MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
Show HN: CMS-Powered UI Components
by marcospassos | 2025-06-02 16:28:24+00:00
We just launched Croct Templates, a way to drop CMS-powered components into your app with a single command.

It's like Shadcn, but for CMS, AB testing and personalization:

* Built-in support for A/B testing, content editing, and dynamic logic * Works with existing projects (Next.js, React, etc.) * Supports community libraries via `npm://`, `shadcn-ui://`, etc.

Example:

```bash npx croct@latest use shadcn-ui://block/pricing-page ```

Happy to answer any questions!
by macintux | 2025-06-02 16:28:29+00:00
This story from Central America is particularly gruesome.

> In early April, an unfortunate British soldier walked into a snake that was hanging from a branch. It bit him in the eye. ‘He felt such intense pain’, a physician noted, ‘that he was unable to proceed’. Though the man’s comrades attempted to suck the venom from him, the man died ‘with all the symptoms of putrefaction’: bloated, skin coloured yellow, his eye dissolved.

I can't imagine trying to suck venom from someone's eye.
by stego-tech | 2025-06-02 16:29:17+00:00
You’re not wrong (examples include the US FCC, ZA’s Telekom, ye olde Standard Oil, vertical integrations…the list goes on, and even includes modern cloud services and AI tools, since the regulations they champion are often intended to block competitors with onerous compliance requirements), but in the context of the person I was replying to, they used “regulation” very much in the same context Uber/AirBnB and the SV Libertarian ilk decry “regulations”.

Regulations aren’t a binary (exclusively good or exclusively bad), yet so many of the HN cohort have drank the “exclusively bad and everyone can be trusted to make good decisions forever” koolaid that seeks to dismantle regulations wholesale.
by doomvwr | 2025-06-02 16:29:18+00:00
N26 SE | SREs, JVM Backend Engineers, Product Owners | Berlin, Barcelona, Vienna | https://www.n26.com | Onsite, Full-time

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We've eliminated physical branches, paperwork, and hidden fees for an elegant digital experience and supreme savings. Giving people the power to live and bank their way is what gets us out of bed in the morning and inspires the work that we do.

We are headquartered in Berlin with offices in multiple cities across Europe, including Vienna and Barcelona, and a 1,500-strong team of more than 80 nationalities.

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by BobaFloutist | 2025-06-02 16:29:42+00:00
I remember attending a lecture on why electric cars could never be pragmatic, due to the incredible energy density of gasoline, compared to the pathetic energy density of even SOTA batteries. Even if batteries improved their energy density by orders of magnitude, they could never even come close to matching fossil fuels!

And there's a lot of recentish developments that were considered impossible or hadn't even been conceived of. In medicine we've made HIV prevention/treatment with a pretty much 100% success rate, Hepatitis C antivirals, MS treatments with hopeful prognoses, a huge swathe of cancer treatments that make cancer overall more survivable than not, and mRNA vaccines are incredibly promising. Just personally, Vyvanse is an indescribably more effective and pleasant experience than Ritalin. MRIs are also pretty much magic. They're more or less the holy grail of imaging. Only issue is that they're still expensive, but we're working hard on ~room temperature superconductors.

In clean power, heat pumps have become obscenely efficient, and solar panels are both very effective and very cheap, pairing well with batteries. Induction stoves are also getting quite good.

Drones have benefited immensely from more efficient computing and better imaging, which isn't necessarily all for the best but is something that could absolutely not have been done in 1970.

What else, what's cool but also improves day to day life? Well, modern elevators are dramatically faster. I, personally, enjoy having wheels on my suitcase, and the modern omni-directional ones are a hugely better experience than the first versions. Oh, E-bikes! Those are really really cool. I guess that's just batteries again?

I'm sure there's a ton of stuff that didn't even occur to me because I'm blind to it, and to be entirely honest, didn't experience the year 1970.
by aerophilic | 2025-06-02 16:29:43+00:00
Honestly, and I feel like a promoter… but get either a hackpack from Mark Rober or as otherwise mentioned, mindstorms from LEGO.

Crunch labs: https://www.crunchlabs.com/

As someone in the industry (I literally can call myself a Robot Master having a Masters Degree in Robotics), these simple “kid kits” are phenomenal. When you first start out, the hardest part is knowing the hardware is actually going to do what you tell it to do. Simplifying the mechanical engineering/electrical engineering so you can immediately create real world actions makes a huge difference in giving you motivation to keep going.

Once you have the basics in place and you understand mechanisms, sensors, and some algorithms, you can move on to other parts of robotics.

However, keep in mind robotics is really about system thinking… you have to understand trades between sensing, thinking, and acting. But most importantly you have to remember you are dealing with the real world… you can’t as easily write a unit test and know that a particular actuator will behave exactly the same way every time.
by jesse_portal | 2025-06-02 16:29:51+00:00
Hi HN,

Jesse from Portal One here. We all know AI agents get lost or struggle with complex, multi-step tasks.

Our article explores a way to make agents more reliable using dynamic Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. Instead of just being a static API wrapper, the MCP server actively guides the agent by changing the available tools and information based on the current task state, an adaptive environment.

To illustrate this "guided tour" concept, we built a very simple demo server where an agent plays a Number Guessing Game.

The game itself is trivial, but the mechanics demonstrate the core idea:

- Lobby state: Agent sees only `start_game` tool.

- Game started: `start_game` is removed; `guess_number` and `give_up` tools appear.

- Guess made: The `guess_number` tool's own input schema adapts (e.g., guess must now be > 50).

- Game ends: Tools revert to the lobby state.

The full article details this flow and how the server uses MCP notifications (`toolListChanged`, etc.) to keep the agent updated.

The real importance isn't the game, but what this dynamic guidance concept unlocks for helping agents stay on task.

GitHub Repo & Demos:

https://github.com/portal-labs-infrastructure/number-guessin...
by mzaarab | 2025-06-02 16:29:55+00:00
Location: Chicago, Illinois, USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies:

• Languages: Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Ruby, Go, SQL, HTML/CSS, HCL, Shell

• Libraries/Frameworks: Vue.js, Vuex ORM, React (Hooks), Node.js, Next.js, Ruby on Rails, Tailwind CSS, scikit-learn, PyTorch, FastAPI, Transformers

• AI/MLOps & Cloud: AWS (SageMaker, Lambda, S3, IAM, ECS, CloudWatch), GCP (Vertex AI), Docker, ZenML, Modal, MLflow, Terraform, New Relic

• Other Technologies: Git/GitHub Actions, OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral AI, Ollama, Jupyter, Postgres, Redis, MongoDB, Nginx

Links:

• Résumé/CV: https://marwanz.io/Marwan_Zaarab_resume.pdf

• Email: marwan.zaarab[at]gmail[dot]com

• GitHub: https://github.com/marwan37

---

Hi! I'm Marwan, a software engineer with 4+ years of fullstack experience and recent hands-on work in MLOps and AI infrastructure.

Most recently at ZenML, I led development on production-grade pipelines and blog content (OCR, EU AI Act, LLMOps classification) and contributed to the ZenML VSCode extension. Previously at CardFree, I built merchant-facing features for loyalty programs, promotional campaigns, and built their global search system. I also co-created Pennant, an open-source collaborative computational notebook built for real-time sync and async execution.

I'm currently open to new roles where I can tackle technically ambitious problems across AI infrastructure, developer experience, or fullstack product engineering.
by preetamjinka | 2025-06-02 16:30:07+00:00
FunnelStory | Principal Architect (Go) | REMOTE (India) | Bengaluru | Full-Time | 55-85 LPA | https://funnelstory.ai

I'm Preetam, co-founder and chief architect of FunnelStory. We're looking for a Principal Architect with a strong Go background to join our team.

FunnelStory is an AI-first customer superintelligence platform. We're a small (<20 people), fast-growing, VC-backed, early-stage startup, and we're gaining exciting traction with enterprise customers. We're seeking a foundational architect/engineer for a team that's building next-generation AI platforms using Go.

We offer meaningful equity, a chance to work on genuinely cutting-edge AI problems (like our custom SQL query engine for LLMs), and the opportunity to significantly shape the technical direction of a rapidly growing product. We're committed to robust engineering practices to ensure we build high-quality, scalable systems. Our enterprise customers expect nothing less.

This is a great fit if you have:

* Deep expertise in Go.

* A strong architectural background, with experience designing and scaling complex systems.

* Expertise with relational databases (PostgreSQL) and SQL

* Excitement about taking a high-impact, leadership role in an early-stage environment, helping to mentor and uplift the team.

Who we're looking for:

* 8+ years experience in Go, SQL, AWS

* Experience with on-call rotations

* Strong architectural and problem-solving skills

* Ability to communicate complex ideas simply

More details + apply: https://wellfound.com/l/2Bn5eQ

Interested? Email me at preetam @ funnelstory.ai with "HN" in the subject.
by constantcrying | 2025-06-02 16:30:19+00:00
Of course, I do not doubt the value of having such a formal specification.

Interestingly we also had bugs in the specifications, where certain contradictory scenarios were specified, only very careful reading of the code and specification even led to me discovering the existence. A formal specification would of course have made the design flaw obvious.

You mention test cases, but there actually is another, very much related, application. Actually understanding what the specifications does. E.g. given a certain operating scenario, what is the expected outcome? That can be very difficult to do with lengthy, informal, specifications.
by jazzyjackson | 2025-06-02 16:31:00+00:00
That's impressive if it's actually able to adjust its own thresholds so that I can tell it to modify its behavoir (rather like Interstellar's Tars being told to adjust its humor and honesty parameters). Without using Abacus I have a hunch that it's just telling you its capable of that. LLM's in general know very little about themselves, only what they're told in the system prompt. But system prompt could include tool use that alters its own behavior.
by meganvs | 2025-06-02 16:31:08+00:00
Sphinx Defense | Engineering, DevOps, & Product | Remote (US Only), DC, Colorado Springs, LA | https://www.sphinxdefense.com

Sphinx Defense builds software to solve complex national security problems for America and its allies. Founded by engineers and technologists with deep experience across commercial and defense technology, we're building a vehicle-agnostic communication infrastructure to enable satellite operators to securely utilize antenna networks and maneuver satellites in real-time. We're bootstrapped, profitable, and growing aggressively.

To learn more about who we are, our engineering culture, and whether this is the right place for you, read our Key Values profile: https://www.keyvalues.com/sphinx-defense

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by ericmay | 2025-06-02 16:31:08+00:00
> It is very short-sighted view.

Well that's why I wrote it's advantageous to a point. The one really clear advantageous thing for the United States is that Russia's military has been degraded, and their economy is obviously not doing quite as well as it otherwise might be either. And it caused Sweden and Finland to join NATO, Germany to decouple (to an extent) from Russian gas, and more.

> The problem is that letting Russia win will only accelerate the demise of the US, so it cannot just walk away even if everyone in White House really wants that.

Even if Russia won this wouldn't really result in a demise of the United States by any means - just a stronger Russia and a buffet full of other undesirable repercussions for our enemies to pick and choose from.
by moped | 2025-06-02 16:31:21+00:00
SEEKING WORK | Remote | USA. DevOps | Cloud Architecture | Infra | Platform | SRE. Electrical engineering grad with 10+ yrs exp, comfortable as equally with code as with people. US Citizen.

My strength is empowering code to run at scale, helping scaling products from 1 to 10, incident management, building a DevOps/SRE practice, and driving improvements in your existing infrastructure. Cloud architecture in AWS and Azure. Javascript and Python, some Java.

I've supported clients in the Fortune 500 (healthcare and finance), US Federal Government, and several startups scaling after achieving PMF.

Former startup founder - I am now focused on contract engagements as a sole practitioner. You can contact me directly at mjmoped+hn@gmail.com
by jasonthorsness | 2025-06-02 16:31:55+00:00
I've maintained a blog semi-consistently for a few years and most articles go unnoticed. The ones that seem "worth the effort" regardless of readership years later are sincere documentation of things I'm interested in or projects I've invested significant time into. For these the audience of my future self and if I'm lucky my descendants seems like enough.

The articles I regret writing or that feel like a waste are any that seem insincere/designed for one-sided promotion of something. Which I've (mostly) kept off of my own site. Running a blog just for the purpose of driving more traffic or engagement I think would sap all the joy out of it completely.
by moped | 2025-06-02 16:32:05+00:00
Location: USA (East coast, but flexible with timezones)

Remote: Yes. Willing to relocate: No (open to occasional travel)

Technologies: AWS, Azure, Python, Javascript, Java, docker, k8s, serverless, Dynatrace

Résumé/CV: Full resume on request. Electrical engineering grad with 10+ yrs exp, most recently doing DevOps / Cloud Architecture in AWS and Azure, supporting enterprise scale distributed architecture for customer-facing SaaS apps. US Citizen.

Email: mjmoped+hn@gmail.com

Seeking infra related work - DevOps / SRE / Platform / Cloud Architecture. Essentially anything that helps your code run at scale. Prefer contract work, but also open to part-time and full-time.
by lurk2 | 2025-06-02 16:32:06+00:00
> Traditional knowledge is also about stuff like exactly how much to use, how to prepare it, what to use it with (and not to use it with), what time of day, beneficial activities before and after, and so on.

You are describing conventional medical science, the difference being that scientific knowledge is systematized and reproducible while traditional knowledge is not. It’s magical voodoo thinking used by witch doctors who don’t want their processes appropriated (or worse, invalidated) by medical science, exactly like chiropractic or Traditional Chinese “Medicine.”
by TuxSH | 2025-06-02 16:32:07+00:00
Heh, you're right, good catch: https://godbolt.org/z/3cEfbqM51

Looks like their (Rust) main motivator was readability. Whereas P3330R0 has that + performance on non-CAS hardware in mind. In any case, Rust's function could be optimized in the future, if they decide on it.
by fellowniusmonk | 2025-06-02 16:32:12+00:00
It's very odd. I thought Asteroid City (a really tough watch, like eating a 3 day old biscuit without water to wash it down) and Isle of Dogs were the most stilted. I didn't like Darjeeling Limited when I first saw it. It's visually and musically beautiful but maybe was too close to home so I was bored of the brothers relationship, also, I don't really think Wes Anderson can do sex scenes. Scenes of intimacy sure, but not sex scenes. I found it very awkward on the first viewing, I've grown to like it more but... idk, it has some issues still I think outside of that. Pretty much every deeper aspect of that film I don't like, even the brothers character arc I find meh. More than most of his movies I think it showed that he can't really enter into the headspace of the economically disadvantaged.

The Roald Dahl short stories on Netflix were very dysfunctional but so obviously in the spirit and tone of Roald Dahl that I thought they were actually very faithful to his writing, I think Wes Anderson did a rare thing in transliterating those stories to screen, the good and the flaws in tone are directly from Roald Dahl who I really enjoyed as a kid because the absurd and ironic detachment, the odd meanness of spirit, was rare in childrens books at the time (maybe still is, idk). I didn't enjoy them as film but I did enjoy their faithfulness to the authors work.

Dispatches felt like basically Wes Anderson explaining his own personal feelings of his life, being an ex-pat enamored but disconnected from his new home country, I could be wrong but it felt like it was the closest he'll ever have to an autobiography. It was effectively a short story format as well. I mean the guy went from being a Texas rube / self manufactured dandy dreaming of exotic locations through the lens of the fucking new yorker (what a weirdo right?) to living in Paris, what an odd personal life arc, the film felt like it was all exploring that. As someone who has lived in these kinds of personal cultural displacements and unexpected life arcs it felt very obvious, and I really enjoyed that part. This could all be projection of course.

I don't know, I wonder if he has the pathos required for long form any more, maybe he is just bored with the traditional arcs they require (I'm getting older and it's very easy to get bored of any consumptive activity) but he can't really seem to find his footing on short stories either. Maybe he's happy and resolved trauma and can't speak to it in that subtly authentic way anymore. I loved Life Aquatic, I loved the exploration of an unsympathetic main character who didn't want to realize why he had become unsympathetic, I already loved Seu Jorge and so the soundtrack is perfection to me as well.
by _tqr3 | 2025-06-02 16:32:13+00:00
Location: Vancouver, Canada

Remote: Yes

Willing to Relocate: No

Technologies: Full-stack (Node.js, React, RabbitMQ, Kafka)

Experience: 10+ years with TypeScript and JavaScript

Current Role: Staff Software Engineer at a large U.S.-based company

What I’m best at:

- Architecting large-scale applications and optimizing for performance - Automation — at my last two companies, the internal tools I built saved over 1,000 developer hours

Email: ntemail (at) protonmail.com

Projects/Resume available on request.
by mjr00 | 2025-06-02 16:32:30+00:00
> Lots of fresh grads and junior staff focus 99% on being useful, but career advancement beyond the first one or two promotions depends MUCH more on being valued.

Yeah. I've seen a lot of ICs get stuck at the "senior developer" level rather than progressing to team lead, staff/principal eng, etc because they were too focused on being useful, by cranking through Jira tickets and features, rather than thinking strategic and higher level. This is a totally fine career choice, but there's only so far that "coding better and faster" can take you.

The counterintuitive part is increasing your valuableness often reduces your usefulness. As a mundane example, in early stage startups there may be one engineer who handles production deployments, schema migrations, and on-call duties. This is extremely useful! For this engineer to increase their value, however, they'll want to automate production deployments, teach others how to run schema migrations, and set up on-call alerting and schedules. By doing this, they become less useful, since others can now do their work, but more valuable, since they've been able to delegate responsibilities.
by mlinhares | 2025-06-02 16:32:53+00:00
The problem wasn't low paid labor, it was just incompetent labor. You can find competent developers in all these countries offering lower pay, India, Brazil, Romania, Poland, China, Pakistan, its just that they would already be hired by other higher paying companies and what is left for the ones that are looking for the lowest paid possible workers are the incompetent ones.
by closetalent | 2025-06-02 16:32:56+00:00
Close | Full-Time | 100% Remote - US Based

* Backend Engineer (Python)

* Frontend Engineer (React)

* Site Reliability Engineer

Close is a bootstrapped, profitable, 100% remote, ~100 person team of thoughtful individuals who prioritize taking ownership and making a meaningful impact. We’re eager to make a product (Sales CRM Software) our customers fall in love with over and over again.

We’re looking for high achieving, full-time Software Engineers to join our team. Folks who have a good understanding of web technologies and want to help design, implement, launch, and scale major systems and user-facing features.

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by rd07 | 2025-06-02 16:33:14+00:00
I have wanted to try HeidiSQL before, but the lack of Linux version stopped me. Now, that it releases a Linux version, I think it is time to try it. Currently, I am using DbGate (daily) and DBeaver (occasionally). Feature-wise, DBeaver is better than DbGate, but it is slower than DbGate. Now let's see if Heidi is better than those two.
by zajio1am | 2025-06-02 16:33:42+00:00
> If you're going to make these arguments about IP, you can also make them about property rights in general.

No, physical property are both excludable and rivalrous goods [1], for them ownership is a natural right.

OTOH, IP are naturally non-rivalrous, and only semi-excludable through establishment of copyright law. IP ownership is just societal construct trying to fit market mechanisms to them.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goods
by dj20062004 | 2025-06-02 16:34:00+00:00
Location: USA / India

Remote: Yes

Willing to Relocate: Nope

Technologies: Python, Django, FastAPI, React JS, NumPy, Pandas, Polars, GeoPandas, PostgreSQL

Résumé: https://dheerajck.github.io/dheerajck/

Email: dheerajck18@gmail.com

Python Backend role

Hi there, I’m looking to join a small but high trust team / startup where I can focus on backend development with Python and also work on the AI side aswell.

I work in US / EU timezones right now.

I am interested in working with early stage startups that's fast moving right now.