MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
My reality: Decades of experience, seeking one team that believes in it
by adan_caldera | 2025-07-16 04:22:19+00:00
Hello,

In a world of startups moving at lightning speed, most technical problems aren't new; they are echoes of past challenges with a new technological face. My name is Adán Caldera, and at 54, I have spent my career (spanning nearly three decades), in the trenches of every one of these transformations.

My value lies not just in the technologies I command today, but in the deep understanding of the innovation cycles I have actively navigated: from mainframes and Y2K to the web, mobile, and now AI. This unique perspective allows me to anticipate breaking points, design systems that not only work today but scale tomorrow and prevent technical debt before it becomes an anchor for the business.

For a startup, this translates into:

• Grounded Strategic Vision: As an Enterprise Architect, I connect business goals with solid technological decisions. I can design the roadmap that allows you to grow sustainably and securely.

• Pragmatic Technical Leadership: I can guide engineering teams, mentor young talent to elevate their skills, and ensure that best practices don't stifle the agility that makes you competitive.

• A Passion for Building: I love to code. I enjoy creating prototypes, designing solutions, and I'm not afraid to get "down in the trenches" to solve a complex problem. My ability to learn quickly isn't a promise; it's a pattern proven over decades.

I've noticed that many companies hesitate to hire professionals with my background, perhaps fearing a lack of adaptability. My motivation is precisely the opposite: I'm drawn to startups for their agility, direct impact, and the opportunity to build from the ground up, applying all my accumulated wisdom to do it right and fast.

Regarding my English, my technical proficiency is strong. I am fully committed to achieving complete conversational fluency and, in the meantime, I trust that with current tools and goodwill, communication is a minor challenge we can easily overcome.

A resume cannot capture the passion for creation or the ability to solve complex problems. I am seeking a remote role.

I am reaching out to this space and community, the most brilliant and humane on the planet, full of geniuses, technologists, inventors, and entrepreneurs, because I would love to have a conversation to explore how my experience can accelerate your goals.

With appreciation and admiration,

Adán Caldera adan@caldera-labs.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/adan-caldera-rodriguez/
by readthenotes1 | 2025-07-16 04:22:55+00:00
Warren Buffett had this line that we would have no budget deficits if it we're required that every Congress person who voted for such would be ineligible for re-election.

Pushing the cost burden on subsequent generations is a cowardly way to deal with our financial problems. When Reagan entered office, the debt was less than $1T (about $3.5T in today's dollars).

The #4 cost currently is paying off interest (not principle) on old debt.
by mrangle | 2025-07-16 04:23:01+00:00
To be generous, what this meant is either that you were below the reading level for the book or you misunderstand the core skill of reading and using style in the English language. Reading and understanding when rules are broken leads to knowing when they can be. We don't skip Shakespeare because the language is funny and archaic. Reading these authors is both a part of style and content literacy for the English language. Disclaimer: I'm not comparing them.
by cyw | 2025-07-16 04:23:03+00:00
That’s a great point — and you’re absolutely right.

Agentainer isn’t responsible for determining what to manage or why — it's not an orchestration brain or planner itself. It’s designed to enable that level of automation by giving agents the tools to act. Think of it more like the runtime and control plane that an intelligent planning agent (built by the developer) can use to execute its decisions.

So for example, if you’ve built a supervisor agent that analyzes workloads and spins up child agents to handle different tasks — Agentainer provides the infrastructure APIs to make that possible (create, monitor, terminate, etc.), but it’s up to you (or your planner agent) to define the logic based on business rules, goals, and evolving context.

We’re not building AGI — we’re just trying to remove the DevOps wall for people building toward that vision.
by teitoklien | 2025-07-16 04:23:05+00:00
No one’s stopping you from not working on weekends, for most high income earners people who do it, it’s purely the obsession with no end to wanting more (other than those who live paycheck to paycheck and need those weekends due to having multiple jobs, that is indeed a tragedy and should be a policy priority for gov to fix).

But tell me this, If society is overworking so much.

How is the average screen time of an american adult around 4-5 hours per day ? thats 8-10 hours per couple per day. Are you saying most of that time spent on facebook, tiktok, youtube and instagram overworking time ?

Do americans work hard ? absolutely way more than europeans who have a much better work life balance, tons of holidays, maternity leave, paternity leave, none of which america has.

Chinese and american workers are some of the hardest workers on earth.

Then tell me this. How is it that western europe with better work life balance has even worse birth rates (significantly worse for significantly many more years) than america ?

Western Europe already has more rights and it doesnt work. Whatever semblance of sanity they have in birth rates (as horrible as those metrics are) most of the children are born to single income regressive households mostly north african, morocon, and pakistani immigrants in western europe and uk. So, if you exclude those, the birth rates of families with more rights, more work life balance, is even worse than the official stats.

Rights or no rights isnt the issue, but a discussion on what’s promoted by society should be had, more rights doesnt mean more children. Coercion, promotion of ideals, behavioural nudging are standard things every single country and its government does, (a good book on this : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeing_Like_a_State)

So More rights, more work life balance while are amazing ideals that society should definitely work on, like it has for thousands of years with on average significant better results if one sees growth in 100 yr cycles.

More rights is not the solution to birth rates, atleast its not the existing bottleneck in most western societies and cultures that’s for sure.
by cogencyai | 2025-07-16 04:23:07+00:00
Thanks for asking. I’ve done some initial benchmarking on memory footprint and response latency under concurrent load, showing stable behavior with low overhead. Nothing exhaustive yet, but results so far are promising.

And agreed. It’s a crowded space, and benchmarking is hard without standard tasks or metrics. We’re focused on real-world dogfooding and incremental validation to complement raw numbers atm.

If you want, I can share the current benchmark results and test scenarios.
by oidar | 2025-07-16 04:23:41+00:00
I’m somewhat indifferent to artifacts. While they can produce useful code occasionally when the codebase is relatively small, they become excessively cumbersome once it reaches around 500 lines. This makes it difficult to even add or remove code. If you want to change a few colors in a webpage, they have to rewrite the whole artifact. It frustrates me that you can’t edit a single line in an artifact; you have to rely on the LLM to do it.
by tomhow | 2025-07-16 04:27:21+00:00
No, we don't "censor" things. Users flagged it, and though we're never sure why each user flags anything, in this case it's likely because it doesn't fit with the site's guidelines and intended use, which is to feature content that "satisfies intellectual curiosity".

I explained more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44572593
by mindslight | 2025-07-16 04:27:34+00:00
If that were the case, they wouldn't have contributed a narrative being used to support the fascist movement that gave us the big ugly spending bill. Sorry to anyone who was legitimately interested in actual fiscal conservatism (which includes myself), this is now just another lofty ideal Trump has burnt the credibility of in service of enriching himself. Maybe we can try again in 20 years, if we still have a country.
by ryao | 2025-07-16 04:27:48+00:00
That is partly due to artificial reasons and partly due to technical reasons. The artificial reasons would be that the 8200 MT/sec UDIMMs are overclocked. Notice how they run much slower if you do not enable XMP/EXPO, which simultaneously over volts and overclocks them. These exist because a large number of people liked overclocking their memory modules to get better performance. This was unreliable and memory manufacturers noticed that there was a market for a premium product where the overclocking results were guaranteed. Early pre-overclocked modules required people to manually enter the manufacturer provided voltage, frequency and timings into the BIOS, but XMP and later EXPO were made to simplify this process. This idea only took off for non-ECC modules, since the market for ECC UDIMMs wants reliability above all else, so there never was quite the same market opportunity to sell ECC DIMMs that were guaranteed to overclock to a certain level outside of the memory IC maker’s specifications.

There is no technical reason why ECC UDIMMs cannot be overclocked to the same extent and ECC actually makes them better for overclocking since they can detect when overclocking is starting to cause problems. You might notice that the non-ECC UDIMMs have pads and traces for an additional IC that is present on ECC UDIMMs. This should be because the ECC DIMMs and non-ECC DIMMs are made out of the same things. They use the same PCBs and the same chips. The main differences would be whether the extra chips to store ECC are on the module, what the SPD says it is and what the sticker says. There might also be some minor differences in what resistors are populated. Getting back to the topic of overclocking, if you are willing to go back to the days before the premium pre-overclocked kits existed, you will likely find a number of ECC UDIMMs can and will overclock with similar parameters. There is just no guarantee of that.

As for RDIMMs having higher transfer rates, let us consider the differences between a UDIMM, a CUDIMM and a RDIMM. The UDIMM connects directly to the CPU memory controller for the clock, address, control and data signals, while the RDIMM has a register chip that buffers the clock, address and control signals, although the data signals still connect to the memory controller directly. This improves signal integrity and lets more memory ICs be attached to the memory controller. A recent development is the CUDIMM, which is a hybrid of the two. In the CUDIMM, the clock signal is buffered by a Client Clock Driver, which does exactly what the register chip does to the clock signal in RDIMMs. CUDIMM are able to reach higher transfer rates than UDIMMs without overclocking because of the Client Clock Driver, and since RDIMMs also do what CUDIMMs do, they similarly can reach higher transfer rates.
by KPGv2 | 2025-07-16 04:30:00+00:00
> With level of debt and borrowing, cannot afford more spending

It doesn't matter how much debt you have if taking on the debt raises your revenue by more than serving the interest payments.

Imagine telling a corporation they can't borrow money at 3% to grow 15% because "debt is bad." Or telling someone who needs a car to get to work that they should go without a car (and thus not become employed) rather than taking on a car payment because "debt is bad."

And on this front, the US has been doing great (but is currently shooting itself in the foot under the new administration)
by mdaniel | 2025-07-16 04:30:25+00:00
I guess you get a pass because it's not formally a Show HN but I detest launches that are "join our mailing list" because (a) seems like fishing for interest in vaporware (b) a spam risk when you sell my details if the product doesn't materialize

> Made with for developers

If that were true, you wouldn't have a template website that used the GitHub icon to point to just github.com instead of your repo or org. The whole site just seems autogenerated. I'm aware that's the popular accusation of late, but I don't mean it in the AI wrote it way, I mean the $(npx create-generic-business-site) way
by doctorpangloss | 2025-07-16 04:30:39+00:00
Lack of network effects... It's the biggest thing ever! Everyone is talking about it, all the time, nonstop! How is that not a network? Network effects do not exclusively mean multiplayer software, communications or social media. And anyway, it is almost certainly all three of these things, because content is being made (and often consumed) by ChatGPT in every digital network there is.

Anyway, I don't think it's possible in this forum to have a conversation about it, if "ChatGPT is humongous" is a controversial, downvotable POV.
by unethical_ban | 2025-07-16 04:31:29+00:00
We could

* Not cut taxes on the very wealthy by $4,000,000,000,000 over ten years * Not give $500,000,000,000 to military and police expansion in the immediate future * Not have one person dictating global trade policy with the US that impacts our relationships and competitiveness for the next 30 years

NASA is not something we should skimp on.
by nmarinov | 2025-07-16 04:32:54+00:00
Well yeah, it's not everyday English maybe but it's still English. By that I mean that those are examples of which and how many of the rules in the system can be broken or let's say - creatively interpreted and still fit in that system.

"bad english" by expert native speakers is different than "bad english" from poor native speakers is different than "bad english" from still-learning non-speakers. IMO the first two both benefit your understanding of the language and help with reading comprehension because they expand your personal knowledge base of how many ways you can convey the same meaning in English with different words, order, grammar, etc and that is crucial for a flexible language like English.

But your reply reminded me of a friend that's very good with languages but only languages that have a rigid structure - he's from the UK but he struggles with English yet he's amazing in German and Chinese and several others I don't remember.
by Veserv | 2025-07-16 04:33:13+00:00
Indeed, that is my mistake. I misread the denominator of the consumption figure. Luckily the orders of magnitude are so dissimilar that mere factors of 100x do not affect the calculation.

3-4 acre*foot per year per acre of almonds results in the data center consuming ~200 acres of almond. ~4500 pounds per hectare results in ~1800 pounds per acre. So, that would produce about 360,000 pounds of almonds or ~720,000 $ worth of almonds.

That is certainly vastly less economically productive per unit of water consumed compared to a 750,000,000 $ data center which probably has a expected payback period of 10-20 years or about 37,500,000-75,000,000 $ of produced value per year.
by leidenfrost | 2025-07-16 04:34:32+00:00
The idea behind the parent comment is not that they can't compete, but they are specifically made not to.

Sort of a puppet browser made only for proving the court that the giants are not technically a monopoly, while ranking a bare minimum number of users for them to count.

While that's not entirely unreasonable, I don't think that's the doom of Mozilla. Puppet or not, their tangled codebase makes it a pita to contribute anything if you're not being paid a salary for it.

Despite having a high expectation for the "free browser", deep down we know that it's the same "Free in theory" software, not unlike Java or Vscode. Software that's made by a company and once they stop pouring money on corporate development and support the project will become a zombie in no time.
by somenameforme | 2025-07-16 04:35:03+00:00
This is the definition of throwing good money after bad. Even if SLS can be completed, it just has no purpose. The latest "estimates" (which means will likely be well below what actually happens) put the recurring per launch costs of SLS at $2.5 billion per launch, on top of the ongoing tens of billions in development costs.

That's for a system that is aiming for an initial payload of 95k kg (to LEO). By contrast the Falcon Heavy costs $0.097 billion per launch and can send 57k kg to orbit. So in other words, 1 SLS launch will costs more than 25 Falcon Heavy launches, with a payload capacity that's 67% greater.
by const_cast | 2025-07-16 04:37:00+00:00
A service like Gmail or Dropbox with low storage is close to free to operate. Same thing with iCloud - 50 gigs a month is what, 1 dollar? How is that possible?

Because 50 gigs is next to nothing, and you only need a rinky dink amount of compute to write files.

YouTube, on the other hand, is actually pretty expensive to operate. Takes a lot of storage to store videos, never mind handling uploads. But then streaming video? Man, the amount of bandwidth required for that makes file syncing look like nothing. I mean, how often does a single customer watch a YouTube video? And then, how often do people download files from Dropbox? It's orders of magnitude in difference.

But LLMs outshine both. They require stupid amounts of compute to run.
by fuzzfactor | 2025-07-16 04:37:10+00:00
Well you might also need a mission accomplished banner but it needs to say something a little different than "mission accomplished".

It could even be something like a badge of honor for developers to strive for which needs to be earned. Like they have in industrial environments where they proudly post how many months or years they have gone without a serious injury.

Maybe people would respond positively to a prominent "safety notice", if I saw "No further defects found since July 2023" that would be more encouraging than not for a lot of projects.
by projectdelphai | 2025-07-16 04:37:52+00:00
Echoing that this has not been my experience either. I and my household use Firefox exclusively at home and at work for the last decade and I rarely have a website not work on Firefox but on Chrome. At least not work to the point that I noticed it. Sure maybe some websites looked ugly but tons of websites were ugly and I didn't think it was because it was Firefox.
by necovek | 2025-07-16 04:38:21+00:00
I am surprised to read how modern architecture (or font design) disregard optical balance, when this is so instrumental to looking good: as in, I am not seeing it, but maybe I am looking through rose-coloured glasses.

I don't think anyone would call me artistic, even if I dabbled in typography (both of the book design and font design variety), furniture and interior architecture (some exterior too): but I keep needing to draw things starting with pure geometric shapes and precise symmetry and then move them around to make it appealing even to me.

For instance, other than the obvious curvature in pillars in Parthenon, the spacing between them is even more important: notice how outward pillars have the next one closer to avoid the vast emptiness outside unbalance them.

The same holds true for fonts, both kerning and character design, but another thing not mentioned is how medium has influenced the design (ink dispersion needs different "holes" in heavy weight forms). The same holds for architecture and materials being used.
by twelvechairs | 2025-07-16 04:38:51+00:00
Wikimedia is run transparently which is great but I dont really believe they need the money when you see their financial statement (link below) and think about what they need to run. Plenty of really deserving charities running on the sniff of an oily rag not paying 100m in salaries plus travel, conferences etc.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/f/f6/Wikim...
by bawolff | 2025-07-16 04:40:10+00:00
> However reading some of the case law it seems that being a majority stockholder wasn’t always held the have same fiduciary responsibilities. Sounds like they still don’t in some jurisdictions?

I don't think that is relavent. As far as i understand Zuck is not being sued because he is a majority shareholder.

> A blanket statement like the one I replied to oversimplifies things and implies Delaware law is federal law.

I don't think anything you said disagrees with the statement you responded to. The statement you responded to never claimed that majority share holders have a fuduciary duty.
by throw234234234 | 2025-07-16 04:40:10+00:00
I don't know. Interfaces are the part that most people non-tech generally understand. Most products to most people are "interfaces" after all whether it is a website/app/OS/etc. Interfaces to enable workflows pretty much summarises most tech products, and access to selective data from those interfaces.

My view is that AI, even if it is like a human, shares some of the weaknesses of a human in that it needs to be selective about relevant information. Frontends/UIs generally do this as well for specific use cases/workflows - there's a limit of what you can display on a screen after all. UI's aren't big data (humans can only see a couple of screens worth of summarized data to be useful).

This IMO at least in the short term affects the design of AI applications in general as well.
by KingOfCoders | 2025-07-16 04:40:26+00:00
This is so amazing, I remember running ONE frame of this realtime animation over night (getting to bed and hoping for the best) on a C64 and later it still took a long time on an Amiga (machine code both).

Even learned 3D GFX from an Amiga Fraktal Book (Markt&Technik) - the only Amiga book still on my shelf.
by const_cast | 2025-07-16 04:40:44+00:00
> > “most people agree that the output is trite and unpleasant to consume”

> That is a such a wild claim.

I think when he said "consume" he meant in terms of content consumption. You know, media - the thing that makes Western society go round. Movies, TV, music, books.

Would I watch an AI generated movie? No. What about a TV show? Uh... no. What about AI music? I mean, Spotify is trying to be tricky with that one, but no. I'd rather listen to Remi Wolf's 2024 Album "Big Ideas", which I thought was, ironically, less inspired than "Juno" but easily one of the best albums of the year.

ChatGPT is a useful interface, sure, but it's not entertaining. It's not high-quality. It doesn't provoke thought or offer us some solace in times of sadness. It doesn't spark joy or make me want to get up and dance.
by martinrue | 2025-07-16 04:41:54+00:00
Gemini for me has been such a breath of fresh air in contrast to 2025 Internet, with so many ads, grift and now AI slop.

Back when I first discovered Gemini, I wanted to create a space for people to have a voice without needing to run their own server, so I built Station (https://martinrue.com/station). I've been running it ever since.

Gemini in general, and specifically folk who use Station regularly, make it a friendly, throwback-to-the-90s vibe, and I still value it a lot.
by mrangle | 2025-07-16 04:42:37+00:00
Reading could be less important if reaching one's IQ potential is less important. The content doesn't matter much, aside from basic literature references that constitute a part of English literacy. Though, relatively more complex style and a wider range of vocabulary helps. But a volume of reading is indisputably a developmental accelerant. At least up until the brain slows its development in the mid-twenties.
by captainepoch | 2025-07-16 04:42:49+00:00
So... Here's an idea: stop wasting time and money on things like that, listen to the community, hire engineers, and make a browser that can be at the same level as Chrome. We already told you what we want and need, no need to keep asking.

Mozilla and the story on "How to waste money and resources" is getting tiresome at this point.