MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by zsoltkacsandi | 2025-10-29 16:36:40+00:00
I was reached out by an Austrian company with a platform engineer position. Everything seemed like a good fit from both sides, until I got the employment contract.

Out from curiosity I ran though an LLM on it, that pointed out it was full of traps, salary frozen for three years, massive financial penalties on leaving (getting fired with reason, getting fired without reason, leaving on the wrong date, etc), half a week unpaid overwork monthly added back (it was advertised as a 35 hours position and they asked the salary expectation accordingly - then in the contract they added back 5 hours weekly, unpaid), company can deduct money from your salary based on their claims, pre-contractual intellectual property claims, etc.

There were even discrepancies between the German and English text (the English introduced a new condition in a penalty clause on leaving), that could have been nearly impossible to spot without an LLM (or an expensive lawyer).

In hindsight many red flags were obvious, but LLMs are great to balance out the information asymmetry that some companies try to leverage against employers.
by SJC_Hacker | 2025-10-29 16:36:44+00:00
> I'm so surprised there is so much pushback against this.. AWS is extremely expensive. The use cases for setting up your system or service entirely in AWS are more rare than people seem to realise. Maybe I'm just the old man screaming at cloud (no pun intended) but when did people forget how to run a baremetal server ?

Long term yes you can save money rolling your own.

But with cloud you can get something up and running within maybe a few days, sometimes even faster. Often with built in scalability.

This is a much easier sell to the non-tech (i.e., money) people.

If the project continues, the path of least resistance is often to just continue with the cloud solution. At a certain point, there will be so much tech debt that any savings from long term costs from the traditional on-premises, co-location or managed hosting, are vastly by the cost of migration.
by stefap2 | 2025-10-29 16:36:55+00:00
I read what you say, but I can hardly imagine how people can be twice as productive. I use Claude daily for writing various scripts. It produces a lot of code, so yes, if I measured it by generated code, then it's productive. However, it works best for short, clearly defined tasks/scripts. If you want anything longer, you have to watch it like a hawk so it doesn't go off track. And I'm not sure if I would give this code to someone else to use without a thorough review. I would say it may be even less productive (I think there was a paper on that).

I also use LLMs for writing; it's good, but again, you need to carefully read everything and rewrite passages that are completely made up. So I'm not really sure how this can replace people, to the point that Amazon is firing 30,000 people. I have a hard time squaring it that it's because of AI.
by dragonwriter | 2025-10-29 16:37:10+00:00
This was specifically listed as a summons. Even in places with a normal rules for “filing charges” (requiring a prosecutor), police can often issue summons for non-arrestable offenses (and sometimes as an alternative to arrest for arrestable offenses). The prosecutor will still have to file charges before the arraignment, but the police may retain the ability to withdraw the summons (and cancel their request to the DA to file charges) unilaterally before that occurs.
by solumunus | 2025-10-29 16:37:10+00:00
Everything Claude does is reviewed by me, nothing enters the code base that doesn’t meet the standard we’ve always kept. Perhaps I’m sub standard and weak but my software is stable, my customers are happy, and I’m delivering value to them quicker than I was previously.

I don’t know how you could effectively study such a thing, that avenue seems like a dead end. The truth will become obvious in time.
by some_bird | 2025-10-29 16:37:19+00:00
We could also just get rid of webPKI entirely?

But you still need a public key for TLS? Well, just put it in DNS!

And assuming your DNS responses are validated by DNSSEC, it would be even more secure too. You'd be closing a whole lot of attack vectors: from IP hijacks and server-side AitM to CA compromises. In fact, you would no longer need to use CA's in the first place. The chain of trust goes directly from your registrar to your webserver with no third party in between anymore. (And if your registrar or webserver is hacked, you'd have bigger problems...)
by rcarmo | 2025-10-29 16:37:23+00:00
Huh. It mentions neither Intel nor AMD, and I am seeing _a lot_ of N100/N150 industrial SBCs right now (outside the hobbyist space). Intel in particular seems to be replaying their approach of flooding the market with Atom chips and making N-series available to OEMs in volume and relatively low price.

Full marks for Rockchip coverage, yes, they're filling in the gaps below the RK3588, although some of those chips aren't that interesting in terms of power budget and have apparently low yields.
by mrguyorama | 2025-10-29 16:37:29+00:00
I have a microsoft account. I made it for Windows Live to play Halo 2 for Windows Vista back in the day.

Except, then Microsoft adjusted their account infrastructure, and now it's also an Xbox Live account. Then it became also a Windows Messenger account. Then it was required to login to Visual Studio. Then it ate my perfectly working Mojang account. Now I need it to install stuff from the Windows store like the damn Windows debugger you use to analyze BSOD dump files

I do not want my computer preferences saved across machines. I want to set up each computer separately. I do not want cortana. I do not want to connect my local computer to my account.

I gain nothing by using my microsoft account to log in to my local computer.

The singular goal is that I just want to use my damn computer, to do local computer things.
by zozbot234 | 2025-10-29 16:37:40+00:00
> Also perhaps when I want to update the schema of my database and not "stop" the inflow of messages, not sure if this would be easy?

Doesn't PostgreSQL have transactional schema updates as a key feature? AIUI, you shouldn't be having any data loss as a result of such changes. It's also common to use views in order to simplify the management of such updates.
by uberduper | 2025-10-29 16:37:43+00:00
I'm highly skeptical of the method employed to simulate unsync'd writes in that example. Using a non-clustered zookeeper and then just shutting it down, breaking the kafka controller and preventing any kafka cluster state management (not just preventing partition leader election) while manually corrupting the log file. Oof. Is it really _that_ hard to lose ack'd data from a kafka cluster that you had to go to such contrived and dubious lengths?
by carlosjobim | 2025-10-29 16:37:46+00:00
Nations like Sweden and the UK might have a healthy startup scene despite not getting good help from banks and other capital institutions.

Go search the web for startup financing in Sweden. One of the big banks has a page dedicated to this - but they're not offering their own money, instead they're pointing to government grants and government lending programs.

> If the barrier to entry to get money thrown at you is so low, a lot of it gets wasted. So the rest really really has to make it big

You can't do your accounting like that. One entity does not make up for the losses of another entity. Money is cheap in the US and thrown around to bad startups and good startups. In Europe money is expensive and mostly available to governments or for real estate feudalism.
by pathartl | 2025-10-29 16:37:47+00:00
I wish they would take any amount of time to improve the web UI in a meaningful way. Hate to be harsh, but the new VM UI is terrible and the exception log dialog is completely worthless. If you do something that makes the dialog pop up (e.g. starting a container that is trying to bind to an already bound port), it shows you a generic exceptional n trace log from Python and points you to the actual log file that would have the error. As a user I don't care about a stack trace of the web UI! Log that to the JS console and give me a tail of the log!
by UniverseHacker | 2025-10-29 16:37:54+00:00
There is zero genuine interest here in dealing with illegal immigration issues, it’s just a very thin veil over state sponsored KKK style white supremacy terrorism. Videos all over the Internet show them violently attacking and terrorizing hispanic looking people with no concern for if they are citizens or not. At the Wilder raid in Idaho they were shooting children with rubber bullets, and zip tying them to watch as they brutally beat their (mostly US citizen) parents in front of them. At the same time you have the administration actively encouraging white immigration from South Africa.
by wredcoll | 2025-10-29 16:38:21+00:00
> his bias results in underrepresentation of Global South perspectives, limited access individuals, and women, among others.

And grok is addressing this... how, precisely?

I looked up your cite, this is the twitter thingy:

> GROKIPEDIA IS ALREADY MORE ACCURATE THAN WIKIPEDIA AND IT SHOWS

> Grokipedia just proved why it is rewriting how knowledge works online. Look at how it covers acupuncture compared to Wikipedia.

> Grokipedia explains the practice as an ancient Chinese medical system over two thousand years old, describing how it works, what practitioners believe, and what science says about its results.

> Wikipedia opens by calling it pseudoscience and quackery before even defining it.

> One informs you, the other attacks.

> Grokipedia delivers balanced facts while Wikipedia delivers bias.

Acupuncture related techniques do (I assume) go back 2000 years. They're also pseudoscience with no real evidence behind them. Both things can be true.
by KaiserPro | 2025-10-29 16:38:26+00:00
I'm not sure I follow the argument being made here.

"I don't like vim as you need to install plugins to make it work"

"helix is a dumb editor, so it needs a language server."

Then they go and list the number of plugins they install. This seems to argue against what their main point

I now use VScode most of the time, however to me its a fancy VIM variant, because I'm so used to vim bindings.

I can and do use raw vim, although not for any serious programming recently. If I were then I'd have syntastic installed and possibly some more advanced linter.

However! If it makes them happy, then this is a good thing™.
by freedomben | 2025-10-29 16:38:32+00:00
Indeed, I've seen this happen first hand where there was really only one guy who really "knew" Kafka, and it was too big of a job for just him. In that case it was fine until he left the company, and then it became a massive albatross and a major pain point. In another case, the eng team didn't really have anyone who really "knew" Kafka but used a managed service thinking it would be fine. It was until it wasn't, and switching away is not a light lift, nor is mass educating the dev team.

Kafka et al definitely have their place, but I think most people would be much better off reaching for a simpler queue system (or for some things, just using Postgres) unless you really need the advanced features.
by BobaFloutist | 2025-10-29 16:38:51+00:00
Grades are mostly for students, who (understandably) complain when they lack information about how well they're doing. That's what can make curves so frustrating, since all the grades except the last are essentially meaningless.

Absent complaints, I'm sure the vast majority of professors would be much happier to assign "No-pass," "Pass," "Superlative Pass" arbitrarily based on vibes at the end of each course.
by evantbyrne | 2025-10-29 16:39:03+00:00
It's not the dev box with zero integrations/storage that's expensive. AWS was quoting us similar numbers for MSK. Part of the issue is that modern kafka has become synonymous with Confluent, and once you buy into those features, it is very difficult to go back. If you're already on AWS and just need queuing, start with SQS.
by adornKey | 2025-10-29 16:39:39+00:00
MDF was also my choice for my largest gluing project. I needed about 7m² for the 24.000 Educa. MDF is cheap and easily available in big sizes. I'd use Plywood for things <1m², it looks nice.

For the 9.000s I always used paper for the backside (old calendars are a good source for big sheets with excellent quality). Using one wooden lath at the top was enough to ensure stability for a 18.000. The 9.000s didn't need that - just paper and a bit of duct-tape on the backside were enough.
by mrguyorama | 2025-10-29 16:40:15+00:00
Why would it be a "bold move"? Linux gaming population is damn near zero, they do not provide a higher profit margin like mac gamers would, and the documented evidence is that supporting Linux users is obnoxious because they are rude and entitled but not actually that much better at providing feedback.

Epic Games bought out rocket league and turned off a native linux build and faced no repercussions. Instead they made plenty of money.

That's the bar.
by grishy | 2025-10-29 16:40:43+00:00
any-sync-bundle is a prepackaged, all-in-one self-hosted server solution designed for Anytype, a local-first, peer-to-peer note-taking and knowledge management application. It is based on the original modules used in the official Anytype server but merges them into a single binary for simplified deployment and zero-configuration setup.

Anytype - https://anytype.io/
by andhuman | 2025-10-29 16:40:44+00:00
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by zavec | 2025-10-29 16:40:53+00:00
Yeah the graph for that one looks exactly the same shape. I wonder if they were depending on some azure component somehow, or maybe there were things hosted on both and the azure failure made enough things failover to AWS that AWS couldn't cope? If that was the case I'd expect to see something similar with GCP too though.

Edit: nope looks like there's actually a spike on GCP as well
by marcosdumay | 2025-10-29 16:41:03+00:00
> It's very simple with an imperative UI to have infinite loops even with very simple UIs.

That's something that reactive UIs inherited from the imperative events by design. It's not a differentiator here. You may be able to debug them better, but infinite event streams are pretty much still an issue, and about as easy to get.

Anyway, almost every problem in the article is a react problem, not a FRP problem. Vue may not have them, I don't know it well enough to say (but some do really look like a FRP in javascript problem, so they should apply there too).
by sunshine-o | 2025-10-29 16:41:16+00:00
I think the the market for those stablecoins is now broader than criminal and traders.

There is a huge demand for dollars by individuals outside of the US. Countries where people do not really trust their banks and currencies.

Even in the Euro zone, most saving accounts will give you about 1% after taxes. So why not going with USDT, USDC or EURC and get about 5% on a relatively safe lending platform.
by giantg2 | 2025-10-29 16:41:31+00:00
"I mean if something doesn't ever work in real life then its not good."

Are you talking about Agile, Waterfall, or project management in general?

I've seen Agile work just fine. I've also seen it fail miserably. I've seen both of these at the same company with the main difference being how aggressive/delusional the leadership is. The easy test is if your leadership is legitimately ok with your team going home early if you complete your sprint commitment early, and it actually happens on occasion.
by bux93 | 2025-10-29 16:41:43+00:00
I think everybody has a horror story about code depending on the empty string and NULL being the same, silly stuff like that can trip up migrations.

The main reason I'd say is that there's no functional benefit to ripping out a database and replacing it, so there's always something more important to do that actually drives revenue.

I'd argue that postgres brings with it substantially lower risks in terms of license compliance/audits/price hikes. Not sure if that can drive a migration, but it should be reason enough to select open source for new projects.
by marssaxman | 2025-10-29 16:41:58+00:00
I once bought a commercial dishwasher. It cost twice as much used as a domestic dishwasher would have cost new, and I had to add a 220 outlet and run some new plumbing; but the kitchen in that house had no space for a normal dishwasher, so I had to be creative. I put the big machine on my back porch, just outside the kitchen door: it was ugly, loud, and absurdly fast. Once it came up to temperature, it could wash a tray of dishes in three minutes flat. Great for cleaning up after dinner parties. It was certainly a kind of luxury, in a brute-force way.
by solarkraft | 2025-10-29 16:42:30+00:00
People on here love to be contrarian about Cursor, but I’ve tried all the popular alternatives (Copilot, Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cline) and found Cursor’s overall experience to just be unmatched. A big part of that is its speed, another its reliability.

It’s the only coding agent I’m actually really motivated to use out of the box because it really does make me feel more productive while the others keep messing up the project, from way too large changes I didn’t ask for all the way to constant syntax and request errors.

It’s the only coding agent I’ve used that feels serious about being a product rather than a prototype. Their effort in improving their stack is totally paying off.
by stuffn | 2025-10-29 16:42:47+00:00
Completely serious question here: is it still price gouging if they're one of a few players in town?

Information asymmetry is only valuable if you can execute on it. All of your examples are actually examples of both asymmetry and market control. HVAC, there's typically only a few legitimate licensed providers in town so they can set the price however they want. Car servicing, indie shops are always better but if you want to maintain your warranty you'll need to use a stealership which goes by a book (and it's mandatory).

I'm not convinced an LLM can help with these situations. I would suspect you're more likely to get a "screw you" price in return rather than winning a negotiation. When I shopped for a new HVAC after mine gave up the ghost after 20 years most providers were within a few hundred dollars of each other. An LLM would've been useful here for warnings ("you probably dont need ducting", "you probably don't need duct cleaning") but as for the bulk of the cost there's a monopoly and there ain't nothin you can do about it. When I got my yard worked on it was a similar story. Despite every landscaper providing offers from cheap to absurd, the ones that I could sue if they hit a gas line were all within the same price range.

These people are also very used to the "know-it-all homeowner". They're more likely to ignore you than help you because if you actually knew-it-all you'd do it yourself.

I think, rather, LLMs will be extremely useful in bill negotiation where the data is absolutely clear, you have a copy of it, and it can be analyzed in full (no asymmetry). For example, an LLM could be trained on medical billing codes and be able to analyze your bills for improperly coded procedures (very common).
by throw4847285 | 2025-10-29 16:42:56+00:00
That's not true. The best evidence that somebody has taste is that they introduce something to you (a band, a movie, etc.) that you've never encountered, but they are correct that you love it. But whatever they chose to share might not be their favorite work of art. They just knew that you would like it, because not only do they have a well formed sense of what they like and why, they can read other people the same way. They can find enjoyment in a huge range of art, because they can tap into what about it is enjoyable rather than reflexively labeling things good or bad. That is the definition of people with taste.
by complianceowl | 2025-10-29 16:43:14+00:00
THANK YOU! I'm incredibly grateful for your taking time to answer my question. I was constantly hitting refresh to see if anyone answered, and you're the only answer I got -- and 100% the only one I needed.

I think what you say makes sense. There's times when you hear advice and you just know it's true and on point. And that is exactly what I saw in your words of advice.

I'm going to stick it out and just finish. Aside from career, it is also helping me with random side interests that I have like making my house smart, setting up media servers, creating my own Raspberry Pi surveillance system, automating work tasks. So like you said, the things I'm learning are useful in and of themselves.

Thanks a bunch, friend! You made a real difference!
by timschmidt | 2025-10-29 16:43:34+00:00
I see no answer in your comments to my question about the knife / letter opener dichotomy, or about when a rope becomes violent or not. That's why I asked a direct question about your system of thought, your perceptions. They are common tools, they should be easy answers.

In the system of thought I've expressed, this is easy: all are tools, all have potential violent and non-violent uses. Depends on the intention and choices of the user.

In the system of thought you've expressed, I'm asking about these specific objects, because the words you've provided aren't sufficient for me to tell if they are violent objects or not. I'd like to know how it works for you. How you perceive it. If you're referencing a previous comment could you quote it? I'd like to understand what you're trying to say.
by scuff3d | 2025-10-29 16:43:40+00:00
Agreed. Also people tend to add a lot of context when they're talking through a process. That often gets left out when writing.

I've written docs at work intended for non (or less) technical people and it's a pain in the ass to try and get screenshots of expected inputs/outputs, try to predict every question or misunderstanding and make the writing clear. There has been more than a few times I wished I could just record a video.
by tharmas | 2025-10-29 16:43:53+00:00
>Has trump forced us into the hands of China and Europe?

Indeed. In order to get/keep Argentina out of the hands of the Chinese Trump gives them $40 Billion. A pretty risky venture considering their past record. I am aware that there are other reasons for the bailout (e.g. Citron hedge fund manager, who could lose a fortune, is a buddy of Bessant etc.).

Canada on the other hand gets lots of bullying. The hegemonic goal of the USA is to control the Western hemisphere, yet Trump does everything to make the Canadians want to pivot towards China. Is that what the Geopolitical Elites in Washington want? Or is it a ploy, to push Canada into the hands of China, giving the USA an excuse to "take Canada over".
by comprev | 2025-10-29 16:43:54+00:00
I'm on a Platform team of <8 people and only 3 of us (most experienced too) come from sysadmin backgrounds. The rest have only ever known containers/cloud and never touched (both figuratively and literally :-) bare metal servers in their careers.

They've never used tools like Ansible (or Anaconda) or been in situations where they couldn't destroy the container and start afresh instantly.