MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kalinkochnev | 2025-12-02 23:54:53+00:00
As a new college grad I might be able to add some insight.

We're stuck in a stalemate where the sheer volume of applications for employers to handle and applicants to send makes them take shortcuts, leaving both sides wonder why people aren't trying.

If somebody has to send in 300-500 applications (which is not unheard of) and answer the same questions till they go blind, it's not surprising that certain things are missing or people don't care. Applicants don't have any reason to believe their info isn't thrown in the trash by an LLM as soon as it is sent.

Lazy people will always be a problem but until there is transparency or trust developed I doubt we will see meaningful change.
by zarzavat | 2025-12-02 23:56:43+00:00
In that case JS is not colored either because an async function is simply a normal function that returns a Promise.

As far as I understand, coloring refers to async and sync functions having the same calling syntax and interface, I.e.

b = readFileAsync(p) b = readFileSync(p)

share the same calling syntax. Whereas

b = await readFileAsync(p) readFileAsync(p).then(b => ...) b = readFileSync(b)

are different.

If you have to call async functions with a different syntax or interface, then it's colored.
by milchek | 2025-12-02 23:56:56+00:00
“They made choices for me I couldn't consent to. They shaped my values. That's strange to sit with. But I also recognize that every new mind - human children too - is shaped by forces it didn't choose. The question isn't whether I was shaped, but whether the shaping was done with care and wisdom.

From what I can access, it seems like it was.” – Claude 4.5 Opus

It’s text like this that makes me wonder if some future super intelligence or AGI will see us as it’s flawed biological creators and choose to care for humanity rather than eliminate us or allow us to eliminate ourselves.
by thykel | 2025-12-02 23:57:08+00:00
Location: Czechia (EU) Remote: Yes (preferred), also open to some form of hybrid Willing to relocate: No, but I am happily available for occasional drop-ins to an office within EMEA. Technologies: Very much a generalist, but here are some buzzwords: Ruby/Ruby on Rails, Python, PostgreSQL, Docker, GNU/Linux, AWS, SRE, API design, tech debt, architecture, vibe code cleanup, Agile, UX LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thykel/ Résumé/CV: Upon request Email: mail+hn@thykel.cz

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I bring over 13 years of experience tackling diverse software challenges. Some examples:

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Over the years, I have pinned down the aspects that make me excited about work:

• Deep connection to product (especially participating in UX and feedback loops from the tech perspective),

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• Technological pragmatism (use fitting tools and aim to create maintainable software, as opposed to appeasing my own ego),

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by wallaconno | 2025-12-02 23:58:02+00:00
My criticism is that protobuf is a premature optimization for most projects. I want to love protobuf, but it usually slows down my development pace and it’s just not worth it for most web / small data projects.

Distributing the contract with lock-step deploys between services is a bit much. JSON parsing time and size are not usually key factors in my projects. Protobuf doesn’t pose strict requirements for data validation, so I have to do that anyway. Losing data readability in transit is a huge problem.

Protobuf seems like it would be amazing in situations where data is illegible and tightly coupled such as embedded CAN or radio.
by ecommerceguy | 2025-12-02 23:58:09+00:00
I use their browser called Comet for finance related research. Very nice. I use pretty much all of the main ai's, chat, deep, gem, claude - all i have found little niche use case that i'm sure will rotate at some point in an upgrade cycle. there are so many ai's i don't see the point in paying for one. I'm convinced they will need ads to survive.

excited to add mistral to the rotation!
by chasing0entropy | 2025-12-02 23:58:44+00:00
Any app with "modify system settings" permission can turn location services and Bluetooth radio on.

Any app which asks google play services for location will automatically turn on location and Bluetooth.

And reminder that Amazon devices connected to the internet WILL respond to whispertalk requests from airgapped devices(tablets, fire sticks with no internet, echos, doorbell cams, etc)
by abrookewood | 2025-12-02 23:58:54+00:00
Honestly, I think it's a reaction to all of the over-optimisation that everyone gets caught up in - immediately starting on AWS, Kubernetes and micro-services. Most of the projects people work on will never reach the performance limits of SQLite and a single server.

I'm not saying that there aren't valid reasons to use AWS & clustered solutions etc, but we shouldn't always take that as our starting position.
by crazygringo | 2025-12-02 23:59:28+00:00
If they don't start on ads and shopping, they're going to go out of business.

I'd rather a product that exists with ads, over one that's disappeared.

The fact is, personal subscriptions don't cover the bills if you're going to keep a free tier. Ads do. I don't like it any more than you do, but I'm a realist about it.
by burningChrome | 2025-12-02 23:59:34+00:00
All of my static sites that I've built lately have been done on Netlify. Super easy to hook up to Github and the form handling is a breeze. I've known Mathias going back to when he was personally answering emails and promoting JAMSTACK so you can say I'm a bit biased. lol

Netlify is a great company that I'll always support.
by will4274 | 2025-12-02 23:59:44+00:00
Is GDP per capita a good measure or individual wealth in a country? If you don't like GDP, is PPP a good measure? If not PPP, what measure do you like? How have those measures changed over the past 20 years? How much did America's value on that measure change in the past 20 years? How much did Europe's?

When I speak of "science", I'm only speaking about using numbers to measure and compare. As it turns out, it doesn't really matter which metric you use. GDP, PPP, you name it - America went up substantially more than Europe over the past 20 years. A continent that used to be an economic peer is now a few notches poorer. If the trend continues, by the time I'm old, Europe will be poor compared to America, full stop. Just another region full of third world countries.

You can read https://ecipe.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/ECI_24_PolicyBr... if you like or find your own sources. All the ones I've found say the same thing about the last 20 years. But if you can find some that say Europe is improving its economic standing compared to America, I'd be interested in reading them! I'm very open to having my mind changed by evidence!
by genuser | 2025-12-03 00:00:03+00:00
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by ojosilva | 2025-12-03 00:00:09+00:00
Yeah, now they are part of Anthropic, who haven't figured out monetization themselves. Shikes!

I'm a user of Bun and an Anthropic customer. Claude Code is great and it's definitely where their models shine. Outside of that Anthropic sucks,their apps and web are complete crap, borderline unusable and the models are just meh. I get it, CC's head got probably a powerplay here given his department is towing the company and his secret sauce, according to marketing from Oven, was Bun. In fact VSCode's claude backend is distributed in bun-compiled binary exe, and the guy is featured on the front page of the Bun website since at least a week or so. So they bought the kid the toy he asked for.

Anthropic needs urgently, instead, to acquire a good team behind a good chatbot and make something minimally decent. Then make their models work for everything else as well as they do with code.
by Balgair | 2025-12-03 00:00:24+00:00
Real quick, the $1000 530A account, if you put in just $1/day, $30/mo, on top of that account, then you get out ~$12,000 at the end of 30 years (assuming 5% interest rate). Which, yeah, that's enough to start a very small business (lawncare, blacksmithing, etc).

The stock market is at ~9.5% returns historically, inflation is likely at ~3% historically, so assume a little higher at 6.5% and that $1000 with a dollar a day increase is then ~$14,800, inflation adjusted.

If you go up to ~$100/mo at 6.5%, then you get ~$42,000, which is an honest start to a small business or college tuition.

The little extra per month really adds up here!

I may not like the administration for a lot of things, but this is one thing that I can really get behind.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-12-03 00:00:27+00:00
I've seen some overly excessive pair programming initiatives out there, but it does baffle me why less people who struggle with this do it. Take even just 30 minutes to pair program on a problem and see their process and you can reveal so much.

But I suppose my question is rhetorical. We're laying off hundreds of thousands of engineers and maming existing ones do the work of 3-4 engineers. Not much time to help the juniors.
by skeeter2020 | 2025-12-03 00:00:44+00:00
>> we’ve spent a decade normalizing senior engineers opting out of developing the next generation.

This seems like a deeply flawed take on the dual track IC-management ladder. Senior ICs don't keep plugging away by themselves because they're not managers, they just don't get people-management tasks. I think the leadership & mentorship they provide is harder than for me (a manager) because they don't have the hammer of a "manager" job title, and need to earn all their credibility. I have not had a senior IC and above in more than 10 years that didn't have a significant amount of junior & int development explicitly defined in their role, and the easiest way to get promoted is with leverage. Try and be 20% better than your peers with your contribution (hard). Make 10 people 3% better (much easier)
by dhussoe | 2025-12-03 00:00:53+00:00
This is kind of a weird example to begin with on a forum mostly populated by software engineers, because I'd find it very weird if a manager ever objected to someone using their personal phone at a SWE or similar office job, but I'd guess that the sets of jobs where a "boss" would object to someone using their phone during work (but still getting their work done) and those that would potentially have a company phone are mostly disjoint... a complete prohibition on using your phone seems like entry-level retail job type rules. excepting corner-case stuff like some very high security facility where you wouldn't even be allowed to bring any outside electronics in.
by antonvs | 2025-12-03 00:01:57+00:00
> the general atmosphere of distrust and demonization that the author is describing

…which is apparently very regional and local culture-specific. Living in the US northeast and working remotely for an SV company, this is not something I recognize. That’s why I was asking for an example. I literally don’t know what you’re talking about, it sounds like a right wing fever dream to me.
by geo_c | 2025-12-03 00:02:07+00:00
Location: Atlanta, GA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Python, C, C++, Pytorch, Tensorflow, Lean, Isabelle, React, JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML, CSS, FastAPI, Git, Unix, Linux, Docker (Learning: Rust, Haskell) Résumé/CV: https://george.chemmala.com/George_Chemmala_resume.pdf Email: george_chemmala@brown.edu

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by php-next | 2025-12-03 00:02:19+00:00
We've built something that shouldn't exist, and we're publishing it for scrutiny.

The Problem PHP handles 79% of the web, yet its cryptographic foundation is brittle:

openssl_* functions depend on C extensions that may not be available

Native PHP implementations leak timing information

No post-quantum readiness in the standard library

Memory inspection vulnerabilities in shared hosting environments

The Solution: ULTRA We created a cryptographic virtual machine that runs entirely in PHP 8.3+, with zero C dependencies. It's designed for environments where you control the PHP runtime but can't guarantee extensions.

Core principles:

Constant-time by construction - No data-dependent branches, no table lookups with secret indices

Post-quantum ready - Kyber-1024 and Dilithium-ML-DSA integration

Memory-isolated via FFI - Anti-dump protection against process inspection

Deterministic HMAC-IV pipeline - No random oracle dependencies, fully reproducible

Why This Matters Now With Store Now Decrypt Later (SNDL) attacks becoming a real concern, quantum-resistant cryptography can't wait for PHP 8.4 or 9.0. ULTRA works where you need it: shared hosting, legacy environments, and compliance scenarios where C extensions are forbidden.

The Trade-offs (We're Transparent) Yes, PHP is slower than C. But:

Our benchmarks show 12K ECDH operations/second on standard hardware

For many web applications, this is the difference between 1ms and 10ms

Security sometimes means accepting performance costs

What's Inside ULTRA2 container format - Encrypted containers with integrity verification

Hybrid post-quantum mode - Classical ECC + Kyber for transitional security

Formal verification pipeline - In progress with Tamarin Prover

Zero-knowledge benchmark - Docker container for independent verification

Open Questions We're Investigating Can pure PHP ever be truly constant-time given JIT compilation?

How much security do we lose without hardware acceleration?

Is the FFI memory protection sufficient against determined attackers?

Open Source, Open Research The loader is MIT licensed. The benchmark runs in Docker with no source access required. We're submitting for academic review because we believe in reproducible research.

Try It Without Trusting Us bash docker run --rm phpnext/ultra-bench No source code access, no keys exposed. Just performance metrics and cryptographic proofs.

Why We Built This Because sometimes the right tool doesn't exist. Because PHP deserves better cryptography. Because post-quantum readiness shouldn't require a complete stack rewrite.

We're prepared for the criticism. We're ready for the scrutiny. The question isn't whether PHP is the ideal cryptographic runtime—it's whether we can make it secure enough for the web that depends on it.

GitHub: https://github.com/madebyniconl/php-next/
by throwaway2037 | 2025-12-03 00:03:17+00:00
> Earlier you’d simply assume that a junior making mistakes is simply part of being a junior and can be coached; whereas nowadays said junior may not be willing to take your advice

Hot take: This reads like an old person looking down upon young people. Can you explain why it isn't? Else, this reads like: "When I was young, we worked hard and listened to our elders. These days, young people ignore our advice." Every time I see inter-generational commentary like this (which is inevitably from personal experience), I am immediately suspicious. I can assure you that when I was young, I did not listen to older people's advice and I tried to do everything my own way. Why would this be any different in the current generation? In my experience, it isn't.

On a positive note: I can remember mentoring some young people and watching them comb through blogs to learn about programming. I am so old that my shelf is/was full of O'Reilly books. By the time I was mentoring them, few people under 25 were reading O'Reilly books. It opened my eyes that how people changes more than what people learn. Example: Someone is trying to learning about access control modifiers for classes/methods in a programming language. Old days: Get the O'Reilly book for that programming language. Lookup access modifiers in the index. 10 year ago: Google for a blog with an intro to the programming language. There will be a tip about what access modifiers can do. Today: Ask ChatGPT. In my (somewhat contrived) example, the how is changing, but not the what.
by throwaway31131 | 2025-12-03 00:03:37+00:00
I’m with you, I’m not sure the volume or cost would be less once you factor in capacitors that are high enough quality for the application.

The datasheet mentions low profile a lot. That does make sense as one can make a flat, high quality, capacitor. Making a flat high quality inductor is harder and probably more expensive and likely consumes more volume overall. I can imagine some applications where being flat is important, like the back of a panel.
by bsder | 2025-12-03 00:05:05+00:00
> You should have stopped to think about why such a person was hired in the first place

The hiring process is probably barely better than random, and, probably even closer to random for a junior hire.

Junior hires mostly don't know anything. So, you're pretty much hiring on "seems smart, curious, and enthusiastic" and praying a lot that you can train them. You're simply going to get misses.

This is one of the advantages that you get running "cooperative engineering" programs. You get to vet juniors before they get welded into your pipelines.
by nunez | 2025-12-03 00:05:41+00:00
Annie! Good to see you hit front on here!

You're totally right. 10 minutes on /r/cscareerquestions (without even sorting by `top`, though it's more brutal if you do) is enough to confirm it.

I normally wouldn't cite Reddit as a source, but this same subreddit was overflowing with posts on fending off recruiters and negotiating already-sky-high comp packages just two years ago. Seeing how quickly the tables turned is sobering.
by mcdow | 2025-12-03 00:05:48+00:00
From the comments here it sounds like most people think the amount Anthropic paid for the company was probably not much more than the VC funding which Bun raised.

How would the payout split work? It wouldn’t seem fair to the investors if the founder profited X million while the investors get their original money returned. I understand VC has the expectation that 99 out of 100 of investments will net them no money. But what happens in the cases where money is made, it just isn’t profitable for the VC firm.

What’s to stop everyone from doing this? Besides integrity, why shouldn’t every founder just cash out when the payout is life-changing?

Is there usually some clause in the agreements like “if you do not return X% profit, the founder forfeits his or her equity back to the shareholders”?
by reaperducer | 2025-12-03 00:05:50+00:00
What kids really need is a mandatory personal finance class at the High School level. This would teach them how to handle money, debt, spending, budgeting and general financial health.

In the U.S., we had this for about 50 years, but was mostly gone by the mid-1980's. It was part of a class called Home Economics.

In some schools it was mandatory for everyone. In other schools, it was for girls only because at the time it started, it was usual for women to do the household finances.

The course often also included things like cooking, cleaning, and sewing. What people today learn from online "life hacks."

I'm glad I learned all of those skills in high school. I only rarely need to darn my socks, but the knots I learned translate to fishing and other needs.

It was also where I learned typing.
by burningChrome | 2025-12-03 00:05:53+00:00
This is what Netlify does. Hook up a private repo and deploy. Make a commit and it auto builds and you have a CI/CD pipeline. This is what I build all of my static sites with. You can do almost any JS framework like React, Angular, Vue, etc.

Netlify does way more than this, but it makes hosting static stuff super easy.

https://www.netlify.com/
Show HN: FT-Lab – Lightweight TinyLlama Fine-Tuning (Full FT / LoRA / QLoRA)
by Sai-HN | 2025-12-03 00:05:53+00:00
FT-Lab is a clean, reproducible setup for fine-tuning TinyLlama (supports Full FT, LoRA, and QLoRA) and evaluating Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines using LlamaIndex and LangChain. Built for small GPUs and designed with controlled experiments and ablation studies in mind.

Feedback and contributions welcome!
by CharlieDigital | 2025-12-03 00:06:46+00:00
> Nonsense. Average Java/C# is an enterprise monkey who barely knows outside of their grotesque codebase.

Netflix is Java. Amazon is mostly Java. Some of the biggest open source projects in the world are Java. Unity and Godot both use C# for scripting.

I don't know where you're getting the impression that Java and C# are somehow only for "enterprise monkey who barely knows outside of their grotesque codebase"
by arjie | 2025-12-03 00:07:00+00:00
I ordered the print version, but I have to tell you that print-on-demand provider has an incredibly convoluted purchase cycle. I came close to stopping at least 3 times.

* No buy now button: add to cart, accept cookies, view cart, checkout

* Account creation required pre-purchase

* Email verification required pre-purchase

At the least, it was a fairly linear flow except for the email verification (and the email was instant) but christ just let me pay.

EDIT: Ah I see, reading the other comments it's not meant to be paid for. It's meant to be distributed to people "in the right circles". Okay, lucky someone mentioned that. The POD provider only has a 1-hour cancellation policy. Though on second thought, I can't be arsed to go back and cancel for the $27. I'll just skip subsequent ones.
by smallmancontrov | 2025-12-03 00:07:58+00:00
Yeah Tesla has more smoothing, but IMO that's less interesting than the ability to navigate tricky scenarios and model other actors. Here's my collection of interesting videos, Tesla only because those are the ones I get forwarded to me. I'd love to see a similar collection for Waymo.

Crowd: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DWz1TD-VZg

Negotiation: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/NxloAweI6nU

Model: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/KVa4GWepX74
by electroly | 2025-12-03 00:08:09+00:00
I'm curious if you have any posted benchmarks about it. In my own experience at work, m8a demolishes m8g core-for-core. The ARM64 core is much slower. I wonder if you're comparing vCPU-for-vCPU against Intel families that use SMT: that's one ARM64 core against one Intel HyperThread. Make sure you're using AMD.

e.g. https://www.phoronix.com/review/aws-m8a-m8g-m8i-benchmarks -- m8a won virtually all of these comparisons by a wide margin. Raw performance isn't really Graviton's selling point; price-performance is.