MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by never_inline | 2025-10-01 03:56:38+00:00
Here are some real open-ended questions you can use to see how well a junior hire with no Industry background will do.

* Test whether they understand data types and abstraction. * You have a function returning two numbers in <your favorite language>, how will you do? * Now you need 4 items from this function called getUserInfo(), how will you return it? (Eg: username, email, location and age). * You need to share some state between two calls to this function. i.e a database connection. How will you do it? * Now imagine multiple threads / requests call this function. how will you share state?

And so on..

r/CSMajors types who have done only leetcode will fumble this kind of open ended discussion.

Similarly for networks

* Google "my IP address" from your phone?

* Is it really the IP address of your phone?

* There are more than 4 billion mobiles + computers on this planet. How are they getting unique IPs then?

* If you run your school project (likely to be django or express js app), will you be able to reach it from another phone or desktop using this IP?

* Why or why not?

These are kind of things they should be able to answer if their networking / OS etc... classes were any good.
by scubadude | 2025-10-01 03:58:52+00:00
100% agree. No direct developer job losses from AI. But if it makes you more efficient, there are indirect job losses. Still borderline as to how much nett efficiency it provides. I needed unit-tests pronto, it saved my bacon in crunch time. But then in scaffolding some code in a system I don't know, it's been nothing but trial and error, mostly error.
by electroglyph | 2025-10-01 03:59:14+00:00
there are some cool geeky things u can do like the stuff here: https://chrisbuilds.github.io/terminaltexteffects/

without GPU acceleration you just don't have enough FPS. i haven't tested Rio Terminal, but i have tested plenty of other terminals on Windows and xterm.js was the winner by far due to GPU acceleration
by Antalicia | 2025-10-01 04:00:43+00:00
Hi everyone. I'm Antalicia and IM a newbie website owner. I really enjoy using AI to generate all sorts of weird and wonderful creative ideas for myself, but I often struggle with writing prompts. Later, I realized that many people probably share the same frustration with specialized and tedious prompts, just like I do. That's the very reason why AI-portraitgenerator was created. I've collected some commonly used portrait styles and prompts, but as I'm still new to website development and API integration, I'd really appreciate it if you could help me find bugs or offer suggestions. Right now, I'm particularly curious about whether having multiple size options is genuinely important to users. Every user gets free trial without even needing to log in. If you'd like to try more, signing up will give you additional opportunities to test things out.
by bdangubic | 2025-10-01 04:01:03+00:00
I love this idea of businesses doing and selling whatever the F they want and citizens being punished based on laws in their country. not sure why US businesses even have to obey US laws?!? just punish the consumers/citizens and be done with it

of course defining what “US” business is might be quite challenging, is Apple a US company?! They make nothing in the US and pay no taxes in the US … love this idea though!
by dehugger | 2025-10-01 04:03:34+00:00
the best part about this is that https://vb.lk/what-is-vb.lk-link ends up taking you to.... https://vb.lk

unfortunately https://vb.lk/what-is-a-vibe-link does not.

a cool use I just noticed is that you can literally create a link just by typing the general idea of where it should go. like "https://vb.lk/latest-presidential-scandal", for example. No copy and paste necessary and it self updates!
by somenameforme | 2025-10-01 04:03:39+00:00
It's definitely not just the 1%. Here [1] are some interesting data. 8.9% make $200k+, an additional 6.9% make $50k+. Exclude games under $10 and the median revenue of a game on Steam is around $17k. What's more relevant than that $$$ amount is the number of reviews that entails. That's sales in the thousands, which is more than sufficient to get that critical mass of reviews to start being recommended by their algorithm.

It also varies heavily by genre. People love making platformers and action type games, probably inspired by the extreme simplicity of some hyper-successful games. But those are some of the worst selling games and the saturation of the market there cannot be overstated. By contrast colony sims, 4x, city builders, and so on have median revenue (with no filtering of the chaff) in the $4k-$8k range. Filter out the chaff and it'd probably be in the $30k range.

And again in those numbers I'm not appealing to the $$$ values, but the corresponding number of reviews. Because the goal is to get some traction in their algorithm, and legitimate reviews play a major part there.

[1] - https://gamalytic.com/blog/steam-revenue-infographic
by int_19h | 2025-10-01 04:04:29+00:00
> This is the planned system we designed in one of the most capitalist countries on earth: it got to the state of being a planned system because the truly competitive market systems kept failing.

We didn't really "design" it though, it emerged organically out of the various constraints, many of them historical.

For example, why is quality health insurance in US tied to employers? Because during WW2, when federal government froze salaries, companies started to use various benefits to attract employees instead, and one of the most lucrative benefits turned out to be health insurance. And, since companies were large customers negotiating on behalf of all their employees, they could get more out of insurers for the same amount of money. And so gradually it evolved into what things have been before ACA, and ACA is basically a crutch that preserves this historical nonsense.

FWIW I don't think that free market is the answer here, but that doesn't mean that it can't produce significantly better results than what we currently have (it's not hard because our existing system essentially combines the downsides of free market with the downsides of centralized healthcare - you don't get the choice and you get fleeced).

It should also be noted that there are many different ways in which less-than-free market can be implemented. Single payer is a fairly extreme take with no clear evidence that it works better than more market-friendly approaches as seen across Europe. The one model that I'm really curious about and that doesn't seem to exist anywhere, though, is one where the government simply provides healthcare at a certain level as a non-profit public service, thereby setting the baseline, but doesn't try to heavily regulate private healthcare, and doesn't require citizens to participate in the public plan. Germany has some similarities but I don't think it's quite there yet.
by travisjungroth | 2025-10-01 04:05:07+00:00
I love this. I think you could simplify it by generalizing. Something like immutability. These keys can’t be changed, only an object destroyed and another created. A case of that is a primary key (maybe that’s the only case).

You can always represent a change as a removal and an addition. It’s smart to actually consider when should you. “Never” and “whenever possible” don’t seem like the best answers.
by jFriedensreich | 2025-10-01 04:05:22+00:00
while work on pure algorithms is invaluable i always feel work on knowledge augmented algorithms has lots of untapped potential. two examples: recording key events like move and delete on a more fine grained timescale or directly from editors and then storing those as mutable metadata in commits that is only allowed to be used for diff generation. as its provable if diffs are technically correct these do not weaken the consistency guarantees while adding helpful context. they are also highly compressable and pruneable. another one is optimizing diffs for consumption by llms and let those generate for optimal human readability.
by defrost | 2025-10-01 04:05:39+00:00
You're neglecting observed empirical data:

A 10cm increase in bonnet height, from 80cm to 90cm, raises the risk of death in a crash by 27% for pedestrians and cyclists, according to a Belgian study involving 300,000 casualties. Children were substantially more likely to be killed as pedestrians in collisions than adults, the report said.

~ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/11/ever-rising-he...

Apparently having all those cameras isn't correlating well with people actually paying attention to them.
by cs02rm0 | 2025-10-01 04:06:09+00:00
I don't think these laws are being made with the will of the people.

There's been no groundswell of opinion, no technically minded authority pushing expert opinion.

The same people lobbying for the online safety act were pushing age verification tools. The government is exceptionally unpopular, even by the standards of already deeply unpopular governments in recent years.

I despair of the situation in the UK. How have we ended up here?
by carabiner | 2025-10-01 04:06:59+00:00
Everything he described, mission requirements, sizing, trade studies, is taught in undergrad aerospace engineering curricula today. It's part of every new clean sheet design, civil, military, fixed wing or helo. It'd be the computer science equivalent of extolling how Windows was built with OOP and compiled programming languages on 8 mb ram. Pretty amazing if you're not familiar with the concepts but SOP if you're in the industry.
by JLGSpeer | 2025-10-01 04:08:05+00:00
When they started developing this they were looking for a Flutter developer. Here is my code challenge submission, in case any one is curious about what it would look like as a Flutter project: https://github.com/SpeerJ/Kite-Code-Challenge-for-Kagi

I had a little trouble imagining myself using this in particular but I'm a big fan of the search engine.
by adhdjesse | 2025-10-01 04:08:07+00:00
Building an app to help me stay in touch with my friends (https://wavepal.app).

I have ADHD and often forget to reach out to important people in my life, not because I don’t care but because “out of sight, out of mind” is EXTREMELY true for my brain.

I started building Wavepal with a friend earlier this year so I can track when I last chatted with people, what we talked about, important details that I’m likely to forget (kids names, important dates), and it auto sends me reminders when enough time has passed since we last talked.
by Blahah | 2025-10-01 04:10:15+00:00
This is pretty cool and I could see myself recommending this to our team for some applications. Congrats on the launch!

A couple of bits of feedback:

1. Code samples on the site have broken whitespace on mobile (Android/Brave) so look a bit intense.

2. The pricing is complex to reason about - I have to consider the technical aspects and the number of users? Why don't I just get an API key?
by Nursie | 2025-10-01 04:12:48+00:00
> Have you ever wanted to own gigantic, realistic-looking dinosaurs for your backyard?

Yes, we have an approx 1-acre paddock next to the road that's completely unused and I really want dinosaurs!

I don't even need them animatronic, static will do. There just aren't many vendors for this sort of thing. It's a shame that shipping from NJ to Western Australia is likely to be prohibitive...
by oceanplexian | 2025-10-01 04:12:49+00:00
What’s so romantic about working in factories? Automation and robotics will accelerate the economy the same way information technology did, and humans will work on better problems than performing repeated tasks on an assembly line or flipping burgers.

There are arguably more jobs today as a result of computers than there were before they were invented. So why is the assumption that AI will magically delete all jobs while discounting the fact that it will create careers we haven’t even thought of?
by palmotea | 2025-10-01 04:15:09+00:00
> Of course, profit motivated offshoring is a cause of the current situation. But it feels a little revisionist to attribute that as the _only_ cause.

> Culturally, the country derided blue collar work for a long time. The fact that everyone should attend college and strive for white collar work was unquestioned orthodoxy.

I'd bet much of that attitude (at least in the masses) was driven by offshoring. Why go into blue collar work when sooner or later the plant's going to get sent overseas? If you're selling offshoring, you've got to weaken the opposition by denigrating the assets you're sending a way, and you've gotta offer some glimmer of hope to the people you're disrupting (and that hope can he a college degree and a white collar job).

> Ultimately, this cultural mindset led to the commoditization of society. Everything was a resource to be managed and optimized. Efficiency was paramount. And this viewpoint wasn’t just espoused by the capitalist class, it was shared by our “brightest” academic minds. Nobel laureate economists (e.g. Paul Krugman) told the public how great globalization would be because it increased economic efficiency.

Personally, I consider those guys to be the businessmen's lackeys.
by amluto | 2025-10-01 04:16:00+00:00
The state of YOLO is embarrassing:

> Update: It turns out Anthropic have their own documentation on Safe YOLO mode for Claude Code which says:

> Letting Claude run arbitrary commands is risky and can result in data loss, system corruption, or even data exfiltration (e.g., via prompt injection attacks). To minimize these risks, use --dangerously-skip-permissions in a container without internet access. You can follow this reference implementation using Docker Dev Containers. [https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/tree/main/.devcont...]

And… that link goes to a devcontainer that firewalls itself from inside using, effectively, sudo iptables. If Claude Code can’t break that all by itself in a single try, I’d be a bit surprised.
by throwaway2037 | 2025-10-01 04:16:08+00:00
This is a good question. I did Googling. Here is what I found:

From the US Federal Bureau of Prisons: https://www.bop.gov/about/facilities/federal_prisons.jsp

> Minimum security institutions, also known as Federal Prison Camps (FPCs), have dormitory housing, a relatively low staff-to-inmate ratio, and limited or no perimeter fencing. These institutions are work- and program-oriented.

The Elizabeth Holmes Wiki page says she is staying here: Federal Prison Camp, Bryan (Texas).

Check out this Wiki quote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Prison_Camp,_Bryan

> FPC Bryan along with FPC Lewisburg and FPC Lompoc have the lowest security rating of all the federal institutions, other than community corrections centers as those are known as halfway houses. Due to the low classification, most of these facilities have no fence and a low staff-to-inmate ratio.

No fence!

Oh, it looks like Ghislaine Maxwell (of Jeffrey Epstein fame/infamy) is also staying there.
by mikewarot | 2025-10-01 04:16:43+00:00
Well, that's certainly an interesting way to save energy in a logic circuit. The problem I see is that you're going to be able to have to save the value in an analog form at some point to do anything other that single bit math.

Perhaps looking at using each transition in a circuit as a bit, instead of level, could be useful as a power saving strategy that could be compatible with existing VLSI fabrication?
by al_borland | 2025-10-01 04:17:34+00:00
I drive a smaller hatchback as well and notice the same thing.

I’ve been on the other side of it once. I got roped into driving an acquaintance’s H3 Hummer years ago. I went to change lanes, checked my mirrors, looked over my shoulder out the window, and all seems clear. It wasn’t. There was a car that was completely invisible to me. Had other people not been in the car and looking, I would have run them right off the road. I have no idea how anyone drives those things on a daily basis. I was a nervous wreck.

I think the best visibility I had in a car was my old GTI. I could see all 4 corners and knew exactly where I was at.
by kobebrookskC3 | 2025-10-01 04:18:44+00:00
because setting up and using anki is a pain? using and configuring anki is not intuitive. if you're just starting, you'll probably need to find a good premade vocab deck. once that's done, you'll need to make cards. making cards manually is a pita, i would probably not make any if i didn't have a good mining setup (yomitan/ttsu reader/asbplayer). i've spent countless hours getting my mining setup just right (setting up anki and yomitan, tweaking card fields/templates). yomitan probably works well because japanese conjugation is so regular. i imagine for languages with less regular conjugation, it wouldn't be so nice.
by mac-mc | 2025-10-01 04:19:01+00:00
Cholesterol is more of a proxy "smoke" or "firefighter" measure than a measurement of the actual fire. It's very much a wet streets cause rain kind of thing.

Artificially eliminating the firefighters doesn't necessarily mean you've solved most of the problem.

Heart disease is a far more complicated problem than "cholesterol" or "cholesterol + inflammation", but humans and patients mentally gravitate to silver bullet thinking, which makes it really hard to work with. One interesting measure I've encountered is the lipid clearance rate, but it costs something like +$20k to measure and is not something a doctor can order from a lab; it's typically only performed in research settings.
by Aurornis | 2025-10-01 04:20:43+00:00
> but what if I don't notice the difference between rendering a web page taking 100ms and it taking 50ms?

You probably won’t notice this when using the new machine.

For me, it only becomes noticeable when I go back to something slower.

It’s easy to take the new speed as a given.

> What if I don't notice the difference between video playback consuming 20% of the chip's available compute and it consuming 10%?

You would notice it in increased battery life. A CPU that finishes the task faster and more efficiently will get back into low power mode quicker.
by jMyles | 2025-10-01 04:22:07+00:00
Yep, I put everything on bandcamp. https://justinholmes.bandcamp.com/

Even better though, is a P2P service that is censorship resistant.

But yeah I like Bandcamp plenty.

> artists who actively support freedom.

The bluegrass world is quickly becoming this.

https://pickipedia.xyz/wiki/DRM-free
by jltsiren | 2025-10-01 04:23:07+00:00
That salary gap is not particularly important. People who prioritize salary are more likely to leave the academia for industry than take a new academic job in another country.

The salary gap that matters is the gap between academic and industry salaries. That gap is wider in the US, especially for juniors. Because the academia is a better option relative to the alternatives in Europe than in the US, Europeans are more likely to choose it. That leads to more competition for jobs and grants. Many then find it easier to get a job in the US.

As a European mid-career academic in California, the value of money is just different here. Everyday living is very expensive, while extras such as international travel and fancy tech gadgets are cheap. Many academics find themselves in the weird financial spot, where they can easily afford the cost of living and possibly even early retirement, while having no hope of home ownership on a single academic salary. (Meanwhile, in my home country, even grad students often buy homes.)
by typpilol | 2025-10-01 04:23:42+00:00
What's the point of risking your freedom to give away stuff for free pirated stuff? I understand uploading to the pirate bay but streaming is a different beast entirely.

I'm not going to lie, I've used some streaming sites. But I can't understand the people behind them.

Who's giving away 100s of TB of video decode and bandwidth for free. And why?
by fsckboy | 2025-10-01 04:23:45+00:00
you're trying hard to paint a picture of fail, but your evidence doesn't stack up

>It'll be interesting to see if they still can design and build a new ground-up airplane design. The last all-new design was the 787, initiated in 2003 and launched in 2009

2003 to 2009 is an incredibly short time line for a revolutionary new design (the heavy use of composites) The A350 developed in response was much less ambitious effort and took longer. The A380 also took a long time to plan and execute. Aircraft generations last at least a decade, and new designs every 15 years-ish is not a crazy ballpark

>and its design was fraught with problems

A380 had plenty of problems, hence the delays

the problems with the 737MAX stemmed from Boeing trying to push the low-wing design of the older 737 through one more generation to avoid a complete redesign, to avoid the kind of cash flow pinch and never-paid-back development that Airbus suffered with the A380 (which was why they tried the "evolutionary" redesign on the cheap that led to the A350)

>Before then was the 777 in the early 90s

777 was a revolutionary approach to developing a plane that led to its incredible success which continues through today (the clever idea they had? asking airlines what they wanted) Airbus has also chosen paths that have been quite successful, their "same cockpit" being one of them. 777 and Airbus's planes from that time all had very long commercial lives

>everybody who can build a product end-to-end leaves or gets forced out, leaving only people with highly specialized maintenance skillsets

I don't think anybody has ever designed a jetliner end to end, as piston planes crossed that hurdle earlier.

>if ... a new product is necessary, they no longer have the capacity to build ground-up new products. All those people have left, and won't come anywhere near the company

where else are aerospace engineers going to work? I'm not saying there's a surplus but with defense, aviation is a very big industry, and most any engineer would like to work on greenfield designs for marquis products.

shoot from the hip copycat Jobs would find no jobs in aerospace. Different types of people have different personalities. Aircraft design is tight tolerance and exacting, and anybody who does it is going to be comfortable working in a that type of environment, lots of check, test, recheck, paperwork, etc.
by hsn915 | 2025-10-01 04:25:54+00:00
Sprouts/Gardener: a project to make self-hosting possible (and easy) without linux sysadmin skills

https://judi.systems/sprouts/

Current version focuses on static site hosting, with templates and zero-config localhost preview, one button to publish changes live.

Part of making this project involves creating a GUI framework for Go

https://judi.systems/slay/

Using flexbox-like layout system, it can render UIs for desktop apps in pure go (without using html/js/css).
by intended | 2025-10-01 04:26:30+00:00
Over the years the amount of safety and speech issues that have cropped up have accumulated into a force. The OSA and DSA were announced years in advance, with multiple opportunities for feedback and analysis (I looked into the outcomes at various points but never contributed)

I would say there has been a groundswell of opinion, it’s not something that is covered here on HN much.
by msy | 2025-10-01 04:26:53+00:00
At least recently[1] most Australians and an overwhelming percentage of under-16s supported the ban. Similarly in the UK[2]. This is a topic in which it appears it is the online discourse that's wildly out of alignment with broader public opinion and I'd argue potentially one of the reasons may be that it will make it harder for bot-nets to mass-manipulate public discourse so easily.

[1]https://au.yougov.com/politics/articles/51000-support-for-un...

[2]https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/gen-z-social...
by gls2ro | 2025-10-01 04:27:05+00:00
> Just because the company uses AI doesn't make it an "AI startup."

I think you need to expand a bit more this. I does sound to me that if you are using AI in the main product you are an AI startup.

It is similar with if you are offering a web version of your app you are an internet company. And if you are offering a mobile version you are a mobile company.

and a company can be more than one: An internet AI mobile company :)