MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by benbuick | 2025-05-01 16:43:30+00:00
Xeotek Inc. | (Senior) Sales Engineer / Manager | Onsite (San Jose, CA) | Full-Time | $110K–140K + Commission + Equity

Xeotek is building the first native Data Streamhouse – an enterprise platform that unifies real-time data streaming, analytics, governance, and infrastructure monitoring. It empowers platform teams to simplify operations, run their data streaming environments reliably, securely, and compliantly, and increase developer adoption—across every cluster and environment.

We’re hiring a (Senior) Sales Engineer / Manager to join our U.S. founding team in Silicon Valley. This hybrid role combines outbound sales with technical pre-sales. You’ll lead our U.S. outbound motion, own strategic customer conversations, and deliver demos that connect product capabilities to real-world outcomes.

What you’ll do:

– Own and build outbound sales strategy (emails, calls, LinkedIn)

– Lead technical discovery and deliver product demos

– Build demo scripts, workflows, and reusable content

What we’re looking for:

– 3+ years in sales engineering, B2B SaaS, or technical pre-sales

– Strong outbound mindset and hands-on deal experience

– Understanding of Kafka, Flink, cloud platforms, and modern data infra

– Ability to explain technical solutions to business and tech stakeholders

– Independent, structured work style with startup mentality

– Must be based in the Bay Area (San Jose, CA)

– onsite culture

Compensation:

$110,000–140,000 base salary + performance-based commission + stock options

Comprehensive health insurance

25+ PTO days including holidays and year-end break

Office with great coffee, snacks, team lunches & events

High-growth path with full ownership from day one

Location: Onsite (San Jose, CA)

Apply: https://careers.xeotek.com

Learn more: https://www.kadeck.com
by spookie | 2025-05-01 16:43:33+00:00
You are completely misunderstanding China's goal. They want the expertise, being self-sufficient, while taking what they can so they don't start from 0.

Risc-V is arguably risky, so they have their hands on everything at the same time so they're sure they have a winner.

Markets don't matter. They want to develop the technology and have the talent to achieve it, fast.
by cancan | 2025-05-01 16:43:40+00:00
Felt | Growth Product Manager | Oakland, CA | Full Time | https://felt.com

Felt is building a cloud-based geographic information systems (GIS) solution and have hundreds of customers already using it to run their operations, processing terabytes of data. Our team hails from Uber, Google, Meta, CARTO, Mapbox, The New York Times and a few others. If you have used online maps in the past few years, you have used their work. My co-founder and CEO, Sam, is a former YC founder who sold his previous company [1] and I'm an early Uber engineer.

For the first time, we are hiring a product manager that is going to be focused on our growth funnels within our service. This person will own the onboarding journey and help those first-time customers become loyal users. This role comes at a special time where we have launched a brand new version of our SDKs and APIs where customers, especially in large enterprises, can fully integrate Felt into their own tooling [2]

Ideal candidates will have 4+ years of experience focus on growth and onboarding within B2B SaaS and/or PLG companies. They will have a proven track record, own metrics such as time to value, be comfortable owning touchpoints, and designing and running experiments.

As mentioned, this role is the first product role at our fast growing company and will have strong leadership potential. You'll be joining a team that's build groundbreaking tools before, and is on the cusp of doing it again.

We are well-funded with a long runway and a strong revenue funnel already. You can read more about it our first funding here [3], and our announcement here [4]. Our terms are employee-friendly terms such as early exercise, a 10-year exercise window and even a matching 401(k).[5]

If you are interested, please reach out via hello@felt.com and mention HN and the role you are applying to. This role is based in SF Bay Area, in our Oakland office that's right next to the BART station. [6]

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/09/via-buys-mapping-startup-r... [2] https://felt.com/blog/build-mapping-apps-with-felts-apis [3] https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/31/felt-maps-15-million-serie... [4] https://felt.com/blog/public-beta-15m-series-a [5] https://felt.com/careers [6] https://felt.com/map/Felt-HQ-IX9C6uwPnTPCrVVMchyjGcA?loc=37....
by vidarh | 2025-05-01 16:45:06+00:00
Communism does not require equal distribution. In fact Marx argued communism explicitly requires unequal distribution.

In Critique of the Gotha Program he outright ridiculed what is now the German SDP for demanding that "the proceeds of labor belong undiminished with equal right to all members of society".

He went on to write: "Further, one worker is married, another is not; one has more children than another, and so on and so forth. Thus, with an equal performance of labor, and hence an equal in the social consumption fund, one will in fact receive more than another, one will be richer than another, and so on. To avoid all these defects, right, instead of being equal, would have to be unequal."

Later in the same text he then reiterated the traditional socialist slogan, that explicitly also rejects equal distribution: "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs!"
by antirez | 2025-05-01 16:45:16+00:00
The I/O threading was initially implemented by myself, when I was still working on the core before rejoining, and is also available in Redis. So this is actually another case of the benefits ValKey got for being able to clone Redis, receiving money from the hyper-scalers that just want to maximize their revenues...

They made certain improvements later, but Redis 8 (see the release notes in my blog post if you are curious) improved this stuff a lot, too.

Also, Redis 8 contains a new data structure, Vector Sets, that allows to do many useful things, together with more probabilistic data structures, single hash fields expires, and many other stuff. It is not factually correct that ValKey has any features edge over Redis I believe. We will see in the next year which project takes the best development path: this is what really matters.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-05-01 16:45:20+00:00
For me, the archive.ph link now hits a CAPTCHA.

Full article, works where archive.ph is blocked, no Javascript required, no tracking^1:

https://assets.msn.com/content/view/v2/Detail/en-in/AA1DXcJN

1. Archive.{is,md,ph,etc.} puts the reader's IP address in a "spy pixel" URL.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spy_pixel

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23316085
by wtallis | 2025-05-01 16:45:34+00:00
The rent-seeking is fundamentally a separate issue from the paternalism. Lots of the anti-Apple lobbying and PR is drawing attention to the 30% fees, but for many of those companies, they care much more about winning the freedom to spy on their users or engage in other predatory or abusive business practices.

But aside from that, you cannot simply point people at the approach that led to Windows UAC and GDPR cookie consent banners and consider the problem adequately solved.
by TheDong | 2025-05-01 16:45:54+00:00
Consoles are trivially avoidable. Family group chats that require a blue-bubble-capable phone, grandmothers that only know how to use facetime, those are actually important.

I can't get into my coworking space without a door unlock app on my phone.

On the other hand, exactly 0 times in my life have I ever been told "yeah, you need to own an xbox to go to the dentist's office".

Phones are indeed in a different class from game consoles and should be held to a higher standard.

But yes, also, game consoles should allow you to develop your own programs and side-load them.
by jofer | 2025-05-01 16:45:54+00:00
I'm really struggling to understand it as well. I mean, sure if what you're doing is a website, then maybe you can get something that functions out of an LLM. I don't really do web development, so maybe they're better for that specific niche.

However, for most cases I've tried, I get wildly incorrect and completely non-functional results. When they do "function", the code uses dangerously incorrect techniques and gives the wrong answer in ways you wouldn't notice unless you were familiar with the problem.

Maybe it's because I work in scientific computing, and there just aren't as many examples of our typical day to day problems out there, but I'm struggling to see how this is possible today...
by TrackerFF | 2025-05-01 16:45:54+00:00
We got both of my grandparents into a care home, with my grandmother having advanced dementia, and my grandfather a brain injury he got after a fall while going through hip-replacement rehab. Prior to that, my aunt, uncle, and rest of the family had been more or less 100% caretakers for them. Nurses would come by 2-3 times a day to give them medicine.

But even as the dementia (of my grandmother) progressed, the care facility was simply too understaffed and over capacity to take them in - it took us around a year to finally find a room.

Luckily the care they received there was good - but my plan is the following: If I get diagnosed with dementia, I'm going to end it on my own terms. Having witnessed dementia up-close as a caregiver, and then see other dementia patients...it is not a life. The person becomes an empty shell / husk of themselves.
by no_wizard | 2025-05-01 16:46:01+00:00
Not an employee, but the reason I ended up not using them is because when I went to sign up, due to having a 401K account with them via a previous employer, I had to call their customer hotline, and their customer representative wanted alot of sensitive information over the phone - including giving them a password for my account.

I refuse to do business with a company with that shoddy of security practices. There's no reason what the representative was doing couldn't have been done online through a secure portal that respects my privacy, but alas, it could not.

I went with Fidelity. Its been great. Though all these brokerages have their pros and cons, I groked the setup at Fidelity pretty fast.
by ddingus | 2025-05-01 16:46:33+00:00
These seem like poor tech choices more than "an app is required to buy basic things."

When the whole "there is an app for that" mess started, I could be found saying, there is a browser for that too!

You are right about one thing, and that is everyone is asking whether people have their app. This is constant.

My answer has and will continue to be, "nope."

And yes, I have a browser for that.

The apps I find worth using are all enabling in some way, sensor data, advanced calculator, viewers and the like have real value.

Wrapping transactions into apps where the sole purpose is data harvesting and blasting me ads and offers, adds ZERO net value.

Products that require an app should be considered broken.

Seriously.

All of that pushes people, who for whatever reason choose app dependency, into scenarios like you shared with us here.

That stuff us broken man. You really would benefit from a general reconsideration of your product and service selection means and methods.

What is the product value when "needs your phone is off the table.

Does it have value without a phone? Should it? (In almost every case, yes!)

Please don't take my comment as an attack. Nothing personal here, no judgment either. You are by no means alone. M
by gazebo64 | 2025-05-01 16:46:39+00:00
> is it a net benefit to the population to add fluoride to the water supply and at a suitable price point or is there a more effective method to achieve the desired outcome

What if I don't care about that outcome if it means my water supply is tainted with a chemical I have no desire to ingest? Is it incomprehensible to you that somebody may not be particularly concerned with a statistical decrease in cavities for people that can't be bothered to brush their teeth if it means being force-fed a potential neurotoxin?
by philipallstar | 2025-05-01 16:46:39+00:00
> I live in China, a supposedly autocratic country and one with universal ID, and even companies here don't take fingerprints. ID will be shown when you are officially onboard. I can't say for all, but for most companies (at least the ones without the need for a security clearance), requiring ID at interview will be seen as a red flag, and requiring fingerprint would probably be put on social media and name shamed, if not straight up reported to the authorities.

You're in a much more authoritarian country, and that would be using your non-universal, national ID. How do you authenticate someone coming in from overseas?

Answer: your authoritarian government doesn't let them in, or authenticates them for you in a joint process with your HR department.
by vanderZwan | 2025-05-01 16:46:54+00:00
They'd also have to paint without anyone seeing them paint. The fact that Vermeer stood out for being so secretive about his process says something here. Even a no-lens camera obscura would be pretty hard to hide given that it would require to be painting in a darkened room next to the person being painted.

But your question is an interesting one, for sure. Revealed secrets come in different flavors - fully known ones, but also "known unknown" types of secrets, like the exact "recipes" a painter might have used for their paints being a mystery. However, when it comes to "unknown unknowns" hiddeo secrets I think it's very hard to keep those when dealing with more than a handful of individuals.
by kergonath | 2025-05-01 16:47:01+00:00
I regularly have posts that go from say +10 in the evening to -5 in the morning (I post from the EU). I mostly agree with your observations. That said,

> IMO comments should be upvoted if they provide good insights (even if you disagree with them) and downvoted when they are low-content/trolling/full of fallacies.

Votes are not a popularity contest. Only you see your score, and it does not matter one bit whether you have 2 or 20 upvotes on a post. Even moderate negative scores don’t matter. The grey threshold is more important, and you have to post something quite bad to end up there. I think I read a good post that was dead once.

The system is working and the end result is what you want. Sure, it could be better, but we are never going to get a perfect implementation because humans are social animals, and not always very rational.
by mike_hearn | 2025-05-01 16:47:10+00:00
That app didn't fully load the Office apps despite the name, and if you removed it Office 97 still started way faster than its competitors. As it did on Linux.

The rumours were (that I remember) that Microsoft had a secret/invisible way to hook Office into Windows startup. Otherwise, how did it start so much faster than StarOffice, which appeared to have similar functionality.
by oletrn | 2025-05-01 16:47:34+00:00
Senior Front-End / Full-Stack Developer (Angular, React, NestJS, TypeScript) with 8+ years' experience at startups and enterprises in the EU and US, looking for a long-term remote role. Comfortable working in cross-functional teams and have also built AI-powered SaaS products solo.

Location: Prague, Czech Republic (EU) Remote: yes, please Willing to relocate: no, but can travel to the office occasionally Technologies: JavaScript, TypeScript, Angular, React, Remix, RxJS, NgRx, ScSS, Nx, NestJS, NativeScript, CI/CD, REST, MongoDB, Mongoose, Jest, Nebular, Ant Design, Angular Material, Swagger, Figma. External APIs: Stripe, OpenAI, AssemblyAI, Deepl, Discord etc. Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/otyurin/ Email: oletrn@gmail.com
by ta1243 | 2025-05-01 16:48:01+00:00
Do you not have regular calls with teammates?

Sure I guess someone could physically turned up to an office to collect a laptop, be onboarded, get ID checked, then dial in to a few hours of meetings a week, muddle through any questions, rely on the team back at base helping, turn up in person to team get togethers every few months and manage to bluff their way through. It's not unprecedented - Frank Abagnale was running that type of con decades ago, Russia had the "Illegals" program of deep cover spies.

That's not exactly low cost.
by jasode | 2025-05-01 16:48:09+00:00
> Back then, they needed developers to turn the ship around, now they think devs need them.

No, that's the opposite of what actually happened with the iPhone. Back in 2007, Apple actually saw evidence from the customer buying frenzy that Apple didn't need 3rd-party devs to make iPhone a wild success. After the very desirable iPhones got into millions of customers hands, it was the 3rd-party devs that needed Apple more than Apple needed the 3rd-party ecosystem as I've mentioned before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39291668

Maybe an alternate history would have had all the 3rd-party devs deliberately boycott Apple iOS and thus only create apps for Android in 2008. We now know that didn't happen so we'll never know if devs realistically had enough leverage back in 2008 to alter Apple's App Store commission structure and policies.

The iPhone was so desirable as a platform that new popular apps like Instagram and WhatsApp were released for Apple iPhones months before Android.
by feoren | 2025-05-01 16:48:19+00:00
I don't know about "trade deficits are good", but trade deficits are basically meaningless in isolation.

I have a trade deficit with my local grocery store. Does that mean I'm being taken advantage of?

Imagine a small country rich in raw materials but whose people are otherwise poor. They export tons of valuable minerals to the U.S. but the profits are kept by an elite few who spend most of their time outside the country, and nobody inside the country has enough wealth to buy goods from the U.S. The U.S. would have a large trade deficit with that country, but would be benefiting enormously from the relationship. In this scenario, the country's people are certainly being taken advantage of, but the U.S. is absolutely not.

That's the problem with the trade deficit: it tells you almost nothing on its own. You can manufacture scenarios between countries involving a huge trade deficit, surplus, or an even balance, but where trade is fair, or where either country is taking advantage of the other. It's just not a useful number on its own.
by masterj | 2025-05-01 16:48:22+00:00
> how do you know when you are robbing yourself and when you are just being pragmatic?

I don't know why we're pretending that individuals have suddenly lost all agency and self-perception? It's pretty clear when you understand something or don't, and it's always been a choice of whether you dive deeper or copy some existing thing that you don't understand.

We know that if we cheat on our math homework, or copy from our friend, or copy something online, that's going to bite us. LLMs make getting an answer easier, but we've always had this option.
by 20after4 | 2025-05-01 16:48:22+00:00
Some items absolutely are zero sum - anything that is in short supply with a high demand becomes unobtainable for anyone who isn't rich.

Some things that are effectively out of reach for at least half of everyone:

Mansions and Luxury Condos in desirable locations Private Jet Private Island The best quality food 2021 Ferrari 812 GTS The best legal advice A favor from a US Senator

These things are effectively zero-sum, only a limited number of people can have them and we can't expand the supply very much (or intentionally don't because that would hurt their exclusivity value).
by apineda | 2025-05-01 16:48:43+00:00
Location: Toronto

Remote: Yes/Hybrid

Willing to relocate: Yes, USA would be nice

Technologies - Lately it's been TypeScript, Rust, Tauri, Python, NextJS, FastAPI, Railway, Postgres, Vercel, Tailwind. + all supporting libraries

Stuff I made: https://www.treesnap.app/ https://www.blacksheepwall.tv/ https://llmpricingtable.com/ https://littlehtmxbook.com/ https://github.com/alexpineda/llmdump

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Show HN: A Chrome extension to sketch wireframes in place
by AlxHnld | 2025-05-01 16:48:46+00:00
I often work on early-stage UI ideas with clients and found myself struggling to sketch interface changes quickly during a live call. Tools like Figma/Balsamiq work, but they're not fast or native to the page.

So I built a Chrome extension that lets you drag basic UI elements (buttons, inputs, headers, etc.) directly onto any webpage. You can edit text, resize blocks, and take quick screenshots — all locally, without uploading anything.

It’s useful for product folks, designers, and analysts who want to iterate UI changes quickly, without context switching.

Curious whether others have solved this in different ways — are there similar browser-native tools I’ve missed?
by daseiner1 | 2025-05-01 16:48:54+00:00
If the claims are true then Vermeer is absolutely exceptional, just in a different manner than is usually considered.

All painters must grapple with the technical nature of paint itself and its manipulation. Choice of type of paint, canvas, application, &c. is paramount. Rothko’s work, for instance, is only effective because he found a novel way to apply paint that lends his paintings a remarkable, nigh eerie depth of color. Spending roughly half an hour just staring at the Seagram murals in the “Rothko Room” at the Tate Modern is one of my all-time favorite experiences.
by rickydroll | 2025-05-01 16:49:28+00:00
Yesterday I was successively using olama installed qwen3:32b and drove it using Simon Willison's llm tool (https://llm.datasette.io/en/stable/). Using CPU only, it ran (if you can call moving at the speed of a walker running) and sucked up almost all of my 32 GB ram.

My laptop has dual (and dueling) graphics chips, Intel and Quadro K1200M with 4 GB of RAM. I will need to learn more about LLM setup, so maybe I can torture myself getting the Nvidia driver working on Linux and experiment with that.
by oletrn | 2025-05-01 16:49:46+00:00
SEEKING WORK as Senior Front-End / Full-Stack Developer (Angular, React, NestJS, TypeScript) with 8+ years of experience.

Location: Prague, Czech Republic (EU) Remote: yes, please Willing to relocate: no, but can travel to the office occasionally Technologies: JavaScript, TypeScript, Angular, React, Remix, RxJS, NgRx, ScSS, Nx, NestJS, NativeScript, CI/CD, REST, MongoDB, Mongoose, Jest, Nebular, Ant Design, Angular Material, Swagger, Figma. External APIs: Stripe, OpenAI, AssemblyAI, Deepl, Discord etc. Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/otyurin/ Email: oletrn@gmail.com
by morninj | 2025-05-01 16:49:48+00:00
Science (https://science.xyz/) | SF Bay Area (Alameda, CA) | Onsite | Software engineers, mechanical engineers, electrical engineers

We’re a neural engineering company that just raised $110M led by Khosla. We’re looking for exceptional software/mechanical/electrical engineers. More: https://science.xyz/careers/. Feel free to reach out at joem@[ourdomain.xyz].
by _msw_ | 2025-05-01 16:50:02+00:00
My personal opinion: we shouldn't let Google's bad policy poison our brains. The people who wrote that policy had their reasons for taking this position. It might have been the right thing for Google at the time the policy was written.

That doesn't mean it's the right position for you, or for every situation. Many organizations with a higher levels of maturity in open source matters will take a more nuanced approach when it comes to AGPLv3 licensed software.
by bigyabai | 2025-05-01 16:50:05+00:00
Sounds good for the user, but as a developer who gives a shit? I'm not porting my webapps to your tinker-toy OS for marginal return on my investment. That's redundant work that I'm not being compensated for, it doesn't matter how lickable the buttons are or how much of your 16gb of RAM I'm wasting.