MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by danielpetrica | 2025-04-30 11:03:05+00:00
Hey HN! I never imagined my blog would land on the front page — and yet, here we are. The traffic spike (over 190k requests in a day) didn’t take my site down thanks to preparation I did last year, particularly with Cloudflare caching and Ghost CMS optimizations.

I wrote this to help other devs, indie hackers, and bloggers prepare for their “Hacker News moment” — with real config examples, traffic stats, and lessons learned from self-hosting.

Happy to answer any questions or hear how you all approach high-traffic resilience!
by _Wintermute | 2025-04-30 11:03:15+00:00
They can invite whoever they want, but I think they will struggle to attract talent unless they actually start making some changes to make it a more attractive option rather than just assuming elsewhere is going to get worse.

I did a post-doc in France after my PhD in the UK. It was possibly worthwhile just for the experience, but the actual funding and research environment is not one I would recommend to my colleagues.
by mweibel | 2025-04-30 11:03:29+00:00
sourness is depending on quite a lot of factors - amount of water in starter, how long you proof, temperature etc.

I also prefer less sour breads and since I started using a stiff starter it's much better than more liquid ones. I still haven't found the perfect recipe yet but it is possible.

A good intro into the difference of starters is at the bread code: https://www.the-sourdough-framework.com/Sourdoughstartertype...
by eadmund | 2025-04-30 11:03:40+00:00
You are not addressing my point. The cost to consumers does not consider the cost to potential employees who no longer have jobs. Note the very first comment (at this time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43806765): ‘The fast food chains seem to have a bifurcated response. Some, like McDonalds, seem to have cut crew, while retaining relatively low prices.’

And yes, it is a natural law that increasing the cost of something reduces its usage. That’s why we many governments tax alcohol and cigarettes. Raising the cost of labour means that less of it is bought.

Raising the cost of labour puts labourers out of work.
by ffsm8 | 2025-04-30 11:04:34+00:00
Yeah, FSD was promised with the release of the first model S, 2012 - to be ready by "next year"

As such, it's been roughly 12 years just around the corner for Tesla and Musk enthusiasts.

To be more specific: Musk explicitly said in that marketing event that buying anything other the Tesla wouldn't make economic sense, as they'll earn their own price back as self driving Taxis within the following two years.

Still blows my mind that people believed him anything as these kinds of unrealistic promises were at the heart of every event since the start.

Believing someone with promises like that is - from my perspective - begging to get scammed.

From that point of view, people should be glad the delivered cars were decent. Most purchases with outlandish promises end with merchandise that is borderline unusable.
by rsynnott | 2025-04-30 11:04:41+00:00
> when I invested in Tesla when the Dragon capsule first docked with the ISS, in 2012

This is what I mean! You invested in a company that made heavy consumer goods because he did a space thing! These are totally unrelated! You liked his aesthetics!

12 years previously to that, well, there was this nonsense: https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-arm-wrestle-paypal...

Like, I'm sorry, you can't tell me that's a sensible way to do software engineering.
by hliyan | 2025-04-30 11:05:01+00:00
Yes, but if I really wanted, I could go into a specific line of code that governs some behaviour of the Linux kernel, reason about its effects, and specifically test for it. I can't trace the behaviour of LLM back to a subset of its weights, and even if that were possible, I can't tweak those weights (without training) to tweak the behaviour.
by graemep | 2025-04-30 11:05:37+00:00
That is very little relative to the amount of time spent.

School is very inefficient in terms of the student time spent to learn. It optimises for minimising teacher time and other costs.

> What a blessing it would be, as an adult, to have free access to a tutor for such a variety of courses.

You have paid access. Do you value it enough to pay?
by incomingpain | 2025-04-30 11:05:46+00:00
I decommissioned my SearX engine in favour of chatAI of some flavour. chatgpt>grok>meta

I do somehow end up on brave search often. I'll go to my url bar and search for a site I often use but not enough to have bookmark. Instead of just bringing me right to the site its a search for the site?

They are favouring the search over the direct link all of a sudden?
by doublerabbit | 2025-04-30 11:05:49+00:00
Depends on what. I can't even trust the 40 year developers in my team at work. "Hacky if foreach loop will fix later"

Trust is a privilege that must be earned not given. Prove to me you're trustworthy and I'll give you trust.

One untrustworthy 16 year old can cause hell chaos in a group of trustworthy teenagers. I've seen it when I was a youth worker.
by edding4500 | 2025-04-30 11:05:59+00:00
This is silly. Behind an LLM sits a deterministic algorithm. So no, it is not possible without ibserting randomness by other means into the algo, for example by setting temperatures for gradient descent.

Why are all these posts and news about LLMs so uninformed? This is human built technology. You can actually read up how these things work. And yet they are treated as if it were an alien species that must be examined by sociological means and methods where it is not necessary. Grinds my gears every time :D
by beAbU | 2025-04-30 11:06:01+00:00
You might be right. I saw a survey somewhere (can't find it now), where Americans were asked about working in factories.

Majority said that USA will be better if more people started working in factories, but a minority said USA will be better if /they/ worked in factories.

It's the whole "I got mine" mentality, where people are not willing to compromise on their own comfort for the greater good, yet they expect others to do so.

I don't think this is unique to the US, I think it's just very egregious there at the moment.
by ndr42 | 2025-04-30 11:06:15+00:00
I've read the same comment from you as a response to three different comments. I will just answer here:

"There is substantial evidence to suggest that education influences intelligence.[3]" (From Wikipedia)

[3] Baltes, P., & Reinert, G. (1969). Cohort effects in cognitive development in children as revealed by cross sectional sequences. Developmental Psychology, 1, 169-177.
by GuB-42 | 2025-04-30 11:07:56+00:00
The thing is: smartphones exist. The young adults these children will become will live in a world where smartphones are an essential part of their life. Using a smartphone is a practical skill.

That's why I don't think banning smartphones is the best idea. It is probably better than unrestricted access, but I feel that school should teach how to use them well instead. It is a bit like with calculators, there are classes with calculators, classes without, and classes that teach how to work with them, their strengths and shortcomings.

I don't know how to do it in practice though. Airplane mode and offline educative apps may be a start.
by angusb | 2025-04-30 11:08:06+00:00
Congrats, this is a great story! One small thing:

> Every time I check out competitors' sites — those who also build knowledge base or customer support platforms — I notice something odd. Almost all of them use third-party tools like Intercom or Zendesk to support their own customers. That surprises me. If your product is so great — why don’t you use it yourself? For me, that’s a golden rule: your product should be so good you want to use it yourself. If not, that means something’s wrong.

Is this not just because Intercom and Zendesk have their own ticketing systems tightly integrated to the docs? Integrating the two allows e.g. customer query auto-reply based on RAG with the documentation, or auto-replying with the 3 support articles most likely to solve the problem. I assume Perfect Wiki has no equivalent ticket integration?
by nik8n | 2025-04-30 11:08:41+00:00
Hey all,

We're looking for an exceptional AI Product Manager to join us at n8n, and in my (biased) opinion this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. n8n is a fair code AI workflow automation for technical teams. It’s not just a place with a great culture, but is also seeing crazy growth right now: - We 5x’d our ARR last year, and are on track for a much higher multiple this year. - Every week, 100k+ new users try out n8n. - We have a fanatic community that absolutely loves the product. We're right at the center of defining how people will build with AI in the coming years. But to truly lead this very competitive space, we need someone to tackle the massive challenge of define n8n's core AI strategy and execute the roadmap that makes us the undisputed default tool for AI building. That's where you come in.

What we’re looking for (the unicorn) - Great PM skills: You thrive in high-pace, high-uncertainty environments, can prioritize the most important things from a long list and ruthlessely focus on what’s important. You should also be technical and able to empathise with our technical user base. - AI Native: You bring a deep, nuanced understanding of the modern AI landscape, are well connected in the AI space (part of the "inner circle," know the key players/research) and have informed opinions on where the market’s heading - Humble & passionate: You bring a deep passion for product craft and making an impact. You’re humble, authentic, radically transparent but yet have strong convictions and can stand your ground.

Important: We only hire in Europe, so you either need to live here or be willing to relocate.

We know this is a rare combination and a demanding role with incredibly high expectations. You'll be shaping the future of AI development for potentially millions of users. If you read this and thought "holy crap, that's exactly me," or you know the perfect person, we want to talk.

https://www-v2.n8n.io/careers/?ashby_jid=7b585eef-bbcd-4461-...
by paulsilver | 2025-04-30 11:08:41+00:00
It's a bit of a weird question. As a parent, you do tons of stuff that is fun and good for your child and not for you. Ask a tired parent are you happy reading to your child when you've read them the same books over and over and they'll answer no. Ask them a few years later when the child is reading for themselves whether they miss reading to their child and they'll say yes.

My wife used to help with reading at my son's school when he was first there. Tip for future parents - read to your child! It becomes really obvious really early which children are read to/with and which are not.
by graemep | 2025-04-30 11:09:24+00:00
I took my kids out of school from when they were about nine until they were 16. They went back into school with a better education and better prepared for life than those who stayed in school, exams (UK GCSEs and IGCSEs) passed with high grades as as evidence, and obviously better than good social and life skills, and excellent study skills and self-discipline.

There are definitely better alternatives to the current school system.
by IggleSniggle | 2025-04-30 11:10:24+00:00
Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying. The industry made us all believe they do, in what began as a differentiator from offline ads, that quickly spiraled into the current day insanity. Browsers have been playing cat and mouse to a degree, but except for the annoying cookie banners that everybody hates, regulation like GDPR is the thing that has restored some small piece of sanity. There should be more and better regulation + enforcement to better align ad tech with the interests of the public.
by LightBug1 | 2025-04-30 11:10:42+00:00
How many memecoins did Musk purchase for this exemption?

Or was it an in-kind deal for his amateur-hack-a-billy work at DOGE?

Musk as presidential prostitute is not something I had on my bingo card when he first arrived on the scene.

This is the kind of bullshit your reputation will never recover from - no matter how many puff pieces you buy or retweet.

RIP Tesla.

RIP Elon.
by lillecarl | 2025-04-30 11:11:08+00:00
Sure, but Kagi is one of the ones you'll get the value back out of. And if you don't use it you don't pay.

I only subscribe to Spotify, YouTube and Kagi as "online services". Video media I happily sail the seas for and I don't mind evil megacorps "losing" money on my behalf.
by FinnLobsien | 2025-04-30 11:11:08+00:00
1. Correct, I think you've changed my mind on this and I'll investigate further. Though they should probably get foundational knowledge on tech literacy.

2. True, though less true over time. Even in the non-tech jobs you're now constantly using technology. In the trades, you need to know how to operate a CNC machine. As a nurse, you're operating medical devices that are getting more and more powered by technology.
by rayiner | 2025-04-30 11:11:11+00:00
Even in your analogy, that just means you’re not willing to jeopardize yourself in any way to help, not that you affirmatively want the other person to drown. In fact they recommend that you don’t try to help drowning victims, because they often cause their rescuers to drown as well. More generally, not caring about other people isn’t the same as affirmatively wanting to harm them.
by incomingpain | 2025-04-30 11:12:37+00:00
Childrens books are awful. Yes there's some classics you can read like once but i dont know what's wrong.

I was considering even writing some better stuff. I was thinking maybe spongebob theory where you need to hide double entendres or adult humour but no.

The 5 minute marvel stories are probably the worse of them.

I never really figured out what needs to be improved.
by myrmidon | 2025-04-30 11:13:04+00:00
> I had the direct comparison when I went to university. It became very clear that I was learning much more and faster.

Sure, but this should be expected. If you filtered out all children with low interest/performance/support in preschool and just threw them onto a playground, learning rate could also be much faster in school for the rest.

But if you want a solid baseline of reading/writing/math/general education for everyone in society, those twelve years are already barely enough.

I'm very confident that early discrimination/segregation ("gifted" and "idiot" tracks in school) is a net negative for society and encourages unethical outcomes on top.

Optional programs for faster/more targetted learning are much better and can be very positive IMO, but even there you need to be careful with how you set things up to avoid problems.
by strangescript | 2025-04-30 11:13:12+00:00
The smaller models have been creeping upward. They don't make headlines because they aren't leapfrogging the mainline models from the big companies, but they are all very capable.

I loaded up a random 12B model on ollama the other day and couldn't believe how good it competent it seemed and how fast it was given the machine I was on. A year or so ago, that would have not been the case.
by bccdee | 2025-04-30 11:13:41+00:00
> harbor as many people as possible who have no agency'

> Art, science, exploration. I don't know, take your pick

What's the point of art, then? Consuming art isn't "agentic," and the point of producing it is consumption. Ditto exploration—does discovered land serve any purpose in and of itself? Or is the point to see it and to live in it? And science—consider medicine. The discovery of a new medication itself is not the point; the point is that people take it and become better, which is not agentic.

Agency is a means to an end, and that end is experience. You can't justify life, individual or collective, in terms of agency.

> Still, we're told that hunger and disease must be eradicated before we do anything of importance.

Gee, I was unaware that we "hadn't been doing anything important" for the past 40,000 years of civilization.

> The homeless people i've interacted with [...] don't have some rich inner world

I don't honestly believe you've interacted with many homeless people that closely. I think you see them from a distance and assume they're basically urban wildlife. Mental health issues are not the obstacle to participation in society that you seem to think they are, and anyway, only a minority have mental health issues. And substance abuse—frankly, if I were homeless, I would probably take a lot of drugs too. What else am I going to do?

Homelessness is an extremely fixable issue, and countries that have supplied homeless people with long-term housing have seen their homeless populations vanish overnight. Obviously. What they're missing is homes. It's extremely difficult to get back on your feet without one, and the shelter system is completely inadequate.

> We already have a surplus of pretty much everything, and the result is that we are a society of wireheads

Do you have any idea how much rent costs in a big city? How much groceries cost? What are you talking about.

> I think happiness itself is orthogonal to a having meaningful life, and we shouldn't pursue it directly.

Then what's the point of living meaningfully? It doesn't sound like it's good for anything. "Meaning" gets thrown around a lot to indicate things we want to defend but cannot really justify on their own merits.
by testing22321 | 2025-04-30 11:14:30+00:00
I do think it’s a good technology pathfinder, even if a flop. Using massively simpler wiring (lighter, cheaper), steer by wire and 48v for the low voltage electronics are all major steps that should have happened a decade ago.

If they can learn lessons it should help them in the future with their unboxed construction of cyber cab and hopefully something else smaller and cheaper.

Elon also said a while back if it doesn’t sell they’ll make a more normal looking version. But of course he says a lot of things.
by _heimdall | 2025-04-30 11:14:56+00:00
I live in a state where unfortunately my senator will absolutely never turn on Trump and impeach, those calls would be a waste of time.

I agree that holding people accountable today is important if and when laws are broken. But surely you can't just stop there. We don't need to codify legal rules perfectly, but acknowledging that we can't should lead to much more hesitation with the powers we allow and the sheer size of our legal codes.

Dealing with an immediate problem first makes sense. We would need to follow that up with overhauling our laws to better ensure this can't happen again. We're never going to do that though, solving the root cause is slow, tedious, and politically untenable.
by roenxi | 2025-04-30 11:14:56+00:00
> To talk about schooling we first have to make clear what the goal is.

What can I say; I like arguing. We don't actually have to choose a single goal - everyone can have different goals. If schooling isn't compulsory then you could have a mass of different people doing different things for different reasons and it all gets called 'schooling'.

If schooling is state managed ... the same interest groups exist, they just have to fight over the curriculum in parliament or the Department of Schooling. The end result will be a weird hodge-podge of compromises that nobody can confidently say satisfies them completely and doesn't have a clear goal.

It happens that we cannot say that there is a goal of schooling. Some people may have one goal, but other people may have alternative goals. There are some really tricky edge cases, like History - should Mongolian schoolchildren be taught that Ghengis Khan was a hero, a scumbag, a disaster, a triumph, a fact, a national symbol or someone best forgotten? That is not a question where a reliable and enduring consensus can be reached because real life is too complicated to take a final universal stand on something that happened 1,000 years ago.
by doix | 2025-04-30 11:14:59+00:00
In my (admittedly very limited) experience, Teams was almost free when you're already paying for microsoft 365. At least last time I had any involvement with it, the price difference between having teams in the bundle or not was negligible. It makes it cheaper than any competitor.

Now in reality, I think the true cost is hidden by the frustration it causes (some?) users, but it's very hard to quantify that in a dollar amount. Which is why companies stick with Teams.
by triknomeister | 2025-04-30 11:15:01+00:00
Lack of ambition I call it. People have become too comfortable. Europe had become rich enough that throwing away such opportunities wouldn't affect them. Now it does, but they are too entrenched to see it. The number of times I've seen a position go empty just because people couldn't resolve their internal conflcits is too high. Also, there's apparently no punishment for letting positions go empty.
by cafard | 2025-04-30 11:15:33+00:00
Until about Mondale, VPs were seldom given much to do. Yes, Nixon made a handy bad cop to Eisenhower's good cop. But without going to a reference, I can't name an VP who didn't succeed to the presidency between George Clinton and Alben Barkely. Well, OK, John Calhoun, chiefly because he was on such bad terms with Jackson.
by maaaaattttt | 2025-04-30 11:15:47+00:00
A Wolf had nought but bones and skin So exact the watch of dogs had been.

He chances on a Mastiff as powerful as handsome Fat, sleek, who had strayed by chance.

To attack him, quarter him Lord Wolf would gladly do;

But he would have to join battle,

And the Mastiff was of such stature As to defend himself with ease.

So the Wolf approaches him humbly, Enters into conversation, compliments him On his girth, which he admires.

"You fine sir could be as fat as me" Replied the Dog.

"Leave the woods, you would do well: Your like are miserable there,

Dunces, hairshirts and poor devils, Their estate is to die of hunger.

Every bite of food is hard won By dint of fang and claw. For what?

Follow me: you would have a fate much better." The Wolf replied, "What must I do?"

"Almost nothing," replied the Dog, "Chase beggars And people carrying sticks;

To flatter those at home, to please one's Master: In exchange your salary would be

A great many scraps of all kinds: Bones of chickens, bones of pigeons,

Without mentioning many caresses." The Wolf already imagines a happiness

Which makes him teary from fondness. Walking along, he saw the bald neck of the Dog.

"What is it there?" he said. - Nothing. - What? Nothing? - Nothing much.

But still? - The collar by which I am tethered Is perhaps the cause of what you see.

"Tethered?" said the Wolf: So you do not run Wherever you want? - Not always; but what matters it?

It matters so much that all your meals I would not want in any wise or manner,

And would not desire even a treasure at such price." This said, master Wolf runs off, and he runneth still.

— Jean de La Fontain, 1668 ( translated by Tad Boniecki)
I streamed to Twitch directly from the browser – just WebRTC and SVG with Framv
by framvhq | 2025-04-30 11:16:24+00:00
Been pushing how far HTML, CSS, JS, and SVG can go — turns out, really far.

Built a motion engine fully in the browser. You can now:

Build motion graphics with real HTML & SVG Add camera, screen recording, and live overlays And stream it all directly — no heavy tools, no setup Try the project: https://app.framv.com/editor/01JT0XQENJEHE36PYNM1QC273Y See it in action: https://x.com/FramvHQ/status/1917348408282537987

Feels like hacking the web. Curious what you think.
by apercu | 2025-04-30 11:17:17+00:00
Sure? But I think the point stands. And why would anyone think that a terminator would go bad until you’ve tried everything else and finally you swap them out and all of a sudden the network chatter stops and things go back to normal? It’s an experience thing and I worry that most of us are too abstracted from the underlying systems these days to properly understand them. It’s pretty common in my other world (info sec policy).