MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cheschire | 2025-08-02 10:26:49+00:00
WinUI is an evolution of UWP which is an evolution of WinRT. WinUI has been around for years.

MAUI is not exactly a competing product and is more about enabling cross platform UI development. Different intent.

WinUI is actually ok tech. It’s evolved over the years through a few iterations, now on WinUI 3.

Im mostly with you though. Until they rebuild the entire OS in it, including all of the administrative controls and tools, I don’t trust the longevity.
by jnpnj | 2025-08-02 10:27:13+00:00
Location: Paris, FR Remote: full remote Willing to relocate: no Technologies: Python, Typescript, Lisps, React, Django, FastAPI, Postgresql, Gitlab/ci, Docker Résumé/CV: https://registry.jsonresume.org/jnpn?theme=elegant Email: johan.ponin.pro@gmail.com Schedule: Part-time (~5 days a month)

Hello, I'm a senior (11+ years) fullstack dev looking for secondary job part time, between 5 and 10 days, US timezone possible (would fit right after my main job). Development or maintenance. I like working clean and fast, improving development tools to increase velocity / faster debugging (writing short babel ast analyzers at the moment). Fluent enough in English to hold conf calls with US teams. I'm proactive, averagely nice and well rounded. Seeking very high speed teammates, I enjoy learning new paradigms too. Willing to lower hourly rate in the 40-50 usd range if needs be. Volunteering is possible depending on the domain.

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by Daegalus | 2025-08-02 10:28:16+00:00
Location: Denmark

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Kubernetes, GCP/AWS/Azure, Terraform, etc. All devops tooling and backend dev. Go, Rust, Elixir, etc.

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I have been working as DevOps and Backend my entire career. I am currently a Staff DevOps Engineer and working on cloud automation tools and policy engines. I can also do some frontend and know React, HTMX, Node, Deno, etc as I have to interact with it with Backstage and for some personal projects. I tinker and dabble, and constantly working on side projects, and interact with every aspect of the programming world, so I can work and be flexible for many roles and technologies.

Also not, that I am in Denmark, and due to strict Danish laws, my employer needs to either hve a legal entity in Denmark, or work with an Employment of Record service like Deel, Rippling, Remote.com, etc that lets you hire in Denmark.
by brokegrammer | 2025-08-02 10:28:20+00:00
There's a certain elitism in programming where people will claim that library authors are superior to programmers who can only use those libraries, which is devoid of logic. Surprising, because programmers excel at logic.

Either way, I've been using AI to help me stop relying on external packages and frameworks lately. Turns out, AI can write libraries too because libraries and end products are simply code.

AI will replace all of us eventually, no matter how good you think you are. When guns got invented, Samurai went jobless but blacksmiths still had jobs. Fast forward to 2025, I don't think anyone is considering a career in blacksmithing.
by hnfong | 2025-08-02 10:28:46+00:00
Generally, I do agree that in most if not all places, if you get government funding, you can't go against government policy.

However, in this case, it's quite hard to argue that Terrence Tao had anything to do with antisemitism or anything against Trump's policies. Actually I don't think Terrence Tao did anything that Trump cared about. This isn't really a free speech issue, it's more like some fundamental instability in the US, and maybe the US government is running out on money and trying to cut down on research expenditure using excuses.
by shakna | 2025-08-02 10:29:15+00:00
> If it were me I'd be sacking people until they started getting a mean adjustment somewhere around 0. I doubt that is what Trump is doing, but the managers left themselves vulnerable to technical criticism.

When the jobs market is currently being impacted by a leader throwing around unprecedented tariffs, and upending decades of economic practice by throwing away national deals that he himself negotiated, you are not going to be able to accurately predict things - because they are unprecedented.
by AndrewEdelman | 2025-08-02 10:30:34+00:00
Built AIOS Companion to give Claude/GPT real desktop access through MCP. It controls mouse, keyboard, manages files, sends emails - actually does stuff instead of just describing it.

Watching an AI navigate your desktop autonomously feels different than chatting with it. Like there's something actually there, working alongside you rather than just responding.

The thing is - I think we've been looking at this backwards. These models aren't unintelligent, they're sensorially disabled. What happens when you give a disembodied mind actual hands?

https://aioscompanion.com
by positron26 | 2025-08-02 10:31:12+00:00
Positron is looking for co-founders.

∇ Full-stack Rust (Leptos & Axum)

∇ Based in Busan & Seoul

∇ Building a production finance model for open source: https://prizeforge.com

∇ Prototype works and tech is accelerating

You need to be prepared for the not-fun work of founding. Prototypes lurk in every corner. We know what engineering should look like and we do not complain when we are not looking at it. We just build. Founding can be extremely rewarding and I need to build out a team and put some equity into hands that will take care of it. Our mission is extremely important. We are making progress and will be growing. People with enough vision to commit to this train will be taken care of.

I am all for ample vacations and flexible hours. This company has the right shape to offer those things in the future. Right now, it's about grit and who wants a shot at doing something risky with a lot of payoff. If the market isn't going to give you the career advancement, high-risk opportunities, or compensation you want, you are welcome to try to make this your ticket as well as mine.

https://positron.com/careers
by coderatlarge | 2025-08-02 10:33:06+00:00
i would personally like to see organizations of any scale self-publish metrics about their performance on their SLAs and at least trends on their unit efficiency (throughput latency and cost per main types of work items). for the state department time to issue a passport passports issued per unit time internal cost to issue a passport etc. for the irs corresponding metrics for processing a return or an audit. for id.me success in catching bad actors failures in incorrectly blocking legitimate users.

for university administrative departments , thoughtful corresponding things that capture what they do all day in understandable and defensible ways.
by ben_w | 2025-08-02 10:34:58+00:00
> Any ranking I’ve seen recently generally has it right up there.

Really? Hm.

The listings I've seen, and the first I found, were UK-focused ones, which put Oxford and Cambridge in the top two, sometimes with others as joint-second, then after that Imperial, e.g. https://www.timeshighereducation.com/student/best-universiti...

But to support your claim, I did just find an international ranking that is confusing me by giving rankings for 2026, and for 2025 and 2026 puts Imperial before (and previous years, behind) both of Oxbridge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QS_World_University_Rankings
by kristopolous | 2025-08-02 10:36:46+00:00
"open market laissez-faire capitalism" was the explicit policy goal for maybe 50 years.

The idea that if it was only somehow more pure in some ideological virtue, then it would have worked, you'll need really hard historical material empirical evidence to defend such a claim

Not that it wasn't white and pure enough but that if it was the shade whiter you advocate for, it would have somehow been a complete 180°, like some magical threshold
by perching_aix | 2025-08-02 10:36:59+00:00
The Start Menu is apparently a React Native app, so I'm going to hazard a guess and just assume WinUI is built on top of React, and that the Start Menu at least is thus indeed built with WinUI. But it's also clear that some other parts aren't, so who knows what's what. I'm sure there are folks who spent time reverse engineering it all though who do.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-08-02 10:37:40+00:00
> But for a hospital? A data center? There are plenty of places that are happy to pay a premium for an independent, redundant, and/or emergency power source.

Those places are just going to keep a diesel generator, because they only need it once or twice a year and it costs less.

> Somewhere like a hospital is going to get big advantages from something like this because it not only provides electricity but hot water (reducing the electrical demand that would go to hot water creation).

Diesel generators can do the same thing. Meanwhile on ordinary days the power would be supplied from the grid, which is even cheaper than diesel generators.

> There are also big advantages to remote places. Getting power in Alaska

But how many people need a MW of continuous power in the wilderness and are willing to pay that much for it?

The major industry in those areas is oil and gas.

> I found a 1MW generator[1], and it looks to consume between 77-87 gal/hr.

Diesel generators are typically used for emergency power and then the fuel consumption isn't a major concern because they're infrequently used.

Power plants for continuous stationary use will typically use the same generation methods as the grid and can then attach to natural gas pipelines or use generation methods like wind/solar/hydro that don't consume fuel.

For transient use you'd need to move fuel, but in the alternative you have to move the reactor.

> Doesn't seem a bad idea to start with edge customers who are willing to pay a premium.

Sure, but who actually are they? What usage needs a MW of continuous power but has to be in a place that can't connect to the grid? Remote mining operations maybe? But their equipment is designed to run directly on liquid fuels because electricity is assumed to be unavailable.

It's not impossible that it exists but it doesn't seem like a huge market.
by storus | 2025-08-02 10:38:05+00:00
Let's pretend BitKeeper didn't exist.

Also, that's one way to misinterpret what was said. I acknowledge there are some well-designed pieces of software that were hacked quickly. LangChain is not one of them, it's a mess, and hacking another module quickly is likely going to extend that mess, which was the reason for my comment.
by cesarb | 2025-08-02 10:40:09+00:00
> So the CEO was a red herring? Just a timing coincidence?

In the code fragment shown on the blog post, the problem would only manifest itself when the "ListUserRepos" call on "ghClient" failed. The CEO account probably lacked some configuration necessary for that call to work (my guess would be that it did not have a valid GH account associated).
by oefrha | 2025-08-02 10:40:13+00:00
Being a PhD student at UCLA (or over public universities) was arguably risky in the best of times. When I applied to grad school a decade ago, I got an offer from UCLA Math and it was notable that funding was not guaranteed beyond the first year, meaning you may need to look for your own funding. Same thing with the offer from Berkeley Physics. In contrast, the private universities like Princeton guaranteed funding throughout the normal duration of the PhD program (you’re welcome to bring your own grants, but if you don’t and can’t find an advisor/lab to provide for you, the department with fix you up with TA jobs and stuff). Now it seems the public institutions got 100x shittier still (not saying private ones aren’t in a bind).
by agentcoops | 2025-08-02 10:40:20+00:00
While I would agree with you generally, in this case we’re talking about decisions that are precisely not desired by either business or investors. Which is to say, I think the American people and institutions are in a much worse place than at the whims of business alone: caught between an evangelical cultural coup and unrestrained capitalism. It’s actually surprising to me that the evangelicals appear to be dominating the concerns of business and investment — I don’t have a great explanation of why it has turned out like this. It leads to such a manifestly contradictory situation in which the government is betting the future on US AI global dominance and yet gutting the institutions that would enable it.
by sunscream89 | 2025-08-02 10:40:28+00:00
I’m pretty sure human thought is nothing like you describe.

1) human knowledge is “holographic” not like a block chain. There are no dates, and the ability to compare and relate is much different than block chain serialization.

2) much of what we know is WRONG! Even if only a little. Things like “big bang” and “states of mind” and “dark matter” and so much more are cloudy imaginations that blur into so called science, yet you would include them as “knowledge” when they are fantasy suturing our ignorance and confusion.

3) you have more than three dimensions to work with. Any vector attribute is a dimensionality when graphing so color, size, line thicknesses, solidity, etc may be useful considerations while “graphing”. The mind is more like this, a hyperdimensional holographic interrelationships.

4) in your idea you would have one representation, in the human mind there are many representations even those contradicting each other. Think about those who both believe in God and Science, or humans and peaceful coexistence (we are natural competitors who covet what we do not have), or even reconcile how words and deeds do not align.

Much of our “knowledge” is artificial and prescribed, still more is usefulness not necessarily accuracy, still more relative to those who accept whatever it is as a principle of something else unrelated.

Not even science can cut through the ambiguity and contradiction that is human thought or “knowledge”.

Have fun with it though!
by sjsdaiuasgdia | 2025-08-02 10:41:41+00:00
They're technically correct (the best kind etc) because they said "voted for people other than Trump" not "voted for Harris".

Voted for Trump: 77.3M

Voted for Harris: 75M

Voted for other candidates: 2.6M

Harris + others = 77.6M, which is greater than Trump's 77.3M
by krageon | 2025-08-02 10:43:15+00:00
Cops experience professional deformation. Most of the other humans they see at work have been bad or have been involved in something bad. This eventually has an effect on anyone. It's not a good effect. They start to expect it in other people, they start to assume the only folks they can trust are the ones they usually see doing the "right" thing (other cops). This turns them into bad people.

The effects only get more pronounced in a society where literally every lunatic could have a gun and could therefore murder you at the drop of a hat. Trusting a strange situation will mean your death, eventually. It's inevitable.

This is therefore not a matter of distrust, because you don't need faith or trust to know certain things about the transformative effect this would have on people. They live under mortal threat every second they're outside in uniform. They're going to be monstrous.
by its-kostya | 2025-08-02 10:44:09+00:00
Unfortunately for c++, the industry is moving towards Rust. Even conservative gray-suit Corps are using rust for their new projects. The limiting factor is available rust devs. Writing c++ is a sure way to get hired maintaining a legacy codebase.

Ladybird is an outlier and there are probably a few more project like it, but anyone looking to be employed should pick up the new skill that is rust. Contribute to ladybird and learn c++ if the project interests you, but don't learn it for a career.
by lawn | 2025-08-02 10:44:41+00:00
> why I think it's worse in Europe, it's because in Europe the ruling class and the universities are on the same side

Sounds like a feature, not a bug.

> And when I say Europe, I mean UK, France and Germany.

Europe is much larger and more diverse than those three countries. Scandinavia for example consistently top the list in most well-being statistics.
by Anon84 | 2025-08-02 10:45:14+00:00
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by aspenmayer | 2025-08-02 10:45:57+00:00
Interesting caption from that next to last link that perhaps goes against my point but is relevant to apples versus oranges comparisons:

> 'Hesperides' by Giovanni Battista Ferrari published in Rome,1646. Its full title meaning 'Hesperides, or, On the cultivation and use of the golden apple' (golden apples referring to citrus fruit)
by coderatlarge | 2025-08-02 10:46:56+00:00
it is extremely hard to form a reasonable opinion of what is happening in gaza with the current level of vitriol online. i feel i’d have to do a substantial personal research project to see if i can believe the cumulative casualty numbers that are being bandied about. not to mention the numbers about deaths from starvation.

i wish institutions would do the work to publish their sources in a way that is clear complete and verifiable.

i would love to understand what others on hn do day-to-day other than takes cues from media they “trust”.
by sunscream89 | 2025-08-02 10:47:22+00:00
I thought of something, what you (OP) describe may be an over-the-top ambition.

Consider if you did a “knowledge graph” of one single sentence, or on a paragraph, or short story, or whole story.

That would be something, one (or more) graph representations of a starting point.

That way you could compare and contrast two or more such graphs to see differences in the composition of expressed ideas.

That would be something!
by lloeki | 2025-08-02 10:48:56+00:00
I don't think anyone's disputing that being careful increases your odds of avoiding accidents.

Instead what I wanted to call out is that even if infinitely careful and drive defensively without fail you can still get into an accident, and you don't need to be hunted down or intentionally collided into+.

Ultimately at a large enough scale it's all about odds, and it takes but one occurrence to go from "I've been fine so far" to "my life is upended".

And like all statistical things, with a low enough sample size you're going to get an unbalanced result one way or the other.

+ On that note I wish drivers were made aware of CBDR

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constant_bearing,_decreasing...
by andy_threos_io | 2025-08-02 10:49:15+00:00
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by andy_threos_io | 2025-08-02 10:49:43+00:00
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by DiogenesKynikos | 2025-08-02 10:50:04+00:00
You can look up massacres of Arabs by Jews too. This has kind of been mostly forgotten in recent decades, but the Zionist movement carried out many terrorist attacks in the 1930s and '40s.

> Look at what happened to the Christians and Druze.

You know that Christians are a significant part of the Palestinian population, right? They suffered the same fate as Muslim Palestinians at the hands of Israel - mass expulsion, theft of their homes and property, and military occupation.
by ben_w | 2025-08-02 10:50:46+00:00
The factories to make the better chips are themselves increasingly expensive; this is acceptable when their cost of construction can be amortised over more devices, but we're already at the point where the global poor get smartphones before safe water, so further factory cost increases can't really be assumed to be amortised better.

That said, current LLMs are not compute constrained, they're RAM and bandwidth constrained, so a (relatively) cheap factory that's dedicated just to filling a datacenter with hardware designed specifically for one particular AI architecture, that's something I think is plausible. As @tome accidentally reminded me about recently, the not-Musk Groq (https://groq.com/) is all about this.
by ChilledTonic | 2025-08-02 10:51:13+00:00
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