MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jakelinq | 2025-04-01 15:55:10+00:00
Uplinq | Full-Stack SWE | US (San Francisco, Scottsdale) | Onsite/Hybrid | 120k - 200k + equity

I'm the CTO of Uplinq. We're automating bookkeeping and accounting for small businesses. Our customers are real people from Main Street America — think Insurance Agents, Dentists, Restaurant Owners, and Realtors. We’re a fast-growing VC-backed startup and just closed our Series A. We're looking to add 2 SWEs to our team of 5. Last year we quadrupled ARR ($1M → $4M+) and we're on track for $9M+ this year. Your work will directly shape how we get there.

We’re hiring experienced full-stack engineers who aren't afraid to learn some bookkeeping. Here's what we're focused on this year:

- Scaling/Improving our AI Bookkeeper to automate bookkeeping job functions end-to-end

- Improving our document intelligence pipeline (invoices, bank statements, tax forms)

- Creating new experiences for customers to save them time

About You:

- You have 5+ years of experience delivering production software

- You're generalist who isn't afraid to dive into product, infra, or deep into the domain

- You're entrepreneurial-minded and want to work with the founding team of a startup with PMF

The Stack:

React / Next.js / Tailwind / TypeScript / tRPC / PostgreSQL / AWS / SST

To Apply:

Email your cv to hiring@uplinq.com (I check this personally). You can also apply directly to our posting here: https://wellfound.com/l/2BbEjA
by xunil2ycom | 2025-04-01 15:55:44+00:00
I was a telephone customer support for WordPerfect back in the early 90s. Walking through our cubicles, you'd see most of us leaned back in our chair with our eyes closed talking people through WordPerfect's menu system to fix their problems. At some point, you just don't need to interact with the software to know what's on the customer's screen.
by perihelions | 2025-04-01 15:55:57+00:00
This isn't true. Because it's a vector addition of velocity vectors—not scalars.

The orbit you want to reach is a delta-v of about 9.0 km/s in the polar direction,

↑ 9.0 km/s

The speed of the Earth's rotation, that you would want to cancel, is maximally 0.46 km/s on the equator, in the azimuthal direction,

→ 0.46 km/s

So your delta-v vector is ↑ 9.0 km/s pointing north, plus ← 0.46 km/s pointing west (cancelling the Earth's rotation), for a vector sum of magnitude

sqrt( (9.0 km/s)^2 + (0.46 km/s)^2 ) = 9.01 km/s

Even though you're negating 460 m/s of speed, it costs no more than an additional 10 m/s (give or take) of delta-v. It's a negligible difference — 0.1%.

Launching into a polar orbit is equally easy, from any latitude!

⁂

The converse isn't true. If you're trying to reach an equatorial orbit, the delta-v into that orbit is co-linear with the earth's rotation,

(→ 9.0 km/s), (→ 0.46 km/s)

That's a scalar sum! An azimuthal launch is 460 m/s cheaper on the equator—you inherit the full speed of the Earth's rotation. Latitude is a significant factor here: it's easier to launch, the closer to you are to the equator.

(More profoundly, the orbit you're trying to reach might not even pass through the point you're trying to launch from. This happens if the target orbit inclination is smaller than your launch site's latitude (in absolute value)).
by shadefinale | 2025-04-01 15:56:18+00:00
In the dragster case, we don't have anything like video proof of the supposed record.

There was an effort to examine the source code of the game and determine a theoretical best time which has been matched but not exceeded.

To explain Todd's record would require some alternative way of having such a score such as proving he played on a prototype/alternate version of the game at the time he claimed to have set his record.

Do note that this case has 0% to do with cheating in video games. The judge listed 5 'imputations' made by Karl which seem to be the main points/infractions and cheating, donkey kong, etc do not appear there.

The scope of the judgement is related to Karl's statements about Billy's interactions with Apollo that ended up to be untrue.
by socksy | 2025-04-01 15:57:27+00:00
SEEKING WORK | Berlin, Germany (UTC+2) | Remote/Hybrid/On Location

Fullstack developer with 10+ years experience building systems that scale. Strong backend focus but with 4+ years frontend work, 3+ years devops work

Experience:

- Backend: Clojure, Python, Java, Ruby, microservices, monoliths, Kafka - Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, Cassandra - Frontend: ClojureScript, React, re-frame, Sass/SCSS, stylus - DevOps: AWS, CI/CD pipelines, Bash + Automation, Terraform - Industries: Design Tools, Internet of Things (IoT), Ad Tech, Startups

Happy to jump into projects using Rust, TypeScript, Golang, or Scala too.

I excel at:

- System architecture and backend development - Building reliable, maintainable software - Adapting to challenging environments with competing priorities - Reviewing and mentoring team members to reach their potential

Available for fullstack development, backend architecture, or improving development processes. Open to discussing any technical challenges.

Email: hire.ben@lovell.io

Web: https://ben.lovell.io

LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/ben.j.lovell

GitHub: https://github.com/socksy
by stavros | 2025-04-01 15:57:35+00:00
A few years ago I got a Chromecast, so I made a program that would cast one episode after the other of all the shows I had. It was fun to switch to the Chromecast and be in the middle of some show (I'd already watched them all), but it did have the issue you mention (it would play S02E03 and then S10E22), but it was fun to have my own TV channel, basically.
by howard941 | 2025-04-01 15:57:36+00:00
Embedded Firmware Engineer

Location: Sarasota

Remote: Preferred

Willing to relocate: No thank you

Full time or freelancing

Technologies: C; Sensors; Communications; Drone/UAV/robotics: New product development; Sustainment; Embedded/firmware/bare metal, FreeRTOS, NuttX; *nix/RF/crypto; Kinetis KE Cortex M0+ & M4, Nordic Semi's M4 SOC, ST's M4 ARMs, Espressif's ESP8266, Microchip dsPIC; realtime; IAR, gcc via MCUXpresso & Kinetis Dev and TrueStudio & unix like systems; MPLAB-X IDE; Embedded FreeBSD; Embedded Linux on for ex. Raspberry Pi / Broadcom BCM2837; PX4 drone NuttX on STM32F4; gdb; clang; UML; debugging development prototype hardware; embedded HTTP server; grid support power generation systems; TCP and UDP over IP; Ethernet; power line communications; RS-485; RV-C CANBUS; Bluetooth LE; LoRa; Battery powered devices; storage scopes; visual studio; Java w/Android Studio; GNSS. Licensed attorney & pilot (ASEL/IA); amateur radio extra class

Resume: Please request by email

Email: hginfla@gmail.com
by raphinou | 2025-04-01 15:58:04+00:00
I'm sure it can be the better choice, but for me it was not. It seems there was some incompatibility between me and Scala. I find it such a complex language and I never managed to wrap my head around it. As I said F# was my last choice at the start of my evaluation, and Scala was high on the list due to the Java ecosystem. But in the end it didn't work out for me.

F# on the JVM would be great though!
by myself248 | 2025-04-01 15:58:10+00:00
In high school, we had a Netware 3.12 environment, and the Guest account was enabled, albeit with very limited privileges. But for some reason, Guest could still use NET SEND, which popped up a little message in the bottom row of the destination machine's display.

The whole district shared a T1 connection to the internet. Which was more than plenty for email, but as this world-wide-web thing started gaining traction, it became quite the bottleneck. And as some of us had discovered mp3 files, the slowness simply would not do.

One day there was some severe weather and a power hiccup during school hours, and every station got a message from ADMIN informing us that the server room was running on UPS power and we should save our files and log out immediately.

Hmmmm.

A few weeks later, one of the bright sparks in the technology program realized that having everyone log off would free up some bandwidth. So he logged onto the next machine over as GUEST, and used a NET SEND ALL "SERVER ROOM POWER FAILURE - 11 MIN OF BATTERY REMAIN - SAVE FILES AND LOG OFF" and sure enough, within about a minute, the whole T1 was his. Did what he needed to do (i.e. leeching an entire fserv) for about 8 minutes, then NET SEND ALL "POWER RESTORED - RESUME YOUR WORK".

A few weeks later some hot commodity had just dropped and he repeated the drill. It still worked.

Nobody noticed that these messages came from GUEST, even the district administrator, who eventually called an electrical contractor to figure out why the power in the server room was so flaky. Someone eventually pointed it out to him, which got a very red-faced "that's really clever but please knock it off", and no further punishment. The next day, the Guest account had a lot fewer privileges.
by itsrajju | 2025-04-01 15:58:10+00:00
Location: New Delhi, India

Remote: Yes [Hybrid/WFO if in Delhi/NCR]

Willing to relocate: No, but can travel occassionally

Technologies: Java, Spring Boot, AWS, JPA, Hibernate, MySQL, Elasticsearch, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes, Linux, Team Management, Stakeholder Management, Agile, Writing

Résumé/CV: https://rajat.co/rajatarora_resume_2.0.25.3.pdf

Email: r@rajat.co

I am a Software Engineer and an Engineering Manager with 12+ years of industry experience. My technical stack includes Java, Spring Boot, MySQL, Elasticsearch, AWS, Redis, and related technologies.

I pride myself on writing exceptionally clean code with strong emphasis on quality and maintainability. During my career, I've designed robust event-driven distributed systems capable of processing over 50 million messages daily, have broken monoliths into microservices, and have developed complex systems from scratch. My leadership experience includes managing development teams of up to 15 engineers, and I've recently co-authored a book on Low-Code Development with Appsmith.

Currently seeking full-time Software Engineering, or Engineering Management roles. I prefer remote opportunities, though I'm open to office-based positions within the Delhi/NCR region.

If interested, please reach out at r@rajat.co
by ashimasood | 2025-04-01 15:58:22+00:00
Location: New Delhi, India

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Mathematica, R lang, Python, SQL, Maple, Latex, Statistical Analysis, Hypothesis Testing, Data Modelling, Regression Modelling, Data Visualization

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lKz_qk5d5UkwVsutRitWxUkc...

Email: ashimasood1993@gmail.com

I am an Astrophysicist with a PhD transitioning to Data Analysis. My 5+ years of research experience involved complex numerical computation, statistical modeling, and extensive data analysis in the field of Black Hole Thermodynamics.

Technical skills include: SQL, Python, R, MATLAB, Mathematica, Maple, and LaTeX. I'm proficient in Statistical Analysis, Hypothesis Testing, Data Modeling, Regression Analysis, and Data Visualization.

My academic background demonstrates strong analytical capabilities, with 5 papers published in peer-reviewed SCI journals featuring sophisticated data analysis and visualization. This research work required rigorous statistical methodologies, mathematical modeling, and communicating complex findings through effective visualizations.

I'm seeking a Data Analyst role where I can apply my quantitative analysis skills to extract insights from complex datasets. Particularly interested in positions involving statistical modeling, data manipulation, and creating meaningful visualizations that drive decision-making.

Please contact on ashimasood1993@gmail.com
by trgn | 2025-04-01 15:58:34+00:00
absolutely. page performance is the result of a hairball of initial asset loads, AJAX calls, ad-hoc roundtrips, telemetry bloat, ...

It's so convoluted, and very app specific. Core web vitals provide the right framework to think about what is relevant, but in reality your app likely requires dedicated instrumentation to capture these phases accurately.
by themaninthedark | 2025-04-01 15:58:49+00:00
I was a student up until 2009; watching people talk about buying houses for 50K and selling them for 100K, everyone talking about easy money.

I knew things were bad when a friend of my sister was complaining that her father(a building framer) was not able to get a loan for a 500K house, something that his colleagues had been able to get. It took another 6 months before the collapse started to hit and the banks when up.

Timing is hard.
by alephnerd | 2025-04-01 15:58:52+00:00
The US had the permission of Colombia's government at the time because the US was already there helping with the Colombian Conflict. It was part of SOUTHCOM [0].

Mexico withheld permission for American military and intelligence deployments from 1990 to 2025 (DEA and other law enforcement was allowed), but they changed recently.

> The parent claimed that this has never happened before because it would have been considered an act of war.

Because it has never happened before in Mexico. It has been political suicide to even consider allowing foreign troops in Mexico because of the memory of the French Occupation.

You cannot treat "Latin America" as a monolith. Each country has a different sociopolitical background and history.

[0] - https://www.southcom.mil/About/History/SOUTHCOMs-60th-Annive...
by robotelvis | 2025-04-01 15:59:25+00:00
New Public (https://newpublic.org) | Open Source Developer | REMOTE | Full time $140-$160k

We are working with a consortium of public broadcasters around the world to create a publicly-owned public-interest online space. This project has a lot of momentum behind it, particularly as recent political changes in the US are getting countries interested in the idea of digital sovereignty.

We have lots of people wanting to get involved in the project, and so we plan to open the project up to anyone to contribute, whether they be public media, private media, institutions, universities, or enthusiasts. To make that work well, we want to hire an open source engineer who can manage contributions, create training materials, do refactoring, manage forums, and do all the other things necessary to nurture a healthy open source community.

Particularly interested in people with experience maintaining Open Source projects and working with outside contributors.

https://newpublic.org/jobs/open-source-dev
by schlauerfox | 2025-04-01 15:59:32+00:00
I met Billy Mitchell briefly in 2015 at the now defunct Museum of Pinball in Banning, CA. He was promoting the world record for most people playing pinball simultaneously we participated in. I asked him about his depiction in the documentary and he replied something like "it's all true" with a lot of smirk and theatrical swagger. I got the impression he was a ruthless self promoter in all things he does, with his sauce business and his public ego and all the theater around the videogame records and most of what he was doing was all kayfabe as a heel, to use a wrestling term. Later he handed off a high level game of Ms. Pacman he was playing to me in good fun. He really is very good at the games. (I didn't last long). People are complicated.
by interroboink | 2025-04-01 16:00:08+00:00
The author makes a good point that it's important to define what "a good simulation" means.

On one extreme, we cannot even solve the underlying physics equations for single atoms beyond hydrogen, let alone molecules, let alone complex proteins, etc. etc. all the way up to cells and neuron clusters. So that level of "good" seems enormously far off.

On the other hand, there are lots of useful approximations to be made.

If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, is it a duck?

If it squidges like a nematode and squirms like a nematode, is it a [simulation of a] nematode?

(if it talks like a human and makes up answers like a human, is it a human? ;)
by bluefirebrand | 2025-04-01 16:00:35+00:00
> Lots of people in positions of authority and power have their identity tied up in their work. They would work 7 days a week if they could. This is the culture they want to push down (think Jamie Dimon [worth ~$2.4B] demanding 5 days a week in office in typical Boomer fashion). Sentiment takes time to change (Overton Window [1])

Yes, unfortunately this doesn't seem likely to change much either because people like this tend to promote other people like this, which makes it difficult to displace the outdated attitude
by sdsd | 2025-04-01 16:00:45+00:00
Here in Guatemala they have regional avocados which also are terrible compared to Hass. What's cool though is that they grow all over the place and they're dirt cheap.

Once I went to a park and realized the tree at the park was a (regional) avocado tree. But the avocados were REALLY high up. Like, there was no way we were gonna climb that sucker. So I knocked on a door that was right by the park, and I asked the young girl who answered if she had a stick or something we could use.

She said "actually, we do" and she brought out this insanely long stick with a little forked part at the edge that was just for picking avocados. And we picked so, so many.
by vlowrian | 2025-04-01 16:01:35+00:00
I'm using KOReader with the PocketBook Era. The integration is top notch. Installation is simply done by copying the KOReader folder to the right directory on the device. After that you can set KOReader as the default reader, which means that you keep on using the original system software and library, but books will automatically open in KOReader.

This lets me use "Mail to PocketBook", Dropbox sync etc. or the fantastic Push-to-Kindle browser-plugin in combination with the fantastic KOReader. No flashing or jail break required.
by WuxiFingerHold | 2025-04-01 16:02:00+00:00
React is the most used frontend framework, but not a good reference as React is outdated, slow and big.

Take Solid, Svelte or Vue (with or without Vapor mode) as reference and the picture looks different. Additionally when using custom components instead of large UI libs based on HTML elements like <dialog> or the recently announced stylable <select> element you have a very powerful, small and simple stack.

Still, they catched my interest. A lot. I'll dive into the docs to learn more. Maybe I'll be convinced to change my go-to stack to Nue ... damn, I had so many happy weeks with Vue. Maybe till Vue Vapor is out.
by JohnyTex | 2025-04-01 16:02:32+00:00
Personally I think F# is excellent for writing ye olde CRUD applications, especially as the business logic becomes more complex. F# is really good at domain modeling, as creating types comes with minimal overhead. C# has improved a lot in this area (eg record types) but it’s still got a long way to go.

I wrote a tutorial about how to get up and running with web dev in F# that might be of interest: https://functionalsoftware.se/posts/building-a-rest-api-in-g...
by adamgordonbell | 2025-04-01 16:02:33+00:00
This is about how lame PR april fools pranks got banned on HN in 2014.

The issue isn't clever jokes or pranks - like most people on HN, I know the history too of course it's all great. The problem is that companies started doing it by rote as a way to promote themselves with teh hackerz. That's lame and boring. It had gotten lame and boring years before I made that post in 2014. How much lamer and boringer is it now? exercise for the reader.
by innocentoldguy | 2025-04-01 16:02:54+00:00
I think Clojure is the better option if you want to do FP using the JVM ecosystem. The problem (for me, anyway) I've run into with Scala is that it supports both functional programming and object-oriented programming. Every code base I've worked on in Scala has ended up being a hodgepodge of both, which I find annoying.

However, the best functional programming language is, of course, Elixir. :D
by learningmore | 2025-04-01 16:03:36+00:00
“ Globe gores are strips of paper containing printed maps in the sizes and shapes needed for globe construction. The maps can be either terrestrial (showing the earth) or celestial (showing the heavens) and the gores are typically football shaped. The gores can be thought of as pre-assembled building blocks for a globe of a particular size which a globe-maker can quickly utilize to construct a globe without having to spend the time constructing the maps. ”
by keepamovin | 2025-04-01 16:03:55+00:00
Also on Google Books: https://books.google.com/books?id=DOdiAAAAcAAJ&printsec=fron...

Crazy that this is from 1604. This page[0] says it has 3000 words and is 120 pages. And is the first English dictionary. Which is incredible. Also incredible what Shakespeare did at a time when a dictionary had such a paucity of words.

0: https://www.lexilogos.com/english/english_modern_early.htm
by sio8ohPi | 2025-04-01 16:04:21+00:00
Having been on the other side of the table... there's a tactic students will sometimes use, where they don't understand the question but will simply attempt to regurgitate everything written on their notecard that is related in hopes that they'll accidentally say the right words. Sounds like you did understand it, but the volume perhaps made it look like you were just dumping. It is indeed annoying to grade.

Grading is boring, tedious, and quickly wears down one's enthusiasm. The words of M Bison come to mind: "For you, the day Bison graced your village was the most important day of your life. But for me, it was Tuesday."
by cruffle_duffle | 2025-04-01 16:04:23+00:00
I mean a rapidly changing front end codebase is always going to be entangled mess no matter if it’s react, plain JavaScript or even “native app code”. Front ends are where the rubber meets the road and have to deal with fuzzy weird human shit and miles of edge cases. That is just the nature of the beast.

Even if you attempt to tame it and make “the prefect codebase” it’s still gonna be a mess.

If anything React and typescript help it from being an even larger mess full of homegrown idioms that are normally baked into the framework.

There is no such thing as not using a framework. You either pick an existing one or build your own. Very often the sensible choice is to pick an existing one.
by bookluvr416 | 2025-04-01 16:04:47+00:00
Location: Philadelphia, PA Remote: remote or hybrid Willing to relocate: no Technologies: React, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, Ruby on Rails, SQL, AWS, TypeScript, Next.js, Tailwind CSS, GraphQL Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/11yZx1lzUBwnHyL0a5ygfbXvaS-4WSilWmXZKnZ1g5A4/edit?usp=sharing Email: amandawitecki(at)gmail.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amanda-witecki-586334135/

I'm a senior software engineer with 11.5 years of overall experience and 5 years of fullstack experience. I've worked in the healthcare industry for over a decade in the innovations space. I lean frontend, and am looking for frontend or fullstack opportunities. I've used React and RoR quite a bit in my professional life, and have taken on learning TypeScript, Next.js, Tailwind CSS, GraphQL, and Postgres through Udemy courses and a personal project. I've also recently taken on learning Python through Udemy.
by enlightens | 2025-04-01 16:04:53+00:00
I had a client (a national company with multiple locations and call centers!) that was using Lotus Notes for email in 2022, and for all I know they could still be using it. They had to run parallel calendars to work with external event invites, and apparently one of the calendars was backed by a system with a clock that was 5 minutes off because everyone was always getting to virtual meetings at the wrong time.