MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ivraatiems | 2025-07-01 23:38:44+00:00
Hi all. Senior/staff level full stack engineer looking for opportunities to do something interesting, especially if it involves actually helping other humans. My past experience is highly varied and covers everything from sheet music rendering to multi-million orders/day e-commerce. I'm a capable generalist and I'm especially good at learning by doing; in fact, it's what I have liked about every job I've enjoyed so far. I am also comfortable and happy wearing a feature-ownership/product-management hat alongside my development work, when needed.

Location: Tucson, AZ, USA

Remote: Preferred

Willing to relocate: No, I'm unable

Technologies:

-- Expert skill level: C# and .NET ecosystem generally, HTML/(S)CSS, agile/project planning, software design/architecture

-- Professional skill level: C++, TypeScript, JavaScript, SQL (Postgres, T-SQL, MySQL, SQLite), React, jQuery, Git

-- Some experience with: Java, PHP, C, Redis, Kafka, AWS, Docker, Terraform, Python, F#

-- Generally able to rapidly learn and iterate in all languages/development environments.

-- Though I am not an electrical engineer, I am skilled with physical PC repair and run a small PC refurbishing business.

Resume: Upon request.

Email: 2v6k5wika@mozmail.com

I'm especially interested in non-profit work focusing on areas like technology recycling/refurbishing, climate change, or education, work in support of academic efforts, or anything else that is about creating things and improving people's lives more than it is cashing out.

Please no blockchain or AI-first/"vibe-coding" positions. I am interested in contract work if it is the right fit.

Thank you for looking!
by zamadatix | 2025-07-01 23:38:47+00:00
There is something to be said for the parts about shading the surface too though. You're unlikely to cool an entire desert a significant amount with water you bring in but if that's something that happens as part of keeping the actual surfaces in the city cooler during peak heat times on top of the air cooling effects of evaporation then the sum result is greater than the parts in terms of effect.

Of course it's Vegas, I wouldn't be surprised if we decided to make the downtown completely indoors so we could just run AC in the streets too. It's not exactly the city of practicality.
by __float | 2025-07-01 23:38:56+00:00
Those downsides don't seem that bad to me. If something needed repair, they can bring a contractor on site, and certainly the Fed has cameras and police to monitor.

(In line with some other commenters, I'm more inclined to believe it's bills they've taken out of circulation than "almost finished" ones -- security features are built in throughout the process, not just an extra step at the end.)
by Manik_agg | 2025-07-01 23:39:20+00:00
Hey - i agree that the demonstrated use can be solved with simple plan.md file in the codebase itself.

With use-case we wanted to showcase the shareable aspect of CORE more. The main problem statement we wanted to address was "take your memory to every AI" and not repeating yourself again and again anymore.

The relational graph based aspect of CORE architecture is an overkill for simple fact recalling. But if you want an intelligent memory layer about you that can answer What, When, Why and also is accessible in all the major AI tools that you use, then CORE would make more sense.
by steveklabnik | 2025-07-01 23:39:30+00:00
It’s not about proof: it’s that at this point I’m a fairly heavy Claude Code user and I’d like to up my game, but I’m also not so up on many of these details that I can just figure out how to give this a try just from the description of it. I’m already doing plan-up-front workflows with just Claude, but haven’t figured out some of this more advanced stuff.

I have two MCPs installed (playwright and context7) but it never seems like Claude decides to reach for them on its own.

I definitely appreciate why you’re not posting code, as you said in another comment.
by gerdesj | 2025-07-01 23:41:41+00:00
I've just been presented with a captcha thingie asking me to select all things that can be picked up by a pair of chopsticks described as "the tool in the image"

Fuck off.

Then that vanished and another even more vapid effort appeared.

Fuck off.

If you need to piss around with this sort of nonsense, you probably shouldn't be entrusted with a website.
by aspenmayer | 2025-07-01 23:42:26+00:00
> There's a reason politics and tech gossip are where most HN comments go these days. This is a pretty mainstream site.

HN is the digital water cooler. Rumors are a kind of social currency, in the capital sense, in that it can be leveraged and has a time horizon for value of exchange, and in the timeliness/recency biased sense, as hot gossip is a form of information that wants to be free, which in this context means it has more value when shared, and that value is tapped into by doing so.
by ekunazanu | 2025-07-01 23:42:36+00:00
> I got my driving license at the age of 27 and I lived in multiple dense cities.

This gives off "I have experience, so I must be right." vibes. There's no reason you can't be, but this goes against what most other urban planning experts and studies have to say.

> Go on, think about it and actually investigate your assumptions.

I feel like _you_ are the one who is only addressing the points that are the easiest to argue using unverified numbers and hypotheticals that would never be practical, just to support your claims, instead of addressing the argument as a whole.

> OK. Drop 10 random points in a city and then map routes between them using transit, cars, and bikes. You'll find that cars are around 3 times _faster_ than anything else on average. Even in dense cities. I'm going to call this "Cyberax's constant"!

I would like to see you prove it. Even if true, no one is actually going from a random point to another random point. Most people have overlapping commute routes, which are anything but random. It is proven mass transit reduce collective travel times, and which is why I mentioned the least amount of time for _most_ people, which you conveniently didn't account for.

> This means that bikes are right out, they're horribly anti-human. And transit is barely OK.

Again I never argued for _only_ bikes, you're dragging your own assumptions and hatred for bikes into the argument. I also don't know why you think bikes more anti-human than cars. Anyway, how is a city that needs cars to get around better than a city that doesn't, better in terms of accessibility? And again, "transit is barely OK", but you conveniently did not mention about the accessibility of cars.

> So, EVs are perfect? They are quieter than buses.

EV buses have all the advantages of being an EV and none of the disadvantages of being private cars (aka more efficient, cheaper, and more accessible). Idk why you would use EV for cars, but not do the same for buses when comparing them (if not just for pushing your agenda). If anything, I would guess the percentage of EV-to-ICE ratio for buses is higher than for passenger cars in most high-density cities (except for the US, ig idk).

> People are. By economic forces. Japan is a GREAT cautiounary tale here.

Economic forces will always end up pushing for more and more density. Pushing for car dependent cities may mitigate this to a point, but it does not create better cities. Good zoning laws have a much higher probability doing that.

> No, they make it more inescapable.

As mentioned, I fail to see how good public infrastructure is stopping a person from leaving a city more than other economic forces, if it is so insufferable.

> Wrong. A Tokyo without transit wouldn't have become so dense.

Great point. It would have become LA. Where your ideas (at least from what I understand about your ideas) have already been implemented. A place known for zero traffic, that consistently comes on top for best cities to live.

I think I am done with this, have a good day bro
by andrewdeandrade | 2025-07-01 23:42:40+00:00
Location: Seattle, Washington

Remote: Yes. PST timezone preferred.

Willing to relocate: No, but open to occasional travel to an office within reason.

Technologies: Lots. If it has a manual or documentation, I'm happy to learn it. If it doesn't, I'll read the source. See résumé for a more complete but not exhaustive list. Most of my language experience has been with Javascript and Golang, but I've used Python, Java and Lua professionally and Lisp and Haskell for fun. I would most prefer to work with Golang but open to using any language I've used or learning other languages. My strongest skillsets revolve around making highly distributed systems highly reliable and fast (millions of requests per second across thousands of machines across multiple datacenters globally). I'm an expert in software testing and CI/CD. I am mostly a back-end engineer, but I'm not a stranger to front-end work.

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gGjvZMnUQ3EVj3GeSlWt8TIpg6w...

Email: andrew@deandrade.com.br

I most recently spent just shy of 10 years at Uber (2014 to 2024) before taking a sabbatical for personal pursuits and I'm now looking to get back to work. I was a staff software engineer at Uber before I left. While at Uber, I worked on some of the largest, most complex stateful systems/services. Prior to Uber, I worked at a started from the seed round through series B. I'm no stranger to any size environment from a small startup all the way through a large mature corporation and everything in between. I'm open to consider companies of all sizes, but my preference is a company at series B or later that has product/market fit and is looking to scale the business, improve reliability and implement best practices.

I'm a long-time HN member with almost 9000 karma/points, but posting on a new account to maintain some degree of anonymity for my primary account.
by bb88 | 2025-07-01 23:42:57+00:00
Reminds me of AREXX on the amiga.

REXX was an okay enough language for the time, but the real benefit was not needing to install a compiler -- which required more memory typically than my Amiga had, IIRC.

Meanwhile in college everyone had the 486 chip that could fit in a 386 socket. And I would have bought one, but I was broke. I ended up getting a pentium system with 64MB of ram that ran Linux after my first job.
by hdjdbdirbrbtv | 2025-07-01 23:42:59+00:00
I am playing with open weights models at home and yeah they are like that ... I use Claude 3.7 @ work and yeah it is a lot better ... Sometimes it will flub things but it also can write large amounts of code ... Mostly how I want (the pareto principle comes into play for the parts I don't want though).

So for me, the future will tend towards this ... Currently the tech is early days, we have no way to steer thought.. We have no way to align it to our thought processes... But eventually we will get to I want x pls make and it will be able to do it well.
by leoqa | 2025-07-01 23:43:07+00:00
I’ve been making over $500k a year since 2020 working fully remote; everyone I know with 7+ YOE at big tech or unicorns is also making 500k TC which often appreciates to ~700k+ with the current market.

We’re just writing dumb gRPC services that use Postgres. I work probably 30 hours a week and still get awards, bonuses etc.
by SpicyUme | 2025-07-01 23:43:52+00:00
There are people pushing for more shade in cities as an adaptation for a warming world. There is some crossover with the push for a reduction in cars and generally reducing the footprint of streets. Looking at old cities in hot climates I can see how this could make sense.

For Las Vegas, Cottonwoods are native and grow pretty quickly. Like many poplars they were used to grow shelterbelts.
by tasty_freeze | 2025-07-01 23:45:12+00:00
Back in the late 70s my uncle was at an auto show in Chicago at the McCormick place. There was a VW filled with beer cans of some particular brand. You could submit your name and your guess of the number of cans of beer and whomever was closest to the actual count won the beer (but not the car). My uncle won.

How did he guess so well? He was there very early on and he noticed a stack of cardboard trays stacked up in the corner of the venue. He counted the number of trays, multiplied by 24, and submitted that number. :-)

EDIT: I forgot to mention he was a functional alcoholic who drank beer constantly. It is appropriate he won it, but I'm not sure if was good for him.
by trod1234 | 2025-07-01 23:45:15+00:00
I haven't had a child yet, but when I do I will be going the low/no tech route.

I was quite fond of a number of things as a child that when looking back on it knowing what I know now, were extremely detrimental to my development as a person.

In some cases the things I loved the most at the time ended up setting me back as much as a decade in maturity (i.e. gaming addiction), which is relentlessly pursued by most companies in the space today.

I don't intend to raise or coddle my children in such a way as to have them become infantile hopelessly dependent adults, and in many cases today as a parent you have to be ruthless when it comes to cutting out malign influences.

I have friends who have children, and they've taken similar spartan approaches to great effect.

Their children read, think, and comprehend material at a much higher level than their peers.
by margalabargala | 2025-07-01 23:45:28+00:00
Municipal uses like drinking, showering, and watering ornamental plants is a tiny pct of desert water use. Most of it is crop irrigation, because if you can will water into existence then crops grow great in sunny deserts.

If the US' alfalfa exports to Saudi Arabia went down by 10%, we would never have a municipal water shortage in the American West in the next century.
by Rafael_glbrt | 2025-07-01 23:45:41+00:00
Hello,

My name is Rafaël, I am 17 years old and the co-founder of Speechly. I created this application after gaining experience running a software development agency for businesses. During that time, I noticed I was spending a significant amount of time writing numerous emails every day. This led me to think: what if there was a solution that could save time by allowing me to simply speak my email and have it professionally or casually drafted in just 10 seconds, using the advancements in AI?

As a result, I developed a well-integrated macOS app with a shortcut that makes this possible. Many others who faced the same challenge are now using and enjoying my application.

I hope you found this brief introduction helpful. Please feel free to reach out with any questions, feedback, or to try Speechly for yourself.

Best regards, Rafaël

this post was redacted in 6.8s using Speechly
by johanyc | 2025-07-01 23:47:11+00:00
> the problem is the human cost of a transaction. The mental overhead of deciding whether I want to make a purchase to consume every piece of content […] > When someone on the internet tries to sell you something for a dollar, how often do you really take them up on it?

It depends on how micro they are. Your example of $1 is quite big. It should be cents or even less.

Several examples. When using chatgpt api, do you really worry how much a short q&a session will cost you? Do you stress whether to turn on the light in your room or not (electricity cost is also micro-transaction if you think about it)?
by Nextgrid | 2025-07-01 23:47:28+00:00
Cameras still need to be monitored which costs money. Plus sleight-of-hand and other tricks are a thing, so you'd probably still need to background-check any contractors and maintain a strict chain of custody over access to the cube and then recount and re-check to make sure none of the currency has been substituted by lookalike fakes. Police still costs money.

If there is no reasonable way for the public to notice, why not make everyone's life easier by using fake money? That would be easier and cheaper.

Leaks can be dealt with by the legal system (pay people decently and make them sign an NDA in exchange not to disclose the bills are fake) which is much easier than actually keeping track of 1M of currency.
by ryanscript01123 | 2025-07-01 23:48:19+00:00
Location: Minneapolis, MN, USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Svelte, React, Vue, Go, Node, Python, C#, C++, Java, PHP, Symfony, Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, AWS, Terraform, Docker, CI/CD, Swagger, Git, Nightwatch, HTML/CSS, jQuery, UIKit, ArcGIS, ESRI, Redmine, Jira, Bash, Linux, Windows

Résumé/CV: https://ryanisler.com/resume

Email: islerryan@gmail.com

Hello!

I am a senior full-stack developer with over 5 years of experience building applications for the United States weather service (NOAA, NWS, OHD, NOMADS, etc.), Minnesota schools, and non-profit organizations. I started out building front-end apps and grew to love the back-end/cloud as well (it is so nice to write database/API/CMS/cloud helper programs quickly in Node, Python, Go, C++, etc.!). My most involved project was working across the stack on a hole-in-one application for the weather service that consolidates a suite of old applications. I am flexible and love wearing many hats of technologies & procedures. My previous work comrades always described me as high-spirited, excited, and always amped to take on challenging tickets (for example: I built a node.js helper application to migrate 10,000+ vanilla JS/HTML web pages to a tricky CMS).

I'm all sparkles when it comes to full-stack development! I am actively looking for remote full-time or contract work. While that for loop is running, I am deep diving into new tech/AI && full stack projects, such as the Stone King Wiki, Magic: The Gathering Assistant v2, and a touch-focused app similar to what Hans Zimmer uses as the primary console for extending his music composition capabilities.
Show HN: Just a Line: Resurrected
by hmartin | 2025-07-01 23:48:20+00:00
I always thought Google's Just a Line experiment[1] was crazy cool and recently wanted to revisit it. But it hadn't been updated in 7 years

So I upgraded all of the dependencies (including the latest version of Swift 5), added SwiftLint and SwiftFormat, and got it (mostly) working again!

Hope you have some fun with it- help welcome there's still more to do!

[1] https://experiments.withgoogle.com/justaline
by kevg86 | 2025-07-01 23:48:52+00:00
Nooks (https://nooks.ai) | Software Engineers (full-stack & backend/applied ML) | Full-time | Onsite in SF (hybrid)

Hi, I'm on the recruiting team at Nooks — we’re a Series B co using AI to reimagine the future of work for sales teams.

- What: Our AI Sales Assistant Platform (ASAP) automates the busywork in dialing, prospecting, and coaching so reps can focus on the human side of selling. Learn more here: https://www.nooks.ai/blog-posts/series-b | https://www.nooks.ai/blog-posts/why-all-engineers-need-to-le...

- Fun engineering challenges: These include complex distributed systems, low-latency algorithms & infrastructure, and modeling sales calls with large language models. You'll also have the chance to make a huge impact on our customers (sales reps who spend 80% of their work day on Nooks.)

- Funding and traction: We closed a $43M Series B from Kleiner Perkins in Q4'24. We 4x’d ARR in both 2023 and 2024. We've had tremendous revenue growth since closing the B, acquiring customers like Hubspot, Windsurf and LaunchDarkly.

- Team: Our team includes many former unicorn early team members and founders, as well as multiple IMO/IOI medalists

We're looking for experienced engineers and an EM. To work at Nooks, you should love tackling difficult product questions and working closely with customers. Excitement about language models, few-shot learning and other recent AI advances is also a plus :)

Drop me a note if interested: kev [at] nooks.in or apply at the links below: Product Engineer https://www.nooks.ai/careers?ashby_jid=7091d714-5c22-452a-97... | EM https://www.nooks.ai/careers?ashby_jid=6d1342db-e2d4-47ac-8f...
by stevage | 2025-07-01 23:49:09+00:00
Nice!

A few issues on Firefox android:

- keyboard closes after adding each letter so it's a clunky experience

- couldn't delete a letter

- it let me add two letters into the last box of one word

The rules are a bit unintuitive. Definitely surprising that horizontal words don't have to be words.

Also for me a timer is a turn off. Feels unnecessary.
by wallfacerdesign | 2025-07-01 23:49:35+00:00
Location: San Francisco CA (September 1st), currently Pittsburgh PA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Computational Design, Industrial Design, GhPython, Python, Physical hardware and parametric 3D models, Experimental products, Photogrammetry, Lidar and Generative systems. Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rbRrniApQGI-P14c6lCTfLN7... Email: Wallfacerdesign@gmail.com

Hi; my name is David- I have a MS Computational Design and BS Industrial Design so specialize in physical hardware design to production; anything from household appliances, tools, orthotics, electronic housings, sub-assemblies and mechanisms. Parametric programming allows for dynamic and optimized systems, I also make custom functions and utilities for Rhino and Grasshopper.

Additionally; I am known for my extensive work in photogrammetry and Lidar for cultural preservation, digital asset creation and reverse engineering. Professional photo and video, FPV drone operation.

I work equally well in a studio and social environment as independent, juggling multiple projects and workflows simultaneously. Prefer remote or in person close to Pittsburgh or Palo Alto (Starting September 1st.) Happy to regularly travel for data capture assignments. Currently working freelance remotely for an orthotics company and the Russian Orthodox Church making 3D models of historic buildings.
by exiguus | 2025-07-01 23:49:44+00:00
I love the Idea. And i would adopt the solution if i didn't already have one.

Personally, in my circle of friends, we use slack (at first the free plan and now a payed plan).

During the pandemic we moved to the payed plan, because of the restriction on members in huddles/calls (and also because we want endless history and our own encryption keys).

Currently we have Game (D&D e.g.), PP and Small-talk channels that we use to have huddles that everyone can join.

Mostly we create other channels on demand to organise things. Or share knowledge, music and so on.

One nice feature with slack is, that you can receive notification if a huddle starts in a channel, also on mobile, if you have the app. I don't know how often we use this notifications to join the small-talk channel. Personally, i join them every other week because i get notified.

PS: If someone from slack reads this, please do a friends plan, something between the free and pro plan :)
Show HN: Procedurally generated 3DGS splats powered by Spark
by splatmesh | 2025-07-01 23:49:56+00:00
Hello HN!

I'm the author of this toy project that combines the idea of live-edit Shadertoy scenes with the popular gaussian splatting, aka 3DGS. You can write a GLSL function that defines the splats and see it rendered in real-time. Your GLSL code isn't stored anywhere, but you can share it via URL.

P.S. I'm not a Spark developer. I'm just using their rendering engine.
by mannicken | 2025-07-01 23:50:18+00:00
Just for clarification, I'm not making a phone of any kind, nor do I really feel strongly about this subject. I really kind of wish YC had an option to remove my own comments. For some reason, I always thought you could remove your own comment.

This is probably off-topic for this one, but I feel like enforcing this permanence of speech onto people doesn't make for a good metaphor for normal friendly discussion. I'll write a blog post on it maybe.