MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by FreezerburnV | 2025-11-03 19:18:15+00:00
Location: Gambrills, MD Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Mostly no, but might for the right company in Japan. Technologies: Go/Golang, Bash, Python, Java, SQL, React, Javascript, Typescript, HTML/CSS, Markdown Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1h5p-KTaXRjFpv-5qXTlu5pk-YeQe96TN/view?usp=sharing Email: hnjobs@any.unlocked-doors.com

Hi, I'm Vincent, an engineer with 10+ years of experience working in all parts of the engineering stack. Most recently I've worked on the front end side of things and am specialized in using React professionally, but I'm quick to pick up new technologies as necessary. (personally I prefer Svelte when working on my own projects) Go and Typescript are my two favorite languages. I've consistently been told by my managers that I work fast or was one of the best engineers they had on their team.

Personally I'm looking for a job that I feel like actually has some kind of positive benefit on the world, or something that seems particularly challenging or interesting. This can range anywhere from a note-taking application to managing retirement funds to writing a Typescript to Go compiler to writing a new database. I'm not interested in one of the 5 million AI hype cycle jobs (partly because I dislike LLMs), and I actively hate the blockchain, ads, and tracking users. I do not, and will never, compromise on privacy issues.

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* I want to be able to come up with ideas I think would be useful/interesting and be given some time to work on them. I know that there are things I'm going to have to do for the business that aren't going to be these things, but I need some amount of time to do this or I'm going to struggle as a worker.

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by ptx2 | 2025-11-03 19:18:59+00:00
Location: USA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python, C, C++, JavaScript, TypeScript, Node, Ruby, Rails, Django, Express, React, PostgreSQL, Linux, Bash, AWS, HTML, CSS. Trying to find time to play with Go and Rust. Resume/CV: 15 years experience as a full-stack engineer (web, native, frontend/backend, firmware, devops). Contact for resume. Email: ptx2 at-sign ptx2 dot net

Product-minded full-stack engineer with 15 years experience.

Recent technical write-up and open-source project I made that reached #1 on HackerNews: https://ptx2.net/posts/unbricking-a-bike-with-a-raspberry-pi

Some things I've designed/built/launched/maintained professionally: high-traffic web frontend/backends, realtime interactive graphics apps, data visualizations, computer vision apps, firmware, reverse engineering, video/image processing, apis, api integrations (payments/social/data), distributed systems, linux sysadmin, refactoring/maintaining legacy systems, managing small engineering teams, remote work, customer facing work.

Some areas of interest: the outdoors, health and fitness, art, music, environment, games, human computer interaction, product design, ui/ux, embedded/iot devices, privacy, security, networking, optimization, unusual companies/products, web, linux.

Looking for interesting software engineer or tech co-founder/director/advisor opportunities!
by SR2Z | 2025-11-03 19:20:06+00:00
They are not allowed, but still commonly owned and used.

The law needs to catch up. There are clearly good reasons for people to want extremely powerful e-bikes and they should be allowed to. They can't be treated like bicycles because they're too fast but aren't nearly as dangerous as motorcycles. We need a new category for light motorcycles.

The real problem, IMO, is that the law is generally not deferential enough to cyclists and already forces them off sidewalks, onto the street, and to follow traffic laws designed for cars. There's not much else to take away, and the rules right now are unreasonable enough that cyclists always break them.

I think what I would like to see are explicit requirements for insurance and licensing for powerful e-bikes, but made significantly cheaper so that people will actually bother. Requiring helmets for the insurance would also make it much more straightforward. We can require them to take the street or a dedicated bike lane and fully mandate that they have to be walked on sidewalks.
by mhuffman | 2025-11-03 19:20:07+00:00
I like lucene and have used it for many years, but sometimes a conceptually close match is what you want. Lucene and friends are fantastic about word matching, fuzzy searches, stem searches, phonetic searches, faceting and more but have nothing for conceptually or semantically close searches (I understand that they recently added new document vector searches). Also vector searches usually always return something which is not ideal in a lot of cases. I like Reciprocal Rank Fusion myself as it gives the best of both worlds. As a fun trick I use duckdb to do RRF with 5million+ documents and get low double-digit ms response time even under load
by jjcm | 2025-11-03 19:20:36+00:00
So much of the debate of whether AI can think or not reminds me of this scene from The Next Generation: https://youtu.be/ol2WP0hc0NY

LLMs hit two out of the three criteria already - self awareness and intelligence, but we're in a similar state where defining consciousness is such a blurry metric. I feel like it wont be a binary thing, it'll be a group decision by humanity. I think it will happen in the next decade or two, and regardless of the outcome I'm excited I'll be alive to see it. It'll be such a monumentous achievement by humanity. It will drastically change our perspective on who we are and what our role is in the universe, especially if this new life form surpasses us.
by mtharrison | 2025-11-03 19:20:39+00:00
Maybe dumb question but how do I just take a sat image and create the scene? The scripts in the repo are all about training which I assume requires you to have the 3d data too.

These sort of projects always look cool but I think the real "wow factor" would be a file upload where you can see the result on your image. I assume there are reasons why this isn't done.
by ivape | 2025-11-03 19:21:00+00:00
Google is under existential threat. In that case, OpenAI has a very legitimate trillion dollar case for carving out a piece of Google.

Search engines were never a user friendly app to begin with. You had to know how to search well to get comprehensive answers, and the average person is not that scrupulous. Google’s product is inferior, believe it or not. There will be nothing normal about seeing a list of search results pretty soon, so Google literally has a legacy app out in the wild as far as facts are concerned.

So imagine that, Google would have to remove Search as they know it (remove their core business) and standup a app that looks the same as all the new apps.

People might like one AI persona more than others, which means people will seek out all types of new apps. LLMs is the worst thing that could have ever happened to Google quite frankly.
by nedervino | 2025-11-03 19:21:06+00:00
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by amarant | 2025-11-03 19:21:14+00:00
solve simple maths problems, for example the kind found in the game 4=10 [1]

Doesn't necessarily have to reliably solve them, some of them are quite difficult, but llms are just comically bad at this kind of thing.

Any kind of novel-ish(can't just find the answers in the training-data) logic puzzle like this is, in my opinion, a fairly good benchmark for "thinking".

Until a llm can compete with a 10 year old child in this kind of task, I'd argue that it's not yet "thinking". A thinking computer ought to be at least that good at maths after all.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.fourequals...
by IshKebab | 2025-11-03 19:21:21+00:00
There is though - the ssh authentication and connection is already handled, and I'm already in a terminal. When I quit the app or session I'm back in the terminal.

If it worked it would greatly reduce the hassle.

Think about all the TUI apps that exist. They're useful because they're convenient when working in a terminal, not because they look like shit.
by jonway | 2025-11-03 19:21:23+00:00
It is if you look at a map and conclude the terrain is flat. It is a nightmare for any military. This is a funny chortle, I geddit, but if we're to take this at face value:

Alexander the Great's army was garbage. He managed barely by marrying a local noblewoman after a long and frustrating campaign. He had the benefit of not being on the opposite side of the planet. America had to fly over Iran to get there. Super easy.

The British were garbage. The first Anglo-Afghan war went .... poorly. They had the same experience as the US forces. The second Anglo-Afghan war went great! They defeated the Afghan army! A few months later they lost Kabul, their forces collapsed immediately, being slaughtered again by Afghanis. They reinvaded, failed, and retreated. They would have totally won if they had an air force.

The Soviet military was garbage. They struggled for a decade to prop up their own government there. (Sound familiar yet?)

There was a third Anglo-Afghan war. This time the British won handily. Just kidding, they failed yet again, like everyone else.

This is like me telling you: "If you're so smart, why aren't you a billionaire?" Well, that isn't how it works, is it?
by WorldMaker | 2025-11-03 19:21:38+00:00
Related advice, in any repo where merge commits represent integration points (such as PRs must build and pass CI tests before merging and PRs produce merge commits) you can use `git bisect --first-parent` to just bisect your high-level merge commits which you know should build. Often knowing "which PR introduced this bug" is as handy as knowing which commit did it. But once you find the PR merge commit you can also run a quick second bisect on just that branch to find the lower level commit.
by alkh | 2025-11-03 19:21:55+00:00
I have been pretty happy with Alacritty for a while but just tried Ghostty and am a little bit mind-blown. The fact that it has a built-in theme picker is insanely convenient for people working on multiple computers at the same time(so the same theme might not work everywhere).

Overall, it literally looks like a better Alacritty alternative. The creator(s) did a great job!
by cyrusradfar | 2025-11-03 19:22:09+00:00
I think the challenge with many of these conversations is that they assume consciousness emerges through purely mechanical means.

The “brain as a computer” metaphor has been useful in limited contexts—especially for modeling memory or signal processing; but, I don’t think it helps us move forward when talking about consciousness itself.

Penrose and Hameroff’s quantum consciousness hypothesis, while still very speculative, is interesting precisely because it suggests that consciousness may arise from phenomena beyond classical computation. If that turns out to be true, it would also mean today’s machines—no matter how advanced—aren’t on a path to genuine consciousness.

That said, AI doesn’t need to think to be transformative.

Steam engines weren’t conscious either, yet they reshaped civilization.

Likewise, AI and robotics can bring enormous value without ever approaching human-level awareness.

We can hold both ideas at once: that machines may never be conscious, and still profoundly useful.
by threatofrain | 2025-11-03 19:22:12+00:00
One of the secret traps of Kafka is that it tried to be a collection of nice primitives without that much built on top. So the Fortune 500 story of Kafka is actually one of everyone building on top of Kafka internally with a bigger team. If you weren't prepared to do a little building on top of Kafka you might find the ecosystem a little empty.

But with PSQL you have even less built on top for a use case it wasn't meant for. Now you are in the "you better know what you're doing" territory.
by distances | 2025-11-03 19:22:27+00:00
> The biggest issue is the lack of an official graphical installer, but while the install process is intimidating, it's not very difficult for people who are patient, can follow detailed instructions, and have a vague idea of what a partition and a bootloader is.

I think this is one of the main reasons CachyOS has been on such an upward trajectory. It's mostly Arch, but that installation was such a breeze. A couple of clicks and done.
by carlosjobim | 2025-11-03 19:22:27+00:00
I would suppose so. Supermarkets in both Europe and America have made gigantic improvements in just the last 7 years in variety and quality of products they offer. Most people haven't noticed since it's a constant and accumulating process, but you find much more stuff today in the supermarket than what you used to. And the reason is partly from greatly improved logistics and distribution.
by stuffn | 2025-11-03 19:22:31+00:00
I think you vastly underestimate what "skinny vegan teenagers in black clothes" are capable of to an almost comically ignorant level. Not only is it a complete misrepresentation of the average "antifa-er" it also mischaracterizes them (perhaps deliberately) as an incapable force.

You would probably benefit from reading about the link between prominent activists in these circles, and for example, the sandanistas and other violent socialist/communist groups. Or the link to the USSR via the DDR where antifa as we know it came to be. The black bloc is a clear and present danger to the citizenry in the same respect as the paramilitary you refer to.
by JCBird1012 | 2025-11-03 19:22:39+00:00
CarPlay and Android Auto were engineered from the start to be as agnostic to the car's hardware as possible. Your car's stereo is really just a dumb screen (i.e. just a display and input/output interface) with the phone doing most of the rendering + a few other things (i.e. providing some car instrumentation, like fuel remaining, if the manufacturer enables it) - the hardware requirements aren't really strict from a performance standpoint (minus CarPlay Ultra, and even then, that's just a tighter integration).
by locknitpicker | 2025-11-03 19:22:41+00:00
> Post requests aren't really meant for repeatable stuff though.

That's simply wrong. Things like GraphQL beg to differ. Anyone can scream this until they are red in the face but the need to cache responses from non-GET requests is pervasive. I mean, if it wasn't then why do you think Cloudflare recommends hacks to get around them?

https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/examples/cache-pos...

Your blend of argument might have had a theoretical leg to stand on if Cloudflare didn't went out of it's way to put together official examples on how to cache POST requests.
by mc32 | 2025-11-03 19:22:41+00:00
Not only the right. Remember there were two or three actual attempts on the candidate for the presidency and one of their influencers was shot dead. Plus you have outburst from Maxine, ol’ Joe miss Occasionally Cortez and others calling for people to take to the streets and to take up violence… sorry but it’s both doing this. Calling anlmost any conservative who isn’t a Neocon a neo nazi doesn’t help quell things either.
by tseropian | 2025-11-03 19:23:23+00:00
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by sbysb | 2025-11-03 19:23:24+00:00
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by kstrauser | 2025-11-03 19:23:25+00:00
But... which side is being more rational?

I was hired at a shop who had a large, complex Visual FoxPro application they'd developed in house. They brought me in to write a web interface for it, which I did in Python because there was, thankfully, no Visual FoxPro for Web Apps.

I contented that they needed to start a rewrite in something else ASAP. VFP wasn't going to get more supported as time went on. On the other hand, it was a large, working app, and the pushback was "yeah, someday, but for now we're using it to drive the company".

The discussions were always calm, measured, and conducted by adults. We didn't shout or scream at each other, or anything like that. Both sides had reasonable and compelling arguments to support their viewpoint. But from my POV, staying with the VFP app, with the looming deprecation warnings on the calendar, was insanity. Their point was that rewriting the entire, working app from scratch was also insanity.

It's not like a team wanted to rewrite it in PHP, which we can all at least agree would be madness.
by gf000 | 2025-11-03 19:23:37+00:00
Well, if you were to magically make an exact replica of a person, wouldn't it be conscious and at time 0 be the same person?

But later on, he would get different experiences and become a different person no longer identical to the first.

In extension, I would argue that magically "translating" a person to another medium (e.g. a chip) would still make for the same person, initially.

Though the word "magic" does a lot of work here.
by catapart | 2025-11-03 19:23:50+00:00
Oh, sweet! This is an awesome-looking app! The tree-view of the discussion subjects or threads is pretty inspired. I really like that idea, especially as a way to moderate a thread that is purely managerial, rather than punitive or rewarding. Of course, it would be great if a discussion could always be efficiently branched by the participants in real time, but I imagine any good "posterity" thread would benefit from some maintenance. In any case, it's something I hadn't really considered before. Cool stuff!

I mean, the whole app is pretty impressive. It's clear, from the blog posts, that we're of like minds when it comes to the "good parts" of the internet and what makes the "bad" parts so frustrating. If I used Discord more this might mean more, but I'm pretty satisfied to swap out my Discord usage for Mikoto platforms. Seems like a win to me, at least.

All that said, I am still left a bit unsatisfied as far as a social media replacement. A "chat" presentation eschews the kind of "press release" posts that social media accommodates well for creatives. At the very least, I wouldn't feel "normal" posting announcements that didn't necessarily expect follow up engagement in a chat-style environment. Posting "here's this new thing I did" on a social media feed without any follow up is...lonely, but not particularly uncommon. But posting the same thing to an empty or unresponsive chat room is...somehow sadder? To me at least.
by Tadpole9181 | 2025-11-03 19:23:52+00:00
To be fair, Erdogen is a literal boots-on-neck dictator and this entire spectacle is just another distraction / demonstration of political capita he is using to cling to power.

Nor does it even make sense. All languages have names for countries, that are not the true names of those countries. Its normal. Especially when Turkey's desired diacritics can't even be typed on our keyboards. Is it reasonable for Israel to say we must type the name with Hebrew characters? And suddenly we have to guess WTF news agencies are talking about.

The point of languages is to be understood, this is making it harder to understand to appease some authoritarian loser.

If Turkey were offensive, that's one thing. But it's not and there's no reason for it.