MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by watchtowerpulse | 2026-01-02 17:55:52+00:00
Company: Watchtower Health
Location: Remote US
Role: Founding Full Stack Engineer
Compensation: Equity only - til funding
Tech: React, Node or Python, SMART on FHIR, healthcare workflows

We are building Watchtower Pulse, an AI driven system that lives inside Epic and Cerner to automate DME and discharge workflows. It reads the chart via SMART on FHIR, checks insurance rules, generates complete referral packets, and routes them instantly.

Founder has deep hands on hospital and EHR experience. MVP scope is intentionally narrow and pilot conversations are active.

Looking for a senior engineer with founder mindset who wants true ownership from day one. Healthcare experience is a plus but not required.

Email Kris at watchtowerpulse@gmail.com
by calenti | 2026-01-02 17:56:23+00:00
Systems and processes are good, but if the individual doesn't want to help make it better that is a different but related problem. Testing locally, checking work...that's the behavioral part of this he _can_ control. You can't force him, but might be able to encourage it, not by calling someone out in a code review/etc but privately discussing some local validation they could do. Also, I'm betting the "typos" aren't for corpus words but config strings like swmn0023094 or server names or whatever. That might be more of a custom dictionary type or DSL solution to check values against valid constant values.
by troupo | 2026-01-02 17:56:43+00:00
> by smearing critics as "conspiracy theorists"

I mean, @lepton literally wrote this: "Maybe part of their agreement is to not implement some features because it would compete with Chrome" about Firefox. No smearing required.

> Your deceptive rhetoric in defense of Apple's anti-competitive business practices i

I literally say nothing avout Apple's business practices. All I'm talking are a bunch of Chrome-only non-standards that people on HN pretend are standards and claim that everyone must immediately implement them
by somenameforme | 2026-01-02 17:57:05+00:00
Tu quoque can be a fallacy but in this case it demonstrates that the US not only expects, but demands, that other countries to behave in a way far and away from how it itself behaves. And that is important because it gets back to the point of the US trying to assert itself as having a position of dominance.

And also, I think many people have a rather distorted view of the world. When you say 'the rest of the world' I assume you are speaking as most do when they use this term - the Anglosphere, Europe excluding Russia/Belarus, and then the handful of oddballs like Japan and sometimes South Korea. What percent of the world do you think this is? It's less than 15%, and trending downward.
by Aurornis | 2026-01-02 17:58:12+00:00
> It's the parents obligation to educate their child.

> It's the child's obligation to use that education wisely.

In the real world, it’s the parents obligation to make an effort to protect their children. In extreme cases, parents can be found negligent if they don’t demonstrate that they’re taking reasonable steps to protect children and something bad happens as a result.

This doesn’t mean that extreme, draconian parenting is mandatory. It does, however, mean that some level of parental control is necessary on an age-adjusted basis. It’s not enough to say “I told them not to do that” and then wash your hands of the consequences when we’re talking about a pre-teen like in this article.
by pessimizer | 2026-01-02 17:58:15+00:00
Just use Debian. If you have technical skills, run Debian Testing. If not, run Debian Stable, or someone else who repackages Debian Testing such as Mint or (as you mentioned) Ubuntu LTS.

Debian Testing will sometimes break, so technical skills are necessary if you want to always be sure you can be up and running. Otherwise, something may not work for a few days to a week, like CUPS (printing). 99.9% of the time, it won't be your networking or something super-important, but it could be. When you update, read the list of changes and absolutely make sure that you know what the things are that are being uninstalled, and whether you can do without them for a few days. Check the internet for when packages are removed from testing (and why) or will be moved into testing from unstable. Don't forget that you can use LLMs now when you have a problem.

Once you've been able to handle Debian Testing for a while, especially through a couple of breakages, you'll probably be confident enough and knowledgeable enough to know if you want to go to another distro. I personally don't need anything other than testing for my desktops, and stable for my servers.
by TulliusCicero | 2026-01-02 17:58:35+00:00
The thing that gets me about Windows is: when's the last time Microsoft added a major new feature to Windows I actually gave a shit about? A feature that actually felt useful to me as a consumer?

Windows 7 was nice, but since then, I struggle to think of anything. Since 7, it feels like it's just been upsell after upsell, features that are about Microsoft selling me on something or annoying the crap out of me rather than providing actual utility.
by peter1123581321 | 2026-01-02 17:58:38+00:00
RealStack AI | Senior Software Engineer | NYC | Onsite Full-time | Apply here https://forms.gle/X9CzYDBWSGYZnww57

Commercial Real Estate (CRE) is the world’s largest asset class. The annual transaction volume is 10% of US GDP, yet the industry remains slow and archaic because data is locked in PDFs and Excel files. We are transforming CRE into an AI-native asset class by helping investors understand their own assets better.

*We are hiring in NYC:*

Senior/Staff AI/IE engineer (NYC)

- Architect RAG/prompt systems to parse heterogeneous structured data.
- Develop frameworks connecting LLMs to quantifiable investment decisions.
- Collaborate with finance experts to translate domain knowledge into code.

Senior/Staff Full-stack engineer (NYC)

- Own the infrastructure and UI that power high-value investment decisions.
- Design scalable data pipelines and cloud architecture.
- Tackle complex business logic with domain-driven design.

*Who are you:*

- You build things for fun, obsess over craft, and have a lot of product ideas.
- You have proven experience shipping production software to solve *ambiguous business problems*.
- You have experience with end-to-end NLP/IE and complex data extraction.
by troupo | 2026-01-02 17:59:06+00:00
> I really don't care what browsers do or don't implement.

Oh yes, you do. To the point of inventing contract clauses for Firefox.

It's just extremely unfortunate that Safari is now between a rock and a hard place (only because of Apple) as really they are the only web engine of note to withstand "whatever Chrome spits out is standard now"
by abracadaniel | 2026-01-02 17:59:09+00:00
This has been my experience when trying to buy any EV in the US. They technically exist, but finding one at a dealership is hard. Harder still is finding one that they actually have charged. Finding one without massive dealer fees is impossible. They use the forced scarcity as an excuse. Chevy dealership told me I was better off buying a Tesla. Hyundai told me “this isn’t really an EV kind of city”
by Arindam1729 | 2026-01-02 17:59:15+00:00
I keep seeing the same pattern with enterprise AI agents: they look fine in demos, then break once they’re embedded in real workflows.

This usually isn’t a model or tooling problem. The agents have access to the right systems, data, and policies.

What’s missing is decision context.

Most enterprise systems record outcomes, not reasoning. They store that a discount was approved or a ticket was escalated, but not why it happened. The context lives in Slack threads, meetings, or individual memory.

I was thinking about this again after reading Jaya Gupta’s article on context graphs, which describes the same gap. A context graph treats decisions as first-class data by recording the inputs considered, rules evaluated, exceptions applied, approvals taken, and the final outcome, and linking those traces to entities like accounts, tickets, policies, agents, and humans.

This gap is manageable when humans run workflows because people reconstruct context from experience. It becomes a hard limit once agents start acting inside workflows. Without access to prior decision reasoning, agents treat similar cases as unrelated and repeatedly re-solve the same edge cases.

What’s interesting is that this isn’t something existing systems of record are positioned to fix. CRMs, ERPs, and warehouses store state before or after decisions, not the decision process itself. Agent orchestration layers, by contrast, sit directly in the execution path and can capture decision traces as they happen.

At scale, agent reliability depends less on model intelligence and more on whether past decisions are actually remembered.
by coppsilgold | 2026-01-02 17:59:35+00:00
You might want to note that MPV plugins can actually do cuts and crops for you (+ whatever ffmpeg filters you want), something that would generally require the hassle of opening editing software. And those cuts can be done in h264 lossless (for additional processing later at no additional quality loss from this step).

https://github.com/occivink/mpv-scripts

There is also a way to losslessly cut preserving the original encoding but you give up the precision of the cuts due to keyframes. The MPV script can do that too: script-opts/encode_slice.conf

You can also create a useful script for stabilizing a shaky video (with h264 lossless if desired) and then optionally crop and cut it with the MPV plugins above. You can get good ffmpeg args (for vidstabdetect & vidstabtransform) for doing that from the reddit stabbot source: https://gitlab.com/juergens/stabbot/blob/master/src/stabVid....
by bradly | 2026-01-02 17:59:51+00:00
Location: San Diego, California
Remote: Yes. With travel up to one week a quarter.
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Ruby on Rails, Git, Linux, Tailwind, Hotwire/Turbo, SQL/Postgres, Cloud infrastructure, people
Résumé/CV: Seasoned Rails developer with extensive experience at Shopify, Apple, Intuit as well as many start ups. You can read more at https://bradlyfeeley.com
Email: bradly@rails247.com
by tooltalk | 2026-01-02 17:59:57+00:00
still don't understand why this is going to hurt US car manufacturers. Has the Japanese auto imports improve the US auto industry past 40+ years?

Just not convinced that allowing autos from another auto industry built on forced tech transfer, illegal (export/local content) subsidies, or otherwise benefited tremendously from the very same rent-seeking policies themselves past 15 years.
by man8alexd | 2026-01-02 17:59:57+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 working with Linux and FreeBSD for over two decades. Run an ISP engineering team for a decade, now building and maintaining cloud infras.
by rvz | 2026-01-02 18:00:22+00:00
> The last permanent role I negotiated had a TC of £160,000/year.

If you want that £160k+/year, you might as well either go to a quant firm like Citadel or Jane Street (But there is a 0% chance it will be remote) or build your own startup.

> I'm open to go down to £90,000/year or even less for the right opportunity

£90k is not bad, but not the best either, but anything higher than 120k in the UK means you lose 45% of that.

But the risk is that someone else will go even lower than your offer until the role can be done internally by another person using an AI agent.

The point is, most businesses that are non-quant and non-big tech, non-big AI do not want to pay the extortionate level of taxes in the UK and it makes SWEs in the UK look very expensive and the jobs + office move off-shore.
by pmcconnell | 2026-01-02 18:01:07+00:00
Location: USA(NY)
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: n/a
Technologies: Primarily Swift, ObjC, iOS/Apple Platforms. Years of varied experience in many other stacks.
Résumé/CV: https://squirrelpointstudios.com/apps
Email: patrick@squirrelpointstudios.com
by wwolffrec | 2026-01-02 18:01:10+00:00
Category Labs | https://www.category.xyz/ | Remote and NYC | Full Time | $200K USD+

Category Labs (formerly known as Monad Labs) is a team of systems engineers and researchers on a mission to design and build at the frontier of decentralized technology. We strive to design and build step-function improvements over existing blockchain solutions. After raising $225M in series A funding, led by Paradigm, we are growing our team.

Technical Program Manager: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/category-labs/bdfe89a6-83f6-4ab3-b6...

Smart Contract Engineer (Solidity): https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/category-labs/776ce314-aa12-471b-92...

Infrastructure Engineer, APAC: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/category-labs/ea8cf4f7-0db7-43e9-af...

Senior SWE (Rust, C/C++): https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/category-labs/45f674b2-d904-482e-a5...

Senior Researcher, Systems: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/category-labs/015934c5-66e5-4042-94...
by tromp | 2026-01-02 18:01:20+00:00
> Attach something to an EV to tow and you kill the range

It reduces the range, just as it reduces how far an ICE truck can go on one tank. But that's only an issue if you tow cross country and cannot find a place to charge on the way. You could choose to rent an ICE truck for such (increasingly) rare occacions.
by samingrassia | 2026-01-02 18:01:32+00:00
Hiring: Fullstack Engineer and UI Designer (Remote, LATAM) – BudgetSimple

BudgetSimple is a no-code app and site builder for personal finance coaches, creators, and advisors.

We’re growing the platform and looking for:
* Fullstack Engineer
* UI Designer

Both roles will work directly with the founder on a real, production SaaS used by paying customers.

Fullstack Engineer
React, Python (Flask), Postgres
Build and ship full features end to end
Care about clean code and simple systems
Bonus: SaaS, no-code tools, Stripe

UI Designer
Design clean, modern, highly usable web app interfaces
Dashboards, forms, workflows, design systems
Strong product thinking and attention to detail
Bonus: SaaS, fintech, no-code products

Both roles are fully remote. We are specifically looking for candidates based in South America, Central America, or Mexico.

Email sam [at] budgetsimple [dot] com with:
A short intro
Links to work you’ve built or designed

Thanks!
by simonw | 2026-01-02 18:01:49+00:00
Oh cool... the main CSV data (~3MB) is available via CORS too!

https://hn-popularity.cdn.refactoringenglish.com/hn-data.csv

I had Claude write me a SQL query for showing the relative rankings of different domains over time, here's that query running in Datasette Lite directly against the CORS CSV file:

https://lite.datasette.io/?csv=https://hn-popularity.cdn.ref...

... and then I saw you have that feature already! https://refactoringenglish.com/tools/hn-popularity/domain/?d...
by SunshineTheCat | 2026-01-02 18:02:03+00:00
What's funny is I actually use to have a Palm Treo and I feel like I stopped being able to text even remotely efficiently ever since I switched from that to my first iPhone.

Probably just a me problem, but I feel like I've never been able to get any good at typing on a screen keyboard no matter how long I do it.

That said, I may consider this just for the fact that I won't have to retype/correct every other word in a text lol.
by englishspot | 2026-01-02 18:02:17+00:00
> Ford seems not doing anything

honestly it really does seem that way. the impression I'm getting is farley just wants to make as much money as he can off of whatever's left of ford and leave. I mean, what kind of leader goes "wow I drove my competitor's car and it's freaking great, I give up!"?

compare this with toyota's CEO. they easily could've just coasted on corollas, camrys and RAV4s forever. nope, here's a new beastly supercar on the way!
by aweiher | 2026-01-02 18:02:39+00:00
I’d argue that what you're experiencing isn't the Network Effect anymore, but rather Vendor Lock-in.

The Network Effect implies the platform gets better for you as more people join. If they are deleting your content, the network is no longer serving you—it’s just holding you hostage. This is enshitification as it best. (this ironie with a cory doctorow link)

At this stage, it’s just a walled garden. Staying because 'everyone is here' while being silenced is learned helplessness.

You're voluntarily staying in a walled garden that refuses to let you speak.

But: The door is wide open, you can go.
by rssmllr | 2026-01-02 18:02:41+00:00
Location: Nashville, TN (US)
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No (frequent travel OK)
Technologies: React Native, Expo, TypeScript, React, Turbo Modules, Redux, GraphQL, Node/Express, Postgres, iOS (Swift/Obj‑C), Android (Kotlin/Java)
Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xSbO732p082rpdbJWLwEHTcUCgZYQKyK
Email: gmail - rossnmiller
GitHub: https://github.com/rsml
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rossnmiller/

Staff/Lead React Native Engineer (9 YOE RN; 18 YOE full‑stack). Product + design minded engineer with lots of leadership/mentoring experience. I love shipping delightful UX, improving developer experience (architecture, tooling, reliability, performance), solving tough problems and moving fast. Due to my startup/entrepreneurial background, I’m very comfortable with ambiguity, very industrious and able to quickly analyze from many perspectives: engineering, design, user experience and business needs.

Recent work:

- Engineering Manager / #2 employee: Openpath Security (acq. Motorola). Premium cloud-based access control for businesses: Lead React Native engineer. Powered millions of door unlocks/day; built WebRTC video intercom + HLS playback; heavy profiling/perf work (battery, TTI, large lists).
- Founder/CTO (Vivy). All-in-one app for GLP-1 users: 10k+ paid users; 4.8 (580+ ratings); 8.9% install→subscription; 77% monthly cohort retention; 68 app releases in 2025; 99.98% crash‑free sessions.
- Founder/CTO (Text2Order). SMS-based concessions ordering solution at festivals: led/mentored 6 engineers + 2 QA; weekly releases; automated E2E SMS ordering flows; managed logistics and on-site operations at events
by duckkg5 | 2026-01-02 18:03:01+00:00
ModPhone.ai | Business Development | REMOTE (US) | Commission + Equity | modphone.ai

AI-powered phone/SMS/email/chat platform for schools, cities, and SMBs. Live paying customers, 60-second setup, multilingual.

Role: Own outbound—cold calls, LinkedIn, email. You eat what you kill.
Comp: Uncapped commission (20-30% of first-year ACV) + early equity. Path to base as you prove out.

You: Hungry, self-directed, comfortable on the phone. Bonus: E-rate/EdTech/GovTech experience.

Founder-track role. Small technical team (ex-Google, GitHub) and seasoned sales team (20+ years in telecom).

Email hello@modphone.ai
by ehfeng | 2026-01-02 18:03:20+00:00
Emotionally, I agree that the current system sucks. But how exactly do you "[put] median housing titles in the hands of median people"? Government seizure and redistribution of property titles? That's where I always get stuck: criticizing society ills is much easier than proposing concrete, pass-able policy.

"No mainstream economists touch this problem" because it's a damn hard problem without painless solutions.
by bzmrgonz | 2026-01-02 18:03:21+00:00
This is a very detailed document. Thank you for that. I am currently poking my head into beancount, hledger, and the new kid on the block, DIGITS(which aims to take on quickbooks head-on. I love the PTA philosophy, but I worry about catering to the non-tech data entry personnel(bookkeeping), is there a gui for these folks to enter the day to day? Essentially I would love to have the back-end be PTA and GIT for full control, and build/use data-entry front-end<bookkeeping>, and reporting/graphing/dashboards for executives and owners. Perhaps we can even do an OCR workflow ontop of PAPERLESS-NG to stream the bookkeeping into the back-end.
by maerF0x0 | 2026-01-02 18:03:57+00:00
Another angle of why vaccinating men is important is because gay men (or more precisely those who participate in oral-penile or penile-anal sex) are at risk for these cancers, but if we only vaccinate women then we do not protect this group of men.

Also on my soapbox it's an absolute absurdity that we still do not have any HPV test for men.
by maxglute | 2026-01-02 18:04:04+00:00
Unfortunately, your reading comprehension can't parse basic argument, so there's not much to discuss.

For >50%, pick a manufactured finished good or intermediary good like steel, electronics, solar modules, batteries, shipbuilding, xyz components, and chances are PRC produces more than 50% of it by volume/units/tonnage, but not gross/value add. For more broad proxy indicator, look at share of global export TEUs, PRC ships out like ~50% of filled containers, OCED 20%, Row 30%. Emphasis on filled, i.e. take away empty container traffic that flows back to PRC to be filled. Hence western cope is PRC export only ~30% by gross/value (both $$$ figures) that underestimate how many sectors PRC makes more than >50% stuff in while capturing <50% in $$$. And this only considering PRC only exports 20% of GDP, i.e. a lot of manufacturing stays at home.
by JuniperMesos | 2026-01-02 18:04:12+00:00
I've been annoyed at this distinction myself when trying to troubleshoot problems with other Github-hosted software. I actually think the distinction Ghostty is making here where the Discussion section is open for anyone to bring up an issue with a project, and the Issues section is locked down to official maintainers and is only used for tracking well-scoped planned changes to the software (which might arise from a user-initiated discussion about a problem) makes a great deal of sense. I haven't seen any other Github-hosted project which organizes itself in exactly this way but I have zero problem with it as a user of Ghostty myself.
by estimator7292 | 2026-01-02 18:05:21+00:00
Where did $2.2t come from?

There are two options:

1. The money was taken from other people, through means and methods both legal and illegitimate. Those people have less money and are by definition poorer

2. The money was invented from whole cloth. Our money is fiat and we can simply magic more into existence. The rich people now have a peoportiobately larger share of both currency and real value. As new currency is created, its value dilutes. Poor people have the same amount of currency but can buy less with it. Therefore, poorer.

Idiot
by artyom | 2026-01-02 18:05:22+00:00
The comment section seems to be divided between "don't police your children" and "absolutely police everything your children do".

Parental controls are absolutely necessary, yet they won't be enough by themselves. Payment systems are really robust but there's still fraud. If there's prey, there will be predators.

Education and clear rules are absolutely necessary, yet they won't be enough by themselves. There's people that's very evil and also very clever. You can educate and trust your 12yo to understand 80% of it, yet for the remaining 20% you have to be there.

And, oh boy, the issue about parental controls being incredibly complicated is 100% by design. Simple and sensible parental controls would make exploitative business models like Roblox go bankrupt overnight.