MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by codeforafrica | 2025-10-01 22:48:28+00:00
Location: Africa or REMOTE

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: yes, to any location in Africa, where I can get the necessary permission to live and work. Occasional travel is possible.

Technologies: Linux, Front or Backend Web Development, General Software Development, System Administration.

Résumé/CV: on request (software development, CTO, mentoring, training, fluent in English and German, german citizenship)

Contact: Email: see profile or http://codingforafrica.at/

Like this Ask HN: Recommend employers with positive social impact [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31518945], I am looking for similar work, but I am open to work on any interesting project. I am a European software developer who has lived and worked on four continents. Now it's time to move on and so I am in the process to relocate to Africa.

I have more than a decade of experience running a company, doing software development, support and training and mentoring adults and students, as well as working on educational projects, and I am willing to take on a mixture of roles as needed to support a project.

I value good teamwork over fancy tech, and I don't shy away from working on legacy code. I am primarily motivated by solving problems, so let me help you solve your problems.

I am open to work for a company anywhere as long as the work can be done fully remote from Africa.

While I could find a job elsewhere I believe that the experience living in an area where my work is going to have an impact gives me a better understanding of the needs of the location I am serving. Whether it is through direct contact with clients and users or just by being part of a local community and learning about the reality of living there.

In addition, I want to use some of my income to hire local interns and junior developers and train them in order to pass on my experience. I also sponsor children that otherwise can't afford to go to school (see my website). If you want to support this, I would love to work with you. Also if you are interested in hiring African developers yourself. I can help you build up a team for you.
by codeforafrica | 2025-10-01 22:48:47+00:00
SEEKING WORK | local or REMOTE

Location: Africa or REMOTE

Willing to relocate: yes, to any location in Africa, where I can get the necessary permission to live and work. Occasional travel is possible.

Technologies: Linux, Front or Backend Web Development, General Software Development, System Administration.

Résumé/CV: on request (software development, CTO, mentoring, training, fluent in English and German, german citizenship)

Contact Email: see profile or http://codingforafrica.at/

Like this Ask HN: Recommend employers with positive social impact [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31518945], I am looking for similar work, but I am open to work on any interesting project. I am a European software developer who has lived and worked on four continents. Now it's time to move on and so I am in the process to relocate to Africa.

I have more than a decade of experience running a company, doing software development, support and training and mentoring adults and students, as well as working on educational projects, and I am willing to take on a mixture of roles as needed to support a project.

I value good teamwork over fancy tech, and I don't shy away from working on legacy code. I am primarily motivated by solving problems, so let me help you solve your problems.

I am open to work for companies anywhere as long as the work can be done fully remote from Africa.

While I could find a job elsewhere I believe that the experience living in an area where my work is going to have an impact gives me a better understanding of the needs of the location I am serving. Whether it is through direct contact with clients and users or just by being part of a local community and learning about the reality of living there.

In addition, I want to use some of my income to hire local interns and junior developers and train them in order to pass on my experience. I also sponsor children that otherwise can't afford to go to school (see my website). If you want to support this, I would love to work with you. Also if you are interested in hiring African developers yourself. I can help you build up your team.
by mrtksn | 2025-10-01 22:48:47+00:00
> what good is that if fossil fuel power generation scales at the same rate

It doesn't scale at the same rate though. Renewables are accelerating which means in China especially you see a trend of moving from fossil fuels to renewable.

The fossil thing about China is kind of understandable because don't forget that pretty much everything we all consume is made in China.
by Rendello | 2025-10-01 22:48:50+00:00
There's some interesting reading here (the section and the page generally):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_ape_language#Criticism_a...

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Regarding:

> I do wish they had made it more clear that it was just a stunt because I'm sure people like you felt mislead.

People like me felt like "what the hell was that?", maybe :D

The more you look into Penny Patterson's claims, the more you go "what the hell?"
by kcplate | 2025-10-01 22:49:00+00:00
If you wrote “certain” I guess I didn’t see it, I thought you just wrote “people” and were over generalizing what the policy in question really was…so my bad.

As an “art of the deal” thing, I feel bad for Schumer. He is between a rock and a hard place. I have never seen a politician in a greater position of weakness. Both with Trump and with his constituents. Trump can’t run again, so he doesn’t care about 2028 votes. He was impeached twice, spent four years getting hounded legally from the opposition party, telegraphed his entire intention for a second term and still managed to win re-election soundly, flipped the senate, preserved the house majority, and doesn’t care and even dares Schumer to shutdown the government.

Trump definitely didn’t run on “business as usual”. He ran on the exact opposite. So I am not sure why Schumer seems to think he has any leverage with drawing a line in the sand on a business as usual Biden immigration healthcare policy.

Meanwhile, he has the young attractive popular socialist nipping at his heels who makes his noisiest constituents happy and the largest city in his state excited to elect an actual Marxist.

Poor bastard.
Show HN: An extension similar to Blocksite, but with a dynamic timeout
by academic_84572 | 2025-10-01 22:49:06+00:00
Like many of us, I struggle with staying focused and avoiding distractions while browsing the web. I’ve tried all the website blockers out there – Blocksite, Freedom, you name it. Most of these tools failed for one of two reasons: they were too strict, so I ended up disabling them permanently, or they were too lenient, so I would quickly find a way around them.

To solve this for myself, I built DecayBlock, a browser extension based on the principle of adaptive friction. The mechanism is simple:

1. When you visit a site on your distraction list, a brief timeout is applied before the page loads.

2. This timeout accumulates with each visit, so repeated or habitual access becomes progressively more difficult.

3. Over time, the accumulated timeout decays with a configurable half-life when you stay away from those sites.

The goal isn't to enforce a ban (although you can permanently block websites if you choose), but to introduce a small, increasing cost to the act of procrastination. That brief pause is often enough to break the subconscious loop of opening a distracting tab, without ever fully locking you out. You can configure the timeout growth rate and decay half-life to match your own habits.

I've been using this system daily for several months, and it has been significantly more effective for me than any other tool.

DecayBlock is available now on both the Chrome and Firefox web extension stores. Currently it’s only on desktop but I’m hoping to release a mobile version at some point in the future.

Chrome: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/decayblock/lpljcnal...

Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/decayblock/

I'm here to answer any questions and would love any feedback!
by mentalpagefault | 2025-10-01 22:49:45+00:00
You don't actually have to restore the entire snapshot if you just want a single file! ZFS mounts snapshots read-only in an extra hidden .zfs/snapshot directory that doesn't even show up in ls -a unless you set snapdir=visible on the dataset but you can copy files out of there.

For example, cp /path/to/dataset/mountpoint/.zfs/snapshot/<snapshot_name>/path/to/file ~/path/to/file
by godelski | 2025-10-01 22:49:57+00:00
> They have the opportunity right now to end the shutdown

There are a lot of other options. Namely, as implied by my comment: compromise.

They can also do extensions, provisional budgets, they can better carve out ensuring more workers actually get paid?

And yes, they knew the Dems would vote against and they had months to reach that compromise. The same is true in the other direction too. The problem relates to a dysfunctional government where we've created such division lines that compromise cannot be reached. Playing into the belief that it is either side (on this specific issue) just furthers that problem. Watch the rhetoric: Republicans blame Democrats, Democrats blame Republicans.

Funding the government is not a partisan issue. What to fund is, but you can't always get what you want and that's a feature, not a bug.
by atleastoptimal | 2025-10-01 22:50:11+00:00
This just seems like "burnout" simulator. What makes it unique to having autism vs being overworked in a job you hate in an alienating urban environment not congenial to human thriving?

Everyone would rather be cozy on the couch under a warm blanket than wake up at 6:30AM every day before commuting to type meaningless stuff at a computer desk, be exposed to a sensory environment that is far from ideal, and converse with people they would never associate with if they didn't have to. The experience of the wage worker is a universally reviled existence that is far from a unique plight afflicting those with high-functioning autism.

Is the implication that someone without autism could deal with all these stressors effortlessly with no need to think or put any effort in?
by bell-cot | 2025-10-01 22:50:19+00:00
Radar's ability to spot something falls off with the 4th power of the distance to it, and a 1940-tech radar spotted the IJN's attack wave 45 minutes before it hit Pearl Harbor.

Do the math, or (for example):

https://www.defensenews.com/global/europe/2025/09/24/dutch-r...

(Earlier coverage characterized the drones DoS'ing the Danish airports as "large". That's vague - but DoS'ing a major airport for hours requires drone(s) that get noticed, not a couple robo-pigeons.
by dublin | 2025-10-01 22:50:52+00:00
Likewise - I tried the demo recently, and it's really impressive. I wanted to try it because the new CAD package I'm using (Sharpr3D) runs on it, and it seemed like a good idea to try that. (Unfortunately, despite being one of the most impressive and serious 3D apps for VisionPro, it's not one that the Apple store (at least here in Austin) was able to demo.)

But the demo also really convinced me that there is no damn way I'm going to want that ridiculously heavy and bulky hardware on my head for more than a few minutes. It's impressive, but pretty expensive, and completely impractical. It makes a great demo, but it's a miserably uncooked product - very well though out in some ways, but missing big targets like weight and comfort by a mile. Maybe in a few more years...
by georgemcbay | 2025-10-01 22:51:09+00:00
At least one Republican Senator has made the plan to stop attacking pedophiles explicit:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TulTH6psCsw

I mean, yeah he probably flubbed his words, but let's also be honest in that most likely what happened was he was going to performantly proclaim "Let's stop protecting the pedophiles" realized mid-thought that that would effectively equate to saying "Release the Epstein files" putting him at odds with Dear Leader and at that point rafael_ed_cruz_brain.exe crashed and dumped core containing the shocking statement he ended up saying.

I don't know what else would make sense given that he didn't immediately correct himself, which is what one would expect if it were just a traditional brain fart.
by Mistletoe | 2025-10-01 22:53:05+00:00
>despite having some FartCoin which has been doing very well lately, shockingly well, this FartCoin. I wonder if it will continue to "moon" to the point where I can quit my job and become a VC and go on podcasts in which I will try to downplay the source of my initial capital so as to maintain some illusion that this economy makes any kind of sense at all to me or anyone else for that matter. Though perhaps by the time I am doing podcasts I will be so far gone I will just own it and maintain that it required great genius to have foreseen the rise of FartCoin and allocated capital to same.

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/fartcoin/

Fartcoin hasn't been doing that well though, I had to check the date of the article and it is recent. Maybe he got in Fartcoin long ago in early Nov. 2024? 200x since then but only a 2x since the end of Nov. 2024.
by yags | 2025-10-01 22:53:09+00:00
LM Studio (lmstudio.ai) | Systems Eng, Application Eng, Frontend Eng, Applied AI | New York City | ONSITE | Full-time

We're hiring for the following roles:

- Systems Eng: work on LM Studio's runtime and internal libraries, contribute to llama.cpp and MLX (C++, Python)

- Application Eng: work on LM Studio's desktop app, daemon, SDKs, and CLI (TypeScript, NodeJS, C++, React)

- Applied AI: push the boundaries of what's possible for agentic software with local AI (Python, C++, TypeScript)

- Frontend Eng: invent new kinds of human / AI interaction UX, ship software to millions of people worldwide (TypeScript, React)

See all roles and apply here: https://lmstudio.ai/careers
by chuckwnelson | 2025-10-01 22:53:24+00:00
Location: New York, NY (Midtown Manhattan)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Typescript, Javascript, React, React Native, SQL, AWS, GCP

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chuckwnelson/

Email: chuck@workwithsigil.com

I'm a NYC–based fractional CTO with 20 years of full-stack development and design experience and two Cannes Lions for Creative Technology and Use of Data. I've helped teams from startups to enterprise build scalable platforms.

- My background is design and development, connecting the dots between the two.

- I've worked in entertainment and financial, and healthcare industries

- I've managed teams of designers and developers to launch creative digital campaigns.
by kemayo | 2025-10-01 22:53:31+00:00
> The point of a 3/5th majority is to enforce compromising.

It's worth noting that the 3/5 requirement for most legislation is a recent development. Before around 2008 it was quite uncommon to require a filibuster-proof majority to pass legislation.

There's a count of the times this has come up on the senate's website: https://www.senate.gov/legislative/cloture/clotureCounts.htm
by mburaksayici | 2025-10-01 22:53:57+00:00
- *Location:* Istanbul, Turkey - *Remote:* Yes — working for US companies and global teams remotely for 4 years - *Willing to relocate:* Open to travels, not relocation

- *Technologies:* LLM, AI-Agents, Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, NumPy, pandas, scikit-learn, OpenCV, Hugging Face Transformers, FastAPI, Gradio, SQL, SQLite, PostgreSQL, MSSQL, REST APIs, Git, GitHub, Docker, Argo Workflows, Celery, RabbitMQ, Pinecone, OpenAI API, LangChain, Weaviate, RAG pipelines, CNNs, Transformers, MLOps, AutoML, XAI, MLflow, Streamlit, Flask, AWS, Jupyter, matplotlib, seaborn, pytest, shell scripting, CI/CD, Web scraping

- *Résumé / CV:* [Google Drive](https://drive.google.com/file/d/13-noXqbAhYvcUoqENXFSf_OZuMk...) | [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mehmet-burak-sayici-a45294126/)

- *Email:* mburaksayici@gmail.com

- *Highlights:* - Built *Gesund’s MLOps platform* as first engineer; company later named to *CB Insights AI 100 (2024)* alongside OpenAI. - Managed *$400k+ software contracts*, represented Gesund in meetings with *FDA & White House officials*. - Co-authored a *Stanford-affiliated AI paper* during internship at Stanford Biomedical Data Science. - Currently lead the *AI Interview App at Career.io (5,000+ MAU)*, integrating LLMs, vector search (Chroma), and agent-based feedback loops. - Built *two LLM+RAG apps* post-Gesund: VC due diligence tool and YC-style growth tooling (built without LangChain). - Created *MLOps system for energy forecasting* across 8 cities (Python, PostgreSQL, weather APIs, LightGBM/XGBoost, MLflow). - Built a *YouTube channel (15k+ subs)* and a *Udemy course* on practical CNNs.

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by Fade_Dance | 2025-10-01 22:54:04+00:00
Reddit is up around 1000% from the recent IPO. Every quarterly earnings call has been a blowout, and they're still just around double the valuation of Pinterest so they're not exactly standing among giants.

Users are valuable, that was sort of the big story of the 2010s...

Data is valuable too, and Reddit has reams of data for targeted advertisements. The entire structure of their site basically makes it the perfect ad machine. It's literally a web of people's interests and hobbies. The data is also valuable for AI.
by Jtsummers | 2025-10-01 22:54:37+00:00
The US will never have a balanced budget with the two current political parties trading off.

It'd require, now, raising taxes beyond what even the most high-tax friendly Democrat would want, or substantially cutting Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and Defense spending. The Democrats will never reduce the first three enough, and Republicans will never reduce the first two and Defense enough.

https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/feder...

Everything below those four is basically a rounding error, you could cut bits and pieces but nowhere near enough to balance the budget. And you can't cut interest payments without defaulting on the debt itself, which would create so many more problems. We need to raise our revenue by something like 50% or lower our spending by about 33%, or something in between on both.
by pixl97 | 2025-10-01 22:55:18+00:00
1. Because you'll feed them to your kids who do not make their own decisions, other than if they'll pay to remove cancers off their anus or die at home at 25.

2. Because a massive food industry would gladly lie about how unsafe their product is just like tobacco companies and they have far more money than you to befuddle the research.
by MarsIronPI | 2025-10-01 22:55:38+00:00
Huh. I always end up with a mini tab explosion every time I do anything intensive like skimming docs or shopping/product comparison. Does that ever happen to you? Or do you just close all the resulting tabs as soon as you're done?

Sorry if the questions are a little much; as a tab hoarder I'm always curious when productive people make do with small numbers of tabs.
by kelnos | 2025-10-01 22:56:04+00:00
Yeah, that line made me nearly laugh out loud.

Not saying the author isn't onto something: using the simplest tool that will get your job done -- and bonus points if you can reasonably use the same tool for several things -- is a decent principle to live by. Using an existing tool is great, when it meets your needs without too many difficult trade offs.

And where they work, it seems like business requirements are scrapped and rewritten every couple months, so the whole "temporary-haha-yeah-right solution" problem doesn't really rear its head.

The rest of us have to deal with the difficult mess several years down the line, because "we'll throw it away and write a new thing once we need to scale" is something that very rarely actually happens.

Of course, the author has no experience of a year down the line, let alone several years down the line.
by woodruffw | 2025-10-01 22:56:26+00:00
> What I want folks to get out of the Fil-C thing is that the whole notion that C is a memory unsafe language and Rust (or any other language) being safer is a subtle thought error.

I think what you’re doing with Fil-C is cool and interesting. But I think you’re talking past a large part of the “memory safety” audience with this framing: most people don’t want “memory safety” qua uncontrolled program termination, they want memory safety qua language semantics that foreclose on (many, if not all) things that would be memory-unsafe.

Or in other words: it’s great to be able to effectively be able to forklift C onto a managed runtime, but most people really want to be able to write code that doesn’t crash at all because of expressive limits in C’s semantics. “Memory safety” is a convenient term of art for this.
by jasonvorhe | 2025-10-01 22:56:36+00:00
all the usual arguments. I get where he's coming from, I thought like this for a long time as well. I wouldn't pride myself in having sold all my bitcoins in 2016. I regret having dabbled in stuff like ethereum around that time when I could've just stuck with bitcoin. I just didn't see it. conflating the nft/dao/web3/shitcoin sphere with bitcoin vibe with me either. good luck to him with paper money, I'm going with bitcoin, come what will. I'm not on a mission, do what feels right. I'm not judging. just weirded out by the thought of someone not wanting OSS software of that sort to be hosted on their platform. where does it end? ban users who are active in that area outside of your platform? people are using postgres unethically to store illegal data, stolen pii and credit cards. tor is used for csam. I have difficulties understanding this line of thinking and it feels more like an ethical way to exclude a group of people you just don't like. could be totally wrong of course.
by quickthrowman | 2025-10-01 22:57:12+00:00
I would guess that most (?) decisions involving salespeople and the c-suite are relationship based. My entire industry runs more or less on personal relationships (commercial construction). In my case, virtually all of the work I sell is to people that trust me to deliver because I have repeatedly done so in the past. Every time I get a new customer I aim to build a relationship and deliver the best possible product I can so I get more work in the future, there’s always another guy with his foot jammed in the door waiting for you to fuck up and swoop in.

When it comes to stupid decisions in the c-suite that affect me at work, I use Colin Powell’s advice to ‘disagree, but commit’. The COO isn’t going to appreciate me calling him an idiot because of some policy he put into place. I comply and move on with my life. If the bullshit stacks up too high, move on.
by sgarland | 2025-10-01 22:57:18+00:00
As someone with experience with a company that did hybrid, I’ll say: it only makes sense if your infra team deeply understands computers.

The end state is “just some IaC,” wherein it doesn’t really matter to anyone where the application lives, but all of the underlying difficulties in getting to that state necessitate that your team actually, no-shit knows how distributed systems work. They’re going to be doing a lot of networking configuration, for one, and that’s a whole speciality.
Ask HN: $0 vs. $10k vs. $100k to start a company, what would you do?
by ethantrang | 2025-10-01 22:57:33+00:00
assuming you are: - technical - have a lot of time - don't have expertise in a specific - optional: want to build software

what would you do with $0 vs. $10k vs. $100k to start a company from scratch.

(all opinions welcome!)