MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cge | 2025-05-02 01:45:17+00:00
As some details:

TeleMessage is/was an Israeli company [1], but was acquired last year by Smarsh [2], itself a subsidiary of K1 Investment Management, both US companies. It me whether the company moved. While not necessarily related at all, their terms of service also seem to explain specific arrangements for messaging in China that appear to involve disclosures to the Chinese government.

It's unclear to me how the app works. It appears to be advertised as a fork of the Signal client which uploads all content to a remote server, thus, of course, breaking the E2E encryption, unless the archive is considered an end and the connection to it is secure. It also appears to be advertised as being the same interface as Signal.

However, both the iOS and Android Signal clients are AGPLv3. I can't find any indication that the TeleMessage clients are anything other than proprietary. So are they going the route of giving the software and source only to paying customers under AGPLv3 (with those customers then free to distribute it)? Did they completely reimplement the client? Or are they an illegal proprietary fork?

The first option seems unlikely, and the latter two seem rather ominous for the security of the app.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeleMessage [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smarsh
by alganet | 2025-05-02 01:45:19+00:00
The word "model" in reference to AI has been predicted by the movie Terminator 3, Rise of the Machines.

The Terminatrix character is materialized inside a fashion store façade, and it steals the car from an honest driver woman.

It implies a change in subject or meaning regarding those themes. Wordplay on what a model is. Previously, a human female used to display clothing tendencies. Now, it means a multiplication matrix data repository.

It is a planned act of redacting or stealthing information.

Journalists are likely to understand this process of wordplay better than me, and it is not far-fetched to believe they understand the implications.

The Theranos stuff was likely triggered by the same movie. A girl that looks like a model (kind of), was taken as some form or role model (entrepreneur female), related to blood (in the movie, the Terminatrix does some blood licking).

Kind of fascinating in retrospect and on the light of current events.
by forgotoldacc | 2025-05-02 01:45:29+00:00
It's a competition between nations, but why support the political party that straight up says they hate you just because China also hates them?

Like, if I hate the idea of eating kittens, and someone I hate also says they hate the idea of eating kittens, I'm not going to say "oh hell no, I can't let them shittalk OUR kitten eaters!"

I'm just going to be like "yeah, they have a point on this one", accept that a broken clock is right twice a day, and move on. Nationalist/jingoist garbage just for the sake of it makes countries worse.
Show HN: Interview-Guru – Real-Time Voice AI Mock Interviews
by typicalGooner | 2025-05-02 01:45:43+00:00
Hey all,

I built Interview-Guru, an AI-powered mock interview tool that helps you practice crafting a story, organizing your thoughts, and improving with feedback and examples — all through real-time voice conversations.

Having always struggling with the behavioral portion of the interview, I have found that most new AI tools were either push-to-talk or purely text-based, which adds too much friction to realistic practice. I wanted something that feels like you're talking to a real interviewer — natural, responsive, and pressure-tested.

Interview-Guru covers a wide range of behavioral and situational questions across different industries and roles. It listens, analyzes, and gives actionable suggestions on how to strengthen your responses.

So I have been working on this side-project for awhile, but only felt possible recently with how far stt, tts, and LLMs have come.

You can try it out at interview-guru.io/playground. Working on new features/bug fixes and would love any suggestions or feedback in the comments.

Thanks!
by fuzztester | 2025-05-02 01:46:19+00:00
>Support, no matter how valued and important to the organisation it is, is never worth $200k/year on the output of 1 person.

self-contradictory statement if there ever was one.

related: have you heard of system administrator appreciation day?

or heard of:

https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2b4n7a/til_h...

?
by p_ing | 2025-05-02 01:46:59+00:00
Next comes the post of "All my data was stolen and my SSN is being used to order CC in my name because my laptop was stolen and unencrypted".

Damned if you do...

But it would be helpful for Microsoft to provide a notice on first login about how to get to your backed up key in your MSFT account as well as how to make a print out of the recovery key.
by shwetank_tewari | 2025-05-02 01:47:59+00:00
Location: Long Island, NY Remote: Remote Preferred, Hybrid OK Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Typescript, Javascript, Ruby, React, AWS, Docker, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, AI Engineering - All Web Tech Resume/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shwetank-tewari-447a9b216/ Email: shwetank[dot]tewari[dot]87[at]gmail[dot]com

I am a full stack software engineer specializing in designing backends, database, and setting up cloud infrastructure. I am experienced in React for frontend engineering. I am also comfortable with AI engineering.

Most recently, I co-created Apiary. Its an open source LLM gateway which is self-managed in an AWS environment. It simplifies AI application development by giving the developers ability to proxy requests to multiple providers with a unified interface and providing semantic caching, guardrails and observability. Please checkout the case study at https://apiary-gateway.github.io

Previously, I have had experience designing software in a fast-paced start-up culture ie setting up application from scratch with very less directions and frequently changing requirements.
by otterley | 2025-05-02 01:49:08+00:00
> Reagan-era globalism was a temporary response to the soviet union

The USA’s global influence and entanglements go all the way back to the Monroe Doctrine and grew substantially after WWII as we sought to help reconstruct the world thereafter (Marshall Plan, Bretton Woods, etc.). And the fact that we could produce goods while the rest of the world was practically shut down, given all the destruction that resulted from the war, boosted our economy into the stratosphere. There was practically zero competition for complicated and technologically advanced goods for 30-40 years. Many people forget (or simply weren’t taught) that the USA was not an economic powerhouse until after WWI. Until then, it was Britain, France, and the Netherlands.

Some of the adverse consequences of globalization started to appear domestically during the Reagan administration, though, as imported Japanese automobiles and electronics began to impact American sales, which in turn led to factory closures and pink slips.

Many of those impacted did get other jobs, but the echoes of anger reverberate. They reverberate even longer when they believe foreigners, who they have no power over, are to blame.

> Because he overthrew the globalists and neocons and has proven in office that he’s neither.

It still doesn’t explain how he won the GOP primary the first time and continues to maintain a cult-like following. If the poll numbers are to be believed, isolationists and nationalists never made up more than a slim percentage of the American electorate until very recently.

Even if they all voted for and support Trump based on this alone, it’s a losing battle. The 1940s-1970s were a unique period where American economic victory was practically assured because everyone else was nearly out of business. We’re not going to return to that situation by raising both trade and immigration barriers. Unless we’re willing to bomb the world to line our pockets again (which I’m not sure we have either the stomach or the practical capability to do), globalization is the most rational path to take. It’s a shame we all must suffer until they come to see the light themselves.
by etruong42 | 2025-05-02 01:50:02+00:00
> Software seems to perform exactly as well as it needs to and no more

The cynical spin I would put on this idea is that software performs as poorly as it can get away with. MSFT is feeling the need/pressure to have Office load faster, and they will try to get away with preloading it.

Otherwise, there is a strong pull towards bloat that different people will try to take credit for as features even if the cumulative experience of all these "features" is actually a worse user-experience.
Show HN: I built an eBook reader that helps you remember what you read
by Kamui | 2025-05-02 01:50:27+00:00
Hey guys, I'm a CS student who loves reading technical books and papers but I realized I was reading really passively. I'd fly through dense material, feel like I understood it, and forget it all within a few pages.

I finished OSTEP less than a week ago and already struggle to recall how locks are implemented. That's why I built Readspace to stop passively reading and finally make the knowledge stick.

It’s an ebook reader with built-in active recall that prompts me every couple pages to explain what I just read. I can respond using the Feynman technique or engage in Socratic-style questioning, and the AI grades my answer and helps you refine it step by step. I wanted an SRS system that actually felt good to use—so I built one directly into the reading flow. The flashcards are AI-generated from what I find important, and they’re scheduled using FSRS.

Readspace has honestly made my reading 10x more meaningful. I’ve stopped cramming for classes because I finally have a systematic setup to learn efficiently.

Would love some feedback or advice—this is the first serious project I’ve shipped!
by mwnivek | 2025-05-02 01:50:58+00:00
Rustem Mussabekov on 24 Oct 2023 wrote: "I'm founder of Raindrop.io. I'd like to clarify information about the origin of myself and the project. While I did live in Russia for a long time and initially started Raindrop there, I relocated to my motherland, Kazakhstan, shortly after the war began. I also moved all financial and business matters there.

I am no longer associated with Russia in any way. It would be great if this information could be added to the article."

Source: https://numericcitizen.me/when-war-in-ukraine-influences-my-...
by exiguus | 2025-05-02 01:51:18+00:00
IMO in JS/TS world its atm Bun vs. Deno in replacing node, npm, pnpm, yarn whatever other package manager. What i see is, that Deno try to go the vercel way and want to make some money to finance all this open source development. IMO totally legit. And also, normal, when you spin up a (startup) idea, 19 of 20 will fail. So i don't get the point of the article actually. The Article points to all this ideas but forgets that deno's core is the runtime. In between the lines, a node / LAMP-Stack history blinks up.
by tehjoker | 2025-05-02 01:51:36+00:00
Different species, you can't generalize like that. It's pretty unclear what actually happened with H1N1. Scientists were able to resurrect the more virulent strain in the lab two decades ago and it was just as potent in lab animals...

Two possibilities are that it did in fact mutate to become "milder" or those strains were already circulating. Either way, H1N1 killed so quickly it ran out of victims and the highly lethal strain went extinct. Another notable aspect of H1N1 is that is mostly didn't kill directly, it made victims weaker to opportunistic lung infections and that's what killed them. Antibiotics have made this kind of attack vector much more difficult for viruses.

Omicron is only loosely analogous to the "flu fairy tale" as the major threat is Long COVID now and it is circulating at high levels. Other viruses have had vastly different natural histories, 1918 is only a single reference point, and a muddy one at that.
by fastball | 2025-05-02 01:51:38+00:00
Silly take due to how these resources must be distributed. Redis corp is paying developers to work on Redis itself, so they have less money to spend on building out a cloud offering. AWS was not paying developers to work on Redis, so they have more money to spend on improving their cloud offering (of Redis).

"Impossible to compete" is hyperbolic (you can almost always compete), but from a business fundamentals perspective it is not a level playing field and odds of success in that arena are very very low. And as my sibling comment points out, this is massively compounded by the fact that (by their very nature), hyperscalers are also hosting other infra for you, whereas Redis Cloud is only going to be offering hosted Redis. So even if the DX/UX is much better for Redis Cloud, it is still an uphill battle to convince corpos and even SMEs to split up their hosting like that.
by adminadminadm1n | 2025-05-02 01:52:00+00:00
Location: Charlotte, NC

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Willing to relocate: Very open to relocation, especially to big cities.

Technologies: JavaScript (ES6 mainly), TypeScript, Ruby, PostgreSQL, MongoDB

I'm a full stack software engineer with expertise in JavaScript, Ruby, and TypeScript. Most recently, I've developed Unilogs, an auto-scaling end-to-end, log observability platform for distributed applications that deploys to AWS with a simple command.

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by Jloerakker | 2025-05-02 01:52:23+00:00
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Principal engineer with 12+ years of experience across full-stack development, infrastructure, data modeling, and internal tooling. I'm a generalist who moves fast, thrives on solving messy problems, and builds durable systems. I've led platform architecture, built log query engines for DFIR teams, modernized legacy B2B SaaS platforms, and automated ops-heavy workflows. Comfortable diving into whatever’s needed—backend, frontend, data pipelines, or platform glue.
by theconjon | 2025-05-02 01:52:39+00:00
Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada

Remote: Open to Remote, Hybrid, and In-Person

Willing to Relocate: Yes

Technologies: Python, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, TCP/IP, Container Networking, SQL, NoSQL

Résumé/CV:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-ZlD_d9SJiwYgxSTDdRHQlK8ptj...

Email: connorj [at] hey [dot] com

I’m a software developer with a strong focus on automation, secure networking systems, and distributed infrastructure. I believe attitude outpaces raw ability, and I take pride in tackling new challenges head-on, ramping up quickly, and exceeding expectations on delivery.

After spending the first two years of my professional career in a large, legacy, telecom environment, I’m eager to join a driven team with a clear mission and the freedom to innovate without the weight of decades-old complexity.
by html5cat | 2025-05-02 01:52:55+00:00
Puma.tech | Remote-first with PST overlap | iOS/MacOS, Android, Ai/ML, Growth | https://puma.tech

Hi all, I’m Yuriy, founder of Puma.tech. Previously worked as software engineer & developer advocate at Cloudant (YC S08, Acq. by IBM), Meteor (YC S11), Parse (YC S11, Facebook/Meta), and explored Ai/ML (computer vision for self-driving cars).

We believe in bringing more control and privacy to Ai products and are exploring a few directions:

1. Built in Local LLMs in Puma Browser for iOS and Android.

2. Crypto/stablecoin payments for LLM usage / Ai agents.

3. Puma Ai for MacOS – simplified LM Studio native Mac app.

4. Ways to train Ai agents on mobile web games.

If any of the above excites you please reach out.

We’ve raised a few rounds from some of the best builders in crypto and Ai:

Protocol Labs (S14), Chris Larsen (Ripple), Don Ho (Orange DAO, Quantstamp W18), Toly (Solana), Illia Polosukhin (NEAR Protocol), Sridhar Ramaswamy (Snowflake CEO, Neeva, Greylock), Jason Warner (poolside.ai, ex-GitHub CTO) and more.

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Show HN: CapOS – A responsibility-gated OS stack with signed process execution
by Der_Auctor | 2025-05-02 01:53:01+00:00
We’ve built a functional prototype for an operating system layer that rejects the classic trust model.

Every process, network access, and system action is explicitly scope-bound to a signed capability token (CapToken) – backed by a cryptographic wallet and domain-specific responsibility structure.

Key Components: CapToken authentication for all system actions

CapAuditDaemon (feedback, incidents, signed system state)

Feedback replaces control – the system acts on effect, not permission

CapNFTs as soulbound responsibility certificates

VPN routing via chain-verified nodes (CapVPNRegistry.sol)

Whitebook & mathematical formalization published on Zenodo

No ACLs, no root, no anonymous processes. Only signed, trackable responsibility. Period.

GitHub: https://github.com/Xtothepowerofinfinity Docs/Whitebook: https://zenodo.org/communities/xtothepowerofinfinity

Feedback kills control. Power demands responsibility.
by emorning3 | 2025-05-02 01:53:15+00:00
I often use Chrome to valid what I think I know.

I recently asked Chrome to show me how to apply the Knuth-Bendix completion procedure to propositional logic, and I had already formed my own thoughts about how to proceed (I'm building a rewrite system that does automated reasoning).

The response convinced me that I'm not a total idiot.

I'm not an academic and I'm often wrong about theory so the validation is really useful to me.
by trhway | 2025-05-02 01:53:21+00:00
You again failed to provide definition. And you seem to get confused about goalposts. So, let me reiterate 3 hard facts here:

1. as my previous link is gone here is 2 pretty same NIH and government definitions of GoF, 2016 and 2025:

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/738...

(1) Gain-of-function research.--The term ``gain-of-function research'' means any research that-- (A) involves the genetic alteration of an organism to change or enhance the organism's biological functions, which change or enhancement may include increased infectivity, transmissibility, pathogenicity, or host range (which is the spectrum of hosts that an organism can infect); or (B) may be reasonably anticipated to confer attributes to an organism, such that the organism would have enhanced infectivity, pathogenicity, or transmissibility, or otherwise pose a threat to national security, public safety, or the health of humans, companion animals, or livestock, poultry, seafood and aquaculture species, or game animals.

https://osp.od.nih.gov/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Gain-of-Fu...

"Gain-of-function (GOF) research involves experimentation that aims or is expected to (and/or, perhaps, actually does) increase the transmissibility and/or virulence of pathogens."

Both definitions clearly cover Wuhan research - genetically implanting ACE2 binding protein on non-human coronavirus so that the resulting virus infects and kill human cells containing ACE2 receptor. Thus hard fact numero uno - Fauci lied to Congress.

2.

>Your claim was that Proximal Origins authors didn't consider the lab leak.

No. My claim is that NIH didn't perform any scientific study - which would naturally include peer reviewed publishing of results - of Wuhan created viruses vs. COVID.

What doesn't count as such a study is the lazy email chat between several dudes who were recruited by Daszak without even letting them know of the conflict of interests that he and Fauci had on the matter.

3. Fauci as a top leader at a scientific institution had the duty to maintain scientific integrity of the institution. Giving his and Daszak conflict of interests on the matter, he catastrophically failed at maintaining that scientific integrity when he didn't not send independent investigators to Wuhan instead of Daszak.

Note how synergistically the fact 3. dovetails with the fact 1. and how that provides very plausible explanation for the fact 2.

And with that i rest my case :)
by milkshakes | 2025-05-02 01:55:21+00:00
the license enumerates the rights the author has bestowed upon you.

the funding page clarifies their intent:

>Anubis is provided to the public for free in order to help advance the common good. In return, we ask (but not demand, these are words on the internet, not word of law) that you not remove the Anubis character from your deployment.

you are of course free to do whatever you want with this code, the license is as you point out quite clear. but so is the intent, and feigning ignorance of the author's intent is disingenuous at best.
by syldarion | 2025-05-02 01:56:07+00:00
Location: Rochester, NY

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While most of my experience is in internal tooling and testing, I'm open to anything that comes with interesting problems to solve. I'm a fast learner and mostly agnostic to the stack.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-05-02 01:56:16+00:00
“On Thursday Reuters published a photograph of Waltz checking his mobile phone during a cabinet meeting held by Donald Trump. The screen appears to show messages from various top level government officials, including JD Vance, Tulsi Gabbard, and Marco Rubio.”

Head of NatSec, ladies and gentlemen. Once the domain of Kissinger, Brzezinski, Powell and Rice. Now with the opsec of a brain-damaged cocaine dealer.
by manquer | 2025-05-02 01:56:45+00:00
Waymo ( and self driving programs as well) have been careful not to go for public large scale deployments in any city with difficult weather and for good reason focused on cities like Austin, Phoenix, Los Angeles, SF[1] so far with easy driving weather.

There have been promising progress and there have been hints of a New York trial soon, but it it well known that self driving cars have not done large scale trial in cities with bad weather.

[1] Yes, I am aware SF gets a bit of bad weather with fog and rain but not nearly not as much to make driving quite unsafe like somewhere that gets a feet of snow in 24 hours in winter, and likely promixity to engineering HQs and favourable regulatory climate influenced the SF choice.
by ho_lee_phuk | 2025-05-02 01:57:52+00:00
> How can you possibly realistically manage a 100+ engineer team? 100+ direct reports?

They report to engineering managers who report to me.

> Also, the Python landscape is just as bad as frontend! And I enjoy writing both quite a bit. Pip, pipenv, pyenv, poetry, conda, virtualenv, uv, ruff, black, pep8, etc, etc. They both need massive improvements.

Yeah, it is bad, but a notch better. Most things in Python land are 5-year-olds. 5-year-old React or Vue codebases (the two most popular frameworks) are not backward-compatible with the current release.

And we cannot stay on old versions as we have a government as a customer who requires SBOM, and SBOM declaring unmaintained dependencies creates even more trouble than upgrading frontends regularly!