MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by americantrash | 2026-01-02 21:28:44+00:00
I made the mistake of giving my child access to Roblox when he was 7, assuming that they did some sort of moderation. Luckily, the worst thing he found was a game that told him he was going to die that night. It scared the hell out of him. After doing a bit more research on Roblox, I decided to ban it from the household. I'm happy that I did, considering it seems that it's just a cesspool of predators.

It's fine and well to say the solution is to just be around more or take an interest in what they're doing, but that is hard to do with full time jobs, multiple kids, etc. Parental controls are supposed to exist to let the parents let their kids explore in a safe space. It's not about constant supervision or tracking, its more akin to hiring a babysitter rather than leave your children home alone.
by lovich | 2026-01-02 21:29:19+00:00
> Apple hires talent, they don't care about anything else. Again, I am speaking to things I know from my actual life and people I know in the physical world.

How many people do they hire without college degrees?

I am legitimately asking. I understand that was a thing in the tech world decades ago but my understanding was that big tech’s idea of “talent” has evolved to include mandatory education credentials like at least a bachelor’s degree if not further education.

18 is recently a kid

22 is someone whose been an adult for an entire Presidential term. I might be splitting hairs but I struggle to view that as “recent”

Edit: removed an unnecessarily aggressive paragraph that added nothing to the conversation
by toss1 | 2026-01-02 21:29:27+00:00
>>what does local only even mean?

Let's start with this: Design the architecture so the core system works fine locally. Features requiring Internet connection are in separate modules, so they can be easily turned on/off, and designed so they are still primarily local.

E.g., store all current status locally and if requested another module sends it to the cloud, instead of cloud-first.

E.g.2, install updates by making a pull of all resources and then doing the update instead of requiring continuous communication.

Allow user control with options to completely shut off, whitelist, blacklist, etc.

Simple design decisions up front to make a software package meeting the user's local needs first, THEN allowing controlled access to the internet, under the USERS' control, instead of designing every feature to contact your servers first and compromising both usability and control at every step.
by bc569a80a344f9c | 2026-01-02 21:29:27+00:00
But TCP or HTTP don’t care about the underlying transport. They’re higher level protocols that are payloads to either IPv4 or IPv6. It’s irrelevant what the transport is when dissecting HTTP and very little time should be spent on it.

IPv4 is, for all intents and purposes, still the default transport. It’s also simpler than IPv6 in some regards. When teaching layer 3, it makes sense to teach both, and teach IPv4 first. Though I fully agree that they should be taught with equal emphasis. I don’t doubt there’s a good number of programs out there that don’t into sufficient detail on IPv6.
by Localroute | 2026-01-02 21:29:32+00:00
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by gingerBill | 2026-01-02 21:29:46+00:00
The thing that is at odds with Rust is the second part of the article: the difference in mindsets.

Rust by default doesn't really encourage the group-element mindset and people have to work against the language in order to do it. And what usually happens is people work around the borrow-check as a result, through the use of a handle system. And they do this in order to get the lifetime benefits, performance benefits, and also get around the problems of the ownership semantics.

Of course you can do this in Rust, but the point is that the default approach in Rust does not encourage it at all. The default Rust mindset is the individual-element mindset.
by scrose | 2026-01-02 21:29:50+00:00
Russia has a history of raping, pillaging, and stealing land from their neighbors with NATO acting as the only (somewhat) successful defense against that so far.

Your idea of ‘containment’ in this sense means you’re defending the equivalent of a gang of serial rapists and murderers entering innocent people’s homes, taking their families hostage, and saying the home is now theirs.
by apothegm | 2026-01-02 21:30:03+00:00
The other thing I had to realize before I could get an offer in this market is that there are so many overqualified candidates it’s almost impossible to get a stretch role and very difficult to get one at the same level you were last working at. If you just need an income for now, consider looking for something you’re significantly overqualified for but that gives you exposure to something new in a different dimension (new industry, for instance). Then once you’ve got that job and have restored your savings, you can look for something with more growth while still employed. Maybe some day the market will even bounce back, tho I wouldn’t count on it.
by fooblaster | 2026-01-02 21:30:12+00:00
FPGAs will never rival gpus or TPUs for inference. The main reason is that GPUs aren't really gpus anymore. 50% of the die area or more is for fixed function matrix multiplication units and associated dedicated storage. This just isn't general purpose anymore. FPGAs cannot rival this with their configurable DSP slices. They would need dedicated systolic blocks, which they aren't getting. The closest thing is the versal ML tiles, and those are entire peoxessors, not FPGA blocks. Those have failed by being impossible to program.
by guga42k | 2026-01-02 21:30:17+00:00
>A glass of wine with dinner is unlikely to significantly disrupt your sleep

it will and it does. anybody who owns a smart watch with heart rate monitor can observe it. the proverbial glass is very visible as a spike of resting heart rate and especially horrible on HRV.

besides, there are "glasses" which can take full 750ml bottle. may be most people don't go such extreme but still very good to fool themselves about alcohol volume consumption
by ectospheno | 2026-01-02 21:30:19+00:00
I run dual stack at home with dns64/nat64. I average 50/50 traffic v4/v6. Web browsing gets skewed v6 but large file transfers and some streaming pushed it back to 50/50 overall. My family would revolt if I went v6 only so I'm not sure I'd say its just there for holdouts. Major annoyances include any old device and my hue bridge.
by hxii | 2026-01-02 21:30:19+00:00
Location: Israel
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: Python, HTML, CSS, Some Crystal/Ruby, GitHub Actions and SourceHut builds, Liquid, Django, Jinja and so on.
Résumé/CV: https://hxii.github.io or https://0xff.nu or https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulglushak/
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I'm Paul, and I've mostly done Support Engineering – from Tier 1 to managing a team. I specialize in resolving complex user issues, building plugins and integrations, developing internal tooling, coming up with creative solutions and mentoring technical teams. Currently I'm focused on Python development, unit testing, and CI/CD automation, while giving Crystal and Swift a while. I'm passionate about small-web principles and minimalist, human-oriented tools.
I seek to learn while trying to make the world around me just a tiny bit better than I've found it.
by cvoss | 2026-01-02 21:30:34+00:00
The quote you gave is not the conclusion of the article. It's a self-evident claim that just as well could have been the first sentence of the article ("take-home exams are dead"), followed by an opinion ("reverting ... feels like a regression") which motivated the experiment.

Some universities and professors have tried to move to a take-home exam format, which allows for more comprehensive evaluation with easier logistics than a too-brief in-class exam or an hours-long outside-of-class sitting where unreasonable expectations for mental and sometimes physical stamina are factors. That "take-home exams are dead" is self-evident, not a result of the experiment in the article. There used to be only a limited number of ways to cheat at a take-home exam, and most of them involved finding a second person who also lacked a moral conscience. Now, it's trivial to cheat at a take-home exam all by yourself.

You also mentioned the hundreds of years of experience universities have at traditional written exams. But the type and manner of knowledge and skills that must be tested for vary dramatically by discipline, and the discipline in question (computer science / software engineering) is still new enough that we can't really say we've matured the art of examining for it.

Lastly, I'll just say that student preference is hardly the way to measure the quality of an exam, or much of anything about education.
by sgjohnson | 2026-01-02 21:31:35+00:00
But that is a bug in history. IPv6 was standardized BEFORE NAT.

“most what they know from IPv6” is just NAT.

> A less ambitious IPv4 is exactly what we need in order to make any progress

but we’re already making very good progress with IPv6? Global traffic to Google is >50% IPv6 already.
by rp_talent | 2026-01-02 21:31:38+00:00
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by toss1 | 2026-01-02 21:31:46+00:00
YES, Thank you!

>>The 29 separate confusing overlapping effects is by design

>>designed to frustrate you to the point that you allow what they want from the start, the ability of the device to generate future revenue

And this explains why they are willing to do all the extra work to do it.

It is not even close to accidental or lazy — there is nothing accidental about the intention or going to the extra cost to build those dark patterns to screw the customers.
by paddim8 | 2026-01-02 21:32:00+00:00
That's why I don't think Ubuntu is a newbie distro. You never have to compile for source on arch-based distros. Obviously plain arch isn't fit for beginners, but I would argue that something like endeavouros or cachyos is easier to use than Ubuntu. If you want to install something, you just run one command, and then it is installed, 99.99% of the time.
by sekh60 | 2026-01-02 21:32:05+00:00
The amount of ignorance in these ipv6 posts is astounding (seems to be one every two months). It isn't hard at all, I'm just a homelabber and I have a dual-stack setup for WAN access (HE Tunnel is set up on the router since Bell [my isp] still doesn't give ipv6 address/prefixes to non-mobile users), but my OpenStack and ceph clusters are all ipv6 only, it's easy peasy. Plus subnetting is a heck of a lot less annoying that with ipv4, not that that was difficult either.
by oneneptune | 2026-01-02 21:32:17+00:00
RecruitiFi | Software Engineer (Full-stack) | REMOTE (US) | Full-time | $130k–$160k

RecruitiFi is a vendor management platform connecting companies with 20,000+ recruiting agencies globally. Two-sided marketplace, complex workflow automation, integrations with major ATS/HRIS platforms.

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Stack: Ruby on Rails, GraphQL, React, Next.js, PostgreSQL, Redis.
Hiring process: Intro call -> technical interviews (no leetcode) -> founder chat. We respond to everyone.

Looking for: 4+ years building production web apps (or equivalent demonstrated ability), strong Rails or comparable backend framework, modern React, solid SQL.

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by wojciii | 2026-01-02 21:32:31+00:00
> These are not implementation errors or miscommunication between different business units.

I don't think the companies such as Google*, Microsoft, Valve or Nintendo** have a Child Safety business unit.

If they did, the software they produce would work and I would be able set some sane settings once when creating a group of users which contain children.

What I am experiencing is user hostility when trying to limit who can chat or influence my children. The UI is usually horrible and some devices have no way of limiting or whitelisting what games can be played by children.

* Fuck you for not requiring TVs to implement the features required to use child users on TVs.

** Fuck you for making the of doing anything on the switch related to child-profiles a horrible experience.
by soulofmischief | 2026-01-02 21:32:31+00:00
Location: Southern US

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: JavaScript/TypeScript/Web, Python, C, Full-stack, AI/ML

Email: hello @ bad-software dot com

GitHub: https://github.com/soulofmischief

Full-stack JavaScript-focused engineer/entrepreneur with lots of experience in building scalable single page apps in different frameworks, web3, multiplayer web games, building transformers and other networks, all sorts of things. Product-oriented, executive and leadership experience, comfortable in both autonomous and collaborative settings, capable Linux sysadmin. I know how to ship.

I've focused for several years now on agentic and generative work such as simulating networked LLM-augmented embodied agents, interface research, too much to list here but always happy to talk more over email. While the rest of the industry is just starting to latch onto agentic systems, I can offer years of experience and product insight.

Available for consulting, projects, anything web or agentic.
by dzhiurgis | 2026-01-02 21:32:41+00:00
Bluesky is very dead looking at people from initial exodus. Also lots of disturbing far left content that I can’t tolerate.

For X mostly seems unchanged - celebs, govs, officials, businesses are still using this as key platform.

Yes there is lots of far right garbage too, but at least anti-seed oil bros don’t make me want reach for eye bleach.
by softwaredoug | 2026-01-02 21:32:56+00:00
I am not so sure. You need to speak in the native voice of each community. A LinkedIn post vs Tweet vs E-Mail are different. You need to get value from the network directly without expecting a click thru. A lot of engagement + authority happens via the network itself

I think it's more accurate to see blogging as a distinct channel from other types of social media + content marketing
by osakasake | 2026-01-02 21:33:15+00:00
“The job description says remote on HN, but it says hybrid Austin on the jobs page, but disregard that, it can be remote like I originally said. But also some teams are only going to be hybrid no matter what.

So some jobs are hybrid onsite and some are fully remote but even if i said just now that all jobs can be remote, some jobs aren’t really fully remote because I can’t envision it in my mind that they would be effective fully remote, even though I myself am fully remote.”

Did I understand what you wrote properly?
by charcircuit | 2026-01-02 21:33:30+00:00
>You say this as if the user is a guest on your machine and not the other way around.

The user is a guest on someone else's network though. You may be a guest to Netflix and they require you to prove your machine is secure for them to provide you 1080p video. You are free to do whatever you want with your own machine, but Netflix may not want to give you 1080p video files if they don't trust your machine.

>When some remote party has placed countermeasures against how you want to use your computer, that's the opposite of security. That's malware.

I think it's fair to have computers that allow you to disable integrity protections and do whatever you want. You just shouldn't be able to attest that your system is running 1 set of software when in reality it's running something else. It's fraud.
by twoodfin | 2026-01-02 21:33:54+00:00
I’m going to guess that a true competitive push into the US market would have marginal costs that exceed getting into Oz. But anyway your comment inspired me to do some digging:

The high end Sea Lion 7 from BYD apparently tops out at around 205k yuan in China. $29k USD.

https://carnewschina.com/2025/05/08/byds-sealion-07-dm-i-lau...

Found it in Australia for $64k AUD, that’s $43k USD.

https://evdealergroup-byd.com.au/configurator/byd-sealion-7?...

That’s a lot more than a 15% markup. A Tesla Model Y Premium would be competitive at a minimum.
by Zigurd | 2026-01-02 21:34:28+00:00
Relatively recently Aerojet Rocketdyne valued ULA at about $2 billion. Do you think SpaceX is worth 10 times as much? That seems reasonable. How about 50 times as much? That's stretching it but, hey, it's Elon. 100 times as much? How about 700 times as much as ULA?
by charcircuit | 2026-01-02 21:34:32+00:00
Thank you for finding this.

>Redistributions of source code and documentation must retain the above copyright notice

The archived tape doesn't have this, which contradicts the license. This makes me think the license may only be referring to a set of source code that they released with this license text already applied as opposed to what was recently archived.

>Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice

I don't see the copyright notice on that page. So at the very least that may need to be added.
by yunnpp | 2026-01-02 21:34:54+00:00
I suppose I am on a similar boat wrt job satisfaction and the direction things have gone and are going in this industry. I am also one step ahead of you, from the sound of it, in a job that doesn't require me to devote my life to it and gives me time for personal projects, gym, and just figuring out shit in life. This is not to boast, but to give you a heads-up: I haven't figured out much of anything just yet, and I am not strictly sure my current position is significantly better than what was before it. Perhaps slightly better, with more time to think, and having somewhat detached myself emotionally from the job. Which is to say, if you can take a break altogether with somebody else supporting you financially, I'd do that and really consider things as an "outsider" to your own life. Also talk to people to get more perspective. Otherwise, I think I concur with the other suggestions given here.
by ZeroClickOk | 2026-01-02 21:34:55+00:00
Location: Brasilia, DF, Brazil
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: C#, .NET, Asp.NET, Blazor, SQL
Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/clickok/
Email: clickok at gmail.com
Languages: English and Portuguese
by ramsey72 | 2026-01-02 21:34:57+00:00
Except this is complete bullshit. Money is anonymous. Why would they have some kind of pipeline account that goes directly from the fees to political spend? Why wouldn't the fees just go to a generic revenue account and the lobbying would come out of the same account?

This is like claiming someone set up a special account where all their paychecks on rainy days get spent directly on weed. It makes zero sense.
by mrinterweb | 2026-01-02 21:35:18+00:00
As far as I understand all the inference purpose-build silicon out there is not being sold to competitors and kept in-house. Google's TPU, Amazon's Inferentia (horrible name), Microsoft's Maia, Meta's MTIA. It seems that custom inference silicon is a huge part of the AI game. I doubt GPU-based inference will be relevant/competitive soon.
by protimewaster | 2026-01-02 21:35:31+00:00
It seems like it would be cheaper and more effective to just keep in sync with GrapheneOS rather than maintaining a custom fork.

I understand that maintenance still isn't free in that case, but it seems like they went out of their way to make more maintenance work for themselves, and then they asked their customers to pay for it. As a potential customer, I would've rather it just come with standard GOS rather than paying yearly for a fork that probably isn't as secure.
by piou | 2026-01-02 21:35:34+00:00
> I really loved the previous design with the physical numpad

That's their MP02, different product line, which is pretty much just talk and text plus Signal ("Pigeon" on the MP02):
https://www.punkt.ch/products/mp02-4g-minimalist-phone

I recommend the MP02, with one caveat: don't buy it right now. Because there have historically been problems with Pigeon, you really ought to use Signal for Desktop at the same time as Pigeon, in case Pigeon starts having problems. But as of now you can't you can't connect the two (though Signal for Desktop keeps working fine if you already have them synced).

I've found the call quality and reliability on the MP02 to be great after a year of use.

[Edited to add: MP02 doesn't require a subscription.]
by cs02rm0 | 2026-01-02 21:35:55+00:00
Location: UK
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: Java, React, Javascript, Shell, Python, SQL and NoSQL, AWS, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, Lambda, Terraform - it becomes too much to list, my background is principally as a Java dev who's turned their hand to most things to get the job done over the last 20 years.
Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richardmidwinter/
Email: richard.midwinter@gmail.com

I've architected and developed software systems professionally across healthcare, media and secure government. Startups to multinational defence consultancies. Project CTO / technical lead roles, lots of experience leading dozens of projects, through the entire SDLC in highly technical environments with significant legal requirements. Greenfield and legacy systems. Often been the person brought in to fix the difficult projects.

Particularly interested in roles where people are passionate that they have real world value to deliver. Any technical obstacles that follow that, we can fix.