MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by voxleone | 2026-03-06 19:50:11+00:00
I’ve always designed systems along the classic path: requirements → use cases → schematization. With AI, I continue in the same spirit (structure precedes prompting), but now the foundational layer of my systems is axioms and constraints, and the architecture emerges through structured prompts. Any AI on the shift is an aide in building systems that are logically grounded. This is where the “all of us as AI engineers” claim becomes subtle. Yes, anyone can generate code, but real engineering remains about judgment and structure. AI amplifies throughput, but the bottleneck is still problem framing, abstraction choice, and trade-off reasoning.
by sodafountan | 2026-03-06 19:50:29+00:00
Yes, this has been my experience. I'd consider myself average at best. I worked in the industry for almost 7 years before being laid off. I can't find anything at the moment and have resorted to moving back in with my parents.

It's pretty depressing. I'd take just about anything at the moment. I understand desperation going into a job interview isn't ideal either.

It feels like I'm in a hole.
by jpadkins | 2026-03-06 19:50:33+00:00
I think it's fine to engage in a healthy debate with skeptics, informed with facts and well supported suppositions as long as you have the bandwidth. I also acknowledge that one does not have to respond to skeptics, as they can waste time and energy.
However, convincing the public of major changes of lifestyle and economy should be hard. At some point, you have to address the skeptics that bring up good, well reasoned arguments. Declaring them "enemies of mankind" is not persuasive, nor does it lead to peaceful resolution of important debates.
by _DeadFred_ | 2026-03-06 19:50:36+00:00
It's 12% of the international market. That is the segment. Any business is going to pay attention when they lose 12% of a market segment. Travel is 2.5% of GDP, above agriculture (0.9%), mining (1.3%), and utilities (1.5%) so a very outsize industry. Straight 10% of that (international travel) makes the rounding error market segment 20% of the size of our entire ag industry.

That is your 'rounding error' a segment that brings in 20% of the entire United States ag industry.

Tourism is also 15 million jobs so a 'rounding error' to such a large industry isn't necessarily a 'rounding error' to our population. 10% of that would be 1.5 million jobs. The entire US agriculture industry employs 812,600.

Again, the party that makes ridiculous claims for political impact is the one so concerned over 40,000 coal industry jobs but unconcerned about the fate of 1.5 million US workers because it's a small 'rounding error'.

https://www.squaremouth.com/travel-advice/us-tourism-statist...
https://www.bls.gov/ooh/Farming-Fishing-and-Forestry/Agricul...
https://www.trade.gov/feature-article/december-2024-internat...
by bobanrocky | 2026-03-06 19:51:12+00:00
Are you saying you want to be laid off with a nice package as you’ve been with the same employer for a long time? Couple of options: have a nice conversation with your manager and make this clear. The signs are clear that major s/w layoffs will happen in the next couple of years. Other option is to ease off - your high salary and low output will put you in the dustbin list
by sp1nningaway | 2026-03-06 19:51:31+00:00
Those are just examples of academic/progressive jargon that I hear often in the Bay Area and in progressive circles. "Decolonizing," could mean for instance changing world history curriculum to cover non-western civilizations. "Centering" seems like maybe it just means focusing on, but there is a whole academic apparatus for designing curriculum around say, indigenous practices, and centering is the word used for that entire concept, which includes specific techniques.

I think to get the full meaning of both, you'd need to be fairly steeped in a world that uses those words all the time AND it is often used to identify people who "get it" from those who don't.
by adrian_b | 2026-03-06 19:51:48+00:00
RISC-V has a beautiful license, but it is one of the ugliest and least efficient computer ISAs ever designed.

Any competent computer engineer can design a much better ISA than RISC-V.

The problem is that designing a CPU ISA is easy and it can be done in a few weeks at most. On the other hand, writing all the software tools that you need to be able to use an ISA, e.g. assemblers, linkers, debuggers, profilers, compilers for various programming languages etc. requires a huge amount of work, of many man-years.

The reason why everybody who uses neither x86 nor Arm tends to use RISC-V is in order to reuse the existing software toolchains, and not because the RISC-V ISA would be any good. The advantage of being able to use already existing software toolchains is so great that it ensures the use of RISC-V regardless how bad it is in comparison with something like Aarch64.

The Intel ISA, especially its earlier versions, has also been one of the ugliest ISAs, even if it seems polished when compared to RISC-V. It would be sad if after so many decades during which the Intel/AMD ISA has displaced other better ISAs, it would eventually be replaced by something even worse.

As one of the main examples of why RISC-V sucks, I think that any ISA designer who believes that omitting from the ISA the means for detecting integer overflow is a good idea deserves the death penalty, unless the ISA is clearly declared as being a toy ISA, unsuitable for practical applications.
by flatline | 2026-03-06 19:51:59+00:00
I, too, am able to get interviews. The last time I made a serious search was in 2022-23, and companies were clearly eager to hire at competitive rates. This past fall, they were not. My salary requirements stopped at least two interview processes when the question was raised. In other cases it was not clear that the company was serious about moving forward with hiring for the position at all. A three month search ultimately came up dry, which is fine because I'm currently employed, but I do not think the hiring landscape is promising at all right now.
by volkl48 | 2026-03-06 19:52:49+00:00
I assume that this means you're sending out rejections that include a mention of "we've hired someone else for this role".

If your hiring model is hiring multiple people through one posting, then you will probably get a lot fewer angry ex-candidates being weird (because they think you've lied to them since the posting is still up) by just sending out rejections that don't say that and just get the "we're no longer interested in you for this role" message across.

Nicer/more corporate language for both, of course.
by mlsu | 2026-03-06 19:53:03+00:00
I just can't get over how short and intense the period between 2021 and 2023 was. There was SO much hype, such stupendous hiring, in such a compressed timeframe. Within the span of like 9 weeks it went from full steam ahead to completely seized.

At the same time, the economy at large didn't seem to change very much.

Why did this happen?
by xeromal | 2026-03-06 19:53:07+00:00
I think some of this is probably attributed to being maintenance devs who don't build a lot of greenfield stuff. I got this way in one of my past jobs. I think us as devs really need to practice creating things from scratch from time to time. Working out those kinks is a good skill (less with AI) but also good practice for those baby components you'd need to make in an interview.
by waba99 | 2026-03-06 19:53:09+00:00
I'm seeing a lot of specialization. For the past 11 years I've marketed myself as a frontend engineer. I got laid off last year and the job search was largely similar to my previous job search 4 years prior.

I've been looking again this year and the landscape has changed drastically. Specialization is the name of the game, I have a good amount of experience working with Growth initiatives and I've been getting good responses from roles that are looking for either Growth or Design engineers, roles that were not as prevalent years ago.
by stnvh | 2026-03-06 19:53:16+00:00
Reassuring to hear I'm not the only one, and would consider this a normal use case for the browser, in fact one of the main reasons I use Firefox over chrome as it's simpler to manage than the latter.

I was hinting in my original comment if these cases are contributing to crash reports in any capacity there is a small chance they could be misattributed towards the claims in the post, especially if memory is not freed correctly on shutdown. Even more so if any memory allocation is shared between processes / helpers.

If I quit normally, don't wait for the "timeout" and force quit I still get the crash report UI immediately which still suggests to me something funky going on.

10% is a crazy high percentage to claim for bitflips.
by noufalibrahim | 2026-03-06 19:53:36+00:00
I believe that this is already done to several models. One that I've come across are the JOSIEfied models from Gökdeniz Gülmez. I downloaded one or two and tried them on a local ollama setup. It does generate potentially dangerous output. Turning on thinking for the QWEN series shows how it arrives at it's conclusions and it's quite disturbing.

However, after a few rounds of conversation, it gets into loops and just repeats things over and over again. The main JOSIE models worked the best of all and was still useful even after abliteration.
by Forgeties79 | 2026-03-06 19:54:06+00:00
>that’s cute

Unnecessary but moving past that: I understand where you’re coming from but a hallmark of people like that is they are not willing to learn or be swayed no matter how you try to educate them. They have decided what is real and it often dovetails with their social/political views in a way that is very hard to disentangle.
by zabzonk | 2026-03-06 19:54:07+00:00
Can I ask what you and others that posts things like this here -"What are you actually developing?"

People are posting about pull requests, use of AIs, yada yada. But they never tell us what they are trying to produce. Surely this should be the first thing in the post:

- I am developing an X

- I use an LLM to write some of the code for it ... etc.

- I have these ... testing problems

- I have these problems with the VCS/build system ...

Otherwise it is all generalised, well "stuff". And maybe, dare I say it, slop.
by Aurornis | 2026-03-06 19:54:37+00:00
> I assume that this means you're sending out rejections that include a mention of "we've hired someone else for this role".

No, this isn't possible unless you delay rejections letters until you hire someone.

We send letters as soon as the decision is made not to continue with that candidate.

Honestly it would be cruel to string them along any longer.
by janalsncm | 2026-03-06 19:54:51+00:00
I have been getting automated emails from a slew of different recruiters now. Usually one or two per day. I believe they are LLM generated. However, I usually don’t respond.

The next step is for me to respond with an LLM. Maybe if my LLM is good enough it’ll convince their LLM to skip the interview and just offer me a job.
by jinko-niwashi | 2026-03-06 19:55:01+00:00
The instincts can absolutely be developed faster with AI — if you set it up right. I work with an AI partner daily and one thing I've noticed is that it's a brutal mirror: it exposes gaps in your thinking immediately because it does exactly what you tell it, not what you meant.

That feedback loop, hundreds of times a day, compresses years of learning into months. The catch is you need guardrails — tests that fail when the AI drifts, review cycles you can't skip, architecture constraints it must respect.

That's what builds the instincts: not the AI doing the work for you, but the AI showing you where your understanding breaks down, fast enough that you actually learn from it. Just-In-Time Learning.
by tialaramex | 2026-03-06 19:55:03+00:00
Right, turning out your people is huge, and it becomes more rather than less important as margins are thinner which is a consequence of trying to gerrymander a thinner majority.

If Republicans turn 2 places they win by 130:100 plus a big city they lose by 100:130 into three they expect to win by 120:110 then if on the day Democrats turn out as usual but about 10% of the Republicans stay home across the board they lose all three 108:110.

My concern in the 2026 cycle is that there just won't be fair elections, and so this doesn't end up mattering.
by Dylan16807 | 2026-03-06 19:55:07+00:00
Yes, but what's easier depends on layout. "Consensus" makes me think of two entire nodes, and in that situation it's simple to keep symmetry and have each node store one copy and one small hash.

If you're doing something that's more centralized then one hash might be simpler, but if you're centralized then you should probably use your own error correction codes instead of having multiple copies.
by cyberneticc | 2026-03-06 19:55:18+00:00
For me vibe coding has been less about copying existing software, and more about gluing together existing tools and programs I want to use into a stack of my own, and helping me to maintain it. The real fun then comes with custom interfaces that are just what I want them to be (often talking directly to the agents is the best of them), and freeform automation of workflows.
Things still break often and require tinkering, but the process itself is fun for me, so I don't mind the blowups.
by SoftTalker | 2026-03-06 19:55:42+00:00
> ability to reverse a b tree on the whiteboard

I can never get over how this became a thing. Was listening to a Brian Cox video on YouTube the other night (something about his voice helps me sleep). He said "I don't memorize formulas, it's easy to look them up."

If you ever need to reverse a b tree (in 30+ years of writing code, I never have) it's easy to look that up. It tells me nothing about your ability as a developer of real software that you spent time memorizing trivia before an interview.
by sam_palus | 2026-03-06 19:55:42+00:00
The 4.5-5% yields we quote are net of expense ratio. Then our cut is 0.25%, comparable to the 0.15% to 0.6% charged by Mercury, Rho, etc. And we're working on bringing that expense ratio down as we scale.

Functionally speaking, short-duration floating-rate agency MBS trade at such a stable NAV that they're perfectly sufficient for long-term cash, and many large companies trade these.

MBSF is complex in the way that basically any fund is complex, but the strategy it employs is actually quite simple since it only trades a single asset class. Yes the expense ratio is higher than some other funds but the additional yields more than make up for it.

ICSH and SGOV are great funds too, and make sense for shorter-term cash, but they pay significantly less than we do.

Broadly speaking, our product is meant for exactly the kind of cash strategy you're thinking about: multiple buckets with duration spread accordingly. At the moment, our platform is just for the long-term bucket. But in the future, we might add additional shorter-term buckets too (maybe even with ICSH or SGOV).
by M95D | 2026-03-06 19:55:50+00:00
> my worry is that ARM devices will bring an end to such an open platform like modern PCs are.

Modern PCs are NOT open platform anymore. Not since signed bootloaders, UEFI, secure boot. ARM on the other hand, as long as they don't require signed bootloaders (like phones) or a closed source driver for GPU or something, are in fact open.
by xrd | 2026-03-06 19:56:02+00:00
This is undeniably happening as well. Totally agree.

I just have had lots rejections, and some where I did have a good fit, that I don't think "AI auto rejection" is the only story. I have good credentials, several F500 experiences, no big career gaps.

The only real success I have had in the last few years is targeted emails (from who is hiring on HN) or through my network.

It's very different than at any other time and I believe it is a combination of a terrible market, AI rejections, and ghost jobs. And I'm sure there are more than a few ghost jobs.
by daralthus | 2026-03-06 19:56:08+00:00
While I mostly agree with the grim conclusion, I think there's an important aspect ignored that in every domain the very first and very best brands could leverage as good design and purpose: art and fun.

Remember winamp skins?

"The purpose of art is to impart the sensation of things as they are perceived and not as they are known. The technique of art is to make objects 'unfamiliar', to make forms difficult, to increase the difficulty and length of perception because the process of perception is an aesthetic end in itself and must be prolonged." - Shklovsky on defamiliarization

What pg is really writing about is enshittification, consumerism.
by mindslight | 2026-03-06 19:56:14+00:00
Not really. Look at the longstanding "I didn't think the leopards would eat my face" dynamic. The whole movement is rooted in othering an outgroup for which violence against is morally justified. None of its supporters imagine themselves in that outgroup, and if they do end up there by then it's too late.

In the domestic surveillance context, it's not like decisions of an automated system are ever going to be used to arrest anybody the bossman protects.

On the battlefield, commanders don't really care about collateral damage to the grunts, generals don't really care about collateral damage to whole units, etc. Look at how Russia is prosecuting its meat grinder against Ukraine. That type of failed state oligarchy appears to be the Trump regime's desired vision for our country.
by Sloppy | 2026-03-06 19:56:49+00:00
I have owned two high end OLED TVs both got horrible burn-in within a year. I'll never get another. This will only be worse on a computer screen with permanent areas like menu bars and docks to ruin the OLEDs. I've heard all the "we have fixed this..." and most of these are demonstrably marketers spouting, well dare I say, lies.
by karmasimida | 2026-03-06 19:56:57+00:00
I mean you don’t need your first job go to top of the top companies. Your first job is to get you into the industry then you can flourish.

How many juniors OpenAI GDM are going to hire in a year, probably double digits at max, the chances are super slim and they are by nature are allowed to be as picky as they should be.

That being said, I do agree this industry is turning into finance/law, but that won’t last long either. I genuinely can’t foresee what if when AGI/ASI is really here, it should start giving human ideas to better itself, and there will be no incentive to hire any human for a large sum anymore, maybe a single digit individuals on earth perhaps
by loeg | 2026-03-06 19:57:12+00:00
Yeah but like... area under the curve. All of those jobs and more were added very recently, 2020-2022. It's a major retreat from that growth, but the trend since, say, 2008 or 2010 or 2018 is still positive growth. 2020-2022 was just a huge shift due to a very weird Covid/ZIRP market.
by johnnyanmac | 2026-03-06 19:57:26+00:00
Games are a weird sector. Long term I simply want to go it indie. Even if I doesn't pan out, it's some kind of passive income and I have something to show to that is fully "mine" (so no ambiguity about how much I really contributed at BigCo.).

Short term I'm freelancing and doing whatever else I can find to get by. Hoping for one more full time role before I start my self published ventures.
by tabbott | 2026-03-06 19:57:50+00:00
I recommend that anyone who is responsible for maintaining the security of an open-source software project that they maintain ask Claude Code to do a security audit of it. I imagine that might not work that well for Firefox without a lot of care, because it's a huge project.

But for most other projects, it probably only costs $3 worth of tokens. So you should assume the bad guys have already done it to your project looking for things they can exploit, and it no longer feels responsible to not have done such an audit yourself.

Something that I found useful when doing such audits for Zulip's key codebases is the ask the model to carefully self-review each finding; that removed the majority of the false positives. Most of the rest we addressed via adding comments that would help developers (or a model) casually reading the code understand what the intended security model is for that code path... And indeed most of those did not show up on a second audit done afterwards.
by anonymouscaller | 2026-03-06 19:57:51+00:00
Slack is in no way a great program (source: use it daily for work), but it seems to me that it works as intended, and developers can already extend it with bots/AI agents. Plus, Claude as an agent is already installable to Slack.

For compliance, my company already has a tool that scrapes all slack messages, and archives them for a required amount of years. I'm at a small company, so I assume large corporations have already refined this process.

What problem does this solve?
by flopsamjetsam | 2026-03-06 19:58:04+00:00
PageMaker was an iconic program of the DTP revolution for me, along with the Aldus logo. We couldn't afford a Mac at the time, so I made cargo-cult copies of programs like this on my home computer, and pored over the screenshots I saw in magazines. Years later, my Mum got a job in her office producing the in-house company magazine using PageMaker. I spent hours getting to know it while helping her out.
by SirensOfTitan | 2026-03-06 19:58:05+00:00
I don’t see this reality in the style of interview being performed at all.

Everyone has seemingly adopted the FAANG playbook for interviewing that doesn’t really select for people who like getting their hands dirty and building. These kinds of interviews are compliance interviews: they’re for people who will put in the work to just pass the test.

There are so many interviews I’ve been in where if I don’t write the perfect solution on the first try, I’ll get failed on the interview. More than ever, I’m seeing interviewers interrupt me during systems or coding interviews before I have a chance to dig in. I’ve always seen a little bit of this, but it seems like the bar is tightening, not on skill, but on your ability to regurgitate the exact solution the interviewer has in mind.

In the past I’ve always cold applied places and only occasionally leaned on relationships. Now I’m only doing the latter. Interviewees are asked to risk asymmetrically compared to employers.
by autoexec | 2026-03-06 19:58:12+00:00
> I disagree. Giving fake info adds noise to the mechanism, makes it useless.

There's no such thing as useless info. Companies will sell it, buy it, and act on it regardless of how true it is. Nobody cares if the data is accurate. Nobody is checking to see if it is. Filling your dossier with false information about yourself won't stop companies from using that data. It can still cost you a job. It can still be used as justification to increase what companies charge you. It can still influence which policies they apply to you or what services they offer/deny you. It can still get you arrested or investigated by police. It can still get you targeted by scammers or extremists.

Any and all of the data you give them will eventually be used against you somehow, no matter how false or misleading it is. Stuffing your dossier with more data does nothing but hand them more ammo to hit you with.
by game_the0ry | 2026-03-06 19:58:26+00:00
Near zero interest rates + COVID remote work + PPP loans = Booming economy

What is happening now is the unwinding of the above. Now its:

Higher rates + AI + too many SWEs (bootcamps and over-hiring) = Busting economy

I think what we are in right now is more the norm and the post covid boom was an exception.
by Aurornis | 2026-03-06 19:58:38+00:00
> If you need to wait YEARS to hire someone with some specific experience, I can guarantee that you really didn't need that person.

I've worked in specialized fields where it takes YEARS for the right candidate to even start looking for jobs. You need to have the job listings up and ready.

This was extremely true when we were working on things that could not be done remote (literal physical devices that had to be worked on with special equipment in office).

Engineers aren't interchangeable cogs.