MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by iliketrains | 2025-11-03 16:48:04+00:00
MaFi Games | Senior SWE/Game dev | Contract preferred | Remote | C#

Hi, I’m the co-founder of MaFi Games – an indie studio behind the game Captain of Industry. We are a small but passionate team who gave up their jobs at Google and Nvidia to pursue building the best factory simulation game possible, and we need more hands!

We are looking for an experienced software engineer to grow the team and accelerate our progress. We strongly prefer candidates with a background in game development, experience with 3D graphics, and performance optimizations.

Some reasons you’d enjoy working with us:

* A multicultural, collaborative, and innovative work environment where your voice is heard.

* Fully remote job with flexible working hours and vacation schedule.

* Long-term full-time collaboration (not a fixed-term contract).

* High quality C# code base, code reviews, tests.

* High work satisfaction, work on a popular video game with a wonderful community.

* No bureaucracy, 1 regular meeting per week.

As an example of our technical work see https://www.captain-of-industry.com/post/cd-31. We also have a unique signal-free train system: https://www.captain-of-industry.com/post/cd-46

If interested, please see the detailed info,requirements, and application instructions at https://www.captain-of-industry.com/jobs, thanks!

Note: We are also looking for a 2D game UI/UX designer and a SFX artist.
by lxgr | 2025-11-03 16:48:34+00:00
Yes, please!

And while we're at it: Just surface the fact that connectivity sucks to applications (maybe even at the socket layer, by just closing them if there's not been any forward progress for a certain time), rather than showing me loading screens that'll never go anywhere for minutes.

This would give apps that do have some offline caching the chance of falling back to that (looking at a certain green music streaming service here).
Show HN: Weak Incentives – lean, minimalistic toolkit for background agents
by andreisavu | 2025-11-03 16:48:37+00:00
A minimal, typed scaffold for agents: deterministic prompts, strict JSON, and a session that records plans, tool calls, and staged edits—so you can replay runs and ship audit logs.

* Deterministic Markdown prompt trees (dataclass input/output, tool contracts)

* On‑disk overrides with hash checks; Git‑root discovery

* Event bus (ToolInvoked/PromptExecuted), reducers, rollbackable session state

* Built‑ins: planning, sandboxed VFS, Python‑eval (via asteval)

* Optional adapters: OpenAI/LiteLLM conversation loop + JSON‑Schema outputs
by t_mann | 2025-11-03 16:48:37+00:00
Copyparty can't (and doesn't want to) replace Nextcloud for many use cases because it supports one-way sync only. The readme is pretty clear about that. I'm toying with the idea of combining it with Syncthing (for all those devices where I don't want to do a full sync), does anybody have experience with that? I've seen some posts that it can lead to extreme CPU usage when combined with other tools that read/write/index the same folders, but nothing specifically about Syncthing.
by flumpcakes | 2025-11-03 16:48:48+00:00
From my direct experience, even the Russel group universities are in a dire financial situation. At least that's the top down message, again being positive in cash for many years and owning property to me would be a good position but I have first hand knowledge of Russel group universities cutting staff/roles/courses and going after the foreign students as much as they can.

Some of this is their own making - for example the 'highly respected' universities not doing clearing so when their intake is lower than expected they don't top that up with 2nd choices.

Schools are now competing within universities to win student retention so their numbers don't look as bad / to help protect their budgets from being slashed further.

> pretty much all of our "traditional" universities are absolutely capable of standing on their feet without international students

This is simply not true. At least not currently possible. If the UK made the _strategic decision_ then I don't see why we couldn't, but currently if all foreign students boycott'd the UK then the majority of our universities would be bankrupt. (Again, in the way they are currently managed: they could sell property etc. but that's never considered.)
by mkhattab | 2025-11-03 16:48:56+00:00
These deal numbers have lost all meaning for me.

There’s been some buzz around the official opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum, which I visited last month. That project took 1.1 to 1.2B USD. Double its original budget estimate but still the museum looks fantastic and it feels, tangibly, like it’s worth a billion.

In contrast with all the money spent on AI, it just feels like monopoly money. Where’s the monument to its success? We could’ve built flying cars or been back to the moon with this much money.
by lachiflippi | 2025-11-03 16:49:04+00:00
At the very least their app store, which is pretty much required for OIDC, most 2FA methods, and some other features, stops working at 500 users. AFAIK you can still manually install addons, it's just the integration that's gone, though I'm not 100% sure. Same with their notification push service (which is apparently closed source?[0]), which wouldn't be as much of an issue if there were proper docs on how to stand up your own instance of that.

IIRC they also display a banner on the login screen to all users advertising the enterprise license, and start emailing enterprise ads to all admin users.

Their "fair use policy"[1] also includes some "and more" wording.

[0] https://github.com/nextcloud/notifications/issues/82

[1] https://nextcloud.com/fairusepolicy/
by IntrepidPig | 2025-11-03 16:49:06+00:00
> Post-filter works when your filter is permissive. Here’s where it breaks: imagine you ask for 10 results with LIMIT 10. pgvector finds the 10 nearest neighbors, then applies your filter. Only 3 of those 10 are published. You get 3 results back, even though there might be hundreds of relevant published documents slightly further away in the embedding space.

Is this really how it works? That seems like it’s returning an incorrect result.
by CrackerNews | 2025-11-03 16:49:08+00:00
If we had a society of actual engineers and hackers, sure.

However, LLMs for the vast majority of people are simple chatbot oracles. The people paying exorbinant wealth in investments are aiming for essentially the Apple of AI where it magically just works and creates a new market to redefine the paradigm.

LLMs are yet again another cyclical cycle where ideas influence material reality and vice versa. Magic is seen to be worth more than the wizard and his tools behind the curtain. The market is hoping that the masses don't find out about the wizard and his tools, so the illusion can continue to live and provide the basis for dreams.

Open WebUI also lets you tweak those parameters, BTW.
by seanw265 | 2025-11-03 16:49:13+00:00
Very cool! I'm curious as to how it compares with WASIX in terms of both compatibility and performance.

Also tangentially related: I'd love to see a performant build of Node.js compatible with this runtime (or really any flavor of WASM), but I think you'd run into the same issues that I have with WASIX. Namely build headaches, JIT, and wasm(-in-wasm) support. I'd explore it myself but I've already sunk way more time than is reasonable on that endeavor.
by hilbert42 | 2025-11-03 16:49:14+00:00
"Sometimes protests that reach enough crowd get heard and the problem gets fixed..."

That's the stuff of revolution. Feudalists don't listen until forced to under duress, that's when things usually turn very nasty—shades of 1789 and like. The Ancien Régime sans a head or two.

Feudalists all have certain traits in common: arrogance and a sense of superiority coupled with shortsightedness and a lack of empathy.
by accrual | 2025-11-03 16:49:14+00:00
I don't think it's fair to characterize unhealthy people as making bad choices. Many choices do affect health, but plenty of healthy people end up needing medical care every day through no fault of their own. Then there's the systemic issues of our healthcare system, low-cost low-quality food (HFCS and other garbage), and even if the consumer knows how to take better care of themselves, they may not have the resources to do much better depending on their life situation (think juggling jobs and taking care of kids, etc). So, I don't think it's strictly a choice to be healthy or to be a drain on the system.
by johnmckinley | 2025-11-03 16:49:40+00:00
Author here. I built this after watching developers spend 2-3 hours setting up Claude Code, only to get mediocre results because they skipped proper context setup.

The "jumpstart" script asks 7 questions (language, framework, project type, etc.) and generates a personalized CLAUDE.md, agents, and commands in 3 minutes. It's the setup I wish existed when I started.

What makes this different from typical AI coding guides:

1. Honest about failures - There's a whole section on when Claude gets it wrong and how to recover 2. Real costs - $300-400/month per developer (Claude Max + API usage for heavy use) 3. Realistic gains - 20-30% productivity after Week 4, not the 50-100% you see in marketing 4. Week 1 is slower - The learning curve is real, documented it honestly

Technical highlights: - Production-ready agents with YAML frontmatter config - Tool restrictions (Read/Write/StrReplace only when appropriate) - Context management patterns (stay under 80%) - Git integration with checkpoint/rewind workflows

The core insight: 80% of success comes from proper CLAUDE.md setup. Most people skip this and wonder why results are poor. The jumpstart script forces you to think through project context upfront.

Not affiliated with Anthropic - just a developer who wanted better resources than "here's the docs, good luck."

Happy to answer questions about what works, what doesn't, and the real cost/benefit tradeoffs.
by whosthatguy | 2025-11-03 16:49:44+00:00
Location: Los Angeles, CA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: SQL, Glide, Hubspot, Asana, Monday, Miro, Git, JIRA, B2B, B2B2C, Scrum, Postgres, Canva, Trello, Slack

Résumé/CV: https://umagp.com

Email: customs.verses.8o@icloud.com

Certifications: Professional Scrum Master I, Professional Scrum Product Owner I

I'm an experienced generalist with a background in early-stage startup development across a range of product verticals (healthcare, blockchain, fintech). Most recently, I have been consulting on the product side of the development of a new healthcare data analytics product. Less recently, I was the cofounder of a SaaS/e-commerce startup, and I'm currently an associate at an early stage fund. I spent four years working as a marketing consultant helping companies to understand product-market fit, and helping to set up and model data in their CRM, marketing software, and CMS systems. I'm looking for mid-level product/marketing positions, particularly in SaaS/B2B/B2B2C, and ideally with a socially-impactful company.
by Yizahi | 2025-11-03 16:49:46+00:00
Funnily, the actual pronunciation is easier now, and it (to me) sounds 99% close to Turkia. I don't get why they went with such complicated letter sequence for such a straightforward word. Though both languages are not native to me, so I may be wrong. But I was baffled this year, after discovering that incomprehensible Türkiye is actually Turkia.

PS: I'm going from this this video as a basis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYjVIaZA14c
by jrochkind1 | 2025-11-03 16:49:57+00:00
OP really focused on payload size, is why I was curious.

> On a clean page load [of nextcloud], you will be downloading about 15-20 MB of Javascript, which does compress down to about 4-5 MB in transit, but that is still a huge amount of Javascript. For context, I consider 1 MB of Javascript to be on the heavy side for a web page/app.

> …Yes, that Javascript will be cached in the browser for a while, but you will still be executing all of that on each visit to your Nextcloud instance, and that will take a long time due to the sheer amount of code your browser now has to execute on the page.

While Nextcloud may have a ~60% bigger JS payload, sounds like perhaps that could have been a bit of a misdirection/misdiagnosis, and it's really about performance characteristics of the JS rather than strictly payload size or number of lines of code executed.

On a Google Doc load chosen by whatever my browser location bar autocompleted, I get around twenty JS files, the two biggest are 1MB and 2MB compressed.
by andreisavu | 2025-11-03 16:49:59+00:00
If you try it, I’m most interested in where the abstractions are too thin or too heavy or lacking.

Install: uv add weakincentives (extras as needed)

Start with the code‑review example; it ties together prompt construction, overrides, telemetry and using the adapters.

Status: Alpha; APIs may change

Roadmap: parallel sub-agents, built-in GEPA prompt optimizer that uses the overrides store
by chandureddyvari | 2025-11-03 16:50:21+00:00
Is there a comprehensive leaderboard like ClickBench but for vector DBs? Something that measures both the qualitative (precision/recall) and quantitative aspects (query perf at 95th/99th percentile, QPS at load, compression ratios, etc.)?

ANN-Benchmark exists but it’s algorithm-focused rather than full-stack database testing, so it doesn’t capture real-world ops like concurrent writes, filtering, or resource management under load.

Would be great to see something more comprehensive and vendor-neutral emerge, especially testing things like: tail latencies under concurrent load, index build times vs quality tradeoffs, memory/disk usage, and behavior during failures/recovery
by tracker1 | 2025-11-03 16:51:00+00:00
I think it's a double edged sword of Open-Source/FLOSS... some problems are hard and take a lot of effort. One example I consistently point to is core component libraries... React has MUI and Mantine, and I'm not familiar with any open-source alternatives that come close. As a developer, if there was one for Leptos/Yew/Dioxus, I'd have likely jumped ship to Rust+WASM. They're all fast enough with different advantges and disadvantages.

All said... I actually like TypeScript and React fine for teams of developers... I think NextCloud likely has coordination issues that go beyond the language or even libraries used.
by maxrobeyns | 2025-11-03 16:51:12+00:00
iGent AI | London, UK (Hybrid, 3 days/week) | Multiple Roles | Full-time | https://igent.ai

We're building coding agent systems for large-scale industrial projects, and an agentic cloud.

Why join:

- Small, senior team: ex-DeepMind, OpenAI, Microsoft Research, Amazon, and Cambridge University, multiple PhDs

- Hard problems across distributed systems, OS/sandboxing, ML and LLM inference/post‑training. Real users; ship to prod.

- Big Tech salary + options.

Open roles (all Senior/Staff; hands-on):

- Full-Stack - design and build new coding agent experiences, working with a top designer

- Agent Infrastructure - branching sandboxes, filesystems, orchestration, observability

- Backend / Eng Lead - build cloud from first principles; distribution, sync, load-balancing, events

- LLM inference & post-training - long context tech, RLVR, vLLM, performance

- Devrel & GTM – live-developing, tutorials, OSS/community, hackathons - drive adoption

You might be a fit if:

- 5+ years building and operating production systems (or exceptional evidence).

- Own 0→1 projects; comfortable reading & generating lots of code.

- Public work (OSS/papers/blogs/products) or strong portfolio.

Do apply! https://www.igent.ai/join-us
by lenerdenator | 2025-11-03 16:51:20+00:00
I could absolutely see that becoming more of an issue for more people if the next step in profiteering is to have more contractors who do work for companies while having to get their own health insurance for themselves.

Also, the other problem with risk pools for healthcare in the US is that the most expensive risks - chronic illnesses like heart disease and cancer - are arguably the ones that no one wants to manage the risk of financially. Could you reduce those risks over time by making it more expensive to be obese, like we do with tobacco consumption? Probably, but it'd be incredibly unpopular with the insured.
by mixmastamyk | 2025-11-03 16:51:28+00:00
Location: Southern California / Pacific Time

Remote: Ok

Willing to relocate: Yes, w/ stipend

Technologies:

Expert: Python, PostgreSQL, Linux Django Near: HTML, CSS, JavaScript Flask, FastAPI HTTP, Sockets Rust, Java Containers Hardware Familiar: Electronics C, C++ Windows, macOS Just took a Machine Learning (ML) class. Interests / Experience: Software Development Distributed Computing Data Engineering Graphics / data pipelines Vfx, Aerospace Project Management Training / Mentoring DevOps, SysAd, QA and more.

Résumé/CV:

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/hxygjtb1vrwuwnznzn2vd/mgm_resume25pw.pdf?rlkey=kv6e5gljiz3p8jym9ztgirc1a&st=6p05kj9g&dl=1 Password: "resume_2025" (no quotes)

Email: See resume.

Seasoned full-stack developer here—focused on solving problems:

▸ Recently finished a multi-year modernization of the backend platform for congress.gov, specifically their substantial ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) data pipeline.

▸ Worked at a number of Internet-facing companies during high-growth periods. Can do it all.

▸ Have extensive experience designing, developing, and maintaining distributed graphics production pipelines for visual effects companies, under harsh deadlines.

▸ Have trained and mentored developers, tech-folk, and end-users as well.

▸ Love building reliable, well-documented, and maintainable systems.

Let’s crush your issues! Cheers,
by flumpcakes | 2025-11-03 16:51:33+00:00
The admin staff are very much underpaid in comparison to academic staff, and it would be impossible for the academic staff to manage without the admin staff. Also, there is fairly little admin staff at the school level compared to academic staff. When you get to "central" staff, then yes it's pretty much 100% admin/directors/c-level/etc. staff and I don't know what they do that's not being done by the hard worked school staff.
by impure-aqua | 2025-11-03 16:52:24+00:00
There are all manner of health conditions that can occur that have little to do with your own healthy living, and don't incapacitate you or make life not worth living, but will cripple you financially.

You might end up with Crohn's or all manner of autoimmune conditions where patented biologics easily costs north of $100k US a year just in medication, but your quality of life if you find a medication that works is not particularly degraded from the average person.

CrossFit will not prevent you from getting into that situation, and I think it would be a vast overreaction to commit suicide in response to such a diagnosis.
by tracker1 | 2025-11-03 16:52:54+00:00
I did get a BSOD from a few software packages in Win2k, but it was fewer and much farther between than Win9x/me... I didn't bump to XP until after SP3 came out... I also liked Win7 a lot. I haven't liked much of Windows since 7 though.

Currently using Pop + Cosmic.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-11-03 16:52:58+00:00
Health insurance companies are a not the problem, their stocks are trash because their business sucks for profitability. They're not the rich misers swimming in gold piles that they are made out to be. People just get that feeling because the insurers are the proxy for medical costs, but you don't have to dig deep to see that they are getting bent too.
by lxgr | 2025-11-03 16:53:01+00:00
For some reason, I've spent several weeks (across a few years) in Italy with exactly one bar of signal strength on an iPhone when roaming on Vodafone.

It must actually be tricky to space out towers that sparsely without creating any obvious coverage gaps, but if anyone is up to the task, it's certainly Vodafone (let's not talk about the actual service quality, though).
by ACCount37 | 2025-11-03 16:53:04+00:00
I would be wary of making categorical claims like this, but it's unfortunately true that "security" field hasn't been doing well in a long, long time now.

Half the field is B2B "magic bullet" solutions like CrowdStrike and all the associated sales tactics - with pitches that boil down to "you give us money, we make your security issues go away". Half of what remains is mandatory certifications and other flavors of checklist-obsessed cargo cultists - often CYA-driven, often demanding the adoption of the fancy acronym of the day, regardless of the real threat profiles. Then you get the "security snake oil" - "magic bullet" systems that don't work, never did and never will, but are supported by the right influence groups and get the right pockets lined, and so are used anyway. DRM systems like WideVine and PlayReady being the prime examples. Then there are the corporate "security of our business model" shills - who pay lip service to "security", but have the true aims of "prevent anyone we don't like from doing anything that can harm our revenue streams" - with Apple being a common example.

And about a fifth of the field is people who do actual security work, and keep the sky from falling.
by busfahrer | 2025-11-03 16:53:04+00:00
More often than L and H, I use { and }, which jumps across paragraphs (i.e. blocks of lines separated by blank lines).

I've found that most of my code consists of 3-5 line blocks, and { and } feel like a nice medium-range navigation tool, because oftentimes CTRL+D jumps too far.

The downside is that both of these jumps go into the jump table, so they will clutter your CTRL+O history a bit.

But I think I'm weird in this regard.
by electroly | 2025-11-03 16:53:13+00:00
The way to understand Arthur Whitney's C code is to first learn APL (or, more appropriately, one of his languages in the family). If you skip that part, it'll just look like a weirdo C convention, when really he's trying to write C as if it were APL. The most obvious of the typographic stylings--the lack of spaces, single-character names, and functions on a single line--are how he writes APL too. This is perhaps like being a Pascal programmer coming to C and indignantly starting with "#define begin {" and so forth, except that atw is not a mere mortal like us.
by underlipton | 2025-11-03 16:53:17+00:00
The have not had racial quotas since 1978, as it's been illegal since then.

>Why are you virtue signalling so much?

I'd ask the same of you. You're carrying water for ridiculous and irrational ideology-driven talking points, even after they've been shown to be ridiculous and irrational. To what end, I wonder.
by Ancapistani | 2025-11-03 16:53:21+00:00
If I were designing it and wanted to extend the maintenance interval, I think I’d use something like a CVT for a tensioner. The drive pulley would wear as normal, and the tensioner would be of a harder material and cone-shaped. As the drive pulley wears, the tensioner slides toward the large end so that the diameter of the drive pulley and the diameter of the section of the tensioner in contact with the belt remains a consistent value.

You could probably use a roller on the back side of the drive pulley to automatically adjust it, too. No electromechanical stuff needed.

Oh, and add a “squealer” - a piece of metal that makes an awful racket once the drive pulley wears down to a critical point, prompting those responsible that it should be replaced before it begins to induce unacceptable wear on the belt itself.
by wakawaka28 | 2025-11-03 16:53:29+00:00
It would have to be less than 80% for 4 days due to insurance, administrative, and possibly office space costs. You also know as well that people seeking out these kinds of arrangements will be holding down two jobs instead of one, which cuts down on reliability for both employers.

Of course I like the idea of having more options in the workplace but sometimes the down sides are too obvious to get worked up over it. Be thankful we can work five 8 hour days (or less). We could have the 9 to 9, 6 day a week culture that exists in some places.