MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pinkmuffinere | 2025-08-29 14:54:08+00:00
The disappointment of not getting a job offer seems reasonable. The disappointment about things that are core to who you are seems overboard to me. I feel the author could learn to be more comfortable in their own skin.

Also re this:

> “He’s cute, but he’s too weird”

If someone’s thinking this about you, you’re just not a good fit for each other. It isn’t that you’ve failed somehow. Maybe they’re cute but too “normal”.
by wahnfrieden | 2025-08-29 14:54:18+00:00
People are just excited to see Apple finally integrate something useful. But it’s not 1/100th as useful as agentic tools (CC, Codex) which have access to the exact same markdown files as the Apple one. There’s nothing else special about Apple’s offering, and it has no agentic capability. It is a waste of time to use it.
by WillPostForFood | 2025-08-29 14:55:09+00:00
way more likely to happen from jostling. Thats the argument.

The above claim is most likely true: it is easy to pull the trigger accidentally on the Sig. But that isn't the argument. People are claiming it will fire uncommanded.

The video is misleading because he is partially pulling the trigger, which deactivates the internal safety mechanisms.

It is the clickbait equivalent of a video claiming Rust is not memory safe, that starts by showing a Rust program running and causing a BSOD. Then deep in the video, what they show is he wrote a bunch of explicit unsafe code.
by busterarm | 2025-08-29 14:55:17+00:00
> interviewers barely read resumes

I feel like this is the biggest lie ever told in this industry. Do you, as an interviewer, not read resumes?

I read loads of resumes and the truth is more like everyone are terrible communicators. Especially software engineers. Most resumes are badly formatted, badly typeset, full of errors and give me confusing/contradictory details about what your job responsibilities were rather than what you accomplished.

Most peoples' resumes are so low-effort that they're practically unreadable and I'm trying to read between the lines to figure out what you're capable of. I might as well not be reading them because I'm trying to figure out what you've done, what you're good at and what motivates you and nothing you've given me on that paper helps me do that.

One of these days someone is going to figure out how to cross-polinate technology people and sales people in the office to smooth out each others' rough edges. Whoever does is going to revolutionize industry.
by joshstrange | 2025-08-29 14:55:21+00:00
- Keys/tokens in the code. Yes, it’s bad practice but for a hobby/personal project it’s not the end of the world

- Not wanting to get roasted

- Open source = dealing with a lot of entitlement

And the list goes on. Putting code out into the world (publicly) often sets you up for future obligation of some kind (even if it’s just saying “no”).

None of this is a stance against open source, but I understand where people are coming from.
by gspencley | 2025-08-29 14:55:38+00:00
Nothing to do with charge-backs as our bank was not providing payment processing for us. We ran a "free site" that made its income from referring subscription sign-ups to paid sites through their affiliate programs. We sold nothing direct to consumer. Our customer was other adult websites.

The banking services they terminated consisted of a single business checking account, business savings account and company credit card. That was it. That was what they deemed "too risky."

We learned from someone who used to work at Chase's compliance department that most big banks just have a flat-out ban on working with any customers that are involved in the industry in any capacity what-so-ever due to concerns over serious things like human trafficking. It was the fact that we were distributing [lawful and traceable to the producer] content that made them not want us as a client.
by bilsbie | 2025-08-29 14:55:51+00:00
Offshoot topic but I had an idea for LLM privacy.

What if the first layer (or couple layers) were processed locally on the users machine and then it goes to the provider to process the remaining layers.

You could also process the last layer on the users machine.

It’s hard to say what kind of privacy this gives users. I don’t think they could reverse out exactly what the input was.
by simonw | 2025-08-29 14:55:58+00:00
The hardest problem in computer science in 2025 is convincing people that you aren't loading every piece of their personal data into a machine learning training run.

The cynic in me wonders if part of Anthropic's decision process here was that, since nobody believes you when you say you're not using their data for training, you may as well do it anyway!

Giving people an opt-out might even increase trust, since people can now at least see an option that they control.
by almostgotcaught | 2025-08-29 14:56:03+00:00
The post reads to me like all those movies about the nerd with a heart of gold that the hot girl will recognize and eventually marry.... which only happens in those movies.

Do people really not understand that companies don't care one whit about your personality? They only care about whether you can make them more money. And that extends to interviewers; the number one thing interviewers care about is can you meaningfully contribute to the existing roadmap, not whether you can bring your own unique perspective. This is especially true at mega huge corporate places like anthropic.
by Zanfa | 2025-08-29 14:56:20+00:00
But you don’t have to do it ahead of time. When you click add photo, you get the system picker to choose the photo and once you’ve selected what you wanna grant access to, that’s it. Literally not a single menu needs to be opened, nothing needs to be configured.

Any UX other than this is something the app developer has implemented on top. iOS works exactly like you described.
by giancarlostoro | 2025-08-29 14:56:31+00:00
If you want Arch that's easy to setup, and manage, try EndeavourOS. Its the first time I've tried Arch and stuck with it. I tried Manjaro but it was a nightmare for me, I had just installed it and ran an update command, and it broke everything. I think it was my lack of understanding Pacman. I have to wonder if people just break Arch mostly because of Pacman nuances.

Protip: don't use Pacman directly, just use 'yay' which comes with EndeavourOS. Yay is an interface to Pacman, now while it may sound silly, its totally worth its salt. I'm probably still on Endeavour because of yay.

In order to update your system just type 'yay' into a terminal and it does the work prompting you for confirmation.

If you want to install anything its as simple as 'yay packagename' and then it gives you options, including from the User repos (AUR) which are like Ubuntu's PPAs.

I spent probably 15 years on Debian / Ubuntu (though it mostly became Ubuntu even for servers, I got too used to Ubuntu over the years). I installed Arch this past year because I wanted more up to date packages, I didnt want bleeding edge, but it hasn't been so much bleeding so I'm okay with it. I update every few days, or when Discord decides to tell me to download the DEB package or it wont open.
by beepbooptheory | 2025-08-29 14:56:33+00:00
This may very well be a rational stance, but either way, wish one could somehow teleport this sentiment to the Cypherpunk mailing list in the 80s/90s. Of all the things they projected, concocted, fought for.. Nothing could truly prepare them for this kind of thing: the final victory of the product over the people, the happy acceptance of surveillance. They were all imagining terrible dystopias garnered from state violence and repression, never could they begin to imagine it could all transpire anyway because people like not having to type their address in!

> The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer close them. The storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. This storm is what we call progress.
Show HN: CoinScore – lightweight crypto scoring tool (MVP)
by bakjoke-lab | 2025-08-29 14:56:49+00:00
Hi HN,

We’re building CoinScore, a lightweight research tool that evaluates cryptocurrencies across multiple dimensions. Live site: https://coinscore.vercel.app/

Currently it can: - Show scores based on price stability and news aggregation - Display reference links alongside each score - Publish formulas transparently on the Methodology page

Planned improvements: - Holder distribution and developer activity metrics - Automated snapshots / history - Community voting on metric weights

It’s still early, but we’d love feedback from the HN community
by _mattt | 2025-08-29 14:56:53+00:00
I agree, it'd be great if Apple provided accessible documentation in the first place. Time was, Apple published self-contained docsets that you could download and read offline.

Apple's ToS pretty explicitly forbid the kind of automation required to download everything. But even if someone did that, it'd only be a snapshot in time. And a lot can can change between OS releases.

As for the hosted web app, I wanted to provide this as a public service. I plan to open source it, so anyone can self-host instead, if they're inclined.
by kccqzy | 2025-08-29 14:57:00+00:00
The copy/paste feature is underused on iOS. These days if an app needs access to a photo, I try to determine whether the app uses the system photo picker (which doesn't need the app to have photos permission). If it doesn't I simply use the Photos app to copy a photo and then paste afterwards. A benefit is that you can strip location right from the Photos app. With third party apps like Metapho which can be invoked from the share sheet, you can even strip all metadata before copying.

Some apps like WeChat somehow insist on building on their photo picker and they get the copy/paste treatment.
by api | 2025-08-29 14:57:00+00:00
These are intended to run a lot of VMs, so you could pin VM cores to CPU cores strategically to keep the same VM in the same zone. These are mostly for cloud work loads.

I wonder how they'd work for AI compared to a GPU? That's all about memory bandwidth so I'm guessing the GPU would still win unless it was an AI type that is more compute-bound.
by postalcoder | 2025-08-29 14:57:00+00:00
It's a personal blog. I didn't read this as an employer. Someone greener may read this and think "this guy is really hard on himself but, unlike me, he's done so much more! Maybe we'll always feel this way so I should just be kinder to myself."

The modern internet is stuffed to the gills with branding and bravado. Some vulnerability is fine.
by altairprime | 2025-08-29 14:57:42+00:00
> Forum spamming is a solved problem, isn't it? I mean, do you see any spam here on HN?

Yes, I’ve reported two or three this past week or so by emailing the mods. Do you browse /new often? What do you think makes HN a spam-free place?

> I don't think there is such a thing as a "HN community view".

Noted.
by troyvit | 2025-08-29 14:57:55+00:00
This is what I don't get. It's so much simpler to use the LLMs with other tools (aider for me) that I don't understand why people are avoiding the API creating monthly accounts to begin with. Is it cheaper? Is Claude Code really that awesome or something? By not even looking at it I guess I never have to know, but from where I sit it seems like people are just putting themselves through a lot of b.s. in order to marry a start-up.
by Razengan | 2025-08-29 14:58:06+00:00
> I'm not aware of any major disasters.

Oh boy. Did you somehow miss all the news about data leaks and password dumps etc. being sold on the "dark" web and shit?

Would you mind if I followed you around and noted everything you do and constantly demanded your attention?

The shit done by corporations is akin to a clingy stalker and would be absolutely despised if it was an individual person doing something like that.

As for benefits, which?? In my entire life I have never seen an ad for anything (that I did not already know about via other means) that made me want to look up the product, let alone buy it. Nor do I know anyone who did. In fact, it turns me off from a product if its ad appears too frequently.

Google etc. and various storefronts also almost never recommend me anything that actually matches my interests, beyond just a shallow word similarity, in fact they forcibly shove completely unrelated shit into my searches cause they were paid to. Like searching for RPGs and seeing Candy f'ing Crush.

----

You know what though, I kinda agree with the potential intent behind your charade:

Yes, LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT ME.

I will gladly TELL companies EXACTLY what I like, and I WANT you to use that. Show me other shit that is actually relevant to MY interests instead of the interests of whomever paid you to shove their shit into my face.

ASK! DON'T SPY! Because you can't ever get it right anyway!
by julianeon | 2025-08-29 14:58:07+00:00
This is the age of social media. This person has hit the front page of HN twice now. That's a commercially valuable skill.

At this point, having proved that can do something commercially valuable a couple times now, I think they should run with it. Start a YouTube channel. Keep racking up views. Then, eventually, do partnerships and sponsorships, in addition to collecting AdSense money.

If you like to write or perform for other people, you can monetize that now. This person is good at it. They should continue.
by oneeyedpigeon | 2025-08-29 14:58:11+00:00
I think it's because, in the world of programming, people are incredibly critical. Just try putting absolutely anything out there, and you'll get certain types of people picking it apart.

I remember an early experience in my working career, when someone was sharing their sample code with a group, to demonstrate a particular concept. And one of those present picked them up on their use of magic numbers, as if that was at all relevant in the context.

I don't blame anyone for being wary of showing their work in progress. Painters often don't like their subjects trying to take a sneek peak at their work in progress, as another example.
by st3fan | 2025-08-29 14:58:12+00:00
"This is a little app that showcases how a multi-trillion company like Apple Inc lies to you about your sleep average over six months to make you feel better"

I think a different tone and maybe assume there is good intent instead of immediately claiming it is something malicious (lies by a trillion dollar company) would help with the messaging.

I am curious. But how you present this doesn't really help.
by ethagnawl | 2025-08-29 14:58:35+00:00
> Not to mention your drop-in-the-bucket contribution will have next to no influence in the next model. It won't catch things specific to YOUR workflow, just common stuff across many users.

I wonder about this. In the future, if I correct Claude when it makes fundamental mistakes about some topic like an exotic programming language, wouldn't those corrections be very valuable? It seems like it should consider the signal to noise ratio in these cases (where there are few external resources for it to mine) to be quite high and factor that in during its next training cycle.
by 34679 | 2025-08-29 14:58:43+00:00
It has a toggle for opting out, but the buttons available are "Accept" and "Not Now". So, if I toggle off but click "Accept", does that accept what I toggled or accept data sharing? If I click "Not Now", do they leave it set at the default Opt-in?

I hate this shit and I'm cancelling now.

https://imgur.com/a/oCw5eEp
by naasking | 2025-08-29 14:59:44+00:00
> LLMs just spew words. It just so happens that human beings can decode them into something related, useful, and meaningful surprisingly often.

This sentence is inherently contradictory. If LLM output is meaningful more than chance, then it's literally not "just spewing words". Therefore whatever model it is using to generate that meaning must contain some semantic content, even if it's not semantic content that's as rich as humans are capable of. The "stochastic parrot" term is thus silly.
by 4MOAisgoodenuf | 2025-08-29 14:59:46+00:00
Having owned both a P320 and a Glock and handled multiple, "slop" in the guns out of the box are comparable. They're both mass-produced, polymer frame, striker-fired hand guns, not hand-finished 1911's.

If you put a few thousand rounds through either it will generate slide and frame rail wear. After this, either would have slightly more "slop" between the frame and the slide.

The glock trigger-dingus can make unintended discharges less likely because it requires an object to go into the trigger guard. But the WyomingGunProject video shows someone putting something in the trigger guard, pulling the trigger past the wall with sympathetic movement, then firing the gun. Not the result of "jostling".

This isn't to say there aren't P320's that couldn't fire uncommanded but the WyomingGunProject video is not the proverbial "smoking gun". The exact cause is, at this time, not publicly known.
by forrestthewoods | 2025-08-29 15:00:02+00:00
> why are we focussing on making things accessible to AI

Because that’s the authors actual goal? To take a web page that looks fine to human eyes but is unintuitively not accessible to AI. That’s genuinely useful and valuable.

Sure it’s no different than converting it to markdown for human eyes. But it’s important to be clear about not just WHAT but also WHY.

C’mon now. This isn’t controversial or even bad.
by RianAtheer | 2025-08-29 15:00:32+00:00
As a trader using AI, I see defect detection the same way I approach market analysis: data first, decisions second. You start by collecting and cleaning solid data (like price action in trading), label and train your model, then stress test it in real world scenarios. Once integrated, you keep refining it just like tweaking a trading strategy. The real edge is in continuous feedback loops: the AI keeps learning, spotting defects faster and with more accuracy over time, which is exactly how I stay ahead in the markets too.
by giancarlostoro | 2025-08-29 15:00:32+00:00
Not just Apple, Google too. Companies having zero audit trails over files they send to their servers is why I wrote off Windows for good. I noticed Microsoft Defender may randomly send files to be inspected, but there's not audit trail of what files they've sent. This is also why on iOS I force every app to only take files I hand select, I assume malicious intent from all apps. I periodically remove files they're allowed to see back down to 0.
Show HN: Security Test Framework – 16 automated checks and reports
by therealprwilo | 2025-08-29 15:00:36+00:00
I built the Security Test Framework because security testing is usually too complex, too expensive, or gets left until it’s too late. I wanted something lightweight and developer-friendly.

With npx security-test auto, the tool auto-detects your project (React, NestJS, Express, etc.), runs 16 categories of security checks (XSS, SQL injection, CSRF, authentication, headers, dependency vulnerabilities, and more), and generates clear HTML/JSON/text reports.

It’s open-source (MIT) and works out of the box — no config required. GitHub: https://github.com/yourname/security-test-framework pm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/security-test-framework

I’d love feedback from the HN community — especially what checks or CI/CD integrations you’d like to see next.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-08-29 15:00:44+00:00
Lines of code is a poor metric for productivity, revenue, and profit. The question is: is AI making existing developer populations more efficient to where the demand trajectory for software engineers declines over time. I think we're too early to tell and that early indicators are the unsophisticated in power going "Magic robot makes you work better, use magic robot or we will replace you, and we're not going to hire materially more people until we approach what appears to be a failure mode." Bit of a collective industry death march based on vibes and cargo culting.
by koolba | 2025-08-29 15:01:03+00:00
> It annoys me greatly, that I have no tick box on Google to tell them "go and adapt models I use on my Gmail, Photos, Maps etc." I don't want Google to ever be mistaken where I live - I have told them 100 times already.

As we’ve seen LLMs be able to fully regenerate text from their sources (or at least close enough), aren’t you the least bit worried about your personal correspondence magically appearing in the wild?
by smokel | 2025-08-29 15:01:06+00:00
I'm not opposed to capitalism, and enjoy its benefits everyday. I don 't however agree that efficient markets are required for capitalism. I also don't think that HFT is the only way to create efficient markets.

I do however believe that gaming the system for personal profit is unethical. The intention of the law might have been to build a playground for people to enrich themselves, but from a Christian standpoint, I don 't think this always works out well for society. I'm not a Christian, but I do like some of its values.

I was a bit disappointed about the suggestion that capitalism requires certain things that make Jane Street a necessity. This is not a fact, nor does the current process benefit everyone equally. Rejecting that notion, and possibly reading a bit too much into that, is what caused me to use said terms.

I do agree that we are probably talking past each other though :)
by corytheboyd | 2025-08-29 15:01:12+00:00
I’m a little confused, because first you challenge me, but then come to the exact conclusion that resumes are largely unreadable. I’ll look for something they claim to have done to dig deep on, see if it’s BS or not, but I’m not reading every X by Y% with my jaw on the floor. FWIW I’m generally on the back side of the process, where someone at the front (is supposed to have) vetted the person already.
by kccqzy | 2025-08-29 15:01:17+00:00
> I have two apps that end up requesting photo permissions because basic things like saving or loading a photo require the full set of permissions.

Absolutely not. Saving a photo does not need the full permissions. If an app does that, the developer is either ignorant or malicious. I see multiple apps that only have "Add Photos Only" permission including apps like Duolingo that.

Similarly the use case of allowing the user to pick one photo doesn't require any permissions at all. Just use the system photo picker. I post reviews with photos regularly on Google Maps and the Google Maps app doesn't have any photo permissions.
by anonymousiam | 2025-08-29 15:01:17+00:00
It's been a good run. My first Synology NAS was a DS-409+. I'm on my third one now, but am actively looking for alternatives. They had excellent support, and maybe still do, but the BS with requiring "their" hard drives is ridiculous. They are not a hard drive manufacturer, so this is a pure profit play.

I've put some work into customizing my Synology NAS(s), and they're doing a lot for me right now, so it will be painful to transition, but I'm going to bite the bullet and do it anyway, because they've become irredeemable.
Ask HN: Theory That Economic Growth Stagnates in a Civilization
by davidajackson | 2025-08-29 15:01:35+00:00
I have had a theory for a while that economic growth or the economy in terms of CAGR will go to 0% or becomes linear with population as the population grows. This in my mind aligns with the opportunities for lifestyle improvements going to 0 (we already have the internet, we already have food, shelter etc.) so this is no new market to cover/no new businesses to invent?

Has this topic been discussed or debated anywhere? Has anyone with this same theory done any mathematical projections?