MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rob74 | 2025-10-21 15:32:58+00:00
It represents how well optimized the exploitation of the warehouse workers is - extract maximum amount of work from employee while paying them as little as possible. And once the "cobots" (robots that work alongside humans) come along, they will feel even more like a cog in the great Amazon machine, until they probably quit on their own rather than waiting for their turn to be replaced...
by pmc00 | 2025-10-21 15:33:14+00:00
Fair point on latency, we (Azure AI Search) target both scenarios with different features. For instant search you can just do the usual hybrid + rerank combo, or if you want query rewriting to improve user queries, you can enable QR at a moderate latency hit. We evaluated this approach at length here: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-bl...

Of course, agentic retrieval is just better quality-wise for a broader set of scenarios, usual quality-latency trade-off.

We don't do SPLADE today. We've explored it and may get back to it at some point, but we ended up investing more on reranking to boost precision, we've found we have fewer challenges on the recall side.
by danudey | 2025-10-21 15:33:35+00:00
There's an article about it: https://archive.is/fPAlB

Walmart executives seem to claim that the pay raise led to those outcomes; specifically, they talked to employees and realized that in order to get those outcomes they had to stop paying people the least they possibly could because why would anyone stay?

From the article:

> Rissa Pittman, then a store manager in Ponca City, Okla., said it was easier to staff her store after 2015 as wages improved and it became easier to train workers for promotions.
by CrackerNews | 2025-10-21 15:33:58+00:00
Software jobs replaced administrative white collar jobs where instead of the bureaucracy being human interaction and paper forms, it is computerized and encoded in malleable and evolving code.

Sales underwent consolidation where the same human interactions scaled to bigger deals. Customer service was outsourced. Marketing still remains a mysticism with no clear evidence of a return on investment.

This news topic is also a thinly veiled replacement outsourcing. The engineers involved will replace these roles. When the robots fail, it will most likely have foreign pilots taking control.

The barrier to entry only gets higher, and the people left behind are stuck in a donut hole.
Show HN: An Audible alternative for classic audiobooks
by jspizziri | 2025-10-21 15:34:25+00:00
I spent the last 1yr+ building an audiobook streaming service that focuses on timeless classic works in the public domain.

One thing I'm especially proud of is the restoration I did on the "War of the Worlds" 1938 Radio broadcast. I'm really happy with how it turned out. I've made it temporarily free (no login required or anything untoward) to listen to [1] in case anyone is curious. You should compare it with the original [2] and let me know what you think. I find the actual broadcast super engaging and enjoyable.

I've done everything from building the app to the audio engineering. A lot of learning involved as my background is on the software side, not marketing, audio engineering, etc.

A lot of the initial catalog is stuff that I've sourced from Librivox [3] (legends), but I've done a lot of curation, clean up, editing, mastering, and packaging to make it more enjoyable. There's also some original audiobooks too, and more should be landing each month (they're expensive and time consuming to produce with real humans and AI isn't quite there yet IMHO).

It's at a point now where I think it's ready enough to release it to the public.

I'd love any constructive feedback (audio quality, UX, concept, etc) that anyone would be willing to provide. Finally, some of the things that are unique:

1) Subscribers vote on what content we produce next (new content monthly is the plan). 2) 3 referrals = a free subscription 3) A "lifetime" option (possibly naive, but it's what I want as a consumer)

Anyways, if you even read to this point I appreciate it!

[1] https://app.soundreads.io/discover/item/war-of-the-worlds [2] https://archive.org/details/WarOfTheWorlds1938RadioBroadcast... [3] https://librivox.org/
by atomicnumber3 | 2025-10-21 15:34:42+00:00
Do you have AD(H)D?

I clearly have some kind of thing in that spectrum, though I never pursued a diagnosis because I don't really want or need to take medicine for it.

But I have noticed I am NOT relating to anyone in this thread, or the OP, about the effects of caffeine. Yours is the closest, being under-whelmed by the effects of caffeine.

I don't NEED it in the mornings, it doesn't keep me up at night (I can have an espresso shot after a steak dinner at 8pm and still sleep fine), I don't get headaches from skipping a day, and it doesn't make me feel wired at all. What I do notice is that I really enjoy the flavor, and I do find that I feel "braced" if that makes sense. Which might just mean maybe I should get diagnosed and adderall would indeed help me.
by everlier | 2025-10-21 15:35:09+00:00
I can't wrap my head around possible yields, as the method relies on diamond crystals forming in the heat-conducting pillars within the chip, so if the process less than perfect - it can be a source of delayed failure from termal issues within the chip. It also look like a heat-conducting grid would further decrease usable space and the whole wafer needs to be designed around it.

That said, mentioned temperature gains are absolutely and utterly insane even if they come with some high-frequency issues.
by IAmBroom | 2025-10-21 15:35:41+00:00
I raised my last dog on a raw meat, bones, and organs diet. His poops were much smaller, less smelly, and broke down much faster (compared to spells where I had him on regular dog food).

In fact, I could tell what he'd eaten by smelling his poop, not that I did that intentionally... "Yep, that's chicken all right!" Ironically, it wasn't smellier when the food was "spoiled" (by my standards, "greatly improved with aging" was his take).

My point is only: we've accidentally engineered their food for maximum disgustingness on egress.
by the__alchemist | 2025-10-21 15:36:11+00:00
I'm very interested in this class of approximations on consumer hardware from a different perspective: Simulating (simple) biological systems and organic molecules. Background: I'm building out the rust structural bio OSS ecosystem, and a GUI/3D CAD-style visualizer. It has molecular dynamics integrated tightly, and is designed to "just work" without fuss, setup, or errors.

The problem: It is reliant on atom-centered partial charge, and pre-calculated parameters for its Newtonian forces. These are available for a set of 30k or so organic molecules, and most protein, lipid, and nucleic acid configurations. The problems: Making it work for arbitrary systems, and doing better than these specifically-tuned models. I want the general case, and it to work in a no-fuss way.

I am now looking into the TWA, and am interested in this class of approximation in general. I have the UI and traditional MD system mostly ready; getting ready to tackle this problem. This is a much simpler setup than the ones physicists are interested, and that the article covers, since we can focus on stable covalent-bonded systems of atoms.
Show HN: We tried to build a job board that isn't awful
by tompccs | 2025-10-21 15:36:17+00:00
Hi HN,

We’re definitely not the first to realise there’s something seriously wrong with how hiring and job-seeking works today. Zero-cost communication and LLMs have created so much noise that good candidates can’t get heard, and it becomes all too tempting to game the system with keywords and prompt-hacking.

In fact we discovered that 70% of early stage AI startups don't post their jobs on LinkedIn. Instead, many founders hire exclusively within their network, which works at the start but doesn’t scale.

We thought a lot about this problem, and pivoted through a few ideas including an AI voice agent recruiter. We even spent some time trying to be conventional tech recruiters to better understand the problem space.

And in the end we built...a job board.

But we think there are a few things that make ours different:

- We decided to not put barriers between the user and the data. You can search, filter or browse however you like from the minute you sign up. Zero onboarding

- We wanted to nail one niche, so we focused on surfacing opportunities at early-stage AI companies (over 30,000 jobs at 24,000 companies)

- You can navigate it using keyboard shortcuts!

- We built a voice agent, Nell, who conducts a technical recruiter call with you through your browser and immediately finds matches, the way a well-connected friend who knows you well would

- When you tell us you’re interested in a role, we make a best effort to connect you to founders directly, along with your profile, so no cover letters, no pointless forms

- We enriched jobs data with investor-grade intelligence - you can look at same data that VCs use to decide whether a startup is worth joining or not

Give it a try and let us know what you think: https://teeming.ai
by user_7832 | 2025-10-21 15:36:34+00:00
Slightly tangential, I find the lack of a "proper" way of organizing data across multiple devices frankly terrible. KDE connect is nice, but it's a bandaid patch. Airdrop between your devices is the same. Apple wants you to store everything on iCloud... which isn't terrible, as long as everything syncs fast enough, you can pay, and you're not without internet (an issue even in urban areas like for eg on the subway).

Modern devices have just "grown", your phone with its 2FA app is also a source of identity, yet the boundaries between a tool to be used, a computer to "work on" (even an SMS to your boss counts as work for me!), and a "fundamental part of your life" - whether by you or by a megacorp (see: notifications! Mindless scrolling on the social media of your choice!) - are all blurred.
by username223 | 2025-10-21 15:37:10+00:00
That and how smooth the customization curve is, from tweaking settings, to recording keyboard macros, to writing small helper functions, to creating whole packages. Compare that to something like Eclipse or IntelliJ, where there's a huge gap between changing settings and creating plugins. It's a sweet spot between semi-configurable text editors and full-blown "living ball of mud" systems like Lisp and Smalltalk.
by cdmckay | 2025-10-21 15:37:14+00:00
Crypto doesn't solve any of the actual problems here.

These kids can't access any services because they don't legally exist in government systems. No birth certificate means no school enrollment, no healthcare, no social grants.

You think a 15-year-old footballer who can't play in tournaments because he has no birth certificate is going to be helped by Bitcoin?

What school is letting them enroll because they have a hardware wallet?

This is a civil administration problem that needs government solutions: streamlined processes, digital systems, reduced fees, and political will.
by jimbo808 | 2025-10-21 15:37:38+00:00
No serious person is predicting that. There are a few categories of person who are making those predictions:

- AI CEOs, who require hype to be able to keep hemorrhaging money long enough to... hemorrhage more money

- The poor AI researchers the AI CEOs drag into public to lie in support of their narrative

- People who are not close to the tech, but who are influential in poltiics, finance, podcasts, etc who are wholly convinced by the grifters above - they did a little bit of poking around and saw some smart looking regurgitated boilerplate

- Grifter influencers, entrepreneurs, etc who don't care, they just want to push AI doom or vibe coding dreams for clicks, or sell some shitty AI solutions to companies eager to get in on the hype

The people you don't hear from are the AI researchers who know most of this is bullshit, but they aren't going to go on the record publicly expressing that they don't believe in the tech they're working on, because they like to be employed (and for absurd amounts of money)
by baron816 | 2025-10-21 15:37:40+00:00
Have you ever worked in a manufacturing job? Surveys have shown that people are much happier, on average, with their service jobs than they were in the past when manufacturing was more prevalent. That's because factory work involves doing dangerous, repetitive, mind numbing work in a loud, often overcrowded, odorous, and hot space. It's a meme that everyone wants to bring back manufacturing jobs, but no one actually wants to work in manufacturing. People want cozy office jobs.
by ferguess_k | 2025-10-21 15:38:05+00:00
I have to quote one of the comments:

> "Hopefully today will serve as a massive wake-up call for AWS"

I wouldn't hold your breath. There will be incident reviews, meetings, assessments, analysis etc. but basically boil down to what can we do to stop this from happening again without actually spending any more money. So no, not hiring fresh talent or retaining that talent already in play, no to radical overhaul of process and knowledge. No to remediation of known issues if it involves expenditure. Instead it will be do more with less. Beat the employees harder, enforce more and more diligence and output from less and less people for the same or less money. Spin it like mad with catchy titles like knowledge sharing, centers of excellence, efficiency improvement initiatives, agile resilience, and continuous operational excellence.

There’ll be shiny PowerPoint decks about empowering ownership and shifting left, while the remaining engineers are shifting caffeine straight into their bloodstream at 3 a.m.

Next quarter, they’ll unveil a bold new policy called Focus Fridays which will be promptly filled with mandatory incident retrospectives. Someone will suggest replacing ancient tooling, only to be told, “We’ll revisit that next fiscal year,” which is code for never.

Then come the internal awards: “Unsung Hero of the Outage” goes to the one poor sod who rebooted the wrong thing but accidentally fixed it.

HR will roll out a “Resilience Recognition” badge on the intranet. This will be marketed with great fanfare and excitement, showcasing how the company truly values it's employees and recognized their contribution because badges are cheap. Leadership will congratulate themselves for “learning from adversity,” and by the time the next blackout happens, they’ll have a snazzy new dashboard to watch it fail in real time along side their investment portfolio dashboard that takes up a greater fraction of their attention.

But don’t worry!!!! There’ll be a T-shirt. “I survived the 2025 AWS outage.” Comes in gray. Just like morale. If it wasn't for the negative impacts on the employees and customers the word Schadenfreude would be very applicable.

And it's a sad indictment on current management practices and in particular the MBA brigade* that this is all by design, acceptable losses on the alter of profit, albeit short-term profit. Efficiency theatre as far as the eye can see.

*Yes, the same people who think Jack Welch was a misunderstood visionary rather than the spiritual father of mass layoffs, short-termism, and shareholder-value human sacrifices. The kind who see burnout as a KPI and chaos as a “scaling opportunity.”

Next they’ll launch a “Transformation Task Force” whose primary transformation will be renaming the same broken process from post-mortem to value realization review. A new acronym, a new logo, and boom, problem solved at a low low cost, honest, the consultants said so. Until the next outage, at which point someone will quote Sun Tzu in Slack.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-10-21 15:38:08+00:00
Despite the strength of marketing, "DIY" is sometimes more reliable than "pay fees to so-called "tech" company"" and subject oneself to possibility of telemetry, data collection, surveillance and targeted advertising. But every user is different

For recreational internet use, I use yy025 + TCP client + TLS proxy. No fees, no telemetry, no BS. I can select from a long list of TCP clients in this setup, e.g., original netcat, tcploop, tcpclient, socat, etc., as well as a variety of TLS proxies, e.g., tinyproxy+stunnel, haproxy, etc. I can modify the source of all the programs and can do more than is possible if using an "HTTP client", e.g., curl

Of course I am not testing "web apps" for a commercial enterprise. Nor do I use a so-called "modern", graphical browser. I retrieve data without a browser. Since I use HTTP every day in textmode it is "interesting"^1 to see software that somehow commercialises similar HTTP use, e.g., Postman, Burp, etc.

1. For example, https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/postman-valuation-2-bill...
by Windchaser | 2025-10-21 15:38:19+00:00
> It's virtually impossible to model something with an impossible amount of unknown inputs.

Nah. We have a pretty good idea of what the main unknowns in climate are, and they have an associated uncertainty range. Yes, it's a lot of work to model such systems with a useful level of accuracy, but "a lot of work" is very far from "virtually impossible". ?

If the climate was that unpredictable, then the Earth would be uninhabitable.

(FWIW, I do computational modeling for work - not in climate, though - and you would not believe how much misinformation there is about modeling from conservatives)
by payneio | 2025-10-21 15:38:24+00:00
Yes. Please read it. I'm looking for collaborators. The links in this article point to recent work on Wild Cloud so you can see where it's currently at.

Wild Cloud will is a network appliance that will let you set up a k8s cluster of Talos machines and deploy apps curated apps to it. It's meant to make self-hosting more accessible, which, yes, I think can help solve a lot of data sovereignty issues.

I'm not sure what you mean by "barely programs"
by aeonik | 2025-10-21 15:38:26+00:00
Reminds me of this paper:

"Oxygen-assisted monodisperse transition-metal-atom-induced graphite phase transformation to diamond: a first-principles calculation study"

I think it's pay-walled unfortunately. https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2024/ta/d4ta0...
by BizarroLand | 2025-10-21 15:38:30+00:00
It's important to note in the midst of all of this self revelation that there are undoubtedly tens or hundreds of people all around you who have been saying what you're just now figuring out for years.

If in the future you encounter many people mentioning the qualities of a thing, it might be a good idea to consider the wisdom of the crowd.
by dathinab | 2025-10-21 15:38:33+00:00
yes POSIX threads, i.e. user-space threads

I think you have a very strange definition of "user-space", "kernel-space".

kernel space is what runs _in_ the kernel, it doesn't involve pthreads (on any OS) and uses kthreads (on Linux).

POSIX threads are user space threads. It doesn't matter that they are scheduled by the kernel, that is the norm for threads in user space. Also know as OS threads.

What you probably mean with user-space threads are green threads. Which are build on one or more OS threads but have an additional scheduling layer which can schedule multiple green threads on one OS thread using some form of multiplexing scheme.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-21 15:39:11+00:00
> in the original schedule on HLS Starship was supposed to have done the prop transfer in Q4 2022, an uncrewed lunar landing in Q1 2024, and the actual thing in Q1 2025

Now do Orion and ML2.

Artemis is behind schedule. Nobody debates that. Currently, the bottleneck is with Orion. SpaceX just massively de-risked the Starship platform with IFT-11. If IFT-12 validates Block 3, we should wait until the end of 2026 before trying to revëvaluate.
by hello_moto | 2025-10-21 15:39:33+00:00
> How realistic is this plan that is the question.

FTA:

Amazon has considered steps to improve its image as a “good corporate citizen” in preparation for the anticipated backlash around job losses, according to The NYT, reporting that the company considered participating in community projects and avoiding terms like “automation” and “AI.” More vague terms like “advanced technology” were explored instead, and using the term “cobot” for robots that work alongside humans.
by vacuity | 2025-10-21 15:39:52+00:00
Haven't read that before, but nicely read. I've had related thoughts on this, and I agree. I like the quote "keep an open mind, but not so open that your brain falls out". Alternatively, change always comes, so be adaptable to change and face it head on. It's not clear how to divorce what I like from my identity, because I'm not a perfect automaton, but I try to minimize its influence and appreciate that we're all the same, standing in different places.
by CaptainOfCoit | 2025-10-21 15:40:16+00:00
FWIW, I moved to a European country about 20 years ago. The first 10 years I thought everything was fine, but once I was applying for something, they said that it seemed like I never actually properly entered the system, but had just began. Most public services worked alright regardless. Cue some confusion for a while, and some filled forms later, and I finally got legally approved and finalized to actually stay, ten years after I initially arrived.

Bureaucracy can be crazy at times, and sometimes it seems like data just gets lost, for whatever reason.
by fuzzfactor | 2025-10-21 15:41:23+00:00
What a coincidence :)

Friday night I'm going to help move equipment for my good friends in Benign Pestilence.

They're opening for Barnyard Inoculations at the newly remodeled Allergen Aerator.

And the big headliner of the night is of course, Miasma.

Just back from the world tour.

It's going to be a deathly Metal night !
by alexpotato | 2025-10-21 15:41:59+00:00
Isn't there a similar mechanism but for the case where you lost ALL of your documents e.g. in a house fire.

IIRC, you need a couple of people to sign affidavits that affirm you are who you say you are. That's the start of the "paper trail" and then you start rebuilding your document pool.

Getting married and changing your last name is similar (although with fewer documents etc).
by Flamingoat | 2025-10-21 15:42:32+00:00
I probably see a lot more than other people since I spent a good few years doing pixel perfect web dev.

I am not being hyperbolic when I say that I can see a pixel out of place on a webpage on the other side of the room.

https://kde.org/content/home/main.jpg

This is a screenshot from their site. Just in this screenshot I see the following:

1) there is an horrendous text shadow effect on the text under the "Home" desktop icon in the top left.

2) Clock text is too large compared to the rest of the interface, especially the icons next to it.

3) Trash Icon looks like out of place compared to the other icons.

4) Drop shadow effect on the window and the start menu thing. It kinda too dark really.

5) Every single gap between interface elements seems different and off. The icon sizes seem a bit all over the place.

6) There is a gradient on the window title bar and rounded corners. Cinnamon does this as well. I dunno it is very Window XP Luna (which I never liked).

7) The window control icons look off to me and don't fit in with the rest of the interface IMO.

A lot of this I appreciate can be probably be changed. But that is how it comes OOTB if it is an official screenshot. It feels like a Windows Vista ripoff.

Generally I find KDE lacks "taste". None of the Linux GUIs are that great tbh. People put up fancy screenshots, but I guarantee the moment the windows are arranged in any other way it looks not so great.
by philistine | 2025-10-21 15:42:36+00:00
If you're talking about a gas engine, you're missing the complexities because they've been with us for a century.

If you don't change the oil regularly, the car breaks down. If you leave old gas in the tank for a year, the car won't start. If you don't change the filters, the car eventually breaks down. If you don't change the belt after its admittedly long life, the car breaks down.

You swap all that for the need to keep the car's battery somewhat full to maintain a constant temperature in the battery bay. You don't do that, the car does it on its own. Just plug the car to recharge the battery somewhat frequently, dependent on your weather.