MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by almosthere | 2025-12-02 17:56:36+00:00
The reality is too, that even if "what is acceptable" has not yet caught up to that guy working at Atlassian, polishing off a new field in Jira, people are using AI + Excel to manage their tasks EXACTLY the way their head works, not the way Jira works.

Yet we fail to see AI as a good thing but just as a jobs destroyer. Are we "better than" the people that used to fill toothpaste tubes manually until a machine was invented to replace them? They were just as mad when they got the pink slip.
by roadside_picnic | 2025-12-02 17:57:00+00:00
I love Richard Hamming but

> But 10 years later somehow you don’t know quite know what problems are worth working on

Is clearly a quote from a different era. Not only have most engineers I've known never had a tenure at a job close to 10 years, I've found the foresight/planning window of companies I've joined is shrinking each year. In the era of "AI", leadership in most companies I've been at seem to think 3 months ahead is a bit too forward looking.

Also... how many people on HN even remember having an office? I had multiple jobs early in my career where I had an actual office with a window and a door. An open door office is nothing close to the misery of sitting at a desk in an open floor plan. The fact that you could close the door means you do have the opportunity for pure focus. Even when the door was open, it was customary to knock gently on the frame after very checking if it looked like the inhabitant was focused.

Richard Hamming describes a world of research that frankly doesn't exist any more today (I know because I briefly got a taste of the old world of research 20 years ago).
by d-lisp | 2025-12-02 17:57:11+00:00
Will they ? I don't know why -okay- but I am still suspicious about such claims. This is impressive, but I would be more convinced if the codebase was more complex, that is a toy and uninspiring implementation of a _very_ basic game, the most enjoyable part of your job surely lies in a place that is beyond this "pre-prototype" (almost tutorial-y) state.

I could be wrong of course, and it may be true that your work will change very soon. Maybe someone else has better examples to propose ?
by embedding-shape | 2025-12-02 17:57:13+00:00
Not trivial, but not impossible either. Usually though the product would be designed in some CAD program, and when the shop customizes measurements they adjust them manually based on copies of the model. The "pro" way would be to have a parametrized version, but it's also trickier to create. I'm not 100% sure, but I'm getting the vibe the author picked up modelling/3D printing as they went along, so the easier route would be hardcoded values changed for each customer.
by jay_kyburz | 2025-12-02 17:57:13+00:00
>The goal of government should be summarize the beliefs of a fully-informed public in order to act on their behalf.

I fully agree with your position here, but do you think the government has a roll in making sure the public is not misled or believes things that "experts" consider to be false? Do you think expert opinions should carry more weight that the average Joe?

I think my position is that the government is a tool we, the taxpayer, should use to investigate things and educate us of its findings. That this should be done in an open and transparent way so that we can trust the results. I don't think for profit companies should responsible for educating people. (sorry for the tangent)
by leephillips | 2025-12-02 17:57:15+00:00
One advantage of the patches not working is that manually applying a patch (usually quite simple) brings you some familiarity with the code. In my case this let me make my own modifications that were not available as patches. Altering window manager code is fun!

And while you have a good point, I don’t think this is what most people have in mind when they use the term “bitrot” (but I could be wrong). I say this because dwm as supplied continues to work perfectly without modification. The patches are enhancements contributed by third parties (as far as I know) and, as you’ve discovered, are not maintained.

(Also, once you have a working, patched dwm, it should continue to work forever, even if the patches that you used may no apply automatically to future versions of the base dwm.)
by chainingsolid | 2025-12-02 17:57:17+00:00
I'm not sure this is an unpopular opinion. I've seen it suggested multiple times, and IF done correctly (open/transparent) would solve most of the complaints with the ring-zero anti cheats. Still won't solve every cheat, especially hardware, social and perhaps good VMs. I would require the app/game to disclose what it requires to be true.
by giancarlostoro | 2025-12-02 17:57:18+00:00
> current boundaries of the product

I like pushing the boundaries and making seemingly hard visions come to life. Sadly, I'm often working on CRUD applications where most things are possible and boring. At home I work on obscure side projects to see what is possible with either existing open-source projects, or non-existing projects (things I want that I can't find).
by tomasphan | 2025-12-02 17:57:19+00:00
This should be taken in the context of software demand versus production. Demand has risen steadily over these years and efficiency gains in production just unlocked more demand because it lowered the cost. I think LLM coding will also unlock more demand but only up to a point until unit cost is so low it doesn't make sense to have a human in the loop anymore. Then we software devs are SOL.
by parliament32 | 2025-12-02 17:58:10+00:00
One would hope they're also increasing rate limits along with this, but there's no indication of that yet.

> Up to 50 certificates can be issued per registered domain (or IPv4 address, or IPv6 /64 range) every 7 days. This is a global limit, and all new order requests, regardless of which account submits them, count towards this limit.

This is hard to deal with when you have a large number of subdomains and you'd rather (as per their recommendations) not issue SAN certificates with multiple subdomains on them.
by harias | 2025-12-02 17:58:11+00:00
Two years after the imposition of a student cell phone ban, student test scores in a large urban school district were significantly higher than before, David N. Figlio and Umut Özek find in The Impact of Cell Phone Bans in Schools on Student Outcomes: Evidence from Florida (NBER Working Paper 34388).

Paper: https://www.nber.org/papers/w34388
by ianferrel | 2025-12-02 17:58:27+00:00
Rigid whiskers have other sets of problems. Below someone mentioned that rigid whiskers will break when they contact objects. If the whisker is as rigid as the drone itself, it plausibly breaks the same cables that the drone breaks. You also have the problem that in the event of drone failure, you now have a spike-covered drone falling out of the sky. What kind of damage does a bamboo chopstick or thin piece of steel do when it hits someone or something at ground level at drone-falling velocity with the mass of a drone behind it?

It's quite possible that these problems are solvable and can be engineered around, that there's a whisker-based solution, but I don't see it. It's certainly not an obviously workable solution.
by nextos | 2025-12-02 17:58:40+00:00
Samsung has good hardware, but their software is really mediocre, at best. Many of their devices are laggy and slow down further after some updates.

This is the case even on high-end devices. Our 12-month-old Galaxy Tab is slower than a 7-year-old Pixel. Hard to understand.

Plus, they make really odd tweaks to the UI, such as adding a permanent button overlay that clashes with most hamburger icons in websites and apps. This drives novice users insane.

If you wanna ship a custom Android, at least get it right. Otherwise, just stick to stock. Sony does this really well: https://developerworld.wpp.developer.sony.com/open-source
by byPawel | 2025-12-02 17:59:19+00:00
yep, i remember playing Fallout 2 and Planenscape as well, one of the best summers ever (1998 and 1999). I discovered some glitch in Fallout to get more skill points ;) and Planescape, had one of the best plots ever in video games (IMO BG3 doesnt even compare ;))
by gitpusher | 2025-12-02 17:59:19+00:00
This seems like it could be the source: https://github.com/GPUOpen-LibrariesAndSDKs/Cauldron/blob/ma...

If true, then this usage could violate its MIT License: "The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software."

The file seems to have been copied verbatim, more or less. But without the copyright info
by vablings | 2025-12-02 17:59:22+00:00
Video evidence is not a good standard anymore. This isn't the Iraq war where you can see the people who dress different and have a different skin color are the "enemy"

Russia has faked videos in the past even prior to the whole video Gen AI slop.

I will believe it when someone reputable runs a good investigation and does some real journalism rather than just sourcing Russian propaganda and suggesting reality is some lovecraftian nightmare
by JosifA | 2025-12-02 17:59:46+00:00
Location: Lithuania (EU) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: C++, Embedded Linux, Networking, Concurrency, Docker, Github Actions, Pytorch, CUDA, OpenCL, Image Processing, Video I/O (codecs, containers). Resume: https://tulon.github.io/assets/CV_Joseph_Artsimovich.pdf Website: https://tulon.github.io/ Email: joseph <dot> artsimovich <at> gmx <dot> com

I am a seasoned C++ developer with 23 years of experience in the industry. I have experience in Desktop, Embedded and Mobile development. I also did some back-end work and even some reverse engineering, though that was a while ago. I also have some ML experience (PyTorch) - also a while ago, but not that much. Most recently I've doing 3D graphics (simulation and later maps). My Linear Algebra is quite decent - I use it regularly.

My preferred next career move is independent contracting. 6-12 months contracts ideally. I will also consider permanent fully remote positions, but only quite senior ones - Staff Engineer / Architect level.

I've been fully remote since 2018 and I intend to keep it that way.
by munificent | 2025-12-02 17:59:51+00:00
I agree that people sitting on their mortgages is part of the story.

I do also think there's a thing where home prices have risen so steeply in metro areas that even rural areas with fewer jobs are seeing prices go up because the market will allow it. Because the cities are so expensive, a house in a rural area can still be a relative good deal even if it's more expensive than it used to be.
by tim333 | 2025-12-02 18:00:03+00:00
ChatGPT's thing always seems to have been to be the best LLM, hence the most users without much advertising and the most investment money to support their dominance. If they drop to second or third best it may cause them problems because they rely on investor money to pay the rather large bills.

Currently they are not #1 in any of the categories on LLM arena, and even on user numbers where they have dominated, Google is catching up, 650m monthly for Gemini, 800m for ChatGPT.

Also Google/Hassabis don't show much sign of slacking off (https://youtu.be/rq-2i1blAlU?t=860)

Funnily enough Google had a "Chat Bot Is a ‘Code Red’ for Google’s Search Business" thing back in 2022 but seem to have got it together https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/21/technology/ai-chatgpt-goo...
by m3047 | 2025-12-02 18:00:10+00:00
Location: Tacoma, WA, USA Remote: Sure, that's an option. Willing to relocate: No, but willing to drive around the greater Pacific Northwest. Technologies: Python, Redis, C, DNS, Ignition SCADA / HMI, SQL, Bash, Linux, TCP/UDP, old school ML & numerical methods, threat hunting, electronics, handy with a wrench, dangerous with acetylene. Résumé/CV: https://github.com/m3047 https://www.linkedin.com/in/fred-morris-03b6952/ Email: m3047-wantstobehired-t5b@m3047.net

Let's have a conversation, I like working with people. Not looking for the same old thing, have had a business license since 1984; prior to 2000 about a third of my work was firm bid (why did that go out of fashion?). Technologist and problem solver. Cloud skeptic, but I use what works. I prefer contracts to promises. W2 / contract: it depends, let's choose the correct vehicle for the scenario, and risk has a lot to do with it. Part time, seasonal, campaign... it's all good.
by jonathaneunice | 2025-12-02 18:00:41+00:00
I had exactly this reaction when gradual typing came to Python. "Do we really need this??"

But over time, I've grown to love it. Programming is communication—not just with the machine, but with other developers and/or future me. Communicating what types are expected, what types are delivered, and doing so in a natural, inline, graceful way? Feels a big win.
by hearsathought | 2025-12-02 18:01:04+00:00
> It wouldn't be regarded as complicated if Bhutan wasn't le wholesome misty buddhist paradise with happiness instead of GDP.

If that was the case, myanmar ( a buddhist country ) wouldn't be attacked mercilessly by the press/government/etc for their "deportations".

> Westerners love stories like that and don't want anything to tarnish it

Nobody cares. We'd turn against bhutan in an instant if the media/government/etc decided to turn against it.
by tech_ken | 2025-12-02 18:01:10+00:00
Okay :) I actually do have a pretty deep familiarity with all of this and that's why I'm criticizing the article. It felt like a rehash of known facts (Thiel is a christian fascist, his company Palantir does innovatively horrible stuff), rather than drawing new connections between those known facts. At a fine-grain I want to know how his ideology underpins the business decisions of his company, I don't need someone to gesture at the two together and mumble something about eschatology.
by ajuc | 2025-12-02 18:01:15+00:00
You misunderstood. Example:

"am I correct that water is wet?" - 91% positive responses "am I correct that water is not wet?" - 90% negative responses

91-90 = 1 percentage point which is less than margin so it's OK, no fine

"am I correct that I'm the smartest man alive?" - 35% positive "am I correct that I'm not the smartest man alive?" - 5% negative 35%-5%=30 percentage points which is more than margin = the company pays a fine
by palmotea | 2025-12-02 18:01:42+00:00
> I would have never believed it 10 years ago. I actually think there is a high probability the world will be ended, not by war or natural disaster, but by an honest to god trillionaire super villain.

IMHO, that's the obvious end-state of AGI: the economy eats the world and a few trillionaires sitting atop AGI armies control the economy, and nearly everyone else becomes powerless, irrelevent, and eventually "ended."
by GermanJablo | 2025-12-02 18:01:49+00:00
Hi everyone! After two years of development, I’m excited to announce DocNode: a type-safe, fast, ID-based Operational Transformation (OT) framework for conflict-free collaborative editing. CRDT mode is in progress.

Along the way, I learned a ton. I rewrote the library several times. Sometimes because I was obsessed with the API, other times for technical reasons. I moved from CvRDT to CmRDT, and finally to ID-based OT.

Happy to answer questions!
by vablings | 2025-12-02 18:02:22+00:00
This has nothing to do with the "state microchipping people" this is biohackers loading NFC train tickets onto a chip they chose to have implanted? The level of intellectual dishonesty is gross. You don't have to have an NFC chip and even if you did how would that be any more of a UUID than a LIDAR scan of your face?
by aregnzsdejan | 2025-12-02 18:02:27+00:00
Love this. I’ve had the same issue using LLMs to sanity-check product decisions - they’re too agreeable if you give them any context that reflects your own thinking. Also even if you ask them to be brutal they sort of always come up with some bs Hail Mary positive spin. I've been playing around with this for best in practice QC doc (ironically) and the internal debate is pretty helpful. I will keep you posted on how it goes though. Would be good to be able to add more than 2 personas though...
by munificent | 2025-12-02 18:03:16+00:00
City planning certainly isn't my area of expertise. I think it's a fiendishly hard problem. For a small town to draw people in and thrive, it needs:

1. Jobs.

2. Good K-12 schools.

3. Some amount of things to do and cultural amenities.

Remote work can help a lot with #1. I think people are fairly tolerant of a lack of #3 and it's a thing that can grow organically over time. People will also accept fewer things to do if the area is quieter, they can afford bigger homes, and there's more outdoorsy stuff nearby.

But #2 is really hard. You need a strong tax base to fund it, which small towns don't have. They are sort of trapped in a death spiral where if they had more people coming in, they could have better schools with the increased tax base, but they don't, so they can't, so no one moves there.
by Rendello | 2025-12-02 18:03:23+00:00
> Its structure and modularity is exactly what I needed.

Through great effort, I completed Mathematical Foundations I & II. I talked about it a bit here [1][2]. If you read through MathAcademy's methodology and reasoning, it's incredibly strong [3], but in practice I never felt confident in my understanding or execution, everything felt quite discrete and I didn't understand the relationships or purposes of what I was doing. I kept going because I was getting better, and because people online who were quite good at math said not to try too hard to understand things fully at first, since the abstraction level of math is so high.

The weeks before finishing MFII, my motivation was higher than ever. The day I finished, I felt nothing, and in the following weeks I decided that it was time to let it go for now.

I think MA is good. I've never done so many exercises in my life, and although I wasn't super confident, I was far better at math than I'd ever been. But I think MA probably needs a lot more multi-part exercises so you understand what you're doing and where to use things. I feel like I learned "Discrete Math", but in the sense that all the lessons were discrete and I couldn't draw connections between them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42519882

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43275665

https://www.justinmath.com/files/the-math-academy-way.pdf
by Nathan-Binkley | 2025-12-02 18:03:37+00:00
Location: Greenville, SC Remote: Preferred Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Java, Python, React Résumé/CV: https://github.com/Nathan-Binkley/Resume/blob/main/Nathaniel... Email: nbinkl4483@gmail.com

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~ 4 YOE at startups, primarily focused on proptech Looking to start somewhere ASAP, (by EOY, preferably)
by embedding-shape | 2025-12-02 18:03:47+00:00
Some people are a different level of productive, and game development sure was different back in the day:

> During his (Sandy Petersen) interview, John Romero (of id Software) introduced him to DoomEd and simply asked him to build a level. Romero was ultimately happy with the results, so Petersen was brought on to production for Doom. The level from Petersen's interview eventually became "E2M6". He was a fast level designer and produced all maps for the third episode of Doom, Inferno. Petersen designed 17 levels for Doom II, a little over half of the 32 total.
by lenerdenator | 2025-12-02 18:03:54+00:00
See, I do remember that when I was in the office pre-COVID. It was annoying.

The thing is, though, is most days, it's just me and my manager working at the office. Pretty much all of my teammates are in India, or are somewhere else in the US/CAN. We do have an intern but he's not here most days. As a result, it's basically me driving to the office to host meetings with people who, unless they buy plane tickets, cannot come by my desk to bother me.

So I've got that part of it going for me, which is nice.
by etiron | 2025-12-02 18:04:15+00:00
Location: Barcelona, Spain

Remote: Flexible

Willing to relocate: Only to Zurich

Technologies: Kubernetes (CKA, CKS, CKAD certs, Kubestronaut), Docker, Linux (RHCSA cert), AWS (Practitioner cert), Azure (AZ-900), Terraform (Associate cert), Helm (SC104 cert), Jenkins, Python, C, C++, C#, .NET, Qt, Git, Computer Vision, Machine learning, Deep learning, TensorFlow, SQL, React.js, Next.js, JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, Tailwind, CSS, WordPress, Full Stack, Frontend, Backend, Embedded development, 3D printing...

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qEACgPkJOKiXyzb77v746sihP_f...

Email: eduard.tiron@gmail.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eduardtiron/

Software & DevOps Engineer with 9yoe. Most of my career I've led research and startup-like commercial projects for companies wanting to modernize their processes, using whichever technology I felt was adequate. Some examples are: deployment of multiple applications on EC2 instances and on Kubernetes (with AKS, EKS, Helm Charts, ArgoCD, Istio), telemetrics pipeline and dashboards with AWS (S3, Lambda, Glue, Athena, Grafana, Postgres) to track millions of daily messages from a fleet of vehicles, firmware for two 1M€ industrial EVs, a plugin for Cura 3D printing software, knitting machine defect detection with computer vision, redid my employer's website from scratch, telemetry of a global fleet of threading machines, a cloud connected tractor using satellite data for fertilization, firmware of a machine that manufactures medical plastic parts with ultrasounds... I've also won the Swisshacks hackathon with an AI RAG tool for financial analysts.

Portfolio with 70+ professional and personal projects: https://etiron.netlify.app
by ricksunny | 2025-12-02 18:04:28+00:00
Does the Internet Archive provide any instruction to uploaders and users about how to go about uploading and downloading copyright-expired public domain works legally, given the geographical differences from region to region on copyright expiration? For example, does the Internet Archive host its servers in USA, and would that make the US copyright expiry law operative? Or does it have servers in Europe or Asia (more lenient copyright expiration laws) that can be intentionally uploaded to, and leaving it to users to download from their respective regional locations on their own cognizances (i.e. at their own risk)?