MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kjjoseph | 2025-12-02 06:12:08+00:00
Location: San Diego CA (USA)

Remote: Yes. I'm open to any combination of in-office or remote.

Willing to relocate: Yes. I'm a US citizen, but open to other locations if sponsorship is available.

Technologies: Mainly frontend: Javascript, Typescript, HTML, CSS, React, Vue, Sass; also have some backend experience: MySQL, Node.js, Go, PHP

Résumé/CV: https://kevinjoseph.net/resume

Email: kevin@kevinjoseph.net

Additional links: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kjjoseph/ https://github.com/kj-joseph

Hi, I'm Kevin. I'm an experienced (15+ years), versatile mainly-front-end engineer. I'm seeking an opportunity to contribute to the success of a team while continuing to learn and expand my skills. I'm working in a non-technical role at the moment, but am attempting to get back into the engineering world.
by trashface | 2025-12-02 06:13:07+00:00
The subsidies are going down, but the base price of the plans are going way up. The plan I'm on increased from $800/month to $1150/month next year, and that is a modest increase compared to most others I've heard about. I'm switching to a maybe cheaper plan - if I use less healthcare, but if I use too much it will be more expensive due to much higher deductibles.

Insurers haven't really explained why the base prices of plans are going up so much. Perhaps GLP-1 drugs but that doesn't seem like enough (those drugs often aren't covered by ACA plans anyway due to their brand-name status). It could be a delayed effect from all the inflation a couple years ago - health care contracts are negotiated on the order of years, and a bunch could have just been renegotiated to reflect current market prices.
Show HN: VisiLens – Local-First and Fast Web GUI for VisiData
by PStarH | 2025-12-02 06:13:09+00:00
OP here. I built VisiLens because I love VisiData's speed but struggle to remember its CLI shortcuts. I wanted a mouse-friendly interface that doesn't sacrifice performance. How it works: It runs a local FastAPI server that wraps VisiData's engine. The frontend (React) uses a virtualized grid, streaming only the visible data slices via WebSocket. Key features:

Speed: Opens 1M rows in ~1.7s (benchmarked on M2 Air).

Privacy: 100% local. No data leaves your machine.

Stack: Python 3.10+, FastAPI, React.

Repo:https://github.com/PStarH/VisiLens

I'd love to hear your feedback
by Atlas667 | 2025-12-02 06:13:10+00:00
> ...people in Florida care a lot about hurricane response but can't command a majority and people in Illinois or California have little reason to care about it.

You mistake direct democracy for literally just majority decision making. You're presenting your absurd ideas and saying their mine. There are many, many ways of going around this. Mind you, states are somewhat independent within a federal system.

> ...get some representatives whose job is supposed to be to do the caring for you, but then they become the privileged elite...

Political parties are actually the BEST way to achieve this. A political party that consists of councils of workers who represent an industry. A socialist workers party whose aim is to increase worker control of the economy.

> If nobody actually owns anything then that isn't your house or your phone, it's everybody's.

This is the most childish take of socialism I have seen in a while, I'll still address it. Socialism is about productive property NOT personal property. Productive property being property that serves others. A house is personal property, even a mansion or a castle is personal property but a retail company that feeds 180 million people should not be personal property. But it is.

Take a retail store, the way I generally see it is these persons who work at these places of production would form councils and run it, generally, like any other retail store, but not for the service of private profits.

My most sincere take is that Socialism is about increasing production by unchaining it from private profits.

Production is limited by the profits of a few and ONLY socialism can unleash productions best side. With everyone employed we can satisfy most material human needs. Right now.

> it's why the USSR was a dystopia.

This is simply propaganda that can be dispelled by a simple look through CIA wires. And there's plenty of them. It's propaganda made for you as an American citizen. The CIA themselves claim the USSR wasn't a dictatorship in analysis they made in the late 60s. They then lied to the American people, such as yourself, because of the threat their ideology presented to the megacorps who rule america.

I do not believe the USSR was rainbows and sunshine tho. Do not misinterpret me. My point is not that I want to imitate a USSR, not even in the very slightest. It had flaws that caused its take over by capitalists. The USSR was a real country like any other with real flaws.

My point is that production can only be accelerated by socialism to go past the confines of capitalist ownership and into a realm of self satisfying production.

You don't strictly need money in order to produce, you need willing and able people.

These are, really, gestures towards socialism that I'm giving you. I'm just one guy, I don't represent much past me. But I know this, with the current technology that we have there should be much less needs in the world than there are now. And i know some people make money off others' needs.
by doctorpangloss | 2025-12-02 06:14:27+00:00
DTC pharmaceutical ads, which RFKJR wants to ban for essentially reasons of vibes, cause better health outcomes

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/695475

not merely correlation but causation. the approach used here was part of a family of approaches that won the Nobel in 2012

another good one:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37275770/

advertising caused increases in treatment and adherence to medicine

the digital ads market is hundreds of billions of dollars, it is a bad idea to generalize about it.

that said, of course ben thompson or whoever, they're not like, citing any of this research, it's still all based on vibes
by dijit | 2025-12-02 06:15:07+00:00
Professional software is aimed at people who use it day in day out so they’re optimising for a different problem than software that’s aimed at the casual user.

Intuitiveness is often seen as a outright positive by most people but actually it’s more of a trade off. Often the greatest efficiency is achieved by interfaces that require a bit of learning by the user. The ultimate example of that is command line interfaces which are very powerful and efficient but require you to know what you’re doing and give you relatively little help.

You’re on the other side of a steep learning curve for a lot of professional software you use. A steep learning curve is bad UX.
by rock_artist | 2025-12-02 06:15:25+00:00
I feel few points weren’t addressed in the article.

1. Size, biggest problem with JSON can happen when things gets too big. So here other formats might be better. Yet, as a reminder JSON has the binary version named BSON.

2. Zero batteries. JSON is readable by humans but also almost self explanatory format. Most languages has built in or quick drop in for json. Still, it’s easy to implement a limited JSON parser from scratch when in need (eg. Pure on func in C on a tiny device).

Working with Protobuf and MsgPack in the past, You have much more tooling involved especially if data passes between parts written in different languages.

3. Validation, JSON is simple. But there are solutions such as JSON Schema.
by Someone | 2025-12-02 06:16:03+00:00
I don’t think there is much “protection of friction”. A despot may not bother checking citizenship. For example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detention_and_deportation_of_A... says:

“ICE was confirmed by independent review and U.S. judges to have violated laws including the Immigration Act of 1990 by interrogating and detaining people without warrants or review of their citizenship status”
by usefulcat | 2025-12-02 06:16:27+00:00
> They're removing features like this because simplifying configurations translates to reduced support costs, and reducing their costs and padding their margin is the name of the game for a monopolist, they believe there's nowhere else for you to go, so they can and will hose you over and over again.

There may be some truth to that, but I really don't think it's the whole story. Otherwise how do you explain spending so much effort on eye candy like MacOS "liquid glass", or the redesigned settings app? For that matter, why bother with an annual release at all?

To me, I think it's a pretty obvious case of prioritizing style over substance. For whatever reason, but not to save money. If they really wanted to save money they'd stop with the gratuitous change.
by westurner | 2025-12-02 06:17:19+00:00
Not able to enter text on mobile

From "WebAssembly (WASM) arch support for the Linux kernel" (2025) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45784329 :

> JupyterLite still lacks a Terminal e.g. with BusyBox Ash in WASM, with a file system integrated with the Jupyter-xeus kernel file system.

> This [joelseverin/linux-wasm] appears to load much more quickly than other Linux and I think even just bash in WASM demos I've seen.
by shevy-java | 2025-12-02 06:18:04+00:00
It's especially annoying that democracies do that.

Give it a few years and suddenly China is no longer worse than democracies.

Modi and his clique are authoritarian though. It's interesting that so many indian vote for that clique. They seem to not understand the problem domain; similar to Hungary, too. (Don't even get me going on Trump's clique of superrich running the show. I recently watched CNN in the last days and I fail to see how CNN is any better than Foxnews - they manipulate people via what they broadcast. For instance, yesterday some random US general basically convincing people that nobody in the military would do double-tap, not even Hegseth, when the exact opposite has actually happened. Or some female today in a show trying to explain that the first attack on a fisher boat was "legal" anyway. People don't even realise how much they are manipulated by these private media entities. These are basically owned by superrich influencing people one way or the other.)
by linguae | 2025-12-02 06:18:21+00:00
As much as I love Jobs-era Mac OS X, particularly Tiger, Leopard, and Snow Leopard, I wholeheartedly agree with you: there’s something about the classic Mac OS and its ecosystem of applications that felt truly like “a computer for the rest of us,” one with very well-considered user interface guidelines and principles. While Mac OS X was undoubtedly a major improvement in terms of stability and infrastructure, it is not as easy to use as the classic Mac OS. Once again, this is from a lover of Tiger, Leopard, and Snow Leopard.
by Someone | 2025-12-02 06:18:25+00:00
A few paragraphs down from that:

“I assume that the ability to recognize that the exclusive-or zeroing idiom doesn't really depend on the previous value of a register, so that it can be dispatched immediately without waiting for the old value — thus breaking the dependency chain — met the same fate; the Pentium Pro shipped without it.

Some of the cut features were introduced in later models: segment register renaming, for example, was added back in the Pentium II. Maybe dependency-breaking zeroing XOR was added in later P6 models too? After all, it seems such a simple yet important thing, and indeed, I remember seeing people claim that's the case in some old forum posts and mailing list messages. On the other hand, some sources, such as Agner Fog's optimization manuals say that not only it was never present in any of the P6 processors, it was also missing in Pentium M.”
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-12-02 06:18:27+00:00
I worked inside AWS consulting department for 3 years (AWS ProServe) and now I work as a staff consultant for a 3rd AWS partner. I have been on enough sales calls, seen enough go to market training materials and flown out to customers sites to know how these things work. AWS has never tried to compete as the “low cost leader”. Marketing 101 says you never want to compete on price if you can avoid it.

Microsoft doesn’t compete on price. Their major competitive advantage is Big Enterprise is already big into Microsoft and it’s much easier to get them to come onto Azure. They compete on price only when it comes to making Windows workloads Bd SQL Server cheaper than running on other providers.

AWS is the default choice for legacy reasons and it definitely has services an offerings that Google doesn’t have. I have never once been on a sales call where the sales person emphasizes that AWS is cheaper.

As far as GCP, they are so bad at evterprise sales, we never really looked at them as serious competition.

Sure AWS will throw credits in for migrations and professional services both internally and for third party partners. But no CFO is going to look at just the short term credits.
by jajuuka | 2025-12-02 06:19:29+00:00
To be fair though the switch to wireless earbuds and headphones helped advance that market quickly. That applies to all of the companies in the space. It's also been so nice to not have to deal with tangled wired earbuds or headphones. Removing the jack was a band aid that needed to be ripped eventually, and Apple just happened to be the ones to do it. There is a reason the industry followed. Even when they didn't have their own product to offer.
by lisbbb | 2025-12-02 06:19:47+00:00
You aren't wrong and I agree up to a point. But I've watched a couple of people try to get by on just "cutting" rather than growing their incomes and it doesn't work out for them. A former neighbor was a real Dave Ramsey acolyte and even did things like not have trash service (used dumpsters and threw trash out at his mother's house). His driveway was crumbling but instead of getting new asphalt he just dug it all up himself and dumped it...somewhere, and then filled it in with gravel. He drives junker cars that are always breaking down. I helped him replace a timing chain on a Chrysler convertible that wasn't in awful shape, but the repairs were getting intense. This guy had an average job at a replacement window company but had zero upward mobility. He was and I assume is, happy enough, with a roof over his head and so forth, but our property taxes keep rising, insurance costs keep rising, there's only so much you can cut. My take is that you have to find more income and being looked upon as "tight with a buck" or even "cheap" is unfavorable.
by man8alexd | 2025-12-02 06:22:19+00:00
Location: Tbilisi, Georgia (UTC+4)

Remote: yes (working exclusively remotely for the past 20 years)

Willing to relocate: yes

Technologies: AWS, Kubernetes, Nomad, Docker, podman, Hashicorp Consul, Vault, Packer, Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Grafana, Loki, Prometheus, ELK stack, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Flux, GitLab, Postfix, HAProxy, MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Ruby, Python, bash, C

Résumé/CV: https://alexeydemidov.com/cv

Email: in the resume

GitHub: https://github.com/AlexeyDemidov

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alekseydemidov/

ServerFault: https://serverfault.com/users/23022/alexd

Have been playing with Linux and FreeBSD for over two decades. Run an ISP engineering team for a decade, now building and maintaining cloud infras.
by y-curious | 2025-12-02 06:22:22+00:00
When I was hiking in Joaquin Miller park in Oakland, I saw a man on a dirt bike version of a unicycle. He had just finished a route that I wouldn’t do as a novice mountain biker.

Learning that unicycles don’t have suspension has made that memory even more surprising. I want to understand the motivations, which were not addressed in this FAQ.
by dilipdasilva | 2025-12-02 06:22:47+00:00
VDX.tv (http://www.vdx.tv) | Remote Engineers & Developers | Full-time | REMOTE Established company (20+ years) looking for mature generalists to contribute remotely. You can be anywhere in the world so long as you:

● Are self-motivated and can work independently

● Driven to constantly learn and are always searching for the bigger picture

● Strong in clear thinking and written communication

● Have experience with many languages but can be effective in any language

● Appreciate that all mature software solutions accumulate technical debt and understand how to continually reduce debt and complexity

● Understand how to build highly reliable systems and be responsible for taking code to production

● Understand that code simplicity and readability are more important for long term maintainability

● Want to work on challenging problems and impactful work without being micromanaged

We're hiring across disciplines for engineers who work with Unix and have fluent written and spoken English:

● Backend Servers: Strong in C, Concurrency and Distributed Computing

● Backend Servers: Strong in Java

● Infrastructure: Strong in building infrastructure tooling to program infrastructure.

● Frontend: Strong in Javascript, Typescript, React, and advanced UI and browser applications

● Artificial Intelligence: Strong in Neural Networks, AI Workflows, AI Models.

● Product Design: Ability to spec and build out clean UIs and dashboards.

We value people who are generalists and are interested in learning, developing, and applying expertise across multiple areas.

Although our core business is in digital video advertising, we do research and development in areas such as programming languages, databases, distributed computing, infrastructure, and ai.

We are private, which gives us the freedom to explore many areas without investors and profits being the sole objective.

Full-time only. Remote only. We start out on a full-time trial contract basis for up to 3 months and use this period as an extended work interview for both sides to assess fit for long-term employment.

Please email hn.remote.jobs@vdx.tv if this sounds like the right fit for you.
by wewtyflakes | 2025-12-02 06:23:40+00:00
I agree with the sentiment that we should not make a habit with resting on our rights and that government has an important role to play. However, I do not think we (society) necessarily deserve our situation because others are maliciously complying with the letter of the law and we should have just been smarter about making laws. At the end of the day we are people interacting with people, and even laws can be mere suggestions depending on who you are or who you ask. Consequently, if someone 'needs' the strictest laws in order to not be an ass, then I just do not want them in whatever society I have the capacity to be in; these are bad-faith actors.
by ulfw | 2025-12-02 06:23:48+00:00
Location: Hong Kong and Australia as PR (Global Talent Visa/PR in both). No sponsorship required.

Remote: Yes worldwide possible (as either part time, fractional, consulting, board, advisory, freelance or similar arrangement.)

Willing to relocate: Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne.

Results-oriented Product Management and People Leader with 15+ years of experience in the Mobile and Internet industries, known for driving innovation, high-impact growth, and strategic product direction. Stanford MBA with a proven track record in scaling multi-million dollar products across global markets, leveraging expertise in AI/ML, UX/UI, and e-commerce to deliver user-centric solutions. Accomplished executive in leading organizations like Google, Myspace, Booking Holdings (Agoda), Skyscanner, and multiple startups through growth and transformation. EU national, permanent resident of Australia and Hong Kong.

Résumé/CV: http://www.ulfw.com/docs/CVulfw.pdf

LinkedIn Contact: https://www.linkedin.com/in/waschbusch/

eMail: calstanford at gmail dot com
by apimade | 2025-12-02 06:24:01+00:00
The same way you write malware without it being detected by EDR/antivirus.

Bit by bit.

Over the past six weeks, I’ve been using AI to support penetration testing, vulnerability discovery, reverse engineering, and bug bounty research. What began as a collection of small, ad-hoc tools has evolved into a structured framework: a set of pipelines for decompiling, deconstructing, deobfuscating, and analyzing binaries, JavaScript, Java bytecode, and more, alongside utility scripts that automate discovery and validation workflows.

I primarily use ChatGPT Pro and Gemini. Claude is effective for software development tasks, but its usage limits make it impractical for day-to-day work. From my perspective, Anthropic subsidizes high-intensity users far less than its competitors, which affects how far one can push its models. Although it's becoming more economical across their models recently, and I'd shift to them completely purely because of the performance of their models and infrastructure.

Having said all that, I’ve never had issues with providers regarding this type of work. While my activity is likely monitored for patterns associated with state-aligned actors (similar to recent news reports you may have read), I operate under my real identity and company account. Technically, some of this usage may sit outside standard Terms of Service, but in practice I’m not aware of any penetration testers who have faced repercussions -- and I'd quite happily take the L if I fall afoul of some automated policy, because competitors will quite happily take advantage of that situation. Larger vuln research/pentest firms may deploy private infrastructure for client-side analysis, but most research and development still takes place on commercial AI platforms -- and as far as I'm aware, I've never heard of a single instance of Google, Microsoft, OpenAI or Anthropic shutting down legitimate research use.
by gardnr | 2025-12-02 06:24:23+00:00
Location: NZ / USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Mainly web SaaS (TypeScript/Python) with a focus on AI, embeddings, LLMs and Voice Agents.

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mcK18EVVkjQ-KadXu0VW6Ovx...

Email: gardner@bickford.ai
by paulddraper | 2025-12-02 06:24:41+00:00
BSON is not simply a binary encoding of JSON.

It is a JSON superset with binary encoding, created by MongoDB. (And there is even a JSON encoding of BSON, called extended JSON.)

AFAIK there is no widely adopted binary pure adaptation of JSON. (There are application-specific storage formats, like PostgreSQL JSONB, or SQLite JSONB.)

——-

Moreover, JSON is relatively compact. BSON or other self descriptive binary formats are often around the same size of JSON. MessagePack aggressively tries to be compact and is, depending on the data. BSON doesn’t try to be compact, rather it improves the parse speed.
by lisbbb | 2025-12-02 06:25:02+00:00
I think FIRE was basically just a fad for awhile. I say this as a 52 year old "retiree" who isn't working right now and living off investment income. It takes a shitload of wealth to not have to work and I'm borderline not real comfortable with the whole situation. I live in a fairly HCoL area and can't up and move right now (wife has medical needs, son in high school, daughter in college). I'd be freaking out if I didn't have a nest egg, we would be trying to sell our house in a crap market. As it stands, I don't really want to go on like I am, my life is a total waste right now.
by gnabgib | 2025-12-02 06:25:21+00:00
14th post, most recently popular 8 months ago (113 points, 18 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43471393

Probably just capitalizing on: guide to learning comp sci (2 hours ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46117280
by stephenhuey | 2025-12-02 06:25:30+00:00
I'll never forget the first time I heard his name. As a kid, I had seen the Spielberg film Empire of the Sun starring a young Christian Bale and considered it one of my favorites. When I was an adult eagerly showing it to friends, one of them who was a theater major loudly exclaimed during the opening credits, "Tom Stoppard wrote the screenplay?!" I knew most of the names in the opening credits but had no idea who Tom Stoppard was until that moment.

When he passed away a couple days ago, I was surprised to discover he was originally from a Moravian town I've been to since one of my ancestors grew up 10 miles farther down the road. The twists and turns his family took escaping from there to the other side of the world and back no doubt enhanced his keen insight into people.