MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dataguy_ | 2025-12-02 18:45:51+00:00
Location: Brazil

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: PostgreSQL, GCP, BigQuery, Looker Studio, Python, FastAPI, ElasticSearch, Neo4j

Résumé/CV: Please email me

Email: nothingcomeseasy@protonmail.com

4+ years as a Data Analyst and Generalist with strong experience in analytics, data pipelines, and product-oriented data work.

2 years working with semantic search, document parsing, entity extraction, audio transcription, and classification workflows using LLMs.

Highlights:

Semantic search and re-ranking (Neo4j + Elasticsearch + embeddings)

LLM + OCR pipelines for extracting structured data from PDFs/images (using Azure and Gemini)

Whisper-based audio transcription with post-processing and hallucination detection

Ran experiments comparing different models in terms of accuracy, time and pricing. Published internal docs + dashboards (Looker Studio, BigQuery)

Always happy to collaborate on practical, data-driven problems. Feel free to reach out!
by observationist | 2025-12-02 18:45:56+00:00
IBM CEO has sour grapes.

IBM's HPC products were enterprise oriented slop products banked on their reputation, and the ROI torched their credibility when compute costs started getting taken seriously. Watson and other products got smeared into kafkaesque arbitrary branding for other product suites, and they were nearly all painful garbage - mobile device management standing out as a particularly grotesque system to use. Now, IBM lacks any legitimate competitive edge in any of the bajillion markets they tried to target, no credibility in any of their former flagship domains, and nearly every one of their products is hot garbage that costs too much, often by orders of magnitude, compared to similar functionality you can get from things like open source or even free software offered and serviced by other companies. They blew a ton of money on HPC before there was any legitimate reason to do so. Watson on Jeopardy was probably the last legitimately impressive thing they did, and all of their tech and expertise has been outclassed since.
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-12-02 18:45:57+00:00
Joe Rogan, now's mainstream media, humble brags about hanging with Thiel on show.

Thiel very much plays the game in your second sentence, he's just smart about it. Thiel is gaining attention because he's put in the work, for a long time. Not because of shock value. And he's leveraging his soft power/contacts/PR sources/exposing his power level/drawing on what he built pretty hard now. Why?
by carlCarlCarlCar | 2025-12-02 18:46:10+00:00
Maybe... that's fine?

We're not hiring a lot of rotary phone makers these days.

Who is hiring their own shoe-smith? It's been 30-ish years since my carpenter father last had work boots resoled.

It's almost as if... technology and economy evolve over time.

For all the arguments software people make about freedom to use their property as they see fit, they ignore non-programmers use of personal technology property is coupled to the opinions of programmers. Programmers ignore how they are middlemen of a sort they often deride as taking away the programmer's freedom! A very hypocritical group, them programmers.

What's so high tech about configuration of machines with lexical constructs as was the norm 60+ years ago? Seems a bit old fashioned.

Programmers are biology and biology has a tendency to be nostalgic, clingy, and self selecting. Which is all programmers are engaged in when they complain others won't need their skills.
by vablings | 2025-12-02 18:46:17+00:00
> Windows eventually tends to revoke the certificate of vulnerable drivers. And prior to that, anti-cheats will flag the signature and prevent booting or outright ban for egregious ones.

I have been loading and using the WinIO driver on windows all the way up to the latest version to read and write any memory I want. I also have a few drivers that are lesser known that are not even flagged by most anti-cheats

> So, encrypt the memory well then? Also, that attack slows down RAM to 3200 MT/S and is infeasible for game cheating. Maybe if you could make a custom ram stick with an ASIC on it, which would cost millions on millions of dollars to keep up with DDR5, you could capture encrypted bits and crash your system pretty often.

You are going to have to decrypt the memory eventually. Even TEE.fail can get around AMD SEV and Intel's TEE. Reading memory speed doesn't really matter as long as you can find an encryption key for network traffic. Once you can intercept network traffic and decrypt its game over!

You do not need an ASIC to interpose DDR5 and steal all the traffic, there are FPGAs that are powerful enough. Once PCIE DMA cards go the way of the dino with IOMMU people will just switch to memory interposers with FPGAs

A few years ago, DMA cards cost upwards of $500. Now you can buy cards from china preloaded with pcieleech firmware for around $100. and there are thousands of customers. If you can afford the latest gen gaming gear and afford to spend money on cheats you can certainly fork over a couple hundred dollars for the latest undetected solution
by myaccountonhn | 2025-12-02 18:46:22+00:00
> In an October letter to the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recommended that the US add 100 gigawatts in energy capacity every year.

> Krishna also referenced the depreciation of the AI chips inside data centers as another factor: "You've got to use it all in five years because at that point, you've got to throw it away and refill it," he said.

And people think the climate concerns of AI are overblown. Currently US has ~1300 GW of energy capacity. That's a huge increase each year.
by OkayPhysicist | 2025-12-02 18:46:24+00:00
Copyright has nothing to do with innovation. That's patents (publish your tech secrets in exchange for exclusive use for a period of time). Copyright is about protecting creative works, which are, by their nature, much much easier to copy than to make. If I write a book, and bring it to book printer to print 10,000 copies, I think we can all agree we prefer the world where that printshop can't turn around and print as many copies as they want, selling them themselves, and never paying me a dime. So I need some legal concept that says my creative work is mine alone to copy, that I can sell exceptions to.

Comparatively, society loses out on a lot less with long copyright terms compared to long patent terms. Long patent terms stifle innovation, long copyright terms just mean I can't freely distribute my own copies of others' art.

IMO, the happy compromise would be a tapering of copyright over time. For the first, say, 2 decades, you have contemporary copyrights. You can choose who to license your rights to, including the production of derivative works and the like. For the next 2 decades after that, a price is codified such that you still are guaranteed a cut (variable on whether the work is a verbatim copy, an adaption, or something significantly different). For the next 2 decades after THAT, you get a smaller cut, and non-commercial use becomes a free-for-all. After 80 years, it's a free-for-all.
by gudzpoz | 2025-12-02 18:46:26+00:00
The WeTab / Infinity team has responded to this [1] (in Chinese). Basically, they argue that:

- The Clean Master extension has long been sold, and the malicious updated was not pushed by them.

- The other two mentioned extensions are not at all malicious. They collect use info for extension opt-out-able features and analytics (using Google Analytics and Baidu Analytics).

- They are communicating with the extension stores to restore their extension.

Let's hope it's not an AI company making AI-generated accusations.

[1] https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/E8YQLWZFM2J7r5DZNSl47w & https://www.v2ex.com/t/1176484
by rvnx | 2025-12-02 18:46:27+00:00
Often it happens that VCs buy out companies from funds belonging to a fresh because the selling fund wants to show performance to their investors until "the big one", or move cash one from wealthy pocket to another one.

"You buy me this, next time I save you on that", etc...

"Raised $19 million Series A led by Khosla Ventures + $7 million"

"Today, Bun makes $0 in revenue."

Everything is almost public domain (MIT) and can be forked without paying a single dollar.

Questionable to claim that the technology is the real reason this was bought.
by dboon | 2025-12-02 18:46:38+00:00
Incredible news on so, so many levels!

(1) Bun is what technical startups should be. Consistently excellent decisions, hyper focused on user experience, and a truly excellent technical product.

(2) We live in a world where TUIs are causing billion dollar acquisitions. Think about that. Obviously, Bun itself is largely orthogonal to the TUIs. Just another use case. But also obviously, they wouldn't have been acquired like this without this use case.

(3) There's been questions of whether startups like Bun can exist. How will they make money? When will they have to sell out one of the three principles in (1) to do so? The answer seems to be that they don't; at least, not like we expected, and in my opinion not in a sinister way.

A sinister or corrupting sell out would be e.g. like Conan. What started as an excellent tool became a bloated, versioned mess as they were forced to implement features to support the corporate customers that sustained them.

This feels different. Of course, there will be some selling out. But largely the interests of Anthropic seem aligned with "build the best JS runtime", since Anthropic themselves must be laser focused on user experience with Claude Code. And just look at Opencode [^1] if you want to see what leaning all the way into Bun gets you. Single file binary distribution, absurdly fast, gorgeous. Their backend, OpenTUI [^2], is a large part of this, and was built in close correspondence with the Bun folks. It's not something that could exist without Bun, in my opinion.

(4) Anthropic could have certainly let Bun be a third party to which they contributed. They did not have to purchase them. But they did. There is a strange not-quite altruism in this; at worst, a casting off of the exploitation of open source we often see from the biggest companies. Things change; what seems almost altruistic now could be revealed to be sinister, or could morph into such. But for now, at least, it feels good and right.

[^1]: https://github.com/sst/opencode [^2]: https://github.com/sst/opentui
by simonw | 2025-12-02 18:46:57+00:00
uv is very forkable - dual-licensed under Apache and MIT, high quality codebase, it's Rust rather than Python but the Python community has an increasing amount of Rust experience these days.

That's why I'm not personally too nervous about the strategic risk to the Python community of having such a significant piece of the ecosystem from a relatively young VC-backed company.
by Octoth0rpe | 2025-12-02 18:47:04+00:00
> Krishna also referenced the depreciation of the AI chips inside data centers as another factor: "You've got to use it all in five years because at that point, you've got to throw it away and refill it," he said

This doesn't seem correct to me, or at least is built on several shaky assumptions. One would have to 'refill' your hardware if:

- AI accelerator cards all start dying around the 5 year mark, which is possible given the heat density/cooling needs, but doesn't seem all that likely.

- Technology advances such that only the absolute newest cards can be used to run _any_ model profitably, which only seems likely if we see some pretty radical advances in efficiency. Otherwise, it seems like assuming your hardware is stable after 5 years of burn in, you could continue to run older models on that hardware at only the cost of the floorspace/power. Maybe you need new cards for new models for some reason (maybe a new fp format that only new cards support? some magic amount of ram? etc), but it seems like there may be room for revenue via older/less capable models at a discounted rate.
by sherbondy | 2025-12-02 18:47:17+00:00
Congrats Jarred and team! You have saved humanity many hours already, and I'm sure with Anthropic's backing, you will spare us many more. Farewell would-be headaches from Node & NPM tooling and waiting for builds and tests and package updates. Exciting times ahead!

Using bun on a side project reinvigorated my love of software development during a relatively dark time in my life, and part of me wonders if I would have taken the leap onto my current path if it weren't for the joy and feeling of speed that came from working with bun!
by frumplestlatz | 2025-12-02 18:47:54+00:00
> Imagine a tech industry where relationship skills weren’t just nice-to-have but essential. Where navigating complex human systems was seen as a core competency.

If that were to actually happen, we'd wind up excluding many of our greatest technical performers while drowning in a sea of would-be middle managers. People skills matter, but so do many other strengths that don't always overlap with being naturally good at navigating interpersonal dynamics.
Show HN: Live Qwen3-Omni API (open-source speech-to-speech)
by dsiddharth | 2025-12-02 18:48:04+00:00
We just deployed Qwen3-Omni to production. As far as we know, this is the only place you can hit an open-source speech-to-speech model via playground with zero setup.

The S2S landscape right now: OpenAI (GPT-Realtime), Hume (EVI), and now this. The first two are closed-source. Qwen3-Omni is open.

What we built: real-time inference stack optimized for voice, deployed across multiple regions. You can test latency directly at the link.

Honest take: we've seen faster results chaining ASR/LLM/TTS compared to native S2S. But the progress on end-to-end models in the last few months has been impressive, and we wanted to make it easy for people to experiment.

Would love feedback from anyone who tries it, particularly on latency, voice quality, and where it breaks.
by scarmig | 2025-12-02 18:48:07+00:00
His argument follows almost directly, and trivially, from his central premise: a 0% or 1% chance of reaching AGI.

Yeah, if you assume technology will stagnate over the next decade and AGI is essentially impossible, these investments will not be profitable. Sam Altman himself wouldn't dispute that. But it's a controversial premise, and one that there's no particular reason to think that the... CEO of IBM would have any insight into.
by martin_schenk | 2025-12-02 18:48:31+00:00
I built this for my own SaaS (allgood.click) and decided to open-source it.

What's included: - Stripe payments (one-time + subscriptions, mobile-optimized checkout) - Automatic Zoho Invoice integration (PDF invoices sent on payment) - 5 languages out of the box (EN, DE, ES, FR, PT) - Cookie-free GDPR analytics with admin dashboard Tech stack: Express.js, SQLite, vanilla JS (no build step) Live demo: https://allgood.click Happy to answer questions about the architecture or implementation details.
by giancarlostoro | 2025-12-02 18:48:45+00:00
Sounds like the goal is to bundle up Bun with Claude Code insanely tightly, to the point where it doesn't matter if you have nodejs installed locally, but also they can optimize key things for Claude Code's Bun runtime as needed. It's a brilliant acquisition, and bun stays open source, which allows it to continue to grow, to Anthropics benefit and everyone else's.
by mrtksn | 2025-12-02 18:49:06+00:00
my use case is Google replacement, things that I can do by myself so I can verify and things that are not important so I don’t have to verify.

Sure, they produce different output so sometimes I will run the same thing on a few different models when Im not sure or happy but I’d don’t delegate the thinking part actually, I always give a direction in my prompts. I don’t see myself running 30min queries because I will never trust the output and will have to do all the work myself. Instead I like to go step by step together.
by diath | 2025-12-02 18:49:26+00:00
> Hopefully, this post helps illustrate the unreasonable effectiveness of SQLite as well as the challenges you can run in with Amdahl's law and network databases like postgres.

No, it does not. This article first says that normally you would run an application and the database on separate servers and then starts measuring the performance of a locally embedded database. If you have to keep the initial requirement for your software, then SQLite is completely out of equation. If you can change the requirement, then you can achieve similar performance by tuning the local PGSQL instance -- and then it also becomes a valuation of features and not just raw throughput. I'm not saying SQLite is not an option either, but this article seems confusing in that it compares two different problems/solutions.
by Terr_ | 2025-12-02 18:49:28+00:00
When I try to analyze (or perhaps rationalize) what triggers my anger at some of these things, it often comes down to distributed autonomy and scale, rather than recognition per se.

The problem isn't that individual people/cameras might have good memories. If the local mini-mart can call up a list of all my visits, purchases, and camera-footage of what car I arrived in, that's... icky but acceptable.

The violation and danger occurs when everybody/thing gets turned into a massive hivemind, and someone can trivially combine observations from all those individual entities to make a constant video of my entire day outside my dwelling. That's a qualitatively different level of (un-)privacy that people do not expect.

Ideally this information should be siloed except with a conscious decision by the neighbor/store/etc. in response to a particularized request. For example, "please share with me information from time X to Y of anyone running from place Z."
by aschla | 2025-12-02 18:49:30+00:00
I'm not particularly old yet, in my mid-thirties, but I reacted like someone much older when I learned kids are allowed to carry around their phones all day at school.

Back in my day (when we walked to school uphill both ways), we weren't allowed to carry around basic flip phones. They had to be in our locker and only used before or after school.

When and why did it become acceptable for much more distracting and stimulating devices to be allowed in class?
by rsaz | 2025-12-02 18:50:00+00:00
- share your work online (twitter used to be the far-and-away best place for getting eyes, but this is a bit less clear now. youtube can work well, maybe also tiktok or sites like medium?)

- go to events/conventions/join clubs related to programming (need to be located near a large city for this)

- talk to other students/self-learners and wait for them to get to the next step

I’ve been unemployed a long time and have been thinking of improving at networking. These are what I came up with.
by thr0waw3y | 2025-12-02 18:50:05+00:00
I find it incredibly useful for information retrieval from dense, archival-like text knowledge. I research cellular networks, and everything on Google/DDG is just fluffy SEO spam, but I find Gemini can reliably hone into the precise subsection out of tens of thousands of dense standards to tell me what 5G should do in a given scenario
by hamasho | 2025-12-02 18:50:17+00:00
This post is not related to this, but as a fellow live coding fun, it makes me happy to find a new terminal based instrument like this found in the website ( https://infinitedigits.co/docs/software/collidertracker/ ). Especially there is another hot post about Strudel right now (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46052478 ).
Microsoft won't let me pay a $24 bill, blocking thousands in Azure spending
by Javin007 | 2025-12-02 18:50:25+00:00
Two years ago, a $24 autopay charge on my Azure account failed. The invoice is now marked "Locked" in their billing portal.

I cannot pay this invoice. There is no button to pay it. There is no button to dismiss it. There is no way to interact with it at all.

Azure displays a banner: "You must pay all previous invoices before creating new subscriptions." Fair enough. I would love to pay it. Microsoft won't let me.

So I tried to contact support.

The Azure portal requires a "paid support plan" to create a support ticket. To purchase a paid support plan, you must create a subscription. To create a subscription, you must clear outstanding invoices. To clear outstanding invoices, you must contact support.

Azure on Twitter, as well as the website claims to have a "free support ticket" option for billing issues, but every possible link just drives you back to the same FAQ page while refusing to let you submit a ticket.

I called every number I could find:

1-800-867-1389 rings busy indefinitely. 1-855-270-0615 connects to an AI that asks what you need, tells you to visit the website, and disconnects. 1-800-642-7676 connects to a different AI that also tells you to visit the website. The website has a chatbot that redirects you to FAQ articles regardless of what you type. If you express frustration, it throws an error and stops responding.

I submitted feedback through the Azure portal every few days for weeks. No response.

I am a software engineer, so I did something ridiculous.

I wrote a PowerShell WinForms application that authenticates via device code flow, queries the Az.Support API for problem classifications, and calls New-AzSupportTicketsNoSubscription to submit a billing support ticket directly, bypassing the portal entirely.

Note the API name: NoSubscription. Microsoft has an explicit API for ticketing without a subscription.

It worked. The ticket was submitted. I felt briefly victorious.

The API responded: "Your support plan type is Free. To create and update support tickets, you need access to our high-tier support plans."

I had built custom software specifically to work around Microsoft's broken support infrastructure, and I still hit a paywall.

The total amount Microsoft is owed: $24.

The total amount Microsoft is preventing me from spending on new Azure services: thousands. I currently run numerous websites out of my house, and it's getting to be enough that I want to offload it to Azure VMs. Additionally, I was going to shift my development to Azure boxes, etc.

I have exhausted every official channel. Every phone number, every chatbot, every feedback form, every API endpoint. There is no path to a human being without first paying for a support plan that I cannot purchase because of the billing block that I need support to resolve.

Has anyone successfully escaped a loop like this? Is there a secret handshake I'm missing? Or is the only option to abandon this Microsoft account entirely, get a new phone, and start fresh?
by tolerance | 2025-12-02 18:50:30+00:00
Shouts out to the fellow who half-broke the news in this submission that was presumably killed because of the aggressive paywall: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46123627

And apparently the submission's source for being the only org I can tell that anticipated this: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/anthropic-advanced-t...
by constantcrying | 2025-12-02 18:50:54+00:00
The idea that the only reasonable path into a software related career is through networking may be true, but it obviously signals something deeply wrong with the culture around work.

It is also something which is likely to be quite harmful, since it selects for people who are great at networking over people who have good technical skills. Obviously interpersonal communication is important, but how well a 20 year old in University performs at it should not doom or make their career.

And even people with bad social skills deserve to exist and should be allowed into their chosen career. Being someone who does good work and is respectful, but not overly social, should be good enough.
by weatherlite | 2025-12-02 18:51:01+00:00
> I feel the effects of this are going to take a while to be felt (5 years?);

Who knows if we'll even need senior devs in 5 years. We'll see what happens. I think the role of software development will change so much those years of technical experience as a senior won't be so relevant but that's just my 5 cents.