MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hyperhello | 2025-10-05 20:14:03+00:00
I don't think Spatial Finder is as useful as it once was. The reason is that these web interfaces block the whole screen, so I generally need to move the browser to the side, beep open a finder window, drag the file in, move the browser back, etc. What I would really like to have back from those days is to drag a folder to the bottom of the screen and have it turned into a little tab, so I can have a "CS602" tab for example during that class. Alternatively, how about putting the tab in the menu bar and doing it as a little popup? I'd probably pay $5 for that right now if it was implemented in a not annoying way.
by bazoom42 | 2025-10-05 20:14:03+00:00
It completely misses the point of the question though.

The question is not asking about parsing in the sense of matching start tags with end tags, which is indeed not possible with a regex.

The question is about lexing, for which regex is the ideal tool. The solution is somewhat more complex than the question suggest since you have to exclude tags embedded in comments or CDATA sections, but it is definitely doable using a regex.
by mschuster91 | 2025-10-05 20:14:09+00:00
> A ton of books are published open-access (literally free) and a growing number of them consider public audiences as a target readership.

There's a ton of interest in history. Always has been in pop culture (with WW2 producing a looooooot of material based off of it, ranging from truly authentic such as Schindler's List to loosely affiliated such as the MCU), to be honest. And it's not just pop culture. No matter what, history tends to be a staple subject in schools, every town worth its name has some sort of local museum telling the story of said town. It's a self-reinforcing loop.

In contrast, there isn't much money to be made discussing gender identities so no one cares about it outside of the humanities and non-cisgender people, so where's the incentive for researchers to write "in layman's terms"?
by cyberax | 2025-10-05 20:14:28+00:00
> Abusive monopolies without the imposition of violence (either by the government or the company) lasting for a long time horizon?

Example: Google. It happened all by itself in an essentially unregulated area, without any real government action.

> Compare the 1920 economic downturn (hands-off government, rebounds quickly) to the 1929-1940s economic depression

The 1920 downturn was _stopped_ by the government intervention. You're confusing the cause and the effect.

Want another example? Look at 2008. The US went with a tepid Keynesian approach of fiscal stimulus and quantitative easing. So the economy recovered to pre-recession levels in 2 years. Europe went with the Austrian approach of austerity and tight monetary supply (they RAISED the interest rates!), and it took 11 years for them to claw back to the pre-recession levels.

And what is the conclusion of Austrians? That there was not enough austerity!
by AtlasBarfed | 2025-10-05 20:15:09+00:00
What?

Curmudgeonly professors are part and parcel of universities. These are intellectuals, by default they don't fit into normal society. Universities are where they thrive.

Don't worry be happy, is that what you're saying?

What's hilarious about this is how short sighted and stupid universities are. Their cash cow programs are the ones DIRECTLY TARGETED by AI. What's going to distinguish some grade seeker that walks through Uni looking for 4.0 atop a pile of AI generated crud, and a real thinker?

It's going to be humanities. It's going to be the "liberal arts".

Not that I'm saying humanities won't need to adapt. The take home term paper will probably need to be replaced by verbal argument and defense, so they can prove they actually understand without an AI.

Humanities and actual intellectualism, as opposed to degree rubberstamping, is how universities will survive AI.

It's also amazing to me that as college costs have skyrocketed 10x higher than they used to be, humanities require almost none of that increase. Nor does it need the administration.

You can't afford humanities? I know "where is the money going" has reached comically Kafkaesque levels in modern "education", but this takes the cake.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-10-05 20:15:10+00:00
>Perhaps you think you'll spend more time in high-cognition activities, but will you? Will all of us?

When I can get a full time job again, I plan to. I was trying to learn how to 3d model before the tech scene exploded 3 years ago. I'm probably not trying to take back all 12 factors (I'm fine with where my writing is as of now, even if it is subpar), but I am trying to focus on what parts are important to me as a person and not take any shortcuts out of them.
by fauria | 2025-10-05 20:15:11+00:00
From the official site: https://www.yangwangauto.com/en/car/u9-xtreme

- 6:59.127 Lap Time - The first lap record on the Nürburgring

- 496.22 km/h - The Fastest Car on the Planet

- 1200v - World's first series-production model with ultra-high-voltage platform

- Over 3000 HP - Global horsepower record for production cars

- 30000 rpm - Global fastest motor rpm - 4 motors
by ViewTrick1002 | 2025-10-05 20:15:28+00:00
How can a 70 year old mature technology be a ”pilot”?

Lovely that it takes an enormous corruption scandal for nuclear power to ”work”.

South Korea’s latest plants have only taken 10 years with correspondingly increased costs.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/04/22/136020/how-greed...
by brudgers | 2025-10-05 20:15:36+00:00
Asking for money is a good way to measure interest in an idea.

Asking for opinions is a good way to get arbitrary noise and avoid rejection.

In terms of the specifics, interviewing engineers in person is the only way to understand what you should build. You are building an "expert system" and expert systems require expertise.

The typical pain points are time and effort and interface. And the value proposition differs among users and organizations. And at best it is going to be what you imagine it is for a tiny number of organizations; the best likely case is that your imagination matches one organization (but that's you); and the most likely case is your imagination matches no reality.

Hard work might get you something. Good luck.
by surgical_fire | 2025-10-05 20:15:44+00:00
And on the console world, Playstation exists, with plenty of exclusives. Also Nintendo exists. Sony and Nintendo are not exactly companies they can buy (would almost certainly trigger anti monopoly cases everywhere, even if they could pay God knows how much money for one of those).

And honestly, this is great. I shudder to think of a world where fucking Microsoft has a dominant position on gaming.
by username332211 | 2025-10-05 20:16:38+00:00
South Korea isn't some sort of backwards nation and I'm sure it's chaebols share the same culture.

Having had unfortunate encounters with government IT in other countries I can bet that the root cause wasn't the national culture. It was the internal culture of "I want to do the same exact same thing I've always done until the day I retire."

Absent outside pressure, civil services across the word tend advance scientifically - one funeral (or retirement) at a time.
by spookie | 2025-10-05 20:16:48+00:00
Well, while impressive I would like to see them do a second lap right after or try the Nürburgring (seems they have, way off pace versus ICE cars).

One thing many car channels are pointing out is that the car could've reached even better numbers looking at how easily it reached its record pace. I wonder if the bottleneck is the battery. Hell, it supposedly discharges at full power in 2 minutes.

(Edit: noting they did the ring)
Show HN: Early Shift – Detect trending Roblox mechanics 24-48h before saturation
by san10 | 2025-10-05 20:16:56+00:00
I built a system that monitors 500+ Roblox games and correlates CCU spikes with YouTube creator activity to detect trending game mechanics before they saturate the market.

How it works: - Polls CCU data via RoProxy (TOS-compliant) - Tracks top 20 Roblox YouTube creators - Detects when: CCU growth ≥25% + YouTube video mentions game + mechanic keyword match (NEW/UPDATE/SECRET) - Alerts studios via Notion

Tech: Python, DuckDB, aiohttp, RapidFuzz. ~600 lines of code.

Use case: Studios can clone trending mechanics before 20+ competitors do the same.

Example: Could have caught Pet Simulator X's merge mechanic 36h before it hit Popular page (hypothetical - system is new).

GitHub: https://github.com/SanchitSharma10/early-shift

Built this in 3 days to explore multi-agent architecture patterns. Roadmap includes BERT classification and multi-signal fusion (TikTok/Twitter).

Open to feedback on the approach!
by kaveh_h | 2025-10-05 20:17:03+00:00
Nice post, really relatable. It also feels like a management miss. If someone spends years modernizing and only finds out later it “doesn’t count,” that should have been clarified early on.

Tech debt work absolutely adds value, it just rarely gets measured or recognized. Maybe that is one reason so many companies struggle over time, they keep skipping payments on their tech debt interest.
by majormajor | 2025-10-05 20:18:32+00:00
If you're waiting for your manager to tell you "do X" before saying, "no, I won't do X, it's not valuable" you are still way behind for high-level promotions even on an individual-contributor track.

Figure out what is important to the business - and specifically, what's important to the business under you're manager's area of responsibility. Figure out and clearly articulate why. Sometimes this will be modernization (especially if there are ongoing costly outage, downtime, or compliance issues), sometimes it will be features (if your customers, stakeholders, and other devs aren't having big issues from tech debt. Proactively propose this to your manager, work collaboratively to build the roadmap. Your manager rarely has enough time to deep into the weeds on prioritization from a technical POV, so your input will be appreciated as long as (a) it's actually in line with business priorities in a way relevant to your manager, and (b) your manager isn't a paranoid psychopath who thinks you're undermining them or coming for their job.

But if your manager is a paranoid psychopath you've got bigger problems and you're not gonna finesse your way around them by declining tasks either.

You should also communicate your career goals and expectations - this might help you figure out "is my manager a psychopath" earlier rather than later too. A strong manager would've stopped you from spinning your wheels much earlier, in this scenario; but even a meh manager can help you climb the ladder if you're collaborative. Especially if they start to feel like you're key to their success too.
by leoh | 2025-10-05 20:18:39+00:00
I think this will get down-voted, but I appreciated this re-write from Claude 4.5 Sonnet as Christopher Hitchens. It really nails it:

Having spent no small amount of time among the denizens of Columbia's Comparative Literature program some fifteen years ago, I can report that I encountered there a concentration of joyless, defeated souls that would have impressed even Schopenhauer. These were not merely students wrestling with difficult texts—they were the living embodiment of institutional melancholia.

The faculty—and here one must mention the formidable Gayatri Spivak, whose theoretical contortions require a decoder ring even Enigma would envy—presided over this misery with what can only be described as active encouragement. The prevailing orthodoxy was one of reflexive anti-Western sentiment and a peculiar species of self-loathing anti-elitism, all while drawing salaries from one of the most elite Western institutions in existence. The contradiction, apparently, was not to be remarked upon.

Now, this matters because such attitudes don't merely demoralize students—they actively corrode the very institutional foundations that make humanistic inquiry possible. One might call it an exercise in sawing off the branch upon which one sits, except that this metaphor grants too much awareness of cause and effect.

Is it really so mysterious, then, that universities find themselves unable to justify continued investment in these programs? What we're witnessing is not the betrayal of "The Humanities" but rather the predictable consequences of having replaced them with something else entirely—a cargo cult version that retains the nomenclature while evacuating the content. One can hardly blame the institution for declining to fund its own negation indefinitely.
by lima | 2025-10-05 20:18:47+00:00
...on a single-zone persistent disk: https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/compute/15056#57195...

> GCE instances and Persistent Disks within a zone exist in a single Google datacenter and are therefore unavoidably vulnerable to datacenter-scale disasters.

Of course, it's perfectly possible to have proper distributed storage without using a cloud provider. It happens to be hard to implement correctly, so apparently, the SK government team in question just decided... not to?
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-10-05 20:19:20+00:00
This might happen at an api level in the sense that when deepseek was launched, and it was so overwhelmed and you were in the waiting line in their website

If your prompt had something like xi jinping needs it or something then it would've actually bypassed that restriction. Not sure if it was a glitch lol.

Now, regarding your comment. There is nothing to suggest that the same isn't happening in the "american" world which is getting extreme from within as well.

Like, If you are worried about this which might be reasonable and unreasonable at the same time, we have to discuss to find it out, then you can also believe that with the insane power that Trump is leveraging over AI companies, the same thing might happen over prompts which could somehow discover your political beliefs and then do the same...

This can actually be more undetected for american models because they are usually closed source and I am sure that someone would've detected something like this, whether from a whistleblower or something if something like this indeed happened in chinese open weights models generally speaking.

I don't think that there is a simple narrative like america good china bad, the world is changing and its becoming multi polar. Countries should think in their best interests and not be worried about annoying any of the world power if done respectfully. I think that in this world, every country should try to look for the perfect equibria for trust as the world / nations (america) can quickly turn into untrusted partners and it would be best for countries to move forward into a world where they don't have to worry about the politics in other countries.

I wish UN could've done a better job at this.
by beder | 2025-10-05 20:19:53+00:00
This is how I read it too. What's more, it looks like they're interested in going senior -> staff; at all Large Tech Companies, senior is a perfectly reasonable "terminal" role for a SWE, and many SWEs don't want to get promoted to staff. (Staff SWE is a different job from senior SWE; you might not want want to do that job, and that's typically fine.)

So I think the lesson here is wrong too - when the manager said

> These tasks aren’t business priorities and had no impact on customers and other teams

that didn't mean they were worthless tasks - just that they weren't business priorities and had no impact on customers or other teams. Which is probably true(ish - I would have phrased it very differently if I were their manager).

Improving the release process is great, and helps the team a ton - and indirectly helps customers by enabling the team to ship faster. This is incredibly valuable! And at the right scale, it can be a staff job: at my Large Tech Company, I know several people that have been promoted to staff SWE for this kind of work, but it's for systems that hundreds of SWEs work on. I also know people that have been promoted to senior SWE for this kind of work - these are systems that tens of SWEs work on. It sounds like this example was more like that - this person was doing a good senior SWE job, and the manager didn't see any reason to course correct given that they had given no signal they wanted to get promoted.
by Ekaros | 2025-10-05 20:19:56+00:00
When you start to do math, hard drive are cheap when you go for capacity and not performance.

0.00099*1000 is 0.99. So about 12$ a year. Now extrapolate something like 5 year period or 10 year period. And you get to 60 to 120$ for TB. Even at 3 to 5x redundancy those numbers start to add up.
by Frost1x | 2025-10-05 20:20:12+00:00
Having just visited South Korea last year, one thing that sort of caught me off guard was the lack of Google Maps or other major direction system. I wasn’t aware but turns out anything considered “detailed mapping” infrastructure has to be ran stored and on South Korean soil, probably lots of other requirements. So you’re stuck with some shotty local mapping systems that are just bad.

There may be a point in time it made sense but high resolution detailed satellite imagery is plenty accessible and someone could put a road and basically planning structure atop it, especially a foreign nation wishing to invade or whatever they’re protecting against.

Some argument may be made that it would be a heavy lift for North Korea but I don’t buy it, incredibly inconvenient for tourists for no obvious reason.
by mrandish | 2025-10-05 20:20:26+00:00
One thing worth mentioning as a possibly-contributing factor was that in the very early 90s a lot of the installed base of high-res (eg non-interlaced) color monitors where still digital RGB (RGBI) which were limited to 16 colors (and often just 8 colors in two intensities each). In many palettes the 8 base colors were black, white, red, green, blue, cyan, magenta and yellow. So, there weren't a lot of colors to choose from. CRTs had RGB primaries so cyan, magenta and yellow weren't generally as legible for single pixel width lines (ie text).

I also always assumed part of the choice of blue was that in many locales red, yellow and green have connotations of stop/alert, warning and go/okay (respectively) - whereas blue was relatively more agnostic. So... if you're targeting the widest installed base of displays, out of the lowest common denominator choices available blue was pretty much the obvious remaining choice.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-10-05 20:20:46+00:00
>Planning routes isn't exactly rocket science. There's not much to learn.

And people can't go that far to begin with. SThat's the scary part.

These little things we think of as insignificant add up and give us our ability to think. Change how we perceive and navigate (no pun intended) the world. Letting one or two of these factors rust probably won't cost us, but how far off are we really from the WALL-E future of we automate all our cognition, our spatial reasoning, and our curiosity?
by lolive | 2025-10-05 20:21:08+00:00
During a face2face with my n+2, he once told me « manage your manager ». I discovered later that he had been forced to hire my n+1 but did not like him at all. And that the message was basically: « he is a bozo whereas you a competent engineer. Don’t be fooled by the organization chart. »

So sometimes saying no to your n+1 is totally in line with your n+2 :)
by Forgeties79 | 2025-10-05 20:21:26+00:00
There’s a big difference between mistyping 1% of the time yourself (human error) and a calculator failing 1% of the time (machine error) and I am willing to bet there isn’t a company out there (maybe a handful of less scrupulous ones) that has knowingly shipped a calculator that got it wrong 1% of the time. Especially in previous decades when countless people were using a dedicated calculator dozens of times a day. Hard to imagine a 1% margin of error was acceptable.

Not to mention now you have the compounded problem of your mistakes plus the calculator’s mistakes.
by zh3 | 2025-10-05 20:21:33+00:00
It's down to the mount options, use 'soft' and the program trying to access the (inaccessible) server gets an error return after a while, or 'intr' if you want to be able to kill the hung process.

The caveat is a lot of software is written to assume things like fread(), fopen() etc will either quickly fail or work. However, if the file is over a network obviously things can go wrong so the common default behaviour is to wait for the server to come back online. Same issue applies to any other network filesystem, different OS's (and even the same OS with different configs) handle the situation differently.
by bloomca | 2025-10-05 20:21:55+00:00
Pretty much this. Even in topics I'm decently knowledgeable, I feel like the vibe from SO answers will be "just read the spec" or source code; so I usually was able to string other answers together.

With LLMs you can start with first principles, confirm basic knowledge (of course, it hallucinates but I find it's not that hard to verify things most of the time) or just get pointers where to dive deeper.
by mschuster91 | 2025-10-05 20:22:06+00:00
It's anecdata from layoff reports and whatever people see from their own employer / industry.

To add my two cents of anecdotes from what I can tell in the creative agency world: shit sucks hard at the moment. Clients are cutting back budgets hard and a lot of them explicitly ask for AI strategies - obviously in terms of saving money. Blockchain craze was similarly bad when it comes to client requests for stuff that Just Did Not Make Sense, but at least there was money pouring in. And it's that way across the industry, everyone I know feels the same. There's no money from clients that would pay for juniors, so no juniors are getting hired even if it might blow up in five, six years when there are no fresh juniors/intermediates around.

Personally, I decided to part ways. There's many places I want to be, but the creative industry when the AI bubble and hiring anti-bubble finally pops? Oh hell no.
by carbonguy | 2025-10-05 20:22:54+00:00
> What is the relation of this to studying humanities?

A fair question! Put briefly, I would say that studying the humanities would make one more aware of/able to comprehend situations involving others and their motivations (which is... most of them), with the example I gave being one situation that I figured would be more familiar to the crowd here at Hackernews.

> It just seems like another common example of people taking things they consider good and relating them to humanities.

It seems like that because it is like that :) In other words, I DO consider it good to have a broader view of situations that otherwise might be considered narrowly "technical" because I believe that understanding the human element as part of the situation helps me understand the situation (whatever it may be) way better. I relate it to "the humanities" because it IS related to the humanities.
by alwa | 2025-10-05 20:23:31+00:00
I mean… at the risk of misinterpreting sarcasm—

Except for the backup strategy said consumers apply to their data themselves, right?

If I use a service called “it is stored in a datacenter in Virginia” then I will not be surprised when the meteor that hits Virginia destroys my data. For that reason I might also store copies of important things using the “it is stored in a datacenter in Oregon” service or something.
by nathan_douglas | 2025-10-05 20:23:50+00:00
Oh hai Cameron!

I'm rebuilding my homelab [1] too, actually, but deprioritizing it while I stave off a wee spot o' burnout.

I'm excited to see that you're building on Talos; I am too! I used to use CoreOS back in the day, like 8-9 years ago or smth, on PXE-booted VMWare VMs, and I've always missed that cleanliness.

That's a large part of why I'm rebuilding right now - I based everything around Ansible + Terraform, and that's workable of course but working iteratively on a homelab leaves so much cruft around, can lead to incidental complexity, etc etc etc.

Anyway, I'm pumped to keep reading!

[1] https://clog.goldentooth.net/