MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gota | 2025-09-16 14:32:14+00:00
I think open source contributions/projects will still be a way to gain verifiable experience.

Other than that, I guess developing software in some capacity while doing a non-strictly software job - say, in accounting, marketing, healtcare, etc. This might not be a relevant number of people if 'vibe coding' takes hold and the fundamentals are not learned/ignored by these accountants, marketers, healthcare workers, etc.

If that is the case, we'd have a lot of 'informed beginners' with 10+ years of experience tangentially related to software.

Edit: As a result of the above, we might see an un-ironic return to the 'learn to code' mantra in the following years. Perhaps now qualified 'learn to -actually- code'? I'd wager a dollar on that discourse popping up in ~5 years time if the trend of not hiring junior devs continues.
by MarkusQ | 2025-09-16 14:32:24+00:00
The onerous requirements have nothing to do with protecting the samples in their sealed containers; the issue is overblown fear of contaminants on the _outside_ of the containers reaching Earth, It's comparatively easy to seal a container remotely, before it leaves the surface, compared to the task of sanitizing it against all hypothetical threats while in transit.

No one's arguing against protecting the samples from exposure to Earth life; the contention is to what extent we need to "protect Earth life" from the cooties hitchhiking on the sample return system.
Show HN: I wrote a from-scratch OS to serve my blog
by thasso | 2025-09-16 14:32:25+00:00
Hey HN! This is a fun/educational project I built to learn OS programming. I started working on it right after graduating high school last year and have been working on it on and off during my first year of university. It features a TCP/IP stack, an HTTP server, a RAM file system, a BIOS bootloader, paging and memory management, and concurrent tasks based on cooperative scheduling, along with a custom library. It's written in a C programming style focused on safety (based on a custom library of core abstractions) that's inspired by the writing of Chris Wellons (nullprogram.com).

There is a link to a test deployment in the README. The TCP/IP implementation is nowhere near perfect, of course, so there may be issues loading the page. I'm curious how the system holds up if this post gets any attention ;-)
by mxkopy | 2025-09-16 14:32:37+00:00
If C is the same for all K, then can’t he extrapolate the trend from K = 2 (which you’re right, I did misread) to all other values of K? That seems to be his justification for the claim you’re arguing.

I do think some more rigor is needed here (especially wrt to whether his derivation for C is sensical, as you allude to, since it obviously can’t converge to 0) but I hope we can agree that we are well into the “amateur who has trouble presenting as such” territory rather than the “AI slop” territory.
by pizzathyme | 2025-09-16 14:32:44+00:00
There is something fundamentally broken about this entire user journey and industry. There are lots of jobs to fill. But hiring managers don't find people reading through resumes submitted in a form. People don't get jobs by submitting resumes into a form.

The opportunities happen from talking on the phone, meeting someone for coffee. I feel like this entire resume submission industry should just be deleted.
Show HN: ModelKombat – Arena-style battles for coding models
by rvivek | 2025-09-16 14:32:45+00:00
I'm Vivek, co-founder/CEO of HackerRank (YC S11); You may know us as a hiring tool for developers/companies.

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Our first launch is Model Kombat -- an arena where you can directly compare anonymized coding models, side by side, on real problems.

* Pick an arena (Java, Python, etc.) * Each battle has 3 rounds: see the problem + two model outputs -> vote on which you’d actually prefer * Leaderboards + problem statements are updated weekly.

We already have 400+ challenges live, and our goal is to evolve toward real-world, multi-file challenges and robust tooling for coding model evaluation.

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We’d love your feedback.
by mrsilencedogood | 2025-09-16 14:32:53+00:00
I mean NAND circuit primitives. Jokingly referring to the fact that NAND operations are all you need to build a complete logic system, but it's not very fun/ergonomic. And I'm joking that js is basically doing that but with whatever random js stuff browsers provide - which is basically just "js can do function calls. I guess let's build our entire framework on function calls."
by nradov | 2025-09-16 14:33:18+00:00
Completely wrong. Renewables plus battery storage and long-distance transmission lines can potentially solve the power generation problem, although we're decades away from being able to scale that up in a way that addresses base load requirements for heavy industry in an economical way. But beyond power generation, natural gas is a crucial feedstock for the chemicals industry. Renewables won't solve that and the German chemical manufacturing industry is dying.

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulat...
by motorest | 2025-09-16 14:33:51+00:00
> So rather than focusing on how Microsoft/npm et al can prevent similar situations in the future, (...)

There's some ignorance in your comment. If you read up on debug & chalk supply chain attack, you'll end up discovering that the attacker gained control of the account through plain old phishing. Through a 2FA reset email, to boot.

What exactly do you expect the likes of Microsoft to do if users hand over their access to third parties? Do you want to fix issues or to pile onto the usual targets?
by ux266478 | 2025-09-16 14:34:13+00:00
People talk about Apple stealing from Xerox, but what you may not know is that Douglas Engelbart's team at SRI left shortly after this demo and took everything to Xerox without him. The man spent the rest of his career being swept into gutters, never got any recognition until the early 2000s at the very end of his life. It's a really tragic tale.
by mothballed | 2025-09-16 14:34:18+00:00
Yes, https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/63291773/united-states-....

Navy sailor was convicted of possessing machine guns and destructive devices.

The ATF for example put back together de-milled RPGs, which could be a destructive device

However the statute says the following:

(2) any type of weapon by whatever name known which will, or which may be readily converted to, expel a projectile by the action of an explosive or other propellant, the barrel or barrels of which have a bore of more than one-half inch in diameter, except a shotgun or shotgun shell which the Secretary finds is generally recognized as particularly suitable for sporting purposes; and (3) any combination of parts either designed or intended for use in converting any device into a destructive device as defined in subparagraphs (1) and (2) and from which a destructive device may be readily assembled.

The ATF took his demilled RPG, put another gun (owned by the ATF) inside of it, then fired it to prove it had a bore over 0.5 inch capable of expelling projectile.

But the state didn't tell him under what definition he was charged, so they didn't know if they were defending against the collection of parts the ATF took (falls under 3), or against the weapon the ATF claimed it was after they put the parts together (which falls under 2).
by hyperzzw | 2025-09-16 14:34:20+00:00
Hi, I have read your interesting paper. I recommend you our previous HyperZZW paper (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.17948). I think there are a lot of similar concepts here.

1. Context-dependent convolution

2. Global & Local branches

3. Replace large-filter Conv with matrix multiplication

4. Information bottleneck -> Information loss

I also want to share that Mamba is based on the concept of Hyena. And the simplicity is the best (HyperZZW), and Hyena is a failure.
by zoeysmithe | 2025-09-16 14:34:39+00:00
I know we live in an age where if someone dies, you cannot criticize him, but Redford is famous for the blackballing of James Woods. I vehemently disagree with Woods' politics but that shouldnt preclude him from employment. Its very clear people like Redform made sure people like Woods were targeted for their political and personal views. Redford was a huge Hollywood power, not just this 'kindly grandpa' actor but a power-player of the highest order. Redford ran a major film and television production company and as such decided, personally, who to hire or fire on his own whim.

Robert Redford is also the founder of the Sundance Film Festival, so getting on his bad-side is strongly career-effecting. People lived in fear of getting on this guy's bad side.

On set, he sounds like the typical Hollywood nightmare with famous clashes with his costars and directors. Arthur Laurents, the writer of The Way We Were, described Redford as an "ego maniac" and control freak for his on-set behaviors.

I say this as a leftist, but "The Truth" is liberal catering-to, and whitewashes Rathers's lack of due diligence in the Bush document, which even to a largely uniformed person like me thought, "Uh isnt that a modern font?" Dan Rather's rush to to this story is not a 'victim' but the failure of basic journalism. I dont think Rather should have resigned, but the idea that's he's this kind-hearted innocent, as the film mostly portrays him as, is just dishonesty. Rather saw money and fame in breaking a big story, and ran with it without much care.

Shrug, I've always seen his PR as very heavily manufactured and played towards the NYTimes and Variety and Sundance crowd in a very targeted way. And it worked, Redford died with an estate worth at least $200m. Capitalism gonna capitalism I guess, but the reality is Redford was quite the vindictive partisan who used his wealth and power against his perceived political enemies and whitewashed some questionable people.
by lukev | 2025-09-16 14:34:55+00:00
It's pretty clear this is happening.

The question is... is this based on existing capability of LLMs to do these jobs? Or are companies doing this on the expectation that AI is advanced enough to pick up the slack?

I have observed a disconnect in which management is typically far more optimistic about AI being capable of performing a specific task than are the workers who currently perform that task.

And to what extent is AI-related job cutting just an excuse for what management would want to do anyway?
by AlanYx | 2025-09-16 14:34:58+00:00
Molly is actually a fairly interesting and complex character if you follow her from Johnny Mnenmonic all the way through Neuromancer (especially the second half) and Mona Lisa Overdrive.

It's tempting to write off Case's behavior as just a realistic portrayal of a washed up addict, but thematically there's a strong and likely intentional parallel between the way he's coming apart and the way one of the main AIs in the story is coming apart. If you add in Linda Lee and the other AI, what Gibson was trying to do becomes a lot clearer. I'm intentionally being vague to avoid spoilers.
by mikeyouse | 2025-09-16 14:35:19+00:00
Your second case was in the WD of Texas which is where he was arrested - it's just minutia to have him 'removed' to the ED of Texas to face charges where he was indicted - this is the main case there:

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/16517474/united-states-...

Here's his plea: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txed.19...

My recap is acting up a bit so I'll just copy/paste in case it doesn't grab docket entry 158 - the 'factual basis' for the plea:

1. That the defendant, Conrad Rockenhaus, who is entering a plea of guilty, is the same person charged in the Indictment;

2. That the defendant worked as a as a developer services manager, and later an infrastructure architect, for an online company providing travel booking and vacation services to customers (hereinafter, Victim Company );

3. That the defendant had access to and could control computer code located on Victim Company s servers throughout the country, including computer code that controlled business functions such as marketing, scheduling, and payment processing;

4. That on or about November 11, 2014, the defendant remotely accessed, without authorization, the Victim Company s servers from his residence in the Eastern District of Texas;

5. That on or about November 11, 2014, the defendant executed a computer code or command that shut down one of Victim Company s servers, which in turn caused several other Victim Company servers to crash;

6. That the defendant was retained by Victim Company to assist with the restoration of Victim Company’s servers;

7. That during the remediation efforts, the defendant, without authorization, disconnected Victim Company’s servers in Plano, Texas, in the Eastern District of Texas, causing further business disruption;

8. That the defendant’s actions cost Victim Company at least $242,775 in lost revenue and at least $321,858 in recovery and remediation costs.
by arp242 | 2025-09-16 14:35:33+00:00
He used encrypted services to commit a bunch of crimes. He was then released on the condition that he would no longer use the encrypted services that he used to commit the crimes with. He then lied and used those encrypted services anyway. It's really that simple.

I am absolutely NOT a fan of "tough on crime" type stuff. By and large I feel the US criminal justice system is an inhumane cruel monstrosity. But the conditions were not all that unreasonable (except the weed stuff) and all of this smells of bad faith on the part of this couple.
by smokedetector1 | 2025-09-16 14:36:06+00:00
Interesting. However just because this is true right now doesn't mean it will be true going forward. Unique to the current moment is that there are simultaneously (1) high interest rates and a challenging economy (2) a narrative that AI adoption should enable cutting junior roles. This could lead to companies that would anyway be doing layoffs choosing to lay off or not hire juniors, and replace with AI adoption.

To really test the implied theory that using AI enables cutting junior hiring, we need to see it in a better economy, in otherwise growing companies, or with some kind of control (though not sure how this would really be possible).
by schwentkerr | 2025-09-16 14:36:51+00:00
Google launches AP2: an open payments protocol for AI agents

Google just announced Agent Payments Protocol (AP2): standard meant to let AI agents securely transact across cards, bank transfers & even stablecoins. It uses cryptographically-signed “mandates” to prove intent & create an auditable trail from request → cart → payment.

Apparently 60+ partners on board (Amex, PayPal, Mastercard, Coinbase, etc.).

Google frames this as the foundation of “agentic commerce.”

Is it possible that w/i 6 months an agent-to-agent transaction for a large sum will go wrong, exposing the accountability gaps AP2 is meant to solve?

Is AP2 the missing trust layer for autonomous commerce, or just the start of a messy collision btw agents, payments standards & liability?
by probablypower | 2025-09-16 14:37:06+00:00
Batteries don't provide meaningful flexibility on a continental scale. They're useful in localised frequency control or microgrid flexibility.

An exercise to the reader, calculate the space and materials required to replace the average norwegian hydro reservoir with batteries.

Nuclear tech doesn't provide required ramp rates at a useful price. I do agree however that more nuclear helps.

The problem is dispatchability/flexibility, not storage. At a more complex level the issue is grid inertia and frequency response.
by LegionMammal978 | 2025-09-16 14:37:23+00:00
Yeah, it's pretty close to the "Imagine how great the world would be if everyone used Lisp/Haskell/WhateverLang instead of Java/JS everywhere!" take you sometimes see. As if the common developer wouldn't just write in all those languages like they're Java/JS, and keep clear of the advanced macros/type systems/whatever.

Even languages or environments that try to "steer the developer into the correct direction" have only really managed it when the new direction is something they already might've chosen to write. Otherwise, you just end up with many square pegs filed down to fit in round holes.
by kstrauser | 2025-09-16 14:37:35+00:00
Same all around for me. I have a couple of longstanding accounts on local businesses I help out, but it’s all via VPNs that send the owner an email when I connect. I also refuse to do any work unless they ask me in writing. Text is OK, and I screenshot it. “Why did you give such-and-such rights to that employee?” “I have it in writing where the owner asked me to, Your Honor.”

This has never come up before, but it’s easy enough to be diligent about it.

Also: I keep a little paper notebook where I log the work I do for everyone, and occasionally have someone else sign and date it. It’s basically a cheap blockchain IRL. “How do you know you did this before you stopped doing work for them?” “Because the owner signed and dated the logbook after I did the work but before they hired the new IT person.”

I’m suuuuuper nitpicky about diligence in all this, for the protection of everyone involved, and especially me.
by RandomBacon | 2025-09-16 14:37:44+00:00
You're drawing the wrong conclusions.

Also, your writing is overflowing with emotion which is interpreted as idiological and not serious.

Reasonable people are not going to waste their time trying to have a civilized discussion with someone who drops f-bombs and isn't serious.

Edit: I wrote the above before looking at the rest of your comments. After looking at the rest of your comments, I rest my case.
by numbers_guy | 2025-09-16 14:38:51+00:00
> however simultaneously are unaware that the cushy "European" lifestyle they love only exists because of the US

Why do so many Americans believe this? I would like to see some real accounting of the US-EU relationship. Americans only focus on the supposed defense relationship, where supposedly the EU is under investing because the US will supposedly come to the rescue. Every single other aspect of the US-EU relationship is ignored.
by marginalia_nu | 2025-09-16 14:38:54+00:00
I think a lot of people simply don't know what to do with themselves when they don't have a job.

There are many psychological needs that jobs often provide for you that you have to sort out yourself when you don't have traditional employement. This is a problem you face through unemployement, but also self-employment and early retirement.

At least in part, it's not so much not having a job as not having daily structure, not having a social context, and lacking a sense of belonging. Lacking these factors will absolutely ruin your mental well-being.

These aren't things that are impossible to find when unemployed (or otherwise not working), but if you've spent most of your life being told what to do, first in school and then at work, you've got some figuring out to do.
by emacsen | 2025-09-16 14:39:09+00:00
Let's break this down a bit.

> I don't think having the server render the table HTML and you injecting it is a good idea.

HTMX, Alpine AJAX and other similar progressive web frameworks work exactly this way, as do server side rendered React.js and friends.

> What if the server has downtime, and returns a 200 response but with a "maintenance mode" page

If the server is in maintence mode, it should not display the web application/web page, but instead show a "We're in maintenance mode" messages.

> Having it render only on a successful response and correct parsing of JSON data is more reliable.

You're comparing making a simple web page with either no secondary calls or a single secondary call using a few lines of code to writing a client side web application. It's a bit like comparing a car with a bicycle.

> You also start complicating things in terms of separation of concerns. You potentially have to adapt any styling considerations in your API, for instance if the table needs a class adding to it. Overall, not a good idea, imho.

This is certainly an opinion and that works for you, but HTMX and similar actually make much of my life easier, rather than harder since all that styling, etc. can live alongside my server logic, rather than being in an entirely separate second application.
by insane_dreamer | 2025-09-16 14:39:13+00:00
> A form is not going to a hire you, a person is.

This is becoming less and less true.

> You need to ignore the form and talk to a person.

Unless you're lucky, this is no longer going to happen. Getting a job is now becoming much more about luck, circumstances, and who you already know, much like getting your first starring role in a movie -- not about your abilities.
by tptacek | 2025-09-16 14:39:18+00:00
As I understand it --- I haven't read deeply enough to confirm this, it's what I've pieced together from the Reddit thing --- the Tor stuff came long before any of this. What I gather is:

1. Back in 2014 this person committed a pretty grave computer offense, which was not at the time prosecuted.

2. Some time after that, he became a high-profile Tor relay operator.

3. Some time after that, he was asked to subvert those Tor relays by the DOJ.

4. In 2019 he was prosecuted for the computer offenses, and convicted.

5. In 2021, he was released on parole.

(I think there's a long string of parole issues after that, and then)

6. In 2025 he was accused by the probation office of violating his parole in a bunch of ways and taken into custody.
by toast0 | 2025-09-16 14:39:41+00:00
Parole terms aren't usually up for negotiation. It's generally parole or stay in prison. You can agree to the terms offered, but it's a coercive agreement, so I wouldn't put much weight on the parolees agreement. That said, I agree the terms seem reasonable.

But even if you stay in prison for your full term, you're likely to have supervised release which has similar terms.
by thasfTR | 2025-09-16 14:40:22+00:00
Things were fine in Germany under the moderate Merkel government, which emphasized deescalation with Russia until the Cowboys Lindsey Graham, Victoria Nuland and John McCain came along and fanned the flames.

After the illegal and horrible Russian invasion (which was provoked nonetheless) the EU got progressively drawn into the US proxy war. They were criticized for not doing enough in 2022 by the US. In 2025 on the other hand they were criticized for wanting to prolong the war by Trump.

The EU pays the bill, the US reaps its benefits from weakening Russia, which is the entire goal of the slow moving war of attrition. Successes include US dominance in Syria, attempted dominance in Venezuela and possible Greenland.

Ruining the EU's social systems will achieve nothing. This is an energy problem and the US tries to control all choke points of energy delivery to the EU.
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-09-16 14:40:22+00:00
Agentic coding is like leading and instructing a team of a bunch of very dumb but also very smart junior devs. They can follow instructions to the T and have great memory but lack common sense and have no experience. The more experienced and skilled their leadership, the better chance of getting a good result from them, which I don’t think is a good job (yet?) for an entry level human SWE.
by MontyCarloHall | 2025-09-16 14:40:24+00:00
As other posters have said, this only really works if you have a network. Zeroth-order referrals (i.e. they call you) work best, first-order referrals (i.e. you know someone at the company) work decently well, and second-order referrals (you know someone who knows someone to refer you) are a guided shot in the dark.

People who have networks all know this. The issue is that a shocking number of people don't have any network at all. These tend to be the sorts of people who are either actively antisocial at work (the "coworkers aren't your friends" type) or job hop so frequently that they don't spend enough time at any single job to develop any meaningful professional, let alone personal connections.