MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by TheDcoder | 2025-12-04 20:02:39+00:00
Location: India Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Rust, C, JavaScript, Lua, Shell, Python, PHP etc., always open to learning more Résumé/CV: Upon request via e-mail Email: TheDcoder@protonmail.com GitHub: github.com/TheDcoder

I am a freelance developer looking for stable work in the traditional job market, I have almost 10 years of experience with software development and programming, always curious and willing to learn more, quite a fast learner (if I say so myself). I prioritize writing good and maintainable code while being pragmatic when needed, can adapt to constraints of a project and lead a team of developers.

I have worked on complex projects as one-man team as well as led a few developers on projects which I started initially. Finally I put a special emphasis on communication to make sure everyone is on the same page and are moving on the right track.
by evolve2k | 2025-12-04 20:02:43+00:00
> Do you have any actual evidence of this?

There was a bunch of news on data leaks out at the time.

https://cybernews.com/security/whistleblower-doge-data-leak-...

https://www.thedailybeast.com/doge-goons-dump-millions-of-so...

https://securityboulevard.com/2025/04/whistleblower-musks-do...

But one example:

“A cybersecurity specialist with the U.S. National Labor Relations Board is saying that technologist with Elon Musk’s cost-cutting DOGE group may have caused a security breach after illegally removing sensitive data from the agency’s servers and trying to cover their tracks.

In a lengthy testimonial sent to the Senate Intelligence Committee and made public this week, Daniel Berulis said in sworn whistleblower complaint that soon after the workers with President Trump’s DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) came into the NLRB’s offices in early March, he and other tech pros with the agency noticed the presence of software tools similar to what cybercriminals use to evade detection in agency systems that disabled monitoring and other security features used to detect and block threats.”
by fragmede | 2025-12-04 20:03:08+00:00
I like where you're going. I'm intrigued! but what would it look like? For example, curl. I use curl it's awesome. I love it. It's not at a level where I'm going to go to community meet ups for it though, but I'm super happy it exists. I can buy stickers for my laptop and do free advertising?

It's all psychological. If curl had a micropayment system and every time you used it, it cost a 10th of a penny and there's a monthly subscription. Oh God, holy hell, no! But at the same time, I don't want Daniel Stenberg to go hungry.
by Bender | 2025-12-04 20:03:21+00:00
I looked at Kea based on ISC's suggestion to replace their DHCPD. I can totally see deploying this in a data-center environment given how flexible it is but it was just to overwhelming for me for simple home use. I personally found that migrating to dnsmasq for DHCP alone was extremely simple, light weight and most importantly trivial to comprehend. Even with all my static reservations for cameras, routers, laptop, computers and phones my config is only 46 lines long and very easy to read. Migrating to Kea on the other hand required using optional modules and a very lengthy configuration that was entirely too fragile for my use case, but that was just my personal anecdotal experience. I also like the memory footprint of dnsmasq and that I rarely have to think about it.

Private + Shared = RAM used Program 476.0 KiB + 24.5 KiB = 500.5 KiB dnsmasq
by hathawsh | 2025-12-04 20:03:36+00:00
The article suggests that because the power and cooling are customized, it would take a ton of effort to run the new AI servers in a home environment, but I'm skeptical of that. Home-level power and cooling are not difficult these days. I think when the next generation of AI hardware comes out (in 3-5 years), there will be a large supply of used AI hardware that we'll probably be able to repurpose. Maybe we'll sell them as parts. It won't be plug-and-play at first, but companies will spring up to figure it out.

If not, what would these AI companies do with the huge supply of hardware they're going to want to get rid of? I think a secondary market is sure to appear.
by dragonwriter | 2025-12-04 20:03:37+00:00
> rgb values still points to a single color, which maps back to a single value on a 0 -> 1 or red -> violet continuum.

No, it doesn't. Wavelength is unidimensional, but color can mix many wavelengths, and RGB is a 3d color system which doesn't cover all combinations of visible light but does approximate the way most human vision works, and is therefore useful as a description for human-perceived colors (and more accurate than picking a single point on the unidimensional wavelength spectrum for that purpose.)
by cosmicgadget | 2025-12-04 20:03:51+00:00
MS has a giant advantage over every other vendor for all kinds of products (including defunct ones). Sometimes they function well, sometimes they do not. Sometimes they make money, sometimes they do not. MS isn't the tech (or even enterprise tech) bellcow.

Considering enterprise typically is characterized by perfunctory tasks, information silos, and bit rot, they're a perfect application of LLMs. It's just Microsoft kind of sucks at a lot of things.
by ok_dad | 2025-12-04 20:03:54+00:00
I should specify also that I am not saying a medical diagnosis is not important, or that there is no such thing as ADHD or Autism.

I believe as a society we need to be more flexible in every area for every human and also to give individual attention to everyone so they can excel. Some people will need more help than others, like those with ADHD, and some will need much, much more help than others, such as those with more extreme sensory issues with Autism who may not even be able to go out in public without accommodations.
by ux266478 | 2025-12-04 20:04:12+00:00
> Most people in the US are probably aware one healthcare or legal issue in their family will derail the whole family’s future.

Healthcare sure, but for Americans, it is culturally and institutionally seen as a core part of justice that the guilty have their future destroyed. That it affects those dependent on the guilty is a part of that destruction, it's trying to isolate them from others. If you still have your family around, has your life truly been destroyed? Among American people it might not be universal, and may seem absolutely barbaric, but the extreme malignance of American justice is more or less consistent with a wide swath of attitudes Americans have, especially when they're the ones who have been severely harmed.
by buildsjets | 2025-12-04 20:04:12+00:00
Japanese cars can be amazingly reliable. My wife drives a 2003 Toyota Celica (a sporty Corolla) and I drive a 2003 Audi A4. They both have about the same miles, around 150k. The A4 has had thousands and thousands of dollars worth things fail the years. There is a lot of extra Audi tech stuff to break of course, but even common things like oil seals and water pumps and wheel bearings just seem to require more frequent maintenance than our Japanese cars.

The Toyota, since new, has needed 2 sets of tires and 1 set of brake pads, both normal wear-out items. The air conditioner relay has failed twice, at a cost of ~$15 to replace. The newer part number has a higher amp capacity and seems to be holding up fine since then. The driver side door lock actuator failed once.

It almost gets it's preventative maintenance missed, because nothing ever breaks to jog your mind that the car needs to be maintained.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-12-04 20:04:18+00:00
And how does that look on your promo doc?

Would you rather be working on some obscure internal website for employees to track their performance that no one cares about or something related to Google ads? Which would you suggest a new grad work on?

It sounds cynical. But I never personal tried to get ahead at BigTech, it was never my goal, I just saw the struggles that others had navigating the promo process from L4 (entry level) -> L5 and L6->L7. It seemed like L5->L6 was the easiest for some reason.
by devnullbrain | 2025-12-04 20:04:22+00:00
At another university I once had extenuating circumstances preventing me from taking an exam in one of the main exam halls. I was invited to take it in a normal classroom, where a session was being held at the same time for people who get additional time. I was able to start later and still finish with the normal allowance but without having a chance to collude with other students.
by dunk010 | 2025-12-04 20:04:42+00:00
The whole thrust of the article is complaining about timed tests and some kids getting more time. That's doubtless unfair if some are overclaiming, but the real solution is to not do timed tests at all - they are only serving to produce an arbitrary bell curve so that some can have higher grades and get better career opportunities. Better to not have a timer at all, and let people's actual ability shine.
by Glyptodon | 2025-12-04 20:04:50+00:00
FWIW a lot of the disability disclosure instructions for statistical purposes say stuff like "ever had cancer" and other qualifications that I find curious (because they don't really seems to be truly indicative of having a disability or not). (Not that it has anything to do with the main point of the article. Even in K12 a certain type of affluent family makes services into a game.)
by k_bx | 2025-12-04 20:04:59+00:00
We run proxmox on a bunch of hardware servers, but for "homelab" we use Ubuntu on ZFS + Incus cluster. What I look at is IncusOS: a radically new approach to base cluster OS: no SSH, no configuration. So far it looks too radical, but eventually I see that as the only way to go for somebody who has a "zoo" of servers behind Tailscale: just base OS which upgrades safely, immutable and encrypted, without any unique configuration. The vision looks beautiful.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-12-04 20:05:04+00:00
> How would it not be open and transparent on twitter?

Lying. Trolling. Bullshitting. Stonewalling.

> It's only when they try to limit to whom and where they talk to people that they are not open and transparent.

I don't need to talk to you or use your favored public platform for my published material to be open and transparent on some other public platform.
by markbao | 2025-12-04 20:05:16+00:00
In a lot of ways, I agree with you. I think the key thing is that the complexity should be appropriate to what needs to get done.

Animations and etc. that distract from the actual content are superfluous. Agreed! I hate it when sites scrolljack.

But lots of HN posters want to impose the same austerity on every website, regardless of whether it’s appropriate. You can’t build Linear in 100KB of JS. Nor would you want to run it on 1 GB RAM. And that’s the case for a lot of economically useful applications.

Keeping things as simple as possible shouldn’t be the goal. It should be keeping it simple enough for the use case at hand.
by kryowyrm | 2025-12-04 20:05:20+00:00
Location: Phoenix, AZ (Remote) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No, unless you're sponsoring visa to EU.

Technologies: JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, AWS (Lambda, DynamoDB, EventBridge), React, Node.js, Microservices Architecture

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hnWKZglwjbjwPwVqQMkvw_BcR9E...

Email: jonathandpfeiffer at gmail dot com

Looking for: Product Manager (Technical PM, Integration PM, Platform PM) or Technical Account Manager roles

Background: Senior Software Engineer (10 years) transitioning to product management. Recently led partner integrations at B2B SaaS company, reducing integration time from 3+ months to under 1 week. Strong technical background in distributed systems, AWS serverless architecture, and enterprise integrations.

Currently doing customer requirements gathering and technical implementation work. Looking for a product role at a company with a real product organization where I can combine engineering depth with customer discovery.

Experience: Sibi (integrations/microservices), Fleetcor (infrastructure/enterprise customers), USAA (system architecture), Discover Financial, redacted (current - customer implementations)
by SimianSci | 2025-12-04 20:05:56+00:00
Wouldn't the easy answer to this be increased efficiency of RAM usage?

RAM being plentiful and cheap led to a lot of software development being very RAM-unaware, allowing the inefficiencies of programs to be mostly obfuscated from the user. If RAM prices continue rising, the semi-apocalytic consumer fiction you've spun here would require that developers not change their behaviors when it comes to software they write. There will be an equillibrium in the market that still allows the entry of consumer PC's it will just mean devices people buy will have less available RAM than is typical. The demand will eventually match up to the change in supply as is typical of supply/demand issues and not continuously rise into an infinite horizon.
by thewebguyd | 2025-12-04 20:06:44+00:00
Correct.

None of these laws are actually about protecting children. That's not the real goal. The real goal is the complete elimination of anonymity on the web, where both private companies and the state can keep tabs on everything you do.

Not being able to be at least pseudo-anonymous has a real chilling effect on speech and expression. Even if there are laws in place protecting such rights, people will self-censor when knowing they are being watched.

It's how freedom of speech and expression dies without actually scratching that part off of the bill of rights.
by manuelmoreale | 2025-12-04 20:06:55+00:00
It really was all geared towards having fun. And the fact that all the weapons were available on the maps rather than being pre selected made the game so easy to play.

There was no wasting time figuring out what style of play you wanted to go for. You just picked a game mode and went for it.

And as you said, maps were changing very quickly depending on how the game mode was set up.

Plus, so many exploding bodies
by somat | 2025-12-04 20:07:32+00:00
I think the big failure of formula e was the way they failed to promote pit replaceable battery packs.

It is debatable how much motorsport tech trickles down to improve our daily motor tech, I think this was much more the case early on and now days the sport tech is so rarefied it does not help us much. But mass market electric cars are still fairly new and I think that sporting competitiveness can do a lot of good here. The big one that was missed were easy to replace generic battery packs.

But I also think the biggest failure in f1 was the removal of refueling, so what do I know?

footnote: in nascar it was the five bold lugnuts, the pit stops with five bolt lugnuts were absolutely gorgeous compared to the single bolt they use now... and we wept.
by hodgehog11 | 2025-12-04 20:07:48+00:00
There has always been pressure to do so, but there are fundamental bottlenecks in performance when it comes to model size.

What I can think of is that there may be a push toward training for exclusively search-based rewards so that the model isn't required to compress a large proportion of the internet into their weights. But this is likely to be much slower and come with initial performance costs that frontier model developers will not want to incur.
by socalgal2 | 2025-12-04 20:08:33+00:00
I live in liberal cities. Nearly every car drive and bicycle rider has the attitude "F everyone else, I'm going to break every law if I find it inconvenient to myself. Who cares if it affects others"

This is not in alignment with "equitability, collaboration, communalism, modesty, earnestness, or conservation of resources"

People claim those values but rarely actually follow them.
by raluk | 2025-12-04 20:08:40+00:00
Years ago I wrote c++ library for stream compostion. Something like C++20 ranges. It turns out that as long as you compose everything with lambdas, compiled code is same as it would be with naive loops. Everything gets optimised.

For example, you can write sum of numbers less than n as:

count(uint64_t(0)) | take(n) | sum<uint64_t>();

Clang converted this into n*(n-1)/2.
by Supermancho | 2025-12-04 20:09:21+00:00
Google: China Cheating. Stereotype or not, it's a well documented characteristic of some social systems. This isn't to imply a moralist view. This cultural phenomena is a recognized pattern of behavior across industries, as well as the education system. It's viciously pragmatic. A key part of their rapid industrialization and digital transition. It's not surprising, given the success, nor is it necessary to pretend otherwise.
by phantasmish | 2025-12-04 20:09:31+00:00
I do sometimes reflect on how 64MB of memory was enough to browse the Web with two or three tabs open, and (if running BeOS) even play MP3s at the same time with no stutters. 128MB felt luxurious at that time, it was like having no (memory-imposed) limits on personal computing tasks at all.

Now you can't even fit a browser doing nothing into that memory...
by blakesterz | 2025-12-04 20:09:56+00:00
This was an interesting, very long, read! They say of those 25,000 daily trips, most shifted to cycling, walking and public transport, and some moved to other bridges. And then another 9,000 or so were replaced by alternatives that were just better... people tried new transport modes and often found they were better. They do say the closure has created genuine hardship for specific groups.
by baumy | 2025-12-04 20:09:58+00:00
This doesn't seem like a conclusion that's supported by the available evidence.

We have examples of homogeneous cultures that are high trust, and ones that are low trust.

We have examples of diverse cultures that are low trust, but none that I'm aware of that maintain high trust over time.

The best fitting hypothesis would be that homogeneity is necessary but not in itself sufficient for a high trust culture to be built.
by zubiaur | 2025-12-04 20:10:01+00:00
For a short while we had them in the US, on the Dodge darts and some other Fiat applications. 1.4 + multiair + sometimes turbo.

Great little engine that powered my first car, a 2005 Fiat Uno, made for the Argentinean market in Brazil: 1.4 (1.345L), 8v of reliability.
by snuxoll | 2025-12-04 20:10:02+00:00
Just because Nvidia happily sells people discrete GPU's, DGX systems, etc., doesn't mean they would turn down a company like OpenAI paying them $$$ for just the packaged chips and the technical documentation to build their own PCBs; or, let OpenAI provide their own DRAM supply for production on an existing line.

If you have a potentially multi-billion dollar contract, most businesses will do things outside of their standard product offerings to take in that revenue.
by throaweyprimy | 2025-12-04 20:10:36+00:00
It sounds like you’re going through the motions and know what you need to do to achieve your goal, so what’s holding you back…?

As I type this out, it’s cathartic. I also know the work that needs to be done, can do it precisely and expertly, with sales/productivity knowledge in pocket; but, I’m still can’t get myself to start. I know it’s important.

The reality is that I’m afraid. Fearful it won’t work out. That I’ll get a “no” again. After pouring my heart and soul into something only to be rejected leaves some scar tissue. Or, I could put in one tenth of the effort because I think it’s hopeless. So the easier route for me is not thinking about it, and replying to a stranger on the internet.

That’s self-sabotage: unproductive, and hurtful and it fuels this cycle of self-hate. Instead, I’m trying to be more kind to myself and give myself the grace of that of a friend.

For one, it’s comforting that I’m in good company. Marcus Aurelius, the emperor of Rome, had this problem a thousand years ago.

“If you do the job in a principled way, with diligence, energy, and patience, if you keep yourself free from distractions, and keep the spirit inside you undamaged, as if you might have to give it back and any moment—

If you can embrace this without fear or expectation—can find fulfillment in what you’re doing now, as Nature intended, and in superhuman truthfulness—then your life will be happy. No one can prevent that.” - Meditations, Book 3

Why would he write this, if not to remind himself?

Good luck
by Spivak | 2025-12-04 20:10:53+00:00
I think, broadly, this is what neurodivergent people want. Nobody considers having poor vision a disability despite it nominally being one since it's so well accommodated. And it's so well accommodated in part because it affects so many people that it's normal.

The world right now doesn't do a great job of "by default" accommodating people with the broad class of difficulties experienced by people that fall under the umbrella of neurodivergence and takes as given that everyone is in the 70-80% group. So now it's a disability with doctor's visits and paperwork and specific individual accommodations when it very well could not be.
by toast0 | 2025-12-04 20:11:00+00:00
> But they're illegal in F1 - because they make the car sound boring.

I can confirm, my CMAX has an eCVT, and the engine noises are boring. Either it's off, or it's running in a pretty limited range, you can get a bit of fun rev increasing noises if you drive it just right... but mostly boring. My 81 VW Vanagon is much more fun to drive even if it's objectively worse at everything in terms of acceleration, top speed, wheel slip, etc; although the turning circle on the cmax is garbage, so the vanagon wins there. The VW makes fun sounds as you go from low rpm to redline several times as you work through the gears, and the cmax is just droning along.
by crote | 2025-12-04 20:11:05+00:00
Sorry, but that's delusional.

For starters, hardware doesn't innovate quickly enough to buy a new generation every year. There was a 2-year gap between Ryzen 7000 and Ryzen 9000, for example, and a 3-year gap between Ryzen 5000 and Ryzen 7000. On top of that, most of the parts can be reused, so you're at best dropping in a new CPU and some new RAM sticks.

Second, the performance improvement just isn't there. Sure, there's a 10% performance increase in benchmarks, but that does not translate to a 10% productivity improvement for software development. Even a 1% increase is unlikely, as very few tasks are compute-bound for any significant amount of time.

You can only get to $15k by doing something stupid like buying a Threadripper, or putting an RTX 4090 into it. There are genuine use-cases for that kind of hardware - but it isn't in software development. It's like buying a Ferrari to do groceries: at a certain point you've got to admit that you're just doing it to show off your wealth.

You do you, but in all honesty you'd probably get a better result spending that money on a butler to bring your coffee to your desk instead of wasting time by walking to the coffee machine.
by kace91 | 2025-12-04 20:11:16+00:00
>the value produced by AGI/ASI per unit cost exceeds what humans can produce for their upkeep in food and shelter

The value of AGI/ASI is not only defined by its practical use, It is also bounded by the purchasing power of potential consumers.

If humans aren’t worth paying, those humans won’t be paying anyone either. No business can function without customers, no matter how good the product.
by nradov | 2025-12-04 20:11:17+00:00
Come on, let's be serious. Most Stanford undergraduate courses aren't that tough, grade inflation is rampant, and almost anyone who gets admitted can probably graduate regardless of accommodations or lack thereof. We're talking about the difference between getting an A or A- here. And Stanford has such generous financial aid that students from families earning less than $150K get free tuition so no one should be leaving with huge student debts.
by phendrenad2 | 2025-12-04 20:11:27+00:00
Are you still taking suggestions? You should have a "random recipe" button that loads something random from your database. Right now, your product is very one-dimensional: Someone has a specific problem, they find your solution, they use it. But, adding another dimension for people who don't have that problem is a good idea. And I think a random recipe button will naturally open you to finding what that second dimension is.