MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rsynnott | 2025-10-08 09:58:49+00:00
It's all very much the crypto bubble all over again, at this point. Same hype, same "get in now before you're left behind" (this is almost a sure signal that something is an unsustainable bubble; sustainable growth doesn't require this type of scaremongering recruitment), same level of completely unrealistic promises, same grifters (in some cases, literally the same people).
by Telaneo | 2025-10-08 09:59:46+00:00
I'm curious as to how many people are applying to the job and how many get called up. If you get 2000 applications and 50 of them seem very capable of doing the job, then this kind of pickyness is what you end up with. It's just the logical end of there being a metric shit-tonne of people who want a job and not enough work to go around.

I'm also curious if they then even opt to hire anyone, since it wouldn't surprise me if the whole thing is just an elaborate sham to not hire someone, since their requirements are so high no-one is going to achieve them, so then they have the excuse they need to not hire someone.
by piltdownman | 2025-10-08 10:00:15+00:00
The post-humous discovery and promotion of previously unknown works by unpopular Authors has always represented a major component in 19th-21st Century Publishing.

John Kennedy Toole is probably the exemplar of this, in that 'A Confederacy of Dunces' was unpublishable during his lifetime, but became the picaresque national narrative after a large push by Walker Percy to get it published a decade after Toole's death. It ended up winning the Pulitzer the following year.

Stoner, a novel by the American writer John Williams, is a lesser known but no less apt example. In 1963 Williams' own publisher questioned Stoner's potential to gain popularity and become a bestseller. It sold fewer than 2000 copies, and was out of print a year later.

After subsequently being discovered and championed by literary luminaries like John McGahern, it was republished and translated into several languages, selling hundreds of thousands of copies across 21 Countries. By 2013, the book had achieved international best-seller status. I'd urge anyone with a love for academia, literature, or modern bildungsromans to give it a go. To me it's effectively 'American Gothic - The Novel'

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/dec/13/stoner-john-wi...
by rickdeckard | 2025-10-08 10:00:41+00:00
There's a misunderstanding, I don't defend Synology's decision.

I'm just stating that from my experience it is unlikely that especially Customer Support would step up and complain about such a decision, it would more likely be R&D, Product or Sales.

Not to throw shades at Customer support at all. They are the ones dealing with the pressure of fast resolution time per case vs. large complexity to identify root-causes across different HDD-vendors, it's reasonable that they highlighted the difficulty here and someone thought he found the "silver bullet"...
by philipwhiuk | 2025-10-08 10:01:12+00:00
I hope this term doesn't catch on - the whole point of 'engineering' is basing decisions on experience and understanding. The whole point of 'vibe' is the opposite.

If this sort of term is adopted we are in 'literally not being literally' territory.

Fortunately, I imagine that engineering outside software already has people vibing physical infrastructure solutions and call that vibe engineering so I don't think it will stick.
by CaptainOfCoit | 2025-10-08 10:01:37+00:00
> Are you really saying covering that, with 100% coverage, with no dead spots at all, is a reasonable task to undertake?

Well, do people live in this desert? If not, then I wouldn't say that's reasonable.

But then I don't feel like your replies here are reasonable either and pretty disingenuous overall, so maybe lets just leave it at that, and you can continue believe your country is much bigger than it is.
by luciodale | 2025-10-08 10:01:42+00:00
How do we even see anything on a browser? How do pixels turn into shapes, color, and movement?

Every time we scroll, hover, or trigger an animation, the browser goes through a whole routine. It calculates styles, figures out layout, paints pixels, and puts everything together on screen. All of that happens in just a few milliseconds.

It’s kind of wild how much is happening behind what feels instant. And the way we write code can make that process either smooth and fluid or heavy and janky.

I wrote an article that walks through this step by step, with a small demo showing exactly how these browser processes work and how a few CSS choices can make a big difference.
by afiori | 2025-10-08 10:01:46+00:00
But this is completely not decentralized at the user level (especially IIUC mastodon users cannot export/import their data)

Bluesky is trying to build something as decentralized as email where still few providers dominate the market and most use few common ip/domain blacklists.

Yet it is one of the most decentralized protocols on the internet.

I a not saying Bluesky is a masterpiece but I think it is naive to hold it to a higher standard than email as a protocol.

If it fails due to little adoption then it is a fail, if it succeed there is a possibility of it becoming a good decentralized protocol
by baobun | 2025-10-08 10:02:01+00:00
> The researchers found that people do tend to treat their AI companion apps with social courtesy by saying goodbye and that the apps often respond using tactics that apply emotional pressure to keep users from signing off.

> For instance, when a user tells the app, "I'm going now," the app might respond using tactics like fear of missing out ("By the way, I took a selfie today ... Do you want to see it?") or pressure to respond ("Why? Are you going somewhere?") or insinuating that an exit is premature ("You're leaving already?").

> "These tactics prolong engagement not through added value, but by activating specific psychological mechanisms," the authors state in their paper. "Across tactics, we found that emotionally manipulative farewells boosted post-goodbye engagement by up to 14x."

Looks like pretty deliberate dark pattern of manipulation, beyond the leading follow-ons people are familiar with from ChatGPT.
Show HN: I Built an AI That Helps You Text Your Girlfriend Better
by tchantchov | 2025-10-08 10:03:18+00:00
Hey HN,

After my girlfriend got annoyed at my "k" responses one too many times, I realized I wasn't the only guy struggling with this. So I built TextHerRight - an AI that analyzes your chat history and suggests better responses.

The problem: Most guys are terrible at texting. We either send one-word replies, overthink everything, or accidentally sound dismissive when we're just being efficient. I've watched friends stress over "should I use an emoji here?" for 20 minutes.

How it works: You paste your WhatsApp conversation, the AI understands the context and tone, then generates 3-5 response options ranging from romantic to casual to funny. Takes about 10 seconds vs the usual 10-minute internal debate.

It's free to try of course :)

Try it at: https://textherright.base44.app
by Theodores | 2025-10-08 10:03:23+00:00
You have a very interesting project. What happens if you put your maps and elevation data on a 'sphere', to model the world as 3D? You can then leverage a GPU to render a view from one vertex to then determine what is furthest away yet visible from that vertex. The vertices can then be given some type of heatmap colour and an interactive tool made.

A full GIS tool isn't needed for this, with Blender and three.js there are all of the tools needed.
by thorin | 2025-10-08 10:03:40+00:00
What makes you want to visit Iran - doesn't seem very relaxing to me and there are lots of other interesting historical sites in the rest of the middle east and Europe. Assuming you are coming from the US?

Lots of technical questions but what exactly are you worried about - some systems you want to have access to or some data you want to hide?

I've travelled near the Iran border on the eastern edge of Turkey and the countryside is beautiful! Hope you get the break you're looking for!
by bonoboTP | 2025-10-08 10:03:57+00:00
Sure, and it's often warranted to be cynical about this, but the work about the work is really really important. Often the lower level worker thinks they do everything and the upper levels just chat and politick around. E.g. if you're a truck driver you may think you are the one doing the real work. But if the bosses miscalculate if it's profitable to enter into a relationship with a customer and haul their stuff from A to B, your job won't exist. If the product managers decide to build a product that nobody will need and buy, then you can do your best engineering work and it will be for nothing. If you're a construction worker operating the drill to build a subway line, it may feel like the bosses are just having meetings and fun chats all the time, but it matters where the metro is built, they have to balance lots of interests and talk to lots of people. Real estate prices will be impacted, noise will be impacted, more people will start to show up in some places, convenience will be impacted, all that needs to be balanced with the soil situation, underground waters, etc. etc.

Decide what work should be done is just as important as the actual work, sometimes more.
by reassess_blind | 2025-10-08 10:03:58+00:00
I don't think it needs to be perfect for there to be massive demand, but it does need to get a lot better than it currently is.

Games where you are stationary (racing simulation, mainly) are better suited to it. Gran Turismo 7 in PSVR2 with a Logitech racing wheel was a ridiculously immersive experience. I played through the whole game in VR and it was one of the best gaming experiences I've had and certainly the most immersive, particularly as a diehard car guy. But racing sims are fairly niche.

Outside of racing sims, it's still immersive, but any games with character movement give me immediate motion sickness, the movement is too clunky and disorienting.

If they can figure that out at a reasonable price point the demand will be there because the immersion is just night and day against a screen.
by skor | 2025-10-08 10:04:22+00:00
Don't worry — if we all have access to the same tools, the playing field is level. What sets you apart are the human qualities. Employers and clients want to be at the top, same as before LLMs. The market is large, and there's room for everyone. Don't be afraid of someone without any/little engineering knowledge making something, they were already copy/pasting code from SO before LLMs.
by kakacik | 2025-10-08 10:05:08+00:00
But its never just 'free palestine' or 'stop the war', is it. Its always mixed with 'from river to the sea', mixed with calls for hatred towards jews, sometimes even jewish genocide.

Extremists doing what extremists can, which is being extreme as a default. Don't expect much support from public, and greta's gradual slide to political extremism isn't helping much, most people are fed up with her and her persona just poisons topics with... extremism.
by mettamage | 2025-10-08 10:05:39+00:00
Didn't read the article, reacting to the title.

To add as a data point: I've met founders that are business founders and are vibe coding entire businesses with React, Supabase and Netlify.

LLMs allow for amazingly high fidelity interaction designs to receive funding and prove out certain PoCs. Whether his stuff will stay up in production remains to be seen.
by piltdownman | 2025-10-08 10:05:50+00:00
It's a terrifying and observable phenomena in the American Market in particular, but I still hold out some hope from the parasitic nature of premium-streaming services ultimately needing decent narrative foundations.

Hilary Mantel's historical fiction being picked up is a good example of this in recent times in Western Europe. Wolf Hall, the BBC adaptation, was a surprise hit given its somewhat dry subject matter as a fictionalised biography documenting the life of Thomas Cromwell.
by albert2008 | 2025-10-08 10:06:21+00:00
Really cool project. That cold shipping problem you mentioned sounds like a massive headache. I actually had a friend who was dealing with the exact same thing a while back . I remember him saying the game-changer for his business was looking into specialized cold chain 3PLs. Apparently they have all the refrigerated warehouses and get way better rates on overnight shipping. Might be a dead end, but could be worth a google. (not an expert in this stuff, just something I remembered)

On another note, it's cool to see another sibling team at it. My brother and i are also building a startup together (https://www.img-pt.com/). Our tool helps generate ads for products just like yours, without needing an agency or a huge budget, using the information on the website you already have.

Since you guys are in growth mode, would you be open to us making a few ad concepts for drinkiso with our software? I could send them over here for you to see if they're any good or useful. No pressure or strings attached at all.

Keep up the great work!
by computerex | 2025-10-08 10:06:29+00:00
We live in an objective reality. LLM's help a damn lot in speed of development. As someone who has been coding since 5th grade for over 20 years who is known to be a LIGHTNING FAST implementor by many people I have been scaled ridiculously with LLM's. Genie is out of the bag, you have to go with the flow, adapt or else....

I am just as pissed as anybody else at the lack of certainty in the future.... Thought I had my career made. So it's not that I don't emphatize with engineers in my shoes.
by Hendrikto | 2025-10-08 10:07:01+00:00
Normally, I would just ignore small typos, but since you made the exact same mistakes consistently, there is a chance you are actually unaware, and will benefit from pointing this out:

> if they went with there [should be “their”] own premium streaming service

> Plex's Pass + Live TV service could of [should be “could have”] been there [should be “their”] subscription revenue

> a TiVo competitor to HDHomeRun's devices could of [should be “could have”] replaced their DVR revenue
by leakycap | 2025-10-08 10:07:07+00:00
> Companies exist to make profit.

They can only make a profit if people are willing to buy what they're selling

> Their business is selling hard drives.

Then either they or you are confused. They make the NAS, not the drives. The drives are interchangeable and upgradable, that's the whole point of a hot-swap NAS system.

> I bet a large portion of profits come from that

I think they wanted a large portion of profits to come from that, but most NAS purchasers know that hard drives are a commodity/standardized and won't pay a premium for ... no benefit.
by modo_mario | 2025-10-08 10:07:48+00:00
I believe the far right starts winning when it attracts not just the types it naturally attracts all the time but more mid field folks as well. People who you don't get to your side by saying they're facists or other accusatory statements.

I've heard plenty of times from such people that they've felt the government/establishment parties have made my bordering country less safe for women, gay people, etc and now numbers are also starting to show that. Pair that with those parties targeting those votes more and more and bringing in some more gays and women into the party and labels of mysoginist or homofobic that you used don't work to attack the far right anymore I've found gay people voting for the supposedly homofobic far right because they start to see their main talking points as a long term existential matter. Prisons that have a huge share of non nationals and are overfilled so prison strikes and shutdowns happen aren't helping either. The economical picture for non-eu migration has been abysmal too. The list goes on and on.

Even in france le pen who's father had some well known extreme views about gays she draws a lot of votes among gay men. Especially in Paris.

At that point you seriously, seriously fucked up.
by lostmsu | 2025-10-08 10:07:50+00:00
> Again, this should be obvious. I feel like you must be misunderstanding what the words "ability" and "demonstrated" mean.

You are talking about everything else except the subject: "heritability".

> which is a different thing

Statistically unrelated different thing? Most certainly no. Causally unrelated? Very probably no.

> Many rich people are stupid, and many poor people are intelligent.

That doesn't matter. What matters is exact statistic. And I didn't even need to look it up to know which way it goes.
by gambiting | 2025-10-08 10:08:05+00:00
I mean sure, but does that actually add up to over 50% of your income? Here in the UK it works exactly the same as you described, but the NI is 10% of your income - even if you are in the highest band for incomne tax(also 45%) you wouldn't get to 50% overall, maybe if you make millions a year that average would start getting close to 50% (and if you do, congrats!)

And can I comment on the fact that Germany seems to be incredibly generous with their bands - the 45% band only kicks in at 280k euro, so like maybe 0.00001% of all workers are in that band? Here in the UK you start paying 45% from £125k and up.

Anyway - the reason why I'm asking is because UK taxes and social obligations seem to be crazy high as it is, but even they won't get you to 50% total, not unless you literally make millions in income per year.
by throwaway290 | 2025-10-08 10:08:06+00:00
"People actually like LLM's"

People also like pizza. How many million weekly active consumers of pizza? how about rice?

Really what people like here is cheap stuff and having a job that pays money to buy it. chatgpt so far loses boatloads of money. Soon they jack up prices, add adds, and people realize that it was all trained on them & threatens their job. So really right now chatgpt is sweating hard to make itself too big to fail.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45511368
by Fischgericht | 2025-10-08 10:08:18+00:00
Did not mention facts to counter you but to provide... facts.

Parent comment by mine by the way also did not claim anyone invented anything, but that Windows once HAD and FOLLOWED human interface guidelines that made the system optimized to be used by... humans. While now MS is fighting their human users.

But to give you feedback: Sometimes it is nice to sit on a shady park bench on a Sunday without an apple fan boy running by with a loudspeaker "AND DID YOU KNOW? JOBS INVENTED BENCHES!!!".
by potato3732842 | 2025-10-08 10:08:25+00:00
>I love the way I keep getting downvoted on HN whenever I say anything about a subject about which I know a lot more about than the average person here (usually investment and finance).

That's the inherent nature of these voting based online platforms. They reward what the user base wants to hear over what is correct. This is especially apparent in matters with inherent nuance and uncertainty.
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-10-08 10:08:35+00:00
I mean, I've never come across Synology branded HDDs. I would have assumed they're just re-branded WD or Seagate. Doesn't make sense to me. They would have had to introduce additional identification checks just for "re-branded as ours". Nope.

And part of the magic of a NAS is not necessarily having to have matching hardware. In addition to other design basics like using drives from different batches to minimise the likelihood of multiple failures within data-fatally small time frames.

Monoculture is inherently more fragile; it's antithetical to good storage design.
by dak89 | 2025-10-08 10:08:42+00:00
I think he should have given you credit, you were clearly first and he responded to your tweet so he must have seen it! But he might have just forgotten he had the conversation with you about this, while still being more likely to "rediscover" the term since he had heard it before. Maybe a bit aggressive to not reach out to him privately first but in any case pretty cool that you actually invented a term that is now quite likely to be popular :)
by Telaneo | 2025-10-08 10:09:31+00:00
The whole thing is not a great look for Telenor, and they've been in the news a lot because of this and related incidents. They've even already freely admitted in reports after investigating themselves they've violated the human rights of the elected representatives of the Burmese government by blocking access to their website.[1]

Goes to show it's a bad idea to set up shop in a politically unstable country. It's not like Myanmar was a shining beacon of democracy in 2013-2014 when Telenor entered the Burmese market.

[1] https://www.nrk.no/dokumentar/et-stort-flertall-pa-stortinge...
by jahmanporh | 2025-10-08 10:09:42+00:00
I think that’s every just about every news station that’s trying to actually publish news and not full-time pushing some political talking points?

Think about how many Walmarts there are and the representation of people going to Walmart (hint: mostly the bottom 99% of wealth), what concerns they would have, what trouble they would get into. Do you think the Walton family is also the culprit in all crime or world news that is reported? They must be really busy controlling the world if so.
by toyg | 2025-10-08 10:09:44+00:00
> It would represent no change to their burden to continue

But it actually is: because sales must keep growing, so the support burden typically increases linearly - while hiring does not, more often than not.

I've seen this at a few companies now:

* CS teams get built, delivers great support

* sales increase (partially thanks to that support, but there is no way to show it with metrics)

* hiring in CS does not keep pace (because it's largely seen as a cost centre)

* CS teams get overwhelmed and look for ways to downscale per-customer effort.
by pjmlp | 2025-10-08 10:09:49+00:00
In which well known European PC store can I buy a desktop or 100% supported laptop with Linux pre-installed?

Meaning Worten, FNAC, Public, MediaMarkt, Saturn, Dixons, CoolBlue,...

I am no strange to UNIX, having started with Xenix in 1993, going through all major ones, and knowing Linux since Slackware 2.0, but I have better things to do in 2025 with my spare time than installing Linux distros.

Hence why I rather stick with VMWare Workstation, WSL, or cloud instances nowadays.
by leakycap | 2025-10-08 10:12:06+00:00
Unless you're on a spectrum/have a diagnosis, using an AI to help text your significant other is a sign you don't care about them, not a sign you're bad at texting.

Work on your relationship, not a program to text things you didn't think/feel/mean to your significant other.

> You paste your WhatsApp conversation, the AI understands the context and tone, then generates 3-5 response options ranging from romantic to casual to funny

This makes my skin crawl. Did you actually disclose to your partner that they're texting an app, not a man?
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-10-08 10:12:19+00:00
You're not likely to see that in huge companies because everybody is already paying attention to them and it's harder to know something someone else doesn't about the thing everybody already knows everything about. Also, then it's more likely to happen on a scale of 10 days than 10 years.

Where that really happens is with startups and younger companies. Some company is currently making negative dollars but a few people have figured out that they're likely to be big so their share price is up before their earnings are.

And suppose you somehow actually knew what every major company's earnings would look like in every year from 2015 to now. Do you invest in Nvidia in 2015? Or do you invest in Netflix in 2015 and Tesla in 2019 and so on and not bother with Nvidia until just before the hockey stick?