MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ag_user123 | 2025-04-08 18:31:42+00:00
SEEKING WORK | Remote

I am a full-stack developer with focus on PERN/MERN stack and over 10 years of experience delivering software. I have a strong background as a software architect and have successfully led teams as a fractional CTO. I have worked with clients from diverse industries worldwide. I have successfully delivered over 20 projects for a range of clients, including solo founders, early stage startups, growing startups, digital agencies, and notable companies like Apple and Binance.

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by tptacek | 2025-04-08 18:32:01+00:00
If it's hype, it's not hype the way you're thinking. I've shown Tailscale to a lot of people (this is less salient now, when pretty much everybody uses Tailscale) and the most common reaction I've gotten is "holy shit". It is spooky simple to get working, and it's spooky simple to go from a working installation to a VPN configuration that would take many many hours to replicate with pre-existing tools.

There may be VPN nerds out there who think there's nothing special happening with Tailscale, but I submit those nerds haven't spent a lot of time dealing with the median, replacement-level VPN configuration prior to Tailscale. I'm a pentester, and so I have had that pleasure. Tailscale is revolutionary compared to what it replaced.
by mdasen | 2025-04-08 18:32:05+00:00
I love the idea of putting things in the menu bar, but it seems like the apps still have to be taking up space in the dock. I can't have WhatsApp, Signal, FB Messenger, Slack, Discord, etc. tucked away running in the background and popping up in my menu bar when there's something to respond to. I have to have them crowding my dock with half a dozen icons.

Is there a way to hide the items from the dock and just have them in the menu bar?
by ag_user123 | 2025-04-08 18:32:13+00:00
Location: Europe

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Technologies: React.js, Node.js, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, AWS, Heroku, Datadog, JavaScript, Next.js, Apollo, GraphQL, data visualizations (D3.js, Mapbox, Leaflet), headless CMS (Contentful, Prismic, Strapi), MobX, Redux, Wordpress, Tailwind, Bootstrap, Material UI, Webpack, TypeScript, web3 (ethers.js), chrome extensions and more.

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Email: mail [at] andrejgajdos.com

I am a full-stack dev and tech lead with focus on PERN/MERN stack and over 10 years of experience delivering software. I have a strong background as a software architect and have successfully led teams as a fractional CTO. I have worked with clients from diverse industries worldwide. I have successfully delivered over 20 projects for a range of clients, including solo founders, early stage startups, growing startups, digital agencies, and notable companies like Apple and Binance.

Portfolio: https://andrejgajdos.com/projects/

Personal Website: https://andrejgajdos.com

Github: https://github.com/AndrejGajdos
by asaddhamani | 2025-04-08 18:32:36+00:00
Hey, as a maker, I get it. You spent time building something, and you want to understand how it gets used. If you're not collecting personal info, there is nothing wrong with this.

Knee-jerk reactions aren't helpful. Yes, too much tracking is not good, but some tracking is definitely important to improving a product over time and focusing your efforts.
by quaker120 | 2025-04-08 18:33:14+00:00
I love word puzzles, so I made one myself. It's called Nounly. Every day, players are given five adjectives as hints to guess the day's noun.

I'm looking for feedback about the puzzle. Does the premise make sense? Is it too easy? Too hard? Is it compelling enough that you'd play every day?

Thanks so much!
by exabrial | 2025-04-08 18:33:48+00:00
The headline authors really trying hard to grab those advertising clicks...

- Is it a fact that tape archives are immutable?

- Is it a fact they cannot be intentionally lost?

- Is it a fact they cannot be intercepted?

Whether or not any of the above is true/false, the fact of the matter is every system is hackable to an extent. If the definition of security is using an obscure (notice I did not say outdated): than sure, tapes are "secure reliable" not these pesky hackable digital records every other business on the planet uses.

but come on. The rhetoric is exhausting. Evaluate on real world risk.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-04-08 18:33:57+00:00
> I'm assuming due to less biased media

It’s very difficult to disentangle how much the effect is driven by Jewish and Israeli diasporas (and others’ proximities to them) [1] versus outright bias. An Australian paper isn’t going to be held to account the same way the Times will be, arguable from both sides, because the latter serves a larger and more-diverse audience.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_population_by_country
by williamcotton | 2025-04-08 18:34:37+00:00
Trying to draw a squirrel when you have no artistic talents or experience is not the fun part.

I've produced my own music recordings in the past and I've hired musicians to play the instruments that I cannot. Having exasperated recording engineers watch my 5,000th take on a drum fill that I absolutely cannot play is not the fun part. Sitting behind the glass and watching my vision come to life from a really good drummer is absolutely the fun part.
by krick | 2025-04-08 18:34:43+00:00
> I optimistically imagine a world where we replace the relatively non-specific asymptotic bounds of an algorithm with a very specific quantification of the work an algorithm will take.

My understanding is that it's pretty much how it started, but proved to be impractical. Meaning, we absolutely can quantify the work any algorithm will take, but for that we need to define the architecture first, i.e., to specify what is the unit of work, what are operations available to us. And, sure, we can do that for any given task (and we always could), but it's usually too messy to include that in general discussions about algorithms, not specifically concerned with the architecture.
by em-bee | 2025-04-08 18:34:47+00:00
the problem with the interview process is that it is unfair, not properly capturing the actual qualifications and testing the wrong stuff. the complaints here are that this tool does not properly capture the actual qualifications either, and therefore it suffers from the same problem, just in a different way. it may work for a few people, just like the interview process works for a few people, and it may work for a few use cases (like finding a FOSS developer) but it doesn't provide a solution for the interview problem itself.
by ikeashark | 2025-04-08 18:35:22+00:00
Why is Trump even attempting to reshore manufacturing?

This drastic of a Tariff so soon, and the inconsistent messaging with pausing tariffs makes it impossible for any business owner to safely setup US manufacturing.

Besides US manufacturing should be more focused on high value, high tech products. We are a rich enough country in where we CAN import more than export. This is why poorer countries rely on exports for income whilst richer countries import more.

Trade deficits should not be a reason for these tariffs and just alienates allies more than anything.
by shadowgovt | 2025-04-08 18:36:16+00:00
The market is a lot more complicated than that. But to a first approximation, this is an uncharitable statement of the reality: gaming is a luxury product, gaming is winner-take-all (i.e. the really successful games see 100,000x gross revenue over the median indie game, and people can't play two games at once so player attention is a very constrained resource), and the market consistently rewards novelty over polish. Players still bought Cyberpunk 2077, and then kept buying it after the bug announcements came out; it has sold 30 million copies.

All these market forces conspire to heavily incentivize a game studio to release as close to now as possible with as much game as they believe the players will stomach as possible. There are companies that buck this trend (Nintendo has a tradition of maximizing quality out-of-the-box), but that's where incentives point companies. Minecraft was hilariously buggy (and devoid of features) when it came out; its original developer committed it to a price model where the earlier you bought it, the cheaper it would be, and it became one of the most popular mega-games of a generation.

And the incentives come from players. Helldivers 2 doesn't have bugs because Arrowhead is lazy; it has bugs because Arrowhead wants a billion dollars and gamers can be trusted to hand them over for a product that works most of the time, as long as it's more fun than frustrating.
by stephencanon | 2025-04-08 18:36:31+00:00
In the desert, you often really don't want to be walking midday, but if the moon is out doing 20 miles in a night isn't too bad, and doing it split over two days is fine. 5 or 6 liters of water plus some food would be plenty, depending on what you have available to carry that ~15 pounds splitting into two days may be more comfortable. Either way, infinitely less risky than building a motorcycle.
by munksbeer | 2025-04-08 18:36:42+00:00
I do wonder what the outcome would be for a model trained only on truly non copyright work, and derivatives from there. I'm no AI expert, but from what I understand they use some models to generate data with which to train further models. I'd be interested in the output, whether it would eventually just match what we have now anyway, so the copyright question may end up moot. I wonder how the argument would shift at that point?

I think in reality, it is probably too late for that, because the internet is now polluted with AI generated images which would be consumed by any "ethical" model anyway.
by WalterBright | 2025-04-08 18:37:22+00:00
> if you want to prepare for a C dev interview

Spend an hour reading a book about C?

I have a young colleague who wanted a job at a FAANG company, and asked for advice. I said spend a couple weeks studying the leetcode books - it will be the best value for time spent you'll ever get.

He did, and got a $300,000 offer.
by masswerk | 2025-04-08 18:37:33+00:00
I doubt that, when confronted with an image that you've learned to associate with a plethora of low-quality / low-effort productions, you'd search for the possible origin, in the first place.

(After all, it's yet another ephemeral image in "that AI style", with no apparent thought having gone into it, just some name dropping, at best. Or some generated, senseless story, you would be glad, the algorithm hadn't pointed your kids at. Why should you?)
by nitwit005 | 2025-04-08 18:37:40+00:00
> For many, many websites this is going to be good enough.

It was largely a solved problem though. Companies did not seem to have an issue with using stock photos. My current company's website is full of them.

For business use cases, those galleries were already so extensive before AI image generation, that what you wanted was almost always there. They seemingly looked at people's search queries, and added images to match previously failed queries. Even things you wouldn't think would have a photo like "man in business suit jump kicking a guy while screaming", have plenty of results.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-04-08 18:37:48+00:00
> Why is Trump even attempting to reshore manufacturing?

He isn’t. The fact that he’s open to cutting deals undercuts the tariffs’ restoring effect.

Tariffs are a tax. The administration found a revenue toy and a bunch of people are playing it in different directions. There isn’t a coherent plan as much as a bunch of plans, some of which make sense, some of which don’t, but none of which make sense when stacked with the others.
by jpp | 2025-04-08 18:38:08+00:00
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by gwbas1c | 2025-04-08 18:38:14+00:00
I have Gemini results in my Google searches. They're "good enough" that I rarely venture to LLMs.

When I do, it's because either I can't think of good terms to use, and the LLM helps me figure out what I'm looking for, or I want to keep asking follow-up questions.

Even then, I probably use an LLM every other week at most.
by hideload | 2025-04-08 18:38:44+00:00
Hi HN community,

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If you have a moment to try it out and share your experiences, ideas, or suggestions, I'd be incredibly grateful.

Here’s the link: https://hideload.org

A few questions to guide your feedback (feel free to go beyond these!):

1. Does the application address your needs or expectations? 2. Were there any features that stood out or felt lacking? 3. Any suggestions for improving user experience or functionality?

Your input will directly shape the future of Hideload, and I’ll make sure to credit this community for its impact!

Thank you for your time and valuable insights!
by no_wizard | 2025-04-08 18:39:38+00:00
>Because interviewers don't care. I have tons of code on my personal github page and even thought it's listed on my resume/linkedin, no interviewer has ever looked at i

If it helps, I do! When someone has this available on their resume, I will look around. It allows me to ask better questions, for starts.

Unfortunately, what I have found, is for every one person who has a legitimate track record of contributions and/or working/worked on projects beyond the basics, there are 100 people who simply do a bunch of cookie cutter projects to make their Github look good, but everything is shallow.

Ironically, those with the cookie cutter projects set themselves up to get weeded out easily, as there is a clear pattern of 'learning to pass the test' rather than learning to learn
by specialist | 2025-04-08 18:40:25+00:00
Each example's endeavor is the production of culture. The least interesting use case for "AI".

Real wealth creation will come from other domains. These new tools (big data, ML, LLMs, etc) unlock the ability to tackle entirely new problems.

But as a fad, "AI" is pretty good for separating investors from their money.

It's also great for further beating down wages.
by charliereese | 2025-04-08 18:41:12+00:00
We're launching a weekly series based on ForecastOS Hivemind — our platform that continuously scans and analyzes media sources to detect emerging global trends using AI.

Each week, we highlight the top 10 most noteworthy themes across geopolitics, tech, markets, and culture, complete with historical trendlines, mention data, and contextual transcripts.

This dataset is behind a paywall, but for the next several weeks, we’re making our weekly research public.

Top trends from March 30 to April 6 include:

Massive spike in tariff-related discourse

AI model releases and OpenAI updates

Elon Musk’s shifting political involvement

Deepening Israel-Gaza conflict

DOGE and federal budget cuts

You can read the first edition here: https://blog.forecastos.com/content/files/2025/04/Hivemind_n...

We’d love feedback, questions, or ideas on how to expand this.

Cheers!
by chasil | 2025-04-08 18:41:36+00:00
The 360 had 24-bit addressing, for a maximum of 16 megabytes.

The 6502 in the Apple could address 64k of RAM. Any class of problem requiring more memory would need a real machine.

As far as a personal machine with comparable capability, RISC brought that to the market with the first MIPS R2000 in 1985.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIPS_architecture
by noirbot | 2025-04-08 18:41:37+00:00
I'd mostly agree, but with them specifically calling out "not anything formal" as part of the expectations for interview attire wouldn't be the time I'd want to be riding the line of "is this too close to formal". This isn't a job at a tailor or stylist. You're not being tested on your understanding of the roles of various garments in different levels of fashion over time.

Presumably OP had seen/visited an Apple Store before and knew what employees wore there, so it's not a mystery what the uniform is, and therefore what is probably meant by "don't wear anything formal". It's not some kind of gotcha.
by georgeburdell | 2025-04-08 18:41:42+00:00
I’ve never given my kids melatonin, but I get it. A lot of parents have zero family support, especially among the professional class who moved across the country or world for jobs. I personally haven’t gotten more than 7 hours of sleep since my 2nd was born 3 years ago. He only sleeps about 8.5 hours at night, and there are always chores and house maintenance to do, which I can’t do while the kids are awake since they’re the source of the mess. I’ve literally paid a babysitter so I can mow my lawn and trim the trees, but often the babysitters cancel so I can’t plan on doing any task unless I take a vacation day from work.
by rdtsc | 2025-04-08 18:41:52+00:00
Ah that's interesting. So it's like someone stealing from them, and them saying, ok bring part of it back and we'll retro-actively tell the police/customers that we gave your the money as payment for "testing our security".

I guess that could work if no customers are affected. If customers want to get their money and it's all there for everyone, it's all good. But if it isn't, it would be awkward to tell them "we don't have your money, we bought this expensive security audit for $10M and now you only get 20% of your deposit back".

Interestingly enough, they are sort of taking the side of the hacker then against the customer. Customers can go to the police and they'd laugh at them "you put your money in Abracadabra, and now you complain that, poof! your money is gone, as if by magic? Did we get that right?"
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-04-08 18:43:32+00:00
> you posted [1] a sibling thread citing older numbers from the same source. Why did you do that?

I’m citing the poll the commenter I’m responding to originally cited. Given they trust that poll, it made sense to respond to it. I was also making a point about a dip in 2024; the newer poll doesn’t update those data.

> support for Israel has been consistently dwindling

Literally what I’ve been arguing [1].

Support for Israel is monotonically decreasing. When protests are covered, support for Palestine dips.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43615994
by sanderjd | 2025-04-08 18:43:42+00:00
My contention is that if you went back and did a sentiment analysis of the early to mid hype cycle conversations around the things in your list and compared them with the things in my list, there would be very little difference between the two sets of things. There was lots of hype and also lots of skepticism, for both sets of things.

My point is that hype vs. skepticism just isn't the useful metric.

I agree with you that this does not mean that it's impossible to identify which technologies have a "there" there, and which don't. I just don't think the level of hype is a very helpful input into the calculation.
by jaccola | 2025-04-08 18:44:15+00:00
I have reduced my traditional search engine use by, I'd guess, 90%.

Having said that, I use ChatGPT exactly like a search engine. If I want to find info I will explicitly enable the web search mode and usually just read the sources, not the actual summary provided by the LLM.

Why do this? I find if I don't quite know the exact term I am looking for I can describe my problem/situation and let ChatGPT make the relevant searches on my behalf (and presumably also do some kind of embedding lookup).

This is particularly useful in new domains, e.g. I've been helping my wife do some legal research and I can explain my layman's understanding of a situation and ask for legal references, and sure enough it will produce cases and/or gov.uk sources that I can check. She has been impressed enough to buy a subscription.

I have also noticed that my years (decades!) of search engine skills have atrophied quicker than expected. I find myself typing into Google as I would to ChatGPT, in a much more human way, then catch myself and realise I can actually write much more tersely (and use, e.g. site:).
by giancarlostoro | 2025-04-08 18:44:34+00:00
> If they say they don't remember, that's a red flag.

Is it? I can think of projects I've worked on that have come up with friends that I have no idea how they worked anymore, just barely if at all. If the project was within the last 2 years, then yeah, but if its 8 year old plus code, I don't expect anyone to remember. However, they could have looked at it when they sent it over and refresh their minds.
by foragerdev | 2025-04-08 18:45:09+00:00
I still use search engines. I do not like to be spoon fed. I want to learn from the real people. Not AI generated shit. ChatGPT or other LLMs are trained on old data, they do not contain newer information. Newer information and knowledge are produced by the real humans. LLMs are great for quick fact checking, but not for searching. For example: What's the height of mount Everest? LLMs will most probably give right answer.

What are the specs for new Goolge Pixel 9a? LLM can't answer this may after a year they can.