MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rstuart4133 | 2025-12-02 21:33:21+00:00
I've owned a few XPS/X1 high end laptops in my time. Every single one of them had serious design flaws, as in "I'm not buying that again" type design flaw. That's true of every vendor.

I was sucked in by the advertising I guess. They looked very good on paper - good battery life for the time, thin, light, powerful, sleek, latest everything. I've built computer systems for most of my professional career. Looking back on it, how I could have possibly thought some fresh shiny new design first off the production line was going to be rock solid work horse is beyond me. Lack of critical thinking skills I guess.

Now, I buy something like a Dell Latitude. It's an enterprise machine. Translation: a plain, boring design with parts that have been trialed by the XPS/X1 suckers, so most of the bugs are ironed out. Enterprise tends to mean expensive. But they lose 75% of their value in 2 years, so second hand prices are very reasonable, and since Dell offers 5 years warranty on them they can effectively come with the same guarantees as a new one.

Enterprise also means well supported. It's almost night and day. Ring Dell about a Inspiron or even an XPS issue, and you are met with a wall of excuses. Contact them about an Latitude issue, you get a fast response. The one time I wasn't happy with the outcome, I said so in their "how did we go" questionnaire, and they rang me back begging me to let them have another go.
by mikepurvis | 2025-12-02 21:33:25+00:00
In my experience, curiosity is the #1 predictor of the kind of passionate, high-level engineer that I'm most interested in working with. And it's generally not that hard to evaluate this in a free-form interview context where you listen to how a person talks about their past projects, how they learn a new system or advocated/onboarded a tool at their company.

But it can be tricky to evaluate this in the kind of structured, disciplined way that big-company HR departments like to see, where all interviewees get a consistent set of questions and are "scored" on their responses according to a fixed rubric.
by strictlymomo | 2025-12-02 21:33:47+00:00
it's not complete garbage, it's simply the cycle repeating itself.

the resort to violence can be wielded by everybody. therein lies its limitation as an unreliable means to control people and resources. power based on consent, ie, power from below, is predicated on promises proffered by patron-brokers who trade resources for allegiance. it's a comparatively stable structure until it reaches a certain scale. to get to that point, the stakes had to have been raised through manufacturing consent in the forms of ritual, ideology, capital, bureaucracy, and all the other goodies that Girard and Thiel love discussing. throw in the compounded accumulation of resources through arbitrage and leveraged betting, and you're left with social structures characterized by skewed wealth distributions and leaders who get to wield power asymmetrically. there's a clear historical and logical sequence where power by consent leads to power by coercion embodied in hegemony. given that's the current state of affairs, (and no sense in contesting this point since Thiel grapples with this fact himself in his investments and mythologizing of the US through this antichrist/katechon dialectic), it's pretty obvious what tools are left to those who no longer have any control to surrender via the consensual framework. suboptimal as it may be, at least violence-or the threat thereof-can be wielded by both sides.

now, where we land individually on the matter is one thing, but i'm afraid yours is the genteel fantasy.
by shadowgovt | 2025-12-02 21:34:05+00:00
Of course they are. If I could arrange for someone to hand me money over the course of my entire life for work I did 25 years ago, I'd absolutely take that deal.

... it may not be in society's best interest to offer it to me though.

(Honestly, the better deal would be for society to hand all of us money from a giant taxation pool monthly and, freed up from the need to put so many hours into working to eat, we could do a lot more writing, performing, and general making-of-art and fundamental-no-capitalist-benefit scientific exploration).
by ashwindharne | 2025-12-02 21:34:09+00:00
I've found that this phenomenon exacerbates inequality too:

If you attend a well-known college that bigco's hire from frequently, there's a lot of knowledge floating around about interview prep, hiring schedules, which companies pay the best, etc. Clubs host "interview prep workshops" where they'd teach the subject matter of interviews, host events(hackathons, case competitions, etc.) to help you bolster your resume for applying to these bigco's. So just by attending a better/fancier school, you'd have pretty decent odds of eventually getting a job at one of these prestigious places.

If you were to attend a less prestigious school, regardless of your aptitude or capability, the information asymmetry is so bad that you'll never learn of the prerequisites for even being considered for some of these roles. Not many upperclassmen will have interned at fancy employers, so they won't be there to help you drill dynamic programming/black-scholes/lbo models, and won't tell you that you need to have your applications prepped by a certain date, and won't tell you that you should be working on side projects/clubs, etc.

I suppose that the apprenticeship model biases towards people that already have connections, so perhaps inequality was already bad, whereas now we just have an information asymmetry that's more easily solvable.
Show HN: Docmd v0.3 – Static documentation generator (built-in search, no React)
by enigmazi | 2025-12-02 21:34:13+00:00
Hi HN, I posted docmd here a few months ago when it was just a simple markdown parser.

I'm back with v0.3 because we just hit a major milestone: fully offline, client-side full-text search with zero configuration.

I built this because I wanted a Node.js-native alternative to MkDocs Material. I didn't want to install Python in my CI/CD just for docs, and Docusaurus felt too heavy (React hydration) for simple static text.

Docmd generates raw HTML/CSS, is under 15kb gzipped, and now handles search, versioning, and diagrams natively. Would love to hear what you think of the search implementation.
by qntmfred | 2025-12-02 21:34:30+00:00
one of my kids is a senior in high school. they'd be quite content to have an extra $600 in their pocket. also...

> beginning next year, the U.S. Treasury will contribute $1,000 to the Invest America account of every baby born on or after January 1, 2025

hopefully more people/organizations will decide to contribute as well.
by goosejuice | 2025-12-02 21:34:55+00:00
At an individual level, I think it is for some people. Opus/Sonnet 4.5 can tackle pretty much any ticket I throw at it on a system I've worked on for nearly a decade. Struggles quite a bit with design, but I'm shit at that anyway.

It's much faster for me to just start with an agent, and I often don't have to write a line of code. YMMV.

Sonnet 3.7 wasn't quite at this level, but we are now. You still have to know what you're doing mind you and there's a lot of ceremony in tweaking workflows, much like it had been for editors. It's not much different than instructing juniors.
by darkstarsys | 2025-12-02 21:35:36+00:00
It's happening again now with robotics, self-driving vehicles and RL. Factory workers, truck drivers, construction work, order fulfillment, machinists, farm work, medical technicians and more are all very much at risk (same thing as OP: mostly junior roles getting automated). Some info at https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.25137
by drnick1 | 2025-12-02 21:35:39+00:00
As far as I know, all modern Toyotas have discrete DCMs (data communication modules) that can be physically unplugged with limited side effects. The side effects are loss a speaker and hands-free microphone, but they be restored by means of a bypass harness. Simply unplugging the antennas does not seem to be enough in areas with good cellular coverage. I have seen the dummy load approach discussed on car forums but have no experience with it.
by sc68cal | 2025-12-02 21:36:11+00:00
I would much rather tax the wealthy, so that we could create a society where we don't have children who need a "financial head start"

I read a book nearly a decade ago, that I think is worth highlighting.

> The book's central thesis is that members of the global elite are using philanthropic institutions to preserve a system that concentrates wealth and power at the top at the expense of societal progress. Giridharadas examines the narrow limits of modern philanthropy, claiming that rich donors avoid contributing to causes which could undermine their own lofty status. He argues that in some cases, the political lobbying efforts of wealthy donors may reduce the government's ability to address inequality.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winners_Take_All:_The_Elite_Ch...
by matx | 2025-12-02 21:36:26+00:00
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by SynRes | 2025-12-02 21:36:27+00:00
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Show HN: The Almanac – Generate Wikipedia-style biographies of anyone
by reveriedev | 2025-12-02 21:36:34+00:00
Hi HN,

We’ve been building The Almanac, a tool that creates Wikipedia-style articles for any person using their full public online footprint. Unlike Linkedin where people have to maintain their own profile, we automatically crawl the internet for their roles, art, projects, collaborations, publications, media mentions, everything that’s actually documented. You can make a profile for yourself or anyone else by generating it.

A few things we focused on:

Identity disambiguation: reliably separating people with similar names - this is very tricky and something that GPT/Perplexity gets wrong very often

Full-stack research agent that crawls, filters, and writes structured articles

Detailed profiles that include timelines, infoboxes, sources, and citations

Public search plus the ability to generate your own or someone else’s profile

You can try it here: https://thealmanac.ai

Example profile: https://www.thealmanac.ai/article/davidlieb

Generate a profile (requires login) : https://thealmanac.ai/generate

We’d love feedback from the community on accuracy, product direction, and edge cases where it breaks. Happy to answer anything.
by SlightlyLeftPad | 2025-12-02 21:36:35+00:00
Totally agree there. I was simply demonstrating that interaction directly. For a human, it’s “we’ll bill your insurance for that Gabapentin. We’ll need pre-authorization first, assuming it’s covered, you’re out of pocket cost will be your copay of $25 plus 20% coinsurance of whatever number the insurance company decided it should cost assuming you’ve met your deductible.” Me: “what’s the cash price without insurance?” Cashier: “$30”

It’s basically the Kohl’s pricing model except there’s no hope of ever finding out what that single bottle of meds will cost until you’ve completely forgotten it 6 months later and you get a bill for $600.
by krig | 2025-12-02 21:36:41+00:00
> Bun, Zig, and uWebsockets are passion projects run by individuals with deep systems programming expertise. furthest thing from vibe coding imaginable.

Sure, I definitely will not throw projects like Zig into that bucket, and I don't actually think Bun is vibe-coded. At least that _used_ to be true, we'll see I guess...

Don't read a snarky comment so literally ;)
by LogicFailsMe | 2025-12-02 21:36:48+00:00
My take on the democrats at this point is they are the party of learned helplessness. And that's just as harmful as the party of nihilism when they both drop their differences to block the emergence of new voices and new parties.

But I agree they have become the useful idiots for regulatory capture. The right's hatred of renewables is just stupid.
Show HN: I built a simple trust portal because the existing ones were too much
by cadence- | 2025-12-02 21:36:52+00:00
Hi everybody,

I was trying to find a very simple trust portal for my own company. All I wanted was a clean page where I could share security documents like SOC 2 and pen test reports with prospects. Nothing fancy.

Everything I found was either a huge trust center platform or something that looked free at first but then had some surprise limits hidden in the fine print. After you hit some random download cap you suddenly have to pay thousands of dollars to continue using it. It felt like every product was built for big companies with big budgets.

So I ended up writing my own tiny trust portal. I was my first user. It did what I needed, so I cleaned it up a bit and decided to share it for other small companies who just want something simple and cheap instead of emailing PDFs or sending a Google Drive link.

This is still very early and I would love feedback from the HN community. I'm especially curious what features you think a small trust portal should (or should not) have.

Thanks for taking a look.
by vector_spaces | 2025-12-02 21:36:53+00:00
I am not your target with this question (I don't write Zig) but there is a spectrum of LLM usage for coding. It is possible to use LLMs extensively but almost never ship LLM generated code, except for tiny trivial functions. One can use them for ideation, quick research, or prototypes/starting places, and then build on that. That is how I use them, anyway

Culturally I see pure vibe coders as intersecting more with entrepreneurfluencer types who are non-technical but trying to extend their capabilities. Most technical folks I know are fairly disillusioned with pure vibe coding, but that's my corner of the world, YMMV
by lausingh | 2025-12-02 21:36:53+00:00
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by IAmGraydon | 2025-12-02 21:37:13+00:00
The older I get, the more I realize that our choices in life come down to two options: benefit me or benefit others. The first one leads to nearly every trouble we have in the world. The second nearly always leads to happiness, whether directly or indirectly. Our bias as humans has always been toward the first, but our evolution is and will continue to slowly bring us toward the second option. Beyond simple reproduction, this realization is our purpose, in my opinion.
by mrguyorama | 2025-12-02 21:37:41+00:00
ICE themselves states that only 70% of the people they arrest are even illegal aliens. Only 44% have prior criminal records or pending accusations.

Getting arrested with no valid cause doesn't "totally suck", it's a fundamental violation of the most basic rights of anyone living in a functioning country. As long as you can just pick up anyone you want, nobody has rights. You have a basic right to not be arrested for doing nothing wrong, and yet that's exactly what ICE is doing to tens of thousands of Americans.

>I think the Germans of the ‘30s would have a very different reputation if they had simply attempted to deport all the Jews…

Which is what they were literally doing. At first. But when you consider human beings as corrosive to your society, you will never be satisfied with just getting them out of your borders. The same people who treat prison rape as a good punishment for criminals will not be satisfied with illegal aliens just being removed, especially since they will "come back".

We've been through all this before. We literally signed treaties with Native Americans, but letting them have all this land just wasn't acceptable because they were "savages" that don't deserve it, and weren't being as useful with it as we would be!
by eikenberry | 2025-12-02 21:37:42+00:00
Function coloring is specifically about requiring syntax for a function, eg. the async keyword. So if you want an async and non-async function you need to write both in code. If you pass the "coloring" as an argument you avoid the need for extra syntax and multiple function definitions and therefor the function has no color. You can solve this in various ways with various tradeoffs but as long as there is a single function (syntactically) is all that matters for coloring.
by pron | 2025-12-02 21:37:54+00:00
> I did not find this api to be significantly better for many use cases than writing threads and communicating over a concurrent queue.

The problem with using OS threads, you run into scaling problems due to Little's law. On the JVM we can use virtual threads, which don't run into that limitation, but the JVM can implement user-mode threads more efficiently than low-level languages can for several reasons (the JIT can see through all virtual calls, the JVM has helpful restrictions on pointers into the stack, and good GCs make memory management very cheap in exchange for a higher RAM footprint). So if you want scalability, low-level languages need other solutions.
by dan-robertson | 2025-12-02 21:38:29+00:00
You’re reading a code of conduct for contributing to the zig project. I don’t think everything there is guidance for everything written in zig, eg ‘English is encouraged’ is something one might not want for a project written in zig by native French-speakers, and I don’t think that’s something zig would want to suggest to them. I read the AI part is much more motivated by the asymmetries of open source project contribution than any statement about the language itself. Fly-by AI contributions are bad because they make particularly poor use of maintainer time. Similar to the rule on proposing language changes, which can suck up lots of reading/thinking/discussion time. When you have people regularly working together (eg those people in anthropic working on bun) the incentives are different because there is a higher cost to wasting your colleague’s time.
by QuercusMax | 2025-12-02 21:39:51+00:00
I've been making use of copilot in VSCode to make changes in a codebase that's new to me, in a language that I can read if not necessarily write unaided - it's a dialect of SQL, so I can certainly understand what's happening, but generating new queries is very time-consuming (half of which is just stupid formatting stuff). Copilot seems to understand the style of the code in my project and so I don't have to do much work to make it conform, compared to my hand-written versions.

I've also written a lot of python 2 in my career, and writing python 3 still isn't quite native-level for me - and the AI tools let me make up for my lack of knowledge of modern Python.
by hephaes7us | 2025-12-02 21:40:08+00:00
I like this kind of thinking. I wonder though if you're paying as much attention to see who's "struggling with output" on Tues, Thurs, and Fri?

As in, are you skeptical of WFH and looking for downsides, or does your particular team just work better with more time in the office? I only ask because it's foreign to me; offices completely destroy my focus and I don't know how anyone does it.
by throwup238 | 2025-12-02 21:40:11+00:00
It’s presumptuous of you to assume I was offended.

Accusing someone of “virtue signaling” is itself virtue signaling, just for a different in-group to use as a thought terminating cliche. It has been for decades. “Performative bullshit” is a great way to put it, just not in the way you intended.

If the OP had a substantive point to make they would have made it instead of using vague ad hominem that’s so 2008 it could be the opening track on a Best of Glenn Beck album (that’s roughly when I remember “virtue signaling” becoming a cliche).
by alecco | 2025-12-02 21:40:22+00:00
Henry Ford wanted to raise salaries of his employees but the Dodge brothers (who owned only 10% of the company) successfully sued and "As of 2025, in Delaware, the jurisdiction where over half of all U.S. public companies are domiciled, shareholder primacy is still upheld."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_v._Ford_Motor_Co.
by JLook | 2025-12-02 21:40:37+00:00
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by amarant | 2025-12-02 21:41:05+00:00
But my digital ID is in addition of my physical one, it's not a replacement.

It provides convenience, and the only thing I'd lose of it was hypothetically revoked(the government has no such powers, and are unlikely to gain them, more on that later) is that convenience.

The reason the government is unlikely to gain those powers is that it would require a change in the grundlag, and such changed has to be approved twice, and there has to be an election between the two approvals.
by LogicFailsMe | 2025-12-02 21:41:07+00:00
"In late modernity, where science has become scary and apocalyptic, and the legionnaires of the antichrist like Eliezer Yudkowsky, Nick Bostrom and Greta Thunberg argue for world government to stop science, the antichrist has somehow become anti-science."

From https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/10/peter-thiel-...

#WorstAntiChristsEver
by p1necone | 2025-12-02 21:41:23+00:00
Every so often I try out a GPT model for coding again, and manage to get tricked by the very sparse conversation style into thinking it's great for a couple of days (when it says nothing and then finishes producing code with a 'I did x, y and z' with no stupid 'you're absolutely' right sucking up and it works, it feels very good).

But I always realize it's just smoke and mirrors - the actual quality of the code and the failure modes and stuff are just so much worse than claude and gemini.