MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by chubot | 2025-07-30 15:23:22+00:00
Yeah I mean I have to thank Facebook, because I was at Google in 2011.

Anyone remember when Google raised the entire company's salary, maybe 30K or 60K people at that point, something like 20-25% all at once? Eric Schmidt and Laszlo Block got on stage and told the whole company how great we are, so they want to keep us

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...

We learned later that was because Facebook didn't participate in the Steve Jobs-initiated cartel of Google-Apple-Pixar-Adobe-Intuit-LucasFilm-eBay

Eric and Laszlo of course made no mention of the collusion that turned out be illegal
by AIPedant | 2025-07-30 15:23:54+00:00
It is worth emphasizing that dogs wouldn't understand formal calculus even if they were smarter than humans! They are not physiologically capable of doing formal mathematics:

- their eyesight is too poor to read

- their paws are not designed for fine manipulations so they cannot write or type

- their throats and mouths are not nearly as nimble as ours, so they cannot vocally communicate detailed information

Even if there was an Newton-level dog, they wouldn't be able to access the ideas of an earlier Euclid-level dog. Human knowledge is not just about our big brains, we've developed many physical features that make transmission of information far easier than other species.

OTOH dogs do have a good intuitive "common-sense" understanding of arithmetic, geometry, and physics. It is the unique gift of humans that we can formalize and then extend this intuition, but this ability (and intelligence as a whole) relies on nonverbal common sense.
by toisanji | 2025-07-30 15:24:11+00:00
It is a concern I have, but it's a concern with every new technology. The user, or in this case the family are the ones that need to decide how they will wield the technology.

The way I think about this tool is that it is way to spark and test our curiosity. Is the child really interested in space or just randomly asking questions. Tools like this can help you as parent determine this faster.

For family tools like these I would want parents to know everything the child is asking about.
by J_Shelby_J | 2025-07-30 15:24:17+00:00
The knock on effect of high housing costs is driving force behind price increases and declining quality of service everywhere.

It’s an absurd situation here in California, where we are some of the richest people in history, but because the cost of housing so high, the price of everything is driven to the breaking point… meanwhile, the important jobs required for a nicely ran country are too expensive to afford and so our transit, healthcare, service industry, etc is awful.
by wafflemaker | 2025-07-30 15:24:28+00:00
It's important to note that a big part of Israeli society opposes the JahuNatan government, the illegal settlers and war crimes in Gaza. Even after the Hamas attack on Kibbutzim near Gaza in '23.

Quite important not to become part of the problem when you discuss this case. And the problem is that such a heated subject is prone to make people ideologically possessed and tribal. To a point where they become emotionally blinded and are unable to listen to people that don't share/fully support their beliefs.
by steveklabnik | 2025-07-30 15:24:34+00:00
We do take a long time due to needing to read all of those applications, but three months is longer than we'd like, so I apologize about that.

We don't do "stage 1 interviews", we only do interviews as the very final step in the process, when we've narrowed things down to a handful of people. That initial packet is like 85% of the process.
Show HN: I built a calorie tracking app that grows a garden
by nithint7 | 2025-07-30 15:24:40+00:00
I built a mobile app that makes calorie tracking feel like a game. By sticking to your goals and consistently logging meals, you can collect new plants and maintain your existing ones in your virtual garden. Would love feedback on UX and performance. It’s still early, and I’m trying to make it fun without being gimmicky.
by mschuster91 | 2025-07-30 15:24:42+00:00
> There is a huge difference in the quality and quantity of the basic political/social norms (and laws) being broken under this administration compared with previous administrations.

Indeed, but it's not just the administration that has issues whenever Republicans control it.

I distinctly 'member McConnell filibustering his own bill, the Republicans sabotaging ACA (aided, of course, by Democrats trying to achieve bipartisan ownership even though they had a majority at the time [1]), or worst of all the Republicans refusing the appointment of Merrick Garland (citing that Obama was a lame-duck outgoing President) [3], only to do just the same thing with Barrett at the end of 2020, right before the elections [4].

Republicans, when in power, demand that Democrats cooperate with them (and Democrats are spineless enough to always play ball) - and when Democrats are in power, even if they have majorities, they obstruct in all ways possible. It's madness.

[1] https://theweek.com/articles/469675/mitch-mcconnells-amazing...

[2] https://archive.ph/ZhYSP

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merrick_Garland_Supreme_Court_...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Coney_Barrett
by swat535 | 2025-07-30 15:24:43+00:00
Can someone living in Israel help me understand what is going on right now?

What does the political climate look like in Israel? Do majority of people support what is happening, if so why? if not, how is the government executing this?

Further, has this had any impact on the overall relationship between Jewish people worldwide and those residing in Israel? if so, how?

I know that the media is all over the place and it's hard to figure out what is going on as an outsider.

Either way, I hope that this situation gets resolved. I don't think that it's good for anyone and is costing a lot of money and lives.
by gchamonlive | 2025-07-30 15:24:44+00:00
Never before it's been so easy to contribute to open source.

A dirt cheap notebook has 16gb of ram today. We are used to it now but that's an insane amount of ram for software.

Processors with 8-16 threads are the norm.

There are countless options for you to deploy your stack and run your software regardless of database or persistent storage layer.

You have so much, just sooo much free content to make you a better programmer in virtually any language, that for those you don't you can just... ask an LLM.

We have LLMs, Linux is stronger than ever, there is just so much stuff going on, I don't know what you guys are talking about with "the end of golden age for programming".

The golden age is NOW.

Maybe it's just the end of the golden age for capitalism for those seeking to become filthy rich?

In any case, if you buy into this crap talk about how the golden age is over all you are going to do is being left behind.
by Balgair | 2025-07-30 15:24:48+00:00
I also think we passed the window for a two state solution.

Having two ethno-nationalist states next to each other is bad. Giving them a very complicated border is worse. Having them hate each other with centuries of history and territory claims is even worse still. Then giving them both, let alone one, access to the global arms market is asking for never ending wars of annihilation.

If you could design a situation that was maximally terrible for neighboring states, the two state solution would be it.
by Keyframe | 2025-07-30 15:25:00+00:00
If I wasn't paid, I wouldn't work for them.

While this is true for most of the cases, it's not the case always. There are definitely jobs I'd work for less than I make at the job now and there are jobs which are considered "dream jobs", but ultimately there needs to be a solid base to make you and your family feel comfortable if you're spending at least 1/3 of your day on.
by hollowonepl | 2025-07-30 15:25:04+00:00
I’m not buying this at all. Good people always find job, and if you don’t you need to work on better network or better skills or both. Author by the picture looks young. Maybe passionate about programming but lacking fundamental life experience that could let him look beyond personalization and typical socialistic view of bad corporations intentionally damaging job markets as targeted goal.. that’s just nonsense
by sillystuff | 2025-07-30 15:25:09+00:00
This is true.

The original European Jews who founded Israel were even opposed to the German Nazis transferring thousands of Jewish children to other countries to save their lives.

These Zionist Jews thought it would be better for their state building project if these children were all murdered than if the children were sent anywhere except to Palestine.

But, some of the collaboration wasn't really the Zionist Jews' entire fault. E.g., the machine tools the Zionist Jews used to create weaponry to murder Palestinian civilians and ethnically cleans Palestine were all German made, and purchased from the Nazi regime, but this was because the Nazis only allowed the rich jews to leave with German made products, not with cash. So, when the minority of Jews fled to Israel/Palestine instead of to the United States (vast majority went to the US), they were instructed to purchase machine tools from the Germans to bring with them.
Show HN: Treasure Guessr – A map-based web game
by teuteuf | 2025-07-30 15:25:32+00:00
Hi HN,

I recently launched Treasure Guessr, a small web game I made with a friend: https://play.treasureguessr.com

You're shown a zoomed-in "treasure map" (a cropped view from somewhere in the world), and your goal is to find that same spot on a global map. It’s inspired by the treasure maps in FFXIV, and a bit by GeoGuessr, of course.

We built it mostly for fun, and might explore a Steam version with more content for a few bucks if there’s enough interest.

Fun fact: the backend is just a shared Google Sheet queried directly from the React app. Not sure how sustainable that is, but it did the trick for the prototype.

Feedback welcome!

Antoine aka teuteuf (also made Worldle a few years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30367906)
by piker | 2025-07-30 15:25:35+00:00
Aside from the actual product, On the Metal / Oxide and Friends are really great podcasts that manage to make programming topics entertaining and educational. Bryan Cantrill is wildly entertaining and knowledgeable at the same time. His co-hosts and guests are great, too, and I attribute a lot of that to feeding off of his energy and storytelling. Highly recommend, especially for Rust folks.
by fsckboy | 2025-07-30 15:25:51+00:00
the Baumol effect isn't an effect, it just describes a narrow case of the Substitution Effect. Price of beef goes up, you substitute pork and chicken, and those prices go up. You may think of yourself as a Computer Programmer but if Ditchdiggers get paid 3x as much in your area, you'd put Ditch Digging on your resume. To get you to program computers again, they'd have to pay you more.
by Aachen | 2025-07-30 15:26:04+00:00
The author identified their own problem: "The fish eye iPhone lens creates distortion". If you don't want distortion from the ultrawide camera, don't use ultrawide. The traditional camera didn't have an ultrawide lens on it either (or if it does, it's less wide)

Most other points also seem contrived to me. Not all: skin color really seems better on the traditional camera. Whether that's due to the phone not being able to use the main camera, though, I wouldn't know...

These pictures simply need to be compared with reality if you want to know which camera is better. I can't tell what the shape of the leftmost person's head is. I noticed the difference, found the iPhone version more flattering, but then read the text and saw that the iPhone is apparently distorting it. A reader can't judge how close it is to reality. Continue reading, and matching reality is now bad: the traditional camera can't properly capture the background (or light in the foreground of the later child picture) and the author thinks that's good. Blurring and darkening is something you can always still add in, I'd say that a camera performed better if it delivered a picture close to reality and you can work with that data to highlight any aspect you want. The camera doesn't have to force that upon you
by TXTOS | 2025-07-30 15:26:26+00:00
Yep. Been there.

Built the rerankers, stacked the re-chunkers, tweaked the embed dimensions like a possessed oracle. Still watched the model hallucinate a reference from the correct document — but to the wrong sentence. Or answer logically, then silently veer into nonsense like it ran out of reasoning budget mid-thought.

No errors. No exceptions. Just that creeping, existential “is it me or the model?” moment.

What you wrote about interpretation collapse and memory drift? Exactly the kind of failure that doesn’t crash the pipeline — it just corrodes the answer quality until nobody trusts it anymore.

Honestly, I didn’t know I needed names for these issues until I read this post. Just having the taxonomy makes them feel real enough to debug. Major kudos.
by hydrogen7800 | 2025-07-30 15:26:46+00:00
In my early teen years while I was into RC cars, someone gave me a Tamiya TA02 kit [0] that they gave up on/lost interest in. This kit loved to eat spur gears because of a design flaw in the gearbox that wasn't rigid enough to contain the gear loads, and it wasn't very fast compared to the Losi XX I also had.. However, the TA02 was more about scale reproductions than race performance. Tamiya also made the Clodbuster[1] which had legendary status in my time, with 4 wheel steering and 2 motors, specifically the one with the trailing arm/chassis modification kit which extensively revised the stock kit. Anyone who had one at the local track received a lot of attention. I still have the TA02 in my garage, but with an E46 M3 body instead of the IMSA Nissan 300Z it came with.

[0]https://tamiyabase.com/tamiya-models/58144 [1]https://tamiyabase.com/tamiya-models/58065
by SketchySeaBeast | 2025-07-30 15:26:48+00:00
And pets can be a twenty year commitment. If the possibility of a dog having to end up in doggie daycare is so heinous a thought that one shouldn't ever allow it, then the answer is no one should have pets, because no one can effectively plan for that time. People move, accidents happen, partners leave, life conditions change, it is totally unavoidable.
by lanstin | 2025-07-30 15:27:04+00:00
There is a great Steve Yegge post on how useful ad-hoc transformation of source code is: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/06/rich-programmer-food...

The only time I have used this myself was an expat style transformer for terraform (HCL). We had a lot of terraform and they kept changing the language, so I would build a fixer to make code written for say 0.10 to work with 0.12 and then again for 0.14. It was very fun and let us keep updating to newer terraform versions. Pretty simple language except for distinguishing quoted blocks from non-quoted.
by howareyou2772 | 2025-07-30 15:27:33+00:00
Excellent write-up on the DistrictCon Junkyard competition! Your research beautifully illustrates a critical blind spot in consumer security: the "digital archaeology" problem,m where vulnerabilities become permanently fossilized in EOL devices. The bashsledding technique is particularly clever—using bash's whitespace handling as a reliability mechanism rather than traditional CPU instruction slides shows real creativity in exploit development. It's a great example of how understanding the target environment beyond just memory corruption can lead to more robust exploits. What strikes me most is the irony you highlighted with the Bitdefender Box: a security appliance that becomes a security liability once support ends. The firmware downgrade attack really drives home why cryptographic signatures alone aren't sufficient—without proper version monotonicity enforcement, you're essentially signing your own death warrant. For practitioners reading this, I'd add that this research has immediate practical implications beyond competition learning. Many organizations unknowingly operate EOL network infrastructure, and your methodology here (hardware teardown → firmware extraction → service enumeration → vulnerability research) provides a solid framework for internal security assessments of legacy devices. One question: did you explore whether the UPnP vulnerabilities in the Netgear router might be exploitable from the WAN side in certain network configurations? Given how common UPnP misconfigurations are, there might be broader attack surface implications. Looking forward to seeing what targets emerge for the 2026 competition—and hopefully more researchers following your example of responsible disclosure through detailed technical writeups like this one.
by jasode | 2025-07-30 15:27:43+00:00
>, how come sales people are unable to do things for a fixed monthly salary?

You have to separate out 2 different ideas of the "theoretical idealized salesperson that works for fixed salary" -vs- "real-world salesperson that works for variable commissions".

The businesses that have attempted to pay fixed salaries for salespeople end up attracting incompetent salespeople who can't sell. They become a negative cost on the company's payroll because they can't bring in any revenue. In contrast, the high-performance salespeople (the "rainmakers") are attracted to the variable high-commission, because they know they have the hard-to-find skills to actually sell and bring in the money. If a salesperson has the skills to get a customer to sign a contract and pay money, they have the leverage to get a percentage of that.

Developers, db sysadmins, tech support staff, etc are not in situations to directly influence and shake the hand of a new potential customer and convince them to write a check.
by otterley | 2025-07-30 15:28:18+00:00
One can observe people’s skin color and other outward appearance attributes. Those are undeniably real. It doesn’t mean that the conclusions one makes from those observations are necessarily correct or useful, which I think is what the OP is getting at.

And yet sometimes they are useful. Prople whose lineage originates in different places (race, if you will) do have medically significant differences (see the literature).
by kldg | 2025-07-30 15:28:28+00:00
That's helpful if they live in the same country, can figure out who the 4chan poster was, the police are interested (or you want to risk paying a lawyer), you're willing to sink the time pursuing such action (and if criminal, risk adversarial LEO interaction), and are satisfied knowing hundreds of others may be doing the same and won't be deterred. Of course, friends and co-workers are too close to you to post publicly when they generate it. Thankfully, the Taylor Swift laws in the US have stopped generation of nonconsensual imagery and video of its namesake (it hasn't).

Daughter's school posted pictures of her online without an opt-out, but she's also on Facebook from family members and it's just kind of... well beyond the point of trying to suppress. Probably just best to accept people can imagine you naked, at any age, doing any thing. What's your neighbor doing with the images saved from his Ring camera pointed at the sidewalk? :shrug:
by bpt3 | 2025-07-30 15:28:30+00:00
> But that's the same no matter if you work in sales, customer support or many other roles, a lot of people just care about the money with little regards to anything else,

It's actually not the same for many roles. See the comments from people in this thread alone who scoff at the notion of maximizing compensation. I don't get it personally, but it's not an uncommon thought.

> yet the sales department are the only ones who must have commission?

I think there's a very high likelihood that a salesperson is primarily driven by compensation, and good salespeople will already be working in a commission-driven compensation model elsewhere.

Why would a top salesperson at Dell, HPE, Oracle, or wherever else a hardware salesperson comes from move to Oxide to take less money and completely decouple their compensation from their performance?
by hecanjog | 2025-07-30 15:28:42+00:00
This was my experience, too. During that period there were free tools and accessible information for learning, search was useful and the excitement was about making things. Not products to sell, interesting software to use. Then it all got paved over into a shopping mall. Those tools and information are still around. (If you look hard enough past the edges of the shopping mall.) I just spent my morning before work once again working on free software, but the mainstream culture of programming is depressing to me now.
by mschuster91 | 2025-07-30 15:28:58+00:00
> Still, the basic truth remains: if we want more affordable day care—for kids or pets—we need to use less of what’s expensive: skilled labor. That means either importing more people to do the work, or investing harder in ways to do it with fewer hands.

Both has serious problems. #1 is politically untenable (unless, of course, continuing the status quo of turning a blind eye towards employers abusing undocumented people to drive down wages), and #2 is fundamentally impossible until we gain AGI. It's bad enough when bad AI deletes production databases [1] - I'd raise hell when an "AI cat care" provider would kill my cat, and probably engage in some sort of self-justice should an "AI child care" provider kill or maim my child.

[1] https://www.heise.de/en/news/Artificial-intelligence-Vibe-co...
by yupyupyups | 2025-07-30 15:29:22+00:00
Games (and cartoons) is a format children are drawn to. The new avarage age of exposure to porn is 11. The market has not been able to "self-regulate", rather the situation has gotten worse with more non-porn games adding, not just sexually charged, but now purely pornographic content. GOG (!) has proper porn games on their frontpage.

So it's time something is done about it.

I will try not to recommend any games to any child moving forward, and instead direct them to other hobbies. Because not only are games mostly a waste of time anyway, but they're also turning into an entrypoint to pornography.
by bigbuppo | 2025-07-30 15:29:24+00:00
So, all these people laid off from big companies that were doing real non-chatbot AI and ML research combined with robotics or other machine control to do things that would have changed the world for the better if the project hadn't been killed because it was only making zero billion dollars (the $999,999,999.99 they brought in doesn't count), are perfectly capable of working some place else that wants to, you know, do that farming thing they were working on, or shift gears to building machines that make housing affordable by reducing the labor costs by 75%.
by ieuanking | 2025-07-30 15:30:05+00:00
Got chatgpt in study mode to generate an entire outline for me by saying that offloading the work and generating was part of the assignment. Not too much friction in study mode and can still be easily tricked. Kids aren't dumb - im sure id finesse this so quick as a 14 y/o - am I insane or is this not that useful?
by Etheryte | 2025-07-30 15:30:44+00:00
Out of curiosity, how would you imagine that working out, technically and specifically? You start out with founders having equity, and maybe some early investors. Then you employ some people and... what happens exactly? Are new shares created, is everyone who was already onboard slowly diluted, what happens when someone joins and leaves? Etc, I don't think there is an approach to this where all sides would be happy, so I'm interested to hear your thoughts.