MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tsimionescu | 2025-10-25 07:02:44+00:00
I also don't understand what GP meant. Not only is HTTP/1.1 universally supported by every HTTP client and server today, HTTP/1.0 is as well, and you'll even find lots of support for HTPP/0.9. I have never heard of a program or security device that speaks HTTP/2.0 but doesn't allow HTTP/1.1.
by caminante | 2025-10-25 07:02:57+00:00
I agree it's important to watch for these things.

For externalities or immediate health benefits, heatpumps are pretty defensible. However, solar isn't a saint. Rare earth/mineral mining is hazardous plus only a fraction of solar panels are getting recycled properly.

> this is doable in harsh Canadian winters with negligible solar and it breaks even

It's doable alright. OP got subsidies (See comment re: risk free loan and grants). Talk about externalities, this is definitely wealth transfer.
by keane | 2025-10-25 07:03:01+00:00
Le Monde Diplomatique is a subsidiary (51%) of Monde SA.

"Le Monde owns 51%; l’association Les Amis du Monde diplomatique and l’association Gunter Holzmann, comprising the paper’s staff, together own 49%)."

But this 2010 article supports your point generally, claiming that the editors of the newspaper cannot influence the monthly. https://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2010/07/HALIMI/19372
by YuukiRey | 2025-10-25 07:03:33+00:00
I find it a bit strange when people write about themselves in third person on their own website (see footer and about).

Anyway, the article seems very Amazon centric since I have no idea what an L6 or an L7 is. I get that they’re career ladder steps but that’s it.

And having testimonials about yourself on your own website…

The whole website feels like I clicked on an Ad for a person.
by josephg | 2025-10-25 07:03:59+00:00
> I have a friend who did similar tunneling a while ago. It also works on cruise ships.

Hah I was just about to say the same thing! I just got home from a ~3 week cruise. Internet on the ship was absurdly expensive ($50/day). And its weird - they have wifi and a phone app that works over the internet even if you don't pay. Google maps seemed to work. And my phone could receive notifications from apple just fine. But that was about it.

I spend some time staring at wireshark traces. It looks like every TCP connection is allowed to send and receive a couple packets normally. Then they take a close look at those packets to see if the connection should be allowed or blocked & reset. I'm not sure about other protocols, but for TLS, they look for a ClientHello. If preset, the domain is checked to see if its on a whitelist. Anything on their whitelist is allowed even if you aren't paying for internet. Whitelisted domains include the website of the cruise company and a few countries' visa offices. The cruise app works by whitelisting the company's own domain name. (Though I'm still not sure how my phone was getting notifications.)

They clearly know about the problem. There's some tools that make it easy to work around a block like this. But the websites for those tools are themselves blocked, even if you pay for internet. :)

If you figure out how to take advantage of this loophole, please don't abuse it too much or advertise the workaround. If it gets too well known or widely abused, they'll need to plug this little hole. And that would be a great pity indeed.
by noduerme | 2025-10-25 07:04:18+00:00
last night I registered misdirect.ai and discredit.ai ...the general idea is to run agents that prod LLMs into writing the most insidiously difficult to spot incorrect answers to any question, with an army of people to copy/paste those into online forums. The hope is to use existing AI to poison future models, and as a bonus to destroy any remaining credibility people give to anything they read on the internet as a whole. If anyone feels like helping out, there is no money in this, but it feels like a service to humanity. Currently just an idea I had when I was drunk, but, sometimes it takes a band to get you up on Sundays to play music.
by jama211 | 2025-10-25 07:05:22+00:00
Yes in practice people used either an ad based free calculator app, a web based calculator, their phone, etc. I maintain this isn’t a big deal. Annoying and I’m glad they fixed it, but not a big deal. Or, just pay like $1 or something for a proper app.

I bought PCalc anyway, it’s better than the standard app.
by questionableans | 2025-10-25 07:05:46+00:00
One way to gather the skill set is to rotate through and master different aspects of the role. First become really solid at the technical fundamentals. Then volunteer to spend some time focusing on complementary skills like project and product management (in very technical areas, where you couldn’t just hire a nontechnical person in one of those job families). Start looking out for the problems worth solving that take multiple technical experts to accomplish, and make the solution great. Maybe be a manager for a while. Understand how to make your managers for at least a couple of levels up better in some ways, and help them with that. You will become someone trusted to get the right things done well. When it comes time to find the next job, focus on carefully vetting opportunities and interviewing prospective employers at least as much as they do when hiring, to find that opportunity you can be truly great at.
by nadam | 2025-10-25 07:06:21+00:00
I find it amusing how people take this 'leveling game' at big companies so seriously. The title they get at these companies become their identity. They live by the rules the company imposes on them. Amusingly almost the opposite of independent thinking, which they are so proud of. What I found during my career is that some people blossom at these big companies, and some, with equal talent cannot really realize themselves, while they blossom at other organizations, perhaps in startups, or just at more interesting problems. What some people do not realize is that this aspect that as you level at these companies 'you get the big picture more and more' is not really true in a lot of cases. Efficiency and big picture thinking is almost orthogonal. Efficiency is context dependent, high level thinking is less so. I have seen people getting the big picture on things even at low levels or even considered a junior, while people on high levels suprisingly small minded. Higher level at these organizations means that you are more productive in the given field, given organization, for some reason, this can be because of good political skills, because you work your ass off, or because you have a very efficient brain, but it does not necessarily mean that you have better high level vision, or taste or maturity even. Sometimes it is almost laughable how these people who treat these leveling system seriously and get to a relatively high level treat young colleagues. They are almost naive about how young people think. They think that L3 juniors cannot do anything alone. While I see even young kids playing with suprising autonomy if they are thinking in the right problem space.

True role models of mine never were/are L3, L4, L5, etc... They were/are awesome engineers or scientist from the get go. (Like the Johns: The von NEumann and the Carmack.) Experience lets you get better and better, but if you are stuck at a role or organization, the problem might be that you need to find something that you are more passionate about and not necessarily that you are low level because your thinking is not 'independent enough' or you are not 'high-level enough'. At least that is my experience.
by Defenestresque | 2025-10-25 07:10:32+00:00
As someone who only occasionally takes photos of mature, or empty streets (I just find them more aesthetically pleasing, especially if they're empty at night, nothing to do with the topic of discussion), I have no dog in this fight whatsoever,

May I ask where you are taking out your camera to experience these results? By "where," I mean both what part of the world/culture you are in and the specific location(s) (e.g. weddings, streets, public transit, work, at a friend's whom you know well, at an acquaintance's).. you get the point.
by ip26 | 2025-10-25 07:11:17+00:00
the aux heat comes in because their output is a multiplier. At 30F, perhaps they produce 4x the heat as the electricity put in. At 0F, perhaps they produce 1.8x the heat. This means the output declines with temperature, until eventually they don't produce enough heat to hold temperature. Enter aux heat.

Cold weather heat pumps help because they stay above 1x for longer, but you also wind up needing to oversize a bit.
by procaryote | 2025-10-25 07:11:37+00:00
If you have the skill and you're in a smaller company, you can just keep doing the role and the org will adapt to use you in it

If you have the skill and you're in a larger company they may already have a structure around it you can apply. Otherwise you should talk your manager into trying it, or you should find a new job in an org that does have this kind of role

If you don't have the skill, you should get the skill first, by making your team more effective, then make your team and all related teams more effective together
by jama211 | 2025-10-25 07:11:51+00:00
This feels like a bit of a nothing article jumping on the bandwagon of “ai bad sentiment = clicks”. Even though I agree with “ai bad” a lot, this feels like very lazy writing. It makes no attempt to understand why others might prefer or even rely upon features in their text editors. It’s just “this is simple and therefore I like it”. I mean, good for them! But doesn’t make for an interesting article at all. It’s basically like someone writing a whole article about saying “I like writing on paper”. Ok?

A total nothing burger here.
by thelastgallon | 2025-10-25 07:12:16+00:00
Yes, lets talk about subsidies. Fossil fuels have had and continue to have the most subsidies. Fossil Fuel Subsidies Surged to Record $7 Trillion/year: https://www.imf.org/en/Blogs/Articles/2023/08/24/fossil-fuel...

The wealth transfer you are alluding to, it is from the poor (everyone) to the rich (fossil fuel billionaires), isn't it?
by Vedor | 2025-10-25 07:15:24+00:00
I find that a lot of similar analogies are flawed.

On the landing page of one of the frameworks (I don't remember which one, unfortunately) there was a description comparing a programmer to a woodworker.

It was written that this woodworker, as a reliable and skilled craftsman, makes meticulously each piece of furniture with the same care, which isn't really true. For example, quite often the back panels remained unfinished, with traces of aggressive planing.

So the whole premise that "this framework will help you craft software as meticolously as woodworker crafts furniture" doesn't check out.
by lazyasciiart | 2025-10-25 07:16:39+00:00
I was blown away when I learned that public schools were testing kids before kindergarten and actually assigning the kids to different schools based on the result. I'd only ever heard of that as a "rich people pressure-cooker dystopia" kind of practice.

https://www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025/10/02/zohran-mamdani-...
by bad_username | 2025-10-25 07:17:44+00:00
> If they say NO, just agree and have the meeting with the rest of the team. Let them exclude themselves.

Sorry, let who exclude whom?

This is off topic, but I am not sure why you insist on saying "they" if even the OP says "he". I do not think you run the risk of offending anyone here.

But the "they"s are especially disorienting, as the context specifically requires distinguishing "them" (the team) and him (the competent jerk), so the pronoun replacement significantly reduces the clarity of your communication.
by alangibson | 2025-10-25 07:18:58+00:00
Hey LinuxCNC Plasma fans of HN. I created this CAM application as a replacement for dxf2gcode and Inkscape. Now that SheetCAM has jacked their prices up nearly 3x, I'm targeting completely replacing SheetCAM for the serious hobbyist.

It's not at parity yet, but it's love to hear your early feedback if you've got any. Thanks!
by mewpmewp2 | 2025-10-25 07:20:09+00:00
Well... that definitely makes me envious. But also in a way it gives me relief, because during school times I always felt some sort of personal failure or laziness that I found some of the things so boring to read, but it makes sense if there's just a processing difference that doesn't give me that no matter how I try. But it must be wonderful then for you, because there's so many different books to read vs amount of high quality films/shows on any topic you desire.

Without discussing this and understanding how processing can truly differ like that I could go a lifetime wondering how people can read fiction etc, and how is it possible that I don't get what they are getting. I wonder if some drugs might allow me to get the same out of fiction books.

Another discouraging note from school times was that whenever I tried myself to read the mandatory literature fully myself, and formed my own conclusions I got bad grades and no one understood what I was getting at or what my conclusions were about, but when I just read summaries and conclusions on the Internet it was easy to get perfect grades. Too many of those things during school which made me feel delusional/crazy. Oh well. The rant went off-topic, but I just have I guess "vivid" memories of how school affected me emotionally in terms of self esteem and confidence. I remember just having my own thoughts, conclusions punished, while not understanding others, but still having to learn and memorize those facts even when I didn't understand how they came to be.
by imetatroll | 2025-10-25 07:20:17+00:00
Now how do I deal with an engineer who seems to be brilliant - though this is sometimes hard to gauge since code quality can be subjective - who always leaps in to answer things quicker and is loved by upper management because he, I guess, constantly codes even outside of work hours, but who is extremely grating to get along with. Lord I need a different job.
by wqaatwt | 2025-10-25 07:20:26+00:00
> somewhat toxic asset and motivates the hoarding of things.

As opposed to hoarding money which is both bad for the economy and made you richer for doing absolutely nothing?

e.g. prices halved between 1865 and ~1900. The rich got richer, lack of freely available capital limited growth and anyone who had loans got screwed (imagine being a farmer who mortgaged his farm and is seeing agricultural prices go down every year). Constant technological progress bailed everyone out but it wasn’t a pretty time.

My point is that consistent and mostly predictable inflation (i.e. that was the case only during a fraction of of the last ~50 years) is much preferable than constant boom and bust cycles and volatile price swings that were frequent under the gold standard.

Of course it’s very easy to mismanage monetary and fiscal policy when you can print an unlimited amount of money and put incompetent/corrupt people in charge.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-10-25 07:20:36+00:00
In this analogy, you ask and they decline to promise anything concrete about the future, just saying that they currently have no plans to change. Their statement is the same any time they're asked, with no early warning via that method.

And, reminder, they keep encouraging people to use the party as an important foundation for their own efforts.

Does that help explain why a sudden stop is causing harm to people that weren't being greedy? At which point anger is not an inherently bratty behavior.
by zepolen | 2025-10-25 07:22:23+00:00
You don't seem to have gained his respect with your engineering skills.

Publicly challenge (and beat) him in a small engineering contest, otherwise he will never respect you.

Make it time limited, eg. 3 hours to implement a specific goal with clear indicator of what is "better" as a score, ie. to avoid arguments that eg. "mines fast, mine scales". Have a neutral party pick the challenge.
by imiric | 2025-10-25 07:23:29+00:00
> Nothing is not your job.

Yeah, screw that.

These roles with fancy titles may come with astronomical compensation for an engineer—and rightfully so—but they're essentially buying your soul. You're not an executive, and are still below them on the political and compensation ladder, but you'll easily have 10x more on your plate than an executive. You'll be expected to act as a lap dog for the company for anything tech-related, while you probably will only enjoy 10% of that work. Your guidance will only be appreciated when the stock goes up, while you'll be the first to be held responsible for any technical screw ups.

So, nah. I'd rather continue to enjoy my work, maintain my freedom and peace of mind, and still get paid well enough as a perpetual "senior".
by jumploops | 2025-10-25 07:24:00+00:00
I assume you haven't read The Mythical Man-Month[0]?

The author is referencing an existing analogy from Fred Brooks, and building upon it.

Sure, today the anesthesiologist might be the most "important" person in the room, but that's not the idea behind the analogy.

Your emphasis that surgeons "heavily rely on the surgical team" is just as important to Brooks' beliefs, in that the "Chief Programmer" is only able to do what they do via the support of the team.

The "grunt work" (noted by the author) seems solely focused on tasks given to the "Co-pilots" (or assistant programmers), notably with no specific mention to the other supporting roles (admin, editor, secretaries, clerk, toolsmith, tester, and "language lawyer"), many of which have been replaced by SaaS tooling (Github, Jira, Notion, Docusaurus, etc.) or filled by other roles (PMs, SDET, etc.).

Furthermore, the author even states:

> I hate the idea of giving all the grunt work to some lower-status members of the team. Yes, junior members will often have more grunt work, but they should also be given many interesting tasks to help them grow.

The author clearly sees less experienced programmers as mentees, rather than just some grunts whose work is beneath them.

The analogy may not be perfect, but their message about "AI coding tools" should be valued without judgement (and without accusations of egocentric thinking).

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month
by Judgmentality | 2025-10-25 07:25:26+00:00
You really think a bunch of people holding signs on the weekend, then going back to work the next day is accomplishing anything? What are you accomplishing?

It doesn't matter how many of you there are if none of you are willing to actually do anything. If I just ignore you, how does it change anything in my life? The only thing you're achieving is making yourselves feel better about accomplishing nothing.
by seanhunter | 2025-10-25 07:25:41+00:00
The anesthetist is the person who is primarily responsible for the patient remaining alive. You can decide for yourself whether that's more or less important than what the surgeon's doing.

As someone who has had to have 3 surgeries in the last few years I'm very grateful that both the surgeon and anesthetist in each case did a fantastic job and didn't do anything like the author of TFA is suggesting. FWIW I don't think the analogy in the article survives knowledge of what surgeons actually do.
by gethly | 2025-10-25 07:26:17+00:00
Because bitcoin is a bubble. Many do not want to hear it but that is what it it.

Bitcoin has no intrinsic value. It is no different than beanie babies, baseball cards or any collectibles from the past that people thought would make them rich.

The power of bitcoin is in hodling - convincing people to never sell, so the price will keep going up ad infinitum. Once that belief fades away, the entire thing will collapse like a house of cards.

So to answer your question - bitcoin has not crashed yet because it is all about irrationality. Once rationality pops its head up and people start waking up from the dream, it will be over. The quantum computers have nothing to do with it. Not only the hodlers do not even understand bitcoin and crypto, but even if it were out already, people would not believe it until they would read it in the news and bitcoin would be already crashing. And likely even then they would just spam the internet with diamond hands and refuse to believe it is over(again, irrational behavior).

Personally, I absolutely hate that some-people, some-where, some-time ago, hijacked the idea of crypto currency and turned it into an investment instrument, which it is not. Crypto is a beautiful idea that would have worked miraculously if deployed into the real world as intended and we could have had nice things, but we got hoodwinked and it turned all crypto to shit.
by ho_schi | 2025-10-25 07:26:49+00:00
That’s true and compatibility is a grace. Software shall not need every month an update. I sign of its quality.

Is this case, usage of /var/lock was clumsy for a long time. And not cleaning up APIs creates something horrible like Windows. API breaks should be limited, to the absolute minimum. The nice part here is, that we can adapt and patch code on Linux usually.

On the other side Linux (the kernel), GLIBC/STDLIBC++, Systemd and Wayland need to be API stable. Everybody dislikes API-Instability.
Show HN: I made a simple portfolio performance calculator and it seems to work
by ThinkerBlinker | 2025-10-25 07:27:13+00:00
Hello, this is my first project!

I used nothing but free web tools. And it seems to work.

I couldn't find a simple portfolio performance tool on the web, where I could just paste cash inflows, outflows and current value of my portfolio and get the portfolio performance calculated. Everything I found was in some way cumbersome and cluttered with ads.

I used Perplexity for the coding and Codeberg for the hosting.

I verified the output manually for some examples and all seems fine. Maybe it is useful for others too. If anyone can spot a problem in this small project, I would be very grateful to hear about it.
by noduerme | 2025-10-25 07:27:13+00:00
No, that is a nihilistic belief which does not get buildings built or software written.

One may "luck" into truth by being born in a poor neighborhood or by living in a warzone, and having eyes and a camera. Or by being rich and invited to a club and having a microphone.

Truth is everywhere, but capturing it is expensive. The tax on truth is the easy spread and generation of lies. The idea that the fictional can encapsulate truth is of course true, but it doesn't mean everything is better an abstraction. Losing a leg is more powerful as a reality than as an abstraction. Peddlers of falsehoods, then, only win when truth can be abstracted.

Moreover: People who read literature read it knowing it stands in for truth. People who watch TikTok believe it is true, and are disenchanted when shown otherwise. More power resides in a grain of truth than a mountain of falsehood; so any tool for proving veracity will always have an outsized value against tools for generating fakes.

The last redoubt of propagandists when faced with the threat of truth is to claim that no one cares anymore what's true. But that's false. In fact, that's when they begin to fool themselves. It's not that no one in China or Russia values the truth, for instance. It's just that they say what they're told to say, and don't believe a word of it.
by XiphiasX | 2025-10-25 07:31:19+00:00
Your argument makes no sense. Many things can become bubbles. Land can be bubble, physical gold can be bunble, oil rigs in the sea can be bubble. Yet people choose to focus on Bitcoin which WILL be cracked by quantum, and not physical gold which will NOT be cracked by quantum. According to this knowledge, physical gold, land and emerald mines are severely underpriced and Bitcoin is severely overpriced.

How am I wrong?

Also, Bitcoin is more useful than beanie babies because Bitcoin is censorship resistant, but Beanies can be confiscated. You are fundamentally wrong that Bitcoin holds no intrinic value. Bitcoin’s intrinsic value is method of circumventimg censorship. Tell me how I am wrong and how Bitcoin’s intrinsic value doesn’t stem from censorship resistance due to decentralized nature. You can use GPT5-Pro deep research to aid your answer.