MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kypro | 2026-03-02 17:37:57+00:00
I remember saying ~2 years ago that people should probably assume the role they're in would be their last programming job. I feel like that was an unreasonably good prediction given almost everyone on HN at the time was arguing that LLMs were just stochastic parrots.

I suspect people will still be needed to create software for some time but increasingly it won't be software engineers who have spent decades learning syntax. It will be a relatively poorly paid role compared to today. If you're happy to be paid a fraction of what you're paid today, perhaps you can transition into a vibe coder role.

There will probably be some more senior people maintaining projects, but the number of people like this you'd realistically need at any org is probably in the single digits. The main hiring criteria will be that they're very personable, not the typical anti-social engineer type. The autistic 10x engineer's value is basically zero in this new AI economy.

Longer term (~10-20 years) we're all dead anyway so your priority probably shouldn't be to optimise for income or prestige.
by lazide | 2026-03-02 17:38:59+00:00
In my experience, autistic adults - if employed in their area they care about - will also care about things like ‘does it work’, ‘is it good’, ‘is it doing the right thing’.

That will get you targeted in the current corp environment pretty bad.

They also tend to compulsively tell the truth - also a bad idea in the current corp environment.

And if doing something outside of their interest, burnout is hard to avoid. Especially when you have bosses screaming at you to go go go - to do stuff that just doesn’t work.
by swiftcoder | 2026-03-02 17:39:05+00:00
> they're like 90% left-wing activists

I'm not sure that's an accurate description. Are "Human Rights" inherently left-wing? Is environmental protection inherently left-wing? Is political corruption inherently right wing?

This is of legal experts each with 30+ years of experience in the fields with which this trial is concerned (environmentalism, corruption, humans rights abuses).
Show HN: ParseForce – Turn emails into structured JSON and send them to webhooks
by nikola470 | 2026-03-02 17:39:28+00:00
Hi HN,

I built ParseForce because parsing emails has always been surprisingly painful.

Many automation workflows still rely on incoming emails: invoices, order confirmations, shipping notifications, etc. The usual solutions involve fragile regex rules or Zapier-style email parsers that break when email formats change.

ParseForce takes a different approach.

You create a unique inbox and define the data you want to extract. Incoming emails are parsed using AI into structured JSON and delivered to your webhook.

Example workflow:

Email received → ParseForce parses it → structured JSON → webhook to your backend.

Example output:

{
"invoiceNumber": "INV-84217",
"items": [
{ "name": "Valve kits", "quantity": 60 },
{ "name": "Pressure regulators", "quantity": 20 }
],
"total": 1284.50
}

Typical use cases:

* extracting invoice data
* processing order confirmations
* parsing shipping notifications
* automating legacy email workflows

The goal was to make email integrations as simple as webhook integrations.

Stack:

* Node.js / TypeScript
* PostgreSQL
* AI-based schema parsing
* webhook delivery system

I’d love feedback from the HN community.

Site:
https://parseforce.io
by Sharlin | 2026-03-02 17:39:42+00:00
There just aren't enough hobbyists in the world running local AI models, never mind technically savvy enough to hack something like OpenClaw and be really excited about it.

For a comparison, the local image gen interfaces ComfyUI and A1111 WebUI have a huge amount of stars (~100k and 160k respectively, accrued since 2022 or so), but they allow you to create porn customized to whatever kinks you have, not just automate things for the sake of automation. One of those is a rather bigger value prop than the other, dopamine-wise.
by webdevver | 2026-03-02 17:40:03+00:00
actually, it really is not neccesarily a 'hardware company' thing. ive been in 'hardware companies' where the rtl was just as available for viewing as the rest of the firmware/software.

in big hardware companies, things start getting siloed, but that probably has more to do with big companies (seemingly invariably) operating as a union of fiefdoms (dunbar-number-ification?)
by possible25 | 2026-03-02 17:40:14+00:00
Location: India
Remote: Yes (4+ years of remote experience)
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: Python, Django, REST, Azure/GCP/AWS, Kubernetes
Résumé/CV: https://go.prashants.in/resume_hn
Email: aoccaogu7@mozmail.com

I'm a backend-focused SDE 3 and Team Lead. Over the past 4 years at a B2B SaaS startup, I progressed from SDE 1 to leading a cross-functional pod that owns our core workflow engine (a low-code automation tool similar to Zapier).

A few recent highlights:
- Architected an interpreter that translates user workflows into executable infrastructure, dynamically orchestrating compute for heavy ML/GenAI workloads.
- Led the design and implementation of a usage-based credit billing system that directly impacts revenue.
- Helped design our multi-tenant, multi-region application architecture for global data compliance.
- Rewrote our GenAI application to let enterprise clients talk to an LLM to analyze customer feedback data.

I specialize in distributed systems and backend architecture.

Seeking Founding Engineer, Senior IC, or Team Lead roles.
by petcat | 2026-03-02 17:40:24+00:00
> An AI pipeline breaks each one down into plain-language summaries and shows who it impacts by demographic group.

Wont this process be inherently biased by itself? Usually attempts (by humans or computers) to "summarize" or frame things in "plain language" will apply a bias since it intentionally omits all the myriad context and legal/societal "gray areas" that will inform one perspective or another.
by dismalaf | 2026-03-02 17:40:43+00:00
I was young but I do remember during the 90's my really nerdy computer/programmer friends being into Apple stuff until around the time Steve Jobs left, then getting into Unixes and eventually messing around with Linux or going back to Apple when they adopted a Unix base for OSX.

My own experience was learning on an old IBM PC at school, then Apple 2s later. Also my dad was a programmer (but maybe less nerdy/more professional) so I got second hand x86 hardware and learned to program on Windows with Visual Basic, Delphi and Visual C++ (since he already had licenses). Eventually I got into Linux in the late 90's.
by DonHopkins | 2026-03-02 17:41:17+00:00
Here's an old repo last modified 11 years ago, Pie Menus for Gtk+ 1.2.x:

https://github.com/Osndok/gtk-pie-menu

You might look at Simon Schneegans's repos and old web pages about gnome-pie:

https://github.com/Schneegans?tab=repositories

https://schneegans.github.io/gnome-pie

https://github.com/Schneegans/Fly-Pie

But he has moved on to cross platform pie menus with Kando based on Electron:

https://kando.menu/

Show HN: Kando – A cross-platform pie menu for your desktop (kando.menu):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42525290
by HqOKDM | 2026-03-02 17:41:20+00:00
HqO | Senior Software Engineer | Boston, MA | Onsite

HqO is the leading real estate experience platform — we help commercial real estate teams and enterprises create better workplaces through digital-to-physical experiences. 57% of the Fortune 100 use our platform across 1,800+ properties in 32 countries.

We're hiring a Senior Software Engineer to design systems and APIs that power our platform. You'll work closely with UX, product, and success teams in a collaborative, fast-moving environment.

Stack/culture: small, high-impact eng team; entrepreneurial pace; strong product orientation.

https://ats.rippling.com/en-US/hqo/jobs/969c5f8b-a26a-4edb-8...

Questions? kdm@hqo.co
by The_Fox | 2026-03-02 17:41:23+00:00
Location: Kelowna area, BC, Canada

Remote: Yep

Willing to relocate: Nope

Technologies: Linux, Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, Terraform, SaltStack, PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB, Nginx, Python, Django, apt packaging, iptables, VPNs, TCP congestion control algorithms (more than I ever wanted to know)

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/foxmatthew/

Email: matt@tansen.ca

I seek contract platform engineering projects. I can help early stage startups set up infrastructure and CICD so founders can focus on PMF. And I can help established software companies with outdated infrastructure adopt modern tools and practices.

I have 15 years of experience in startup software development and DevOps across web apps, cloud, and Linux networking. 10 years of leadership in teams of up to 7 people. I have built infrastructure using Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Digital Ocean, and Linode.

Here are a sample of my accomplishments:

* Built a platform for hosting web apps using Kubernetes at a major cloud provider and taught engineers to operate and improve it. Introduced Terraform, Helm, and incident management processes. It operates in 4 regions and has about 250 total CPUs.

* Led a B2B SaaS company through their first SOC 2 Type II audit.

* Created an application CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins and Gitlab, resulting in a DORA performance score of 8.0 (above average in all scores according to dora.dev)

* Published and maintained the community Apt package for Helm, the Kubernetes package manager, which is downloaded more than 200,000 times per month.

* Created a system to control calls in Asterisk with AI-trained voice commands ("hey asterisk, dial extension 1") https://github.com/mattfox/asterisk-voice-control
by hansonkd | 2026-03-02 17:41:42+00:00
GetDynasty.com | San Fransisco, CA | Sales (In-Person SF only) | Engineering (In-Person or US Remote initially OK)

Dynasty helps startup founders legally eliminate millions in capital gains taxes through QSBS trust planning. Today, sophisticated tax strategies are locked behind elite law firms and opaque processes. We’re building the software layer that makes advanced trust and tax infrastructure accessible, understandable, and fast.

We combine fintech, legal infrastructure, and thoughtful product design to turn what used to be months of paperwork and six-figure legal bills into a streamlined, guided platform. Our customers are venture-backed founders preparing for exits when the stakes are high and precision matters.

We’re early, fast-moving, and product-obsessed. This is a chance to help define the system of record for founder wealth.

Positions:

* Engineering: Hiring an experienced python / react engineer to help build the next generation of financial platforms. -> kyle@getdynasty.com

* Sales: We need to hire our second sales rep ASAP -> alessandro@getdynasty.com

If you want to work in SF, and want to join an extremely ambitious and fast growing startup, please reach out
by otherme123 | 2026-03-02 17:41:44+00:00
Do you really think that the whole world is waiting for whatever the US say to make their laws? Spain copyright law is dated 1879: https://www.boe.es/buscar/doc.php?id=BOE-A-1879-40001 , based on the French _droit d'auteur_ laws of 1700's. About the matter being discused here, read Artículo 6: dead date + 80.
by nikola470 | 2026-03-02 17:41:52+00:00
Happy to answer questions!

The idea for ParseForce came from repeatedly dealing with workflows where important data only arrived via email.

Most existing solutions rely on regex or fixed patterns, which tend to break when email formats change. That becomes a constant maintenance problem.

The approach here is a bit different: instead of matching patterns, you define the schema you want (for example invoiceNumber, items, total, etc.) and the system extracts the data into structured JSON using AI.

The goal was to make email integrations feel more like webhook integrations.

Curious how others here are currently handling email parsing in their systems.
by plaidthunder | 2026-03-02 17:41:53+00:00
There are generous ways to interpret a critique of "redditification".

1. An increase in comments that aim to gather social approval as opposed to advancing a conversation or sharing knowledge -- often including meta commentary on threads e.g., "reddit moment".

2. Topics start to become more general and lose the tech/startup scene focus of the site.

These are legitimate. Reddit threads are stereotypically full of noise and HN should avoid that.

However there's a third form of the critique that I think should be avoided.

3. Too many comments seem to reflect values and worldviews rooted in [socially] liberal ideals.

Because of this, it's probably useful to give some context for what in particular constitutes "redditifcation". That way dang and any other mods can try to address it with particular policy decisions.
by vincentchu | 2026-03-02 17:41:56+00:00
HomeVision | SF (2-3 days/week) | Full-Time

*Who we are*

We're reimagining what mortgage underwriting looks in a world where engineers and operators gain leverage through the use of modern agentic AI. We're at the forefront of using AI tools to hack our own workflow, but also to build automation and tools for our clients.

We currently work with 8 of the top 20 mortgage lenders in the country. NewRez lending, a publicly-traded, top-5 lender recently selected us to be a cornerstone of their AI underwriting strategy, calling this out on their last quarterly earnings call.

https://www.newrez.com/press-news/strategic-ai-investment-in...

*Who You Are*

While we have a number of roles, we're primarily looking for a specific attitude: talented, motivated individuals who tolerate ambiguity and can bridge the gap between business uses cases and engineered solutions. We believe that modern AI tools bring a great deal of leverage to engineers and we're motivated

We're looking specifically for engineers who can work directly with me (CTO/Co-Founder) and a small group of of SF-based engineers/PMs. In particular looking for a strong Frontend/Design engineer, along with a backend engineer.

We've hired from HN in the past and are excited to keep going.

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/homevision
by rcMgD2BwE72F | 2026-03-02 17:42:01+00:00
Tell me how you can set up an Android device and install apps that require Google Play services (like all the most popular and important apps) and not have Google syphone all your contacts details. I mean everything: name, date of birth, addresses, emails, websites, relationships,etc.

Answer: you cannot.

Any time you log into a Google account just to use the Play Store, Android will instantly starts syncing all your contacts and you can't prevent that. You can't even toggle airplane mode as a network connection is required to login. And you cannot configure Android not to sync all contacts data with new Google accounts by default.

I bet Google has syphoned the details of every single person on Earth (without their consent) and I have to trust them not to use that?

F** em
by coffeefirst | 2026-03-02 17:42:10+00:00
Yeah, this thread is eye opening.

I loved the essay. If anyone didn't enjoy it, quit halfway, or decided not to read it, that's absolutely fine. There's plenty of thoughtful writing I don't feel like spending my time with. But it is well-executed.

But apparently a sizable percentage of today's HN user base can't get through it, and finds the very idea of being able to get through anything longer than an LLM summary objectionable.

If I wanted to be an ass, I would call it a "skill issue."

But I don't want to be an ass. It's just deeply sad.
by jvanderbot | 2026-03-02 17:42:30+00:00
Correct. I've started recording what I've built (here https://jodavaho.io/posts/dev-what-have-i-wrought.html ), and it's 90% for myself.

The long tail of deployable software always strikes at some point, and monetization is not the first thing I think of when I look at my personal backlog.

I also am a tmux+claude enjoyer, highly recommended.
by ssl-3 | 2026-03-02 17:42:30+00:00
That doesn't sound right to me, either. Let's use PLA as an example of a thing that is definitely plastic.

In the right conditions (hot aerobic compost, which is admittedly difficult to achieve), PLA rather quickly decomposes all the way back down to lactic acid.

Lactic acid is definitely not plastic. It's liquid, and is one of the primary products of the happy little microbes that I nurture in my pepper ferments at home.

Again, it's hard to pin the long-term properties of plastic (noun) down in absolutes.
by daxaur | 2026-03-02 17:42:34+00:00
Thank you!

Memory right now is flat markdown files (MEMORY.md , SOUL.md) that Claude reads at session start. Honestly it works better than you'd expect. Claude's context window is big enough that a few hundred lines of memory covers most personal assistant use cases. I'd rather keep it as plain text you can read and edit yourself than add a vector DB dependency for marginal recall gains.

The filesystem context thing is exactly right btw
by 131hn | 2026-03-02 17:42:45+00:00
Vibecoded code is not C, python, ts, je or whatever.

It need to be considered as a compiled output of vbc-c, vbc-python, or vbc-ts, or vbc-js.

Keeping the source code (the prompt) is very natural, when compiled binaries “vibecoded” output is lacking _context_ and _motivation_ (which the source code / prompt provides)
by triceratops | 2026-03-02 17:42:49+00:00
Somewhat different circumstances.

Summarizing Matt Levine's various columns on the issue from memory:

1. J&J lost a lawsuit about talc and the winner was awarded $Xb (or maybe $XXXm, my memory is fuzzy) in damages.

2. J&J transferred $XXb to a new company.

3. It let the new company take on current and future liabilities for judgements on the talc issue.

4. J&J then had the new company declare bankruptcy. The bankruptcy process is designed to pay out money fairly to all creditors. The new company's only creditors were the plaintiffs in the lawsuit J&J lost + any future claimants. So this wasn't necessarily nefarious.

5. A judge rejected the bankruptcy because J&J had funded the company with $XXb and that was in excess of its current liabilities. As Levine put it, the company wasn't "bankrupt enough" yet.

I didn't keep up with the story after that so maybe I missed something.
by samgdf2 | 2026-03-02 17:42:54+00:00
Galileo | Sales Engineer | Remote West Coast USA | https://galileo.ai
Galileo is AI observability, evals, and guardrails. We are growing very fast and need a sales engineer to join our team to help support new opportunities. Lots of visibility and learning, with a strong team of kind and smart people who publish cool research.

Apply: https://ats.rippling.com/galileo/jobs/a2c28b53-89b6-4f59-874...
Questions: email me samuel@galileo.ai
by rj-kiwi | 2026-03-02 17:43:26+00:00
Location: New Zealand | 7-8 hrs/day overlap with Pacific time

Contract: Yes

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Node, Typescript, AWS (Lambda, Step Functions, DynamoDB, CDK), React, Next.js, PHP, Postgres, Mysql etc

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-jensen-nz/

Email: robjensen82@gmail.com

I have 15+ years of experience as as software engineer. Recent work includes building internal AI developer tooling for rapid prompt iteration, deploying scale-to-zero infrastructure on Vertex AI (saving thousands/mo in hosting costs), and integrating LLM observability with Langfuse. Previously AWS serverless systems handling 70M+ API calls/month at a financial services firm. Looking for contract work.
by whatshisface | 2026-03-02 17:43:30+00:00
Developer fantasy? Here's the consumer fact: people do not like the race-to-the-bottom extractive practices installed on their computers non-consentually. People do not like the union-style collective barganining of duopolies following each other's anticonsumer practices after the bolder one tests it. Everybody complains about this stuff nonstop, and adapts by reducing their attention span on a fundamental level. The demand for a respectful computing environment is enormous.
by erudyn | 2026-03-02 17:43:39+00:00
Location: Montreal, QC

Remote: OK

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: GNU/Linux, Python3 (FastAPI, Django, Flask), GraphQL, SQLAlchemy, Gino ORM, Alembic, PostgreSQL, Docker and docker-compose, Bash, Amazon AWS.

Résumé/CV: https://drive.proton.me/urls/1FX123QSE0#rNEN5AEIulaX

Email: gcaraballo@pm.me

Software backend developer with over 6 years of experience designing, building, and deploying production grade APIs and services. Proficient in FastAPI, Django, Flask, SQLAlchemy, Gino ORM, and relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB). Comfortable setting up cloud environments on AWS (EC2, Aurora, ELB) and containerizing applications with Docker/docker-compose.
by Volundr | 2026-03-02 17:43:47+00:00
What I find crazy is the sheer amount of access and trust involved in these LLMs. Every time I think about something I might like to do with it, I think about the amount of damage the LLM could do, e.x. even with read only access to my email combined with Internet access, and nope out. It's wild to me anyone trusts these things unsupervised.
Show HN: Agent Protocols Tech Tree
by JackC | 2026-03-02 17:44:01+00:00
The Agent Protocols Tech Tree is a Civilization-style technology tree that shows the evolution of more and more complex protocols for building agents, coming from a "rough consensus and running code" perspective. You can stay at a high level or click through to see each protocol all the way down to the wire format.

I made this tool as an alternative to a slide deck for a conference on AI agents that included both policy/regulatory folks and tech folks -- I wanted something for the policy side that shows the complexity of the decentralized community behind AI agents and why regulating them is a messy topic; and for the tech side that would let you see what the actual tech is beneath the jargon.

I'd love to know what you think I got right or wrong. There's a bunch of ways to organize and structure this story, how various competing incentives are driving people to agree on common frameworks and ways of doing things. I'm curious how you would tell the story differently and what tech out on the right edge you think is coming up.

Tool: https://harvard-lil.github.io/agent-protocols/
Blog post: https://lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2026/02/23/agent-protocols-...
Code: https://github.com/harvard-lil/agent-protocols/
by lysace | 2026-03-02 17:44:05+00:00
Windows 11 was built without agentic slop. That's a deduction from the timing of its gestation.

Windows 10 was released in January of 2015.

Windows 11 was released in October of 2021.

So this software disaster is entirely human-made.

Just wait, it will get worse, when the team that built the fantastic Windows 11 builds Windows 12, this time with the power of AI amplifying their amazing system design skills.
by phm_robb | 2026-03-02 17:44:15+00:00
Project Healthy Minds | Principal Engineer | NYC (Onsite) | $225-250K

We're a mental health 501(c)(3) nonprofit building a care navigation platform – think "find the right therapist" but across every type of mental health treatment – with insurance awareness and consumer-aligned privacy baked in. Small team, startup pace, mission that matters.

We're an AI-native team – actively experimenting with the best ways to leverage AI in how we build, not just what we build. LLM-powered data enrichment workflows, agent coding teams, the works. You'd own a significant chunk of the architecture and ship across the full stack: NestJS backend, Next.js frontend, data pipelines for provider and condition data. You'll shape eng culture and hiring as we grow.

What we're looking for: someone who's startup tested and ready to be the first FT eng hire in the office. Comfortable making architecture calls and still writing code daily. Experience with data-heavy consumer products (search, marketplaces, health tech) is a strong plus.
https://jobs.lever.co/project-healthy-minds/514c5d68-8e18-45...