MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-12-04 20:52:45+00:00
> Now they can say to firms, “Sorry, we aren’t shelling out hundreds of dollars a day for a junior person’s time.”'

They could always say this. The senior person’s time then just has to go up.

Not a lawyer, but I have done consulting work and have quoted absurd numbers when folks wanted my time versus letting me manage my team. Occasionally they took it. Everyone wound up happy.

Packing senior at $1k and juniors lower per hour just often sells better than $10+ k per hour, even if the net result is similar.
by squigz | 2025-12-04 20:52:59+00:00
The problem isn't giving the people a say; it's that the people have stopped electing smart people who do know a lot.

Certainly though, a big part of why that is is that people think they know a lot, and that their opinion should be given as much weight as any other consideration when it comes to policymaking.

Personally, I think a big driver of this belief is a tendency in the West to not challenge each other's views or hold each other accountable - "don't talk politics at Thanksgiving" sort of thing

(Of course there's a long discussion to be had about other contributors to this, such as lobbying and whatnot)
by topspin | 2025-12-04 20:53:01+00:00
"not to debug any problems with it"

K3s is just a repackaged, simplified k8s distro. You get the same behavior and the same tools as you have any time you operate an on-premises k8s cluster, and these, in my experience, are somewhere between good and excellent. So I can't imagine what you have in mind here.

"It's still essentially adding few hundred thousand lines of code into your infrastructure"

Sure. And they're all there for a reason: it's what one needs to orchestrate containers via an API, as revealed by a vast horde of users and years of refinement.
by ecolojetas | 2025-12-04 20:53:10+00:00
I drive through Barcelona in 10 minutes and it's a 5 million super dense city, no dramas.

But London has been taken over by the ecologist dictators who enjoy your pain ("bleeding heals") and that's why London is a city with no future.

And I say Barcelona but I could say Warsaw, Paris, Kiev, and so on.

London had very few roads already and the current major took care to close them one by one.
by iso1631 | 2025-12-04 20:53:15+00:00
Yet here in the UK it's perfectly normal. When I went to uni in 2000 in our halls there were 15 rooms per floor ber block, 2 of which were twins and 13 were single.

The people in the twins were not happy - they hadn't asked for them.

I knew one person who dropped out in the first 3 months (for mental purposes), and that was someone who shared a room.
by lumost | 2025-12-04 20:53:19+00:00
I went to university at a time that Adderall was commonplace, and am now old enough to see how it turned out for the individuals. At college, it was common for students to illicitly purchase Adderall to use as a stimulate to cram for a test/paper etc. It was likewise common for students to abuse these drugs by taking pills at a faster than prescribed pace to work for 48 hours straight amongst other habits.

In the workplace, I saw the same folks struggle to work consistently without abusive dosages of such drugs. A close friend eventually went into in-patient care for psychosis due to his interaction with Adderall.

Like any drug, the effect wears off - Cognitive Behavioral Therapy matches prescription drugs at treating ADHD after 5 years. As I recall, the standard dosages of Adderall cease to be effective after 7-10 years due to changes in tolerance. Individuals trying to maintain the same therapeutic effect will either escalate their usage beyond "safe" levels or revert to their unmedicated habits.
by coryrc | 2025-12-04 20:54:29+00:00
I'm saying the vast majority of people who support Putin are idiots, just like the vast majority of people who support Trump are idiots, and the religious rural fundies of Iran are mostly idiots. There's a lot of idiots out there and they don't like to think. It causes them pain to think hard. So they like people who tell them simple lies.

Others are immoral or evil smart people. Unless you're working to undermine your dictator, that might be you.
by kilobaud | 2025-12-04 20:54:31+00:00
The tunnel host appears to be a Hetzner server, they are pretty generous with bandwidth but the interesting thing I learned about doing some scalability improvements at a similar company [0] is that for these proxy systems, each direction’s traffic is egress bandwidth. Good luck OP, the tool looks cool. Kinda like pinggy.

[0] https://localxpose.io
by jaredklewis | 2025-12-04 20:54:51+00:00
Can someone explain to me why the accommodations make sense in the first place?

Like what's the point of having the test be time constrained? If there is no point, then just let everyone have more time. If there is a point to having the test be time constrained, then aren't we just holding one group to a lower standard than another group? Why is that good?

Same question about lectures. Is there a reason everyone can't record the lectures? If so, then why do we have different standards?

I think at the college level, grades should in some sense reflect your proficiency at a given topic. An "A" in calculus should mean that you can do calculus and that evaluation should be independent of your own strengths, weaknesses, disabilities, genetic predisposition to it, and so on. Imagine an extreme example: someone is in a car crash, suffers brain damage, and is now unable to do calculus. This is tragic. But I don't also feel that it now makes sense to let them do their tests open book or whatever to accommodate for that. As a society we should do whatever we can to support this individual and help them live their best life. But I don't see how holding them to a lower standard on their college exams accomplishes that.
by emodendroket | 2025-12-04 20:55:22+00:00
> “Part of the reason why I like this questioning is the more constitutional you want to make it, the more precise you want to make it, the more you’re going to need my product,” Karp said. His reasoning is that if it’s constitutional, you would have to make 100% sure of the exact conditions it’s happening in, and in order to do that, the military would have to use Palantir’s technology, for which it pays roughly $10 billion under its current contract.

Make your own judgment but I thought that it was a reasonable inference if his answer is about how he’s got dollar signs in his eyes that he doesn’t see a moral imperative here.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-12-04 20:55:31+00:00
> You also ignore the flagrant existence of powers that were not diverse. The Phoenicians interacted with a lot of cultures and influenced them very deeply, but Canaanite society was highly insular. Viet Nam was a powerful society that expanded continually, but it engaged in aggressive replacement colonialism of peoples it conquered

These societies hit scaling limits precisely because they failed to diversify.

> Diversity in a real sense requires a collection of disparate, conflicting identities

Not necessarily. One can deprioritize the points of difference, or redelineate on the go. Americans incorporated Italians and Irish into whiteness; Romans Italians and later provincials into their citizenry.
by ErroneousBosh | 2025-12-04 20:55:41+00:00
Very very real. You can go there and see it. You can walk around and sit where people sat over 5000 years ago.

I grew up not far from there (it's about a six or seven hour drive, followed by a two hour ferry journey, so it's not something you do every day, but barely 160 miles in a straight line) and it was all Iron Age brochs and such. Skara Brae was already ancient and lost when they were built.
by daemonologist | 2025-12-04 20:55:45+00:00
I think the author was a bit too confident in their farming out of research to Claude. For instance, the claim that "at least 9 Chinese bridges have been built that would span the English Channel" is obviously false.

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Railway viaducts (built mostly over land):

- Danyang-Kunshan Grand Bridge

- Tianjin Grand Bridge

- Cangde Grand Bridge

- Weinan Weihe Grand Bridge

- Beijing Grand Bridge

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Not actually long enough to span the channel (excluding access roads etc.):

- Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge (main bridge is 30km)

- Jiaozhou Bay Bridge (all three legs combined total 26 km over water)

- Runyang Yangtze River Bridge (total length of two-bridge complex is 7.2 km)

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Could actually span the channel (setting aside differences in water depth and whatnot):

- Hangzhou Bay Bridge

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Not to say all of these projects are not extremely impressive, or that the article doesn't have a point. But making claims like this undermines the author's credibility, at least in my eyes.
by Strikeh | 2025-12-04 20:56:05+00:00
Hi HN,

I built AI Workspace because I kept losing track of my AI conversations, prompts, and research. Everything was scattered across tabs, chats, bookmarks, screenshots, and random notes.

After a while I realized the problem wasn't ChatGPT, it was the lack of an actual workspace around it.

So I built one ;)

What it does AI Workspace is a browser extension that works on ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok.

It lets you:

Organize conversations into folders and workspaces (called "Vaults") Build a prompt library with categories, tags, and variables Add notes to any conversation Pin, favorite, and archive chats Bulk manage — archive, delete, or categorize multiple chats at once Search everything — conversations, prompts, images, notes Browse your AI-generated images in a dedicated gallery Sync across devices (Pro feature) Highlight important text in responses that persists across sessions The goal is simple: reduce AI chaos → increase productivity.

Why I built it

I talk to AI dozens of times per day. The more I used it, the more I noticed:

Losing great responses I wanted to reference later Re-writing the same prompts over and over Useful info buried in 100+ message threads 20+ AI tabs open, context-switching constantly Bouncing between tools to "organize stuff around AI" ChatGPT's sidebar is fine for finding recent chats. But when you have 500+ conversations across different projects? It falls apart.

I wanted something simple, fast, and all in one place.

Tech stack Frontend: React 19, TypeScript, Zustand, Tailwind CSS Extension: Chrome Manifest V3, Firefox WebExtensions Storage: chrome.storage.local + IndexedDB for images/metadata Backend: Node.js + Express on Railway, Prisma + MySQL Payments: Stripe Auth: Email/password + Google OAuth (just shipped cross-platform auth this week!) The entire UI runs inside a Shadow DOM to avoid CSS conflicts with the host pages.

Some things I learned building this Shadow DOM is both a blessing and a curse — great for style isolation, painful for debugging and portals MutationObservers can kill performance — I had to add debouncing and limits after Firefox started warning about "slowing down the browser" ChatGPT's DOM changes constantly — I've rewritten the conversation detection logic at least 4 times Extension development is underrated — the feedback loop is fast and you're solving real problems in context

What's next Team/shared workspaces API for automations Better mobile experience More AI platform support (Gemini, Perplexity) Smart folders with auto-categorization

Try it Chrome: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ai-workspace-ultima... Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/aiworkspace-p... Website: https://www.getaiworkspace.com There's a generous free tier. Pro unlocks unlimited everything + cloud sync.

I'd love feedback, especially on UX, performance, or anything confusing. The extension has been live for a few months and I've been iterating based on user feedback.

Happy to answer questions. Thanks for reading!
by bomewish | 2025-12-04 20:56:09+00:00
Hey really recommend using a big long random string in that URL, because as you will have read above TAILNET NAMES ARE PUBLIC. You can find them here: https://crt.sh/?Identity=ts.net [warning, this will probably crash browser if you leave it open too long -- but you can see it's full of tailnet domains].

So anyway try it like:

tailscale funnel --set-path=/A8200B0F-6E0E-4FE2-9135-8A440DB9469D http://127.0.0.1:8001 or whatever

I use uuidgen and voila.
by hamdingers | 2025-12-04 20:56:11+00:00
> maybe I should find ways to spend my time (careers, hobbies) that work well with that

You're really close to getting it.

Students in school do not have this flexibility. They are required to be there, an 8th grader has no control and little influence over how their time is spent, or whether their tasks are a good match for their abilities.

So the only option in school is accommodation. There are some who continue to expect that into adulthood, but the vast majority of kids diagnosed with ADHD do not seek accommodation in their professional life.

Why? Because they do exactly what you propose. They find careers that match their disposition.
by rsynnott | 2025-12-04 20:57:04+00:00
_Number would not go up sufficiently steeply_, would be the major concern, not collapse. Microsoft might end up valued as (whisper it) a normal mature stable company. That would be something like a quarter to a half what it's currently valued. For someone paid mostly in options, this is clearly a problem (and people at the top in these companies mostly _are_ compensated with options, not RSUs; if the stock price halves, they get _nothing_).
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-12-04 20:57:08+00:00
Strictly my anecdotal observation but, as someone who attends train shows regularly, they definitely, absolutely are.

Not an ounce of complaint to be clear. Honestly seeing them flip out and flap around and giggle excitedly is delightful. I'm glad they're having a good time and I'm also glad that all of these experiences have not involved some self-involved asshole leering, criticizing or yelling at them for being happy.
by humanfromearth9 | 2025-12-04 20:57:11+00:00
Isn't a spectrum limited to a single dimension? If yes, that doesn't sound like Autism disorders (Asperger's, ADHD, verbal, non-verbal, violence, exacerbated sensitivity, social abilities...). They all suggest that there are multiple more or less independent/orthogonal. dimensions. And everyone scores differently on the combination of these dimensions. Which puts us on different coordinates in a vector space. Is this still a partition?
by taurath | 2025-12-04 20:57:14+00:00
I hate having to rely on my own sense of what happened in a meeting, or which executive is upset about something. While its usually accurate, it's been borne out of chaotic leadership and shouldn't be necessary, especially if its to try to get off the tracks when a freight train is coming.

Sometimes the culture of poor management is so ingrained and normalized people really don't understand what the problem is. That usually ends with me looking elsewhere, as taking on the responsibility other's won't while not having authority has lead to multiple full years lost to burnout.
by mythrwy | 2025-12-04 20:57:52+00:00
Cheapness implies volume which we are already seeing. Volume implies less impact per piece because there are only so many total view hours available.

Stated another way, the more junk that gets churned out, the less people will take a particular piece of junk seriously.

And if they churn out too much junk (especially obvious manipulative falsehoods) people will have little choice but to de-facto regard the entire body of output as junk. Similar to how many people feel about modern mainstream media (correctly or not it's how many feel) and for the same reasons.
by joshstrange | 2025-12-04 20:58:14+00:00
Liquid Glass is hot garbage. I updated and kept thinking it would grow on me, no I just hate it. UI is hidden behind extra taps (the stupid new tab bar) and for the first time in my memory I've clicked, seen the animation of my click, and nothing has happened. Not to be a jerk but that's Android-level-shit (and yes, I've personally experienced that countless times in Android or Android-based OSes, like in the Meta Quest).

No one wants to see their content behind controls, they want to see the controls. The stupid glassy circles over my video are just distracting and literally make it harder for me to see the controls.

Just today I was scrolling and getting increasingly frustrated with the glass header flip/flopping between white/black text to account for the content under. For what??? I can't actually _see_ the content, it's warped and half-hidden.

Honestly, whoever thought "Hey, let's make things like the Safari address bar not cover the bottom so you can 'see your content'" should be fired (and I try not to say that often). It was a stupid idea, oh look now I can see 10px more of "content" that is just distracting and stealing space from useful controls. All the padding/margins got bigger in Liquid Glass all while reducing visibility and removing functionality.

Liquid Glass will go down as "Look over there" (re: AI), it was a distraction at best (because if people actually thought it was an improvement they are blind). Hopefully we don't have to wait quite as long as we did after iOS 7 for them to reverse course.
by gsf_emergency_6 | 2025-12-04 20:58:39+00:00
The cultural chasm between technocrats and politicians reminds me of the old trope about "women are from Venus and men are from Mars". That hasn't been bridged either, has it? It's a bit like those taboo topics here on HN where no good questions can be entertained by otherwise normal adults.

Here's something from someone we might call a manchild

For I approach deep problems like cold baths: quickly into them and quickly out again. That one does not get to the depths that way, not deep enough down, is the superstition of those afraid of the water, the enemies of cold water; they speak without experience. The freezing cold makes one swift.

Lichtenberg has something along these lines too, but I'll need to dig that out :)

Here's a consolation that almost predicts Alan Watts:

To make clever people [elites?] believe we are what we are not is in most instances harder than really to become what we want to seem to be.
by cardanome | 2025-12-04 20:59:17+00:00
> I have serious doubts that an autistic advocate with low support needs, as opposed to 'neurotypicals' or impacted parents, are meaningfully more qualified to represent the needs of autistics with high support needs

You think a parent without any autism is more qualified to speak than someone who has autism but a different cluster of symptoms? Because being a parent makes you an expert on what exactly?

The is a video of the spokesperson of autism speaks. Her autistic child is in the room and can hear everything. She talks about how bad it is for her to have an autistic child. How she wanted to kill herself by driving down a cliff. Again, while her autistic child is in the room. She is acting like her child is not even a person.

Autism Speaks is a hate group of abusive parents.

Those advocates with low support needs are the ones that are actually making an attempt to give those high support needs a voice. Not by speaking for them but by taking down barriers so that they can advocate for themselves. Because guess what? High Support needs autistic people are still people.

Just because someone is non-verbal does not mean they can not communicate in other forms. They can advocate for themselves if given the tools.

Support needs are multi dimensional, one person might have sensory issues, another no sensory issues at all but more social issues. Who has more support needs? They are different. And they can change. You can learn better coping skills, you can need more or less support as you age.
by gregsadetsky | 2025-12-04 20:59:24+00:00
Another very happy rsync.net customer!

A note/question to other macOS users:

I have "Require password after screen saver begins" turned on.

I realized that because of this, when my screensaver is on, ssh keys with passphrases (stored in my Keychain) would not work, which would lead rsync to fail.

I ended up using a dedicated passphrase-less ssh key for rsync. Not ideal.

Are there workarounds to have backups run while my computer is "idle'ing"? Thnaks!
by viccis | 2025-12-04 20:59:39+00:00
>Another big accommodation request is extra time on tests.

Yep. Speaking from experience, top colleges will give students with ADHD or similar conditions as much as double time or more on exams. One college I know of sends them to a disability services office to proctor it, in which they simply don't enforce time limits at all.

Coincidentally, there's an overwhelming number of students with ADHD compared to before these kinds of accommodations became standard.
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by karanzkk | 2025-12-04 20:59:55+00:00
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by wisty | 2025-12-04 21:00:37+00:00
Lots of people think a test should measure one thing (often under the slightly "main character" assumption that they'll be really good at the one truly important thing).

Tests usually measure lots of things, and speed and accuracy / fluency in the topic is one.

It certainly shouldn't be entirely a race either though.

Also if a test is time constrained it's easier to mark. Give a failing student 8 hours and they'll write 30 pages of nonsense.
by cleandreams | 2025-12-04 21:00:47+00:00
For the first time I have begun to doubt Microsoft's chosen course. (I am a retired MS principal engineer.) Their integration of copilot shows all the taste and good tradeoff choices of Teams but to far greater consequence. Copilot is irritating. MS dependence on OpenAI may well become dicey because that company is going to be more impacted by the popping of the AI bubble than any other large player. I've read that MS can "simply" replace ChatGPT by rolling their own -- maybe they can. I wouldn't bet the company on it. Is google going to be eager to license Gemini? Why would they?
by scriptbash | 2025-12-04 21:00:52+00:00
> Note that nothing in the article is AI-specific

This is such a tired counter argument against LLM safety concerns.

You understand that persuasion and influence are behaviors on a spectrum. Meaning some people, or in this case products, are more or less or better or worse at persuading and influencing.

In this case people are concerned with LLM's ability to influence more effectively than other modes that we have had in the past.

For example, I have had many tech illiterate people tell me that they believe "AI" is 'intelligent' and 'knows everything' and trust its output without question.

While at the same time I've yet to meet a single person who says the same thing about "targeted Facebook ads".

So depressing watching all of you do free propo psy ops for these fascist corpos.
by lostphilosopher | 2025-12-04 21:01:00+00:00
This seems like what should be a killer feature: Copilot having access to configuration and logs and being able to identify where a failure is coming from. This stuff is tedious manually since I basically run through a checklist of where the failure could occur and there’s no great way to automate that plus sometimes there’s subtle typo type issues. Copilot can generate the checklist reasonably well but can’t execute on it, even from Copilot within Azure. Why not??