skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oxford University just announced "brain rot" as their Word of the Year for 2023. Defined as the cognitive decline caused by excessive exposure to low-quality or mindless digital content, the term is often linked to habits like endless scrolling on social media platforms.

Social media, once celebrated as a means to connect and democratize information, is now being recognized for its unintended consequences:

- Reduced focus and attention spans
- Algorithm-driven echo chambers
- Doomscrolling-induced anxiety
- A decline in creativity and deep work

This raises important questions for our community:

Have we reached a societal tipping point? It seems like there’s growing consensus about the need to rethink how we design and interact with digital products.

What role should creators and engineers play in addressing this?
Should platforms prioritize mental well-being over engagement metrics?
How do we individually combat "brain rot"?

Many of us, despite working in tech, feel the pull of distraction.
Personally, this has pushed me toward digital minimalism. I’ve been experimenting with ways to reduce digital noise, like disabling notifications, setting app limits, and building simple tools to block distractions. (Shameless plug: I recently launched a free app aimed at helping users manage screen time and refocus — happy to share if there’s interest!)

The Word of the Year feels like a cultural wake-up call. While it highlights a grim reality, it also presents an opportunity to build tools, habits, and systems that help us regain control over our attention.

What do you think? Does this mark a broader shift in how society views our digital ecosystem? And what can we, as builders, do to create more intentional tech moving forward?
Absolutely, they were fantastic. I was a purchaser of said tamales pretty often. It was an older guy who said his wife made a bunch each morning, so he went out to sell them each day.
Hey, I read your yoga book today.
DENT: An Open-Source Linux-Based Network Operating System
an admittedly shallow search for this topic resulted in a wikipedia page[1] that states that the EU witheld funding to regions in Poland that have policies that were summarily characterized as "LGBT-free zones".

In EU language, this is pretty strong distancing from such positions.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBTQ-free_zone
I love it, but yes it can feel a hair pedantic. I just enjoy the tooling a lot and it's compiler is really amazing at what it can guarantee.
It's all deja vu ... back in pre-2000 it was web stores, e.g. pets.com, then more recently it was block-chain this and that. Now it's ML/DL/AI.

The VC playbook is simple, gamble with other people's money, hoping that 1 in 20 bets pays 100x in order to pay off the 19 losers and collect their fees. With carry they just can't lose. It's either win or win BIG.

In spite of all their posturing, VCs can't accurately predict the future either.
I think that's what happened. Your mind filled in the gaps and assumed Murderbot's gender.

I'm pretty sure it's never stated it looks like either a man or a woman. I mean, if it can pass for human it must like either or at least androgynous, but Martha Wells never tells us which.
Which timezones are you hiring in? Are you interested in eu candidates?
Yeah, the client side for just the QR is almost trivial, I don't even think you need the canvas.

I can code it up in React pretty quickly, probably not mess with 3rd party components, just write my own HTML and CSS.

What mostly concerns me is that one "little" feature in an existing python project (git repository, etc) involves creating another project, opening up another IDE window, etc. Now maybe that React project becomes a sidecar and I build out several mini-applications in it to amortize the investment in maintaining the project, maybe it even grows into the front end for the whole thing. On the other hand I relish the freedom of starting a new mini-app without the complexity and risk that some dependency I add now is the one that I'll be scratching my head over 3 years from now.

On top of that I need one button start for the whole system when

I guess that's what's bugging me, that a "mini-app" involves having more than one project to deal with, it just seems from a rapid prototyping perspective to be the wrong way. (e.g. I want 10x tools!)
Location: I was in Asia for one year. Today I'm in Playa del Carmen, Mexico making my way South. My residence is in New Orleans, LA.

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: TypeScript, JavaScript, PHP, Python, FastAPI, Redis, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, TimescaleDB, MySQL, React, React Native, NestJS, AngularJS, Backbone, Playwright, Drupal, Express, jQuery, D3.js, visx, GraphQL, browser extensions, and AWS

Résumé/CV: N/A

Email: [HN username]@gmail.com

I’ve been working on a specialized project involving Tunnels, IPC, and RPC across distributed JavaScript environments. This includes implementing RPC over WebRTC with packet acknowledgment. The system provides a unified API interface that works seamlessly across service workers, web workers, Node.js servers, and Unix pipes, among other environments. If that sounds like something you could use, feel free to reach out—I’d be happy to share more about myself and my work.
Michael Stevens of VSauce fame has you covered with his "How Many Holes Does a Human Have?" video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egEraZP9yXQ
> filibuster-proof majority

They had 72 Days in 2009 to fix everything! Both parties are the same! /s
Its very back of envelope. Basically price to book value, except I didn't account for liabilities. 150B assets divided by 4B shares implies one share should account for 150/4 = $37.50-worth of the business. Its a quick sanity check but absolutely not a robust yardstick!
I never got what people like about board games. Studying a manual for hours in order to play a game isn't fun to me but people are wired differently
> AI to solve cancer, mitigate global climate change, and eradicate global hunger.

It'll also make you 20cm taller, add 20 points to your IQ and grow your penis by at least 33%.

I don't understand how people are so delusional, does anyone actually believe these claims?
I think this is true, and is a big failing on the part of Democrats to seize an opportunity to do something that would have been generally popular. I think it's funny that the modern Democratic party bends over backwards to please corporate interests, when those corporations are far more interested in Republican politicians. The recent crop of anti-trust investigations has been encouraging, but smacks of a "too little, too late" change of course, especially when this article notes that there is a law on the books (and it is still on the books, despite over forty years of non-enforcement) that could have helped Democrats campaign on food prices, which were a huge concern for voters this year. It's probably Clinton's fault (Bill's, not Hillary's) for shifting the party further to the center to win in the 90s.
Yes. The kernel has access to data from every workload, and so technically a bug in _anything_ running at kernel level could result in data leakage.
Brain.js demo – train a neural network to recognize color contrast
We have a gaussian splat component (same format that it looks World lab uses) for A-Frame that should work in VR on Quest and Vision Pro in their respective Web browsers. Quest FPS might not be ideal yet

https://x.com/dmarcos/status/1714364349928837147
Thanks for sharing this - it was a great read
Of course. Or to put it another way, since we are already forced to have cars to get by within the current organization of cities, consumers recognize that they can save considerable money by going to a big consolidated store instead of a small local one.
What drove the change from Scala to Rust?
Helsing at Eurorust and the Oxidation of Defense
I imagine if you cherry pick everything that goes your way and trash the rest it makes a very nice little fairy tale in which we can continue on our merry way without ever facing any kind of consequences
You have never met Steve Chow, the BlackPenRedPen bloke on YouTube, then. (-:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=n1ZLag56sAo
I'm just a rando reading through this (and the mirror "Who's Hiring") thread as usual to keep an eye on current trends but if you're looking for recommendations feel free to read below. If not, best of luck on your journey and I hope you have a merry Christmas!

I'd say it's pretty hard to get an idea what or how good you are for a certain job. You do list a few technologies but, beyond that, there's not really any example of why someone should bother reaching out to you specifically for a task even if they were reading for an Elixir/Python webdev. Perhaps another direct link to either a traditional resume (can trim away the personal contact/identify info if you'd prefer, since it's a public posting) or a direct link a collection of past projects you think would be relevant example output to a job you'd take (and nothing else in that particular link, that way it's easy to quickly scan through). Nothing against throwing your personal side out front, if you feel that's the easier way to approach things I'm not one with experience in those areas to recommend you do any differently, but convincing the hiring/recommending individual you've got some technical chops in what they need to be worth taking the time to reach out to could possibly benefit. Doesn't make it easy by any means, but hopefully a nudge in a helpful direction :).
If your application uses raw NT syscall (which Microsoft explicitly says is an unstable interface) and an upgrade breaks it, then the application certainly is at fault. Like, this isn't some incidental case where you accidentally depended on unspecified behavior or an official interface broke; if there's a big warning on an interface that says this thing is unstable and will break your code, and it breaks your code, that's definitely on you.
I don't think alibaba handles grocery as far as I know - at least in the US.

Probably it is most similar to Instacart/Amazon Grocery delivery but the issue with these is that they are more oriented toward high value, high convenience, high immediacy, highly customizable orders for groceries items.

The flip side would be a set time (i.e. Saturday or Sunday), a set location (i.e. local school parking lot), a set number of bulk items (i.e. eggs, bread, pasta, chicken legs, ground beef, milk).
NLAD: Build Apps with Natural Language Using Large Language Models (Open Source)
Hi HN,

I’m excited to share NLAD: Natural Language Application Development, an open-source methodology that lets developers build apps by describing features in plain language.

With NLAD, you can:

Automate implementation details while retaining control
Rapidly iterate and refine prototypes
Focus on user experience, not boilerplate

We’re looking for early feedback and contributors to help shape NLAD’s future. I’d love to hear your thoughts—whether it's questions, ideas, or suggestions!
Blended Wing Body Passenger Airplanes and the End of Winged Tubes
> Neither handwriting nor typewriting existed while the brain evolved.

Why is that relevant?
Interestingly, it might be true that Saddam Hussein did pivot to fake ones. After the complete destruction of his conventional military in 1991, it seems he decided that the only way to keep Iran or some other unfriendly neighbor from invading him (1) was to convince everyone that he had chemical weapons. This might have applied even to his own generals. I have heard that when US forces were interrogating Iraqi generals after the fall of Baghdad International Airport, they would ask them where were the chemical weapons and General A said that he didn't have any of them, but he was told that General B had them, and General B was sure that General C had them because he knew that he didn't, and General C thought that General A had them. At least, this was a story I heard verbally from someone involved, I've never tracked down the documentation to see if that was real (I was an intern working on non-proliferation before the invasion of Iraq, so I so I knew some people in that world, but pursued a different path and don't know how true this story is).

1: In roughly the same way that he had invaded Iran in 1980 when that country was in disarray after the fall of the Shah. Note that he doesn't seem to have noticed that his invasion was a huge disaster for Iraq, killing huge numbers of people, destroying massive quantities of stuff, going deeply into debt- so much debt that he decided to try and seize Kuwait, bringing the wrath of the United Nations down upon him- and gaining him exactly nothing. The idea that other leaders might be smart enough NOT to do that never seems to have crossed his mind.
> Prior to that, small towns and poor neighborhoods could generally count on having a grocery store, perhaps even several.

The small, corner grocery store back in the day didn't have much selection though. Hence the takeover of super-markets.

For better and worse, their role has mostly been supplanted by gas stations and dollar stores which still populate a lot of these food deserts.
Seeking: Chief of Staff, anything at the right VC firm, Sales Engineering, Solutions Architect, or User Operations / Support Engineering ideally at a cool AI startup, but am flexible for the right team, opportunity, CEO, industry, etc.

Location: Los Angeles

Remote: In-person preferred, hybrid 3 days/wk in SF or nearby ok, open to remote.

Willing to relocate: NYC or SF okay.

Technologies: Engineering + MBA + coding bootcamp.

Résumé/CV: Early employee at Segment in various technical, sales, and customer facing roles; angel investor in various companies, managed $20m lead gen vertical at public online marketing company; tutoring business in 20s.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brantleybeaird/

Email: bbeaird at gmail! dot com.
I've only used Bottlerocket in relation to EKS, and even then my interaction with it was pretty limited so I have no idea how it fares as a standalone operating system.

My one big experience with it was the recent bug which (as I recall) attempted to harden the system by marking memory pages as no-execute, which caused virtual runtime languages like Java to basically break entirely when running on a node using this version of Bottlerocket.

It was fixed pretty quickly, but it did feel like a weird thing to slip through...
There's still a pretty hefty difference between retail and wholesale.

Call around your local distributors and ask if they'll work with a food buyers club.
Summary: For me learning by doing with good callouts and short, high point briefing before worked great. I also usually use a similar style of prompting people to do things when I am teaching people IT stuff instead of doing it for them or only talking about it (family tech support, might be a chaotic raid, but usually less twitchy /s).

As a datapoint in a similar situation, I played in a guild in Lost Ark that was quite competitive (more than I was). This game has mechanic heavy raids, but I do not know how they compare to Destiny 2. I went into early raids essentially blind and learned mostly by doing and listening to good calls during it.

A few minutes before we went in, and during the straightforward way to the bosses, someone familiar with the mechanics explained the general idea, e.g. "there is an instant kill in all phases, in the first 2 you need to stand on the whitish spots, in the 3rd phase on the reddish spots". During the actual encounters, and before the switch of mechanics, they would call out in short what to do, e.g. "stand in red" or just "red".

I personally liked this way. It gave me a rough idea what to expect and refreshed my memory enough to not screw up in the heat of the moment. The explanation itself was also quite short, because we didn't go through the play by play, only covering the important stuff and relying on in the moment callouts. Plus, some briefing happened during the run to the boss. This method might only work with a somewhat competent/disciplined group. We played like this as a guild with good raid leaders and during crunch time we had good comms discipline. In addition we went into training raids with inexperienced players, with the expectation that we might not make it, but still try our best, and usually won. There also were more or less fixed raid teams that grinded these bosses without any explanation, because everyone had done it multiple times already.

I played another game with lightly mechanics based bosses and I, or someone else, explained in about 3 chat messages what to do when we went in with randoms. It was simple enough "I do X, shoot adds when I do X, if I die, do Y". The experienced players took care of the harder/mechanics parts, everyone else covered the easy parts. If you have a semi-fixed group for this, everyone learns all mechanics at some point by observing.

Edit: Typo
When I visited Facebook's HQ years ago, people had modified signs saying "Move fast and break things" by adding a prefix "Don't".

I'm sure they knew this was propaganda. The little red book is a very clear reference (just do a search for "little red book" if anyone doesn't recognize the reference).
Location: NYC
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No

Technologies -
Programming: C/C++, Python, JavaScript, Kotlin
Embedded Systems: PowerPC, ESP32, STM32, Altera MAX10, Lattice iCE40UP5k
ML: TensorFlow Lite, PyTorch, OpenCV, MATLAB, ONNX
IoT: BLE, WiFi, MQTT, LoRa
Digital Logic: VHDL, Verilog

Resume: https://docs.google.com/document/d/18mjB1tIH5s-ZmiET_smUxbMo3FaiC637aW_us8P0U5I/edit?usp=drivesdk
Email: dm@datameta.info

Hi, I'm an embedded systems engineer with experience in software, hardware, IoT, and machine learning. Seeking innovative roles in low-power remote applications, HPC, robotics, and the like.

My latest roles have been in full-stack edge AI R&D, memory controller firmware dev, and chip bringup/testing. I'm passionate about modular synthesis and tinkering with all sorts of circuits and DSP. Currently upskilling in analog PCB design and refining my abilities in FPGA development.

I'm aiming for a learning-forward environment where I can learn while about a domain while advancing embedded systems integration and leading cross-pollinating efforts within the team.
Location: USA

Remote: Preferred but flexible

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Python, PyTorch, C++, ROS, ADAS

Resume/CV: https://nitinjoseph11.github.io/nitinjoseph_madapallyabraham...

Email: nitinjoseph1997@gmail.com

I have been working on ADAS Video functions for over 3 years. I also have significant experience automating software pipelines using Jenkins. Currently, I am looking for AI/ML roles as well as software engineering roles, particularly in the automotive sector.
Meanwhile, after decades of "we tried everything" we produce, year after year, record levels of co2

You can look at it any way you want it simply doesn't work, it's not enough to wish for it.

There is no 60% solution, not even close, so it doesn't matter if a sci fi books mention a 0 carbon future
Vietnamese tycoon in race to raise $9B to avoid execution
Actually you can download the whole thing by using https://github.com/ofou/graham-essays , and then I imagine you can pipe it into pandoc or something of the sort to create a PDF. And then you can send that over to https://www.blurb.com/pdf-to-book or similar providers to get it printed.

When I attempted this once, I couldn't get the pages to be formatted nicely like a book, and the number of pages I ended up with was close to 1500 or something along those lines, which ends up costing you $100+ to print out with one of these services.

However I suspect that if someone were to typeset the essays nicely, it'd be an amazing coffee table book.
You send an MPEG transport stream. The contents are arbitrary and can be anything you want, live TV, movies, etc.
Might be thinking of pinduoduo
> the climactic scene is, essentially, people walking around a circular hallway a couple times

I feel like once you decide you don't like something, it's very easy to get reductionist about it in a way that makes it sound stupid or trite even if the reductionist statement is true. This summary to me is a quintessential example.

I liked the book alright, but certainly not enough to get into a debate about it. If you liked Leckie's other work, you'll probably find something to like here too, no matter your feelings on hallways. But maybe not!
Scotch | Fullstack Software Engineer | REMOTE within US | Full-time | https://scotchnetworks.com

Scotch’s mission is to modernize one of the oldest industries on earth: the $1.6T beverage alcohol market. We’re starting by building the next-generation operating system for BevAlc retailers (POS, payments, backoffice, ecommerce). If you love Rails, solving real-world problems, and want to work with a very small team, we’d love to talk.

We are seeking a fullstack engineer with a proclivity for the frontend to join our very early stage engineering team. In this role, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining a high-quality, mission-critical web application using Ruby on Rails + Hotwire and following the best practices in modern web development. If you're amped about Hotwire/Turbo/Stimulus + Rails, we might be the right next stop for you!

Our tech stack: Ruby on Rails, Hotwire/Turbo/Stimulus, ViewComponents, PostgreSQL

For more details and to apply: https://jobs.rubyonrails.org/jobs/1054-fullstack-engineer-fl...
This quote is great! Where is it from?
They should have known that if they built a giant centralized platform, the government would eventually come knocking.
>Democrats have not had a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate since before Reagan

Republicans have not had a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate since 1907.
Location: Boston
Remote:Yes

Willing to relocate: Possibly, if it's critical

Technologies: HTML, JS, CSS, SVG, GLSL, UX Tools

Résumé/CV: Upon Request

Email: GabrielMartinUI@gmail.com

Hi there, I'm a New England based UX Designer and developer. I'm entering an MIT professional development program in designing and building AI products and services, so if there are any AI-centric roles with part-time or co-op opportunities, that can build into fulltime roles, I'd love to connect.

I'm a former UX dev who wanted to make a bigger impact on the product side, before the ball was already set into motion, so I can as easily whip up a prototype of a user flow in Figma, as a component interaction in Codepen.

I could do a pure UX design/research, or a pure UI development role, if a company would see a path forward to a more hybrid role over time. Above all else I enjoy contributing and making an impact.

I've done some neat stuff with GLSL interactions here: https://codepen.io/VizDevBoston

Also, I make art sometimes, some of it is here: https://codepen.io/gabrielmtn
Let's not forget that the opposition lost the elections and these protests are a coup attempt against a legitimate majority (unless proven otherwise).

This is like January 6 with the West cheerleading for the insurgents.
Most people will read this headline as a question. I read it like a proposition for bio weapon lab research. Post covid.

Parasites can live there. I think, Toxoplasma gondii and malaria and a brain eating ameba exists.
If you planted a bean in the brain of a beagle, it would grow too. Though I hope we don't ever do that.
Its not just about speed. Speed reflects efficiency. Efficiency is needed to serve more queries in parallel, to search within exponentially growing data, with less expensive hardware, and fewer servers, consuming less energy. Therefore the pursuit for efficiency never gets outdated and has no limit.