbers show the location price gap is more than sufficient to cover the costs of servers.

In fact you can colocate with Hetzner too, and you'd get a similar price gap - the lower cost of real-estate is a large part of the reason why they can be as cheap as they are.

Data centre operations is a real estate play - to the point that at least one UK data centre operator is owned by a real estate investment company.
by jongjong | 2026-02-05 11:56:10+00:00
We haven't yet lost the war against complexity. We would know if we had, because all software would grind to a halt due to errors. We're getting close though; some aspects of software feels deeply dysfunctional; like 2FA and Captcha - They're perfect examples of trying to improve something (security) by adding complexity... And it fails spectacularly... It fails especially hard because those people who made the decision to force these additional hurdles on users are still convinced that they're useful because they have a severely distorted view of the average person's reality. Their trade-off analysis is completely out of whack.

The root problem is that the average computer is full of vulnerabilities and cannot be trusted 100% so you need a second device just in case the computer was hacked... But it's not particularly useful because if someone infected your computer with a virus, they can likely also infect your phone the next time you plug it in to your computer to charge it... It's not quite 2-factor... So much hassle for so little security benefit... Especially for the average person who is not a Fortune 500 CEO. Company CEOs have a severely distorted view about how often the average person is targeted by scammers and hackers. Last time someone tried to scam me was 10 years ago... The pain of having to pull up my phone every single day, multiple times per day to type in a code is NOT WORTH the tiny amount of security it adds in my case.
by WillAdams | 2026-02-05 11:56:43+00:00
Yeah, and so was Freehand/MX (I was a beta tester for Macromedia and still use it) --- once a complex application is no longer updated for new OS versions, its death knell has sounded, and it's only a matter of time before it can no longer be used (save for in a VM which recreates the environment it was developed for, or on Windows 11 (which is arguably a stack of compatibility layers w/ the attendant performance and reliability hits))
by marcyb5st | 2026-02-05 11:57:18+00:00
It is not the same and your metaphor is bad. Furniture generates revenue when sold, loans generate revenue just by holding them as there is an interest that needs to be repaid.

Hence the shop sells the inventory as fast as they can, while banks hold safe loans as long as they can unless they believe that aren't safe anymore or that they can make more money with something else.
Show HN: LookGood Live – the extension enhances your appearance on video calls
by mda_damico | 2026-02-05 11:57:46+00:00
We just released a new version of our Chrome extension that enhances on-camera appearance and adjusts video image, making it perfect for meetings, video chats, and live streams.

It's based on Webcam Effects SDK, using a custom pre-trained model and a WASM module. Compatible with any website that supports video conferencing or streaming, including Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Skype, Discord, etc.

It's completely free, no watermarks, no limits, no sign-ups required. Feedback is welcome!
by panny | 2026-02-05 11:58:07+00:00
My observation is that "AI" makes easy things easier and hard things impossible. You'll get your niche app out of it, you'll be thrilled, then you'll need it to do more. Then you will struggle to do more, because the AI created a pile of technical debt.

Programmers dream of getting a green field project. They want to "start it the right way this time" instead of being stuck unwinding technical debt on legacy projects. AI creates new legacy projects instantly.
by tianshuo | 2026-02-05 11:58:24+00:00
Our team doesn't use things like OpenClaw. We use Windmill, which is a workflow engine that can use AI to program scripts and workflows. 90% of our automated flows are just vanilla python or nodejs. We re-use 10% of scripts in different flows. We do have LLM nodes and other AI nodes, and although windmill totally supports AI tool calling/Agentic use, we DON'T let AI agents decide the next step. Boring? Maybe. Dependable? Yes.
by weinzierl | 2026-02-05 11:59:11+00:00
This will probably not happen, because of physics.

Both, compute and memory, are getting closer to fundamental physical limits and it is unlikely that the next 60 years will be in any way like last 60 years.

While the argument for compute is relatively simple it is a bit harder to understand for memory. We are not near to any limit for the size of our memory but the limiting factor is how much storage we can bring how close to our computing units.

Now, there is still way to make and low hanging fruit to pick but
I think we will eventually see a renaissance of appreciation for effective programs in our lifetimes.
by 0xTJ | 2026-02-05 11:59:37+00:00
The issue is that it's no longer actually RISC-V M at the point, you're changing the instruction set. If you're compiling RISC-V M code, that doesn't need the extra NOP.

That being said, the disabling of MUL is being done at a software project level here, not by the CPU vendor. It's in the same linked commit that added in the NOP instructions to the arithmetic routines.
by qiqitori | 2026-02-05 12:00:06+00:00
I came across a CPU bug that prevented Linux from booting on 3rd gen i3/i5/i7 CPUs. Did a bunch of printf debugging until I was right before the freeze. Then found something relevant in the CPU errata. It could be "fixed" by passing in noapic. I had a decent writeup on the old CentOS forums, but they're gone, and I don't have a copy of my writeup anymore.
by citrin_ru | 2026-02-05 12:00:17+00:00
I use fqdn_rand [1] in puppet for most cron jobs - it allows to run cron jobs at different time on different hosts (with different FQDN) but with the consistent interval between job runs. I would expect any modern configuration management system to have something like that.

[1] https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/blob/main/lib/puppet/pa...
Show HN: Post Tomato – write once, post everywhere (LinkedIn, Threads, Telegram)
by blindnomore | 2026-02-05 12:00:59+00:00
I kept running into the same annoying problem:
every time I had an idea, I had to rewrite the same post for LinkedIn, Threads, Telegram, etc.
Different limits, different tone, same thought — over and over again.

So I built Post Tomato.

It’s a small tool that lets you:
• write a post once (manually or with AI help)
• adapt it to different platforms
• schedule or publish it everywhere in one flow

No “growth hacks”, no engagement pods — just removing friction from posting.

I built it mainly for myself while working on my own products, but a few other founders and indie makers started using it too, so I decided to ship it publicly.

It’s still early:
• LinkedIn, Threads, Telegram supported
• more platforms coming
• AI is optional (you can fully write everything yourself)

Would love feedback from people who post regularly:
• what part of posting feels most painful?
• what would you never trust an automation to do?
by namibj | 2026-02-05 12:01:01+00:00
Much of the time in a transaction can reasonably be non-db-cpu time, be it io wait or be it client CPU processing between queries.
Note I'm not talking about transactions that run >10 seconds, just ones with the queries themselves technically quite cheap.
At 10% db-CPU-usage, you get a 1 second transaction from just 100ms of CPU.
by deaux | 2026-02-05 12:03:32+00:00
> Takaichi is much more popular than Truss was

That's about as clear as 1+1=2; I wouldn't be surprised if Truss was the least popular PM/President of the last century in the OECD at "start of tenure D+5".

> Japan is in a much better situation right now than post-Brexit post-COVID UK.

What makes you say that?
by datsci_est_2015 | 2026-02-05 12:03:36+00:00
What’s the weird bias? Where did I contradict myself? What was the stupid fallacy?

Calling out the hypocrisy of those who call themselves Christians, both modern and historical, has never been a way of striking out at “my father”. The label, Christian, is a convenient one to hide behind for those hypocrites, as if it absolves them of their moral and ethical responsibilities.
by ruszki | 2026-02-05 12:04:45+00:00
And it’s possible that it wouldn’t have mattered anyway.

I got a green light to do an integration in a week alone, which was planned for a team of 5 for half a year. We knew that it cannot be that much. So I delivered…

It was never used. It was purely political. The integration didn’t happen because it was “half a year”, but because middle management didn’t like the idea of integration for political reasons.
by breakage | 2026-02-05 12:04:50+00:00
> This "kilobyte = 1024 bytes" rule is actually an old (often confusing) convention. In the tech industry there is still huge inertia, this old convention is still used by RAM manufacturers (JEDEC), tons of software and some operating systems (such as Windows).

So, let’s all pretend that’s not the case and say how things REALLY are? Umm- I don’t think life works that way. If a large part of the world and recorded history works a particular way, it will in-part stay that way.

For example, many people believed we’d basically overcome racism and measles, and we see how that turned out in the U.S.
by Syzygies | 2026-02-05 12:04:51+00:00
> Isn't a waste to essentially reinterpret an entire program that may be run 5000 times a day?

This is a dated prejudice that I shared.

To get started coding with AI I made a dozen language comparison project for a toy math problem. F# floored me with how fast it was, nearly edging out C and Rust on my leaderboard, twice as fast as OCaml, and faster than various compiled languages.

Compiling could in principle be fastest, if we had compilers that profiled hours of execution before optimizing code, and only then for "stable" problems. No one writes a compiler like this. In practice, Just In Time interpreters are getting all the love, and it shows. They adapt to the computation. My dated prejudice did not allow for this.
by WillAdams | 2026-02-05 12:05:35+00:00
I far prefer the pen tool in Macromedia Freehand/MX, to say nothing of the other drawing modes which it offered (and which Adobe later copied).

I might still have an InDesign Subscription if Adobe had just rolled all of Freehand's capabilities into it --- instead, I keep a Windows computer for it and a stylus (despite Windows having crippled stylus functionality in Windows 10 Fall Creators Update) --- which reminds me, stylus usage in Waterfox broke again and I have to look up how to fix it (again).
Show HN: BlogHunter – Free AI-generated blog and hosting for SEO experiments
by the_plug | 2026-02-05 12:05:52+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m building BlogHunter, a tool that helps founders and small teams spin up SEO-focused blogs without hiring writers or dealing with hosting.

I recently made the product free to get started because most early-stage teams never ship content—not because SEO doesn’t work, but because the setup cost (time + money) is too high.

Free tier includes:

100 AI-generated posts per month

1 fully hosted blog (SSL, speed, hosting included)

Several niche-specific themes (finance, tech, news, health, marketing)

The goal is to make it easy to test topical authority strategies quickly. You can go from zero → published content in a few minutes.

This won’t replace thoughtful writing for everything, but it’s been useful for:

Early SEO experiments

Niche sites

Founders validating demand before investing in writers

I’m especially interested in feedback from people who’ve built or scaled content-heavy products.

Link: https://bloghunter.se

Happy to answer questions or hear what’s broken.
by police2peer | 2026-02-05 12:06:53+00:00
Scanning P2P networks for video files isn’t how law enforcement usually operates; they rely more on hashes, known indices, and targeted operations. So the chance that other LE would randomly hit this project’s nodes the same way end users do is limited. Police2Peer is also an EU/Europol initiative under EMPACT, so participating agencies know about it and where it operates, and can avoid treating that traffic as targets.

Read more here: https://www.politiet.no/en/english/police2peer
by christophilus | 2026-02-05 12:07:04+00:00
I’m curious to know the answer, too. I used to deploy my software on-prem back in the day, and that always included an installation of Microsoft SQL Server. So, all of my clients had at least one database server they had to keep operational. Most of those clients didn’t have an IT staff at all, so if something went wrong (which was exceedingly rare), they’d call me and I’d walk them through diagnosing and fixing things, or I’d Remote Desktop into the server if their firewalls permitted and fix it myself. Backups were automated and would produce an alert if they failed to verify.

It’s not rocket science, especially when you’re talking about small amounts of data (small credit union systems in my example).
Ask HN: Other Tech Elders.. How do you deal with the AI world?
by awayIthrow42 | 2026-02-05 12:07:19+00:00
How, how do you deal with it?

I've been around for ages - whether it's p2p, hardware, protocols, saas things, security, oss, whatever.... AI makes me hate tech. I've said it. For the last three years I've helped multiple orgs either as a full timer or a consultant, some are in the Valley, some are local.. But it's all the same.

Orgs seem to want people to churn massive amounts of AI infused code. Pull requests are both not valued, and frankly ignored. My own code is reviewed by AI elsewhere, rarely by people. Reviews from people are at best surface level - and honestly, I've done some really, really hard things the last month or so. I genuinely feel that I haven't learned anything other then how to be upset, for about a year. The last straw was a PR I read today.. someone, with the help of Claude spat out 3457 lines of bash to create a tool... a tool that is `w` (yes, from procps, type it in your shell). I... just can't do this anymore. But, I still need the money - I'm frugal, but I'm not wealthy and cannot retire..

I find myself unable to work out. I now overeat. I come home watch TV for hours, and do nothing, something that in my life I have never done. The (awesome) vacation I took last week was at best a pause, not a recharger as it turned out.

So fellow HNers.. is this something you see? Is there anything I can do? Is this present our future? I'm at my wits end.
by CuriouslyC | 2026-02-05 12:08:07+00:00
So, as an OpenClaw disliker, the agent harness at the core of it (pi) is really good, it's super minimal and well designed. It's designed to be composed using custom functionality, it's easy to hack, whereas Claude Code is bloated and totally opinionated.

The thing people are losing their shit over with OpenClaw is the autonomy. That's the common thread between it, Ralph and Gastown that is hype-inducing. It's got a lot of problems but there's a nugget of value there (just like Steve Yegge's stuff)
by tedggh | 2026-02-05 12:09:06+00:00
Are there real documented cases of a company replacing their SaS with a vibe-coded version?

Like I can see how a very small company could replace a portion of an overkill and underutilized SaS platform.

I don’t see how a larger more complex business could replace their SAP or ADP with a vibecoded version.

These stories are all very similar in where the author knows some CEO of an obscure company who told them they had an engineer reverse engineer and vibecode some obscure SaS solution and saved them $50K.
by zihotki | 2026-02-05 12:09:18+00:00
> the cost is $0
> at most a couple of meetings and a junior dev spending 30min watching the first three YouTube results for "consumer device security issues", and then another 30min copy/pasting standard mitigations into place.

That's not $0 in my math. That's a total effort easily worth of a few thousands if not more from all aligning parties.
by KenzoArai | 2026-02-05 12:10:08+00:00
Thanks! You're absolutely right.

Managed hosting is actually on the roadmap. The plan is
to offer on-demand containers (likely Azure Container Apps
or Fly.io) where users can spin up an environment without
provisioning their own server.

For privacy-conscious users, even the managed option would
use encrypted volumes with user-controlled keys - so we
(CloudForge) couldn't access their code either.

BYOS came first because that's what I personally needed,
but managed is definitely coming for those who prefer
the convenience.

Would you prefer pay-per-hour or a monthly allocation
(like "50 hours/month included")?
by resonious | 2026-02-05 12:10:49+00:00
> writing code has always been the easiest part

Let me provide some possible evidence against this: so many teams are desperate to rewrite their codebase but struggle to actually do so. And when they finally make the leap, it takes them 5x as long as they had hoped. Then sometimes the new code isn't even any easier than the old code.

I personally find writing code to be a huge time suck and I'm very happy that AI helps me save that time.
by jeroenhd | 2026-02-05 12:12:28+00:00
A bunch of out-of-the-box NAS manufacturers provide a web-based OS-like shell with file managers, document editors, as well as an "app store" for containers and services.

I see the traditional "RAID with a SMB share" NAS devices less and less in stores.

If only storage target mode[1] had some form of authentication, it'd make setting up a barebones NAS an absolute breeze.

[1]: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/257/systemd...
by Simulacra | 2026-02-05 12:12:48+00:00
Cannabis is a difficult thing I think for people to talk about. There are people who think it's great, there are people who don't care, and there are people think it's awful. Each will latch onto news like this and use it for what they want. I think it's great, I'm not a regular user, and really don't see it as any better or worse than any other drug, from alcohol, to food, and beyond, that people are using. Most things are fine in moderation. I don't think we need to twist ourselves over whether it's going to make us smarter, dumber, or whatever, unless we can divorce it from our personal opinions on the substance. That has been IMHO the hardest part
by mrweasel | 2026-02-05 12:13:02+00:00
> I’m a bit scared of managing the services on my own

I see it from the other direction, when if something fails, I have complete access to everything, meaning that I have a chance of fixing it. That's down to hardware even. Things get abstracted away, hidden behind APIs and data lives beyond my reach, when I run stuff in the cloud.

Security and regular mistakes are much the same in the cloud, but I then have to layer whatever complications the cloud provide comes with on top. If cost has to be much much lower if I'm going to trust a cloud provider over running something in my own data center.
by ryanackley | 2026-02-05 12:13:02+00:00
Creating massive amounts of semi-structured data is the missing layer? I can see an argument for that if you're a non-programmer who wants to create something. Although, at some point, it's a form of programming.

As a developer, I would rather just write the code and let AI write the semi-structured data that explains it. Creating reams of flow charts and stories just so an AI can build something properly sounds like hell to me.
by gtowey | 2026-02-05 12:13:41+00:00
> Working with an LLM is kinda like working under stage hypnosis.

Another post on HN likened it to gambling, in the way that slot machines work. Each time you prompt, you could hit the jackpot! But usually you end up with some mediocre or wrong, so you tweak that prompt and pull the lever again. It's and endless cycle.
by anupamchugh | 2026-02-05 12:14:22+00:00
Documentation debt happens when docs and code are decoupled. One fix is to make specs stateful artifacts
with change detection. In Shadowbook (disclosure: I built it), specs are files with hashes; when a spec changes, linked issues get flagged and can’t be closed until someone acknowledges the drift. That creates a feedback loop between docs and implementation without “vibe documenting.” It doesn’t solve everything, but it makes contradictions visible and forces a review gate when context shifts.
by somenameforme | 2026-02-05 12:14:28+00:00
ICE is a law enforcement agency and so intentionally seeking to obstruct an investigation is indeed a crime. Impairing the access to data opens the door to fraud and other charges. And the manual linked goes above and beyond these relatively 'soft' crimes and into things like arson. Betting your life, and career, on these sort of things testament to how radicalized some have become.
by poulpy123 | 2026-02-05 12:15:33+00:00
> 10 years worth of monthly meetings

if it's 1 monthly video and thus 120 videos (or so) you could try recall (getrecall.ai not recall.ai that is a similar product with a similar name). They summarize youtube videos, but you get the transcript. AFAIK you cannot batch the processing and you have to add each video one by one, that's why 100 or 200 videos is doable but probably not thousands.