MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Aurornis | 2025-11-12 14:16:44+00:00
The big companies have their own NTP pools and even implementations.

You can use the public Google or AWS pools if you want. Note that they have their own software, too, so be sure you understand the differences like leap smearing.

Blocking FAANG IPs from the NTP Foundation’s pools wouldn’t hurt FAANG at all. It would only hurt people who weren’t aware and used the NTP Foundation’s pool for things.
by maybewhenthesun | 2025-11-12 14:17:13+00:00
In my experience simple bugfixes are nearly always accepted without fuss (in active projects, that is. Some project in maintenance mode where the last commit was 3 months ago is a different story, because then probably just no-one can be arsed to look at the patch).

Some simple setting expose like you describe can sometimes go in without a fuss or it can stall, that depends on a lot of factors. Like the other reply states: it could go against future plans. Or it could be difficult for the maintainer to see the ramifications of a simple looking change. It sucks that it is that way (I have sent in a few patches for obscure CUPS bugs which have stayed in limbo, so I know the feeling ;-) ) but it is hardly surprising. From a project's point of view drive-by patches very often cost more than they add so to get something included you often need to do a very thorough writeup as for why something is a good idea.

> I just as increasingly want to have no part in them most of the time. If all people you meet are assholes.... ;-P Not to say you are an asshole, or at least not more than most people, but I have been in this situation myself more than once, and it really pays to stay (overly) polite and not let your annoyance about being brushed off slip through the mask. The text-only nature of these kind of communications are very sensitive to misinterpretations and annoyances.

It would be nice if all you'd need for a patch to be included somewhere was for it to be useful. But alas there's a certain amount of social engineering needed as well. And imho this has always been the case. If you feel it gets increasingly hostile that's probably your own developer burnout speaking (by do I know that one :-P )
by latexr | 2025-11-12 14:17:28+00:00
> Because this will mean major shift to open-source and community solution, where creators will be paid directly by their viewers.

That’s an unrealistic nerd dream. People haven’t moved off of closed social networks such as Facebook and Instagram, and haven’t flocked to creator-owned platforms such as Nebula. The general public, i.e. the majority of people, will eat whatever Google, Meta, et al feed them. No matter how bad things get, too few people abandon those platforms in favour of something more open.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-11-12 14:17:30+00:00
I lived and worked in Atlanta from 1996-2020. Those aren’t anymore tech companies than Delta, Home Depot or Coke by modern definitions. In all of the companies you named, software development is a cost center, not a profit center - follow the money. Who gets paid the most as a group at those companies? Those are enterprise companies.
by psychoslave | 2025-11-12 14:17:39+00:00
Yes, I see Youtube going deep into enshitiffication. On my Macbook this morning with a FF-dev edition it just stopped to work this morning. Don't know if it's related to the fact I tried to install an extension to "force H264" on my Ubuntu box. On the latter fans started to go crazy as soon as I open a single youtube tab lately and a quick research led me there.

Actually at this point the only thing that makes the good old aMule a bit less inconvenient to my own expectations are

- it's missing snippet previews

- it doesn't have as many resources on every topic out there.
by tarsinge | 2025-11-12 14:18:01+00:00
Text and language contain only approximate information filtered through humans eyes and brains. Also animals don't have language and can show quite advanced capabilities compared to what we can currently do in robotics. And if you do enough mindfulness you can dissociate cognition/consciousness from language. I think we are lured because how important language is for us humans, but intuitively it's obvious to me language (and LLMs) are only a subcomponent, or even irrelevant for say self driving or robotics.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-11-12 14:18:15+00:00
This. Seriously.

In a world with both Google and AI, why does anyone expect you to memorize the solutions to problems, especially to problems that won't actually be the ones you need to solve on the job?

But I wonder if, in order to get a job with the "just say no" approach, you need to leave the Bay Area. I wonder if most places there are so into the "that's the way it's done" that they can't see the absurdity of it. Other places in the country don't seem to be as infatuated with leetcode. But if you're determined to stay there, then it may be a search to find someone who doesn't use that standard for interviewing.

So you have a choice. Would you rather grind leetcode, or would you rather grind the job search for a place that doesn't interview that way?

(I had decent success with Robert Half. They're a recruiter that actually has a clue about tech people. They can work with more senior people, which 10 years qualifies you as. I forget whether they were the ones that led to my most recent role, but I remember being impressed with them as headhunters. They may be worth a shot in your situation.)
by zamadatix | 2025-11-12 14:18:27+00:00
"The bug" in question refers to the one found by the bug-finding tool the article claims triggered the latest episode of debate. Nobody is claiming it's the only bug, just that this triggering bug highlighted was a clear example of where there is actually such a clear cut line.

Google does contribute some patches for codecs they actually consume e.g. https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/b1febda061955c6f4bfb..., the bug in question was just an example of one the bug finding tool found that they didn't consume - which leads to this conversation.
by syntaxing | 2025-11-12 14:18:42+00:00
I understand what you’re saying but it’s a difficult balance. Not saying everything needs to be regulated and not saying we should be full blown neoliberalism. But think of some of “social” laws we have today (in the US). No child marriages, no child labor, no smoking before 19, and no drinking before 21. These laws are in place because we understand that those who can exploit will do the exploiting. Those who can be exploited will be exploited. That being said, I don’t agree with any of the age verification policies here with adult material. Honestly not sure what the happy medium is.
by blutoot | 2025-11-12 14:18:44+00:00
Yes - I had similar thoughts when I saw the word "startup" used alongside something so far-out (same 'critique" should apply to Fei-Fei Li's World Labs - https://www.worldlabs.ai). These are VC-funded research labs (and there is nothing wrong with tat). Calling them "startups" as if they are already working on an MVP on top of an unproven (and frankly non-existent) technology seems a little disingenuous to me.
by Taganov | 2025-11-12 14:19:17+00:00
With the current acceleration of technology this is a repeating pattern. The new thing popular with kids is not understood by the parents before it is too late.

It kind of happened for me with online games. They were a new thing, and no one knew to what degree they could be addicting and life damaging. As a result I am probably over protective of my own kids when it comes to anything related to games.

We are already seeing many of the effects of the social media generation and I am not looking forward to what is going to happen to the AI natives whose guardians are ill-prepared to guide them. In the end, society will likely come to grips with it, but the test subjects will pay a heavy price.
by aristofun | 2025-11-12 14:19:22+00:00
Why do you want to jump through these ridiculous hoops to ruin your soul and mind by working a meaningless job under an incompetent manager in the first place?

Your motivation lies in the answer if you have any.

Money alone is not a motivating answer unfortunately, because our subconscious (soul if you will) truly does not care about money and wealth itself.

But unfortunately again it is the only real sustainable source of our motivation.

There are companies that do not do this shit or at least do very basic just to make sure you’re not a fake programmer. Why do you need motivation to learn leetcode simple? It’s mostly a very basic CS and something you should know already as a developer.
by skeeter2020 | 2025-11-12 14:19:22+00:00
>> we use .NET for backend and React for frontend. You don't need anything else

...

>> sure maybe you have some data science people who need python,

This is how it happens though; it's not "let's form a company with 10 developers; don't worry what tools they use!". It's starting with a single problem using common tools, then adding specialized problems where you could still use the same tools but they are not optimized, then adding an acquisition product that uses different tech, then growing to 100 or 1000 developers and may all use React or C# (doubtful) but don't use it the same way...

>> If you're going to make a change then migrate everything

Have you ever worked for a software company before? THis is not how it goes.
by gwbas1c | 2025-11-12 14:19:29+00:00
There was a problem with using flavoring agents that aren't meant to be inhaled. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronchiolitis_obliterans#E-cig... :

> The American Lung Association listed use of flavored e-cigarettes as a risk factor for BO in 2016.[37] Health Canada has, however, seen no cases as of 2023.[38] Public Health England writes that the association has come about as "some flavourings used in e-liquids to provide a buttery flavour contain the chemical diacetyl… However, diacetyl is banned as an ingredient from e-cigarettes and e-liquids in the UK."[39] The UK National Health Service's website states that "vaping does not cause 'popcorn lung'".[40]

Diacetyl is a chemical used to flavor popcorn, and is safe to eat. Inhalation leads to "popcorn lung," named because people working in microwave popcorn factories got it.
by PapstJL4U | 2025-11-12 14:19:42+00:00
It takes more time to read and understand the bug report, than to fix it. Instead of using googles time, they used ffmpegs voluntary time.

If this happens another 1000 times (easily possible with AI) google just got free labour and free publicity for "discovering 1000 critical bugs (but not fixing them even so they were easy to do)"
Figma designs to code in minutes
by alielroby | 2025-11-12 14:20:10+00:00
I created Velork six months ago because converting designs to frontend code felt a bit repetitive to me. Velork is an AI IDE built on a VS Code foundation, with a native design canvas. Users can import Figma designs or create designs directly in Velork, keeping design and code in the same space. The AI agent sees both and can instantly turn designs into working code, making the conversion from design to code faster, more reliable, and scalable for large projects.

It is currently live as a YC demo at yc.velork.com/login. A public release will be coming soon and you can join the waitlist at velork.com if it interests you.
by spudlyo | 2025-11-12 14:20:15+00:00
I'm hoping to prepare a presentation on how I use Emacs for language learning for Emacs Conf 2026. There are a couple of talks for I'm very much looking forward to this year's conference[0] (happening in less than a month!) and specifically this talk[1] on language learning with Emacs.

[0]: https://emacsconf.org/2025/talks/

[1]: https://emacsconf.org/2025/talks/languages/
by baxtr | 2025-11-12 14:20:21+00:00
I personally see this as a positive trend. VC in its earliest form was concerned with experiments that had high technology risk. I am thinking of companies like Genentech and scientists like biochemist Herbert Boyer, who had pioneered recombinant DNA technology.

After that, VC had become more like PE, investing in stuff that was working already but needed money to scale.
by jjice | 2025-11-12 14:20:21+00:00
Stickers on the laptop was such a small, wonderful part of college for me. Very minor, but the strategically perfectly imperfect placement of a sticker on my laptop when it was deemed to be worthy was so much fun. My favorite was a sticker meant for a hot beverage carafe to label it with the contents that I took that just read "HOT WATER".

I have a Framework now and haven't adding anything to it (because it's easier to clean), but maybe I'm missing out.
by wtcactus | 2025-11-12 14:20:32+00:00
We have millions of literally illiterate people living here on sketchy visas for more than a decade now. I’m sure an American with an IT background (degree or no degree) would not be sent away.

Come and help us feed the great wealth redistribution monster. We need more people that actually work to keep supporting the ever increasing numbers of those that don’t want to.
by tpmoney | 2025-11-12 14:20:40+00:00
I mean if we’re going to do sloppy analogies, a bug report for open source software as widely used as ffmpeg is more like “I noticed the trees in the back corner of your free apple orchard are producing apples with trace amounts of heavy metals. I did some literal digging and sent some soil off to the labs and it looks like your back corner field may be contaminated. Here’s a heads up about that, and also just FYI in 90 days, if you haven’t been able to get your soil remediated, I’m going to put up a sign so that people can know to avoid those apples and not get poisoned by your free orchard while it’s getting fixed.”
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-11-12 14:21:06+00:00
Even so, why see which ones can solve problems that aren't the problems that the job actually calls for solving?

I mean, if you're Google, and a small improvement in algorithmic efficiency means needing a thousand less servers, yes, you want people who know that kind of stuff like the back of their hand. Most places aren't Google, though. Places that interview like Google that don't have Google-like problems have a mis-fit between their interview process and the roles they are interviewing for. So, places that aren't really on top of what they're doing as an organization.
by drbt | 2025-11-12 14:21:06+00:00
Hi HN. I built Ato because I wanted a layer that works wherever I attach it, and tells me why things changed when they do.

I'm bad at rituals (perfect logging, tidy checkpoints). Ato still gives me answers by fingerprinting three pieces:

- Config structure: architecture-level changes, not just values - Code logic: function-bytecode fingerprints, not commit IDs - Runtime outputs: detects silent drift even when code "didn't change"

No dashboards, no servers; just SQLite and a CLI. It sits beside Hydra/argparse/MLflow/W&B rather than replacing them.

If your runs sometimes diverge or fail and you just want "why" without adopting a platform, I'd love your feedback.

Thanks for checking this out!
by organsnyder | 2025-11-12 14:21:12+00:00
I used a Fujitsu Lifebook P-2046 laptop at university. It had an 800Mhz Crusoe chip. IIRC it shipped with 256 MB of RAM, which I eventually upgraded to 384.

Somehow I managed to tolerate running Gentoo on it. Compiling X, OpenOffice, or Firefox were multi-day affairs. One thing that annoyed me was I could never get the graphics card (an ATI Rage 128 with 4 MB RAM, IIRC) working with acceleration under Linux, and that was when compositing window managers were gaining prevalence; I kept trying to get it working in the hope that it would take a bit of the load off of the struggling CPU.

Despite the bad performance, it worked really well for a college student: it was great for taking notes, and the batteries (extended main and optical drive bay) would easily last a full day of classes. It wouldn't run Eclipse very well, but most of my CS assignments were done using a text editor, anyways.
by drbt | 2025-11-12 14:21:15+00:00
I've been using Ato personally for a while (it's at 2.x; ~100 tests must pass before release).

If anything is unclear, I'm happy to clarify or add examples. Curious what edge cases you'd try. (English isn't my first language and this is my first Show HN - if something reads oddly, please correct me. Thanks!)
by UtopiaPunk | 2025-11-12 14:21:47+00:00
We can, and we should, regulate some things. AI has, quite suddenly, built up billions of dollars worth of infrastructure and become pervasive in people's daily lives. Part of how society adapts to ridiculous new situations is through regulations.

I'm not proposing anything specifically, but the implication that this field should not be regulated is just foolish.
by akaosoka | 2025-11-12 14:21:51+00:00
Before reading the article I thought this was about trump floating 50 year mortgages. Same kind of issue though, I think.

My naive theory is that the fed targeting N > 0 yearly inflation is _horrendous_ for society. It forces pricing schemes like the article mentions. It encourages cheap, easy money sources which is often at odds with what is best for society. Rent seeking seems to be a hallmark of this system.

On the other end, it gives asset holders a way to grow their share of the pie while doing almost nothing. The more money we print, the less everyone else has (relatively), and the more valuable assets become simply because we printed money - not because any value was created. Our monetary policy is to constantly devalue labor.

To put it succinctly: We’ve made enormous technological strides and people still have to work 8 hours a day and worry if they’ll end up on the streets someday.

Other systems exist (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_credit), yet I see almost 0 mainstream discussion of this issue much less alternatives. My conspiracy theory is of course the billionaires don’t want to change things (they’d likely be reduced to millionaires), so anyone who gets close to talking about this is ignored or canceled.
by nicoburns | 2025-11-12 14:22:04+00:00
> I wish .NET was more popular among startups, if only C# could get rid of the "enterpisey" stigma.

I tried .NET and liked C# as a language. But even though the language and runtime are now open source, it seemed like a lot of the recommended libraries were still commercially licensed, which was an immediate nope from me. I've never encountered that in any other ecosystem.
by rickdeckard | 2025-11-12 14:22:04+00:00
> You don't quite need a standard as much in an environment like that.

Who is "You" in that context?

[Large developer of a product]: You DON'T need a standard because you can strongarm your proprietary implementation into "your" standard (which is what is happening, as I wrote above), and as long as the user only buys products sanctioned by you, all is fine.

[Small developer of a product]: You DO need a standard because you are only able to participate and compete if you are able to match the experience of the large players in your market (which might also be the ones owning the platform your product connects to). For this you need equal access to those proprietary standards they may have created. This is however not in the interest of most of the large players, so you are actually not able to compete on equal grounds.

[Product consumer]: You actually WANT a standard, because a standard ensures interoperability across different types of products and vendors, and prevents vendor/ecosystem lock-in.

In these "different times", this fair and competitive market was a side-effect from this need for vendors to align in order to standardize across different areas, because they understood that "they cannot do this alone".

In the "nowadays times", there is a handful of companies large enough to do it alone, and they have an active interest to prevent the creation of an industry standard ("I want to enter the watch market, so I create a standard to connect my platform to a watch, AND I create a watch to control this value-chain end-to-end).

This "side-effect" of a competitive market is now gone and is ACTIVELY prevented by this handful of companies (see adoption and proprietary expansion/restriction of Bluetooth, WiFi-Direct, NFC,...)
by ethmarks | 2025-11-12 14:22:13+00:00
Could you elaborate on why? It seems to me that YouTube's implicit contract with the user is "these people paid us to show you this advert", not "we vouch for the integrity and veracity of this advert". I obviously agree that it'd be nice if YouTube would put more effort into screening adverts, but I don't see why they're _obligated_ to. I'm happy to be corrected, though.
by arnejenssen | 2025-11-12 14:22:21+00:00
I was around 16 years in the early 90s and i bought a digital watch (different brand) with a lot of functions. I remember when I came home from the shop. My aunt was visiting. I explained that the watch could keep lap-times for two separate cars. Without her saying anything, I realized that this was totally useless and I regretted the purchase.
by giraffe_lady | 2025-11-12 14:22:24+00:00
Something I use as a heuristic that is pretty reliable is "am I treating a thing like a person, or a person like a thing?" If so then, maybe not necessarily bad but probably bad.

It's not about whether it's "real" or not. In this case of AI relationships, extremely sophisticated and poorly understood mechanisms of social-emotional communication and meaning making that have previously only ever been used for bonding with other people, and to a limited extent animals, are being directed at a machine. And we find that the mechanisms respond to that machine as if there is a person there, when there is not.

There is a lot of novel stuff happening there, technologically, socially, psychologically. We don't really know, and I don't trust anyone who is confidently predicting, what effects that will have on the person doing it, or their other social bonds.

Wrestling is theater! It's an ancient craft, well understood. If you're going to approach AI relationships as a natural extension of some well established human activity probably pet bonding is the closest. I don't think it's even that close though.
by theshrike79 | 2025-11-12 14:22:27+00:00
Frictionless use is the biggest one.

I can install Plex, all my movies, tv-shows, anime and music is there.

Then I can drop Plexamp on my phone, log in with my Plex account and all my music is right there and if I rate a song on my phone, it's updated on Plex and vice versa.
by potato3732842 | 2025-11-12 14:22:30+00:00
People think that we can just magically regulate everything. It's like a medieval peasant who doesn't understand chemistry/physics/etc thinking they can just pray harder to have better odds of something.

We literally CAN'T regulate some things for any reasonable definition of "can't" or "regulate". Our society is either not rich enough or not organized in a way to actually do it in any useful capacity and not make the problem worse.

I'm not saying AI chatbots are one of those things, but people toss around the idea of regulation way too casually and AI chatbots are way less cut and dry than bad food or toxic waste or whatever other extreme anyone wants to misleadingly project down into the long tail of weird stuff with limited upside and potential for unintended consequences elsewhere.
by SuperscalarMeme | 2025-11-12 14:23:52+00:00
So glad someone else also knew about this connection :) Details about Denver are pretty minimal, but this talk at Stanford is one of the most detailed I’ve been able to find for those interested. It’s fascinating stuff with lots of similarities to how Transmeta operated: https://youtu.be/oEuXA0_9feM?si=WXuBDzCXMM4_5YhA