MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by clarkmoody | 2025-05-01 21:09:14+00:00
One thing I've been listening for in the podcasts is a discussion of equity. I'd love to get the company's perspective on equity, options, liquidity, etc. The Silicon Valley Way (tm) of using stock options to "juice" compensation while injecting large amounts of risk and drama into the employee's tax returns is certainly something I'd like to hear Bryan's (and Oxide's) take on.
by astar1 | 2025-05-01 21:09:24+00:00
> they do not suffer any setbacks

hmm: https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/10/13/india-arrests-raids-targ...

> Second point the Indian leader arrested was involved in huge scams in liquor and policy.

unproven, and the timing could not have been more suspicious:

"Amnesty International, an international human rights group said that the arrest of Kejriwal and the "freezing of Indian National Congress’ bank accounts", a few weeks before India's general elections showed "the authorities’ blatant failure to uphold the country’s international human rights obligations".[45][46]"

> Despite extradition treaty Canada has become a safe harbor of terrorists and refused to extradite terrorists even after repeated requests by India.

How about despite an extradition treaty, India has never submitted a claim against these so called terrorists and like normal democracies use the courts to argue their case for extradition. In Canada the courts are generally far more independent than those in India. Note - speech calling for a separate state by itself is not terrorism in any country that values free speech (heck half of Quebec regularly does this), only calling or acting for violence means crossing that line, i haven't seen any evidence for the latter (but I'm open to be proven wrong - from independent credible sources unlike those you listed).

> Reversing the trend ? Are you kidding me.

Yes, according to the article I originally cited and others, India has become less democratic. Caste violence and religious tension (i.e. chants of "love jihad") seems to have gotten worse - true to India's founders video in the 1950's I shared of democracy in India.
by cashsterling | 2025-05-01 21:09:25+00:00
I really hope the best for Oxide and applaud their compensation model.

I applied to one of their roles which required me to write about 10 pages of text to answer all their questions... which I think is a big ask but I did it because "why not".

They took over 3 months to get back to me, but at least they got back to me (with an apology and a polite "no").
by abxyz | 2025-05-01 21:09:27+00:00
I like it a lot and their thoughtfulness about it but it's a little hollow when they're spending investor money. I'd like to see how this model evolves once they're off the vc teat: when there's a bottom line to answer to, does the dynamic shift? Everyone has an on-site chef when the money vc hose is on. Valve's flat structure was exciting because it wasn't 3 vc's in a coat larping as a business, it was an actual profitable business.

Support is typically low paid because it's a lot of effort for little reward, no matter how much you pay someone in support, there's only so much impact they can have on the bottom line. The organization as an organism where every organ is as equally important as the other is a beautiful sentiment but the appendix is getting jettisoned at the first sign of trouble. Support, no matter how valued and important to the organisation it is, is never worth $200k/year on the output of 1 person.

The exception to the rule for sales is the canary in the coal mine: sales measures itself, but every role can (and will) be measured when the pressure is on, there will be competition for budget, and the support team will get squeezed until they're empty while the engineers coast. I would be more convinced that this model could survive outside of the vc bubble if sales had bought in to too. Sales as a competitive sport is cultural, not fundamental.

Anyway, not criticism, just musing, love that they're trying it, even if this doesn't work out, everyone had a few good years, it's worth a shot.
by munificent | 2025-05-01 21:09:36+00:00
Get away from screens.

It's hard to focus on the here and now when the here and now is the soul-deadening sensory-less experience of sitting motionless staring at a flat rectangle of pixels.

Go out in the woods. Get your hands dirty. Meet friends at a bar and laugh until your stomach hurts.

It's so much easier to be present in the moment when the moment is actually high fidelity and nourishing.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-05-01 21:09:37+00:00
I am not sure but it does seem that apple's stock price has taken a hit.

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/AAPL/

Maybe somebody could enlighten me but the off hours part shows -2.3%, is that a correction because people are losing faith in apple or what exactly? and would these off hours loses get converted to on hour losses or what exactly? (Sorry I could ask AI but I might as well ask here as well)

So I had done some calculations and please correct me if you think I am wrong but at 4:00 pm USA time (EDT?) the stock was selling at 213.5 open (I am not sure what the differences b/w open,close etc. are , I am not a finance guy) but it went from 213.5 open to 207.8 right now

Taking the % lose from its peak just at 4 PM EDT & multiplying it by its market cap? 3.19Trillion(1- 207.5/213.5 ) is 89_648_711_944 , ie. 89 Billion $.

So from my understanding Apple lost 89B $ in like a span of 2 hours (4PM EDT to 5:10-ish PM EDT which is the approx current time while writing this post)

That sounds REALLY BIG. Like I used to think damn Trillion $ are a lot but if such a case can cause apple to lose 89B$ in span of 2 hours then either I am doing some calculation wrong or this case has a truly big gravity that its worth not to just skim over it I guess and truly read it at detail I suppose.

Just my two cents..
What are the AI MCP servers wish you existed?
by nsiradze | 2025-05-01 21:09:38+00:00
Hi,

I'm researching for my upcoming hackathon. In a short term, which MCP server do you wish existed but it’s not?

The hackathon aims to develop an AI MCP server, and I would be happy to get some ideas. Like Cursor and Figma communication or something. Thank you!
by umbra07 | 2025-05-01 21:10:00+00:00
what about when there's an idiot slightly ahead and in the next lane who decides to randomly swerve into my lane?

do you also maintain a long following distance when there's a car right next to you in the next lane? I try to, because I don't want to stay in someone's blind spot, but sometimes it's not really possible to fall back.
by vicpara | 2025-05-01 21:10:36+00:00
Broadn inc | broadn.io | part-time devops | Contract | Remote

We are hiring a DevOps to deploy and monitor an app in AWS GovCloud. US persons from US territory only please. 5-10 years managing cloud infra / cicd / security / backups / kms / app config.

Apply by emailing [hr] at our domain.
by porphyra | 2025-05-01 21:10:56+00:00
Currently, penalties for, say, killing someone while driving are already incredibly light.

* Driver whose vehicle struck and killed girl gets $1,200 fine" [1]

* Driver who allegedly struck and killed Staten Island baby charged with $750 fine and 15 days in jail [2]

* Driver who hit Jets assistant coach Greg Knapp won't be charged following his death [3]

[1] https://vancouversun.com/news/driver-whose-vehicle-struck-an...

[2] https://nypost.com/2022/05/27/shannon-cocozza-who-allegedly-...

[3] https://people.com/sports/driver-who-hit-jets-assistant-coac...
by joeismailyan | 2025-05-01 21:11:24+00:00
It's surprisingly difficult to get feedback. One way we get indirect feedback at Deplyr is by setting up funnels and tracking events to see where users are getting stuck. Then we directly reach out for feedback.

When I was building AskMyDocs.ai I had a "feedback" button on every page in the app. Users could just click it, type their feedback, and click submit. It would send me an email with their user info, the page they're on, and their feedback. I still get feedback this way even though I haven't been developing the app or advertising it for years now.
Show HN: Kubetail – Real-time log search for Kubernetes
by andres | 2025-05-01 21:11:38+00:00
Hi Everyone!

Kubetail is a general-purpose logging dashboard for Kubernetes, optimized for tailing logs across multi-container workloads in real-time. With Kubetail, you can view logs from all the containers in a workload (e.g. Deployment or DaemonSet) merged into a single chronological timeline, delivered to your browser or terminal.

I launched Kubetail on HN last year and at that time the top request was to add search. Now I'm happy to say we finally have search available in our latest official release (cli/v0.4.3, helm/v0.10.1). You can check it out in action here:

https://www.kubetail.com/demo

Kubetail normally fetches logs using the Kubernetes API, which does not have search built-in. To enable search, click the “Install” button in the GUI or run `kubetail cluster install` in the CLI to deploy a DaemonSet that places a Kubetail agent on every node. Each agent runs a custom Rust binary powered by ripgrep; it scans the node’s log files and streams only matching lines to your browser or terminal. You can think of a Kubetail search as "remote grep" for your Kubernetes logs. Now you don’t need to download an entire log file just to grep it locally.

Since last year we've also added some other neat features that users find helpful. In particular, we built a simple CLI tool that starts the web dashboard on your desktop:

# Install brew install kubetail # Run kubetail serve

We also added a powerful logs sub-command to the CLI that you can use to follow container logs or even fetch all the records in a given time window to analyze them in more detail locally (quick-start):

# Follow example $ kubetail logs deployments/web \ --with-ts \ --with-pod \ --follow # Fetch example $ kubetail logs deployments/web \ --since 2025-04-20T00:00:00Z \ --until 2025-04-21T00:00:00Z \ --all > logs.txt

We’ve added a lot more features since last year but these are the ones I wanted to highlight.

I hope you like what we're doing with Kubetail! Your feedback is very valuable so please let us know what you think in the comments here or in our Discord chat.

Andres
by ellejarina | 2025-05-01 21:11:56+00:00
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by __aru | 2025-05-01 21:12:24+00:00
I wonder how viable Mac + Asahi Linux is right now. While I personally prefer AMD + Linux, for Macbook users perhaps Asahi can help break the dependency on MacOS.

As for smartphones, ironically the best option for to break dependency on Google services is to get a Google Pixel + install GrapheneOS + F-Droid. Google Pixels are some of the very few devices with a fully unlocked bootloader, so it's viable to install alternative operating systems.
by jimbokun | 2025-05-01 21:12:35+00:00
I can imagine a world where backend APIs are secured, hardened, protected against DOS attacks, etc.

Then any end users with the proper credentials can vibe code UIs (web apps, iOS and Android apps) that call those APIs to their heart's content.

We may also need operating systems and web browsers hardened in new ways to survive vibe coded apps.
by overfeed | 2025-05-01 21:13:05+00:00
> it would be great if other companies with janky licenses could see "Redis relicensed to open source and had a great boost out of it", not 'Redis relicensed to open source and it didn't help them at all".

If the other companies can't figure out that adopting a janky license and alienating the community is the self-inflicted problem, then they are beyond help. Relicensing to open source not helping the company may serve as a cautionary tale for other companies and may prevent them from repeating the same mistake. As an open source enthusiast, the worst case scenario is companies switching licenses tactically and frequently to test the waters and walking back with no consequences; I'd prefer the cost of such actions to be swift and severe.
by throw14082020 | 2025-05-01 21:13:22+00:00
Drone startup | Product Engineer (Typescript) | 1 day/week in the office (London, UK) | Citizens of the UNITED KINGDOM only

You'd be working with engineers who previously worked at Google, Amazon, Helsing, Darktrace and an F1 team. We build drones (software and hardware)

We're looking for engineers that straddle real world problems, and use technology as a solution. We prefer personal projects or relevant hobbies, not hard leetcode questions. We value collaboration: pair programming, discussing, teaching and learning from others. We're looking for mission-driven engineers. People who see problems in the world and want to help solve them.

You'd be working with me to build the most intuitive, performant, and modern mission planning and flight monitoring software for drones, and related applications (tools for drone design and manufacturing). For my project, we use React, Tailwind, Node, drizzle-orm, Postgres, SQLite, deck.gl, Python, FastAPI, asyncio, and more. You're allowed (and compensated) to use AI services.

Because we are a small team, you will be noticed and rewarded for performance.

*Please don’t apply if any of these resonate:*

• You prefer narrow ownership—“I only touch the backend or the code I've written”.

• You think it's more about "who you know, not what you know".

• You haven’t actively learned a new tool or hobby in the last year.

If interested, email my temporary email: hn-may25@mail.orth.uk with your CV and some personalised information about why you'd be the right fit.

My personal website, if you want to know who you would work with: tlduck.com
by aftbit | 2025-05-01 21:15:20+00:00
From the CEO blog post - https://redis.io/blog/agplv3/

>This achieved our goal—AWS and Google now maintain their own fork

Was this really the goal though? Forcing your biggest users to fork your software and maintain their own divergent version is not really good for anyone. Sure, Amazon and Google (or AWS and GCP - type confusion in the source material) now have to contribute some more engineering hours to the open fork, but why would anyone still want to use Redis now that there's a permissively licensed alternative maintained by the same cloud hyperscalers who will end up running it for you?
by nilslice | 2025-05-01 21:15:41+00:00
you might like mcp.run, a tool management platform we're working on... totally agree running a process per tool, with all kinds of permissions is nonsensical - and the move to "remote MCP" is a good one!

but, we're taking it a step (or two) further, enabling you to dynamically build up a MCP server from other servers managed in your account with us.

try it out, or let me get you a demo! this goes for any casual comment readers too ;)

https://cal.com/team/dylibso/mcp.run-demo
by EA-3167 | 2025-05-01 21:15:59+00:00
Without in any way minimizing the naked corruption and incompetence of Trump and his administration... come on. We had Nixon and Reagan, the former started the "War on Drugs" and the latter gutted the US mental health infrastructure. Just those two acts alone have probably led to more suffering, death, and needless horror than anything Trump has or will ever do. We had presidents who invaded Vietnam, who bombed Laos and Cambodia, who got almost 60,000 Americans and countless Vietnamese killed.

We have had worse, that doesn't mean that Trump isn't terrible and has no business in public life, but there's a point at which hyperbole becomes absurd.
by mdp2021 | 2025-05-01 21:16:02+00:00
But no one here has defended a «right to any specific platform». I wrote that the two ideas are conflated «in some interpretation of the two expressions» (not as any absolute right to say anything anywhere), and that what is to be defended is the «reasonable right to expression» (especially with relevance to the «Right to intellectual activity», above all of this).

> It would be a very strange world if, e.g., I could lawfully demand and be obligated to receive

Nothing to do with an University deciding to host an event and its students hindering its happening because they decided they dislike the invited.
by khedoros1 | 2025-05-01 21:16:25+00:00
I've got a desktop with a Core2Quad Q9300, originally built in 2008. Updated the motherboard in 2010 to one with USB3, updated the GPU in 2012. Kept using that machine as my daily-driver until 2020, when I built my current desktop. The only real reason that I did that was to improve gaming performance. The machine itself still functions fine on the modern web (using an up-to-date Linux distro, of course). 8GB of RAM used to feel like a monster.
by jasode | 2025-05-01 21:16:37+00:00
>Sales people are special in getting large amounts of cash comp

Not sure what you mean by "getting large amounts of cash comp" as if it was a given. Co-founder clarified their base pay is lower. If they don't sell, they won't get large amounts of cash comp.

What's the alternative idea you have in mind for compensation? How does one re-divide the pie to be more "egalitarian" to the fixed-salary $200k non-sales employees that doesn't lower the compensation to salespeople and make the job less attractive to rainmakers?
by neonsunset | 2025-05-01 21:16:40+00:00
"The MIT License (MIT) Copyright © 2025 <copyright holders>

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons..."

https://mit-license.org
by Tainnor | 2025-05-01 21:16:51+00:00
I agree with criticism of Noam Chomsky as a linguist. I was raised in the typological tradition which has its very own kind of beef with Chomsky due to other reasons (his singular focus on English for constructing his theories amongst other things), but his dislike of statistical methods was of course equally suspect.

Nevertheless there is something to be said for classical linguistic theory in terms of constituent (or dependency) grammars and various other tools. They give us much simpler models that, while incomplete, can still be fairly useful at a fraction of the cost and size of transformer architectures (e.g. 99% of morphology can be modeled with finite state machines). They also let us understand languages better - we can't really peek into a transformer to understand structural patterns in a language or to compare them across different languages.
by riku_iki | 2025-05-01 21:16:56+00:00
> But one cannot deny RAG is a lot more accessible to teams which are likely developers / AI engineers compared to ML engineers/researchers.

It looks like major vendors provide simple API for fine-tuning, so you don't need ML engineers/researchers: https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/fine-tuning

Setting RAG infra is likely more complicated than that.
by vessenes | 2025-05-01 21:17:05+00:00
That’s pretty easily verified by a reasonably competent chip engineer and a microscope, if its 16 and they need to stay on shore only, they could be a little closer in terms of time than I speculated. SMIC at 7nm is reportedly stable; not sure about yields though.

I think if I were in charge I’d probably do a final architecture spin at 16, and then shrink that one to 7 or 5 if I could get it.
by zoogeny | 2025-05-01 21:17:17+00:00
Sure, SQL + something like metabase is a decent starting point (ideally running on a read-only replica). However, there is room to improve over that.

It's like logging. Yeah, there is sentry, papertrail, splunk, datadog and the like. But something better than greping sys logs is nice and totally reasonable for a startup to standup with Kibana/Elastic running on a tiny instance. That can provide significantly higher value.

There is a middle ground between stone tools and jet aircrafts. I was asking: what are the middle ground tools in this space.
by Agingcoder | 2025-05-01 21:17:40+00:00
No, French is highly irregular.

Reading it is easier than English but writing it is very difficult because it’s irregular. A typical 13-14 year old cannot write a full page of French without making lots of mistakes ( source : my kids’ teachers in France , and my fellow pupils at school in France when I was growing up).

Just to give you a very simple example, the following words vin ( wine ), vingt ( twenty ), vain ( vain ) are pronounced exactly the same. And there are other variants for the same sound ( some kind of nasal i) spelled ein, or un. You can figure out how to read it up to a point, but writing it is very difficult.
by pc86 | 2025-05-01 21:17:57+00:00
> Smaller states were granted disproportionate influence on federal policy

This shows you're thinking about population which is irrelevant. Wyoming is a state and California is a state and as states they have equal weight in how their federal government is run. There are 50 equal states, regardless of how their populations differ.

That was literally the only point I was making, was that decrying disproportionate representation based on a population:Senator ratio has nothing to do with how the Senate operates. California gets the same number of Senators as Wyoming because each state gets two Senators.
by otterley | 2025-05-01 21:18:17+00:00
> the Bush/Cheney era was utterly disastrous

In that case, why didn't they switch sides and become Democrats?

> about half the GOP has turned hard against libertarianism in trade and immigration

Oh, that's why--at least to some degree. But it's an incomplete explanation. Any GOP leader could have run on a more restrictive trade and immigration platform.

Then the question becomes, why does the base trust Trump so much? How much of it is because they're actually hurting (and in a way that can actually be cured by him); how much is because they are being lied to; how much is because they're easily manipulable; how much is because they are delusional; and how much is because they are morally bereft? Whatever it is, it cannot be explained by competence.
by OJFord | 2025-05-01 21:19:00+00:00
> One thing people who have never managed direct sales teams might not immediately grok is: good sales people are experts at gaming incentive schemes.

Is that just circular though? i.e. I think everyone's like that, it's just unusual that it's tied directly to compensation. e.g. if I feel that my Jira output is being critically monitored, I might push something (or the reporting of something) into the next sprint if it's close and I've already done a lot in this one; I might more diligently create tickets for every little incidental thing that popped up (rather than just quietly getting it done).

I'm not comp'd according to that, but it's the same behaviour, it's just 'a measure becoming a target' really isn't it?