MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kasey_junk | 2025-10-28 12:45:59+00:00
Do you level the same criticism at people who write blogs expressing their enthusiasm for vi keyboard movements or emacs lisp incantations? How about shell improvements and language server based refactor tools?

How about learning to touch type? Clearly code manipulation is not the hard part of writing software so all the people finding efficiency improvements in that tooling and skill set would be better served doing something else with their time? I find it instructive that the evergreen dismissal of one persons enthusiasm as unimportant rarely says what exactly they should be investing in instead.
by alexghayward | 2025-10-28 12:46:32+00:00
Hi HN,

I'm Alex, co-founder of GoMask.

We built this because every team I've worked with has the same challenge: they use production data for testing because nothing else actually works. Mock data isn't realistic enough to debug with. Snapshots go stale. Manual masking takes weeks and breaks referential integrity.

GoMask does schema-aware masking that preserves relationships and generates synthetic data that behaves like production. Built for CI/CD pipelines.

Technical approach:

- Graph analysis to discover relationships across tables automatically - Format-preserving masking that maintains referential integrity - ML-based synthetic generation trained on schema patterns, not actual data - Processing happens in your environment, we don't require shipping prod data externally - Native integrations with Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab

Main use cases we're seeing: dev environments, staging, QA test data, analytics sandboxes, demo environments.

Handles PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, MongoDB. Working on more connectors.

Free tier available to try it out. Usage-based pricing after that.

Technical questions welcome. Especially interested in edge cases we might have missed or databases we should prioritise.

Built this because we were tired of waiting days for test data ourselves.
by ericmay | 2025-10-28 12:46:37+00:00
The US kind of does in that at least in spirit if the government violates the constitution we have this 2nd Amendment and plenty of moral precedent from the founders. It’s in the Declaration of Independence too which, in my view, is just the first page of the Constitution. The 0th Amendment if you will.

Related to your second point about autocracy - I mean the good thing is you can, today, go start a company with the exact governance structure you propose and go compete in the market.
by JKCalhoun | 2025-10-28 12:47:01+00:00
Perhaps then the solution is that LLMs need to be aware when the chat crosses a threshold and becomes talk of suicide.

When I was getting my Education degree, we were told that, as teachers, to take talk of suicide by students extremely seriously. If a student talks about suicide, a professional supposedly asks, "Do you know how you're going to do it?" If there is an affirmative response, the danger is real.

I suspect that comes from examining case studies?
by alwa | 2025-10-28 12:47:03+00:00
It feels that way to me, too—starting to feel closer to maturity. Like Mr. Saffron here, saying “go ham with the AI for prototyping, just communicate that as a demo/branch/video instead of a PR.”

It feels like people and projects are moving from a pure “get that slop out of here” attitude toward more nuance, more confidence articulating how to integrate the valuable stuff while excluding the lazy stuff.
Show HN: Weak Legacy 2 Guide – Tier Lists, Codes and Trello
by linkshu | 2025-10-28 12:47:24+00:00
Hey HN, If you play Weak Legacy 2 (the Roblox Demon Slayer-inspired RPG), this site’s been a go-to for me: daily-updated codes, full clan/breathing tier lists, and the official Trello roadmap—all tied to UPD 5.0. Key bits: 2 active codes (verified Oct 2025) Tier lists for 20 clans + 14 breathings Live reset timer (15h left now) + stock updates Saves time hunting for info across Discord/Reddit. Thought fellow players might find it useful!
Show HN: Clockwork – Intelligent, Composable Infrastructure Primitives in Python
by kesslerfrost | 2025-10-28 12:47:46+00:00
I've been working on Clockwork, a Python library for composable infrastructure blocks that lets you dial the AI involvement up or down per resource.

The core idea: Allows you to build complex infra components from basic building blocks with a knob on how much "intelligence" you want in it.

``` # Specify everything yourself nginx = DockerResource( image="nginx:1.25-alpine", ports=["8080:80"], volumes=["/configs:/etc/nginx"] )

# Just set constraints, AI fills the rest nginx = DockerResource( description="web server with caching", ports=["8080:80"] )

# Or just describe it nginx = DockerResource( description="web server for static files", assertions=[HealthcheckAssert(url="http://localhost:8080")] )

```

Same resource type, you pick the level of control. What I find tedious (picking nginx vs caddy vs httpd) you might care deeply about. So every resource lets you specify what matters to you and skip what doesn't.

It's built on Pulumi for deployment, uses Pydantic for declarative specifications, and works with local LLMs (LM Studio) and cloud-based such as OpenRouter.

Also has composable resources - group related things together:

``` BlankResource(name="dev-stack", description="Local dev environment").add( DockerResource(description="postgres", ports=["5432:5432"]), DockerResource(description="redis", ports=["6379:6379"]), DockerResource(description="api server", ports=["8000:8000"]) ) ```

The AI sees the whole group and configures things to work together. Or you can .connect() independent resources for dependency ordering and auto-generated connection strings (this is still WIP as is the whole project but I'm currently thinking of a mechanism of "connecting" things together appropriately).

Repo: https://github.com/kessler-frost/clockwork

It's early (v0.3.0) and I'm still figuring out what works. Main questions:

1. The "adjustable AI" concept - is this useful or confusing? 2. Which resources/features would be most valuable next?

Would love to hear if this resonates with anyone or if I'm solving a problem nobody has.
by vinckr | 2025-10-28 12:48:09+00:00
Hey Dan, appreciate the discussion!

Ory’s setup is indeed true multi-region active-active; not just sharded or active-passive failover. Each region runs a full stack capable of handling both read and write operations, with global data consistency and locality guarantees.

We’ll soon publish a case study with a customer that uses this setup that goes deeper into how Ory handles multi-region deployments in production (latency, data residency, and HA patterns). It’ll include some of the technical details missing from that earlier blog post you linked. Keep an eye out!

There are also some details mentioned here: https://www.ory.com/blog/personal-data-storage
by hrimfaxi | 2025-10-28 12:48:34+00:00
> I agree that it’s a hard pill to swallow especially if you are US American.

Can you point me to countries that don't deflect agency in accident reporting?

Here's a headline from just today in the UK:

> Man airlifted to hospital after pedestrian hit

First line in of the story:

> A man has been airlifted to hospital after a vehicle hit a pedestrian.
by Uvix | 2025-10-28 12:49:01+00:00
On Linux, system-wide installations are handled through the system's package manager.

On Windows, if you have the "Install updates for other Microsoft products" option enabled, .NET [Core] runtimes will be updated through Windows Update.

If the domain's group policy won't let you turn it on from the UI (or if you want to turn it on programmatically for other reasons), the PowerShell 7 installer has a PowerShell script that can be adapted to do the trick: https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/blob/ba02868d0fa1d7...
by phicoh | 2025-10-28 12:50:08+00:00
What started this is a case where you have to put weird stuff in a config file to trigger the CVE. If the people behind dnsmasq don't get paid or not enough, then it is perfectly fine if this is not a priority.

We have a very popular product, lots of use in what is really the foundation of the internet and almost no support contracts.

So you can turn the argument around, if you are not paying for software, consider it a hobby project. Feel free to report and issue and create a ticket. But don't expect anything to happen. And don't complain on mailing lists how your issue is not taken seriously. Just fix the issue yourself or switch to a different product.
by Esophagus4 | 2025-10-28 12:50:25+00:00
Hmmm, if you’re referring to this article[1], please make sure you’re accurately representing it.

Amazon is not firing up to 600,000 people, they plan to automate jobs to avoid hiring 600,000 people projected out to 2033.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/technology/inside-amazons...
by stoneman24 | 2025-10-28 12:50:33+00:00
I suppose it’s what you are used to. A company that I worked with had under 100 staff, very profitable but had a staff turnover of about 10% per year.

People joined, some stayed, some left and it was fine.

Perhaps as the departures were staff decisions not some faceless corporate executive, dropping X% cos that’s what he thinks would please the markets or his boss. Or the department is making profits but as much as his MBA says that’s sufficient. That’s the really depressing and infuriating aspect.
by embedding-shape | 2025-10-28 12:50:45+00:00
> And every other Founding Father rejected the idea as completely unworkable.

I went looking for more information when parent left their comment, and I found some letters:

- Jefferson to Madison, Sept. 6, 1789 ("earth belongs in usufruct to the living" 19-year term, expiry by default)

- Madison to Jefferson, Feb. 4, 1790 (three classes of laws; stability, property, tacit consent)

- Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, July 12, 1816 (periodic constitutional conventions every 19–20 years)

You said "every other Founding Father" but I can't find any letters to/from anyone else, could you please share with me the source(s) you got this from so I could continue reading about this? Very interesting subject I hadn't hear about before.
by Fricken | 2025-10-28 12:51:37+00:00
It's a hassle to get permits to shoot anything in Canadian national parks and they'll ride your ass if they find unpermitted footage of their park being used in a commercial context.

The rock climber Adam Ondra climbed the Dawn Wall in Yosemite and is sitting on an epic rock climbing documentary about it that he cannot release because his team failed to secure the necessary permits.
by motbus3 | 2025-10-28 12:51:47+00:00
This is unfortunately true. Accusing a company for maximizing profit is naive. There is a structural problem on taxation Vs how much the company contributes back to society.

Morally speaking, your sentiment is right with most of us I think but asking for a company is asking for a thing, like asking for a building or a chair.

Earning more while exploring more than contributing back is unhealthy in any measurement of time. Back then, companies would have schools, universities and whatever to sustain the community they want to build. They would build roads, renovate public spaces and contribute to private transport and all of that apart from taxes. Now they invest on their own charities, which sometimes is quite hard to validate how much money goes in to where due to the conflict of interest and the possibility of fraud.
by dangus | 2025-10-28 12:51:47+00:00
How many conservatives celebrated Nancy Pelosi’s husband getting beaten? I remember Donald Trump Jr. said that a Halloween costume would be funny.

Yes, that’s basically the one notable example. Now the challenge becomes whether you can name two more without looking anything up.

Because I can name January 6 (capitol police officers lost their lives, Trump rioters intended to harm Nancy Pelosi specifically), Nancy Pelosi’s Husband as mentioned above, Charlottesville (counter-protestor run over by a car intentionally), the two Democratic Minnesota lawmakers who were injured recently, the pizzagate shooter, pulse nightclub (bonus: perpetrated by an ISIS sympathizer, a right-wing extremist terrorist group)

People don’t wonder why you shy away from the trans movement, we know it’s got nothing to do with left wing violence and more to do with creating a scapegoat class that is rare enough (<1% of the population) so that most people don’t know any of them. Gay men didn’t work as a scapegoat class because just about everyone eventually knew a gay man and figured out that they are normal, nice people.
by bluGill | 2025-10-28 12:51:51+00:00
> overpriced lock they conveniently have for sale and in stock in their vehicle

I object to the word overpriced in this context. It costs a lot of money to keep locks, tools, and other spare parts in a vehicle (including the cost of the vehicle). If you need a lock now and they have one it should cost a lot more than if you need a lock in 6 months and can wait for the factory to get around to making it. When you call their locks overpriced you are failing to understand the costs and value of having a part on hand.
by the_af | 2025-10-28 12:51:57+00:00
Some CEOs do, some don't. Some are successful, some are middling, some are shameful failures or frauds.

However, none of this has much to do with what I said: isn't promoting someone for things they would have to stop doing (as in TFA) a recipe for the Peter principle?

At some point, we have to understand articles and blog posts like the one we're discussing are mostly fluff; an ad for the person writing them. They are self-promotion, there's not much sense in trying to extract valuable lessons from them.

----

I thought of another analogy:

"You're an excellent marksman and a sniper, therefore we promote you to... general of the army!"

But, you could argue, maybe the sniper was already directing strategy, and that's why he got promoted? Nope, TFA is clear about this:

"To get to principal, you need to put yourself on the critical path. To be effective as a principal and go beyond it, you need to actively remove yourself from it"

So whatever the sniper was doing that got him promoted to general, he must now stop doing it.
Show HN: 'Elon's X page without politics': LLM-based content filtering in Chrome
by jac08h | 2025-10-28 12:52:43+00:00
Hi!

As a side-project this summer (partly to have an excuse to try out Claude Code ;D), I built a Chrome extension that hides content that doesn't match user preferences. Example usage: https://youtu.be/japjNSU3O7A

The content + preferences are sent to an LLM, which decides if the content is relevant. You can use your own OpenRouter API key, but there's also a 'free tier' which uses my key (there's a daily quota with this option, though).

The extension now also supports including images and video thumbnails in the filtering, although this is only available when using your own OpenRouter key. The code is available at: https://github.com/jac08h/great_filter

Feedback is appreciated!
by Covenant0028 | 2025-10-28 12:52:44+00:00
My theory is that when an organization descends into a cycle of repetitive downsizings, it inevitably leads to people focusing more on protecting their jobs than on business value.

By the process of natural selection, the people who survive such rounds of firings are the ones with the political skills to survive them. Some of those guys will be star performers, but most will simply be politicians. Over time, this process will result in an increase in the ratio of politicians to star performers.
by Hendrikto | 2025-10-28 12:53:32+00:00
Most jobs are not interchangeable, especially globally.

What good does it do me if India creates 30k new teller positions in supermarkets? Also, even in the US, they use things like gig work to make the numbers look better. Sure, some jobs were created while others were lost, but taking on Doordash in addition to Uber is no replacement for a lost management / marketing / sales position at Amazon.
by embedding-shape | 2025-10-28 12:53:39+00:00
Co-hosted a local Bitcoin meetup like a decade ago, it was basically a local HN meetup as we ended up talking about HN and it turned out we were all active users :)

We had two different types of events, one which is the typical "Here is a person presenting, now you can ask question and later we all chat and drink beer", and the other more casual "lets just meet at this bar, order some food and see what happen", which I think worked out very well as long as you get some regulars you can semi-rely on.
by SecretDreams | 2025-10-28 12:53:45+00:00
> But if you are an investor you take a risk that the money you invest can one day just vanish with zero return.

Do such risks truly exist for modern mega corps? Do we even still think the underlying stocks of these companies trend with performance only?

Your sentiment comes from a wholly different investment era, where investing was primarily done by professionals and ETFs did not exist.
by rybosworld | 2025-10-28 12:53:49+00:00
The body will develop a tolerance (or the reverse, a sensitization reaction) to just about any substance that's taken regularly due to homeostasis. However, so long as you're taking a dose that nudges some physiologic signal/need in the right direction, your body's response to the substance will be minimal.

I'd be surprised if you can find anything this isn't true for.

A lack of studies on what the tolerance looks like for a particular substance does not imply that tolerance does not form.

In the case of melatonin: It's almost universally true that your sleep quality is worse than it was before once you stop taking it (for a few days at least). That's an indication that your body's equilibrium has changed from habitual use.
by tokentry | 2025-10-28 12:54:02+00:00
What is Tokentry?

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Supported networks include:

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by jtarchie | 2025-10-28 12:54:05+00:00
ncruces helped me with some code I made for VFS. It uses [zstd seekable](https://github.com/jtarchie/sqlitezstd) for reading a file. I thought it would be really well-suited for S3.

- Support for HTTP range queries - "Fast" read times - No disk required

I was wrong.

It turns out that for specific SQL queries, it might be fine, but not fast. For queries that do aggregations, like `COUNT`, sqlite loads the whole database anyway.
by mattlondon | 2025-10-28 12:54:33+00:00
The way we do it is to use AI to review the PR before a human reviewer sees it. Obvious errors, non-consistent patterns, weirdness etc is flagged before it goes any further. "Vibe coded" slop usually gets caught, but "vibe engineered" surgical changes that adhere to common patterns and standards and have tests etc get to be seen by a real live human for their normal review.

It's not rocket science.
by nickpsecurity | 2025-10-28 12:55:19+00:00
Great examples. We were taught to pass variables, scalar or compound, into API's. Most of us were never taught to pass functions.

Even Python examples in trainings that look functional might not be. They put the function calls in as arguments. The beginner thinks the function returns some data, that would be in a variable, and they are implicitly passing that variable. Might as well, for readability, do the function call first to pass a well-named variable instead.

That was my experience. That plus minimizing side effects in functions. I've yet to really learn functional programming where I'd think to pass a function in an API. What are the best articles or books for us to learn that in general or in Python?
by soulofmischief | 2025-10-28 12:55:41+00:00
You might know this, but sleep debt doesn't just keep piling on. Eventually, and rather quickly, you may begin to experience permanent brain damage after a few nights of sleep deprivation.

https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/STR.0000000000000453

From one insomniac to another... In the past I've been lucky if I get 3 hours total of sleep in a night due to physical pain disorders. I have deep trouble getting into NREM. I lucid dream often and my brain is active even when I'm supposed to be sleeping. In my dreams, I have to be careful not to be too energetic or overstimulated, or I will wake up.

I've had insomnia and night terrors since before I was regularly forming memories. An abusive childhood intensified that. I'm in my early 30s now and the damage is clear, both physically and to my life in general.

As much as I fear them, sleeping medication seems like the only way to save myself from early onset dementia or not accomplishing certain goals due to a perpetually low energy budget. It also has prevented me from losing weight. Sleep studies have shown that people who get frequently woken up while sleeping can burn around 50% less fat.. In my case, that's my entire calorie deficit which means in order to lose weight I have to basically starve myself. Melatonin, etc. have never worked for me.

All this to say... Don't wait for the damage to build up even more. Sleeping medication might change your life. I'm hoping it restores mine.
by andai | 2025-10-28 12:55:41+00:00
>That said, there is a trend among many developers of banning AI. Some go so far as to say “AI not welcome here” find another project.

>This feels extremely counterproductive and fundamentally unenforceable to me. Much of the code AI generates is indistinguishable from human code anyway. You can usually tell a prototype that is pretending to be a human PR, but a real PR a human makes with AI assistance can be indistinguishable.

Isn't that exactly the point? Doesn't this achieve exactly what the whole article is arguing for?

A hard "No AI" rule filters out all the slop, and all the actually good stuff (which may or may not have been made with AI) makes it in.

When the AI assisted code is indistinguishable from human code, that's mission accomplished, yeah?

Although I can see two counterarguments. First, it might just be Covert Slop. Slop that goes under the radar.

And second, there might be a lot of baby thrown out with that bathwater. Stuff that was made in conjunction with AI, contains a lot of "obviously AI", but a human did indeed put in the work to review it.

I guess the problem is there's no way of knowing that? Is there a Proof of Work for code review? (And a proof of competence, to boot?)