MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by verandaguy | 2025-11-08 02:08:20+00:00
While the economy's definitely in a shitty spot (and IMO heading towards shittier), I wouldn't necessarily take this specific line as a sign of the times. The author does outline reasons why demand for compiler engineers (and junior ones in particular) is likely low in her post.

Compiler development is (for better or worse) a niche that favours people who've got real-world experience doing this. The traditional ways to get in have either been through high-quality, high-profile open-source contribs, or because your existing non-compiler-dev job let you inch closer to compiler development up until the point you could make the jump.

As the author noted, a lot of modern-day compiler work involves late-life maintenance of huge, nigh-enterprise-type code bases with thousands of files, millions of LOC, and no one person who has a full, detailed view of the entire project. This just isn't experience you get right out of school, or even a year or two on.

Honestly, I'd say that as a 2023 grad with no mentors in the compiler dev space, she's incredibly lucky to have gotten this job at all (and to be clear, I hope she makes the most of it, compiler dev can be a lot of fun).
by dhosek | 2025-11-08 02:08:41+00:00
Ligatures are a whole other thing independent of graphemes. Grapheme clustering is based entirely independently of the font and a sequence like U+1F1E6 U+1F1E6 is considered a single grapheme according to the Unicode specification even though no font will display this as a single character (it will instead be rendered as something resembling two A’s in boxes in most fonts).
by WillAdams | 2025-11-08 02:08:58+00:00
It would be easier to use AI at work if it would work.

I have a prompt which opens scans of checks placed on a matching invoice (EDIT: Note that the account line is covered when the scan is made so as to preclude any Personal Identifying Information being in the scan) and writes a one line move command to rename the file to include the amount of the check and date, and the invoice ID# and various other information, allowing it to be used to track that the check was entered/deposited and copying a folder full of files as their filepath so that the text of that can be pasted into Notepad, find-replaced to convert the filenames into tab-separated text, then pasted into Excel to total up to check against the adding machine tape (and to check overall deposits).

On Monday, it worked to drag multiple files into Co-Pilot and run the prompt --- on Tuesday, Co-Pilot was updated so that processing multiple files was the bailiwick of "Co-Pilot Pages Mode", so it's necessary to get into that after launching it, requiring a prompt, then pressing a button, then only 20 files at a time can be processed --- even though the prompt removes the files after processing, it only allows running a couple of batches, so for reliability, I've found it necessary to quit after each batch and re-start. However, that only works five or six times, after that, Co-Pilot quits allowing files to upload and generates an error when one tries --- until it resets the next day and a few more can be processed.

I've been trying various LLM front-ends, but Jan.ai only has this on their roadmap for v0.8, and the other two I tried didn't pan out --- anyone have an LLM which will work for processing multiple files?
by aerostable_slug | 2025-11-08 02:09:16+00:00
The original article [0] notes other potential disqualifying conditions include ever having received welfare in their own country, cancer, and advanced age. The stated purpose is to prevent the visitor from being a "public charge", where the visitor becomes dependent on the US government for subsistence, long-term institutionalization, etc.

Public charge grounds for exclusion are not new, but the precise criteria used have changed in varying Presidential administrations.

[0] https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-state-department-orde...
by defrost | 2025-11-08 02:09:19+00:00
The similarities are intriging but not compelling.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pPE6tqReSAXEmzuJM52h219f...

Stories of "asian face" actresses with eyes taped back, prominent pieces of anti asian grafitti on walls and drawn in bathrooms are common tropes in asian communities, etc.

The examples of plagiarism are examples of common story arcs, with an educated asian female twist, and use of examples that multiple writers in a shared literary pool would have all been exposed to; eg: it could be argued that they all drew from a similar well rather thn some were original and others copied.

There's a shocked article: https://www.halfmystic.com/blog/you-are-believed that may indeed be looking at more evidence than was cited in the google docs link above which would explain the shock and the dismissal of R.W. as a plagiarist.

The evidence in the link amounts to what is common with many pools of proto writers though, lots of similar passages, some of which have been copied and morphed from others. It's literally how writers evolve and become better.

I'm on the fence here, to be honest, I looked at what is cited as evidence and I see similar stories from people with similar backgrounds sharing common social media feeds.
by wakawaka28 | 2025-11-08 02:10:24+00:00
>Pretty much the only thing he rightfully identifies as a uniquely male issue is suicide.

Haha you must be a woman. Men are more severely punished in court for the same crimes, disproportionately lose assets and custody in divorce, get discriminated against at work on DEI terms, go to college less than ever (maybe a good idea, but opposite stats would trigger outrage), and yes they even get less sex on average. They are constantly told that women don't need or want them, they have a ton of privilege (even as they struggle). If you stand up for yourself as a man, people call you a lot of nasty names like "incel" or "Nazi".

>This author has been making the rounds in popular culture lately and I can't help but feel like it's because he's offering an oversimplified solution to a problem that runs much deeper than how we treat men and young boys.

Honestly I could not get through this article. This guy is being promoted by somebody. There are far better voices for men out there who don't mince words when describing the problems men face.

>Society consistently asks women and non-White people to take ownership of their own problems, why can't we ask the same of men?

Overwhelmingly women and minorities have been promoted literally at the expense of men. Companies give bonuses for checking off boxes, and skirt the law to put white men down. Society is not one monolithic voice. While some people have told everyone to take responsibility for themselves, the dominant political regime for perhaps the past 30-50 years (and by far much worse in the past 15 or so) has been favoring women over men on average. You can't talk about men's issues without first apologizing to women who have never seen anything but positive favoritism from the system, yet think they are oppressed. The same statement applies to the everyone vs. white men dynamic.

At some point, being mean to specific groups such as white men, or men in general, is going to backfire. But I expect the system to try to preempt that and force the issue, to further vilify the actual victims here.
by agentultra | 2025-11-08 02:10:40+00:00
Yeah, I can see that. At the time of the talk Feldman claims Python is a slow-and-steady language. It definitely did get a lot of support from the scientific/engineering community for a long time. I spent a good part of my career with Python from about 2006-2016.

It had boosts from Django... but it never had Rails' level of popularity. You kinda have to be first-to-market and that good to get the "killer app" effect.

It's also been integrated as the scripting language for several popular software pacakges (Blender comes to mind).

Machine learning and now... "AI"; seems to be a market cornered by Python quite a bit.
by singron | 2025-11-08 02:10:41+00:00
In some ways, they started in 2004. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next_Generation_Air_Transporta...

There are a ton of details on the page that go into why it is so hard. One reason is that there are a lot of fundamental things to build and deploy before anything can be automated. E.g. before ADS-B (equipment on planes that detects its own location with GPS and automatically broadcasts it), ATC needed to talk to pilots and ask them where they were in a lot of cases. ADS-B has only been required on commercial flights since 2020.

Then it also suffers like every large government software project where a bunch of $100+ million contracts get paid out to private companies while nothing gets built. And it's part of annual appropriations, so funding was unpredictable. It's like working at a software company that had a major layoff or hiring spree every year for the last 20 years. If we could figure out how to run major project, the value to humanity would be enormous.
by nlh | 2025-11-08 02:13:02+00:00
Haven't RTFA (paywall) but an anecdote:

I know a startup founder whose company is going through a bit of a struggle - they hired too many engineers, they haven't gotten product-market fit yet, and they are down to <1 year of runway.

The founder needed to do a layoff (which sucks in every dimension) and made the decision to go all-in on AI-assisted coding. He basically said "if you're not willing to go along, we're going to have to let you go." Many engineers refused and left, and the ones that stayed are committed to giving it a shot with Claude, Codex, etc.

Their runway is now doubled (2 years), they've got a smaller team, and they're going to see if they can throw enough experiments at the wall over the next 18 months to find product-market fit.

If they fail, it's going to be another "bad CEO thought AI could fix his company's problems" story.

But if they succeed....

(Curious what you all would have done in this situation btw...!)
by gus_massa | 2025-11-08 02:13:29+00:00
* 13 Bishops at the 3rd and 4th rank + King at the 1st rank is very good. I'm getting probably a 75% winrate :) . Enough to be (slightly) angry when I lose or draw, instead of super mega happy when I ever win with the old strategy.

It depends on the current computer method that usually puts a Queen and a Rook on a vulnerable starting position, so I guess it can be counter.

Anyway, the bot plays badly when it is hopeless, like after loosing 2 Queens in exchange of 2 Bishops. At my level of play, the opponent can always make a mistake, so even in stupid bad situations a good idea is not to trade material when loosing. I'm not sure if it's possible to modify the bot to assume there is always a hope. (Anyway, the bot target my Bishops of the color with the smaller amount. If there are only one color of Bishops it's a draw.)
by apical_dendrite | 2025-11-08 02:13:58+00:00
What I believe you're referring to is piracy, not drug smuggling. The term is Hostis humani generis - or enemy of mankind.

There is a very long tradition of treating pirates as outside of all laws because pirates would murder and pillage in one jurisdiction or on the high seas and then sail away to another jurisdiction. So all nations had a duty to confront pirates. That is not to say that summary execution was considered normal - it happened, but typically pirates were captured and afforded some due process.

In the modern era this logic has been extended to terrorism and certain crimes against humanity like torture.

It has NOT been extended to encompass drug trafficking. If you're smuggling drugs from Venezuela to Trinidad, you really don't want to be detected, so you're not going to stop any random ship that you see and murder the crew and steal the cargo. The whole concept of the pirate as someone who is waging war on humanity with extreme violence and can't be effectively dealt with by the nation that is effected doesn't really apply neatly to this situation.

You could make the argument that because drugs are dangerous, and drugs can be transported anywhere, that drug traffickers are effectively enemies of humanity who are doing extreme violence in the same vein as terrorists and pirates. But that would be a novel argument, not, in any way, "normal".
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-11-08 02:14:54+00:00
The ezjail[0] port is another option for achieving the article's stated goal:

FreeBSD's native support for ZFS snapshots and jails provides a powerful foundation for immutable deployments.

I have not used the article's tool(s) and am not comparing the functionality provided by each. I have used ezjail[0] and found it exceptionally useful for similar concerns.

0 - https://erdgeist.org/arts/software/ezjail/
by ChadNauseam | 2025-11-08 02:14:56+00:00
> Without being too mean-spirited about it, her success is mostly due to luck, reputation, and factors other than expertise such as checking off the right demographic boxes, or being charming in some way.

How do you know this? Just because some people have written dissertations on compilers and didn't find work? OP seems very talented. And doing compiler work for a blockchain is not the most competitive position. I did the same thing for a while, and I don't even have a computer science degree (nor do I "check HR boxes"). And her article has lots of information that would be helpful for someone looking for a compiler engineering role
by rhetocj23 | 2025-11-08 02:15:45+00:00
The magic of Jobs is/was he truly was a self-starter and self-taught man; he had the rare mix of traits necessary to be a visionary.

Frankly I think Jobs saw Cook as a key operator to ensure the firms future survival and future growth; I'd imagine Jobs foresaw the tremendous impact the smartphone would have and all Cook had to do was be a shrewd operator as Apple had built such a huge advantage over competitors by the time he was dead.
by xbaicai | 2025-11-08 02:16:02+00:00
Google DeepMind Announces Gempix2: Next-Gen AI Image Generator with Enhanced Character Consistency Google DeepMind has released gempix2, their latest AI image generation platform built on Nano Banana 2 technology and Gemini 3.0 reasoning capabilities. The system introduces several technical improvements focused on consistency, speed, and text rendering quality. Key Technical Features Character Consistency Across Generations The standout feature is gempix2's ability to maintain consistent character representations across multiple image generations. Unlike previous models that struggle with maintaining facial features, clothing details, and distinctive characteristics across different prompts, gempix2 preserves these elements throughout unlimited edits. This addresses a long-standing challenge in AI image generation for use cases like comic creation, storyboarding, and brand mascot development. Improved Text Rendering Text generation in AI images has historically been problematic, with garbled or illegible results. Gempix2 claims significant improvements in typography quality, producing legible text suitable for posters, signage, and marketing materials without post-processing. Performance Improvements

15% faster processing compared to previous versions Support for 10 different aspect ratios Multi-image fusion capabilities for combining reference images

Gemini 3.0 Integration The platform leverages Gemini 3.0's reasoning capabilities to better understand complex creative requirements and translate natural language descriptions into accurate visual outputs. Technical Architecture Gempix2 is built on what Google calls "Nano Banana 2 technology" (specific architectural details not disclosed in the announcement). The system appears designed for production workflows, with features targeting professional creators and design teams rather than casual users. Use Cases Early adopters report applications in:

Sequential art and comic creation (maintaining character consistency) Marketing campaign asset generation Rapid prototyping for UX/UI design Multi-platform content creation (leveraging aspect ratio flexibility) Product visualization with reference image fusion

Availability The platform is accessible at seedream.io with credit-based usage tiers and API access for enterprise users.

Discussion Points:

How does character consistency compare to other models like Midjourney or DALL-E 3? What are the implications of improved text rendering for design workflows? Is 15% speed improvement significant enough for production environments? What architectural innovations might "Nano Banana 2" represent?

This announcement comes as competition intensifies in the AI image generation space, with each major player focusing on different technical challenges. Character consistency and text rendering have been persistent pain points, making these improvements potentially significant for professional applications.
by xbaicai | 2025-11-08 02:16:54+00:00
Musci.io – Text-to-Music AI Generator (20-30 second generation time) We built Musci.io, an AI music generator that creates professional-quality music from text descriptions in 20-30 seconds. The technical approach: Our system interprets natural language prompts and generates complete musical compositions across 100+ genres. Users can specify genre, mood, tempo (60-200 BPM), key, and structure through text input. The AI analyzes these parameters and composes original tracks with proper instrumentation and arrangement. Key technical features:

Text-to-music synthesis: Natural language processing to interpret musical intent from descriptions Multi-genre support: Trained on diverse musical styles (pop, rock, jazz, classical, electronic, hip-hop, etc.) Parametric control: Fine-grained control over tempo, key, mood, and musical structure Fast generation: Complete tracks in 20-30 seconds High-quality output: Export in 320kbps MP3 or lossless WAV

The workflow:

Describe your music in plain text (e.g., "upbeat electronic track with synth arpeggios, 128 BPM, energetic mood") Optionally customize style parameters Generate in ~30 seconds Download royalty-free tracks

Current scale:

10,000+ active users 500K+ tracks generated Used by content creators, game developers, podcast producers, and indie filmmakers

We're interested in feedback from the HN community, especially on the technical approach and potential use cases we haven't considered. All generated music is royalty-free with commercial licensing included. Try it at: https://musci.io Happy to answer technical questions about the architecture, training approach, or implementation details.
by makeitdouble | 2025-11-08 02:17:11+00:00
> trust platforms

Framing it in terms of trust is already problematic.

We don't trust the NYTimes or Washington Post, they are a source of information that needs to be taken with shovels of salt and require additional research to get to anything trustworthy. And we always understood that was their role.

We don't trust supermarkets or retailers to give us important pricing information, we do the research to get anything actionable.

Why is trust involved for YouTube ?
by evgpbfhnr | 2025-11-08 02:17:40+00:00
To author -- code sample as images is great for syntax highlight but I wanted to play with the examples and.. got stuck trying to copy the content.

(also expected tesseract to do a bit better than this:

$ wl-paste -t image/png | tesseract -l eng - - Estimating resolution as 199 const std = @import("std"); const expect = std.testing.expect; const Point = struct {x: i32, y: i32}; test "anonymous struct literal" { const pt: Point = .{ x = 13, -y = 67, 33 try expect (pt.x try expect(pt.y 13); 67); )
by kridsdale1 | 2025-11-08 02:17:52+00:00
I worked on the camera in Instagram iOS for a while. There at least, there could be a 5,000ms latency delta between the “screen preview” and the actual full quality image asset from the camera DSP in the SOC.

I don’t know a thing about Android camera SDK but I can easily see how this choice was the right balance for performance and quality at the time on old hardware (I’m thinking 2013 or so).

Users didn’t want the full quality at all, they’d never zoom. Zero latency would be far more important for fueling the viral flywheel.
by aoasadflkjafl | 2025-11-08 02:18:47+00:00
I am adjacent to the field, have read old perspectives, and have worked closely with some of that milieu's students, so that I have gotten my share of gossip from octogenerians who still pick sides in all of this. To spread some of that gossip, one opinion worth mentioning is that the only "real genius" among that group (including Franklin and Wilkins) was actually Crick, and that Watson was precocious but that his real brilliance was clinging to him. It's probably worth mentioning that being a 30 something doing a PhD seems to be a big advantage, though, especially if it's after a decade of doing physics research.

Edit: Watson is also personally responsible for convincing one of the most unethical and conniving scientists I know to go into science rather than medicine, so I have additional reasons to be suspicious, given assholes propagate assholes. If you're a Crick, for God's sake, stop taking pity, and don't tolerate Watsons even if you feel bad for them or they treat you in particular very well, have some standards and be a Stoner.
by pfannkuchen | 2025-11-08 02:19:39+00:00
People who self identify as Christians these days violate a huge number of rules that didn’t used to be violated frequently when Christianity was dominant.

So yes, it could be the case that the flavor of selfishness we are discussing is on the border and would be debatable. But if the sort of people you are referring to are the same sort of people I’m thinking of, I don’t think most Christians from say 1850 would accept them as Christians. The social bar for calling oneself Christian in current year is practically nonexistent. This is different from no true Scotsman.
by apical_dendrite | 2025-11-08 02:20:23+00:00
Perhaps, but even if it's evident that the boat itself is engaged in drug smuggling, that doesn't mean that the people on the boat deserve summary execution. They could be being coerced for instance.

Also, IIRC the first strike killed 11 people. Why would you need, or want, 11 people to crew a fast boat that's supposed to be clandestine. Is it possible that they were smuggling people instead of or in addition to drugs? In which case, maybe we just killed some migrants who wanted to get out of Venezuela.
Show HN: PixSprout – Create custom stamps from text or images using AI
by hugh1st | 2025-11-08 02:21:36+00:00
Hi HN, I'm Eagien, the creator of PixSprout (https://pixsprout.com), an AI tool that turns text or images into custom stamp designs.

I built it after seeing a friend who runs a stamp business spend hours in Photoshop manually designing hundreds of layouts for customers every day. I thought — why not automate it? So I built PixSprout to generate realistic stamp-style designs with AI in just seconds.

You can try: - Text to Stamp Generator → https://pixsprout.com/text-to-stamp - Image to Stamp Maker → https://pixsprout.com/image-to-stamp

You’ll need to sign up to generate and save results, but everything runs directly in your browser — no downloads or setup needed.

I’d love your feedback! What customization options or new tools would you want for stamp design?
by nradov | 2025-11-08 02:21:54+00:00
Is that really true thought? I can't quantify this but qualitatively it seems like most of the people who accomplished great things really were assholes. I mean even here in the tech industry think of the people we commonly consider great. If you look deeply into their lives and talk to people who knew them personally you'll usually find they were kind of jerks. Is that just a coincidence or could there be a causal relationship?
by Neywiny | 2025-11-08 02:22:41+00:00
There was also some woman (maybe a high up exec, I don't know their full roster) in one of those live audience interviews saying they were looking towards a government backstop on the loans. They know they have no way of ponying up 1.4T. That's an insane amount of money. Honestly if more investing and startups were "we have x front-runners, if he dies he dies" I think we'd be in s better spot. Maybe don't invest in capturing-helium-in-a-colander.ai just because it ends in "AI"