MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by xtracto | 2025-12-01 22:42:46+00:00
Location: UTC-6 (Americas)

Remote: Yes, strongly preferred.

Willing to relocate: Only for the absolutely right opportunity.

Technologies: Python, TypeScript (Nest.js for API, React for mobile or web front), Ruby, AWS (Architect, DevOps, AI/ML), Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, LLMs, Scikit-learn(all MPL, SNS, pd, Data Science stack), Solidity, FinTech/Blockchain. (I've worked professionally with too many to write here and not give the feeling of "wall of text".)

Résumé/CV: baqueiro.com/static/baqueiro2025.pdf

Email: (in my resume)

Compensation Expectation: $140k and $170k USD gross yearly

Hello Hacker News! I'm a CompSci PhD (AI Multi-Agent systems... doing Agents' research back in 2004, before they were cool haha) and a passionate technologist with a warm spot for building high-impact products and teams.

For over 20 years, I've loved being a hands-on leader in FinTech, building everything from scalable crypto trading desks and AI/ML systems for fraud detection, to migrating entire platforms from monoliths to robust, cloud-native microservices. I thrive on aligning engineering with business goals and tackling complex distributed systems challenges.

Zero-to-One Success: Built foundational tech/AI/ML at a Fintech, enabling the company's Series A. Executive & Scaling Experience: CTO of a crypto trading desk; Head of Engineering, Product or AI/ML at high-growth FinTechs.

I'm actively looking for a remote role. I am most comfortable as first/founding engineer, also have been head-of/cto whatever the name building startup's technology teams. Right now I am most interested in doing AI/LLM work, like really pushing the status quo of both the Engineering and AI/ML. (I would love to get into something like SSI).
by jrjfjgkrj | 2025-12-01 22:42:49+00:00
I use Firefox as my main browser.

when the AI tab/sidebar appeared, I just closed it. that's it. and it never appeared again. I didn't need to change any special setting.

maybe there was another dialog or two which asked me to enable AI something which I answered No and dont remember.

this article is written in bad faith, Firefox is not pushing AI at every opportunity like Edge for example
by EA-3167 | 2025-12-01 22:43:11+00:00
Our military spending is enormous, but it's dwarfed by what we spend on healthcare. The problem with our healthcare system isn't that we have a military, it's the gross and intentional profit-seeking behavior of insurers and many others in the system. They see the government as a bottomless pit of money that they can tap with lobbying, and the result is that we pay stupid prices for absolutely everything, on the assumption that it will be negotiated down somewhat by private or public insurance.

If you look at how $1 of public spending on healthcare is used in the US vs countries with better healthcare, it becomes obvious where the problem is, and it isn't in the ocean. An anti-military ideological stance is one thing, but you don't need to inject it into this.
by chwmath | 2025-12-01 22:43:41+00:00
Hi HN,

I built this medical diagnosis simulator (`chat-a-cold.html`) in just 3 hours.

The interesting part is that I didn't "code" the medical logic in Python or C++. Instead, I used a methodology I call *NLCS (Natural Language Constraint System)*.

I simply defined the "thinking structure" of a doctor (Input -> Criteria -> Exception -> Output) in natural language, and the LLM executed it as a game engine.

* *Logic:* Differentiates between Common Cold (90%) and Sinusitis (10%) using hidden variable checks. * *Cost:* Near zero development cost (just prompt engineering + structure design). * *Result:* It simulates an intern's diagnostic process with high accuracy.

The repository includes the full whitepaper (PDF) and the runnable HTML file. I believe this demonstrates that "Cognitive Architecture" is more important than raw knowledge in the AI era.

Would love to hear your thoughts!
by makeitdouble | 2025-12-01 22:43:42+00:00
Someone explicitely asked for your input, you refused and they fucked up. Your head might nor roll, but you won't be unscaved either. If it's not as your responsibility, it will be by the size and impact of the fuckup.

IMHO it'l should be the same approach as any other human communication: not everything can be fixed, and at some point you'll need to compromise.

Some people talk slowly, will you refuse to listen to them if they don't speed up to some given wpm ? Some take time to come to their actual point. It might be utterly uncomfortable, but if they actually tend to have very good points, you'll probably bear with it.
by O4epegb | 2025-12-01 22:43:55+00:00
Location: Spain Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Full Stack JS/TS, React, Next.js, Node, any css/state management/orm, you name it - I tried it. Other: Docker, Postgres, RAG, minor experience with PHP, Go. Willing to learn and use other things, esp. Rust, Elixir, C++ Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniildemidovich Email: daniil.demidovich@gmail.com Github: https://github.com/O4epegb

Hey, I'm Daniil, full stack engineer with over 10 years of experience and a strong understanding of the modern web development ecosystem. Last 7 years working at startups of various sizes and have hands on experience as a product engineer with a high level of ownership. Converting business goals into robust and maintainable code while providing technical clarity and delivering high quality features.
by dandano | 2025-12-01 22:43:55+00:00
These are fantastic! I've done similar and seen some positive outcomes at work. As the one usually sending meetings - I have been leaning heavily on asynchronous first (teams chat) then if needed we hop into a focused meeting with a clear agenda. It's been liberating to see the reactions that other people like this too instead of another meeting. More often than not we never needed the meeting.
by maccard | 2025-12-01 22:43:55+00:00
I echo the parents sentiment - I don’t need to be there for a one hour meeting while 12 people give a perspective on a topic, but if you make the wrong decision I will say no.

My job as a higher level manager is to ensure that whoever is there on our behalf avoids stupid decisions being made, and if I can’t delegate that then I need to go myself. Sometimes its unavoidable, and sometimes politics prevail but 95% of the time making my priorities clear to my team and being consistent in my them has the correct outcome.
by fragmede | 2025-12-01 22:43:57+00:00
Hire digital employees rather than human ones. When all your interaction is digital, replacing the human on the other end with a theoretically just as capable AI is one possibility. Then, have the AI write docs for your AI employee, spin up additional employees like EC2 instances on AWS. Spin up 30 to clear out your Trello/Monday.com/Jira board, then spin them back down as soon as they've finished, with no remorse, because they're just AI robots. That's what you could do with such a technology anyway.

That's for regular human-level AGI. The issue becomes more start for ASI, artificial super intelligence. If the AI employee is smarter than most, if not all humans, why hire humans at all?

Of course, this is all theoretical. We don't have the technology yet, and have no idea what it would even cost if/when we reach that.
by damir00 | 2025-12-01 22:43:58+00:00
Yes, correct. I will phrase this better in the future. The zero-power refers only to what is, in effect, the optical replacement for the ocean of matmul you have in standard Transformer implementation.

I apologize for not being clearer.

The goal isn't actually "zero power" - the goal is "so little heat dissipation in orbit is easy".
by WhyIsItAlwaysHN | 2025-12-01 22:44:07+00:00
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark (UTC+1)

Remote: Yes (Europe timezones)

Willing to relocate: No

Role: UX Researcher (mixed-methods / product discovery)

Experience: 3+ years

Email: rvbceilx0@mozmail.com

UX researcher with a background in cognition and communication, 3+ years on data- and AI-driven B2B/ERP products. I run mixed-methods studies (interviews, usability tests, concept tests, surveys, diary studies, JTBD, journey mapping, basic telemetry) and turn messy workflows and stakeholder questions into clear, actionable recommendations for product, design, and engineering. I’m mainly looking for interesting, challenging work with teams that are willing to listen to research; I’m flexible on domain and stage.
by simoncion | 2025-12-01 22:44:23+00:00
Yeah. I've found a nearly 1:1 correlation between "Does it try hard to be 'competitive' or an 'e-sport'?" and "Is a huge section of the playerbase just godawful toxic assholes?".

As the years ground on, I've learned to avoid games billing themselves as an "e-sport" or indicating that they are extremely focused on the "competitive" scene, unless there's something very compelling to offset the asshole players that will inevitably be pulled in.
by OGEnthusiast | 2025-12-01 22:44:35+00:00
It's unfortunate there wasn't more resistance by tech employees to RTO post-covid. It seemed like one of the very, very rare solutions to the systemic problems of housing and commuting in the US. I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that WFH effectively doubles or even triples your total compensation when it means (a) actually affordable housing and (b) no time/money lost to commuting, especially if you have kids.
by gremlinsinc | 2025-12-01 22:44:44+00:00
Location: Utah (remote preferred) Remote: Yes Technologies: Laravel, Vue, React Native, JavaScript/TypeScript, Supabase, PostgreSQL, AI automation (OpenAI / LLM integration), APIs, Node Résumé: Available on request Email: patrickwcurl@gmail.com

https://linkedin.com/in/patrickcurl

I’m a full-stack developer focusing on Laravel + Vue or livewire and AI automation for small businesses. 12+ years building production apps, internal tools, and integrations.

Recent work includes: – SaaS dashboards and internal CRM systems – AI-powered automations (agent workflows, lead scoring, data extraction) – React Native mobile apps (Expo) – Custom APIs, OAuth, payment integration – Landing pages + onboarding flows

Looking for contract or part-time work. I ship fast, communicate clearly, and handle the full lifecycle from idea → architecture → deployment.

I'm open to tech support or writing gigs as well.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-12-01 22:45:17+00:00
>you'll probably consume a lot more, while still working a full week

There's more to cosume than 50 years ago, but I don't see that trend continuing. We shifted phone bills to cell phone bills and added internet bills and a myriad of subscriptions. But that's really it. everything was "turn one time into subscrition".

I don't see what will fundamentally shift that current consumption for the next 20-30 years. Just more conversion of ownership to renting. In entertainment we're already seeing revolts against this as piracy surges. I don't know how we're going to "consume a lot more" in this case.
by balousek | 2025-12-01 22:45:20+00:00
Ezra | Principal Engineer (Full-Stack) | US REMOTE | Full-time

Ezra is a venture-backed startup building at the intersection of finance and artificial intelligence. We're building a platform to accelerate capital deployment into world-positive investments.

I'm Rob, the CTO, and we're looking for a technical leader and IC (12+ years exp) to own our backend architecture and implementation. You will be bridging traditional backend services with AI agents and inference systems, ensuring reliability at production scale. This is a high-autonomy role for someone who thrives in early-stage environments. You'll be working with other high performing engineers who will each own key components of our system.

The Role:

Drive architecture for Python-based backends (Django/FastAPI) and AI inference systems.

Build agentic AI workflows (retrieval strategies, eval sets) using OpenAI/Anthropic/LlamaIndex/Langchain.

Own features end-to-end, from system design to React/Next.js frontend implementation.

Stack: Python, Django/FastAPI, React, Next.js, AWS (RDS/Postgres, Terraform), Vector stores.

Contact: Email me directly at robert+hn25@ezra.fi with your resume, or apply here: https://www.ezra.fi/careers/principal-fullstack
by kortilla | 2025-12-01 22:45:24+00:00
As a manager or even a technical leader, your head IS on the line, it just might not seem so obvious.

Rollout delays, customer debacles, etc all shape your image to promo panels.

If you’re just a junior engineer, it’s not like it will be held against you, but you certainly missed an opportunity to demonstrate ownership and make a name for yourself as one of the 1 in 20 people who aren’t NPCs.
by jrflowers | 2025-12-01 22:45:30+00:00
> It's a satire blog that's confusing or misleading people (See top HN comments.)

I think it’s equally possible that we have a blind-leading-the-blind situation here, ie one guy didn’t get the joke, posted a serious chat gpt summary, and some people assumed it was a serious article. Seeing as that was the top comment for a while, I’d bet that this discussion is a great example of how using LLMs to “understand” things can actually have the reverse effect.
by peter422 | 2025-12-01 22:45:31+00:00
15 out of the top 50 and 4/6 top hospitals in the world are in the US: https://rankings.newsweek.com/worlds-best-hospitals-2025

Again, I’m not saying the health care outcomes are better, or the value is better. I’m saying the hospitals are nicer, the doctors are the best, etc.

Perhaps this is the wrong thing to optimize for! But we are getting something.
by TheSockStealer | 2025-12-01 22:45:41+00:00
Everyone having a common understanding of the state of the world is important and not always efficient, or even possible, to do it async. Ideally, everyone would have good response times on messages and emails, always write clearly, but this is the real world, and you can't guarantee that. Often, tickets bounce back and forth between people for weeks when a quick meeting will answer things quickly. Sometimes this is best to happen in Status meetings IMO.
by gnavadev | 2025-12-01 22:46:35+00:00
Location: Corvallis, OR, US

Remote: Preferred, also open to in-person

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies:

- Backend: Python, Django (Vanilla & DRF), FastAPI, Celery, PostgreSQL - Frontend: TypeScript, React, Vue, Next.js - DevOps/Cloud: AWS (S3, Lambda, DynamoDB), Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins - AI/ML: PyTorch, TensorFlow, SciKit-learn, OpenCV - Other: Kafka, OpenSearch, Selenium, Storybook, BeautifulSoup - LLM Integrations: OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Mistral, DeepSeek - Can brew a very nice coffee

Résumé/CV: https://linktr.ee/gabrielnavainfo

Email: gabrielnavajobs@gmail.com

Additional Info:

Currently pursuing a Post-Bacc in Computer Science at Oregon State University and working at the university's Security Operations Center, following a B.S. in Control and Automation Engineering.

3+ years of professional experience in Full Stack/Forward Deployed Engineering.
by verdverm | 2025-12-01 22:46:44+00:00
Is there a text version of this?

My take, don't trust more SF tech bros to fix the problems they created.

Instead take the algorithms back with ATProto, where anyone can make algos.

Since using https://graze.social to make custom feeds, my social habits have noticably changed. I have little buckets for different kinds of content and I get to choose when I look in those buckets
by estimator7292 | 2025-12-01 22:46:47+00:00
How come other countries have better healthcare at lower real costs? Basically every developed nation has better healthcare outcomes than the US. All other nations have cheaper healthcare.

America is not special, we've just brainwashed our less-observant citizens into believing that solutions the entire rest of the world uses will never and can never work here. There's nothing special about our population or economy that would prevent accessible healthcare. The only thing standing in our way is healthcare companies who want their 6000% cut of every procedure and politicians who will do literally anything to give billionaires another dollar.
by alistairSH | 2025-12-01 22:46:51+00:00
If only we paid only 30% in the US.

If you're in the 24% bracket, you probably have an average rate around 18%. 7% personal FICA witholding, another 7% employer match, and state income tax. Then, if you're in the mood, add your health insurance premium and any college savings for you or your kids (or the difference between what we pay and what you'd pay in [insert some other country here]).
by justcallmejm | 2025-12-01 22:46:57+00:00
Aloe | Vancouver, BC, Canada (ONSITE preference)

Aloe is the critical thinking layer for agents – to know why they believe what they do, how confident they are, and what actions they can take to increase that confidence. It’s the only path to AI we can trust, delegate to, and rely on.

Aloe exists to build tools to help human cognition succeed in an information-dense world it did not evolve to handle. We believe this is the most important problem to solve today.

Open Roles (https://aloe.inc/company) - AI Researcher - UX interaction designer - UX user experience researcher and designer - Software eng - backend - Software eng - AI - Software eng - front end
by roadside_picnic | 2025-12-01 22:47:03+00:00
> Pre-covid - an entire working team is clustered in the same office

Just a reminder that there were plenty of great distributed teams long before Covid. I had had only a few "in office" jobs in my pre-covid career (and generally found collaboration better on remote teams, though goofing off has a bit harder to organize).

I also find it funny that somehow software engineers completely forget about the existence of open source software which worked in a more extremely distributed fashion than any remote company I've worked for at a time when IRC and email where the only tools for remote communication. Most of the most used and most successful software was written by globally distributed teams that only met face to face every few years if ever.

This timeline you are presenting applies only to large corporate jobs, where my experience has been "work productivity" always takes a back seat to organizational theater.
by ModernMech | 2025-12-01 22:47:04+00:00
> Ruby's performance is similar to python's. Granted, neither one is going to win any competitions...

It's not just that they won't win any speed competitions, but that Ruby and Python are bound to come in last place. The only question is, which one comes in last and which 2nd to last. Runners up include Perl, PHP, and sometimes non-JIT Lua. Choose any benchmark, the results are consistent: https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
by acheong08 | 2025-12-01 22:47:12+00:00
Location: Cardiff, United Kingdom

Remote: Preferred not, but willing

Willing to relocate: Yes (Europe, North America, Singapore, Far east Asia)

Technologies: Golang, Python, Typescript, Java, Postgres, Docker, Kubernetes, Svelte, React, Ghidra

Resume: https://duti.dev/resume.pdf

Email: acheong@duti.dev

Github: https://github.com/acheong08/

Weird generalist with a mix of cybersecurity, reverse engineering, run of the mill full stack development, and devops for self hosting. I do whatever I find interesting & learn the skills required along the way.

Currently working on my own little startup but looking for a backup option in case it doesn't work out before my graduation (~April 2026).
by godsinhisheaven | 2025-12-01 22:47:13+00:00
A lot of this is an issue of insurance no longer being "insurance" in the classical sense. Insurance covers all sorts of things, my HSA pays for all sorts of things that I never would have even considered, and while that sounds great, it helps to drive up costs. It's somewhat counter-intuitive, but if you dropped all government funding of healthcare tomorrow, healthcare plans would get cheaper. It'd also be total chaos, so I get why we don't do that. But the situatuon is a lot like student loans, colleges know they can charge more because the government will lend 5-6 figures to just about anybody, so the colleges do so. And once that person is educated, you can't just "take back" the education if they don't pay. Same deal with healthcare, government subsidizes it for most of the population in lots of ways, healthcare providers know this, they increase prices to match. And you can't just take back the surgery to fix that broken arm or undeliver the baby. There's not a single silver bullet that will fix everything, but there are definitely concrete changes that can be made to improve the situation. One of them would be to make people healthier. I know, easier said than done. But by God it would make health insurance cheaper. Same way in that if everyone was a safe driver, we'd all be paying less in car insurance. Another way would be to remove that regulation or rule or something that makes it so like a hospital can't open too close to another hospital. Another would be to just, train more doctors! What I'm trying to say is, just as the problem is multi-faceted, the solution must necessarily be as well.
by syrusakbary | 2025-12-01 22:47:25+00:00
I've set up an online demo using Wasmer for local execution, so everyone can try easily! (try typing `cowsay hello`):

https://ghostty-web.wasmer.app/

How to try it locally:

npx @ghostty-web/demo@next # The preferred way # OR wasmer run wasmer/ghostty-web -> Go to http://localhost:8080/

Source code: https://github.com/wasmerio/webassembly.sh (updated from xterm into ghostty-web without any issue!)
by crazygringo | 2025-12-01 22:47:27+00:00
Fear of leaks, or the other harms you mention, have nothing to do with the question at hand, which is whether these features are enabled by default.

If someone is using ChatGPT, they're using ChatGPT. They're not inputting sensitive personal secrets by accident. Turning Gemini off by default in Gmail isn't going to change whether someone is using ChatGPT as a therapist or something.

You seem to simply be arguing that you don't like LLM's. To which I'll reply: if they do turn out to present substantial harms that need to be regulated, then so be it, and regulate them appropriately.

But that applies to all of them, and has nothing to do with the question at hand, which is whether they can be enabled by default in consumer products. As long as chatgpt.com and gemini.google.com exist, there's no basis for asking the government to turn off LLM features by default in Gmail or Calendar, while making them freely available as standalone products. Does that make sense?