MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by matheusmoreira | 2025-10-28 13:59:30+00:00
> But in other countries, people don't get executed for standing up to crooks.

That belief will get people killed. A simple web search yields numerous results. For instance:

https://www.foxnews.com/us/home-depot-worker-fatally-shot-ca...

> if you ever get a Bukele in power all the leftists will be out in force crying about the poor criminal's human rights etc

Current president of Brazil literally makes excuses for them. "I'm so tired of watching people die just because they robbed a phone", he says. "It was just to buy some beer", as though crime was an actual legitimate profession. That is the absolute state of this country. Mad Max would be an improvement over this shithole. In the Mad Max universe it's literally kill or be killed but you don't have leftists worshipping the criminals and shitting all over the "fascist" police defending them.

Police is powerless to stop it. If they try, they are tried and imprisoned by the same government that hired them to do it. It is already common knowledge that military police is one of the worst career choices you can make. The country is losing police officers at a rate of thousands per year. Not enough people are signing up for this shit. Meanwhile, drug gangs dominate over a quarter of our territory. The current speculation is that they finance judges and politicians. In other words, it is not only possible but probable that this is a literal narcostate.

At some point, it becomes war. The criminals are sufficiently organized that they should be treated as enemy combatants and gunned down on sight. Trump ordering US ships to nuke drug boats out of existence is the correct course of action. The only problem is the "civilized" people who cry about it instead of thanking him for his service and thanking god they have people willing to commit extreme violence against others in order to protect them from the evils of this world. That is a luxury I would love to have myself. Instead I live in a extremely leftist country where drug traffickers spray paint threats on people's homes, giving them 24 hours to leave on pain of death.
by santiaparicio | 2025-10-28 13:59:40+00:00
I’ve been fortunate to work with the same co-founders since college, 6 companies, $2.4B in exits. Every time, one growth lever decided whether we stalled or took off: engineered invitation flows.

When we nailed them, we scaled from 10 → 25,000 signups/day. When we didn’t, growth flatlined. And as a16z’s Andrew Chen has pointed out, the viral playbook that built Web 2.0 basically got lost in the mobile era.

So we built Vortex, the infrastructure that brings virality back (Auth0 for invites). Teams at GitLab, Rappi, New Relic and others are already installing it, seeing up to 10X lift in invite-to-activation.

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by pseudalopex | 2025-10-28 14:00:05+00:00
> Firing is when employer terminates someone for cause, i.e. employee did something wrong or didn't meet expectations.

This meaning is present in many people's minds. It is not present in many people's minds or any dictionary I saw ever.

to remove someone from their job, either because they have done something wrong or badly, or as a way of saving the cost of employing them[1]

The act or an instance of dismissing someone from a job.[2]

the action of forcing somebody to leave their job[3]

And so on.

[1] https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/fire

[2] https://www.thefreedictionary.com/firing

[3] https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/englis...
by coliveira | 2025-10-28 14:00:28+00:00
There is so much stupidity to unpack here. They say they need to use the opportunity provided by AI. However, what kind of opportunity is that requiring them to fire people in order to use it? Is AI making them more efficient or less efficient? If it's making more efficient, why they need to lay off all these people who are getting more efficient? So that other companies will pick up the workers they spend so much time to train on their systems, and replicate the same technologies elsewhere?

I think these companies have lost all their brains and there is a stupid AI system making bad decisions for them. I also fully expect these companies to lose their shirt to smarter companies in the next few years and decades.
by creddit | 2025-10-28 14:00:29+00:00
> Hard to say what a "longer period of time" means, but I presume it is substantial enough to make this a major concession from OpenAI.

Depends on how this is meant to be parsed but it may be parsed to be a concession from MSFT. If the total amount of revenue to be shared is the same, then MSFT is worse off here. If this is meant to parse as "a fixed proportion of revenue will be shared over X period and X period has increased to Y" then it is an OAI concession.

I don't know the details but I would be surprised if there was a revenue agreement that was time based.
by DrScientist | 2025-10-28 14:01:10+00:00
If being a founder/VC was truly more risky than being an employee - you'd see more homeless VC's and founders than employees, not just more millionaires - ie a spread either side.

Sure sometimes founders and angel investors take big risks - however often the money invested is other people's money!

So if you have a VC funded start up - the VC has persuaded other people to give them money they will invest on their behalf, and while there is a strong alignment with upside and VC renumeration - they still charge management fees come win or lose - and risk is spread across the fund.

Founders stock options are often aligned with VC's such that often they win with certain exit scenarios when the rank and file with ordinary options do not.

Under those scenarios I'm not sure either the VC's or the founders are really taking much more risk than the employees - as I'm not sure you see that many homeless VC's.

The real point here is that people who take the initiative ( to set up a company for example ) set the rules, and also often configure the rules to favour themselves - it's as simple as that. Isn't pretending otherwise window dressing/self-justification from people taking advantage of other people's passiveness?
by embedding-shape | 2025-10-28 14:01:54+00:00
It's a bit bananas, but probably just because he could. He also wrote his personal notes in "mirror writing":

> The notes on Leonardo da Vinci's famous Vitruvian Man image are in mirror writing. Leonardo da Vinci wrote most of his personal notes in mirror writing, only using standard writing if he intended his texts to be read by others

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_writing
by Founder-Led | 2025-10-28 14:01:56+00:00
Hello HN community,

We've recently launched an MVP for a project we've been passionate about: Employee Engagement and Culture Management Tools. Our goal is to help companies enhance their workplace culture and boost employee engagement through a combination of data-driven insights and user-friendly interfaces.

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We are still in the early stages of development, and we are eager to hear your thoughts. What features do you think would be essential for such a tool? Are there any technical challenges you foresee with our current stack? How can we improve the user experience?

Your feedback would be invaluable as we iterate on our product. Thank you in advance for your insights!
by latchup | 2025-10-28 14:02:08+00:00
> Anything that requires actual brainpower and thinking is still my domain. I just type a lot less than I used to.

And that's a problem. By typing out the code, your brain has time to process its implications and reflect on important implementation details, something you lose out on almost entirely when letting an LLM generate it.

Obviously, your high-level intentions and architectural planning are not tied to typing. However, I find that an entire class of nasty implementation bugs (memory and lifetime management, initialization, off-by-one errors, overflows, null handling, etc.) are easiest to spot and avoid right as you type them out. As a human capable of nonlinear cognition, I can catch many of these mid-typing and fix them immediately, saving an significant amount of time compared to if I did not. It doesn't help that LLMs are highly prone to generate these exact bugs, and no amount of agentic duct tape will make debugging these issues worthwhile.

The only two ways I see LLM code generation bring any value to you is if:

* Much of what you write is straight-up boilerplate. In this case, unless you are forced by your project or language to do this, you should stop. You are actively making the world a worse place.

* You simply want to complete your task and do not care about who else has to review, debug, or extend your code, and the massive costs in capital and human life quality your shitty code will incur downstream of you. In this case, you should also stop, as you are actively making the world a worse place.
by incomingpain | 2025-10-28 14:02:12+00:00
This weekend a VIP forgot their VPN password, tried to log in 50+ times, and got their home IP permanently blocked by the anti bruteforce setting on their firewall.

Their helpdesk got confused and escalated, then their network team, who knew their internet wasnt down, escalated it as a massive emergency internet down. PRTG was clear on both sides that it wasnt down.

To make it even more confusing, a totally separate unrelated major peering link actually went down at the same time for the ISP, so ISP helpdesk assumed it was related. It wasnt.

When that peering came back, the problem was still occurring, but it escalates up the chain for the major internet outage that both sides of the networking teams agreed wasnt happening. The root cause, besides forgotten password and failing >50 times was just that our security policy doesn't auto-expire the IP block. Something the firewall doesnt let you configure.

About a month prior to this, they had hackers hitting the remote vpn trying to brute force in, resulting in AD locking out many accounts, since the firewall didnt block. I recommended to implement brute forcing protection but to set the # high so as to avoid real users from getting blocked.

But this 'major internet outage' that only affected 1 person on their home network is my fault.

So yesterday I started building a flask app that can manage the block list.
by reedlaw | 2025-10-28 14:02:17+00:00
Isn't the intelligence of every other person alien to ourselves? The article ends with a need to "protect our own engineering brands" but how is that communicated? I found this [https://meta.discourse.org/t/contributing-to-discourse-devel...] which seems woefully inadequate. In practice, conventions are communicated through existing code. Are human contributors capable of grasping an "engineering brand" by working on a few PRs?
by pshirshov | 2025-10-28 14:02:20+00:00
> when in reality this has nothing to do with it

It's a specific representation of JSON-like data structures, with an indexed deduplicated binary format and JSON encoders and decoders. Why "nothing"? It's all about it.

Mostly it's not about streaming. More efficient streaming is a byproduct of the representation.

> because you can detect { and } and { and ] and " and ,

You need a pushdown automaton for that. In case of SICK you don't need potentially unbounded accumulation for many (not all) usecases.

> the values must be streamed first, before their location/pointers

Only to avoid accumulation. If you are fine with (some) accumulation, you can reorder. Also think about the updates.

But again, streaming is a byproduct. This tool is an indexed binary deduplicating storage which does not require parsing and provides amortized O(1) access time.
by halfcat | 2025-10-28 14:02:31+00:00
> that already happens in almost any project after 2-3 years.

Now with AI you’ll be able to not understand your code in only 2-3 days.

The next release will reduce the time to confusion to 2-3 hours.

Imagine a future where you’ll be able to generate a million lines of code per second, and not understand any of it.
by lm28469 | 2025-10-28 14:02:36+00:00
> If OpenAI cracks AGI, like they seem to believe they will before 2032,

I bet we won't even have fully self driving cars by then lmao, "2 more years guys, just gib me $7 trillion I promise I'll let you play with skynet when it's finished"

Full blown delusional egomaniacs
by csande17 | 2025-10-28 14:02:44+00:00
If you're using the email addresses to provide some specific thing the user asked for, that's not lead gen, that's just "notifications" or "a newsletter" or whatever actual thing you're doing.

If someone voluntarily gives you their email address and then you send them marketing messages, the part where you collect their email address is called "lead gen". But all the other parts of that process have different names (creating a cool-looking blog is "content marketing", getting people to visit it is "SEO", sending the marketing emails is "nurturing"), and AI can't really automate the process of someone else typing their email address into a form, so in an AI context "lead generation automation" usually means either data gathering or cold outreach.
Show HN: Culink – A social platform for curating and sharing link collections
by echoes-byte | 2025-10-28 14:02:49+00:00
Hi HN!

I'm a solo developer from Korea, and I’ve been building Culink, a social platform for curating and sharing link collections — kind of like Pinterest for links (articles, tools, videos, resources, etc).

Why I built this: I kept losing interesting links across scattered bookmarks. GitHub “awesome lists” are great, but they’re static — I wanted something more social, searchable, and collaborative.

What you can do: - Create themed collections (AI tools, dev resources, startup guides, etc) - Collaborate and share collections with others - Follow curators you trust - Discover quality links through your network - Enjoy a simple, clean interface

Tech stack: Next.js 15, NestJS, PostgreSQL, Azure Container Apps

Current status: Just launched the English version on US servers, with example collections so you can explore right away.

Try it: https://www.culink.io/discover

Would love your feedback on: - Potential use cases I might be missing - Features you'd find useful - UX or onboarding improvements

Thanks for checking it out — happy to answer any questions!
by Helmut10001 | 2025-10-28 14:03:14+00:00
Here's a presentation I held on "The Resilient PhD/Postdoc: Building Habits to Combat Information Fatigue".

This was an internal workshop as a postdoc representative at my institution, but I'm sharing it publicly (in a slightly modified form) for anyone interested in some of my personal principles and technical tips for surviving academia.

Press "s" to see my speaker notes!
by getpokedagain | 2025-10-28 14:03:19+00:00
I suppose. But in a world where upset people then act irrationally up to and including doing some murder I wonder if we start mapping burnt out individuals to a higher "cost" than their lost spending. What for example is the objective cost of Samuel Cassidy? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_San_Jose_shooting#Perpetr...
by chownie | 2025-10-28 14:04:24+00:00
This only holds if you assume that the hiring process is already fully meritocratic (which it very clearly isn't) and that it isn't missing talented women already (which it very clearly is).

If hiring managers are, subconsciously or not, more likely to pick the male candidate when faced with a choice for equally capable male/female candidates then there is inherent discrimination in the process and the DEI approach balances the scale.

This means more women working these roles with the same capability as men, it doesn't mean replacing men with women who are worse at the job, which ironically is an attitude making up part of the reason efforts like this have to be made.
by Toby1VC | 2025-10-28 14:05:29+00:00
This is not judgment as much as it is programming a community and is perpetuating the opposite of correct judgment since it's inserting an emotion and opinion into a collective mind and discourse (the headline alone which might be all a lot of people scan and a tone-setter). It's going to cause reactions like the one you just had at many points in time used against people that decide to use modern tools. If Discurse wanted to start a discussion that might solve a problem they could have used a better headline.
by D13Fd | 2025-10-28 14:05:48+00:00
I never use Siri except when driving. But when driving, it's really wonderful to have, since my car does not have car play.

As a daily user, it's clear they have been actively messing with Siri still, particularly in the last year. But the changes seem to mostly make it worse. It now misses "hey siri" half the time for no apparent reason. I feel like they just don't know what they want to do with it.
by BirAdam | 2025-10-28 14:06:16+00:00
I think it might actually be easier to automate middle management than it would be technical folks. It's not exactly difficult to shove an AI agent into a meeting, have it record everything, and ask everyone for updates. Likewise, it isn't hard to have an AI agent just read through tickets and prompt people for updates. Dystopian? Yeah. Hard? No. Also, the AI would be better than most middle managers I've encountered. The sad thing is, I've also had a few excellent middle managers who helped me grow as a professional.
by ajross | 2025-10-28 14:06:18+00:00
This is probably snark, but to give a clear answer: no. Owners of a company technically "own" the debt in the sense of a balance sheet, but are not liable for it. If you buy a share of stock and the company goes into liquidation, no one can come after you for its debts. What happens is that the creditors all get in line in bankruptcy court and the arbitrator decides who gets how much of whatever is left.
Show HN: Chrome Extension That Makes YouTube Videos Interactive with AI Quizzes
by sumit-paul | 2025-10-28 14:06:21+00:00
I built LearnTube AI, a Chrome extension that transforms passive YouTube watching into active learning. It automatically generates AI-powered quizzes during videos, like Coursera’s quiz system — but works on any YouTube video.

It analyzes transcripts, pauses at natural breakpoints, and asks contextual questions to help you retain more. Works fully client-side using Chrome’s built-in Gemini Nano AI for privacy, or optionally via the Gemini API for faster, cloud-based processing.

Key features: - Auto transcript parsing and quiz generation for any captioned video - Mid-video and end-of-video quizzes with explanations - Works offline (on-device mode) or via Gemini API (faster mode) - Visual quiz markers on the seekbar - Popup dashboard for managing models, API keys, and progress

Built to make learning from YouTube as focused and interactive as formal platforms like Coursera — but with zero setup for creators.

Chrome Web Store: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/learntube-ai/aoenlc...
by cromd | 2025-10-28 14:06:24+00:00
Their addition of AI into Quicksight (their BI tool) really cemented for me how much they're willing to bluff to look relevant. They launched the AI addition at least a year ago, but recently rebranded the whole thing as "Quick Suite", promoting new AI capabilities. It really just seems like a new skin, with more purple. So far, out of 4 people at my org who tried it, all were disappointed after upgrading. I get much better results from sending a CSV to ChatGPT and asking for a graph.

It just doesn't seem to work out of the box. I test drove it on 20 BI questions, and for trivial questions, it gets about 50% right, and for more nuanced questions, it gets about 20% right. For example, I have a table like "people" with a column like "job_title" which has 10 possible values in an uneven distribution, and I asked "what fraction of people are nurses?". It gives me a pie chart where each slice wrongly gets 10%, because of the 10 possible values. Or if I asked what the mix by decade was, it would just show a flat line, 10% each period.

Then you have the more tricky questions, like "show me the revenue for each of the top 3 products in each quarter". It calculates an all-time top 3 first, and then shows the same products each quarter, instead of redoing it within each quarter. Reasonable enough, but when you try to correct it, it just gets stuck, possibly with an even worse answer, and there's no way out of the loop.

Why would they let executives touch something so half-baked?
by darrenf | 2025-10-28 14:07:08+00:00
Both things can be literally true. I've lost my job by being made redundant, twice. In Britain redundancy is a very specific thing, where your role no longer exists and you must be let go in a fair way according to employment law. It's quite the opposite of jargon or weasel words here: https://www.gov.uk/redundancy-your-rights
by yubblegum | 2025-10-28 14:07:13+00:00
I have to disgree here regarding the film's merit. There are a few quite interesting (and unique) films in that genre from the 70s that are little known to today's audiances. Most came out around Watergate ~'74 (so were topical in those days) but then have been kind of memory holed.

The Kremlin Letter, 1970 (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065950/) - I recall someone saying this film really shows the ugly underbelly of intelligence services. This is an interesting film but it is very dark and somewhat disturbing. This one predates Watergate - it is a Cold War spy flick and makes Smiley's People look warm and cuddly ..

The Conversation, 1974 (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071360/) - Gene Hackman's character resurfaces a couple decades later in Enemy of the State (1998).

The Parallax View, 1974 (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071970/)

The Tamarind Seed, 1974 (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072253/) - A subtle movie that superficially seems like a romance.

So that's from the top of my head. All are eminently watchable films and some possibly classic canon contenders.