MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mmillis1 | 2025-12-01 19:56:23+00:00
Location: Southern California (Remote, North America time zones)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: PHP (12 yrs), Laravel (6+ yrs, subject matter expert), MySQL, JavaScript, Vue, Tailwind, Bootstrap, REST APIs, Inertia.js

Résumé/CV: Available on request

Email: mmillis@pm.me

I'm a full stack developer with 12 years of experience in PHP and 6+ years of specializing in Laravel. I've built and maintained large web applications, internal tools, and SaaS platforms for startups and large organizations. I enjoy working on clean, readable codebases and simplifying dev workflows. I'm searching for contract or part-time remote work with a small to medium-sized team that values craftsmanship and clarity. I'm eager to jump into established codebases or help architect new ones.
by zemptime | 2025-12-01 19:56:24+00:00
The reason I dislike the twitter argument is, even if ruby was the root cause, the choice of ruby still launched the business and got them to that first success disaster.

The deeper reason I think it's a bad argument is because twitter ran into a problem native and new to them - massive fan out (celebrity tweet -> millions of followers). that's not the kind of thing any language typically does while responding to a web request.

Lastly - heavy survivorship bias here. We will never hear about all the startups which were "scalable from day 1" on java or whatever and fizzled out.

Looking at https://www.wired.com/author/sheon-han/, this author's whole strategy seems to be bear poking. The writer is skilled but at least in this ruby one they are definitely hate-farming. I'm a little sad to see content of this quality in Wired.

Anyway, I'm off. Returning to be part of the usually silent majority who is happily using ruby to ship useful software!
by lossyalgo | 2025-12-01 19:56:38+00:00
It would be nice if they (or someone) could list ways to mitigate against each of these information leakages. Or even nicer if someone made a plugin that make us unidentifiable. Even nicer would be a way to e.g. disable sharing which fonts, extensions, etc. I have installed. Why do webpages even need to know such details? What if our browsers just sent Firefox vN instead of this huge string? Why does a webpage need to know how many CPU cores I have, or, let's say I have > 4, that should be sufficient to run any webpage and anything > 4 could just be reported as 4. If they don't know these things, I assume webpages/frameworks will still work fine.
by Arainach | 2025-12-01 19:56:41+00:00
What issues did you have? In my experience, most things that could be called painful with protobuf would be bigger pains with things like JSON.

Making changes to messages in a backwards-compatible way can be annoying, but JSON allowing you to shoot yourself in the foot will take more time and effort to fix when it's corrupting data in prod than protobuf giving you a compile error would.
by lalassu | 2025-12-01 19:56:52+00:00
I think the future of videos as a source of truth is bleak.

You can't trust anything that you can see in a video. And you can deny any video.

I think this will make an interesting post-truth world. What will happen when we can't almost prove anything. Eye witnesses are untrust worthy. Videos ditto. Cryptographic proof? Will politician sign their videos and messages with their public keys?
by kieranmaine | 2025-12-01 19:56:55+00:00
> The window quibble, the incubator gap, and the replication protocol do not touch the central, uncontested fact that chance contamination plus observational curiosity gave medicine its first antibiotic.

This is the same conclusion as the article. IMO, the importance of challenging the myth is that it has hisotrically taken precendence over your (and the article's) conclusion.

FTA

> Fleming’s 1929 penicillin paper may have been written as a linear process, but that’s almost certainly not how the discovery occurred. And by eliminating these complicated twists and turns, Fleming inadvertently obscured what may be one of the most important lessons in scientific history: how combining a meticulous research program with the openness to branch out into new directions led him to Nobel Prize-winning success. Neither rigid plans nor the winds of chance are enough on their own; discovery requires both.
by pyrolistical | 2025-12-01 19:56:57+00:00
Compressed JSON is good enough and requires less human communication initially.

Sure it will blow up in your face when a field goes missing or value changes type.

People who advocate paying the higher cost ahead of time to perfectly type the entire data structure AND propose a process to do perform version updates to sync client/server are going to lose most of the time.

The zero cost of starting with JSON is too compelling even if it has a higher total cost due to production bugs later on.

When judging which alternative will succeed, lower perceived human cost beats lower machine cost every time.

This is why JSON is never going away, until it gets replaced with something with even lower human communication cost.
by samcheng | 2025-12-01 19:56:59+00:00
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by CivBase | 2025-12-01 19:57:01+00:00
WSL1 felt like a useful compatibility layer for running some Linux applications in Windows. It had plenty of warts, but it quickly became my preferred command shell for Windows.

WSL2 is more capable, but it's not Windows anymore. I might as well run a proper Linux VM or dual boot. Better yet, I'd rather run a Windows VM in a bare metal Linux OS. Why even bother with WSL2? What's the value add?
by Stratoscope | 2025-12-01 19:57:01+00:00
Location: Menlo Park, CA

Remote: Yes, or possible hybrid if nearby

Willing to relocate: Possibly

Technologies: Python, Ruby, C, C++, C#, JavaScript, TypeScript, PowerShell, Flask, SQL, PostGIS, Shapely, Unity, Unreal Engine, multiple assembly/machine languages, Windows user code and kernel drivers, Google Maps and other map APIs, geographic and airspace data

Résumé/CV: https://www.geary.com/resume.html or https://www.geary.com/resume.pdf and https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelgeary/

Email: mike@geary.com

Hi, I'm Michael Geary. I've programmed in many languages and environments over the years. Some of my current interests are:

• Aviation and geographic data. For example, airspace and obstacle data importers for Wing; election results and voter information maps for Google; many interactive maps for other companies.

• Hardware interfacing. In a way, I am a "full stack" developer, but my stack may involve a front end to a piece of hardware rather than the cloud. I first got into programming via ham radio, so RF hardware remains an interest.

• Designing and building APIs. Too often an API is designed by exposing the internals of whatever system provides the API. My philosophy is the opposite: start with the apps. I like to build a series of sample apps before starting on the API. This way I can imagine what API will make those apps and others like them easy to build.

• Talk with users! I don't like to sit in a back room cranking out code. I want to make sure it's the right code for what my users need, and that it's easy to maintain and improve as we learn more about what they want.

Open to full time or contract.

I look forward to talking with you!
by toomuchtodo | 2025-12-01 19:57:09+00:00
Potentially helpful citations below:

So you're a manager now - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44745123 - July 2025 (185 comments)

The Manager’s Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change [Learning Notes] - https://keyvanakbary.github.io/learning-notes/books/the-mana...
by 3np | 2025-12-01 19:57:10+00:00
> > Onboarding is bad

> Sorry, but you have to run an auth server (matrix-authentication-service) if you want Element X to work.

This is a bit outrageous IMO. Actually breaking and deprecating the classic auth and requiring a new server component to keep the only actively supported client (which still can't properly manage keys or sessions on its own, like classic Element can, even as non-verified sessions are being disabled) is a bit rich.
by davedx | 2025-12-01 19:57:20+00:00
> Breaking backward compatibility isn't collateral damage, it's the point.

LOL, if you say so.

Honestly, I don't know how anyone decides to build something on top of the software the react router team puts out. I went through approximately 2 major version upgrades of react router then decided I was done with it unless I had no other choice.

Why do people think being left with huge upgrade tech debt time and time again is worthwhile? There are just so many other choices out there these days. Why you'd choose this "different future" now is beyond me.
by _ytji | 2025-12-01 19:58:08+00:00
Location: California

Remote: Yes (potentially hybrid)

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Infrastructure, systems administration, DevOps, Linux, Terraform, AWS, configuration management, docker, python, monitoring/metrics (prometheus, grafana, et al)

Résumé/CV: https://localko.st/cv.pdf

Email: hn@localko.st

Have been exploring a different (non-tech) career path the last few years (since covid) and doing some volunteer work in South America and Mexico. Potentially willing to relocate if role is in Southeast Asia, otherwise only looking for remote.
by pphysch | 2025-12-01 19:58:16+00:00
> ASN.1, a protocol from 1984, already did what Protobuf does, with more flexibility.

After working heavily with SNMP across a wide variety of OEMs, this flexibility becomes a downside. Or SNMP/MIBs were specified at the wrong abstraction level, where the ASN.1 flexibility gives mfgs too much power to do insane and unconventional things.
by blitzar | 2025-12-01 19:58:31+00:00
I used to do this for BOE / Fed minutes, company earnings etc on the off chance they published it before the official release time.

2025-Q1-earnings.pdf - smash it every 5 seconds - rarely worked out, generally a few seconds head start at best. By the time you pull up the pdf and parse the number from it the number was on the wires anyway. Very occasionally you get a better result however.
by DDR0 | 2025-12-01 19:58:48+00:00
Location: Vancouver, BC

Remote: Yes. Or within about 15-20 minutes of Silver Valley.

Willing to relocate: No.

Technologies: Rust, Javascript/HTML5, C++, Python, whole bunch of others. Embedded software (ravelights.ca) / game developer (frogatto.com, ea.com, etc.)

Résumé/CV: https://ddr0.ca/files/personal/resume.pdf - interactive gallery at https://ddr0.ca/gallery

Email: d@ddr0.ca

Friendly, competent chap. Self-driven. Works well in teams or alone. Has founded startups and worked for large companies. Major focus on inclusivity and documentation.
by sfRattan | 2025-12-01 19:58:51+00:00
At this point, Play Protect will remove the apks with the old signature because the developer marked the old signature as compromised. The developer acted correctly and responsibly in doing so, and seems to be working out establishing a new setup now, including a new signing key.

For those using sketchy devices without Play Protect and also installing random apks without an understanding of security or Android's trust-on-first-use model, there's not much anyone can do.
by class3shock | 2025-12-01 19:59:12+00:00
The current housing costs (price + interest rate) just seem so out of line with the average household income it boggles my mind it hasn't cooled alot more already.

At $84k average household income, assuming 1/3 going to a mortgage would give you $2.3k a month to work with. At 6% interest rate, assuming 20% down payment of $70k, you can just manage a $350k home and that is ignoring taxes, not adding other closing costs, not considering utilities, assuming an interest rate on the lower side and assuming a 20% deposit.

Add tax and that gives you around $1.7k to work with. Assume only putting down 10% and adding in $400 a month to cover utilities then you can manage around $175k home. That rules out buying a house in alot of the US.

And yes, households in more expensive areas make more but if you are buying the average house, that costs $410k you need to be making like double the national average income to stick to the 1/3 rule. How many households are earning $170k where houses are $410k?

Are people just devoting 50%+ of their income to housing? Everyone buying a house with the help of mom and dad? I just really don't get it.
by creato | 2025-12-01 19:59:29+00:00
> Populist rent control is an excellent motivator to get counter-parties to the table to discuss productive alternatives in a market where no outside pressure currently exists.

This makes no sense, the battle is ultimately between renters and owners of low density housing. Those owners don't care about rent control, they only care about zoning disallowing construction of new rentals. If anything, they're probably happy to see rent control if it means the pressure on cities to upzone is removed.
by stego-tech | 2025-12-01 19:59:38+00:00
All things being equal - commuting times, service access, property availability, environmental impacts, education quality, economic stability - then yes, the solution is “easy” in that we “just need to build more housing”.

Once any of those multitude of variables aren’t equal, however, the market can and will exploit it. This is the reason why the housing crisis is global, but the solutions are variable. In New England for instance, there’s a glut of available property currently being hoarded and vacant as an investment hedge, because we have no more land to expand onto. Combined with vacant towns that were former industrial hubs, and there’s an awful lot of available real estate to be clawed back for better use - except markets have been tailored to specifically promote a hoard-and-hedge strategy that harms the working classes (renters and homeowners both), and keeps depressed communities from rebounding. Remote work had a real shot of revitalizing those towns and shattering the vice grip of Capital on land or housing through the relocation of workers to cheaper markets, but the RTO mandate essentially amplified existing crises that much more and robbed them of the chance to rebound.

So no, it’s not as easy as building more housing, it’s also about ensuring those who need housing get access to it first, rather than those who simply seek to extract rent or hold it as an investment hedge.

Again, there’s no silver bullet to this problem.
by directevolve | 2025-12-01 19:59:59+00:00
> Montreal probably has the most restrictive rent control in Canada but it's also seeing the strongest apartment development growth

A wonderful city like Montreal can drive enough demand for housing to overcome red tape, and still be building far far less than what would satisfy demand. A less attribute city with lower demand for housing may build less due to lower demand, despite having less red tape.

Trust the economists on this one.
by jcoby | 2025-12-01 20:00:00+00:00
Clickspring on YouTube has a whole series into construction methods likely used with the Antikythera mechanism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRXI9KLImC4&list=PLZioPDnFPN...

And another on building a working reproduction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGHq4O-ib2U&list=PLZioPDnFPN...

https://www.youtube.com/@Clickspring
by bitsofgrace | 2025-12-01 20:00:31+00:00
Location: Houston, TX (US, Central Time)

Remote: Yes (US time zones; experienced leading fully remote and hybrid teams)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies:

- Data & AI leader | Healthcare technology executive with 15+ years building data strategies, AI/ML/LLM systems, and digital transformation for PE-backed healthcare and multi-site retail. - Data & AI (AI/ML/LLM implementation, predictive analytics, model calibration) - Data Engineering (DuckDB, dbt, Parquet, modern data pipelines) - Full-stack (Python, Ruby, Go, JavaScript/TypeScript, SQL, HTML/CSS) - Cloud & Infrastructure (AWS, Azure, Terraform, distributed systems) - Analytics & Observability (dashboards, real-time monitoring)

Résumé/CV: https://michellepellon.com

Email: mgracepellon at gmail dot com
by bshul-silkline1 | 2025-12-01 20:00:35+00:00
Silkline | Onsite, Seattle (5 days/week) | Full-time | Salary+Equity We need help! and are looking to hire multiple full-stack or frontend engineers at Silkline.

Today, the way modern hardware supply chains work is like fax woke up in 2025 - spreadsheets, email, PDFs, and a lot of sadness. We are fixing this antiquated system and building the AI-first platform to power the future of supply chains. Initially, we are focusing on the rising defense, space, and nuclear sectors.

Over the last year, we have grown considerably (5x'ed customer count), just announced our Seed round, and brought on some massive logos in the industry. Join me and our deeply customer and product-oriented team, which has been shipping incredibly fast.

Stack: Typescript, React, Next.js, Hasura, Trigger.dev, AWS, Pulumi, Elbow grease

Reach out to brent@silkline.ai or apply: https://jobs.gem.com/silkline/am9icG9zdDrLwsEQTKKa02Ut_F9kgz...
by dralley | 2025-12-01 20:00:47+00:00
>Being a feature-for-feature copy of Chrome is not a winning strategy (IMHO).

Good thing they aren't? Firefox's detached video player feature is far superior to anything Chrome has that I'm aware of. Likewise for container tabs, Manifest V2 and anti-fingerprinting mode. And there are AI integrations that do make sense, like local-only AI translation & summaries, which could be a "niche feature" that people care about. But people complain about that stuff too.
by mbm | 2025-12-01 20:00:47+00:00
Location: Austin, TX

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Prefer remote

Technologies: Agnostic. 15 years of backend and full-stack experience, but now focus on the AI integration stack (JavaScript/Python).

Résumé/CV: https://linkedin.com/in/matthewbmay | https://github.com/mzxrai

Email: matt@goodsoftware.dev

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Hi all, I'm Matt May - a freelance AI consultant with 15 years of software engineering experience. I've worked with Fortune 150 companies, startups, and everything in between, and have done AI research at Stanford & Georgia Tech.

If you're planning or working on an AI implementation, I'd love to chat. My specialities include: AI integration/implementation, complex backend development, APIs, AI strategy, and legacy SaaS replacement.

I've worked remotely for years, but can travel as needed.

Drop me a line. Happy to jump on a video call anytime!
by littlestymaar | 2025-12-01 20:00:49+00:00
> It’s not hypocrisy though, under her moral framework it’s merely partial recovery of stolen property.

If you steal from some people make up for the loss that some other people inflicted on you, you're still a thieve no matter the moral framework.

> I think my comment explains this pretty clearly, I’d recommend reading it more carefully and in good faith before responding.

There's no bad faith on my side, your argument just ain't valid.
by JohnFen | 2025-12-01 20:00:52+00:00
> then you disempower your own experience and outsource authority to a (collective) externality?

The opposite, actually.

> what is happening?

I'm not exactly sure how to answer this question because I'm not sure what you're referring to. But taking the question generally, I think what is happening is that people see things they can't identify and are speculating about what they saw. Maybe they saw aliens, maybe not, but it's essentially impossible to tell from the reports themselves.

> and what do you believe?

I believe that I don't know.

However, while aliens might be visiting the Earth, it seems to me that the odds of that being the case are so tiny that "aliens" shouldn't be the first thing we think of.
by rconti | 2025-12-01 20:01:12+00:00
I think this is a pretty black and white and simple view of things, fault is not always 100% clear, and CLAIMING fault is different from explaining what happened _from your perspective_, and letting the other driver do the same. But I'm not actually speaking about simple fault in a basic traffic collision.

Obviously 99.999% of traffic collisions never get this far, but I'm speaking more of the world of courtroom legal drama where you'd rather not have your in-car conversations recorded, or the fact that you drove around the block of the house where the murder occurred at 3am.

I think there's a huge asymmetry between the upside of the dash cam and the downside of self-surveillance. I'm much more likely to be in a fender bender than accused of murder, but I also _simply don't care_ if the police say I'm at-fault when I don't think I was, driving my insurance rates up for a few years. But I'm deeply uncomfortable with the idea of recording myself 24x7 whenever I'm in my car.
by ggm | 2025-12-01 20:02:10+00:00
I think this is a very astute comment.

It reminded me that for a while all SIM everywhere seemed to come from one european chip plant, although now I say it I wonder if they were just the assembly & packaging and fabrication was offshore?

In both cases (tpm and sim) the cynic would say it's only deciding which economy owns the back-door.
by cgouveia | 2025-12-01 20:02:21+00:00
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by LightBug1 | 2025-12-01 20:02:38+00:00
You're conflating the actions of an individual with the goals and aims of the PA organisation. I'm certain their intent is not to harm people. You've described one incident where an individual got carried away with serious consequences for the victim and, likely, the alleged perpetrator.

Also, your reasoning is a little backward about the Judicial Review. I am 100% certain than one of the reasons the Judicial Review was granted at all was due to the strong support and the arrests of thousands of PA supporters.

Lastly, those who stepped up to get arrested did so in the full knowledge of the personal consequences they may face. They used their apparent right to protest to make all of the above happen. If they'd listened to you, nothing would have happened.

That would be a good example of the chilling consequences of the Authoritarian creep we're talking about in this thread.