MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by VirusNewbie | 2025-08-13 17:42:19+00:00
> is reportedly obsessed with high school performance, to the point of rejecting otherwise highly competent candidates who passed the whole process before that based on high school questions alone.

Right but given the pay, talent level, and more from Canonical, they should probably not be trying to invent new ways to filter candidates beyond what even top tier software shops are doing.

If Jane Street and Anthropic aren't rejecting candidates for high school performance, maybe your mid tier company with low tier pay shouldn't be either.
by LegionMammal978 | 2025-08-13 17:42:26+00:00
That doesn't sound right, nearest-point queries for cubic Béziers take at least a quintic solver, and this library uses a subdivision-based algorithm with Bernstein polynomials that is seemingly designed to work with any degree [0]. (Or at least, it doesn't have any code that complains when the degree is too large.)

[0] https://github.com/GraphiteEditor/Graphite/blob/master/libra...
by Wolf_Larsen | 2025-08-13 17:42:28+00:00
Its not that simple, but it would be straight forward to duplicate the outputs of this with a simple LLM + ffmpeg workflow. They did mention a custom model on the landing page, and if they've trained one then you would be spending much more money on each output than they are. Because without a fine-tuned model there would be a lot of inference done for QA and refinement of each prompt | clip | frame .
by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 | 2025-08-13 17:42:39+00:00
Hmm? I would argue against that line of argumentation. It is ridiculously easy to start out of box and working. Once the user starts moving against obvious restrictions resulting from the trade-offs in defaults, they can move on to something more custom. Woulnd't that be the definition of beginner friendly?

I am biased since I effectively started with Ollama as my main local llm so take this response for what it is.

Still, you got me curious. Which defaults you consider hostile ( not disagreeing; this is pure curiosity )?
by metalliqaz | 2025-08-13 17:42:41+00:00
My suggestion would be to re-think the demo videos. I have only watched most of the way into the "function pointers in C" example. If I didn't already know C well, I would not be able to follow that. The technical diagrams don't stay on the screen long enough for new learners to process the information. These videos probably look fantastic to the person who wrote the document it summarizes, but to a newbie the information is fleeting and hard to follow. The machine doesn't understand that the screen shouldn't be completely wiped all the time while it follows the narrative. Some visuals should be static for paragraphs, or stay visible while detail marked up around it. For a true master of the art, see 3blue1brown.
by happytoexplain | 2025-08-13 17:43:04+00:00
I too want us to get much harsher on crime, but I think it's naive to portray Trump's use of force as anything but a boot on the throat of dissidents and protesters, an authoritarian show of force, a purposeful provocation of his political enemies in an attempt to escalate, etc. I.e. not an honest reaction to crime statistics, obviously. That would mean reform, not ephemeral military takeover.
by ctxc | 2025-08-13 17:43:13+00:00
Hey! Great to see you here.

I tried dokku (and still am!) and it is so hard getting started.

For reference, - I've used Coolify successfully where it required me to create a Github app to deploy my apps on pushes to master - I've written GH actions to build and deploy containers to big cloud

This page is what I get if I want to achieve the same, and it's completely a reference book approach - I feel like I'm reading an encyclopedia. https://dokku.com/docs/deployment/methods/git/#initializing-...

Contrast it with this, which is INSTANTLY useful and helps me deploy apps hot off the page: https://coolify.io/docs/knowledge-base/git/github/integratio...

What I would love to see for Dokku is tutorials for popular OSS apps and set-objective/get-it-done style getting started articles. I'd LOVE an article that takes me from baremetal to a reverse proxy+a few popular apps. Because the value isn't in using Dokku, it's in using Dokku to get to that state.

I'm trying to use dokku for my homeserver.

Ideally I want a painless, quick way to go from "hey here's a repo I like" to "deployed on my machine" with Dokku. And then once that works, peek under the hood.
by EliRivers | 2025-08-13 17:43:29+00:00
I have so much to hide.

I want to hide what I had for breakfast. I want to hide what books I read recently. I want to hide which TV shows I watch. I want to hide who I have conversations with. I want to hide who I avoid. I engage in so much completely legal behaviour, much of it quite laudable, that I simply want to hide.
by kijin | 2025-08-13 17:43:35+00:00
Certbot has a "standalone" mode that occupies port 80 and serves /.well-known/ by itself.

Whoever first recommended using that mode in anything other than some sort of emergency situation needs to be given a firm kick in the butt.

Certbot also has a mode that mangles your apache or nginx config files in an attempt to wire up certificates to your virtual hosts. Whoever wrote the nginx integration also needs a butt kick, it's terrible. I've helped a number of people fix their broken servers after certbot mangled their config files. Just because you're on a crusade to encrypt the web doesn't give you a right to mess with other programs' config files, that's not how Unix works!
by theideaofcoffee | 2025-08-13 17:43:37+00:00
Though perhaps shining a light on shittiness like that might cause someone doing hiring in the future to think for a fraction of a second and reflect. Maybe it’d be better to do it in a less than an insane way and make their slice of the world just a smidge better.

And just to add to the Canonical shame too, I’m all for that.
by Nevermark | 2025-08-13 17:43:44+00:00
They are much more than stochastic parrots.

I have never understood the stochastic parrot interpretation. LLMs (and general deep learning models) are not statistical/stochastic based models. Statistics trivially apply, as they apply to all measurements of judge-able behavior. But the models do not perform statistical operations, nor do their architectures form tunable statistically driven systems.

They learn topological representations of relationships. Entirely different from statistics/stochastics.

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Within their "style" of cognition, LLMs are very creative. They readily propose solutions to problems involving uncommon or unique combinations of disparate topics.

Coming up with artificial examples is easy (and they come up naturally for me all the time).

I think the best characterization of LLM knowledge, reasoning and creativity is: extremely wide (in ability to weave topics and communication constraints - one shot), but somewhat shallow (not being able to reason too deep.)

Within those bounds, they far far exceed human capabilities.
by Terr_ | 2025-08-13 17:44:01+00:00
> it was also not safe with only humans

Even if the average error-rate was the same (which is hardly safe to assume), there are other reasons not to assume equivalence:

1. The shape and distribution of the errors may be very different in ways which make the risk/impact worse.

2. Our institutional/system tools for detecting and recovering from errors are not the same.

3. Human errors are often things other humans can anticipate or simulate, and are accustomed to doing so.

> friction

Which would be one more item:

4. An X% error rate at a volume limited by human action may be acceptable, while an X% error rate at a much higher volume could be exponentially more damaging.

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"A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention with the possible exceptions of handguns and Tequila." --Mitch Ratcliffe
by horsawlarway | 2025-08-13 17:44:10+00:00
Except nothing is actually taken.

It's copied.

If your goal in publishing the site is to drive eyeballs to it for ad revenue... then you probably care.

If your goal in publishing the site is just to let people know a thing you found or learned... that goal is still getting accomplished.

For me... I'm not in it for the fame or money, I'm fine with it.
by atsushin | 2025-08-13 17:44:17+00:00
There was a pretty good Kurzgesagt video posted earlier today on alcohol in general: https://youtu.be/aOwmt39L2IQ

The shift in perception of alcohol is certainly a good sign. Even outside of the health benefits, a night out at the bar is expensive now (at least on the East Coast) and honestly speaking other drugs are simply more cost-effective. I still have the occasional cocktail when going out with friends but now that I'm focused more on my overall fitness I find less of a reason to drink now. Still love the vibe of bars and pubs though.

Anecdotally knowing that club drugs like ketamine and 2c-b are gaining popularity, I wonder whether young people may be turning onto substances like those now or if in general Gen-Z prefers to abstain entirely.
by ct | 2025-08-13 17:44:26+00:00
The wealth gap and wages not keeping up with inflation is a large part of the problem.

There's no trickle down just trickle up. Giving Bezos, Zuckerberg, Benoiff, corporations more money isn't going to create more jobs.

If there's no money for consumers to spend these B2C companies will have less need for B2B software that most of us build.
by cyberax | 2025-08-13 17:44:47+00:00
One problem with wildcards is that any service with *.foo.com can pretend to be any other service. This is an issue if you're using mutual TLS authentication and want to trust the server's certificate.

It'd be nice if LE could issue intermediary certificates constrained to a specific domain ( https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5280#section-4.2.1.... ).
by 1970-01-01 | 2025-08-13 17:44:47+00:00
I've said this before, but I'll say it again. Running on donations is not a viable strategy for any long-term goal. FOSS needs to passively invest the donations. That is a viable long-term strategy. Now when things like this happen, it becomes a major line item moment, and not a limp-along situation, with yet another WE NEED YOUR HELP banner blocking off 1/2 their website.
by skrebbel | 2025-08-13 17:45:02+00:00
Personally I feel like the big thing to come out of rationalism is the insight that, in Scott Alexander's words [0] (freely after Julia Galef),

> Of the fifty-odd biases discovered by Kahneman, Tversky, and their successors, forty-nine are cute quirks, and one is destroying civilization. This last one is confirmation bias - our tendency to interpret evidence as confirming our pre-existing beliefs instead of changing our minds.

I'm mildly surprised the author didn't include it in the list.

[0] https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/book-review-the-scout-minds...
by HsuWL | 2025-08-13 17:45:15+00:00
You're right, this is OpenAi's approach to developing GPT 5. But look at the current state of GPT 5. Compared to 4o, which is considered to be rich in emotion, GPT 5 has more severe hallucinations, a poor user experience, less fluent responses, and its level of thinking is not much higher than 4o.
by MarkSweep | 2025-08-13 17:45:29+00:00
If we are going to talk about 35 years of illumos linkage, we as well go all the way. Using you notation: Solaris <—- SVR4 [0] <—- AT&T System III [1] <—- Bell Labs Version 7 Unix [2] <—- the birth of Unix at Bell Labs in 1969 [3].

Besides the direct lineage, it’s interesting to see cross pollination between different operating systems over the years. Like BSD’s socket interface spreading everywhere (including Windows), ZFS from OpenSolaris to FreeBSD & Linux, then bhyve from FreeBSD to illumos.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX_System_V#SVR4

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX_System_III

[2]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Version_7_Unix

[3]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix
by bangaladore | 2025-08-13 17:45:34+00:00
Given that the next tier up is "Create longer/more detailed video (up to 4 min long)", I'd guess you are right.

Seems like this is pretty useless unless you pay 200$ per month. Which may be a reasonable number for the clearly commercial / enterprise use case, but I'm just not certain what you can do wtih the lower tiers.
by Bratmon | 2025-08-13 17:46:14+00:00
I'm not comparing single-file vs multiple files, I'm comparing single-file vs NPM/PIP/go get/Cargo

Let's say you depend on foo, which depends on 10 other libraries including bar, all of which depend on a library called baz. Then one day someone discovers an exploit for baz.

With npm, you only have one version of baz installed, and can easily check if it's a vulnerable version.

With single-file libraries, baz was built into a single file. Then bar was built into a single file containing baz. Then foo was built into a single file containing bar and other libraries, all which included baz.

Now your library contains baz 10 times, all of which might be at different versions, and none of which you can easily check. (You can check your version of foo easily enough, but baz is the library with the exploit)
by jeroenhd | 2025-08-13 17:46:19+00:00
I don't know an LLM that does context based rewriting of interpreted text.

That said, I haven't run into the icecream problem with Whisper. Plenty of other systems fail but Whisper just seems to get lucky and guess the right words more than anything else.

The Google Meet/Android speech recognition is cool but terribly slow in my experience. It also has a tendency to over-correct for some reason, probably because of the "best of N" system you mention.
by jvanderbot | 2025-08-13 17:46:22+00:00
I had the same experience. I even made the mistake of being honest: In HS I didn't care about computers and had poor academic performance. It wasn't until 6 years later I even knew what computer science was, and didn't look up until 11 years and a PhD later when I was writing software for NASA or managing robotics teams at FAANG/ startups. I got an immediate reject for a robotics SWE position. I'm trying to temper ego even now, but I was qualified for an interview.
Show HN: YC ED – Search YC co-founders by stack, stage, and location(no swiping)
by Barroca28 | 2025-08-13 17:46:28+00:00
YC’s co-founder platform is great, but swiping hides too many good people. I want to see everyone, filter by what matters, and reach out directly.

So during GPT-5’s Aug 7 launch week (free usage), I built YC ED — like Google for YC founders.

What it does: • Aggregates public YC co-founders + batch founders • Filters by stack, domain, stage, and location • Lets you shortlist and prepare outreach context

Built in 6 days, cost ~$187 (covered by credits), and I already have my first user.

Try it here: https://www.yced.xyz/
by tallytarik | 2025-08-13 17:46:29+00:00
G2, Sourceforge (yes, that one), and Gartner’s Capterra/GetApp/SoftwareAdvice all have the same business plan: charge vendors $x,xxx+ per month to outrank other vendors in their made up categories.

Of course, you can technically list for free.

But look! For the low low price of $x,xxx per month, now you can show one of 40 tailor-made award icons on your site!

Or, unlock the privilege of showing “user reviews” from our site on your site! (of course if you had managed to get reviews independently, you’re not allowed to use the widget without paying)

Don’t have reviews? Ah, I forgot to mention. The $x,xxx plan also comes with “review generation” — we’ll pay users to write reviews for you!

Oh, and on an unrelated note, the $x,xxx plan just also happens to unlock dofollow links across each of those 40 made up categories, which all rank highly in google. And the $xx,xxx plan means that - user ratings aside - you can end up at the top of those categories.

It’s hard to describe it other than the author says: a grift. Seeing those logos on other companies sites are now a huge turn off to me personally, and I haven’t yet capitulated for my own SaaS, but I suspect this isn’t the feeling of the execs they seek to target. Or maybe it is, and it’s just the price of doing business.
Ask HN: How did Windsurf investors make out like bandits when employees got $0?
by hahaxdxd123 | 2025-08-13 17:46:33+00:00
Reports are that investors got $1.2b and "key" employees got $1.2b in equity grants at Google.

How is possible investors got that money without employees getting it? If Google paid Windsurf the entity, then surely Windsurf must have had to equally distribute the 1.2B. And there's no way investors had 100x liquidation preferences or whatever.

Did Google just directly pay the VCs? Or purchase only the VC shares?
by reikonomusha | 2025-08-13 17:46:41+00:00
As far as your first question is concerned, macros in and of themselves are not incompatible with a typed language. Coalton uses Lisp macros, for example, and they work seamlessly and as expected.

But a Coalton macro is typically written in Lisp, not Coalton. This isn't in and of itself a problem---it's very easy and straightforward thus to write Common Lisp-style macros in Coalton. The difficulties arise when the macro must itself be (1) written in a statically typed manner, which gets into having a complete typing on your metalanguage (or your AST), and (2) allowed to access the type environment of the surrounding context in which the expansion is happening. If (2) should be accomplished, then the type-checking machinery must collaborate with the macro-expansion machinery, and that in practice makes both tasks very difficult to specify semantics for and implement.

The language Hackett [1] worked toward solving the problem of having true typed and type-aware macros (they call them "type-aware" and "type-directed" macros [2]). Development unfortunately ceased ~7 years ago.

[1] https://github.com/lexi-lambda/hackett

[2] I think this video has a good discussion of Lisp, macros, and static types, from the perspective of implementing a Haskell in Racket. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QQdI3P7MdY
by SoftTalker | 2025-08-13 17:47:37+00:00
Solaris was the development OS for Oracle for years. I presume that's now shifted to their own linux distro but for many years that was the case, to the point that if you were a serious Oracle customer you ran it on Solaris (and Sun hardware) because all the bug fixes and updates came out first for that platform.

So from that standpoint it makes sense that they acquired it. They probably just didn't care about any non-Oracle users.
by Mashimo | 2025-08-13 17:47:51+00:00
I really like the trend. It is getting more acceptable to not drink.

I'm a party drinker, but whenever I see someone who does not drink he gets bombarded with "why not?" "You just did not have the right kind of beer yet" "just one?" and that is incredible sad.

Sadly social gatherings such as "meetups with friends" and "attendance at parties" is also dropping :( Kurzgesagt just had a video about alcohol and the social aspect: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOwmt39L2IQ

Edit: Oh, and the trend for non-alcohol wine and beer is also a big plus.
by ddtaylor | 2025-08-13 17:47:55+00:00
It's a bit of a pain in the ass, but you can actually just publish the DNS records yourself. It's clear they are on the way out though as I believe it's only a 30 day valid certificate or something.

I use this for my Jellyfin server at home so that anyone can just type in blah.foo regardless of if their device supports anything like mDNS, as half the devices claim to support it but do not correctly.
by rpcope1 | 2025-08-13 17:48:28+00:00
I mean I'm sure water could be considered a lubricant too, but it's almost never a good one. WD-40 I'm sure in some technical sense can function as a lubricant but it's a really crappy one and if nothing else tends to dry out quick. Even as a penetrating fluid it's pretty shit even compared to liquid wrench or ATF and acetone. I don't know why people bother using it other than as a water displacer.

Marine bearing and chassis grease is really different than white lithium grease. Lithium grease in general probably isn't advisable on a fan the more I think about it as it tends to destroy plastic and rubber. On a real bearing like a wheel bearing even a thin coat of high pressure grease like synthetic marine grease is going to outperform basically everything else (unless you've got an oil pump involved), and again would be the first thing I'd try and pack a bearing of rotating assembly with hands down. t's probably cheaper or about the same if you go pick up something like a tub of Supertech synthetic marine. I'm sure if you go ask somewhere like BobIsTheOilGuy forums someone there will be able to point to an optimal solution.
by rvz | 2025-08-13 17:48:50+00:00
> we're still seeing companies complain that there is a skills shortage and a lack of talent.

The truth is these companies want Stanford, Oxbridge, MIT engineers for minimum wage or close to free. But of course, no-one that will work to be exploited for their below low-ball offers.

Thus, they scream for the bullshit "skills shortage" delusion. The ones that continue to do this are almost certainly joke companies that can't afford market rate.
by simianparrot | 2025-08-13 17:48:54+00:00
That's not what I'm saying at all. I am actually considered "intersex" because I was born with one of my testicles located and stuck within my abdomen. As a baby they discovered it, and my mom let them operate and relocate it to my scrotum. While the testicle is believed to be inert, it's otherwise normal and I'm glad she did. And I'm glad she and the doctor had the mental faculties in place to _evaluate individual medical concerns_ properly. Not all cases are simply cosmetic; a dislocated testicle can cause a lot of problems later in life, as you might imagine, since it's not supposed to be where it was stuck.
by dathinab | 2025-08-13 17:49:09+00:00
trying to become a EU member state citizen as a UK citizen is still much easier then for many other countries

through often not on paper, but in practice, like the people which can throw rocks in your path do that less likely

in the end it's a question of job (in country you want to move to), money/liquidity, and moral restraints you have.

Like e.g. buying yourself citizen ship through an arranged marriage should be something like 30k-50k€ depending on EU state, context etc. And that is if you go through organized crime rings which take a cut.

And if are rich there probably should be a lot of more legal-ish ways to get citizenship. Some countries outright allow buying citizenship, but I think besides the "buying" cost you need to be quite stacked.

And if you have good job qualifications you might get a job in the EU -> long term right to stay -> and then find one way or another to convert it to citizenship. It's probably ethically most upright but also hardest path.