MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by theamk | 2025-09-02 16:11:09+00:00
run0 uses polkit for configuration instead of sudoers files, so using it will mean _a lot_ of changes. It's not a drop-in replacement at all, so it's not really an option.

(The best you can hope for is a massive education campaign to switch from sudo (any version) to run0, followed by removing "sudo" from default packages... but I don't think anyone is interested in this)
Show HN: Agent PromptTrain – Manage Claude Code Conversations for Teams
by Crystalin | 2025-09-02 16:11:27+00:00
I've been working on this internal project initially both to learn more Vibe-Coding but also to help our teams and projects to use AI more efficiently.

As more people used it, it grew to support multiple teams/projects to analyze their Claude Code conversation and optimize them over time (understanding how to write better conversation with Claude Code and share knowledge between them)

With time we added support for multiple Claude account management and monitor usage/rate limit.

This is a simple project but has proved to be quite useful for our company. We have reached 5000+ conversations (~400k messages) in our dashboard. We could try to make it a paid service but we felt it would be more useful to people (and to us) to open-source it for people to use and improve it too.

I've added an all-in-one docker image to test it in a single command.

I'll be happy if you have suggestion/comments
by coliveira | 2025-09-02 16:11:32+00:00
> government increasing the costs of hiring people

This is lazy thinking. If the government is indeed increasing costs, this is happening to everyone across the board. So why would anyone in particular be affected by this? It could even be true in a situation where profits were falling across the economy, but the numbers show that profits are INCREASING for most companies in the US at least. So how can these companies justify that it is the government forcing them to hire less people if they have more money every year?
by zozbot234 | 2025-09-02 16:11:41+00:00
It's less a reading of "GP endorses it as a route to making all your worries go away" and more one of "GP thinks it should be especially salient to us as a route to making all your worries go away". This is where I disagree. If the thought of erasing all your worries from the mind is tempting to you to the point that you "understand" the addictive potential of a narcotic drug through that one lens, your first-line approach should be learning about equanimity and structured therapy, not strong narcotics.

Also, clearly we don't need to "match the physiological response a brain has to fentanyl" (though there are newer substances like suboxone, now approved for medical use in the US and the EU, that seem to have some limited potential wrt. this), we only have to offer genuinely viable and sustainable approaches (which of course fentanyl isn't) to the narrower issue of dealing with the stressful worries in one's life.
by Vetch | 2025-09-02 16:11:45+00:00
You are right and the idea of LLMs as lossy compression has lots of problems in general (LLMs are a statistical model, a function approximating the data generating process).

Compression artifacts (which are deterministic distortions in reconstruction) are not the same as hallucinations (plausible samples from a generative model; even when greedy, this is still sampling from the conditional distribution). A better identification is with super-resolution. If we use a generative model, the result will be clearer than a normal blotchy resize but a lot of details about the image will have changed as the model provides its best guesses at what the missing information could have been. LLMs aren't meant to reconstruct a source even though we can attempt to sample their distribution for snippets that are reasonable facsimiles from the original data.

An LLM provides a way to compute the probability of given strings. Once paired with entropy coding, on-line learning on the target data allows us to arrive at the correct MDL based lossless compression view of LLMs.
by cmrdporcupine | 2025-09-02 16:12:05+00:00
Good software is made by motivated people working with a shared vision and with good communication skills. Coding talent and raw CS genius frankly I feel is almost the least part of it, especially since most of these "innovative" startups are mainly gluing together other people's work at this point.

If you don't have people excited about what they're building, talking to each other and liking or at least respecting each other, it's game over.
by bsimpson | 2025-09-02 16:12:27+00:00
Alexis's mom had cancer. He wanted her so see him succeed, so they sold it in the first year to Conde Nast (the published of Wired magazine). Conde had a popular blog called Webmonkey, and there was a reddit feed in the sidebar.

Early reddit skewed heavily towards people who make shit online; fitting for a site made by people making shit online.
by snuxoll | 2025-09-02 16:12:31+00:00
I honestly don't understand the popularity of VS Code, at all. If I wanted to cobble together a development environment from scratch, I'd just go use Emacs. Hell, I'd end up with a better product than a bunch of buggy as VS Code plugins that don't constantly act up and regularly break.

While I wouldn't consider my employer a '.Net shop' anymore, it's a fact that it still remains the most used language across the organization. Many of my coworkers have ditched Visual Studio, jumped to VS Code, gotten pissed off at it after a while, tried Rider, and eventually switched.

If anything, I think VS Code is in an incredibly unhealthy state. Sure, Microsoft initially managed to pull a Chrome with it and ate the lunch of a lot of more basic text editors, but many people are getting frustrated with the ecosystem. Really, between Spacemacs and Neovim, actual community-driven projects are coming out with much more polished and better integrated tools than Microsoft - partly thanks to them pushing everyone and their dog to build language servers. I'm sticking to proper IDE's for basically everything but the occasional itch I have to do something in lisp, but hot damn does what you get out of the box thanks to LSP support and tree-sitter make VS Code less appealing to people willing to make the switch.
by Yokolos | 2025-09-02 16:12:45+00:00
If you click on "See full release notes", there's the link "Complete list of changes for this release" at the bottom of the page on the right that points to this: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?j_top=OR&f1=target_...

Is that what you're looking for? If you sort it by updated, I assume everything after the 27th is probably in the current release.
by mensetmanusman | 2025-09-02 16:13:18+00:00
The reason is basically that Chinese cities compete with each other through financial instruments that basically put the citizens of the city on the hook for the success or failure of their car companies.

Because the leaders of the cities are making the decisions and not the citizens, the leaders are more than happy to drain the citizen’s bank accounts and try to win in this competition. (Leaders can’t be voted out)

In a roundabout way it’s very similar to how pegging the currency to the dollar reduces the earning potential of every Chinese citizen as a type of hidden wage theft that the central government uses to run the economy as they desire.
by nostrebored | 2025-09-02 16:13:21+00:00
This is a take that maybe makes sense for wealthy children or the upper middle class?

I paid for school (admittedly not that much, I stayed in state and lived in relatively poor accommodations). I’m also the only one of my siblings to not be a felon or dead before 45. Life is often a game of deltas: given the same or similar starting conditions, where did you wind up?

If you keep making delta positive outcomes, eventually you’ll wind up somewhere interesting.
by kadhirvelm | 2025-09-02 16:13:43+00:00
Well the thing that’s infuriating for me is feeling like there isn’t a good, well supported alternative for writing an enterprise grade React app that will be continue to be around. I used to rely on create-react-app, but now that that’s deprecated, I often find myself asking what else can I actually rely on? I don’t want to spend eng cycles dealing with webpack and stuff, this seems to be what the React team is endorsing so I guess I’m stuck?

Another thing I don’t know how to think about is the target market for nextjs seems to overlap with Ruby on Rails, a lot of e-commerce, media, etc. And most of these B2B apps I write are certainly not that…
by tptacek | 2025-09-02 16:14:01+00:00
I don't know anything about the story of Otherbranch's business (they launched ~about a year ago†), but Patrick, Erin & I briefly worked on a firm with similar business dynamics (Starfighter, a contingency recruiter based on CTF qualifiers). The prospect of eventually writing posts like this is part of why that business got wound down.

I think the points in this post are mostly all well taken, but I also think a hiring manager looks at this and says "yes, this a vendor talking their book". Most of the relationship between a recruiting firm and a tech company is a disagreement about what the threshold for a viable candidate is!

† https://www.otherbranch.com/shared/blog/rebooting-something-...
by pjdesno | 2025-09-02 16:14:22+00:00
Relevant to this: memory cost per GB dropped exponentially every year from the days of the earliest computers until 2010 or so, reaching $4/GB in 2011. A decade and a half later it's still in the $2-$4/GB range.

Note also that SSDs started out only slightly cheaper per GB than DRAM - the 80GB Intel X25-M had a list price of about $500 when it was released in 2008, and references I find on the net show a street price of about $240 for the next-gen 80GB device in 2009. Nowadays you can get a 1TB NVMe drive for about the cost of 16GB of RAM, although you might want to spend a few more bucks to get a non-sketchy device.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-09-02 16:14:23+00:00
The problem is that huge swaths of people can do those "most valuable" jobs, so they will chronically undercut each other to a stable salary point.

There is no conspiracy or scheme going on. Most people who set out to become a teacher or sewage plant worker are successful in doing so. Very few people who set out to be investment banker VP or real estate moguls succeed, but we hyper focus on those who do, ignoring (more likely unaware of) the graveyard of broke losers who didn't make it.

On the flip-side, if we had a way of finely grading, say, teachers, then the teachers in the top 1% percentile could likely demand extremely high paying salaries...because 99% of teachers would fail to make this grade.
by analognoise | 2025-09-02 16:14:25+00:00
As soon as we start prosecuting the rich for "social murder" and things like it, things will improve.

We just need to get over that hump. You pay yourself 300x what your average worker does? That's fine, but we can also try you for social murder. Like if you're a healthcare executive that denies coverage and increases costs without delivering care (serving as a worthless middleman who actually prevents care), you go to prison. That sort of thing.

We need to move in that direction, imo.
by Buttons840 | 2025-09-02 16:14:44+00:00
The following site breaks down the living wage required for families of various sizes, and the wage of various industries.

I compared the living wage for my own family size with the average wage per industry and realized there were only 3 industries I could earn a living wage in, management, computers, or legal. Fortunately I have experience in the computer industry (surprise HN).

Let me spell it out. The following industries provide a below living wage, on average, for a single parent with one child: business & financial operations, architecture & engineering, life, physical, & social science, community & social service, education, training, & library, arts, design, entertainment, sports, & media, healthcare practitioners & technical, healthcare support, protective service, food preparation & serving related, building & grounds cleaning & maintenance, personal care & service, sales & related, office & administrative support, farming, fishing, & forestry, construction & extraction, installation, maintenance, & repair, production, transportation & material moving.

https://livingwage.mit.edu/ example: https://livingwage.mit.edu/states/49
by zzbzq | 2025-09-02 16:14:45+00:00
That's how I've always characterized them. But if you think about it, it's not really true.

The LLM is "lossily" containing things an encyclopedia would never contain. An encyclopedia, no matter how large, would never contain the entire text of every textbook it deems worth of inclusion. It would always contain a summary and/or discussion of the contents. The LLM does, though it "compresses" over it, so that it, too, only has the gist at whatever granularity it's big enough to contain.

So in that sense, an encyclopedia is also a lossy encyclopedia.
by fsckboy | 2025-09-02 16:14:52+00:00
these discussion are so repetitious, and so many opinions (which are all welcome, they are opinions) seem so personally motivated. I want to read about some contrast, some "I expected this, but I've learned this"

I really only want to hear from people who announce first

"I went to elite schools, but I prefer hiring journeymen" or "the best I've known come from the unlikeliest places"

or

"I'm self taught, but I'm a good worker with some projects to show and talked my way into some great situations, but I realized I had to go back to school, I didn't have the horsepower"

or

Here's how I've learned to knit a team together, here are the types of diversity (of skills, habits, temperaments, experiences, raw iq, or educations) that will make a team successful.

it's boring to read over and over "mine owne education is that of a young prince, and I will only work with yon other princes" or "me learn code with sticks in cave, no code cave, no code with me"

don't simply justify yourself, that's only what survivor-bias or failure bias "teaches"
by dvfjsdhgfv | 2025-09-02 16:14:56+00:00
> bosses hate us

As a person who has worked at different layers of corporate structures I find this statement mildly offending and mostly inaccurate. In terms of emotions expressed by those reported to, I've witnessed many, such as various feelings of satisfaction and control, to an air of superiority and at times even contempt. But hate was quite unusual and would more often go the other way around, together with envy.
by Aurornis | 2025-09-02 16:15:05+00:00
On your own site or services? Of course.

I don’t want to host that content, though. That’s also my right.

As I discovered on the early days on Reddit, I don’t even want to be on a site where content is a free-for-all because you could go from scrolling through programming topics to encountering sexualized imagery of minors by scrolling if you weren’t careful.

This is the problem with every hardcore free speech platform: They attract the people who only come to post that content, while everyone else who doesn’t want to see it starts leaving. Then after some time, the majority of your content is catering to those niches.
by jayd16 | 2025-09-02 16:15:10+00:00
I think this analysis is a bit shallow with regard to Metas product portfolio and how AI fits in.

Much more than the others, metter runs a content business. Gen AI aides in content generation so it behooves them to research it. Even before the current explosion of chatbots, meta was putting this stuff into their VR framework. It's used for their headset tracking and speech to text is helpful for controlling a headset without a physical keyboard.

You're making it sound like they'll follow anything that walks by but I do think it's more strategic than that.
by vvpan | 2025-09-02 16:15:10+00:00
I am not going to say that I have the data but from what I remember that was not identified as one of the causative concerns in the book.

Subjectively I doubt that that is a systematic driver of income inequality. For example in 60s the taxes in the higher margins were extremely high (80% I think?) and worker bargaining power was strong. Yet it was a period of unprecedented growth and innovation, one where ideas of invisible hand and tide that lifts all boats were forged but in reality it was not a laissez-fair period at all.
by fragmede | 2025-09-02 16:15:26+00:00
Seems more like a test on random React minutiae. Like, let's take some framework, take away some random piece. How well do you know the area around that random piece we just removed? Frameworks are large and gnarly (or there isn't enough to them). Expecting a candidate to be lucky and know random implementation details in the area that happened to be picked doesn't seem like you'd select for anything other than luck.

For me, lately, the interview question is "here's code that ChatGPT generated for (previous interview question as related to the role we're hiring for that we could do)", what's wrong with it? What do now? (ChatGPT may or may not have actually generated the code in question.)
by linguae | 2025-09-02 16:16:02+00:00
Yes, it's today's housing costs, combined with inflation, that are highly demoralizing.

Here's a personal anecdote: my grandfather was born in Arkansas in the Jim Crow era. He never went to school, and in fact was illiterate throughout his life. He moved to the Central Valley of California in the 1950s as part of the Second Great Migration of African Americans, where millions left the South to destinations either in the North or west to California. He worked on the same farm for 30 years before he retired on Social Security. He worked very hard; he regularly woke up around 3:30am and left his home before sunrise.

Despite being illiterate, having a low income working on a farm, and facing discrimination, he was able to provide for his wife and four children, and he was able to purchase a house in Bakersfield that he was able to pass on to one of his sons.

I had other family members who moved from Texas to California in the 1950s and were able to purchase homes in places like Oakland and even farmland in San Luis Obispo County.

Today a farm worker in the Central Valley would have a much harder time being able to afford a home.

I work as a CS professor in Silicon Valley making six figures, and all I can afford to purchase is a one-bedroom condo unless I wanted to live in a high-crime neighborhood of the type that I grew up in or unless I wanted a soul-crushing commute from the Central Valley. Yes, I know I signed up for that reality when I took my role.

But forget about me and consider the big picture: high housing costs are brutal for young people who weren't around to purchase when prices were more affordable.
by nonethewiser | 2025-09-02 16:16:02+00:00
If success were ONLY about having capital then what would that imply? The super rich people of today would come from the super rich people of their parent's generation. This model is actually incredibly bad at predicting the richest people in the US today. Gates, Musk, Buffet, Bezos, Zuckerberg, etc. Many may have come from well off families but none of them were anything close to among the richest of their generation. Looking from the other end, you'd expect the Ford Family, Getty, Hunt, Howard Hughes, etc. to have spawned the richest people of today. They havent.

But we dont have to resort to this sort of logic. We already have data showing 70% of wealthy families lost their wealth by the 2nd generations and 90% lose it by the third. https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/generational-wealth%3A-why-d...

But to be clear, you didn't say it was ONLY capital. It sounds like you're putting that as a primary thing. But you also mentioned luck.

Can you elaborate on the luck part? Wouldnt that imply that people acting randomly have a similar chance of succeeding? If not, then there must be something MORE than luck involved right? I think everyone would agree luck is involved, but disagree on the extent. Is (bad) luck the reason why the Ford family didnt produce the richest people of today? Is an insane amount of (good) luck the reason why Zuckerberg has billions?
Show HN: 5k+ Y Combinator startups on a world map
by leonagano | 2025-09-02 16:16:44+00:00
Hey HN,

I built this tool that maps out every YC company worldwide. You can zoom into cities, explore clusters, and click to see details like batch, location, and website.

Why I made it? I thought it’d be fun to visualise it, using the same infrastructure I already use in my other project: FoundersAround

Some things I’m still improving: • Improve performance • More filters (industries, stages, etc).

Would love your feedback.

https://yc.foundersaround.com
by OhMeadhbh | 2025-09-02 16:16:49+00:00
"best" engineers vs "senior" engineers is a valid point. I think a lot of my comments on this thread are of the mode of "best engineer" should also be thought of as "best engineer for this environment / culture." I tend to stay away from people who say things like "top talent" and "10x engineer" and (worst yet) "Unicorn." You can't really make a judgement about an engineer without describing the environment they'll live in.

And also... maybe more importantly... there's a saying (almost a joke) in the military: "You don't go to war with the forces you want, you go to war with the forces you have." (or maybe it was "people" instead of "forces" and no doubt the Air Force replaces "forces" with "very expensive weapon system manufactured by lowest-bid contractors by people who happen to live in districts represented by members of the congressional armed forces committee.") And that might be what we're getting at here.

While it would be great to get the absolute best engineer at day one, it's more likely you're going to get an engineer that requires a fair bit of training and in-the-trenches experience.
by godelski | 2025-09-02 16:17:03+00:00
Finding "the best" is very hard. You get such a small glimpse at a person from their resume and the interview process. Then good luck getting them to join you instead of another job that can pay more, give better perks, or whatever. You put in all that time interviewing, spending all that money, and look where you work, is it really all that effective?

If your company requires the best then you most likely have too much complexity. If your company requires the best to continue then your company isn't stable. Even if you got the best, can you keep the best? If you argue that there are enough "the best" then really you're just calling average (or anyone just above average) the best
by renewiltord | 2025-09-02 16:17:25+00:00
A mistake most founders make is they want someone as motivated about their company as they are. But things have changed since even 15 years ago. Back then, the machinery for startups wasn't as available, so many people would work for someone else to do something.

As the machinery has become more available, all those highly motivated people would rather compete with you than work with you.

So founder-level motivation is only available if you give something else up: cash (as opposed to delayed equity), large amounts of equity (2% or more), desirable working environment (close to home, remote, etc) or something else they can't get and can't just get by competing instead.

But the most founder-level motivation guys will just start a competitor. That's life.
by LaraHealth | 2025-09-02 16:17:27+00:00
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