MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by haiji2025 | 2025-10-21 02:02:09+00:00
I can share my experience: monitoring and alerting should be calibrated to the number of users you serve. Early on, we run load/stress tests; if those look good, many ancillary alerts aren’t necessary. Alerts are best reserved for truly critical events—such as outages and other severe incidents. Thresholds should be tuned to real-world conditions and adjusted over time. Hope this helps.
by Barrin92 | 2025-10-21 02:02:12+00:00
one thing that I've never regretted, and is paying dividends, is that I've been buying and collecting physical music since I was a teen and grown my own library. Thankfully I have a lot of music buffs in my family who encouraged it.

What I do is pick one or two dozen records at the beginning of the year and limit myself to them, listen actively instead of just putting it on, don't just treat it like noise. Don't need to bother with any subscription service or AI bs. Even before the AI slop if you looked at the numbers, random influencer crap was much more heavily promoted than some of the greatest music in human history, there's such a recency bias in the entire streaming industry.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-10-21 02:02:12+00:00
I should preface that with "it feels like" the last bit of expression. A house is out of reach, community is siloing off, hobbies become more solitary.

"Its just a car" to them in the same way "it's just a streamer" to someone developing a parasocial relationship. If only it was that easy to snap them out of it.
by cdf | 2025-10-21 02:02:23+00:00
Even though I worked for companies that killed Sun, I never stopped admiring the foundational work the company was doing, which was not just cool, but critical for technological progress, and was very sad when the company sold out to Oracle and was gutted alive. HPC stuff Sun pioneered is still very relevant today. In an alternate timeline, Sun fully embraced Open Source and became a key pillar of the internet today.

Unfortunately, while we are well aware of cool tech companies that were ran aground by the finance/sales/management consulting types, Sun felt like a company ran aground by engineers.

Zuck famously kept the Sun logo up for quite a while when Facebook bought Sun's HQ campus, as a warning to the employees of what they could become. In some ways, Facebook/Meta is the spiritual successor of Sun, just like Google became the spiritual successor of SGI when they bought the SGI campus.

But these two ad driven companies never quite became the new Sun/SGI, for better and worse.
by sureglymop | 2025-10-21 02:02:39+00:00
As for your last paragraph, I can give you my opinion.

I believe it's almost purely a developer experience thing. People want immediate feedback with hot reloading. They want to test out any little change right inline and get feedback without a mental context switch.

Check out this talk from Bret Victor called "Inventing on Principle" if you haven't yet : https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NGYGl_xxfXA

It explores the benefits of this. Personally I don't often use tailwind but I do often use inline style attributes just to preview how something would look, before I refactor it into actual classes and rules.
by aaronjbecker | 2025-10-21 02:02:46+00:00
I have been working on an algorithm to combine names with pronunciations that overlap, based on ARPAbet phoneme representations from CMU dict + generated by LLMs. The data is still messy, because "creative" spellings are hard for LLMs to deal with: token overlap with primary names is frequently low, and spelling variations only exist because English has such a lax approach to phonics to begin with.

Here's Ryan with its spelling variations: https://nameplay.org/names/combined/popularity/Ryan
by yencabulator | 2025-10-21 02:04:35+00:00
There was a time when Mozilla worked on what is being now pushed forward under the Servo umbrella. 2017 was 8 years ago. Then in 2020 Mozilla laid off 250 employees, including pretty much all of the developers of Servo/Quantum and their security team.

And now Mozilla is sitting on that cool $1.3 B, burning $220-500 M/year on "software development" without telling anyone what it actually is doing with that money, and putting $0 into Servo.
by stavros | 2025-10-21 02:05:42+00:00
In the beginning, there was Postman, and we used it, and it was good. Then, Postman became enshittified, so we switched to Insomnia. Then, Insomnia became enshittified, so we switched to Bruno. Then, Bruno became enshittified, so now it's Yaak.

Let's see how long it takes for one of these programs to break the cycle.
by aussieguy1234 | 2025-10-21 02:05:56+00:00
The PIP culture of AWS sounds horrifying. As a decent engineer, I would not work there unless that is addressed.

I heard its as bad as this. Take a team of 5 genius engineers, the best 5 in the world.

There is a PIP quota, so one of the genius engineers must be PIP'ed, despite being in the top 5 engineers globally.
by pluto_modadic | 2025-10-21 02:06:00+00:00
DNS is:

- simple

- battle hardened

- distributed

- affordable

blockchains are:

- essoteric, backwards, and not easily implemented

- new and unproven, frequently hacked

- effectively a ploy to centralize / redo Web 1.0 but owned by one blockchain

- ...waaaaaaay more about money and "owning something" than DNS is.
by sumanthvepa | 2025-10-21 02:06:13+00:00
There seems to be some sort imputation that, just because someone is on an H-1b, that they are not a good engineer.

I used to be on an H-1b and gladly came back home to India. I run my own business now. And yes. I'm ex-Anazon. It was a tough place to work, but circa mid-nineties, the stock options made it worth working for them.

I'm willing to bet I'll outcode a significant fraction of the audience on this site. And I'm not even close to the best developer around. Some of the smartest people I've met have been on an H-1b visa. Please consider not letting prejudice affect your view. You'll do yourself a disservice by underestimating your competition.
by EGreg | 2025-10-21 02:06:15+00:00
"Once the URL is shared with others, the owner loses the ability to assert access control over the video."

That reminds me of Stallman's apocryphal story about favoring a password instead of ACLs, and why GNU doesn't have a "wheel" group :)

https://administratosphere.wordpress.com/2007/07/19/the-whee...

Sometimes a few of the users try to hold total power over all the rest. For example, in 1984, a few users at the MIT AI lab decided to seize power by changing the operator password on the Twenex system and keeping it secret from everyone else. (I was able to thwart this coup and give power back to the users by patching the kernel, but I wouldn't know how to do that in Unix.)

However, occasionally the rulers do tell someone. Under the usual

`su' mechanism, once someone learns the root password who sympathizes with the ordinary users, he or she can tell the rest. The "wheel group" feature would make this impossible, and thus cement the power of the rulers.

I'm on the side of the masses, not that of the rulers. If you are

used to supporting the bosses and sysadmins in whatever they do, you might find this idea strange at first.
by FpUser | 2025-10-21 02:06:20+00:00
This video has brough warm and fuzzy memories from my other life. When I was a scientist back in USSR my research subject required measuring ridiculously low amounts of light and I used photomultiplier tube in photon counting mode for that. I needed current preamp that can amplify nanosecond long pulses and have concocted one out of arsenide-gallium logic elements pushed to work in a linear mode. The tube was cooled by Peltier elements and data fed to a remote Soviet relative of Wang computer [0].

OMG this was back in 1979-1981.

0. - https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AD%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%82...
by VirusNewbie | 2025-10-21 02:06:31+00:00
I know some people who are fine working there. No one seems thrilled but if you're an above average engineer who is just getting by at 140k a year and suddenly you're looking at 350k a year as an SDEIII or something, that can be a life changing amount of money.

However, I think the question is, what percentage of engineers can pass the amazon interview but not the Apple/Databricks/Uber/Google/Meta ones. Because no one is picking amazon over the aforementioned companies.

However, maybe there's an opening at Amazon and not the other companies, or maybe that's your only offer. I certainly think it might be worth it for a a few years.
by Forgeties79 | 2025-10-21 02:07:14+00:00
> But his friend Hannah Arendt took up many of his ideas in her opus The Human Condition (1958), which argues that political life, like aesthetics, is characterised by an innate, albeit now widely ignored, human need for self-display through performances that are not labour, or routine, or ritual, but what she, following Rosenberg, called ‘action’. Like her friend, Arendt was concerned that possibilities for action in our society were being eroded by mechanisation and bureaucratisation on the one hand, and, on the other, illusory forms of pseudo-action, ranging from the benumbing pleasures of the entertainment industry to the chimeras of mass politics.

I feel like there’s some insight here on how we all interact not just on HN but on social media/forums more broadly but i can’t quite connect the disparate ideas floating around in my head right now.
by aaronjbecker | 2025-10-21 02:09:01+00:00
I have a follow-up post that covers "common" unisex names, which I arbitrarily defined as names with at least 25k births for both sexes. This one does have more of the names you were probably expecting to see: https://nameplay.org/blog/common-unisex-names-by-gender-rati...

The ranking for the linked post is based on a diversity index, which scores most highly for names closest to an exact 50-50 split. Hence framing it as the "most non-binary" of the unisex names. Admittedly this is more a statistical curiosity than a reflection of everyday life.
by felixfurtak | 2025-10-21 02:09:14+00:00
> The way I've used it is fine

No it's not. Here is the AI summary of why it isn't.

Breakdown of the Error

Less is used for uncountable quantities (e.g., "less water," "less time," "less anger"). Lest is a conjunction that means "for fear that" or "to avoid the possibility of." This is precisely the meaning the writer intends.

Here are a few ways to write the sentence correctly, depending on the desired level of formality:

Direct Correction (Best for preserving the original tone): "Had to find some way to use 'AI' in a press release, lest the stock gods get angry and vengeful." Slightly More Formal: "We had to find some way to use 'AI' in a press release for fear that the stock gods would get angry and vengeful." Using "or" (Common modern alternative): "Had to find some way to use 'AI' in a press release, or the stock gods will get angry and vengeful."
by legostormtroopr | 2025-10-21 02:09:38+00:00
But why is it that news online defaults to US politics?

Yes, politics impacts everything, which is all the more reason to exclude it, otherwise how do we draw the line?

Are we buying protests in Indonesia against disappearances of protestors under the rug but not posting about it? https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-20/prabowo-subianto-one-...?
by eYrKEC2 | 2025-10-21 02:11:08+00:00
I use a simple bash script:

#!/bin/bash -x TOK="my-jwt-tok" case "$1" in get-foo) curl -H "header: bearer $TOK" "http://www.example.com/foo" | jq . ;; post-bar) curl \ -H "header: bearer $TOK" "http://www.example.com/bar" \ -H "content-type: application/json" \ --data-raw '{"baz":"bap"}' ;; *) ;; esac

used like:

./example.bash get-foo

I know it doesn't have the functionality of postman, but this is how I build up interactions with a new API.
by briga | 2025-10-21 02:11:58+00:00
One thing I think this article overlooks is that Argentina was a superpower, at least before the Panama canal was built. Before that, pretty much all shipping between the Atlantic and the Pacific had to go south around Argentina and Chile. Buenos Aires was one of the best stops along that route, and so it became one of the richest places on earth. After the Panama canal was built most of this traffic dropped off, and so did Argentina's fortunes. It's just so far away from everywhere that it has never been as geographically significant since.
by donavanm | 2025-10-21 02:12:05+00:00
Its intervening to save a democratic and aligned country from yet-another economic collapse and political crises at their upcoming national elections. Not dissimilar to what the us did for mexico during the peso crisis and revaluation in the 90s.

I dont know why “bail out” is the headline term, it’s closer to a “currency backstop” AFAIK. The us is effectively extending hard dollars in exchange for pesos, allowing the argentine govt to not be destroyed in the open currency markets. If this works the peso would retain (or gain) value as the country recovers (economically, due to the ongoing reforms) and the us could feasibly even profit.

On the USD and peso backstop its important to note that “dollarization” was a big talking point for milei. But argentina never had anywhere close to enough USD reserves or even USD economic flows to make that at all feasible ever. Like many many billions away from plausible. So there was a background theme of trying to catch them out on that as well since the last elections.

Edit: and for context the current run against the peso is effectively because of dumb milei posturing ahead of regional elections, and a strong populist/peronist result. Lots of fear that if its repeated at the upcoming national elections then argentina goes back to kirchner style populism and debt/economic blow up.
by measurablefunc | 2025-10-21 02:12:18+00:00
No one thought that theorems in number theory would ever be useful but those theorems are now the foundations of tools like wireguard. Computing the next frame of a snowboarding video is much less valuable than improvements in optimization algorithms that are used daily for optimal transport logistics & energy grid optimization. The promise of AI was solutions to practical problems but what we are getting are frivolous cartoons & 6 second "movie" clips.
by d3Xt3r | 2025-10-21 02:14:13+00:00
I think the author made a typo (or was trying to be sarcastic and missed the sarcasm quotes around "well maintained").

I've used all NTFS drivers extensively in Linux, and whilst ntfs3 is maintained with somewhat regular commits, they are often pretty sparse and haven't addressed some of the long-standing issues (eg Bonnie++ and some other disk benchmark tools fail) - the biggest issue being the lack of a decent fsck tool in the entire ecosystem (ntfsfix in the ntfsprogs pkg isn't a real fsck).

Personally I'd still be wary of doing any fsck from this new project for a good wee while and would recommend using the real CHKDSK from a Windows or a WinPE install instead. Of course, the best option is to avoid using NTFS altogether and use a well-maintained native Linux fs.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-10-21 02:15:03+00:00
> which means banks are creating money without actual assets backing it up

It means they're creating money. That money is backed by actual assets; that is, for example, what's going on when someone forecloses on your house.

> I was talking about bank loans to the account owners that they take to purchase/invest/etc., with added interest.

How does this work with the comment "The loan is a fake number that gets transferred from your account (as debt) to theirs, as digital numbers too, all under the 'trust' that you can withdraw all of it one day"?

A loan from the bank to you is generally withdrawn in full, immediately, because you need to use it to pay for something else. A loan that isn't withdrawn in full isn't called a loan, it's called a line of credit.
by minimaxir | 2025-10-21 02:15:40+00:00
If you're just generating labels from existing documents, you don't need that many data points, but the LLM may hallucinate labels if you have too few relative to the number of labels you want.

For training the model downstream, the main constraint on dataset size is how many distinct labels you want for your use case. The rules of thumb are:

a) ensuring that each label has a few samples

b) atleast N^2 data points total for N labels to avoid issues akin to the curse of dimensionality
by Ccecil | 2025-10-21 02:16:13+00:00
I have been noticing similar but not "loud muffler" so to speak but instead it is noticeable lacking maintenance on "mid-high" value cars.

There have been a lot of cars I consider "nice" but have squealing wheel bearings, squeaking brakes and/or engine tune issues which point to general lack of maintaining the vehicle.

Good to see I am not the only one seeing this warning sign.
by neya | 2025-10-21 02:16:46+00:00
I ditched Postman for Insomnia (Open source) after Postman refused to adhere to customers to disable auto-updates for 6 years+. I checked on their GitHub issue tracker and it turns out, the solution was to upgrade to their "Enterprise plan".

https://github.com/postmanlabs/postman-app-support/issues/69...

So, I said fuck it and switched to a real, open source alternative, Insomnia, instead:

https://insomnia.rest
by randycupertino | 2025-10-21 02:17:17+00:00
> When the DVD versions arrived in the mid-2000s, the music was removed and replaced by stock instrumentals;

That's so annoying- that can replace the entire feel of a scene!

In the Unsolved instance I was annoyed because I was like, huh, I don't know this song let me go check it out, I thought I knew his whole catalogue! and then it was frustrating that it was just "him" singing some nonsense fake song. Just eery how they used an identical sounding voice too.
by atonse | 2025-10-21 02:18:31+00:00
Every time I look at hetzner, I get stuck in EU only servers.

Also I go there in search of bare metal but get mostly cloud.

Are their cloud servers still better than AWS?

And are they more stable than Linode? Because I’ve had just enough server crashes and reboot with Linode that makes me question using them for anything serious.
by clipsy | 2025-10-21 02:18:38+00:00
> I dont know why “bail out” is the headline term, it’s closer to a “currency backstop” AFAIK. The us is effectively extending hard dollars in exchange for pesos, allowing the argentine govt to not be destroyed in the open currency markets. If this works the peso would retain (or gain) value as the country recovers (economically, due to the ongoing reforms) and the us could feasibly even profit.

If.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-10-21 02:18:48+00:00
> Under the usual `su' mechanism, once someone learns the root password who sympathizes with the ordinary users, he or she can tell the rest. The "wheel group" feature would make this impossible, and thus cement the power of the rulers.

How would that work? What is it about the wheel group that stops the sympathetic wheel from revealing his own login information to other people?
by isleyaardvark | 2025-10-21 02:20:23+00:00
I'm a big fan of the Tailwind approach, and I'll lay out some aspects of the mental model, or advantages of Tailwind that led me to it.

Here are the big problems the Tailwind approach solves for me:

1. No debugging of cascade/inheritance bugs. Tailwind almost entirely discourages use of the cascade and eliminates and entire class of bugs, possibly the largest and most difficult class of bugs to deal with.

2. Less complexity in css files. Naming the differences between the styles is standardized, so there's less mental overhead to learn, you're not reinventing the wheel between projects or within a single project.

As a bonus that leads to: Less bloat in css files. There is going to be less in there because Tailwind already sets up essentially the minimum number of classes needed to get any visual effect. There's much less css code written by devs to search through, it'll have less entropy.

The big change in mental model when working with Tailwind is that the styling is done in the html, not in the css. This is good! You end up being able to determine where the styles are coming from just from the source code without diving into dev tools. You can tell, at a quick glance, why an element looks the way it does, and can easily figure out how to change it. Not only that, but you can be confident any changes will not have side-effects on other elements throughout random parts of the codebase. Removing or adding a class will only affect the element you want to change.

My only concern when I went down that route (besides the common criticism of how it's ugly) is how difficult it would be to do something like change the appearance of every instance of a certain type of button. I can only say I have not run into a problem with that. And even if I did it has not come up often at all, whereas the problems that approach solved has made development significantly easier.
by estearum | 2025-10-21 02:21:05+00:00
Scott Bessent is besties with Rob Citrone who is one of the largest purchasers of Argentine debt. He lobbied Bessent, Bessent said "Sure!"

Sometimes it really is that simple.

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/bailing-out-bessents-budd...

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/us/politics/argentina-bai...

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/09/trump-argentina...
by blackjackfoe | 2025-10-21 02:22:26+00:00
I run a small, extremely niche fan site with under 500 users, and I received a very similar email the other day - someone complaining about the "cookie popup" (which my site doesn't have), and then sending me a "screenshot" in a sites.google.com link when I told them I don't know what they're talking about.

Only difference is that it downloaded a .zip file containing a shortcut (.lnk) file which contained commands to download and execute the malicious code.
by aurareturn | 2025-10-21 02:22:34+00:00
Multi tenancy is expensive. You’d need to have every single service you depend on, including 3rd party services, on multi tenancy. In many cases such as the main DB, you need dedicated resources. You’re most likely to also going to need expensive enterprise SLAs.

Servers are easy. I’m sure most companies already have servers that can be spun up. Things related to data are not.
by lolmisfortune | 2025-10-21 02:23:59+00:00
Nitpick: "[name-redacted]" and "jujutsu" are already heavily used terms. Googling around for information about this, at least for me, is pretty difficult. [name-redacted] is an international olympic sport, jujutsu is one of the most famous traditional japanese martial arts, jiu jitsu is the most popular submission base for MMA...

I'd love a rebrand or rename in order to avoid having to work around the name collision.

Best of luck!
by randycupertino | 2025-10-21 02:24:49+00:00
Spotify recommended me a song I kind of liked "What's the Matter with John Brown" by a band called The Roux and when I googled it to get more info about the band I found a thread on reddit /r/music discussing whether or not it was AI music.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AI_Music/comments/1m522g2/is_this_a...

I still haven't figured out if it's AI or not but there is no info about the band online, touring show details, photos etc, so I am leaning towards it is a fake AI band.

It would be nice if AI-music was watermarked in some way so we could filter it out.

For audible (for now, until Audible kills it!) there is a chrome and firefox extension called "devirtualizer" that removes all AI-narrated books from your results: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/devirtualizeaudible...