MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by generativenoise | 2025-11-09 23:32:27+00:00
Indeed, to go along with your analogy it does feel like we have chosen to go for a "All in rush", rather that try and compound marginal advantage. Sometimes that does work, but is can be a really chaotic where small perturbations can wildly swing the outcome.

To me the most wild thing about our current circumstance is the abstraction away from the real with financialization. Pretending that money basically has unlimited optionality and liquidity in the future without having to manage, maintain and develop the resources, capabilities, infrastructure, and environment for the long future not just the next few quarters.

Especially when it comes to investing for retirement. So much people are delegating their excess to grow the "market" which by in large is destroying the foundations for that very retirement by chasing maximal growth of money while destroying the underlying systems (healthcare, housing, social and environmental stability).

Maybe this is the best we can do due to adversarial constraints and the current system state. But that is a pretty depressing thought.
Ask HN: How to get a Digg code? Can someone that works at Digg share thanks
by appleaday1 | 2025-11-09 23:32:32+00:00
Hello I want to research Digg and see whats all about, please help me out lol, i run some big subs on Reddit and I am hoping hopefully all the right things about reddit (the hobby subs, the tech subs the meme subs, and all the good things from there migrates over) can I get a usercode please to join, let me know if this is the right place to ask haha.
by edmundsauto | 2025-11-09 23:32:33+00:00
We can always re-examine our priors and assumptions given the current context. It's also worth considering other fields. For example, military helicopter pilots training is longer, more expensive, and frequently only requires a 6-8 year commitment. It doesn't pass a sanity check that a 25 year career should be too much of a concern... if they were treated well.
by denkmoon | 2025-11-09 23:32:34+00:00
>Countries used to routinely go on domination quests for land and resources. They used to go find exotic lands and claim them as their own. They used to harvest resources and enslave the losers.

This is not a golden age to look back on fondly. That was colonialism. That was the world wars. That was the bleakest era in human history.

That doesn't mean power games don't exist anymore though. The order that prevents regression to the above is held in place by peaceful competition and a threat that nobody wants to relive those horrific experiences. Yet the leaders lived through these horrors are gone, replaced by their children who seem to not have a healthy fear of the depths of depravity humans can fall to. Instead focused on personal wealth accumulation to the exclusion of all else, and if the structures that prevent global war are in the way of that well they need to go.
by questionableans | 2025-11-09 23:32:58+00:00
Yeah, it is shockingly bad. I’m assuming you’re using “talent” euphemistically here.

For a recent job opening I was looking to fill, HR sent us all of the applications rather than doing their own filtering (they did first round calls with people engineering highlighted).

The level of resume spam is absolutely staggering. So many applicants to jobs that have no obvious connection to their stated skills & experience, with job application questions filled out by LLMs. I’m not saying they’re all bad people, but all of these people who don’t know what they’re looking for other than an income is really disheartening.
by davebranton | 2025-11-09 23:33:03+00:00
If I see another AI-written trash article I am going to scream. Overlong, overwritten garbage. People used to write, and there was personality in that writing. Now people believe it's acceptable to generate reams of utter formless shite and post it on the internet.

If you cannot be bothered to write something, why on God's good earth would you expect anyone to be bothered to read it?
by derektank | 2025-11-09 23:33:10+00:00
I'm pretty sure the point parent was trying to make is that you can't get other people to leave their phones at home and there is very little recourse if a private citizen decides to record you without your consent from their phone in a public space. There's of course a difference in the powers involved, but people have had their lives ruined because somebody captured a video of them out of context or in their worst moment.
by michelangelodev | 2025-11-09 23:33:16+00:00
https://www.saintbeluga.org/

I was a YC founder in 2006 and now work as a data scientist full-time, but on the side I also do Christian apologetics, helping fellow engineers/scientists/mathematicians seek answers to life's deepest questions.

Some cool articles for the HN crowd:

- [published several days ago] Medical miracles in Lourdes, France recognized by the Catholic Church 2018-2025: https://www.saintbeluga.org/our-lady-of-lourdes-immaculate-c...

- My interview of Evan O'Dorney, a three-time Putnam Fellow and two-time IMO gold medalist, who converted to Catholic Christianity: https://www.saintbeluga.org/veritas-part-i-conversion-of-a-p...

- In-depth scientific overview of Eucharistic miracles: https://www.saintbeluga.org/eucharistic-miracles-god-under-t...

- Conversion testimony by Harvard astronomy professor Karin Oberg: https://www.saintbeluga.org/veritas-part-ii-conversions-at-h...
by pmarreck | 2025-11-09 23:33:25+00:00
Sounds like a problem with all of AI.

Having driven Tesla FSD and coded with Claude/Codex, it suffers from the exact same issues- Stellar performance in most common contexts, but bizarrely nonsensical behavior sometimes when not.

Which is why I call it "thunking" (clunky thinking) instead of "thinking". And also why it STILL needs constant monitoring by an expert.
by _adamnt | 2025-11-09 23:33:51+00:00
Curated LinkedIn topics + AI drafting: validating before building

I'm exploring building a weekly curation service for professionals who want to write on LinkedIn but struggle with "what's worth writing about."

The thesis: In the AI era, execution (writing) is commoditized. The real bottleneck is editorial judgment... knowing what topics matter before they're obvious.

The concept: Weekly email with 5-7 curated topics (tech trends, policy shifts, market movements). Each topic comes with sources, multiple angles, and context Choose your perspective, AI drafts a polished article

Why I think this could work: I've been manually doing this for myself for years. Pattern recognition at scale is hard to automate, but pairing human curation with AI execution might work.

Target market: ~30M professionals who should be building thought leadership but don't have time to spend on research.

Current status: Validating demand before building. The hard part isn't the AI, it's systematizing the trend-spotting and curation process without losing signal quality.
by Arathorn | 2025-11-09 23:33:57+00:00
We are open to suggestions :) And the very first generation of P2P Matrix was indeed built on libp2p (and Protocol Labs led Element's Series B). However, the thought experiment here is whether we can get away without a full global P2P overlay at all in the interests of keeping it simple & stupid. We might well end up back at libp2p tho!

Edit: another option on our todo list to look into more is Iroh (https://github.com/n0-computer/iroh)
by alephnerd | 2025-11-09 23:34:14+00:00
> For 2x the salary young men have proven time and again they are willing to take the risk

First, sexist, and secondly in 2025 there's no guarantee that you would be able to live in the US long term on a work visa (but it's been this way since the mid-2010s), and if someone really feel the urge to immigrate to the West, then Australia, Canada, Netherlands, and Germany are all easier and (excluding Germany) Anglophone (yes, NL is de facto Anglophone now).

The US just isn't as attractive a location to immigrate to anymore for a large amount of people in white collar roles.

For the cream of the crop who primarily target American BigTech (GAYMAN) or HFTs like Citadel or Jane Street, in India the salary and ESPP grant can afford you household help, a nice condo, and make enough money that you can invest in building generational wealth or angel invest. It was a similar story for Chinese over the past 10-15 years as well.

For Europeans and Canadians, both are extremely turned off to America due to the Trump admin, and at portfolio companies we've seen a significant amount of requests from employees to shift away from the US as a result. Even Israelis increasingly don't target the US anymore because of perceptions and have begun choosing Germany, Czechia, or remaining in Israel.

> I would expect that shift to have a mostly net zero impact on American exployment

A lot of senior managers and leadership in tech companies are in the same boat with work visas as I mentioned before. All visas categories go through the same backlog for naturalization in the US - be you a manager, VC, factory worker, or SWE. Heck the creator of PyTorch is himself on one of these visas despite being employed at Meta.

> Every non-US team I've worked with and everyone I know that works with offshore still have meetings. It would be incredibly dysfunctional to not have any collaborative time

Absolutely, but everyone makes time for Zoom meetings and finds a way to make it work, or people like me will hire someone else who can get it done.

> Is that really what is happening

Yes in cybersecurity and a large portion of databases. I even explained why in other HN comments [0]

This is why most of our dealflow is now in Israel, Eastern Europe, and India. Look at recent exists like Wiz ans PingSafe.

Even recent cybersecurity companies that IPOed like Netskope and Rubrik have overwhelmingly hired in Israel or India and with leadership being Israeli or Indian either in origin or nationality.

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45421720
by ireadfaces | 2025-11-09 23:34:42+00:00
It is interesting that a similar thing happened when millions of manufacturing jobs were offshored to China and other low-cost sites. Now it has come to the tech industry, and every other industry where it is possible. It hurts when it comes to us. (Speaking as a person in tech in high COL). I hope we will find other roles as people found when they moved on from manufacturing roles too
by manquer | 2025-11-09 23:34:46+00:00
If you are single tasking, speed matters to an extent. You need to still be able to read/skim the output and evaluate its quality.

The productive people I know use git worktrees and are multi-tasking.

The optimal workflow is when you can supply it one or more commands[1] that the model can run to validate/get feedback on its own. Think of it like RLHF for the LLM, they are getting feedback albeit not from you, which can be laborious.

As long as the model gets feedback it can run fairly autonomously with less supervision it does not have to testing driven feedback, if all it gets is you as the feedback, the bottleneck will be always be the human time to read, understand and evaluate the response not token speed.

With current leading models doing 3-4 workflows in parallel is not that hard, when fully concentrating, of course it is somewhat less when browsing HN :)

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[1] The command could be a unit test runner, or a build/compile step, or e2e workflows like for UI it could be Chrome MCP/CDP, playwright/cypress, or storybook-js and so on. There are even converts toversion of TDD to benefit from this gain.

You could have one built for your use case if no existing ones fit, with model help of course.
by etoxin | 2025-11-09 23:35:02+00:00
I'm seeing the same thing in Australia.

These new tech companies/existing companies were not here for the first wave of offshoring engineers many years ago. basically, the product/service degraded and they brought the product/service back onshore.

It's a cycle that will repeat. Product degrades, there will be public outrage, then they will onshore the product to fix the problems caused from offshoring.
by pietz | 2025-11-09 23:35:24+00:00
Since they also limited the usage of codex CLI quite a bit, this might help. I really like the gpt-5-codex model. It has the most impressive dynamic reasoning effort I've seen. Responding instantly to simple questions while thinking very long when necessary. It's also interesting how close it is in many benchmarks to gpt-5. It's not just a good coding model. It's a great agentic model.
by rpdillon | 2025-11-09 23:35:56+00:00
I can't reply to you anymore, but the study you cited is at least a couple of steps removed from the discussion. First, it's about offloading navigation to a computer, and observing that humans use less of their navigation skills when doing so. This is very far removed from "smartphone use causes mental health problems".

Second, you claim it shows a "provably weaker hippocampus". But the study doesn't show that at all. It shows less activity in the hippocampus, which would be entirely expected, much like if we offloaded translation to a computer, we wouldn't see the same level of activity in the language centers of the brain.

The researchers themselves only conclude this from their study:

> These results help shape models of how hippocampal and prefrontal regions support navigation, planning and future simulation.

That's it.
by adrian_b | 2025-11-09 23:36:27+00:00
FORTRAN was defined a few years before IBM 704 (in 1954).

The use of 1-based indexing was just inherited from the index notation used for vectors and matrices in most mathematical journals at that time.

When IBM 704 was designed (as the successor of IBM 701 and taking into account the experience from IBM NORC), it was designed to allow an efficient implementation of FORTRAN, not vice-versa.

The column-major ordering of FORTRAN allows more efficient implementations of the matrix-vector and matrix-matrix products (by reading the elements sequentially), when these operations are done correctly, i.e. not using the naive dot product definitions that are presented in most linear algebra manuals instead of the useful definitions of these operations (i.e. based on AXPY and on the tensor product of vectors).
by e12e | 2025-11-09 23:36:31+00:00
Imagine you have a markdown file.

You could "render" it to html with pandoc, then serve the html from disk by a static web server.

This would be "build time" html - it's html before it's read by the server.

Then you could setup a cgi script, php-script or an application server that converted markdown to html - then sent it to the client. This would be server-side rendering.

Finally, you could send some html+javascript to the client that fetch the raw markdown, then generates html on the client. That would be client side rendering.
by abcking | 2025-11-09 23:36:33+00:00
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by davecrob2 | 2025-11-09 23:36:41+00:00
A template-based automation tool for small private equity firms. It has some AI functionality as well to easily parse documents and information from transcripts. Basically I want to free up investment teams from admin tasks so that they can spend more time on evaluating deals and building relationships.

A lot of the AI-powered applications for private equity firms are focusing on the multi-billion dollar firms.

https://www.unsilodata.com
by pvibby762 | 2025-11-09 23:36:56+00:00
Don't worry, far worse than students using your code is the people who find it and attempt to demand that you write stuff for them for free. I'm not even joking at all.

Contrarily, I've chatted with plenty of folks who found some hobby project I wrote up and thank me for writing it and saving them time and/or frustration.

Open your source or don't, people may use it without asking, if this upsets you, then don't. Do what you want with your own work. A buddy of mine sent me a screen shot of google's AI citing some crap that I wrote, I replied, "Wow, I hope no one actually use that!"

When I'm looking for developers I kind of expect to see something on github aside from the standard git tutorial. I'd much rather read someone's code than force them to do some coding test.
by dang | 2025-11-09 23:37:00+00:00
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by eeue56 | 2025-11-09 23:37:00+00:00
Tools to help my mental health tracking[0], and sharing with others how I manage my limited amount of energy[1]. They're kind of related, since mental health impacts my energy, so I've needed to prioritize and really make sure I'm spending my time and energy on things that matter. Usually, there's a good mix of things I enjoy doing with things I gain a lot out of. I've spent a lot of time thinking about this!

I've used my app in various forms for around 5 years, rewritten multiple times. But now I'm creating surrounding tooling to help others put my mental model for personal life prioritize to use. I'm writing in the "Saving Spoons" Substack as I go, trying to explain why and how I do things, with advice for others trying to do the same thing.

[0] - https://github.com/eeue56/gobaith/

[1] - http://savingspoons.substack.com/
by snowwrestler | 2025-11-09 23:37:27+00:00
I feel like a lot of the comments here do not understand how KeePassXC actually works. It’s a client application that works with a standard encrypted file format. The file format is the basis for security, not the client application.

KeePassXC does not store any data. Nor does it receive connections from the Internet, like a server. Thus the risk is structurally lower than a commercial client-server application like LastPass or 1Password, which is actually in possession of your password data.

I use 1Password at work for its excellent collaboration features and good-enough security. For most people it replaces a post-it note or Excel file. It’s way better than those.

But for my passwords I use KeePass (the file format) and a variety of clients including KeePassXC. This statement about AI won’t change that, unless someone can give me a reason other than vague “AI bad” or “no vibe coding” like most comments so far.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-11-09 23:37:30+00:00
There is currently a shortage of ~3k controllers (as of this comment), and the time to train and put new controllers into service is significant. Excess retirements reduces time to system failure due to labor shortages.

https://www.faa.gov/air-traffic-controller-qualifications

> Entry-level applicants must complete required training courses and spend several months at the FAA Academy in Oklahoma City. Applicants are paid while in training. After graduating the academy, individuals are placed in locations across the country and must gain 2-3 years additional training, both classroom and on-the-job experience, before becoming a certified professional controller. This rigorous training includes close supervision and evaluation by senior controllers that ensures controllers are competent, professional, know their airspace environment and can deal with the pressures and high pace of the job.

Controllers in training have been quitting because of the shutdown.

Flights to Los Angeles Airport halted due to air traffic controller shortage - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45715771 - October 2025

> The shutdown is having real consequences, as some students at the controller academy have already decided to abandon the profession because they don’t want to work in a job they won’t be paid for, Duffy said. That will only make it harder for the FAA to hire enough controllers to eliminate the shortage, since training takes years. He said that the government is only a week or two away from running out of money to pay students at the academy.

Air traffic controller shortages cause widespread flight delays amid government shutdown - https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/air-traffic-controller-... - November 1st, 2025

> “Currently nearly 50 percent of major air traffic control facilities are experiencing staffing shortages, and nearly 90 percent of air traffic controllers are out at New York–area facilities,” the FAA said in a statement posted on X on Friday evening.

(think in systems)
by igouy | 2025-11-09 23:37:58+00:00
> If you can't stop blowing your own foot off…

I can. It is, of course, those who worked on the project before me, that expressed their all-too-human over-confidence in their own abilities and judgement.

And then we would spend-a-weekend to rip-out the changes they'd made to Smalltalk system classes, that conflicted with the version upgrade.

(Something about the narcissism of small differences.)
by CamperBob2 | 2025-11-09 23:38:18+00:00
Exactly, and now imagine that somebody introduces a tool even better than Git. Normally that tool would have major adoption problems because it would have to dislodge the incumbent standard that everybody's familiar with, and that everybody can at least tolerate.

But if you aren't even issuing commands directly to Git, suddenly it starts to look like there is room for improvement without the pain of learning a new tool or a new paradigm. That's a bigger deal than I think most people appreciate.
by dragonwriter | 2025-11-09 23:38:24+00:00
> It doesn't matter.

I think you mean it shouldn't matter.

> A Representative represents everyone in their district

In theory, maybe; in practice, very much not; its one of the strongest arguments for having a system that has proportional representation (whether with small multimember districts or at-large proportionality or a hybrid system like Mixed Member Proportional.)