MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by unkeptbarista | 2025-12-19 22:13:07+00:00
I'm not sure I'm the best person for advice on this matter, or maybe it is great advice for some. I took a leap, believed in myself, and it worked out okay.

I'm self taught when it comes to computers and software development. For years before I landed a paying development job I did a lot of hobby projects. When I decided to take the leap and landed my first development job I took a fairly steep cut in pay. I was single, could afford the cut and was doing something I really wanted to do. It got the experience I needed and after the first year and changing jobs, my pay substantially increased.

I realize not everyone can take the approach I took. It may not even work these days. I did this 38 years ago when the industry was a bit more accepting of developers without a college degree.

Addendum: I also networked. I went to the equivalent of meet ups of the day. Talked with other developers, showed them my work, etc. This is how I found my first job.
by fwip | 2025-12-19 22:13:32+00:00
I guess y'all disagree?

> The Bun acquisition blows a hole in that story.

> That contradiction is not a PR mistake. It is a signal.

> The bottleneck isn’t code production, it is judgment.

> They didn’t buy a pile of code. They bought a track record of correct calls in a complex, fast-moving domain.

> Leaders don’t express their true beliefs in blog posts or conference quotes. They express them in hiring plans, acquisition targets, and compensation bands.

Not to mention the gratuitous italics-within-bold usage.
by JackFr | 2025-12-19 22:13:35+00:00
A company who does cutting edge R&D for defense contracts and and consumer small appliances is destined for trouble. They are two very different lines of business. While you might make an argument about synergy, the problem stems from the investors who are investing in two very different lines of business. Ultimately one of them was going to win. The failure to realize that offshoring would turn suppliers into competitors is a known issue in the consumer small appliance world and it looks like they were not ready.

Interestingly enough the R&D portion that was sold off, became Endeavor Robotics which was sold to Teledyne FLIR Systems and seems to be doing fine.
by jgeralnik | 2025-12-19 22:15:18+00:00
Right, you can’t actually guess a letter (byte) at a time but you can guess a token at a time (I believe the vocabulary is 200000 possible tokens in gpt 5) So you could send each of the 200000 possible tokens, see which is cached, and then send 200000 more tokens to find the next cached token Certainly less efficient but well within the realm of a feasible attack
by mothballed | 2025-12-19 22:15:57+00:00
One way would be to use a polycentric form of law where each individual could determine what or which form of law to live under that protects them by voluntarily entering some sort of protective group. Or choose none at all and merely protect their natural rights on their own.

A key difference here from democracy is that merely living in one place doesn't lock you into a specific legal system.

Of course these also suffer one of the same weaknesses as democracy, e.g. if certain groups disagree with you they can just kill you if they're able. We see this in US for instance where if a guy named Randy Weaver cuts a shotgun 1/4" too short than what the 'people' say your right to bear arms includes and then for contested reasons doesn't show up for court, then a man named Lon Horiuchi can snipe his wife dead while holding a child and then get promoted and go on to do similar things at Waco.
by LordDragonfang | 2025-12-19 22:16:10+00:00
Perhaps I'm overly sensitive to this and terminally online, but that first quote reads as a textbook LLM-generated sentence.

"<Thing> doesn't <action>, it <shallow description that's slightly off from how you would expect a human to choose>"

Later parts of the readme (whole section of bullets enumerating what it is and what it isn't, another LLM favorite) make me more confident that significant parts of the readme is generated.

I'm generally pro-AI, but if you spend hundreds of hours making a thing, I'd rather hear your explanation of it, not an LLM's.
by heavyset_go | 2025-12-19 22:16:29+00:00
The US disappeared a local business owner down the street from me in a sleepy suburb because he happened to be walking to his business one morning while brown.

ICE/BP was looking for someone else, but saw another brown person while waiting, and took the opportunity to grab him, too.

He was imprisoned for more than a month and shuffled around the country before anyone bothered to look at his identification or acknowledge their validity.

Are you aware of what's going on in the US right now?

NYT: Those Deported to El Salvador Were Shackled, Beaten, and Sexually Assaulted[1]

And if you're saying to yourself, "what do I have to worry about, I'm not brown", well, do you have kids who you don't want to have abducted and zip-tied naked in the middle of the night by paramilitaries using grenades and rappelling from helicopters into your home[2][3]?

> Neighbors like Eboni Watson say they ducked for cover as they heard several flash bangs.

> "They was terrified. The kids was crying. People was screaming. They looked very distraught. I was out there crying when I seen the little girl come around the corner, because they was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other," Watson said. "That's all I kept asking. What is the morality? Where's the human? One of them literally laughed. He was standing right here. He said, 'fuck them kids.'"

> “It was heartbreaking to watch,” she said. “Even if you’re not a mother, seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.”

> "They just treated us like we were nothing," Fisher said.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/world/americas/el-salvado...

[2] https://www.rawstory.com/it-was-heartbreaking-naked-zip-tied...

[3] https://abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chicago-federal-agents-surr...
by throw1235435 | 2025-12-19 22:16:44+00:00
You will get downvoted but I unfortunately agree with you; also as a SWE of similar tenure. People assume there's other things to jump to and yes in the short term there may be. But the industry already has those things on its roadmap to disrupt (i.e. generate more economic useful work).

For better or worse the software career is wounded, and the AI wolves can smell blood. Its low hanging fruit that they understand and in its disruption can make a lot of money.

As an industry is dying of disruption the leftover money is made in disrupting it first, this will speed up engineering efforts to kill the profession like rats in a sinking ship. Corporate stakeholders will also be the first to spend big on anything that does; they in my experience prefer communicators, and people accountable, not people who deliver.

It was a good ride. I could never of imagined this trajectory 3 years ago.
by observationist | 2025-12-19 22:17:33+00:00
Oh, for sure, I'm just highlighting that it's not like they're playing on a level field. The US marketplace is self defeating with asymmetric regulations, unenforceable patent and IP knowledge transfer with countries like China that just ignore it, effectively, with zero accountability. It's not all external though, they could have had a much better leadership team and used all sorts of things in their favor early on to really capture the market, despite anything and everything else that happened. Apathy, VC-style race to the bottom dynamics, probably went public too soon, and didn't build momentum and a culture of high quality R&D (a whole lot of drama every time they considered using private data and monetizing on their intimate in-home access.)

They also missed out on AI getting good - by the time transformers came around and people realized they'd be really useful for stuff like Roombas, it was too late, and with shareholders just looking to cash out and minimize their losses toward the end, there's not a lot that could have been done to save it. Even if they'd gone to Amazon, there wasn't a lot left that had value beyond the branding, imo.

I think American companies would be more successful and higher quality if the regulation and IP policy we embraced were reciprocal. As it stands, unless you're Apple or Samsung or a giant, you have to win the CCP PR lottery for any sort of accountability with Chinese companies. Most of the time they're going to ignore you, because there's no downside. It's only in those cases where there are political ramifications, individuals being embarassed, or they feel a need to trot out a "look how conscientious and good faith we are in the international markets!" piece useful for other wheeling and dealing.
by stryan | 2025-12-19 22:17:55+00:00
Ah yes, his house on the famous Vermont beach-side.

Even ignoring the fact that owning three houses doesn't make one a billionaire (though I suppose in this market he'd have to at least be a millionaire, but it would depend on how he got the second Vermont house), I'm not sure why you would expect socialists to not welcome a class-traitor from the bourgeoisie? Famously Engels was a nobleman after all.
by hatradiowigwam | 2025-12-19 22:18:43+00:00
I build ETL pipelines and all kinds of ad-hoc data processing software. These range from python projects to thousand-line shell scripts. The jobs run on machines above >1000 CPU core counts - what you would consider a mainframe or big iron.

Web stuff will burn you out. In my case, that happened 10+ years ago and I've never desired to go back [to building web products].
by tomww | 2025-12-19 22:18:57+00:00
They're using a graph neural network. From the article - "The team leveraged Google DeepMind's GraphCast model as an initial foundation and fine-tuned the model using NOAA's own Global Data Assimilation System analyses".

> so what’s AI about this that wasn’t AI previously?

The weather models used today are physics-based numerical models. The machine learning models from DeepMind, ECMWF, Huawei and others are a big shift from the standard, numerical approach used for the last decades.
by throw1235435 | 2025-12-19 22:18:58+00:00
Its hard to imagine now but the code won't matter. We will have other methods of validating the product I think; like before tech. There are many ways to validate something; this is an easier problem than creation (which these AI models are somewhat solving right now)

All very demoralizing but I can see the trend. In the end all "creative" parts of the job will disappear; AI gets to do the fun stuff.

We invented something that devalues the human craft and contribution -> if you weren't skilled in that and/or saw it as a barrier you win and are excited by this (CEO types, sales/ideas people, influencers, etc). If you put the hard yards in and did the work to build hard skills and built product; you lose.

Be very clear: AI devalues intelligence and puts more value on what is still scarce (political capital, connections, nepotism, physical work, etc). It mostly destroys meritocracy.
by rpdillon | 2025-12-19 22:19:21+00:00
Yeah, I saw that, but when I went back and looked at the content, there are sentence fragments that seem atypical, although there are a fair number of em-dashes. I guess it wasn't as obvious to me, and I felt your original comment was harsh. But perhaps justified.

I noticed the footer, too, and was a bit disappointed. Live and learn!
by Bender | 2025-12-19 22:19:49+00:00
If it were to be sold, how much would HN cost?

I think it would have to include YC itself so in the billions, or if one counts the portfolio then theoretically hundreds of billions but only YC's financial people could really answer that and even then the market would have to decide. HN is just a link aggregator and link discussion site under YC.
by kyboren | 2025-12-19 22:20:07+00:00
Indeed. I believe it is retribution for the Opium Wars. Sure the US isn't the UK, but it's the successor Anglo empire and is obstructing China's return to their rightful place as global hegemon.

I think Xi Jinping and his CPC wish to inflict a Century of Humiliation on the West, or at least on the members of the Eight-Nation Alliance. Russia and Hungary, beware.

Unfortunately this game only takes one willing participant. We'd better get our heads in the game and begin to play. And we need to prepare for a proper hot war, too, although that's already well understood and those preparations are already well underway.
by greensh | 2025-12-19 22:20:12+00:00
I can see that some verification is necessary. However i still think stuff that I can't be reprogramm should be heavily regulated. I want it to be kept at minimum.

Samsung already installs very suspicious auto updating, can't be removed without root, apps and ads. This is the natural consequence of locking out the users capabilities. If you want to get rid of them completely, youd have to root it, breaking compatibility with banking apps. Thats the world you are rooting for.

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/11/budget-samsun...
by db48x | 2025-12-19 22:20:38+00:00
I don’t think Trump is a “good guy”, I just don’t think there’s any useful evidence here. If there were it would have been leaked during the Biden administration, or it’ll be leaked/released during the next administration.

Don’t forget that it was actually the DoJ that was primarily against releasing this information, on the grounds that it could compromise existing cases or future appeals. That’s a perfectly rational basis.
by gen220 | 2025-12-19 22:21:37+00:00
I think trivial GH integrations are easy.

If you've used Graphite as a customer for any reasonable period of time or as part of a bigger enterprise/org and still think our app's particular integration with GH is easy... I think that's more a testament to the work we've done to hide how hard it is :)

Most of the "hard" problems we're solving (which I'm referencing in my original comment) are not visually present in the CLI or web application. It's actually subtle failure-states or unavailability that you would only see if I'm doing my job poorly.

I'm not talking about just our CLI tool or stacking, to clarify. I'm talking about our whole suite, especially the review page and merge queue.

What kind of enterprise SaaS features do you wish you had in Graphite? (We have multiple orgs with 100s-1,000s of engineers using us today!)
by ilamont | 2025-12-19 22:23:45+00:00
I am too. Gemini 3.0 fast on old scrawled diary entries in English from 100+ years ago got them 95% right. It also added historical context when I prefaced the images with the identity of the writer, such as summaries of an old military unit history in Europe post-WW1 it got from a very obscure U.S. Army archive.

Huge timesaver.
by observationist | 2025-12-19 22:24:33+00:00
It's not any particular feature - it's the licensing and royalties paid on tech patented and owned by other parties in the US, or by parties the US recognizes. Since that's not reciprocal, it's a drag on any US company, or company that respects US jurisdiction.

Put enough sticky notes on a Tour De France rider and you'll eventually guarantee their loss. That's the one-sided policy problem with the US, internally. Now if other riders are doping and using secret electric motors, but the stickied up rider can't cheat in the same way, then you just guarantee their loss, even if it's only a little degrading.

We need a better, more accountable, and more transparent international trade framework. Something that shuts out bad faith players that use slave labor, child labor, exploitative wages, things like that, and appropriately scales tariffs and other mechanisms to penalize the violations appropriately.

I'd much rather the playing field be entirely fair and even than do the current US thing of "well, we're going to impose a lot of moralistic and patronizing rules on ourselves, but allow anyone anywhere else to ignore those rules, because it makes for good political theater back home, and it makes shareholders happy."
by Sohcahtoa82 | 2025-12-19 22:24:38+00:00
> Are there any popular games with a system requirement greater than a 2060?

Requirement, probably not. You can run Cyberpunk on minimal settings on a 2060. But on Maximum settings in 4K with HDR, even an RTX 5090 requires DLSS frame gen. But it looks stunning.

I think PC gamers have a higher standard when it comes to graphical quality and performance. Many console gamers have been convinced that 30 fps is fine. Meanwhile, PC gamers are likely on 144 hz or higher monitors and expect 144+ fps.
by opan | 2025-12-19 22:25:23+00:00
CPU Monkey had some neat info like whether a CPU had AV1 hwdec/hwenc, then they redesigned their site and that info is gone for some reason. I think it was a year or less between finding their site and them ruining it.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250616224354/https://www.cpu-m...

https://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/cpu-amd_ryzen_7_pro_8840u

A nice reminder to stick any page you find useful in the wayback machine and/or save a local copy.
by adam_gyroscope | 2025-12-19 22:25:35+00:00
So, it does sometimes duplicate code, especially where we have a packages/ directory of Typescript code, shared between two nextjs and some temporal workers. We 'solve' this with some AGENT.md rules, but it doesn't always work. It's still an open issue.

The quality is general good for what we're doing, but we review the heck out of it.
by Youden | 2025-12-19 22:25:59+00:00
> but I realized that email is inherently insecure

I'm curious why you think this?

Take two parties that run their own email servers. One sends an email to the other. Their server opens a TLS connection to the other server and sends the email.

This is E2EE, no?

Given this is possible, is email truly *inherently* insecure? Or is the problem the centralization/sharing of email in free hosts?
by dabockster | 2025-12-19 22:26:20+00:00
Still sort of web stuff, but not the kind that HN usually does:

I'm trying to get back into computer networking - both physical cables and the computer code sides of things. Over the past 5 years beginning in the covid lockdowns, I've been watching a lot of the application layer stuff that was written over the past 10-15 years (the stuff HN usually does) slowly blow up. Usually because some REST API or something either broke or got depreciated somehow. This has been affecting both cloud and desktop apps I use, and has made me see the real value in refreshing my lower level network knowledge.

Heck, I'm honestly thinking about getting a CCNA now (or some other non-degree universal cert).
by semi-extrinsic | 2025-12-19 22:26:51+00:00
Functions, the way we use them in mathematical equations, have a particular syntax. The point of functions in Fortran is to mimic this as closely as reasonably possible (consider it is a language with a long history).

Giving the user low-level control of how memory is used can be very useful for writing fast code. The compiler is not omniscient. Providing the choice is not bad language design.
by nine_k | 2025-12-19 22:27:22+00:00
They explicitly say that top performance is not a goal: «high performances constrain a lot the design and the infrastructure; we seek performances through minimalism only» (https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/documentation/design/goals/)

But it might be interesting to see where the time is spent. I suspect they may be doing fewer things in parallel than MinIO, but maybe it's something entirely different.
by onion2k | 2025-12-19 22:28:38+00:00
A very important skill for Senior engineers not mentioned in the article is an ability to take the initiative on something. For example, when a dev sees a bug in an area of code they aren't responsible for and thinks "I'll raise an issue for that and mention it to the product manager so we can get it fixed" instead of "Oh, a bug", then they're starting to show that senior mindset. It's a desire to make the whole of the software good rather than just the little bit they work on good.
by throwaway613745 | 2025-12-19 22:28:54+00:00
I use it to write tests (usually integration) that make me physically cringe when I think about how dogged complicated they are to write.

I'll ask it to write one-off scripts for me, like benchmarks.

If I get stuck in some particular complicated part of the code and even web search is not helpful, I will let the AI take a stab at it in small chunks and review every output meticulously. Sometimes I will just "rubber duck" chat with it to get ideas.

Inline code completion suggestions are completely disabled. Tired of all the made up nonsense these things vomit out. I only interact with an AI via either a desktop app, CLI agent, or the integrated agent in my IDE that I can keep hidden most of the time until I actively decide I want to use it.

We have some "foreign resources" that do some stuff. They are basically a Claude subscription with an 8 hour delay. I hate them. Id' replace them with the Github Copilot built-in agent in a heartbeat if I could.
by lukev | 2025-12-19 22:29:03+00:00
Well, I'm very interested in this, and if you have things you wish you could speak freely about I can be reached directly via several mediums. My name is not hard to find and I'm on Bluesky & LinkedIn if you want to reach out to me there. I'm one of the authors of this book if you want my full name to search: https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Clojure-Experts-Voice-Sourc...
by jonah | 2025-12-19 22:29:24+00:00
This is exciting to see! I just used Masonry for a project this past week. While it works quite well and is pretty performant, it is pretty hacky using absolute positioning, wanting to know the aspect ratios of objects beforehand for smoother layout, and having to recalculate everything on resize. I'm looking forward to having a generally available native option one of these days.
by paulcole | 2025-12-19 22:29:54+00:00
> This reveals what IQ tests actually measure. It’s not whether you can solve problems, but how fast you solve them.

Who is out here arguing that IQ tests only measure whether you can solve puzzles or not?

> You retort that "if you can work on it for a week, then it's no longer an IQ test", but that retort is one that the author would agree with.

Well it would be unreasonable to disagree with because it is less a retort than a simple fact.
by al_borland | 2025-12-19 22:30:20+00:00
I just tried an 8bitdo controller I had lying around. It does work, but the controls seem all wrong and need to be remapped. I may do that.

I never carry a controller with me. I'd love to just be able to pick up and play in a waiting room or something without needing to plan for it or having an awkward setup. The MCON looked promising, but still probably bigger than what I'd want to carry around.
by rootsudo | 2025-12-19 22:31:04+00:00
They use a service of Sabre but not Sabre GDS. it’s called Radixx.

Yes in other GDS, it can be enough to identify a full booking. That’s why airlines prefer ticket or coupon number since the first two digits are the airline ticket stock / identifier and then fare codes, etc

The requiring last name, and more info is more or less security since any pss system can query the airline first for that combination before requiring more info to return a match.
by defrost | 2025-12-19 22:31:07+00:00
It's a good business move for Anthropic all the way down.

There will be no more vending machine manufacturers/operators once Anthropic masters the vending machine manufacturing and operating AI.

Running low on CandyBars is a variation on running low on WorkingVendingMachine.

Does this need an /s tag? I'm increasingly unsure.
by duffyjp | 2025-12-19 22:33:20+00:00
I browsed thru my comment history to make sure I wasn't hallucinating. Just over a year ago I had priced out a used Xeon and 256GB kit on eBay for my old X99 board (DDR4) for under $300.

I did not pull the trigger. I did thankfully get it up to 64gb for ~ $50.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41100502