MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sonamusui | 2025-06-27 04:06:59+00:00
It’s not just a strategy. It’s your product’s belief system. I used to think GTM was all about channels, pricing, and acquisition hacks.

Now I see it differently. It’s about showing up in someone’s life with purpose, not noise. The best GTM I’ve seen doesn’t scream “buy this”, it quietly whispers “this was made for you.”

Simon Sinek said: “People don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it.” That changed how I think about building and launching.

A strong GTM isn’t about shouting features. It’s about earning belief. It’s about making someone feel like your product understands them before they even use it.

GTM isn’t the end of your product build. It’s the beginning of your product’s story. It’s how your idea becomes a movement not just a tool.

If your GTM doesn’t start with why you exist, you’ll just be selling. But if it does, you’ll be inviting people to belong.

What’s your take on Go-To-Market? I’d love to hear how you approach it, whether you're building, launching, or scaling
by csallen | 2025-06-27 04:07:01+00:00
I agree with you that we should help people who fall on hard times, and I agree with you that stifling innovation isn't the right way to do so.

I'm glad we have high ceilings as a country, but I think we're a rich enough society that we can afford to have a much higher floor, too. Our problem is that we simply won't tax rich people or businesses. (I say this as a fairly well-off person myself, and as a business owner.)

I don't necessarily agree with your final point. People are incredibly motivated to take risks and try new things and to experiment with innovative business models. Just look at the web and the millions of creative things that people have put tons of time and effort into, often with no payment. It's not that money doesn't motivate people, it certainly does. I just think that people are creative about figuring out how to profit, and we don't need to create artificial monopolies and means of profit in order to motivate people to create. If there's a problem that exists in America, it's certainly not that there's a lack of ambitious innovators and creators.
by ColonelPhantom | 2025-06-27 04:08:19+00:00
What do you mean by Anthropic shifting their ordering? It seems to still be consistently Opus > Sonnet > Haiku. They didn't release 4 Haiku, but they also didn't release 3.5 Opus, and pricing wise Sonnet 4 lines up with earlier Sonnets.

As for this Gemma release, I don't think Gemma 4 would be an appropriate name. 3n is limited to very small versions (like 8B total parameters) and is therefore likely less powerful than Gemma 3.

From my impression this is more like a "Gemma 3 Lite" that provides a better speed/quality tradeoff than the smaller Gemma 3 models.
by codelikeawolf | 2025-06-27 04:08:28+00:00
> Why doesn’t he ask his girlfriend what a thermodynamicist is? (She should know: That’s what her dad does.)

My dad worked a lot of different jobs at the same company before he retired a few years ago. I know at some point one of his jobs had "logistics" in the title. I only ever had a vague notion of what his job entailed. Unless the job title is obvious, like "plumber", I wouldn't expect this woman to know what the hell her dad does.
by unaindz | 2025-06-27 04:09:06+00:00
It's been a long time coming. I wonder if the overhead of user space interacting with the kernel api is gonna be noticeable.

>Another big area of Windows that uses kernel-level drivers is anti-cheating engines for games. Microsoft has been speaking with game developers about how to reduce the amount of kernel usage, but it’s a more complicated use case as cheaters often have to purposefully tamper with their machine to disable protections and get cheating engines running.

>“A lot of [game developers] would love to not have to maintain kernel stuff, and they are very interested in how they do that,” Weston says. “We’ve been talking about the requirements there, and I think we’ll have more to say on that in the near future.” Riot Games told me last year that it’s willing to follow potential Windows security changes and “recede from the kernel space.”

I hope it spreads to anti cheats as well.
by Helmut10001 | 2025-06-27 04:09:37+00:00
I have been using Kea on pfSense CE for a long time — I think it was version 23.0.x. Or you mean 3.0 in particular? I also have OPNsense and I am not completely convinced of their aggressive update strategy yet. For a firewall, I prefer stability over features. Jumping to the newest releases every month can have tradeoffs.

Note: in general, both OPNsense and pfSense are excellent. I have never had any problems with either one.
by csallen | 2025-06-27 04:10:18+00:00
You can believe in disruption and innovation and a stronger social safety net at the same time. These aren't opposing ideas. In fact, they're complementary ideas, because countries with competitive and innovative markets have a higher GDP and thus more funds to support a stronger social safety net. The opposite is also true -- countries that are low in productivity and innovation have lower means to lift their own people out of poverty.

We have a goose that lays golden eggs. We should be using the gold to do good things instead of trying to kill the goose.
by jmyeet | 2025-06-27 04:10:50+00:00
First time?

I don't know your background or experience but I do know there are a lot of people in tech now who have never experienced a recession. Also, this startup image (which persisted to these being big companies) of them being employee-friendly, maverick and casual was really just a function of the boom times.

That veneer is long gone. We are now in the era of permanent layoffs to suppress wages and every one of us that can be replaced by AI will be.

I think for many tech workers, they're in for a rude awakening that they're just like any other worker and not special or somehow immune to the adversarial nature of the employer-employee relationship.

Back in 2000 and 2008 it took sa few years but the jobs came back. One might assume that'll happen again but I'm honestly not so sure. 2008 saw the elimination of a whole class of entry-level professional jobs for millenials that never came back.

Thing is, I don't think much of the economic activity in the tech sector is actually creating value anymore. Big tech are milking their respective golden geese until they inevitably die. Startups are largely just angling for a buyout in the AI gold rush that'll largely benefit the founders and the employees not so much.
by nick238 | 2025-06-27 04:11:00+00:00
In non-phoenitic languages, i.e. English, many of these methods are painful, especially "Last is First". See "I", but then it's "In", so you need to mentally backtrack some understanding. See "t", but then it's "that", so if you're subvocalizing to read, you need to reform the phoneme because 't' is a different phoneme from 'th'.
by Terr_ | 2025-06-27 04:12:49+00:00
> > high asthma rates and home addresses in a certain Memphis zip code [...] naturalize and reinforce existing social hierarchies

> This sentence is about how AI may be able to more effectively apply the current values of society

*whoooosh*

No, it's about how poor people growing up in polluted regions can be kept poor by the damage being inflicted upon them.

Keeping a permanent poor hereditary underclass is not a "current value" of in society at large.
by ColonelPhantom | 2025-06-27 04:13:03+00:00
I think the other poster is confused. Both Gemma 3 and Gemma 3n are open-weight models.

Google's proprietary model line is called Gemini. There is a variant that can be ran offline called Gemini Nano, but I don't think it can be freely distributed and is only allowed as part of Android.

As for what's new, Gemma 3n seems to have some optimizations done to it that lead it to be better than the 'small' Gemma 3 models (such as 4B) at similar speed or footprint.
by db48x | 2025-06-27 04:13:27+00:00
That’s not entirely true. Drexler’s books contain quite a few solutions to nanoscale engineering problems, though not for all of the problems. He designed and characterized a nanoscale mechanical system for separating CO₂ from the air, stripping the oxygen from it, then using the carbon atoms to build tiny blocks of diamond, then using the tiny diamond blocks to build macroscale objects under computer guidance.
by Nevermark | 2025-06-27 04:14:53+00:00
Sounds good.

I settled on a CMA1 Comfort Mod, and a couple of those little plastic adapters that let me add a small sized Apple padded band on top, for super duper extra support. And no light shield.

I also have a custom foam light shield, that I made from layers of 1/4" firm craft foam. It is basically scoped goggles that wrap around the lenses, and expand out just around my eyes and sides of nose to black out all light. They are so light they don't need any support but the snug fit on the lenses.
by ternaryoperator | 2025-06-27 04:15:47+00:00
> I hate to say it but turn off HN, this place a hype machine designed to make you feel bad. It's like "Roast and Toast" x 1000 on here, not reality. It's toxic in a very passive-aggressive way

I have a completely different experience of HN than you do. There are the stray toxic folks, sure, but overall, this is one of the best dev forums--actively moderated, generally filled with intelligent comments, and often offering good advice. Just look at the thoughtful and understanding answers to this very post.
by coderatlarge | 2025-06-27 04:16:07+00:00
it’s fine for a forum to try to have different expectations than the local cafe - that’s kind of like a host asking their guests to remove shoes before walking into their home. but it doesn’t really change a priori basic facts about good writing.

perhaps this is the appropriate forum to reference pg

https://paulgraham.com/writing44.html

https://paulgraham.com/essay.htm
by bluefirebrand | 2025-06-27 04:17:31+00:00
Yes, you aren't alone

I'm exhausted and burned out too. I'm fortunate that I can take some time away from work to recover and hopefully regain some passion for this, but I'm strongly considering retraining for a different industry

I'm happy to talk, as someone also going through the same stuff. Let me know, I can drop some contact info
by csallen | 2025-06-27 04:17:46+00:00
I think the problem is your mindset. While you're coming up with reasons why you can't succeed, I know hundreds of people who are actually building things that are successful. I mean TypingMind.com is literally just a GPT wrapper built and maintained by a single guy, and it makes hundreds of thousands of dollars per month.

If I told you I dropped a million dollars in the Pacific Ocean, would you look for it? No. What if I buried it somewhere in California, would you search for it then? Still no. What if I told you it was somewhere in your home, would you search? Yes, and you would probably tear your house apart.

If you want to succeed you have to try, and it only makes sense to try if you believe that things are possible. It all starts there.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-06-27 04:18:24+00:00
"You can give someone a perfect programming language that produces bug-free programs, and they'll reject it because it uses curly-braces or some shit."

Ada does not have curly braces.

Stephen Bourne, author of the Bourne shell, used macros to make C memory unsafe language look like Algo 68 memory safe language.
by hnroo99 | 2025-06-27 04:18:59+00:00
I'm somewhat buffering right now - Everytime the current turn player types I buffer their input on the backend, and I have a job setup that broadcasts typing events every ~200ms using this buffer.

I could increase this interval, but I'd like to keep it as short as I can afford to to keep that realtime feel (i.e. other players can see what the current turn player is typing).
by AdamH12113 | 2025-06-27 04:19:34+00:00
I wish I had something more specific for you, but my experience is more on the demand-adjacent side (as an EE) rather than directly on the software side. The companies I've worked at have posted on the regular job sites but mainly worked through recruiters. Companies do often post announcements on their LinkedIn, if they have one.

I share your frustration with the fad-driven, cramming-AI-into-everything, rent-seeking model of modern software, and I wish you luck in your search.
by gtest | 2025-06-27 04:21:04+00:00
> taking existence of telos as a foundation

Not the GP, but I suspect the GP meant that Aquinas's Summa and Aquinas's Contra (his major works) starts with discussing first whether there is a god.

> are any of those books a good read for someone

I am not Catholic. I wouldn't recommend Aquinas.

However, I would recommend "reasonable faith" book by William Craig. Or if you want his lectures to listen to, you can start from his lectures on the existence of God[1]

If you are talking about how can one believe in God in an "axiomatic" way, yet still be rational and warranted, I suggest Plantinga's "warranted Christian belief" or his more popular level book "Knowledge and Christian Belief".

[1] https://www.reasonablefaith.org/podcasts/defenders-podcast-s...
by matthewdgreen | 2025-06-27 04:21:37+00:00
I’m engaging with this as though Russia’s motivations are serious, despite the fact that they’re doing nothing to actually prepare for this hypothetical NATO invasion. But even if you engage with it seriously, the failure to secure and defend Western Ukraine makes Russia totally vulnerable, NATO commitments or not. And losing so much of your military reserves doing it should terrify anyone who is actually concerned about defending Russia. Russia’s nuclear arsenal is literally the only thing protecting them right now.
by rtpg | 2025-06-27 04:22:03+00:00
> 20 years ago engineers scoffed at the idea of deploying code into a dozen regions (If you didn’t have a massive datacenter footprint) but now startups do it casually like it’s no big deal.

Are there many startups actually taking real advantage of edge computing? Smaller B2B places don't really need it, larger ones can just spin up per-region clusters.... and then for 2C stuff you're mainly looking at static asset stuff which is just CDNs?

Who's out there using edge computing to good effect?
by bigyabai | 2025-06-27 04:22:12+00:00
It does make me feel a bit sad for how deep in the hole Thiel (et al) are. These aren't stupid people we're talking about, Peter knows he's lying through his teeth. But he has to construct a narrative where he was the right guy, because that's what people pay him for. It's his job, laundering trust.

It's just a shame that Thiel doesn't show a similar amount of empathy for the lives he's ruined. So many billionaires who want to fix the world by breaking it in the way that flatters them most.
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-06-27 04:23:25+00:00
The VPN providers that get you to jump the cloud in China are Chinese, and China is not yet a high trust society, just like how they’ll take your payment for one year of gym fees and then disappear the next week (sigh). If AWS or IBM cloud find out you are using them as a VPN to jump the GFW, they will ban you for life, Microsoft, IBM, Amazon, aren’t interested in having their whole cloud added to the GFW block list. Many people have tried this (including Microsfties in China with free Azure credits) and they’ve all been dealt with harshly by the cloud providers.
by MongooseStudios | 2025-06-27 04:23:30+00:00
No LinkedIn, I couldn't take another "this is what appendicitis taught me about B2B sales" post. But I bothered all the recruiters I know and fed my resume into the paper shredder of all the companies candidate portal early on.

I suspect all those great little companies are either laying low or staffed up with the glut of ex-<prestigious name> devs. Or the huge pool of ex federal employees who have lots of experience in "legacy" systems.
by ecb_penguin | 2025-06-27 04:24:28+00:00
I didn't realize how poorly YC startups were managed until I joined one.

It's mostly a ponzi scheme, where unprofitable companies pass their books off to non-technical investors that love hype.

> 1 slide. 1 minute pitches. 1 speaker.

This is why YC has such poor results. They're more interested in "1 slide" vs actual financials.

> Vertical AI was all over the place. Cursor for X was also prevalent.

No thought leadership at all.
by NoPicklez | 2025-06-27 04:28:09+00:00
Eroding trust is a good way to describe it as per the title.

Apple preach high expectations and promote themselves as upholding them and when these things happen its very much looks like a rules for thee but not for me.

What that says to consumers is that Apple thinks these behaviors are okay, even if they preach they're not and prevent others from doing so.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-06-27 04:29:25+00:00
For decades now I have been using RAM (mfs, tmpfs) as "disk", i.e., boot from USB, no internal HDD, no internal SSD.^1 Entire OS fits in memory. When compiling OS userland there is simply no comparison; disk is painfully slow. I am not a gamer. I use RAM as a filesystem and workspace. I just got another computer with 64GB RAM. I will get 96GB or more when price comes down.

1. I use removable, external drives for anything I want to save long-term. No "cloud" storage.
by rtpg | 2025-06-27 04:29:41+00:00
> Rust has made several language design decisions that make compiler performance difficult

Do you have a list off the top of your head/do you know of a decent list? I've now read many "compiler slow" thoughtpieces by many people and I have yet to see someone point at a specific feature and say "this is just intrinsically harder".

I believe that it likely exists, but would be good to know what feature to get mad at! Half joking of course
by pfdietz | 2025-06-27 04:30:32+00:00
I don't think any of the considerations you mention there change my conclusion.

We have to ask: what exactly is a scramjet vehicle delivering? It's enabling the use of air instead of liquid oxygen. But how valuable is this? LOX is the second cheapest industrial liquid after water. The fuel part of a rocket propellant combination typically dominates the propellant cost. If a scramjet launcher uses more fuel (especially hydrogen) than a rocket vehicle would, it will end up increasing propellant cost per unit payload to orbit. It will also likely increase propellant volume per unit payload to orbit, especially if LH2 is used (LH2 being just 5% of the density of LOX).

All scramjet launchers need a rocket to reach stable orbit (since a scramjet cannot produce thrust at apogee to circularize above the atmosphere. So one can ask, what the tradeoff between the delta-V this rocket provides and that of the scramjets? From what I've heard, all such trade studies end up optimizing to 100% rocket and 0% scramjet.
by kelseyfrog | 2025-06-27 04:31:25+00:00
An enormous factor here is the cult of speed. This mantra — performance above all — has touched every generation of programmers. The zero-overhead zealots, the minimal-runtime purists, these camps are not only present, they are crowd out every other perspective. It's not that their arguments are entirely unfounded. Language choice does have a causal effect on application performance. The issue is that these voices drown out all others.

The root of the problem is measurement. Speed is one of the few dimensions of software that is trivially quantifiable, so it becomes the yardstick for everything. This is textbook McNamara Fallacy[1]: what is easy to measure becomes what is measured, and what is not easily measured is erased from the calculus. See developer velocity, cognitive overhead, maintainability, and joy. It's the same fallacy that McNamara made in Vietnam and Rumsfield made in the War on Terror so at least they're in good company.

This singular focus distorts decisions around language choice, especially among the inexperienced, who haven't yet learned to recognize trade-offs or to value the intangibles software process. Like you said, humans are irrational, but this is one particularly spectacular dimension of that irrationality.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McNamara_fallacy
by Animats | 2025-06-27 04:32:02+00:00
Here's a typical job in that category. Boring but practical Chicago Dryer.[1]

Industrial Controls Engineer Chicago Dryer Chicago, IL $80,000 to $110,000 Yearly Vision, Medical, Dental, Paid Time Off, Life Insurance, Retirement Full-Time 5+ years of experience in controls & software engineering High-level knowledge of one or more programming languages (C, Pascal(structured-text)) Familiarity with Windows, Linux & Realtime operating systems Familiarity with electrical codes for industrial machinery Electrical design & CAD experience for automation-controls Solid knowledge of classical-physics (mechanics & motion) Mechanical aptitude and ability to work with hand tools Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills Ability to work well with personnel at all levels Beckhoff TwinCat3 experience is a plus Jira and GIT experience is a plus Electronics design & trouble-shooting is a plus

Leader in the heavy machinery that takes clean linen items after washing and dries, sorts, folds, and stacks them by the ton. There are vision systems and robotic grippers involved. They've been in business for over a century, building heavy duty laundry equipment. It's a very steady business. Probably good job security. The startups making all the noise in clothes folding, such as Foldimate and Laundroid, went bust. Chicago Dryer equipment processed a few tons of laundry while you were reading this.

That's what a blue-collar programming job looks like. But it will be a very clean blue collar.

[1] https://www.ziprecruiter.com/c/Chicago-Dryer/Job/Industrial-...
by ecb_penguin | 2025-06-27 04:32:21+00:00
We've had unhinged evaluations for a decade. We hit peak absurdity with Yo (https://techcrunch.com/2014/07/18/yo-raises-1-5m-in-funding-...)

It was a scam app where you send "yo" to your friends. Then blockchain scams, now AI hype.

During COVID, you could interact with a dozen "unicorn" companies that all were unprofitable.

You can view YC demo days to see product and revenue mean absolutely nothing.

Imagine 100 years ago trying to get a business loan by saying "I have no customers and no revenue, but I'm worth billions!"
by Robotbeat | 2025-06-27 04:34:48+00:00
Radiation is not actually a problem unless you're trying to do super high power nuclear electric propulsion (i.e. in your videogame). Classic armchair engineer mistake, tbh.

Radiators work great in space. Stefan-Boltzmann's law. The ISS's solar panels are MUCH smaller than the radiators. Considering datacenters on Earth have to have massive heat exchangers as well, I really think the bUt wHaT aBoUt rAdiAtOrs is an overblown gotcha, considering every satellite still has to dump heat and works just fine.
by coderatlarge | 2025-06-27 04:38:23+00:00
if you ever need to transfer money across far enough borders from your home, it’s currently almost impossible to avoid paying some sort of fee afaik (whether an airplane ticket to hand-carry cash or some kind of markup to convert currencies or some sort of blockchain fee to use newer methods). i’m actively looking for methods that are legal and don’t carry a fee. ex ibkr currency convert -> fidelity individual account -> fidelity cash mgmt -> free wire ?? there are all sorts of gotchas at every step atm ostensibly for aml or sanctions “compliance“
by devkit1 | 2025-06-27 04:38:33+00:00
So very much so. I lived my teenage years in the northwoods of Wisconsin. I absolutely loved it but it is not for everyone. It is beautiful, and there is so much to do if you are an outdoorsy person. But you need to be prepared for below zero Fahrenheit temperatures every year. Sometimes it can be for weeks straight, at some points reaching as cold as -20F, -30F or colder. I used to joke that it wasn’t cold until you feel your nose hairs freeze together when you inhale. Also, unfortunately in recent years the deer tick and Lyme disease prevalence have greatly increased, though vigilant checking and washing are very effective at mitigating that risk.

Another fond memory I have from there is that the view of the stars and the auroras are an incredible sight to behold. The light pollution is near zero.