MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bradlys | 2025-11-10 01:27:04+00:00
"It's the economy, stupid."

I don't know why we need to be so dramatic about AI and automation. The reason you're not getting hired is because there's not enough positions and we have a huge amount of people in the industry. Tech is not exploding like it was in the 2000s and 2010s. It is a mature industry. That comes with mature industry issues like when the economy sucks, it doesn't grow anymore.

Have you noticed how we're still in a trade war? What about the government shutdown? The high interest rates? All time highs for cost of living? Wages not keeping up with costs at all for practically any profession? Dang, it's almost like if all the money going to AI stonkz wasn't happening... we'd be in a recession... hmmmm
by k310 | 2025-11-10 01:27:07+00:00
Because the sociopaths who run (some) tech companies have no compassion for the 90% or more of us. Since time immemorial, people have wanted power over others; kings, dictators, priests (recall the de'Medici's), and more recently, scientists and software engineers. 'Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.'

Some people, in short, want to be God, for the power aspect, but in my personal experience, I have not seen God act directly, only through the hands of humans, and we plainly have a very poor track record of doing so.

What we call "Acts of God" are solely disasters; unkind in my opinion!

We all get to choose whether to advance the common good or selfish desire. Sci-Fi writers extrapolate their present time and technology into a future where enormous power is wielded. So, whether that's Monsters on Main Street, using very little power (some EMP?) [0]

> Meanwhile, at a nearby hilltop, two humanoid aliens are observing the riot on Maple Street while using a device to manipulate the neighborhood's power. They comment on how simply fiddling with routine leads people to descend into paranoia and panic that can be exploited. They also discuss their intention to use this strategy to conquer Earth, one neighborhood at a time.

OR the morality play where inhabitants of a planet decide whether to end nationalism, racism, religious intolerance and so on, or cease to exist. And we are counting down to the latter. [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monsters_Are_Due_on_Maple_...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_Clock
by tastyface | 2025-11-10 01:27:18+00:00
I do not advocate violence, but I do often think back to this quote:

"And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If... if... We didn’t love freedom enough." --Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Gulag Archipelago
by lifeisstillgood | 2025-11-10 01:28:23+00:00
Imagine you are an Alien playing Sims 17.0 - Earth Edition. You’ve got the Industrial Revolution part mostly done, solar is going to hit big in Africa and Apac, the climate warning light came on but the manual says you can push that out a bit.

The problem is the economic transmission thing. Money was a great invention, but you are close to enough energy production for every Sim to be fed and housed sustainably. Then you get some time for the upgrade pack but you can’t stop the oil thing right now and darn it they keep trying to do the work and dribble out wealth that way. What’s wrong with the plan? Industrial Revolution, silicon and robots level, everyone relaxes and we can do the moonbase

The problem is they keep thinking they need to create more instead of level off - sharing it more and entering maintenance mode
by torstenvl | 2025-11-10 01:28:27+00:00
This is exactly the kind of dishonest manipulative baiting that makes people feel uncomfortable. Absolutely nothing InvertedRhodium said was in any way racist, and your allegations otherwise are both wholly devoid of evidence and against the community standards here.

If you can't make your point without leveling extreme and baseless allegations at fellow posters, that's a good sign that your point is without merit.
by sarchertech | 2025-11-10 01:28:44+00:00
It was a completely Chinese company until last year. Then it split in 2. The US headquartered half has 11,000 employees in mainland China and 500 in the US based on what I could find when I googled it. It’s solely owned by the founder of the original company and his wife who are Chinese citizens.

I don’t know whether it’s worth banning them or not, but putting your hands up and saying “what Chinese company?” is just absurd.
by zinodaur | 2025-11-10 01:29:23+00:00
This kind of stuff is taboo for a reason. There are so many ways for it to go horribly wrong for society.

Sure, it could be used to make the world better. So could the internet. How is that working out for us?

Do you think that corporations whose only motivation is profit will treat this technology with the respect it requires in order to not blow up in our faces? Do you think that governments will be able to resist the pressure that capital will put on them when restricting the use of this technology?
by eternityforest | 2025-11-10 01:30:23+00:00
Tilting them vertical or nearly so is very useful if there could be any hail, that might be a good idea to support.

What about compressed air? It might not be too hard to find a small brushless low power air pump that could drive pistons directly.

You could mount the pump controller onto the back of the panels and use an accelerometer to measure angle, and run the pump until it's where you want it.

You'd probably need to do some testing and make sure it couldn't get jammed, then build up pressure, then suddenly unstick and move unsafely.
by ares623 | 2025-11-10 01:30:25+00:00
I'm not so sure. The tech to do this has been around for ages, and it still hasn't happened. So I'm thinking there's something else preventing companies from going this direction.

My uneducated guess is that if a remote operator has a bad day, there is nothing stopping them from doing damage on potentially sensitive and expensive assets and then disappearing in a country with lax enforcement.

Also, after a certain point, you need to deal with the angry, hungry mob right outside your factory.
by kraddypatties | 2025-11-10 01:31:04+00:00
We've been tinkering with building realtime talking head models (avatar models, etc.) for a while now, and finally have something that works (well enough)! Operates at ~2x realtime on a 4090, significantly faster than that on enterprise grade GPUs.

You can try it yourself at https://playground.keyframelabs.com/playground/persona-1 and there's a (semi)technical blog post at https://www.keyframelabs.com/blog/persona-1

The main use case we designed for was language learning, particularly having a conversational partner -- generally we've found that adding a face to the voice really helps trigger the fight or flight response, which we've found to be the hardest part of speaking a new language with confidence.

But in building out the system around the model to enable that use case (tool use on a canvas for speaking prompts and images, memory to make conversations less stale, etc.), we think there's potential for other use cases too.
by Buttons840 | 2025-11-10 01:31:18+00:00
I have more than my fair share of complaints about Trump, but I did like the idea of charging $100,000 per year for every H1B visa. It would have ultimately helped American workers by giving them more negotiating power and higher salaries. So, naturally, Trump was talked out of doing it yearly and it looks like it's legally questionable whether it will stand-up at all. It appears things worked out in a way that benefits wealthy corporations... again.
by cyberax | 2025-11-10 01:32:32+00:00
> I really don't believe this because everyone I know who drives a Tesla tells me the opposite.

I mean, I love my Tesla autopilot. It made my cross-country trips so much more enjoyable. I have several thousand hours on autopilot at this point.

That being said, I don't use it on regular city streets. Because it's just bad, in all kinds of ways. "Full self-driving" it is not.
by PeaceTed | 2025-11-10 01:32:52+00:00
As much as we like to consider consoles as these closed exclusive tech kind of things, a lot of it was externally designed. With Genesis/Mega Drive, if a TMS9918 gets you most of the way there and it is better than what else is out at that time, then that is good enough.

When the goal is just to put pixels on screen at the pace of the scan line, a TI part will have solved most of the nagging base issues issues and it is easy to build on. No need for a clean room design.
by nobody9999 | 2025-11-10 01:33:12+00:00
>but there’s no evidence that it’s a systemic problem that would necessitate abolishing immigration enforcement entirely.

Who said anything about that? As I pointed out in another comment, the Biden administration deported more folks in four years than Obama and Trump did in twelve. And he did so without masked thugs slamming into the cars of citizens, dragging them out of their cars and abducting them off the street, while lying that it was the abducted citizen who caused the ruckus. And Biden did so without those same masked thugs slamming into the cars of citizens, then shooting them multiple times, lying about the circumstances and destroying evidence about it.

No one, other than you, said anything about "abolishing immigration enforcement entirely."

But we certainly don't need masked thugs with a budget larger than the Military budgets of all but three nations to do so. As the last 250 years have shown.

All that said, you're claiming that a non-zero number of people falsely deported (a clear violation of the Constitution) is acceptable to you? Okay. Let's start with you and your family. What's that? That's not what you meant? You mean you think it's okay as long as it's not you?
by eternityforest | 2025-11-10 01:33:56+00:00
It's really cool, but as far as I know there's no complete C++ implementation for embedded platforms, and I still can't figure out how it actually works.

Does the gossip flooding mean every single node needs to know about every other node in the entire mesh?

I have a project vaguely inspired by this and Meshtastic that tries to make use of existing internet tech, while falling back to local links, instead of trying to replace the Internet completely.

It's very much WIP, I'm planning to get rid of all of the automatic reliable retransmit stuff and replace it with per channel end to end acknowledgment. https://github.com/EternityForest/LazyMesh#
by joshdavham | 2025-11-10 01:34:39+00:00
Depressing article but it really captures the zeitgeist among recent tech grads.

I’m more of a mid-level dev, but I was recently unemployed for about 6 months and it felt brutal - and this is despite having a couple years of work experience. I can’t imagine how hard it would be for junior data scientists where there’s an even worse supply to demand ratio of applicants (and almost always with graduate degrees).
by dathinab | 2025-11-10 01:35:02+00:00
they mean "mandatory access controls (MAC)" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandatory_access_control

through what exactly people mean with it is often vague

Like e.g. both seLinux and AppAmore are technically MAC but people tend to only mention seLinux when speaking about how cumbersome it is and treat AppAmore as something different as it's not so cumbersome.
Show HN: UnisonDB – Replicates like a message bus. Acts like a database
by ankuranand | 2025-11-10 01:35:04+00:00
Hey Folks, I’ve been experimenting with an idea that combines a database and a message bus into one system, for a system that need colocated state at the edge.

Every database already has a log—the Write-Ahead Log. It's durable, ordered, and append-only. It's literally what you'd build if you were designing a message queue.

So I asked: what if we just replicate the log itself? UnisonDB is the result. It's a Go-based KV store where: Every write: 1. Appends to a memory-mapped WAL (durability) 2. Streams to 100+ replicas instantly (no separate CDC) from the Wal itself. 3. Becomes queryable via B+Tree (state) How replication works Each replica gets a WAL reader positioned at its last applied offset. - New data arrives → reader pulls it → replicate. - Network partition? Reconnect and resume from offset - Replica crashes? Recover local WAL, catch up from last commit No consensus. No quorum. No global coordination. Just: stream the log.

GitHub: github.com/ankur-anand/unisondb Would love your feedback.
by alyxya | 2025-11-10 01:35:21+00:00
To the people at the top, the job market is a statistic. They can't feel empathy on an issue they're so disconnected from, so they just think it's not their problem, or there isn't much they can do about it. Technological innovation is supposed to mean society can produce more with less work, so in theory everyone's lives could end up better off over time where we could all work less and get more, but in practice, I see more meaningless work created and wealth continues to consolidate at the top.
by greatgib | 2025-11-10 01:36:11+00:00
Thank you for your reply.

First, you can do your job but not be overzealous.

Second, it is not because you are not "doing more" for your employer that you miss opportunities to learn skills. You can do that for yourself on your personal time to your own benefit.

In addition, with what you wrote, it didn't look that like that you were suggesting to learn skills: You said to document what you already know, "transfer" your knowledge, so that it is easier for others in the company to live without you (or get ride of you).
Show HN: CalmNest – Helping you put your phone down and fall asleep
by reeoss | 2025-11-10 01:36:22+00:00
Hi HN I built CalmNest because I couldn’t stop scrolling at night. Most nights, I’d tell myself I’d sleep soon — but then an hour would vanish as I kept holding my phone, reading, checking things, or just staring at the screen until I fell asleep with it in my hand.

I wanted to change that — not by cutting myself off completely, but by turning my phone into something that guides me to sleep instead of keeping me awake.

So I made CalmNest, a calm space that helps you slow down and drift into sleep naturally. It gently guides your breathing with subtle visuals, dims as you relax, and eventually fades to a soft “Good night” screen when you stop interacting. From there, it tracks your sleep time and patterns — no pressure, no notifications, just calm.

Normally it’s $5.99, but it’s free until November 17 for anyone who wants to try it. If you, like me, tend to fall asleep holding your phone, maybe this can help.

https://apps.apple.com/st/app/calmnest-sleep-relax/id6754578...

Would love to hear your thoughts — especially from anyone who’s struggled with the same “phone at midnight” habit.
by insane_dreamer | 2025-11-10 01:36:37+00:00
that wasn't the issue, this was the issue:

> This restriction would apply not only to the security work directly funded by the grant, but to any and all activity of the PSF as a whole. Further, violation of this term gave the NSF the right to “claw back” previously approved and transferred funds. This would create a situation where money we’d already spent could be taken back, which would be an enormous, open-ended financial risk.

This Admin has shown that it's willing to do/say what it wants; there is nothing to stop it from accusing PSF, without having to provide evidence, that it had violated the terms, and then take the money back. It's a risk they were right not to take.
by sakopov | 2025-11-10 01:36:38+00:00
Every time I talk acquaintances, friends and family members about finances I'm always shocked at how little people know about basic things like tax brackets, 401Ks, IRAs, ETFs, compounding interest, debt management and etc. So I decided to write a financial literacy/education book with a bit of humor and easily comprehensible language to distill some of these topics. I'm about 1 month into it and try to write a chapter a week.
by nandomrumber | 2025-11-10 01:36:48+00:00
It’s kinda good the planet gets to run both experiments, and more.

The EU approach seems to want to insert government in to contracts between private individual and those they do business with, and the US approach seems to want to maybe allow too much power to accumulate in those who wield the mercantile powers.

The optimal approach probably lies in the tension between multiple loci.
by ghaff | 2025-11-10 01:36:57+00:00
In my experience, it's been the case for 20-30 years (forever?) that knowing the right people works way better than applying through the standard channels--but that's the same as saying that things are tougher for junior people which was probably masked by a lot more opportunities in tech for many which led those many to poo-poo the importance of networks because they apply for three jobs on a Monday and have offers the next week given a target-rich environment.
by mike_hearn | 2025-11-10 01:37:21+00:00
Great article, well written. I'd certainly consider interviewing this guy - if I was hiring. Based on the other comments it's worth noting a few things:

1. Ahmed seems to be in the UK, not the USA. H1Bs don't affect him. This isn't obvious because he talks about the USA. However, the mass immigration into the UK might have impacted him by saturating the low skill markets such that everyone else has to fight over the remaining high skill jobs.

2. His internships and projects have all been ML/AI, with his most recent at DeepMind. It's not obvious from the article that he's been one of the people working on automating everyone else out of a job; an ironic twist given his predicament (I'm sympathetic but to some extent, those of us who live by the sword...)

3. The British economy is in the toilet at the moment. This is the most likely reason he can't find a job but it doesn't get a mention at all, which is curious. It doesn't make much economic sense to grow a corporate presence in the UK currently given that Labour is raising taxes, attacking the private sector, imposing heavy regulation on the tech industry and so on.
by trjordan | 2025-11-10 01:37:26+00:00
Between this and http://myticker.com (posted recently), I want to share a theory of mine:

1) the internet is mostly made up of spaces where the median opinion is vanishingly rare among actual humans.

2) the median internet opinion is that of a person who is deep into the topic they're writing about.

The net result is that for most topics, you will feel moderate to severe anxiety about being "behind" about what you shuld be doing.

I'm 40, and I'm active. I ran a half marathon last weekend. I spent 5 hours climbing with my kids this weekend. My reaction to these articles, emotionally, was "I'm probably going to die of heart disease," because my cholesterol is a bit high and my BMI is 30. When I was biking 90 miles a week, my VO2 max was "sub-standard."

Let's assume this information is true. That's OK. It's all dialed up to 11, and you don't have to do anything about it right now.
by BSTRhino | 2025-11-10 01:37:26+00:00
Oh, thank you!

I would love to hear more about what you were trying to do with your project before. Was it more similar to the declarative coding part, the automatic multiplayer part, or something else? Part of why I'm doing this is to explore the design space of how games should be made and I'm interested to hear what problems, issues, pet peeves, "bugbears" etc that other people think are worth solving.
Show HN: Fleet Fund – Invest fractionally in EV chargers that earn income
by Justbeingjustin | 2025-11-10 01:37:50+00:00
Hi HN, I’m Justin. I built Fleet Fund to let anyone invest fractionally in machines that earn income. I'm starting with EV chargers. The idea is that as cars charge, they generate passive income that’s distributed to investors.

This is an early prototype with a waitlist. Would love feedback on the concept and where you think this could go next (robotaxis, humanoid robots, AI agents, etc.).
by jmyeet | 2025-11-10 01:37:56+00:00
So far Trum pardons have wiped out over $1 billion in decided and sought fines [1]. There are pardons for the likes of Geore Santos (convincted for a whole host of crimes) for no other reason than he was a reliable Republican vote. clearly sending the message that if you are loyal, you can commit crimes and you will be pardoned. There's also the Teenessee House Speaker convicted for corruption [2] and the Binance founder [3] who allegedly aided in Trump's rug pull (sorry, "crypto offering").

Now this sort of thing isn't new. Famously on Clinton's last day in office he pardoned Marc Rich [4], who was convicted (before fleeing the country) on breaking sanctions by trading with Iran. It was widely rumored his ex-wife, Denise Rich, who had a lot of access to the Clinton's brokered a deal.

But what changed is the disastrous Trump v. United STates [5] decision last year that granted almost absolute presidential immunity. Now there's not the slightest fear of repercussions so the whole operation has gone into overdrive and it's so incredibly brazen.

I stand by my original claim: the TP-Link ban isn't technical. It's political. And I would bet all th emoney in my pockets that if the CEO had "donated" $1 million to the inauguration (like all the Tech CEOs did including Bezos and Cook) we'd likely have a very different outcome.

[1]: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/8/fact-checking-claims...

[2]: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-pardons-...

[3]: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-pardons-convicted-bin...

[4]: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/clintons-pardon-of-marc-ri...

[5]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_v._United_States
by gus_massa | 2025-11-10 01:38:15+00:00
My Favorite comment is a reply by PaulKeeble: (parent comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45827075 )

> Just 7% of studies that do a preliminary study on humans actually get through phase 3 and get approved for use. This is before even the preliminary point, its a tooth (or even a tooth analogue) in a petri dish. No idea if the material will be safe in a human mouth yet. [...]
by rstuart4133 | 2025-11-10 01:38:16+00:00
I have a Tesla, and have driven BYD's. The BYD computer system started to run so slowly it's voice driving directions became unrecognizable, then it rebooted itself while on the highway. After rebooting it worked for a while, then the voice started stuttering again. Do do get of lot of BYD for your money, but there is lot of sizzle compared to the Tesla sausage.

Tesla cop's a lot of crap. Most of it about is how they perform relative to Elon's promises. That's an awfully high bar, as no car a consumer can buy can come close to what Elon been promising for Tesla. Despite missing that bar by miles, the reality is they are probably the best EV you can buy right now, but they priced accordingly, at a premium (albeit not a huge one).

My primary concern about Tesla is whether it will exist in it's current form in 5 or 10 years time. You can't trust a word it's CEO says, it's meme stock whose share price must tank to a fraction of it's current value and it's corporate vision seems to be more focused humanoid robots than cars. It's competitors will catch up.

I'm told Tesla's are hard to repair, but their support is stellar where I live. A man who only works on Tesls's fixed the tail light my wife smashed while it was parked at home, and upgraded a few other things, all for free. Their charging network is second to none. While all that continues, I recon they deserve to sell a lot of cars. I hope it continues.