MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fc417fc802 | 2026-02-02 17:07:32+00:00
Apologies, I saw it at the time but failed to follow. IIUC you're saying that subsidies will tend to ratchet in only the one direction.

To be clear I don't object at all to the idea of optimizing how subsidies are determined. I just don't think that subsidies and the resultant overproduction are a bad thing in general. I'm all for efficiency in the general case but I think a fair amount of paranoia is called for regarding long tail scenarios that lead to famine.
by torginus | 2026-02-02 17:08:14+00:00
To this day I cannot wrap my head around the fact why did Microsoft allow a culture to grow inside the company (either through hiring, or through despondence) that at best is indifferent towards the company's products and at worst openly despises them?

I'm sure no other tech company is like this.

I think technologies like the Windows kernel and OS, the .NET framework, their numerous attempts to build a modern desktop UI framework with XAML, their dev tools, were fundamentally good at some point.

Yet they cant or wont hire people who would fix Windows, rather than just maintain it, really push for modernization, make .NET actually cool and something people want to use.

They'd rather hire folks who were taught at school that Microsoft is the devil and Linux is superior in all ways, who don't know the first thing about the MS tech stack, and would rather write React on the Macbooks (see the start menu incident), rather than touch anything made by Microsoft.

It seems somehow the internal culture allows this. I'm sure if you forced devs to use Copilot, and provided them with the tools and organizational mandate to do so, it would become good enough eventually to not have to force people to use it.

My main complaint I keep hearing about Azure (which I do not use at workr)
by akiselev | 2026-02-02 17:08:16+00:00
The real question is whether “debugging” the LLM is going to be as effective as debugging the code.

IME it pays dividends but it can be really painful. I’ve run into a situation multiple times where I’m using Claude Code to write something, then a week later while working it’ll come up with something like “Oh wait! Half the binaries are in .Net and not Delphi, I can just decompile them with ilspy”, effectively showing the way to a better rewrite that works better with fewer bugs that gets done in a few hours because I’ve got more experience from the v1. Either way it’s tens of thousands of lines of code that I could never have completed myself in that amount of time (which, given problems of motivation, means “at all”).
by jjwiseman | 2026-02-02 17:08:58+00:00
You're just saying things that don't have basis in reality.

It's not something halfway critical to the operation–why would the FAA allow that? ADS-B Exchange is not run by volunteers–it's run by employees of JETNET LLC, an aviation intelligence company. Doing it yourself almost certainly gives you less information–you're not part of a global network of receivers. It almost certainly gives you less reliability–receivers in the big networks typically have a fair amount of overlap which gives redundancy your single receiver doesn't have.

It's also not FAA approved!
by mschuster91 | 2026-02-02 17:09:06+00:00
> A car does not cost $350 and $500 per month.

Insurance alone can be 100€ a month (and more so for younger drivers). At a very modest 5 liters / 100km and a one way route of 20 km you're at 800km a month / 40 liters of gas => 1.80€ a liter => 72€ in fuel. Your average car then has 20 ct/km for maintenance costs (inspections, spare parts, oil changes, tires, workshop time), so another 160€ a month - and more if it is a run-down junker car.

That are just the fixed running costs you have with pretty much every car, around 330€ a month. We haven't talked about depreciation yet at all. Even if you say you buy a barely road worthy wreck for 3000 € and run it until it's only ripe for the junkyard to fetch maybe 500 € every two years, that's still about 100€ a month you're paying.

And what we also haven't had a single talk about is operating and purchase taxes, highway tolls, city-core tolls, rental spots for parking (including the price you have paid for the garage in your house, it's a lot of real estate), that also can easily add to many hundreds of euros each year.

Cars are expensive once you actually include replacement/depreciation and maintenance costs.
by MrTravisB | 2026-02-02 17:09:08+00:00
Mozilla (Tabstack) | Founding GTM Lead | Remote (US/Canada) | Full-time

Mozilla’s New Products organization is an internal incubator for high-potential ventures. We are building Tabstack (https://tabstack.ai), the browser automation stack for AI agents. Our goal is to make it dead-simple for developers to integrate fast, reliable web interactions into agentic applications.

We are looking for a Founding GTM Lead to own the 0→1 journey. This isn't a "standard" marketing role; it’s for someone with a founder’s hustle who can speak the language of AI engineers and bridge the gap between technical APIs and commercial traction.

The Role:

- Drive early customer acquisition through scrappy, high-signal experiments.

- Own messaging/positioning for a technical audience (LangChain, Playwright, LLM orchestration).

- Translate customer friction into product roadmap priorities.

- Secure our first commercial wins and design partners.

Requirements:

- Technical Fluency: You understand browser automation mechanics and the current LLM landscape.

- 5+ years experience: A mix of DevRel, Technical Sales, PMM, or Founder experience.

- Founder Hustle: You can generate leads and write technical docs without a massive marketing budget.

Values: You align with Mozilla’s mission of a healthy, open internet.

We don’t have a public job post yet, so please reach out directly to https://linkedin.com/in/tbeauvais.
by rayiner | 2026-02-02 17:09:17+00:00
Norwegians are the closest thing to the “indigenous people” of Greenland. The only people older than them died out a thousand years ago. The Intuit people who live there now arrived hundreds of years after the Norsemen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland (“The Thule people are the ancestors of the current Greenlandic population. No genes from the Palaeo-Inuit Dorset culture have been found in the present population of Greenland.[61] The Thule culture migrated eastward from what is now known as Alaska around 1000 AD, reaching Greenland around 1300.”).
by vikingerik | 2026-02-02 17:09:19+00:00
Rubik's cubing is another. Most people here with enough logical aptitude to be programmers could probably learn a beginner method in a day or two. I'll pick up a cube anywhere I see one scrambled, solve it in a couple minutes, and then the last flourish is to leave it in the checkerboard pattern.

I also juggle, and the result of the combination is that approximately every single person on Facebook has posted to me the video about solving cubes while juggling them...
by BatonTrucking | 2026-02-02 17:09:27+00:00
Baton | Senior/Staff Software Engineer - Infrastructure, Machine Learning / Senior Manager, Technical Support Engineering / Senior Software Engineer - Full Stack / IT Manager / Software Engineer - Infrastructure, Data Platform | San Francisco, CA (Hybrid) | Full-Time

Baton (baton.io) is Ryder's in-house product development group focused on harnessing emerging technologies to redefine transportation and logistics. With $10B in freight under management, our technology reaches every part of the U.S. economy.

We design and ship category-defining software that enables Ryder and its 50,000+ customers—including some of the world's most well-known brands—to plan and execute freight intelligently, efficiently, and cost-effectively. Our work includes everything from customer-facing software to the data platform that will power the next era of innovation at Ryder.

Baton's mission: enable supply chain on autopilot.

Ryder acquired Baton in 2022 to power its next wave of digital products. We operate at startup speed, with Fortune 500 reach. If you have a passion for solving complex problems and creating impact for the engine of the American economy, you'll love it here.

Current openings at Baton:

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by subhobroto | 2026-02-02 17:09:29+00:00
Unsure if it's for every book. I was bringing in Donald Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming Boxed Set. The books clearly say, across their front, they are not for export especially in the U.S. and E.U., the print for this uses some kind of ink that shows up on XRays clearly and TSA enforces it.
by trilogic | 2026-02-02 17:09:52+00:00
Still no real data on the layoff % in the tech sector, respective to Devs or just in general.

Personally I noticed an exodus of Americans towards Europe. IT may as well be considered an intellectual immigration flux.

The critical point is that no one has the puta idea of how to use AI to create jobs, so to smooth and balance the shift/layoffs. Time to be creative on it or else we will see employees destroying the machines again like they did in the beginning of the industrial revolution followed by an economical depression.
by l2labs | 2026-02-02 17:09:53+00:00
L2 Labs | Founding (AI/Software) Engineer + Founding Research Scientist | NYC | https://www.l2labs.ai/

L2 Labs is a new kind of AI lab pursuing research at the intersection of database systems and AI, driven by real-world challenges from our enterprise partners. We are backed by Cornell University, https://www.focal.vc/, and New York University.

We are a team of hard-working, talented researchers and engineers who are obsessive about greenfield problems. We thrive on work that is equal parts compelling, difficult, and fun. Our favorite days at the office are when we get caught up ideating on a hard problem, writing code + experiments, whiteboarding, and before we know it, we've ordered pizza, it's 2am and the problem is finally solved.

We are looking for talented researchers + engineers to join our Founding team. This is an owner-operator role - it's your opportunity to help build a new kind of applied AI research lab from scratch with very meaningful upside in the form of a generous equity package.

Contact us at hiring@l2labs.ai
by aibek_dev | 2026-02-02 17:10:00+00:00
Hi HN, I'm Aibek, a sysadmin from Kazakhstan.

I built LogSentinel because I needed to analyze Nginx/Syslogs logs with AI, but strict data policies prevented me from sending raw logs to OpenAI/Claude.

How it works:

It tails log files in real-time.

Masks PII (IPs, emails, credit cards) using Regex before inference.

Sends the sanitized context to a local LLM (Ollama running Llama 3) to find anomalies.

Stores patterns in SQLite to avoid re-analyzing known errors (caching).

It's an MVP, written in Python. I'd love to hear your feedback on the architecture or how you handle local log analysis securely.
by b8 | 2026-02-02 17:10:17+00:00
Seeking: Any role that I can use my technical skills in. Security analyst, consultant, technical support etc.

Location: Louisiana

Remote: Yes, and/or on-site. I'm experienced with both.

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: AWS, Java (SRC review), C++/C (SRC Review), C# (Basic), Burp Suite, Binary Ninja etc.

Résumé/CV: Full resume on request.

Email: mcorkern1@tulane.edu

GitHub: https://github.com/qf0

Misc: I have over two years of full-time security consulting and blue team experience at NCC Group and Black Lantern Security. Also, I have two 0days and received CVEs under my name and a company research blog post to go along with it. Done contracting for FAANGs and found 0days in their products. Worked at IBM as a programmer too.

I'm eligible for a security clearance and willing to do government work. Already passed a FSP once, but was denied agency specific suitability.
by michallech | 2026-02-02 17:10:38+00:00
Location: Poland (US timezones OK):

Remote: Yes, ok with in-office meetings, can travel to clients too

Willing to relocate: Yes for selected offers

Technologies:
* Go, Java, C#
* PHP, Laravel
* Python, Django, FastAPI, Flask
* React, React Native, NodeJS, Firebase
* Kubernetes/Helm, AWS, GC, Azure, Terraform, Proxmox, esxi
* PyTorch, Apache Spark, Apache Airflow, Kafka, Apache Aerospike, Apache Flink, matt
* Postgres, MongoDB, Redis/Dragonfly, Cassandra
* CephFS, GlusterFS, ZFS, scaling and geo-distributing filesystems, LTO/LTFS
* LLM Integrations: Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, Mistral, DeepSeek, routers
* LLM fine-tuning, RAG/CAG, LoRA, MCP, Agentic workflows, GenAI, deep integrations
* Scaling, Clustering, Optimizing heavy throughput systems

Résumé/CV: https://michallech.info/static/Michal-Lech-Resume.pdf

Email: michal@michallech.info

Well rounded Full Stack Engineer/Architect (and a former CTO) who thrives in high pressure startup environments, mentor, geek and a ML/LLM researcher.
by pu_pe | 2026-02-02 17:10:41+00:00
There is no doubt they have a lot of catching up to do, but you have to consider their advantages.

If Uber goes away, Lyft or others can take over the entire market overnight, precisely because they don't have their own fleet or unique technology. Waymo is placing itself as first mover into a completely new category of transportation which will require capital investment and new tech, so it will be much harder to displace once it gets going. It could target automated cargo transport in the future too.
by stackghost | 2026-02-02 17:11:01+00:00
>I guess Im questioning why Waymo doesn’t just IPO, or raise 100% private raise by Google.

Why not 100% internal funding, not sure, but the reason why companies don't always IPO is because taking on debt is more efficient (i.e. it's cheaper in terms of cost of capital) than equity, because of the "tax shield" effect, debt can be raised in a non dilutive manner, and a few other (less important) game-theoretic reasons.
by smathieu | 2026-02-02 17:11:02+00:00
Tangible Materials | Senior Engineers | Remove US/Canada | Full-time

We're building a fully automated agentic platform to help the construction industry optimize takeoffs, make better design decisions and reduce carbon emissions related to construction materials.

We're a seed stage startup of 10. You'll be working on our core agentic AI stack and learn a lot about how buildings are built along the way.

Apply at https://careers.tangiblematerials.com/
by 0xfaded | 2026-02-02 17:11:03+00:00
Zoox | Full Stack Software Engineer | Bay Area | Hybrid (3 days)

https://jobs.lever.co/zoox/d4a324c6-8186-435f-a102-1ac7a69ab...

I'm an engineer on the HD Mapping Team at Zoox (autonomous vehicles) and we are looking for a mid-career full stack engineer with a flair for automation and dev tooling. The role is about helping us scale our map production and management systems. Geospatial data and 3D visualization (deck.gl) experience are nice to haves but by no means required.

If the role sounds like a good fit and you would like to talk to someone directly you can email me at carl chatfield gmail. (Please fill in the gaps).

Usual perks apply, but please read the linked job description for details.

Thank you :)
by insane_dreamer | 2026-02-02 17:11:21+00:00
I find it useful because when browsing a post, you have the most upvoted or commented on at the top. I don't see how it increases top-level comment competition unless commenters are trying to get their comment up to the top? I think if you hide the karma, and that would also including hiding how many upvotes/downvotes your comment got, then you can't really track the "competition" and makes it much less competitive (and potentially addictive).

(I do see your point about not being able to keep your place, though I don't systematically go through all comments in a post -- or very rarely -- more just quickly browse for things that catch my attention, interesting info, etc.)
by passive | 2026-02-02 17:11:22+00:00
Location: Halifax, NS, Canada
Remote: 15+ years
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: If it runs on something smaller than a Cray and bigger than an ESP32, I can help you build it
Email: alec munro at gmail
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alec-munro-2a5b51204/

I've been bringing folk together online to build software for almost 30 years, and I want to help a struggling engineering department. CTO/VP/Director is generally the elevation I'm looking for, but if the title is manager and the rest is a good fit, that won't bother me.

If you have an engineering department with any sort of significant struggle, reach out and let's talk about how I could help. Whether it's digging out of deep technical debt, facilitating difficult conversations, designing events for org alignment, or leadership coaching, I've done it before, and I want to help you with it.
by mmooss | 2026-02-02 17:11:25+00:00
> In places like New York, immigrants get lots of public support: https://empirejustice.org/wp-content/uploads/Public-Benefits.... I found out recently that lots of Bangladeshis are in on the program where the city pays you to take care of your elderly immigrant parents.

That's great. I want to support people and I believe in them - it's a great investment in the economy and for humanity - and also giving these elderly people care from their own families, rather than being institutionalized or worse, is a fantastic solution. It's also applied more widely other places, not restricted to immigrants (if that restriction exists in NYC). Biden planned to cover home care more generally with Medicare. If you've seen or heard about the institutions, they are often warehouses for death and treatment can be awful.

> That’s a mythology that was developed to integrate the Ellis Island immigrants.

That 'myth' extends back to 1776 and before: 'All are created equal' is the foundation of America.

The mythology is in your comments: most of what you say has no basis - as I said, the welfare queen narratives are unsubstantiated (afaik) - but the old mythology of race, including its rationalizations based on (questionable) facts. That mythology is what keeps people poor.

As a prominent example, redlining was (and is to an extent) based on the mythology: The myth that black people were unworthy credit risks (along with outright hate) resulted in people being unable to get a loan, and therefore unable to buy a house or to do major repairs or upgrades if they did somehow get a home. Also, the government refused to insure loans in neighborhoods with even one black homeowner (or maybe resident), which motivated white homeowners to resist any black families moving into their neighborhood, and 'restrictive covenants' among real estate agents to not sell to black people. As a result, these people couldn't get credit and even with financing, couldn't find homes to buy, and even then couldn't upgrade or repair them. Then white people would look down on their lack of assets and care for their homes.

Similarly, Wall Street long excluded almost all but white males; to say that success was because of their race (and gender) is obviously absurd. Wall Street also caused the Great Depression, etc.; is that due to white males? World wars? Genocides? Starvation and disease? (Also, NY's economy has been the center of many industries, including trade - not just finance.)

So much is invested in racism, which has produced some of the worst results in human history and the worst in the US, when we could be figuring out solutions to make a better world.
by bradlys | 2026-02-02 17:11:34+00:00
The problem is that it does represent a lot of people in America. A very vocal and active part of America. It’s not some tiny demographic either. It doesn’t represent the majority but the majority doesn’t vote, doesn’t take action, and is overall extremely passive in their political position. Some of this is good because most Americans are wildly uneducated. Problem is that people are more likely to try to protect what exists than try to move towards a new paradigm. That’s the biggest reason we have such a slow moving system in the US. Most people in the US are very wary of change at this point because they’re not educated about anything.
by j_bum | 2026-02-02 17:12:15+00:00
Location: Princeton, NJ, USA

Remote: Yes / Hybrid

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python, R, SQL, PyTorch, scikit-learn, LangChain, OpenAI/Anthropic APIs, Docker, AWS, Snakemake, Scanpy, Seurat, Shiny, PySide/PyQt, NumPy, pandas, Polars, pytest, GitHub Actions

Résumé/CV: https://github.com/JacobBumgarner/personal-website/blob/main...

Email: jacobbum21 at gmail.com

I'm a scientific software engineer and computational biologist with a PhD in neuroscience. I've built agentic LLM orchestration systems for biomedical workflows, developed open-source bioimage analysis tools (VesselVio, published in Cell Reports Methods), and engineered reproducible analysis infrastructure adopted across biopharma R&D teams. I'm looking for scientific software engineering or ML engineering roles where I can build tools and systems that accelerate scientific discovery.
by dmoy | 2026-02-02 17:12:19+00:00
Is there really that much poop on Berlin public transit?

Seattle has some of the highest per capital homeless in the US, and a dearth of public toilets, and yet there's not that much poop on our public transit.

I am also skeptical that y'all's violent crime rate is higher than ours.

Granted I haven't taken Berlin public transit in 20 yrs, so I don't know.
by bulbar | 2026-02-02 17:12:28+00:00
I disable auto update for everything that does not have direct contact with the Internet otherwise (mail app, browser, OS, router,...).
Probability for some random app being exploited because updates were skipped is insignificant compared to the probability of a malicious update.

Updates are a direct connection from the Internet to your computer. You want to minimize that.

Just do a manual update from time to time.
by yz-yu | 2026-02-02 17:12:29+00:00
The comments here turned out much more interesting than I expected—this has become a great place to discuss the difference between AI-generated, AI-written, and AI-assisted content.

So let me start from @jbarrow's comment: "AI written, generated from the codebase."

My actual learning process looked like this:

1. I walked through the nano-vLLM codebase, asking Claude Code some high-level questions to warm up.
2. Then I asked detailed questions one by one, let it explore, and double-checked the code myself. As someone without an ML background, it sometimes took hours to understand a single concept.
3. Once I felt I understood enough, I started drawing Excalidraw diagrams to explain what I learned.

Does this count as "generated from the codebase"? I don't think so.

Where we might disagree is the writing process.

As a non-native English speaker, my workflow looks like this:

1. Write a short paragraph (<100 words), then ask my writing agent to "fix this for readability and grammar."
2. Review the output. *If it changes any technical meaning, I correct it.* I consider this a responsible way to write a tech blog.
3. Move to the next paragraph.

Is this "AI-written"? I'd call it "AI-assisted." Every idea in every sentence is mine. Honestly, things like "em dashes" never stood out to me when reviewing. I suspect that's common for non-native speakers.

I wrote this comment the same way. The LLM fixed 14 grammar mistakes that I think would distract readers more than any LLM-ish phrasing.

That said, I'm open to suggestions on how to improve my writing process :)