MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fastball | 2025-11-09 17:28:18+00:00
You brought up Europe, so I assumed you were making a legal argument. Right and wrong isn't dependent on the region you are in, imo.

> In Germany all job postings explicitly say „(m/w/d)“

Great, and what is actually stopping someone from only hiring men, or only hiring women? Putting "m/w/d" in a job posting is performative nonsense. Jobs are not granted automatically when you interview, they are discretionary. It is trivially easy for someone with hiring authority to not hire a woman because they are a woman, and we shouldn't pretend otherwise.
by neilv | 2025-11-09 17:28:25+00:00
Some kinds of law specialties can get fun marketing.

In Boston, a personal injury lawyer is recently doing a bus advertising sign that seems to be a play on "Better Call Saul" (of the scrappy fictional TV series character's ads).

https://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/1nboypw/someone_at_...
by alephnerd | 2025-11-09 17:29:01+00:00
GCC - Global Capacity Center, basically instead of outsourcing to WITCH or EPAM, a company creates an entire office abroad that owns profit-loss, product roadmap, has executives present, and is a direct part of the company.

NCG - New College Grad

You ain't dense btw, it's a good question. Keep asking questions!
by firefax | 2025-11-09 17:29:27+00:00
I've heard of this guy, but not met him. My CEO told me that I remind them of Jim Halpert and I was like "Really? The guy from the Office? I always pictured myself as more of a Creed"[1], which made them bust out laughing and declare "That's such a Jim thing to say" and wander off after explaining that it's based on a real person.

It made me wonder how many of those characters are based on real people, since they themselves reminded me of another character I'll omit for privacy's sake...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeZ6a1A0-ow
by subscribed | 2025-11-09 17:29:28+00:00
> logging an IP address....

Untrue. IP is an category of PII but its not PII in itself unless you're a law enforcement.

Separately, if you log IP addresses you're doing it to prevent abuse and to provide security to your server, you're already permitted to do so.

More on that: https://missinfogeek.net/gdpr-consent/
by eviks | 2025-11-09 17:30:17+00:00
> We take no shortcuts. At KeePassXC, we use AI for

Followed by shortcuts

> As such, they are a net benefit and make KeePassXC strictly safer.

They can also waste author's/reviewer's time chasing imaginary ends, taking time away from the "regular" review, or with some level of trust add some plausibly explained vulnerability. Nothing is strict here

I'm sure if you ask your favorite AI bot, he'll come up with a few more reasons why the statement is overconfidently wrong.
by knorker | 2025-11-09 17:30:31+00:00
Across the spectrum of all Samsung consumer hardware, phones, fridges, smart watches, earbuds, TVs, etc., they are probably the most consumer hostile company in existence.

I would NEVER buy one of their devices again. I've learned that they will punch you in the face every time, with deliberate choices made just out of spite (like pulse meter on smart watches, IIRC, only being available if you have a Samsung phone. Pixel phone is a no).

Connecting one of their TVs or fridges to the internet? Lol, not today, Satan. Not in this lifetime.
Show HN: NyxProxy – Destroy rate limits with IPv6 rotation (100K+ req/s)
by jsdeme | 2025-11-09 17:30:40+00:00
Hey HN! I built NyxProxy because I was tired of getting rate-limited when scraping.

The key insight: Most VPS providers give you a /64 IPv6 subnet (18 quintillion addresses!) but nobody uses them. NyxProxy rotates through 200+ IPv6s automatically - every request looks like a different user. Performance: - <100ms per request (pre-populated IP pool) - Handles 100K+ concurrent connections - Zero rate limiting (each IP is fresh) One-command setup on Ubuntu/Debian. Already handling millions of requests in production. Tech stack: Go, ndppd for NDP proxying, intelligent IP rotation algorithm Would love feedback on the rotation strategy!
by cxr | 2025-11-09 17:30:55+00:00
To start with, randomly generated usernames weren't mentioned, and they are not a prerequisite.

> It "generally" doesn't, because the average user isn't randomly generating usernames per-site

What other people do, whether average users or not, doesn't matter. When average user Alice is registering accounts on Websites A and B, the fact that average user Bob doesn't use different usernames for his accounts doesn't change the fact that if Alice would have otherwise registered account agirl on one site and pie_maker26 on the other, but instead has been forced to enter her email address, then that has a non-zero effect on risk.

For the claim as stated to be untrue, the difference in risk would need to be zero.* But it isn't zero. The claim as stated is true.

> For it to practically make a difference, you'd need someone who cares about […]

That's not true. Users who are exposed to lower risk by accident are still exposed to lower risk. It's not a prerequisite for the user to care at all, nor does it require them to understand any of this or to be trying to adhere to any particular scheme to achieve a certain outcome. The only thing that matters is what they're doing—and whether what they're doing increases or decreases risk. Intent doesn't matter.

* or it would need to be somehow less risky when email addresses are required in place of where a username otherwise would be, but that's not the case, either
Show HN: Slash-Dash: Remove LLM Em-Dashes for More Human Output
by sumit-paul | 2025-11-09 17:31:07+00:00
If you’ve integrated LLMs into your app, you’ve probably noticed the subtle “AI fingerprint” in the text — those em–dashes (—) and en–dashes (–) that show up everywhere.

They’re grammatically fine, but UX-wise, they make AI output feel less human. Most users can’t name it, but they can sense something “off” about the writing tone.

Slash-Dash is a small Node.js package that fixes this automatically. It replaces em/en-dashes with natural punctuation (commas, colons, periods, etc.) based on linguistic context, using lightweight natural language understanding (NLU).

Use cases - Chatbots and assistants - Text summarizers - Writing helpers and email generators

Any LLM-based product where language tone matters

The goal is simple: make AI-generated text feel human again.
by ryandrake | 2025-11-09 17:32:14+00:00
This doesn't make the overall product better, though. People get so tunnel visioned on one narrow feature being the best and use that to justify purchasing a product that is overall hostile to them. This is why these practices never die.

In 2030, it will be "Well, the TV sends a 24/7 video of my living room to Samsung, plays a 5 minute ad every 10 minutes of content, displays in 480i unless I pay a $100/mo subscription, and it will kill my pets, but hey, it has the best display in the world, so I'm thinking about buying it."
by solenoid0937 | 2025-11-09 17:33:44+00:00
Tech billionaires might ironically be our only hope here as they are the only ones willing to ignore the bureaucratic red tape.

If a tech billionaire edits an embryo and figures out how to make a human immune to a certain disease or live a better life, that is a win for the rest of us.

And before anyone says "they'd just keep it for themselves" - there has been no medical technology in human history that hasn't become generally available after a couple decades.
by tiu | 2025-11-09 17:33:53+00:00
For the mathematically inclined, EWD717 and EWD765 have two really cool problems.

A while back someone posed EWD765 for an alternate solution, I don't recall if any other solution was found. That was my introduction to these.

[717]: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/ewd07xx/EWD717.PDF

[765]: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/ewd07xx/EWD765.PDF
by ThinkBeat | 2025-11-09 17:33:55+00:00
I wonder at what age they start getting upset that they dont have what all the other kids have. The peer pressure on conformity I think is still strong. thought not explicitly stated.

I have seen older children cry that they dont have an iPhone or they dont have the latest iPhone, or in a different region, that they dont have Android and of course the latest Android

These were older than 7 to be sure, but not sure when it starts.

you can set your kid up to be independent and a FOSS influencer but I dont think that always works.
by stillworks | 2025-11-09 17:34:13+00:00
Honest question... would you rather not have the "peace and quiet" and go at it all on your own not having to go through the motions of a "real job" ?

You bounce your ideas off someone clever enough only to see that idea being implemented before you had the chance to do it only after hearing that the idea was not good enough.

Your ideas, your solutions, your mistakes, your challenges, your problems, your ideas...

No manager one-on-ones, no a$$h0l3 back-biting coworkers, no one-pagers before meetings, no competing down-levels trying to find mistakes in your ideas, no lofty mentors making recommendations on how to improve your visibility.

If you have paying customers and are financially independent, just enjoy it.
by bob1029 | 2025-11-09 17:34:44+00:00
> outrageous amounts

Apologies for the tangent, but variable rates are good. For everyone. For the grid. For the environment. I wish we could stop framing it as consumer extortion and start looking into educational solutions.

$9/kWh was bad but it literally could not get worse due to the market rules. I don't know anyone who was using Griddy who was not aware of this possibility. I had to pay ~$1200 that month for usage and I still came out way ahead of anyone who was using fixed rate plans for the year. This last part is probably the actual reason they made variable rate electricity plans illegal for consumers in Texas.
by apex_sloth | 2025-11-09 17:34:45+00:00
I played with this extensively on hobby projects (music visualizer Wayland widget for example) and I like the idea. I like coming up with cool stuff and solutions. The problem is I'm just not disciplined enough, it makes me lazy. The longer I uses it, the less code I read myself and just fire quick /implement loops and go do something else, thinking it should be straight forward. As other have pointed out, AI still needs a lot of hand holding and there are a lot of necessary decisions to make that one usually only realizes while actually building it.
by TheRealPomax | 2025-11-09 17:34:55+00:00
You're thinking about your own situation - that's normal, but not enough: there are still loads of folks who don't have a computer but are expected to interface with their governments (municipal, county, state) using a computer, and have had to pay disproportionately more being in the least affluent and/or most vulnerable demographic.

It's not about losing access to laptops, it's about guaranteeing the right to even have access to the same tools that folks like us think everyone already has access to.
by benoau | 2025-11-09 17:34:59+00:00
Reminds of the thought experiment, "if a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?"...

People you never heard of are open-sourcing projects you'll never find every day, there are hundreds of millions of repositories on GitHub and very few of them will ever be seen by humans who didn't write them, let alone humans looking to pretend they did.

Presumably someone looking at your portfolio will be reviewing CVs to hire? I think throwing up a barrier on them evaluating your code will hurt you much more than the rest of the world being able to see it.
by TheNewsIsHere | 2025-11-09 17:35:57+00:00
This is ultimately what we did in my house for every Samsung TV.

Their smart TV stuff used to be marginally interesting. When Samsung TV Plus launched it was fantastic. They weren’t yet sure of how to handle ads so even the ad space was still nice, and marginally useful.

As they figured out the ad strategy, apps started disappearing and new ones appeared that couldn’t be uninstalled.

Then the OS updates started cratering performance. I have a Samsung smart TV from after 2020 that takes about 4 seconds to register a single remote control command in the smart TV GUI.
by bdamm | 2025-11-09 17:36:25+00:00
Alas, I live an a world where efficiency does actually matter, and elegance to me includes efficiency. I live in a world of embedded software, portability, and reliability. In this regard, almost every single functional language is an utter failure, because they require runtimes and big fat common libraries. Even golang is borderline. Haskell has little chance.

Generally I think this does answer the question about why functional languages don't dominate more than they do - although you could make an argument that JavaScript is a functional language, and it certainly is enjoying a lot of dominance these days. JS environments aren't known for being particularly efficient, though. To me, efficient use of resources is elegant, and a language needs to be able to do that.
by bdangubic | 2025-11-09 17:36:26+00:00
blocking part of this I personally never understood the controversy, anyone should be able to block anyone they want.

I will add though that me as a private citizen (if I was stupid enough to be on social media (used to be long time ago)) I would block 100’s of accounts daily. However, if I was POTUS I would never block unless I am sure it is a bot and not a real person. If you are POTUS and also have nothing better to do (God help us) but read replies and mentions on social media I’d like to hear “both sides.”

Republicans in particular are awesome at winning elections where majority of sheep voting eat crap like “wokeness” all day long. however, the Replicans neither know nor probably want to govern (especially this administration which is acting like 95% of americans voted for them) and hence come 2026 and 2028 they get creamed like 2018 and 2020. average american voter is fairly dumb (see 2016 and 2024) as it is easy to scare people with stupid things like “wokeness” and “migrant crime” - works well to win election but when you are clueless how to govern you soon (2026 for DJT) become lame duck waisting country’s time for next two years.
by costlens_sdk | 2025-11-09 17:37:11+00:00
Hi HN!

We built CostLens to help developers save money on OpenAI and Anthropic API costs through smart model routing (GPT-4 → GPT-3.5 for simple tasks, etc.).

The biggest feedback we got was setup friction: "I just want to test cost savings, why do I need another account?"

So we shipped Instant Mode. No API keys, no signup, no configuration:

bash npm install costlens

javascript import { CostLens } from 'costlens'; import OpenAI from 'openai';

const costlens = new CostLens(); // No setup needed const openai = new OpenAI({ apiKey: 'your-openai-key' });

// Automatically routes expensive models to cheaper ones const response = await costlens.optimize(openai).chat.completions.create({ model: "gpt-4", // Gets routed to gpt-3.5-turbo when appropriate messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Simple question" }] });

Real example: Customer support bot went from $600/month to $180/month (70% savings) by routing simple questions away from GPT-4.

Perfect for: - Local development (no keys in .env files) - CI/CD pipelines (no secret management) - Quick prototypes and demos - Educational projects

The SDK is open source and works as a drop-in replacement for OpenAI/Anthropic clients.

Blog post with technical details: https://costlens.dev/blog/costlens-instant-mode

Would love feedback from the HN community!
by Arch485 | 2025-11-09 17:37:41+00:00
It's not a racism thing, it's because India is in a fairly unique position: their population is so large, that (relatively speaking) the top 0.1% of Indians in any sector tend to outnumber the top 0.1% of (for example) Americans in that sector, plus if an Indian immigrates to America, a company can pay them less than an equivalent American employee (for various reasons).

So you basically can pay an Indian immigrant a junior dev salary, for significantly-better-than-junior-dev work. It's just stonks.
by yatopifo | 2025-11-09 17:37:47+00:00
Tangentially, i find it amusing when people say they would be ok to switch to linux but not mac. It’s a valid preference, of course. The amusing part is how they justify it. Most of the time, it’s not the hardware that scares them away. Nope, it’s the software. Specifically, they believe mac has no CLI, no tools, no way to install your own software without paying apple, no open source stuff, none of that! You would think people working in IT should know about the origins of mac os, but i guess apple did too good of a job marketing their mac os devices to “content creators”.
by hollerith | 2025-11-09 17:37:47+00:00
>[Yudkowsky] didn't even think we would survive past the end of the year [2022].

This is flat-out false. I will send $50 (in the form of a personal check or bitcoin) to the first person that can link to anything written or said by Yudkowsky since 2021 stating or even just implying that humanity definitely or probably won't survive past the end of the year.

He has said that he can't entirely rule out the possibility that the end will come today or tomorrow, but the context suggests that he thought the probability was very small, and even if we ignore the context, a reasonable person will surely concede that that is a much different level of probability.
by giantg2 | 2025-11-09 17:40:16+00:00
Similar trend at my company - we're looking to hire in India to reduce costs. The rumor is that we could replace 25% of our existing IT workforce without outsourced roles.

If anyone is worried about their job, it won't be AI that takes it - it will be outsourcing. The US offshores 300k jobs per year with a high percentage of them being IT (60-80% depending on source). It's really not that different to the offshoring of manufacturing decades ago. Why pay people onshore when you can pay someone in India half of that? Any job that doesn't require a physical presence or has legal pressures to keep it onshore will be at risk. It will likely get worse over time, just like manufacturing. I don't know what the future will look like if we continue outsourcing everything. It used to be that we outsource primary and secondary sector activies so that we could expand tertiary industries. What are we replacing the outsourced jobs with now?
by travisgriggs | 2025-11-09 17:41:15+00:00
> Well the real question is why would you buy a connected fridge in the first place.

It’s getting so you don’t have a real choice. You can buy a fridge (or any appliance pretty much) that is basic and doesn’t do the connected thing. But often you want the upscaled models because of real hardware features that are desirable. And these are always bundled with the “connectivity” options. It used to be you just ignored these bits. But they’re getting more and more invasive.
by latexr | 2025-11-09 17:41:33+00:00
I’ve had several people steal my open-source code for different projects before. I’m talking copying (not cloning) the whole thing, changing the credit to their name, making no other modifications, and then republishing on their account.

Fortunately they never gained much traction. The ones I know about I blocked on GitHub with a note. No idea if they ever found out or if they tried workarounds, but I figured there’s not a lot more I could do about it and it’s not worth the headache.

I continue to share openly.
by ryandrake | 2025-11-09 17:41:52+00:00
Yea, one thing I've learned--if you ever even suggest that software engineers should be held responsible for writing harmful software or working on unethical projects, you're going to get downvoted so fast your head will spin. HN commenters will happily build the Torment Nexus as long as the JIRA ticket is filled out correctly and they have clear requirements.
by marcosiino | 2025-11-09 17:41:58+00:00
Sure, here is a small quickstart from the docs which show a very basic example of a pipeline, configured both with hardcoded php and with xml configuration:

https://github.com/marcosiino/pipeflow-php/blob/main/DOCUMEN...

In the same documentation you can find a list of the available core stages (which includes the control flow stages), and you can develop your custom stages (in php obviosly) which can then be used in the xml configurations (or php hardcoded pipelines) like reusable piece of puzzles.

Imagine stages which makes custom business logic of your customer web application (get pending carts, get last n days orders, get user feedbacks, generate invoice ) or more generic custom stages (generate pdf, send emails, etc) and imagine allowing using these stages to your web application customer (who manages an ecommerce for example, which maybe is not a developer, but wants to have the freedom to refine or edit some of the workflows, or create new ones)
by acadapter | 2025-11-09 17:42:09+00:00
This kind of blanket ban reasoning is kind of cruel to people with genetic diseases in their family line.

"Hey, you've got a broken gene? Sucks to be you, my rigid ethics requires you to play the lottery with worse odds than the others!"

In another thread about the same subject, I mentioned the issue of color blindness, and how some professions are open to ~92% of men and ~99.5% of women (because of how it's inherited). Society seems to be quite uninterested to start some wide campaign to replace color-coded information, even during the 2010s when the equality debate was active, it was never "upgraded" to include male issues like these.

With DNA editing, this problem could be fixed on the other side (along with much more serious issues that can affect an unlucky individual).

I don't know why there is so much fear to be out-competed by a hypothetical "superhuman", when the most easy implementation of DNA editing seems to be fixing genetic diseases (often "flipping one letter" to the correct one)?
by nis0s | 2025-11-09 17:42:11+00:00
Good. Sex work degrades the moral fabric of communities by reducing the human body into a decomposable commodity, and at that point you’re not that far off from creating a legal market for kidney selling. People have a romanticized view of sex work because they look at the upper and rarer levels of it, like escorts or doms. If sex work is normalized, there will be the “McDonalds” version of it too, where workers might just have to spend all day being a “glory hole” in a drive-thru of sorts. If people think it’s okay to degrade your body, they think it’s okay to degrade your personhood. I don’t think it’s a good idea for society to create a class of workers that doesn’t have any tangible talent or capability beyond being used by someone else. It’s not the same as mental work, or other physical labor, and you if think so then you either haven’t done sex work, or have only done the “high end” version. Just like everyone can’t qualify for $500K jobs, not everyone will qualify for high end sex work.
by hshdhdhj4444 | 2025-11-09 17:42:34+00:00
No conspiracy theories are necessary here. The numbers speak for themselves.

Here is an article putting together data from GitHub about SW developers per country.

https://data-player.com/highest-number-of-software-developer...

When talking about outsourcing jobs from the U.S., you’re obviously gonna exclude the U.S. China is also not a factor. Neither are Western European countries or countries like Japan and S Korea because of relatively high salaries. Russia is out due to long standing geopolitical issues.

That basically leaves Brazil and Indonesia as the only alternatives to India in the top 10 and combined they don’t even have half the number of SW developers as India.

You need to then add Mexico, Vietnam, Turkey, Philippines and Poland to the above 3 to add up to the number of SW developers present in India.

Thats why the outsourcing industry is concentrated in India. You can setup 1 office in India and have access to as many SW developers (Indians are also very willing to migrate domestically, so an office in a single city is sufficient to cater to the entire domestic developer market) as you would if you setup 8 offices in & different countries across 4 continents.