MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by adamcharnock | 2026-02-05 08:57:13+00:00
This is an industry we're[0] in. Owning is at one end of the spectrum, with cloud at the other, and a broadly couple of options in-between:

1 - Cloud – This is minimising cap-ex, hiring, and risk, while largely maximising operational costs (its expensive) and cost variability (usage based).

2 - Managed Private Cloud - What we do. Still minimal-to-no cap-ex, hiring, risk, and medium-sized operational cost (around 50% cheaper than AWS et al). We rent or colocate bare metal, manage it for you, handle software deployments, deploy only open-source, etc. Only really makes sense above €$5k/month spend.

3 - Rented Bare Metal – Let someone else handle the hardware financing for you. Still minimal cap-ex, but with greater hiring/skilling and risk. Around 90% cheaper than AWS et al (plus time).

4 - Buy and colocate the hardware yourself – Certainly the cheapest option if you have the skills, scale, cap-ex, and if you plan to run the servers for at least 3-5 years.

A good provider for option 3 is someone like Hetzner. Their internal ROI on server hardware seems to be around the 3 year mark. After which I assume it is either still running with a client, or goes into their server auction system.

Options 3 & 4 generally become more appealing either at scale, or when infrastructure is part of the core business. Option 1 is great for startups who want to spend very little initially, but then grow very quickly. Option 2 is pretty good for SMEs with baseline load, regular-sized business growth, and maybe an overworked DevOps team!

[0] https://lithus.eu, adam@
by unnouinceput | 2026-02-05 08:57:30+00:00
WTF is wrong with just copy/paste the same big unimportant file (like a movie) until you run out of space and then just delete them all? So much unnecessary hurdle with different utilities and commands that made my head spin. What do you think those utilities do in the background anyway if not filling the free space with junk, just like what a copy/paste does?
by coreycascio | 2026-02-05 08:58:41+00:00
For 6 months, I was that person with 15 browser tabs open just to publish one YouTube video.
vidIQ for competitor research. Runway for video generation. Descript for voiceover. Canva for thumbnails. Buffer for scheduling. ChatGPT for scripts.
$127/month in subscriptions. 20+ hours/week in busywork.

Got fed up and spent 3 months building one tool that automates the entire workflow.

--- viralvelocity.app

## What It Does:

* Competitor Intelligence* - Type your niche → instantly see top 5 creators - Analyze their viral videos, hooks, thumbnails - Data-driven content strategy (not guessing)

* AI Script Generation* - Analyzes competitor patterns in your specific niche - Generates scripts based on proven formats - Not generic ChatGPT—niche-specific scripts

* Video Creation (2 Methods)* - Image slideshow with transitions - OR Veo 3.1 AI video generation - Auto voiceover with multiple voices

* Thumbnail Generator* - AI creates thumbnails automatically - Or upload your face image once → adds it to all thumbnails - (Even faceless channels use face thumbnails for higher CTR)

* Channel Optimization* - Overall channel score (0-100) - Specific improvement suggestions per video - SEO optimization (tags, titles, descriptions)

* Auto-Scheduling* - Plan entire content calendar - Publishes videos automatically

---

## Screenshots:

[Paste your 4 screenshots here directly in the post]

---

## My Question for This Community:

As fellow YouTubers—would this actually help you? Or am I solving my own weird workflow problem?

Specifically: - What would you actually USE vs what's "nice to have"? - Is $79/mo fair to replace vidIQ ($39) + Runway ($30) + Descript ($30) + Canva ($13) + Buffer ($15)? - What am I missing that would actually matter for your channel?

---

## Full Transparency:

Solo dev, first SaaS product Built it for myself first, now testing if others need it Just launched this week—some features still rough around the edges I use it for my own channel (eating my own dog food) No fake testimonials or "make $10k/month" claims Early beta, bugs exist, support is slow (it's just me)

---

I'm not here to sell. Genuinely trying to figure out if this is worth continuing or if I should pivot/kill it.

Honest feedback appreciated, even if it's "this is stupid and here's why." Thanks for reading viralvelocity.app
by PunchyHamster | 2026-02-05 08:58:49+00:00
> At scale (like comma.ai), it's probably cheaper. But until then it's a long term cost optimization with really high upfront capital expenditure and risk. Which means it doesn't make much sense for the majority of startup companies until they become late stage and their hosting cost actually becomes a big cost burden.

You rent a dataspace, which is OPEX not CAPEX, and you just lease the servers, which turns big CAPEX into monthly OPEX bill

Running your own DC is "we have two dozen racks of servers" endeavour, but even just renting DC space and buying servers is much cheaper than getting same level of performance from the cloud.

> This flips when you start getting into the multiple FTEs per month in cost for just the hosting. At that point you probably have additional cost measured in 5-10 FTE in staffing anyway to babysit all of that. So now you can talk about trading off some hosting FTEs for modest amount of extra staffing FTEs and make net gains.

YOU NEED THOSE PEOPLE TO MANAGE CLOUD TOO. That's what always get ignore in calculations, people go "oh, but we really need like 2-3 ops people to cover datacenter and have shifts on the on-call", but you need same thing for cloud too, it is just dumped on programmers/devops guys in the team rather than having separate staff.

We have few racks and the part related to hardware is small part of total workload, most of it is same as we would (and do for few cloud customers) in cloud, writing manifests for automation.
by dust42 | 2026-02-05 08:59:11+00:00
The brand new Qwen3-Coder-Next runs at 300Tok/s PP and 40Tok/s on M1 64GB with 4-bit MLX quant. Together with Qwen Code (fork of Gemini) it is actually pretty capable.

Before that I used Qwen3-30B which is good enough for some quick javascript or Python, like 'add a new endpoint /api/foobar which does foobaz'. Also very decent for a quick summary of code.

It is 530Tok/s PP and 50Tok/s TG. If you have it spit out lots of the code that is just copy of the input, then it does 200Tok/s, i.e. 'add a new endpoint /api/foobar which does foobaz and return the whole file'
by Cthulhu_ | 2026-02-05 08:59:31+00:00
Cracking non-English or accented / mispronounced English is the white whale of text-to-speech I think; I don't know about you, but in our day to day chats there's a lot of jargon, randomly inserted English words, etc. And when they speak in English it's often what I call expat-English which is what you get when non-native speakers only speak the language with other non-native speakers.

Add poor microphone quality (using a laptop to broadcast a presentation to a room audience isn't very good) and you get a perfect storm of untranscribeable presentations or meetings.

All I want from e.g. Teams is a good transcript and, more importantly, a clever summary. Because when you think about it, imagine all the words spoken in a meeting and write them down - that's pages and pages of content that nobody would want to read in full.
by hnbad | 2026-02-05 08:59:32+00:00
> Humans are wired to be egocentric. When we hear something related to a past experience, it triggers memories and associations — which we then want to talk about. Shifting the attention from her to me. This is my default state when I'm not focused. I'm not really listening. I'm just waiting for my turn to speak.

On a completely unrelated note, many autistic people express compassion by sharing similar experiences to communicate "I understand how you feel because I can relate to your experience".

I guess the author is a good example for why this tends to upset people (and especially allistic/non-autistic people).

On an also completely unrelated note, the example phrases/questions the author gives at the end read like having a conversation with ELIZA.
by saidnooneever | 2026-02-05 08:59:58+00:00
ugh that they have to phrase it in such a way already makes me nauseous.

why start with the 'not as a decline, but as'. its such a stupid way to put it.

i cant beleive marketing ppl still dont realize that you dont sell something by say 'oh its not actually a turd its delicious'. JUST SAY ITS DELICIOUS. NO ONE WANTED TO KNOW WHAT IT WAS NOT.

you dont want to put a bad flavor in someones mouth and then try to wash it out.
even LLM get this basic shit wrong lmao.

sorry a bit unrelated but considering the specific topic this tagline is suppose to address its really triggering.
by wakawaka28 | 2026-02-05 09:00:26+00:00
You are very confused about the state of your country:

* Healthcare: Veterans are encouraged to get euthanasia because they complain about long waits for service.

* "Language rights": You have the "right" to be required to do legal documents in two languages instead of one. In the US we really don't even have a mandatory official language, though we should require English. People speak whatever they want to anyone they can get to listen. Remember the Tower of Babel? That is a story of a divine curse for a reason!

* Harrassed by police: Canadians have effectively lost gun rights, free speech rights, much of their financial autonomy, etc. To add insult to injury, there are countless stories of Canadian crime victims having essentially no recourse. They are ignored or punished by police for speaking out about crime or defending their lives and property.

I know you are trying to take a dig at ICE in your comment, but a country without borders is not sustainable. Maybe you want infinite "diversity" and "enrichment" but most people want to see their culture and race continue. You can't import a very disproportionate amount of culturally incompatible people and keep your country. I think you and people like you have been infected with a mind virus that destroys your self-respect and self-preservation instincts.
by somenameforme | 2026-02-05 09:00:49+00:00
Look at this topic in the meta-level. It has a relatively low number of upvotes, extremist comments being actively upvoted - with the current top post suggesting people engage in sabotage, with many if not most dissenting views ending up flagged. This isn't exactly a productive nor interesting topic, because people are more interested in attacking people and circle jerking, rather than engaging in any sort of interesting discussion. So it ends up reading like the typical garbage on Reddit, which is essentially where discussion goes to die. It's not great seeing that sort of stuff here as well.
by paride5745 | 2026-02-05 09:00:50+00:00
They could have led the way to a social web using Google Reader.

Make a Disqus-like comment section that shows the comments in RSS articles from Reader.

Also Reddit, by empowering the GReader Groups capabilities.

But no, let's copy Facebook and force everybody on it. And kill Google Talk while at it.

I'll never forgive Google for that.
by palata | 2026-02-05 09:00:51+00:00
If you read the article, I believe it is more of a "we are studying it and there is a lot to do" than "drugs are good".

I think a very important part is:

> For example, I’m interested in the effects of THC versus CBD. We don't have any of that information in the UK Biobank. Most people in this study were using cannabis quite a while ago, and cannabis at that time looked very different from what’s available today. That context really matters. It’s a complex picture.
by bambax | 2026-02-05 09:01:27+00:00
> it doesn't make much sense for the majority of startup companies until they become late stage

Here's what TFA says about this:

> Cloud companies generally make onboarding very easy, and offboarding very difficult. If you are not vigilant you will sleepwalk into a situation of high cloud costs and no way out.

and I think they're right. Be careful how you start because you may be stuck in the initial situation for a long time.
by RGamma | 2026-02-05 09:01:32+00:00
Atomization enables this. Any number of individuals are individually weak against their employer/some org, but a big group of them can be quite powerful.

If many were to sacrifice their morals out of financial pressure easily (the control over which is in increasingly few hands) the path the US is treading becomes pretty deterministic... We've seen it in the movies and read it in the books.

You guys seem to need collective action and civil disobedience.

Then again.. maybe the will for collective action comes only after the repossessions...
by duk3luk3 | 2026-02-05 09:02:10+00:00
You are completely out of touch with what the immigration policy of the last democratic government (Biden 2020) was.

It was aggressive, it was inhumane, and immigrants were killed despite a massive effort by people from "the left" to feed and clothe people who were detained in open fields or between two border fences without any care being provided by the US agencies detaining them.

Maybe you are right that nobody who is right-leaning trusts that the US democratic party isn't pro border enforcement and anti immigration, but that's based purely on lies and propaganda.
by kjksf | 2026-02-05 09:02:23+00:00
Are you looking for facts that will contradict your opinion?

Justin Bieber clearly was that. His youtube videos got him discovered at age 13-14.

Vanessa Paradis made her first public appearance as a singer at age 7.

There are several children prodigies I've seen on YouTube (singers, drummers, guitarists). They clearly have such talent that even at young age they do music better than most people would do with infinite amount of practice.

As to your question, the prodigy is, by definition, extremely rare. They clearly exist (Bieber, Paradis) but, by definition, you can't expect to have a lot of them.

And "why aren't 7 year olds headlining for Taylor Swift" is not a fair bar.

There are reasons 7 year olds don't do world wide tours that have to do with things other than musical talent. Like being in school or not being allowed to take a bus by themselves.
by Gud | 2026-02-05 09:02:42+00:00
It was bullshit then, it’s bullshit now.

I pay ChatGPT 20 bucks a month, or whatever the subscription is. I get massive value out of this, Sam Altman is paying for my computing power. I’m paying a tenth(or less) of what the actual price is. Once that no longer applies, I will ditch ChatGPT and probably build my own LLM computer.

So thanks Sam for giving me cheap computing power.
Show HN: Pahadify – A client-side image editor built with Vanilla JavaScript
by MyselfNikhil | 2026-02-05 09:03:00+00:00
Hello HN,

I am a solo developer based in INDIA. I wanted to share Pahadify, a lightweight image editing utility I've been working on.

The Problem: I was tired of simple image tools that require uploading private files to a server or downloading heavy 500MB+ software just for basic edits.

The Solution: I built this as a completely client-side PWA (Progressive Web App).

Technical Details:

Stack: Pure HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (No heavy frameworks).

Size: The entire application is approximately 1.5MB.

Privacy: All processing happens in the browser; no image data is sent to a backend.

I built this to prove that useful, privacy-first technology can be built from anywhere—even the hills of the Himalayas.

I would love your feedback on the load times and the tool's responsiveness.

Thank you!
by tgsovlerkhgsel | 2026-02-05 09:03:31+00:00
In a way, this is a good thing. Hopefully it will draw the attention of other countries and make them realize how important it is to prevent such data hoards, and hopefully once the US has recovered they'll learn from it like the Germans did from the Stasi.

Maybe California will even take it as an incentive to make proper privacy laws and impose it on anyone doing business in California in any way.
by theothertimcook | 2026-02-05 09:03:43+00:00
I hear you and do a similar thing but then forget my notebook and so just ego lift till I injure myself, rinse, repeat.

I had set up something similar to what you’re talking about using shortcuts on iOS but I find myself coming back to the app “strong”.

Ultimately I think a notebook is the best way to do it but I use strong because my phone is terminally in my pocket, and it’s lets you view and export the data in different ways.
by mrtksn | 2026-02-05 09:04:48+00:00
What makes you believe that software engineers are against the stuff happening? This new movement is defined by male loneliness and other sad traits that are quite common among people whom life passes in front of a computer. Curtis Yarvin, one of the masterminds of this new age is a software developer himself.

I would argue that whatever is happening now is part of the revenge of the nerds once the nerds remain unsatisfied despite the material possessions they acquired as software ate the world.

People deeply disconnected from the real world, seeing numbers and thinking with numbers without understanding the underlying realities of those numbers is a trait of any low touch system that developers and other IT professionals operate within.

Just yesterday apparently when asked Trump said "it's just two people" that were executed by ICE and steered the conversation when he was pushed to elaborate.

Probably from tech perspective ICE is incredibly well working, in tech world you can take away the livelihood of thousands of people by a single line of a code that changes an algorithm that bans someone or re-sorts the search results. Someone loses their Youtube account they built for years due to algorithm misfiring, someone loses their developer account on an App Store and can't even get a reason for it.

The tech world is very used to operate in a fascist high efficiency environment that enshittifies everything that touches but keeps improving on some selected KPI. Maybe they wish it doesn't happen but they are not going to sacrifice higher numbers for the lives of a few people. Welcome to the highly efficient(according to selected KPI) new world order.

I know you don't like to hear that as this is a place for IT people but the governance of online platforms is quite fascist across the board. People are banned, shadow banned or rate limited when don't behave or don't say the right stuff. Preserving order and increasing engagement is above everything, even those who claim that they came to make "speech free again" quickly turned into just changing what speech to be allowed.

Anything controversial that is attracting negativity is hidden away unless it is feeding the narrative of the platform, then it is actively promoted.

Therefore, I don't think that IT workers have any remorse or any problem with this new reality. Its the reality they built and most are loving it.

The medium is the message but the medium was built bit by bit by IT professionals in a span of 20 years.
by tialaramex | 2026-02-05 09:05:06+00:00
Technically logging certificates is not a Requirement of the trust stores, but most web browsers won't accept a certificate which isn't presented with a proof of logging, typically (but not always) baked inside the certificates.

The reason for this distinction is that failing to meet a Requirement for issued certificates would mean the trust stores might remove your CA, but several CAs today do issue unlogged certificates - and if you wanted to use those on a web server you would need to go log them and staple the proofs to your certs in the server configuration.

Most of the rules (the "Baseline Requirements" or BRs) are requirements and must be followed for all issued certificates, but the rule about logging deliberately doesn't work that way. The BRs do require that a CA can show us - if asked - everything about the certificates they issued, and these days for most CAs that's easiest accomplished by just providing links to the logs e.g. via crt.sh -- but that requirement could also be fulfilled by handing over a PDF or an Excel sheet or something.
by speedgoose | 2026-02-05 09:05:12+00:00
At a previous job, the company had its critical IT infrastructure on their own data center. It was not in the IT industry, but the company was large and rich enough to justify two small data centers. It notably had batteries, diesel generators, 24/7 teams, and some advanced security (for valid reasons).

I agree that solving technical issues is very fun, and hosting services is usually easy, but having resilient infrastructure is costly and I simply don't like to be woken up at night to fix stuff while the company is bleeding money and customers.
by paffdragon | 2026-02-05 09:05:23+00:00
You can run a container on Synology and install your custom services, tools there. At least that is what I do. For custom kernel modules you still need a Synology package for something like Wireguard.

If you have OPNSense, it has an ACME plugin with Synology action. I use that to automatically renew and push a cert to the NAS.

That said, since I like to tinker, Synology feels a bit restricted, indeed. Although there is some value in a stable core system (like these immutable distros from Fedora Atomic).
by habinero | 2026-02-05 09:06:43+00:00
"They only coded the happy path" is software engineer for "they coded it as if nothing would ever go wrong". It is definitely not good design to do that.

There's an engineering trap/fallacy I like to call "how hard could it be". How hard could it be to build a [whatever] clone? If you find yourself thinking that, stop what you're doing, because the answer is almost always "at least an order of magnitude harder than you think."
by Paracompact | 2026-02-05 09:06:43+00:00
Years ago, I would have agreed with most of what you wrote. The left, like the right, reacts with emotion and absolutism. No one is above this, so I think it is very important that we frequently assess what would actually change our minds.

Given the present tide of things, however, I think there's no amount of course-correction back toward the left that would prove excessive. My opinion on this will change as soon as the tide does, and e.g. a leftist president endorses indiscriminate murder of ICE agents, or something equally egregious to what we're seeing in the opposite direction.

In a more ideological sense, though, I tend to despise the left/right continuum and think it is unhelpful for analysis.
by romanovcode | 2026-02-05 09:06:52+00:00
Yes, also it's not even encrypted. It's the worst case of all major browsers.

Firefox & Safari: E2E encrypted, you hold keys, not possible for Mozilla/Apple to access it.

Chrome: Encrypted, Google holds keys meaning it is useless, they can read and give away the data. One can enable sync passphrase which would enable E2E however.

Edge: Nothing is encrypted and no way to change this.
by jillesvangurp | 2026-02-05 09:08:01+00:00
> Once they are up and running

You should also calculate the cost of getting it up and running. With Google Cloud (I don't actually use AWS), I mainly worry about building docker containers in CI and deploying them to vms and triggering rolling restarts as those get replaced with new ones. 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.

And for production setups. You need people on stand by to fix the server in case of hardware issues; also outside office hours. Also, where does the hardware live? 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? Do you pay for security for wherever all that happens? What about cleaning, AC, or a special server room in your building. All that stuff is cost. Some of it is upfront cost. Some of it is recurring cost.

The article is a about a company that owns its own data center. The cost they are citing (5 million) is substantial and probably a bit more complete. That's one end of the spectrum.