MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gruez | 2025-11-10 04:44:59+00:00
>I don't think you're asking a serious question.

It's not a serious question because the preceding statement wasn't serious either. It's just a vague anti-elite statement.

At the very least, it's not the CEO's job to keep unemployment rate low. That's the job of politicians and central bankers. To blame unemployment on "people at the top" shows a fundamental misunderstanding of how society is structured. To take your Guantanamo Bay example, it's like blaming it on terror on "the military industrial complex". Is it vaguely directionally correct? Yeah. Is it a cogent statement? No.
by alabhyajindal | 2025-11-10 04:45:25+00:00
I created a RescueTime alternative for KDE Plasma. It runs in the background as a daemon and records time spent on each window in a SQLite database. Next step here would be to add a Firefox extension, since a lot of my time is spent browsing the web.

Tracking windows on Wayland is hard because the protocol doesn't support it. I hacked together a script using Claude Code that somehow works, but I barely understand how.

https://github.com/alabhyajindal/timeowl
by azianmike | 2025-11-10 04:45:30+00:00
A few months ago, I saw a tweet from @awilkinson: “I just found out how much we pay for DocuSign and my jaw dropped. What's the best alternative?” Me being naive, I thought “how hard could would it actually be to build a free e-sign tool?”

Turns out not that hard.

In about a weekend, I built a UETA and ESIGN compliant tool. And it was free. And it cost me less than $50. Unlimited free e-sign. https://useinkless.com/
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by autoexec | 2025-11-10 04:46:58+00:00
The only thing anyone needed to aid their perception and reboot the video game market in north America was 15-20 minutes with super mario bros. I knew a lot of people with an NES and not one of them could care less about how front-loading or VCR-like it was. Everyone, including the adults, knew a fun time when they saw it.

Nintendo already had an answer to the problem of people being afraid of the low quality games that gave Atari a bad name, and that was their "Seal of Quality" which ultimately didn't end up meaning much since shovelware has always been an issue with Nintendo (especially when it came to their handhelds). Still, their first party games were good enough that Nintendo could keep selling consoles even when there were few other games worth buying for them.
by system2 | 2025-11-10 04:47:05+00:00
That's the natural evolution of jobs, though. It is not like barbers will lose their jobs because of a new Cylon coming to market. These tools are gradually improving and adding more speed to workers. If someone's job is extremely mundane and limited, they have to evolve before these things take over. Those people can also lose their jobs when a new, smarter, and harder-working employee is hired and capable of doing what they are doing with a few clicks. This is the most common thing I see in companies. Boring employees get replaced by smarter ones every day. Better evolve or get eaten by the competition.
by austinshea | 2025-11-10 04:47:06+00:00
The value of the space is the ability to glean the commit author's thoughts, at the time they committed it.

This is extremely dissimilar to the thoughts of the author.

The value of what this emits is already handled by evaluating the diffs in the per-file history.

It's not good to throw this sort of thing over the fence, and justifying it by considering it to be wasteful of your precious time doesn't change that.

It's better to leave it blank, but a tool like this looks perfect to help someone avoid scrutiny, while simultaneously avoiding providing a tiny depiction of what they were thinking when they committed the change, at the expense of injecting vast amounts of noise.
by benatkin | 2025-11-10 04:47:36+00:00
The issue expresses doubt about a policy specific to LLMs being accepted. I think the way to go might be to accept that the bar for outside contributions should unfortunately be higher. It doesn't take an LLM to have a glut of low quality contributions, it just takes an incentive and some attention, as we've seen with Hacktoberfest: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31628342
by scuff3d | 2025-11-10 04:47:51+00:00
I mean in this case I think it's fairly useful. I'm the exact demographic supposedly impacted by this. I've work for corporations for 20+ years, and watched the culture shift around me. I have friends and colleagues in several different industries. I've been a hiring manager for years. In all that time, literally the only complaints I've heard directly, or from people I know, are people complaining they can't be racist/sexist anymore.

For the record though, I'm 100% sure a white person hasn't gone a job because of their skin color. People suck, and that doesn't stop being true because of skin color or gender. My point is that DEI isn't some grand conspiracy against white people. They're for the most part well meaning policies intended to equalize a playing field that has been fundementally uneven for essentially all of human history.
by xeeeeeeeeeeenu | 2025-11-10 04:47:53+00:00
Unfortunately, LLMs empower "contributors" who can't be bothered to put in any effort and who don't care about the negative impact of their actions on the maintainers.

The open-source community, generally speaking, is a high-trust society and I'm afraid that LLM abuse may turn it into a low-trust society. The end result will be worse than the status quo for everyone involved.
by ghostfoxgod | 2025-11-10 04:47:56+00:00
When someone dies, you don't get even one extra second to access the documents and information they meant to share it with you.

Trying to fix this problem with Eternal Vault.

Link: https://eternalvault.app

Another thing thats in early alpha right now is CapKit, AI professional captions for short form videos

https://capkit.app
by forgotoldacc | 2025-11-10 04:48:05+00:00
> but I think overall society grew less substantially less gullible over time.

Absolutely not. All that happened is most people became aware that "Nigerians offering you money are scammers." But they still fall for other get rich quick schemes so long as it diverges a little bit from that known pattern, and they'll confidently walk into the scam despite being warned and saying, "It's not a scam, dumbass. It's not like that Nigerian price stuff." If anything, people seem to be becoming more confident that they're in on some secret knowledge and everyone else is being scammed.
Stories
by silexia | 2025-11-10 04:48:09+00:00
We all have watched so many TV shows and movies, and read so many books, that we look at real life like it is a storybook. The main character always wins in the end.

These stories are fun, but wildly misleading. We have basically brainwashed ourselves through our entertainment into thinking life is a narrative.

In real life, the good guys often do not win. The bad guys many times never get what they deserve. There usually are no surprise plot twists that will save us.

We are a species playing with technology that has developed at an exponential rate around us. The white collar recession developing now as a result of automation, off shoring, and AI could radically change the life many are used to. Artificial intelligence could far exceed human intelligence and simply wipe us out. Or a small terrorist group could use a genetically altered disease that is incurable to wipe us all out.

I think our ancestors who did not have all the entertainment we have today had a more realistic view of the world. Reading very old books is quite helpful to try to reconnect to reality.

We are like children playing with matches in a bomb factory.

I don’t really have solutions to this. I don’t own a tv, but I still read a lot of fiction. And waste time on Facebook and news websites.

I have a hard time envisioning a world without me, although that has been the default state of nature for thousands of years.

Do we accept Ted Bundy’s proposition that technology advancement is destructive toward our species? Or do we embrace Sam Altman’s utopia that supposedly will arrive with general artificial intelligence? Or will we simply be wiped out as the author of Superintelligence suggests? Or maybe none of this will occur.

Can we cut ourselves off from the artificial stories that continually draw our attention? TV shows, movies, fiction books, social media and online video, news websites, etc? Would doing so be beneficial?
by Insanity | 2025-11-10 04:48:55+00:00
This is potentially not going to be the advise you want to hear. As I got older, I noticed eye strain more and more, up to the point that I also eliminated screen time after work for some time.

There are things that help - regular breaks, being in a well lit room, sitting at a healthy distance from the monitor, using redshift and lowering monitor brightness.

But ultimately, I came to the conclusion that for my eye health (and general physical health) I probably can’t be staring at screens for hours after work, when it’s already 8-9 hours of my workday.

Now after work I avoid screens entirely until about 9pm, then I have about an hour of gaming or watching TV, and then wind down with a book before bed.

I switched to this routine about 4-5 years ago, around when I turned 30. Seems to work well so far.
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by necovek | 2025-11-10 04:50:26+00:00
A move to more of a management/leadership role.

I've actually developed an eye condition — one of my doctors suspects it might be PDS (pigment dispersion syndrome) that affects my ability to focus on computer text for too long (I get headaches) which they found unusual, so after realizing I can't keep up, I turned to mentoring and leading instead.
by YZF | 2025-11-10 04:50:46+00:00
I work for big tech and we've been hiring US graduates fairly continuously. We're also taking students for internships.

We've also had people poached by other companies.

I would say what's going on is similar to what I've seen in the dot com era. We used to joke during the boom that anyone with a pulse who can type can get a job. Then the economy tanked and it was tough. Throughout this people with reputation and industry connections could always find a job.

Now we're in a period of over-supply of new grads. Companies that over hired for years are making adjustments.

Big companies are generally hiring but try to do so in lower cost geographies where they can. There are still a lot of well funded companies in the US that are hiring locally (mostly around AI). There are still jobs posted here on HN every month. Just possibly less. I haven't been tracking the stats...

Just because the stock market is up doesn't mean there is demand for software developers. I predict demand will come up but these cycles take time to play out. During the dot com bust many ended up leaving the industry because they could not find work.
by Joel_Mckay | 2025-11-10 04:51:06+00:00
Like everything in tech... the answer is "it depends": the barrel-shifter in ARM is considered energy-efficient. Also, most RISC design concepts are using more numerous simpler instructions at higher clock-rates, and doesn't rely on mystery microcode to pull off the same workloads as amd64 etc. ARM8/9 is quite good, but partly because a lot of the unused legacy chip features were stripped out.

RISC-V had potential, but is still too fragmented... It is the value proposition to companies that is a problem, and in the current consumer market it will likely meet the same fate as PowerPC. =3

"Why the Original Apple Silicon Failed"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tld91M_bcEI
by TheRoque | 2025-11-10 04:51:21+00:00
This is also what I came up with, with my own experience. Basically, everytime I get prescription glasses for myopia, my myopia gets worse a few months later. What baffles me is that none of the professional I've seen (I think 2 ophtalmologists, 1 orthoptist, 1 optician) told me about that Now I feel truly bitter about the eyes professionals, even though I'm sure they are good at catching defunct eyes, I feel like they don't know how what to advise you, when it gets worse and worse.
by alyxya | 2025-11-10 04:52:25+00:00
If someone wants to use keywords as a screening mechanism for resumes, they don't need a human recruiter to do that, and some automated tool is perfectly able to parse keywords. You could over-index your resume on the prospect that there's a human recruiter as the first screening mechanism and that recruiter is going through every resume and skimming for keywords, yet isn't very good at identifying relevant keywords quickly, but it's a relatively meaningless micro-optimization overall. Keep in mind they were able to get multiple internships before with presumably the same resume structure, so it's already proven to work well enough.
by vacuity | 2025-11-10 04:52:56+00:00
I will check those out tomorrow, but in the meantime: I don't mean to say that a microkernel-based system is necessarily worse on performance. However, I think a highly optimized monolithic system will probably always be somewhat faster than a highly optimized microkernel-based system. And note that the seL4 system is probably less mature, and that I have many criticisms of Linux in being a supposedly highly optimized system. I'm all for microkernels. I'm planning to write one myself. But there are some aspects that microkernel-based systems have to work harder on.
by Animats | 2025-11-10 04:55:42+00:00
It's hard to tell. China seems to have reached the point where the educational system can produce more trained people than the job market can provide middle class jobs. This is is sometimes called "elite overproduction". The underlying problem is that manufacturing in China got so productive that most domestic and export markets are saturated.

There's the "lying flat" movement, where young people just give up the rat race and move to some low-cost place.
by timedrun | 2025-11-10 04:55:51+00:00
Anti-spam email/messaging protocol that is simple, cheap to implement, directly compatible with email/messengers, low false negative rate compared to current spam filtering, free for senders, and does not require the sender to pay to send a message. For people who receive too much marketing spam, survey spam, low-effort cold emails, and want to be able to easily filter spam successfully because you do not want to waste time on them.

Future-proofed and will work on AI spam in the future too, unlike current spam filtering methods.
by autoexec | 2025-11-10 04:56:31+00:00
I'm inclined to disagree just because photoshop has had a measurable effect on the population being skeptical of photos which at one point were practically treated as the gold standard of evidence. It's still easy to find people who have fallen for photoshopped images, but it's also easy to find people expressing doubts and insisting they can "tell by the pixels". Sometimes even legitimate photos get accused of being photoshopped which seems healthy.
by linsomniac | 2025-11-10 04:56:51+00:00
You probably know someone, or know someone who knows someone, if you don't have a library or makerspace that can print it for you. Shortly after I got my latest printer someone on our local "Free Stuff" exchange Facebook group, a message asked if someone could 3D print the parts for a circular knitting machine. I took up that call and spent 2 weeks printing 100-some parts, and I just asked them to cover the filament, so around $70 (4 roles of PETG). Think about asking on reddit/facebook/nextdoor.
by apsurd | 2025-11-10 04:57:23+00:00
The messages are for other people, also it's like any type of writing: tremendous value in the process of writing. in that way, i'm agreeing with the parent, it is for yourself. The process of writing commit messages is useful to yourself.

Being a good communicator is very commonly the main difference between "moving up" in one's career. Quotes because i don't want this to be a debate about IC vs management tracks.
by ineedasername | 2025-11-10 04:57:34+00:00
It doesn’t happen instantly. Wages for jobs like nurses: Yes. Conversely, as the labor market adjusted and everyone’s expectations were adjusted towards shorter work weeks, people would begin going in to something like nursing for the salary, labor supply would gradually equalize in line with new work week expectations and salary.

None of this is radical, it happens on a small scale constantly. Happening at this scale this fast is going to be painful, less so if there’s a minimum of thought put into it, but still painful.

But there has to be some change in things. There is no equilibrium possible in having the world produce the same amount of stuff but half the population has zero money or everyone has half as much— and can’t afford that stuff so then it just wouldn’t be produced, but that isn’t the way the economy has ever gone either. We have a 5 day work week in part because 1) industrialization made it possible and 2) It gave people more time to themselves, which was required in order for people to have time to spend more money on all of the things being produced by industrialization. It was a somewhat deliberate process and even happened pretty quickly. Something similar should hopefully happen here.

There are alternatives! A “Covid 2.0” that ends up being much deadlier could present a much more morbid solution in the form of outright population loss. But then again, absent a little economic foresight then even without a sequel worse than the original Covid the social unrest and other upheaval might simply lead to a bunch of absurd wars and we get the same or worse population loss… sorry, I don’t want to get into the territory of bad Hollywood movie plots. But massive changes to labor force expectations on what employment means are pretty much required in some form or fashion.
by Jweb_Guru | 2025-11-10 04:58:13+00:00
I am pretty much certain that parts of it were LLM-written, yes. This doesn't imply that the entire blog post is LLM-generated. If you're a good Bayesian and object to my use of "100%" feel free to pretend that I said something like "95%" instead. I cannot rule out possibilities like, for example, a human deliberately writing in the style of an LLM to trick people, or a human who uses LLMs so frequently that their writing style has become very close to LLM writing (something I mentioned as a possibility in an earlier reply; for various reasons, including the uneven distribution of the LLM-isms, I think that's unlikely here).
by AnonHP | 2025-11-10 04:58:29+00:00
> But ultimately some combination of these factors provides the signal to your retina to stop growing once it reaches the right size, which prevents myopia.

Are you conflating retina with eyeball? In some/many cases, it’s the length of the eyeball being too long for correct focus on the retina. The retina doesn’t keep growing and cause myopia.
by dvcoolarun | 2025-11-10 04:58:56+00:00
I built this: https://github.com/dvcoolarun/web2pdf — a CLI tool for converting web pages to PDFs, recently open-sourced after adding several new features. (Might be useful!)

Not related to the thread, but if anyone is looking to hire a developer or knows of opportunities, I was recently let go and am actively searching. Any leads or feedback would be greatly appreciated.

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by vaxman | 2025-11-10 04:59:02+00:00
TFA had me at "Per ChatGPT:" ROFL

FORTH has been used to control deep space telescopes and planetariums --it's a great way to expose instrumentation for high-level access, but that access might not be human anymore, it could just as easily expose instrumentation to AI agents.

For example, a FORTH page could contain a prompt "Animate a galloping black and white zebra on the attached 64x32 RGB LED matrix, cache the code to do this on a FORTH page called ZEBRASHOW6432." Another could prompt "Run ZEBRASHOW6432 at the top of the hour during weekdays in the Pacific Time Zone." This might involve lifting C drivers from Arduino and CircuitPython for the 64x32 RGB LED matrix driver into FORTH (trivial) and building an MCP-to-FORTH server, but endless fun...

So I guess it's best to stop reading about FORTH and grab an rP0-2W and attach desired indicators, sensors, actuators and transceivers to see for yourself.
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by rerdavies | 2025-11-10 05:00:32+00:00
Isn't the whole purpose of publishing open source so people can "rip it off"? Just publish it with an an easy license (I like MIT). Anyone who strips the MIT license headers off your source isn't really likely to be somebody who's going to do something worthwhile with it. Grown-up programmers don't do that. And, I don't think I have EVER heard of a grown-up programmer claiming that somebody "stole their code". Is this something that actually really happens? I don't think so.

tbh, as someone who hires programmers, "here's a link to the code u can request independently of github" would be a dead giveaway that you are a junior programmer. It seems decidedly weird to me. Grown-up programmers don't really do that. If you want to share the code, then share it. If you don't, then don't. There's so much freely available source code available already that it seems vanishingly improbable that anyone is ever going to "request the code"; but if you just post it on github, there is a vanishing probability that somebody might actually find it useful, and.. well.. use it!

And if you are expecting potential employers to "request the code", don't. If you are a junior, it's a given that your code will be awful. Perfectly expected, and perfectly normal. Once you're hired, that will be fixed. Not a problem.

My vote: just publish it. Do it with purity of intent. You want to make code available that other people might find useful. And don't sweat the details.