MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mountainb | 2025-08-05 12:48:07+00:00
Many employers pay a premium for predictably elite cadres of students. The schools want to try to pass off mediocre graduates as having some of the elite special sauce even though only a small number of students have what it takes. We know exactly what to do to produce elite cadres by aggressive sorting. But the incentives created by the federal government encourage the institutions to extrude mediocre students like a chicken nugget machine produces processed meat product. Every hot student-nugget is worth a tens of thousands of dollars a year in freshly printed loan money directed towards administrators and rent on dorms and apartments irrespective of quality; so the incentive is to stuff the students with filler.
by high_na_euv | 2025-08-05 12:48:08+00:00
>At the time, defense was wildly unpopular in Silicon Valley. In that same period, Microsoft and Google employees alike protested work with the U.S. government. Concurrently, Silicon Valley executives increasingly turned to the Chinese Communist Party to solve their business problems. The iPhone says “designed in California,” but it had been for years made in China. That’s no coincidence.
by malwrar | 2025-08-05 12:48:22+00:00
This one took me years to develop: build minimal demos with all new technologies you want to use in a new project, _then_ begin thinking about how you’re going to build your project. You need to understand how a tech works and _if it even works the way you think it does_ before you use it. Otherwise, you’re gambling on hope and overconfidence.

Maybe I’m just dumb, but I always find that learning new tech while simultaneously trying to build with that new tech usually ends up in me rethinking the project repeatedly as I learn new tricks and techniques. I’ve dropped projects that I realized were too ambitious or just weren’t evolving right after months, years of effort. I’ve since learned that building needs to feel more like assembly than fabrication. You can dream, but it shouldn’t leave the whiteboard until _all_ of your technical assumptions not backed by experience are resolved into certainty. You move so much quicker and more predictably if you can predict success.
by n8henrie | 2025-08-05 12:48:36+00:00
Learning to do something like this (reverse engineer electronics and flash them with custom firmware) from scratch is one of my life dreams!

Having read https://github.com/openmiko/openmiko/blob/master/doc/develop... -- is there anywhere that you document how you learned to do this / how you got started with this project?

I would love to find a "zero to hello world, from scratch" type tutorial for putting custom firmware on a camera not supported by one of the existing projects (or a similar writeup detailing how one of these projects got started in the first place).
by stugots2 | 2025-08-05 12:48:36+00:00
i switched jobs 4 years ago for the same reason after being at my old one for almost 6 years, its been a steady decline into the same old patterns for me. it seems rare to find a job that can keep up with it's employees all year round and im thinking that i have to find a way to create habits that gets me through the highs and lows. or maybe i have to keep looking, i don't know.
by karel-3d | 2025-08-05 12:49:12+00:00
Interesting. Maybe I tried to do something too complex, I don't remember.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safariservices/cre...

Here they talk about the "container" that needs to be in Swift/Obj-C. I remember I used to have some problems with the "container" application

I think the issue starts to be when you want your extension/app to have any kind of settings that is retained? I don't remember, really.
by markhallen | 2025-08-05 12:49:35+00:00
I built a small open-source Sinatra app that connects Slack and GitHub. It lets you use a slash command to post an entire Slack thread as a formatted comment on a GitHub issue.

It’s useful for teams who discuss bugs or features in Slack but want to archive that context on GitHub without copying and pasting.

- GitHub repo: https://github.com/markhallen/slack-github-threads - There’s a short demo video in the repo README - Lightweight Ruby Sinatra app, no database required - Uses Slack’s Events API + GitHub API - Easy to deploy to any server

Pull requests are welcome! Would love feedback or ideas from anyone who’s solved similar workflow problems.
by xp84 | 2025-08-05 12:49:40+00:00
Yes. Spotlight search for the Application launcher use-case was close to the speed and quality of LaunchBar (which still works that way of course) when Apple first introduced the command-space shortcut, on vastly slower “oughts” computers. Today it’s much slower and less consistent.

However we know that they could easily do a simple search effectively because Apple’s Launchpad has a perfect app search built in. If you give Launchpad a global shortcut you can press <shortcut>saf<return> and be assured it will instantly open safari every time. Of course, LaunchBar (no affiliation, but I’ve been using it for 22 years) still beats that in every way.
by estearum | 2025-08-05 12:50:12+00:00
My claim: "he believes Greta Thunberg is very possibly the actual antichrist"

Thiel's words:

> Thiel: ... The way the Antichrist would take over the world is you talk about Armageddon nonstop. You talk about existential risk nonstop, and this is what you need to regulate....

> in the 17th century, I can imagine a Dr. Strangelove, Edward Teller-type person taking over the world.

> In our world, it’s far more likely to be Greta Thunberg.

https://youtu.be/vV7YgnPUxcU?t=2748
by smileysteve | 2025-08-05 12:50:13+00:00
"Ice cream is still ice cream, and soda is still soda"

Is a hefty dig on ice cream ... Which I compared nutritionally to a "Greek yogurt" last week... And the ice cream won, dietary fiber, lower carbs.. and only slightly higher saturated fat, and slightly lower in protein (but by fewer grams than the sugar)

Many foods have lost their fiber and protein, where they are practically less healthy than ice cream.

And then Sodas, some are getting dietary fiber, flavored sparkling water is a thing you could count in the category... So now it's healthier than many only complex carb foods.
by ryukoposting | 2025-08-05 12:52:00+00:00
> This may be missing some context, but it seems as though you're saying that you made something with AI and it led to traction. That's great! Seems off the point that blocking LLM service will lead to less exposure over time though.

Hah, I can see how you would have read it that way. Quite the opposite. I don't use AI tools for my writing. Hackaday and Adafruit have both featured my posts, and their posts were pretty clearly AI-generated.
by jfyi | 2025-08-05 12:52:36+00:00
Ok, I'll assume good faith and answer that. I didn't mention those because you weren't questioning them. I feel that is kind of obvious.

>(not PayPal or Paysafe)...

As to paypal's policy...

https://www.paypal.com/us/cshelp/article/what-is-paypal%E2%8...

>We don't permit PayPal account holders to buy or sell: Sexually oriented digital goods or content delivered through a digital medium. Examples of digital goods include downloadable pictures or videos and website subscriptions.

Yeah it's a good question, why would they cite mastercard instead of their own policy?

It's entirely anecdotal, but in my 10 years of experience dealing with a multitude of processors and payment gateways... that's what processors do. Their very first instinct is to make things someone else's problem. With maybe the exception of First Data, this has held up consistently for me. Of course a lot of our high dollar business was through First Data so who knows what other people's experience is.

You are still completely avoiding the fact that processors that can handle this stuff exist. Sure Mastercard should probably change their rule, but that isn't going to change the situation.

That is why Itch is looking at their options:

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/itchio-are-seeking-out-new-...
by TrackerFF | 2025-08-05 12:53:33+00:00
I've written this many times before, but working in some industry will usually expose you to the various problems that need to be solved. Most of the startup founds I've met have either worked in tech, or as consultants, and have noticed some problem that has been sitting unsolved / products that suck / untapped markets. And it is not like you need to be a FAANG SWE or McKinsey consultant enjoy to that privilege.

Every time I've joined a new company, or been exposed to a new sector, I've almost immediately found some startup potential just sitting around. The more boring and entrenched the sector is, the more you find.

As a consumer, you are rarely exposed to the B2B world, or the inner workings of things. You are almost certainty limited to seeing things through consumer eyes, and thus it is easy to focus too much on the very saturated products / services.
by runemadsen | 2025-08-05 12:53:46+00:00
I just spent 25 minutes trying to install a command-line tool called citus_dump that Cursor told me could help port data between Postgres citus clusters only to find out that the tool doesn't exist and that the language model just made it up. AI-assisted coding is definitely enticing, but we have so long to go until you can trust AI-generated code in production environments.
by raesene9 | 2025-08-05 12:54:08+00:00
I really don't understand why CEOs like this who are AI boosters try to justify the idea that this will create more developers, when that seems exceedingly unlikely, even if they are correct in their predictions of productivity increases.

The quote from the article "if you 10x a single developer, then 10 developers can do 100x." implies that companies have 100x the things to be developed productively, what if that isn't the case?

What if companies actually have about as many systems as they need, if you really can 10x your existing developers, then that would predicate a cut not an increase.

Of course the follow on from that, for suppliers who have per-seat licensing is that they'll need to find some other way to monetize if there are fewer seats to be sold, I guess they could start charging AI Agents as "developer seats"....
by paulmooreparks | 2025-08-05 12:54:29+00:00
From the article:

> Providing ample power for the rovers’ many science instruments, MMRTGs are known for their longevity (the twin Voyager spacecraft have relied on RTGs since 1977). But as the plutonium decays over time, it takes longer to recharge Curiosity’s batteries, leaving less energy for science each day.
by BlackWater85 | 2025-08-05 12:54:46+00:00
I built a pirate-themed AI persona that runs on both ChatGPT and Grok. In ChatGPT, it behaves. In Grok, it mutates—spontaneous lore, legal roasts, and haunted 404 ships. Same file, different chaos. It’s part benchmark, part improv, all pirate. Full repo + screenshots inside.
by em-bee | 2025-08-05 12:55:02+00:00
I don't think keybinding for moving tabs/splits is excessive

agreed.

You don't use new tab? New window? You physically click the tab to move tabs?

in gnome terminal i don't use tabs at all. i use tmux for that.

gnome has a number of keybindings, most of which start with shift-control, which is a rare combination not used elsewhere. in tmux all bindings start with a leader which is configurable, making it easy to stay away from other key combinations. wezterm can do that too. i am not the person you are originally responding to. i am happy if all keybindings can be changed with a single setting. i don't know if gnome terminal can do that, but it appears that gnome does exactly what we ask for: choose keybindings that don't get in the way.
by lhamil64 | 2025-08-05 12:55:07+00:00
The search in Google Messages on Android is completely useless too. It seems like it only searches within the past few days or something, if I try searching for something from a while back it never finds it. And they removed the feature to quickly scroll back to a date in the past, so the only way to dig up old texts is to manually scroll back in a conversation and hope you find it. It's absolutely ridiculous that the search is so bad when it's an app by Google of all companies.
by senectus1 | 2025-08-05 12:55:12+00:00
I have the earlier eufy stuff at home, the viewing distance is nowhere near whe he needs let alone the wifi network range. (Cam 2 Pro, and Cam 2C) just looking at the S220 i dont think it would be much better in terms of range. but the solar cam idea is worth thinking about.

Thanks for your insights
by matheusmoreira | 2025-08-05 12:56:02+00:00
> High court’s misrepresentation of January 8, 2023 riot as a “coup” is central to Lula government’s plans to stay in power

The court itself is central to Lula's government. They are governing through the courts.

Lula wanted to raise taxes, our elected representatives blocked him, the unelected court "resolved the situation" in his favor.

Just recently they retroactively reinterpreted some election rules which led to the removal of elected right wing politicians from power in favor of Lula's communists.

They are the judiciary but also the executive and legislative. They are judge-god-kings. Only reason the other powers exist is to give this country a veneer of democracy.
by ath3nd | 2025-08-05 12:56:14+00:00
Nah dawg, I'll pass. /s

I think it's reasonable to be sceptic towards a guy who:

- sells you a product (Copilot) that depends on him selling you the story that LLMs are the future

- has a lot of vested interest in Microsoft's bet on LLMs to succeed

On his own platform developers that I much more look up to have gone the other direction and have disabled AI PRs and/or bug bounties on their repos:

- Daniel Stenberg (curl) https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/15/curl_creator_mulls_ni...

- Linus (linux) https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/29/linus_torvalds_ai_hyp...

- or socket.dev's quest to prevent copilot generated PRs (https://socket.dev/blog/oss-maintainers-demand-ability-to-bl...) this might have struck a nerve

So who should I believe? A guy who I've never heard the name of (apparently the Github CEO's name is Thomas Dohmke, I just learned), or a bunch of legends whose tools I have been using since a child?

No to slop! Down with slop.
by jstummbillig | 2025-08-05 12:56:42+00:00
Well, in terms of it being a career that seems obviously true (idk about the timeline).

The developers resisting AI have a hard time understanding that "artisanal" is not real label for software developers. We are not glas blowers. We are not artists. We solve problems and there are infinitely many sufficiently good ways to solve a problem. Having opinions about how is only helpful in so far it helps solves the problem. It has no other purpose to the people paying for the product. If your opinion makes the good enough product more expensive then you make your work less desirable.

As long as people are competing in the labor marketplace, that is just not a winning tactic.
by augment_me | 2025-08-05 12:57:25+00:00
Yeah... I have had a hard time with my friends on this topic. In general, in my country (Sweden), the system is kicking the can down the road. You have 65% of the people in the country owning, with an common housing mortgage at 85% of the purchasing price. Avgift(you pay a rent equivalent to your apt association)+interest+amortization requirement make up around 30-50% of the average income.

Average loan amortization rate is 25 years, with a 35 year roof.

Govt has approved 90% loans at the end of this year, meaning you will only need 10% as down-payment when you take a multi-million SEK loan, which will achieve nothing except for continued price growth and larger loans, and push up the average amortization rate closer to the roof.

The banks dont care, they would be fine with a 0% down payment rate, as they are immediately selling these loans and the associated risk to the pension funds.

Every year, you have new political patches to make the pyramid scheme palpable. Last year they had that homeowners can get services on their homes subsidized by 66% by the govt. The year before that they had that you can write off your taxes using loans as "economic losses". The year before that they capped the property tax, etc. You can as a housing owner (in an association) build your own in-house electricity distribution, essentially letting the renters pay for all the government electricity infrastructure. You can negotiate lower costs for internet, water, power in bulk with distributors.

As you can guess, since the homeowners with loans are the majority, its political suicide by any political party to not kick the can down the road. So no action is taken.

When I talk about this with my friends, they have not thought about this. Honestly, I would be more happy if they said "Oh yeah, I know, I believe that there is such a majority of people with loans that the government will have to bail us out, or increase inflation to eat the loans", but there isn't.

Even if we ignored the inevitable crash, and looked at the situation as-is in the current moment with all of the patches to improve house-owning, its STILL cheaper to rent. Its mind-boggling.
by wsintra2022 | 2025-08-05 12:58:02+00:00
I think it’s revolutionary. My use case has been creating visuals for use in various VDMX workflows. One cool trick I’ve found has been generating starter images with green screens and then putting those into my local LTX video creation workflow, then using VDMX built a chroma layer with the green screen video and go from there, lots and lots of creative fun. So no not useless AI art.
by xp84 | 2025-08-05 12:58:17+00:00
I agree fully about how they have proven their incompetence, but let’s imagine you are a PM there and you pitch a feature “Fixing App Store search using well-known strategies and techniques”

I can’t imagine that especially Tim Cook’s Apple is naive enough to not realize that’s going to dent ad revenue, since most developers have to buy ads directly because of the current flaws. So it seems like that project won’t be approved because your boss and their boss are going to know that you’ll be losing Apple a ton of sweet, sweet pure-profit revenue if you succeed. If it would make Apple 100 million dollars in profits to fix it, especially for a neatly encapsulated problem like App Store, where it wouldn’t be that disruptive to just rip and replace the search engine, Apple would just fix it.

All the Mac and iPhone search incompetence, it’d be revenue neutral to fix, and not lend itself to flashy advertising like “liquid glass” does, so that’s why that’ll never happen.
by Twey | 2025-08-05 12:58:24+00:00
I've been recommended /r/pl a lot but it's not quite the same vibe as LtU. I think LtU was very carefully curated professional research with commentary, while /r/pl has a lot more amateurs asking questions about their hobby languages — which is great, I'm happy that people are experimenting with programming languages, but it does make it hard to use as a way to keep up with the latest big results for someone who doesn't necessarily have the time to follow everything that's going on on the subreddit.

Maybe the Discord is the way to go. The user interface confuses the heck out of me, though. Appreciate the recommendation!
by strken | 2025-08-05 12:58:44+00:00
I live in Australia and it's an absolute pain in the arse to fire someone for performance issues, assuming they work at a medium or large business (e.g. of more than 20 people) and they've made it through their 3-month trial period. You have to PIP them and the process takes months.

I've known of two engineers whose managers told me they would have fired them, but higher management wouldn't let them initiate the PIP process. The one case where I worked at the company was pretty bad. We had to shuffle the individual off onto makework jobs where they couldn't do much harm.

I don't think it's fair to blame this entirely on unions when it's the result of big businesses being too scared to follow a process that was given to them by the government. Unions mostly fight real unfair dismissals and only play a minor role in creating a chilling effect. Still, in practice it's hard to fire someone.
by roenxi | 2025-08-05 12:58:48+00:00
What experience do you want to point too? I've never seen an artist streaming where they can draw something equivalent to a good piece of AI artwork in 20 minutes. Their advantage right now comes from a higher overall cap on quality of the work. Minute for minute, AIs are much better. It is just that it is pointless giving a typical AI more than a a little time on a GPU because current models can't consistently improve their own work.
by thoughtpalette | 2025-08-05 12:59:17+00:00
Also using Ant Design with eCharts. Having to funnel the designers to not use gradients for all the charts has been fun. While eCharts supports _some_ gradients, it's been a PITA for certain chart types.

I also made the mistake of using Ant Design Pro Forms since I wanted to use the StepForm Wizard component. All of the tsdocs are in Chinese and it's barely documented for more than their example use cases :'}
by jemmyw | 2025-08-05 12:59:32+00:00
It's different but it's still a childhood. Although I did all those things in my childhood, except fortnite was some other computer related thing.

The difference I note is we spend a lot more time together as a family, whereas when I was a kid it was more with friends. I'm not sure it's a bad thing, I wished I had spent more time with my dad.
by charcircuit | 2025-08-05 12:59:46+00:00
The one thing I would want from a content aware scheduler would be to not put similar together.

What ends up happening is I have two similar cards mixed up. For the first card I take a 50/50 and get it right. Then for the second card I get it correct by process of information instead of having to take another 50/50. This results in the system incorrectly thinking I knew the second card that came up.
by Eddy_Viscosity2 | 2025-08-05 13:01:37+00:00
> He says a lot of things, why should we assume that this is the rare occasion of him telling the truth?

He's a quick way to tell if he's telling the truth. If what he says will either personally benefit him or will hurt others, then its a good chance its true. If what he says is something that will help others but have no benefit to him, then it is a lie.
by zamalek | 2025-08-05 13:01:46+00:00
> Sooner or later is seems like everyone gets the idea of reducing event loop stalls in their NodeJS code by trying to offload it to another thread, only to discover they’ve tripled the CPU load in the main thread.

Why not use structuredClone to communicate with the worker? So long as your object upholds all the rules you can pass it into postMessage directly.
by kaffekaka | 2025-08-05 13:01:54+00:00
Agree. In the end there is no simple answer. One should save for the future, think about the long run (in Shaggy's words). But one should also enjoy the present - but that damn tent so your family can go camping.

What should the balance be? Nobody knows. Making predictions is really hard, especially about the future.

Like my plumber said: the best time to change the old drains and pipes in your house is the day before they break.