MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ekim1009 | 2025-09-04 16:03:44+00:00
Location: New York, NY

Remote: remote/hybrid/onsite

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Technologies: TypeScript, JavaScript, React, Ruby, Python, PostgreSQL, AWS, Docker, Kafka, OpenAI, RAG

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Email: esther.kim0910@gmail.com

Im a full stack software engineer with 3 years of experience across multiple ecosystems. Most recently I worked on Tumbleweed, an open-source framework for fast and consistent data propagation between microservices. You can read the case study here: https://tumbleweed-cdc.github.io/.
by mystraline | 2025-09-04 16:03:46+00:00
Deflock is a thing. https://discord.gg/2Ug7KC2R

There's a lot of local Flock maps out there. You can also submit your own.

For those who are more inclined to direct protest, you can spraypaint the lenses and/or the solar panels. If you dont want to get caught with spraypaint, use nutella or peanut butter. Its sticky and easily spreadable. Not that I would ever recommend vandalization.

Sure, the EFF and ACLU are going the legal route. That's all they can do.
by sangeeth96 | 2025-09-04 16:04:39+00:00
I'd like to be proven wrong but I'm feeling the same point Carmack was making about not building "VR" operating systems[1][2] applies to "AI" browsers as well. It seems like a futile effort especially considering revenue generation and it seems pointless to not pick Chromium for that even if you're hellbent on going down that road.

[1]: https://xcancel.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1961172409920491849 [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45066395
by the_af | 2025-09-04 16:05:36+00:00
I agree the story (sometimes [1]) matter, but for those of us who also appreciate the artistry, the medium also matters.

The same story can be told in 3D or 2D, but it seems mainstream studios always pick 3D now. And I miss the 2D days. I love 2D.

[1] Though there's something to be said about spectacle over substance. Not everything needs to have an actual story, sometimes the visuals are the story, and that's fine.
by soldtm | 2025-09-04 16:05:37+00:00
I put together a speculative math draft on the Yang-Mills mass gap. I used AI to help phrase parts of it, but the structure and approach are mine. I’m not claiming this is a final proof — I’m asking:

Does the math check out, or doesn’t it?

Most responses I’ve gotten focus more on how it was written or who wrote it, rather than testing the math itself. If you find a flaw, cool — point it out. If it surprises you and holds, also cool — let's talk.

Link to the paper: [attach PDF or GitHub]

I’m out of my depth on formal rigor, but not on creativity or pattern recognition. This is a clean attempt — not spam, not hallucination. I'm here to learn, not to fake credentials.
by moralestapia | 2025-09-04 16:06:55+00:00
If you're still following Hollywood (hand rubbing sounds) in 2025 I ... I don't know what to say.

I haven't watched any of that trash in about 10 years and I don't feel like I missed anything.

All other filmmaking studios outside of Hollywood (hand rubbing sounds) are putting out great pieces, many of them consistently.
by sidewndr46 | 2025-09-04 16:07:07+00:00
I've stayed away from the hyperscalers but worked at places where requesting 400 servers for a task was normal and routine.

Understanding scale is a weird thing, that I guess is psychological. I think the different experiences and travels I have made have an impact on this. Despite living for over a decade in Texas I live in one of the most densely populated places. But I recently got to visit Colorado, which is far less populated and has lots of weird places.

You can drive up to the base of the Great Sand Dunes and walk up the first few hills quite easily if you're in good shape. Here's some photos

https://www.hydrogen18.com/p/2024-great-sand-dunes-national-...

If you pull out your smartphone and look at Google Maps, it becomes pretty obvious how insane the scale of the place is. There's no real prohibition on where you can walk there because it isn't necessary. It's so large and the environment is so harsh, you aren't going to cross much of it on foot. Ever.
by dragonwriter | 2025-09-04 16:07:37+00:00
> Huh? Sheriffs are top law enforcement for a county, not a particular city. There's only one per county, everyone else is a deputy. This seems strange for someone like the ACLU to not know this

A “small-town sheriff” is a common idiom describing the sheriff of a county whose seat is a small town, rather than big city. It is a common phrase in American English.

This seems strange that someone commenting on HN that has enough concern for American society to have an opinion about what the ACLU should not know this.
by Aurornis | 2025-09-04 16:08:08+00:00
I think this article has a much simpler explanation than a lot of the points being made in the comments: When it came down to it, the author was more excited about software than hardware.

Contrast this:

> One of the EECS professors was kind enough to offer a RC car kit to his students to program it. I decided to give it a try. Maybe the toy car wasn’t exciting or maybe I was pre-occupied with other course work during that summer, I didn’t even open the box.

With this:

> Writing web applications blew my mind. I can just write some code, click a few buttons and boom all my friends and family across the globe can just see it! This feels like magic.

Anecdotally, I saw this a lot in college. Students would start out in electrical engineering because they thought hardware was really cool, but when the time came to do the hard work they didn't have much motivation. They wanted to be a hardware engineer, but putting in the work was unappealing. Software has a wider range of job opportunities from intense FAANG-level jobs down to being the person who pokes at a company's old PHP website long enough to keep it serving pages. You can jump in and find a level that matches your motivation. With hardware, you have to clear some hurdles to begin being useful at all.

To my surprise, I think Arduino and Raspberry Pi have made this worse. I talk to a lot of people who see themselves as amateur EEs because they bought an Arduino and used some jumper wires to connect some sensors to the right pins. It's exciting. Then they lose motivation when they encounter a problem that requires doing anything more complex or custom. These people often overlap with the CS students who think the entire world of software engineering is writing CRUD apps composed of APIs connected together.
by criddell | 2025-09-04 16:08:18+00:00
> the whole notion of putting one room of your apartment full with random electronics just to cook a meal once in a blue moon is deeply inefficient

You don't use your kitchen? After the rooms we sleep in, the kitchen is probably the most used space in my home. We are planning an upcoming renovation of our home and the kitchen is where we plan on spending the most money.

> The tableware used should be compatible with the dishwasher

Aside from non-dishwasher safe items, what tableware is incompatible with a dishwasher?
by rurp | 2025-09-04 16:08:19+00:00
Just recently I was having trouble getting something to work with a large well documented framework library. Turned out the solution I needed was to switch to a similar but different API. But that's not what Claude told me. Instead it wanted me to override and rewrite a bunch of core library code. Fortunately I was able to recognize that the suggested solution was almost certainly bad and did some more digging to find the right answer, but I could easily see nightmarish code that solves immediate problems in terrible ways piling up fast in a vibe coded project.

I do find LLMs useful at times when working in unfamiliar areas, but there are a lot of pitfalls and newly created risks that come with it. I mostly work on large existing code bases and LLMs have very much been a mildly useful tool, still nice to have, but hardly the 100x productivity booster a lot of people are claiming.
by nunez | 2025-09-04 16:08:38+00:00
Lots of people carry a balance. Credit card lenders wouldn't exist or give away insane sign-up bonuses if they didn't.

From NerdWallet [^0]:

> A NerdWallet survey conducted by The Harris Poll in conjunction with our annual study in 2023 found that 43% of American adults who use credit cards (and 38% of all American adults) said they have revolving debt. The CFPB, meanwhile, found that at the end of 2022, payments on 48% of general purpose credit card accounts were for less than the full balance, meaning some debt was being revolved

Additionally,

> In 2022, credit card issuers “charged off” $37 billion in balances, meaning they determined that those balances weren’t going to be paid.

Total credit card debt in 2024 was ~$626.8 billion with a peak of $42 billion in 2019.

That was from my own cursory research. Here's how GPT-5 did when I asked it about this topic: https://chatgpt.com/share/68b9b95f-0b14-8012-be34-48cb3bd10d.... Taking a cursory look at the sources provided shows that its analysis is mostly correct.

[^0]: https://archive.ph/0AzYa
by diggan | 2025-09-04 16:08:46+00:00
Seems like Page 8 in the PDF/leaflet from the repository talks about it:

> The principle of ‘ink traps’ has existed as long as typography has: it is a small indentation at the junction of letter strokes which ‘traps’ the ink on small characters, so that it doesn't block the junction and affect the legibility. In the case of B612, the ‘light traps’ accentuate the counterforms 7, particularly for the sharp angles� The indentations are always well distinguished, even at a small size, and the contrast between the different strokes of the character is reinforced.

> An incise is a small serif which interrupts the regularity of the vertical line: here it allows to accentuate the clarity of the leading stroke (top part) of the vertical stem 8 to avoid it being rounded off when antialiasing.
by the_af | 2025-09-04 16:08:51+00:00
Good storytelling matters a lot, but it's not the only thing that matters.

The visuals and the medium matter as well. The same story told as 3D vs 2D animation, or in photorealistic vs stylized fashion, or in live action, or color vs black & white, is not the same.

In some works of art, the story doesn't even matter.
Ask HN: Selling a Website
by whatamidoingyo | 2025-09-04 16:10:08+00:00
Hey everyone,

I'm just curious how to go about selling a website? I've tried Flippa, which brought in some decent offers, but at the time, I thought it was worth so much more (especially with all of the work I put into it). Anyway, I'm not trying to pay another $100 to list it, so are there any other alternatives?
by bee_rider | 2025-09-04 16:10:12+00:00
The blog post describes the problem with this strategy, I think—the author was already pulled over to the CS side because they could just throw together a web app that people could actually interact with, day one.

If you start with easy circuit models, at least the labs can put together something tangible in the first couple semesters, to keep people interested.

And, I mean, a lot of engineering students end up going into sort of technician-y jobs, so keeping the hands-on spark alive has a lot of value, IMO.
by int_19h | 2025-09-04 16:11:33+00:00
VB5 was the first version with native .exe generation. Although P-code vs native didn't make as much of a difference as one might think because the generated code was really slow; not in the ballpark of Delphi even.

The amusing thing about native VB is that Win32 is still, to this day, carrying a bunch of APIs (Var*) that essentially encode its semantics on Variants, e.g.: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/oleauto/...
by kbelder | 2025-09-04 16:12:07+00:00
Ok, I don't understand all of the paper. I do like that fact that it's combining methods from physics and computer science, because there are probably many more discoveries to be made in those kinds of permutations.

But it seems, if I'm interpreting the paper correctly, that the real gain is that there is a static decoder filter that is generated for one particular prompt, and then it may be reused over and over at minimal cost, to generate butterfly after butterfly. Transforming the diffuser from a general-purpose generator to a specialized, more-efficient one that needs to be rebuilt if a different type of image is desired.
by zaik | 2025-09-04 16:12:07+00:00
I did not mention a lot of assumptions. For example my problem statement also does not answer the question if Monty always gives you a choice to switch or only when you picked in a certain way. There are quite a few possible variations, all of which change the answer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem#Other_host_...

In the derivation of the likelihood the assumptions are clearly stated.

While my knowledge on statistics is certainly unsatisfactory, your assessment of the education I had is quite wrong. My final exam in order to obtain a Master's degree in mathematics is next week. One of the subjects I chose is Bayesian Statistics, so wish me luck.
Show HN: Fecusio – Feature flag management, but designed for SaaS
by markogg | 2025-09-04 16:12:36+00:00
Hello HN,

I designed a feature flag management tool that reflects how SaaS products usually work and are structured. Features are usually managed on multiple levels, such as pricing plans, organizations, and users (or anything in between).

I tried some tools that solve a similar problem, but they just seemed to me like they could be much simpler and easier to understand.

The tool sees each part of the hierarchy as an identity type (pricing plan, organization, user, etc.), and for each type you create identities and manage features on them directly. That's it.

Anyone on your team can understand how it works and use it, so it is not just developer-oriented.

You define the logic (hierarchy) at evaluation time in your application code, which gives you a lot of flexibility.
by triceratops | 2025-09-04 16:12:58+00:00
I wonder if this explains the popularity of It's a Wonderful Life. The story is well-known at this point. It was a box-office flop when first released, and fell out of copyright because the studio couldn't be bothered to renew it. As a result it played repeatedly on TV around Christmastime every year. The repeated exposure to this film, presumably also associating it with other pleasant holiday memories for audiences, transformed its reputation. To the point that it's now considered one of the best films of all time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_a_Wonderful_Life#Recept...
by Arch-TK | 2025-09-04 16:13:02+00:00
There are very few resources for learning C which aren't themselves full of terrible C.

If you want a short introduction with the caveat that it only covers C89, only covers parts of it, and doesn't cover e.g. POSIX or anything outside of standard C then K&R2 + errata is fine.

If you want a long book on C which has a more modern approach then there is K. N. King's C a Modern Approach.

Jens' book is at least vouched for by https://iso-9899.info/wiki/Books . So I have to assume it's also okay.
by lproven | 2025-09-04 16:13:27+00:00
I forgot to mention... GNUstep's recommended window manager is Window Maker, which is still alive and in active maintenance with new versions coming out.

There are lots of little Window Maker applets out there to choose from, so you can accessorize your GSDE (or NEXTSPACE) setup with wm-applets and docklets for volume, sound output, mic control, power management, and all those little fripperies that other desktops come with or can do.

A slight limitation is that GNUstep has its own dock and suggests disabling the Window Maker dock, but you can go the other way round and disable the dock provided by GNUstep Workspace and use the WM dock instead.

Also, it is worth mentioning that there is a new entrant in the "GNUstep based desktop environment" race: Gershwin.

https://github.com/gershwin-desktop

Currently only available in GhostBSD though.
by pestaa | 2025-09-04 16:13:43+00:00
SEEKING WORK | REMOTE | EU | PHP full-stack developer

Technologies: PHP, Laravel, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes

I'm a full stack developer with 10+ years of experience finding absurd amount of enjoyment in B2B web applications.

Especially happy to work on internal tooling, and being the go-to developer for non-technical coworkers.

CV: https://pestaa.com
Ask HN: What Arc/Dia features should we prioritize?
by felarof | 2025-09-04 16:13:53+00:00
We were Arc fans, now building an open-source alternative (YC S24).

With Arc selling to Atlassian, figured it's good timing to ask: what features do you actually miss? We are working on implementing some obvious ones (vertical tabs, workspaces) but honestly not sure what matters vs. what's just cool.

Feature requests: https://github.com/browseros-ai/BrowserOS/issues/99

We are still early but shipping fast.
by int_19h | 2025-09-04 16:13:56+00:00
Indeed, VB6 was essentially BASIC with OLE Automation object model bolted on.

(Which itself was designed to a large extent to match what VB was doing before, so it's a bit circular).

And let's not forget that .NET grew out of the "COM 2.0" project. Which started in 1998, at the same time VB6 was released.
by ahmeneeroe-v2 | 2025-09-04 16:14:00+00:00
I don't know that this was true.

I was recently reading "A Hangman's Diary", which included a Forward for the modern reader. It would appear that outsiders were viewed with extreme suspicion in those times. Obvi that's just a single snapshot of a single region, but it makes sense.

"what did this person do that they left all their family and friends to come to our town"
by criddell | 2025-09-04 16:14:25+00:00
> in practice we currently have exponentially less real-world data for an exponentially harder problem

Is that where learning comes in? Any actual AGI machine will be able to learn. We should be able to buy a robot that comes ready to learn and we teach it all the things we want it to do. That might mean a lot of broken dishes at first, but it's about what you would expect if you were to ask a toddler to load your dishes into the dishwasher.

My personal bar for when we reach actual AGI is when it can be put in a robot body that can navigate our world, understand spatial relationships, and can learn from ordinary people.
by kstrauser | 2025-09-04 16:15:37+00:00
Huh. Other people have said similar but yours is the first post that resonated with me. Ok, sure. That makes sense. It still feels odd to me because it seems like all the “hard” parts are in place, but that’s their business model.

I do still contend that a subscription fee on top of the cost for a single purpose device is a bridge too far, though. I’d strongly consider one to see if it’s truly that great as a note taker if it weren’t for that. I’d hate renting features on a premium device.
by pestaa | 2025-09-04 16:16:25+00:00
Location: EU

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: PHP, Laravel, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes

Résumé/CV: https://pestaa.com

Email: pestaa@pestaa.com

I'm a full stack developer with 10+ years of experience finding absurd amount of enjoyment in B2B web applications.

Especially happy to work on internal tooling, and being the go-to developer for non-technical coworkers.
by saulpw | 2025-09-04 16:16:30+00:00
I tuned in to a random spot at a random episode, didn't see any coding but did get to hear you say:

"I'm a person who hates art now...I never want to see art again. All I want to see is like, AI stuff. That's how bad it's gotten. Handmade? nuh-uh. Handmade code? ... anything by humans, just over. I'm just gonna watch pixels."

https://www.youtube.com/live/APkR4qRg1vM?si=XLGmH9uEjG08q-6x...

I watched a little more but was, uh, not impressed.
by ryanscript01123 | 2025-09-04 16:17:48+00:00
Location: Minneapolis, MN, USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Svelte, React, Vue, Go, Node, Python, FastAPI, C#, C++, Java, PHP, Symfony, Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, AWS, Terraform, Docker, CI/CD, Git, Swagger, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, jQuery, UIKit, Jest, ArcGIS, ESRI, Redmine, Bash, Linux

Résumé/CV: https://ryanisler.com/resume

Email: islerryan@gmail.com

Portfolio: https://github.com/ryanIs

- Senior Full Stack Developer with a background in weather forecast mapping, API and CMS integration for big data, and product database tooling for non-profits and schools. Currently back-n-forth between a few endeavors: building a Scryfall-inspired MTG assistant in React + Django; A Vue + Rails version for Hearthstone and Runeterra; and building all kinds of home lab apps for roommates and games/gadgets using Unity and Python.

I am searching for remote full-time or contract opportunities.
by j1elo | 2025-09-04 16:19:04+00:00
This might sound contradictory, but I agree with you. 300 MB is nothing!

Problem is, when the music player takes 500 (let's be honest those 300 were probably just a cold-start and before actually doing anything with it), the collaboration chat app takes another <let me check...> 650 MB (Slack right now for me), the profile loader I need for work is <checking again...> another 400. The text editor is 510 MB (VSCode, and still that is a well engineered and optimized Electron marble). The Pomodoro timer, 300 MB.

And on top of that I'm supposed to do my actual work! All that junk is stealing memory that should be available to Visual Studio and compiling my huge code base.

Hopefully we don't end up with Electron calculators, calendars, email clients, file browsers, and image editors, because those things also tend to be open long term in my desktop (which right now I can do without any second thought about being able to, because they are all properly done as decently optimized GUIs)
by npteljes | 2025-09-04 16:19:21+00:00
Yes, this really depends on what one's expectations are of a "game". Luck, as a component, is often contested. In case of the minesweeper, I'd argue there is either

A) No place for luck at all, either by making the game "forgiving", or generating a game that never has an ambiguous block, or

B) The game should make luck's presence more constant.

In case of Minesweeper, the most unfair event is when after a lot of pure skill-based play, the outcome ends up being luck based. As a game mechanic, this can work out to be challenging, or work as a surprise the first time, but it gets old pretty fast - because why bother putting in all that skill, just so be judged by luck in the end? And those who are thrilled by luck checks, will be turned away from the game because the exciting part comes last.

Because of this, I'd keep this logic game be about logic, or work luck into the game more deeply.

Solitaire is similar, with some of its starting positions being outright unwinnable. I'd just filter these out when creating a new game.
by crazygringo | 2025-09-04 16:19:26+00:00
I've clearly explained the empirical basis of Microsoft's existing massive data and traffic and money in absolute terms. I don't know what further explanation you want. The court is right that search startups are at a massive data disadvantage. Microsoft unquestionably is not with their massive traffic in absolute terms over a decade and a half. But the judge can't really say Google has to share data with smaller search companies but not Microsoft.

You're confusing startups with one of the largest, richest companies in the world.
by fraserharris | 2025-09-04 16:19:45+00:00
Paraphrasing from an Oakland police officer reflecting on the spike in crime 3 years ago to today: "Flock has been a game changer. The officers who use it are getting results. Criminals will steal a car, drive through a neighborhood and rob someone. Pretty quickly we can look up 'black BMWs driving around this location'. Maybe 10 come back, you figure out which is the likely one, and then can see where it shows up in the next few hours. Then you have officers on patrol in that area look out for it. The criminals get a police car tailing them & they ditch the vehicle. Instead of doing 5 or 6 robberies with a stolen car, they can do 1 or 2. That makes it much less worth it to do the crimes."