MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by roryirvine | 2025-11-12 13:18:41+00:00
FWIW, when working at a major Silicon Valley tech company in the mid 2010s, my team made significant contributions to OSS projects including OpenStack and the Linux kernel as a core part of our work for Walmart.

The work to upstream our changes was included in the Statements of Work which Walmart signed off on, and our time spent on those efforts was billed to them.

The stats for those projects will have recorded my former employer as the direct source of those contributions - but they wouldn't have existed had it not been for Walmart.
by MangoToupe | 2025-11-12 13:19:03+00:00
> If you were sufficiently convinced grinding LeetCode was a good career move, you would be motivated.

Motivation certainly doesn't work like that in my brain. Consistency in pursuing goals I know on paper are the right choice despite lack of motivation is the only way I've achieved anything.

If you can wed career goals with dopamine, that's wonderful! But I suspect you're extremely lucky.
by Propelloni | 2025-11-12 13:19:17+00:00
Left of center types have worked for decades on being ignored while right of center types are going through something of a resurgance right now after being rightfully relegated to the thrash heap of history and tend to feel persecuted if someone disagrees with them. For those right of center types freedom of speech seems to cut only in one way and it, unsurprisingly, evokes more disagreement. It must suck to be right of center.
by jcarrano | 2025-11-12 13:19:18+00:00
That was the first product released >10 years ago at my previous job [1]. The idea did not quite catch on, though, and the product was repurposed (successfully) as an OEM charger. There is not a lot of power available on street lamps and charging at 3.6kW is kind of slow. Consider that with almost the same hardware (especially the same expensive parts) and three-phase current, 22kW are possible.

It might turn out differently in the US, but it is hardly a new idea.

[1] https://www.bender.de/ebee/berlin/
by spacebanana7 | 2025-11-12 13:19:33+00:00
> One common rhetorical tactic, commonly used by their political allies, is to use their (perceived) enemies' most powerful words and ideas against them, to disarm and counter-attack. 'Woke' was a term on the left; racism became descrimination against white people, diversity becomes affirmative action for conservatives, banning and mocking and even embracing discussions of Nazis, etc.

Heresy is at truth taken too far, or a virtue emphasised to the detriment of others - paraphrasing Chesterton whom Tolkien almost certainly read given their similar locations/religions. It's a theme you see with Sauron's love of order in particular.

I think a lot of the Maga people pretty much take this view of DEI or Nazi hate. That diversity was originally good when it was about helping minorities but not when hurting whites, however tricky those are to separate in zero sum environments.
by KaiserPro | 2025-11-12 13:19:44+00:00
> I think LeCun is underestimating the impact that LLM's and Diffusion models

No, I think hes suggesting that "world models" are more impactful. The issue for him inside meta is that there is already a research group looking at that, and are wildly more successful (in terms of getting research to product) and way fucking cheaper to run than FAIR.

Also LeCun is stuck weirdly in product land, rather than research (RL-R) which means he's not got the protection of Abrash to isolate him from the industrial stupidity that is the product council.
by Centigonal | 2025-11-12 13:20:05+00:00
Thiel gave Vance his first real job. Thiel introduced Vance to Colin Greenspon (who was the managing director at Thiel's VC firm and now runs Narya with Vance). Thiel supported Vance's book. Thiel supported Vance's governor run. Thiel introduced Vance to Donald Trump. Thiel supported Vance's VP run.

It's not an employer/employee relationship, so maybe patronage is a better word.
by temperceve | 2025-11-12 13:20:40+00:00
It's funny to me that the future of casio watches is currently this:

The ever-innovative G-SHOCK brand takes a new step, launching a virtual community where people can co-create and interact with one another via digital platforms like NFTs and the metaverse. The opening of the virtual G-SHOCK STORE and the sale of digital 3D-rendered G-SHOCK items are just a sampling of the new plans and unprecedented experiences to come.
by glenneroo | 2025-11-12 13:20:44+00:00
This is how they do it on the Mars Trilogy after setting up a colony on Mars. Of course the trilogy is entirely fictional, but the idea sounds like it couldn't be worse than the current situation, where those with narcissistic/psycho/sociopath tendencies winning elections i.e. those who seek power and/or those who have proficient oration abilities, not necessarily those who are most capable.
by troupo | 2025-11-12 13:21:06+00:00
Most of that ecosystem is language agnostic, or offer much more ergonomically sane APIs in dotnet. This is especially true for anything coming out of Google (e.g. Dataflow which runs on top of Apache Beam).

C# itself has way better DX (object initializers alone are worth the switch), and most language features don't feel bolted on like with Java (anything from functional programming to extension methods to whatever).

And at least 6 years ago .net with default settings required significantly less resources (RAM, CPU) and yad significantly faster startup than comparable Java code.

C# is also significantly more consistent. You might not use LINQ, but since everything is IEnumerable, you will use the same set of methods on everything. None of the Lis.of...Collectors.collect idiocy from Java.

I also found Asp.net to have significantly less undebuggable magic than Spring.
by telesilla | 2025-11-12 13:21:12+00:00
I've been enjoying many fake/replacement things for years: vegan ice-cream, beyond meat, quorn, vaping.. I'll be happy if we can move away from damaging products relying on unsustainable cocoa production.

Nice mention of Tony's Chocolonely, if you pass through the Netherlands it's one of the great gifts to pick up to take home.
by mehulashah | 2025-11-12 13:21:19+00:00
Most of the folks on this topic are focused on Meta and Yann’s departure. But, I’m seeing something different.

This is the weirdest technology market that I’ve seen. Researchers are getting rewarded with VC money to try what remains a science experiment. That used to be a bad word and now that gets rewarded with billions of dollars in valuation.
by regularfry | 2025-11-12 13:21:23+00:00
What's odd is that while what you describe is true for fans with a rotary mechanical switch, where you have to physically turn the contacts through "High" to get to "Low", it's also very common for fans with independent speed buttons to put the "High" button next to "Off", with "Low" furthest away. I don't know if that's just a hold-over from rotary switches because people are used to the sequence, or if there's something else mechanical going on inside the switch unit which has the same effect. And on this occasion I'm not taking mine apart to find out.
by oblio | 2025-11-12 13:21:49+00:00
Think of iOS. You can basically use just 1 programming stack on iOS devices: Swift/Objective-C. You can't have JIT except for the JIT approved by the Apple Gods.

The biggest hack to this is React Native, which barged just in due to sheer Javascript and web dominance elsewhere, and even that has a ton of problems. Plus I'm fairly sure that the React Native JS only runs in the JIT approved by the Apple Gods, anyway.

Otherwise, we're stuck in the old days of compiled languages: C/C++ (they can't really get rid of these due to games, and they have tried... Apple generally hates/tolerates games but money is money). Rust works decently from what I hear. Microsoft bought Mono/Xamarin and that also sort of works.

But basically nothing else is at the level of quality and polish - especially in terms of deployment - as desktops, if you want to build an app in say, Python. Or Java. Or Ruby. Or whatever other language in which people write desktop apps.

And we're at a point where mobile computing power is probably 20x that of desktops available in 2007. The only factor that is holding us back is battery life, and that's only because phone manufacturers manufacture demand by pushing for ever slimmer phones. Plus we have tons of very promising battery techs very close to increasing battery capacities by 20-50%.
by lproven | 2025-11-12 13:22:42+00:00
Code morphing was fascinating. I had no idea nVidia tried anything similar.

I always felt Transmeta could have carved out a small but sustained niche by offering even less-efficient "morphing" for other architectures, especially discontinued ones. 680x0, SPARC, MIPS, Alpha, PA-RISC... anything the vendors stopped developing hardware (or competitive hardware) for.
by Marshferm | 2025-11-12 13:22:46+00:00
World models are trivial. eg narratives are world models and they provide only pre frontal simulation, ie they are synthetically prey-predation. No animal uses world models for survival and doubtful they exist (maps are not models), a world model doesn't conform to optic flow, ie instantaneous use and response. Anything like a world model isn't shallow, the basic premise of oscillatory command, it's needlessly deep, nothing like brains. This is just a frontier hail-mary to the current age.
by tonyedgecombe | 2025-11-12 13:22:52+00:00
>Something like for example Affinity should in a rational market eat at least half of Adobes customer base with their current offerings. So maybe it's a problem of marketing?

I suspect Adobe's customers look at their tools in a different way to the typical HN poster. They don't want too many new features because that disrupts their existing workflow. They would prefer to get annoying bugs fixed over something that causes them to relearn the software. They aren't even that worried about subscriptions because the software is a means to an income.
by Flere-Imsaho | 2025-11-12 13:25:34+00:00
You've been downvoted, but this is exactly how I feel as well. There is an element of denial amongst the HN crowd, commonly saying stuff like "Well I tried Claude code and it produced garbage". Any task with a tight "write->test->repeat" loop is going to get AI-trained into oblivion, and we've only 4 years into this LLM disruption.

Personally, I'm training up on: infrastructure, systems administration, security and software-architecture - because these are harder to train on given a longer "write->test->repeat" cycle, although I'm not in denial that they too will be disrupted.

Writing code for any problem - especially Leet-code style problems - is going to be solved by AI eventually. Don't be left behind.
by CheeseFromLidl | 2025-11-12 13:25:45+00:00
I’m in the process of cleaning out my “varia” parts bin. It’s a box of neat-looking chips with an id that looks easy to google for datasheets … but most are locked away as you state. There is a fixed barrier for hobbyists around the 100 to 200MHz bus rate area. From there on hardware that’s available for diy projects gets dumbed down or bottlenecked in some critical section. Every once in a full moon you get a glimpse of the product brief for a chip you desoldered from a docsys decoder and see what’s behind the NDA wall. Oh well, here’s to fpgas.
by gr4vityWall | 2025-11-12 13:26:02+00:00
> Qt also seems to be a good option

I think Qt really is 'just' missing more language bindings, and a better hot reload story for more people to use it. Lots of devs (specially Free Software devs) would prefer to use native toolkits, if the prototyping experience was similar to how Vite is for web frontend stuff, I think Qt would be used a lot more.
by arevno | 2025-11-12 13:26:25+00:00
> or have too large denominations that people refuse

In the US, if you have actually incurred a debt (e.g. you've already eaten your meal, or you've already had the repair performed, etc), the business can "refuse" payment in cash, but by so doing, they have effectively declared the debt void.

US legal tender case law permits businesses to refuse cash for non-debt-mediated transactions, but if a debt has been incurred, they have to accept it.
by incomingpain | 2025-11-12 13:26:29+00:00
In 2022, my opinion of journalism was low. Decades of headlines which were objectively false but no retraction, just doubling down on their state propaganda.

There were some papers that I still trusted. Then AI hit journalism with a silly stick and utterly wrecked them all.

Mind you, I love AI. I however can admit that AI seems to have wrecked what was left of journalism.
by billy99k | 2025-11-12 13:26:36+00:00
What Grok described is all true. All of these things did happen during the election. Many people would want to investigate this further, to find out the truth on the matter, but everyone that tried this got arrested or fired.

From the 'strange' coincidences of water main breaks in multiple large city voting precincts in the middle of the night to Judges changing the law to invalidate laws requiring signature verification (and then Democrats using signature verification to nuke their competition a year later, like in the Michigan Governor race).

At this point, it's over. We won't ever know the truth. I just won't support investigations when the person you don't want uses these same cheating tactics to win the next election.
by rsynnott | 2025-11-12 13:26:55+00:00
> apart from a market crash, more related to financial bubble than technical barriers

_That is what an AI winter is_.

Like, if you look at the previous ones, it's a cycle of over-hype, over-promising, funding collapse after the ridiculous over-promising does not materialise. But the tech tends to hang around. Voice recognition did not change the world in the 90s, but neither did it entirely vanish once it was realised that there had been over-promising, say.
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by qa-guy | 2025-11-12 13:27:06+00:00
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I’m curious to hear if you find this kind of tool useful, and how it could be improved.

Thanks!
by thw_9a83c | 2025-11-12 13:27:49+00:00
Apparently it didn't work last time, so why not try again with a more vague language, an expanded scope and even slapping the age verification on top of it? And all of this while still preserving our privacy.

This time, we should feel 100% completely reassured (from the proposal):

Regulation whilst still allowing for end-to-end encryption, nothing in this Regulation should be interpreted as prohibiting, weakening or circumventing, requiring to disable, or making end-to-end encryption impossible.
by moralestapia | 2025-11-12 13:28:40+00:00
Same here and my motivation was that some of my liked videos were randomly removed and it's pretty cool music I wanted to keep forever.

I made another script that adds the video thumbnail as album art and somehow tries to put the proper ID3 tags, it works like 90% of the time which is good enough for me.

Then I made another script that syncs it to my phone when I connect it.

So now I have unlimited music in my phone and I only have to click on "Like" to add more.

And yet, none of Google's 900k TOC genius engineers have thought of this as a feature ...
by jvanderbot | 2025-11-12 13:28:58+00:00
Ideologically pure, but for all practical purposes miserly. Trillion dollar companies are very hard to move that way and very unlikely to take the first step. We need a "Foundational Software and Services" fund that says very nice things about each donor and spends 100$ on publicity for every 1$ to software to even get them to start looking, I bet.

Donate some time: Ask your boss if their company could chip?
by cbeach | 2025-11-12 13:30:00+00:00
I get the point and share the annoyance at software subscriptions.

However taking music as a counter point, my life is much simpler and cheaper now I can play any song I like, any time, on any device. I don’t “own” the songs any more, but in practice that doesn’t matter at all to me.

The crucial factor here is competition among providers. If there is no competition, providers can lock people in and bump the price.

But with music, in particular, we have many options and the pricing is very reasonable.

My conclusion is that ownership/subscription is a debate that may be framed wrongly and actually it’s competition/monopolies that we should care about
by bcrl | 2025-11-12 13:30:14+00:00
Given that domain renewals can be purchased multiple years into the future, along with the fact that there are grace periods after expiration, it would take an awful lot of failure to lose a domain unintentionally. I've held my primary domain since 1997 multiple registrars and numerous hosting / colocation arrangements over the years. It sounds harder than it is if you haven't done it before.
by yeoyeo42 | 2025-11-12 13:30:20+00:00
the answer is a big depends. but I can give you some ballpark intuition.

perhaps it's easiest to think about regular image processing because it uses the same hardware. you can think about each pixel as a particle.

a typical 4k (3840 x 2160 at 16:9) image contains about 8 million pixels. a trivial compute shader that just writes 4 bytes per pixel of some trivial value (e.g. the compute shader thread ids) will take you anywhere from roughly speaking 0.05ms - 0.5ms on modern-ish GPUs. this is a wide spread to represent a wide hardware spread. on current high end GPUs you will be very close to the 0.05ms, or maybe even a bit faster.

but real world programs like video games do a whole lot more than just write a trivial value. they read and write a lot more data (usually there are many passes - so it's not done just once - in the end maybe a few hundred bytes per pixel), and usually run many thousands of instructions per pixel. I work on a video game everyone's probably heard about and the one of the main material shaders is too large to fit into my work GPUs instruction cache (of 32kb) to give you an idea how many instructions are in there (not all executed of course - some branching involved).

and you can still easily do this all at 100+ frames per second on high end GPUs.

so you can in principle simulate a lot of particles. of course, the algorithm scaling matters. most of rendering is somewhere in O(n). anything involving physics will probably involve some kind of interaction between objects which immediately implies O(n log n) at the very least but usually more.
by iansinnott | 2025-11-12 13:30:30+00:00
Based on my recent job search: Don't focus on grinding leetcode, it's not worth your time unless you're applying to Meta/Google/MSFT etc.

- give yourself a concrete algorithm practice goal, such as "get through Blind 75" (it's a list of 75 questions you can find online).

- practice using data structures and also implementing whatever your language doesn't provide

For context, I just spent most of the last two months doing a job search in the Bay Area. Did final round interviews at several companies ranging in size from a few people to a few thousand.

I encountered exactly 1 (one!) direct leetcode problem during my interviews.
by maccard | 2025-11-12 13:31:21+00:00
I use rider on Mac (and windows to be fair) and i think the experience is better than visual studio on windows.

My biggest gripe with dotnet tooling is dotnet format. It’s not quick enough to use on a pre commit hook, so people don’t run it regularly and we get failures for it.

It’s such a small nit, dotnet is a great environment to work in
by DebtDeflation | 2025-11-12 13:31:27+00:00
That's been true for the last year or two, but it feels like we're at an inflection point. All of the announcements from OpenAI for the last couple of months have been product focused - Instant Checkout, AgentKit, etc. Anthropic seems 100% focused on Claude Code. We're not hearing as much about AGI/Superintelligence (thank goodness) as we were earlier this year, in fact the big labs aren't even talking much about their next model releases. The focus has pivoted to building products from existing models (and building massive data centers to support anticipated consumption).
by zikduruqe | 2025-11-12 13:31:29+00:00
> This is the weirdest technology market that I’ve seen.

You must have not lived through the dot com boom. There was almost everything under the sun was being sold under a website that started with an "e". ePets, ePlants, eStamps, eUnderwear, eStocks, eCards, eInvites.....
by blutoot | 2025-11-12 13:31:55+00:00
Wanted to respond to a few comments about why motivation has been an issue for me up until this point.

It is an issue simply because leetcode grinding makes me feel like all my 10+ years of commitment to my previous employer (often foolishly at the expense of my personal well-being) and all the things I have contributed and picked up on the way mean nothing / nada / zilch to my future prospective employers. The whole prep process makes me feel like I need to start from scratch and nothing that I did in the past matters at all. I find this extremely frustrating.
by finalarbiter | 2025-11-12 13:32:00+00:00
This is a good list, and there are some games on here I've never heard of. That said, I would suggest the addition of Xonotic[0] to the 'first-person games' category, and Luanti[1], formerly MineTest, to the 'sandbox games' category.

[0] https://xonotic.org

[1] https://www.luanti.org/en/
by myth_drannon | 2025-11-12 13:32:10+00:00
Pretty much. If all you do is prompt in Claude why the hell you need to memorize how to solve leetcode problems? And usually the companies that push hard for leetcode are the one who also force to use AI to code. I feel like building your own projects(for potential commercial success or for just a practice) is better preparation for an interview.

Meta by the way is changing the interview process and it's not leetcode anymore but AI assisted problem solution.
by crazygringo | 2025-11-12 13:32:18+00:00
What are you talking about? It's in control of the creators. YT doesn't get exclusive copyright on user's content. Those creators can upload wherever they want.

And YT isn't "greedy bastards". They provide a valuable service, for free, that is extremely expensive to run. Do you think YT ought to be government-funded or a charity or something?
by cantor_S_drug | 2025-11-12 13:32:31+00:00
Intelligence and human health can't be defined neatly. They are what we call suitcase words. If there exists a physiological tradeoff between medical research about whether to live till 500 years or to be able to lift 1000kg when a person is in youth, those are different dimensions / directions across we can make progress. Same happens for intelligence. I think we are on right track.
by andriamanitra | 2025-11-12 13:33:05+00:00
Don't think of it as a grind! I play some Leetcode almost daily purely for my own enjoyment. The problems are actually pretty fun for the most part. They can force your mind to think of a problem in ways it isn't used to which is rewarding in and of itself. And looking at how others have solved the same problem afterwards can teach you all kinds of nifty tricks, especially in programming languages you're less familiar with!

If Leetcode is just a means to an end for you you're probably not going to have a good time.