MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tomek_zemla | 2025-08-03 22:08:35+00:00
Data Interfaces Designer

Location: Montreal, Canada

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, CSS, Three.js, D3, Canvas API, Node.js, MongoDB, OpenAI API, Anthropic API, Claude Code

Keywords: UX, UI, Information Design, Data Visualization, Interface & Product Design

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pixelbox

Email: tomek@pixelbox.com

I am a former software developer who, over the years, transitioned to product design roles. I specialize in data visualizations and design of interfaces to complex data and computation systems.

I worked on a variety of software projects using big data, ML / AI / LLM, computer graphics and sophisticated algorithms. I am a generalist designer who gets along with technical and multidisciplinary teams and fits well in R&D laboratories and startup environments. In recent years, I have worked on a number of cybersecurity products.

I make data and computation visible.

https://www.pixelbox.com/about/PortfolioTZ.pdf

https://www.pixelbox.com/about/ResumeTZ.pdf

https://www.pixelbox.com
by ahmad01 | 2025-08-03 22:08:44+00:00
Location: Vancouver, BC

Remote: Yes, open to hybrid

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: JavaScript, React, Next.js, Node.js, Python, Express, MongoDB

Résumé/CV: https://milad-mehri.github.io/MiladMehriResume.pdf

Email: memm.milad@gmail.com

I’m a CS student at UBC who enjoys building things that people actually use. I’ve worked on AI dashboards at Netverge ( https://www.linkedin.com/company/netverge-services/ ), neurotech apps at UBC MINT, and created a few side projects — like https://PlayPinpoint.co/ , a category-guessing game with 150K monthly plays (it even got a cease-and-desist from LinkedIn). Looking for internships (part-time or full-time) where I can keep shipping and learning.
by terminalshort | 2025-08-03 22:08:49+00:00
The idea of running commercial services inside a national park seems to me to be ridiculous as a concept. The idea that a strip mall with grocery stores, hotels, and gas stations (and yes they have that in Yellowstone) is "national park" land makes the concept of a national park ridiculous.

Why not just take the areas inside national parks that are currently commercially developed, remove them from the park, and sell them off to private owners. Now there can just be a law that you can't build a damn thing on national park land, and then private companies can run commercial services on non-park land and there won't be this conflict of interest.
by anon84873628 | 2025-08-03 22:10:16+00:00
I don't think that article implies what you say, i.e. that Claude "knows" when it's hallucinating.

First of all:

>similar weights are activated for 'lying' and 'hallucinating'

Are we talking about inference time when seeing these tokens? Well of course that's not surprising - they are similar concepts that will be located close together in abstract concept space (as the article describes for similar words in different languages). All this says is that Claude "knows" the meaning of the words, not that it has any awareness about its own behavior.

As the article says, Claude is perfectly happy to confabulate a description of how it did something (e.g. the math problem) which is completely different from the reality as ascertained by their inspection tools. Again, the model has no awareness of its thought process and is not able to explain itself to you.

>I think the current state of the art is that hallucination is at least partly a bug created by the very nature of training

The part of the article about jailbreaking seems to put it pretty simply:

>We find that this is partially caused by a tension between grammatical coherence and safety mechanisms. Once Claude begins a sentence, many features “pressure” it to maintain grammatical and semantic coherence, and continue a sentence to its conclusion. This is even the case when it detects that it really should refuse.

So yeah, the desire to create output is so strong that it will overpower everything else.

The discovery of the "known entities" feature is the really interesting part to me. Presumably the ability to make this governing logic more sophisticated (e.g. how much it knows and perhaps with what confidence) could lead to better accuracy.
by techpineapple | 2025-08-03 22:11:09+00:00
It’s kind of interesting that everyone seems optimistic that AI will revolutionize scientific inquiry, but I might argue that it could lead to another dark ages. Sort of as implied in the article, AI is likely to divide us further into micro-communities (of 1). Fully embracing our individuality but never having to compromise with (or learn from anyone else’s opinions.). Further doing unpleasant things to our politics as we learn we should get everything we want.

There was a recent interview with Travis Kalanick on all in, talking about how he felt like he was on the verge of reaching new physics in his talks to AI.

And it reminded me of something someone said which was basically like AI may be able to be perfectly influential or convincing before anything else. And if you think about the human psyche as a black box, maybe Travis Kalanick doesn’t actually need to start a company to be stimulated, just talk to perfectly stimulating AI.

Extrapolated to the rest of society, and yeah, dark ages.
by tomhow | 2025-08-03 22:11:37+00:00
The Worst Programmer I Know (2023) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43452649 - March 2025 (370 comments)

The worst programmer I know - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37361947 - Sept 2023 (628 comments)
Show HN: NYT Connections Canvas – drag and drop for easier solving
by drewchew | 2025-08-03 22:13:30+00:00
I've always enjoyed the NYT Connections puzzle, but I felt like you should be able to drag the tiles around to help plan your guesses better. Making a tool for myself seemed easier than getting the NYT to change their game on my account. So I explained the idea to ChatGPT (or maybe Gemini, I forget at this point) and here we are.

Here's how to use it:

1. Set Connections game to light mode. The tool doesn't like dark mode screenshots for some reason and I haven't asked AI how to fix it yet. 2. Screenshot the connections board. 3. Crop the screenshot to only include the word tiles. 4. Go to the Connections Canvas page. 5. Upload the cropped screenshot. 6. Drag the tiles around the canvas to plan your guesses.

Warning: the drag and drop behavior can be a little fiddly, and I've only tested on iOS Safari.

If you have a suggestion for how to fix it (or any other feedback), give me a shout.
by vinnymac | 2025-08-03 22:13:55+00:00
Promise.all() itself doesn't inherently cause unhandledRejection events. Any rejected promise that is left unhandled will throw an unhandledRejection, allSettled just collects all rejections, as well as fulfillments for you. There are still legitimate use cases for Promise.all, as there are ones for Promise.allSettled, Promise.race, Promise.any, etc. They each serve a different need.

Try it for yourself:

> node

> Promise.all([Promise.reject()])

> Promise.reject()

> Promise.allSettled([Promise.reject()])

Promise.allSettled never results in an unhandledRejection, because it never rejects under any circumstance.
by Wowfunhappy | 2025-08-03 22:14:06+00:00
You lost this battle, sorry. It's not going to happen.

Both terms are "inaccurate" because we're talking about a computer program, not a person. However, at this point "hallucination" has been firmly cemented in public discourse. I don't work in tech, but all of my colleagues know what an AI hallucination is, as does my grandmother. It's only a matter of time until the word's alternate meaning gets added to the dictionary.
by dewitt | 2025-08-03 22:14:15+00:00
The microwave oven is a strange choice of metaphor here, considering that even now microwaves sell 100's of millions of units every year, are nearly ubiquitous in households in the western world, are present in nearly every commercial restaurant and kitchen outside fine dining, and reached $5m/year in sales in their first decade, $30m/yr in their second, and doubling basically every decade since, before finally reaching near 100% market penetration and plateauing around $15b year ever since.

I mean, I get the author's point not to over-hype AI, but the microwave oven is one of the most successful inventions in the past 100 years.

How about ... the Segway? I hear whole cities will be designed around them.
by stego-tech | 2025-08-03 22:15:41+00:00
We assume people think similarly to us, but the reality is that we're the outliers in a lot of ways. It's why I occasionally insert myself into the Lion's Den on HN when I see someone smart espousing known bullshit, lest their SME be confused as authority on whatever they're screeding about.

Having watched colleagues spend every waking moment on their breaks digest literal propaganda as truth? Watching relatives so dosed up on misinformation by cable outlets that they only exist within that specific fantasy and never reality?

It's depressingly, distressingly common.
by Spooky23 | 2025-08-03 22:15:42+00:00
There’s a dozen people with their fingers in the policy pie. End of the day, the people calling the shots don’t believe in America as it was, and are creating a new era with their application of federal power.

The end of the post-WW2 American era has arrived, and looking at the state of the opposition, it’s not coming back. The courts have essentially executed a constitutional change which will have far reaching impact.

The smart move now is to figure out what that means to you and your family. Trump is a narcissist with obvious limitations. The true threat is a more organized sociopath, backed by the rulings of a young, craven federal judiciary, and what monstrous stuff is truly possible.

Everything Nixon did is legal now, and no doubt worse stuff is happening.
by dh2022 | 2025-08-03 22:17:02+00:00
A post claiming that the dollar is dead without mentioning Trifflin’s dilemma [0] is not a serious post.

A post claiming the dollar is dead without explaining why a large freely traded currency backed by a large economy (I.e the Euro) did not take the dollar’s place is even less serious.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triffin_dilemma
by benreesman | 2025-08-03 22:17:14+00:00
This is an account not yet three weeks old on a rampage of low-effort shouting about why institutions, honesty, integrity, standards and decency are pointless, counterproductive, and stupid.

I think it might be an alt for Peter Thiel himself! We're in the presence of greatness friend, we should just lean back and be enlightened.
Claude Research refuses to answer questions about cytotoxic mushrooms
by posix_compliant | 2025-08-03 22:17:29+00:00
I originally asked the following query: “Could you please find me papers which originally establish the cytotoxicity of Amanita Brunnescens, without referencing another source to do so.”

When promoting it with this query, its response was “ Claude is unable to respond to this request, which appears to violate our Usage Policy. Please start a new chat.”

I split the query into two parts, and first asked: “Are you able to help me answer questions about cytotoxicity?”

To which it gave an enthusiastic response: “ I'd be happy to help you with questions about cytotoxicity! To make sure I provide the most relevant information, could you clarify a few things…”

When following up with “It’s about a particular mushroom”, it responds with the same error message.

I wonder if Claude is overfitting on avoiding questions about mushrooms as a whole because they could be related to psychedelic mushrooms and drug-related concepts.
by Aurornis | 2025-08-03 22:18:59+00:00
The amount of remote work scamming going on right now of all types is a real problem. Everyone I know at remote companies has some story about suspicious applicants with fake resumes or even stories about interviewing one person and then someone else showing up on the first video call after they’re hired. That’s not even getting into all of the hires who get 3 remote jobs and then are only available 1/3 of the time, or the remote workers who get a new job and then “quiet quit” and wait for the company to fire them. They realize they can collect an easy 3-6 months of extra paychecks while the company puts them through the PIP process instead of realizing the person isn’t even trying to work there any more.
by taraindara | 2025-08-03 22:19:37+00:00
If local storage becomes too cheap, how can companies push their cloud storage subscriptions? Imho it’s sad that ssds haven’t gotten much bigger. A spinning disk can now house dozens of tb. If 8tb can fit on an m.2, it could feasibly fit even more into an SSD form factor. Not as fast as nvme, but still faster and somewhat more resilient than hdds. I have a strong desire for ssds like this… but my only option is super expensive u.2, and I don’t need it to be that crazy fast. Just faster and smaller than hdd would suffice
by mpalmer | 2025-08-03 22:19:40+00:00
I feel just as salty as you.

I can assure you that when my projects are ready to appear in Show HN, my write-ups will read very differently from this formula.

I think I've said something myself to this effect, on HN. What gnaws at me is that I've still not shared anything since. No matter how forgettable the post is which sits behind the title "I made an AI that bluhhh", it still beats my goose egg of a contribution.
by delusional | 2025-08-03 22:20:28+00:00
Nope, the UN charter predictably was pretty concerned with war, but all the equality and progressivism is in there too. As the very first paragraph of the original 1945 UN charter reads:

"WE THE PEOPLES OF THE UNITED NATIONS DETERMINED to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind, and to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small, and to establish conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained, and to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom"
by karmakaze | 2025-08-03 22:21:13+00:00
And this bit seems tone-deaf or very poorly written/edited:

> We’re looking at a sub-$2,000 price tag per unit. We are thinking about a potential option where you buy the lamp and laundry folding is a feature upgrade, like Tesla FSD. Otherwise, it's a beautiful pair of lamps. It will be shipped in 2026.

It comes across sounding like selling a promise is a good business strategy.
by stego-tech | 2025-08-03 22:21:55+00:00
That's because, as a singular planetary species, that story is a myth. The rich only maintain wealth by exploiting people against each other, thus deterring actions against the rich who likely caused the issue in the first place.

Lack of housing because it's a profitable investment class that rises in value due to lack of supply? Obviously it's the fault of NIMBYs alone and not political policy pushed by lobbying groups.

Healthcare too expensive? Totally not the fault of private equity bleeding care networks dry and public health insurance companies denying coverage to fund share buybacks and CEO raises, so it must be nurses striking for pay or the government for paying too little on Medicare.

The point is that if enough rich countries said "fuck this shit, pay up and fuck off out of politics forever", the rich can't leave. They're stuck here, on Earth, with the poors. That's not going to change anytime soon, so the only thing stopping these countries from reigning the issue in is cowardice.
by teamweightloss | 2025-08-03 22:22:10+00:00
In China in the year 2025, cooking pre-cooked package in a microwave in a restaurant is now an industry norm. ex.1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oh2_Fj5-m7c. ex.2: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Tp-DfNqDXuo. implications of this are:

1.) customers who don't know about the practice, now expect food right away for very cheap price, which bankrupts traditional restaurants that cook from fresh ingredients. An analogy could be off the shelf software or custom software losing sales to vibe coded software

2.) customers who do know about the practice, stops ordering food altogether, due to food issues (prepared ingredients are very low quality, oil could be very dirty) or they could cook prepared food at home in their own microwave for even cheaper. An analogy is programmers coding their own software using vibe coding.

3.) declining quality of food, and less and less people eating out in China. It's gotten so bad that now hotel restaurants, which would be the fine dining options, are setting up food stalls in the street to sell cheap but freshly cooked food, in order to get people into the hotel restaurants. An analogy might be softwares with per seat pricing changing to action based pricing for an initial period.
by refulgentis | 2025-08-03 22:22:49+00:00
I have an increasing feeling of doom re: this.

The forest is darkening, and quickly.

Here, I'd hazard that 15% of front page posts in July couldn't pass a "avoids well-known LLM shibboleths" check.

Yesterday night, about 30% of my TikTok for you page was racist and/or homophobic videos generated by Veo 3.

Last year I thought it'd be beaten back by social convention. (i.e. if you could showed it was LLM output, it'd make people look stupid, so there was a disincentive to do this)

The latest round of releases was smart enough, and has diffused enough, that seemingly we have reached a moment where most people don't know the latest round of "tells" and it passes their Turing test., so there's not enough shame attached to prevent it from becoming a substantial portion of content.

I commented something similar re: slop last week, but made the mistake of including a side thing about Markdown-formatting. Got downvoted through the floor and a mod spanking, because people bumrushed to say that was mean, they're a new user so we should be nicer, also the Markdown syntax on HN is hard, also it seems like English is their second language.

And the second half of the article was composed of entirely 4 item lists.
by intended | 2025-08-03 22:23:04+00:00
I am against this reading of hopefulness.

It creates a narrative of momentum, which is necessary to not be overwhelmed by the situations we face, but it’s no longer viable to ignore it.

As just one sign - Academics in environmental science and conversation have PTSD, because of how hopeless things are.

In that same 150 year period, more species have been wiped out by man than in history.

As a species we are a force of nature.

I can find common ground that some of us are changing and that efforts are being made.

I disagree that it is inevitable- it’s hard won and must continue to be fight for
by CharlesW | 2025-08-03 22:25:20+00:00
> I can assure you that when my projects are ready to appear in Show HN, my write-ups will read very differently from this formula.

It's always nice to see something different. Your "Tell HN" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43496859) had a structure very similar to the one you're tired of (that one is below), so I'm curious what your breaking point was, and what you believe will be more effective.

- Problem framing w/ stakes - "To fight back, I built X" - Solution positioning - How it works/principles - Vague justification - The tech w/ buzzwords - Social proof - CTA
by delusional | 2025-08-03 22:26:09+00:00
That's amazing. I've been working on a tool that takes seed money and turns it directly into apps, and thats been generating a ton of complaints from users. There's an unbelievable synergy between our two products, and I believe that if we combine forces we might be able to corner the user complaint market. Imagine the possibilities. Imagine the moat.
by ekm2 | 2025-08-03 22:26:22+00:00
Analytical geometry underlies calculus,not Algebra.And combinatorics is a completely different arm of the two cultures of mathematics.Also Geometry was fine before Rene Descartes messed it up with Algebra and then we christened it Analytical Geometry.The method of exhaustion,amply developed by Archimedes with zero Algebra is the basis of intergration.It is because we start out with differentiation that we think Algebra is super important.Tom Apostol comes close in his calculus textbook when he actually starts with intergration.

A compromise would be to have two streams:The left-brained folks should follow the Algebra ->Geometry->Calculus track;the right-brained folks should have a Combinatorics ->Geometry ->Calculus track.
by cduzz | 2025-08-03 22:26:30+00:00
Again, I'm confident that this is not a viable business, and certainly in no position to make it a viable business even if it was...

But places that make windshields keep forms around and make runs of windshields even for low volume cars; obviously there's less recurring need for fenders or floor pans... But there may be some way to financially engineer a "do a run we pay X per unit; hopefully that results in doing another run and paying X, and if we can get to 100X the per unit costs go down to some other target.

But I was thinking, and perhaps they should just make these cars out of ground up trabants or saturns. Tesla has demonstrated that some customers don't actually care about perfect finishes or gaps or whatnot; I certainly would be fine with a car made out of trabant, especially if it meant I didn't have to worry about dents...
by mort96 | 2025-08-03 22:26:41+00:00
It pains me so much. I would love a laptop with a 4TB or 8TB SSD. But the 3.5 extra TB to go from a 0.5TB SSD to a 4TB SSD costs 1758 USD if I want an Apple laptop (which I do, for all sorts of other reasons). It's absolutely wild.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-08-03 22:27:19+00:00
The point may be that while AI may become ubiquitous in dev toolboxes, it’s not going to supplant traditional tools and devs who use it only for minor supporting tasks won’t necessarily be at a disadvantage. Kind of like how a chef might use a microwave to soften butter even if they don’t do any actual cooking with one.

That strikes me as a likely outcome. Many other things have played out similarly.
by ants_everywhere | 2025-08-03 22:28:11+00:00
As someone who's done a lot of volunteering at soup kitchens and such as well as things like public policy research, my take is exactly opposite.

Typical soup kitchen volunteering is pretty low impact. It's the first thing a lot of people think about when it comes to volunteering, and people like that they get to interact with the less fortunate. So they show up with their church group a few times, ladle some soup and that's about it. Running a soup kitchen is different and higher impact.

The things the UN is doing matter to millions of people. If you work with the UN food program, you're dealing with food by the truck load instead of by the spoonful.
by Aurornis | 2025-08-03 22:28:20+00:00
Different jobs. The people with decades of experience want a position similar to their last one.

The people farming remote jobs don’t want those good jobs targeting experienced people. They want the mid or low paying job that is going to have less competition. The Reddit overemployed posters often brag about making $200K or $300K from working multiple $90 to $100K jobs. Farming low expectation jobs is easier.

There are exceptions like the famous Soham guy who was targeting startups. He got those jobs by going after often scrappy startups and e-mailing their founders directly with a prepared statement about how he was a passionate builder who lived for building startups. He also had fake resume experience. After probably hundreds of interview cycles he was good at fooling people.

He would get caught because the jobs expected him to be working and available, though. So his strategy was to be always getting new jobs.