skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You know this would be a lot more effective of a pitch if you didn't go with the free speech canard. The only change recently (aside from community notes, which is ok) is the notable surge in porn, crypto, and ads and the corresponding drop in quality of advertisers.
Just double checking - there is an opt-out feature that cross-posts all IG posts to Threads?
HN is also social media…
...only about 15/20 years behind the developed world!

> The notice claimed that 4G service is more affordable than 3G, but 4G service plans run as much as 50 times higher than 3G plans.

>Assuming that users are paying with foreign currency, the first data plan (100 megabytes per month) carries a signup fee of 110 North Korean won and a monthly fee of 132 won. The second plan (500 megabytes per month) costs 440 won for signing up and 220 won monthly, and the third plan (1 gigabyte per month) costs 286 won for signing up and 330 won monthly.
An earlier version of the repo commit format (v2) had a "prev" field, which referenced the previous commit by hash. This is vaguely blockchain-ish in that you could follow the chain all the way back to the first commit*, but even then, you still didn't need the prior versions to verify the current version. In "repo v3", the prev field still exists but is optional, and in practice it isn't used.

*unless the repo had been "rebased"
Love how the trucks are sliding sideways on the roads, the number of tires per trailer changes from shot to shot, and the lyrics close with "always the real thing".

I wonder if the music was from AI also.
Threads is unusable. I'm not sure what I expected, but of course it's just the slop-pushing, engagement-farmed, censorship-heavy auto-moderated Instagram algorithm but in a format made to look like Twitter.

The only posts I see on there that look like they're made by humans are jilted twitter refugees trying to convince each other they're having fun by sharing articles about how X is dead. Meanwhile on X nobody has thought about Threads since the day it launched.
Just launched Zinley – an AI-powered platform to streamline software development
Hey HN! I’m excited to share a project I’ve been working on as a founding engineer – Zinley, an AI-powered tool designed to make software development smoother and more efficient. Zinley can handle everything from coding assistance to image generation and even one-click deployment, aiming to simplify the dev process.

The idea came from seeing how often devs juggle different tasks and tools to get things done. We wanted to create a tool that acts like an extra set of hands, whether you’re building from scratch or iterating on an existing project. It’s especially helpful for speeding up repetitive tasks and getting quick feedback.

It’s still in beta, and we're grateful for any feedback from the community. If you’re curious, check it out. Thanks for taking a look!
How do I reach out to the board about our CEO?
I work for a small startup (~1.5mm revenue, <10 employees) that is slowly spinning out due to employee and customer churn. Sales are still growing, but growth peaked about six months ago and churn is annihilating our sales growth. Within the last two weeks, one of our first hires and our key employee have announced their departure.

I am a minor cofounder (14% equity). I head our sales efforts, but took it upon myself to reach out to these employees to do an exit interview on my own. Each of them had very similar feedback - unrealistic and unclear job expectations, a lack of alignment between priorities and resources, no clear vision, flavor of the month leadership, communication breakdowns, etc. They point to something that I have known for a while now - despite our huge successes on the sales and product side, we have outgrown our CEO and it has begun to severely impact our ability to survive and grow as a company. This feedback has been shared repeatedly by myself and the other co-founder with the CEO, but he gets very defensive over the feedback and doesn't work to implement any changes.

From here, I am not sure what to do. I have enough equity in the company that I can't just walk away, but I am not necessarily comfortable reaching out to the board on this without a clear objective in mind (besides "find a new CEO"). Our current projections is that revenue with continue to grow into Q1, and then peak before the end of Q2 and start to level off or even drop considerably, and our "key" employee (operations, support, marketing) has informed me that two others (nearly 50% of the company total) plan to leave before the end of the year.

We two very involved investors on the board who I communicate with time to time. The others are hand-picked by the CEO.
How you used Youtube API and machine learning together?
A year ago, Bluesky was an empty place, I wanted to use it but there wasn't anything. Now its bustling, there are interesting posts and they receive thousands of likes.

On the other hand Twitter still feels like where things are actually happening but more and more feels like they are about to start terminating anyone with eyeglasses.

I was there when the Digg exodus happened, it doesn't feel like that. It's something else. It feels like Twitter becoming a monoculture and others are having their monoculture somewhere else because Bluesky also doesn't feel diverse to me - more like the opposite of Twitter.
Laundry-sorting robot spurs AI hopes and fears at Europe's biggest tech event
That's true, but arguably x's only draw at this point is the ease of reaching and interacting beyond this bubble. Consider the draw of major public figures being openly mocked in their own comments! It's pretty rare to see any public figure open themselves to criticism.
What do you mean “gaming the system”?

The companies ask that candidates learn how to solve algorithm problems and the candidates do it.

I would call it “everyone playing a game they agreed to play by the rules they agreed to play with.”

And I don’t know what you mean by “it’s no longer about skill.” It still takes a lot of skill to be able to solve hard algorithm problems, even if you took a course on how to solve them and practiced solving them for 6 months.

When you audition for an orchestra they give you the sheet music ahead of time. It doesn’t mean you have no skill if you practice first instead of just showing up to sight read the music.
bluesky is reselling domains? Not sure that's still the case. Never saw anything about buying a new one when I was going thru the settings to change a handle.

That being said, the change handle to domain process is quite slick with very smooth DNS record based transfer done in a minute.
Seems calm to me. It's just a hyperbolic phrase.
I think the fact Facebook decided to just fork that language instead of improving it shows how bad the core development was. The internals newsletter was just brutal. I remember reading a thread from a Facebook dev asking who quietly just reverted his commit. No discussion, no nothing, the code was just reverted if someone didn't like it.

I really think that was a major misstep by the project.
The X Community Notes feature is open source. That is at least a step in the right direction, even if the feed algorithm is still closed.

https://github.com/twitter/communitynotes

For better or worse, X / Twitter was never really about communities. It has always been focused on allowing individuals to broadcast their thoughts. If you want a moderated community discussion then there are much better platforms for that.

We do have neutral mediums for free speech: HTTP and SMTP.
Whatever one's feelings about these microblogging services, one truth that has become clear is that none of them -- X, Bluesky, Threads, or anything similar -- should be considered "the commons". They're private businesses with their own motives that are often in complete conflict with your own.

A lot of people made the mistake of treating Twitter like a commons and have been burned. My local police force posts all notices about traffic, missing people, foiled crimes, etc., on Twitter out of inertia. That is wholly inappropriate, and wasn't appropriate even when before it become some brain-worm infected oligarch's rhetoric megaphone. The same goes for many organizations, politicians, and so on. It was never the right choice. And the solution to one bad choice isn't to move to the same mistake on some other service. These people and orgs need absolute and complete ownership over their own platform.

Mastodon / ActivityPub seems like it might scratch that itch, but what a bloated sloppy mess that is. The right idea, with the wrong implementation.

Honestly would prefer all these people and places just published RSS feeds.
Ah... gotcha. Thanks for the clarification.
You should be less disturbed by this one than past seasons' ads, then.
600mm*
Great idea, but you are competing with spotify
It takes a bit for content to go viral. Bluesky was mostly irrelevant until just over a week ago.

Since then I've seen plenty of Bluesky embeds in articles where there wouild have been Twitter/X embeds.
Twitter was a really good mix of viewpoints and people, but it’s people so toxically politicized and right wing that a lot of the interesting accounts have left. It’s a weird thing that could’ve only existed because they weren’t focused on profit.
I'm getting an HTTP 418 accessing the site.
The only people I've seen moving to bluesky so far in this latest batch have basically been smug lefty types and lawyers. They're free to do as they please but these are not the early adopters that make a culture good.
I don't think we should, nor do I think it's healthy. Some viewpoints are horrific and should absolutely be suppressed.
Site just returns HTTP 418 "I'm a teapot".
> If I read you correctly, you're saying "the fact that the residents of England speak English instead of Chinese is a historical accident" and maybe you're right.

That’s not what I mean at all. I mean even if spoken English were exactly the same as it is now, it could have been written with Chinese characters, and indeed would have been if England had been in the Chinese sphere of cultural influence when literacy developed there.

> English is a phonetic language

What does it mean to be a “phonetic language”? In what sense is English “more phonetic” than the Chinese languages?

> I can make up words in English and write them down which don’t necessarily have Chinese written equivalents

Of course. But if English were written with Chinese characters people would eventually agree on characters to write those words with, just like they did with all the native Japanese words that didn’t have Chinese equivalents but are nevertheless written with kanji.

Here is a famous article about how a Chinese-like writing system would work for English: https://www.zompist.com/yingzi/yingzi.htm
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But the article explains perfectly how they look like. White eyes, glucose filled cells, frozen solid as a rock. Bang it against a table, it's definitely frozen. Throw it back underneath those leaves.
Maybe this will finally be the time but every time there has been a “migration” it feels like Twitter still holds onto enough of a stronghold that most people don’t move over so you make the move but you end up back on twitter.

Particularly if you are using it as a tool to advertise your company, channel, stream, etc.

I would love for this to not be true this time. But I am not holding my breath.
I helped my friend instal one of these closed source ones and I never saw the point. They shut down their integration with his Alexa and other automations later which was amusing, but it kind of just showed off the fact that, yeah, you pretty much push the button in your car or the button inside your garage or on the keypad outside your garage and that’s pretty much all you ever do with a garage door so this smart home stuff doesn’t really add much.
Chairmansteve didn’t ask about theoretical paintings of watermelons that you have imagined though, he asked about Water Lilies by Monet, which is art that famously exists and is liked by many, many real people.

If your point is “all art is propaganda aside from art that exists and must be replaced piece-by-piece with hypothetical counterparts in my head to support this conjecture” you could have just written that. Though “some art is propaganda and some is not” is less profound sounding than “all art is propaganda”
The trend is what is important. Threads is growing at 1m new users a day.

And at least here in Australia, X is ranked #69 on the App Store. Threads #2.

Year from now, Threads could well be bigger.
We've been using pex for a long while to package PySpark jobs with dependencies into a single file. Saves a ton of time vs. the old way of building/deploying docker images.

https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/api/python/user_guide/p...
All work (in-office or remote) is inherently transactional. If I am in an office, I have to pretend to have genuine social interactions with people. Social bonds made between colleagues have will happen organically. No in-office mandatory fun.
I have literally 10 years of experience in Android development (starting with Java and transitioning to Kotlin around seven years ago). There are many topics in Java and Kotlin that are irrelevant to Android development, but I focus only on what I need. I quickly learn and build on new topics when required.

I’m speaking here as a developer who has done more than just bug fixes or UI tweaks. I’ve built apps that have served millions of users. I even have personal projects that currently serve 20–30k users daily, with over 1 million downloads and a 4.9-star rating from 41k reviews. Beyond Android, I have experience managing servers with Nginx, setting up SSL certificates, using Cloudflare, AWS, and Hetzner.

I’ve designed an app with users, posts, and likes, handling both the front-end and back-end using cloud functions and Firebase. From writing Firebase rules to encrypting everything, I understood and implemented it all within a few months. I’ve also written numerous web scrapers in Python for personal projects, which are still in use. While some backend concepts might seem basic, I believe knowing how the backend works is a huge advantage for an Android developer.

Despite all this experience, I recently failed to solve a "number of islands" problem in an interview and got rejected:

Given an m x n 2D binary grid representing a map of '1's (land) and '0's (water), return the number of islands.
This left me feeling useless. It made me question whether I’m fit to be a software developer. I studied DSA in college, but now I struggle to recall or prepare for it. Does this mean I’m a poor developer? Does someone who grinds LeetCode just necessarily have better skills in general? Is this what companies want? Are they okay to spend money and time in training someone just grinds LeetCode for the purpose interviews. Does someone who does this just for interviews is likely to stay in same company?

I believe there must be a better way to evaluate candidates. It makes sense to test DSA in campus interviews, where students are fresh and studying it. But for experienced developers, especially for roles like Android development, DSA is rarely relevant to the job requirements.

I’m not saying I can’t practice and do DSA—I can. But it has never been a job requirement for me, and I doubt it ever will be for an Android developer or a similar role. If it’s ever truly needed, I’m confident that most experienced developers, including myself, can excel through research and applied knowledge.

#Kill-DSA
There's also a reason we don't create zoning laws based on political belief, forcing everyone to agree with us if they want to be our neighbor.
pipx is orthogonal to the problem pex and shiv are solving since:

- it doesn't provide a single file for a full project with all dependencies.

- it requires internet access on the target machine to install things.

- it can't give you access to underlying API for things like wsgi.

- it requires pipx on the target machine.

- it requires a wheels made from a build, which many projects don't have (such as a lot of web projects).
> Honestly would prefer all these people and places just published RSS feeds.

both bluesky and mastodon also emit RSS feeds
Dailies (we have 3 in a week) for synchronization helps a lot. It’s also help’s with new stuff onboarding.
This has a lot of potential. I've been using Cursor Composer heavily and it's great but buggy, and could be more agentic.

After about an hour with Windsurf, I find myself frustrated with how it deals with context. If you add a directory to your Cascade, it's reluctant to actually read all the files in the directory.

I understand that they don't want to pay for a ton of long-context queries, but please, let users control the context, and pass the costs to the user.

It's very annoying to have the LLM try to create a file that already exists, it just didn't know about it.

Also, comments on the terminal management reflect a real issue. One solution is to expose the Cascade terminal to the user, letting the user configure the terminal in a working state, so that it has access to the correct dependencies and the PATH is properly sourced.
Most people in my circle have given up on Threads (even pre-Bluesky mass migration)
Nope, but I'd wager the share is way higher than on the other services as of right now.
Are you trying to brew coffee?
I like going on Mastodon and seeing other people's indie games. It isn't the same as the potato chip / crack hit vibe of other social media, but it's nice.
>Would note that both New York and California have absolutely garbage transmission economics.

Is that as compared to other places in the US? Around the world?

That's not a gotcha question, as I've lived in NY for most of my life and more than the last 25 years, so I don't really know how utility companies in other places operate. Although I'd expect it would be pretty similar across the US, no?
It seems to me that people had different levels of expectations for BASIC and Pascal.

BASIC was a teaching language. Yeah, people pushed it to write production systems, but it was still a jumped-up teaching language, and everybody knew it. People did serious work with it, but it was still a "toy" language. If you had a serious program written in BASIC, it wasn't expected to be portable.

Pascal started as a teaching language, too, but it got taken more as a "serious" language. (To be fair, it did have far better control constructs than BASIC...) It got hyped as a "serious" language. But it wasn't able to reach the bar set by those expectations, for the reasons you state.

Could you have written the same applications in Pascal that were written in BASIC? Almost certainly. Would you have been better off doing so? Definitely.

Maybe the difference was, BASIC was more approachable - it was something a 10-year-old could tinker with. Pascal was more a thing that college kids could tinker with. So Pascal had higher expectations. The same kind of limitations were more a violation of the expectations.
How come chlorophyll photosynthesis isn't more efficient? 6% for plants, 20% for (ordinary) solar panels. Don't plants have to outcompete other plants? Then there's red algae, which inhabit dark places like caves and the ocean, and they're apparently way more efficient. Is it somehow not advantageous to a tree to photosynthesize efficiently?
National Security called, you can't see the article.
It can, but:

- It's slow.

- The underlying python code cannot use open() to access its own resources, but must use pkg_resources, and most packages on pypi don't do that because most dev don't even know it exists or what problem is soves.

- _ _ file _ _ is not available, breaking a lot of things. zip_safe is a build option, but actual compliance to it is hard work and rare.
HHVM is an amazingly-optimized VM for their workload. That PHP runs many times faster than off-the-shelf PHP does. I suspect taking any other widely available VM and waving a magic wand to rewrite in another language would result in something that performed significantly worse.
> Oh god, please kill it with fire.

> This is horrible.

> This would be insanely disruptive to me and I think most of my team.

> There are much better ways to handle this.

Hi! You could probably turn this from a low-effort rant into a productive comment by removing the first 2 lines of your comment and expanding the last one into something informative.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240102061501/https://chronicle...
The top links are mostly from the past week. And a lot of links are about Bluesky itself.
https://archive.md/1Hr5t
Threads is literally built on Instagram so of course they are leveraging it.

But that's very different from saying that Threads MAUs aren't specific to that platform.
I can see your point about the bullshitters being able to fool a VP, but in that case they wouldn't be doing the coding interview anyway.

On the other side we're also seeing bullshitters that can ace any leetcode challenge, but not actually design anything of value or work well with others.

There's probably not a one-size fits all, but if you're going to do coding interview do them well and understand many don't do well in these types of interviews because they don't see the value, or feel that their other skills are being ignored.
IMHO, there are some great advantages compared to X/Twitter (I'm not sure about Threads).

1) links in your posts do not penalize your post, making it much easier to share content and link. It's absolutely refreshing to click on a link in mobile and have it open directly in your preferred web browser instead of the in-app hassle.

2) You can choose your own algorithm, without having weird stuff shoved in it

3) it's a new network and early adopters are hopping on, so it's unusually high signal of interesting people, and interesting people are much more likely to follow you because there's not as many people.

4) far far far far less spam and bots

5) people can't pay a nominal fee to jump to the top of replies, which makes discussions far higher quality and much more interesting

It's an all around better experience. It may not stay that way. Twitter was always an ever-changing beast, as all social networks are, but the big changes that have been taken on over the past few years all came at weakening the value proposition of Twitter in order to feed the ego of a lucky narcissist that does not understand the experience of others or care about creating a good product. X is now the play thing of a wanna-be oligarch, and it's afraid harder to get useful information out of it compared to even a couple years ago.

Bluesky has already become far more useful to me in finding technical material and technical collaborators in just a few days, even after years of careful curation of my X/Twitter network. I don't know if that will last, or if those outside of science/data/programming will find Bluesky useful (and I actively unfollow anybody that posts a lot of stuff outside that area so I won't know!), but for the HN crowd I think Bluesky already has the potential to be a much better and rewarding use of time invested.
No, I don’t have proof and I never suggested I did. Yes, it’s 100% hypothetical but I assumed everyone engaging with me understood that.