MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tslocum | 2025-05-02 03:57:49+00:00
Location: Seattle, WA Remote: Yes (6 years of WFH experience) Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Go (Golang), Java, PHP, Python, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Linux sysadmin, Docker, Docker Compose Email: tslocum@gmail.com

Professional software engineer for ten years, hobbyist programmer for many more. Fully self-taught, always excited to learn more. Active and passionate open source software author and contributor. Seeking a fully remote position. Please review my extensive portfolio of open source projects and contributions.

Résumé/CV: https://rocket9labs.com/resume.pdf

Portfolios:

* Code: https://code.rocket9labs.com/tslocum (All of my code is here)

* Games: https://rocketnine.itch.io (All open source and written in Go)

* GitHub: https://github.com/tslocum (Only my contributions to other projects)
by kernel_cat | 2025-05-02 03:57:56+00:00
Location: Canberra / Sydney, Australia or Remote Willing to Relocate: No Resume: https://kernelcat.au/resume.pdf Technologies: C, C++, Go, Rust, Python, Linux (Kernel) / UNIX, AWS, Cryptography, Networking Availability: 20 hours per week Contact: hn@kernelcat.au Website: https://kernelcat.au/

Hi,

I have over 20 years in the industry starting out as a Linux SysAdmin / Network Engineer and now doing more Systems / Low level Programming, R&D, and occasional DevOps.

Looking for opportunities involving low level / embedded systems / backend software development. Happy to also do automation / SysAdmin / DevOps as well. Although not my forte, I like to do robust automated testing / QA for software to ensure they meet (potentially undocumented) requirements.
by ulfw | 2025-05-02 03:58:18+00:00
Location: Just recently moved to Sydney, Australia as PR (Global Talent Visa). No sponsorship required.

Remote: Preferred, Yes worldwide possible (as either part time, fractional, consulting, board, advisory, freelance or similar arrangement)

Willing to relocate: Yes. Preferably AU or HK but also APAC flexible.

Results-oriented Product Management and People Leader with 15+ years of experience in the Mobile and Internet industries, known for driving innovation, high-impact growth, and strategic product direction. Stanford MBA with a proven track record in scaling multi-million dollar products across global markets, leveraging expertise in AI/ML, UX/UI, and e-commerce to deliver user-centric solutions. Accomplished executive in leading organizations like Google, Myspace, Booking Holdings (Agoda), Skyscanner, and multiple startups through growth and transformation.

EU national, permanent resident of Australia and Hong Kong.

Résumé/CV: http://www.ulfw.com/docs/CVulfw.pdf

LinkedIn Contact: https://www.linkedin.com/in/waschbusch/

eMail: calstanford at gmail dot com
by itissid | 2025-05-02 03:59:36+00:00
I've been using it for pre scoping things I have no idea about and rapidly iterating by refeeding it a version with guard rails and conditions from previous chats.

Like I wanted to scope how to build a home made TrueNAS Scale unit, it helped me with a avoiding pitfalls like knowing that I needed two GPUs minimum to run the OS and local llms, and speed up config for a CLI back up of my Dropbox locally(it told me to use the right filesystem format over ZFS to make Dropbox client work).

It has researched how I can structure my web app for building payment system on the web(something I knew nothing about) to writing small tools to talk to my document collection and index them into collections in Anki in one day.
by pynappo | 2025-05-02 03:59:37+00:00
> Arch Wiki is a high value target for scraping so they'll just solve the anubis challenge once a week. It's not going to stop them.

The goal of Anubis isn't to stop them from scraping entirely, but rather to slow down aggressive scraping (e.g. sites with lots of pages being scraped every 6 hours[1]) so that the scraping doesn't impact the backend nearly as much

[1] https://pod.geraspora.de/posts/17342163, which was linked as an example in the original blog post describing the motivation for anubis[2]

[2]: https://xeiaso.net/blog/2025/anubis/
by pjmlp | 2025-05-02 03:59:50+00:00
Maybe, however always telling what they should have done won't change the languages position on the market, so we get what we can have.

Many things D might have done it first, yet it is hardly acknowledged, or has any impact on adoption without a major backer.

I also keep telling WG14 should care about security, since Usenet days, fighting windmills.
by lbussell | 2025-05-02 03:59:58+00:00
For those looking for a more open alternative, check out openGrid - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mDBue4fw3U

I found Multiboard really confusing and it was never clear what I actually needed to print to start snapping things together. openGrid is much simpler in comparison and also took up a lot less material (especially when using the Lite grid variant)
by londons_explore | 2025-05-02 04:00:31+00:00
I don't understand the benefit of all this complexity vs simply having the device store the cookie jar securely (with help from the TPM or secure enclave if required).

That would have the benefit that every web service automatically gets added security.

One implementation might be:

* Have a secure enclave/trustzone worker store the cookie jar. The OS and browser would never see cookies.

* When the browser wants to make an HTTPS request containing a cookie, the browser send "GET / HTTP/1.0 Cookie: <placeholder>" to the secure enclave.

* The secure enclave replaces the placeholder with the cookie, and encrypts the https traffic, and sends it back to the OS to be sent over the network.
by westoncb | 2025-05-02 04:00:42+00:00
Location: Tucson, AZ Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Unlikely Technologies: LLMs, agents, javascript, many other things in the past Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/weston-beecroft-b4a98054/ Github: https://github.com/westoncb Twitter: https://x.com/Westoncb Email: westoncb@gmail.com

I'm basically a jack of all trades with deep system and product design experience, who knows the web ecosystem and graphics programming pretty well, and can use LLMs for software development expertly (see my twitter for how I'm thinking in this space). I spent the early part of my career at early stage startups and have spent the past 8 years or so doing mostly greenfield projects on a contract basis. I've done a lot in the dev tools space, and with graphically intensive web applications (e.g. domain-specific CAD tools).

I'm working on some LLM infrastructure tooling that I designed and have partly built that I plan to commercialize so I'm looking for something pretty part time. I think I could be very useful on the right project, but I also have a lot of constraints on what I'm looking for (part-time, could be AI-related but won't sign restrictive contracts in that space). For a person/team that can be flexible on this kind of stuff definitely reach out, happy to talk! I'll consult for reasonable rates too if you want advice/second opinion/ideas/approaches for building AI products.
by SamDc73 | 2025-05-02 04:00:54+00:00
Location: San Francisco Bay Area Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python, SQL, Pandas, Linux, FastAPI Résumé/CV: https://samdc73.com/resume/HusamAlshehadat.pdf Github: https://github.com/samdc73 Email: husam [at] samdc73 [dot] com Data analyst, 2 years of experience, build a couple of projects using GenAI/RAG and fastAPI.
by 6510 | 2025-05-02 04:00:55+00:00
I don't know what it is called but if you try to open a window from a timeOut it wont work. The user has to click on something then the click even grants the permission.

You could make something similar where fingerprint worthy information cant be posted or used to build an url. For example, you read the screen size then add it to an array. The array is "poisoned" and cant be posted anymore. If you use the screen size for anything those things and everything affected may stay readable but are poisoned too. New fingerprinting methods can be added as they are found. Complex calculations and downloads might make time temporarily into a sensitive value too.
by g42gregory | 2025-05-02 04:03:43+00:00
My view is that "traditional" NLP will get re-incorporated into LLMs (or their successors) over time. We just didn't get to it yet. Appropriate inductive biases will only make LLMs better, faster and cheaper.

There will always be trouble in LLM "paradise" and desire to take it to the next level. Use raw-accessed (highest performing) LLM, intensely, for coding and you will rack up $10-$20/hr bill. China is not supposed to have adequate GPUs at their disposal, - they will come up with smaller and more efficient models. Etc, etc, etc...
by londons_explore | 2025-05-02 04:04:55+00:00
Are there really many web services where an attacker having long-lived access gives them much more power than short lived access?

If someone gets short lived access to a control panel for something, there are normally ways to twiddle settings to, for example, create more user accounts, or slacken permissions.

If someone gets short lived access to a datastore, they can download all the data.

etc.
by anonymars | 2025-05-02 04:05:11+00:00
Why be so snarky and dismissive? Plumbers or electrical lines aren't middlemen between producers and consumers. Retail stores and app stores both deal with:

- taking a large number of small payments from geographically distributed customers (with different tax situations), taking a cut, and producing a simpler bulk income stream to the producer

- having some filter on quality of the products that are offered to the consumer, and providing a low-friction way for customers to exchange money for them

- dealing with refunds, differing methods of payments, discounts, etc. (handling some of the customer nonsense that comes from dealing with the public, in short)

Are there things that physical stores do that an app store doesn't? Of course. But if retail takes a 50% cut and the app store takes 30%, well, that's instructive, isn't it? That sounds reasonable given that they play similar roles but with less "physical stuff" to do. But if retail takes 10% and here we have the app store taking 30%, that's even more instructive and that would support the claim that the app store is "ludicrous". I'm not looking to compare 29% and 30%, I'm evaluating the claim that 30% is an outrageous sum. Outrageous compared to what?

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For the record, it annoys the ever-living hell out of me that ebay keeps taking more and more, but from what I've seen, its competitors are in the same ballpark. Is Apple worth twice that for the app store, probably not. But now we have a frame of reference: it's about 2x ebay, not, say, 10x
by pokstad | 2025-05-02 04:05:44+00:00
Traditionally you would use the plain old telephone system to communicate non-classified information. All of the major telcos services (voice and text) are no longer considered secure per CISA. CISA also recommended to instead use e2e encrypted services (specifically calling out Signal).

https://investigations.cooley.com/2025/01/15/federal-law-enf...
by pjmlp | 2025-05-02 04:05:54+00:00
Since C++14 that I have increasingly changed my mind that it should only be about existing practice, and no paper should be accepted without implementation, regardless of how basic it may be, just like in other language ecosystems.

Yes it might prevent lots of cool features, yet how good are they if it takes years to be implemented across compilers, or they turn out to be yet another export template.

Additionally it would help to reduce count from those 300+ people, not everyone is there for good reasons, some only want to have a "contributed to C++" on their background, and then they are gone.
by j16sdiz | 2025-05-02 04:06:06+00:00
> Some of the use cases that are important enough to justify the creation of purpose-specific solutions include federated identity, authorizing access to cross-site resources, and fraud mitigation.

Unpopular opinion: There are no privacy-preserving way for "fraud mitigation".

Either you accept fraud as cost to run business, or do away the privacy. Most business owner don't want the fraudulent user to come back, ever. If we value the privacy of user, we need to harm some business.
by throwaway2037 | 2025-05-02 04:06:06+00:00
> there are open legal questions about whether the GPL and its variants are enforceable.

At this point in history, there are multiple legal cases where GPL violators were taken to court and lost or settled. See: BusyBox and Linksys/OpenWrt.

GPL v3 also has a nice clause that allows companies to "repair/cure" their non-compliance.

> Moreover, your license from a particular copyright holder is reinstated permanently if the copyright holder notifies you of the violation by some reasonable means, this is the first time you have received notice of violation of this License (for any work) from that copyright holder, and you cure the violation prior to 30 days after your receipt of the notice.

Red Hat also has a good blog post about their view of using the legal system to enforce compliance: https://www.redhat.com/ja/about/gplv3-enforcement-statement
by Braxton1980 | 2025-05-02 04:06:07+00:00
I read this as "Modern slavery was not on my radar until reading this thread. " as you didn't know modern day slavery didn't exist.

I found this highly unlikely considering your education and resume. You clarified in this reply that it was the amount.

However, I don't think you were being manipulative. You're education, papers, past comments, and twitter comments come off as an intellectual nerd.

I thought you were doing a whataboutism combined with the "wide eyed naive" character technique. I'm sorry.
by goku12 | 2025-05-02 04:06:18+00:00
Anubis has a 'slow' and a 'fast' mode [1], with fast mode selected by default. It used to be so fast that I rarely used to get time to read anything on the page. I don't know why it's slower now - it could be that they're using the slower algorithm, or else the algorithm itself may have become slower. Either way, it shouldn't be too hard to modify it with a different algorithm or make the required work a parameter. This of course has the disadvantage of making it easier for the scrapers to get through.

[1] https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/admin/algorithm-selection
by perilunar | 2025-05-02 04:06:26+00:00
Don't know about the flu, but there has been discussion about the ethics of vaccinating old people against pneumonia. Sir William Osler famously called pneumonia the “old man's friend”, because it kills the elderly without too much suffering.

e.g.: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S02644...
by stevenwoo | 2025-05-02 04:07:59+00:00
It looks like Lion Electric has factories in Canada and the USA. Maybe they see continued investment as a sunk cost fallacy sort of situation, with the current tariff volatility and the debts of the company but it's a short article.

I think that attitude only covers a portion of Trump voters and might not be applicable to the Quebec decision but don't have any concrete data, Asimov's 1980 opinion piece on the USA may be more relevant to Trump voters and reflects most of the executive orders and appointments in 2025 so far: There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
by smcin | 2025-05-02 04:08:43+00:00
It's absolutely not a game of pure chance, nor a level playing-field each year. Owners can decide how much to invest each year (unlike the US MLS) subject to some limits (UEFA Financial Fair Play Regulations) on how much. And many of these teams have been bought/sold/had stock market IPOs multiple times in that period. And also each team has widely differing revenue streams from TV rights (across all competitions, including Champions League and Europa League) and merchandise sales, with which to fund player salaries/transfers and stadium renovations.

If you redo this table to quote PL first/second/third/fourth position per £ pound invested, (or total points in a season (3 for a win, 1 for a draw, 0 for a loss)) you get a different picture, e.g. for 2023-4 season: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-13446423/...
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by andes314 | 2025-05-02 04:09:16+00:00
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I have had great fun creating servers for all sorts of wacky apis and using them.

Again, this is very bare-bones so I will be adding features according to the popularity of the tool.

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by Nevermark | 2025-05-02 04:11:37+00:00
Google has remarkable financial influence across the four major commercial entity related browsers.

So limiting Google's control over browsers will create more competition. More competition on implementations. And also more competition in terms of features and user centric service.

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Question: Does Google really not gather information from anything but its search engine and first party apps? That would seem financially non-optimal for any advertising funded business.

I would think that sure, they log everything peopel use their search for.

But that they would also find a way to track post-search behavior as well. Google leaving money on the table seems ... unusual if there isn't some self-serving reason they would forgo that.

I am happy to become better informed.
by bawolff | 2025-05-02 04:13:10+00:00
One of the movies you're talking about is from 1954. No need for the snark. If you are going back 70 years, i don't think you can call it modern pop culture anymore. If instead you said, people into movie history, then sure.

Some of them are more recent, but even the most recent movie (the Chavez one) is over a decade ago, got panned by critics and looks to be a relatively low budget film. The sort of thing people into pop culture are likely to not know about.

I think the fact you can't find anything this decade is pretty telling
by lytedev | 2025-05-02 04:14:23+00:00
You are correct in that I ignored a specific request, but you are also ignoring the larger social contract of open source that is also at play. To release software with a certain license has a social component of its own that seems to be unaccounted for here.

Your analogy to me seems imprecise, as analogies tend to be when it comes to digital goods. I'm not taking pennies in any sense here, preventing the next person from making use of some public good.

You can make a similar argument for piracy or open source, and yet... Here we all still are and open source has won for the most part.
by ytpete | 2025-05-02 04:14:29+00:00
I've always thought it will be really interesting to see the courts grapple with mass tracking by drone instead someday. Precisely for this reason, that the rationale the Supreme Court previously used to strike down warrantless tracking devices wouldn't apply. It's an even closer analogy to actual human officers tailing the car, just replaced by robots.

Certainly hope they would still overrule that too... but drawing a bright line somewhere between "scales really cheaply due to technology" and "scales more expensively due to human labor" is such a fascinating and critical problem to solve in the era we live in now.
by kazinator | 2025-05-02 04:14:47+00:00
> Some features of the web that people have come to expect, and which greatly improve user experience, currently depend on third-party cookies.

Idea: domains should be able to publish a text record in their DNS (similarly to SPF record for mail domains) designating other domains which are allowed to peek at their cookies.

Suppose I operate www.example.com. My cookie record could say that foo.com and bar.com may ask for example.com cookies (in addition to example.com, of course). A website from any other domain may not. As the operator of example.com, I can revoke that at any time.

Whenever a page asks for a cookie outside of its domain, the browser will perform a special DNS query for that cookie's domain. If that query fails, or returns data indicating that the page does not have access, then it is denied.
by hattmall | 2025-05-02 04:15:06+00:00
An absurd amount of land is held by people that don't even know it. They aren't looking to sell generally. Lots of inherited and placed in trusts over generations.

Use q public, or whatever is in your area and search for land recently acquired by an estate. Pretty much that means the owner died, there was no clear line of inheritance do typically a distant relative or random person is selling the estate. Try to buy it.

The other is legal notices and government bid sites. You can buy tax owed land, laws vary by state.
by sollewitt | 2025-05-02 04:15:34+00:00
It’s not a sequence if you produce it by ordering aggregates. Next year no matter what happens the sequence will be broken until at best everyone advances one place (so best case scenario in 21 years), or a new team wins 21 straight titles.

Now if in twenty one years the distribution has been maintained, there’s one new team and all the other teams have won Fib(n+1) - Fib(n) titles, or one team has won 21 straight titles, reproducing the sequence, I’ll come back in 2046 and eat my hat.
by ciju | 2025-05-02 04:15:48+00:00
SEEKING WORK - Bangalore - Remote

Technologies: TypeScript/JavaScript, React, Elixir, Terraform. Can pickup tech (have touched zig, clojure, go, python, ruby).

Most recently, I setup infrastructure (prod/staging) for an AI startup, using terraform, and helping with concurrency issues in python code, etc. For another client, I had replaced there gcp infra located in US, to Mumbai, while also migrating the infra to terraform, with a few min downtime. I often work with TypeScript/JavaScript (e.g working on [Fin Bodhi](https://finbodhi.com/), a personal finance app). And some occasional Elixir. Also interested in visualizations (e.g https://ciju.in/posts/population-census-2011-a-visualization, https://ciju.in/posts/understanding-financial-functions-exce...). I was working as Engineering Manager till few years back. Before that I was running a consulting company (https://activesphere.com/). Comfortable picking up technologies. Would love to be involved in exploration projects, visualizations or complex domains where essence of the problem needs to be understood to build software around it. Or else would prefer projects with active users.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ciju-cherian/ Email: ping@ciju.in Github: https://github.com/ciju (e.g https://github.com/ciju/advent-of-code-23 ) Few things I have written about:

https://ciju.in/posts/2021-09-on-time-clock-and-ordering-of-... https://ciju.in/posts/understanding-timezones https://ciju.in/posts/understanding-financial-functions-exce... https://ciju.in/posts/population-census-2011-a-visualization

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by flipflipper | 2025-05-02 04:15:51+00:00
Try having it output the circuit in SPICE. It actually works surprisingly well and does a good job picking out components values for parts and can describe the connectivity well. It falls apart when it writes the SPICE (professionally, there isn’t really one well accepted syntax really)and making the wires to connect your components, like you say missing the minds eye. But I can imagine adding a ton spice schematics with detailed descriptions with maybe an LLM optimized SPICE syntax to the training data set… it’ll be designing and simulating circuits in no time.