MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
Show HN: PayRankJobs – AI matches your resume with the highest-paying jobs
by Mikasa1 | 2025-07-28 12:47:16+00:00
Hi HN! Solo founder here. Built PayRankJobs (https://payrankjobs.com) after my (tech writer) wife kept getting spammed with $55K job "opportunities" when she's already making $200K.

What it does: - Upload your resume.

- Set your minimum salary requirement (optional). - Get an email with personalized job matches that actually pay well. - Includes AI-researched salary data (base + equity) and company ratings

Technical stack: - Serverless on Cloudflare Workers

- LLM for resume parsing - LLM for embeddings/matching - PostgreSQL + pgvector for similarity search - Dynamic job fetching via Google.

Key differentiator: Instead of browsing endless job boards, the system finds YOU the highest-paying roles. No more wasting time on jobs that don't meet your salary requirements.

Currently works for all english speaking countries (not just US) and provides salaries in local currency.

I haven't figured out monetization yet - currently burning through my own money on API costs. Would love ideas on this. Some thoughts:

- Charge job seekers after X matches? - Recruiting/sourcing tool for companies? - Premium features (more frequent updates, salary negotiation tips)?

I'd love feedback on:

- The onboarding experience - Email format/content - What other features would be valuable?

Happy to answer any questions about the implementation.
by quatonion | 2025-07-28 12:48:06+00:00
I'm curious why you think it doesn't work, when there are plenty of people saying it does.

There are limitations at the moment, and I don't see many people disputing that, but it must be doing something right, and its abilities are improving every day. It's learning.

Sometimes I get the feeling a lot of antis painted themselves into a corner early on, and will die on this hill despite constant improvements in the technology.

I have seen similar things many times in my career. There was a time when everyone were very skeptical of high level languages, writing everything in assembler come hell or high water, for example.

At some point it is going to single shot an entire OS or refactor a multi-million line codebase. Will that be enough to convince you?

From my perspective I like to be prepared, so I'm doing what I have always done.. understand and gain experience with these new tools. I much prefer that than missing the boat.

And, it's quite fun and better than you might imagine as long as you put a bit of effort in.
by weinzierl | 2025-07-28 12:49:38+00:00
I am far from professional playing but I think it is a rite de passage for every piano player going from

"What was wrong with the people who came up with this layout"

to

"These asymmetries are more blessing than curse".

To add a little context. To the layman a piano keyboard looks pretty regular, there is only this slight oddity with a block two and a block of three black keys.

For the player on the other hand this slight irregularity makes almost everything kind of irregular in a sense. For example if you play all the all white key triads you get mostly minor and major triads - mostly because one of them is diminished chord. Or if you look at the patterns of black and white keys when you move a certain chord type through all the keys - it's a mess.

But it's a mess you can memorize and as a reward you will never get lost.
by ethbr1 | 2025-07-28 12:50:00+00:00
This is a casual and lazy take.

In many ways, beltway media is the most informed, at least with regards to the government picture of things — after all, the job is talking (informally and formally) to key stakeholders (and their underlings).

That there are forces that try to shape this narrative, and consequences for those who fight it without their own power base, should be so self-evident it’s not even worth mentioning.

The alternative to “anchor desk journalism beltway media” isn’t less controlled media, but even more obfuscated control.

For all the faults of the NYT, WaPo, WSJ, etc., at least they have their own power base.

Decentralized smaller media holding powerful entities to account hasn’t shown us that it works better — just that individuals can be bought much more cheaply (and invisibly) than newsrooms.

Which in essence is the post’s entire point: media which survives genAi needs to differentiate its product. It can’t do that on (a) cost of production or (b) diversity of content. The only remaining options are (c) trust, powered by (d) the type of reporting it takes corporate funding and long-term journalist relationships and investigations to generate.
Show HN: ClearDoc – Extract fields from any document using OCR and LLM
by Mignet | 2025-07-28 12:50:01+00:00
Hi HN!

I recently launched a prototype of *ClearDoc*, an AI-powered tool to extract structured data from unstructured documents like invoices, bills of lading, certificates, etc.

It uses *OCR (PaddleOCR)* and *LLMs* to detect and align key fields — even for complex documents with tables, nested fields, or in different languages.

It doesn't require templates and can be *self-hosted* (demo runs on my own GPU).

Live demo (no sign-up): http://cleardoc.v5ent.com/ Demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u83T6iewfNs

Right now: - Fields are auto-aligned visually on the document - Works with PDFs, images, scans - No custom field design/editing in the demo yet

Would love feedback on: - Which use cases matter most to you? - What would make this valuable enough to adopt?

Thanks!
by cmrdporcupine | 2025-07-28 12:50:28+00:00
100% agree with this. I want augmentation not automation.

That said, CoPilot in the form of "autocomplete" is kind of that.

I have been enjoying the hell out of Claude Code, but I'd feel much better about it if it wasn't a case of "here take this pile of diffs" and had a mode Socratic modality.

A tool that works with me instead of for me, because I'm going to have to review everything it does anyways.
by agentcoops | 2025-07-28 12:50:32+00:00
Apologies if this comes across as too abstract, but I think your comment raises really important questions.

(1) While studying the properties of the mathematical objects produced is important, I don't think we should understand the situation you describe as a problem to be solved. In old supervised machine learning methods, human beings were tasked with defining the rather crude 'features' of relevance in a data/object domain, so each dimension had some intuitive significance (often binary 'is tall', 'is blue' etc). The question now is really about learning the objective geometry of meaning, so the dimensions of the resultant vector don't exactly have to be 'meaningful' in the same way -- and, counter-intuitive as it may seem, this is progress. Now the question is of the necessary dimensionality of the mathematical space in which semantic relations can be preserved -- and meaning /is/ in some fundamental sense the resultant geometry.

(2) This is where the 'Platonic hypothesis' research [1] is so fascinating: empirically we have found that the learned structures from text and image converge. This isn't saying we don't need images and sensor robots, but it appears we get the best results when training across modalities (language and image, for example). This is really fascinating for how we understand language. While any particular text might get things wrong, the language that human beings have developed over however many thousands of years really does seem to do a good job of breaking out the relevant possible 'features' of experience. The convergence of models trained from language and image suggests a certain convergence between what is learnable from sensory experience of the world and the relations that human beings have slowly come to know through the relations between words.

[1] https://phillipi.github.io/prh/ and https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.07987
by zxcvgm | 2025-07-28 12:51:13+00:00
Xiaomi apparently have also stopped unlocking their bootloaders, so the "workaround" was to go to an official store and ask them perform a downgrade, and before the staff can relock the bootloader, grab the phone and run:

https://x.com/kobe_koto/status/1949154478298456531

Absolutely hilarious.
by larub_ | 2025-07-28 12:51:23+00:00
Your brain’s not broken — it’s just missing a framework (and a little help from AI) Today, we have picked four frameworks to understand business and product strategy to make faster and better decisions.

Lean Canvas gives you a clear, one-page view of your business model so you can move with focus, not assumptions.

Product Vision Board locks in your direction and who you’re building for, so you stop building in the dark.

Strategy Triangle helps you align on where to play, how to win, and why this moment matters, so your strategy isn’t just a vibe.

Leader of Needs sharpens your message until it actually resonates—not just sounds nice.

AI can guide you through each framework step by step, helping you ask sharper questions, spot weak spots, and structure clearer thinking.
by Vinnl | 2025-07-28 12:51:40+00:00
Great post. When you're reading a Mermaid diagram, do you just happen to have memorised that "dash dash greater than" means "arrow"? I assume the screen reader doesn't understand ASCII art.

And how painful is reading emails? HTML email is notoriously limited compared to HTML (and CSS) in the browser, but it's pretty hard to add structure to a plain text email too. How annoying is it when I do so using e.g. a "line" made out of repeated dashes?
by dbbk | 2025-07-28 12:51:46+00:00
I've been experimenting lately with just interfacing with Claude Code through the GitHub action and issues.

I sit on the beach and talk to it through the GitHub iOS app. I set the timeout to 4 hours and let it just work. It comes back to me later with something and I take a look. By the time I get home, I might tweak a few things here or there manually (particularly if it's about aesthetics), and merge.
by holowoodman | 2025-07-28 12:53:05+00:00
For floor plans, there is Bonsai as a Blender addon. It is usable and does a lot of what you want (and tons more), if needed you can also script it with Python or create its native IFC format through Python libraries:

https://extensions.blender.org/add-ons/bonsai/

FreeCAD can also do 2D sketches and you can snap to angles, enter target lengths and skript it in Python. But even though it is older than Bonsai, it is harder to use (imho) and less stable (save often).

And if it is strictly about relatively simple floorplans, try sweethome3d. Slowish because it's java, and cannot do a whole lot, but enough for quick sketches.
by larub_ | 2025-07-28 12:54:00+00:00
Ever feel like you’re solving five problems at once? Only to find ten more waiting?

You’re not alone. Metrics dip. Budgets shift. New segments appear overnight. And mid-sprint, someone always asks, “Wait… what are we trying to do?”

Welcome to marketing. And product. And the everyday storm.

The good news? You don’t have to slow down to make sense of it.

That’s what frameworks are for. They’re thinking tools. They help you zoom out, organize chaos, ask smarter questions, reason to solve problems, and align teams without the endless back-and-forth.

Add AI, and they get even better. You move from vague ideas to a sharp strategy, faster, clearer, and with fewer blank pages.
by johnisgood | 2025-07-28 12:55:01+00:00
> I care about how something is done and doing it in the most simple and idiomatic manner I can.

Same, and I have been coding ever since I was a kid (I am only in my early 30s).

That said, I usually know the language enough to be able to tell if it is idiomatic or not. That said, I still prompt the LLM to give me idiomatic code, and I will see if it checks out or not.
by andreasmetsala | 2025-07-28 12:55:05+00:00
Some countries want this to block social media from kids: https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-paves-way-to-ban-social-m...

Porn is not such a big deal but social media flooded by Russian/Chinese/American propaganda is destabilizing our societies. The least we can do is try to keep our youth from losing their minds over it.
by alephnerd | 2025-07-28 12:55:09+00:00
A lot of this is legacy holdovers from the Biden era.

Both the US, the EU, and the rest of the OECD began the process of aligning digital services taxation and regulation [0][1] under the Biden admin, as it was also a fig leaf tossed at the EU by the US to prevent a potential trade war with the EU [2] due to the IRA and CHIPS act.

The US has now removed itself from this OECD initiative, and most other major markets have begun to as well either due to US pressure or their own self interest. It also played a role in reducing Biden/Harris' chances in 2024, as much of the Obama era tech coalition shifted support and donations to the Trump-Vance campaign due to their support for repealing and fighting against digital services taxes globally.

The US also removed it's gloves when negotiating with the EU this admin compared to previous admins, so dangling the threat of retaliatory measures is not well received and can elicite a quasi-hard power response.

[0] - https://www.eiu.com/n/the-oecd-global-tax-deal-still-hangs-i...

[1] - https://www.oecd.org/en/topics/sub-issues/reallocation-of-ta...

[2] - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/06/business/dealbook/biden-c...
by salawat | 2025-07-28 12:55:44+00:00
This is something I've been warning some of my juniors about. There seems to be a lot of enthusiasm for the idea, but the legal/societal landscape simply isn't there. Hell, I don't even feel comfortable with therapists with digital case files anymore. It was one thing before everything was SaaS'd, but when I'm dealing with things I'd actually need a therapist for, it is generally of a nature where no, I don't want records sticking around forever.
by nikshepsvn | 2025-07-28 12:55:58+00:00
thought about this idea reading about rust-gpu today (rust-gpu.github.io). thought we could make solana validators AI training/inference infra, but realized the smarter thing to do with that added on GPU compute is to make a decentralized ZK proving network that can make the chain essentially ZK-native (a single 4090 per node could open up wild possibilities vs needed beefy setups for AI stuff).

would love thoughts and feedback, researched and written with the help of gemini and o3.
by johnisgood | 2025-07-28 12:56:27+00:00
> coding is a massive drug

It truly is. One could say it could be an addiction. Something is an addiction only if it makes your life dysfunctional, and boy I have been coding for 3 days straight (!) without eating way too many times. I am completely in the zone and I neglect myself and everything around me. Yes, I know, it is bad and unhealthy, but it still happens often. I wonder if I am alone in this, I would hope not. :D
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-07-28 12:56:54+00:00
>that hate speech should be allowed

You're moving the goalposts to hate speech. When saying uncomfortable negative facts about government's actions are considered "hate speech" then you're no longer living in a free country. You must realize that.

The whole hate speech can of worms is such a dangerous slippery slope since the government can just sweep all criticism of itself and its actions as "hate speech" whenever it feels like it, and just ban it, problem solved, no more criticism, all citizens are happy, just like in USSR.

"Hate speech" is too broad of an umbrella to ensure it will never be used in bad faith because it 100% will be and it is. Whichever political party will come to power next will 100% gonna weaponize the existing speech censorship rules implemented by previous regimes, in its own favor to further entrench their own power. History proves this yet people are oblivious an think the solution is even more speech censorship.
by Aurornis | 2025-07-28 12:57:07+00:00
> Without real push-back to these dystopian laws and consequences for the people proposing and lobbying for them

If anything, I’m seeing more calls for internet regulation on HN and other tech places than in the past.

Every time something is shared about topics like kids spending too much time on phones or LLMs producing incorrect output, the comments attract a lot of demands for government regulation as the solution. Regulation is viewed as the way to push back on technological and social problems.

The closer regulations come to reality, the less popular they are. Regulation seems most attractive in the abstract, before people have to consider the unintended consequences.

The most common example I can think of is age verification: Every thread about smartphone addiction come with calls for strict age-based regulation all over the place.

Yet the calls for strict age-based internet regulation generally fail to realize that you can’t only do age verifications on kids and you can’t do it anonymously. The only way to do age verification is to verify everyone, and the only way to verify that the age verification matches the user is to remove the possibility of anonymity.

The calls for regulation always imagine it happening to other people and other companies. Few people demanding internet age verification for things like social media seem to realize that it would also apply to sites like HN. Nobody likes the idea of having to prove your identity for an age check to sign up for HN, they just want to imagine Facebook users going through that trouble because they don’t use Facebook and therefore it’s not a problem.
by cmeacham98 | 2025-07-28 12:57:18+00:00
Liberal democracy's actual function is to convert the will of the people into a functioning government.

If it was actually true that 80% of the population opposed this law, MPs would be falling over themselves to run against it and it would be gone immediately after the next election cycle.

I think it's a dumb law, but I also don't think the UK's democracy is that broken. It's pretty clear a majority of UK voters support or are at least ok with this law.
by bayindirh | 2025-07-28 12:57:28+00:00
Maybe we can add a register to the processors for just keeping time. At the end of the day, it's a ticker, no?

RTX[0-7] would do. For time dilation purposes, we can have another 512 bit set to adjust ticking direction and frequency.

Or shall we go 1024 bits on both to increase resolution? I'd agree...
by mrngm | 2025-07-28 12:57:31+00:00
Relatable recent thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44602532 "When root meets immutable: OpenBSD chflags vs. log tampering" (153 points, 45 comments).

Not to necessarily focus on the operating system used, but think of the attacker model and risk appetite of the organisation. What are the required integrity goals? What retention do you (legally) require? Who should be able to access those logs; on their own, or n-eye principle? Do such accesses need to be logged as well? What are the requirements from the users of the audit log?

The things you'll need to log will become clear after answering such questions. How you structure them depends on the required access patterns. Tamper evidence can be achieved in many ways, but that depends on the integrity requirements; is an empty log line where one should have been enough "tamper evident"? Do you need some sort of verification mechanism that confirms the log lines you see were stored in that order?

If your log only persists on the machine where it originated, does that satisfy integrity requirements?
by inhumantsar | 2025-07-28 12:57:43+00:00
Using a long and/or fancy-sounding word in place of a simpler one. They're usually interpreted as the author trying to make themselves sound smarter or more authoritative than they are.

Reminds me of one of Elmore Leonard's rules for writing: If it sounds like writing, rewrite it.

(Also, I know this phrase as "five-dollar words". Inflation really is sneaky.)
by bubblyworld | 2025-07-28 12:57:51+00:00
The ARC-1 problem set that they benchmark on is an example of such a problem, I believe. It's still more-or-less completely unsolved. They don't solve it either, mind, but they achieve very competitive results with their tiny (27m param) model. Competitive with architectures that are using extensive pretraining and hundreds of billions of parameters!

That's one of the things that sticks out for me about the paper. Having tried very hard myself to solve ARC it's pretty insane what they're claiming to have done here.

(I think a lot of the sceptics in this thread are unaware of just how difficult ARC-1 is, and are focusing on the sudoku part, which I agree is much simpler and less surprising that they do well on)
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-07-28 12:58:00+00:00
I use zen and I am gonna be honest I wouldn't consider it to be buggy and it works really perfect on my linux desktop

But to be fair as it is a linux desktop I am not sure / worried about power consumption so yeah I love zen browser and even some of my friends use this even on their laptops. Would recommend it a 100 times if I could.
Show HN: Angular Material Blocks – Powered by Angular Material & Tailwind CSS
by shhdharmen | 2025-07-28 12:58:11+00:00
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by 9rx | 2025-07-28 12:58:34+00:00
> and some events at harvest time can wipe out crops entirely!

And that swings both ways. Last year, with the stars aligning just right, the corn yields around here were ~100 bushels per acre higher than even our most optimistic pre-harvest estimates. That is an incredible amount of unexpected extra product. Corn especially has a huge, unpredictable yield band.

Which, of course, is exactly why we started producing corn-based ethanol. To buffer the periods of uncontrollable excess — where the previous alternative was to see it rot away.
by piker | 2025-07-28 12:58:37+00:00
Thanks for checking it out, and yes!

If you type some text into one of the documents in the web preview, click the triangle and click the name of that document, you'll get a redline. That's the current industry-standard diff format. Redlines don't standardize around any kind of metadata format, though, so parsing them (unlike a diff) is non-trivial. There's an opportunity for improvement.

As mentioned elsewhere, transactional lawyers are corporate lawyers who work on deals (think drafting corporate documents, M&A or IPOs) as opposed to litigators who go to court and argue cases.
by aleksituk | 2025-07-28 12:58:43+00:00
I like HUDs as an analogy for other forms of content/experience enrichment too e.g. what's a HUD for other forms of interaction than just looking at screens (like audio, or multimodal).

Can we embed useful data behind the content we produce/consume or derive personalised versions for the user?

-> Text/audio/video tailored for me and my interests? (ie. not just content recommended for me, but the content itself is tailored for me in terms of the insights and practical applications) -> Podcasts I can interact with? -> Audiobooks I can ask questions about?

Richer interaction that allows for more back&forth and key insights for the user and use case.