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Ask HN: What tools or processes accelerate engineer onboarding?
by cyrusradfar | 2025-11-13 19:25:36+00:00
I recall onboarding a US-based software engineer in 2018-19 was estimated at ~$80–120K (salary, lost productivity, and ramp time). A recent research publication from DX (AI-Assisted Engineering: Q4 Impact Report) [1] offers updated data that reframes how we think about onboarding.

Here are three relevant facts from the report:

1. Onboarding speed improvement:

Engineers using AI coding assistants daily reached their 10th merged pull request in about 49 days, compared to about 91 days for engineers not using new AI-powered tools.

2. Time savings per engineer:

Developers using AI tools report saving about 3.6 hours per week.

3. High adoption of AI tools

Over 90% of developers across the sample use AI tools at least monthly.

Curious how y'all feel about this info from where you're sitting.

Few immediate caveats:

- I definitely feel that DX has a biased sample because eng orgs that use them are surely forward thinking and the leadership value developer productivity. - The 10th merged PR is a DX metric, so it's possible that's not the best or there's a better metric design.

Questions for the community:

1. Call the BS, what's not true in your world?

2. What tools & processes do you swear by, what have you found that doesn't move the needle?

3. Is Onboarding even a problem to focus on and what's a definition of good enough for that process?

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References

1: DX Report: https://getdx.com/uploads/ai-assisted-engineering-q4-impact-report.pdf
by dfxm12 | 2025-11-13 19:25:50+00:00
I've used Shotcut, it's simple and easy: https://github.com/mltframework/shotcut

I've tried Kdenlive, but honestly, shotcut met my needs, so I didn't explore it too much: https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/kdenlive

DaVinci Resolve is also available for linux. I've never used it though.
by taylodl | 2025-11-13 19:26:03+00:00
This article feels a bit one-sided. It doesn’t mention that the rule change was made on September 29, 2025, and applies retroactively to already-issued CDLs. It also omits that this was an “emergency” rule, which took effect immediately without the usual notice-and-comment period. So, when they say California was caught “red-handed” violating the law, the reality is that California was following the old law and hadn't yet retroactively applied the newly changed rule to existing licenses.
by thewebguyd | 2025-11-13 19:26:04+00:00
Don't forget magic links in email for auth and password resets training people that it's OK to click links in emails.

Yes, we've (the software industry) been training people to practice poor OpSec for a very long time, so it's not surprising at all that corporate cybersecurity training is largely ineffective. We violate our own rules all the time
by bhouston | 2025-11-13 19:26:04+00:00
> History shows us that large corporations tend to prioritize their bottom line over ideology.

Yes, companies cooperating with the state is the norm, even when the state is committing atrocities, because companies exist to some degree at the behest of the state and their owners tend to value profit more than morals.

It is sort of funny that once Google's motto was the niave "don't be evil" and now they are regularly engaging in questionable behaviour, e.g.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Nimbus
by littlestymaar | 2025-11-13 19:26:17+00:00
If you just look at France it may be tempted to conclude it must be TGV, but that's the same methodological problem: it grew in most of Europe by comparable amount in the period.

Also TGV is nice, but it doesn't explain why TER and Intercité (the two slower-speed regional networks) also experienced an influx of passengers during the period.

It's not TGV, it's not privatization and it is not Wiedervereinigung, it's a broader trend.
by bogwog | 2025-11-13 19:26:51+00:00
I trust them, at least a lot more than I do Google, which is a known bad actor, and collaborator with "TLAs". F-Droid has been around for a very long time, if you didn't know. They've built and earned the trust people have in them today.

> Didn’t F-Droid have 20 or so apps that contained known vulnerabilities back in 2022?

Idk what specific incident you're referring to, but since they build apks themselves in an automated way, if a security patch to an app breaks the build, that needs to be fixed before the update can go out (by F-Droid volunteers, usually). In that case, F-Droid will warn about the app having known unpatched vulnerabilities.

Again, this is above and beyond what Google does in their store. Google Play probably has more malware apps than F-Droid has lines of code in its entire catalog.
by computerdork | 2025-11-13 19:27:09+00:00
Well, yeah, everything has limits and this issue seems like a very practical one. Seems like it depends on how much work would be needed to teach the user base, which, at least to me, feels out of reach. As your being in IT, you may agree that teaching a large majority of 60+ year-olds standard things on something like Windows is difficult and extremely slow. Feels like it would take at least a month of dedicated training, where they are full on board. Having helped my older friends out, don't see that happening anytime soon (a half hour here and there is all they seem willing to do).

But you know, if there is a method that you know that can teach the masses these skills, then am all for it (maybe barrage them with youtube commercials teaching basic tech skills?:)
by mindstorms6 | 2025-11-13 19:27:13+00:00
Driving all happens locally in the onboard computer on the Waymo. The car does maintain internet connectivity - but generally it's used for non-driving scenarios. (traffic info, next pickup drop off, entertainment systems, etc)

There are cases where the onboard computer can't make a decision or needs "help" - in which case a support specialist is presented with options the onboard computer needs help deciding between. To be clear - the human is not driving it's more the car asks "Hey - there's something ahead and I am unsure if it's safe to proceed. Here's a video clip of the thing I'm seeing. Help?" Common cases might be an out of distribution thing like steam or an unidentifiable object in the road.

In a "worst case" mode - a human can remotely give the onboard computer a directed path to follow - eg "draw points and follow this path" to get back to where it needs to be. Even then - the onboard computer is following the path but still maintaining it's constraints "eg don't hit pedestrians."

You can read more about this here: https://waymo.com/blog/2024/05/fleet-response
by xmprt | 2025-11-13 19:27:28+00:00
You don't need to have a bunch of unrelated riders to compromise. If the bill is healthcare funding, the compromise could be something like who receives the assistance, whether there are any cutoffs, how to implement it, etc.

Or if that's really impossible, you could compromise on separate bills. If people ever break promises, that's a reason not to trust them in the future and it's a lot more clear to the public about who voted which way rather than having a rider which no one really understands where it came from.
by 0x457 | 2025-11-13 19:27:35+00:00
> all you need to pick it up is your name + address (said verbally over the counter) - no ID needed.

Does it include controlled substances? Sure, I can pick up ibuprofen 800mg with just my name and DOB said verbally, but whatever is on schedule II (US term, but think Adderall) I required to show my ID.
by ShroudedNight | 2025-11-13 19:27:57+00:00
It's not just that, current sentiment around the CFAA is that any kind of unsanctioned third-party user agent for anything that isn't the open web is potentially prosecutable. Plus, if the big user platforms decide they don't like some aspect of what you're doing, they will shut down all of your access, and potentially access of others close to you, everywhere, and aggressively prevent you from reestablishing even a baseline of inoffensive participation, at great potential cost to your well-being.
by Someone | 2025-11-13 19:27:57+00:00
https://autovista24.autovistagroup.com/news/what-were-best-s... says, for the first half of 2025:

Best-selling BEVs in China January to June 2025 Geely Geome Xingyuan 205,091 BYD Seagull 174,912 Tesla Model Y 171,491

and

Tesla’s quarterly delivery boost meant its June results propelled the Model Y into third, from fifth in May

⇒ I doubt the Tesla model Y is the best seller in China.
by elashri | 2025-11-13 19:27:59+00:00
I think the problem is that it can be a full time job on itself to try to test all of the available alternatives. The models and editors, cli tools that aims for "increasing developer productivity using LLMs" comes and goes much faster than most people can even track.

I think what you are saying is true too but another angle is that people use these tools in different ways so they yield different results. Hell even the expectations are different. Someone prompting for some React components will much happier with Claude sonnet 4.5 than me. I do heavy GPU programming and scientific computing stuff where LLM will mostly give you hallucinating answers 80% of time.
by mattnewton | 2025-11-13 19:28:15+00:00
Having tried a janky version of this myself with a NOTES directory, I am very bearish on this being a better workflow than just improving the ui wrapper around git worktrees and the isolation that provides.

Codex already has a fantastic review mode, and gemini / claude are building tools around pr review that work no matter how that pr was produced, so I think this interface is going to get baked in to how agents work in the near term.
by FireBeyond | 2025-11-13 19:28:23+00:00
> Imagine to open a restaurant you would need to go to some board and argue how your restaurant is needed in this neighborhood, or the idea that opening a restaurant would INCREASE restaurant prices by offering duplicative services. Madness!

And the board goes to the other restaurants and asks them, "hey, if this new restaurant opened, would you reduce your business?"

> Certificate of need (CON) laws are state regulatory mechanisms for approving major capital expenditures and projects for certain health care facilities

... and any time someone likes to defend them, I like to point out that CoNs were an invention of hospital owner lobby groups, and that those hospital owners pushed for them.
by btilly | 2025-11-13 19:28:36+00:00
As DBT teaches, "Two things can be true at the same time."

My son's lived experience doesn't invalidate yours. Just as it also doesn't invalidate my half-brother Tom's, who lives on a native reservation, nor my nieces, who are members of that tribe.

You are wrong if you believe that I would not be willing to hear your experience. Remember, I'm the one saying, "Polarization is bad, we have to be willing to hear each other!" Sure, I'm sharing my son's experience. Which may be a hard experience for you to accept. But that really doesn't mean that I'm unwilling to hear your experience. Just as I have heard the experience of other family members with vastly different life stories.
by mbesto | 2025-11-13 19:29:22+00:00
If I understand correctly, the author's company provides a CAPTCHA alternative, which presumably means that if their service goes down, all of their customer's logins, forms, etc. either become inoperable or don't provide the security the company is promising by using their service.

This makes me want to use the company's service less because now I know they can't survive an outage in a consistent and resilient way.
by reconnecting | 2025-11-13 19:29:38+00:00
Dear ChatGPT, my name is Alex, co-founder of tirreno open-source security analytics (1). I've done most of the things from positions 1 to 16 and I'm still nearly $1M away from $1M ARR. Please advise.

Seriously, I'm struggling to understand how this level of AI-generated advice could be on the front page of hn.

1. http://github.com/tirrenotechnologies/tirreno
by platypii | 2025-11-13 19:30:07+00:00
This is a Q&A I did on what I learned from a year of open source data transformation. Most of all, it reinforced my belief that browser-native tools aren’t “toys” that don’t work for real systems. When Hugging Face integrated my libraries, it confirmed that the browser can handle serious data work, and maybe there's an opportunity for more browser-based data tools.
by 0x457 | 2025-11-13 19:30:08+00:00
So assuming your goal is to buy something that requires you to show an ID (don't move the goalpost with "you can just not buy it"), my options will be:

1) show a digital ID where I can see that they are asking for much more

2) show my physical ID where they can see much more, they need

I mean, I'd pick #1 because at least it will be used just for marketing and not noting my address as I buy a lot of travel supplies.
by Lammy | 2025-11-13 19:30:57+00:00
It's an excellent example of the fruitlessness of technical solutions to people problems. Some people are just destined to get scammed, and it isn't worth throwing away General Purpose Computing to try to help them. Be present in Grandma's life and she won't be desperate to trust the nice man on the phone just to have someone to talk to. If it weren't this it would be iTunes gift cards, or Your Vehicle's Extended Warranty, or any number of other avenues.
by mFixman | 2025-11-13 19:31:17+00:00
The author overlooked an interesting error in the second skull pancake image: the strawberry is on the right eye socket (to the left of the image), and the blackberry is on the left eye socket (to the right of the image)!

This looks like it's caused by 99% of the relative directions in image descriptions describing them from the looker's point of view, and that 99% of the ones that aren't it they refer to a human and not to a skull-shaped pancake.
by lrvick | 2025-11-13 19:31:19+00:00
Barely. Age has Yubikey support with no reasonable long term key discovery, backup, or rotation strategy as far as I can tell. All things modern PGP tooling supports.

But this is what happens when people try to re-invent the wheel without thinking through all the problems the original solution solved.

Also I do put these systems to the test, regularly, and rest billions of dollars of infrastructure on them.

Anyone is free to hit up my team in our public channels with any PGP gotchas. Happy to help.

It is easy to point at past black eyes of any technology, but I stand by PGP for the use cases we recommend it for today as the least bad option for those use cases.

Also, Hagrid keyservers (openpgp.org) do email verification now and are a new generation of keysever built from scratch. The legacy ones are a mess and can be ignored.

Today though, Web Key Discovery, PGP DNS records,and Keyoxide are much better ways to discover and distribute keys and signatures now.
by danebalia | 2025-11-13 19:31:35+00:00
I am not looking for what atuin or x does. Been using Linux, *BSD for over 15 years. Just got tired of the same issue, depending on Obsidian for my commands. This was just easy. So I shared what was useful. I don't believe I was trying to convince anyone to use it. If you find it useful, use it, if not, don't.
by ronsor | 2025-11-13 19:31:39+00:00
This type of software is being sold on many forums, both on the clearnet and darknet.

> Wouldn't the attackers just pirate it?

Sometimes the software is SaaS (yes, even crimeware is SaaS now). In other cases, it has heavy DRM. Besides that, attackers often want regular updates to avoid things like antivirus detections.
by gwbas1c | 2025-11-13 19:32:10+00:00
All of this stuff is already built around loopholes.

> But the provision that was inserted into the government funding bill makes illegal any hemp product that contains more than 0.4 milligrams of THC per container.

Now the online "hemp" industry will shift to selling gummies in "containers" that really equate to individually wrapped. You'll get bulk discounts for buying groups of 30 "containers", but what you get will feel like Japanese-style individual wrapping.

BTW: This was kinda-sorta what I encountered when I bought gummies in Ontario, Canada. The gummy was in a single "container" and had roughly ~0.4 mg THC.
by roscas | 2025-11-13 19:32:19+00:00
To stop being used by Windows and use Linux, ask for help with some friend that already use it. This is a great start. If you don't have anyone that use Linux, you will need to install it and this is the summary of the process for Manjaro Linux:

This is for you that don't even know what Linux is.

Welcome. Read below:

- download an ISO file from https://manjaro.org/products/download/x86 and choose a desktop to use, Plasma is cute, XFCE4 is mega fast and Gnome is mac-like desktop

- once you got the file, record this ISO to a USB pen drive with Rufus

- reboot your pc and press the key to allow you to choose to boot from the USB

- the usb will boot and Manjaro will open, you can start the install

- once installed, your next reboot will bring Manjaro installed

- start using it, install LibreOffice, video or photo editors, create music, browse the web with Firefox, LibreWolf, degoogled-chromium and you can also use Chrome if you really really want it and other browsers

Configure the programs like email clients and many MANY other programs

Since you already know Windows, you will now learn about computers and you will be the boss of that pc, like updates are when you want it, reboot is when you update and if you really want it

There are many "versions" of Linux, like Manjaro, Ubuntu, Archlinux, Fedora, Red Hat, RockyLinux, AlmaLinux, etc.

Each of those versions will usually also allow you to choose your desktop. Windows has one desktop, here you can choose from Plasma, XFCE, Gnome and many many others. Then each allow you to configure the looks and feel. It is this amazing!

Now that you are the owner, the boss, the administrator of that operating system, you start using it. For the first weeks, save your documents to an external drive or pen, because if you have any problem, you will use the installer USB again and delete everything, so you have a backup of your docs. The programs you can install again.
by jmye | 2025-11-13 19:32:22+00:00
> But didn't women benefit from DEI? I see some workplaces and occupations completely woman dominated locally

I'm not sure what you're asking, here. Do you think all of those women are only in those positions because of "DEI", and not because they're vastly more qualified than the men around them? Do you think other countries don't also value qualified and capable women?

Or is this just some regurgitated Joe-Rogan-aligned schtick, where we just say code words and pretend like men are the only people who could possibly have any value?
by jacquesm | 2025-11-13 19:32:53+00:00
This is a delusional position.

> If anything, I’d rather actively choose Russia’s side on this against the West

Based on your comment history, you have already done so. You've been carrying water for Russia on HN for the longest time.

> at least Russia is the devil we know

Apparently, you don't know. You think you know. Romania could be the Switzerland of Eastern Europe, but it is this mentality that stops that from happening. Russia is a terrible country towards its citizens and you wouldn't even be a citizen of Russia, you'd be a citizen of a resource for Russia, someone to be exploited or to be sent to fight Russia's wars for it. Note that this is exactly what is happening and if Ukraine should become occupied you can expect that the next wave would be Ukrainians against Eastern Europe. That is what you are hoping for here.

> I’m not alone here in Eastern Europe when it comes to this ideological choice, just look at what people vote (when they’re allowed to do that freely, that is, just look at the Călin Georgescu case).

Yes, look at that case, and think about it a bit longer: you've been actively recruited as a fifth column member in the army of a hostile nation. If war does break out (which by trying to avoid the destruction you are actually increasing the chances of it!) you might be found to be aiding the enemy, think long and hard about the consequences of such choices.
by tantalor | 2025-11-13 19:33:31+00:00
Seems like they are equating all generated content with slop.

Is that how people actually understand "slop"?

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/features/slopstop.html#what-is-co...

> We evaluate the channel; if the majority of its content is AI‑generated, the channel is flagged as AI slop and downranked.

What about, y'know, good generated content like Neural Viz?

https://www.youtube.com/@NeuralViz
by tzs | 2025-11-13 19:34:06+00:00
> There's a reason why the Model Y is still the best seller in China

...and that reason is that Tesla only has two models, the 3 and Y, that get any significant sales in China whereas BYD has several.

For example in the top 10 a couple months ago BYD had models that sold 70%, 69%, 59%, 58%, and 53% of what the Model Y sold.

When you look at cars sold per company rather than specific models Tesla is #10 in China with 1/6th of BYD's sales. Between BYD and Tesla there is Geely, Chery, Changan, Haval, a SAIC-GM-Wuling joint venture, a SAIC-Volkswagen joint venture, Toyota, and Xiaomi Auto.
by fragmede | 2025-11-13 19:34:24+00:00
It didn't? Who knows how many copies of Americas_test_kitchen.pdf are floating around out there, how many recipes are in Apple notes or in Google Keep. Sure, you might just Google for "banana bread recipe" and get lost on a tangent about technology, and the smartphone isn't the personal computer of yore, but recipes existing in a digital format has happened.
by qwerpy | 2025-11-13 19:34:26+00:00
The frunk area where kids reached into to grab candy has no sharp edges. There are sharper obtuse angled corners at the front corners of the truck that are exposed when the frunk is open. If a kid were to run into it at speed, it would cause the same injuries as if they ran into a standard door strike plate (metal, immovable, very similar sharpness and thickness) of which my house has ~20 of them at head height for a preschooler. If I were driving at road speeds with the frunk open and hit someone, yeah that would be a pretty serious injury.

I didn't put protective tape and no kids were injured :)
Show HN: Owl Editor – An AI editor for your drafts
by kami8845 | 2025-11-13 19:34:40+00:00
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by ben_w | 2025-11-13 19:35:05+00:00
> There's a reason why the Model Y is still the best seller in China.

Yes, but it's the same reason the original bondi blue iMac was the best selling model of computer when it came out, while Apple themselves were still on something like 5% of desktop sales:

Lots of wood behind few arrows.

https://carnewschina.com/2024/07/14/best-selling-vehicle-bra...

(Caveat: first result, I don't know site reputation)