MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by danunafig | 2025-07-02 03:36:11+00:00
Location: Montreal, Canada Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: cloud architecture design, distributed systems, microservices, AWS, azure, GCP, kubernetes, terraform, identity and access management, OPA, licensing and consumption billing services, postgresql, mongodb, elk stack, ci/cd.

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Email: see resume
by like_any_other | 2025-07-02 03:36:25+00:00
As much as I want extremely painful legal retribution for things like this, a good first step would be simply transparency - let customers know the company is deliberately wasting their time and lying to them about it. Not somewhere in small print, either, but, ideally, in the same place and as prominently as their sales pipeline:

"Buy $product! Our customer service has been instructed to lie to you and waste your time!"
by bigfatkitten | 2025-07-02 03:37:11+00:00
> Your link says the opposite of what you claim

I don’t know where you got that from. Meta’s self-congratulatory takedown of “27 pedophile networks” is a drop in the ocean.

Here’s a fairly typical example of them actively deciding to do nothing in response to a report. This mirrors my own experience.

> Like other platforms, Instagram says it enlists its users to help detect accounts that are breaking rules. But those efforts haven’t always been effective.

> Sometimes user reports of nudity involving a child went unanswered for months, according to a review of scores of reports filed over the last year by numerous child-safety advocates.

> Earlier this year, an anti-pedophile activist discovered an Instagram account claiming to belong to a girl selling underage-sex content, including a post declaring, “This teen is ready for you pervs.” When the activist reported the account, Instagram responded with an automated message saying: “Because of the high volume of reports we receive, our team hasn’t been able to review this post.”

> After the same activist reported another post, this one of a scantily clad young girl with a graphically sexual caption, Instagram responded, “Our review team has found that [the account’s] post does not go against our Community Guidelines.” The response suggested that the user hide the account to avoid seeing its content.
by boris | 2025-07-02 03:38:31+00:00
> Header units are supposed to partially address this but right now they are not supported in any build systems properly (except perhaps msbuild?).

They are supported in build2 when used with GCC (via the module mapper mechanism it offers). In fact, I would be surprised if they were supported by msbuild, provided by "properly" we mean without having to manually specify dependencies involving header units and without imposing non-standard limitations (like inability to use macros exported by header units to conditionally import other header units).
by naruhodo | 2025-07-02 03:38:44+00:00
Mate...

> 2038: all visits to all sites will be recorded

That's been the case since 2015. ISPs are required to record customer ID, record date, time and IP address and retain it for two years to be accessed by government agencies. It was meant to be gated by warrants, but a bunch of non-law-enforcement entities applied for warrantless access, including local councils, the RSPCA (animal protection charity), and fucking greyhound racing. It's ancient history, so I'm not sure if they were able to do so. The abuse loopholes might finally be closed up soon though.

https://privacy108.com.au/insights/metadata-access/

https://delimiter.com.au/2016/01/18/61-agencies-apply-for-me...

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-01-18/government-releases-l...

https://ia.acs.org.au/article/2023/government-acts-to-finall...
by StellarScience | 2025-07-02 03:39:04+00:00
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by totemandtoken | 2025-07-02 03:39:15+00:00
Location: Detroit Remote: Yes, open to onsite though Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Python, C++, JavaScript Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nasir-sharaf/ Email: nsrsharaf7 [at] gmail.com

Hello, my name is Nasir, I've previously been an embedded systems engineer and a software developer. I've been in the field for about 3 years, but I was an energy engineer for a few years before that. I have a masters of science in computer science and a bachelor's in mechanical engineering and willing to use the skills associated with either field. Please reach out over linkedin or my email!
Show HN: Waste managment optimization with detectron2 and flask
by sonderotis | 2025-07-02 03:39:50+00:00
This was a hackathon project which my team worked on. The software was made to detect dumpsites from satelitte images and to optimize routes of all bin pickup spots.

We lastly added the Raspberry pi3 to it. The raspberry pi was connected to an ultrasonic and mq2 gas sensor. These were meant to detect trash level and gas sensor to detect the presence of gas/methane so that the trash is separated on pickup.
by prophesi | 2025-07-02 03:40:05+00:00
You do you, but the trust is beyond just admin and users. And family photos are treated as treasures. Data loss is a fair point, but if you're self-hosting a photos app I imagine server/db backups are part of your routine. Account recovery is all that's needed to recover lost photos from there. Well, unless your VPS is compromised in a manner of data loss for longer than you wished before your backups ran, in which case it's still better that such sensitive info was e2ee'd.

edit: also feel like I'm echoing the classic dropbox comment, but self-hosting in a sane and secure manner is harder than it's made out to be. It needs to be taken seriously.
by edwardbernays | 2025-07-02 03:41:18+00:00
You are making her arguments for her. We should not "boil down" the arguments she makes. This is some of the arguments she makes. She does not ground it in particular, measured criticisms, aimed at particular researchers or departments. She does not provide solutions. She uses this broadly sweeping argument as a way to cast judgment on fields of research she is not an expert in. We should evaluate the arguments that she makes, not the arguments we would like her to have made. This includes not just a dispassionate listing of the truth claims she makes, but the specific rhetoric she employs. Is modern science flawed? Absolutely. Should we be saying "scientists are not to be trusted" as a general, categorical statement? No, that's laughable, and dangerously anti-intellectual.
by divtiwari | 2025-07-02 03:41:20+00:00
Location: New York Remote: Open to any form of work (Remote, Hybrid, In-office)

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Java, Python, Scala, C, bash, Golang, SQL (Oracle, SQL Server, SQLite), JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Linux, Kubernetes, Docker, Kata Containers, Apache Ignite, Caffeine, gRPC, Spring, Prometheus, Grafana.

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AtqD3KNSGepJzbthrpjGO33knVc...

Email: divyaankt21 [at] gmail [dot] com

Hi, I'm Divyaank! I am looking for Software Engineering roles focused towards backend, data, infrastructure and distributed systems. I possess around five years of experience in the Systems domain spanning across industry and academia. I am proficient in Java, Python, Kubernetes, SQL, bash and have dabbled with Scala, C, Go, JavaScript, Spin/Promela. I am affiliated with the File systems and Storage Lab (FSL) (https://www.fsl.cs.stonybrook.edu/). I have worked on implementing Containerization support (using Kubernetes, Docker and Kata Containers) for Swarm Verification (https://spinroot.com/swarm/) used by Metis (https://github.com/sbu-fsl/Metis). Previously, I used Metis to discover kernel hang bugs in the Journaled File System and submitted patches to the Linux kernel to fix these bugs[https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/8c7b1d37-758a-46b2-b8aa-afd3331..., https://lkml.org/lkml/2024/7/5/899]. Additionally, I have also volunteered as an Artifact Evaluator at ASPLOS '25 and FAST '25 conferences.

Before FSL, I worked for three years in the FinTech industry at MSCI Inc., first as a Site Reliability Engineer (earning a fast-tracked promotion in the process) and then as a Backend Engineer.
by dawnerd | 2025-07-02 03:41:42+00:00
They can but they won’t. My original review was still there (as in was included in my updated review) saying how it was fundamentally flawed and will break. Was some video tripod with this dumb mechanism that would work itself loose by just panning. Never seen anything like it.

Plus side looks like the product doesn’t exist on Amazon so guess there’s a victory there somewhere.
by gsf_emergency_2 | 2025-07-02 03:41:49+00:00
It's confusing phrasing.

Increasing *evaporative* cooling by 0.5deg requires 3x more water, but shade alone is the *main* mechanism,it doesn't require water.

>during the day, trees provide significant shade by intercepting solar radiation, reducing mean radiant temperature (up to 16 °C)
by stevenAthompson | 2025-07-02 03:41:57+00:00
I'm not talking about launching a cubesat, I'm talking about launching a mesh network of thousands or millions of mass produced devices half or a quarter the size of a cubesat.

New Horizons, to use your example, weighed a thousand pounds and used a 2 meter dish transmitting at something like 12 watts to compensate for the fact that the receivers are billions of miles from earth and hidden beneath a blanket of RF noise. The inverse square law can't really be beaten at that kind of distance so everything becomes inefficient by design.

If we can pick up that tiny 12 watt whisper of a signal from billions of miles away, surely we we could design much lower power omnidirectional signals that relay between mesh nodes closer together using far less power?

Imagine a string of probes that are all within a few thousand miles of each other with clear line of sight. Yes, we might need six million of them to cover that same distance, but if they were cell phone sized devices produced using what we've learned about consumer electronics it should be feasible to just keep launching them forever, for a few hundred bucks apiece, until we eventually build a large network that could assemble high resolution data by combining multiple sources.

We keep trying to fight the rocket equation, but that's not a battle that can be won. Mass is always going to be the limiting factor for space exploration, so maybe we can just start launching lots of intelligent low mass things regularly instead of the occasional big dumb thousand pound lump of metal.
by cryzinger | 2025-07-02 03:42:10+00:00
That's also very true. Most of the people I've interacted with who communicate that way (the "one question per email" thing hits painfully close to home, lol) seem very... maybe "oblivious" is a polite way to say it. I guess I never questioned whether their inbox-speedrunning is why they're so oblivious vs. whether it takes an oblivious kind of person to think that's an effective way to conduct your comms :P
by Davidzheng | 2025-07-02 03:42:43+00:00
Ah you're worried about convergence issues? My (Bad) understanding was that the self-driving car stuff is more about inadequacies of models in which you simulate training and data collection than convergence of algorithms but I could be wrong. I mean that statement was just a statement that I think you can get RL to converge to close to optimum--which I agree is a bit of a stretch as RL is famously finicky. But I don't see why one shouldn't expect this to happen as we tune the algorithms.
by Antitoxic6185 | 2025-07-02 03:43:20+00:00
SEEKING WORK | Chennai, India | Remote Technologies: Java, Golang, Angular, SpringBoot, Python, Django, Flask, SQL/NOSQL, OpenAPI, LLMs Projects: https://home.alles-tools.com/ Email: suvarnanarayanan2g (at) gmail.com

I'm a backend developer for the most part but I also do full stack development if the UI isn't highly complex. Before I got laid off - I was making it @ Autodesk.

I have quite some experience dealing with LLM based applications - taming them into giving more sane answers. The best one that I have built so far lets you attach to any data sources (SQL/NoSQL/Files) etc and then just ask questions about them. Literally any question (even outside the schema) and it never makes up stuff.

My going rate at the moment is $5 per hour (subject to complexity and my preference) - capped at 8 hours a day for 5 days a week, which is around $200/wk at minimum.

I am very transparent about my work and I do not ask for payment beforehand and no compulsion to pay if work is not up to your standards. Also, before I take you as my client, we will do a call - this helps me to have a measure at your expectations/requirements and helps to build a bond which is something I really value.

If you prefer - you could directly schedule a meet @ https://calendly.com/suvarnanarayanan2g/30min?month=2025-07

If you cannot make the slots to work for the calendar above, please shoot me an email and I will do a meet at a time you are comfortable with. Cheers!
by fragmede | 2025-07-02 03:43:56+00:00
Think about this for physical objects. If I bought your hardware, then decided to paint it bright pink in celebration of the fact that I like pink, but you don't like the color pink, should you be able to tell me not to paint it pink? I bought it, it's mine, so I can do just that. Why then, for digital objects, does that not follow?
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-07-02 03:45:05+00:00
> Manufactured by whom?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent

> Moderation was done very tightly on vbulletin forums back in the day, the difference is Facebook/Google et al expect to operate at a scale where (they claim) moderation can't be done.

The difference isn't the scale of Google, it's the scale of the internet.

Back in the day the internet was full of university professors and telecommunications operators. Now it has Russian hackers and an entire battalion of shady SEO specialists.

If you want to build a search engine that competes with Google, it doesn't matter if you have 0.1% of the users and 0.001% of the market cap, you're still expected to index the whole internet. Which nobody could possibly do by hand anymore.
by Aeolun | 2025-07-02 03:51:02+00:00
> I have two MCPs installed (playwright and context7) but it never seems like Claude decides to reach for them on its own.

Not even when you add ‘memories’ that tell it to always use those tools in certain situations?

My admonitions to always run repomix at the start of coding, and always run the build command before crying victory seem to be followed pretty well anyway.
by joywong | 2025-07-02 03:51:04+00:00
We’ve all felt it—vibe coding. That flowy, no-rules, just-you-and-the-AI kind of dev experience. You’re not following a spec, you’re just…vibing your way through the code. Fast feedback loops, zero overthinking, building by instinct.

But here’s a thought: if we can code by vibe, why can’t we analyze data the same way?

That’s what we’re working on. End of July, we’re launching Powerdrill Bloom — a vibe-first data analysis tool.

It’s made for people who think in questions, not queries. Who want to explore data like they’re having a conversation, not writing SQL.

A few things we’re excited about:

Ask questions in plain English and follow your curiosity — no setup, no syntax.

Explore multiple paths at once in a canvas-style space. Think messy but productive.

Get smart, AI-suggested questions so you don’t start from zero every time.

We’re calling it vibe data analysis. Like vibe coding, but for making sense of data.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-07-02 03:52:08+00:00
Your claim was that they "actively refuse" to do anything about it, but they clearly do actually take measures.

As mentioned, the issue is that they get zillions of reports and vast numbers of them are organized scammers trying to get them to take down legitimate content. Then you report something real and it gets lost in an sea of fake reports.

What are they supposed to do about that? It takes far fewer resources to file a fake report than investigate one and nobody can drink the entire ocean.
by khayhurst | 2025-07-02 03:52:19+00:00
Location: Ontario, Canada (EST)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Primarily React, NodeJS, C#, Python, Angular, Typescript, Postgres, MS SQL, MySQL, Azure DevOps, HTML/CSS, Git, RabbitMQ and more. Open to learning anything else.

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kyle-hayhurst

Email: kylehayhurst[at]gmail[dot]com

Hey HN,

My name is Kyle Hayhurst, a Senior Software Developer looking for some interesting work. Over the past 15 years I've designed, built and scaled enterprise-grade applications across the full stack:

JavaScript/TypeScript (React, AngularJS, Node.js)

C#/.NET Core APIs

Python-based services and AI/RAG integrations

Containerized deployments with Docker & Docker Compose

Message-driven architectures using RabbitMQ

Cloud hosting on AWS (Lambda, ECS, S3)

I love diving into new challenges. Whether that’s architecting microservices, optimizing CI/CD pipelines, or automating data workflows. I’m looking for contract or full-time opportunities (remote preferred) where I can collaborate with teams to tackle complex problems, streamline development, and ship quality software.

Please feel free to reach out!
by Antitoxic6185 | 2025-07-02 03:52:28+00:00
Location: Chennai, India Remote: Preferably Willing to relocate: (yes mostly if the pay is good) Technologies: Java, Python, applied AI/LLM applications, Golang, SQL, Linux administration, Docker, Git, Javascript/Typescript Resume/CV: https://home.alles-tools.com/resume (please solve the captcha) Email: suvarnanarayanan2g (at) gmail.com

I'm a backend developer for the most part but I also do full stack development if the UI isn't highly complex. Before I got laid off - I was making it @ Autodesk.

I have quite some experience dealing with LLM based applications - taming them into giving more sane answers. The best one that I have built so far lets you attach to any data sources (SQL/NoSQL/Files etc) and then just ask questions about them. Literally any question (even outside the schema) and it never makes up stuff.

If you prefer - you could directly schedule a meet @ https://calendly.com/suvarnanarayanan2g/30min?month=2025-07

If you cannot make the slots to work for the calendar above, please shoot me an email and I will do a meet at a time you are comfortable with. Cheers!
by anitil | 2025-07-02 03:53:41+00:00
> Hopefully the low price can attract leads

Honestly, a low price for a product like this makes no sense, and might give the opposite signal. Real, trustworthy businesses know what they're worth and charge accordingly. Businesses know that if this process screws up they could lose or over-charge customers and have to make refunds.

What's the alternative? Pay someone to manually move records over one-by-one. I'd estimate that costs a few dollars per customer. If you can be slightly cheaper than that, they'd be silly not to pay.
by eskibars | 2025-07-02 03:55:14+00:00
I already did this.

For transparency to others here, here's what happened:

I submitted a support request and separately a GDPR request for my information and removal. I let the legal team at Backblaze know what happened as well by e-mailing legal@.

- The support request auto-responded with "We will respond to your support request (<insert ticket number here>) within one day." That was 21 days ago. No response.

- The legal team stated that my information has never been sold to 3rd parties. Strange unless Backblaze is operating its own AI cold calling en masse and then refused to complete my GDPR request of telling me the data it had collected on me. They refused to acknowledge that I had gotten an AI cold call

So no. This is frankly a BS path forward. Nobody at Backblaze as far as I can tell is taking this seriously
by bitpush | 2025-07-02 03:58:09+00:00
Not sure why people are getting so surprised about any of this. When smartphone cameras became popular, we saw an influx of "amateur" videos being uploaded to the internet. That competed with the more established video makers (studios, TV networks and the like).

Now, smartphone videos are the norm. Did we lose something by going to this world? Maybe, but that's how it goes. There is a crap ton of bad stuff, but there's also good stuff, and that's what we consider now to be the normal.

The same thing will repeat now with AI videos. Will be there absolute garbage AI videos? Yes, most positively. But will there be good ones - I'm pretty sure there will be, and soon that will become the norm.
by cyberax | 2025-07-02 04:00:33+00:00
> She does not provide solutions. She uses this broadly sweeping argument as a way to cast judgment on fields of research she is not an expert in.

Can you provide examples? I guess the most glaring one is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htb_n7ok9AU

And I actually can't disagree with it entirely.

> Should we be saying "scientists are not to be trusted" as a general, categorical statement?

Here's the thing. She's saying: "Scientists are not going to be trusted at this rate if the situation doesn't change".

Heck, this is literally happening right now with the NIH and the NSF.
by ramantehlan | 2025-07-02 04:01:12+00:00
Elasti lets you scale standard Kubernetes HTTP services to zero without adopting Knative, OpenFaaS, or other FaaS platforms.

It works by adding a lightweight proxy and controller that buffer requests during cold starts and trigger scale-up automatically. No changes to your app, no function rewrites, no new abstractions.

Designed for teams that want serverless-style efficiency using plain Kubernetes primitives.

GitHub: https://github.com/truefoundry/elasti
by tamnd | 2025-07-02 04:02:58+00:00
SQLLogicTest is a huge test suite used by engines like SQLite and DuckDB to check that SQL queries behave correctly. It runs over 7 million queries and compares results across systems like PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Oracle.

We just started adding SQLLogicTest support to Mochi, beginning with a small file that tests basic UPDATE statements. It’s already helping us catch edge cases and build confidence in our SQL engine.

If you’ve worked with SQLLogicTest or similar test suites, we’d love to hear your experience: what helped, what didn’t, and any tips for making it scale!
by roywiggins | 2025-07-02 04:03:35+00:00
You can drive an entire Alpine app through a class, which works fine- the class handles all the behavior and the x- tags are mostly wiring up events to methods, and state to visible behavior. But it definitely doesn't take that big an app before you start to get a bit cramped.

I think I'm fond of it because I've never grown to love html-in-js. Sometimes you definitely need that, but for apps that are simple enough that you don't, I find Alpine is just nice to use. No build steps at all, every editor knows how to color html, etc.

It probably shouldn't become a web standard though.