MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vidarh | 2025-07-04 14:39:43+00:00
It's insane spends like that which are the main reason that reducing cloud costs is the main money maker for my consulting business at the moment.

It's extremely rare to come across people using cloud services where you can't cut their costs by at least 30%, often more than half, sometimes as much as 90%+, and usually it results in reduced devops spends as well.

The interesting thing is that the hardest part of the sales process is to convince people that cloud isn't cheap, because there's a near religious belief that cloud providers must be cost effective in some companies.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-07-04 14:40:15+00:00
I was just talking to a friend of mine, yesterday, about what happened to me.

In 2017, I was laid off of my job (of almost 27 years). I immediately started looking for work. Since the company I worked for, was a marquee-name company, I assumed that it wouldn't be hard.

Boy, was I in for a shock.

I almost immediately learned that no one in tech, is interested in hiring a 55-year-old, regardless of their pedigree. I could have gotten a job, but those companies made it clear that I would be treated quite badly.

So I made the decision to just throw in the towel and retire. I had the means, but I would have liked to have at least another ten years of salary. I have never had any intentions of stopping working, though. I love developing software. It's a hobby and a personal passion; not just a job.

I was really pissed off at the treatment. I suffered great butthurt.

But in the long run, it's the best thing that ever happened to me. I never realized how much stress I was under, while working. I sincerely believe that, if I had kept working, it would have killed me. I have no intentions of returning to the rodent rally; even though I'm quite good at what I do, thanks to all the learning that I've done, in the last eight years.

I now work every day (my GH Activity Graph is quite green), and do a fairly good job on my chosen projects, but I no longer feel that awful weight on my soul.

Sometimes, the only way that we learn how much pain we are in, is to stop suffering it for a while.
by ChrisArchitect | 2025-07-04 14:40:50+00:00
NYT feature on this a few days ago

The Map Rating Restaurants Based on How Hot the Customers Are

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/dining/looksmapping-hot-c... (https://archive.ph/3ItEb) (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44444973)
by flohofwoe | 2025-07-04 14:41:03+00:00
You'll have to write C API wrappers around your C++ libraries to access them from Zig, but other then that I can cross-compile my mixed C/C++/Zig projects using Windows APIs like DXGI/D3D/WASAPI with `zig build -Dtarget=x86_64-windows` from a Mac with the vanilla Zig toolchain.

...you don't even need to port anything in your C/C++ project to Zig, just integrate `zig cc` as C/C++ compiler into your existing build system, or port your build system files to build.zig.
by geerlingguy | 2025-07-04 14:41:11+00:00
Not for a lot of use cases, like how to get 4G/5G cellular connectivity, how to monitor something using an embedded/tiny camera and a small machine learning model, or how to build a little HMI device using a 4" touchscreen...

For basic homelab use cases, almost any computer is fine, but for IoT-style stuff especially, a Pi-focused will have a lot more hits, and the tutorials won't apply to any of the mini PCs.
by kccqzy | 2025-07-04 14:41:45+00:00
My biggest piece of advice for people using lenses is to ditch all the operators. Things like ^. or ^.. or ^? or ^@.. or even <<|>~ are all real operators. Yet they look like line noise. Nobody fully remembers them anyways. Just ditch all operators. Use named functions. The function toListOf is immediately clear what it's doing (that it takes a structure and a fold to convert to a list) but ^.. is not.

In general I avoid all custom operators and only use operators that are in packages preinstalled by the compiler (basically just base and containers).
by venusenvy47 | 2025-07-04 14:42:06+00:00
I found that the mini PCs with the N100 are much more convenient because I don't have to deal with custom OS or packages. I'm not a developer, and wanted the easiest method to get a Linux server running. After struggling with the limitations of the custom builds required for an SBC, I found it so refreshing to be able to install the general Linux distros available for the x86/x64 platforms.
by FireBeyond | 2025-07-04 14:42:11+00:00
About twenty years ago there was a story in Melbourne, of a young foreign student at the casino.

He withdrew $1,000 from the ATM from his home back in Asia. Was duly given the cash. He noticed though, that looking at online banking, his balance hadn't changed. Odd, but maybe it was a vagary of international transactions (and again, 20+ years ago).

Nope. So he took out another $1,000. And another. Every time, got the money, no transaction posted.

Not just one ATM, any.

Over the course of 2 years when it all came out, he had gotten $2M+ from this.

Know how he got caught? He took some of that money gambling. And sat at a table all night, constantly replenishing his stash. That tipped off the casino that something was odd, because they had loaded the ATM with $250K, which usually lasted ~48h, but he emptied out in a few. "Didn't we fill this this afternoon?".

Once they got the financial institutions it was also fairly quickly revealed.

And in court, the local banks admitted that there had been nothing flagged in their system, and presumably it would have kept working until (at least) his card expired.

There you have a literal money printing machine, and "No, let's see what I can win gambling". I suppose here's other factors like "Maybe it's easier to launder a big winning" but nonetheless, it actually appeared more that he was just addicted to gambling.
by marcosdumay | 2025-07-04 14:42:42+00:00
> The basic promise of a query optimizer is that it picks a good plan most of the time and does it quickly and efficiently.

Hum, no. The basic promise of a query optimizer is that it picks a good plan all of the time. Otherwise it's worse than useless and you would be better with a DB where you can pin the plan for every query.

But yes, the goal is on "good", not "optimal".
by geerlingguy | 2025-07-04 14:43:41+00:00
I typically run a suite of workloads (see https://sbc-reviews.jeffgeerling.com), but I like HPL as it's been a consistent relative performance metric for decades, especially for efficiency utilizing all available memory.

There's always danger to focusing on one metric or benchmark too much, but I also enjoy comparing each system or cluster I build to the historic 'top500' list, to see what decade we're in for small clusters of mini computers.
by micromacrofoot | 2025-07-04 14:43:49+00:00
that's the hard part for me, I'd have to change every aspect of my life because any other job would probably start me at 25% of what I make now

sell my house, put my kids in a different school district, be terrified about health insurance

if I fail I'd have to go back into tech and would have uprooted everything in a way that's probably irreversible
by qzw | 2025-07-04 14:43:52+00:00
Western medicine “can’t treat stress” but Eastern medicine definitely claims to be able to. But then so do various nebulous “alternative medicines”. Another comment mentioned deep meditation as being effective, and I believe there are a number of studies that have shown it to have actual effect. I’ll add another tried and true stress cure but with a twist. Exercise has consistently been shown to help reduce stress, but I find that you have to pick an activity that’s different than what you normally do, e.g. if you’re a runner, try swimming or tennis. The goal is to actually raise the stress level while exercising by doing something unfamiliar and therefore more challenging. In my experience, if the exercise is too relaxed or routine, it doesn’t allow your mind to disengage from the other stressors that are causing symptoms. Of course, all this is pure anecdata from an internet rando.
by maxberdnikau | 2025-07-04 14:43:55+00:00
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by genewitch | 2025-07-04 14:44:10+00:00
notepad++ that i run doesn't have any features like that. I can't even get "run" to work. But vertical selection + search and replace are top notch, and it loads large files fast, even with control characters.

Even when i was running linux and windows side by side i did all my text editing in windows, notepad++ is just that fine tuned. even BBEdit wasn't as nice.

I rarely upgrade software that "works", so i have no idea if notepad++ has gotten worse.
by simondotau | 2025-07-04 14:44:18+00:00
All of your statistics are wrong.

Your first claim is baseless, as no statistics exist to make that claim. Tesla is the only major manufacturer which voluntarily provides all crash information to regulators. No other major manufacturer collects and discloses comparable statistics. Therefore it cannot be asserted that ADAS-involved deaths are more frequent in Tesla vehicles.

It's often said that Autopilot is uniquely dangerous because it gives drivers a false sense of confidence. This is a "feels true" claim. However, many other manufacturers have ADAS systems which exceed the technical AND subjective performance of Tesla Autopilot. On that basis, we should assume that ADAS-involved fatality rates are higher with those brands.

Your second claim exceeds the data published by both reputable AND biased sources. Even if true, that still places FSD well over an order of magnitude more safe than human drivers, with a supposed 3 deaths compared to the expected 48 deaths with human-piloted vehicles.

As for your last sentence, overuse of cutting comments makes them dull.
by roenxi | 2025-07-04 14:45:07+00:00
> One thing I've noticed is many (most?) people in our cohort are very skeptical of AI coding (or simply aren't paying attention).

I'd hope most devs are using AI heavily when coding, the last 6 months seem to have reached a level of competence in raw programming skill somewhere around mid- or senior- level with hilarious variance between brilliance and idiocy.

I think you might be seeing the most vocal programmers are terrified for their future prospects and there isn't much room to reason with them so they're let alone.
by dasil003 | 2025-07-04 14:45:09+00:00
Of course there’s a survivorship bias. Everyone’s gotta eat, and the path of least resistance is to get a job and do what you’re told. Finding an alternative path is much harder of course, but in the grand scheme of things well supported by our industrial prosperity and individualist culture.

If you look around you’ll find more people doing it than you think, they just tend to be less famous than business moguls since peculiar interests are more of a niche thing but everyone is interested in material success.
by skeeter2020 | 2025-07-04 14:45:17+00:00
This is a really good perspective, and I've seen a similar impact from "under employed" members of my teams. We have group-level product managers who have several scrum team-level PMs under them. The idea is they keep broader alignment and bigger-picture consistency, but when they don't spend time with each of the scrum teams, or miss planning meetings and important discussions the teams pay the price from lack of communication, coordination and a shared understanding.
by AndyKelley | 2025-07-04 14:45:29+00:00
re: sendfile in the interface - that's important because while downcasting the stream to "FileStream" would work if your pipeline looks like A -> B, it falls apart the moment you introduce an item in the middle (A -> B -> C). Meanwhile I have a demo of File -> tar -> HTTP (Transfer-Encoding: chunked) -> Socket and the direct fd-to-fd copies make it all the way through the chain!
by cjs_ac | 2025-07-04 14:45:33+00:00
Yes, Number 10 Downing Street is three eighteenth-century houses joined together. When cleaning dirt from the industrial revolution off the building's facade, it was discovered that the bricks underneath were actually yellow, but it was soon painted black because people were so used to seeing it that way on TV.

More generally, Britain and its former empire are and always were governed strictly on a least-effort, least-cost basis. There is a lot of wealth and splendour in this country, but it's privately owned; the public realm is rather run down.
by Aurornis | 2025-07-04 14:45:38+00:00
> Don’t let yourself be gaslit that it’s all mental.

I agree, though this is a very difficult subject. Often, the people who would benefit the most from psychosomatic interventions are often the most resistant to accepting those explanations. Meanwhile, many of the physical chronic pain sufferers I know have desperately tried various mind-body programs (without success) because they will try anything that might help.

If people match the description of the author of this post and blog, where the pains are widespread, vague, and popping up around different parts of the body without explanation then you really should explore psychosomatic explanations like this author did.

However, I’m growing weary of the trend of people who fit this description starting newsletters they want you to subscribe to (like this one), writing apps they want you to download/buy, and making comments implying that they know better than doctors about chronic pain (while putting an obligatory “not a doctor” disclaimer juxtaposed to their comments complaining that doctors don’t know what they know). I think it’s great when people share their experience, but it’s getting tiresome to see it productized and generalized as a more universal explanation.

EDIT: Another trend in this space is to productize by building an audience (please subscribe to my Substack) and then introduce the monetization plan later: A subscription app, an e-book, a partnership with some product. It’s possible this person organically decided to quit their job, sell their house, and focus on writing a no strings attached Substack blog series to share information. However, I’ve seen this play out across enough health influencers that I recommend everyone stay cautious about people who claim to hold some information that will change your life but they need you to subscribe first. Be careful.
by maxberdnikau | 2025-07-04 14:45:53+00:00
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by vidarh | 2025-07-04 14:45:56+00:00
People dig themselves in hard, with reliances on all kinds of proprietary services, and complex relationships.

My experience in helping people do cloud migrations are that companies also often quickly lose oversight over which cloud services they are even still running. Sometimes systems that should've been shut down years ago are still hanging around, or parts of them anyway, like S3 buckets etc. Most companies that use cloud systems underprovision their devops because they think they don't need much for a cloud system (in fact, they typically need more to do it well).

$300k/day for their revenue is very much crazy high.
The Financial World Is Being Rewritten. Africa Is Leading the Charge
by Selandaloussi | 2025-07-04 14:46:05+00:00
Let's not mince words: The traditional fund business is archaic, burdened by fees and an unsustainable hunger for talent salaries. It's a broken model, designed for a bygone era where access to capital and opportunity was bottlenecked. That era is over.

True alpha, the kind that moves markets, doesn't reside in glass towers or bloated expense accounts. It's in the unleashed brainpower of individuals, their unique insights and groundbreaking strategies. For too long, this brilliance has been stifled by gatekeepers and prohibitive overheads.

But here's the game-changer: AI and advanced technology have demolished those barriers. We've entered a new paradigm where connecting brilliant minds directly to deployable capital isn't just possible, it's inevitable. We believe this system must change, giving way to true democratization.

Our mission is clear: to put Africa firmly on the map as the next global financial frontier. Forget just New York, London, and Tokyo. When you think of a leading financial hub, Africa will be next. This isn't just ambition; it's a strategic move to unlock immense, untapped potential.

Our platform is at the heart of this revolution. It's our proprietary technology, engineered to bridge the gap between global insights and capital, devoid of the legacy baggage. Whether you're a seasoned quant, a budding strategist, or simply someone with a powerful idea, our system empowers you to monetize your intellect, sharing in the upside of your innovations without shouldering massive capital risk. We've built this for the world, with Africa as our launchpad for a new financial paradigm.

This isn't just about efficiency or profits; it's about fundamentally reshaping access and opportunity on a global scale.

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by triceratops | 2025-07-04 14:46:05+00:00
Right? This Cold War era mentality of "If you say anything bad about capitalism, you're a dirty commie"/"If you say anything bad about socialism, you're an imperialist pig" is fucking exhausting and pointless.

I don't give a shit whether something is capitalist or communist or socialist. I care about results: prosperity, freedom, happiness, sustainability. Do whatever makes it happen.
Built a SaaS boilerplate in 9 days to avoid the $300 templates
by Shreyan19 | 2025-07-04 14:46:16+00:00
Hey HN, I'm a 21-year-old indie dev from India. I was frustrated by the fact that most good SaaS boilerplates in the market are either $200–$300 or poorly maintained free ones that require hours of integration work.

So I built SaaSRocket in 9 days — a production-ready SaaS boilerplate that comes pre-integrated with Supabase, Resend, Lemon Squeezy, and Cloudinary. It includes auth, billing, blogs, and even CLI commands to auto-generate dashboard pages. It's fully tested, SEO-optimized, and designed for solo devs trying to ship fast without breaking the bank.

I priced it at $49 because honestly, I wanted to give something actually useful to devs who can't drop $300 just to get started. My goal was to make something that I would've loved when I was starting out.

Would love your feedback or thoughts: https://www.saasrocket.pro

Also curious — what boilerplates or stacks do you use when spinning up SaaS apps quickly?
by throw10920 | 2025-07-04 14:47:16+00:00
You clearly did not read my suggestion to not respond until you'd gained a minimum amount of logical competence and emotional maturity.

> What are you, one of the LessWrong rationalists?

OK, so you don't comprehend the purpose of logic in society.

> emotions aren't inherently irrational

Factually incorrect. Emotions are irrational. This is objectively true. When you feel an emotion, a physically and spatially different part of your brain is being activated than when you think logically. You might be thinking that some emotions are justifiable - and some of them are. But that's not the point I was making, so that would be irrelevant - the point I was making is that you think that your emotional outbursts are equivalent to making a reasoned argument.

There's no point in continuing this. You appear to physically be unable to avoid responding emotionally, to the point where you don't even understand the difference between emotion and logic, or the purpose and necessity of thinking rationally in society - and you're proud that you don't.
by skydhash | 2025-07-04 14:47:26+00:00
The reason I tend not to use LLMs for these taks is that they are great for thinking moments. They're so mechanical that you tend to reflect instead. Also I use Vim and Emacs which are great for that type of works (fast navigation and good editing tools) and it's not as tedious as doing in editors like VS Code and Sublime (which are not great at editing). You can even concoct something with tmux, ripgrep/fzf, and nano that is better than VS Code at this.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-07-04 14:47:36+00:00
If by "keep a similar quality of living" you mean "keep FAANG-sized paychecks", there probably isn't an alternative. If you mean "keep upper-middle-class paychecks", well, there's more to "tech" than just web programming.

For instance, embedded systems is pretty good. Yeah, they don't pay FAANG levels, and they never will. They typically aren't a "toxic faang-esque HIB factory", though.
by bdangubic | 2025-07-04 14:48:11+00:00
I’ve heard this argument many times; some of those times it came out of my own mouth.

the thing is… if you and your spouse get a 25% bump in salary right now, a year or so from now it is likely you’d write the exact same comment as this one above even though a year ago you were in the same boat and obviously managed beautifully without the extra 25%… :)
by hn_throw2025 | 2025-07-04 14:48:15+00:00
Hmm. I currently have a HDD and SSD attached to the USB ports of a Raspberry Pi 4B. I leave in on 24/7 as a media streamer and a PiHole.

It does however have an Argon One PSU which is capable of supplying 3.5A.

I learned early on to not skimp on the PSU, and have mostly used official Raspberry Pi PSUs in order to avoid brownout unreliability.
by Leszek | 2025-07-04 14:48:31+00:00
I once destroyed an entire small enemy camp in a 5e campaign by causing an avalanche using Create Water -- arguing that the 10 gallons of water I create would be a whole lot of snow when taking into account the relative density of water and snow. Definitely a Rule of Cool moment, I don't think the spell wording is even that amenable to this interpretation.
by hollerith | 2025-07-04 14:48:48+00:00
I am writing these words on an N100.

I wanted a cheap PC small enough to store easily at my girlfriend's house without a fan, i.e., without the noises that non-Apple non-Noctua fans tend to make as they get old.

(I looked for a Core i3-N305 or an N200, but could not find either in a fanless mini PC.)

Am very happy with my purchase.