MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hitekker | 2025-05-10 18:02:35+00:00
I was a hiring manager and saw this happen firsthand. So much pressure to hire people with the right skin color or gender, even if they outright failed an interview. Some of the ones who were fast-tracked later struggled and then got fired. One of them even stole the company laptop.

The founder of TripleByte observed how companies lied about their hiring from the outside: https://x.com/jesslivingston/status/1884652626467303560
by bitwize | 2025-05-10 18:02:49+00:00
Working outside of normal hours is now a cause for suspicion. Especially in today's WFH environment. It's a prime time to convene with the handler who does the actual work. Or to exfiltrate proprietary information to your superiors in North Korea. Etc.

Whatever it is you need to do, get it done during normal business hours. If you can't manage that, find another job.
by EA-3167 | 2025-05-10 18:02:53+00:00
This article is essentially a retelling of this survey: https://www.visier.com/blog/new-research-individual-contribu...

> As a leader in people analytics, Visier wanted to find out how employees actually feel about climbing the ranks. In August 2023, we surveyed 1,000 U.S.-based full-time employees who identify as individual contributors about whether they want to become people managers and their ambitions inside and outside the workplace.

How seriously you choose to take these claims probably comes down to the quality of the survey and if you think it's a bit biased since they surveyed "Individual Contributor" who are by definition not on a management track. Personally I'd want to see more and larger surveys with more transparent methodology before I drew any serious conclusions.
by galangalalgol | 2025-05-10 18:03:05+00:00
I agree on the bloat, considering my rust projects typically don't use any shared libraries other than a libc a few Mb for a binary including hundreds of crates in dependencies (most pf which are part of rustc or cargo itself), doesn't seem so bad. I do get the asynch thing. It just isn't the right tool for most of my needs. Unless you are in the situation where you need to wait faster (for connections usually) threads are better for trying to compute faster than asynch is.
by sprash | 2025-05-10 18:03:44+00:00
> while Wayland leisurely moves forward

Debateable. But it sure started with huge step backwards. On X11 all relevant functions are at least standardized within the xrandr protocol. On Wayland you don't even have that. So it really depends on the compositor if it works or not where each is doing its own thing which is just crazy. I prefer the 70s standardization model of "mechanism, not policy".
by badsectoracula | 2025-05-10 18:03:56+00:00
Depends on how they're made. If they're fully automated and copyrights do not transfer from training data to trained weights (which is what everyone assumes at the moment) then they're the same as any machine output: not copyrightable, just like AI output isn't copyrightable.

However if there is any active human involvement during training, one could claim that this makes it human work so they're copyrightable. For example not too long ago i wrote a simple upscaler for gamescope when i was learning how to implement neural networks and i did it in a somewhat "manual" manner by running the training for a bit, testing output, modifying a bit the code, adding/changing training data, then picking up from where the training stopped and continuing from there, etc, so one could claim that the weights i ended up with are the result of my own creative process (though TBH i wouldn't nor i am comfortable with the idea myself since we're talking about a few hundred numbers).
by zozbot234 | 2025-05-10 18:04:11+00:00
snake_case is just more readable overall. PascalCase and/or camelCase are okay in moderation and add a kind of emphasis, which is why e.g. Rust uses PascalCase for types (other than core built-in ones) and enum case constructors. SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE is ok for even rarer things that should stand out - C/C++ uses it for preprocessor macros, Rust for program constants and global variables. Ada_Case is rare and mostly shows up in languages with case-insensitive identifiers, like Ada itself.
by firesteelrain | 2025-05-10 18:05:13+00:00
Savannah is one of the busiest container ports in the United States. China is the largest trading partner. Other countries are Vietnam, South Korea, India, Japan, Germany, UK, Netherlands, Italy, France, Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Chile, Argentina, Canada, Turkey, Indonesia, and Thailand. Pretty much year to year, TEU has been steadily increasing not decreasing. March was up over the previous year despite tariff threats back then.

https://gaports.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Monthly-TEU-T...

Still don't have updated data for April and May published.
by lowbloodsugar | 2025-05-10 18:06:43+00:00
Snopes has been pwnd. It now adheres to the standard of literal truth with a political bias. So if someone posts “Bernie Sanders has 30,000 at a rally” (true) but the image is of a different (also true) rally but on a different date, then Snopes just says “it’s false”. Not “true, but the image is wrong”. Not informative, like “Bernie did have 30,000 people attend but this image is from XYZ”. Just says FALSE! Same here.
by mrbombastic | 2025-05-10 18:06:44+00:00
“I thought I must be doing something wrong, because people on the replika subreddit were constantly talking about how their replika agent was developing its own personality (I saw no evidence at any point that it had the capacity to do this).”

People really like to anthropomorphize any object with even the most basic communication capabilities and most people have no concept of the distance between parroting phrases and a full on human consciousness. In the 90s Furbys were a popular toy that said started off speaking furbish and then eventually spoke some (maybe 20?) human phrases, many people were absolutely convinced you could teach them to talk and learn like a human and that they had essentially bought a very intelligent pet. The NSA even banned them for a time because they thought they were recording and learning from surroundings despite that being completely untrue. Point being this is going to get much worse now that LLMs have gotten a whole lot better at mimicking human conversations and there is incentive for companies to overstate capabilities.
by rdm_blackhole | 2025-05-10 18:06:50+00:00
I think the core of the problem here is that the people who turn to chat bots for therapy sometimes have no choice as getting access to a human therapist is simply not possible without spending a lot of money or waiting 6 months before a spot becomes available.

Which begs the question, why do so many people currently need therapy? Is it social media? Economic despair? Or a combination of factors?
by voytec | 2025-05-10 18:07:26+00:00
Sadly, I'm unable to find specific documents confirming it. AFAIK, Poland agreed to biometric data sharing with the US Office of Biometric Identity Management in exchange for loosening travel requirements. That said, US seems to be pushing[0] for more such agreements.

[0] https://www.statewatch.org/news/2023/august/eu-and-usa-ploug...
by foobarian | 2025-05-10 18:07:38+00:00
At some point organizations get taken over by the 9-5 crowd who just want to collect a paycheck and live a nice life. This also leads to the hard-driving talent to leave for more aggressive organizations, leaving behind a more average team. What leaders remain will come up with not so great ideas, and the rank and file will follow along because there won't be a critical mass of passionate thought leaders to find a better way.

I don't mean to look down on this kind of group, I am probably one of them. There is nothing wrong with people enjoying a good work life balance at a decent paying job. However, I think there is a reality that if one wants a world-best company creating world-best products this is simply not good enough. Just like a team of weekend warriors would not be able to win the Superbowl (or even ever make it anywhere close to a NFL team) - which is perfectly fine! - the same way it's not fair to expect an average organization to perform world champion feats.
by chairmansteve | 2025-05-10 18:07:39+00:00
My personal gmail is at 92% of storage and google is nagging me to get a paid account. That aint gonna happen.

When I signed up, they promised unlimited storage. They reneged. Why would I trust them now?

So it's fastmail or proton if I'm paying.

Or, I'm quite tempted to do this:

https://sive.rs/ti
by ChocolateGod | 2025-05-10 18:07:54+00:00
> to make some standards so at least folks can boot something maybe

There's still no incentive to do this outside of server hardware (Red Hat doesn't support rebuilds of RHEL). Why bother making a firmware stack that allows anything to boot when you can just modify the Linux kernel to work on your non-standard hardware and work around any bugs, publish an Ubuntu image that you'll only update a few times and then call it a day. Then, maybe, just maybe, support for your SBC will be upstreamed a few years later, but long after it's actually useful.

Look how messed up and fragmented Android is still, even Windows Phone had a UEFI stack that in theory could allow all Windows phones of a certain architecture to have a shared image (although I don't believe this was fully achieved).

Imagine if Windows or Fedora for x64 had to be repacked for every single motherboard/CPU combination, it'd be insane, yet somehow it's fine for ARM, what a joke it's been allowed to become. I think electronic waste regulation is going to be needed to sort it out.
by atmanactive | 2025-05-10 18:09:06+00:00
Yes, I saw it! I was actually refreshing the site daily from my phone :) and was pleasantly surprised. That's it. Looks great! I bookmarked it everywhere and will soon start feeding it educational material for my daughter. I will also be needing it, later this year. Thank you very much for developing this wonderful software. Kudos, and, all the best!
Ask HN: If 1 person can control 10 AI agents, why would still need that person?
by flornt | 2025-05-10 18:09:15+00:00
With agentic frameworks becoming more accessible, it's plausible that one skilled individual could coordinate multiple AI agents to do the work of an entire team. Ten agents handling design, code, legal reviews, content, ops—coordinated by a single human or whatever you can think.

It sounds like augmentation. But taken further, it’s also clear that this compresses the chain of value. Why pay for ten salaries—or even one intermediary—when a client could learn to command the agents directly?

Some say, “You still need a conductor for the orchestra.” That one person is the integrator, the pilot, the one who makes sure the agents are working toward a coherent outcome. Fair enough.

But here’s the counterpoint: clients already do this kind of integration. They don’t ask their suppliers to "be creative," they give precise goals and constraints. If the agents become intuitive enough to understand those same inputs directly, what’s left for the human in the middle to add?

If I used to hire a designer, and now I just prompt a design agent myself… and if the same logic applies to coding, marketing, or legal reasoning… then how far are we really from businesses where clients orchestrate their own AI “staff” directly?

Is the human coordinator role just a temporary bridge?

I’m genuinely curious: have you started working this way? Are you seeing clients question your place in the loop? What do you think we’re underestimating—or overestimating?
by nicomt | 2025-05-10 18:10:03+00:00
The post misses the mark on why a stateless protocol like MCP actually makes sense today. Most modern devs aren’t spinning up custom servers or fiddling with sticky sessions—they’re using serverless platforms like AWS Lambda or Cloudflare Workers because they’re cheaper, easier to scale, and less of a headache to manage. MCP’s statelessness fits right into that model and makes life simpler, not harder.

Sure, if you’re running your own infrastructure, you’ve got other problems to worry about—and MCP won’t be the thing holding you back. Complaining that it doesn’t cater to old-school setups kind of misses the point. It’s built for the way things work now, not the way they used to.
by shadowgovt | 2025-05-10 18:10:27+00:00
Of all the bad ideas I've heard of where to slice Google to break it up, this... Is actually the best idea.

The indexer, without direct Google influence, is primarily incentivized to play nice with site administrators. This gives them reasons to improve consideration of both network integrity and privacy concerns (though Google has generally been good about these things, I think the damage is done regarding privacy that the brand name is toxic, regardless of the behaviors).
by scarmig | 2025-05-10 18:10:56+00:00
> DeepBrain (the people who did all the AI work at Google)

"DeepBrain" isn't a thing. Google acquired DeepMind, which was the second biggest research lab in AI at the time. The first biggest was Google Brain. They existed in parallel until being merged in 2023.

Brain was entirely homegrown, and it was responsible for AIAYN, BERT, PaLM. Which is to say, transformers.
by wisemang | 2025-05-10 18:11:01+00:00
Is it the redundancy? Or is it because markup is a more natural way to annotate language, which obviously is what LLMs are all about?

Genuinely curious, I don’t know the answer. But intuitively JSON is nice for easy to read payloads for transport but to be able to provide rich context around specific parts of text seems right up XML’s alley?
Show HN: Product Hunt AI Coach – AI voice Agent that remembers you
by ajabhish | 2025-05-10 18:11:03+00:00
Hey HN,

We have built a Product Hunt Launch Coach, an AI voice adviser that remembers your product details and gives step-by-step guidance for each stage of a Product Hunt launch.

What you can do

- Talk instead of type: The site uses the Voice AI Agent to guide you through product hunt launch. We have added a knowledge base using 1000 top launch dataset (posts, comments, up-vote curves) with an LLM to surface patterns—timing, headline formulas, hunter involvement, etc. That helps this coach to help you frame positioning, share tips and guide you at every step - Memory that sticks: It stores your product name, audience, and launch date, so follow-up questions build on earlier chats without repeating yourself. - Launch playbooks: Pre-launch checklist, hour-by-hour launch-day plan, plus a curated list of 100 + communities (Discords, sub-reddits, forums) and email/DM templates for hunters and influencers. - Post-launch ideas: Tips on converting PH traffic into ongoing sign-ups and testimonials.

How it works - Front-end: Next.js + React. - Voice layer: Cartesia - Back-end: Claude Sonnet 3.7 for reasoning, with a small RAG layer built from manually researched best-practice docs and high-scoring launch examples (no scraped PH API yet). - State & auth: Supabase (PostgreSQL) for saved sessions; all voice + product data stays in your account.

Try it - Live demo (10 min free, no email needed): https://buildinpublic.buzz/ - Lifetime access: US $99 one-time.

Looking for feedback on - Whether the memory feature feels reliable. - Extra data points or launch assets you’d like it to track.

Thanks for checking it out! I’ll be in the thread all day to answer questions.
by TonyTrapp | 2025-05-10 18:11:10+00:00
For you, it's writing scripts so that things work the way you want. For the author, it's writing scripts to be able to use the computer at all. And how would that work if you have to write the scripts in a state the computer doesn't work for you? That's the difference between being fun for you and being agonizing for someone who has to rely on it un order to use their computer.
by rhet0rica | 2025-05-10 18:11:12+00:00
Popper coined the "paradox of tolerance"—that, in order to remain tolerant, a society cannot tolerate everything; in particular, it cannot show tolerance toward those who are intolerant, as their normalization inevitably leads to the demise of toleration in the public sphere.

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

We all have to be prepared to bite our tongues in order to make the world worth living in, but it has to be a negative feedback system—those who fail to restrain themselves must (at some point) be censured for the sake of the commons. We can argue all day about how much grumbling should be permitted before we issue the rebuke, but total individual freedom invariably destroys society; it's a tragedy of the commons.
by spacedcowboy | 2025-05-10 18:11:33+00:00
One of the things I like about ObjC is that ARC is really really well done. The only time I care about memory management in ObjC is with cyclic references (eg: A->B and B->A). Those are about as rare as hen's teeth, and memgraph points them out if they ever do raise their head.

ObjC is pretty much the sweet spot for me in terms of language complexity and cognitive load over C, while providing so much more. It's really a shame that a lot of people (and I'm not pointing any fingers at anyone specifically) can't get past the [..] syntax, which comes from making ObjC a pure superset of C.
by kristofferR | 2025-05-10 18:12:32+00:00
It's easy to summarize business books, even ChatGPT can probably summarize all the major ones just from its internal knowledge, but you'll likely not internalize any of the knowledge if you don't read the whole thing. The narrative might not matter that much by itself, but they'll make you remember the main points of a book.

I tried Blinkist (audio book summary service), but after listening to 20 summaries, I think I would have learnt more by just reading 1 book in full.
by WoodenChair | 2025-05-10 18:12:47+00:00
I think you're referring to novels that have strong business themes? Please correct me if I'm misunderstanding. That's an interesting sub-genre that we have not yet explored on the show but have discussed doing in the future. In the six years of the show, we have done exclusively non-fiction and I read myself mostly non-fiction. Sorry, therefore no recommendations yet! I'll checkout the ones you mentioned.
Show HN: Hackergrep.com – search Hacker News for tech jobs
by neuralnexus | 2025-05-10 18:12:53+00:00
Hey HN, I built https://hackergrep.com and I think it's ready for some attention.

What is it:

I wanted a fast, flexible, and focused job search tool to find new tech jobs and I didn't see anything that really fit my needs, so I built this app because you can just do things.

HackerGrep indexes several recent threads on HackerNews and combines the results into a feed matching your desired search filter criteria. The system can send you daily email updates when new search results for your queries are available; opt-in search query emails are sent for 30 days and then automatically stopped. New job alert emails are batched and sent daily, so you'll get one email per alert you configure until you unsubscribe or the 30 days are up.

Key features:

> no banner ads / clutter.

> it's free to use.

> no accounts/logins needed.

> advanced search syntax and full-text search.

> can notify you about new jobs matching your queries via email.

> the search and alert emails always show the most recent results first.

(To report bugs, suggest parser/logic improvements, offer me a job, or just say hi, etc, you can find my contact info on the https://hackergrep.com/why page)

You can try it from any web browser. It's optimized for desktops or tablets with a reasonable screen size but should function anywhere.

https://hackergrep.com
by kristjansson | 2025-05-10 18:12:56+00:00
Most of what comprises a port is infrastructure for handling containers and bulk cargo. If cargo volumes are down, some fraction of that infrastructure is disused, or used below its capacity. That a ship was at berth is cold comfort to the longshoremen, truck drivers, etc. who expected to work that cargo, nevermind to the people that expected to, y’know, purchase and consume those goods.

Is 30% underutilized / partially disused tantamount to empty? Maybe not. But it’s in the ballpark in a way the snopes rating undersells.
by fhd2 | 2025-05-10 18:13:50+00:00
I'm still having relatively disastrous results compared to just sending pre curated context (i.e. calling tools deterministically upfront) to the model.

Doesn't cover all the use cases, but for information retrieval stuff, the difference is pretty light and day. Not to mention the deterministic context management approach is quite a bit cheaper in terms of tokens.
by shadowgovt | 2025-05-10 18:14:04+00:00
There's actually a pretty solid argument to be made that the railways were never more effective than during the days of Rockefeller, when he could throw his money around to force otherwise-competing railways to optimize their work in an industry that has some fundamental strong incentives to be non-competitive (it rarely makes any sense to run two rail lines purely for competition reasons and leads to a race to the bottom on pricing).

... but that's more a story of the failure of the US government to go far enough and nationalize the rail network and its operations. The most efficient era of US rail was during World War II, when the military took it over and prioritized schedules by optimal throughput over profit concerns.
by acroyear | 2025-05-10 18:14:30+00:00
Mr. Magoo-ism galore.

Intel had constantly try to bring in visionaries, but failed over and over. With the exception of Jim Keller, Intel was duped into believing in incompetent people. At a critical juncture during the smart-phone revolution it was Mike Bell, a full-on Mr. Magoo. He never did anything after his stint with Intel worth mentioning - he was exposed as a pretender. Eric Kim would be another. Murthy Renduchintala is another. It goes on and on. Also critical was the the failure of an in-house exec named Anand Chandrasekher who completely flubbed the mega-project coop between Intel and Nokia to bring about Moblin OS and create a third phone ecosystem to the marketplace. WHY would Anand be put in charge of such an important effort?????? In Intel's defense, this project was submarined by Nokia's Stephen Elop, who usurped their CEO and left Intel standing at the altar. (Elop was a former Microsoft exec, Microsoft was also working on their foray into smartphones at the time. . very suspicious). XScale was mis-handled, Intel had a working phone with XScale prior to the iPhone being release .. but Intel was afraid of fostering a development community outside of x86 (Balmer once chanted -> developer, developer, developer). My guess is that ultimately, Intel suffers from the Kodak conundrum, i.e. they have probably rejected true visionaries because their ideas would always threaten the sacred cash cows. They have been afraid to innovate at the expense of profit margins (short term thinkers).
by fuzzzerd | 2025-05-10 18:14:35+00:00
I had a aimilar situation with SO Jobs, but I was the technical lead, but it was very similar. I was able to manage the listing, was involved throughout the hiring and onboarding process. Within his first year, he ended up finding one of my answers on SO as well.

Definitely disappointing they shut down the job board, because the quality of candidates was higher than any other board we've used since.
by lurk2 | 2025-05-10 18:14:55+00:00
> We can advocate for political freedom, material security, and just societies—and probably get better results—if we don’t model people as helpless or uninformed or without agency just because they’re in a socially vulnerable position.

Sam Altman has a far greater capacity for agency than an impoverished Filipino signing away his biometric data for the price of a Domino’s pizza.