MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by godelski | 2025-12-01 20:02:46+00:00
Just because your experiences don't match mine does not mean mine are invalid.

> Again, you're assuming you understand my condition.

I have not, but you've pretty explicitly made assumptions about me.

You'll notice I've made no such explicit claims about you. So maybe there's a difference between what I've assumed about you and what you assume I've assumed about you. Given the inaccurate explicit assumptions you've made about me, I think it is pretty reasonable to question your assumptions. To be explicit, question doesn't mean reject. Suspect doesn't mean invalidate.
by harmmonica | 2025-12-01 20:02:58+00:00
You're generally right except it's not true for everyone. Every recession that hits a lot of folks just keep their jobs and their salaries. Maybe their stock portfolios (for the few who have those outside of 401k's) take a hit. But the key is that if there's a real estate downturn, almost every single home (house, condo and even land) takes a hit and so you end up with a situation where all the inventory drops in price, but not all the eligible buyers "drop in price" (i.e., not all eligible buyers suffer a downturn and so, net, you actually get more people into homes).

The key of course is that the downturn isn't so massive (hello 2008!), where the blood flows so freely that the layoffs/foreclosures/etc. overwhelm the eligible buyer pool in absolute numbers. That can for sure happen, but is atypical historically.
by Intralexical | 2025-12-01 20:03:09+00:00
For MSVC, have you explored using clang-cl as a drop-in replacement?

https://clang.llvm.org/docs/MSVCCompatibility.html

https://llvm.org/devmtg/2014-04/PDFs/Talks/clang-cl.pdf

XWin for the CRT/SDK:

https://github.com/Jake-Shadle/xwin

https://jake-shadle.github.io/xwin/

A while ago I got some Python C extension modules building using this approach, but didn't push it any further.
by soniclettuce | 2025-12-01 20:03:53+00:00
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Primarily experienced in Python but I've learned a lot of languages at this point and don't mind learning new tools that fit that job.

Not afraid to get my hands dirty deep in the guts of algorithms/statistics/mathematics, my background is in electrical engineering with some signal processing experience. I've got years of math skills crying out to be used!

I'm looking for a role that lets me sink my teeth into challenging problems - some kind of math/statistical analysis/optimization/algorithmic bent would be ideal, I get a great kick out of testing out cutting edge new libraries, implementing an algorithm from a new research paper, that kind of thing.

Would love to connect, even if just for networking.
by Aurornis | 2025-12-01 20:04:01+00:00
> $230K and no stock upside? You need to leave right now.

$230K is already high compensation. "Leave right now" is useless advice because it's not an actual goal, it's just a hint to be angry or unhappy. You have to look for other jobs that pay higher first, actually pass interviews to get offers, and then decide if the stress-to-pay ratio at the new job is worth the change.
by awkward | 2025-12-01 20:04:37+00:00
It's a myth in the most literal way. Fleming published and promoted his results despite a lack of reproducibility. By the time he won the Nobel Prize, he had backformed or misremembered a folksy story about an open window. That's textbook mythmaking.

It can both be fine to have a glib story to tell schoolkids and important to recognize that the actual intellectual process is messier and more complex.
by mikepurvis | 2025-12-01 20:04:44+00:00
Obviously ruby is bigger than just rails, but rails definitely popularized the idea of magical objects that are automatically syncing state and doing things on your behalf. This is presented by fans as surprising and delightful, rather than surprising and terrifying.

Popular python projects like requests and flask also lean into the idea of providing a programmer interface that is expressive but also maximally brief on the happy path—see especially the context local proxies in Flask (request, session); these look like global module imports, but they're actually request specific despite not being passed into your handlers... eek.

On the other side of things, languages like zig and go feel like a bit of a backlash to this, that no, magic is bad and everything should be explicit, even if it costs us a bit of code to do so.

Rust I think sits at an interesting place in this, because it's all pretty strict and explicit, but all the macro and type system stuff does re-open the door to offering some DSL-like things in a way that's perhaps a bit cleaner than what other languages would have to do to get to the same place programmer interface-wise.
by guywithahat | 2025-12-01 20:04:44+00:00
I'm not OP but a quick yandex search (google isn't great for conservative news) suggests ~12k people were arrested last year for speech. https://nypost.com/2025/08/19/world-news/uk-free-speech-stru...

This article says 10k https://www.zerohedge.com/political/britains-speech-gulag-ex...

More broadly it's been a huge issue for a while, tons of articles come out of the UK for people being arrested for criticizing politicians/policies. Even more dystopian is it's hard to report on, because the police might come after you for talking about it. Germany is having similar issues, it's easy to forget most of the world (including Europe) doesn't have free speech
by varnaud | 2025-12-01 20:04:47+00:00
I play online FPS with friends for fun. I don't care about leaderboards, but I know people that do and don't want to take them away from them.

You can't have accurate matchmaking and allow cheating. People cheat for a variety of reasons, at lot of cheaters are just online bullies that enjoy tormenting other players. In a low ELO lobbies, you would have cheaters that have top tier aim activated only if they lose too much, making the experience very inconsistent.

Top tier ELO would revolve around on how the server handle peeker advantage and which cheater as the fastest cheating software. It's an interesting technical challenge, but not a fun game. As soon as a non cheating player is in view of a cheating player, the non cheating player dies. That doesn't make for a fun game mechanic.
by stego-tech | 2025-12-01 20:04:52+00:00
We developed nicknames for bad flip jobs after viewing so many:

“Spray Foam Specials” - gobs of sprayfoam insulation and a fresh coat of paint.

“Gap Properties” - because who needs floorboards to actually meet?

“Skatepark Schemes” - for when the floors are so bowed you can do lip tricks at the room edges

“Flashpoint Fixers” - surface-level flip jobs that kept the knob-and-tube wiring alongside newer Romex

“Oil Derricks” - any home with an oil tank on a foundation of compacted earth or otherwise lacking a groundwater barrier
by FrustratedMonky | 2025-12-01 20:05:06+00:00
I do think AI will have them. Nothing says they can't. And we'll have just as hard a time defining it as we do with humans, and we'll argue how to measure it, and if it is real, just like with humans.

I don't know if LLM's will. But there are lots of AI models, and when someone puts them on a continuous learning loop with goals, will be hard to argue they aren't experiencing something.
by michaelm244 | 2025-12-01 20:05:26+00:00
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We're building automation software for the $7T insurance industry, accelerated by AI. Seed stage in terms of headcount (~ 20 people) but Series B in terms of business traction (+ cash-flow positive). We've intentionally stayed under the radar.

- Product has caused customers to literally cry tears of joy

- Experienced eng team from Airbnb / Brex / LiveRamp

- Stack: TS, Postgres, React, GraphQL, and Next.js
by spullara | 2025-12-01 20:05:42+00:00
I hate that their model ids don't change as they change the underlying model. I'm not sure how you can build on that.

% curl https://api.deepseek.com/models \ -H "Authorization: Bearer ${DEEPSEEK_API_KEY}" {"object":"list","data":[{"id":"deepseek-chat","object":"model","owned_by":"deepseek"},{"id":"deepseek-reasoner","object":"model","owned_by":"deepseek"}]}
by futohq | 2025-12-01 20:05:58+00:00
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Swipe typing is an important part of the mobile typing experience for many. Applying machine learning here poses a unique challenge due to the requirement of needing to support so many layouts and languages, as well as user-added personal dictionary words (or even layout customizations!), with limited data. We have previously collected and publicly released a US English QWERTY dataset: https://huggingface.co/datasets/futo-org/swipe.futo.org/

We are looking for a machine-learning researcher or engineer to work through these challenges and help us improve the swipe typing experience in FUTO Keyboard.

More info here: https://futo.org/jobs/machine-learning/

To apply, send your resume and cover letter to jobs at futo dot org with the subject of the position you're interested in.
Show HN: MCP Server for Real-Time NSE/BSE Data
by _bshada | 2025-12-01 20:06:09+00:00
I built an MCP server that streams real-time NSE/BSE market data (equities + F&O) to LLMs. Enable your LLM to interpret real-time market data and generate trading or analysis insights—similar to a stock analyst or strategy engine.
by ninininino | 2025-12-01 20:06:48+00:00
Look up the median age of a home buyer in 2025:

It's 59 years old lol.

Boomers and institutional money are doing the home buying.

https://www.apolloacademy.com/median-age-of-all-us-homebuyer...

In 2009 the same chart shows that the median age was 39.

In the early 80s it was early 30s.

Look at congress, we live in a boomer gerontocracy. Not every boomer is wealthy and powerful, but the majority of people who are wealthy and powerful are either descendants of elites/wealthy, boomers, or a very small fraction of younger tech/finance/business owners.

The good news is - assuming there's not a big change in immigration rates - if you can rent cheaply enough for 10-20 years the boomers will start dying in sufficient numbers that if there is somehow no reversion on home prices in the mean time there should be insufficient buyers at that point and prices will eventually fall.
by bitwize | 2025-12-01 20:07:07+00:00
Eric S. Raymond (yes, that ESR; insert long-winded DonHopkins rant, extensively cross-referenced to his own USENET and UNIX-HATERS mailing list postings, about what a horrible person "Eric the Flute" is) reports a shortening of time to implement his latest project from weeks to hours. He says the advantages of LLMs in the programming space are yet to truly unfold, because they not only let you do things faster, they let you try things you wouldn't have started otherwise because it'd be too much of a time/effort commitment.

Assuming these claims are even partially true, we'd be stupid—at the personal and societal level—not to avail ourselves of these tools and reap the productivity gains. So I don't see AI going away any time soon. Nor will it be a passing fad like Krugman assumed the internet would be. We'd have to course-correct on its usage, but it truly is a game changer.
by theearling | 2025-12-01 20:07:13+00:00
through the hundreds of hours of interviews of abductee's and the governments response since 2017, they are very real in some capacity.

This is hacker news, so big brains going to disagree within their little bubbles, but a great resource for archived media on the topic is the channel "Eyes on Cinema" on YouTube from various news cast and specials since the 40's
by giacaglia | 2025-12-01 20:07:15+00:00
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Pinetree is building the best onchain platform for video creators: a crypto-native alternative to ad-driven video platforms that gives creators real ownership over distribution, monetization, and their content. We’re looking for someone highly autonomous who brings solutions to complex problems and wants meaningful product and company ownership.

You should have experience writing and deploying production software in TypeScript, ideally on a small (<50 person) team or other startup environment, and be comfortable working across the stack (React / React Native / Next.js, Node, Postgres). Crypto or social product experience is a plus.

Stack: TypeScript, React, React Native, Next.js, Node, Postgres

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Reach out to giu@pinetree.so with a resume or links to work you’re proud of.
by Maxatar | 2025-12-01 20:07:26+00:00
Not sure what you mean by the term "legit".

The entirety of the STL is inlined so it's always compiled in every single translation unit, including the translation units of third party dependencies.

Also it's not me saying, it's literally the authors of the MSVC standard library and the GCC standard library pointing out these issues [1]:

[1] https://isocpp.org/files/papers/P3878R0.html
Tell HN: Nascent idea: "super intelligence" is not about superior intelligence
by keepamovin | 2025-12-01 20:07:44+00:00
It's actually about the primacy of true intelligence. What if....

What if there is no "super intelligence"???

What if what we have already (our human intellect in its most perfect/refined form) is already the pinnacle?

What if you can't be "smarter" than that? Just faster/more focused/etc.

What if "super intelligence" is not about something smarter than us...but simply, about, finally the primacy of intelligence as some kind of moral sorter/divider?

The restoration/establishment of "raw intelligence" as a moral virtue or north star? The primacy of true intellect?

No more woolly thinking, no more fake hand-wavey ideas. What if "AI super intelligence" is really about fading out all the bs "intelligence" and surfacing/primarying true intellect?

Idk. Just an idea.
by paganel | 2025-12-01 20:07:44+00:00
May 2018: AI winter is well on its way (piekniewski.info) [1]

January 2020: Researchers: Are we on the cusp of an ‘AI winter’? (bbc.co.uk) [2]

I'm sure you can easily find more. Felt good to be called a "bro", though, made me feel younger.

[1] HN discussion, almost 500 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17184054

[2] HN discussion on BBC article, ~110 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22069204
by irthomasthomas | 2025-12-01 20:07:52+00:00
Gemini 3 = ~70tps https://openrouter.ai/google/gemini-3-pro-preview

Opus 4.5 = ~60-80tps https://openrouter.ai/anthropic/claude-opus-4.5

Kimi-k2-think = ~60-180tps https://openrouter.ai/moonshotai/kimi-k2-thinking

Deepseek-v3.2 = ~30-110tps (only 2 providers rn) https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v3.2
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-12-01 20:08:47+00:00
The thing is that there are enough people who are good enough enterprise CRUD developers - especially for remote roles and/or outsourced developers - that it’s hard to stand out from the crowd or command increasingly higher salaries. Gen AI has made the problem worse.

Even if you are targeting a major tech, if you are trying to differentiate yourself by how well you can reverse a btree on the white board, there are plenty of people who can do the same. It’s not a differentiator that you have previous experience in BigTech any more. So do thousands of others.
by ChrisArchitect | 2025-12-01 20:09:17+00:00
It's not the tools or use of them. As with any of the issues arising in AI discussions in a multitude of spheres - it's the scale. It's not the same as previous jumps in creative technologies because of the massive scale of impact. Scale of erasure of value of creative skill. Scale of 'bad' actors abusing the tools taking away space for creatives. Scale of impact to the general endeavour of creative expression. And for what? Removing a huge chunk of human creative expression, for what?
by fringol__ | 2025-12-01 20:09:18+00:00
I do not consider it disrespectful to state someone's sex, particularly when it's relevant to the topic.

Consider my original comment on this thread:

"Most of the actual work to stop males from competing in women's sports, through evidence-guided changes in policy, has been driven by female athletes who are directly affected by this, feminists and feminist allies, scientists that study sex differences, and experts in the philosophy of sport.

That it's become such a well-known topic of contention is because sports are a spectator event and there have been some very high-profile instances of this unfairness towards female athletes."

Followed by this reply to a user who had a different view:

"They are male, and retain male physiological advantage even if they undergo interventions like testosterone suppression. It's not the only route by which a male athlete with such advantage might compete in women's sport, nor is it an issue limited to the USA. This is a broader issue affecting the fairness of women's sport in competitions across the world.

For instance, all three medallists in the women's 800m at the 2016 Rio Olympics were male. They had been issued with female birth certificates by their home countries due to having underdeveloped external male genitalia - and therefore according to the rules at the time could enter as female - but they still benefited from testosterone-driven development."

There is no disrespect in these comments.

As to why our conversation has focused on sports and sex differences, it is because it was the original topic before you joined the discussion.
by retrac | 2025-12-01 20:09:51+00:00
Bandwidth and storage.

The Viking landers (1975) were very sophisticated with robotic arms and mass spectrometers, adorable little anemometers, digital colour cameras, the whole deal, with 5 megabytes of digital tape storage.

The downlink rate was 16 kbps when related by the matched orbiter; otherwise direct communication was at 250 bps.

The digital cameras were pushing the absolute limit of technology at the time. The digitizer produced a 16 kbps bitstream that fed the uncompressed image directly to the transmitter taking four minutes to send an image. It could also be stored on tape for later transmission, but it used much of the tape to do so.

If it had included a microphone and ADC, it would have been technically possible to record a few minutes of audio and then spend hours transferring it back to Earth. But the kind of constant monitoring now done really depends on the more than 1 Mbit/s of bandwidth now available thanks to half a dozen Martian orbiters, and all the fancy processors and gigabytes of storage the landers and rovers now have.
by indemnity | 2025-12-01 20:10:05+00:00
It's not a pejorative statement, I used to live in Stack Overflow.

But the killer feature of an LLM is that it can synthesize something based on my exact ask, and does a great job of creating a PoC to prove something, and it's cheap from time investment point of view.

And it doesn't downvote something as off-topic, or try to use my question as a teaching exercise and tell me I'm doing it wrong, even if I am ;)
by danfrost | 2025-12-01 20:10:26+00:00
10+yrs fCTO/fCPO experience in data-heavy at scale applications. I take on 3-4 projects a year helping companies/teams at their inflection points.

Location: UK

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: full stack, especially data-rich / data-heavy applications. E.g. large scale or high complexity of data. Backends include python, node (also java, PHP and others); frontend mostly React but enough experience to adapt. Very deep knowledge of infra and experience in infra-as-code, scaling etc.

Most of my roles are fCTO/fCPO at inflection points: idea to MVP; MVP to stability; stability to scale-up.

CV: See https://danfrost.co.uk/

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by shuckles | 2025-12-01 20:10:34+00:00
You've just listed a set of specific circumstances under which some number of people might find housing more affordable, but that's a lot more like "investment outperformance" driven affordability than "broad based housing price decrease" affordability. That can happen even without a recession. A small number of people could've found Bay Area houses more affordable in the last decade if they were HODLing some 10x stock.
by johnmaguire | 2025-12-01 20:10:40+00:00
It's not broken - it's a tradeoff. systemd-resolved is an optional component of systemd. It's not a part of the core. If you don't like the choices it took, you can use another resolver - there are plenty.

I don't think many people are avoiding systemd now - but those who do tend to do it because it non-optionally replaces so much of the system. OP is pointing out that's not the case of systemd-resolved.
Show HN: Debrief, an AI tracker for every work thread
by baetylus | 2025-12-01 20:10:43+00:00
Hey HN,

I built Debrief because I was tired of spending the first hour of my day catching up e.g. piecing together what happened across Slack threads, email chains, and docs.

You can track specific work topics across all your work tools, like Slack, Gmail, etc... and receive 1-minute briefs per topic every day.

For example: track "Q4 product launch" and get one daily update pulling from everywhere that topic is being discussed.

Some other info: - This is v0, so I would love feedback! - Adding new stuff soon like cadence control & more app integrations... any suggestions welcome - All data is encrypted; working toward SOC II - Setup takes <2 minutes

Happy to answer questions! + feel free to reach out to me directly at will (at) trydebrief (dot) com.
by doctorpangloss | 2025-12-01 20:11:44+00:00
the lowest resistance solution to e.g. cheating at school using ChatGPT will be spyware on kids' devices.

while nobody should be arrested for speech online, here on hacker news, people are downvoted for saying something unpopular (as opposed to whatever, i don't even know what the criteria is, but maybe it should be "toxic") all the time. you are preaching to the wrong audience, not the choir.