MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by theunixbeard | 2026-03-02 22:24:53+00:00
Empire Flippers | Remote (no office), all timezones | Full-time | https://empireflippers.com

Empire Flippers is a true global-remote company with travel in our DNA and employees scattered across 5 continents and all sorts of countries. Since I joined 6 years ago, I've personally been to India, the US, Brazil, Ecuador, Colombia, Mexico, the Philippines, China, Japan, Thailand, the UAE, all while working remotely and coding our Ruby on Rails + React app. More about us here: https://empireflippers.com/about-us

Though not as well known in the Hacker News / venture-backed startups sphere, Empire Flippers is widely considered the #1 marketplace for buying and selling online businesses in the 5 to 8 figure USD range.

Think of businesses like --- that recipe site you landed on as the first result when you googled "best chicken tikka masala recipe". Or the Amazon FBA seller whose product you purchased when shopping for "Widget XYZ" (with Amazon FBA, these ecommerce businesses never touch inventory and so it's a fully online business).

Turns out these type of businesses may be earning 10s of thousands of dollars per month in profit (or more!) and when the (often first time) founder is ready to sell, Empire Flippers is the #1 place to do it safely, securely and at a fair market price.

Before I joined Empire Flippers I only had a peripheral understanding of this space, but now that I've been steeped in this industry I can say that this "mini M&A" world is just as exciting as the high-flying unicorns (and decacorns) that we read about daily on Hacker News.

The company is hiring for a few different positions (both technical & non-technical), all of which can be found here: https://empireflippers.com/careers

But in particular, I'm hiring a Ruby on Rails developer to help me continue to build out new features in our Platform, both for customers and to help run our (very extensive) internal operations of vetting incoming businesses, facilitating their sale, and migrating them to the new owner after they've been purchased.

That job ad can be found here: https://empireflippers.com/career/ruby-on-rails-developer/

As mentioned, we are a global-remote company that hires people of all nationalities located in any country in the world.

Hope to see your application soon, and with any questions feel free to email me (Ben) at beng at empireflippers.com
by Mvanstedum | 2026-03-02 22:25:00+00:00
Sphinx Defense | Software Engineering | Remote (US Only) | https://www.sphinxdefense.com

Sphinx Defense builds software to solve complex national security problems for America and its allies. Founded by engineers and technologists with deep experience across commercial and defense technology, we're building a vehicle-agnostic communication infrastructure to enable satellite operators to securely utilize antenna networks and maneuver satellites in real-time. We're bootstrapped, profitable, and growing aggressively.

To learn more about who we are, our engineering culture, and whether this is the right place for you, https://sphinxdefense.com/

Our current openings are:
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Junior Associate Software Engineer, Colorado Springs, CO: https://grnh.se/upa2vamw8us

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Don’t see a role that aligns with your interests or don’t have the specific Space/ Command & Control experience? Apply to the general interest application and list what type of role you would be interested in : https://grnh.se/4ce199d68us
by lukax | 2026-03-02 22:25:12+00:00
Or you could use Soniox Real-time (supports 60 languages) which natively supports endpoint detection - the model is trained to figure out when a user's turn ended. This always works better than VAD.

https://soniox.com/docs/stt/rt/endpoint-detection

Soniox also wins the independent benchmarks done by Daily, the company behind Pipecat.

https://www.daily.co/blog/benchmarking-stt-for-voice-agents/

You can try a demo on the home page:

https://soniox.com/

Disclaimer: I used to work for Soniox

Edit: I commented too soon. I only saw VAD and immediately thought of Soniox which was the first service to implement real time endpoint detection last year.
by cf100clunk | 2026-03-02 22:25:25+00:00
Not all of British Columbia can make the change. BC's northeast and much of the Columbia-Kootenays are presently on Mountain time, which means that the Province of Alberta holds the choice of when/whether their own and those BC areas go to a permanent time. Then AB would have to sync with Saskatchewan along their borders, but SK is already on a permanent time zone system. Decisions, decisions.
by subculture | 2026-03-02 22:25:30+00:00
One can only hope... My 13 mini's performance, especially for the Camera and Safari seem to have hit new lows with iOS 26. I'm sticking with the mini for its size, but also its weight. So far the Air is the only alternative I think I could switch to, but apparently that's also on Apple's chopping block due to poor sales.
by jz391 | 2026-03-02 22:25:50+00:00
And, of course, the next level of procrastination is to develop your own programming language, which you will use to write the engine to use in creating the game :-)
Definitely hats off to Jon for pulling it off - he had a lot of focus and some previous experience - and it also helps to have re$ource$ from past successful games. For many of us, the lure of developing better tools, rather than the end product, proves to be too strong to resist. At least Jon stopped short of developing own OS :-)
by subterrane | 2026-03-02 22:26:11+00:00
Tahoe has this really cool clipboard history feature that just does not work on my work laptop. Maybe some corporate keep-me-safe-ware is preventing it from working but my third-party app, Maccy, has no problem at all, so I guess it's just Apple being Apple these days.

I also held out for as long as possible using Safari, but I had to switch to Firefox. Every once in a while I forget the reason I switched and try to switch back and then get reminded. I'm currently in a "I can't remember the reason, but I'm too lazy to go find out" phase. I'm also one of those weirdos that liked the Safari compact tabs and I'm sad they removed it.
by wcunning | 2026-03-02 22:26:32+00:00
Location: Detroit, MI

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: Embedded systems, automotive, machine learning, signal processing, data science, real time computing, safety processes (MISRA, ISO26262, etc), MATLAB, FPGA.

Resume: LinkedIn -- https://www.linkedin.com/in/wcunning

Email: wdocunningham \@\ gmail.com

Background: Masters in control theory and signal processing, working in the auto industry for the last 7 years, first on low level powertrain software then the last year or so on LIDAR/computer vision for autonomous vehicles. I've done the most work in C, but I'm now contributing to safety development work with the Rust consortium and Ferrous Systems through my current employer. Recently had to read the Linux kernel source and use the BCC tool suite to find a subtle issue in the network stack causing high latency on sensor data for AV, also coincidentally fixed most of the network timing infrastructure.

Currently doing software defined vehicle software architecture with a focus on fail-safe and fail-operational, loosely coupled, distributed systems. This includes some standards contributions and work with high level suppliers like Nvidia and Renesas for next-generation software/hardware system co-development.

Primary skills include hard real time embedded systems, safety critical applications, firmware development, system integration and complex hardware/software interaction debugging, along with detailed data analysis problems.

Side interests include machining, 3D printing, embedded system development, coffee roasting and furniture making.
by dont__panic | 2026-03-02 22:26:49+00:00
Still loving mine as well. I held out with the 2016 SE for 8 years. Sadly it's looking like I might have to do that again with the 13 mini! It boggles my mind that Apple thinks it's worthwhile to sell the 16, 17, 17 Pro, and 17e all in basically the exact same form factor. And then the Air and Max in very similar form factors. Vary it up! I don't need a new mini every year, but something in the 5.4" form factor every 3-4 years would obviously have an audience. I don't care if it's a Pro or an SE/e model, I just need something that'll keep me on the latest iOS for security updates.

Sigh. Maybe the Clicks Communicator (at 13cm tall) will get my money.
by dgxyz | 2026-03-02 22:27:13+00:00
Yeah this resonates with me. Every single point.

Every time they fuck something I move the workload over to Linux, not out of enthusiasm or any ideological purity but because I need to do some damn work. Add in the current geopolitical shit show, rising surveillance culture and the constant push for MRR and the whole "ecosystem" idea of computing and cloud becomes quite distasteful and risky.

A monumental moment recently was Reminders which has a horrible bug in it since Tahoe where you are entering several tasks in the scheduled view and you hit enter and carry on typing and it doesn't register the enter until several keypresses later, splitting the last word you typed between two tasks. This is a very very minor but utterly annoying thing which has broken my workflow. I was so fucked off with this happening every day I pulled a sheet of paper out of my printer and just wrote everything on that. And I've been doing that for 4 months now. Reminders is dead. I forget things like I did before, but I get over that.

One day I'll wake up and not use the Mac. The iPad and Apple Watch are already gone.
by nunoarruda | 2026-03-02 22:27:26+00:00
Location: Portugal

Remote: Yes, remote only

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, RxJS, Angular, Ionic, Cordova, Capacitor

Résumé/CV: https://nunoarruda.com/resume.pdf

Email: nuno@nunoarruda.com
by nomilk | 2026-03-02 22:27:34+00:00
Funnily, the large display is the most important thing for me. I find my efficiency directly proportional to display size (which holds for laptops too).

If a 30 second task can be done in just 20 on a device with a larger display, that's absolutely worth it for me.

Also larger device tends to imply longer battery life too.
by monster_truck | 2026-03-02 22:27:35+00:00
Writing has been on the wall for some time now. It's completely unsuitable for serious work, or serious play. I had a massive rant written but it isn't worth it. Fuck em

The M2 and M5 minis I have are the nicest drink coasters I've ever owned.

I have unresolved radars old enough to drive, go to war, or even vote at this point. They used to blame Intel's TB controllers. Guess what? They make their own now and the same fucking issues persist! Enjoy the kernel panics
by aleph_minus_one | 2026-03-02 22:27:37+00:00
> According to her, the company’s leadership is strongly focused on B2B strategy, with revenue growth driven mainly by Azure, AI, and enterprise solutions.

> Her perspective was that consumer-facing products are not the primary revenue drivers and, therefore, are not central to executive priorities.

This does not explain why Microsoft then does not consider the consumer products as "stable (somewhat 'legacy') platforms", i.e. no deep changes and improvements will happen anymore (mostly bugfixes, security fixes and smaller improvements) - at least for the next years.

Considering that

- many Windows users would rather prefer a Windows 7 with small iterative improvements to handle new hardware (including performance improvements for new hardware)

- by quite many Windows users even Windows 2000 is celebrated (and many users would still love to use it if it included support for more modern hardware features and some convenience features that were introduced with newer Windows versions)

I can easily imagine that that this development path for Windows and Office would actually be liked by quite a lot of users.

Instead what Microsoft provides is an enshitification of Windows (and Office) with spyware, telemetry, AI slop, ads, changes for the sake of change, ...: this is clearly not what most users want.

I even have a feeling that this development path would be much cheaper for Microsoft than the AI integrations for Windows and Office for which Microsoft has clearly spent an insane amount of money.
by recursive | 2026-03-02 22:27:48+00:00
What's the point here? Then you'll need another car?

Remember, we're comparing to iPads. Apple intentionally hobbles them to induce demand for multiple iPads. This isn't a question of being allowed to own multiple iPads/cars. It's a question of being artificially prevented from owning a single one.

The point isn't that you have to commit to being a single-car household for life. It's that at some points in time, you can be.
by nunoarruda | 2026-03-02 22:28:24+00:00
SEEKING WORK

Location: Portugal

Remote: Yes, remote only

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, RxJS, Angular, Ionic, Cordova, Capacitor

Résumé/CV: https://nunoarruda.com/resume.pdf

Email: nuno@nunoarruda.com
by Nevermark | 2026-03-02 22:28:40+00:00
No, a model of reality cannot import something from anywhere else. Whatever is within reality, can only be determined by reality.

Nor can anything in reality, be exported outside of reality.

Reality is the one thing, the only thing, that cannot depend on anything undetermined or unchosen by itself.

The fact that reality must account for both itself, and any of its specifics, with no other domain to draw from, is a higher level of demand than for any other theory. That demand is a hard and unique constraint. A tautological constraint that is therefore usable as an axiom.
by xerox13ster | 2026-03-02 22:29:01+00:00
There was some utility I found a few years ago that would let me start an X Server and use it to replace the main explorer process. There was some support for standard Windows apps due to the background System processes still running. I think it ended up running the Windows desktop shell as a window in and of itself.

I wanted to use a tiled window manager and my dot files for continuity purposes. The Windows apps I need to use are stuff like anyconnect and Teams.
by amatecha | 2026-03-02 22:29:05+00:00
Right? I literally never once cared if I have to walk/ride to school in the relative dark. But I did care pretty much every afternoon how much time I have to enjoy the rest of my free time. Being able to go out with my friends and enjoy the daylight made a huge difference. It's soooo long overdue to put this stupid system in the past.
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by tripflag | 2026-03-02 22:29:17+00:00
Aside from the 256-color section, I believe all of the examples given in the article are basic sequences which are supported in ~every terminal. Are you aware of any notable terminals where that is not the case?

Maybe I've been lucky, but I've written plenty software that blindly shoots CSI's at the console and still haven't hit any snags. Especially convenient when the channel is unidirectional; curl ocv.me :)
by 1718627440 | 2026-03-02 22:29:25+00:00
I can only comment on some parts in Germany, and no I don't know of different seasonal schedules. I meant that the general trend is for the school day to start later, so that the teenagers get more of their precious sleep. Year-long DST would get them to get up earlier again compared to the sun. This trend is the same for office hours and working shifts, they become later, since people just want to sleep longer. (Which is obviously bullocks.)
by observationist | 2026-03-02 22:29:36+00:00
>> I would argue this is deeply false

I am making the case that this is distinctly and specifically true, for these types of models. They're eliciting many of the underlying functions and processes that brought about the data; transformers are able to model the higher degrees of abstraction that previous neural architectures could not. This was one of the major features of transformers that make them so powerful.

It's comparable to the idea that if you trained a model to output human sounding speech, many of the functions that shape the voice will correspond to the physical attributes that affect the sound of actual human voices. Volume of the mouth, shape of the lips, position of teeth, what the tongue does, etc - some of those things will be captured, others will be mashed into "good enough" , and others will be captured as an optimization possible in silicon but not for flesh and blood. It's not a one to one correspondence, but capturing process semantics and abstractions is why we have ChatGPT with transformers and not CNNs (although RNNs could have pulled it off back in the 90s, see: RWKV)

Anyway - the training methods, the paradigm of next token generation (in contrast to things like diffusion) and other aspects of LLMs restrict them to a subset of human capabilities, but it's reasonable to make the claim that many of the same functions that operate in Werncke's area and Broca's area in the human brain are resident in transformers. Many of the same associations between language and emotion and those abstract correlations - unspecified, implicit context that exists in the training data, but only as a deep subtext, sometimes even distributed across many texts, like cultural trends and so forth - are modeled by LLMs, not as an explicit feature of the data, but an implicit feature or function of the processes which produced the data.

Plus, there seems to be some support for the idea that for intelligent systems, modeling the world will result in comparable structures, networks, and features for similar concepts and knowledge - because you're modeling consistent, persistent things using modalities that are shared, or overlap, the way in which things are modeled converges on "universal" forms, simply due to constraints of utility and efficiency.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.07987
by nullderef | 2026-03-02 22:29:48+00:00
Pushscroll | Full-Stack Mobile Engineer (KMP) | REMOTE (GMT-3 to GMT+4)

We make people do push-ups before opening addictive apps - verified through camera pose detection. Our goal is to replace doomscrolling with exercise.

500k+ downloads, bootstrapped and profitable, very quickly growing.

Looking for someone strong in Kotlin Multiplatform + Compose Multiplatform + Swift/SwiftUI who works independently, uses AI to ship fast, and can implement a pixel-perfect Figma design.

Bonus: Supabase, Amplitude, native Android/iOS knowledge (e.g., Screen Time).

Small team, work directly with founders, long-term role. We’ve got big plans to make Pushscroll the app of the year, and there are exciting challenges to get there.

Reach out: contact@pushscroll.com
by ASalazarMX | 2026-03-02 22:30:00+00:00
> We can't really know

Precisely my point! We can't really know with absolute certainty, but we can make pretty good informed gambles with the data we have now. Statistics is a branch of math, and it is ideal to give approximate answers when data is uncertain. It is still hard data, even if incomplete.

We can't wait for Philosophy to finally agree what consciousness is in an abstract world while we have to deal with a real, multilayered world.

WE WILL NEVER BE CERTAIN, WE CAN'T REALISTICALLY WAIT UNTIL WE ARE.
by bgwhn | 2026-03-02 22:30:07+00:00
Thank you for sharing your experience with Next.js, even though you eventually ended up moving off.

> Waiting on Turbopack: Our initial local route loads took 10 to 12 seconds under the full weight of the App Router and RSCs.

Out of curiosity, were you on Next 16.0 or 16.1? We shipped file system caching in 16.1 that greatly improves the initial route loads. https://nextjs.org/blog/next-16-1#turbopack-file-system-cach...

> Production memory leaks

If anyone else runs into this, we've got a guide on how to profile your application: https://nextjs.org/docs/app/guides/memory-usage

> The multi-cloud ceiling

Admittedly hosting Next.js can be a bit harder than a SPA if you're using all the features of the framework, but if you're scaling and you don't want to use Vercel, you've got a lot of other options, including those provided by OpenNext. We've got a nice example repository here: https://github.com/leerob/next-self-host
by adampunk | 2026-03-02 22:30:11+00:00
It’s really not rocket science.

Like other people have said people are having fun with their computers; that’s why it’s popular. That’s also why a bunch of people on forums throwing their hands up and saying “I don’t understand it. Why don’t they see that there shouldn’t be any fun whatsoever?” is not really a deterrent at all.

It’s also why it doesn’t matter that the categories of tasks they are doing can also be done with a whole set of tools that are no fun to use.
by ink_13 | 2026-03-02 22:31:05+00:00
I don't have children and I prefer permanent Standard Time because I have the apparently weird belief that noon should be at noon.

(i.e. the time 12:00PM should be when the sun is overhead)

I'm not a "capitalism gives you brain worms" kind of person, but the idea that it is somehow better to literally change the location of the sun in the sky because the holy hours of 9-5 are sacrosanct is so strange to me.
by apparent | 2026-03-02 22:31:37+00:00
Yeah, I wish they would commit to doing a mini every x years. Last year I bought a 16 and this year I bought an Air. I returned both after just a few days. I can't reach across the phone with my thumb, meaning I can't use it one-handed.

The new phones have some neat tricks (satellite connectivity comes to mind), but the on-device AI seems pretty mediocre and I value pocketability and one-handed usability more than the new gizmos.

When I asked myself if I would rather keep the new Air or go back to my 13 mini with an extra thousand dollars in my pocket, it was no contest.
by dgxyz | 2026-03-02 22:32:11+00:00
It was always shit. I have seen horror stories going back since the day it came out.

Think my favourite was a conceptual flaw. The lightning strike. You need a completely offline backup or you don't have a backup.

Edit: using ChronoSync and two external (hard) disks, rotated once a month off site at the moment. That has a nice fat VERIFY button on it.
by throw0101c | 2026-03-02 22:32:15+00:00
> As someone else pointed everyone is already on DST for approximately 65% of the year. This just removes the remaining 35%. Picking standard time would have been a much bigger change.

This 65% started during the Dubya presidency (source: I was there updating tzdata on systems), and previous to that it was a 50/50 split.

So 65/35 or 50/50 is arbitrary.
by matthewb10 | 2026-03-02 22:32:22+00:00
Location: Boston, MA
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: Python, AI/ML (PyTorch, deep learning optimizers), agentic AI coding, full-stack development, GPU cluster infrastructure
Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Zx_nkcynUmg9Abq2KW57c9FKEo9...
Email: matthewbirov@gmail.com