MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by glenngillen | 2025-05-01 18:49:39+00:00
Having worked a few places that have major open source projects, it was eye opening to see how pervasive this seems to have become. It feels like over my lifetime I've watched the value/expectations/demands/definition of OSS shift from "source is available, and I can make changes to my own copy/fork of of it if required" to "source is available, and I will demand you make changes to it for me"
by Teever | 2025-05-01 18:49:54+00:00
At his level of wealth it's a choice to be that exposed physically, just as it's a choice to be exposed at that level psychologically is my point.

Someone with Trump's level of wealth could retire to an island and be like Elvis in his later years only dealing through people with intermediaries. They could have the best doctors, the best fitness regime and the best diet, and the best security and hundreds of miles between them and physical threats.
by prabhsingh888 | 2025-05-01 18:50:15+00:00
We’re building VOYO — an AI voice agent that understands how India actually talks.

Most chatbots fail when people mix Hindi and English. Call centers burn out every 6 months. VOYO doesn’t just reply — it acts.

Sends WhatsApp messages Asks how your day was — and actually means it

In our first 21 days: • 25,000+ minutes spoken • Average conversation length: 5.2 mins

We’re not building a chatbot. We’re building India’s emotional voice layer — a real agent for 1B people who don’t type.

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Would love thoughts from anyone building agentic workflows, voice infra, or emotional UX layers.
by dang | 2025-05-01 18:50:20+00:00
Please don't cross into personal attack, regardless of how bad a comment is or you feel it is.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

(btw just in case this response feels one-sided, we've already asked the parent twice to stop breaking the site guidelines, so I'm not going to pile on here with a third)
by 9rx | 2025-05-01 18:50:39+00:00
What do you mean by flamewar? The dictionary defines it as "an online dispute or argument characterized by heated, angry, and often abusive exchanges between multiple participants.", which is in line with my understanding, but that isn't applicable here, so I am unsure how to interpret it. Further, the link states that the site is for "Anything that good hackers would find interesting.", which is what the question poses. The answer is something that would be found interesting – that is why it was asked, after all – so it seems the use is perfectly in line with expectations.
by 542354234235 | 2025-05-01 18:50:49+00:00
Try to learn to be less self-centered. Something isn’t objectively bad because you don’t like it. People aren’t tricked into liking something just because you don’t like it. People’s tastes vary and different people like different writing styles. Try something like “I think the books are very poorly written and I just cannot understand how they continue to be so popular. Seriously, what is the appeal?” Not only are you presenting your viewpoint, not as some arbiter of truth, but you are inviting discussion and an opportunity to learn something you don’t currently know i.e. what people enjoy about those books that makes them popular.
by simonw | 2025-05-01 18:50:55+00:00
As a programmer, your responsibility is to produce working code that you are confident in. I don't care if you used an LLM to help you get to that point, what matters is that when you submit a PR you are effectively saying:

"I have put the work into this change to ensure that it solves the problem to the best of my ability. I am willing to stake my reputation on this being good to the best of my knowledge, and it is not a waste of your time to review this and help confirm I didn't miss anything."

So no, AI assisted programming changes nothing: you're still the author, and if your company policy dictates it then you should still have a second pair of human eyes look at that PR before you land it.
by voidspark | 2025-05-01 18:51:07+00:00
Maybe a hardware defect.

I’ve been running windows 11 on a couple of pcs for at least a year and never seen it crash once.

Recommend using an AME Wizard playbook to decrapify it

https://revi.cc/

https://atlasos.net/

based on AME Wizard

https://ameliorated.io/

"AME 11 Official Ameliorated Playbook for Windows 11. Cutting the tumor out of your OS."
by roughly | 2025-05-01 18:51:21+00:00
What’s interesting here is that in the drug treatment world it’s basically known that drug abuse is almost always a reaction to some kind of psychological trauma or disorder, and an awful lot of drugs (not just cocaine) play heavily with the dopamine pathways. The idea of dopamine as your brain’s signal that you’re safe fits about as neatly with that as can be.

(Of course, like everything in biology, dopamine also does about a gazillion other things, too, so it’s not quite that cut and dry, but it rhymes, at least.)
by Alupis | 2025-05-01 18:51:25+00:00
Many people switched to Valkey and didn't even know it. A lot like how many users are using MariaDB but think they are using MySQL.

Several major linux distros transparently switched to Valkey and the users are none-the-wiser. On Fedora, for example, doing `sudo dnf install redis` just installs Valkey.
by colonial | 2025-05-01 18:51:35+00:00
That probably plays into it as well. I have yet to see any convincing evidence that contradicts LLMs being mere pattern parrots.

My personal benchmark for these models is writing a simple socket BPF in a Rust program. Even the latest and greatest hosted frontier models (with web search and reasoning enabled!) can only ape the structure. The substance is inevitably wanting, with invalid BPF instructions and hallucinated/missing imports.
by Retric | 2025-05-01 18:51:42+00:00
There’s a few investigations into why Talk Radio became such a Republican dominated market, but I don’t have a good link. They also ignored how NPR fills a similar niche and leans left. But overall I setup a spreadsheet and ran the numbers on viewership vs scores on sites like:

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/ Fox: FOX: 6.7, CNN -3.7, another site giving them 4 vs -2 etc.

Then used numbers from sites like https://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/first-quarter-2025-cable-new...

So for most watched cable news show you get FOX 4,552k viewers vs CNN 558k viewers. Multiply and you get a rather shockingly different impact.
by hibikir | 2025-05-01 18:51:47+00:00
If your position is remote, and the coat of every in person interview includes two way flights, per diem and a hotel room, it's very tempting to skip the in person step, especially if you expect to fail a lot of in person candidates. Imagine paying that much when your interview to offer rate is 25%, and offer to hire is 50%. That $8k $10k extra per hire, on top of the normal cost of the funnel
by kstrauser | 2025-05-01 18:51:57+00:00
> Hence "just using it" isn't a viable option. AGPL isn't LGPL, it infects anything that uses it over a network.

This is completely, factually, unequivocally, incorrect.

You can connect to Redis using their first-party, MIT-licensed client library. You can write proprietary software using that library with no requirement whatsoever to release your software under any particular license (although of course you still have to comply with the MIT license's attribution requirements).

If all software connecting to the AGPL'd service runs internally, you're not obligated to share your local changes to that service. This covers the vast majority of use cases. Using WordPress with a Redis cache? This doesn't affect you.

If you host an AGPL'd version of a Redis server and your customers connect to it from their own networks, then the only obligation you have over the tried-and-true GPL is that you have to share changes you've made to your Redis server with users. If you use Redis packages as-is like almost everyone does, this doesn't affect you.

So literally the only people who have to care about Redis being under the AGPL now are those who don't want to pay Redis for a commercial license, who expose their Redis server to customers, and who've made local changes to their Redis server. Everyone else gets to keep using it like they always had.
by SAI_Peregrinus | 2025-05-01 18:52:06+00:00
Even if they are permanent it'll be smarter for many companies to move manufacturing out of the US rather than in. If they're permanent the retaliatory tariffs other countries instituted in response to US tariffs mean that it'll be cheaper to build outside the US if selling outside the US. And the market of "not the US" is much bigger than the US market, so investing in the not-US market is more likely to lead to growth than investing in the US market.
by jaredsilver | 2025-05-01 18:52:11+00:00
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by echelon | 2025-05-01 18:52:19+00:00
Yes, it does! The "problem" with AGPL3 is that it has no carve-out for companies smaller than Amazon, Microsoft, or Google. If you use AGPL, you have to open source your entire stack.

Not everyone thinks infectious copyleft / free software is a problem. But it will mean that if you use AGPL3, every part of your stack has to be open. That doesn't work for everyone.

This is why "equitable source" / "fair source" is gaining traction. You can use a license like Apache and add in clauses with MAU/ARR/Hyperscaler limits that allows practically everyone else to use your software.
by stuxnet79 | 2025-05-01 18:52:57+00:00
> 2. Distractions galore - Social media and trillions poured into the distraction economy ensures the ADHD-prone builders have less hours and are less productive in that precious 5PM-10PM.

Not enough is said about this. It's almost comical when you think about it. As technologists we are both complicit and victims. I've spent half a decade in one of these 'attention economy' companies and let me tell you the amount of money, talent and resources that our industry deploys to forcefully grab and monetize users' attention is staggering.

Recently I've shifted to using single-use, fit-for-purpose devices (Kobo ereader hacked with KOReader, KingJim Pomera DM250 digital memo) for my day-to-day and it was like a weight that I never knew was there was magically lifted away. If capitalism could find a way to produce such devices at scale, not only would it be a public health win, it would be a massive boost to the economy long-term.

But with most corporation's incessant focus on short term metrics I'm not holding my breath that this will ever be a reality.
by fc417fc802 | 2025-05-01 18:54:22+00:00
> Obviously you need documentation to work

Elephant in the room, someone who can't produce photo ID to vote also can't produce it to work. So obviously you don't always need it to work (even if that's technically illegal). So long as the systemic issues remain I don't see an issue with that.

Actually come to think of it the low skill jobs I had when I was younger never asked for ID. Just my social, full legal name, and date of birth for their tax paperwork. Whereas the higher skill ones I had later demanded multiple forms of ID - I generally furnished them with both my passport and driver's license, which they took copies of and independently verified.

None of that is relevant for a high skill 100% remote job though. Not only does that demographic generally have easy access to ID, those rules really should be strictly enforced for remote positions since the internet is global.
by ryandrake | 2025-05-01 18:54:29+00:00
> They clearly did something different

Survivorship bias that results from looking back at the winners. If we asked 1000 people to flip a coin 10 times, probability says one will end up flipping heads 10 times in a row. Looking only backwards after the fact, what did he do different? Is he just a better coin flipper?

There is likely a person in their 20s right now who in 40 years we will look back on because they founded the world's first $100T company. Who is it? If we knew it was deterministic and that some "thing they did" caused success, we would all just do that thing.
by 47282847 | 2025-05-01 18:55:06+00:00
You claimed working costs you. You’re free to have that perspective but I think it is unfortunate and does not contribute to one’s well being. You can, simply for your own benefit, decide to take a different view on it, without having to change any factual truths. You get paid for your work.

I wouldn’t want to think that somebody is taking something that belongs to me away from me. That is not a pleasant feeling.
by drysine | 2025-05-01 18:55:08+00:00
>But there's no shortage of neutral countries and journalists to sort fact from fiction

Sure. Have you heard about Gonzalo Lira? [0] He was arrested by Ukrainian security services and died in prison. Apparently, sorting facts from fiction isn't safe thing to do in the Ukraine.

>most of which perpetrated by your country

What made you think that? Articles like this one? That is their purpose.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzalo_Lira
by jillesvangurp | 2025-05-01 18:55:51+00:00
If by desired outcome you mean split the developer community and then chase them away to a newly forked competitor that is now widely used by all the cloud providers and users that prefer open source; complete success!

But I doubt that was the outcome that they hoped for. They created a large and successful competitor that by nature of being a fork does exactly the same thing. It's pretty hard to compete with yourself and the differentiate from your own product.

Honestly, I think Redis Inc. was better off when there was just one code base. AGPL just marginalizes them further. It's not an acceptable license for many corporate legal departments. So, it would necessitate buying a commercial license for such companies. I.e. Fortune 500 companies, public companies, and pretty much anything with a legal department worthy of the name. Note how Redis advertises AGPLv3 as "one" of the available licenses. The whole point of that license is selling commercial licenses.

Valkey is at this point stable and supported and a drop in replacement. It's pretty much the default choice for anyone not interested in buying a commercial license. That genie isn't going back in the bottle with this license choice.

More importantly, Valkey is a pretty active Github project with dozens of contributors in the last month. More than double those in Redis. Those commits aren't going to Redis. And Redis still requires the right to re-license your commits if you try to contribute. That's how they were able to pull this stunt to begin with. I doubt a lot of the Valkey contributors will be moving back to that status quo.
by littlestymaar | 2025-05-01 18:56:24+00:00
> No, I believe this is because internet providers do not save the content which means that a copy is not considered to be made.

Nope, that's not the reason, and that's why you don't need to give a copyright license to Apple before storing your personal pictures to iCloud either, nor does Apple need a license to store copyrighted material you got a license for (like software or paid downloaded movies). Copying a blob isn't a license infringement in itself, because the blob itself was never protected by copyright.

> If copies were allowed of binary blobs people could legally make pirate sites sharing copies like that.

No, because sharing is what you'd get prosecuted for.

Part of me thinks you should really try to start learning the basis of stuff before arguing on the internet about it, but who am I to judge your life choices. I did my best to help you learn something, but if you refuse to there's nothing more I can do.
by groby_b | 2025-05-01 18:56:26+00:00
The problem any realistic assessment will have to struggle with is that they did illegal shit, exploited existing loopholes and created a better experience.

Taxis before Uber were a shit show. The worst Uber drive you had would still be aboce median for the pre-Uber taxi experience.

Same goes for finding a place to stay before AirBnB if you wanted anything outside a chain hotel.

That doesn't justify all they did, but it also points out that the market was stuck in a local minimum. Breaking out of that is a successful achievement. (We can debate if it was worth the costs. We can debate if the costs needed to be as high as they are, or if that was an outflow of using VC money. There are many debates to be had).

But "all because illegal" is intellectually irresponsible reductionism.
by zdragnar | 2025-05-01 18:56:33+00:00
I was mostly replying to this bit:

> employers just don't want to go through the effort into finding great candidate

The notion that employers can put in the effort to give every candidate a totally fair shot so they can find the best ones is, I think, wrong, let alone the notion that they could but choose not to.

At my last company, we would have needed more people doing application reviews and interviews than we actually had employees if we wanted to do that.

Hell, I remember in college applying for a stock job at the local liquor store. When I went to hand in the application, I was told to put it on the pile- a stack of filled out applications thicker than several of my textbooks put together, suspiciously placed at the edge of a desk right next to a trash can.
by ivewonyoung | 2025-05-01 18:56:33+00:00
You cannot charge less on other stores than what the game costs on Steam or Steam will kick the game out. So consumers lose out.

> The second class action accuses Valve, Inc. of using MFN clauses in its contracts with game developers—both big (Ubisoft) and small (Rust)—to maintain its monopoly in personal computer video game sales through its online marketplace Steam as well as stifle competition more generally. The complaint alleges that the MFN clauses cause game prices across online marketplaces to be the same even though stores like the Epic Games Store take a smaller commission than Valve. Rather than pass those savings on to the consumer, the developers must maintain higher prices to remain profitable on Steam.

https://www.americanbar.org/groups/business_law/resources/bu...

This is not well known because Valve is somehow untouchable and worshipped so much in the online community like on Reddit and HN that any criticism invites personal attacks, downvotes and flags etc. and is buried, even if valid.

Imagine the uproar if another company that was a monopoly did this. Look at all the comments on here right now and none of those mention it.
by eduction | 2025-05-01 18:56:46+00:00
I'm always grateful for open source code, but on AGPL I can only quote the lawyer Kyle Mitchell:

"Inebriated aliens might as well have beamed it down from space as a kind of practical joke..."

"It’s not just hard for lawyers, who have the legal picture and can parse the whole license very carefully without passing out...It’s also hard for hackers, even those familiar with free software lore, who lack the legal side of the picture and a sense of what other ways things might have been said. Imagine how people who don’t know software, law, legal drafting, software architecture, hacker culture, or the self-styled 'philosophical' musings of one Richard M. Stallman feel."

https://writing.kemitchell.com/2021/01/24/Reading-AGPL

As Mitchell implies folks who want network copyleft should look into the more straightforward OSL3, IMO.

But it's something, and it's not my call to make because I didn't write the code, so properly I can only be grateful.
by alganet | 2025-05-01 18:57:07+00:00
Sounds like bullshit.

You are talking about personas, like they're action figures or something.

"the conspiracy theorist"

"the spy"

"the trusty shieldbarer"

Then you did a mini plot to tell a small storyline that attaches itself to the conversation. I can do that too if I want.

If you do it to help people, then it's good. If you are doing it to confuse someone or get advantage, then it's a dick move.

Raising those issues about "suspecting everything" is something that I've been exposed to my whole life. Specially in the last years, it has been more intense.

Instead, I believe the stronger position is to believe in human kindness. A healthy mixture of skepticism and trust that cannot be put in a box. Being good without being a fool. Which entails the act of sometimes entertaining the dumb conspiracy agitator or other disruptive personalities.

The more you do it, the harder it is for toxic people. They quickly get into a very previsible box and even pretend they like it.
by atrettel | 2025-05-01 18:57:26+00:00
I wouldn't necessarily say that employers don't want to put in the effort. They put in a lot of effort, but employers direct the effort towards the process rather than the results.

I've been through multiple rounds of interviews with some companies with no end in sight, as many people have. I refer to the endless number of interview rounds as an obsession with process because employers tend to think that the more they evaluate people, the better result they get, regardless of how useful the processes they subject applicants to are. I've generally found people to be going through motions more than anything else, and the additional process is just more work that is not particularly useful to evaluate the candidates. It's still a lot of effort for both the employer and applicants.

That said, I do agree wholeheartedly that they should direct their efforts more towards the result of hiring a good candidate rather than just falling back to blind devotion to some series of processes to weed people out. They should focus on getting the most meaningful bit of information at each round to eliminate the most candidates possible, kinda like a form of optimal experimental design [1] if you are familiar with that term.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimal_experimental_design
by scarecrowbob | 2025-05-01 18:57:43+00:00
Yes, and...

it's not like this is the first time that a bunch ofnew age folks with a predilection for alternative lifestyles and "health" practices have quickly moved from a hedonistic "liberal" position to a shockingly right-wing position.

A lot of the mysticism and weird ideas of cultural cleanliness that we can see exhibited in the ruling classes of Germany during the 1890s-1940s are very present in the ideas in the current MAHA movement.

That similarity might push against the idea that these ideas are purely propagandistic in nature. Personally, I might feel a little more reassured if I thought that RFKs positions were pure grift, but I have been watching a lot of my woo-woo friends flat-earth their way to fascism and find it somewhat chilling.
by creatonez | 2025-05-01 18:57:46+00:00
From Linux kernel documentation:

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/ioctl_ficlone.2.html

> Clones are atomic with regards to concurrent writes, so no locks need to be taken to obtain a consistent cloned copy.

I'm not aware of any of the filesystems that use it (Btrfs, XFS, Bcachefs, ZFS) that deviate from expected atomic behavior, at least with single files being the atom in question for `FICLONE` operation.