MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lapcat | 2025-11-14 16:05:02+00:00
> It's not talking about entrepreneurs who start with nothing. No job, no nothing. There's a lot more of those than people think.

How many is "a lot more", and how "successful" are they?

> it appears to be making the case the you basically have to be at least somewhat privileged in order to be a successful entrepreneur. Perhaps I'm misreading it, but after reading it again, I can't see another way of interpreting it.

I'm baffled why you can't see another way of interpreting it, because I already explained another way of interpreting it: "Note that my quote above says the chances of becoming an entrepreneur drop quite a bit, but it doesn't say the chances drop to zero. So of course the number of non-privileged entrepreneurs will be greater than zero. It's all about the odds."

> this read to me like essentially a propaganda piece intended to discourage people who aren't part of a particular class from even trying to start their own business

Wow. I think that's more projection coming from your own mind than from the article. Perhaps the biggest problem with this conspiratorial interpretation is the motive: why would the article author want to discourage entrepreneurship? That just makes no sense to me. And it's certainly not an advice column.

Again, I think the motive for the article is fairly clear, even stated explicitly: to poke holes in the hero worship of rich dudes.

[EDIT:] Here's another article by the same author, about Andrew Yang’s basic income plan: https://qz.com/1687957/the-case-for-andrew-yangs-ubi-plan "Yang’s freedom dividend would give Americans greater agency to leave codependent relationships, professional or otherwise, and operate as the CEO or entrepreneur of their own lives." Does that sound like someone who wants to discourage entrepreneurship?
by magicalist | 2025-11-14 16:05:22+00:00
> Also HN readers: upvote the most obvious chatgpt slop to the frontpage

Eh, this one was interesting as documentation of real work that people were doing over years. You don't get that many blog posts about this sort of effort without, usually, a bunch of self hype (because the company blogging also sells data analysis AI or whatever) that clouds any interesting part of the story. The slop in it is annoying but it's also noise thats relatively easy to filter out in this case
Show HN: Keepr – A Secure and Offline Open Source CLI Password Manager
by bsamarji | 2025-11-14 16:05:39+00:00
Hi HN,

I made Keepr, a simple offline CLI password manager for developers who prefer keeping secrets local and working entirely in the terminal.

Everything is stored in an encrypted SQLCipher database, protected by a master password. A time-limited session keeps the vault unlocked while you work, so you don’t need to re-enter the password constantly. Keepr never touches the network.

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I would love some feedback, criticism or any questions, especially on UX or security!

Thanks for looking!
by dghlsakjg | 2025-11-14 16:05:41+00:00
Taxes can have nuance.

You can easily write a law that looks like this: There is now a water usage tax. It applies only to water used for data-centers. It does not apply to residential use, agricultural use, or any other industrial use.

We do preferential pricing and taxing all the time. My home's power rate through the state owned utility is very different than if I consumed the exact same amount of power, but was an industrial site. I just checked and my water rate at home is also different than if I were running a datacenter. So in all actuality we already discriminate for power and water based on end use. at least where I live. Most places I have lived have different commercial and residential rates.

In other words, the price of beef can stay the same.
by Moto7451 | 2025-11-14 16:05:45+00:00
Which is good because a lot of such matching and ML use cases for products I’ve worked on at several companies fit into this. The problem I’ve seen is when decision making capabilities are inferred from/conflated with text classification and sentiment analysis.

In my current role this seems like a very interesting approach to keep up with pop culture references and internet speak that can change as quickly as it takes the small ML team I work with to train or re-train a model. The limit is not a tech limitation, it’s a person-hours and data labeling problem like this one.

Given I have some people on my team that like to explore this area I’m going to see if I can run a similar case study to this one to see if it’s actually a fit.

Edit: At the risk of being self deprecating and reductive: I’d say a lot of products I’ve worked on are profitable/meaningful versions of Silicon Valley’s Hot Dog/Not Hot Dog.
by magicalhippo | 2025-11-14 16:06:10+00:00
What I want is to be able to start a session remotely after a reboot, and continue that same session when I get back home. And conversely start a session while at my desk at home and resume that same session remotely. Without any weird limitations.

In other words, how RDP works on Windows.

So you're saying that is still not possible I take it.
by eucyclos | 2025-11-14 16:06:15+00:00
There are politics and there are Politics, and I don't think the two of you are using the same definition. 'Making decisions in groups' does not require 'oversimplifying issues for the sake of tribal cohesion or loyalty'. It is a distressingly common occurrence that complex problems are oversimplified because political effectiveness requires appealing to a broader audience.

We'd all be better off if more people withheld judgement while actually engaging with the nuances of a political topic instead of pushing for their team. The capacity to do that may be a privilege but it's a privilege worth earning and celebrating.
by tempest_ | 2025-11-14 16:06:22+00:00
While I find this data interesting it isnt usually very actionable.

The skus with the lowest number immediately get bought out(if they are still available, which they are not always) and will never be available. You also always run the risk of "getting a bad batch" or just getting some drives that got beat up in shipping.

Usually this data is only useful for keeping an eye on your own stuff and prioritizing replacements when the time comes.

When buying drives I just look at the sizes I need and the performance then get 1/3rd from each of the manufacturers.
by ignoramous | 2025-11-14 16:06:54+00:00
> fraserinstitute.org/commentary/no-evidence-of-ma...

You've a gripe with outrage and yet... I mean, any think tank can write anything they think and post it to the interwebs. Here's the other side's perspective:

Since the confirmation of community knowledge of suspected unmarked graves in Kamloops, First Nations across Canada have located evidence of the remains of more than 2,300 children in suspected unmarked graves at or near former residential schools and Indian hospitals, according to the report. But the unauthorized visits to the site are the work of a "core group" of Canadians who continue to deny, defend or minimize the physical, sexual, psychological and emotional abuse inflicted on Indigenous children in the Indian Residential School System "despite the indisputable evidence of survivors and their families," Murray said at a Friday news conference. Denialism and disrespect exacerbate the pain and trauma of survivors and community members trying to grieve and search the grave sites. "Denialism is violence. Denialism is calculated. Denialism is harmful. Denialism is hate," Murray said.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/denialists-t...
by pwg | 2025-11-14 16:07:02+00:00
The business world is cyclic, and with that "programmer jobs" are also cyclic with the business cycle. So even though things look 'down' now, that does not mean that the down cycle will last forever. However, surviving through a down period as a new graduate will also not be easy in any regards.

As to AI, the current crop of AI (which is bubbling very well, and I believe is running itself quickly towards yet another AI winter [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ai_winter]), it may be useful for replacing some percentage of "head count" programmers, it is not likely to be replacing the actual creative, good, programmers (i.e., the one's often referred to as 10x). So the best advice I can give is to strive to really learn your craft such that you can function more towards the 10x side of the spectrum than the "head count" side. That will give you the best assurance of success at present.
by Zigurd | 2025-11-14 16:07:13+00:00
Falcon Heavy has been successfully flown 11 times. Falcon Heavy can lift 67 tons to orbit. Starship has only lifted a fraction of that. SpaceX claims the price per kilogram to orbit for Falcon Heavy is even less than Falcon 9.

Every attempt at building products that are better faster cheaper more capable than your own existing successful products is extremely difficult.
by jdeibele | 2025-11-14 16:07:15+00:00
I just finished listening to the first episode of "Acquired" on Google and it ended with Google pushing Google Plus into everything in an effort to compete with Facebook in social networking. It really hampered all their other offerings.

https://www.acquired.fm Acquired podcast does long (2 4-hour episodes on Google) episodes on various companies, mostly tech but recently Trader Joe's
by tracker1 | 2025-11-14 16:07:28+00:00
It depends... I've found things I like and dislike with every DE I've ever touched... from early windows, to OS/2, Mac old and new, Amiga, BeOS, and even some bits from more modern Windows. On my personal desktop, I've been running Cosmic, as it's close to what I want. I had run Budgie desktop previously and had it tweaked very specific to my liking, but it was a hodge-podge and I just wanted an out of the box experience easier to deal with.

I think there is/was a lot to like with the Win9x interface that I feel advanced a lot through to Windows 7 even. I think the current taskbar in windows is relatively nice too, but the start menu itself has taken a few steps back. I'd like to see Cosmic get a bit closer to the taskbar, but keeping it's application menus and settings, which get better with each iteration imo. There's still something alien about the spacing on the dock's corners though.
by magicalist | 2025-11-14 16:08:02+00:00
> That line sticks out so much now, and I can't unsee it.

I thought maybe they did it on purpose at first, like a cheeky but too subtle joke about LLM usage, but when it happened twice near the end of the post I just acknowledged, yeah, they did the thing. At least it was at the end or I might have stopped reading way earlier.
by digdugdirk | 2025-11-14 16:08:03+00:00
Interesting! If someone with a math background (but not a CS background) wanted to dig deep into learning about mesh networking protocol theory - do you have any recommendations for learning resources or places to get started?

I've long imagined that a content centric mesh network approach would be a better starting point than what we've built up currently, but it seems like such a deep and mysterious subject and I have no idea where to even begin to get started.
by Mistletoe | 2025-11-14 16:08:18+00:00
The market can rally hard into the idea and dream of zero interest rates put in place by whatever stooge replaces Jerome Powell. I think we aren’t at the top, but will be in May 2026 when that happens. The tariffs will probably be declared illegal by then also. Tops come when everything is optimism and it seems like nothing but blue skies ahead. I don’t think anyone felt optimistic in 2025, it was a time of extreme uncertainty and turmoil.
by toss1 | 2025-11-14 16:08:31+00:00
This is one of the best arguments for Universal Basic Income there is.

If your basic needs are met, you don't need to worry that your startup failing will land you hungry in the streets. Startup life is living mostly at work and without frills anyway, but for people with money (or if it existed, UBI), if it fails, they at least will have the basics of housing, food, and healthcare and can continue on with life.

Having UBI for everyone would unleash the talents of the entire range of the populous, not only the prosperous few. Conceivably, the expansion (Cambrian explosion) of new advances could pay for itself in economic growth for society.
by John23832 | 2025-11-14 16:08:34+00:00
That's orthogonal to the idea of the piece.

Success can come from working hard at something. Whether you're comfortable working hard at something depends on the risk of doing so.

Lebron James works hard, spends all day getting better at basketball. He also has a cooking staff, training staff, and house keepers.

If I took the same amount of time playing basketball, the same effort, I'd be broke and homeless.

If I come from money, sure I can spend all day working on the nuances of my startup, to the exclusion of all else. My ability to exist is taken care of.
by hbn | 2025-11-14 16:08:38+00:00
Every few years at WWDC they'll make some mention of some upcoming new gaming features. A couple years ago they showcased that their new iPhones could run the latest Resident Evil game. Hell, they brought out Kojima one year to announce a Death Stranding port for Mac.

The efforts are usually short-lived and mostly fruitless, but I wouldn't say they're "grossed out" by gaming nerds.
by jitl | 2025-11-14 16:08:52+00:00
I don’t understand how you can test Postgres performance in CI or on a developer laptop. Until your tables are large and varied enough, Postgres can ignore indexes and prefer full table scans because it’s faster. Plans depend on statistics so your test data generator better output rows with the same distributions as you get in prod. Unless you have a large and representative load of concurrent queries, Postgres and filesystem caching can optimize around a single query shape, masking issues that will shit the bed in prod.

Example: I wrote a recursive query that provided a huge reduction in queries issued from our app for a traversal. Worked beautifully in local, and halved p95 in our dogfood environment. Yippee! In prod? The query always timed out after 60 seconds, even though it had the same query plan as dogfood env and staging. Sad trombone noises.

For query semantics regression testing, we just write tests in our normal test framework and run them in CI like any other test. Test data setup works like any other test, and we can call some of our millions of lines of app code to help out with repetitive tasks. To prevent cross-test leakage we wrap each test in a BEGIN..ROLLBACK, and transform inner use of transactions to save points in our db client layer. I’d like to add libeatmydata to speed things up further but haven’t done so yet.
by rkomorn | 2025-11-14 16:09:51+00:00
I hadn't read comments about Dropbox and products/features until maybe a week or two ago and somehow don't know the reference despite having spent most of the last 20 years in tech.

I presume the story is along the lines of "someone declined to invest in Dropbox and lost out" but what do I need to google to get the actual context? I don't need a full rehash here.

Edit: or is it "Dropbox is adding features nobody wants" and then turning out to be wrong?

Edit again: presumably it's not about "Nobody Cares" by Dropbox, the band.
by colechristensen | 2025-11-14 16:09:56+00:00
I think a lot of AI wins are going to end up local and free much like whisper.

Maybe it could be a little bit more accurate, it would be nice if it ran a little faster, but ultimately it's 95% complete software that can be free forever.

My guess is very many AI tasks are going to end up this way. In 5-10 years we're all going to be walking around with laptops with 100k cores and 1TB of RAM and an LLM that we talk to and it does stuff for us more or less exactly like Star Trek.
by noir_lord | 2025-11-14 16:10:03+00:00
They seem like a better razor for your Yak Shaving than an actually useful product (generally, I'm assuming some people do benefit from them).

Honestly if constant online distractions are an issue - just put your laptop/PC in airplane mode, if you don't have the self control to not turn air plane mode off you likely aren't going to have enough to not pull your phone out/grab your laptop.
by lo_zamoyski | 2025-11-14 16:10:29+00:00
Conspiracy theories appeal to people for various reasons.

1. It's something for bored people to do and to believe.

2. It's something that offers supposed explanations for various real or imaginary events or states of affairs at a lower cost than actual explanation.

3. It gives people something more satisfying than "shit happens", and in this way, gives people a feeling of the possibility of control over the unpredictable (superstitions like astrology and fortune telling have the same motive).

4. It allows people to rationalize their misfortunes, dissatisfaction, and grievances, and to deflect responsibility from themselves, or to give their envies the appearance of a moral basis.
by gruez | 2025-11-14 16:10:52+00:00
Not the OP, but

>As of April 2025, no bodies have been exhumed from the suspected gravesites, largely due to a lack of community consensus on whether to investigate detected anomalies at the risk of disturbing burials.[9] As of January 2024, at least three official excavations had been performed with no bodies discovered, though at least one excavation only investigated a portion of the reported ground anomalies at that site.[10][11][12] Disputes regarding the conclusiveness of the evidence has helped spawn a movement of denialism about the existence of some or all residential school burial sites.[9][13][14] Indigenous groups and academics have dismissed claims of a "mass grave hoax", saying that claimed discoveries of mass graves were present in a minority of stories published by mainstream media and that there had been public misinterpretation of what had actually been announced in 2021.[15

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Indian_residential_sc...

It sounds like the "mass" part of the "mass graves" is disputed, and there's motte-and-bailey on both sides (eg. "you must think nobody/bazillion died in residential schools") muddying the dispute.
by orbital-decay | 2025-11-14 16:10:53+00:00
That's a ridiculous hyperbole. Translation and search alone are examples of wildly successful applications of generative AI that a lot of people actually want because it makes the experience qualitatively better. This is pretty evident if you look at normal people shifting to ChatGPT and other AI-powered search from the engines like Google. Recent AI mode in Google is a desperate attempt to stay relevant.
by whitehexagon | 2025-11-14 16:11:26+00:00
Even if LLMs seem to have reached their limits, and are no longer on the feature path towards AGI, I have a fundamental (possibly irrational) dislike for anything labeled AI, just in case this does become a stepping stone towards AGI.

On this principle I will not make use of any service, or buy any product, that associates itself with AI, and inserts itself into my life without invitation.

In fact, I would like to see a basic human right that allows us sheeps to opt out of anything AI related, or anything with forced advertising or digital currency for that matter.
by danielbln | 2025-11-14 16:11:33+00:00
_sigh_

Yes LLMs hallucinate, no it's no longer 2022 and ChatGPT (gpt-3.5) is the pinnacle of LLM tech. Modern LLMs in an agentic loop can self correct, you still need to be on guard but if used correctly (yes, yes, holding it wrong etc. etc.) can do many, many tasks that do not suffer from "need to check every single time".
by AlgebraFox | 2025-11-14 16:11:48+00:00
Apple and Google dominates the entire smartphone market today. They are ad companies running on surveillance economy. In addition, their platforms are proprietary, privacy invading and freedom disrespecting.

GrapheneOS is the only security and privacy focused alternative we have today. Please support GrapheneOS by nominating them in the 2025 Proton Lifetime Fundraiser.
by Jtsummers | 2025-11-14 16:12:00+00:00
I don't think the person you responded to knows what the cut operator is, or they wouldn't have written any of their nonsense comments. They seem to think that it's some magical thing and not, as you wrote, a way to stop backtracking from going back through some point. You can implement that in any appropriate search system in any language. It might not be an operator, but it would carry the same meaning and effect.
Show HN: Wegent –Open Source Cloud Coding Agent Platform
by qdaxb | 2025-11-14 16:12:08+00:00
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by getnormality | 2025-11-14 16:12:15+00:00
I'm pretty sure it's nonsense, but it does make me curious. What kind of mind goes down this path? They also produced a whole 300 page book. Is it like a massive genAI hallucination happening in a human brain?

If you dip into the book, it looks like something today's generation of "deep thinking" AI models might produce if demanded to create a proof of the Riemann hypothesis.
by topaz0 | 2025-11-14 16:13:47+00:00
Lots of commenters replying with 'actually some people want this', or 'actually I want this'.

Two points on that. First, OP addresses this by noting that when mozilla asked the community what they wanted, the replies from the community were overwhelmingly opposed to any sort of AI integration in the browser. That at least indicates that the people who are actively following firefox development are substantially against this kind of feature. It's not just "I and the people I talk to don't want this" -- clearly a very important subset of firefox power users don't want it.

In other words, the people that are actively going out of their way to choose firefox now, would actively dislike having the browser move in this direction. Sure, maybe the idea is that there are people out there who are longing to be one fewer click away from chatgpt, who is actively choosing their browser based on having access to such things... to which I say... really??? But more to the point, that's probably not the kind of user who will choose firefox over whatever corporate-captured competitor is adding chatbots to their browser yesterday.

Second, my personal position, which seems to be echoed by some other commenters, is that, whether or not people do want this, they shouldn't want it. It is bad for users and for the world to have it available, it will make the web worse as sites are rewritten to cater to the bots, and it's going to have to be ripped out in a few years anyway when it becomes clear that the true costs of this stuff are unsustainable.
by chollida1 | 2025-11-14 16:13:55+00:00
Its worse for some other "ai" related companies.

Coreweave for instance, now has its CDS trade around 600bp, which is a 1/3 rise in 2 months, which implies that the probability of a default in 5 years is 40% at a 40 cent recovery rate.

That makes Coreweave's credit rating the equivalent of CCC-, which aint good.