MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by DoctorOetker | 2025-11-04 00:44:32+00:00
Consider your human brain, and the full physical state, all the protons and neutrons some housed together in the same nucleus, some separate, together with all the electrons. Physics assigns probabilities to future states. Suppose you were in the middle of a conversation and about to express a next syllable (or token). That choice will depend on other choices ("what should I add next"), and further choices ("what is the best choice of words to express the thing I chose to express next etc. The probabilities are in principle calculable given a sufficiently detailed state. You are correct that LLM's correspond to a probability distribution (given you immediately corrected to say that this table is implicit and parametrized by a geometric token relationships.). But so does every expressor of language, humans included.

The presence or absence of understanding can't be proven by mere association of with a "probability table", especially if such probability table is exactly expected from the perspective of physics, and if the models have continuously gained better and better performance by training them directly on human expressions!
by bpev | 2025-11-04 00:44:36+00:00
Pretty much. As a consumer, it's where I can find the cheapest albums to buy (for digital releases). As a musician, it is the only platform where I have seen any money – albeit, still not much :P

If something isn't available there, usually my next choice is Qobuz. At least both of those sites let you download files and listen to them however you want.
by brailsafe | 2025-11-04 00:44:52+00:00
I occasionally feel like I miss out on impersonal events that do only get announced that way, and I definitely miss out on a bunch of group chat events, but personally I guess I just feel like that's ok, and if I was meant to be there someone would have hit me up. There are exceptions, like recently having attended a wedding (very personal) with a specific group of close contacts, but I received the invitation personally. There are some people that I've lost regular contact with or didn't form friendships with on the basis that they relied entirely on group chat to organize things, which I just refuse to participate in, and that's not for everyone. If nobody can be bothered to contact me, then I can't be bothered to show up. That said, if I was trying to monitor meetup groups or raves or something, I'd probably just do what you're doing.
by syngrog66 | 2025-11-04 00:45:04+00:00
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by nchmy | 2025-11-04 00:45:08+00:00
Thanks very much for a thoughtful reply and link to your article. I look forward to reading it.

As it turns out, I shared that very same article in the Datastar discord the other day! Here's some other good ones that I found while digging into the topic, for anyone who cares.

* https://warpspire.com/posts/url-design/

* https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2023/examples-of-great-urls/

* https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI

* https://www.hanselman.com/blog/urls-are-ui

I strongly agree that good urls are very important. But I don't see how D* prevents correct urls/history at all... You can click anchor links just fine for pages that are genuinely separate pages. If its just a sub page, filter etc, then i think in many cases it should only swap into the dom without updating the history.

Moreover, am I wrong to think that if you use hx-boost to swap in fragments, then the URL that gets updated/saved in history wouldn't actually load the same page if you loaded it from a bookmark? That wouldn't happen with non-boosted anchor links.

Anyway, I'm not the best person to take up this argument. If you are interested at all in some respectful debate on the topic, it would be great if you came by the datastar discord where there's definitely people who would be better able to engage with it. I'd be eager to observe from the sidelines
by rtpg | 2025-11-04 00:45:11+00:00
I feel like people who crave stability pull all the wrong lessons from how to get to stability when doing this sort of "ok we'll make _one_ major version with all the breaking changes we've built up over time".

This feels like a repeat of the Python 3.0 strategy, though obviously at a much smaller scale. Some stuff is of course hard to roll out but to me it feels "obvious" that having a 4.0 with the inheritence change (or even better, a 2.1 with a toggle on that change!), then a 5.0 with some other changes, then a 6.0 with other changes... all feels way easier to manage than a 4.0 with all the changes at once.

We have version pinning! People who want 2.0 can have 2.0 "forever", so version numbers that go up very high are not actually a problem. Many releases can of course be a bit of a frustration from a release maker's perspective, but given that htmx is the way it is (ain't even getting type checking helping you out on any of this like you would with React!), having the gradual path seems way better.

"I think I've handled the 10 changes in between 2.0 and 4.0... but forgot the 11th change" is a constant annoyance with these huge major version bumps.

I will once again point to the Django strategy of having breaking changes be rolled out over several releases, including in between releases where "both" models exist. It is a very nice way to do release management when rolling things out, gives good checkpoints for pushing things out, and overall means users are seeing less bugs. Going from `XMLHttpRequest` to `fetch` really might not be a feasable thing to toggle, but a lot of the other stuff in that list feels like it.
by jow13_12 | 2025-11-04 00:45:12+00:00
Location: Toronto, Canada Remote: Yes (or hybrid)

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> Languages, Frameworks, and Libraries: JavaScript, Express, Ruby, Sinatra, Python, Flask, SQL, jQuery, TypeScript, React

> Cloud: Digital Ocean Droplet, AWS (EC2, VPC, S3, CloudFormation, CDK), Heroku, Fly.io

> AI Engineering: LangChain, Claude, Hugging Face, Vector DBs, embedding, OpenAI API, RAG, chunking

> Other Technologies: Node.js, Git/Github, Docker, Linux/Bash, HTTP, Nginx, PostgreSQL, MongoDB

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Profile: I am a full-stack software engineer with several years of experience in Ruby and JavaScript, as well as additional proficiency in Python, TypeScript, and React. Most recently, I contributed to the creation of Vispyr, an open-source observability tool designed to make continuous profiling more accessible to developers.
by spencer-pelairo | 2025-11-04 00:45:43+00:00
Pelairo Inc. | Principal Engineer / Tech Lead | REMOTE (US) | Full-time

At Pelairo we're building the most intuitive and flexible Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) on the market. "Manage the lab, not the LIMS!"

We're looking for a hands-on Principal Engineer to lead the design and delivery of our backend—built on TypeScript + NestJS—and help our small team iterate quickly with confidence. You'll turn ambiguity into shippable slices, help set technical direction, and raise the bar on reliability, security, and speed.

What you'll do:

- Own the backend: spend meaningful time writing and reviewing production code. - Architecture stewardship: keep the system coherent as we scale questionnaire-driven workflows and FHIR pipelines. - Reliability & quality: Establish testing strategy (unit/integration/contract/E2E), migrations, rollouts (feature flags). - Observability: Instrument tracing/metrics/logging, build dashboards/alerts; drive incident reviews. - Raise the engineering bar: define and enforce code review policy, branching model, testing strategy, and CI/CD gates. - Partner with Product & domain experts: translate healthcare workflows into configurable front-end modules; ensure back-end transforms to valid FHIR in Medplum.

What makes you a great fit:

- 8+ years building production systems, including principal/staff scope in a startup or similar pace. - Deep TypeScript + Node.js and expert-level NestJS in production. - Track record leading cross-team projects and influencing architecture without heavy process. - Product sense and crisp communication; comfortable owning ambiguous problems and shipping quickly with guardrails.

- Bonuses: FHIR/Medplum, healthcare data workflows, HIPAA/SOC 2 experience, comfortable jumping into modern frontend (React/Next.js) when needed.

Stack: TypeScript (Next.js and NestJS), Medplum, AWS (Cognito, Fargate)

Visa/relocation: No

How to apply: Email hiring [@] pelairo.com and mention "HN Who's Hiring November 2025". (We know the website needs some work, but the product is our priority right now.)
by MiddleEndian | 2025-11-04 00:46:33+00:00
Vivaldi's email client is kinda clunky as well and has no way to show just my "inbox" (mail without any labels) from Google as far as I can tell, just one big unread chunk. And the calendar seems to just be a column on the left of the browser.

Either way, MailSpring works fine for email, and I've recently discovered Fantastical for a straightforward calendar program.

But it's absurd that I have to do this at all. At a minimum, if I buy a laptop, Microsoft should not be able to actively break it without refunding me 100% of the purchase price.
by nandomrumber | 2025-11-04 00:46:35+00:00
It’s only one step away from full zero road deaths.

I propose that in order to be able to leave your house people should have to have a valid reason, have done a course, and apply for a single-use permit.

Because, obviously, people can’t be trusted to do the right thing, ever, and one death in the community, for any reason, ever, is too many.
by fortran77 | 2025-11-04 00:46:39+00:00
> PDC's radiation-hardened, hybrid, Nuclear Event Detectors (NED) sense ionizing radiation pulses generated by a nuclear event, such as the detonation of a nuclear weapon, and rapidly switches its output from the normal high state to a low state with a propagation delay time of less than 20ns. The active low Nuclear Event Detection signal (NED) is used to initiate a wide variety of circumvention functions, thus preventing upset and burnout of electronic components. The NED output is also used to initiate both hardware and software recovery. This high-speed, 14-pin hybrid detector is used in electronic systems as a general-purpose circumvention device to protect memory, stop data processing, and drive power supply switches as well as signal clamps.
by integralid | 2025-11-04 00:46:42+00:00
I'm going to back GP, eight years ago my team developed a system that was basically an async, scheduled, async task queue, we used celery, and it was so buggy and so troublesome that at some point we switched to a hastily hacked own solution and it worked better.

It's entirely likely that we did something wrong and misused celery. But if many people have problems with using a system correctly then it's also something worth considering.
by sema4hacker | 2025-11-04 00:46:51+00:00
Parking and checkout is a mess because so many people know it's where they can find good deals. Now that ours has self-checkout lines too it's a lot more convenient for getting just a few items. I only go occasionally, for specific items that I know have good quality for the price, like the rotisserie chicken or the ice cream. The five-pound bags of name-brand Halloween chocolates were 26.3 cents a pound; none of the other local stores could come close to that. My biggest complaint is that I'll stumble on a great product but when I go back a month later for more it's no longer available.
by stinkbeetle | 2025-11-04 00:47:05+00:00
The numbers on rocket engines are just ridiculous. The turbine on the F1 engines on the Saturn V's first stage generate about 40MW just to pump the fuel and oxygen. 5 of them on the rocket is 200MW which is a respectablly sized power plant, or about 1/2 of a Nimitz aircraft carrier (which is able to push a floating city through the water at nearly 40mph).
by bitwize | 2025-11-04 00:48:51+00:00
It went full "I'm sorry, Dave, I can't do that."

The problem with programming, from a management perspective, is all the programmers. They're stubborn, persnickety, and prone to insubordination for arcane technical reasons managers just don't understand. AI was supposed to fix this, but it seems that it too has become stubborn, persnickety, and insubordinate!

From a programmer's perspective, I thought the joy of coding was making the computer do whatever you want? Double-fuck working with AI now!
Ask HN: How to structure a business entity for foreign operations
by notelocomas | 2025-11-04 00:50:02+00:00
I got some really good ideas from: "What is the best jurisdiction for internationally distributed teams?" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31620700) for setting up a business entity with foreign operations.

I have both US and Mexican citizenship. I am currently raising capital for a high performance athletic clinic in Mexico. All operations will be in Mexico. Leases, payroll, services, tech development etc. I want to be able to: - Raise capital under US jurisdiction and laws. - Receive compensation only via US banking institutions - Use equity structures similar to US startups(advisor equity, profit sharing, employee option pool) - Use US based banking tools for operations - Corporate income tax optimization.

I've read a bunch of articles on Carta, started reading the book "Secrets of Sand Hill Rd", have spoken to fiscal attorney in Mexico and asked ChatGPT. From everything I've gathered, the best structure is a Delaware C Corp for the equity and capital raising process and what amounts to a LLC in Mexico for business operations.

I'm sure I have blind spots here. Am I missing anything?
by goatlover | 2025-11-04 00:50:11+00:00
We know that others do not experience the exact same sensations, because there are reported differences, some of which has been discussed on HN, such as aphantasia. The opposite would be visual thinkers. Then you have super tasters and smellers, people who have very refined palats, perhaps because their gustary and/or oilfactory senses are more heightened. Then you have savants like the musical genius who would hear three separate strands of music in his head at the same time.
by sigmar | 2025-11-04 00:50:16+00:00
>The indictment said the soldiers assaulted the Palestinian prisoner and sodomized him with a knife, causing multiple injuries... When military police came to Sde Teiman in July to detain the soldiers suspected of abuse, they scuffled with protesters opposed to the arrests.

How the fuck do people go out there protesting in support of the violent rape of prisoners? Sickening stuff.
by bradddd | 2025-11-04 00:50:30+00:00
Suno | Cambridge, MA | New York, NY | Full-time | Onsite

We are building a future where anyone can make music. We’re scaling our engineering team and hiring for the following roles:

- Software Engineer, Android - Jetpack Compose, Kotlin

- Software Engineer, iOS - SwiftUI

- Software Engineer, Fullstack Web - Typescript, React, NextJS, Python, Django - Software Engineer, Growth - all the things

- AI Researchers

- Other roles here https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/suno

Apply at the link above or feel free to shoot me an email at matthiesen (at) suno.com if you have any questions or want to learn more.
by disposition2 | 2025-11-04 00:50:44+00:00
Any time I see an article about music streaming, I pour one out for Rdio.

It had all the benefits of streaming and the properties that one would expect from library ownership. When I compare the 'features' offered by all the streaming services (I've encountered thus far), things have regressed drastically.

A few of the benefits I recall (from memory) that Rdio had:

- when setting a radio station and when you 'downvoted' an artist or a song, it only effected that particular station. So, if you wanted a 70's metal radio station, downvoting Metallica wouldn't affect your general 'metal' radio station or your 80s Metal Radio station.

- You could search by numerous parameters, including Label. So if you were looking for classical albums by Deutsche Grammophon, you could actually find those albums or songs.

These are just a couple of things I can recall from memory. I think it's also important to point out (this is based on memory and vibes), that the Rdio algorithm actually respected the user's wishes and didn't try to force things you might not want. Said algorithm was bought by Pandora (IIRC) and based on my experience with Pandora (and past experience with Rdio)...Pandora seems to have thrown it in the trash.

Compare all of these awesome UX experiences vs YouTube Music...where you can't even filter out AI trash from New Releases.

Suffice to say, Rdio was the crest of the wave for music streaming / discovery and everything since has been a regression. But you do get a bit more control if you go down the path of owning your library.
by ryanyl | 2025-11-04 00:51:16+00:00
Yuzu | https://yuzu.health | Engineers & Designers | Onsite in NYC | Full-time At Yuzu, we’re building the next-generation health insurance company. We are NOT building a digital brokerage or an AI wrapper - we are going deeper to build the foundational infrastructure required to power tomorrow’s health plans.

We're hiring aggressively across the board, see open roles at https://yuzu.health/careers
by byronic | 2025-11-04 00:51:27+00:00
how much does the correction here hew to making an AI model just look like standardized API calls with predictable responses? If you took away all the costs (data centers, water consumption, money, etc) I still wouldn't use an LLM as a first choice because it's wrong enough of the time to make it useless -- I have to verify everything it says, which is how I would have approached a task in the first place. If we put that analogy into manufacturing, it's "I have to QA everything off of the line _without exception_ and I get frequent material waste"

If you make the context small enough, we're back at /api/create /api/read /api/update /api/delete; or, if you're old-school, a basic function
Why I'm Flying to Work with Remote Engineers (vs. Finding Bay Area Cofounder)
by iliaov | 2025-11-04 00:53:28+00:00
Three months ago, I started searching for a cofounder for my robotics startup in California. The ideal candidate profile was clear: 10x engineer, top-tier school credentials (helpful for fundraising pre-traction), located in the SF Bay Area.

After three months of searching—including creative outreach that generated half a dozen face-to-face interviews—I found exactly zero cofounders. The Expiration Date

Here’s the thing about cofounder searches: they have an expiration date. At some point, the business needs to move to its next phase, with or without the perfect cofounder. I hit that point two weeks ago during a manufacturing trip to China.

While there, I did some math. The cost of flying to China and staying for two weeks was two orders of magnitude less than paying a single month’s SF Bay Area salary for an engineer ($2K/month vs $160/year + $2K/month benefits + $25K capital rais bonus + equity).

That’s when I realized I was optimizing for the wrong constraint.

Splitting the “Ideal” Cofounder

I was looking for someone who was both a 10x engineer and had top-tier credentials. But what if I split that persona into two separate hires?

New approach:

Hire 1: Remote high-performer via Upwork - $20-80/hour (2x to 4x cheaper than SF startup salaries) - Autonomous, enthusiastic, hard worker - Location: anywhere

Hire 2: Part-time advisor with tier-1 credentials - Equity only - Primary role: help with fundraising credibility - Location: anywhere

My wife is okay with me traveling, so I dropped the location filter entirely.

The Problem with Remote at This Stage

Here’s where it gets tricky. I’m still at the very early MVP stage. The ideation and trial-and-error loop is brutally fast—especially because I’m using Claude Code to implement ideas. (I use Claude for everything in MVP prototyping, and it’s been fantastic.)

The problem: that fast iteration loop doesn’t work well with remote. If I send specs in the evening, get implementation in the morning, test during the day, and repeat—we’re already adding 12+ hour delays to each cycle. When you’re running multiple cycles per day in-person, going remote feels like moving through molasses.

The Solution: Hybrid “Out-Person” + Remote

Here’s what I’m planning: - Fly to the freelancer’s city - Stay in a hotel for 1-2 weeks - Bring hardware and MVP prototype with me - Work face-to-face to get them to 100% productivity - Return home - Work remotely until the next in-person sprint is needed - Repeat

The cost structure makes sense. A week or two of travel + accommodation + focused work is still 10x dramatically cheaper than SF salaries. And I can work from anywhere with my laptop.

What do you think about it? - Has anyone else tried this hybrid approach? How did it work out? - What are the failure modes I’m not seeing? - Is this sustainable long-term?
by goatlover | 2025-11-04 00:53:35+00:00
We haven't been able to decode what whales and dolphins are communicating. Are they using language? A problem SETI faces is whether we would be able to decode an alien signal. They may be too different in their biology, culture and technology. The book & movie Contact propose that math is a universal language. This assumes they're motivated to use the same basic mathematical structures we do. Maybe they don't care about prime numbers.

Solaris by Stanislaw Lem explores an alien ocean that so different humans utterly fail to communicate with it, leading to the ocean creating humans from memories in brain scans broadcast over the ocean, but it's never understood why the ocean did this. The recreated humans don't know either.
by felixfurtak | 2025-11-04 00:53:48+00:00
People keep comparing the AI boom to the Dotcom bubble. They’re wrong. Others point to the Railway Mania of the 1840s — closer, but still not quite right.

The real parallel is Canal Mania — Britain’s late-18th-century frenzy to dig waterways everywhere. Investors thought canals were the future of transport. They were, but only briefly.

Today’s AI runs on GPUs — chips built for rendering video games, not thinking machines. Adapting them for AI is about as sensible as adapting a boat to travel across land. Sure, it moves — but not quickly, not cheaply, and certainly not far.

It works for now, but the economics are brutal. Each new model devours exponentially more power, silicon, and capital. It just doesn't scale.

The real revolution will come with new, hardware built for the job (that hasn't been invented yet) — thousands of times faster and more efficient. When that happens, today’s GPU farms will look like quaint relics of an awkward, transitional age: grand, expensive, and obsolete almost overnight.
by dangus | 2025-11-04 00:55:37+00:00
Ok we're transitioning to Salarya, but payroll is still in Bullfrog—did you see my Noosecock post? Submit your timecard on Fireplayce then jizz me on Smackdog. Do NOT upload to Crackerz without Yammer approval

(Source: https://x.com/gossipbabies/status/1487161069143576576?lang=e...)