MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mkalis | 2026-01-15 03:30:39+00:00
Hey jberto,

Quick question - is this role open to fully remote within the US, or is there a hybrid expectation for NYC?

I've been building location-based discovery apps (React Native + Supabase + PostGIS) with recommendation-style features - ranking algorithms, user preference vectors, and content scoring systems. Currently shipping a consumer app that does personalized place discovery based on user taste profiles.

Would love to chat if there's flexibility on the seniority level or if the team has adjacent roles opening up.

Matus Kalis
github.com/matuskalis
by schmichael | 2026-01-15 03:31:27+00:00
> The problem is, once you “injection-proof” your agent, you’ve also made it “useful proof”.

I find people suggesting this over and over in the thread, and I remain unconvinced. I use LLMs and agents, albeit not as widely as many, and carefully manage their privileges. The most adversarial attack would only waste my time and tokens, not anything I couldn't undo.

I didn't realize I was in such a minority position on this honestly! I'm a bit aghast at the security properties people are readily accepting!

You can generate code, commit to git, run tools and tests, search the web, read from databases, write to dev databases and services, etc etc etc all with the greatest threat being DOS... and even that is limited by the resources you make available to the agent to perform it!
by culi | 2026-01-15 03:32:10+00:00
It started as a trolling campaign in 2017 from 4chan's /pol/. It spread outside of 4chan mostly due to David Duke and The Daily Stormer. It might have some history even longer than that because in 2001 it was used as a title track by a white power music group called Aggressive Force and was also found in 2005 fliers by United Klans of America
by tehsauce | 2026-01-15 03:32:16+00:00
I was excited to try it out so I downloaded the repo and ran the build. However there were 100+ compilation errors. So I checked the commit history on github and saw that for at least several pages back all recent commits had failed in the CI. It was not clear which commit I should pick to get the semi-working version advertised.

I started looking in the Cargo.toml to at least get an idea how the project was constructed. I saw there that rather than being built from scratch as the post seemed to imply that almost every core component was simply pulled in from an open source library. quickjs engine, wgpu graphics, winit windowing & input, egui for ui, html parsing, the list goes on.
On twitter their CEO explicitly stated that it uses a "custom js vm" which seemed particularly misleading / untrue to me.

Integrating all of these existing components is still super impressive for these models to do autonomously, so I'm just at a loss how to feel when it does something impressive but they then feel the need to misrepresent so much. I guess I just have a lot less respect and trust for the cursor leadership, but maybe a little relief knowing that soon I may just generate my own custom cursor!
by ac29 | 2026-01-15 03:32:35+00:00
> In an EV, that ~6 hour round-trip takes about 9 hours due to 2 hours of charging and a 60 mile detour. That's using ABRP, with an Ioniq 5 from Reston VA to Dolly Sods Wilderness and back

That a fairly dead area of the country charger wise but I see several CCS chargers <5 miles out of the way and a lot more if your Ioniq has NACS.
by yesfitz | 2026-01-15 03:33:47+00:00
Given this is Hacker News, is there any way to "hack" the housing market to reduce costs?

Every hurdle I see seems to come back to a policy or regulatory issue. Whether it's increasing housing density, utilizing vacant spaces, or increasing transit to existing cultural/economic centers, the answer somehow requires the government.

It's not something I relish, but as I sit here tonight, I think of the rented RVs parked on the overpasses of Los Angeles. Is that model ripe for disruption? Housing not tied to real estate. Could Adam Neumann buy enough chic RVs and parking garages and make a business out of it? I think if you had enough runway, you could get the momentum, and if a city government pitched a fit, you could move out the RVs (and young professionals), and still own the parking garage. Nomadland as a service.

I hope the work of urbanists like Strong Towns makes this a non-issue. But if anyone has any other radical housing ideas that don't involve getting a government on board, I'd love to hear them.
by zephen | 2026-01-15 03:34:43+00:00
The comment you responded to may have incorrectly assumed that all the problems were self-evident, but apparently they are not.

> redistribute the collected tax back to the community---the money will not add to Microsoft's $3.4T-worth coffers!

Ummm, yeah, no.

Microsoft is a contributor to many open source projects, so it could, in fact, directly add to its own coffers.

And, the onus to pay for what was nominally free software could make paid software look more attractive, so it could indirectly push people to, e.g., office subscriptions.
by jrflowers | 2026-01-15 03:36:01+00:00
> Taken as one instance of a broader, ongoing pattern of targeted harassment of several individuals, the combined set of public complaints make the CoC reference not at all amusing.

Having read more about all of this it sort of just seems like two dudes that hate each other.

Like for example the Adafruit guy’s complaint that the Sparkfun guy was presently posting about the domain and meme thing was objectively correct, Sparkfun guy posted a screenshot of it in his thread about the Adafruit guy (it stood out because the ‘Gen X hackers want to be Spider Jerusalem’ bit made me laugh out loud. Amazing burn, no notes)

https://chaos.social/@North/115602564578051206

It’s all kind of funny because

Are these dudes going to stop hating each other? Probably not.

Will they stop talking about each other? Probably not.

Will Sparkfun cutting off Adafruit make them stop hating or talking about each other? No.

Will this decision help customers of either company? Maybe? I would guess no but we’ll see I guess.

Like it seems like they should either hire reps so they don’t have to personally interact or just sue each other.
by meander_water | 2026-01-15 03:37:31+00:00
The lowest bar in agentic coding is the ability to create something which compiles successfully. Then something which runs successfully in the happy path. Then something which handles all the obvious edge cases.

By far the most useful metric is to have a live system running for a year with widespread usage that produces a lower number of bugs than that of a codebase created by humans.

Until that happens, my skeptic hat will remain firmly on my head.
by epakai | 2026-01-15 03:39:30+00:00
This is pretty much what Lutris does. I'm using it with already downloaded GOG installers, and Lutris' crowd-sourced install scripts. It looks like they do account integration, so it might be possible to directly download and install games.

It can run things with regular wine or proton installed by steam. There is a lot of complexity compared to Steam or the GOG client.
by zephen | 2026-01-15 03:41:46+00:00
> If you don't want to share your stuff without taxing everyone, then don't share it. Other licenses exist. You don't have to use MIT or the GPL.

I agree. Yet some of my comments here have been met with downvoting and explanations that GPL licensing is a moral imperative, so there is certainly a contingent who would disagree.

> This is particularly rampant in the Rust community

This is interesting. Do you have examples? I am not cognizant enough of interactions there.
by hopelite | 2026-01-15 03:42:39+00:00
Are you referring to the 5th Amendment with "No person..."? It doesn't really matter regarding my counter point, but it only highlights that you may not have fully thought through what that implies.

If the standard is as broad as a person, any person, since it is not specified what kind of person, beyond the accused one in the 5A, then you must also for consistency, believe that the Constitution applies to the whole world and all it's "persons" since the Constitution also applies to all Americans all around the world, not just on US soil.

I am not a fan of that, although I think it would have been great if other countries had adopted the Constitution, but I must presume that many others in the world would not like very much that the USA starts seeing everyone on the planet that is person as falling under its jurisdiction.

It leads us down a rather dark hallway where things like the Maduro snatching and the snatching of any other person on the planet that cannot physically prevent it under the justification that every person is subject to the USA.

You may say, "well, it only applies to "anyone on U.S. soil", but that also does not hold water since any citizen around the planet is also technically subject to and protected by American law. Do you see the conflict emerging here? And that does not even address the other huge conflict that has corrupted the Constitution and the country for the last 60 years, the birth right citizenship that was simply deliberately and maliciously misapplied and citizenship was given out to tens of millions of people in direct contradiction to democracy, the law, and justice. But that's a whole other topic.

It's interesting, because we live in very interesting times in the USA regarding these matters. We are currently experiencing what will both test whether the USA still exists, i.e., it can control it's boundaries and whether or not invasions can and are repelled, even when they simply peacefully just waltz across the border; or if the USA does not exist and definitely not in a democratic republic kind of way when anyone from anywhere in the world can simply just wander across the border, have a child, and is then immediately just allowed to become a citizen at the detriment and without any kind of democratic input of and by the legitimate citizenry.
by sothatsit | 2026-01-15 03:43:01+00:00
The flip side is that these companies seem to be capacity constrained (although that is hard to confirm). If you assume the labs are capacity constrained, which seems plausible, then building more capacity could pay off by allowing labs to serve more customers and increase revenue per customer.

This means the bigger questions are whether you believe the labs are compute constrained, and whether you believe more capacity would allow them to drive actual revenue. I think there is a decent chance of this being true, and under this reality the investments make more sense. I can especially believe this as we see higher-cost products like Claude Code grow rapidly with much higher token usage per user.

This all hinges on demand materialising when capacity increases, and margins being good enough on that demand to get a good ROI. But that seems like an easier bet for investors to grapple with than trying to compare future investment in capacity with today's revenue, which doesn't capture the whole picture. Anthropic has 10x'ed their revenue for three straight years after all.
by kamaal | 2026-01-15 03:43:43+00:00
>>he said very plainly hes not sticking around to find out what happens next.

Can't blame him, US residency really is a like a game of high attrition. Its your classic up or out scenario.

Some times even a passport doesn't guarantee a stay. Sooner or later, you fall ill, lose a home, have a divorce. Its a unique combination of extreme luck, work, health and many other factors several of which are totally outside of your control.

You either win spectacularly or exit trying.
by ffsm8 | 2026-01-15 03:43:54+00:00
You're not wrong, but most people on this forum are generally positive about companies using private APIs (which this is) for a competitive advantage.

This is pretty undisputed I think... So if we're going to condemn anthropic for it, it'd be pretty one-sided unless we also took it up with any other companies doing so, like Apple, Google, ... And frankly basically all closed source companies.

It's just coincidentally more obvious with this Claude code API because the only difference between it and the public one is the billing situation...

The only basis we'd have to argue otherwise is that the subscription predates Claude code

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-pro (years ago)

But I didn't think we're strangers to companies pivoting the narrative like this
by helterskelter | 2026-01-15 03:44:06+00:00
Good to know, I might give them a shot again. For Wild Ass, I'd go up probably two-four sizes from your Carhartts. If you're a 32 in Carhartt you'll want at least a 34 in WA. Go for 36 if the Carhartts are snug. WA will shrink slightly too.
by georgemcbay | 2026-01-15 03:44:50+00:00
> Limor came to the scene a bit later

Not much later, I remember her hanging out in #hack in the '92-93 timeframe (first as lem0n then later as ladyada).

She was like the "kid" of the channel regulars (which is an extremely relative designation because there were a lot of teenagers just a couple years older than her).

I also remember her going to one of the 2600 meetings at the CambridgeSide Galleria that I went to with morgen and wil wheaton that must have been either in 1993 or very early 1994 (it was definitely prior to the first HOPE in 94). IIRC Limor was being chaperoned by RogueAgent and theora/Sarah Gordon.
by bccdee | 2026-01-15 03:45:05+00:00
> You don't tell or demand another company do something with their own employees.

Depends what they did. Let's check the forum post…

> they had created and promoted hate sites, photoshopped images, and harassment targeting limor, me, and others at adafruit. this was done on company time, shared, promoted.

Ok yeah if a company is sharing bigoted photoshops of my likeness, yes, I'm gonna demand that they discipline the responsible employees. Obviously.

I don't have any reference point for what "hate sites, photoshopped images, and harassment [meriting HR training]" constitute, but if it's anywhere near as bad as it sounds, sure, escalate the situation and air your dirty laundry in public. This is unacceptable behaviour, and apparently it went on for years. When you're being publicly harassed, you have no duty to indefinitely restrain your response to private, polite emails.
by wolvoleo | 2026-01-15 03:45:50+00:00
> With the Greenland invasion insanity, Europe is finally getting a small taste of what it's like to be a normal person living in the US the past decade. Fantasy, vibes, and really bad values have taken over the semblance of sanity.

Well thanks but I really don't want to have a taste of the US' problems. We have enough of our own thanks.
by just6979 | 2026-01-15 03:46:04+00:00
I'd be willing to bet most devs do something like this, or wish they could be doing it, but don't know about rebase or are scared of it. However, that might be because they're only thinking about rebase as OP's article uses it: only as an alternative to merge for get changes from another branch.

Interactive rebasing to write local history on your working branch is incredibly useful, but also doesn't have anything to do with the "rebase vs merge" conundrum, and as long as you're not pushing to a shared branch, it doesn't have much to do with "erasing other's history".*

If you can look at a working branch (with more than a trivial addition or fix) and not feel the need to do a interactive rebase (once you know how) before making a PR, then you're either a magical 100x unicorn dev that makes every commit the perfect commit, or you cheated and made a new branch and cherry-pick-squashed your way to a clean history.
by tslmy | 2026-01-15 03:46:47+00:00
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by rramadass | 2026-01-15 03:47:31+00:00
Thanks for the pointers.

hershkumar pointed to Watrous' book so the notes you point to might be a good introduction to the book itself.

I didn't know of "ZX-calculus" so that goes from my unknown-unknowns to known-unknowns and so there a bunch of reading to be done there too.
by lukeasrodgers | 2026-01-15 03:47:43+00:00
Evidence is often contradictory, especially in the social sciences--that is not a terribly damning charge in this case. Additionally, there is evidence that relationship between social media use and anxiety/depression is not just an association, see Meta's own internal research from 2019: https://metasinternalresearch.org/#block-2e15def2e67a803a83e....

"Meta’s own researchers found — in an experiment they believed was better designed than any external study done thus far — that reducing time on their platforms improved mental health and well-being, specifically depression, anxiety, loneliness, and social comparison."
by anon291 | 2026-01-15 03:48:14+00:00
Greenland is a European colony in the new world with a mostly indigenous population. America has no interest in mainland Europe. While Ukraine isn't NATO, Ukraine is closer to Germany and Russia presents a more imminent threat to Europe.

Germany bankrolled the Russian war of aggression and still does while sending no troops to Ukraine. You can argue nuclear deterrence all you want but America is also a nuclear power, so like... Why is Germany so willing to fight for a European colony rather than its own backyard?

To be clear, I do not support American annexation of Greenland. I do support full independence for them ideally under an American protectorate. Europe has no place in the new world. Denmark's position is that they should own it just because.
by wolvoleo | 2026-01-15 03:50:50+00:00
In Spain they probably do because the government is heavily involved in the electricity production. It's not really a free market, and it didn't have to be. In fact I'd prefer it to be more in the government's hands then it is. But Spain is a country that's much more socialist than the US and as such I'm very happy to live here.

For example when energy prices rose during the pandemic and the Ukraine war the government put limits on price increases and also lowered VAT.
by tasty_freeze | 2026-01-15 03:51:04+00:00
You just made a massive non sequitur. The government does have waste, as does any large organization, including in the private sector. Whether or not DOGE saved money needs an independent analysis, not numbers which DOGE itself produces.

Musk and Trump cut a large number of jobs and declared, without any evidence, that it was all fraud and waste. For example, they dismissed everyone who was in a probationary period, claiming these were all low-performing people. In fact, every person hired or promoted was automatically in a probation status. In many cases the fired people turned out to be critical and the government asked them to come back.

Think about this: when Enron exploded, it took a team of forensic accountants months to untangle the bookkeeping. Musk came in with a team of mostly teenage hacker types to siphon all the data from all the agencies he could and in less than 48 hours declared he had found hundreds of billions of dollars of waste and fraud. It beggars belief that Elon Musk just happens to be an accounting expert and could process terabytes of data and make sense of it in a day or two.

Another thing you should know is the founder of Gumroad, a man in his 30s and who joined DOGE in a good-faith effort to help make the government more efficient, found that things were not at all like he expected. Even if you don't believe him, he was closer to the action than Musk, has more technical knowledge than Musk, and if nothing else, offers a counter-narrative from what you apparently have bought:

https://www.npr.org/2025/06/02/nx-s1-5417994/former-doge-eng...

After expressing his opinions he was quickly sacked by DOGE. Transparency indeed.

Oh, and many (hundreds?) of thousands of people will die each year due to loss of international aid. Meanwhile Musk was dancing around on stage like an idiot with a chainsaw thinking he was the coolest guy.
by anon291 | 2026-01-15 03:51:34+00:00
Ice is inconsequential. They enforce immigration law and Europe is way stricter than the US. It's also much harder to integrate as European nations are ethno states (no hate.... Nothing wrong with it. Most countries are. Just a statement of fact)

> I am in my 50s, I have never seen a country as divided and toxic as the US, and that is for a reason.

So you lived from 1970-2020, literally the most peaceful time on the planet due to Pax Americana. If I were a European nation, I'd just give the US what it wants. Especially maybe try not to appear like they just want to desperately hold on to their colonies? I mean, where's the decolonization people when you need them
by tzs | 2026-01-15 03:52:12+00:00
> The other day I drove 700km in just about 5.5 hours (German Autobahn). Few stops to pee. With EV that would be few hours more (!)

If you got an EV with fast charging (and there were fast chargers on your route) it would actually be under 20 minutes more.

For example Ioniq 5 has a range of ~480 km. Let's say you started at 100% and drive down to 10%. That gets you 430 km, so 270 km left to go.

At a 350 kW charger the Ioniq 5 goes from 10-80% in 18 minutes. Assuming you do not want to take it below 10% that's 340 km before you next need to charge, more than the 270 km you need to reach your destination. You arrive with 70 km left before needing to charge again.

Let's do the round trip extra time. That's 1400 km for the trip. Again assuming we start at 100% and we don't let it go between 10%, then we get 430 km using before the first charging stop.

At that point we've got 970 km left that will have to be powered by our charging stops. Every 20 minute stop is giving us 340 km, so we'll need 3 stops, or one hour of stop time.

You might also need a stop, most likely shorter, at your destination if you are going to do a lot of driving there before returning home.

In a majority of cases with EVs charging speed is a bigger factor in how much time you spend stopped than range. Many people overlook this and might be a longer range EV when they would actually have faster trips if they got one with a much higher charge rate even if it had a substantially lower range.

The way to think of it is once you get past the range you got from charging before you left, every km travelled on the trip comes from stops during the trip. If EV X charges twice as fast as EV Y and they both need a stop at the same place, Y is going to spend twice as much time on chargers for the rest the trip as X no matter how many times they have to stop. If the fast charging X has half the range it will stop twice as often, but an X stop will be 1/4 the time of a Y stop actually charging.

Y making few stops does mean less time spent on stop overhead, by which I mean the time when you are off the highway but not actually charging. That should only be a couple minutes or so per stop though since you can overlap time consuming stop activies like visiting the bathroom with the actual charging.

On most trip that saving from less total stop overhead can't come anywhere near the savings from faster charging and so fast charging meh range will usually beat crap charging but great range unless the trip is short enough that only the short range car needs to stop. The great range car also does got farther before needing the first stop, so it doesn't need to add as much mileage during the trip put that too usually doesn't make much difference either other than fairly short road trips.