MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by josefritzishere | 2025-06-02 18:47:55+00:00
It's hard to say "never" in technology. History isn't really on your side. However, LLMs have largely proven to be good at things computers were are already good at: repetitive tasks, parallel processing, and data analysis. There's nothing magical about an LLM that seems to be defeating the traditional paradigm. Increasingly I lean toward an implosion of the hype cycle for AI.
by stedman | 2025-06-02 18:48:02+00:00
Good question! Our frequent offsites allow us to get most of the benefits of a tight-knit in-person team, while still having flexibility to bring on teammates working outside the SF Bay Area.

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by pagnihotry | 2025-06-02 18:48:07+00:00
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by varispeed | 2025-06-02 18:48:27+00:00
The thing is you need to know what exactly LLM should create and you need to know what it is doing wrong and tell it to fix it. Meaning, if you don't already have skill to build something yourself, AI might not be as useful. Think of it as keyboard on steroids. Instead of typing literally what you want to see, you just describe it in detail and LLM decompresses that thought.
by Vrondi | 2025-06-02 18:48:53+00:00
It did increase for a while, and then when Chromebooks came out, schools started using those instead of real computers, because it saved a ton of money. So, the students have only been taught to use Google Docs/Sheets/etc. for years now, and no actual computer literacy. Some can write code, but can't find their own homework file. It's crazy, but we stopped teaching them this stuff, so most don't know it.
by dinfinity | 2025-06-02 18:49:04+00:00
This is too dismissive. There is a massive difference in outputted code quality between models. The recent Google Gemini 2.5 models have dethroned the Anthropic ones. OpenAI o3 is the only other one that is even worth considering; all the rest of the OpenAI models are trash in comparison.

In addition to that we've also seen that the way you prompt (amount of use of expert language), what context you provide through instructions, and tool use make a huge difference on the outcome.

At this point, if your coding experience with LLMs sucks I'd say there is an 80% chance that you're just doing it wrong.
by jandrewrogers | 2025-06-02 18:49:06+00:00
A challenge with IIoT is that the standards processes are consistently driven to the lowest common denominator. It is partly driven by cost sensitivity but also by the reality that many of these hardware companies are unsophisticated at software development and have no realistic way of becoming sophisticated.

Adding to this that the scale requirements for implementing these standards varies by about 10 orders of magnitude between the smallest and largest companies, which is such a large scale difference that it becomes qualitative with respect to standards.

This creates divergent incentives. Many companies want to optimize standards for the cheapest thing that will check a box, even if the implementation is ineffective in practice. The minority of companies that actually care about robust and efficient implementation often find this isn’t feasible (and in some cases impossible) within the constraints of what ends up in many of these standards, so they ignore the standards since they are strictly worse than whatever non-standard thing they end up doing.

Wash, rinse, repeat. I have participated in IIoT standardization efforts for almost two decades and it is the same vicious cycle irreconcilable requirements every time.
by fidotron | 2025-06-02 18:49:42+00:00
This would be out of the frying pan and into the fire.

The only long term viable approach for IoT security is to not allow these devices on the Internet in the first place. Have the WiFi Access Point, or some other gateway, act as the broker for all information, and the default is each device sees nothing until given permission. *

Whenever this comes up people raise the point that this won't work because it disincentivizes making devices to slurp data, but it's not like that ecosystem actually exists at all, with the exception of smart TV which hardly counts as IoT. Consumer IoT hasn't taken off because consumers are rightly paranoid about bait-and-switch and being left with useless devices in the walls of their homes.

* This is roughly what https://github.com/atomirex/umbrella is trying to head towards, hence seeing if a $50 AP can act as a media SFU, and learning it totally can.
by hilem | 2025-06-02 18:49:52+00:00
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We're a well funded (a16z) close-knit seed stage insurtech - building next-gen enterprise infrastructure for the $7T insurance industry.

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by sshine | 2025-06-02 18:50:17+00:00
> Money buys me a lot of things that lead to my happiness - the ability to tell my wife that she could stop working in 2020 when she was 44 and I was 46 and we could travel post Covid and she could pursue her passions.

I told my wife the same. I'm currently on a $97k/year salary as a CS teacher with very few hours; I make about half of what I normally do, so I can have a lot of time with our firstborn. We're not pressed for money, but we also save less than $1500/mo. We spend most money on food, and second-most on travelling to my wife's home country.

I'm 39, and she's 32. My point is that you don't have to be very well off to make that choice.

> We threw away or gave away everything but the clothes we actually wear and our electronic devices

Wow. Just wow.

That sounds so liberating, but I could never do it.

I have a laser printer that I use a few times a year. I have two kind of belt sanders, even though I hardly do woodwork, because I imagine that I will, and I don't think I'm wrong. I have fitness equipment for a dozen sports. I have a collection of wires so that friends and family can ask for any kind of wire, and I can give it to them. My wife has three moving boxes of shoes that I've never seen her wear. I really wish it didn't take up so much space in our tiny apartment, but I wouldn't want to lose any of it.
by prashanth_docai | 2025-06-02 18:50:20+00:00
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by michallech | 2025-06-02 18:50:44+00:00
Location: Poland (US timezones OK):

Remote: Yes, ok with in-office meetings Willing to relocate: Yes for epic offers Technologies: * Python, Django, FastAPI, PHP, Laravel * React, React Native, NodeJS, Firebase * Kubernetes, AWS, GC, Azure, Terraform, CephFS, GlusterFS, Proxmox, esxi * PyTorch, Apache Spark, Apache Airflow, Kafka * LLM Integrations: Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, Mistral, DeepSeek * LLM fine-tuning Résumé/CV: https://michallech.info/static/Michal-Lech-Resume.pdf Email: michal@michallech.info

Well rounded Full Stack Engineer (and a former CEO) who thrives in high pressure startup environments, mentor, geek and a budding ML/LLM researcher.
by tgsovlerkhgsel | 2025-06-02 18:52:01+00:00
The PIN and magstripe data alone (which I think can be replicated from a one-time read-only interaction with the chip) are enough to make payments in some cases.

If there are sufficiently few legitimate terminal types in circulation and the user is aware of it, anyone presenting a different terminal would be looked at with suspicion. With the status quo, I as the cardholder essentially have to assume that anything presented to me is likely legit, even if it looks like someone's homemade skimmer.

However, this still leaves the merchant. If they (the person handing me the terminal) aren't in on the scam, any tampering has to be non-obvious to them. AFAIK some places go as far as weighing the devices and regularly checking seals and serial numbers. VISA recommends checking twice daily https://busfin.colostate.edu/Forms/Merchant_Svcs/Visa_Securi...

Trying to tamper with a terminal with physical buttons would almost certainly require rewiring it physically, triggering tamper detection and rendering the terminal useless. So it would have to be swapped with a unit that looks identical despite being tampered, and functions well enough to not raise suspicion. I guess an attacker could hollow out a case and insert completely custom electronics, in theory, but that's quite a high bar (especially if it requires forging serialized seals).

On the touch-screen-with-insecure-Android, a software-only change on the insecure side (never actually initiating PIN entry mode, or only initiating it after the first attempt and "pin incorrect" message) should be enough to get the PIN, and an added NFC skimmer not connected to the other electronics could do the rest.

The devices also look cheaply made, distributed in small numbers, and I have my doubts about them having as many anti-tamper features as the most common terminals, although I might be wrong. If they have strong physical anti-tamper measures, and the software is hardened against software-based tampering, I think that they could, in theory, be comparably secure.
by vel0city | 2025-06-02 18:52:24+00:00
Different strokes for different folks largely. My e-reader mostly languishes in a drawer. I'll maybe use it on a trip or around the pool but mostly do my reading on regular computers and my phone as those are what I have handy. My wife loves her e-reader and uses it daily but doesn't really bother spending much time on a laptop or desktop outside of work. To her, it's a better device more catered to precisely the needs she's looking for, while for what I'm looking for its too constrained.
by LunaSea | 2025-06-02 18:52:36+00:00
Location: Brussels, Belgium (GMT+2)

Remote: Yes (fully remote or hybrid if company offices in Belgium, France, England, Netherlands, Germany or Luxembourg)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: JavaScript / TypeScript / Node.js, React, Python, Shell, PostgreSQL, Redis, DuckDB, NoSQL, Airflow (ETL), Docker, AWS, AWS CDK, Security, Grafana, headless browsers (Puppeteer / Playwright) and many more.

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Hi, I'm a (mostly backend) web developer with 12 years of experience in web application development, big data systems (hundreds of millions to billions of rows), security (attack and defence), payment systems, writing scrapers / crawlers, traditional machine learning / NLP, LLMs / RAG / agents and infrastructure management.

I also have cross-discipline experience; working with accounting, sales, communication and marketing teams by building workflows, automations and internal tooling.

Currently working as the CTO of an AdTech startup.

Ideally I'd like to work for a product startup in the capacity of CTO or lead / staff engineer.

(Not super interested in crypto or Web3.)
by merry_flame | 2025-06-02 18:52:39+00:00
Interesting mix of wood too. The 1619 viola has a very tight grain spruce top and the maple back has a beautiful curl. Same with the 2019 Beilharz cello and the 1785 Storioni violin – the curly maple really shows. The back on the 1705 Goffriller cello seems very plain on the other hand, and suprisingly so does the 1717 Stardivari's. The 19th century Hopf violin has nice curly maple, but the grain on the top seems extremely loose. Any idea how do these compare musically? And does someone know if Stradivarius ever used curly maple and when curly maple was first used for musical instruments?
by citizenpaul | 2025-06-02 18:52:44+00:00
Yes I understand all that. There are countless places that provide that type of whimiscal fun for whatever you are willing to spend. Why does this one need special treatment and a gofundme?

Obviously I'm sorta biased in that I don't enjoy this type of thing myself but I get other people enjoy it. I've seen countless places I enjoy disappear over the years but I don't think any of them deserved to be begging for donations on the FP of HN.
by duxup | 2025-06-02 18:52:51+00:00
>François was also accused of forcing a young employee he had just hired to do a headstand in the open-plan office while wearing a skirt. He is also accused of tying the same woman to a chair and putting her in an elevator, sending her to another floor. He also allegedly forced her to attend a work meeting after he painted her face with a felt-tip pen.

>In addition to the accusations of sexual and psychological harassment, François is being prosecuted for an attempted sexual assault when he tried to forcibly kiss a young employee during a Christmas party as she was held by other colleagues.

It's wild that some folks just can't go to work and everyone try to have a good time respectful of each other.
by eimrine | 2025-06-02 18:53:03+00:00
> If you were doing it with military programmers and military technologies, there are better technologies to use.

Sorry but this is BS.

> I don't know what you mean when you say "museum". This doesn't not make sense in English. Can you rephrase?

A lot of old airplanes on an outdoor field, anybody can visit it for cheap and see the greatest aerial vehicles of USSR.
by mystraline | 2025-06-02 18:53:20+00:00
I would believe you, but we've seen PlayStation 3 OtherOS play out. In that case, Sony sold it with 'install Linux' as a feature. Later on, they poison-pilled an update and killed that.

There was a lawsuit, in which class action plaintiffs got between 9$, or $55 if you said you used OtherOS.

But if this was any of us, hacking Sony, we would be rotting in prison. But Sony can hack millions of peoples supposed property, and "here's your latte money, too bad, so sad!"

This should have been a criminal trial, in which the executives would go to prison, firmware should be rolled out to reenable it, and make people actually whole.

So yeah, I fully expect Nintendo to remotely destroy hardware, and get away with it. The concept of "you don't own, but you license" is the toxic shit that allows this, alongside DMCA 1201.
by davedx | 2025-06-02 18:53:28+00:00
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Built production LLM pipelines and apps: RAG, embeddings, OpenAI APIs

Extensive backend/API and frontend experience – clean, secure, well-documented services; component libraries and user-centric UIs

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by fragmede | 2025-06-02 18:53:29+00:00
> since those jobs are few and definitely already filled.

Doesn't that go for most things though?

Designer, across all fields exists; game designer, creative technologist, research scientist. Just because you can't land that job right out of the gate is no reason not to try, and to become an insurance adjuster instead (unless you do want to be an insurance adjuster). In team sports everyone wants to be the star, but even if you're not, if you just love the game, you can always find some way to be involved, even if it's selling t-shirt outside the stadium.
by schmookeeg | 2025-06-02 18:54:13+00:00
Thanks. I already retired once at 39 with this exact view in mind. I'm frankly amazed I'm still overemployed at 48. But yes, I've been super bearish on the remaining chapters in my career. I've hedged by paying off a (argh, low-interest) mortgage, stacking the bank, and I have a very well developed and near-tech-money side hustle that is ageism resistant.

I keep waiting for this shoe to drop. It hasn't yet. Now the pendulum has swung far enough that I want to preserve my time more than I want to stack more bricks. Amusingly, it's a source of tension with my wife who plans to work for another 15 years and will not be excited to see me out playing without her. (her people live into 100 on the regular. My people die in their 40s and 50s with alarming frequency -- our horizon perspectives are very different :D )

All good problems. If I lose all my tech jobs tomorrow, I will be grateful for the run and not be going hungry. I half expect I'd be relieved.
by karlperera | 2025-06-02 18:54:26+00:00
A new study published today in Nature Astronomy has dramatically changed our understanding of our galaxy's future. For decades, astronomers believed the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies were destined to collide in about 4.5 billion years. Now, researchers have found it's essentially a 50-50 chance whether this cosmic crash will happen at all.

Led by astrophysicist Till Sawala at the University of Helsinki, the team ran 100,000 simulations using the latest data from Hubble and Gaia space telescopes. They found that while previous predictions weren't wrong, they didn't account for all variables—particularly the gravitational influence of the Large Magellanic Cloud, which pulls perpendicular to the Milky Way-Andromeda orbit.

"We don't find that previous calculations were wrong," Sawala told ScienceAlert. "However, we now find that the earlier prediction of a Milky Way-Andromeda collision is only one of several possibilities."

The simulations show only a 2% chance of a head-on collision in the next 5 billion years. In about half the scenarios, the galaxies pass each other at distances of 500,000 light-years or more—potentially never merging at all.

What's fascinating is how this changes our understanding of cosmic certainty. As Sawala puts it, the probability went "from near-certainty to a coin flip."

What do you think—does this change how we should view cosmic predictions? And if you had to bet, would you put your money on collision or cosmic near-miss?
by kentonv | 2025-06-02 18:54:36+00:00
I suppose it's all a continuum and we can each have different opinions on what the threshold for "glorified markov generator" is.

But there have been many cases in my experience where the LLM could not possibly have been simply pattern-matching to something it had seen before. It really did "understand" the meaning of the code by any definition that makes sense to me.
Ask HN: Resources to Learn DevOps?
by behnamoh | 2025-06-02 18:54:40+00:00
I've realized the most important skill in the age of AI is DevOps. I have some experience with spinning up servers and hosting my apps, but I want to learn more about production-ready approaches to load balancing, server management, structuring a project, containerization, distribution, API design, concurrency done right, etc.

I've picked up some of each as I went through different projects but I'm wondering if there are resources that rigorously teach this stuff.
by mathewak | 2025-06-02 18:54:54+00:00
Location: Michigan, USA (*relocating to Toronto, ON, Canada by August 2025)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Django, Flask, Vue.js, React, Ruby on Rails, Docker

Résumé/CV: https://standardresume.co/r/zPYuvVppmXspe2eIwO-io

Email: mathew <at> mathewkramer <dot> io

I'm a full-stack developer and former linguist currently working in EdTech, where I have been overseeing (as tech lead) the creation of a web application providing advisors with better access to and insights on student progress. I'm most interested in learning- and education-focused technologies, but open to many things. Skilled on both technical and design side.

Github for additional reference: https://github.com/mathewajk

I am also a musician and sound designer with experience composing and implementing adaptive audio for video games (FMOD/Wwise/Unity + some GameMaker and Godot). Always open to music-related work (or fun).

I am moving to Canada (US citizen with pending PR application) and am looking for either contract work or NA-based remote roles to bridge the gap.
by throw14082020 | 2025-06-02 18:55:00+00:00
Drone startup | Product Engineer (Typescript) | 1 day/week in the office (London, UK) | Citizens of the UNITED KINGDOM only

You'd be working with engineers who previously worked at Google, Amazon, Helsing, Darktrace and an F1 team. We build drones (software and hardware)

We're looking for engineers that straddle real world problems, and use technology as a solution. We prefer personal projects or relevant hobbies, not hard leetcode questions. We value collaboration: pair programming, discussing, teaching and learning from others. We're looking for mission-driven engineers. People who see problems in the world and want to help solve them.

You'd be working with me to build the most intuitive, performant, and modern mission planning and flight monitoring software for drones, and related applications (tools for drone design and manufacturing). For my project, we use React, Tailwind, Node, drizzle-orm, Postgres, SQLite, deck.gl, Python, FastAPI, asyncio, and more. You're allowed (and compensated) to use AI services.

Because we are a small team, you will be noticed and rewarded for performance.

*Please don’t apply if any of these resonate:*

• You prefer narrow ownership—“I only touch the backend or the code I've written”.

• You think it's more about "who you know, not what you know".

• You haven’t actively learned a new tool or hobby in the last year.

If interested, email my temporary email: hn-june25@mail.orth.uk with your CV and some personalised information about why you'd be the right fit.

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