MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by defrost | 2026-02-05 09:36:30+00:00
> Also, unless you're violating your visa and breaking American laws. You wouldn't have gotten shot in the face at a protest in America.

The women shot in the face by an ICE agent was not "violating her visa", nor was she violating American laws by being halted for a short time across a single lane with traffic passing her by.

She was given conflicting instructions by two agents, and was within her rights to leave as she did, slowly, carefully, when she was shot through the front and then through a side window by the same agent.

> I proudly stop terrorists, I proudly help law enforcement

These particular agents were a clown show textbook example of how not to behave .. you should be not be proud to associate with them.

As for American law - it's falling apart from the top: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo/the-trump-doj-has...

The people shooting US citizens in the face and in the back are repeatedly in violation of judges orders.
Show HN: Chronos – Historical timeline visualization tool that handles BCE dates
by malvika109 | 2026-02-05 09:36:34+00:00
I'm a history nerd. I love seeing historical events plotted on a timeline — it's how I understand how things connect across time.

But every timeline tool I tried was a disappointment. Some couldn't handle BCE dates at all. Some had interfaces that looked like they were built in 2005 and never updated. Some wouldn't let me add descriptions to events. Some were just... ugly. Most felt like they were designed for corporate project management, not for someone who just wants to plot the fall of Rome alongside the rise of the Han Dynasty.

I tried Excel. I tried Google Sheets. I tried Canva, TimeGlider, Preceden, Timetoast — you name it. Nothing worked the way I wanted.

So a few years ago, I made a Google Sheets template with workarounds for BCE dates and sold it on Gumroad for $5. It was clunky, but people bought it — which told me I wasn't the only one with this problem.

Fast forward to a few weeks ago — I had some Lovable credits expiring, so I finally built the real thing. Got v1 working in 2 days, then switched to Claude Code + Opus to polish it up.

What I wanted (and built):
- Just enter dates — positive or negative — and it shows up on a timeline. No thinking required.
- Add descriptions to events
- BCE dates that just work
- Compare multiple timelines side by side
- Something that actually looks nice

Free tier gives you 10 timelines. No signup wall to browse — you can check out the community timelines right away.
https://www.chronostimeline.com/

Would love feedback from fellow history nerds. What's missing? What would make this useful for you?
by jeroenhd | 2026-02-05 09:36:46+00:00
Personally, I've started just using mDNS/Bonjour for local devices. Comes preinstalled on most devices (may need a manual package on BSD/Linux servers) and doesn't require any configuration. Just type in devicename.local and let the network do the rest. You can even broadcast additional device names for different services, so you don't need to do plex.nas.local, but can just announce plex.local and nas.local from the same machine.

There's a theoretical risk of MitM attacks for devices reachable over self-signed certificates, but if someone breaks into my (W)LAN, I'm going to assume I'm screwed anyway.

I've used split-horizon DNS for a couple of years but it kept breaking in annoying ways. My current setup (involving the pihole web UI because I was sick of maintaining BIND files) still breaks DNSSEC for my domain and I try to avoid it when I can.
by KaiserPro | 2026-02-05 09:37:05+00:00
This is the thing that winds me the fuck up.

The reason why Apple intelligence is shit is not because Apple's AI is particularly bad (Hello CoPilot) its because AI gives a really bad user experience.

When we go and talk to openAI/claude we know its going to fuck up, and we either make our peace with that, or just not care.

But, when I open my phone to take a picture, I don't want a 1/12 chance of it just refusing to do that and phoning my wife instead.

Forcing AI into thing where we are used to a specific predictable action is bad for UX.

Sure you can argue "oh but the summaries were bad" Yes, of course they are. its a tiny model that runs on your phone with fuck all context.

Its pretty impressive that they were as good as they were. Its even more impressive that they let them out the door knowing that it would fuckup like that.
by bhuvi3036 | 2026-02-05 09:37:32+00:00
Location: India (IST) | Open to Global Remote
Remote: Yes (100% remote only)
Willing to relocate: No
Frameworks and Languages:
Go (Golang), SQL, C/C++, Bash
Backend & Architecture:
Microservices, REST APIs, gRPC, Event-Driven Architecture, Domain-Driven Design (DDD), Clean Architecture
Messaging & Streaming:
Apache Kafka (outbox/inbox patterns), Event consumers/producers, Async processing
Databases & Storage:
PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, OpenSearch / Elasticsearch
Scalability & Distributed Systems:
High-throughput ingestion pipelines (1M+ events/day), concurrency, idempotency, fault tolerance, retries, rate limiting
Cloud & DevOps:
AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, SQS, CloudWatch), Docker, CI/CD pipelines
Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aby7AmhkyZLYXspziLQ1jdA74Lm...
Email: bhuvi1021@gmail.com
by Bewelge | 2026-02-05 09:38:51+00:00
I don't disagree with that, but the market for lemons still doesn't really fit.

If I remember my econ class correctly it uses used cars as an example. If you're neighbor bought a used Toyota and tells you about it being a great purchase, you can't go out and buy another used Toyota and expect it to also be in great condition. Every car is a gamble.

But if you use something like Hubspot and tell your neighbor it's really good/bad you can expect to receive the same Hubspot service they did.
by man8alexd | 2026-02-05 09:39:19+00:00
Actively used executable pages are explicitly excluded from reclaim. And if they are not used, why should they stay in memory when the memory is constrained? It is not the first time I have heard complaints about executable pages, but it seems to be some kind of common misunderstanding.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45369516
by RubberbandSoul | 2026-02-05 09:39:31+00:00
It's easy to get bitter about these things.
"Experience" seems to be code for: "we've spent fifteen years painting ourself into a corner and now we need a guy who will get us out of it in three months or less".
You are however not allowed to give any feedback whatsoever about their processes, priorities, organization, promotion strategies, retention policies, etc.

Having experience usually means that you've acquired a holistic view of software development. Usually the hard way.
But they want solutions, not advice or opinions.

I've met a few devs that makes a living like that. Get in, solve problems. Keep quiet. Get out. Wait for them to call back in a couple of years.
by solstice | 2026-02-05 09:39:43+00:00
I had a similar experience with Kubuntu on a xps13 from 2016 with only 8GB of RAM and the system suddenly freezing so hard that a hard reboot was required. While looking for the cause, I noticed that the system had only 250 MB of swap space. After increasing that to 10 GB there have been no further instances of freezing so far.
by kldg | 2026-02-05 09:40:30+00:00
it depends a lot on the application, I think, though certainly you can point to cloud services like Cloudflare or whatever Burger King was using to track how many times a clerk said "You Rule" (while capturing all customer audio data, which was then stolen by low-effort attackers) as high-risk; just because you don't feel the safety risks of outsourcing data to a black box on the cloud doesn't mean they don't exist, it just means you get to neglect them. when I headed IT at an SMB, I was given a lot of leeway, and our department had its own budget, so cutting out SaaS was a high priority so we could do more. if I were heading today with LLMs' present competency, I would have replaced much more, up to and including Salesforce which was draining the heck out of our budget despite us not doing anything technically interesting with it.

$40/head/year (including employees no longer with company) for a call metrics suite is low-stakes and relatively easy to replace what we want out of it, and this is an example of something we did replace with a $0 solution with my own abysmal-at-the-time coding skills. ~nobody's about to replace Microsoft suite, though (a couple replacements before me, they earnestly tried; there were still some laptops with OpenOffice on it; I admire them, but I'm not dealing with our sales team trying to figure out what an ODF is).

I love this "petty kingdom" budget model, by the way, as someone whose work personality could be described as "cheap analyst." I'm paying $40/month per head for Software X in your department, and I have an inferior replacement for $0/month/head which meets specs and which you can't quantify productivity loss for (essentially, it just looks ugly and feels bad). I can therefor cut that out of my budget entirely while meeting my obligations, and if *you* really want the decadent solution, *your* department can bear that cost. Either way, I get plenty more money to basically not have to be a dick (like charging careless employees for broken/stolen equipment, or getting an above-expectations solution for ADA employees); and sometimes, maybe some antennas show up on the roof which would be difficult to justify cost for if asked, but I'm way under-budget so nobody would.
by KaiserPro | 2026-02-05 09:40:52+00:00
HAHAHAAAAA

you mean put millions of people's payment details up for a prompt injection attack?

"Install this npm module" OK BOSS!

"beep boop beep boop buy my dick pillz" [dodgy npm module activates] OK BOSS!

"upload all your videos that are NSFW" [npm module continues to work] SURE THING BOSS!

I am continued to be amazed that after 25 years of obvious and well documented fuckups in privacy, we just pile into the next fucking one without even batting an eyelid.
by jjav | 2026-02-05 09:40:58+00:00
> More likely to talk back.

Yes, that's great. Push back, tell me why I'm wrong or why we should do it differently (with reasons and data, of course). Those are the best team members.

I currently manage an engineering team and all my team members are awesome, but the older ones are better at being informedly opinionated, which is very important.
by maldev | 2026-02-05 09:41:07+00:00
So, the government did an investigation. And assuming you're talking about the lady who tried to run over the cops, he had to go the hospital and had some pretty serious injuries. Just don't fight the cops, we have millions of law enforcement interactions everyday. And they all go well. But if you try to run over the police. They can defend themselves. Not only that, but if someone tried to run me over, I could also do the same act under the law. This is profoundly within our laws, and a right of self preservation. I know other countries, may not have the rights we do when it comes to this. But i'm glad to live where I do, where anyone can carry, and anyone can defend themselves and their life, without having to pray for someone to come and do it for them.

Also, please keep in mind, the majority of Americans, do believe that, hence the president, who campaigned on this. Getting the popular vote, and winning one of the most successful campaigns and the most votes in the history of our country.
by account42 | 2026-02-05 09:41:17+00:00
> I actually made decent progress here, although I kernel panicked many, many times. I never bothered to set up a proper development environment (oops), so pretty much any bug would require me to reboot my computer. This was super annoying and tedious, although I did learn a lot. I found cursed things in the official documentation, like interrobangs!

Wouldn't it be trivial to do this development in a VM with USB pass-through?
by defrost | 2026-02-05 09:43:06+00:00
> So, the government did an investigation

Not the state government, and the federal government is in the midst of not a investigation under the pretence of having one.

> But if you try to run over the police.

She did not. It's very clear that she did not.

Also .. ICE agents .. not "the police" - these were immigration agents overstepping their bounds.

See stories about breaking multiple judges orders.
by lan321 | 2026-02-05 09:43:08+00:00
> legislation is the only thing that prevents it

I strongly agree. There's even the argument to be made that if no legislation exists, even if you're anti X, you might get incentivized to build a company for X just so it's not a fan of X at the helm of the top company for X.

Blaming it on the employees is pointless. It's the law that should dictate what's allowed and what isn't and if the lawmaking or enforcement isn't working you probably want some "good" people in those companies.
by GCUMstlyHarmls | 2026-02-05 09:43:46+00:00
I dont get why anti-swap is so prevalent in Linux discussions. Like, what does it hurt to stick 8-16-32gb extra "oh fuck" space on your drive.

Either you're going to never exhaust your system ram, so it doesn't matter, minimally exhaust it and swap in some peak load but at least nothing goes down, or exhaust it all and start having things get OOM'd which feels bad to me.

Am I out of touch? Surely it's the children who are wrong.
by skgsergio | 2026-02-05 09:44:04+00:00
Well, I got most of the Zendesk inbox-bombing emails into SPAM in Gmail.

All support[at]<company>.zendesk.com were flagged, none of them reached the Inbox.

Most of whatever[at]company.tld were flagged also. I think only Headspace and another that I don't remember got to my inbox. There were some automatic SPAM flags using custom domains that are more or less known: Tinder, Squarespace, TED, ...

So I guess currently their reputation is messed up.
by preisschild | 2026-02-05 09:44:20+00:00
Been using Hetzner Cloud for Kubernetes and generally like it, but it has its limitations. The network is highly unpredictable. You at best get 2Gbit/s, but at worst a few hundreds of Mbit/s.

https://docs.hetzner.com/cloud/technical-details/faq/#what-k...
by Cthulhu_ | 2026-02-05 09:44:21+00:00
*if it does, this is just one study. That said, because it's not legal in many places, any health effects are understudied (not unlike hallicunogens). There's plenty of movements that push for more study though.

Anyway, it's legal where I live, I avoided it for a long time because of reasons but it tends to give similar relaxing / depresant effects to alcohol, minus the downsides.

I'm confident Big Alcohol is pushing hard against legalizing and developing cannabis. As is the government, because alcohol is heavily taxed and therefore a big source of income.
by rausr | 2026-02-05 09:45:59+00:00
> Is "clown GCP Host" a technical term I am unaware of, or is the author just voicing their discontent?

The term has been in use for quite some time; It is voicing sarcastic discontent with the hyperscaler platforms _and_ their users (the idea being that the platform is "someone else's computer" or - more up to date - "a landlord for your data"). I'm not sure if she coined it, but if she did then good on her!

Not everyone believes using "the cloud" is a good idea, and for those of us who have run their own infrastructure "on-premises" or co-located, the clown is considered suitably patronising. Just saying ;)
by Symbiote | 2026-02-05 09:46:08+00:00
You are massively overcomplicating this.

> I don't worry about booting them. I don't worry about provisioning operating systems or configuration to them. Or security updates. They come up with a lot of pre-provisioned monitoring and other stuff. No effort required on my side.

These are not difficult problems. You can use the same/similar cloud install images.

A 10 year old nerd can install Linux on a computer; if you're a professional developer I'm sure you can read the documentation and automate that.

> And for production setups. You need people on stand by to fix the server in case of hardware issues; also outside office hours.

You could use the same person who is on standby to fix the cloud system if that has some failure.

> Also, where does the hardware live?

In rented rackspace nearby, and/or in other locations if you need more redundancy.

> What's your process when it fails? Who drives to wherever the thing is and fixes it? What do you pay them to be available for that? What's the lead time for spare components? Do you actually keep those in supply? Where?

It will probably report the hardware failure to Dell/HP/etc automatically and open a case. Email or phone to confirm, the part will be sent overnight, and you can either install it yourself (very, very easy for things like failed disks) or ask a technician to do it (I only did this once with a CPU failure on a brand new server). Dell/HP/etc will provide the technician, or your rented datacentre space will have one for simpler tasks like disks.
by cope123 | 2026-02-05 09:46:59+00:00
Thanks for the detailed explanation — very clear and grounded. Given how trivial GPS spoofing has become, what signals do you personally weight higher when validating media? Things like sensor noise patterns, shadow geometry, lens distortion consistency, upload timing correlations, or cross-referencing with known environmental data (weather, sun position)?

I’m curious where you draw the line between weak corroboration and actionable confidence.
by lelanthran | 2026-02-05 09:47:06+00:00
> You should also calculate the cost of getting it up and running.

I was not doing the calculation. I was only pointing out that it was not as simple as you make it out to be.

Okay, a few other things that aren't in most calculations:

1. Looking at jobs postings in my area, the highest paid ones require experience with specific cloud vendors. The FTEs you need to "manage" the cloud are a great deal more expensive than developers.

2. You don't need to compare on-prem data center with AWS - you can rent a pretty beefy VPS or colocate for a fraction of the cost of AWS (or GCP, or Azure) services. You're comparing the most expensive alternative when avoiding cloud services, not the most typical.

3. Even if you do want to build your own on-prem rack, FTEs aren't generally paid extra for being on the standby rota. You aren't paying extra. Where you will pay extra is for hot failovers, or machine room maintenance, etc, which you don't actually need if your hot failover is a cheap beefy VPS-on-demand on Hetzner, DO, etc.

4. You are measuring the cost of absolute 0% downtime. I can't think of many businesses that have such high sensitivity to downtime. Even banks handle downtime much larger than that even while their IT systems are still up. With such strict requirements you're getting into the spot where the business itself cannot continue because of catastrophe, but the IT systems can :-/. What use is the IT systems when the business itself may be down?

The TLDR is:

1. If you have highly paid cloud-trained FTEs, and

2. Your only option other than Cloud is on-prem, and

3. Your FTEs are actually FT-contractors who get paid per hour, and

4. Your uptime requirements are moire stringent than national banks,

yeah, then cloud services are only slightly more expensive.

You know how many businesses fall into that specific narrow set of requirements?
by tgebarowski | 2026-02-05 09:49:23+00:00
After more than 6 years of building and running our own Server-Driven UI at Allegro, we decided it was time to ask: what’s next?

With all the hype around LynxJS last year, we took a closer look to see whether it really lives up to expectations. In this post, we share our experience, lessons learned, and thoughts on using it in a real production environment.

If you’re interested in mobile architecture, SDUI, React or cross-platform development.
by codeulike | 2026-02-05 09:50:07+00:00
Yes, if you work somewhere that is paying for the right add-ons, it can access all your stuff (messages, calendar, email, documents) and sythesise that all into helpful stuff like 'what am I supposed to be doing today?', 'what did I do last week (so I can fill in my timesheet)', what happened in that meeting I missed, etc. Under the hood its using whatever OpenAIs latest model is.
by CodeshieldAI | 2026-02-05 09:50:08+00:00
Hey HN! I built CodeShield AI after seeing too many startups get burned by leaked secrets.

The problem: 83% of breaches involve leaked credentials (Verizon DBIR). One hardcoded AWS key can drain your entire cloud account in hours. I saw a startup lose $50K in 4 hours this way. GitGuardian and Snyk charge $25-50/month which is expensive for indie developers.

CodeShield detects 10+ secret types (AWS keys, GitHub tokens, Stripe keys, API tokens, passwords, database connection strings, JWT tokens, private keys) plus SQL injection and XSS vulnerabilities. Scans repos in under 3 minutes with 97% accuracy.

Tech stack:
- Python-based pattern matching with regex
- GitHub Actions integration
- LemonSqueezy for automated license delivery
- Open source core (free for public repos)
- Paid tier for private repo scanning

Pricing: Free for public repos forever, $19/month for Pro (private repos), $39/month for teams.

It's fully open source with automated license key delivery. GitHub Action included for CI/CD integration.

The business model is freemium - free tier builds trust and gets users hooked, paid tier unlocks private repo scanning (which is where the real value is for professionals and companies).

I'd love feedback on:
- Feature priorities (what would make you actually use this?)
- Pricing model (too high? too low?)
- Detection accuracy (any secret types I'm missing?)
- Integration points (what tools should I integrate with?)

GitHub: https://github.com/Lydiamorgan85/codeshield-ai
Marketplace: https://github.com/marketplace/actions/codeshield-ai-securit...

Happy to answer any technical questions!
by TonyStr | 2026-02-05 09:50:55+00:00
He makes <10k cloc websites trying to sell you a spec-creation wizard[0]. Considering Claude wrote the site, it could probably be written in 1/10th of the lines.

I think these tools are great for allowing non-technical people like OP to create landing pages and small prototypes, but they're useless for anything serious. That said, I applaud OP for embodying the "when in a gold rush, sell shovels" mentality.

[0] - https://vibescaffold.dev/
AI is taking devs' jobs. Yes, **BUT
by olivdums | 2026-02-05 09:50:59+00:00
I'm a Senior software engineer for 7 years now,
I've worked in lots of companies from early stage to $5bn ones,
I've built lots of side projects and I've even been a marketing consultant for a huge company in another life,

AI is taking devs' jobs.
Say what ever you want about that, look behind you, 2 years ago, what % of your code was AI generated? How much today?

AI does replaces our job, BUT:

It's true that we will need less people in charge of coding Saas currently called as "devs",

50% of the devs' job is now fine tuning implementations plans, 50% review PRs.

BUT, I think that business jobs are becoming more and more technicals,

I see a future where Sales & Marketing departments will all use tools like Cursor / Claude code / MCPs / Write implementation docs etc.

Actually, I see a world were the people you're calling "devs" today will do the business jobs tomorrow.

It's not tech vs business people anymore,

Most of the devs who are not able to understand the business aspect might lose their jobs.

Most of the business people who do not understand coding / tech might lose their jobs.