MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by idea0rbit | 2025-10-10 20:47:14+00:00
After a decade building large-scale systems at Google, Datadog, and Meta, I’ve noticed the same pattern repeat: observability keeps getting louder, costlier, and less useful.

We’re drowning in telemetry but starving for insight. The industry incentives are misaligned: they reward ingestion and storage, not intelligence.

I recently started an open, collective movement called omji.ai to explore a fundamental shift: measuring insight per dollar of telemetry stored. We need to push vendors and internal teams toward intelligence, not ingestion.

I’m curious to hear from folks facing the pain - how do we fix this? We need practical, non-obvious ideas.

1. What technical or economic levers would actually shift the industry's focus from volume to intelligence?

2. Has anyone in a large organization tried benchmarking observability systems based on insight (e.g., MTTR impact) vs. telemetry cost?

3. How could open collaboration (tools, standards, benchmarks) make this practical for every engineering team?

Full background post: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/observability-broken-lets-cha...
by nomel | 2025-10-10 20:47:37+00:00
> Asking candidates to share their work-relevant experience does not invite discrimination lawsuits.

I suggest you talk to your HR department. This isn't my interpretation, it's that of our cooperate lawyers.

If they say "I just had a kid, I spend time with them", is a good example. This should be obvious to you, which is further evidence you should not be asking these questions.

edit: can't reply directly. No, that's not how it works. You being made aware of it, and you using that information is enough. Good luck!
by furyofantares | 2025-10-10 20:47:56+00:00
> But I didn't get that this time,

Actually, I take it back. I did think I was wasting my time when I noticed it was written by an LLM. But then I came back to HN an saw only praise and decided to wait a bit to see if people kept finding it useful before commenting.

I was somewhat excited by the prospect of this article being useful, but I've started to come around to my initial impression after another day. I don't really trust it.
by jmyeet | 2025-10-10 20:48:12+00:00
Letter from the President and Prime Minister Mossadegh on the Oil Situation and the Problem of Aid to Iran dated July 9, 1953 (emphasis added) [1]:

> It was primarily because of that hope that the United States Government during the last two years has made earnest efforts to assist in eliminating certain differences between Iran and the United Kingdom which have arisen as a result of the nationalization of the Iranian oil industry. It has been the belief of the United States that the reaching of an agreement in the matter of compensation would strengthen confidence throughout the world in the determination of Iran fully to adhere to the principles which render possible a harmonious community of free nations; that it would contribute to the strengthening of the international credit standing of Iran; and that it would lead to the solution of some of the financial and economic problems at present facing Iran.

Effect on National Security Interests in Latin America of Possible Anti-Trust Proceedings, June 1, 1953 [2]:

> Elsewhere in Central America, institution of the action would greatly stimulate movements to nationalize the properties of the Company. Such nationalization is now threatened to some degree in all countries in which the Company operates, particularly in Costa Rica through the possible accession to the presidency of Jose Figueres, who is not a Communist but is openly speaking of nationalization. To the extent such nationalization is achieved, it would not only affect a private company, but would have direct and far-reaching repercussions on our strategic position.

National Intelligent Estimate: CHILE: THE ALTERNATIVES FACING THE ALLENDE REGIME, June 29, 1972 [3]:

> n the basis of the record so far, Chile’s future course remains to a large extent an open issue. To be sure, the regime carried out a substantial part of its program during its first year, particularly in the economic area. With little effective opposition—indeed, in many cases with a broad consensus—Allende nationalized key economic sectors, redistributed income in favor of the poorer classes, and accelerated land expropriation.

[1]: https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/exchange-messages-...

[2]: https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1952-54v04...

[3]: https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1969-76ve1...
by lukeinator42 | 2025-10-10 20:48:19+00:00
very cool. If you're looking for machines to add, it would be awesome to model a cheap roaster based on a popcorn popper since it is probably less reliable than commercial sample roasters (and might benefit from less trial-and-error). During my undergrad I made an arduino-controlled popcorn popper that connected to the open source artisan software: https://github.com/lukeinator42/coffee-roaster.
by dekhn | 2025-10-10 20:48:34+00:00
Endowed funds are restricted- the donors can place constraints on how they are spent. They are not fungible and cannot reliably used to pay for a wide range of things that are currently paid for by federal funding.

Personally I would love to see the richest people in the nation contribute a lot more to universities in the form of unrestricted funds, to give these universities some options when it comes to being dependent on federal funding. But I guess you don't get rich by giving unrestricted funds to universities.
by cycomanic | 2025-10-10 20:48:53+00:00
<Controversial opinion> Computer scientist and mathematicians love lisp/scheme, everyone else hates it. The problem is that the syntax, concepts etc are so different that you really have to learn the language to make even small changes. Just reading prefix notation takes quite a bit of adjustment. When I was using emacs doom every time I changed my config felt like stabbing in the dark (hence I moved away). In contrast I could make lua changes (without any prior lua knowledge) without any problems.

I don't want to learn a new language just to configure my editor.

So by choosing scheme they essentially say this is an editor for computer scientists only. </controversial opinion>
by Aurornis | 2025-10-10 20:49:13+00:00
> We can't measure what's important, so we'd better measure what we can measure extremely rigorously.

As much as we like to complain about interviews, the alternatives that more accurately reflect the work environment are much more strongly hated.

One of the most accurate interviewing methods is a work trial: Bring the candidate in for a week and have them work the job. Their peers and managers rate their performance.

It's great for revealing how a person works. But think about what's required: You would have to take a week off of your primary job every time you wanted to interview at another company. A company could only interview one candidate per week.

Some companies try this, but it over-selects for unemployed young people. They either give up or start bending the rules when qualified applicants refuse.
by astura | 2025-10-10 20:49:25+00:00
These days? Kissinger has always had public critics. In fact, in 1973 two members of the Nobel Committee resigned in protest.

Anyways, the first couple paragraphs of his Wikipedia is an introduction.

>Kissinger is also associated with controversial U.S. policies including its bombing of Cambodia, involvement in the 1971 Bolivian and 1973 Chilean coup d'états, and support for Argentina's military junta in its Dirty War, Indonesia in its invasion of East Timor, and Pakistan during the Bangladesh Liberation War and Bangladesh genocide.[6] Considered by many American scholars to have been an effective secretary of state,[7] Kissinger was also accused by critics of war crimes for the civilian death toll of the policies he pursued and for his role in facilitating U.S. support for authoritarian regimes.[8][9]
by Retro_Dev | 2025-10-10 20:49:31+00:00
In the theoretical world where a subset of English could be formalized and proven and compiled, the complexity of the language would reduce my willingness to use it. I find that the draw of AI comes from it's "simplicity," and removing that (in favor of correct programs) would be pointless - because such a compiler would surely take forever to compile "English" code, and would not be too different from current high level languages, imo.
by ToValueFunfetti | 2025-10-10 20:49:58+00:00
I don't think that taking umbrage with a rude part of a comment can be called missing the point because another part of the comment was better. Am I missing yours?

And yeah, looks like I dropped an 'or' between 'hominem' and 'assuming'. My bad, I wasn't sure how long the edit window lasts and rushed it.
Show HN: Live demo anomaly detection for blind spots
by anophelon | 2025-10-10 20:49:59+00:00
I built a service to make anomaly detection dead simple. You can connect your business or technical metrics and tsight highlights unusual changes you’d likely miss-so you can act before users or revenue are impacted.

It’s free right now (no payment system integrated yet). I’d love feedback on real-world datasets and what signals you care about most.
by OtherShrezzing | 2025-10-10 20:50:08+00:00
I like reading Zitron’s output, but this remark stood out to me as him weighing in on a domain he’s basically clueless about.

Spread across 4 years, there’s way more than $1tn in available private capital. Berkshire Hathaway alone has 1/3 of that sitting in a cash pile right now. You don’t have to look at many balance sheets to see that the big tech companies are all also sitting on huge piles of cash.

I don’t personally believe OAI can raise that money. But the money exists.
by hatthew | 2025-10-10 20:50:24+00:00
A straightforward solution for larger puzzles: if you click on the four corners of a rectangle, you flip those corners while leaving the rest of the rows/columns the way they started. So after you pick the low hanging fruit at the start, find any rectangle with 3 or 4 white corners, and then click on all 4 corners of that rectangle. If this leaves you with a just one white in each row and column, it's easy and doesn't require memorization to click each of those whites to get to the solved state.
by mirabilis | 2025-10-10 20:50:37+00:00
How do you propose preventing situations such as these?

“The couple said they were in the women's lobby bathroom when a male security guard came in and started banging on the stall doors. Baker said she was in one of the stalls while Victor waited for her near the sinks… Baker was born a woman and identifies as a woman.” [1]

“Gerika Mudra, 18, went to dinner in April with a friend in Owatonna, about an hour south of Minneapolis. When she went to the restroom, a server followed her inside and banged on the stall door while saying: “This is a women’s restroom. The man needs to get out of here,”… Mudra said she felt she had to prove to the server that she is a woman, so she unzipped her hoodie to show she has breasts.” [2]

“Dani Davis was in the women’s restroom at the Walmart where she worked when she heard a man’s voice shouting from outside the stall. The man yelled a slur for transgender people and said he was going to beat them up, Davis said. She was the only person in the bathroom at the Lake City, Florida, store… Davis waited for the man to leave before exiting the bathroom and finishing her shift. Her immediate supervisor was supportive when she reported the incident, she said. So she was shocked and confused when she was fired around a week later for not reporting the incident to the right managers and creating a “security risk.””[3]

“She said that she had entered the restroom with her ex-girlfriend, who handed her a tampon, when two male deputies stormed in, shining flashlights into the stall and demanding she exit. Morton, still using the toilet, was stunned... When she finally exited the stall, she said she lifted her shirt to prove she was not a man, expecting the ordeal to end. Instead, she said one deputy continued to question her appearance, insisting she “looked like a man.””[4]

It would be unfair of me to presume that you believe that all women should wear skirts, keep their hair long, and perhaps shave down any overly square facial bones so as to not invoke any hint of possible masculinity. But if there is a rule in place, then the rule requires methods of being enforced. Expecting women to expose themselves to a security guard or some other investigatory party in order to prove that they should be allowed to pee there is a guaranteed violation of their dignity, whereas the occasional transgender woman using the next stall over is not.

[1]https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/boston/news/women-boston-liberty...

[2] https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/minnesota-teen-says...

[3] https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/03/27/walmart-fir...

[4] https://www.advocate.com/news/lesbian-mistaken-transgender-a...
by constantcrying | 2025-10-10 20:50:43+00:00
The idea of an American manufacturing resurgence is absurd. To whom do you sell products at like 10x of what China produces these products for?

No, automation is not going to save you. Cheap labor, great engineers and energy are the key to manufacturing competitively. The US has none of that. Some EU countries still have the engineers, but labor and energy is prohibitively expensive.
by GuB-42 | 2025-10-10 20:50:55+00:00
I think it is a good idea, and that's actually how Japanese word processors have been working since the late 70s!

The way to input Japanese is to type the word phonetically using a regular qwerty keyboard. The computer then finds all writings that match and order them by likelihood.

Calling that "AI" may be a little much for 70s tech, but it is definitely machine learning, as the machine is able to match patterns and take previous choices into account.
by lovich | 2025-10-10 20:51:08+00:00
Your post sounds conspiratorial but there are basic economic reasons why those revolving doors seem to exist.

Every campaign is going to need largely the same set of skill sets in their campaign staff. Spinning up these groups and also going through the startup time of any new team learning to work together costs a lot of time and money.

So several of these standard skill sets, like data science, marketing, etc have been spun out into companies or consulting firms that are treated like a pool of available resources by campaigns based on their party.

It’s not treated as a slush fund and there’s usually a handful of competitors in your parties pool but you do end up working with a lot of the same faces at different clients/campaigns if you work at one of the servicing companies.

I worked at one of them once and I recall realizing that fact when I asked why a coworkers email had numeral in his name when he had a relatively uncommon first and last name
by nchmy | 2025-10-10 20:51:09+00:00
One other comment though: a lot of what you said rests upon the notion that people were relying on these features.

First, barely anyone used datastar at that point, and those features were particularly arcane. So, the impact was minimal.

Second, its likely that even fewer of them contributed anything at all to the project in general, and those features in particular. What claim do they have to anything - especially when it was just freely given to them, and not actually taken away (the code is still there)?

And to the extent that they can't or wont fix it themselves, what happens if the dev just says "im no longer maintaining datastar anymore"? You might say "well, at least he left them something usable", but how is that any different from considering the pro changes to just be a fork? In essence, he forked his own project - why does anyone have any claim to any of that?

Finally, if they cant fix it themselves (especially when AI could almost certainly fix it rapidly), should they really be developing anything?

In the end, this really is a non-issue. Again, most of the furor is quite clearly performative. Its like when DHH removed typescript from one of his projects that he and his company maintain, and people who have nothing to do with ruby came out of the woodwork to decry the change in his github repo. And even if they do have something to do with ruby, they have no say over how he writes his code.
by aziaziazi | 2025-10-10 20:51:19+00:00
The butter is my favorite exemple: peanut butter, cacao butter, Vitellaria butter…

"What food are" actually refer to what people use that word for and not necessarily what is the strict scientific definition. I’m sure most knows what’s a "plant burger", although I concede the current law is confusing as you can call an egg or diary many based patty as such.
by piranhas | 2025-10-10 20:51:25+00:00
Taumata­whakatangihanga­koauau­o­tamatea­turi­pukaka­piki­maunga­horo­nuku­pokai­whenua­ki­tana­tahu.nz - A fun, minimalist site dedicated to the hill in New Zealand with the world’s longest single-word place name — and now one of the longest domain names ever registered. Includes background on the Māori legend of Tamatea, the 85-character name’s meaning, and its official recognition. Built just for the curiosity of it.
by ericselin | 2025-10-10 20:51:56+00:00
Many commenters are implying that there is a security issue here, and that I'm putting everyone in danger. That is quite frankly a pretty absurd claim to just casually make. I'm of course very curious to hear more details on what the security risk here actually would be?

Do you think I'm reading/writing sensitive data to/from subdomain-wide cookies?

Also, yes, the PSL is a great tool to mitigate (in practice eliminate) the problem of cross-domain cookies between mutually untrusting parties. But getting on that list is non-trivial and they (voluntary maintainers) even explicitly state that you can forget getting on there before your service is big enough.
by JuxtaMetrics | 2025-10-10 20:52:35+00:00
Hi HN,

For years, I’ve been frustrated with the state of web analytics. The default choice, Google Analytics, is a powerful but bloated tool that treats our website visitors like data commodities. On the other hand, many simpler alternatives felt a bit too basic. I wanted something that was both deeply insightful and deeply respectful of user privacy, so I decided to build it myself.

Today, I’m launching the public beta of Gridpoint Analytics, a privacy-first web analytics tool I’ve been building as a bootstrapped founder.

My goal was to build this on three core principles that I felt were missing from the market:

1. Absolute Privacy (The Technical Details): This is the foundation. Gridpoint Analytics uses no cookies and does not store or even see visitor IP addresses. To count unique users, we use a daily-rotating salt combined with the anonymized IP address and User-Agent to create a hash. The original data is immediately discarded. This provides a reasonable measure of unique visitors for a 24-hour period without ever storing PII or using invasive device fingerprinting.

2. Actionable Clarity (De-mystifying the "AI"): Instead of just dumping data on you, our "AI Signal Engine" is a set of heuristics and pattern-detection models that surfaces plain-English insights. For example, it can spot when a specific blog post is getting unusual referral traffic and tell you about it, so you don't have to hunt for the "why" behind a traffic spike. It's less "general AI" and more of a helpful data analyst.

3. The Tech Stack (Built on a Modern, Private Web): I wanted to build this entire project on infrastructure I trust.

Frontend: React, Tailwind CSS, and Recharts for the interactive charts.

Backend: The entire thing runs on a serverless Cloudflare stack. The API is built with Cloudflare Functions and the database is Cloudflare D1. This allows for incredibly fast, low-latency data ingestion from anywhere in the world.

This is a self-funded, solo-founder project born from a genuine need. I'm not trying to build the next data behemoth; I'm trying to build a sustainable, ethical business that helps other creators and startups grow.

The product is in public beta, and there’s a generous free tier so you can try it out on a personal site with zero risk.

I would be incredibly grateful for any feedback from the HN community, especially on our privacy methodology and the tech stack. I'm here all day to answer any and all questions.

Thanks for taking a look.
by etimms | 2025-10-10 20:52:44+00:00
Hey everyone — we’re a small group of engineers building something we’ve always wanted to exist.

Every time we start a new project, it’s the same dance: sketch a system in Whimsical or Miro, then spend hours wiring up Redis, queues, Postgres, Stripe, Clerk, Posthog, etc. We finally asked — why can’t we just turn that system diagram into working code?

So we're building FounderOS. It’s a visual IDE + CLI for full-stack TypeScript apps. You lay out your architecture — APIs, queues, caches, databases, and integrations — and FounderOS scaffolds all the boilerplate in one go. It doesn’t use AI to generate code (we want predictable, deterministic output). Instead, it’s powered by a nightly-tested library of prebuilt modules for modern TS stacks: Prisma, Redis, BullMQ, Stripe, Clerk, Posthog, and more.

When you click Sync, FounderOS: * Generates typed specs for your services * Creates controllers and OpenAPI docs * Injects integrations (like Stripe or Redis) via clean, typed interfaces * Exposes typed and versioned SDKs between services so everything stays safe end to end

The goal: go from a diagram → a working TypeScript monorepo without writing setup code. Then open it in your editor and start on business logic immediately.

FounderOS will be fully open source — all templates and modules in the repo. The paid product will just be the visual builder + CLI that tie it together.

Existing teams can integrate too by writing spec files or exposing OpenAPI specs. It’s not totally plug-and-play yet, but we think most codebases can adopt it gradually.

In short: * Design your system visually — services, APIs, data models * Pick integrations and third-party modules * Click Sync, and FounderOS generates the boilerplate for you

We’d love feedback on whether this would actually make your life easier. What would you expect from a tool like this? What would make you actually use it?

Thanks for reading — happy to answer anything.
by legitster | 2025-10-10 20:53:07+00:00
Everyone is poo-pooing this, but in car development years, 2027 is really soon. Their announcement was not that they were about to have their breakthrough, but they are setting up production. And specifically that they are announcing manufacturing partners - this is not "looking for potential factory sites" this is tooling up existing factories.

A lot of other companies are saying 2027-2028 so I'm thinking this could be the real deal.
by junar | 2025-10-10 20:53:30+00:00
I was curious how other browsers handle this. Apparently Safari and Firefox delegate to Google.

https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/data/en/safari/

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-does-phishing-and-m...

Microsoft seems to do its own thing for Edge, though.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/microsoft-edge-...