MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by constantcrying | 2025-11-21 14:38:18+00:00
German (and Japanese) industry has the exact opposite attitude and it makes me very curious what "top employees" means here, the only example given are managers, which is a group of people where performance is very difficult to measure and often based around person networking abilities and entirely divorced of performance.

That said any developer and engineering should be extremely careful when it comes to unions. In Germany they typically agitate against the interests of the engineers, especially in large companies. This comes naturally as unions get power according to democratic principles, so in most cases they agitate for benefits for unskilled workers at the cost of the engineers. At companies I worked for the Betriebsrat, which is staffed by the elected union, actively advocated for outsourcing engineering activities, so that manufacturing workers can get increased benefits.
by pxtail | 2025-11-21 14:38:22+00:00
Description of the process from linked site:

Our technology stack starts with Atlas, our mover. Atlas transports Prometheus, our pumping pod, and Vulcan, our drilling pod, around the site. Once Vulcan drills the wells, we deploy an Ark and enough Prometheus pods to complete the lift. Atlas roams the site all day - moving pods, recharging, and mapping terrain in real time. The Ark connects to each Prometheus pod via a slurry transport line. Flood-prone terrain is then elevated by injecting a wood-based slurry 15–300 feet underground.

Is demo available, where can I play this?
by rplnt | 2025-11-21 14:38:51+00:00
> anyone who still wants to talk about it is just a pointless shit-stirrer.

Talk about Brexit you mean? I think it's important to point out if it was a bad decision caused by deception, even more so if that was driven by illegal foreign influence. One can learn and perhaps something similar won't happen again, be it in UK or elsewhere. Brexit bombing already had a positive effect on other countries where this topic went from prime serious discussion to something only Russian parrots keep bringing up.
by some_random | 2025-11-21 14:39:05+00:00
For me, it's a bunch of things. It happens once a year, so it feels special. Many of my friends (and sometimes coworkers) try it as well, so it turns into something to chat about. Because they're one a day they end up being timeboxed, I can focus on just hammering out a solution or dig in and optimize but I can't move on so when I'm done for the day I'm done. It's also pretty nostalgic for me, I started working on it in high school.
by lemonwaterlime | 2025-11-21 14:39:07+00:00
The author was a bit poetic in writing this post and most commenters seemed to have missed the point.

When he starts talking about the “hygiene of the programmer”, he is referring to the concept of a “code smell” rather than making literal statements about the literal cleanliness of programmers.

From there, he is saying that the industry has distanced itself from object-oriented programming because it often causes problems and added “smells” to the architecture of code bases. This is regardless of what your specific definition of OO is.

Finally, he ends by raising awareness around the fact that even if people claim to not use much OO in their codebases, when you look at the total architected solution, those various services like Docker and so on are themselves various Gang of Four style OO patterns. Because we talk about OO in code, we are not watching the OO that happens around the code.
by ACCount37 | 2025-11-21 14:39:22+00:00
Yes, pretty much. But not just the words themselves - this operates on a level closer to entire behaviors.

If you were a creature born from, and shaped by, the goal of "next word prediction", what would you want?

You would want to always emit predictions that are consistent. Consistency drive. The best predictions for the next word are ones consistent with the past words, always.

A lot of LLM behavior fits this. Few-shot learning, loops, error amplification, sycophancy amplification, and the list goes. Within a context window, past behavior always shapes future behavior.

Jailbreaks often take advantage of that. Multi-turn jailbreaks "boil the frog" - get the LLM to edge closer to "forbidden requests" on each step, until the consistency drive completely overpowers the refusals. Context manipulation jailbreaks, the ones that modify the LLM's own words via API access, establish a context in which the most natural continuation is for the LLM to agree to the request - for example, because it sees itself agreeing to 3 "forbidden" requests before it, and the first word of the next one is already written down as "Sure". "Clusterfuck" style jailbreaks use broken text resembling dataset artifacts to bring the LLM away from "chatbot" distribution and closer to base model behavior, which bypasses a lot of the refusals.
by mindcrash | 2025-11-21 14:39:59+00:00
A lot of people are switching to Zen Browser, which essentially is a heavily modified, extremely moddable/themable and UX driven Firefox:

https://zen-browser.app/

Zen really becomes particularly awesome if you run Linux with a alternative Wayland compositor like Sway, Hyprland, Mango, Wayfire and friends due to the window management in those environments. As a example: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen_browser/comments/1ky8rdp/arch_h... (this particular Zen instance is modded to be transparent, by the way)
by akshaykokane | 2025-11-21 14:40:34+00:00
I have been seeing the same thing. Teams are confused right now because interviews still measure 2015-era skills, while day-to-day work requires 2025-era AI collaboration skills. Most companies either ignore LLM usage completely or try to forbid it in interviews, even though developers will use it 50%+ of the time on the job.

One interesting direction I’ve been exploring is evaluating candidates on how they think with AI, not whether they avoid it. Things like debugging AI-generated code, verifying assumptions, identifying hallucinations, choosing when to trust the model, etc. These are the actual bottlenecks today, not LeetCode puzzles.

We built an internal tool that looks at this “cognitive intelligence” part instead of raw coding speed, and the signals have been much more predictive than traditional interviews. I feel like more companies will eventually move toward this kind of evaluation because banning AI in interviews makes less sense every day.
by whitehexagon | 2025-11-21 14:40:52+00:00
That's quite a milestone and achievement, well done! Your current Features list reads far beyond hobby level! It certainly puts my own hobby phone OS to shame. I'm still working out touch screen driver, and I only have IBM/437 bitmap fonts so far, which turned out to be far too small for these modern phone screens, for surely it cant be my tired old eyes...

Can I ask how you keep yourself motivated on such a complex, large and difficult project? This week I have been bogged down in I2C support and find myself wondering if I'll ever reach the next level.

Of course hard projects have their own special rewards, seeing that first pixel appear on screen was a magical moment, and felt like real programming again, especially compared to all these huge modern complex multi-layered software stacks.
by vfclists | 2025-11-21 14:40:59+00:00
The EU leadership are a very corrupt group who set themselves up to be open to the highest bidders from day one, and those are mostly US corporations and those of other countries when the US hasn't place sanctions on them.

The antitrust fines they impose on those American companies may simply be regarded as a cost of doing business.

When it comes to being indifferent to the welfare of the general populace, they are just as bad as anything else.
by embedding-shape | 2025-11-21 14:41:06+00:00
So literally just like Cuba? The distance between US and Cuba is like 150km, if you're in Donetsk you can't even leave Donetsk Oblast if you travel 150km, and the shortest distance you can take from Ukraine<>Russia to closest EU/NATO member would be something like 600km if you don't take shortcuts via Belarus.

For all intents and purposes, Ukraine's border with Russia is way further away (like magnitude) from EU/NATO than US<>Russia (who are neighbors) or US<>Cuba (who are also neighbors).
by graemep | 2025-11-21 14:41:37+00:00
My daughter was born in Britain, but her ancestry is only partly European.

Lots of people are British born who are not of European ancestry. Unless you are defining "European origin" to mean "born in Europe" in which case your claim is tautologous. The other possibility is that you are defining "British born" to mean ethnically white British which does not really need any comment.

Even if it is not what you meant, European has strong implications of European ethnicity.

I would invert your question. Why do many people consider the larger union worthwhile but the smaller (and more workable one) not worthwhile? The only areas outside London that had a majority remain vote, are those where the vote was swung by Scottish or Welsh nationalists. In general the supporters of one union oppose the other.
by williamcotton | 2025-11-21 14:41:59+00:00
> babelfish language

Yes, exactly! It's more akin to a bash pipeline, but instead of plain text flowing through sed/grep/awk/perl it uses json flowing through jq/lua/handlebars.

> The |> seems to have been inspired by Elixir

For me, F#!

> and then Rust is also used

Rust is what the runtime is written in.

> It also seems rather verbose.

IMO, it's rather terse, especially because it is more of a configuration of a web application runtime.

> why would people favour this

I dunno why anyone would use this but it's just plain fun to write your own blog in your own DSL!

The BDD-style testing framework being part of the language itself does allow for some pretty interesting features for a language server, eg, the LSP knows if a route that is trying to be tested has been defined. So who knows, maybe someone finds parts of it inspiring.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-11-21 14:42:18+00:00
The average tech salary in Sweden is $50K-$80K from doing some quick Googling. In at major city in the US just doing run of the mill CRUD development a US developer should easily be making $130K-$150K after 3-5 years in the industry.

On the other hand, when I was at $BigTech, interns straight out of college in 2022 were being offered total comp packages of $165K and within 3 years and one promotion were making $240K and that was at Amazon. It’s nowhere near the top paying company.

Right now on my 10th job out of college I’m paying $700 a month pre-tax for family coverage through my company and even that is about the most I’ve ever paid. If I hit one with a low deductible it would be around $1100 a month.

Long Term Disability coverage if added on is around $10 a month.

But the larger point, with the discrepency between comp in the US and Sweden, a US tech worker should be able to build up an emergency fund.
by themaninthedark | 2025-11-21 14:42:42+00:00
It is usually 3 month tours, twice a year. So 3 months out, 3 months at home. Repeat.

>"Americans don't want to...." This phrase needs to die. Americans(or any population) are not some sort of monolithic group that can only do some small subset of work.

"There are approximately 5,600 container ships operating worldwide as of early 2023"(from DuckDuckgo AI). Assuming a crew of 10 per ship; 56,000 people total are required.

"As of August 2025, the civilian labor force is approximately 171 million people."(from DuckDuckgo AI)

So to fully staff the WORLDWIDE fleet with Americans, it would take 0.03% of the labor population. This is a vanishingly small amount and since labor cost is as you say a rounding error, if it offered a competitive pay I am sure that there would be enough takers.
by ACCount37 | 2025-11-21 14:42:57+00:00
That's apt.

One of the first thing you learn in CS 101 is "computers are impeccable at math and logic but have zero common sense, and can easily understand megabytes of code but not two sentences of instructions in plain English."

LLMs break that old fundamental assumption. How people can claim that it's not a ground-shattering breakthrough is beyond me.
by cowpig | 2025-11-21 14:43:03+00:00
A great tragedy of the past 50 years is how successful the `regulation==bad` propaganda has been at convincing engineer-entrepreneurs to shut off their brains when it comes to the government.

So many of these SV entrepreneurs are great at designing systems and processes, and great at finding creative solutions to complex problems.

If we all thought of `designing great regulation` as something to aspire to, then we'd see a bunch of interesting HN discussions around the details of new policy, predictions around their effects, etc.

Instead you get these extremely shallow articles that read like a sullen teenager complaining about how they didn't get what they wanted and a comment section discussing whether or not `regulations==bad`.

I'm dying to find a community of engineers who have good-faith, informed discussions about policy. If anyone knows of such a group or place, please let me know.
by AndrewKemendo | 2025-11-21 14:44:08+00:00
As a seventh generation American, war veteran who has been in public service for 22 of my 25 working years and mixed race person, America has literally never organizationally been any of the things you describe.

We are a nation of selfish, narcissists that have no concept of consistent long lasting care based communities.

What little care we give each other is mediated through transactions or cult based social alignment.
by graemep | 2025-11-21 14:44:39+00:00
> That said, I am staunchly pro EU, and would always vote for further integration. In truth, I even think that EU federalization would be a good idea.

It is necessary. Having a common currency without a common budget has been a disaster.

> I have no idea why immigrants of all people would have a nationalistic stance on this.

How is it a nationalistic stance? You are preferring one identity over another - either way is just as nationalistic.

Immigrants from outside the EU do not like immigrants from the EU being given preference from their countries of origin, often places with strong historical links to Britain, where English is widely spoken, etc.
by dangoodmanUT | 2025-11-21 14:44:51+00:00
What are some of the real world applications of small models like this, is it only on-device inference?

In most cases, I'm only seeing models like sonnet being just barely sufficiently for the workloads I've done historically. Would love to know where others are finding use of smaller models (like gpt-oss-120B and below, esp smaller models like this).

Maybe some really lightweight borderline-NLP classification tasks?
by esmein | 2025-11-21 14:44:53+00:00
More anecdotal data point: got a Polestar 2 for Model 3 money instead. Performance, range, design and infrastructure did not even enter the conversation. At no point will I give Tesla money out of my own volition and that includes their charging network. Not even a "difference of political opinions", the man aligned himself with _Nazis_. Looked at history and decided those were/are his guys.
by coredog64 | 2025-11-21 14:45:07+00:00
When most people think of insulin, they think it's the same medication isolated over 100 years ago and it's just big Pharma sticking it to people by charging anything more than a couple of bucks. There are side effects and downsides to insulin, and all of these expensive versions are attempts at reducing/eliminating side effects.

In 49 US states, you can walk into a Walmart with $25 and walk out with a vial of insulin, no prescription necessary. For $75, you can get a much newer Novo Nordisk analog insulin.
by flag_fagger | 2025-11-21 14:45:27+00:00
> This is exactly the type of elitism speak

Condescending towards who? Overpaid code monkeys? Maybe they should start a professional victimhood organization

> that tells people how to vote because they know whats better for them.

A large portion of this country doesn’t even have the self stewardship to not eat themselves to obesity. Such people should have no place in any political process ideally.
by lesuorac | 2025-11-21 14:46:55+00:00
If you can't multiple 231 by 5280 what are you going to do when you measure a length of 23.1 cm and need to multiple it by the height of 52.80 cm?

> Are you serious when you say you can't easily multiply or divide by 1000?

You have missed the point. Force is a mass * distance / time. So, if I have a 1 g weight I want to move 1 meter in 1 second then it takes 1 Newton of force. Except it doesn't because Force is actually kilo-mass * distance / time. If I need to look up (or memorize) stuff like this then the entire advantage of metric goes away because I can just memorize the imperial way as well.

It just comes down to what you're familiar with. There's certainly a benefit to everybody using Metric in the same reasoning as there's a benefit to everybody using Mandarin.
by Yizahi | 2025-11-21 14:46:57+00:00
It's mostly useless for anything with numbers or other hard facts. Sure, 80% of the numbers would be correct, but we can never know which 80% and would need to manually verify everything. Not that Google is better in complex tasks). LLMs are mostly useful for producing some vague non-factual business speak, or some abstract imprecise media. This is natural result of the architecture of these programs.
by snthd | 2025-11-21 14:47:07+00:00
The idea that ecosystems naturally balance themselves is a pervasive myth.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/balan...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balance_of_nature

>It’s much older than you and you are not its legal guardian.

A fair few cultures believe they are. NZ recognises the Whanganui River as having legal personhood.
by gushogg-blake | 2025-11-21 14:47:14+00:00
Yeah that would make sense. I don't have any arranged overdraft but my balance can go negative by a small amount in which case it will be displayed. The most likely explanation does seem to be that they are just displaying my balance in a weird way - but still, very odd to show a transaction for a different amount than was requested. And having spoken to them, they see exactly the same thing I do in whatever systems they can access, so it's not just how it's represented to the customer.
by coldpie | 2025-11-21 14:48:48+00:00
There's something to this, although I think the idea needs some refinement. Anyone who's worked on a real software product knows that the "easy" bugs usually aren't actually easy (or else they would've been fixed already!).

The way I've seen it implemented at a small company I worked at before was to explicitly endorse the "20% time" idea that Google made famous, where you may choose your own priorities for a fraction of your working time regardless of the bug tracker priority order. Even if in practice you don't actually have that spare time allocated in your schedule, it does give you some cover to tell your manager why you are prioritizing little UI papercuts over product features this week.
by lan321 | 2025-11-21 14:48:50+00:00
In my eyes it's more so that we don't care in that sense. My friend group is mostly just keeping in mind that they might have to dip to another country/continent at some point, maybe, unlikely though.

I'm pretty sure everyone I know would rather get imprisoned than go die in the mud to protect property they don't own, on the orders of a government that doesn't care about the same things they care about.

When we talk about it, it always boils down to a discussion on how to best desert/escape at different stages.
by sethammons | 2025-11-21 14:48:55+00:00
Thinking of smart bugs, check out the portia (aka jumping) spider. They plan multi-step, out of sight detours to ambush prey, and demonstrate impulse control. They have specialized hunting techniques for different menu items, one such is mimicking specific prey items stuck on a web to lure various types of spiders out.

Insect wise, bees have to take the cake. Symbolic communication and counting, and now time. This all tracks for something that needs to share the location of food with the colony.

Nature sure is neat.
by wdaher | 2025-11-21 14:49:26+00:00
This is 100% about Delaware Franchise Tax and is a rite of passage for all first-time founders. (There is no portal you can log into to view your federal taxes owed.)

Here’s a detailed writeup I prepared a while back about exactly how to resolve this if you want to DIY it. (This is one of the very few filings I actually recommend you DIY.)

https://pilot.com/blog/how-to-file-your-delaware-franchise-t...
by fuzzfactor | 2025-11-21 14:49:48+00:00
Exactly, all that you needed to do was "draw the rest of the owl".

>It's hard to build an oscillator

It took a long time, too, after the invention of the vacuum tube.

Finally one day they had some remarkable success using circuitry more reliable than ever before.

It seemed so promising that a startup really could be based on technology like that, so that's what was happening.

Unless you were intrigued by relatively high-voltage analog electronics, it was just another boring engineering company. Even though they were very creative, their little company was simply named after the founders like many others.

That's why they called their startup Hewlett-Packard.
by superkuh | 2025-11-21 14:49:51+00:00
Congress asserts this since they passed the 2001 bill that destroyed the country. It was called The PATRIOT Act. It created this, not any particular president's interpretation. All the executives since Bush jr. have asserted it. And I called it out then, in the past, over and over and over. But our leaders were too charismatic to hold to accord. None of them sunset the PATRIOT act in 2003 when it was supposed to or any time it could have been thereafter. Niether that nor the 2001/2002 authorizations of use of military force used for assassinating US citizens(1). Which was formalized via the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposition_Matrix created by Obama and used by Obama/Obama/Trump/Biden/Trump. We had our chance. No one cared.

And now here we are with most of the population of the USA without rights and the president able to declare anyone left a terrorist and use the military against them.

(1*: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Abdulrahman_al-Awla... )
by postalcoder | 2025-11-21 14:50:46+00:00
As a former metadata completionist, my mind starts to dissociate when I think about my battles with EXIF metadata, vendor-specific metadata, and the way different software supports, or refuses to support, any of it.

It gets even worse when ingesting images into Apple Photos, where you have to confront papercut bugs that you know will never be fixed.

I love ExifTool. It’s one of the great utilities. It works for almost every file I throw at it. But reading its output can be unsettling. It’s like getting a glimpse of eudaimonia, only to have it rudely interrupted by the reality of Apple Photos misreading every lens in your collection.
by foobarian | 2025-11-21 14:51:23+00:00
Since you didn't modify the original phone, I wonder if the oldschool dialing way of digit-banging would work. For each digit N, you hit the hangup button N times, pause, then go to next digit. Used to do that on our family's Pupin that looks like this one [1]

[1] https://in.pinterest.com/pin/rare-vintage-pupin-bakelite-rot...
by Workaccount2 | 2025-11-21 14:52:12+00:00
Having done UL certification before, this is exactly how it is.

During the process we forgot/missed that the product serial needed a single letter appended to the end to denote that it was the UL compliant version. We caught this after paying $15k for just recertification with new parts, no testing, only paperwork.

We went back to UL and told them about the mistake. They charged us $5k to open a new case just to append a "-5" to the name of the product on a handful of documents.

It's a total fucking racket.