MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cfiggers | 2025-08-04 10:42:30+00:00
I've only been a hiring manager once, and it was for a junior-level position so take that into account.

When I read resumes, accomplishments meant next to nothing to me. I was looking for capabilities.

Your EC2 example is probably an exception to what I'm about to say because EC2 is very well known and you can quantify the difference you made in real dollars. But, 99% of the time I have no frame of reference and therefore no way to evaluate claimed accomplishments on a resume.

Oh, you managed accounts totaling $24MM in accrued receivables annually? Sounds impressive, but what if every one of your peers were managing $30–40MM and you were well known to be a slacker? Etc.

It's much more useful to me to know what classes of problem you can solve and which tools / techniques / technologies you're proficient with toward solving them. Descriptive statistics do very little for me.
by CraigJPerry | 2025-08-04 10:42:52+00:00
> the goods ought to have become cheaper

Counter-factual: https://www.tescoplc.com/investors/reports-results-and-prese...

Cost of food up.

Number of employees down (despite number of stores going up)

Profits up.

I'd make an argument here about the desperate need for critical thinking in economics, the typically upside down nature of discourse (topics in economics are often approached with "i must defend what i know" rather than "i must learn what i don't know")... but there's no point. You tellingly said "ought", David Hume warned us about the futility of trying to argue from logic against an ought.
by dotancohen | 2025-08-04 10:42:53+00:00
1. He's paying for the cakes.

2. You're improving the metrics of the people who put it there.

A better strategy would be to call the support desk stating that you can't find the order tests section. Then when they tell you where it is, state that you assumed you were in the wrong menu due to the presence of the obviously unrelated order cake button.
by giannibertolop | 2025-08-04 10:43:02+00:00
OnePool | Valencia, Spain | Flexible (preferably on-site) | Founding CTO / Technical Cofounder | Full-time + Equity

We’re building the first group payment platform that integrates directly into merchant checkouts. Backed by real user demand and selected by Lanzadera (Spain’s top startup accelerator), OnePool is looking for a technical cofounder to lead the development of our MVP and shape the future of collaborative payments.

What you’ll do:

- Lead the architecture and development of our first product

- Work closely with PSPs integrations

- Build and maintain APIs, webhook logic, and payment flow orchestration

- Own technical decisions from infrastructure to deployment

- Define our engineering culture and roadmap as a core founding member

Nice-to-haves (not all required): Next.js, Go/Python/Node, typescript, payment integrations, full-stack dev, early-stage products, fintech or checkout UX

About us: We’re a small team with backgrounds in product, growth, and early-stage startups. OnePool simplifies one of the most frustrating payment flows for users and businesses alike — and we’re ready to build fast with the right tech partner on board.

Apply: gianni@onepool.io More about us: onepool.io
by mikerubini | 2025-08-04 10:43:02+00:00
Hey HN! Founder here.

Built Cognitora.dev after getting frustrated with existing AI coding environments being either too limited, too heavy or too expensive. We're using Kata containers with the flexibility to run on either Firecracker or Cloud Hypervisor - letting us optimize for the best performance per workload.

Key differentiators from e2b/Daytona:

- True isolation with hardware-level security (not just Docker) - Sub-3s cold starts vs 10-30s elsewhere - Kata flexibility: Firecracker for ultra-fast startup, Cloud HV for heavier workloads - Built-in AI context preservation across sessions - Works with any LLM/model (not locked to specific providers)

The sandbox handles everything from simple scripts to full deployments. We're seeing devs use it for prototyping, code review with AI, and even production debugging in isolated environments.

Still early but would love feedback from the community.

Website: cognitora.dev

Docs: https://www.cognitora.dev/docs/getting-started/examples
Show HN: PageZero – Learn any skill through AI-driven interactive prompts
by hskhawaja | 2025-08-04 10:43:13+00:00
Hi HN,

I'm the solo founder of PageZero (https://pagezero.ai), an interactive learning platform where you can learn real-world skills through 15-minute AI-powered lessons - no videos, no fluff.

Each course has less than 20 structured prompts, like game levels. You type your answers, and an AI tutor gives you instant feedback.

I was frustrated with passive online courses and built this over nights and weekends. So far, 170+ users have tried it, and I've been refining the learning engine based on real user feedback.

Happy to answer questions or receive any feedback (especially critical ones!).

Would love your thoughts – https://pagezero.ai
Ask HN: UX – What time consuming tasks have you successfully automated?
by iolmao | 2025-08-04 10:43:29+00:00
I've been doing UX analysis professionally for 15 years, mostly for e-commerce brands. The work involves heuristic evaluation - sitting down with other experts, systematically reviewing interfaces, usually documenting everything in Excel spreadsheets.

The process works, but translating those spreadsheets into actionable insights is challenging. You end up with lots of observations but prioritizing issues, creating meaningful summaries, and getting a clear overall picture isn't immediately obvious. Finding the right priorities from scattered findings takes significant effort.

I ended up building UX Critique (uxcritique.app) - analysts can choose between a rapid AI scan for quick insights or do a complete manual evaluation with structured reporting. Both approaches generate prioritized, actionable reports instead of scattered spreadsheet findings.

The interesting part was realizing how much of expert work consists of systematic, repeatable components alongside the genuine expertise. The tool handles the systematic structuring so analysts can focus on prioritization and contextual recommendations, whether they prefer AI-assisted or fully manual analysis.

I'm curious what similar experiences others have had - where you've found ways to improve professional workflows while preserving expert control over the process?
by 9rx | 2025-08-04 10:43:32+00:00
> except they forget people also need money to buy their goods.

Do they? Money is simply the accounting of debt. You do something for me, and when I can't immediately do something in return for you, you extend a loan to me so that I can make good on my side of the bargain later. If we record that I owe you something at some point in the future, we just created money!

But if I don't need anything from you — because, say, magical AIs are already giving me everything I could ever hope and dream of — I have no reason to become indebted to you. Money only matters in a world where: You want/need people to do things for you, they won't do something for you without a favour returned in kind, and you cannot immediately return the favour.
by dagw | 2025-08-04 10:43:34+00:00
Who is pro-GIL

Nobody is pro-GIL per se. But a lot of people were pro-No-Single-Threaded-Performance-Desegregation. The first GIL-removal patch was submitted all the way back against python 1.4, and regular attempts have been made ever since, but it wasn't possible to remove the GIL without making the single threaded performance of existing python code worse, so Guido and co. refused to accept them.
by xp84 | 2025-08-04 10:43:51+00:00
I’m with you on PDF, but is docx really that bad in practice? I have not implemented a parser for it so I’m not pushing one answer to that. But it seems like it’s an XML-based format that isn’t about absolutely positioning everything unless you explicitly decide to, and intuitively it seems like it should be like an 80 on the parsing easiness scale if a JPEG is a 0, a PDF is a 15, and a markdown is 100.
by projektfu | 2025-08-04 10:44:45+00:00
The speed oven has kind of taken over a lot of food service. It's how Starbucks offers hot meals, for example. But there will still be a use for steam-jacketed kettles and fryers.

I think LLM is here to stay but cheap output won't have value. We're rapidly tired if its flooding of the zone with spam. The microwave killed some traditional ways of cooking, and the LLM is killing some older ways of communicating. Not because it's better, but because it makes e-mail tiresome.
by pydry | 2025-08-04 10:45:14+00:00
The people telling us that sweatshops are a necessary thing are the same people telling all of us that we will be replaced by a robot shortly.

They're the same people that will proclaim that the sky will fall if you raise the retirement age due to a shortage of labor.

Their stories are not consistent, and all they really care about is the value of their stock portfolio.
by mschuster91 | 2025-08-04 10:45:36+00:00
> strict zoning laws (and nimby attitudes) prevent the free market from functioning as intended. Housing is expensive because we make it hard to build more housing.

The fundamental thing is, housing is expensive because the space in the highly wanted urban areas is scarce. Plots suitable for development of any kind of (dense) housing are expensive, so that alone drives up unit prices massively. And once you have the plot of land, the cost of actually building a building are enormous - the higher you want to go, the more deep you have to go so that the building doesn't tip over like the Tower of Pisa, which is even more expensive when the building is in a region that is sensitive to earthquakes, doesn't have bedrock but sand, a bunch of subterranean tunnels or nearby buildings that might settle as a result of digging the hole for the foundations.

And that's just the cost that the developers have to bear. The local government and utilities have to expend a lot of money for all the infrastructure: roads, public transport, water/sewage, electricity (the electricity demand of even a "small" dense housing unit are pretty massive), internet, schools, higher education, general amenities (e.g. parks), planning for shopping and other venues... that's where all the NIMBYism is coming from because that shit ain't cheap.
by nickpp | 2025-08-04 10:46:07+00:00
It's not an on/off switch, of course, but rather a sliding scale. The free-er your markets are, the better the results. Till recently, USA was in top with both, in sharp contrast to, say, the EU who pro-regulation and anti-business.

But the tariffs are an interesting experiment, with some non-economical geopolitical goals thrown in, so we'll see how it goes.
by JimDabell | 2025-08-04 10:47:08+00:00
> This is genuinely 1994 style with 1994 code that will load on 1994 browsers.

Unfortunately it won’t, at least not when you’re serving it with that configuration.

It uses what used to be called “name-based virtual hosting” (before it became the norm), which looks at the Host request header to determine which site to serve. Internet Explorer 3, released in 1996, was the first version of Internet Explorer to send a Host header. I think Netscape 3, also released in 1996, might’ve been the first version to support it as well. So, for instance, Internet Explorer 2.0, released in 1995, will fail to load that site at that URL. If you test locally with localhost, for instance, then this problem won’t be apparent, because you aren’t using named-based virtual hosting in that situation.

If you need to support early-1996 browsers and older, then your site needs to be available when you request it without any Host header. In most cases, you can test this by using the IP address in your browser location bar instead of the hostname.

Edit:

At one point around 1998, it wasn’t possible to directly install Internet Explorer 4 on Windows NT 4, because it shipped with Internet Explorer 2 and microsoft.com used name-based virtual hosting, or at least their downloads section did. So the method to install Internet Explorer 4 on Windows NT 4 was to use Internet Explorer 2 to download Netscape Navigator 4, and then use Netscape Navigator 4 to download Internet Explorer 4.
by oersted | 2025-08-04 10:48:36+00:00
This points to a wider misconception that the public has. Computer engineers learn how to build computer systems, they don't learn how to use computer systems. Automotive engineers are not necessarily good drivers either, and an architect can get lost in your building just as well as anyone.

Sure you get a lot of it through osmosis by spending a lot of time at the computer, but computer science professors struggle with projecting slides from the in-class computer just as much as high-school teachers.

My point is that, sure, it's reasonable to expect a doctor to know absolutely nothing about programming. But if using computers is such a central aspect to their job, it's not unreasonable to expect that they will be proficient in operating medical computer systems, probably better than computer engineers.
by kissgyorgy | 2025-08-04 10:48:44+00:00
This implementation is unnecessary complicated. For the step update, you can use Out Of Band update: https://htmx.org/attributes/hx-swap-oob/ which works in a way that you can send multiple HTML fragments which can be anywhere on the page and HTML swaps them out. Good for notifications, step update, breadcrumb update, menu highlight, etc...

I usually solve the second problem by simply saving the state of the individual input fields, you only need a user session. Depending your use-case, you might need to be transactional, but you can still do this saving everything as "partial" and close the "transaction" (whatever it might mean in the given context) at the last step. Much-much simpler than sending form data over and over.
by mnafees | 2025-08-04 10:48:59+00:00
I’ve been working remotely for YC startups for the past 3.5+ years, and I completely agree. I went from being the quietest person in the room to someone who often ends up rambling on most calls. Remote work has not only given me the space to speak my mind - and sometimes even find answers to my own questions - but also the opportunity to learn so much from my colleagues.
by noosphr | 2025-08-04 10:49:14+00:00
There is nothing simple you can say about the blog in under 1,000 words other than 'neat'. It's also one of a longer series of blog posts about life at the time so you have a good 45min of reading before you can even start saying anything intelligent about it. Up votes are just a way to tell other people that this is a really good site you should read.
by 0xEF | 2025-08-04 10:50:17+00:00
I openly admit that I probably lack the vision others have about these devices with flexible screens, so I find this type of display functionality useless and prone to failure. I'm not the target audience, I guess.

I cannot possibly imagine what I'd do with a "rollable" laptop, but I do see one tiny benefit to foldable phones; reduced pocket consumption. Having a smaller device or a device that gets smaller is just two different ways to solve my main beef with modern phablets.

Personally, I wish someone would just make a clamshell smart phone where I open it up to a single screen on one half and a physical keyboard on another, but that's a different discussion.

That all said, I'm curious to hear from the people who want this device. What's drawing you to it? What problem does this type of display on a laptop solve for you? What are your concerns about its robustness or longevity, if any?
by fc417fc802 | 2025-08-04 10:51:43+00:00
Not at all - my point was that it can effectively tutor you sufficiently for you to figure out if the code it wrote earlier was passable or not. These things are unbelievably good at knowledge retrieval and synthesis. Gemini makes lots of boneheaded mistakes when it comes to the finer points of C++ but it has an uncanny ability to produce documentation and snippets in the immediate vicinity of what I'm after.

Sure, that approach could fail in the face of it having solidly internalized an absolutely backwards conception of an entire area. But that seems exceedingly unlikely to me.

It will also be incredibly time consuming if you're starting from zero on the topic in question. But then if you're trying to write related code you were already committed to that uphill battle, right?
by rapnie | 2025-08-04 10:52:07+00:00
Yes, as I remember it it was a 'back to simplicity' of the early web idea. Rediscover the power of hypermedia. I don't know HTMX well, but am following Datastar [0] which was inspired by it, and their selling points are Simplicity and Performance and take it some steps further than HTMX. The approach does shift logic / complexity towards the backend though.

[0] https://data-star.dev
by teekert | 2025-08-04 10:52:09+00:00
Snellius was the Latin name of the Dutch mathematician Willebrord Snel van Royen [0] (" ... best known for Snell's law, named after him, which indicates how light rays are broken when light passes through different materials").

[0] https://servicedesk.surf.nl/wiki/spaces/WIKI/pages/30660184/...
by Hackbraten | 2025-08-04 10:52:17+00:00
In Germany, traditional banks and credit unions offer a financial API called FinTS [0]. A couple of desktop banking apps support FinTS, and consumers can typically use it free of charge.

The API has been around since 1998 and is one of the best pieces of software ever produced in Germany imho (if we ignore for a second that that bar is pretty low to begin with).

Unfortunately, it’s mostly traditional German banks and credit unions that offer FinTS. From a neobank’s point of view, chances are you’re catering to a global audience, so you just cobble together a questionable smartphone app and call it a day. That’s probably cheaper and makes more sense than offering a protocol that only works in Germany.

I wish FinTS had caught on internationally though!

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FinTS
by brokegrammer | 2025-08-04 10:54:24+00:00
My experience has been the opposite with Rails because of open-ended patterns with Hotwire. Sure, Rails itself is opinionated but Hotwire provides multiple ways to do the same thing, which confuses LLMs. For example, recently I tried building a form that allows creating related objects inline using modals. Claude 4 Sonnet got quite confused by that request, no matter how much help I provided. It managed in the end but the solution left a lot to be desired for. It can build the same feature using React on it's own with basic instructions.

Same thing with other libraries like HTMX. Using TypeScript with React, and opinionated tools like Tanstack Query helps LLMs be way more productive because it can fix errors quickly by looking at type annotations, and using common patterns to build out user interactions.
by Tade0 | 2025-08-04 10:55:17+00:00
> As in without a reference you were still correct for pitch from muscle memory?

Yes, exactly. If I try to sing a melody I'll be off by a few semitones, because well, no real musical training whatsoever, but I'll fall within the usual frequency buckets. Singing in a choir I always needed to rely on others to start, which is not ideal.

> Although the people I know with perfect pitch hear everything as pitches - the sound of cars, footsteps the washing machine etc

That sounds like hell.
by hopelite | 2025-08-04 10:55:44+00:00
It’s that kind of controlling and judgmental mentality of that makes corporate employment so toxic, you are constantly in an adversarial environment where someone believes they have some cause to judge others. He says “I’m suspicious of anyone who says I’m under the weather” as if he had any ethical or moral cause to be so, a right to be controlling over others’ lives.

It is that kind of mentality that unfortunately then gets promoted in corporations and creates a feedback loop to create every less trust, because how could you trust anything or anyone on a system that is like that? You can’t. Only the naive trust anyone at their job. All corporate employment structures are inherently hostile trust environments, you’re always swimming with beasts with toxic control issues above you and random features thrown together around you.

The very core nature of a corporation is inherently a structure of narcissistic control and exploration of people to one degree or another, that is its whole purpose.
by immibis | 2025-08-04 10:57:52+00:00
The problem with real wage growth, or real anything, in general, is it's tied to inflation metrics, which are often gamed, but especially gamed in dictatorships.

Let's say nominal wages in a dictatorship have tripled since it started a war, and the official exchange rate hasn't moved. Then real wages have tripled. But since you can't exchange currency at the official rate (it's fiction) it's more realistic to say inflation is at least 200% and real wages have not increased.
by karel-3d | 2025-08-04 10:57:55+00:00
Every time I attempt to use HTMX and backend-rendered templates because it's "simpler", in the end I always end up doing JSON APIs and something like Svelte. Because all the "simplicity" explodes in complexity 5 seconds later, and it's very user-hostile with the constant reloads.

This blogpost affirms it
by taneq | 2025-08-04 10:58:07+00:00
I don’t think this specific approach would wish to well (you’re training the network to answer ‘dunno’ to that question, not to questions it can’t answer) but I think you’ve got the right general idea.

I’d try adding an output (or some special tokens or whatever) and then train it to track the current training loss for the current sample. Hopefully during inference this output would indicate how out-of-distribution the current inputs are.
by bahmboo | 2025-08-04 10:58:21+00:00
"At all cruising jet altitudes, the PP0 2 is below that required to support brain consciousness. All jet wheel-well stowaways at these cruise altitudes will lose consciousness from hypoxia."

So they always pass out but sometimes are able to wake up and manage to get out. Barely. Usually they die.

Wish we didn't have places so terrible to live that a person resorts to this.
by potato3732842 | 2025-08-04 10:59:33+00:00
The prevailing HN wisdom from, IDK 2010 or before, to 2020something was that inflation was good for the poors because their debt went away (laughable when considering interest rates on a lot of that debt but still).

Where are those people now? Why are they not all over these comments posting links rebutting the article?

Or if they no longer exist what made them change their minds?
by okwhateverdude | 2025-08-04 10:59:51+00:00
I'm generally in favor. My taxes provide an amazing experience here. I have never seen the abject poverty that I've seen in other places (such as the US) here in NL. Great infrastructure, labor laws, culture and arts, etc. I worry less about break-ins and theft. All-in-all, the least worst place to live, by far.
by nedt | 2025-08-04 11:00:06+00:00
I was really trying to use deno but it still is not there yet. Node might not be the cool kid, but it works and if you get stuck the whole internet is here to help (or at least stack overflow).

We once reported an issue and it got fixed really quickly. But then we had troubles connecting via TLS (mysql on google cloud platform) and after a long time debugging found out the issue is actually not in deno, but in RustTLS, which is used by deno. Even a known issue in RustTLS - still hard to find out if you don't already know what you are searching for.

It was then quicker to switch to nodejs with a TS runner.