MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by BrenBarn | 2025-12-01 19:03:16+00:00
> As a more general commentary, I find this type of moral crusade very interesting, because it's very common in the rich western world, and it's always against the players but rarely against the system. I wish more people in the rich world would channel this discomfort as general disdain for the neoliberal free-market of which we're all victims, not just specifically AI, for example.

I totally agree. I still think opposing AI makes sense in the moment we're in, because it's the biggest, baddest example of the system you're describing. But the AI situation is a symptom of that system in that it's arisen because we already had overconsolidation and undue concentration of wealth. If our economy had been more egalitarian before AI, then even the same scientific/technological developments wouldn't be hitting us the same way now.

That said, I do get the sense from the article that the author is trying to do the right thing overall in this sense too, because they talk about being a small company and are marketing themselves based on good old-fashioned values like "we do a good job".
by blibble | 2025-12-01 19:03:28+00:00
> Yes, I have had the corporate training on leaks and insider trading, too...

by a regulated investment firm? specifically on UPSI?

"fit and proper" is a technical term in the FCA manual

I would not risk my regulator not considering me as such by trading on this information

if you would: provide your reference number, and we can ask them if they agree!
by zug_zug | 2025-12-01 19:03:37+00:00
Yeah. I was pretty neutral on ruby, until somewhere I worked some coworker put an @ on a variable relating to sessions and suddenly people started seeing each other's accounts.

Now some people won't fault the language for that, but it feels like a footgun and I've noticed a trend that often the worst (I.e. most dangerous) gravitate toward languages with the fewest safeties in them (less type safety, no compile checks, no memory safety, little concurrency safety, less safety around shared state)
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by numpad0 | 2025-12-01 19:03:58+00:00
... secure boot?

I don't understand "just load GrapheneOS" sentiments. It only runs on extremely specific flagship devices with explicit features that allow it that are out of financial and technical reach for >99.9% of population of Earth and it still fully relies on AOSP. It's an escape hatch for mice. Or is it really not that way?
by SilverElfin | 2025-12-01 19:05:02+00:00
Elizabeth Holmes has quietly had her sentence reduced by 3 years, from the original 11 years to more like 8 years. Interestingly, Sunny Balwani - the second in command at Theranos - was not only sentenced for longer originally (13 years) but has also since only got less of a reduction (2 years). I wonder what role sex or race or family wealth/connections/privilege has to play in all this.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-12-01 19:05:17+00:00
You realize this “dumb blogspot” is written by the most successful writer in the industry as far as revenue from a paid newsletter? He has had every major tech CEO on his podcast and he is credited for being the inspiration for Substack.

The Substack founders unofficially marketed it early on as “Stratechery for independent authors”.

Your analysis concerning the technology instead of focusing on the business is about like Rob Malda not understanding the success of the “no wireless, less space than the Nomad lame”.

Even if you just read this article, he never argued that Google didn’t have the best technology, he was saying just the opposite. Nvidia is in good shape precisely because everyone who is not Google is now going to have to spend more on Nvidia to keep up.

He has said that AI may turn out to be a “sustaining innovation” first coined by Clay Christenson and that the big winners may be Google, Meta, Microsoft and Amazon because they can leverage their pre-existing businesses and infrastructure.

Even Apple might be better off since they are reportedly going to just throw a billion at Google for its model.
by reactordev | 2025-12-01 19:05:24+00:00
I would echo this as well. When I started, I was still in high school (mid 90s) and the only thing they cared about was “make it work”.

Post college, it was about “what have you done?” vs “where did you go?” and so I demonstrated several projects I had done for the passion. A game engine. A graphics website community. Some novel networking libraries. A MUD. Finally, a database. By the time they got to the mud and database they were ringing me non-stop.

All of these projects done over a weekend or two while working other jobs to afford rent. Call centers are a personal level of hell.
by ben_w | 2025-12-01 19:05:29+00:00
I have used it for code review.

Like everything else they do, it's amazing how far you can get even if you're incredibly lazy and let it do everything itself, though of course that's a bad idea because it's got all the skill and quality of result you'd expect if I said "endless hoarde of fresh grads unwilling to say 'no' except on ethical grounds".
by riku_iki | 2025-12-01 19:05:33+00:00
> This isn't what Turing-completeness is. And by definition all practical computing is not a Turing Machine, simply because TMs require an infinite tape.

I think you are too triggered and entitled in your nit-picking. Its obvious in potentially limited universe infinite tape can't exists, but for practical purpose in CS, turing-completeness means expressiveness of logic to emulate TM regardless of tape size.
by atonse | 2025-12-01 19:05:33+00:00
I am advising a dev team that's used to using windows to use WSL for the new NextJS app we're building.

But the filesystem performance really put a huge spoke in this. I thought everything was better with WSL2, but I was surprised to see that MS hasn't engineered some driver or something that would make this much more performant or pass-thru so that you can have a directory on windows but also have it perform really well in the VM.
by cuddlyogre | 2025-12-01 19:05:37+00:00
>I don’t really see how a language could prevent you from finding joy in programming

By saddling the writer with tons of syntax and gotchas that is hard to keep at the top of his mind when trying to create.

Languages like c++ and java might be powerful, but there are so many hurdles that are between start and end that unless you are proficient in the language or have a desire to learn the language, it's very tempting to just give up.

Languages like ruby and python are not fast, but their syntax is so straight forward, the effort to go from a to z is a fraction of other languages, leading to the developer to be able to deliver faster.

From the point of view of a developer that loves to learn, simpler languages inspire me to learn more complex languages, which in turn gives me more opportunity to enjoy my chosen craft.
by teamonkey | 2025-12-01 19:05:42+00:00
Although I agree it should be proportional to value, a £5M property puts you in the top 1% of property prices in the country. Even within London, it’s also within the top 1% of all but the most expensive boroughs. The average home property sale in the UK is less than £275,000.

A tax on a £5M home is not a tax on the moderately wealthy, it’s a tax on the wealthy.
by jerlam | 2025-12-01 19:05:43+00:00
The elderly are on Medicare, and health care providers know they can treat much more aggressively when the government is picking up the tab. Despite the fact that in a purely economic sense, it is more important that children and young adults get health care.

When I went to the doctor about fatigue, the advice given to me was to stop exercising and take a break.

When my father went to the doctor about fatigue, they gave him a full blood panel and scheduled a cardiologist and respiratory therapist visit.
by anonymouskimmer | 2025-12-01 19:05:44+00:00
I'm just formulating an argument that a free market is not the be all and end all. If you have the money, bespoke is better. And if you don't have the money, making it yourself is better, if you have the skills (which most don't for most purposes).

Issues that do plague the current market in the US, that impact my household enough to notice, are:

1) Product trends. When a market leader decides to go all in on something, a lot of the other companies follow along. We've seen this in internet connectivity, touchscreens in new cars, ingredients in hair care products, among others. This greatly limits the ability of consumers to find alternatives that do not have these trends. In personal care products this is a significant issue when it comes to allergies or other kinds of sensitivities.

But in general just look at the number of people who complain about things such as a lack of discrete buttons for touchpads. Not even Framework offers buttoned touchpads as an option, despite there being a market for them.

It's obvious that it's the vocal, heavy spenders who determine what's on the market. Or it's a race to the bottom in terms of price that determines this. It's not the average consumer.

2) Perfume cross-contamination as an extension of chemical odors in general[0,1]. In recent years many companies with perfumed products such as cleaning agents have increased the perfume or increased its duration with fixatives. This amplified after so many people had their sense of smell damage during early COVID (lots of complaints about scented candles and the like not having an odor anymore, et cetera).

This wouldn't be a problem from a consumer point of view except that the perfumes transfer to non-perfumed products - basically anything that has plastic or paper absorbs second-hand fragrances pretty well. I live in as close as we can get to a perfume-free household, for medical reasons. It's effectively impossible to buy certain classes of products, or anything at all from certain retailers, that doesn't come perfumed. There are major stores such as Amazon and Target that we rarely buy from as we have to spend a lot of money, time, and effort to desmell products (basically everything purchased from Amazon or Target now has a second-hand perfume).

It's possible to have stores that have both perfumed products and non-perfumed products such that perfume cross-contamination doesn't occur. But this requires the appropriate ventilation, and isn't something that's going to happen unless one of the principals of the store has a sensitivity.

And then there are perfumes picked up in transit from the wholesaler, trucking company, or shipping company.

I hope someday to win Powerball or Mega Millions so that I can start a company dedicated to perfume-free household basics. That are guaranteed to still be perfume-free on delivery.

0 - https://www.drsteinemann.com/faqs.html

1 - https://dynamics.org/Altenberg/CURRENT_AFFAIRS/CHINA_PLASTIC...
by ActorNightly | 2025-12-01 19:05:47+00:00
>None of that makes any sense and there’s no obvious path forward.

The top end models with their high compute requirements probably don't but there is value in lower end models for sure.

After all, its the AWS approach. Most of AWS services is stuff you can easily get for cheaper if you just rent an EC2 and set it up yourself. But because AWS offers very simple setup, companies don't mind paying for it.
by phantasmish | 2025-12-01 19:05:51+00:00
I love Ruby (… contextually, with the most important part of that context being “for small programs”) and its general culture (_why is/was amazing) but hate Rails.

In practice this means I don’t use Ruby professionally any more, because there aren’t a lot of non-Rails Ruby jobs. And since I write a lot of python at work, that’s my go-to for my own quick little personal scripts, too, just for simplicity’s sake as far as what I have to keep in “working memory”, if you will. Plus it’s already installed on most systems I touch, unlike Ruby.

Like I do care about how “joyful” a language is but I also care about how hard it is to work with if a codebase has been through a bunch of contractors’ and agencies’ hands and it’s kind of a mess and the test suite hasn’t been updated during two full years of active development. For my own “joy”’s sake, give me Go or c# or maybe even Java if you must, under those circumstances. It’s unlikely I’ll find much joy in Ruby when that’s happened, which is often.
by blaiseclarke | 2025-12-01 19:06:04+00:00
Location: Ashburn, VA

Remote: Open to remote, in-person, or hybrid in NoVA

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Technologies: Python (Pandas, NumPy, MNE-Python), Snowflake, dbt, Docker, Nextflow, Linux/Bash, Git, SQL, MATLAB

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by rachelrusiecki | 2025-12-01 19:06:35+00:00
Location: Chicago, IL

Remote: Open to Remote, In-person, or Hybrid

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies:

Languages - JavaScript, TypeScript, Ruby, Python, SQL Frameworks / Libraries - Express, Sinatra, React, Jest, Vitest, LangChain, Selenium, Pandas Cloud / Databases - AWS, DocumentDB, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, RDS, SQLite, ChromaDB Other - Docker, AI/LLMs, RAG, MCP, SSE, WebSockets

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Hi! I'm Rachel and I'm a Full-Stack Software Engineer based in Chicago with multiple years of experience in JavaScript, TypeScript, Ruby, and Python. I have also worked with various technologies including AWS and Docker. I am the co-creator of Pendulum (https://www.pendulum-baas.dev/), a reactive Backend as a Service for web applications.
by stego-tech | 2025-12-01 19:06:42+00:00
You and me both, but working poors like us should be investing for long-term gains, not short-term returns. I put my money into bonds and international indices because I want to be better protected when the AI CAPEX bubble pops here, but I have no idea when that’ll happen.

We can’t time the market, but we can protect the scraps we’ve accumulated at least.
by SoftTalker | 2025-12-01 19:06:50+00:00
About the same amount of time most people spend in college and at least you're making a little money.

Like anything, it's important to spend time networking and building a reputation for doing high quality work. This gets noticed as it does in any job and will get you better opportunities and better customers.

Trades have a higher percentage of people at the bottom tiers who have trouble showing up for work on time and sober. Avoid being associated with that and you can rise fairly quickly.
by FrustratedMonky | 2025-12-01 19:07:04+00:00
The color Red is often used. A human can experience 'Red', but 'Red' does not exist out in the universe somewhere. 'Red' Doesn't exist outside of someone experiencing 'Red'. I think philosophers are just using the word qualia to quantify this 'experiencing' inputs.

But, it is still just a way to try and describe this process of processing the inputs from the world.

It isn't metaphysical, because it can be measured.

I might have said 'unknowable' a little flippantly.

I just meant, in these arguments, some people start using 'qualia' to actually mean some extreme things like our mind creates the universe or something.

It's one of those words that isn't defined well.
by mrugge | 2025-12-01 19:07:22+00:00
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by paulbleicher | 2025-12-01 19:07:25+00:00
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by asteurer | 2025-12-01 19:07:57+00:00
Location: Nashville, TN

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Rust, Golang, WebAssembly, OpenTelemetry, Linux, Kubernetes

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Email: me@asteurer.com
by hadlock | 2025-12-01 19:08:18+00:00
> AI has failed. >The rumor mill has it that about 95% of generative AI projects in the corporate world are failures.

AI tooling has only just barely reached the point where enterprise CRUD developers can start thinking about. Langchain only reached v1.0.0 in the last 60 days (Q4 2025); OpenAI effectively announced support for MCP in Q2 2025. The spec didn't even approach maturity until Q4 of 2024. Heck most LLMs didn't have support for tools in 2024.

In 2-3 years a lot of these libraries will be part way through their roadmap towards v2.0.0 to fix many of the pain points and fleshing out QOL improvements, and standard patterns evolved for integrating different workflows. Consumer streaming of audio and video on the web was a disaster of a mess until around ~2009 despite browsers having plugins for it going back over a decade. LLMs continue to improve at a rapid rate, but tooling matures more slowly.

Of course previous experiments failed or were abandoned; the technology has been moving faster than the average CRUD developer can implement features. A lot of "cutting edge" technology we put into our product in 2023 are now standard features for the free tier of market leaders like ChatGPT etc. Why bother maintaining a custom fork of 2023-era (effectively stone age) technology when free tier APIs do it better in 2025? MCP might not be the be-all, end-all, but at least it is a standard interface that's at least maintainable in a way that developers of mature software can begin conceiving of integrating it into their product as a permanent feature, rather than a curiosity MVP at the behest of a non technical exec.

A lot of AI-adjacent libraries we've been using finally hit v1.0.0 this year, or creeping close to it; providing stable interfaces for maintainable software. It's time to hit the reset button on "X% of internal AI initiatives failed"
by aryanchaurasia | 2025-12-01 19:08:24+00:00
Here was the problem I encountered: in my chat app, many users worked with files, and at first I relied on OpenAI’s built-in code interpreter. But it started causing issues, especially around file generation. Around the same time, new tools were released—like Claude Code and OpenAI Codex—that handled a wide range of tasks much more effectively, but they depended on shell-based execution. So, I instead created an internal tool which would use those models provided with virtual shell access. Shellify provides options to either execute commands directly or use adapters like Claude Code to work on files within a sandboxed shell environment.

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by ericreyes217 | 2025-12-01 19:08:37+00:00
Location: Las Vegas, NV | US Remote Remote: Yes. Willing to relocate: No.

Technologies: JavaScript/Typescript, Python, React, NextJS, NodeJS, VueJS, LLM Enthusiast, AI/ML, C#/.Net, Java/SpringBoot, Headless CMS, Sanity.io, DecapCMS

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