MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by haswell | 2025-08-16 17:12:41+00:00
> “Poach” for employees didn’t arise independently

This is missing the point. No business person is using the word “poach” in the context of hiring is conflating it with hunting animals. People describing the act of poaching employees are not somehow contributing to the idea that employees are property.

These are imaginary concerns being projected. Words only have the meaning we collectively assign them, and again, if you’re assigning some kind of “employees are animals to be hunted” association, that is something you are doing, not something that is broadly accepted.

Humorously, you’re doing more to attach harmful connotations in this thread than 20 years of interacting with thousands of people in the corporate world, and I can honestly say that this thread is the first time in my 40 years of living that I’ve encountered someone who seems to conflate these entirely unrelated things. If you are concerned about people making this conflation, one of the most effective ways of preventing that would be to stop spreading the idea that the two things are related - an idea that I guarantee has not occurred to many people until they found this discussion.

> people clearly think there are potential ethical problems with it, to the extent that people think it might even be against the law

Yes. Emphasis on the word potential. Poaching employees may be unethical, but to your point, is controversial because that’s not always true.

You still have not articulated why you believe it’s appropriate to act as if those present ethical concerns (or lack thereof) have anything to do with hunting animals or the definition of a word that does not apply to this context.

The English language is filled with words that have similarly evolved, and people use those words daily without causing harm. If you can demonstrate (with evidence) why you believe this word causes appreciable real world harm, I’m willing to consider it.

Thus far, your argument can be summed up as “I find it offensive”. And that is simply not compelling.
by dangus | 2025-08-16 17:13:06+00:00
This type of comment is so tiring. I didn’t say other people’s perspective wasn’t valid. I’m just offering mine.

By the way, by your logic $200 laptops/Chromebooks are better than MacBook Pros, since they sell so much better. McDonald’s is actually better than Michelin starred cuisine, too.

Also you’re basically locked into an Apple Watch as the only wearable that can actually do anything so it’s not really a free market of wearables on iOS.
by underlipton | 2025-08-16 17:14:18+00:00
I do wonder if the relative ease he might have had with his craft early on contributed, too. He doesn't strike me as someone who's ever really struggled to learn or produce, just met a steady stream of interesting, surmountable challenges (and was blessed to be able to eschew anything that would have been troublesome). Such a combination of prodigious talent and a keen awareness of where it ends probably makes for a pretty happy existence.
by Xmd5a | 2025-08-16 17:14:29+00:00
I'm a Clojurian and even though macroexpansion and compilation are well delimited, they are still processed within the same pipeline, namely clojure.lang.Compiler. Lexical scope is determined once and macroexpansion happens progressively, when the compiler stumbled upon expandable forms.

I should have said "build-time state". Anyway I still think the benefits the lisp model of compilation can bring to a language that wants more compile-time computations are not to be found in some mythical homoiconic property of lisps, but in build time state. This allow you to have meta-programming pipelines without the kind of friction this usually requires and that come in the shape of complex build systems that wrap around your compiler rather than living within it.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-08-16 17:14:40+00:00
I think you are misunderstanding, China pays for 10 cities and gets 3. No one denies the immense infrastructure they have. People deny that they did it practically, which they did not. If the US wanted to match Chinas debt level (national and provincial), they could burn $30 trillion for $10 trillion of eye popping functionality too.

Also in the US, private markets primarily fund advancement, not the government. Private markets generally don't burn money like governments.
by azemetre | 2025-08-16 17:15:49+00:00
What is your alternative to democracy then?

I also don't buy that groups don't make better decisions than individuals. We know that diversity of thought and opinion is one way to make better decisions in groups compared to individuals; why would there be harm in believing that consensus building, debates, adversarial processes, due process, and systems of appeal lead to worse outcomes in decision making?

I'm not buying the argument. Reading your comment it feels like there's an argument to be made that there aren't enough democratic systems for the people to engage with. That I definitely agree with.
by anuramat | 2025-08-16 17:16:05+00:00
Literally every single one?

To not mess it up, they either have to spell the word l-i-k-e t-h-i-s in the output/CoT first (which depends on the tokenizer counting every letter as a separate token), or have the exact question in the training set, and all of that is assuming that the model can spell every token.

Sure, it's not exactly a fair setting, but it's a decent reminder about the limitations of the framework
by Disposal8433 | 2025-08-16 17:16:06+00:00
Your repo is a mess. You managed to make a clone of the most cloned game on the planet? What an achievement! .thisismyignore? Wow, did you learn coding 5 minutes ago?

Yes, very bad slop, and I haven't seen the code yet.

> never tested on desktop

The new generation of engineers is coming.
by bwfan123 | 2025-08-16 17:16:13+00:00
llm maximalists' apologies:

- but tokens are not letters - but humans fail too - just wait, we are on an S curve to AGI - but your prompt was incorrect - but I tried and here it works

Meanwhile, their claims:

- LLMs are performing at PhD levels. - AGI is around the corner - humanity will be wiped out - situational awareness report
by latexr | 2025-08-16 17:16:22+00:00
I’ve been reading about how “X could repair tooth enamel” for years, including on HN. Nothing ever comes of it. I’ll believe it when something exists out of a laboratory and on the market.

> The treatment could be delivered through a toothpaste for daily use or as a professionally applied gel

Could. In other words, they haven’t even tested if a toothpaste is viable, yet the title is written as if this is a ready-made and proven product.
by rootusrootus | 2025-08-16 17:16:38+00:00
> Present the results of your exercises (in person) in front of someone

I would not be surprised if we start to see a shift towards this. Interviews instead of written exams. It does not take long to figure out whether someone knows the material or not.

Personally, I do not understand how students expect to succeed without learning the material these days. If anything, the prevalence of AI today only makes cheating easier in the very short term -- over the next couple years I think cheating will be harder than it ever was. I tried to leverage AI to push myself through a fairly straightforward Udacity course (in generative AI, no less), and all it did was make me feel incredibly stupid. I had to stop using it and redo the parts where I had gotten some help, so that my brain would actually learn something.

But I'm Gen X, so maybe I'm too committed to old-school learning and younger people will somehow get super good at this stuff while also not having to do the hard parts.
by mancerayder | 2025-08-16 17:16:39+00:00
Isn't that a broader societal thing? It feels like American culture has gotten more tolerant than it ever has, and we're all to patiently zip it while the person in front of us stands on the left side of the escalator we're trying to walk up, instead of the right like everyone else. Or someone is listening to Instagram feeds at full volume on the train as they flip through one stupidity after the other.

Or is it we're scared of getting shot or punched in the face, given how much we've vilified law and order as inherently unjust and skewed, and therefore to be reimagined. And thus we grit our teeth in 'tolerance' which is a virtue of the young.
by kazinator | 2025-08-16 17:17:37+00:00
It gets more confusing when those two compilers are the same one. Compiler bug causes compiler bug elsewhere in same compiler, which causes bug in compiled image of some library function used by the compiler, which causes another bug in the compiler when the compiler is re-compiled again this time with the compilation relying on the wrong compiled version of the function rather than the correct interpreted one. This second compiler bug affecting something is what you notice first, and is your investigative starting point.

For most people in computing, a side project is the only way to experience this kind of thing.
by mdaniel | 2025-08-16 17:17:39+00:00
Apologies, detecting sarcasm on the Internet is always tricky, but relevant to this discussion I have even gone so far as to make a CMake descriptor for PuTTY because I was compiling on Windows to fix some quirk that I didn't like (it was so many years ago I don't recall, but I did recall thinking "whhhhyyyyy!!!" to people that do cutesy home-grown build systems)

However, it seems that the universe heard my pleas https://git.tartarus.org/?p=simon/putty.git;a=commit;h=c19e7... Replace mkfiles.pl with a CMake build system

For context, I believe that a tool isn't open source unless I can build it, so I actually build almost anything I can from source for that reason
by mothballed | 2025-08-16 17:17:55+00:00
Maybe, but with youtube I ran the service entry, underground secondary, a multi-structure multi-panel electrical system distribution and the residential inside. I have zero electrician training.

Our county eliminated building codes, licensing requirements, and inspections so now everybody just does it themselves. The electricians here are going to the wayside unless they work for the power company. Us 'DIYers' have mostly replaced them by sharing knowledge and accumulating the wealth of knowledge prior held tightly by tradesman who have attempted to overplay their hand by charging exorbitant rates and refusing to hiring apprentices and are at a dead end.
Show HN: A transactional event-driven application platform on Cassandra
by physix | 2025-08-16 17:18:07+00:00
Cyoda is a platform for building enterprise-grade, data-intensive backend systems.

We’re a small software vendor company with fintech startup clients in production for several years, and we have launched Cyoda as a PaaS to make this technology accessible to a broader audience.

You can think of Cyoda as having event sourcing + workflow engine + horizontally scalable database in one integrated system. Processing is transactional, querying is distributed and resilient, and business logic stays modular inside processors (actions) and criteria (gates) as part of the workflow.

We’ve created an AI assistant that helps you build your backend service through a chat dialogue that generates a prototype. It will build you a complete, runnable app, provision your environment, and deploy it. You can then switch to your own tools to continue development.

This type of lightweight modular system, where the platform engineering is mostly taken care of, makes AI much more effective when building complex backend systems.

The PaaS is still very fresh, and there’s a lot still missing and buggy in places. I would greatly appreciate feedback on the system design and architecture, particularly whether you think this platform has potential or not. There’s a Free Tier subscription, so you can play with it right away.

alpha AI assistant: https://ai.cyoda.net website: https://cyoda.com docs: https://docs.cyoda.com github: https://github.com/Cyoda-platform
by flashgordon | 2025-08-16 17:18:39+00:00
Haha so true. Though I feel for this to happen the cost of building software products has to be high. With manufacturing your average mechanical eng grad cannot build something and sell (factories' costs etc) out the gate.

With software any body can build and put something out there (ignoring quality and tech debt and taste etc). Where software might go the way of manufacturing is when price of ai actually reflects hardware costs (my estimates of the realistic Claude max pricing at cost is between 7-10k and month). Now put together other structures that will come up to "industrialize" ai+software software may not have easy entries sadly.
by nytesky | 2025-08-16 17:18:55+00:00
We do so much on phones now and sometimes it’s easier on a big display.

This sounds like it would be a quick home hub to add stuff to the calendar, check that email about soccer game carpool, buy plane tickets or pay a bill you got in the mail.

Like this but way more functions.

https://www.costco.com/skylight-15%22-smart-touchscreen-cale...

I personally like to not carry my phone around the house, and in kitchen having recipes displayed or an interactive reader would be great. We have a Google home but it doesn’t have a proper browser or search other than voice so it’s very kludgy. Recipes on phone are annoying because the screen timeout.

I would recommend a laser display keyboard or maybe onscreen for somewhat more sophisticated actions, but maybe an LLM will suffice
by renewiltord | 2025-08-16 17:19:18+00:00
You can always say “Since we’ve got only x QPS, I’m going to do A. If we had say y QPS, I’d do B but that would impact the rest of the design. Let me know if you anticipate growth to y and I can show you how I’d do it”

The point of an interview is to lay bare one’s thought process entirely so that the interviewer has full awareness of the person you are. And to likewise extract that from the interviewer. Getting or transmitting less information is just underutilizing the time. Interviewers are also flawed and may not be good enough at extracting the information from you.

If you’re an ideal decision maker, you will likely out-skill the majority of interviewers. You’re being hired to make their org succeed. So just do that.

I think people who describe system designs frequently fail to demarcate the space they’re operating in, so subsequent engineers cannot determine whether the original designer failed to consider something or whether the original designer considered and dismissed something. The point is to be able to express this concisely.

IMHO, doing it well means that not only do you get it right but you send the information down through time so that subsequent observers understand why and also get it right consequently.
by dmead | 2025-08-16 17:19:24+00:00
Is there anything you can tell me that will help me drop the nagging feeling that gradient descent trained models will just never be good?

I understand all of what you said, but I can't get over that fact that the term AI is being used for these architectures. It seems like the industry is just trying to do a cool parlor trick in convincing the masses this is somehow AI from science fiction.

Maybe I'm being overly cynical, but a lot of this stinks.
by matthewdgreen | 2025-08-16 17:19:28+00:00
I realize this is a dumb question, but: all of these advertising supported business must be downstream of the “real economy” (of products and goods) in some way. After all, for ad revenue to rise continuously it must be the case that product and service companies are continuously spending more on advertising. And yet in the stock market, nearly all growth comes from these ad-supported companies and earnings elsewhere don’t increase by as much. How sustainable is this?
Show HN: iOS keyboard for on-demand GIF generation
by defluyter | 2025-08-16 17:19:51+00:00
Got this idea last summer, and with AI video models improving since then, I started working on it more actively and just released it.

Right from the keyboard extension, you can prompt for any GIF and it will generate it on demand. Generation usually takes around 20 seconds (probably this will only get faster in the future). You get notified by a push notification when the generation has finished.

I have many more ideas to develop this further. I believe on demand GIFs bridge the gap between humor of different persons too, it allows you to convey a situation, a joke or an imagination way better. A way for AI to actually bring us closer as humans.

Try it out and let me know your thoughts!
by pydry | 2025-08-16 17:20:10+00:00
>That study defines “elite” as the top 10% of income earners

The study does not define elite that way, it simply notes that the likelihood of a policy being implemented trends upward with income.

>that is consistent with my point that knowledge workers have lots of political power.

I cant see anything on this reddit thread which indicates this.

>Also, Vox did a piece discussing subsequent research that suggests

Im sure they did. It's not unusual for corporate backed think tanks to push back on studies which run counter to their narrative. The same thing happened with r>g, minimum wage increases across state borders, etc.
by CrispinS | 2025-08-16 17:21:00+00:00
Did you use an AI to tweak/refine your comment? It's:

* Written more formally than the typical HN comment

* Uses uncommon language like "jocular asides" and "whimsical similes"

* Fails to recognize that those mentioned phrases are cliches that people have been using for ages, long before LLMs

In short, recalibrate your AI radar, it's malfunctioning.
by password4321 | 2025-08-16 17:21:34+00:00
Last time Coolify came up (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43555996 +183 comments) user crudbug linked a bunch of these:

coolify, dokku, dockploy, swiftwave; and K8s-based: cozystack, kubero, plural

related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41358020 (+271 comments; 2024) Dokku: My favorite personal serverless platform

I'm glad there's options but once I got one working I feel like I'd be stuck so feedback beforehand from those who've tried multiple is escpecially valuable, especially the monetization aspect for sustainability.
by JCM9 | 2025-08-16 17:22:09+00:00
We’ve plateaued on progress. Early advancements were amazing. Recently GenAI has been a whole lot of meh. There’s been some, minimal, progress recently from getting the same performance from smaller models that are more efficient on compute use, but things are looking a bit frothy if the pace of progress doesn’t quickly pick up. The parlor trick is getting old.

GPT5 is a big bust relative to the pontification about it pre release.
by mothballed | 2025-08-16 17:22:30+00:00
There's quite a few places in the US where no electrician license is required to be an electrician.

Alternatively where I live (Arizona) a license is required to offer services but as long as the contractor is licensed the guy doing the actual work doesn't have to be, so in practice there are ways to minimize the licensing problem by having a license holder just be a shell company holder of your electrical service
by patrickhogan1 | 2025-08-16 17:22:53+00:00
YC genuinely changed the game by making seed funding more accessible. Paul Graham, Jessica Livingston, and the entire YC team saw how broken the system was and fixed it.

It was ridiculously hard to raise seed before YC. I remember pitching a group of 8 angry partners straight out of a cigar filled banker like black and white movie around 2013.

Credit where it’s due. They fixed a broken market.
by jjangkke | 2025-08-16 17:23:14+00:00
Problem with accepting crypto is the on-ramp/off-ramp to fiat

Everybody, except for the few that are holding crypto and expect it to irrationally keep rising forever, are looking to convert it into ironically fiat money which they swear is the enemy.

This means other than bordering purely illegal or prohibited businesses that payment processors cannot handle (remember there are adult processors too), crypto will never become mainstream replacement for fiat.

Right now liquidity is there to absorb the ramping process but long term observers will note how fragile and quickly this can go away. Already, the number of new wallets being created on Bitcoin is plummeting. Search terms for bitcoin has tapered off. There is almost no real interest in it being a replacement for fiat or gold.

I wish gold could become more accepted but we all know the history of e-gold and many of us know its connection to Bitcoin and its curious proximity of origin.

It's just not a good look for companies selling mainstream products to suddenly accept a medium which is clearly being used for pump and dump and laundering of money for transnational crime and no amount of gaslighting or pushing crypto will change it, in fact it achieves the opposite of their goals.

We might at some point see a digital currency but this would be completely different from the crypto in existence today and all stablecoins that isn't issued by the government runs the risk of reporting what is different than what is there in the vaults as if governments haven't been caught doing this in the past. ex) Tether's reserves unaudited unverified mystery
by transpute | 2025-08-16 17:23:23+00:00
Commercially-supportable open firmware enables vertical integration for cloud computing and edge hardware appliances. The 2023 OpenSIL announcement included vendors who contribute to open-source firmware and reference hardware in OpenCompute and other projects.

AMD believes one of the ways to attain an improved security posture is to open Silicon Initialization Firmware architecture, development, and validation to the open-source community. AMD is committed to open-source software and is now expanding into the various firmware domains with the re-architecture of its x86 AGESA FW stack - designed with UEFI as the host firmware that prevented scaling, to other host firmware solutions such as coreboot, oreboot, FortiBIOS, Project µ and others. AMD, in close collaboration with a few other organizations (9elements, AMI, AWS, 3mdeb, Datacom, Google, Meta, Oxide) from the open-source landscape, developed the first instance of AMD openSIL..

https://www.amd.com/en/blogs/2023/empowering-the-industry-wi...

Even if a binary blob requires silicon vendor signature, open-source code can be reviewed and built by customers, to reproduce the signed binary.
by jvanderbot | 2025-08-16 17:23:30+00:00
Well in fact we know (if P! = NP) that for any randomized ALG there's a good deterministic one. So its not going do the kind of game changing class breaking work you're looking for. You know, where random is the only way.

How randomization helps is by making it much easier to design algorithms. E.g. Verifying a solution is cheap, so proving your random choice is in some class of good choices and making an algorithm that turns that into a solution is still an interesting approach and opens up solutions to things we cant yet solve.

Derandomizing as presented apparently means proving for a few random but careful choices you're in the funnel towards the right solution, or (hopefully) can detect otherwise, and a few transformations or reasonably performant steps produce your solution.
by 1oooqooq | 2025-08-16 17:24:00+00:00
bottles is garbage. i mean wine is extremely dangerous too... but bottles lie and that make it more dangerous.

they don't have sandbox. only if you install the flatpack AND DISABLE SOME CONVENIENCES you actually get something I'd call a safe sandbox.

but their site lies and make you feel safe while being extremely vulnerable installing cracked games (which is what everyone used bubble for).
by al_borland | 2025-08-16 17:24:02+00:00
From what I've heard, the hard part is using the money effectively to create meaningful change. It's easy to "give it to charity", but will it help people or just line the pockets of those operating the charity? Being able to measure the impact, and help people in a way that will be sustainable, is not an easy thing. It would be interesting to be able to follow the money he donated to see if it actually helps people or if it was effectively thrown away, just so he can say he isn't a billionaire.