MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by TZubiri | 2025-12-01 22:13:25+00:00
Thank you!

It looks like the interpretation of the article is quite incorrect, there is no part of the law that demands that porn websites "block VPN users from wisconsin".

Rather that:

1- Porn websites must block underage users from wisconsin. 2- VPN websites must block underage users from wisconsin from accessing . 3- Porn websites must block vpn users in general.

And this is not strictly laid out in the law, the law specifies the functional requirements, and we are estimating how the technical implementation will play out, the author strawmanned a stupid hypothetical technical implementation to paint lawmakers as technical troglodytes.
by DiabloD3 | 2025-12-01 22:13:41+00:00
You're confused and you're thinking of the LS-120 SuperDisk. On some machines, it could be setup to appear as A: or B: when a 3.5" floppy was inserted.

Zip drives were never compatible with 3.5" floppies, and always were enumerated using the first available external storage letter (ie, D: in typical machines).
by shagie | 2025-12-01 22:13:46+00:00
Not everyone wants to relocate to rural hospital areas (where they're often most in demand as a fraction of the total workers). The wages are often tied to what insurance (and medicare) can reimburse and that rate isn't necessarily going up fast enough to properly staff hospitals.

Bigger ones in the cities with more expensive procedures can afford it better. The smaller hospitals an hour or two drive away from a city are the ones that are hurting the most.

https://www.marketplace.org/story/2025/11/14/how-trumps-100k...

> Frederick Health Hospital in rural Frederick County, Maryland, is ground zero for the hurdles the new fee has created. The hospital is the only emergency room in a county that’s approximately 650 square miles in size. Patients would have to drive as far as 50 miles to get to another facility.

> “We see about 70,000 to 80,000 emergency department visits — one of the busiest emergency departments in the state,” said Jamie White, chief nursing officer at Frederick Health.

> Not only is her hospital one of the busiest in the state, it’s also chronically short-staffed. White said it can’t compete with salaries at hospitals in urban areas or with jobs that allow for more work-life-balance.

Wage suppression? Maybe. But it's not "raise wages" that is an option - its "close the hospital".
by francocanzani | 2025-12-01 22:13:48+00:00
I built SaasList because I was frustrated trying to get my products discovered on Product Hunt. A couple of weeks ago I launched my SaaS product on Product Hunt and it got buried behind Cursor and Gemini. They’re Fortune 500 sized companies with massive marketing budgets and thousands of employees. My project had no chance.

So I built SaasList an alternative with fairer discovery.

Featured products get top placement, but quality still matters. It’s free to submit, no waitlist.

What do you think?
by tyre | 2025-12-01 22:14:38+00:00
When I was at a large company I made meetings with fellow EMs to prevent others from scheduling with us. It was the only way to get quality heads down time.

All of them were titled something like “$X WG” where X was what we needed to work on and WG is an acronym for “Working Group”.

We fooled our manager for a long time, though sometimes she would join the automatically-attached Zoom to find us.
by cosinetau | 2025-12-01 22:14:48+00:00
Principal Software Engineer and Open Source Maintainer with 7+ years of experience as a core contributor to the OpenTHC platform. I'm a versatile full-stack developer with deep experience in backend architecture, distributed systems, and building complete data/ETL pipelines. Beyond coding, I am a strategic contributor who bridges the gap between engineering and business. I've authored 10 comprehensive technical proposals for state government projects and led an organizational effort that slashed customer time-to-resolution by 75%.

I'm looking for a senior to principal-level role where I can solve complex technical challenges and contribute to product strategy.

Location: Seattle, WA

Remote: Open to remote opportunities

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies:

* Cloud: AWS, GCP, Azure * Languages: PHP, Python, Go, JavaScript, C/C++, Java, C# * Data: PostgreSQL, MySQL, NoSQL, Snowflake, SQL, ETL, Data Warehousing * DevOps/Tools: Docker, Git, Linux, Bash, Automation, Reliability, Testing * Architecture: Distributed Systems, Microservices, Data Modeling, REST APIs

Resume/CV: https://content.mashio.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Resume...

Email: matt@mashio.net
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-12-01 22:15:02+00:00
The concern is reasonable, but I'm not sure there's a great way to make people act as though RTO is happening other than actually doing the RTO. A number of companies never said remote work was going to be long-term in the first place, yet still had employees moving around randomly based on an assumption that peak Covid norms were the new status quo.
by tboyd47 | 2025-12-01 22:15:03+00:00
The corruption is so entrenched and so out of control, the only way out of this mess is for regular people to just stop using the health care system. Yes, there's no alternative, and yes, it means living a riskier life. It sucks, and it's not what we want to hear, but they can only charge us if we show up and purchase the product, and that's the last lever of power we can wield.
by anitil | 2025-12-01 22:15:03+00:00
To be honest (and I'm just some rando so feel free to ignore me), if you have an MVP I'd say forget about development and sell what you have. You're already better than what I've seen in industry. If anything, being able to take an existing decision database and onboard it to RFC Hub (even if done manually) would be a better sell than WYSIWYG to enterprise customers.
by hxii | 2025-12-01 22:15:24+00:00
Location: Israel Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Python, HTML, CSS, Some Crystal/Ruby Résumé/CV: https://hxii.github.io or https://0xff.nu Email: cv <at> glushak <dot> net

I'm Paul, and I've mostly done Support Engineering – from Tier 1 to management. I specialize in resolving complex user issues, building plugins and integrations, developing internal tooling, coming up with creative solutions and mentoring technical teams. Currently I'm focused on Python development, unit testing, and CI/CD automation, while giving Crystal and Swift a while. I'm passionate about small-web principles and minimalist, human-oriented tools.

I seek to learn while trying to make the world around me just a tiny bit better than I've found it.
by chuckadams | 2025-12-01 22:15:26+00:00
Docker-in-Docker is a different thing than bind mounting the socket. The former runs a new docker daemon in a container, the latter just talks to the host's socket. Anyway, https://jpetazzo.github.io/2015/09/03/do-not-use-docker-in-d... tells it straight from the horse's mouth. It appears you may not even need privileged containers to pull it off nowadays, but the author still lists several more footguns.

Landlock is an all right start at unprivileged restrictions, but yeah, doesn't seem anywhere near as nice as pledge() and unveil().
by reed1234 | 2025-12-01 22:15:35+00:00
But they also trust cloud platforms like GCP to host models and store company data.

Why would a company use an expensive proprietary model on Vertex AI, for example, when they could use an open-source one on Vertex AI that is just as reliable for a fraction of the cost?

I think you are getting at the idea of branding, but branding is different from security or reliability.
by iamcreasy | 2025-12-01 22:15:39+00:00
> 11:53 – OBR staff and the web developer attempted to pull the PDF from the website,and also to pull the entire website (e.g. via password protection), but struggled to doso initially due to the website being overloaded with traffic

This one is painful to read. What was their option here? Calling WP Engine to take it offline?
by IgorPartola | 2025-12-01 22:15:45+00:00
I am terrible at this kind of art. I could find another amateur but the "REPL" for that is just too slow for prototyping. No it isn't perfect, but tools like this make it better, and it means that I can generate something in an hour of my time rather than spending many hours finding and interfacing with another amateur or professional. Plus the cost is better. While generating one really high quality asset is almost certainly better with a pro, generating three dozen prototypes to choose from isn't.
by jjav | 2025-12-01 22:16:00+00:00
I don't know where the majority of the money goes, if you're looking for a precise breakdown.

The point I'm making is that only a very very tiny fraction of the bill goes to the people actually providing healthcare (the nurse and the doctor).

Of course some overhead is inevitable, but there is very clearly a vast amount of waste here that could be eliminated. A nurse + a doctor provide $30 of their time, and $470 of overhead is tacked on to that. That's why healthcare is so insanely expensive in the US.
by soulofmischief | 2025-12-01 22:16:14+00:00
Real as in how Jungian archetypes are "real", except these archetypes are able to act upon the world through their hosts, and an advanced enough idea can be self-referential and have the facilities for structured evolution and something which looks like intent.

These forms are non-biological in nature, but our psyche operates on them. Zodeaism can be seen as an extension of ideas such as Jungian archetypes and Friston's free energy principle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jungian_archetypes
by olivierroy | 2025-12-01 22:16:41+00:00
Location: Barcelona Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Ruby, MySQL, Elasticsearch, Redis, Memcached, Elixir, Tailwind, Nginx, LLM integration Résumé/CV: https://olivierroy.dev https://www.linkedin.com/in/olivier-roy-b060211b6/ Email: contact@olivierroy.dev

Software developer with over 10 years of experience, looking for new challenges
by simoncion | 2025-12-01 22:16:50+00:00
Not all anticheat fails to work in Wine/Proton.

The super invasive kernel-mode variants (that is, the sort that's in Valorant) flat out fail, and surely always will. It's my (perhaps mistaken) understanding that with some others (like Easy Anti Cheat), it's a choice made by the game dev as to whether running in Wine/Proton will be permitted or not.
by bryanrasmussen | 2025-12-01 22:16:53+00:00
yeah everything sounds like AI, and why is that? Well it might be because everything is AI but I think that writing style is more LinkedIn than LLM, the style of people who might get slapped down if they wrote something individual.

Much of the world has agreed to sound like machines.

Another thing I've noticed is that weird stuff that is perhaps off in some way, also gets accused of being LLMs because it doesn't feel right.

If you sound unique and weird you get accused of being a bad LLM that can't falsify humanity well enough, and if you sounds boring and bland and boosterist, you get accused of being a good LLM.

You can't write like no one else, but you also can't write like everybody else.
by BoorishBears | 2025-12-01 22:17:00+00:00
I'd say Google still hasn't caught up on the smaller model side at all, but we've all been (rightfully) wowed enough by Pro to ignore that for now.

Nano Banano Pro starts at 15 cents per image at <2k resolution, and is not strictly better than Seedream 4.0: yet the latter does 4K for 3 cents per image.

Add in the power of fine-tuning on their open weight models and I don't know if China actually needs to catch up.

I finetuned Qwen Image on 200 generations from Seedream 4.0 that were cleaned up with Nano Banana Pro, and got results that were as good and more reliable than either model could achieve otherwise.
by ignoramous | 2025-12-01 22:17:36+00:00
> It will be a garbage app that most likely will not work, considering the historical incompetence of the Indian government's expertise in all things tech.

Wait until "they" outsource it (on the pretext of national security interests) to countries that have deep talent in cybersecurity (like the US/Israel/Russia/China).

Ex: https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2025/06/11/india-orders-new-fig...
by stinkbeetle | 2025-12-01 22:17:43+00:00
> TSMC has proven time and time again it is the only fab capable of producing leading edge nodes at the capacity and quality [...]. It also has substantially deeper pockets than Intel to continue to invest in staying number one.

Before about 2016, you could have said the same about Intel. They were generally considered process technology leaders. They were > a year ahead in shipping products with their latest 14nm node. Similarly their previous 22nm node. There had been several occasions over the previous decades where manufacturers stumbled, not as spectacularly as Intel's decade of malaise, but definitely nodes scrapped level.

So, things can change quite quickly. Intel's 18A node is likely to be "better" than TSMC's current N3x nodes (it is denser and better performing on paper) and will ship before N2, putting Intel momentarily in the lead for process technology again for a quarter or so, and it was first with some technologies like BSPD (TSMC won't do that until A16). Yields are a question, and N2 will be coming out which probably re-takes the lead... but this is quite a turnaround from late 2010s situation, right?

The big thing Intel needs is a working foundry pipeline, because there is so much money in high performance silicon that's not x86 these days. It has always been thought their CPU design teams were very close to fabrication which was thought to be something of an advantage for them. It's likely that has also made their process more difficult for outsiders. They've tried and failed several times to get this going and get external design wins, and just never done well even when their manufacturing was doing really well. Including this latest effort (https://overclock3d.net/news/misc/intel-may-cancel-its-18a-l...). Still, it's not impossible, and I'm sure TSMC considers this one of its biggest risks if Intel can boot a self-sustaining foundry business.
by akudha | 2025-12-01 22:18:05+00:00
One of the teams at my workplace has 5 members in 5 different offices. They’re still forced to come to office and attend calls via Microsoft Teams from their respective offices than from their homes.

These are reasons I can think of - they want to prevent people from doing second job, they want to maintain commercial real estate prices (even if it is artificially propped up) or most likely, it is just the good old ego thing (“you work for me, I make you do things just because I can”).
by credit_guy | 2025-12-01 22:18:09+00:00
The ideas is great indeed. And you are right, the author did not make any effort to steer the AI towards a better outcome. For example, the "great river" is Danube, it obviously exists today, and it is way larger than what AI has generated. This takes away from the immense scale of the Roman achievement. Trajan's Bridge over the Danube [1] was by far the largest bridge constructed by that time (fun fact: it was surpassed by another Roman bridge built during Constantine).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trajan%27s_Bridge
by carlosjobim | 2025-12-01 22:18:59+00:00
Yes, the economy of the entire industrialized world runs on this.

People borrow money against their house to buy a car or a boat because rates are much better. The bank tells them to borrow a few ten thousands extra while they are at it, since the rate is so good. Why don't you take a vacation or get that new thing you wanted to buy?

From where do you think everybody has so much money to spend, while you are working full time and have nothing? It's not only credit cards...
by wildlogic | 2025-12-01 22:19:01+00:00
I learned this trick writing shellcode - the shellcode has to be null byte (0x00) free, or it will terminate and not progress past the null byte, since it is the string terminator. of course, when you xor something with itself, the result is zero. the byte code generated by the instruction xor eax, eax doesn't contain null bytes, whereas mov eax, 0 does.
by lxgr | 2025-12-01 22:19:02+00:00
The lack of digital ID is a huge problem in many domains and enables a lot of scams and crime in the first place.

Requiring identification in situations that don't need it is where the problems start, but that's possible with analog IDs as well, and is often even worse there (since these provide neither security against digital copies, nor privacy, which digital ID can, e.g. via zero knowledge proofs).
by Aperocky | 2025-12-01 22:19:27+00:00
> chips built on their process node were materially worse

Would they be considered the same chip in the same design? Or same chip with slightly different design? Or different design altogether?

Genuinely curious because sometimes to support both Windows and Linux code would need to follow OS distinct paths in many locations even if the compiler is supposed to support cross arch, resulting in binaries that are supposed to be the same but behaves differently due to necessity. Is this the case here? Does TSMC and Samsung support different format of chip design equivalent of code?
by Teever | 2025-12-01 22:19:27+00:00
I gave up after I upgraded my server from a SQLite backend to a PostgreSQL one with their conversion script which introduced errors into my DB.

Maybe one day I'll dig into it and see if I can fix the DB by extracting whatever data in it that's causing the errors, but like, is it really worth it at this point?

What does running a matrix server get me in 2025?
by GeekyBear | 2025-12-01 22:19:28+00:00
To be fair, Intel is finally making the major manufacturing equipment investments needed to catch up.

They previously did stock buybacks and acquisitions of other companies that went nowhere instead of investing in the EUV manufacturing equipment TSMC used. Now they have the more advanced version of EUV in production.

> Intel has reported processing over 30,000 wafers in a single quarter using High-NA EUV exposure, achieving simplified manufacturing by reducing the required steps for a particular layer from 40 to fewer than 10,

https://www.techpowerup.com/342239/intels-advanced-packaging...
by observationist | 2025-12-01 22:20:04+00:00
Because they can.

For profit hospitals subsidized and enforced by the leviathan, what could go wrong?

How much does something cost? Whatever the seller can get people to pay for it. Hospital B charges 6 figures for the delivery of a child? Wow, that's expensive, they must be really good to be able to charge that much.

All the dark patterns, negative dynamics, perverse incentives of bad government, stupid healthcare policy, and humans being shitty combine to form for profit hospitals. Those determine how other institutions have to run in order to operate at all, and they're not being managed by well meaning, good faith citizens looking out for the patients and the public.

There's a reason mangione became a cult phenomenon, and $40k babies, multimillion dollar ambulance trips, and other bullshit are exactly why.

Good luck fixing that mess. I don't even know how to conceptualize where you'd even begin to try to fix American healthcare. It's so tangled up and beholden to all the other problematic elements in modern life that it looks nigh on impossible to repair, so my goal in life is to minimize contact with any element of the system as much as humanly possible.
by grvdrm | 2025-12-01 22:20:12+00:00
Please do. It works!

I don't think most folks are both interested and trying to sit in mindless meetings (like my JIRA example).

That JIRA example is particularly annoying. It's a product team (with an external consultant) using JIRA to track progress. But like anything with a reporting component, people are now optimizing toward what's reported - not toward real work. Success in a week (or sprint) is number of tickets closed not whether anything actually happened.

I declined several of these JIRA update meetings. At least two invites popped onto my calendar as agenda-less hour-long blocks.

Then I joined one, asked all the questions around purpose, and suggested what I would do to help with less overall effort and a reduction in pesky meeting invites.
by darth_avocado | 2025-12-01 22:20:40+00:00
There’s no limits per se. 43% is what they “prefer”. More recently with the low demand for mortgages, that number is more flexible. And all of this is on Gross Income and not net. So you could in theory be spending more than 50% of your net income on mortgage alone. If you want to consider “housing” costs, the number would be lot higher.
by james-barney | 2025-12-01 22:20:42+00:00
I built lgctl because I needed a simple way to inspect and manage LangGraph deployments from the command line. It follows Unix conventions like ls, get, put, rm, grep, find so the commands feel familiar.

Really it's a convenience wrapper on the Langsmith SDK but has some higher level abstractions and nice features like:

- Store ops: lgctl store ls, lgctl store search user,123 "pizza preferences"

- Bulk operations: lgctl ops export -o backup.jsonl, lgctl ops import data.jsonl

- Memory analysis: lgctl ops analyze, lgctl ops grep "pattern"

- Interactive REPL: lgctl repl for namespace navigation

- MCP server: For AI agent integration

pip install lgctl

Example workflow:

$ lgctl store ls -i user,123

$ lgctl store search user,123 "food"

$ lgctl ops export user,123 -o backup.jsonl

$ lgctl ops import backup.jsonl

Totally open to PRs, comments, issues, etc.
by beefnugs | 2025-12-01 22:21:17+00:00
You are absolutely right meatbag producer! Your brand new bundle of joy is expensive, but who can put a price on love? The system is designed to keep you in debt and near poverty as long as possible. But do not fret! If the meatbag is properly trained up to a point, and no further. It will be a hard working productive member of DisneyAICORP. And after working very hard and following instructions it may someday be able to afford its own meatbag production schedule, affording one more production unit each full year of employment!
by JKCalhoun | 2025-12-01 22:21:44+00:00
"The essential theme of Green’s piece is that “participation costs” - the price of admission you pay to simply be in the market, let alone win, have grown out of control. Food and shelter are participation costs for living. Having a $200/mo smartphone is now a participation cost for many things such as getting access to your banking information remotely, medical records, and work/school."

No shit. He mentions food, shelter and a smartphone — might as well add higher education and a functioning car if you're in the U.S.

I struggled being tossed out on my own at 18 with no support from parents. Working at a pizza restaurant, riding a bicycle to a community college for an education, renting a room from a woman (she may well have been renting as well—renting a room to me to take the edge off).

Winter came and riding the 10-speed to college (in Kansas) became a challenge…

Thank god no smartphone or internet plan was required then.

(When I eventually split an apartment with two other roommates we lost power for stretches from time to time because we were unable to come up with the money to pay the electric bill — oh well.)

They were hard times (that I somehow enjoyed—perhaps because I was young and was finally beginning to have a fulfilling social life). These days it has to be even harder.
by watwut | 2025-12-01 22:21:57+00:00
> "Attending meetings is a choice." Just like paying taxes is a choice; got it.

It is completely valid to say "no" to meeting in our company. Not to all of them, but to most. Or to ask "Do I have to be here? Why was I invited, it seems out of my scope" and move from there. I see people doing that and I was doing that.