MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Yoric | 2025-06-02 19:08:01+00:00
Location: Lyon, France.

Remote: Hybrid or Remote.

Willing to relocate: No.

Technologies: Rust, Python, OCaml, TypeScript, Go, JavaScript, C++, C, Opalang, Java, ...

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidteller/

GitHub: https://github.com/Yoric

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Details:

I've been a contributor to Firefox, Rust (stdlib & compiler), JavaScript/ECMAscript (language spec), Matrix (the protocol) and a few dozens of other applications and libraries. While this was largely accidental, I have code running on the device you're using read to this, a little bit in Earth orbit, and some on science-fiction devices :)

I have experience with desktop code, distributed code, backend code, some frontend, protocols, but also with setting up teams, working alongside management, product, marketing, legal. I've been involved in open-source forever, interacting with communities, presenting at conferences, writing technical and non-technical papers and blog entries, mentoring external contributors, ...

Looking for a position where I could work on something challenging, without destroying the world, ideally open-source or useful to society.
by joeld42 | 2025-06-02 19:08:36+00:00
Exactly, at this stage, the output is mainly for feasibility, presentations and communication. But we can also export models to Revit or 3D formats like GLTF to use in the next steps of the process, or for renders, etc. But we're planning to continue to add features to make it useful further down the AEC pipelines.

Good point about the play button, I'll pass that feedback along. :)
by PaulHoule | 2025-06-02 19:09:02+00:00
There's a viewpoint that security is (1) the lowest of all human motivations and (2) something you become addicted to.

https://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Higher-Consciousness-Ken-Key...

You can feel terribly unsafe no matter how rich you are. "security" is most frequently used by ethnic groups as a reason to eliminate other ethnic groups. If you put security first you'll never have it.
by moritzwarhier | 2025-06-02 19:10:36+00:00
Let's start with: I don't know. Also I can't read this language (BASIC variant?) and am browsing from a phone.

But this line at least outputs the error message:

https://github.com/rottytooth/INTERCAL72/blob/f94e0c8eaaf134...

edit: probably slightly complicated :D

but this makes me wonder if it's related to the source mutliplying some variable/register value by 3 in the error line:

> You will need at least 3 lines of code, with one PLEASE statement among them.

(from README)

Just searching "PLEASE" also shows increments and a comparison with a number written in hex... so it should be easy to figure out the intercal "please" halting problem instance, right? :)
by navbaker | 2025-06-02 19:11:28+00:00
Edit: apparently this link got posted by itself on HN and someone else linked to the HN post replying to your question.

After reading the article I googled for “samurai jack art style guide” and found this (it has a bunch of backgrounds part way down): https://characterdesignreferences.com/art-of-animation-8/art...
My "tiny" Product Hunt alternative made $5.6k in revenue last month
by jaisalrathee | 2025-06-02 19:11:45+00:00
I run a small Product Hunt alternative called Tiny Startups.

I've been running it as a newsletter for a few years and have grown it to around ~20k subscribers but I decided to go ahead with a soft pivot and build it into a "launch platform" in April to try and compete with the big boys like Product Hunt.

I made $4.9k in revenue in April - my first month as a launch platform.

In May revenue jumped from $4.9k to $5.6k -- most of this is from promoted submissions, even though a very high majority of submissions (~98%) are free submissions.

Costs me ~$200/month to run the site + newsletter, the rest is profit.

May saw over 12k unique visitors visit the tinystartups.com website.

I'm mainly just promoting this via my newsletter (~20k subs) and X. Word of mouth does the rest.

Looking to grow this project to a stable ~$10k/month but not sure how it'll get there yet.

I don't know if this is inspirational or helpful for anyone, just thought I'd put it out there and hope for the best.
by gwern | 2025-06-02 19:11:48+00:00
https://gwern.net/doc/science/1986-hamming#great-thoughts-fr...

You can think of it as a RL problem, and there are some interesting algorithms which achieve good performance by periodically 'breaking out' of exploitation, but less and less: https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.07979 (I expect that you can come up with an infinite hierarchy of 'wake ups' which converge to a fixed overhead and which aren't terribly far off an optimal schedule of replanning wake-ups, and that something like 'great thoughts Friday' is the first step; then you'd have 'great thoughts first-of-the-month' and 'great thoughts new year's day' etc: https://gwern.net/socks#fn10 )
by gnabgib | 2025-06-02 19:12:16+00:00
Related:

Milky Way may escape fated collision with Andromeda galaxy (9 points, 10 months ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41240641

Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies are already merging (2020) (138 points, 2022, 74 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30494523

Our Dazzling Night Sky When the Milky Way Collides with Andromeda in 4B Years (182 points, 2019, 120 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21327269
by datameta | 2025-06-02 19:12:19+00:00
SEEKING WORK | USA REMOTE | NYC HYBRID

Technologies - Programming: C/C++, Python, JavaScript, Kotlin, VHDL, SystemVerilog Embedded Systems: PowerPC, ESP32, STM32, iCE40, ECP5 ML: TensorFlow Lite Micro, PyTorch, OpenCV, MATLAB, ONNX IoT: BLE, WiFi, MQTT, LoRa Resume: https://docs.google.com/document/d/18mjB1tIH5s-ZmiET_smUxbMo3FaiC637aW_us8P0U5I/edit?usp=drivesdk Email: dm@datameta.info

Hi, I'm an embedded systems engineer/architect bridging the full compute spectrum of ultra-low power IoT, edge systems, and HPC.

My latest projects have been in full-stack edge ML R&D, memory controller firmware dev for POWER servers, and chip bringup/testing for Z mainframes.

I'm passionate about modular synthesis and tinkering with all sorts of analog circuits and DSP. Currently upskilling in analog PCB design and refining my abilities in FPGA development. Also WIP on a 3D-printed robot arm to practice control systems and actuation.
Ask HN: how should we complain about companies posting in "who's hiring"
by jorisboris | 2025-06-02 19:12:25+00:00
Who’s hiring rules stipulate “ Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about something. It's off topic here.”

One of the strengths of the thread would be to flag poor hiring practices.

If we can’t do it there, can we flag it somewhere else?
by trehalose | 2025-06-02 19:13:02+00:00
NF3 is very different than the other nitrogen halides and used as a silicon etchant, but re: environmental concerns, perhaps you're confusing it with something else? It's an extremely potent greenhouse gas that persists in the atmosphere for centuries. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrogen_trifluoride#Greenhous...) Surprisingly less toxic than some other gases used in the semiconductor industry though!
by ukd1 | 2025-06-02 19:13:28+00:00
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Building AI-driven turrets that stop hostile drones. We need sharp, hands-on engineers:

Embedded Robotics: Python on Jetson, CAN (+ EtherCAN / EtherCAT) drive buses, high-speed cameras, real-time PID/servo control, ROS, TensorRT

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by sandworm101 | 2025-06-02 19:13:29+00:00
The chair in the blog is not robust. It is simple, but not robust. It contains a hinge with an extreem amount of force placed on a small area of wood. It will deform very quickly, changing the angle of the recline. Similarly, the sharp points in contact with the ground will wear/weather quickly, putting it out of level. Rustic and utilitarian, but not meant to last. Imho.
by bmacho | 2025-06-02 19:13:35+00:00
OFF: Can we do something about this "open source" = "Open Source" usage? I want the opposite, "open source" = "source available" usage, because

- that's what the words mean. - the concept of Open Source is better denoted by a Proper Noun anyway

I think the "open source" = "Open Source" usage will be a friction point forever if it stays. Can we ..

- revert the usage to "open source" = "source available", or - decide that "open source" with small letters should not to be used (use "Open Source" or "source available" instead), or - defend "open source" = "Open Source" usage in a blogpost once and for all, and lessen this friction?
by glouwbug | 2025-06-02 19:13:43+00:00
In all honesty I’d try and model a 2d 3-link arm in software with forward and inverse kinematics. Then I’d model the inertia of the bars, and model DC motors to apply a torque to the bar interconnects. I’d then model PID controllers for each motor to smoothly move the arm. I’d then move to 3D. Once the physics is modelled you’ll find speccing the motors, solidworks, motor drivers, and MCUs relatively straightforward if you have some basics in electronics.

The fundamentals of robotics is in the math; think control theory. Don’t over emphasize the surface level like ROS, arduinos, and Lego kits. Those are implementation details
by bluefirebrand | 2025-06-02 19:13:50+00:00
> It’s mostly right enough.

Honestly this is why your experience is different: your expectations are different (and likely lower). I never find they are "mostly right enough", I find they are "mostly wrong in ways that range from subtle mistakes to extremely incorrect". The more subtly they are wrong, the worse I rate their output actually, because that is what costs me more time when I try to use them

I want tools that save me time. When I use LLMs I have to carefully write the prompts, read and understand, evaluate, and iterate on the output to get "close enough" then fix it up to be actually correct.

By the time I've done all of that, I probably could have just written it from scratch.

The fact is that typing speed has basically never been the bottleneck for developer productivity, and LLMs basically don't offer much except "generate the lines of code more quickly" imo
by apineda | 2025-06-02 19:13:54+00:00
Location: Toronto Remote: Yes/Hybrid

Willing to relocate: Yes, USA would be nice

Technologies - Lately it's been TypeScript, Rust, Tauri, Python, NextJS, FastAPI, Railway, Postgres, Vercel, Tailwind. + all supporting libraries

Stuff I made: https://www.treesnap.app/ https://www.blacksheepwall.tv/ https://llmpricingtable.com/ https://littlehtmxbook.com/ https://github.com/alexpineda/llmdump

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by gigel82 | 2025-06-02 19:15:03+00:00
It's so disappointing from IEEE to be arguing against user's freedom to own their devices.

Supply chain attacks concerns are infinitesimally smaller than manufacturers writing buggy, unmaintained software / firmware.

We should instead argue for open software / firmware, or at least local control only (if desired). Also solves the problem of billions of e-waste devices whenever manufacturers go under or shutdown their servers, or moves them behind new paywalls / adwalls.
by euiq | 2025-06-02 19:15:03+00:00
I know that `git rebase` changes the committer date while keeping the author date the same, so I'm assuming something similar happened here. For example, many of the early commits have this committer date with varying author dates:

$ git show --format=fuller 3dafc8f5de6ffe46fb223a75a46a6bd848b6daf8 commit 3dafc8f5de6ffe46fb223a75a46a6bd848b6daf8 Author: Kenton Varda <kenton@cloudflare.com> AuthorDate: Thu Feb 27 17:15:37 2025 -0600 Commit: Kenton Varda <kenton@cloudflare.com> CommitDate: Tue Mar 4 14:48:59 2025 -0600 Add storage schema by Claude.

GitHub uses the committer date for its history, which is annoying if you rebase frequently; I like to run a non-interactive `git rebase` with `--commmiter-date-is-author-date` in such cases.
by dansitu | 2025-06-02 19:15:33+00:00
Edge Impulse (a Qualcomm company) | Senior ML Engineer | REMOTE in NY/NJ/CT | Full-time | https://careers.qualcomm.com/careers/job/446705785653 | $126-211k + RSUs

Edge Impulse (https://edgeimpulse.com) is the top developer platform for edge AI: think HuggingFace but for models that process sensor data on the edge. We have a large and active community of hundreds of thousands of developers. We were recently acquired by Qualcomm, who have a crazy ambitious vision for bringing AI within reach of every embedded engineer.

This role will involve leadership, mentoring, and process design in addition to engineering, software architecture, and programming. There will be room to grow and potentially manage others as we expand the research team from 6 to 10+ researchers and engineers. Your role is to be the professional software engineer in a room full of researchers. You view writing great software as a craft, and you enjoy designing systems to facilitate quality code.

Our team literally wrote the book on AI at the Edge (from O’Reilly https://a.co/d/dIDZui0)—along with creating award-winning technologies like our FOMO constrained object detection architecture, FOMO-AD visual anomaly detection, and EON Compiler model optimization system. Our platform is cited in thousands of research papers, and we are a Gartner Cool Vendor in Edge Computing.

Like the rest of our team, you are naturally proactive and autonomous, and will go the extra mile when required: not by working late, but by going outside of your lane to help deliver the best possible product for our developers. We prize trust, collaboration, entrepreneurialism, and creativity.
by zzzeek | 2025-06-02 19:15:36+00:00
I like bgwalter's post above. I'd like to "democratize" Facebook. Can I download the entire set of profiles and photos and make my own mashups? Let's see what the facebook lawyers have to say over that.

There is a social good for artists making derived art/music/writing under fair use. There is only social harm in letting billionaire-owned AI's spit out trillions of garbage derivations with zero social value. We can make a choice as a society.
by rossng | 2025-06-02 19:15:36+00:00
MONUMENTAL | https://www.monumental.co/ | Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Full Time | Onsite

We’re creating robots that autonomously construct buildings. We design all of our hardware and software in-house in central Amsterdam, starting with autonomous bricklaying robots.

Building a robot like this means solving all sorts of interesting challenges: figuring out the robot's position with sub-mm precision; navigating autonomously around the building site; automating measurement and calibration of new robots; lots of distributed systems and so on.

Our robots are now continuously deployed on customer sites and we are earning real money as a masonry contractor. The full team is more than 60 people and we're growing rapidly to meet demand.

Our stack is mostly: Rust, TypeScript, Python, NixOS.

Some open roles:

- Software Engineer, Controls

- Software Engineer, Machine Vision

- Assembly/manufacturing technicians and robot operators

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P.S. We're always on the lookout for very strong generalist engineers who can operate at any layer of the stack (firmware, networking, UI, application code - whatever's needed!) Drop me an email if this sounds like you.
by strangattractor | 2025-06-02 19:15:41+00:00
IMHO it's a great summarizing search engine. I now don't have to click on a link to go to that original source - Gemini just hands me a useful summary. Ask AI to do something specific that requires GI (General Intelligence) your milage may vary. So as OpenAI and Google suck in all your content (creators) you are going to find yourself derive less and less revenue generated by visits to your site. Just sayin.
by akshat2602 | 2025-06-02 19:16:10+00:00
Location: New York

Blurb: Masters graduate at Stony Brook University seeking work in systems, databases, and backend roles. I've researched consensus protocols at Stony Systems Lab (Fall '23-Spring '24) and implemented a replicated toy DB using consensus. I have also worked on encrypted archival storage using information theoretic security at File Systems and Storage Lab. Passionate about distributed systems and databases with hands-on experience.

Remote: Open to any form of work (Remote, Hybrid, In-office)

Willing to relocate: Yes

Résumé/CV: resume [dot] akshatsharma [dot] xyz

Email: mail [at] akshatsharma [dot] xyz
by pixl97 | 2025-06-02 19:16:10+00:00
Also it's important to point out there is another class called anti-rivalrous goods which may be important for the discussion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-rival_good

>An anti-rival good is one where the more people share it, the more utility each person receives. It is the opposite of a rival good. Examples include software and other information goods created through the process of commons-based peer production. The term was coined by economist Steven Weber.
by nomel | 2025-06-02 19:16:20+00:00
From what I can tell, rather than a simple difference in expectation (which could explain your positive experience vs others), it seems to be a "comfort within uncertainty" difference that, from what I can tell, is a personality trait!

You're comfortable with the uncertainty, and accommodate it in your use and expectations. You're left feeling good about the experience, within that uncertainty. Others are repelled by uncertainty, so will have a negative experience, regardless of how well it may work for a subset of tasks they try, because that repulsive uncertainty is always present.

I think it would be interesting (and possibly very useful/profitable for the marketing/UI departments of companies that use AI) to find the relation between perceived AI usefulness and the results of some of the "standard" personality tests.
by proc0 | 2025-06-02 19:16:28+00:00
This just sounds like prompt engineering? I think you have the right thinking in regards to LLMs needing more logic based foundations but it probably needs to be designed into the architecture itself. If you are enhancing the prompts with structure I think it will still be trying to autocomplete that structure instead of actually using logic based reasoning.

I think there's probably another foundational technique like transformers that could be added such that it can encode logical structures that it can then use when it needs to reason, but unfortunately I cannot experiment or do any research on this as it would probably take months or years with no guarantee of success.
by leptons | 2025-06-02 19:16:37+00:00
It's fine if LLMs are used casually, for things that don't affect anyone but the user. But when someone plugs an LLM into Social Security or other governmental bodies to take action on real human beings, then disaster awaits. Nobody is going to care if the LLM got it wrong if you're just chatting with it or writing some wonky code that doesn't matter in the real world, but when your government check is reduced or deleted by an LLM that is hallucinating, then the real problems start. These things should not be trusted with anything but the least consequential actions an individual would use it for.
by cycomanic | 2025-06-02 19:16:45+00:00
I don't quite understand what you mean. Are you talking about color points, you can add many different ones in inks ape (the UI of the gradient tool is admittedly quite bad though). Or do you mean a sort of double gradient, i.e. if goes from red to blue from left to right, but from opaque to transparent from top to bottom? I never had to use such a gradient, so not sure if it's possible.
by foobiekr | 2025-06-02 19:17:21+00:00
Industrial IOT is mostly secured through network segmentation. There is a lot to hate about this fact.

However, by career I deal with a lot of embedded devices. Embedded is where the hell begins. Embedded plus standards is pretty bad. SCADA and others. Embedded plus standards plus vendors .. now you are doomed. The half-assedness of embedded systems security is worse than any normal coder can imagine.

Basically the IIOT domain is the one place that remains where network segmentation and encirclement and so on are the only things we have that work. The worst best option.
by mleonhard | 2025-06-02 19:17:51+00:00
Location: San Francisco, CA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: within the SF Bay Area Technologies: TypeScript, Rust, Golang, Java, Ruby, Python, Postgres, htmx, GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Kubernetes, Datadog, Sentry, React, and many others. Résumé/CV: https://joblin.app/profile/409373959 Email: michael206@gmail.com

I'm a generalist software engineer with 10+ years of experience. I've worked at FAANG and startups. I enjoy building and fixing things to meet business & user needs. I also love finding ways to increase velocity.
by whyowhy3484939 | 2025-06-02 19:19:24+00:00
I realize I came across as harsh and I surely don't want to judge you personally on your skills as A) that's not necessary for my point to make sense and B) uncalled for. I'm sure you are a capable C developer and I'm sorry for being an asshole - but I am one so it's hard for me to pretend otherwise...

Being able to program in C is something I can also do, but it sure as heck does not make me proficient Rust developer if I cobble some shit from a LLM together and call it a day.

I can appreciate how "businesses" think this is a valuable, but - and this is often forgotten by salaried developers - as I am not a business owner I have neither the position nor the intention of doing any "business". I am in a position to do "engineering". Business is for someone else to worry about. Shipping "valuable features" is not something I care about. Shipping working and correct features is something I worry about. Perhaps modern developers should call themselves business analysts or something if they wish to stop engineering.

LLMs are souped up Stack Overflows and I can't believe my ears if I hear a fellow developer say someone on Stack Overflow ported some of their code to Rust on request and that this feature of SO now makes them a proficient Rust developer because they can vaguely follow the code and can now "ship" valuable features.

This is like being able to vaguely follow Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, which is something any amateur can do, compared to being able to engage with it academically and rigorously. I deeply worry about the competence of the next generation - and thus my own safety - if they believe superficial understanding is equivalent to deep mastery.

Edit: interesting side note: I am writing this as a dyed in the wool generalist. Now ain't that something? I don't care if expertise dies off professionally, because I never was an "expert" in something. I always like using whatever works and all systems more or less feel equal to me yet I can also tell that this approach is deeply flawed. In many important ways deep mastery really matters and I was hoping the rest of society would keep that up and now they are all becoming generalists who don't know shit and it worries me..
by BeetleB | 2025-06-02 19:19:54+00:00
Any institution that receives federal grants is required by law to care. That includes universities (well, except maybe Harvard soon :-) ).

I worked in my university's disability office - their mission was to ensure all web sites within the university were accessible (including professors' pages where syllabus, etc were posted). The main programmer in the office was blind. Really fascinating to see him code!
by zzbn00 | 2025-06-02 19:19:56+00:00
I didn't know about that, would have been right that Amazon pays damages to the copyright holder. But they did at least refund the price paid, so the readers were no worse off than at start.

Generally not a big fan of Amazon-world, but if you don't mind reading older books kindle is good value I think. My 30pence copy of Orwell's "Homage to Catalonia" was very good value, and has not yet mysteriously disappeared from my Kindles!