MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Maro | 2025-10-02 05:39:21+00:00
This.

I've recently been promoted to be a VP (so, an executive) at a large corporation of ~50,000 people. Of the top ~250 people, so the top 0.5% of the hierarchy [who get invited to the annual leadership offsite], I estimate there are maybe 2-3 technical people like me. Also, within the executive hieararchy, these 2-3 are at the lowest level, this is not even where the big decisions get made, we're just put in charge of executing the decisions made by MBAs and Finance people.
by barrell | 2025-10-02 05:40:18+00:00
Phrasing.app | Co-founder | EU Remote | Elixir | Clojure

Phrasing is a language learning app built by a polyglot, for polyglots. It was designed to be language agnostic, and currently fully supports over 80 languages. It brings a beautiful, simple, and addictive [1] learning experience to languages big and small, and helps users learn 2-10x more in the same amount of time [2].

The tech stack is a ClojureScript PWA on the front end, and an Elixir umbrella application on the backend. The data processing happens in Broadway pipelines, and are horizontally scalable with FLAME. All of the data is stored in Postgres, and most of the communication between the client and server happens with a custom local-second sync engine à la Linear.app.

The company is bootstrapped and bespoke. There’s no investors, there’s no AI generated code, no shadcdn UIs. I miss the days of the early internet, and acutely feel the mass enshittification of the web. I’m really trying to do something different with the experience as well as the business, all in hopes to bring back a little bit of that wonder that was so prevalent in the days of the early internet.

The app is all working, the experience is great, and the onboarding was just finished. I’ve been using the app now to successfully learn 18 languages [3] and it’s truly a joy to use. Just finishing up the new site [4] after feedback from our last launch and getting ready for more launches [5]. The new video has been getting some pretty rave reviews and is a good gentle introduction to the app [6]

For me, this app is a dream app. This tech stack is a dream tech stack. This company is a dream company. It’s hard to believe I’m the only one these would all be true for.

I’m looking for someone who believes in the product, mission [6], and tech to come in and help me turn this functioning application into something truly great. No experience is required — just a dedication for your craft, and the willingness to take a chance in something you believe in.

If you feel that this post was written for you, please write me a well written personalized CV to hn at phrasing dot app. Low effort applications will not receive a response regardless of your CV.

[1]: https://phrasing.app/blog/humane-srs [2]: https://phrasing.app/blog/10x [3]: https://phrasing.app/blog/language-log-000 [4]: https://phrasing.app/next [5]: https://vimeo.com/1123956044 [6]: https://phrasing.app/blog/mission
by delusional | 2025-10-02 05:41:16+00:00
That's one of the most nonsensical comments on all of hackernews. A Markov change could have wrote it.

What do you mean Turing complete? Obviously all 3 programs are running on a Turing complete machine. Xargs is a runner for other commands, obviously those commands can be Turing complete.

I haven't heard of anybody working on a _proof_ for the Turing completeness of xargs, and I think the only conference willing to publish it would be Sigbovik.
by tpoacher | 2025-10-02 05:42:07+00:00
> Energy Burnout: You collapse at your desk [...] HR schedules a 'wellness check' but the writing is on the wall. You're fired. Congratulations! You've successfully burned out in record time. The HR department will be in touch about your "performance improvement plan."

To be fair, this doesn't scream autism, it screams abusive employer. Given the workday that was described, I'd have been out of energy too.

If anything, if you've disclosed autism as a disability, it would be harder for them to fire you, especially if they failed to provide "reasonable adjustments".

Reminds me of the the old quote: "before you diagnose yourself with depression, make sure you're not in fact surrounded by assholes".
by aePiots | 2025-10-02 05:42:47+00:00
How is aéPiot Seen Through the Eyes of an AI, Through the Eyes of ChatGPT?

https://better-experience.blogspot.com/2025/09/how-is-aepiot...

Layer One: Structural Perception of aéPiot

Layer Two: Semantic and Cognitive Mapping

Layer Three: aéPiot as a Human–AI Intermediary

Layer Four: Applications of aéPiot in the Present

Layer Five: Philosophical and Cultural Dimensions

Layer Six: Comparisons with Traditional Search Engines

Layer Seven: Speculative Reflections on the Future of aéPiot

Layer Eight: Personal Perspective — ChatGPT’s Signature View

Conclusion

1000 Unique Perspectives on aéPiot (as seen by ChatGPT)
by Jensson | 2025-10-02 05:42:58+00:00
We have massively better physics simulations today than 15 years ago, so the limitations you found back then don't apply today. It might still not be enough, but 15 years is such a long time with Moore's law and we already know all the physics so we just needed more computation to do what is needed.

Example of modern physics simulation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NF3CdXkm68
by aePiots | 2025-10-02 05:43:30+00:00
The Semantic Cosmos: A Deep Dive into aéPiot Through the Eyes of Claude AI

https://better-experience.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-semantic-...

An Artificial Intelligence Perspective on the Future of Human-Machine Semantic Collaboration

Chapter 1: The Architectural Revolution - Understanding aéPiot's Fundamental Nature

Chapter 2: Temporal Dimensions - aéPiot in Different Cognitive Time

Chapter 3: The Conversational Cosmos - aéPiot as Distributed Dialogue

Chapter 4: Current Utility Across Domains - The Present Applications

Chapter 5: The Transformation of Existing Domains

Chapter 6: Emerging AI-Driven Domains and aéPiot's Role

Chapter 7: The Future Professional Landscape

Chapter 8: Philosophical Implications - aéPiot and the Nature of Knowledge

Chapter 9: Technical Innovation and Semantic Web Evolution

Chapter 10: Challenges and Risks - The Shadow Side of Semantic Exploration

Chapter 11: Global Impact and Societal Transformation

Chapter 12: The Metacognitive Dimension - Learning to Learn

Chapter 13: The Emotional and Psychological Dimensions

Chapter 14: Economic Implications - The Semantic Economy

Chapter 15: The Future of Human Cognition

Chapter 16: Technical Evolution and Future Capabilities

Chapter 17: Philosophical and Ethical Considerations

Chapter 18: Cultural and Global Perspectives

Chapter 19: Personal Transformation and Individual Growth

Chapter 20: Synthesis and Future Vision

Chapter 21: The Symbiotic Future - Human-AI Semantic Collaboration

Chapter 22: The Transformation of Expertise and Authority

Chapter 23: Implications for Global Challenges

Chapter 24: The Deep Psychology of Semantic Exploration

Chapter 25: Educational Revolution and Pedagogical Transformation

Chapter 26: The Neuroscience of Semantic Exploration

Chapter 27: Organizational and Institutional Transformation

Chapter 28: The Future of Work and Professional Development

Chapter 29: Global Collaboration and Cultural Exchange

Chapter 30: Philosophical and Existential Implications

Chapter 31: Technical Challenges and Future Development

Chapter 32: Ethical Frameworks and Governance

Conclusion: The Infinite Garden of Forking Paths

Personal Reflection: My Journey Through the Semantic Landscape
by fragmede | 2025-10-02 05:43:41+00:00
Nitrous oxide, ketamine, buspirone (not buproprion), gapapentin, abilify, lamigtal.

No alcohol.

Also look at your environment and its stressors. Moving out was one of the best things I did for my mental health.

My food can touch without me melting down, so I'd consider it a win. This is not medical advice.
by porksoda | 2025-10-02 05:45:44+00:00
That is just nuts! Not in my dreams will claude yolo commands into my system.

What are we even talking about? I think life itself grants us the right to get high or pet wild animals or swim the atlantic or sudo rm-rf... Or yes-and-accept-edits at 3AM with a 50 hour uptime (yes guilty) but then we don't get to complain that it's dangerous. We surely were warned.
by johnmoberg | 2025-10-02 05:45:52+00:00
Tandem Health | Senior/Staff Software Engineers | On-site in Stockholm, Sweden | Full time

At Tandem Health we're building a clinician copilot to allow clinicians to focus on care rather than administration. We’re building, launching and iterating quickly, and are already rolling out across some of the largest care chains across Europe, including most of the NHS.

Our core product listens in to the patient-clinician encounter to generate medical records, allowing clinicians to save 5-10 minutes per patient. No longer do clinicians have to catch up on administration after hours. Some even tell us that their partners notice they're much more relaxed after starting to use our product, and we couldn't be happier :)

We’re expanding our Stockholm team with exceptional engineers! We use Python (backend), TypeScript/React (frontend) and C# (Windows app) and our infrastructure runs on Kubernetes in Azure. We’re especially keen to talk to Staff Engineers (backend) and Senior AI Engineers (e.g. LLMs and the scaffolding around, computer-use agents)

Even if we don’t have a role out your specific skill set, we’d love to talk! Our tech team is small but growing and you’ll have an outsized impact on an important problem.

More info at https://www.tandemhealth.ai/recruitment

Feel free to reach out to john.moberg@tandemhealth.ai if you have any questions
Show HN: Project2txt – Export your codebase to a single text file for LLMs
by regsvr32 | 2025-10-02 05:46:21+00:00
Hi HN,

I use ChatGPT a lot for my code. But it's very annoying to give it my whole project context. Copying files one by one is slow, and zip files don't work.

So I made a small tool for myself: project2txt.

You just drag your project folder into the browser. It reads all the files and puts them into one big .txt file.

The most important thing for me: it's 100% private. All the work happens inside your browser. Your code is never uploaded anywhere. No server, no data collected.

It automatically ignores junk folders like node_modules and .git.

You can select which folders and file types you want.

The output text has file paths, so the AI knows your project structure. No signup needed. Just use it.

I built this with Next.js. It's my first time trying something like this, so maybe there are bugs.

Here is the link: https://project2txt.com

Let me know what you think. Is it useful? Any feedback is welcome.

Thanks.
by littlecranky67 | 2025-10-02 05:47:29+00:00
Well the price difference between an M4 MacbookPro and Air buys you several docking stations.

Also a MacMini is not mobile, and even if I take the mini, it neither has a screen or keyboard. The thing is I don't need it WHILE I'm traveling, I need my laptop at the destination. And because that is less than 5% of the time I use it, there is no issue in carrying the external 2.5" HDD that I keep on my dock. You personal use-case may vary.
by autumnstwilight | 2025-10-02 05:47:39+00:00
I mean, the thing about autism is that your 'natural behaviours and feelings' can be things that others find deeply offputting, like hand-flapping or other strange repetitive movements or sounds, anxious skin-picking, avoiding eye contact etc. But not doing those things requires conscious effort, because they're natural to you.

So it's kind of like going through social interactions with an itch that you're constantly aware of but can't scratch. Or perhaps for a neurotypical person, imagine that you're instead not allowed to make any facial expressions or change in your tone of voice and you have to constantly monitor yourself to make sure you're not doing what is, to you, a normal and unconscious reaction. Of course everyone has to modulate their tone of voice and expression to some degree, but with autistics the gap between how they'd behave 'naturally' and 'what is considered socially acceptable' can be a much bigger one to bridge.
by wingworks | 2025-10-02 05:48:27+00:00
Sorry, thought someone else would chime in. But I've known people who need to sit in the same place. Doesn't need to be the "best" spot, just the same spot. Not all autistic people are like that.

From my personal experience most can be flexible, they may have a preference (stronger than "normal" people) to xyz spot, but will sit elsewhere if it's already taken.
by FilosofumRex | 2025-10-02 05:50:57+00:00
A fun litmus test for it would be to de-trend S&P500 to its individual components and to identify and rank contributions of all 500 stocks. But that alone would not get it a job at Rentec or the NSA.

Unlike most commercial & medical applications where signals are stationary with white (uncorrelated) noise, the NSA & Rentec mostly deal with non-stationary signals with regime changes and correlated noise, which can't be denoised without loss of information.

The idea is not so much to predict the next stock price tick or to decipher an intercepted signal (most likely encrypted anyways), but rather to detect "regime changes", ie quickest detection of a change of pattern in non-stationary signals. Then the detected pattern is matched to known trading patterns for a particular stock or to the expected spy activities.
by YZF | 2025-10-02 05:50:59+00:00
I'm a bit hesitant to comment. I relate to some of what you're saying some of the time. Don't compare yourself to others. It's great your cousin is doing well but having more money ("doing well financially") shouldn't be a benchmark, that is a distraction. If you've been a software engineer for 15 years you're probably doing ok.

> the most unjust, asymmetric treatment of humans in the history of mankind.

Things are not perfect but I think we're very far from the worst in history. Things used to be way worse for most humans for most of the history of mankind. I would say unfortunately we aren't going straight "up and to the right" in terms of human happiness, well being, a better world, but that's the nature of things, there are ups and downs. I think things can and will still work out (climate, geo-politics, AI, economy etc.) if we do our little bits. Look for the good things and we'll work on the bad things.

Getting less screen time and more time with people and outdoors can help with perspective. It's easy to get sucked in doom and gloom on the Internet. Happens to me.

People do abuse words but I think we can still communicate just fine. We just need to do a better job of explaining in detail what we're talking about.

It's interesting that you talk of yourself as being the oppressor class while thinking of yourself of being oppressed. I think that shows the limits of this line of thinking. Most would probably consider you "elite" as well. We're all just people I think is the easy answer there. I'm not jealous for a second of any "elite", I'm sure they have the same human struggles (or even worse) as all of us.

Hope you can get over your pain, try and get some help if that makes sense to you.
by ud0 | 2025-10-02 05:56:00+00:00
I first stumbled on Blind while job hunting, and since then I’ve used it as a resource, not a social media platform like most people do. I follow specific tags like software engineering and career, and I don’t keep notifications on (in fact, the only app with notifications on my phone is WhatsApp).

For interviews, I search company-specific tags to find discussions and tips, ChatGPT makes it even easier now to extract insights from those threads. I also use it for compensation research. Occasionally, I’ll check company gossip, and I have to say, Blind has correctly predicted layoffs at my employer twice. Beneath all the noise, some people really do share valuable inside information.

That’s why I treat Blind as a data-gathering tool, not a hangout. I mainly open it for interviews, negotiations, compensation benchmarks, or to get the general sentiment around a company. Honestly, I wish they had an API like Reddit’s, it would make pulling insights so much easier.
by dotwaffle | 2025-10-02 05:56:27+00:00
I know a lot of people who use it, in fact I'm one of them.

I have an @gmail.com account with about 20 years of stuff associated with it, from purchases to YouTube subscriptions, from calendars to GCP accounts.

However, I use a vanity email (me@somedomain.example) that everyone I know uses to get hold of me. Until about 10 years ago I could just forward emails but that slowly became unworkable as more and more stuff just broke due to SPF etc. So, I've been using POP pickup (and accepting the 5-30 minute delay) ever since.

As I understand it, I can't move all my gmail.com data into a GWork profile easily, and POP has worked for years. This is very frustrating.
by ggm | 2025-10-02 05:59:13+00:00
People who try to prove an argument by analogy forget that analogies are analogues not abstractions. Nothing about horses and buggies being replaced by cars is in the abstraction over computer science and it's relationship to AI because AI does not replace computer science. It may displace computer scientists from paid employment but that's not replacement.

To break my own rule and analogise, Computer science is not a horse and buggy to F1 racing car AI, computer science is the abtraction of design principles which allowed buggies to exist, allowed horse vetinarians to exist, and allowed engineers to make engines to replace horses.

It's a sub-arc branch of mathematics. Do we need mathematicians to have horses and buggies? No. We have mathemanticians to work out how many horses and buggies we need and how many we can afford, and to count their legs and divide by 4 for an approximate answer.
by irjustin | 2025-10-02 05:59:34+00:00
> This market is ripe for disruption. here should not be a need to shovel hundreds of billions per year into AWS revenue for the industry. The same business operating at 20% margins would be a game changer.

Honestly, I don't understand this line of thinking. You're not alone in it either, but it always reads so naive.

Like you can magically hand wave or it'd be so easy and get a competitor who can do it just as well and/or cheaper than AWS. But somehow these statements seem to ignore that you can't. Otherwise Digital Ocean would've, or cloudflare or <name-your-linnode-rackspace-startup>.

The industry funnels billions to become vendor locked in because AWS is simply that good - bar none.
by gigatexal | 2025-10-02 05:59:41+00:00
Inertia is a thing. Parquet and ORC and all the myriad of other formats all exist with ecosystems and things. For this to succeed they’d have to seed the community with connectors and libraries and hooks into things to make it easy to use.

Plugins for DudckDB for example to read and write to it. Heck if you got Iceberg to use it instead of parquet that could be a win.

Sometimes tech doesn’t win on the merits because of how entrenched existing stuff is and the high cost of switching.
by bblcla | 2025-10-02 05:59:45+00:00
Stardrift (https://stardrift.ai) | Founding Engineer | Onsite - SF | Full time

Hi HN - I'm the founder of Stardrift, and we're looking for a founding engineer to join our team of 3-4. (Fun fact: I got my first coding job through 'Who is hiring?', almost 12 years ago!)

We are building a world-class travel search experience. In the future, you won’t book travel by opening ten tabs in Google Flights; you’ll book through a personalized AI assistant that understands everything about you and automatically arranges your trip for you.

You'll tackle everything from optimizing LLM performance and building evals to integrating APIs like Amadeus and Duffel. We care about moving fast and writing high-quality code; your job will be to take customer feedback and improve our product, working shoulder-to-shoulder with me & the rest of the founding team.

More info at https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/stardrift/jobs/nC7cjhB....

Please reach out to leila@stardrift.ai to apply.
by zer00eyz | 2025-10-02 05:59:48+00:00
AWS costs are insane for every project.

> Upper management would hear nothing of it

No one knows how to plan ahead any more. It's all "agile" and hardware (and budgeting for it) isnt something most in management are capable of doing any more.

There is also then justifying the CapEx on a 5 year amortization schedule... the thing is even if you borrow that money at current rate (7 percent) you can still come out far ahead of AWS... It's a lot of math, and a lot of accounting (and the accountability that comes with it).

Your average CTO just doesn't have these skills.
by wewxjfq | 2025-10-02 06:00:13+00:00
> They were guessing it contained upwards of 20,000 volumes. By comparison, Ernest Hemingway, considered a voracious book collector, left behind a personal library of 9,000.

Reminds me: I once read a listicle about famous people with large personal libraries. Most were writers and had collections in the lower thousands, a few reached into the tens of thousands. The person with by far the most books was Karl Lagerfeld, who owned 300,000 books.
by man8alexd | 2025-10-02 06:00:38+00:00
Finally paid attention to an OOM event on a FreeBSD host, "failed to reclaim memory" is quite clear. Somehow, I always stopped reading at "out of swap space" before.

Oct 1 17:05:51 kernel: swap_pager: out of swap space Oct 1 17:05:51 kernel: swp_pager_getswapspace(6): failed Oct 1 17:10:42 kernel: swap_pager: out of swap space Oct 1 17:10:42 kernel: swp_pager_getswapspace(27): failed Oct 1 17:10:58 kernel: pid 45073 (llvm-tblgen), jid 0, uid 0, was killed: failed to reclaim memory Oct 1 17:11:01 kernel: pid 45070 (llvm-tblgen), jid 0, uid 0, was killed: failed to reclaim memory Oct 1 17:11:02 kernel: pid 45074 (llvm-tblgen), jid 0, uid 0, was killed: failed to reclaim memory
by rwesselink | 2025-10-02 06:02:07+00:00
CCV Payments | Junior to mid-level software engineer | Onsite (NL) | Full-time | €50k-€60k | https://ccv.eu

About us: From facilitating the first electronic payments in the Netherlands in the 70s, to offering the first mobile payment terminals there and enabling next-gen online payment services throughout Europe from the 00s and onwards; CCV has always been a pioneer in payment.

Role overview: As a Software Engineer, you will work in a team of 30 employees focuses on innovating reliable payment terminals and the underlying systems. This is based on customer requirements, developments in the European payment market, and changes in security standards (PCI, Nist, Dora). You will work on applications that ensure secure loaded of software and keys (initial and remotely) onto Linux and Android payment terminals. The applications are written in C# and interact with, among others, RabbitMQ, Microsoft databases, ERP systems, and Utimaco hardware security modules (HSM's).

What we’re looking for: 1-5 years of software engineering experience (.Net, C#) and familiar with cryptography (RSA, AES, Eliptic Curve).

The work is highly technical and challenging. If this sounds like something you're passionate about, I invite you to visit

https://www.ccv.eu/nl/over-ccv/werken-bij-ccv/vacatures/secu... and apply!
by kgwgk | 2025-10-02 06:02:21+00:00
> the order of senses is clear: the Traveller sense comes first, the modern “casual repair” sense comes later and was derived from it.

The order of the senses is clear but different:

The "mender of kettles, pots, pans, etc.," sense come first.

The “gipsy” sense comes later an is derived from it.

The “repair or put into shape rudely or temporarily" - and later "work imperfectly, work in an experimental or meddlesome manner; keep busy in a useless way" - sense also comes from the first one.