MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by BeetleB | 2025-10-23 21:08:25+00:00
> What resume "rules" have actually worked for you?

1. When applying via company web site, for large corporations, skip the cover letter. I've yet to have one person reach out to me who had bothered reading it, and often, the cover letter can be a reason to exclude you.

2. Put minimal effort in the resume, and maximal effort in networking (including contacting hiring managers in LinkedIn).
by johncolanduoni | 2025-10-23 21:08:30+00:00
Extended public keys can be used to generate a family of addresses, but each transaction still needs the public key for any address that has sent money. Someone who uses it religiously can keep most of their money in addresses with no outgoing transactions, meaning their public key is actually secret and therefore cannot be attacked. But there’s so many addresses that have outgoing transactions and huge balances that it wouldn’t make a difference to an attacker - they could skim a fortune and cash out from wallets that are not so well protected.
by chrisco255 | 2025-10-23 21:08:37+00:00
Did you watch the videos? They are launching these rockets over residential neighborhoods and one of them crashed near a home earlier this year. The first stage fell uncontrolled, into the ground, in a residential area.

Still, they are iterating. That may be crazy and they may not care about things like blowing up neighborhoods, but they are iterating, and I am not so naive as to think that their capabilities will remain static.
by nikasakana | 2025-10-23 21:08:51+00:00
As someone who spent 2 days observing every team, talking to participants, and dealing with the chaos behind the scenes of Hacktoberfest Tbilisi, I've noticed interesting patterns.

- Some about how participants approach hackathons (spoiler: most are doing it wrong).

- Some about what it takes to actually organize an event like this.

If you're planning to participate in or organize a hackathon, I wrote down everything:
by mrguyorama | 2025-10-23 21:09:12+00:00
>California is a modern example of why republics are more stable than pure democracies

California is one state among 50. People using it as an example of some sort of government being bad are objectively in bad faith.

Please inform me how my state's citizen referendums are bad? We are about to have a vote on voter ID laws, which I do not approve of, but what's important is that the people who care are able to have their will made manifest, and it will actually go up for a vote.

Meanwhile nordic countries have vastly more direct democracies and don't have the problems you insist.

If you cannot make your argument without california, you do not have an argument, because california's shitty government predates democrat control, because it was always built as this crazy world where rich and connected people had control. California's government is built wrong, not because of democracy, but against it.
by aktau | 2025-10-23 21:09:22+00:00
Yes, I know. I should've taken a different example. But it's also realistic in a way. When I'm doing one-offs, I will sometimes take shortcuts like this. I know awk fairly well, and I know enough of jq that I know invoking jq . pretty prints the inbound json on multiple lines. While I know I could create a proper jq expression, the combo will get me there quicker. Similarly I'll sometimes do:

$ awk '...' | grep | ...

Because I'm too lazy to go back to the start of the awk invocation and add a match condition there. If I'm going to save it to a script, I'll clean it up. (And for jq, I gotta be honest that my starting point these days would probably be to show my contraption to an LLM and use its answer as a starting point, I don't use jq nearly enough to learn its language by memory.)
by Jweb_Guru | 2025-10-23 21:09:30+00:00
"People who don't want KYC/AML checks" are not necessarily money launderers, and there are still plenty of people who just want to speculate. But money launderers are the people who need to send vast amounts of money through the crypto ecosystem and represented a very significant fraction of the assets managed by Binance (not that this actually affects whether what they were doing was illegal or not, BTW). Maybe you should read the indictment to find out what was actually going on, instead of making claims based on what seems reasonable to you!

(Frankly, the idea that being convicted for making the conscious decision to go out of your way to circumvent KYC/AML laws is somehow the result of partisan bias is ridiculous in itself, so none of this [or how Balaji claims to feel about the matter] is even really relevant).
by gchamonlive | 2025-10-23 21:10:19+00:00
> I cannot comprehend how half of Americans are fine with this corrupt leader

It's because you are still thinking of the USA as a democracy. Musk helped buy the election for Trump. It's an open oligarchy since companies were allowed an opinion as if they were citizens.

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/citi...
by wpm | 2025-10-23 21:10:39+00:00
This implies that no young people can get past the gate.

Sure, they lack wisdom, but that doesn't mean they aren't smart, it just means they're young.

Gatekeeping doesn't have to mean "Don't hire anyone under 35" it means "Don't hire people who are bozos" and "don't hire people who don't give a shit"
by wingworks | 2025-10-23 21:10:48+00:00
I'd have so many of these weird issues on Android (pixel), is why I switched to iPhone a few years back, it's been a much smoother ride ever since. iPhone isn't perfect, but it's way more "just works" then android was for me.

Also, I have the iPhone 15 Pro (iOS 26.0.1), never had the black screen on camera open yet. That's the kinda thing I'd get on Android.
by cardanome | 2025-10-23 21:10:51+00:00
> Mac platform is less cohesive and more cosmopolitan

Counter example: Blender

It used to have a extremely idiosyncratic UI. I will only say right click select.

A big part of the UI redesign was making it behave more like other 3d applications. And it succeeded in doing so in a way that older users actually liked and that made it more productive and coherent to use.

What I am saying is, those are different dimensions. You can have a more cohesive UI while adhere more to standards.

There is still lot of weird sacred cows that Macs would do very well to slaughter like the inverted mouse wheel thing or refusing to implement proper alt tab behavior.

You can have both, follow established standards and norms and be more cohesive.

The problem is simply that the quality isn't what it used to be on the software side. Which is following industry trends but still.
by jasonjmcghee | 2025-10-23 21:11:03+00:00
The trick to do this well is to split the part of the prompt that might change and won't change. So if you are providing context like code, first have it read all of that, then (new message) give it instructions. This way that is written to the cache and you can reuse it even if you're editing your core prompt.

If you make this one message, it's a cache miss / write every time you edit.

You can edit 10 times for the price of one this way. (Due to cache pricing)
by simonw | 2025-10-23 21:11:17+00:00
I am 100% sure that using Python is faster and cheaper.

My o1 call in https://gist.github.com/simonw/a6438aabdca7eed3eec52ed7df64e... used 16 input tokens and produced 2357 output tokens (1664 were reasoning). At o1's price that's 14 cents! https://www.llm-prices.com/#it=16&ot=2357&ic=15&cic=7.5&oc=6...

I can't call o1 with the Python tool via the API, so I'll have to provide the price for the GPT-5 example in https://gist.github.com/simonw/c53c373fab2596c20942cfbb235af... - that one was 777 input tokens and 140 output tokens. Why 777 input tokens? That's a bit of a mystery to me - my assumption is that a bunch of extra system prompt stuff gets stuffed on describing that coding tool.

GPT-5 is hugely cheaper than o1 so that cost 0.22 cents (almost a quarter of a cent) - but if o1 ran with the same number of tokens it would only cost 1.94 cents: https://www.llm-prices.com/#it=777&ot=130&sel=gpt-5%2Co1-pre...
by margalabargala | 2025-10-23 21:11:38+00:00
Setting aside the ludicrous idea that something is a "matter of survival" for the party currently controlling every single branch of the US government, what you said is still wrong and just an excuse for weak leadership.

Following that thought path literally anywhere just leads to the party in question being actively worse than the thing they claim to fight against.

A competent leader would see something abusable, an opportunity for corruption, and take steps to prevent its abuse.

Weak, corrupt leadership sees an opportunity for corruption and says "$core! They did it fir$t!". And that's how we lose. All of us I mean.
by transpute | 2025-10-23 21:12:19+00:00
"ESP32 CSI Toolkit", papers+code, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA https://stevenmhernandez.github.io/ESP32-CSI-Tool/

"Wi-ESP", papers+code, KITS WRL, South Korea, https://wrlab.github.io/Wi-ESP/

"Espressif CSI sample applications", Shanghai, China, https://github.com/espressif/esp-csi

"CSI-MURDER", paper+code, WiFi Sensing countermeasures, EU, https://ans.unibs.it/projects/csi-murder/
by antegamisou | 2025-10-23 21:12:49+00:00
> tales of technological ingenuity are mostly just an attempt to invent some romantic lore around stolen designs.

This is a biased take. One can make a similar and likely more factual claim about the US , where largely every innovation in many different disciplines is dictated and targeted for use by the war industry.

And while there were many low quality knockoff electronics, pre-collapse USSR achieved remarkable feats in many different disciplines the US was falling behind at.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_innovation...
by giobox | 2025-10-23 21:12:57+00:00
This Rivian bike is bizarrely "pedal by wire" - there is no physical connection between the pedals and the rear wheel.

Instead the pedals work as a throttle to set the speed of the motor and to charge the battery while you ride, reducing depletion speed. It also harvests energy when braking.

If the battery in this bike dies completely, or is removed, you cannot pedal to move it at all. The "toothed belt" (gates drive) connects to the motor, with no link to the pedals.

In theory this design could have been done with no chain/gates drive using hub motors and still work much the same, given all the pedals are really doing is turning a dynamo-contraption to charge a battery.
by skeptrune | 2025-10-23 21:13:19+00:00
I rarely ever read documentation outside of the code blocks. So anything that makes those more valuable and gives me context and surrounding copy without having to read is awesome.

I cannot believe how much of a pain it was to ship this, though, given how simple it is in theory. Docker has been solving this for a decade, but we are somehow still relearning the lesson that engineers just want to ship their machine to prod.
by busymom0 | 2025-10-23 21:13:32+00:00
A lot of these "attention to detail" bugs are so hard to ignore once I see them. For example, on iOS 26, the Home Screen icons have those borders (I hate them but whatever). Those borders are however not there when you swipe up from bottom of screen to return to Home Screen. During the animation, the borders are not present at all on that specific app's icon. Only once animation completes, the border shows up suddenly.
by ndiddy | 2025-10-23 21:14:11+00:00
The transition era was certainly annoying, but now that it's over I think the Mac experience is objectively worse. My PC laptop has 2 USB-C ports that can be used for charging, display, 40 Gbps transfer, etc., just like my Macbook Air. The difference is that the PC also has 2 USB-A ports and an HDMI port. This means that I'm able to plug in a flash drive or connect an external display without having to remember to bring a dongle with me.
by simonw | 2025-10-23 21:14:20+00:00
If you're not going to believe researchers when they tell you how they did something then sure, we don't know how they did it.

Given how much bad press OpenAI got just last week[1] when one one of their execs clumsily (and I would argue misleadingly) described a model achievement and then had to walk it back amid widespread headlines about their dishonesty, those researchers have a VERY strong incentive to tell the truth.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/19/openais-embarrassing-math/
by krizhanovsky | 2025-10-23 21:14:36+00:00
It's useful to store a web server access logs in an analytics database, e.g. to fight against bot attacks. We store structured access logs in Clickhouse, which is already good, but compression and data ordering from the post may improve performance even more - we'll try this.

The thing is that a web server, especially under DDoS, may produce much more records than Clickhouse can ingest. But there is good news: for Nginx, if you build a fast pipeline to feed access logs to Clickhouse, you can increase performance, I'd say up to x2, thanks to faster access logging.
by neverkn0wsb357 | 2025-10-23 21:14:39+00:00
It’s unsurprising, since this kind of classification is only as good as the training data.

And police do this kind of stuff all the time (or in the very least you hear about it a lot if you grew up in a major city).

So if you’re gonna automate broken systems, you’re going to see a lot more of the same.

I’m not sure what the answer is but I definitely feel that “security” system like this that are purchased and rolled out need to be highly regulated and be coupled with extreme accountability and consequences for false positives.
by xpe | 2025-10-23 21:14:41+00:00
My hope was to shift the conversation away from people disagreeing about words to people understanding each other. When a person reads e.g. "an LLM thinks" I'm pretty sure that person translates it sufficiently well to understand the sentence.

It is one thing to use anthropocentric language to refer to something an LLM does. (Like I said above, this is shorthand to make conversation go smoother.) It would be another to take the words literally and extend them -- e.g. to assign other human qualities to an LLM, such as personhood.
by Capricorn2481 | 2025-10-23 21:15:18+00:00
It would be weird if he didn't? He pardoned his entire family, as Trump made it clear he was aiming to harass Biden's entire family for revenge. And the way he's been acting this presidency has only confirmed that's not beneath him.

The decision is a lot more respectable than "this guy gave me a bribe." They are worlds apart. And some may be theoretically willing to roll the dice on that for their family, but it reads naive.
by mightyham | 2025-10-23 21:15:21+00:00
Is the irony not lost you that Joe Biden pardoned his own son for crimes he was absolutely guilty of. I don't see how that is any less corrupt. This isn't whatboutism either because I'm not trying to say that what Trump is doing is okay, I'm pointing out that this behavior is not particular to Trump and his supporters. The large majority of Americans are fine with corruption as long as it's their team.
by chrisco255 | 2025-10-23 21:15:21+00:00
You can have all the money in the world and never land on the moon. All but one of the richest countries in human history have ever landed humans on the moon. The USSR had plenty of funding for its space program, but it couldn't land on the moon.

In the 1960s it cost as much as $100,000/kilogram to send a payload to outer space. Today Falcon Heavy does it for $1500/kilogram.

SpaceX has a fraction of NASA's budget, and certainly in its early days as they proved out the Falcon design, were running on less than $2 billion in funding.

That's because the right people were placed in the right positions.
by throwthrowrow | 2025-10-23 21:15:29+00:00
Question #1 was on the model's ability to handle arithmetic. The answer to question seems to be unrelated, at least to me: "you can enable or disable tool use in most APIs".

The original question still stands: do recent LLMs have an inherent knowledge of arithmetic, or do they have to offload the calculation to some other non-LLM system?
by lostdog | 2025-10-23 21:15:31+00:00
> Hi, Trump voter here. I'm NOT fine with this.

Welcome to the resistance!

Just curious. Since you voted for someone who is a terrible President last time, what are you planning to change about how you make voting decisions next time? Are there particular people or media you plan to listen to less, and others more? Particular aspects you will weight higher or lower?
by jen20 | 2025-10-23 21:15:37+00:00
Yes, they do. [1] for Italian outlets, [2] for many of the others. I'm sure I don't need to continue.

[1]: https://www.apple.com/it/shop/product/mw2n3ci/a/prolunga-per...

[2]: https://www.apple.com/fr/shop/product/mw2n3z/a/câble-d’exten...
by Jweb_Guru | 2025-10-23 21:15:47+00:00
The justifications for why the pardon is okay are ridiculously flimsy and I assumed that it was because they weren't really trying, but bewilderingly it does actually appear to have convinced some credulous people on Hacker News, so I suppose enough consent was manufactured that people think going out of your way to let money launderers use your platform is not a big deal? Maybe it's because people don't understand that typically the reason people launder money is because they committed major crimes to get that money and have no way to actually use it without getting caught.

For example if your crypto is the proceeds of ransomware, you're going to have a hard time cashing out without using something like Monero (which effectively has no offramps) without going through an exchange that knows perfectly well that you're trying to touch tainted goods. Exchanges like Binance that just don't bother to check who their customers are when they withdraw cash for such assets are just as critical to the ransomware plague as any security bug or social engineering issue. It's one of the reasons that pre-crypto, even though ransomware was technically feasible, it was never able to grow into a large-scale operation--no offramps. But hey maybe the official stance of CZ supporters is now that ransomware is good, actually, and if you don't like it it's because you have partisan bias (???)
by tptacek | 2025-10-23 21:16:15+00:00
Because the DNS race condition is just one flaw in the system. The more important latent flaw† is probably the metastable failure mode for the droplet manager, which, when it loses connectivity to Dynamo, gradually itself loses connectivity with the Droplets, until a critical mass is hit where the Droplet manager has to be throttled and manually recovered.

Importantly: the DNS problem was resolved (to degraded state) in 1hr15, and fully resolved in 2hr30. The Droplet Manager problem took much longer!

This is the point of complex failure analysis, and why that school of thought says "root causing" is counterproductive. There will always be other precipitating events!

† which itself could very well be a second-order effect of some even deeper and more latent issue that would be more useful to address!
by alganet | 2025-10-23 21:16:29+00:00
Looks legit.

I can see this call now has a lot more tokens for the reasoning steps. Maybe that's normal variance though.

(I don't have a particular interest in proving or disproving LLM things, so there's no incentive for me to get a key). There was an ambiguous point in the "proof", I just highlighted it.
by DiskoHexyl | 2025-10-23 21:16:50+00:00
CC barely manages to follow all of the instructions within a single session in a single well-defined repo.

'You are totally right, it's been 2 whole messages since the last reminder, and I totally forgot that first rule in claude.md, repeated twice and surrounded by a wall of exclamation marks'.

Would be wary to trust its memories over several projects
by codethief | 2025-10-23 21:17:49+00:00
> we have to offer real value here

If I may make a suggestion here: Allowing PRs to be stacked, i.e. allowing commits to be reviewed individually, like in Sapling, would be FANTASTIC.

EDIT: See also the link in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45675335
by s1artibartfast | 2025-10-23 21:18:27+00:00
How do you think the constitution plays into it?

The US federal government absolutely has the ability to forgive, restructure, or write off debt in its capacity as lender. It has frequently done so.

Where do you see limitations on seeking default or forgiveness in its capacity as borrower?

The US did a pseudo default when it left the gold standard and paid gold denominated debts with paper worth significantly less, telling lenders to put their complaints were the sun doesnt shine.
by simonw | 2025-10-23 21:18:31+00:00
If you want to write about LLMs I really strongly recommend getting an API key for the major vendors! It's really useful being able to run quick experiments like this one if you want to develop a deeper understanding of what they can and cannot do.

You can also get an account with something like https://openrouter.ai/ which gives you one key to use with multiple different backends.

Or use GitHub Models which gives you free albeit limited access to a bunch at once. https://github.com/marketplace/models
by pm3003 | 2025-10-23 21:18:34+00:00
Pierre Fabre (big pharma) associated with the Dassault family used to have a big share in Valmonde, the owner of Valeurs Actuelles, and Olivier Dassault was for a time the lead editorialist (lead op-ed writer). Valeurs Actuelles used to be very traditionally conservative (vaguely associated with a conservative rural party) in the 1970s, then moderate right-of-center.

Olivier Dassault turned it into one of the main supports of Nicolas Sarkozy starting 2005 or 2006 for his successful presidency campaign in 2007 until 2014.

After the Sarkozy and Hollande eras Valeurs Actuelles turned far-right. Eric Zemmour, a publicist-turned-politician, used to write for Valeurs Actuelles. It is financially in the hands of the French-Lebanese Safa family.

I used to read their monthly magazine "Le Spectacle du Monde" which was at the time much less political. It is now independent, headed by an elderly diplomat and collaborator to former president Jacques Chirac.

Ragrding Sarkozy, you also forgot his close relationships with the late Lagardère father (biggest French media mogul in the 1990s) and with André Bettencourt and his window (L'Oréal, richest person in France in the 2000s). Despite his being in jail, Sarkozy remains administrator of the Lagardère trust.
by constantcrying | 2025-10-23 21:18:51+00:00
The great thing about Android is that you don't have to use Google's awful software. Google Maps is not good, I avoid it whenever at all possible, the same goes for basically all other Google software.

The one reason to use Android is so that you can actually switch out the awful stuff that ships with your device. Leaving Apple to join the "Google Ecosystem" seems absolutely insane. Google is so terrible at software, so terrible at UI and so terrible at having products.

I get that visual design is a complete preference, but the great thing about Android, to me at least, is that you can get away from Google totally goofy design and make your own choices.

>Plus, I could just do so much more with the pixel phone but then again I’m sort of a power user.

Google is starting to make that less and less feasible though, with it's start in restricting app installations.
by miohtama | 2025-10-23 21:19:19+00:00
For the accurate context:

CZ was pardoned for a single charge of failure to have an effective compliance program. No fraud, no victims, no criminal history. No money laundering.

CZ is the first and only known first-time offender in U.S. history to receive a prison sentence for this single, non-fraud-related charge. The judge found no evidence that he knew of any illicit transactions and that it was reasonable for him to believe there were no illicit funds on the platform.

Trump is a very twisted person, and this makes the US look bad, but the underlying crime was "compliance."