MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by michaeld123 | 2025-12-04 03:14:28+00:00
Location: Takoma Park, MD, USA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python, JavaScript, Swift, semantic systems, LLM orchestration Site/Portfolio: https://www.michaeldouma.com Email: m5@inotherwords-studio.com

Product and design for complex technical systems. Founded an indie game studio — semantic word games, meanings not spelling. Prior: SpicyNodes (visualization, 40M users), time.gov (1999), a medical AI serving 1.5M patients before AI was cool. Judge for IGF, MagFest, CODiE, GEE, Serious Games.

Looking for: technical products that work but need to engage more, feel less like enterprise Java circa 2003. Game design discipline applied to onboarding, repeated use, cognitive load. Series A–C, 10–50 people. Developer tools, learning platforms, data products.

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by gligierko | 2025-12-04 03:15:07+00:00
Location: Szczecin, Poland (EU)

Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: iOS (Swift, SwiftUI, Objective-C), Metal, OpenGL, CoreML, Vision Framework, Firebase, Python, cloud architecture, voice interfaces, AudioKit, LLM fine-tuning, on-device AI deployment Experience: 21 years software development, 15+ years iOS, 1+ year Python/cloud Email: g5@pgligierko.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/greg-ligierko/

Hi there! Get in touch if you need an easy to work with and versatile lead/senior iOS developer for your app or platform that needs good performance, appealing user experience, and AI integration. I'm a developer and cofounder (indie game) specializing in graphics optimization (Metal/OpenGL), real-time visualizations, and embedding ML models for on-device inference. Experience with LLM fine-tuning, vector search, computer vision, and converting large models to compact on-device implementations. Led development of an App Store-featured app WikiNodes, and games with multiple awards. Recently built a word game system navigating 1.5M+ words with 110M+ relationships using Metal shaders at 60fps, plus shipped computer vision features and cloud-based agent architectures.

Seeking remote senior/lead role.

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Recent project: A pathmaking wordplay game: https://www.inotherwords.app
by IgorPartola | 2025-12-04 03:15:35+00:00
We were not, or at least I was not.

> I also cannot think of a time in my adult life I wanted to call out a group of people as losers or monkeys i n public.

I guess that makes this your first time:

> Sure folks like that I can see people using descriptions like that.

All in all I think we generally agree that being respectful is better than being rude. And that some people who do not have respect also do not deserve respect. Shall we just leave it at that?
by tickerticker | 2025-12-04 03:15:47+00:00
OpenAI has first mover advantage with respect to raising money but not wrt tech dominance.

Consensus theory: If AGI then superintelligence.

AI CapEx plans are not ROI based. Rather, they are the cost of "how do I remain competitive in the race to attain AGI" coupled with conveniently deep pockets. The money is being spent because the spenders can afford it and they see it as an existential risk as much as a profit opportunity.

Maybe OP's conclusion about the headline question blunts some political opposition to data centers, but that's not the salient issue.

The issue is this: America is betting a meaningful chunk of GDP that AGI is possible. This is The Manhattan Project 2.0.
by khhu2bnn | 2025-12-04 03:18:13+00:00
> Micron is exiting this business because it’s a commodity. It’s everywhere. There are numerous companies producing parts in this space. Their investments are better spent on other things.

Numerous as in plenty? Or basically three? Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron make up over 90% of the market share of DRAM. Micron saying goodbye to the consumer market basically leaves us with yet another duopoly.
by arunabha | 2025-12-04 03:18:34+00:00
> today I am of the opinion that countries like India shouldn't waste money and time on these.

I agree that there are undeniable benefits from Aadhar. However, the issue is that the narrative from the govt has been that it's an either or situation. Either you have the convenience of Aadhaar, or you have privacy. This is unequivocally false. The solution isn't even technical. There are two simple, easily doable fixes which will deliver most of the benefits without significantly eroding privacy.

1. Ensure that legally valid ids other than Aadhaar are not treated as second class by any govt department. If a non Aadhaar id is refused, the reason must be given in writing. The problem is govt babus like the ease of Aadhaar and hence refuse to do the tiny bit of extra work needed on the non Aadhaar path.

2. Amend the Aadhaar act to ban the use of Aadhaar for anything except identity verification. If any personal data linked to Aadhaar is saved by a platform, then they are liable for leak of the data in the event of a breach.

Just doing these will enable the use of Aadhaar for it's original intent which was verifiable identity. The privacy degradation comes from using Aadhaar as a primary key for arbitrary storage of personal data, not from the existence of Aadhaar itself.
by latexr | 2025-12-04 03:19:51+00:00
> The claims of AI use were unsubstantiated and pure conjecture

It seemed that way to me at the start too, but it quickly became apparent. Even the submitter thought so after going through the git history.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45952436

> It seems reasonable for the zigbook namespace to belong to the zigbook author. That's generally how the namespaces work right?

Yes. Bad actors try to give themselves legitimacy by acquiring as many domains and namespaces as quickly and as soon as they can with as little work as possible. The amount of domains they bought raised flags for me.

> IMO, this up there with the "but they were interested in crypto!" argument.

No idea what you’re talking about. Was the Zigbook author interested in cryptocurrency and criticised for it?

> The nefariousness is never stated because it's obviously absurd, but there's the clear attempt to imply wrongdoing.

That’s not true. It was stated repeatedly and explicitly.

https://zigtools.org/blog/zigbook-plagiarizing-playground/

Them stealing code, claiming it as their own, refusing to give attribution and editing third-party comments to make it seem the author is saying they are “autistic and sperging” is OK with you?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46095338

You really see nothing wrong with that and think criticising such behaviour is flimsy and absurd?

> I don't think I've ever seen anything like it in any open source community.

I’m certainly not excusing bad behaviour, but this wouldn’t even fall into the top 100 toxic behaviours in open-source. Plenty of examples online and submitted to HN over the years.

> Malicious and erroneous accusations of AI use happen frequently these days, including here on HN.

I know. I’m constantly arguing against it especially when I see someone using the em-dash as the sole argument. I initially pushed back against the flimsy claims in the Zigbook submission, but quickly the evidence started mounting and I retracted it.

> Given the timing it possibly has to do with Anthropic's acquisition of Bun.

I don’t buy it. The announcement of the acquisition happened after.
by SilverElfin | 2025-12-04 03:20:18+00:00
This article makes it look like this vetting is mainly of visa applicants’ employment history and family to protect free speech. But it’s actually just an attack on free speech. Why does it matter if someone worked on fact checking? Or compliance? What business is that of the government? See this quote from the article:

> The cable, sent to all U.S. missions on December 2, orders U.S. consular officers to review resumes or LinkedIn profiles of H-1B applicants - and family members who would be traveling with them - to see if they have worked in areas that include activities such as misinformation, disinformation, content moderation, fact-checking, compliance and online safety, among others.

The actual state department announcing shows how dystopian the changes are more clearly (https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/News/visas-news/a...):

> To facilitate this vetting, all applicants for H-1B and their dependents (H-4), F, M, and J nonimmigrant visas are instructed to adjust the privacy settings on all of their social media profiles to “public.”

This is frankly just an unamerican and perhaps unconstitutional change. Forcing applicants to change all their social media to public for a deep review of their online presence? How authoritarian.
by jodrellblank | 2025-12-04 03:20:23+00:00
Curiously, that is what I heard moments ago on Tom Campbell's theory of everything:

https://youtu.be/nWWRFA8v6aE?t=2629

https://youtu.be/nWWRFA8v6aE?t=3000

He was a physics grad, did some experiments with out of body experiences, decided the Universe is a simulation for immortal consciousness to experience making choices and dealing with their consequences, and reasoned from there that the purpose of life is to get rid of ego and fear and learn to benefit others instead of ourselves.

Quite how he got from one to the other isn't clear to me, or why it's physics related; the message seems to be a familiar religious one, deal with whatever struggles happen to you and try to be egoless and kind.
by wsces | 2025-12-04 03:21:01+00:00
The watch needs to be unlocked either with a PIN code or can be set to unlock on close proximity to iPhone which unlocks via Face ID (or Touch ID, or a passcode). Once it is in an authenticated state it remains unlocked while it is attached to a wrist. I’m not totally clear how it detects when it separates from a wrist (probably a light sensor, heart rate sensor or some heuristic derived from the both - but it’s pretty instantaneous and reliable). “Privileged” actions like payments or escalation prompts still require a double click of the watch’s physical button to confirm, but in this authenticated state it is possible to use the watch to unlock Mac or iPhone based on proximity alone.

It has no concept of “who” you are, only that it got positively authenticated while on a wrist by proximity to your iPhone unlock or a manual correct PIN entry and hasn’t separated from that wrist since.
by pabs3 | 2025-12-04 03:21:05+00:00
Anyone know if MinIO AIStor is legal? AFAICT MinIO didn't have a CLA and there are 559 non-@minio.io commit authors in the git history, which could be an AGPL violation if they didn't get contributor approval for the license change. Or is AIStor a fresh codebase written from scratch?

Edit: some discussion of this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46136871
by throwaway2037 | 2025-12-04 03:21:07+00:00
> Estimated monthly payment based on purchasing $400,000 home with 20% down, $567/mo taxes and insurance, and 1.65% closing costs.

Does anyone know the source of these numbers? Example: The are national median values.

Except maybe Texas, where else can you buy a house/apt in the US near a major job center for only 400k?
by itake | 2025-12-04 03:21:36+00:00
I’ve spent the past five years working in content moderation.

In my opinion, the real gap in the market isn’t “better safety models”. it’s turn-key orchestration platforms that provide:

- A web portal for manual moderation and data-labeling workflows

- Multi-tier moderation checks (e.g., if a keyword is detected, escalate to an LLM)

- Simple integration of custom, business-specific models (e.g., blocking competitor mentions)

- A rules engine that combines all model outputs and issues the appropriate treatments

Two Hat and Azure kinda had this, but they didn't support custom models or rules engine.

While I love the idea of redacting/auto-correcting media, e-commerce / social media companies are structurally setup against this. They'd rather stick with the status quo of rejection, than using nano-banana to remove non-compliant features (like pii) from the images.

Once, I had to anonymize student data, so we could have a prod copy on staging. So maybe there is a use-case there...
by Klasiaster | 2025-12-04 03:21:49+00:00
Good keybindings, some are missing compared to what normally works, e.g., in the browser text input area or in gnome-text-editor (Ctrl-Shift-Up/Down was one I directly ran into).

I've found https://github.com/gphalkes/tilde to work quite well, it also supports the system clipboard. Nice to see a Rust alternative.
by dfajgljsldkjag | 2025-12-04 03:21:59+00:00
Completely made up and hallucinated AI slop. These are real repos but the code doesn't exist.

> Vulnerable Code Analysis (ubccr/xdmod): In classes/DB/EtlJournalHelper.php, the vulnerability occurs when the system directly concatenates unvalidated schema and table names into the SQL query string.

classes/DB/EtlJournalHelper.php does not exist, and git history does not show it ever existed. https://github.com/ubccr/xdmod/commits/main/classes/DB

> Vulnerable Code Analysis (spryker-shop/b2c-demo-shop): In the default configuration file config/Shared/config_default.php, the vulnerability stems from hardcoded OAuth client credentials where the secret is set to null, effectively making it an unprotected public client.

config/Shared/config_default.php is a real file, but the code snippet is fake. It doesn't look anything like the real code. https://github.com/spryker-shop/b2c-demo-shop/blame/master/c...

This AI slop falsely claiming that several innocent projects have critical vulnerabilities feels like it's bordering on defamation. If I was a project admin I would consider sending the lawyers in.
by arunabha | 2025-12-04 03:22:36+00:00
> and instead demand your passport and other identification, scan it and leave it in their system forever. They also are known to sell this data to other from time to time.

Isn't this the problem vs the Supreme court judgement? Why does the hotel need to save this data forever?

A simple fix will be to make companies liable for leaks of personal data. That alone will incentivize then to delete personal data as fast as humanly possible.
by edm0nd | 2025-12-04 03:23:20+00:00
I mean its pretty rare to buy more RAM after completing your PC build + that single PC is going to last you 5+ years. Also mobos usually only have 4 slots in total so its not like its even going to take a lot. I'm rocking 2x48gb sticks and that's plenty for gaming.

The prices are wild tho.

I bought that ram in March 2024 for $384.81. Now it's priced at $1,172.99. LOL
by keeda | 2025-12-04 03:23:34+00:00
> But how do you know you're getting the correct picture from that throwaway UI?

You get the AI to generate code that lets you spot-check individual data points :-)

Most of my work these days is in fact that kind of code. I'm working on something research-y that requires a lot of visualization, and at this point I've actually produced more throwaway code than code in the project.

Here's an example: I had ChatGPT generate some relatively straightforward but cumbersome geometric code. Saved me 30 - 60 minutes right there, but to be sure, I had it generate tests, which all passed. Another 30 minutes saved.

I reviewed the code and the tests and felt it needed more edge cases, which I added manually. However, these started failing and it was really cumbersome to make sense of a bunch of coordinates in arrays.

So I had it generate code to visualize my test cases! That instantly showed me that some assertions in my manually added edge cases were incorrect, which became a quick fix.

The answer to "how do you trust AI" is human in the loop... AND MOAR AI!!! ;-)
by anvuong | 2025-12-04 03:23:36+00:00
I don't know why you brought up VAC as an example. It is a horrible AC, so bad so that an entire service (FaceIT) was built to capitalize on that.

VAC is still a laughing joke in CS2, literally unplayable when you reached 15k+. Riot Vanguard is extremely invasive, but it's leaps and bounds a head of VAC.

And Valve's banning waves long after the fact doesn't improve the players experience at all. CS2 is F2P, alts are easy to get, cheating happens in alost every single high-ranked game, players experience is shit.
by openasocket | 2025-12-04 03:24:30+00:00
> pretty sure the process I've seen most places is more like: one junior approves, one senior approves, then the owner manually merges.

Yeah that’s what I think we need to enforce. To answer your question, it was not tagged as AI generated. Frankly, I think we should ban AI-generated code outright, though labeling it as such would be a good compromise.
by randycupertino | 2025-12-04 03:25:03+00:00
Not necessarily "convincing" but the "ma-AH" aka "come here/how to speak cat" video is very cute! https://old.reddit.com/r/fixedbytheduet/comments/1os4uid/hav...

I tried it on my cat and it worked although she may have just come over to investigate why I was making weird noises at her!

The rest of the original guy's "how to speak cat" series is also fun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qyc7Krs0Fi8
by c22 | 2025-12-04 03:25:23+00:00
I have a couple old radios from the 1940s/1950s. They come apart with a handful of screws and on the inside of the case there is a full schematic. I'd argue that it is perhaps not PCs that have changed but rather the rest of the universe of household appliances.

The first home computers were sold as kits and put together by fervent hobbyists. The original PCs relied on many iterations of standardization and competition amongst clones to become cheap enough to hit peak household adoption. Now PC use is waning in favor of tablets, phones, and smart TVs. As before, the pool of PC users includes a higher-than-average concentration of enthusiasts who enjoy to tinker, thus sustaining a market.
by voidhorse | 2025-12-04 03:26:01+00:00
Luckily for us, technologies like SQL made similar promises (for more limited domains) and C suites couldn't be bothered to learn that stuff either.

Ultimately they are mostly just clueless, so we will either end up with legions of way shittier companies than we have today (because we let them get away with offloading a bunch of work to tools they rms int understand and accepting low quality output) or we will eventually realize the continued importance of human expertise.
by zenoprax | 2025-12-04 03:26:03+00:00
Do you mean "Static Mappings"? I have a couple dozen of those and had no issue during my pfSense upgrade. I also rely heavily on two settings in "Services > DHCP Server":

- [x] Enable DNS Registration (leases will auto-register with the DNS Resolver)

- [x] Enable Early DNS Registration (static mappings will auto-register with the DNS Resolver)

I do not use the "Create a static ARP table entry for this MAC & IP Address pair." option for individual static mappings.

Hopefully this helps you in your troubleshooting.
by jrowen | 2025-12-04 03:27:18+00:00
Thanks for the comment.

- This is why I suggested starting just outside of city centers. For example in a suburb with a decent population of existing commuters. Then gradually expand outward if it makes sense.

- Same thing, don't go too far at first. But this could also turn into an advantage as bringing really good service to one centralized location is easier than reaching everyone's home.

- WeWork was basically arbitraging subletting for people that could afford to travel around and pay short term rental rates for their office space. This system would be adding real value with the dedicated comms stack. Starbucks is great for a lot of people, particularly freelancers and independents, but in my experience you don't find many traditional team-based 9-5ers there. A power office user is not going to achieve anywhere near the same productivity there day in and day out. This would be trying to emulate more of the Google campus experience that a lot of people value (think day care, gym, hyper-convenient high-quality food options), but is currently only available in very select locations.

Coworking is targeted at very small businesses and individuals, to whom the "free" office space of their home or café will go a long way before they want to pay. And they don't get the same network effects from a proper office anyway. This idea would be targeting [employees of] entities that already have to deal with managing office space.
by kragen | 2025-12-04 03:27:18+00:00
If we measure the value of the dollar against megabytes of RAM, well, in 01987, the difference between a StarBoard with "2 megs space" and a StarBoard with "2 megs installed" was US$484 (https://archive.org/details/amazing-computing-magazine-1987-...), so a "meg" of RAM cost US$242. Today https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/memory/ says "DDR4-3200 2x8GB" costs US$108; if that means 16GiB, as in 16384 "megs", a "meg" of RAM costs US$0.0066 today.

So the dollar's value has increased by roughly a factor of 36700 over those 38 years, averaging 32% per year.

That would be an average yearly inflation of -24%.

Too bad you can't live in DRAM or eat it when you're hungry.
by xantronix | 2025-12-04 03:28:19+00:00
Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's correct. Just whipped this up, using the WGS-84 datum.

(use-modules (geo vincenty)) (let walk ((p '(0 0 180)) (i 0)) (cond ((= i 3) (display p) (newline)) (else (walk (apply vincenty (list (car p) (cadr p) (+ 90 (caddr p)) 10000000)) (+ i 1)))))

Running this yields:

(0.01777744062090717 0.16837322410251268 179.98234155229127)

Surely the discrepancy is down to spheroid vs sphere, yeah?
by aappleby | 2025-12-04 03:29:48+00:00
I can't dynamically resize my desktop to any arbitrary resolution in Wayland, whereas under X11+Nvidia it's just "nvidia-settings --assign CurrentMetaMode=..."

This is mandatory for me as I'm constantly connecting into my workstation from other devices via Moonlight or Chrome Remote Desktop and I want the streaming resolution to match the resolution of my client.
by apatheticonion | 2025-12-04 03:30:23+00:00
Transpilation of anything other than jsx requires a complex toolchain with layers of things like LSPs, compilers, IDE plugins, bundler plugins, etc.

Frameworks that go that route typically activate this toolchain by defining a dedicated file extension (.vue, .svelte).

This custom toolchain (LSP, IDE plugins) presents a lot of overhead to project maintainers and makes it difficult to actually create a viable alternative to the JSX based ecosystem.

For instance both Vue and Svelte took years to support TypeScript, and their integrations were brittle and often incompatible with test tooling.

Angular used decorators in a very similar way to what I am describing here. It's a source code annotation in "valid" ecmascript that is compiled away by their custom compiler. Though decorators are now abandoned and Angular still requires a lot of custom tooling to work (e.g, try to build an Angular project with a custom rspack configuration).

JSX/TSX has preferential treatment in this regard as it's a macro that's built into tsc - no other framework has this advantage.
by jmspring | 2025-12-04 03:30:23+00:00
As I mentioned in a prior post 7/18/2023 - G.SKILL Trident Z5 RGB Series 64GB (2 x 32GB) 288-Pin PC RAM DDR5 6000 - $253.

Today - G.SKILL Ripjaws S5 Series 64GB (2 x 32GB) 288-Pin PC RAM DDR5 5600 (PC5 44800) Desktop Memory Model F5-5600J3636D32GX2-RS5W - $620.

Prices from Newegg.