MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by t-writescode | 2025-12-01 06:14:29+00:00
This is the comment chain to which I was responding:

csomar: Also people who can’t find a job tend to be more vocal than the rest.

fragmede: Are they perhaps more vocal because they have *a lot of time on their hands?* (emphasis mine)

me: You mean spending all their time looking for a new job, applying for various benefits, doing side work as much as they can, at pay far lower than they're used to so it takes more hours of gig work to reach equilibrium?

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So, what I was responding to was the implication that unemployed or under-employed means that you've got a whole lot of free time, which can absolutely, positively be the opposite of true.

If one had a job that previously made end's meet and now all they've got is gig work, they're probably filling ALL of their time just to survive, and are probably still coming up short. That's what I meant.
by lmm | 2025-12-01 06:15:11+00:00
> I'm not sure that that's the win that you think it is. Linux 10 to 20 years ago was pretty terrible, at least on desktops.

For all its usability issues, Linux 10 to 20 years ago had advantages that, for a certain kind of user, were worth the cost. Frankly Linux on the desktop today is the worst of all worlds - it doesn't have the ease-of-use or compatibility of Windows or OSX, but it doesn't have the control and consistency/reliability of BSD either.
by wowczarek | 2025-12-01 06:16:12+00:00
Back when I was a sysadmin (sort of 2007-2010), the preference of a colleague (RIP AJG...) who ran a lot of things before my time at the org, was FreeBSD, and I quickly understood why. We ran Postgres on 6.x as a db for a large Jira instance, while Jira itself ran on Linux iirc because I went with jrockit that ran circles around any JVM at the time. Those Postgres boxes had many years of uptime, locked away in a small colo facility, never failed and outlived the org that got merged and chopped up. FreeBSD was just so snappy, and just kept going. At the same time I ran ZFS on FreeBSD as our main file store for NFS and whatnot, snapshots, send/recv replication and all.

And it was all indeed on Supermicro server hardware.

And in parallel, while our routing kit was mostly Cisco, I put a transparent bridging firewall in front of the network running pfSense 1.2 or 1.3. It was one of those embedded boxes running a Via C3/Nehemiah, that had the Via Padlock crypto engine that pfSense supported. Its AES256 performance blew away our Xeons and crypto accelerator cards in our midrange Cisco ISRs - cards costing more than that C3 box. It had a failsafe Ethernet passthrough for when power went down and it ran FreeBSD. I've been using pfSense ever since, commercialisation / Netgate aside, force of habit.

And although for some things I lean towards OpenBSD today, FreeBSD delivers, and it has for nearly 20 years for me. And, as they say, it should for you, too.
by Jennyyyy111 | 2025-12-01 06:16:59+00:00
Hi HN,

I built TweetGrok, a lightweight tool that lets you browse Twitter profiles and tweets *anonymously*, without needing a Twitter account or logging in.

It’s designed for developers, researchers, and anyone who wants to:

- Quickly access public tweets or profiles without signing up - Explore Twitter content without tracking or ads - Use a minimal interface that focuses purely on content

The platform handles caching and content rendering efficiently, so pages load fast even for large profiles. You can try it here: https://tweetgrok.ai/twitter-viewer

I’m interested in hearing feedback, feature requests, or thoughts on privacy and usability improvements. Also curious if anyone has suggestions for other use cases this could support.

Thanks!
by nradov | 2025-12-01 06:17:49+00:00
There is no US healthcare "system" in the sense of having a cohesive entity pursuing a unified goal. It's a bunch of separate entities each pursuing their own goals, often in conflict with each other. If we were designing a healthcare system from scratch it obviously wouldn't look anything like what we have today. But we arrived here through a process that economists call "path dependence", and this makes it stubbornly resistant to systemic improvements.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_dependence
by venturecruelty | 2025-12-01 06:18:09+00:00
I'm so sick of this trope. "It's the insurance companies!" "No, it's private equity!" "No, it's the PBMs!" I don't care. Jesus Christ, going to the doctor is rapidly becoming unattainable for more and more people, including the PMC now, and all of the rich people are simply pointing at each other saying "it's the other guy!".
by rckflr | 2025-12-01 06:19:35+00:00
Hi HN,

I've been working on Skill Bank - an open-source platform for building AI agents with dynamic capability discovery and user memory.

*The Problem:*

Most AI agent frameworks hardcode tool lists and configurations. Every time an agent executes a task, users must provide full parameter sets. There's no learning, no personalization, no memory.

*What Skill Bank Does:*

1. *Semantic Discovery*: Agents find capabilities via embeddings + RAG, not hardcoded lists.

2. *The "Golden Rule"*: Instead of creating dozens of near-identical tools (create_user, read_user, etc.), use 1 atomic tool + N specific skills. This preserves semantic diversity and improves RAG.

3. *Memory & Learning* (v1.5): System automatically learns user patterns: - Detects preferences after 5 consistent executions - Auto-fills missing parameters (70%+ confidence) - Per-user preference profiles - Result: 60% fewer inputs after learning

4. *RAG Integration*: Context-aware skills query indexed documents automatically.

5. *Production-Ready*: 128 tests (100% critical passing), quality gates enforced, complete docs.

*Architecture:*

6 layers (4 implemented): - Tools (atomic capabilities) - Skills (workflows/knowledge) - Documents (RAG) - Memory & Learning - (Coming: Credentials, Sub-Agents)

*Tech:* TypeScript, SQLite + sqlite-vec, Vitest, ~12K LOC, MIT License.

*Quick Start:* ```bash git clone https://github.com/MauricioPerera/Skill-Bank npm install npm run demo:memory # See learning in action ```

*Demo Output:* ``` After 5 executions - Pattern detected! Learned 3 preferences for Alice: • format: "PDF" (confidence: 100%) AUTO-FILLED PARAMETERS: • format: "PDF" (100% confident) ```

Would love feedback from the HN community! What would you add to an agentic platform?

Repo: https://github.com/MauricioPerera/Skill-Bank
by karlshea | 2025-12-01 06:21:21+00:00
I'm gonna have to hold your hand when I tell you this: when you tell the younger generation to "save" or "invest" they are going to walk away from that conversation knowing they were just speaking with one of the most mind-numbingly naive Olds they're going to encounter in probably the next several months.

Please, if you ever want any respect from anyone younger than you ever again in your entire life, do not say those words again.
by reeredfdfdf | 2025-12-01 06:21:33+00:00
I live in Finland, with over 10% unemployment according to official statistics (second highest in EU, just after Spain). From what I can tell, things really suck especially for fresh grads. There's fierce competition for jobs like cashier at supermarket, hundreds of applications for one position is normal. Lots of fresh grads with bachelor's or master's degree compete for those jobs too, since they can't find anything better. Also, of the few open positions, many are the kind of "rental work" that offer only limited hours a week, at unpredictable times.

So, this is what an objectively bad job market looks like in Europe.
by chickensong | 2025-12-01 06:21:34+00:00
It's not exactly the doc you'd need for a human. There could be overlap, but each side may also have unique requirements that aren't necessarily suitable for the other. E.g. a doc for a human may have considerably more information than you'd want to give to the agent, or, you may want to define agent behavior for workflows that don't apply to a human.

Also, while it may be hip to call any LLM output slop, that really isn't the case. Look at what a poor history we have of developer documentation. LLMs may not be great at everything, but they're actually quite capable when it comes to technical documentation. Even a 1-shot attempt by LLM is often way better than many devs who either can't write very well, or just can't be bothered to.
by bird0861 | 2025-12-01 06:22:19+00:00
I fully agree with this POV but for one detail; there is a problem with sunsetting frontier models. As we begin to adopt these tools and build workflows with them, they become pieces of our toolkit. We depend on them. We take them for granted even. And then the model either changes (new checkpoints, maybe alignment gets fiddled with) and all of the sudden prompts no longer yield the same results we expected from them after working on them for quite some time. I think the term for this is "prompt instability". I felt this with Gemini 3 (and some people had less pronounced but similar experience with Sonnet releases after 3.7) which for certain tasks that 2.5Pro excelled at..it's just unusable now. I was already a local model advocate before this but now I'm a local model zealot. I've stopped using Gemini 3 over this. Last night I used Qwen3 VL on my 4090 and although it was not perfect (sycophancy, overuse of certain cliches...nothing I can't get rid of later with some custom promptsets and a few hours in Heretic) it did a decent enough job of helping me work through my blindspots in the UI/UX for a project that I got what I needed.

If we have to perform tuning on our prompts ("skills", agents.md/claude.md, all of the stuff a coding assistant packs context with) every model release then I see new model releases becoming a liability more than a boon.
by kajika91 | 2025-12-01 06:22:26+00:00
Following leader's GUI is not a choice, I feel like you never did such endeavor as building an alternative to a well-known software in it's way to enshitification : people will ask and complain if the alternative is too far from their comfort zone.

The good part is that if you have better solution you actually can suggest a PR and/or implement it for yourself.

The bot verification is not specific to Forgejo/Codeberg a lot of Foss project and organization use this method to avoid unnecessary bot traffic. I understand the issue you have with it but the problem is way larger than codeberg here.

Also about the login with GitHub button would be immensely annoying for the community : you came from GitHub and you might think that your experience is more important but as this is community driven and not a business the people actually creating and using the software don't need nor want to prioritize such button but leave the option for those who wants it, which is very nice of them. Eventually if the majority start thinking a GitHub login is preferred an issue can be created and a change made in that direction.
by pjmlp | 2025-12-01 06:22:38+00:00
They are based on the Linux kernel, the userspace is mostly written in managed languages, and don't have any access to GNU/Linux.

And best of all, they run much better than folks using Electron crap for all their apps.

Finally, my phone is better than all my computers between 1986 and 2006, combined.

1980's Lisp Machines and Smalltalk would fly with 2025 hardware, JIT compilers and pauseless GC algorithms.

C is mostly fast when devs actually know their algorithms and data structures.
by 05 | 2025-12-01 06:22:51+00:00
> learning quickly, so their work quality is eventually higher than Cursor can work out in one shot.

This sounds almost word for word like The Onion’s classic: Secretary Of Labor Assures Nation There Still Plenty Of Jobs For Americans Willing To Outwork Robots

[0] https://theonion.com/secretary-of-labor-assures-nation-there...
by ares623 | 2025-12-01 06:23:57+00:00
Is it just me or is the OP in that Reddit thread just more AI slop?

There’s a pandemic of engagement bait posts on Reddit now where posts make up situations that are guaranteed to evoke ridicule or anger since those often get the most engagement. OP often replies in affirmative replies, mirroring the comments. Every once in a while a subtle reference to a product is conveniently mentioned.
by pajamasam | 2025-12-01 06:24:00+00:00
SEO-spam was often at least somewhat factual and not complete generated garbage. Recipe sites, for example, usually have a button that lets you skip the SEO stuff and get to the actual recipe.

Also, the AI slop is covering almost every sentence or phrase you can think of to search. Before, if I used more niche search phrases and exact searches, I was pretty much guaranteed to get specific results. Now, I have to wade through pages and pages of nonsense.
by fooker | 2025-12-01 06:24:10+00:00
Okay, assuming you could invest 100k out of your 170k per year into companies you know were doing well on tech from 2015, how much would you have ?

(say: AMD, Tesla, Google, Amazon, Facebook)

The answer is about 10M, which is not that far from what I estimated, even without including Nvidia. Now add in house price appreciation.

There are plenty of people who have managed to do this, from fairly normal tech jobs.
by harmmonica | 2025-12-01 06:24:19+00:00
The US, today, is set up very well for wealthy people. The health care system works great for them. Their doctors are amongst the best in the world. Same with the hospitals they use. The costs are manageable if not reasonable for all of those people. And you can actually go beyond health care and find that almost everything in the US is pretty high quality for wealthy people. Housing, their neighborhoods, their schools, etc. That might help explain why the system is set up the way it is. Everything cascades from there.
by dragonwriter | 2025-12-01 06:24:25+00:00
I don't particularly like the Windows naming structure, but it made just as much sense with later removable-media-with-fixed-drives systems (like optical drives) as it did with floppy drives. It maybe makes less sense now that storage is either fixed media or detachable drives, rather than some being removable media in fixed drives, but the period after commonn removable media is a lot shorter than the period after common floppy drives.

(And mostly, I'm talking about using drive letters rather than something like what unix does. C being the first fixed media device, may seem more arbitrary now, but it was pretty arbitrary even in the floppy era.)
Show HN: Photo app that does just one thing – no stories/reels/algorithm
by amiban | 2025-12-01 06:24:46+00:00
every social app is trying to be Instagram + Snapchat + TikTok + X. I still want to see what my friends are up to, but don't want to wade through endless irrelevant slop. So I built a simple, chronological photo log. Photos only. No AI generation, no video reels. No algorithm. You see 100% of what your friends post, in order. would love HN's thoughts on whether single purpose social apps can still exist.
by anduril22 | 2025-12-01 06:25:34+00:00
I love having multiple git repos in a directory, all of which relate to one project (microservices, etc.). I dislike monorepos since I usually code in different languages and they seem like too much overhead. I know there are multi-repo tools in the market, but most of these seemed not-so-user-friendly to me.

One of the challenges I've struggled with in this setup is keeping track of what's been committed/deployed when (yes I use semver), so I built a quick tool to keep track of last commit times, be able to quickly check git status/log for each repo, and get a R/A/G indicator if a particular repo has been committed or not, so I can then see what has changed or needs to be committed, and update deployments accordingly.

Built for my personal use but wanted to get feedback here in case anyone else found it useful. I recognize this may be due to bad CICD workflows but as a solo dev I don't have the bandwidth to set up a full process for it.
by moleperson | 2025-12-01 06:27:47+00:00
I'm not at all advocating for treating life like a lottery. I've had overall a successful career due in large part to my own effort, but the best opportunities have come to me simply by being in the right place at the right time, so it would be arrogant to discount luck entirely. I've also had periods of repeated failure, and if I had counted each and every one of those as a score against my own value then I wouldn't have made it this far. Put more simply, the healthy mindset I have is to do what you can, and accept what you can't. Sometimes things work out, sometimes they don't. Easier said than done.

It seems like you're misinterpreting my words through the lens of your own frustrations right now, so I don't think there's anything else I can say to help you. I just hope you find what you're looking for eventually.
by voodooEntity | 2025-12-01 06:28:04+00:00
First of all, the problem here is more a point of trust.

Ill try explain based on your example with "any link".

If you type amazon.com you trust that there will be amazon.com returned and not any maleware. On a QR code, the target url isn't as obvious so the user should be aware that a qr code, even if for example below it says "hackernews - the best news in the IT world" the qr code could still link to "https://news.xn--combinator-xwi.com" (edit : because ycombinator is a nice website it auto resolves the unicode char here : bad example tho but i dont have the time to recraft it and i guess you know unicode link/url tricks therefor i can just let it be the way i pasted it) did u spot the difference? Its not a regular "y" and just could get you on a fishing page. So ye even just know "urls" that you review on a qr code still can be dangerous if not typed by yourself. And than, for alot of users it prolly wouldn't event take that of a measure to trick them. Its not like the average Jane/John Doe does very good on url verification - else alot of scammers would go bancrupt.

Therefor i hope you understand you don't need a 0day. I also stated that in my answer but you seem to be so keen focusing on me listing some 0days (to disprove the initial article) that you kinda lost my point.

Also - sure everyone should keep his/her device updated - noone said anything else. Apart from that no i wouldn't recommend people to use whatsapp but that was't the point and im not actually sure why you mentioning it but here i said it : i wouldn't recommend it if that helps ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Edit: not to forget - i for myself know that clicking on unknown links poses a certain risk and have several measures in place to reduce this risk.
by dghlsakjg | 2025-12-01 06:28:14+00:00
Yes, it isn't as good as Linux in some cases. It hasn't stopped me from running Cyberpunk on a Macbook though. Nobody is under the impression that a Mac running a translation layer is going to be better than a purpose built machine running native code. But is it not worth bothering, at all? No, there are plenty of circumstances where Steam via Crossover is essentially unnoticable.

Really, though, if we are going to nitpick at "perfect or don't bother" level. Skip linux too, Windows beats both on equivalent hardware.
by oblio | 2025-12-01 06:28:30+00:00
Most deindustrialized regions in the West haven't recovered to full prosperity and are quite depressing to live in, sometimes even 30-40 years later: US Rust Belt, Wallonia in Belgium, the French North East, etc.

At a large enough scale, most people don't really move on, their lives are wrecked and they just suffer through them.
by strken | 2025-12-01 06:28:40+00:00
This is just wrong. Beans and rice are more than an order of magnitude cheaper than McDonald's per calorie and they're non-perishable. Combine that with whatever fruit and veg is affordable fresh or frozen, a bit of cheap seasoning, and you're still coming out ahead.

You obviously need access to cooking and storage facilities to eat like this, but the target audience of McDonald's is the time-poor, the resource-constrained, or the depressed and disabled, rather than just the money-poor.
by onion2k | 2025-12-01 06:29:28+00:00
In order to complete AoC you need more than just the ability to write code and solve problems. You need to find abstract problem-solving motivating. A lot of people don't see the point in competing for social capital (internet points) or expending time and energy on problems that won't live on after they've completed them.

I have no evidence to say this, but I'd guess a lot more people give up on AoC because they don't want to put in the time needed than give up because they're not capable of progressing.
by JuniperMesos | 2025-12-01 06:29:39+00:00
A lot of these problems seem pretty solveable, if you're the admin of the machine (or cloud system) and the user isn't.

If you don't want a user to log in as root, disable the root password (or change it to something only you know) and disable root ssh. If you want people to stop sharing the same login and password across all servers, there's several ways to do it but the most straightforward one seems like it would be to enforce the use of a hardware key (yubikey or similar) for login. If people aren't using configuration management software and are leaving machines in an inconsistent state, again there are several options but I'd look into this NixOS project: https://github.com/nix-community/impermanence + some policy of rebooting the machines regularly.

If you don't like how users are making use of AWS resources and secrets, then set up AWS permissions to force them to do so the correct way. In general if someone is using a system in a bad or insecure way, then after alerting them with some lead time, deliberately break their workflow and force them to come to you in order to make progress. If the thing you suggest is actually the correct course of action for your organization, then it will be worthwhile.
by almosthere | 2025-12-01 06:29:41+00:00
What I don't understand however is what IS actually expensive about the care itself?

Doc will get paid his normal rate, $500k per year (maybe more maybe less?) Nurses all get paid something between 100k and 200k (maybe more maybe less?)

Then we hear about these surgeries that cost 100k.

What exactly is costing 100k for 5 hours of knife and time in a bed?

Wildfire, I understand, there is no way to re-materialize a house for less than (what is basically a fortune these days). But time and materials for a surgery seem to me that it should cost 5k at most?

And at those rates, wouldn't everyone just pay like $15 a month? And if the answer to this question is malpractice costs, can we have two plans:

I trust you doc: $15 / month

I might sue the doc after: $1500 / month
by registeredcorn | 2025-12-01 06:29:57+00:00
What remedial steps would you support, out of interest?

For example, if someone could have their current life become, essentially "redacted", and receive an entirely new one with fairly low barrier of entry, would that be something you would support?

I do agree that once it's out, it's out and you can't really "go back" or have any expectation that what you put out there will somehow magically be "safe", but I think there ought to be a means to hard reset; a burn everything to the ground, and start from square one option.

To head off the inevitable questions of some variation of, "...but what about abuse?" from the croud, I would generally ask:

Abuse to whom? The person who's entire existence is irrevocably captured, documented, data mined, and optimized for malicous intent? Or the random mouth breath8ng schlub who abuses the opportunity to do something nefarious before getting caught and going to prison?
by nradov | 2025-12-01 06:32:36+00:00
Bullshit. The AMA is a voluntary membership organization, not a trade union. They have no power to set prices or engage in collective bargaining.

The immediate bottleneck on producing more physicians is limited Medicare funding for residency slots. Every year some students graduate from medical school with an MD but are unable to practice medicine because they don't get matched to a residency program (some do get matched the following year). At one point the AMA did lobby Congress to restrict that funding but they reversed position several years back.

https://savegme.org/