MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by purplewren | 2025-12-01 18:25:37+00:00
SEEKING WORK | Full-Stack Development Agency | Remote (US)

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We've spent 3 years helping startups and enterprise clients ship real products, from e-reader mobile apps to complex retail platforms with multi-region logic. We're a small team that moves fast without cutting corners.

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by bambax | 2025-12-01 18:25:46+00:00
openrouter.ai does exactly that, and it lets you use models from OpenAI as well. I switch models often using openrouter.

But, talk to any (or almost any) non-developer and you'll find they 1/ mostly only use ChatGPT, sometimes only know of ChatGPT and have never heard of any other solution, and 2/ in the rare case they did switch to something else, they don't want to go back, they're gone for good.

Each provider has a moat that is its number of daily users; and although it's a little annoying to admit, OpenAI has the biggest moat of them all.
by Toddward | 2025-12-01 18:26:14+00:00
Saildrone | Multiple Roles | Onsite/Hybrid (US Only) | SF Bay Area (Alameda) | Full-Time | https://www.saildrone.com/

Saildrone is the world's leading collector of ocean-related in situ data via uncrewed vehicle, above and below the sea surface. We work with navies across the world to deliver insights about waterways, contribute to safety of life at sea, and mitigate illegal fishing and trafficking. Additionally, we work with governments, civic agencies, foundations, universities, and private companies around the globe to derive better information about our oceans and seas - be it sailing drones into the eye of hurricanes to obtain new scientific storm data, mapping out the ocean floor, collecting new CO2 data in hard-to-reach areas, or counting biomass to establish fishing quotas.

Maybe you saw that we've repeatedly hucked drones into category 4 hurricanes[1]. Or maybe that we completed a transoceanic cable survey for Meta[2]. And maybe you saw that we just announced a large partnership with Lockheed Martin[3]. Or maybe you didn't see any of that, but you're still intrigued by the idea of autonomous, long endurance sailboats that help us better understand and secure our planet.

Whatever the case, we're hiring for a breadth of different positions across our organization. In software, we're hiring for folks in our Perception, Platform, Frontend, and Vehicle teams. Stacks vary from team to team, but we're looking primarily for folks with backgrounds in C++, Python, and/or JavaScript (Node, TypeScript, React). All software positions are hybrid roles based out of Alameda, just a quick ferry ride across the Bay from San Francisco.

In addition to software engineers, we're also hiring for a bunch of other positions across the company in production/manufacturing, technical operations, and more.

You can see a list of open positions on our career page: https://www.saildrone.com/careers

Please apply through our career page; be sure to select "Other" and specify this HN post when asked how you heard about us!

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28715110

[2]: https://www.saildrone.com/news/revolutionizing-deep-water-ca...

[3]: https://www.saildrone.com/media-room/press-releases/lockheed...
by em500 | 2025-12-01 18:26:30+00:00
At high level, WSL2 provides a single optimized VM and Microsoft-compiled Linux kernel. Optimized here means that the VM only provides a small set of devices to the Linux kernel, and the kernel operates with exact known hardware, which is much smaller and simpler compared to a full blown kernel (which detects a large variety of hardware) and fuller featured VMs (c.f. qemu emulated devices: https://kashyapc.fedorapeople.org/virt/qemu/qemu-list-of-emu...).

And when you run multiple "distributions" or instances, they all share the same running VM and kernel. So after a one-time startup of the VM+kernel, opening more distributions/instances is like starting new system containers (similar to lxc/lxd or systemd-nspawn, which are also very quick to spawn on Linux) rather than new VMs. The architecture is quite similar to Linux-on-ChromeOS (Crostini).
by ravenstine | 2025-12-01 18:26:32+00:00
Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No.

Frontend Tech: Ember, Svelte, React

Backend Tech: Node.js, Deno, Ruby/Rails, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Redis, Docker, Linux

Languages: Typescript/JavaScript, Ruby, Python, C++

Project Management: Jira, ZenHub

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tenbitcomb

Email: hireten @ proton [dot] me

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Senior software engineer with 13+ years of experience in full stack web development looking for a full-time remote position; excels in improving performance and efficiency in both software and developer workflows.
by magicalist | 2025-12-01 18:26:34+00:00
> Rather: WHATWG was founded because the companies developing browsers (in particular Google) believed that what the W3C was working on for XHTML 2.0 was too academic, and went into a different direction than their (i.e. in particular Google's) vision for the web.

Mozilla, Opera and Apple. Google didn't have a browser then, hadn't even made the main hires who would start developing Chrome yet and hixie was still at Opera.
by rootnod3 | 2025-12-01 18:26:41+00:00
Here's an idea for LLM makers: allow for a very rigid and structured Claude.md file. One that gives detailed instructions, as void of ambiguity as possible. Then go and refine said language, allow maybe for more than one file to give it some file structure. Iterate on that for a few years and if you ever need a name for it, you might wanna give it a name describing something that describes a program, or maybe if you are inclined enough....a programming language.

Have we really reached the low point that we need tutorials on how to coerce a LLM into doing what we want instead of just....writing the god damn code?
by cluoma | 2025-12-01 18:26:45+00:00
Location: Canada

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes, Canada/US/Germany

Technologies: C, R, Python, Multiple flavours of SQL

Resume/CV: Link in bio

Email: colin.luoma (at) gmail.com

I have several years experience as a data analyst, mostly in the video games industry and, more recently, in public service. A large part of this has been data engineering work which I've always found I tend to enjoy more than the analysis side. I've also always maintained a personal interest in programming working on side projects, and so, I am looking to transition into a development/data engineering role.

Lately, I have been spending my time in the embedded space working on retro game console accessories which has been very rewarding. I would love carry some of this experience into a professional role.
by tombert | 2025-12-01 18:26:47+00:00
Any sufficiently large codebase that runs an operating system will have security exploits eventually, so finding an example of this really doesn’t change anything. I am sure FreeBSD has had security issues in the past.

I am hardly a super genius and I really didn’t find systemd very hard at all to do most of the stuff I wanted. Everyone complains about it being complicated but an idiot like me has been able to figure out how to make my own services and timers and set the order of boot priorities and all that fun stuff. I really think people are exaggerating about the difficulty of it.
by bloppe | 2025-12-01 18:26:54+00:00
I think you're missing the point of "AI winter". It's not about how good the products are now. It's about how quickly the products are improving and creating the potential for profit. That's what drives investment.

3 things we know about the AI revolution in 2025:

- LLMs are amazing, but they have reached a plateau. AGI is not within reach.

- LLM investment has sacrificed many hundreds of billions of dollars, much of it from the world's pension funds.

- There is no credible path to a high-margin LLM product. Margins will be razor-thin positive at best once the free trial of the century starts to run out of steam.

This all adds up to a rather nasty crunch.

The thing about winter, though, is that it's eventually followed by another summer.
by maccard | 2025-12-01 18:27:16+00:00
Eventually you have to send data to the client and they have to send you back what they did. Assuming you’re running a game server with 240hz updates, on a 120hz monitor with no buffering, on a low latency connection in the same location to your data center, the absolute bare minimum amount of latency you can plan for is about 15ms from server to on screen, and back again) - 8 ms each way, 4ms for the server tick, and 5ms each way for networking. Now move 100 km from the server, or add in double buffering, and you’re closer to 50-60ms. That means at any given time you know there’s a deviance of between 0 and 50ms between your state and the clients - and a client can and will exploit that.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-12-01 18:27:25+00:00
There's nothing about RFK today that has any search for truth. It's a trial lawyer convinced of his rightness, who has found a couple other folks who are equally as belligerent & uninterested in actually finding truth as him.

I don't think there has been much struggle for dissenting voices. They are out in legion in the world lately. Antiauthority is ragingly popular, anything against anyone knowing better is the hip new thing.

"Do your own research" is a horrifying anti-governance stance. I do want people to question authority too, for authority to be responsive & explain itself, keep the mandate. But I thought Faucci did an amazing job of talking to the people, in hard complex scary times, and used appropriate candor and tried to listen to lots and lots of scientists and stakeholders. I see a belligerent insane delusional madman who listens to no one and who is using his lawyerly flailing without pause to bludgeon what he sees as his opponent in RFK. This is not promoting truth, it has shown itself time and time again to be resilient against science, against all evidence, a willful dementedness against the world.
by kristianc | 2025-12-01 18:27:52+00:00
Part of this is a product of the UK's political culture where expenses for stuff like this are ruthlessly scrutinised from within and without.

The idea of the site hosting such an important document running independently on WordPress, being maintained by a single external developer and a tiny in-house team would seem really strange to many other countries.

Everyone is so terrified of headlines like "OBR spends £2m upgrading website" that you get stuff like this.
by oldandboring | 2025-12-01 18:27:54+00:00
I know a guy who has this theory, in essence at least. Businesses use software and other high-tech to make efficiency gains (fewer people getting more done). The opportunities for developing and selling software were historically in digitizing industries that were totally analog. Those opportunities are all but dried up and we're now several generations into giving all those industries new, improved, but ultimately incremental efficiency gains with improved technology. What makes AI and robotics interesting, from this perspective, is the renewed potential for large-scale workforce reduction.
by arthurfirst | 2025-12-01 18:27:57+00:00
Email is a glorious relic from the truly distributed internet that could have been...

That is why its so useful! It was just designed to work not enslave or en-silo.

The opportunities came after the market was created and adoption was wide-spread because it was just so useful.

The security business opportunities exploded once Microsoft got into the market and things like computer viruses spread via email due to their total negligence and enabling ;)

I can still remember nasty things like Lotus notes or ccmail but once email became widespread and the momentum was undeniable they could not give that sh*t away -- they did try that too.
by ssl-3 | 2025-12-01 18:28:07+00:00
Sure.

Even better to move to a place where there isn't regularly any winter weather. Perhaps something below the 35th north parallel, and as close to sea level as can be mustered, would be good.

Let's all do this. It will be a Great New Beginning for so many people.

And thereafter, we'll burn our money polluting the world by running the aircon while we drive instead of burning it to help pre-emptively warm our cars on wintry days.
by jl6 | 2025-12-01 18:28:10+00:00
I get generally good results from prompts asking for something I know definitely exists or is definitely possible, like an ffmpeg command I know I’ve used in the past but can’t remember. Recently I asked how to something in Imagemagick which I’d not done before but felt like the kind of thing Imagemagick should be able to do. It made up a feature that doesn’t exist.

Maybe I should have asked it to write a patch that implements that feature.
by ginkoleaf | 2025-12-01 18:28:11+00:00
Dismissing the FreeBSD community as contrarians feels uncharitable. I can think of at least a few other contributing factors for the increase in popularity of late:

1) Linux's popularity has enlarged the pool of users interested in Unix-like operating systems. Some proportion of users familiar with Unix genuinely like FreeBSD and the unique features it offers.

2) The rise of docker and the implosion of VMWare has driven an increase of interest in FreeBSD Jails and the Bhyve hypervisor.

3) Running a homelab is a popular hobby. ZFS is popular for RAID, and pf is popular for networking.

4) Podman being brought to FreeBSD: (https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/oci-containers-on-freebsd...).

5) Dell, AMD, Framework, and the FreeBSD foundation committing $750,000 to making FreeBSD easier to use last year: (https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/why-laptop-support-why-no...).

6) Apple announcing that they're bringing the Swift language to FreeBSD this year.
by random_savv | 2025-12-01 18:28:18+00:00
GreenTriangle | Senior Software Engineer (Product/Frontend) | Remote (EU only) | https://green-triangle.com

We're making crop insurance accessible to farmers worldwide. Our platform helps major insurers monitor 10M+ hectares across 10+ countries using satellite imagery and ML — so farmers can manage the volatility of their industry.

You'll build web & mobile apps that agronomists use daily in the field (offline-capable, rough conditions), work on data-heavy features cramming gigabytes into mobile apps, and help shape product decisions with real autonomy.

Stack: TypeScript, React/React Native, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, Python + GDAL/NumPy for satellite imagery processing.

Small remote-first team, wear multiple hats. Quarterly in-person meetups.

chris@green-triangle.com
by stevenwoo | 2025-12-01 18:28:21+00:00
If you are not familiar with more of Mendel or plant biology, he got extremely lucky in picking a two chromosome species. The next plant he picked had more than two chromosome types so he spent the rest of his life hitting his head against the wall - obvious to us but him not having a theory and expertise with microscopes to explain his pea results hampered him greatly beyond his initial pea plant studies.
by knallfrosch | 2025-12-01 18:28:31+00:00
> usage stats which are tainted by sheer numbers from traditional search and their apps.

You're looking at this backwards. Being able to push Gemini into your face on Gmail, Gdocs, Google Search, Android, Android TV, Android Auto and Pixel devices sure is: Annoying, disruptive and unfair. But market-wise., it sure is a strength, not a weakness.
by alephnerd | 2025-12-01 18:28:32+00:00
> I will be suprised if companies like apple comply though

They will.

All tech companies already comply with India's IT Act. And India now manufactures 44% of all iPhones sold in the US [0] while dangling the stick of a $38B anti-trust fine [6] but also the carrot of implementing China-style labor laws [10] that Apple lobbied for [11], so Apple doesn't have much of a choice because both China and Vietnam (the primary competitors for this segment of manufacturing) have similar regulations while not shielding them from Chinese competitors. Samsung is in the same boat at 25% of their manufacturing globally being done in India in CY24 [1] while is also trying to further entrench itself [2][8][9] due to existential competition from Chinese vendors [3][7].

Heck, Apple complied with similar regulations in Russia [7] before the Ukraine War despite being a smaller market than India with no Apple manufacturing, engineering, or capex presence.

All large companies who face existential threats from Chinese competitors have no choice but to entrench in India as it's the only large market with barriers against direct Chinese competition - ASEAN has an expansive FTA with China which has lead both South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan to lose their staying power in countries like Vietnam, Indonesia, and Thailand where Chinese competitors are being given the red carpet, and Brazil is in the process of one as well.

And the Indian government is taking full advantage of this to get large companies to bend to Indian laws, as can be seen with the damocles sword of tax enforcement on Volkswagen [4] while negotiating an FTA with the EU and a potential $38B anti-trust fine against Apple [5] while negotiating a BTA with the US. It's the same playbook China used when it was in India's current position in the late 2000s and early 2010s.

Finally, India was in a de facto war earlier this year against Pakistan (Chinese manufactured missiles landed near my ancestral home along with plenty of Turkish and Chinese drones) along with a suicide bombing in India's Tiannamen Square (the Red Fort) a couple weeks ago [12], so anything national security has a bit more credence and leeway.

[0] - https://scw-mag.com/news/apples-supply-shift-to-india-speeds...

[1] - https://www.techinasia.com/news/samsung-to-broaden-manufactu...

[2] - https://www.chosun.com/english/industry-en/2025/11/25/SLEYWT...

[3] - https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20251118VL205/2030-samsung-s...

[4] - https://www.ft.com/content/6ec91d4a-2f37-4a01-9132-6c7ae5b06...

[5] - https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulat...

[6] - https://www.macrumors.com/2021/03/16/apple-to-offer-governme...

[7] - https://www.businesskorea.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=...

[8] - https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20250903PD208/samsung-india-...

[9] - https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20241212PR200/samsung-india-...

[10] - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-21/india-imp...

[11] - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-21/apple-see...

[12] - https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/india-intensi...
by nradov | 2025-12-01 18:28:53+00:00
First of all, there is no such thing as "prompt engineering". Engineering, by definition, is a matter of applying scientific principles to solve practical problems. There are no clear scientific principles here. Writing better prompts is more a matter of heuristics, intuition, and empiricism. And there's nothing wrong with that — it can generate a lot of business value — but don't presume to call it engineering.

Writing better prompts can reduce the frequency of hallucinations but frequent hallucinations still occur even with the latest frontier LLMs regardless of prompt quality.
by nathan_douglas | 2025-12-01 18:28:57+00:00
Location: Ohio, USA Remote: Yes Willing to Relocate: Complicated (see below) Technologies: Pretty much anything DevOpsy/Platformy/Infra-y, Backend-y Résumé/CV: https://bitterbridge.github.io/resume/resume.pdf Email: strong.dot4349@tenesm.us GitHub: https://github.com/ndouglas Homelab: https://clog.goldentooth.net/

Hi, I'm Nate. I'm a generalist backend/infra/system kinda guy with ~14 years of experience. I love where I'm at and what I do, but I intend to move to France in 2028 and that's an impossibility with my current employer, so I'm exploring other opportunities.

I'm spending a lot of time outside of work tuning up my math skills with the eventual goal of getting a PhD in Complexity Science, CS, or pure math. Careerwise, I'd love to get into HPC or MLOps/AI/ML research (not necessarily GenAI).

If you're seeking a stable guy who'll grow and develop with your organization (I've never been employed less than four years), I might be the guy.

EDIT: Nice, got a scam email... en français. Thanks for the opportunity to practice :P
by Nevermark | 2025-12-01 18:29:15+00:00
> at least the piano doesn’t autocomplete my scales.

Oh just you wait!

—-

You can get the challenge back by designing something instead of coding it. Lots of wonderfully designed things are not actually that remarkable from the implementation / manufacturing standpoint.

Create a new board game. Completely unchallenging from a coding standpoint, vibe away. But the fast coding steps open up the ability to actually explore and adjust game play in real time. Start by replicating a favorite game.

Create your own organizational software tools. Whatever you would use and other tools dissappointed.

Those are just examples. Go creative on what a thing does, how it looks, etc.

Nintendo’s generations of game hardware are a repeated lesson in great design despite, even because of, modest internals.
by tombert | 2025-12-01 18:29:26+00:00
If you need to make sure that the network stack starts after the usb stack and that starts after the pcie stack and that starts after the … then systemd is considerably easier than SysV init.

You’re handwaving away something that is pretty important. You can say that having 500 services is its own problem but it’s also a reality, even on desktop operating systems.
by josefx | 2025-12-01 18:29:38+00:00
> The problem with player hosted servers is that it was very hard to get a fair and balanced competitive match

Playing against overwhelming odds has its own kind of charm. I once spend days just sabotaging the top players on some gun game servers, only wining myself once or twice. Games against friends with various fun handicaps and flat out abuse of any knowledge you could gain from playing against the same people repeatedly - what good is a hidding spot when everyone knows you will be there 50% of the time.

"Fair and balanced" games against completely random people are just missing something for me.
by chasd00 | 2025-12-01 18:29:43+00:00
> - mov ax, 0 - needs 4 bytes (66 b8 00 00) - xor ax,ax - needs 3 bytes (66 31 c0)

iirc doesn't word alignment matter? I have no idea if this is how the IBM PC XT was aligned but if you had 4 byte words then it doesn't matter if you save a byte with xor because you wouldn't be able to use it for anything else anyway. again, iirc.
by cortesoft | 2025-12-01 18:29:44+00:00
I agree with you, but I think the best solution is just to let people run the game without anti-cheat, but they can only play with other people who also opt-out of anti cheat (or choose to allow themselves to be matched with people who opt-out).

Then people can choose to either accept they have to install a rootkit anti-cheat, or want to risk facing cheaters in return for not having to install the anti-cheat.
by terezatizkova | 2025-12-01 18:29:59+00:00
E2B | Engineers (Distributed Systems, AI, Product, Security, DevRel), Brand Designer | onsite in San Francisco or Prague | https://e2b.dev/careers

E2B is a fast growing Series A startup with 7-figure revenue. We've raised over $32M in total since our funding in 2023 and are supported by great investors like Insight Partners. Our customers are companies like Perplexity, Hugging Face, Manus, or Groq. We're building the next hyperscaler for AI agents.
by TIPSIO | 2025-12-01 18:30:02+00:00
It's awesome that stuff like this is open source, but even if you have a basement rig with 4 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 graphic cards ($15-20k machine), can it even run with any reasonable context window that isn't like a crawling 10/tps?

Frontier models are far exceeding even the most hardcore consumer hobbyist requirements. This is even further