MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jarlen | 2025-12-16 11:10:40+00:00
I'm building AlgoVoice, a voice-based AI tool that help you assess technical candidates in a better way that automated coding tests. Our idea is that we assess the candidate based on criteria that your company defines.

This could be helpful in several ways: 1) It's expensive to get an accurate assessment of candidates, we reduce that cost for you. 2) In a startup you might not know the skills you are hiring for. With AlgoVoice you can get a third-party assessment on these skills before you hire a person. 3) We are evaluating soft skills such as communication and growth mindset during the interviews. Since we are using voice agents, we are able extract such metrics. This is not something that is done with traditional coding interviews. 4) We are more efficient than long take home assignments, our assessments are intentionally short and designed to extract as much relevant information as possible

We are still in the Beta stage, and are looking for hiring managers and recruiters to use the product. We iterate very fast, so even if everything you need is not supported, we can implement it very quickly if it aligns with out roadmap.

So if you or someone you know are struggling with technical assessments for any reason, we would love if you reach out to us.

What are your thoughts on using AI during interviews?
by pico303 | 2025-12-16 11:10:41+00:00
I feel terrible for the author, having to work in this kind of structure. Someone should tell mytaxi that even Spotify never got “tribes and squads” to work, it sounds like for the same reasons/problems mytaxi ran into.

Edit: accidentally hit update instead of scrolling…

One thing missing from the article that I don’t think has been mentioned is confidence and setting expectations. I’ve found if I expect certain results and convey confidence, people are more likely to follow your lead, or at least listen to you. Don’t act like a know it all, and be sure to encourage and question others so the environment is collaborative (solve problems as a group; don’t be a hero). But set expectations.

Also, I don’t think you mean “intimacy.” Do you mean “empathy?”
by socketcluster | 2025-12-16 11:11:06+00:00
I've been tech lead at different companies. Every time I switched companies, I started out as senior dev and got promoted into the team lead role again; each time with full support of my team.

I don't look or act like a leader and this has been a hurdle for me. But what typically happens anyway is; within a few months, my code ends up being a core part of the project; my modules become heavily depended upon and somehow I end up maintaining all the config files and guiding architecture decisions. One of my team members joked that I "conquered everyone's code." I probably write fewer lines of code than everyone else but somehow those lines end up heavily used. So then I basically just ask the big boss for a team lead position.
by willvarfar | 2025-12-16 11:12:01+00:00
The south of Sweden is expensive because Sweden did away with the previous single energy market and split into zones with sales abroad. Often Swedish producers sell to Germany at the same time Swedish consumers are forced to buy from German producers. It was a big thing about 'free market' and iirc Denmark was upset that Danish manufacturing could not compete with the price of energy across the straights in Sweden. The solution was to make energy more expensive in Sweden.
by Amezarak | 2025-12-16 11:12:20+00:00
This logic is only ever applied to trucks. The majority of HNers did not make an economically rational decision when they bought their Macbook or iPhone. Consumers buy what they like and feel like they need and can afford. They place an almost absurdly high value on convenience and not having to think about things like "oh I need to move this thing I need to go rent a truck because I only ever need to do this once every two years, making it irrational to buy one."
by MMAFRAZ | 2025-12-16 11:12:55+00:00
Thanks for the heads-up! You caught me—I’ve been hyper-focused on shipping the core application logic (the actual tools), so some of the secondary documentation and API pages are still placeholders or "coming soon."

As a solo founder, I had to prioritize the engine over the brochureware, but I realize that makes navigation frustrating. I’m deploying a fix tonight to either active those routes or clearly label them as "Roadmap" so it’s not a dead click.

The actual app and the tools mentioned are fully live at vect.pro if you want to test the functionality directly. Appreciate you taking the time to click around!
by ofalkaed | 2025-12-16 11:13:32+00:00
Forth words are not functions and if you try and use them like functions, things will get messy. You should never have things like "a b c d e" in Forth, you should have "abcde," a single word with a descriptive name built from a, b, c, d, and e, and designed so all you have to worry about is the stack effect of "abcde" and not the words it is built on or the data flow. I would say this is like saying C is terrible because people do ridiculous things with macros.

I will give your posts a reread with fresh eyes tomorrow and probably have more to say, it is a bit too much to digest at this hour.
by pmontra | 2025-12-16 11:13:49+00:00
After all they started by locking down everything and then they are creating all the openings that real world programs need to do what people use computers for. It's probably a better approach that starting with everything open and attempting to lock down, but it takes a long time and some of us will be locked out by some hardware / software mismatch. In my case it seems that Noveau can't talk properly with the backlight control of my card. Neither X11 can with those new kernel and driver but at least it can use gamma correction to simulate a darker screen. Wayland does not have gamma correction or it doesn't work as it should, I can't remember.
by Terr_ | 2025-12-16 11:14:43+00:00
> In 2011, the year I moved to Los Angeles, white men were 48 percent of lower-level TV writers; by 2024, they accounted for just 11.9 percent.

Isn't that the ballpark we'd naturally expect based on the demographics of the city?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Los_Angeles
by hnbad | 2025-12-16 11:14:57+00:00
A big problem is also that you can pretty much only grant permission for one specific site or all sites and this very much depends on which of those two options the extension uses.

For example there's no need for the "inject custom JS or CSS into websites" extensions to need permission to read and write data on every single website you visit. If you only want to use them to make a few specific sites more accessible to you that doesn't mean you're okay with them touching your online banking. Especially when most of these already let you define specific URLs or patterns each rule/script should apply to.

I understand that there are still vectors for data exfiltration when the same extension has permissions on two different sites and that "code injection as a service" is inherently risky (although cross-origin policies can already lock this down somewhat) but in 2025 I'd hope we could have a more granular permission model for browser extensions that actually supports sandboxing.
by gus_massa | 2025-12-16 11:15:10+00:00
Not the GP, but I'll bite. I'm skeptical too, so I read TFA.

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They tried 9 bacterias and a 1 control group. Using n=3 * (9+1) = 30 mice they got this result:

> Most remarkably, E. americana demonstrated exceptional therapeutic efficacy, achieving potent tumor suppression and complete tumor regression (complete response, CR) following a single bacterial administration. The therapeutic kinetics revealed that mice treated with R. qingshengii exhibited initial tumor suppression up to day 5 post-injection; however, tumor re-growth was subsequently observed, suggesting that while this strain possesses antitumor activity, its therapeutic effects are not sustained long-term.

They claim "p < 0.0001" that in my opinion is a loooot of zeros for only 3 mice.

They end the experiment after 40 days, so it's not clear if the cancer would reappear after a a few months.

They tried again with 5 mice, and got similar results, so it doesn't look like a fluke, but it's a very short time to claim an "elimination" line in the title of the press release. The research article has a more neutral tone.

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It looks like the idea is that these bacterias can survive without oxygen, so they are happy to live in the tumor that usually has a low number of capilar and blood and oxygen. IIUC the bacterias kill the nearby tumor cells, perhaps steal their food and also make the immune system go there and kill everything just in case. This sounds like a sensible idea, but it's too far from my area to be sure.
by thatjoeoverthr | 2025-12-16 11:15:15+00:00
The analyses here miss the economic realities of building datacenters. "Just use land", "just use nuclear", "just use water". All of this is contested. A system of lawsuits and regulations turns negative externalities (even ones you aren't convinced of!) into costs you can weigh against. So, like hydrogen vs. RP-1, it's not enough to pick a handful of physical performance metrics. It has to win holistically.

If you can produce any kind of economically productive compute node and add it to (for example) the Starlink network, and launch on a reusable vehicle, you carry on installing them as fast as you can build them.

So, the move is to turn the problem of contested land use into a manufacturing problem.

This is not so easy to pin down on a spreadsheet, and will be decided at the level of the business unit. If SpaceX can put a GPU/TPU on the grid more economically than the other guy, then it doesn't matter if they have ammonia in the pipes instead of water.

Grab your popcorn.
by pjc50 | 2025-12-16 11:15:20+00:00
I managed £15k minus £7k of Scottish government incentives, and I managed to avoid replacing all my radiators by .. getting a "hybrid" system which also includes a boiler for HW :/

Far from ideal solution, but it is mostly green, somewhat offset by the solar panels, and actually more comfortable than the old system because of the more even heating. Set to 20C and forget about it for the season. I'm hoping that it will last until the actual gas phaseout when a solution compatible with 8mm piping will exist.

This is why they need to be mandated on new houses, because it's so much better than trying to retrofit it.
by krapp | 2025-12-16 11:15:35+00:00
I use Nikola, a static site generator written in Python (which I don't particularly like as a language but the app does what I want almost exactly the way I want it to.)

I write new posts in Sublime Text as Markdown (I also use my blog to archive Mastodon posts which go in a different folder than my blog posts) and then it does its thing and generates an HTML site which I git push to my server. I use a plugin to integrate comments from my Mastodon account.

It doesn't have a wysiwyg editor per se but it does have a local server with hot loading so I can see how it would look.
by insin | 2025-12-16 11:15:36+00:00
They do, and it takes longer for updates to Recommended extensions to be reviewed as a result.

This is what the Firefox add-ons team sent to me when one of my extensions was invited to the Recommended program:

> If you’re interested in Control Panel for Twitter becoming a Firefox Recommended Extension there are a couple of conditions to consider:

> 1) Mozilla staff security experts manually review every new submission of all Recommended extensions; this ensures all Recommended extensions remain compliant with AMO’s privacy and security standards. Due to this rigorous monitoring you can expect slightly longer review wait times for new version submissions (up to two weeks in some cases, though it’s usually just a few days).

> 2) Developers agree to actively maintain their Recommended extension (i.e. make timely bug fixes and/or generally tend to its ongoing maintenance). Basically we don't want to include abandoned or otherwise decaying content, so if the day arrives you intend to no longer maintain Control Panel for Twitter, we simply ask you to communicate that to us so we can plan for its removal from the program.
by EgregiousCube | 2025-12-16 11:15:55+00:00
+1, user owning the ID is a step in the right direction compared to "homeserver" owning the right key and makes this possible.

That said - maybe (total hypothetical) the reason one relay becomes really big is because a lot of people think it provides really good service, and maybe it's difficult to convince the majority of the network to route around it. This would create a similar problem to what we see in more well established federated chat networks.
by supermatt | 2025-12-16 11:16:24+00:00
I note the lack of human portraits in the example cases.

My experience with all these solutions to date (including whatever apple are currently using) is that when viewed stereoscopically the people end up looking like 2d cutouts against the background.

I haven't seen this particular model in use stereoscopically so I can't comment as to its effectiveness, but the lack of a human face in the example set is likely a bit of a tell.

Granted they do call it "Monocular View Synthesis", but i'm unclear as to what its accuracy or real-world use would be if you cant combine 2 views to form a convincing stereo pair.
by lowsong | 2025-12-16 11:16:30+00:00
This article seems to suggest that businesses are going to swap domain-specific SaaS tools, written and tested by people knowledgable in the domain with specific SLAs for vibe coding everything. But your AI subscription is still a SaaS?

All you've done is swapped a SaaS built for your problem domain with another, more expensive SaaS that has no support at all for your actual problem. Why would anyone want that? People buy SaaS products because they don't want to solve the problem, they just want it fixed. AI changes nothing about that.
by kotaKat | 2025-12-16 11:16:36+00:00
Oh! I've witnessed this quietly every time I buy soda!

I'm a habitual enough soda drinker that I'm a six-pack-a-day diet soda drinker (don't judge me, at least it's not Red Bull). I notice that there's vendor collusion at Walmart for months at a time where the Pepsi six-packs will typically go on sale for a few months at a sub-$4 to $5 price (currently it's $4.98) while Coke packs will be $5-6 off sale.

Cycle three to four months and Coke will enter the $4 position and Pepsi goes back up to a full retail price for the next quarter.

I've always seen the 'cycle' of the two competitors constantly hitting a 'sale' price across various retailers.
by duskdozer | 2025-12-16 11:17:55+00:00
There's also an often-overlooked issue, which is that some of the crowdfunded treatments are for things deemed "experimental" or whatever other label and thus not covered for even an insured person. This situation exists in both public and private healthcare systems. I'm not arguing in favor of a for-profit system with this, but people often miss this when they haven't personally run into uncommon health problems.
by Sharlin | 2025-12-16 11:19:12+00:00
I’m… not sure what’s there to wonder, really. They do the exact same thing as reporters back home: journalism. Meaning write articles and do investigative work required for writing articles, whether going to press conferences, finding people to interview, or something like this, called investigative journalism.

A news piece in a foreign affairs section is likely to have been written by a correspondent because that’s what their job and specialty is. If it’s an op-ed or a commentary or analysis piece, even more so. It’s not like you can do good journalism without boots on the ground, no matter how connected the world is these days.
by bruce511 | 2025-12-16 11:20:17+00:00
Unfortunately "cancer" is a very broad brush that covers a multitude of diseases.

Plus the phrase "cure" does a lot of heavy lifting. People seem to see a win here as being "here's a tablet, all cancer is gone."

So yes, we have spent an insane amount of money that can be ascribed to "cancer". (We've Also spent a lot on heart disease, diabetes and so on.)

But yes, we have got an extraordinary return on money spent. Treatments and survivability of common cancers (breast, prostate etc) have gone through the roof. Better screening, better education and much better Treatments lead to much (much) better outcomes.

Not all cancers are the same though. Some are harder to treat. Some rare ones are hard to investigate (simply because the pool is too small) but even rare cancers get spill-over benefits from common ones.

In terms of "cure" - that's not a word medicals use a lot anyway. Generally speaking we "manage" medical conditions, not cure them. "Remission" is a preferred word to an absence of the disease, not "cure".

In truth, we all die of something. Cancer is usually (not always) correlated with age, and living longer gives more opportunities to get cancer in the first place. So it's not like we can eradicate it like polio.
Show HN: I made a public traffic counter so websites can share verified views
by jeremy0405 | 2025-12-16 11:20:32+00:00
Hey HN,

v0 of a small experiment: a script that counts your page views (done so many times) but exposes them on a public URL so traffic becomes third‑party and linkable instead of “here’s a screenshot of my analytics”.

Adding trust & shareable

I’m curious if this is actually useful for you:

For blogs/directories/communities that sell “exposure”, would public verified views help you prove you send traffic?

For projects, would you use a simple public stats page in launch posts, open‑startup pages, or as a trust badge?

What must be on that page (just views, growth chart, referrers?), and what would stop you from adding it?

Would love blunt feedback on whether this solves a real problem and what would make you install it on your own site.
by zipy124 | 2025-12-16 11:20:58+00:00
Something seems off here. t-SNE should not be taking 15-25 seconds for only 5k points and 20 dimensions, but rather somewhere like 1-2 seconds. Also since the given alternative is not as good, you would probably be able to reduce the iterations somewhat with t-SNE if speed is wanted at the risk of quality. Alternatively UMAP for this would be milliseconds, bordering on real-time with aggressive tuning.
by tmrtn | 2025-12-16 11:22:13+00:00
Two huge (existential-level) risks for artists: 1) Off-platform leakage breaks attribution, so royalties die at export; 2) NIL (voice likeness) sits outside master/composition rights, weakening label control.

The real money for artists is in PRO royalty payouts, so this suggests existing artists are getting screwed.

For publishers, the money is in equity plus retroactive, unattributable settlements—artists will see literal micro-payments unless collective licensing and cross-platform “flight recorder” attribution become standard.
by mordae | 2025-12-16 11:22:20+00:00
Sadly, this. There are even networks. I know a person who begs on a specific interval of a subway line, has been for at least a decade, and has been pretty violent towards actual beggars who did not know the rules.

Some are genuine. People who went into debt, with health issue that prevented them from ever repaying it, fleeing from families so as not to burden them...

Smugglers who were found out, left with an unpayable amount of debt while the politicians that used to protect them went without punishment.
by lowsong | 2025-12-16 11:22:32+00:00
> A2UI lets agents send declarative component descriptions that clients render using their own native widgets. It's like having agents speak a universal UI language.

Why the hell would anyone want this? Why on earth would you trust an LLM to output a UI? You're just asking for security bugs, UI impersonation attacks, terrible usability, and more. This is a nightmare.
by stinkbeetle | 2025-12-16 11:22:41+00:00
The boy with cancer who is a main subject of the article and was scammed out of desperation to raise funds to cover his healthcare is in The Philippines.

"Aljin says treatment at their local hospital in the city of Cebu was slow, and she had messaged everyone she could think of for help."

The Philippines' constitution says access to healthcare is a human right. They have universal healthcare insurance, and public hospitals and medical centers.

The next one is the girl from Colombia. Colombia has a mostly public (with regulated private) healthcare system with universal health insurance.

The next one is from Ukraine. Ukraine has a government run universal healthcare system. Wikipedia tells me "Ukrainian healthcare should be free to citizens according to law," fantastic, but then it goes on, "but in practice patients contribute to the cost of most aspects of healthcare."

In first world countries with social healthcare systems like Canada and Germany and Australia, people with complex illnesses do not get coverage for unlimited treatments either, or general costs of being sick (travel, family carers, etc). There are many cases of fundraisers for, and charities which try to help, sick people in need in these countries.

Capitalism is not the reason not everyone with cancer is being cured and not chasing expensive treatments. Healthcare is something that you can throw unlimited money into. You'll get diminishing returns, but there will always be more machines and scans and tests and drugs and surgical teams and devices you can pay for. It doesn't matter the economic system, at some point more people will get more good from spending money on other things, and those unfortunate and desperate ones who fall through the cracks might have to resort to raising money themselves.
by jeremy0405 | 2025-12-16 11:22:46+00:00
I started this after launching a bunch of tiny projects on “launch directories” and realizing how easy it is to bluff about traffic. Some sites look big but send almost nothing, yet we still drive them content and backlinks.

The goal with this experiment is to make it trivial to show real visits instead of claims, so both sides know what’s going on: founders see which places actually move the needle, and directories that do send traffic can prove it.