MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by imvetri | 2025-12-18 08:52:20+00:00
is my understanding right?

"PC or computers or hardware that uses OS that consume FreeBSD, has a faulty software for the router's firmware?"

"The router's software performs ad distributions?"

"The version of internet, the router uses, is updated, whereas, the target machine, or the user's machine is still running a old version"

"The security patch works for the modern but not the precursor version?"

"This leaves older systems obsolete in the market?"

"is this a step-by-step instructions to business owners to introduce new products, selling that older products are obsolete" ?
by zwnow | 2025-12-18 08:54:13+00:00
I wonder why people still apply to FAANG companies, there is nothing to be won by working for them. Your work has zero impact, you're actively paid to enshittify stuff over making it better, you have horrible bureaucracy within the company, they lay off thousands of people per year so your job never really is secure, all of FAANG is ethically corrupt beyond means. I'd never hire a FAANG employee to be honest, while working there your skill actively declines because all you really do there is play corporate charade and hope not being laid off.
by noodlebird | 2025-12-18 08:54:17+00:00
nice to see that there is some research being done in this field, it closely mirrors my own experience in trying to switch off. the point of embracing boredom seems the most valuable here – i often tend to scroll instinctively in order to not to be bored. oftentimes, some boredom helps me recover from whatever i got distracted from.
by eptcyka | 2025-12-18 08:54:57+00:00
No, I don't think you are understanding this right, but there are some good questions you are asking. Where is the flag button?

If you are a real human, the most interesting question you're bringing up is What about all the appliances backed by FreeBSD? Yes, they are obsolete if they use IPv6 and accept RAs and if they don't get updates.
by elric | 2025-12-18 08:55:10+00:00
I've been bamboozled by Udemy a couple of times, thinking a course was recently made, only to discover the videos were 10 years old and most of the content was woefully out of date, with a few "recent updates" videos tacked on at the end.

Whether this is a problem obviously depends heavily on the subject. Classical CompSci problems won't suffer from this, depth first search is still depth first search ten years later. But the framework-du-jour is often a different beast entirely 10 years down the road.

Perhaps they simply have too much content to be able to curate things properly.
by 0xCE0 | 2025-12-18 08:56:10+00:00
Slowly, but hurry, is my take.

Quality vs quantity of course depends on the nature of work. If you are employee and all the working infrastructure is ready there to be used, you can "just" focus on doing something, what ever it is. If you are employer, you can't "just" even go to the work, because you have to use unpredicted amount of time to figure out what you even need to do or have and why.

Whether you are employee or employer, make sure you feel the practical progress, that is, e.g. once a week you can have status session, where you can show that now you have something that you didn't have at last session, and that it is important step for the end goal.
by ajb | 2025-12-18 08:56:30+00:00
Not the OP, but here are a few reasons I've seen:

- the boss has agreed to the role but has reservations, seeing a few candidates solidifies them and permission to hire us withdrawn

- the team is inexperienced at hiring and don't know what they want until they've seen a few candidates

- the company is hiring a new whole team. To make hiring easier, roles that are listed are "representative roles" - the total desired skill set across all roles is accurate but the company doesn't care what the split is, they just want a team that covers it. So a candidate who is a better fit for a listed role can be passed over in favour of one that happens to be the right jigsaw piece.

- circumstances changed since permission to hire was given, and no-one remembered to update the hiring portal; because unless you're actively hiring no-one looks at it.

This last one is quite common, because there are so many applications usually that no-one wants them in their email.
by epistasis | 2025-12-18 08:56:35+00:00
Profitability doesn't only come from large corporations. And it's likely that many large corporations would shut down businesses too if it impacted them.

The limit is that if no other more profitable business exists, the landlord lowers rent until they get some one. But that's often a multi year discovery process. And it's very likely that person will be some other small business that wouldn't have had a chance if the same spot was occupied.

It's hard to overstate just how much the random subsidy is for Prop 13 taxes; there is literally a 20x difference purely based on when a property was purchased or a building was built. This leads to very poor and inefficient allocation of real estate to businesses.
by TekMol | 2025-12-18 08:56:51+00:00
vulnerable to remote code execution from systems on the same network segment

Isn't almost every laptop these days autoconnecting to known network names like "Starbucks" etc, because the user used it once in the past?

That would mean that every FreeBSD laptop in proximity of an attacker is vulnerable, right? Since the attacker could just create a hotspot with the SSID "Starbucks" on their laptop and the victim's laptop will connect to it automatically.
by GravityAnalyt1 | 2025-12-18 08:57:41+00:00
Building version 3 of a front-end SaaS application that services proprietary models for analyzing securities, events/catalysts, etc. I am taking what I have learned from 5 years of users asking questions and basically redoing everything.

This version will hopefully provide a bot free / pump free replacement for iHub, StockTwits, Twitter, etc. to people who manage money professionally or otherwise.

Assuming I get more free time to finish it that is.

Version 2 is live here.

www.gravityanalytica.com

The two products Chat and Horizon both make more than $500/month individually.

This is a just side project. I run a family office.

For those of you who are in your 20s keep it up. In your 40s getting free time can be a real challenge.
by bigfudge | 2025-12-18 08:58:03+00:00
This hides a lot of local detail though. Something might be valueless by your definition because on aggregate it does enough harm to balance out the good, but still have great value in specific contexts. Even landmines might look quite useful in eastern Ukraine at the moment.

More important is to remember the impact of technology is not inevitable or predetermined. We can have (some) agency about how technologies are used. The impact of AI is likely to be much more negative than it could be because of he tech bro oligopoly emerging in the US. But that isn't because of 'human nature' or something inevitable or baked into the tech — it's because of local, historical factors in the US right now.
by throwaway2037 | 2025-12-18 08:58:05+00:00
Is there an easy way to show top 10 "Show HN" posts (by upvotes and/or comments) in the last one year? That might help this person to see what works on HN. I expect the list to have no obvious patterns except that they are wildly nerdy or unexpectedly useful. To be clear, I am not suggesting this list to make it easier for the original poster to manipulate the HN system. The readers here are way too discerning to be easily fooled by something obviously commercial appearing under the "Show HN" banner.

Two people that come to mind that normally generate an enormous number of upvotes and discussion are blog posts from Alyssa Rosenzweig (Asahi Linux GPU drivers) and Justine Tunney (Cosmopolitan Libc). Both of those projects trigger near-superhuman levels of nerd sniping (https://xkcd.com/356/). Few nerds can resist!

Final note: To me, this question feels like the "uncanny valley" of nerd discussion boards. Can you imagine posting something similar to LWN.net trying to figure out how to get your commercial project featured in a story?
by michaelt | 2025-12-18 08:58:17+00:00
A company has a graduate scheme, they might be hiring 4 graduates this year, they might be hiring 40. Only one job advert.

External recruiters might then re-advertise the job with the company name removed, planning to funnel people to the company and collect their 20% commission.

External recruiters with several jobs might merge them into one. $250k job for a senior java developer with 5 years finance experience + $75k job for a junior java developer = advertise $250k job for a java developer.

A company might have a slow, centralised hiring pipeline for some roles. Google has a recruiter check the candidate's resume before putting you into a lengthy 6+ interview gauntlet, but only at the end of it do hiring managers actually check if the resume matches an open job. And if course if it takes 2 months to get through the full pipeline, the jobs open at the end aren't the same as the jobs open at the start.
by noodlebird | 2025-12-18 08:58:18+00:00
if you're based in germany and have had prime before february 5th, 2024, you might be eligible for compensation. here is the page of the consumer rights commitee where you can take part (don't fret if you get physical mail from the federal bureau of justice a few days later): https://www.verbraucherzentrale.de/wissen/vertraege-reklamat...
by indigoabstract | 2025-12-18 08:58:19+00:00
As a long time HN reader, I'm well acquainted with this article and every time I read it again, I'm reminded of these 2 famous sayings, which seem amusing in this context:

1. "Do as the priest says not as he does"

2. "It is far easier for me to teach twenty what were right to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching."

So now that you know what must be done, go out and do it, if you can. If not, teach it to others.
by TomasBM | 2025-12-18 08:59:04+00:00
First two sentences are key. The reason why HN is so much better than other fora (IMO) is that the mods don't allow lever-pulling and astroturfing to overtake regular contributions. Yet it's also popular, so you're bound to get some activity on most posts.

Sure, it can be frustrating if you're trying to promote a product or farm karma on posts. But the fact that mostly nobody cares about karma means that you can post something and have it be evaluated on its technical, economic, social merits.

Obviously, there are caveats to this - i.e., anything US- and FAANG-related is bound to get much more activity than otherwise - but the overall atmosphere of HN is refreshing compared to Reddit.
by etherus | 2025-12-18 08:59:25+00:00
I think, unfortunately, this is something which requires the development of good taste: the ability to distinguish good abstractions and clean implementations in advance of their creation, to direct it. There is little replacement of experience in this endeavour, and most time people spend learning to do software engineering pays no attention to it. Intentional analysis of existing projects and developing your own new things is incredibly helpful for this, and the sort of development we recognise in the workplace we may recognise but fail to prioritise and reward appropriately.
by broken_broken_ | 2025-12-18 09:00:44+00:00
I am not an expert in incident reaction, but I thought the safe way was to image the affected machine, turn it off, take a clean machine, boot a clean OS image with the affected image mounted read only in a VM, and do the investigation like that ?

Assume that the malware has replaced system commands, possibly used a kernel vulnerability to lie to you to hide its presence, so do not do anything in the infected system directly ?
by throwaway2037 | 2025-12-18 09:00:51+00:00
I love your nerd sniping idea. Literally, I used that same term in my post before I saw yours!

This makes me think of a fun idea: Once a year on HN (April Fool's Day?), we can have a nerd sniping competition where commercial projects try to nerd snipe HN readers with submarine adverts.
by manuelmoreale | 2025-12-18 09:01:03+00:00
Years ago I wrote [0] about the lessons I learned by reaching the front page of both HN and Product Hunt and honestly, all these years later, the only thing I can confidently say is that I don't know shit. Sometimes people posts here things I wrote and for one reason or another they gain traction.

I personally have no clue why and I kinda like it. Like probably many others I come here to find interesting content and have interesting conversation because there are a lot of genuinely interesting people on this site.

But if you're trying to minmaxing your presence on HN, well good luck.

[0] : https://manuelmoreale.com/thoughts/what-i-learned-by-being-1...
by kachapopopow | 2025-12-18 09:01:23+00:00
it's slow, but there are people slowly turning towards a more decoupled internet, the problem is that you still *have* to use cloudflare (or any kind of http proxy), it's just a basic requirement that you can't avoid for anything that people would be interested in keeping offline.

I've been on the receiving end of attacks that were reported to be the size of more than 10tbps I couldn't imagine how I would deal with that if I didn't have a 3rd party providing such protection - it would require millions $$ a year just in transit contracts.

There is an increasing amount of software that attempts to reverse this, but as someone from https://thingino.com/ said: opensource is riddled with developers that died to starvation (nobody donates to opensource projects).
by johnofthesea | 2025-12-18 09:01:27+00:00
> So, I looked for them as well but few websites have them.

This is a bit surprising for me. I've just randomly checked news: BBC, Guardian, Norwegian NRK - all had RSS. But I'm not checking news that much so not sure about others. Mastodon and BlueSky are also providing RSS. I guess walled garden ones like Instagram/Twitter don't?

My RSS reader is subscribed to:

- one Youtube channel

- several blogs (most blogs do have RSS, for example Wordpress provide it by default)

- Hacker News (few keyword-based feeds)

- Gitlab and Codeberg projects (Github provides RSS, but I'm not currently subscribed to any, because I need to be logged there anyway)

- podcasts (podcasts are basically just RSS)

- few Mobilizon sites for events

- OpenStreetMap QA tool that checks my edits

- two subreddits

Maybe in general, you are right. I know just my bubble and even there are few sites without RSS (like Bandcamp).
by popupeyecare | 2025-12-18 09:01:41+00:00
I’ve created Pixie, a platform to employ and track your kids work. For families with a business, it helps reduce tax burden and fund a child’s Roth.

I’m a physician with some 1099 income, built the platform myself because my kids help with my side projects, and have since onboarded CPAs who now offer it to their clients. I saved 5k this year on my own taxes by employing my kids and it has funded their Roth.

Soon after launching, I crossed the $500/month mark.

Link:https://trypixie.com
by figmert | 2025-12-18 09:01:48+00:00
> Podman Compose

Shouldn't be using podman compose. It's flimsy and doesn't work very well, and I'm pretty sure it doesn't have Red Hat's direct support.

Instead, activate Podman's Docker API compatibility socket, and simply set your `DOCKER_HOST` env var to that, and use your general docker client commands such as `docker`, `docker compose` and anything else that uses the Docker API. There are very few things that don't work with this, and the few things that don't are advanced setups.
by mckn1ght | 2025-12-18 09:02:05+00:00
Aside from the fact that you have no real job security anywhere, people take FAANG jobs for money. Both the high pay at the company itself, and the idea that once FAANG is on your resume, it will command the best jobs afterwards too.

I think they have to pay that high because the work sucks so much in reality. That's the equilibrium point between the demand for people to work there, and the supply of people willing to put up with it.
by kachapopopow | 2025-12-18 09:03:16+00:00
It doesn't have to be reliable! It just has to flag things: "hey these graphs look like they were generated using (formula)" or "these graphs do not seem to represent realistic values / real world entrophy" - it just has to be a tool that stops very advanced fraud from slipping through when it already passed human peer review.

The only reason why this is helpful is because humans have natural biases and/or inverse of AI biases which allow them to find patterns that might just be the same graph being scaled up 5 to 10 times.
by npoc | 2025-12-18 09:04:23+00:00
Fiat currencies are collapsing in value. It's a fact. Price fiat in any hard asset like gold, real estate, bitcoin etc and it's obvious to see. The devaluation can be seen to be almost directly linked to the increase in the supply which approximately doubles each decade (no coincidence that real estate prices do the same).

There is something very special about gold. It has the best monetary qualities of any physical substance. It is only bettered by bitcoin which essentially dematerialises gold - stripping away it's physical attributes that hinder it (portability, scarcity, verifiability, divisibility etc).
by npodbielski | 2025-12-18 09:05:11+00:00
Everything comes and goes. HN is no exception. With that in mind does it matter for you? Are you here because HN is at its peak? If commenting here makes you life better a bit keep doing that. If not then just don't and go somewhere else. Or stop using the internet altogether and just became goat farmer. Do what makes you happy and not what crowd thinks will make you happy!
by EdwardDiego | 2025-12-18 09:06:09+00:00
Author in 2015:

> If every time you write a blog post it takes you six months, and you're sitting around your apartment on a Sunday afternoon thinking of stuff to do, you're probably not going to think of starting a blog post, because it'll feel too expensive.

Author in 2025:

> This is why it’s so useful to work on an article for a long time. If you’re reporting on something for six months, even if the really concentrated part, the key visit, is only a week or two of that, you have time for notes to accumulate.

What a difference 10 years of experience makes eh?
by thesz | 2025-12-18 09:06:15+00:00
The mistake there is a classical example of why (software) transactional memory is valuable. Double linked lists are trivial in single core execution, need PhD level understanding of everything in multicore execution and become trivial again in multicore execution with (S)TM.

Rust has troubles with STM because it lacks anything resembling effect system. Most probably, this will not be fixed.
by sfn42 | 2025-12-18 09:06:57+00:00
It's totally fine to prototype, but you need to take care when you try to morph a prototype into a real product.

Very often people just take the shortest path from a to b, every single time. So you start with a reasonably shoddy prototype, but then you add some small feature, repeat 1000 times and now you still have a shoddy prototype but it's actually a pretty big project and it's all completely cursed because at no point did anyone do any actual software engineering. And of course now it's too big to rewrite or fix so the only way forward is to keep building on this completely broken mess.

At some point you need to scrap the prototype and replace it with something proper, or at least have a solid plan for how you're going to morph the prototype into something proper. This is often challenging and time consuming work, so a lot of developers tend to never really do it. They just execute the shortest path to get each new feature implemented over and over for years while number of bugs keeps increasing and velocity keeps decreasing because nothing makes sense, everything is more difficult than it should be etc.
by somedude89897 | 2025-12-18 09:08:09+00:00
Very small sample size and only in mice. Most experimental treatments don't make it to the clinic, and this could be another in a long list of exciting early results that don't lead to anything. However... These results seem too good to be true, but the paper actually seems pretty good. There have been other attempts to use anaerobic bacteria to treat cancer (as solid tumors tend to be hypoxic environments), this is the first I've seen that interacts with PD-1/PD-L1 pathway. This is the most promising cancer treatment I've seen in quite a while. Maybe we can be cautiously optimistic!
by f6v | 2025-12-18 09:08:42+00:00
It's not a question whether they are or not worth something. It's just that it's a much more meaningful differentiator when there's an overabundance of talent. CVs are going to be filtered based on something. And people with no degree are going to have a much more difficult time getting through the automated screening. That will come as a surprise to people who were promised they'll get a job by paying $1000 for a "nano-degree".
by zjp | 2025-12-18 09:08:53+00:00
I love how every Emacs veteran's opinion seems to be "don't do it kids", as if using it were smoking.

I agree.

The worst thing about being an Emacs user is that it can fall a little behind e.g. VS Code in features. But the best thing about it, the most addicting thing, is that it really is your editor.
by tinco | 2025-12-18 09:09:37+00:00
Yeah it has on occasion, you're right in that it usually doesn't have much of an effect but every once in a while it does. If there's enough of the self-sacrificing users they'll together save a business or a way of doing things. Like running Linux on consumer hardware, or using cash in retail stores.

They don't necessarily have to coordinate, they can use a thousand different linux distro's and literally never talk to each other, and still cause PC manufacturers to keep to a standardized boot process and largely documented hardware so that Linux remains viable.
by gwd | 2025-12-18 09:11:53+00:00
> Bad comparison, but I understand your point.

I'm not sure why you think so; it seems pretty close to me. Chrome and Firefox are exact competitors; both require a large amount of development investment. Neither one are being charged for, which means their development needs to be supported some other way.

The people using Chrome don't want Adwords, but it's Adwords that is paying for Chrome's development. People using Firefox don't want email or Mozilla certificates or what-not, but something needs to fund Firefox's development.

> ...if Chrome was split from Google, would it be profitable?

They'd have to figure out a different business model, wouldn't they?
by beardyw | 2025-12-18 09:13:00+00:00
OpenAI null points

"Charles Edward Biffen was a notable British figure, particularly in the realms of politics, education, and military service during the early 20th century. However, there seems to be some confusion or lack of widespread historical records regarding the exact case of amnesia in 1925 associated with him. It is possible that you're referring to a different individual, as Charles Edward Biffen doesn't have a documented history of public amnesia in 1925"
by jacquesm | 2025-12-18 09:13:45+00:00
I think you're mixing a bunch of stuff here.

Accessibility is a problem and assuming it is as bad as you say it is it really should be addressed, agreed.

But that's completely orthogonal to being hard to game. And the concerns the OP brings up are unrelated to accessibility and indeed read more about instructions on how to game HN more successfully, otherwise why bring the VCs and the 'levers' into it in the first place?