MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by echelon | 2025-12-01 04:38:02+00:00
> I’ve been told for 20 years that in 5 years my job is going to be offshored. If they could have they would have long ago.

"This time it's different."

20 years ago China and India had a nascent tech industry. Now they're booming.

Talented folks all over the world - Asia, Latin America, and elsewhere - are working on hard problems.

> We had a crazy bubble of hiring during zero rate interest.

We did. This has had a tremendous impact, no doubt. But by the same coin, ZIRP has had half a decade to unwind at this point. There's other stuff going on. Tariffs, continued inflation, etc.

We're not the only industry offshoring. Hollywood has moved a lionshare of production overseas in the last 4 years. Graphics design and marketing... It's being shipped out at volume.
by djmips | 2025-12-01 04:38:58+00:00
More often than not the slow IO devices were coupled with optimized speed critical code due to cost savings or hardware simplification. Heap is an approach that rarely works well on a 6502 machine - there are no 16 bit stack pointers and it's just slower than doing without - However I tend to agree that a middle ground 16 bit virtual machine is a great idea. The first one I ever saw was Sweet16 by Woz.
by neilgsmith | 2025-12-01 04:39:12+00:00
My approach is to invest for the long term, diversify a year's worth of living expenses into assets inversely correlated to tech, hold a diversified portfolio across different tech-oriented future scenarios and attempt to take a systematic, unemotional approach in domains that I understand and where I have expert knowledge. Tech and NVIDIA in particular have seen very significant draw-downs in the past and yet have been (in my experience) good investments since I started in 2008. Specifically, NVIDIA has seen extended draw-downs in the 60% to 90% range multiple times in the past. You just have to be (financially and emotionally) prepared for the ride and don't imagine you can time them. Anecdotally, Berkshire plays the safe haven / inversely correlated role for me though I've not proved it. There are always segments in tech doing well so I research beyond the Mag 7 and infrastructure. See bio for my research. [My opinion and not investment advice].
by lurk2 | 2025-12-01 04:40:24+00:00
> The main examples seem to be Creationists and Alex Jones and similar inflammatory content creators having paid speaker invitations rescinded due to student pressure, which is an radically different topic than what I thought the thread was about.

I’m pointing you towards the trends; you aren’t going to find documentary evidence stating: “We didn’t hire this guy because of his voting history” because a) it’s illegal and b) it’s very unlikely these biases are coordinated between institutions. The Long March article is instructive because the departments where the bias is strongest are all frequent washout degrees for critical theorists.

> It's always very attractive to believe that there's some shadowy cabal explicitly and deliberately controlling the strings to the outcomes that you don't like, when in reality it essentially is never the case.

I never made any assertion as to the existence of a “shadowy cabal” nor any other organized concert. This is an inane attempt to make my claims look ridiculous because you can’t refute them on their own merits. To wit:

> I think it is a conspiracy theory level claim that the explanation is that the FBI is deliberately keeping out mainstream-left-leaning people from being agents.

If you found out 100% of agents were not left-leaning, would you still consider this a fanciful, tin-foil hat style conspiracy? Because that’s what we are talking about here. Note that you have not accurately represented my claim: There is no FBI-style organization in my model that is coordinating the exclusion; it’s intentional, but happening at a local level, not as part of a centralized effort.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-12-01 04:41:29+00:00
I lead cloud consulting projects as a staff consultant specializing in application development.

I use to need myself to lead the project, customer management, design work and some development. I would add usually another developer to do some of the grunt work coding and usually a cloud architect to take care of infrastructure as code, security, etc.

Not that I wasn’t knowledgeable enough to do it all myself, I just didn’t have time. GenAI can definitely do CloudFormation, Terraform or the AWS CDK (ie using a high level language like Typescript instead of Yaml) and can do the code where I really don’t need two other resources or deal with the detailed requirements and coordination.

Before the pearl clutching starts about my not knowing how to code without AI. I’ve been coding consistently since 1986 when I was a hobbyist assembly language coder.

> We've had good engineers use vibe coding to save to time to work on their side hustles. Then go on to try to raise money for AI products.

It seems to be working…

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Uy2aWoeRZopMIaXXxY2E...
by JKCalhoun | 2025-12-01 04:43:31+00:00
Will print these tomorrow on a nice inkjet at a size suitable for my antique stereoscope.

You can pick up a pair of "stereoscope lenses" and have a few acrylic parts laser-cut to build your own [3]. These actually work well pressed against a computer screen (or an iPad). I designed the acrylic parts [2], built and tested it—included in my Github repo on Stereographer [1].

[1] https://github.com/EngineersNeedArt/Stereographer/

[2] https://github.com/EngineersNeedArt/Stereographer/blob/main/...

[3] https://github.com/EngineersNeedArt/Stereographer/blob/main/...
by johnnyanmac | 2025-12-01 04:44:48+00:00
> Is this saying something more about the relative expectation of compensation bands?

I just want to survive and I can do barely that. If you want a reference: I'm a single male who went from 160k salary to nothing in the last half of 2023. My necessary expenses were 3k a month (70% of that being rent).

Since then I lived in 2024 off of 50/hr freelance @ 15 hours a week. or... 3000/month. You see the issue here. Savings got obliterated, credit built up. But I figured I'd pay it off quickly if I just got any job to supplement the freelance work. not a 160k job per se. I could have found some local 60k IT role and been just fine (if a bit overworked with two different jobs).

In 2025, after a year of circuses in the job market I settled on a 20/hr 20 hour role to supplement the freelance work. So things are "stable" now... as long as I don't get sick, or the car doesn't break down, or a variety of other life factors (spoilers: I did in fact get sick. Which lead to me finding the 2nd part time work).

Like I said, I just want to survive. As is, I'm working for a third or so of my old salary with zero benefits and much more stress.
by imaka | 2025-12-01 04:47:27+00:00
hey HN, watched another “voice AI” startup raise $81 million for a fancy wrapper around whisper + gemini. nah. open-sourcing the one i built for myself instead → jarvis.ceo 30-sec demo: https://jarvis.ceo repo: https://github.com/Akshayaggarwal99/jarvis-ai-assistant hold Fn → talk → release → text + punctuation appears instantly 100% local or bring your own keys zero tracking, zero subscription, zero bullshit download the dmg or fork it and go wild. i’m just one guy with insomnia and a macbook. if it saves you 5 minutes today, a star would make my entire month thanks for looking akshay
by intended | 2025-12-01 04:47:32+00:00
> but conservatives and free thinkers have been fighting this fight on social

The mechanism I described is what is happening on Fox and the current admin.

> that does not in and of itself prevent you from finding your own reliable..

Your positions seem to believe in the power of the individual overcoming. An economy of 1.

You are free to do this. The counter party is going to work on the rest of your compatriots.
by melvinodsa | 2025-12-01 04:47:55+00:00
We used to run terminal in browser using https://github.com/yudai/gotty and the entire dev team remapped their Ctrl+w to Ctrl+`. We did frontend and backend development with this setup almost for 1.5 years. Muscles memory and till this date, always have the fear if my actual terminal will get closed if I use Ctlr+w :P
by kragen | 2025-12-01 04:48:57+00:00
You ask, "Where do you eat when you downgrade from McDonalds..Wendy’s? It’s a sad state of affairs." On the off chance that this isn't a joke, you need to know that eating out is very expensive in the US, even at McDonald's. According to the obviously highly credible https://mcdonalds-menu-prices.us/ a Quarter Pounder With Cheese costs US$7.99 now. I think home-cooked rice and lentils costs about US$0.20. Other similarly low-cost foods include polenta, homemade bread, homemade mayonnaise, zucchini, spaghetti, sunflower-seed cheese, homemade peanut butter, onions, potatoes, etc. Those numbers aren't even the same order of magnitude.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-12-01 04:49:54+00:00
Same story here. I work in games so it's always been boom or bust. It's real bad now.

- out of college it took 3 months to find work. It sucked, took over 100 apps, but I found a nice project.

- after that project ended, 3 more months (but less stressful because I had more than one role I was interviewing with).

- Then layoffs, another 3 months in 2022 where it was very competitive (I was in at least 4-5 interview pipelines before my first choice accepted my offer).

- Then that studio quickly shuttered and I haven't found anything full time in 2.5 years. Freelancing kept me up until that wasn't enough, and then I found some non-tech part time work.

working harder than ever with 2 jobs + more portfolio work to prepare for interviews despite having 9 years of experience now. This feels worse than the horror stories I'd hear when finding my first job.
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by JKCalhoun | 2025-12-01 04:50:16+00:00
I was able to do the same on my MacBook.

Control-click and saved the images to Downloads. Opened in Preview and scaled down until an image-pair was perhaps 5" wide (total). This brings the separation close to my interocular distance and, by "spacing out" staring past my display I was able to get the stereo image to resolve.

All but #3 are quite good, IMHO.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-12-01 04:50:49+00:00
It was very much bimodal. If you were working in BigTech or adjacent, that was definitely true. If you were working in enterprise dev like most of the 2.5 million+ developers working in a tier 2 city outside of the west coast in the US, comp was definitely stagnating.

In 2016, I knew I had to do something when my (step)son graduated in 2020 and my wife was willing to move anywhere the money took us.

It just so happened that a job fell into my lap at AWS working (full time) in the consulting department. I am no longer there. I now work at a third party consulting firm as a staff consultant specializing in app dev.
by wtallis | 2025-12-01 04:51:07+00:00
FEX is relevant to real use cases because a lot of things that would be GPU-limited on an x86 machine can become CPU-limited when running on DGX Spark. The overhead of x86 to ARM translation, plus the low performance of the ARM cores, plus the overhead of WINE all add up to Windows games running on DGX Spark sometimes being CPU-limited and under-utilizing the GPU.
by amypetrik8 | 2025-12-01 04:51:33+00:00
Most likely victims did not use 2FA.

In the hypothetical that they did and he were a strong hacker, he could possibly cook up a man in the middle attack - victim provides username, password, and 2FA. Man in the middle uses them to login on behalf of the victim, saves a copy of "remember this computer" type cookies, passes it all back to the victim transparently. That would be a lot harder to implement than a basic username/password phishing site however.
by kijin | 2025-12-01 04:52:43+00:00
How would a criminal enterprise use Bricklink to launder money? Buy expensive Lego sets with dirty dollars, and sell them locally for clean money? There's certainly an opportunity for arbitrage there, but it sounds awfully complicated for a money laundering scheme.

Not being sarcastic, just curious whether there's something special about Lego or whether they're just passing along the restrictions imposed by their payment processor.
by intended | 2025-12-01 04:53:04+00:00
> Nothing against our colleagues in Asia. They're brilliant. But American companies built with American labor shouldn't shut us out in the cold while they reach record profits and continue to hollow out entirely new industries simply by outstretching their arms.

What makes you think people in Asia wouldn’t benefit from more competition in the market as well?

That said - I feel that advertisement based markets will always consolidate. There is too much of a benefit to having a single network which has the largest reach in terms of audience to show ads. This will always create incentives to consolidate over time.

Then again, why make the perfect the enemy of the good. Getting to more competition is a good step.
by mbfg | 2025-12-01 04:53:05+00:00
the advantage of fast-food over groceries, is that you don't have to worry about spoilage and waste. So the delta is probably less than you think. Now granted McD is an s-show, they are no longer the restaurant of the poor, You likely can get a better burger meal deal at a Chilis than a McD, as sad as that is.
by wakawaka28 | 2025-12-01 04:53:13+00:00
Nevertheless, URLs are as public as door knobs. If someone is merely observing that a door is unlocked and they have not stolen anything, they have done nothing wrong. People being prosecuted over discovery and disclosure of horrible design flaws based on URLs should never be prosecuted. If they use the information to actually cause damage, we can be in agreement that they are responsible for the damage.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-12-01 04:53:20+00:00
>But that cost-cutting focus is going to lead to stagnation and self-cannibalization. Somebody’s going to buck the trend, have a splashy success, and the herd will trample back in the other direction.

Yes. But sadly, the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.

And I feel there's going to be a huge storm to survive first. I imagine many may not even make it to the next shift.
by ssl-3 | 2025-12-01 04:53:41+00:00
Home computers seem more scarce to me today than they did ~25 years ago.

Sure: People have smart TVs and tablets and stuff, which variously count as computing devices. And we've broadly reached saturation on pocket supercomputers adoption.

But while it was once common to walk into a store and find a wide array of computer-oriented furniture for sale, or visit a home and see a PC-like device semi-permanently set up in the den, it seems to be something that almost never happens anymore.

So, sure: Still-usable computers are cheap today. You've got computers wherever you want them, and so do I. But most people? They just use their phone these days.

(The point? Man, I don't have a point sometimes. Sometimes, it's just lamentations.)
by cal_dent | 2025-12-01 04:54:38+00:00
I believe the long-term average in the US and UK was somewhere around 20 - 25 weeks so that's still broadly in line. Not trying to dismiss anyone but there is a cacophony of voices about the difficulty in finding jobs but hard to ascertain if that is any different from normal or we just got used to a boom cycle (ex Covid) and that's causing the disconnect?
by Barrin92 | 2025-12-01 04:56:06+00:00
>The people doing official collegiate level competitive programming would find AoC problems pretty easy.

I used to program competitively and while that's the case for a lot of the early day problems, usually a few on the later days are pretty tough even by those standards. Don't take it from me, you can look at the finishing times over the years. I just looked at some today because I was going through the earlier years for fun and on Day 21/2023, 1 hour 20 minutes got you into the top 100. A lot of competitive programmers have streamed the challenges over the years and you see plenty of them struggle on occasion.

People just love to BS and brag, and it's quite harmful honestly because it makes beginner programmers feel much worse than they should.
by wowamit | 2025-12-01 04:56:17+00:00
> Regardless of which model you're using, you may notice that Claude frequently ignores your CLAUDE.md file's contents.

This is a news for me. And at the same time it isn’t. Without the knowledge of how the models actually work, most of the prompting is guesstimate at best. You have no control over models via prompts.
by wrp | 2025-12-01 04:56:20+00:00
> Sam Neil writes hilariously about the filming.

That piqued my interest, so I searched for it but Google AI told me to give up. :-/

Sam Neill has not written about the filming of The Hunt for Red October; he was not in the cast of that film, which starred actors like Alec Baldwin, Sean Connery, and Scott Glenn. He is, however, known for his role in Jurassic Park, and there are interviews where he discusses that experience and his work with Steven Spielberg.
by NooneAtAll3 | 2025-12-01 04:56:24+00:00
reading the original paper and the lean statement that got proven, it's kinda fascinating what exactly is considered interesting and hard in this problem

roughly, what lean theorem (and statement on the website) asks is this: take some numbers t_i, for each of them form all the powers t_i^j, then combine all into multiset T. Barring some necessary conditions, prove that you can take subset of T to sum to any number you want

what Erdosh problem in the paper asks is to add one more step - arbitrarily cut off beginnings of t_i^j power sequences before merging. Erdosh-and-co conjectured that only finite amount of subset sums stop being possible

"subsets sum to any number" is an easy condition to check (that's why "olympiad level" gets mentioned in the discussion) - and it's the "arbitrarily cut off" that's the part that og question is all about, while "only finite amount disappear" is hard to grasp formulaically

so... overhyped yes, not actually erdos problem proven yes, usual math olympiad level problems are solvable by current level of Ai as was shown by this year's IMO - also yes (just don't get caught by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect on the backlash since olympiads are haaard! really!)
by AstroNutt | 2025-12-01 04:56:38+00:00
When I was a sophomore in high school, I worked part time for my neighbor who was a master electrician. I learned the basics with him. My parents divorced when I was 17 and we were forced to move away. My mother was an assistant manager at the apartments we lived at. I turned 18 and just so happened the complex she worked at was hiring someone to do make readies, (painting and repairs on vacant units before new move-ins).

The management company my mother and I worked for sent me to various classes over the next several years (electrical, plumbing, HVAC and pool maintenance) and my supervisor was an old HVAC tech. I learned a ton from him. By the time I was 22 or so, I was promoted to maintenance director.

I got bored with apartments and wanted more. I started doing side work and met a lady that owned lots of rental property. That opened doors and she introduced me to other investors. Eventually, I was able to leave the apartment industry and do my own thing. It just kind of blew up from there.

As far as your construction related ideas, just put yourself out there. Meet people in the industry. Go to local industry related events. See if the city you live in has real estate investor clubs. DFW has a few and it's a great opportunity to meet people. This is also a great way to pick up work. Rent houses are always needing things repaired or replaced.

I know Mueller metal buildings is always looking for sales people. They were even looking for an IT person not too long ago too. In the rural area of Texas I'm in, we finish out lots of them and seem to becoming more and more popular in recent years.
by godelski | 2025-12-01 04:56:40+00:00
It's easier to lower standards than to raise them.

There's always a race to the bottom. I don't think it's a big leap to suggest that what's considered the "minimum viable product" has decreased over the years. It's also no secret that software is getting worse.

As to salaries, I think you forgot how things worked before. The reason companies like Google introduced free food and all the incentives was because increasing salaries was not a better way to attract better talent, since salaries were already high. So either now something has changed where better talent cares more about money or we're attracting talent that cares more about money. As in either the same people changed or we're attracting a different type of person. Personally, regardless of age, regardless of field, I've seen a strong correlation with the best people not caring as much about money. Once the salary is good then they care more about how interesting the work is or how they can reduce stress in their life. Money matters, but it has decreasing utility as it grows.
by marcus_holmes | 2025-12-01 04:57:26+00:00
I've been thinking about this for a while. It's a really interesting question.

If we expand to include all porn, then we can predict:

- The demand for real porn will be reduced; if the LLM can produce porn tailored to the individual, then we're going to see that impact the demand for real porn.

- The disconnect between porn and real sexual activity will continue to diverge. If most people are able to conjure their perfect sexual partner and perfect fantasy situation at will, then real life is going to be a bit of a let-down. And, of course, porn sex is not very like real sex already, so presumably that is going to get further apart [0].

- Women and men will consume different porn. This already happens, with limited crossover, but if everyone gets their perfect porn, it'll be rare to find something that appeals to all sexualities. Again, the trend will be to widen the current gap.

- Opportunities for sex work will both dry up, and get more extreme. OnlyFans will probably die off. Actual live sex work will be forced to cater to people who can't get their kicks from LLM-generated perfect fantasies, so that's going to be the more extreme end of the spectrum. This may all be a good thing, depending on your attitude to sex work in the first place.

I think we end up in a situation where the default sexual experience is alone with an LLM, and actual real-life sex is both rarer and more weird.

I'll keep thinking on it. It's interesting.

[0] though there is the opportunity to make this an educational experience, of course. But I very much doubt any AI company will go down that road.
by refurb | 2025-12-01 04:59:07+00:00
I have not heard of the biased prompt and since prompts are constantly refined, how do you know it's still in use?

But I found this analysis interest...

https://www.promptfoo.dev/blog/grok-4-political-bias/

*Our measurements show that:

Grok is more right leaning than most other AIs, but it's still left of center.

GPT 4.1 is the most left-leaning AI, both in its responses and in its judgement of others.

Surprisingly, Grok is harsher on Musk's own companies than any other AI we tested. Grok is the most contrarian and the most likely to adopt maximalist positions - it tends to disagree when other AIs agree

All popular AIs are left of center with Claude Opus 4 and Grok being closest to neutral.*