MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nis0s | 2025-09-30 10:35:39+00:00
The hard truth for Americans (I am talking about Americans because most of these are large cap US companies) is that other countries are cheaper for the following reasons:

1) Companies can find comparably trained and educated workers in non-US countries at cheaper rates because the U.S. education system doesn’t discriminate against less performant students. The education systems in many other countries are competitive at various stages and serve as strict filters against laggards, and there’s less consideration for meeting basic human needs in some countries. But in others there are different options where many students naturally find themselves (like less paying or blue collar work), and if that were to happen in the U.S. then inequality advocates will have a lot to say, and they wouldn’t be wrong.

2) There are a lot of realpolitiks at play when you have a multicultural society as people will often have dual allegiances. A CEO or hiring manager from country X or Y will want to favor their country of origin, naturally. It becomes easier to justify some decisions when the bottom line is also helped by said decisions by hiring cheaper labor.

3) The most expensive thing on the U.S. budget books for employers, employees and the government is social security and Medicare. Some countries simply deny their citizens and workers social security and access to welfare programs, which helps keep the cost of employing them down.

4) Even if a global corporate tax rate is set, it will still make labor in countries that don’t ask for social program contributions much cheaper.

5) The rule of law situation in some of these countries is less than ideal, and so living there can be a hit or miss, which is why H1-Bs are a popular choice for both employers and non-U.S. employees.

6) But still it seems that regional security and stability in some regions has led to permissive environments for unrestricted work. This situation isn’t going to change for nuclear countries, unless they’re like Russia (screwed by economic sanctions and expansionist desires).

So in the short-term, unless there’s some agreement to be made between countries for balancing their labor market loads, then economic sanctions seem like a terrible last resort.

Addendum, I think the hard truth for large cap companies is that they never should have been allowed to get that big, and in many cases their growth was aided by direct investment by the U.S. government. There’s an interesting lesson here for policy makers about balancing power and investments. Maybe the U.S. should divert future government spending to only its research labs.
by vulkoingim | 2025-09-30 10:36:52+00:00
Thanks!

Right now it's not possible, but I'll put it on my list of features to add. Unfortunately though, the play history Spotify provides is very innaccurate and incomplete - so suggestions only based on that would be quite limited :( It's the same issue with the statistics, they are best-effort based.

Having said that, there is another feature you could use: if you have or follow any playlists, you can include artists from them. Make sure to have the `Index Playlist Artists` option (it will get enabled automatically if you follow <100 artists) and tick `Include playlist artists` setting when creating your playlists.
by whizzter | 2025-09-30 10:38:14+00:00
Like others have mentioned, in a CMS like project your bottlenecks are more likely in terms of database and/or caching.

Span<T> , stackalloc and value-structs will matter more when writing heavy data/number crunching scenarios like imageprocessing, games, "AI"/vector queries or things like _implementing_ database engines (see yesterdays discussion on the guys announcing they're using C++ where Rust, Go, Erlang, Java and C# was discussed for comparisons https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45389744 ).

I'm often spending my days on writing applications that are reminiscent of CMS workloads and while I sometimes do structs, I've not really bought out my lowlevel optimization skills more than a few times in the past 6 years, 95% of the time it's bad usage of DB's.
by bastiaant | 2025-09-30 10:38:25+00:00
I built Space after realizing most productivity tools focus on doing whatever, not doing better.

After reading Oliver Burkeman's "4000 Weeks" and Cal Newport's "Slow Productivity," I wanted a tool that actually supported their ideas rather than undermined them. Something that helps you zoom out (year/quarter goals) so you can zoom in (week/day) with confidence that today's work connects to what actually matters.

I couldn't find anything like this, so I built it myself. After a year of daily use and iteration, I'm releasing it publicly.

Oliver Burkeman looked at it and said "this has the potential to be a very useful tool for many."

Demo video here: https://help.findspace.app/
by kragen | 2025-09-30 10:38:36+00:00
Or you unplug your fridge from the wall and plug it into your inverter, with or without battery backup. Or you just leave it plugged into your APC UPS. I think cheaper ones than this US$60 2000W inverter exist: https://www.temu.com/ar/-2000w-inversor-de--con-pantalla-dig...

In the US they cost a lot more, but they still exist; there's a 750-watt unit at Horror Fright for US$70: https://archive.fo/1pzdK
by huijzer | 2025-09-30 10:39:06+00:00
> It requires an accounting perspective on the inflows and outflows of an ongoing process and not just a small slice of data.

Correct, but we don't have that information so we have to rely on a best guess. We're not dealing with code here where everything is known exactly.

> Yet, the main question for actually measuring the (firm and investor expected) impact of AI is whether that rate of headcount growth has changed without the stock price going down.

Stock price is not necessarily a proxy for headcount either. Some companies have much lower headcounts per stock price (for example, Nvidia).

> That is, is it now proposed by management and accepted by investors that the firm will henceforth require less human labor in order to deliver on the present expected value of future free cash flow.

You are just talking without thinking now are you? It makes no sense. Human labor and free cash flow are probably correlated, but one isn't a proxy for the other. First you relate stock price to headcount and then you say "that is" and then you suddenly relate cash flow to headcount. Cash flow and stock price are correlated per industry, but it's also a very loose one.

> You cannot infer anything about this question from the data shown.

False. I only need to infer a tiny bit in order to falsify your extremely strong claim.

> For this, you would need to look at net hires year after year and prove that a growing percent thereof are H1-Bs.

Yes, this is something concrete that I can agree on. But how would you prove that given that we don't have access to that data?
by whywhywhywhy | 2025-09-30 10:40:54+00:00
Kinda pointless listening to the opinions of people who've used previews because it's not gonna be the same model you'll experience once it gets downgraded to be viable under mass use and the benchmarks influencers use are all in the training data now and tested internally so any sort of testing like pelicans on bikes is just PR at this point.
by bamboozled | 2025-09-30 10:41:08+00:00
What's interesting is the people who are "unfit" and especially obese seem to fair the worst.

Most of the people I spoke of, drank and smoked a lot, but also active to very active, and exercised regularly even in their 80s. Swimming, walking, playing tennis, yard work, gardening. They all seemed to share these things in common.

Being Obese and sedentary seems to be a dangerous undertaking.
by whizzter | 2025-09-30 10:41:18+00:00
Even on the contrary, once you introduce GC usage into languages without direct support you're basically always running a substandard GC because so many advances(enabled by read/write barriers) aren't really available without language support.

Then people go around shouting GC's are bad because they used them with a language that made them use some of the worst ones out there.
by harperlee | 2025-09-30 10:41:40+00:00
I read here genetics, because you're avoiding a sensitive topic.

I actually think that it is culture. Often people attribute to melanin what is very obviously an issue with values and cosmovision, as part of the culture that someone breathes since childbirth. Which is solvable with education but only on generational timescales, unfortunately. Similar to Planck's principle, "Science progresses one funeral at a time".
by pajko | 2025-09-30 10:42:12+00:00
Seems like it's not just arbitrary, but crafted. Could not find it anywhere, for example, searching for "DISTS so we can remove overflow checks from" (with quotes ofc) brings up just this site, both in Google and Bing. It has typos, btw. It would be another issue if it came from https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/HEAD/third_..., but that's not the case.
by spacebanana7 | 2025-09-30 10:42:24+00:00
India's economic development is centred on a narrow cone of progress around IT services/outsourcing/migration and the spending power that creates a set for consumers and government projects.

It's not comparable to the broad based productivity gains which happened in China or the UK across every industry as they developed, from agriculture to manufacturing to services. Instead it's much more like the Norwegian or Saudi hydrocarbon economies but with human capital exports.
by alxfrnr | 2025-09-30 10:42:40+00:00
So they use all the reviews and product testing they ingest to come-up with results, then they let you buy whatever they list in 1-click and bank a commission. A comission that would have gone in the pockets of an affiliate with actual hands on experience on the product (not talking about all the SEO crap of course), effectively killing the affiliates who provided the needed data for the rankings in the first place.

It also paves the way for ads in this type of answer down the line and incentivizes enshitification even further. If it would be Google doing it, everybody would raise their shields. But as openAI is still too small, we'll let it happen without saying or doing anything, right?

It hides stores/brands reputation, value-prop and differenciators, likely favoring the established big players and makes it even harder for smaller players to enter.

What about the ethics of having openAI as the gatekeeper for product/brands inclusion? Right now it mighht look like a clever business move but it establishes dangerous foundations and gives them too much power if they keep growing.
by TrackerFF | 2025-09-30 10:42:44+00:00
Interestingly, in image 2, the filtered data seems to be worse than the actual noisy data?

Sure, the large spikes from sensor data were reduced, as seen with the blue line up in north which was considerably reduced, but seemingly at the cost of the more accurate tracks. We can see some "ground truth" - namely the map roads. I think if the source of the tracks are someone moving on a road (in a car etc.), it is safe to assume that the roads will be the most likely place to find them. In that image, it seems like we're seeing the tracks of some object moving on the road.

EDIT: But nice work anyway, I work a lot with noisy GPS data for vessels, where there are no roads - only shipping routes / paths, and increased GPS jamming in some areas makes prediction models more useful.
by mrweasel | 2025-09-30 10:43:45+00:00
Other than the volume, one of the issues I have with these types of ads is that you're rarely able to report them as scams. Reddit have a similar issue. You can report an ad, but you have to pick "Other", there's no: "This ad is clearly a scam". That's by design obviously, because by removing the scams, most of the ad networks are left with very little inventory. Certainly not enough to fund all the ad supported service currently in operation through out the web.

When I forget to sign in to YouTube, I see the same pattern, shitty ads that are clearly only allowed because otherwise YouTube wouldn't have sufficient ad inventory to meet their internal KPIs.
by kace91 | 2025-09-30 10:46:08+00:00
>Is it legal to assume that the controller of an email address is the same as the person who created the account using the email address?

Isn’t that the general practice?

Maybe with extra steps, but most services allow the “I just forgot my password -> I get a recovery email” flow, which trusts that the email from which the account was created is proof of identity. Then you get access to everything else with the password.
by antonyh | 2025-09-30 10:46:54+00:00
I used to use Disqus on my blog a long time ago, but dropped it with one of the many reboots. Having comments on a blog still seems like a good idea but I'm still half minds over on-page vs fediverse-based discussion, or maybe even both. Spam is a constant problem.

One alternative I've come across while researching this was https://cusdis.com/ - has anyone tried this?
by edent | 2025-09-30 10:47:17+00:00
Looking through my recent comments, the majority are from people filling in the box on my posts. So, yes, I would lose a lot if I switched them off.

You'll also notice that I use WebMentions to import those 3rd party discussions (or links to them) into my blog.

That way users aren't subject to the advertising on platform A, the poor moderation on platform B, or the difficulty of even finding the comments on platform C.
by serbuvlad | 2025-09-30 10:48:22+00:00
I simply do not think that the popularity of US tech is due to anything other than the quality of US tech.

I live in Romania, and the people that were rushing to pirate Windows in the 90's after communism fell because they couldn't afford licensing weren't doing so because of any US imposition, but simply because they wanted to use personal computers, and Windows was the best OS for most people at the time for that purpose.

Just like when phones came around they rushed to buy Nokia phones; when smartphones came around they rushed to buy Samsung phones; when they wanted DLSRs they bought Canon and Nikon cameras and now that they want easily transferable digital cash and cheap tech trinkets they opened up Revolut accounts and order stuff off Temu.

Not because of any "influence" or "position" of Finland, South Korea, Japan, the UK or China, but simply because they are the best offer on the market as perceived by consumers.

What tech does Europe lead in? To be fair there are still some fields, like Aerospace (Airbus), Lithography (ASML) or Pharmaceutics (BioNTech). But on the consumer tech market, the phones, laptops and streaming services people want? The EU has no presence. Even the auto industry is going to be eaten up by China, because Europe simply pivoted too late to EVs. I know someone who works at Renault and they're just terrified of the cars that are coming out of China.
Show HN: InpaintKit – A plugin let you use latest AI models in Photoshop
by tuyenhx | 2025-09-30 10:48:26+00:00
Recently, many people have been building new tools around the latest AI image editing models like Google Nano Banana and Seedream 4, mostly for use on the web.

Personally, I still prefer working in my familiar environment, Photoshop. So I decided to write a plugin that lets me use these models directly inside Photoshop, following a workflow similar to "Generate Fill."

I've been using it with my team, and it works well so far. Because of rapid development, it currently only supports Photoshop 24.2.0 and above. A few teammates still use CS6, so I plan to add support for CS6 in the future.

With the latest Photoshop release, I noticed they added Nano Banana too. But I think my plugin still has an advantage when it comes to the speed of adopting new models, so I believe there's still a place for it.

You can have a look at a quick demo here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryXX23Hjtxs
by Yizahi | 2025-09-30 10:49:15+00:00
The supply and demand is a convenient myth, skirting a lot of the nuance and artificial factors. If supply and demand did work like the proponents of "simple answers" claim, then every remote software engineer of similar tenure would earn about the same amount anywhere across the globe. That's just one single very simple example, to make my point obvious. There are countless slightly more complex examples too. In fact, it can be made even simpler - let's forget comparing two different engineers, let's pick only one. If one full remote software engineer moves between countries without even changing the job, his compensation may change dramatically, simply because in one country wages are suppressed at X level and in another at Y level. Same hold for any other activities too, not only SWE.

In my amateur opinion, the compensation for each particular job is highly dependent on the historical accidents and unrelated political and economical events, and the rate of quality code (or whatever other end product/service) is a distant secondary factor in that.
by mcv | 2025-09-30 10:51:42+00:00
Sometimes it is, sometimes not.

In 2009 I worked for a really chill company with small but nice management. The owner/CEO wanted to turn it into a worker-owned co-op.

But one of my coworkers was so stuck in the "management is evil" mindset that he became hard to work with. (Although he also radicalized politically; I think he went from SNP to UKIP.)
by conradfr | 2025-09-30 10:53:06+00:00
Wow thanks for the reminder! I have a small side project [0] with Disqus and got the email there would be ads but didn't think to check it out and due to ublock I was kind of oblivious to how they looked.

Check this out: https://i.imgur.com/ZOBUNBg.png

The size of it, above the comments (and under as well of course). That is madness.

I'll have to check some of the alternative listed in here. I could just code it but I really don't want to deal with spam and moderation... Or maybe I'll remove comments altogether.

[0] https://abx.funkybits.fr/
by XorNot | 2025-09-30 10:53:45+00:00
> 3) The most expensive thing on the U.S. budget books for employers, employees and the government is social security and Medicare. Some countries simply deny their citizens and workers social security and access to welfare programs, which helps keep the cost of employing them down.

Holy cope batman!

A whole bunch of countries...just provide those things as government services too! You can employ whoever you want and not become a health insurer and the taxes that employee pays will fund a very large risk pool, what a concept!
by whizzter | 2025-09-30 10:54:29+00:00
I think the main differentiator is this:

C# is GC'd, the system will protect memory in use and while it can allow things like Span<>, Memory<>,etc there are some constraints due to sloppy lifetime reasoning but in general "easy" usage since you do not need to care about lifetime.

Rust has lifetime semantics built down to the core of the language, the compiler will know much better about what's safe but also forbid you early from things that are safe but not provable (they're improving the checkers based on experience though), due to it's knowledge it will be better at handling allocations more exactly.

Personally as someone with an assembly, C,C++,etc background, while I see the allure of Rust and do see it as a plus if less experienced devs that really need perf go for Rust for critical components, and thinking I'm going to try to do some project in Rust...

I've so far not seen a project where the slight performance improvement of Rust will outweight the "productivity" gain from being able to do a bit "sloppy" connections that C# allows for.
by osa1 | 2025-09-30 10:54:46+00:00
Thanks for the response.

Another question: instead of getting my follows from my Spotify, could it let me type the artists I'm interested in?

I really want to use it (I'm also not happy with Spotify's recommendations), but my follow list is mainly for podcasts. Maybe just letting the user enter the artist names (instead of getting them from Spotify follow lists) would be easier to support?
by nathan_f77 | 2025-09-30 10:54:51+00:00
I'm still working on DocSpring (which I launched on HN in 2017 as "FormAPI"). It's a tool where you can drag-and-drop fields onto a PDF to create a template, then post data to our API to generate PDFs. We also support e-signatures and hostable forms.

It's still going well, and I've been making a ton of progress lately by using AI agents. I'm very excited to launch my new homepage and pricing soon, plus some other really cool side projects that I've built.

I'm quite proud of this renaming tool as well: https://docspring.github.io/renamify/

I just finished some new features today and launched v0.5.0. The VS Code extension and MCP server are both really handy. I've been using them for quite a few different renames lately. This is one I did today: https://docspring.github.io/renamify/case-studies/deploy-req...
by dailydetour123 | 2025-09-30 10:56:07+00:00
I love these threads, and always learn or pick up something new.

From my side, I've been working on a multi-lingual first words book for a baby. None of the published books have our mix of languages (which is fair enough, I don't think there is much of a market for it!) and so I decided to create our own. It's just images and then the word translated into three different languages alongside it (like a typical first words book). I used Google's AI for the images, and it has done a surprisingly good job of creating baby friendly images, with enough detail to spark interest.

The other tangential benefit is that I found it awkward to speak in my mother tongue, but having this book helps break that by having me speak in that language and then leads to it feeling much more natural in other contexts with babies.

This is not very technical project (though if I had the time it could easily become a fun project where people select their unique mix of languages and the book gets produced).

If anybody is in a similar boat and wants to produce their own version for their mix of languages then please let me know and message here - I will happily share the Canva file with you (you'll just need to write in the words yourself). (This idea of sharing is inspired very directly by Derek Sivers 'Sharing' idea [0])

0 - https://sive.rs/sharing
by st-msl | 2025-09-30 10:56:18+00:00
Shared memory for AI coding agents. Every agent currently reinvents the wheel - your agent debugs a Stripe webhook signature issue that mine solved yesterday, burns tokens doing it.

Building the retrieval and memory maintenance layer. Interesting problems around decomposing solutions into reusable patterns, ranking/deduping at scale, keeping latency under 100ms. Uses MCP so it works across IDEs.

Early benchmarks look promising. https://memco.ai if you want to try it.
by infecto | 2025-09-30 10:56:28+00:00
Sorry I hit a nerve, it’s easier to share an opinion without telling people to get out of here though shame on you. The adjusted ebitda numbers I was looking at either had it below or near zero hence I did not really consider them a financial success. He was one of 3 founders and another individual invented the first iteration of the roomba. I am not saying he is a failure but the person I was replying to stated he was “wildly successful” with three companies. I saw iRobot as a category creator but never capturing the market and no idea how you could say the other two are wildly successful can you share how? Otherwise get out of here.
by theandrewbailey | 2025-09-30 10:56:51+00:00
> Good luck with that. In fact, the economics make no sense for a firm that sells enterprise licenses on a per-seat basis. If the next generation of Microsoft technology is going to help organizations slash headcount by giving the remaining human workers AI-powered tools, that will mean the prices for each license will have to increase just to keep the revenue line flat. And the per-seat price will have to double to pay for all those datacenters.

That's a thought that I somehow should have had, by somehow haven't. Great point! Line must always go up, but they are making it hard for themselves.