skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see it the other way round: the company culture is strongly related to the CEO. It's not that the employees spontaneously tend to behave like at school, but rather that the CEO (and his boysgroup) create this atmosphere.

Those in power define the culture. But those in power are also very biased: employees are naturally careful towards those in power (obviously). Those in power like to say "please feel free to speak up" and "I listen to you" (they all say that, even (especially?) the toxic ones). But it doesn't change the fact that they are highly biased.

The likelihood to have a bad CEO in a startup is a lot higher than in a bigger company, because startup CEOs are usually inexperienced founders who had a big-enough ego to try to create a startup. The risk of them abusing their dominant position is, IMO, very high. Whether they want it or not.

I like to compare it to the #metoo movement. There are people (mostly men, to be honest) in power who have abused subordinates without even realising it. And then they genuinely don't understand that a subordinate may sue them because they haven't even realised that they were abusing them! When you are in power, you have a responsibility to be more careful, because your subordinates may not be in a position to contradict you. "She was consenting" has a very different meaning when "she" was in a position to be scared to say no.

All that to say, it's extremely easy to become toxic when you are in a dominant position. And startup founders usually have no experience, which makes it even more likely.
I have a 7800X3D with 64GB Ram, it's overkill for programming

So I've installed proxmox on it to utilize it's resources for other stuff as well

For my personal use, I created an Arch VM with GPU and USB PCIE passthrough, all 3 monitors directly connected to that GPU

It's so seamless and fast that I don't even feel I'm working inside a virtual machine

I have other headless VMs hosted to do other things (opensense etc)
I don't see why they should wait till Q4 to have it.

Users on the battlefield, preferably selected ones should have access today. They can have T-Mobile SIM's while waiting for the local infrastructure to get setup
Every year this kind of thing comes up about Netflix, I like to remind the Silicon Valley crowd that for all their billions invested, despite their thousands of highly compensated "engineers" and "data scientists" or whatever they're calling themselves now... NetFlix still hasn't figured out how to deliver subtitles in more than five languages to any particular region of the world.

They provide a service which at its core is just: audio, video, and text. They fail at one of three.

This apparently doesn't warrant a blog, or any attention at all for a decade now.

It's their core service!

Meh... not exciting enough. Rearranging stuff in their cloud however got someone promoted.
For Italian there is liber liber but I don't like how it is run at all. They claim copyright for the cleaning process to produce the ebook: this basically is both illegal in Italy, afaik, and ruins the whole goal of the project.
You can read SSL traffic if you're able to install a root certificate on your device and the website/app doesn't use certificate pinning.

I recently used HttpToolkit to reverse engineer a REST endpoint that used SSL encryption
Isn't that the point of mitmproxy? https://github.com/mitmproxy/mitmproxy
I too left off the /s.
I did the same thing for many months running teams. It was about what you expect from teams. I didn’t have any other significant issues, but eventually stopped using this setup due to increasing security requirements of the VPN software.
Semi auto magazine pistols were common and easy to get in the 60s
Nothing is RESTy
> Ironically the one situation I’ve found where Claude noticeably hallucinates is when I ask questions about a large and novel text that’s entirely in context. Which is the opposite of what I would expect to see. …

Sigh.

Accurate responses in such situations would be useful for busy professionals in low-stakes scenarios.

But LLMs cannot replace the effect on the human mind that results from actually reading, understanding, and thinking about a text. There is no substitute: we must do our own thinking, because it is the work that matters — the journey, not the destination, yields the benefits.
Glean.com? We had an intro meeting with them, pricing only makes sense if you're in a first world country and have 100+ or maybe 150+ employees.

I recall pricing started at 50k USD per year but may be remembering incorrectly. Please take this with a grain of salt as they may have changed their pricing models or whatever - I just get really annoyed at the "contact us" stuff so thought I'd try to help out here.
I think you're missing the heavy sarcasm there
The only way you can tell it wasn't made today is that nobody has a laptop or phone.
Absolutely. You are an exception. Get your head outside and look around you instead of assuming.
Author here. Fair enough. The "dead end" in the title isn't mine, extracted by editor from what's essentially a side comment on the limits of LLM scaling. My title would have been something like "We can't use current AI for critical applications". With "for" being essentially different from "in", if you want the nuance there.
Chrome extensions too
What languages are you thinking of that have all the libraries you could ever possibly need for a commercial project built-in?
Wait - are you saying the Ideal-Tek PCSA-4N is good, right? Now you've piqued my interest.

Is this suitable for a single person at home, to hold a PCB in place whilst you solder components to it? Worth getting it for home use?

You mentioned Lindstrom and Piergiacomi for flush cutters - I know Ideal-Tek makes flush cutters as well (in fact I think I have some somewhere...), and so does Knipex. But in your experience, are the Lindstrom and Piergiacomi vastly superior?
It's impossibile to publish free stuff on the Kindle store AFAIK, at least with KDP. Only one week free offer from time to time. This does not help.
Why offer knowledge for free if you can offer premium support instead
Part of the problem is that the websites need to "share" budget with the teams that build 2 separate native apps (or maybe they use something like React Native, but that still costs money that could've been used for a better mobile website).

Also, if a company has a mobile app, a bad mobile website is less of a problem. Take Takeaway.com. Their mobile site is terrible. But they have a pretty good mobile app, so why would they need to pour money into making the site any better?

But yes, (mobile) web also just needs to do better.
Crypto industry dreams of a golden era under Trump
I can put together a good powerpoint presentation -- one that isn't just bullet points and fluff.

It takes me forever. It's like preparing for a talk at a tech conference. I spend hours and hours off the clock refining the slides, the script, and rehearsing the timing.

Nobody's going to put in that effort if they have to present multiple times per quarter, especially if they know that nobody cares and that it doesn't really matter anyway.
Technically they were truncated to 6 decimal digits, giving a 10cm location precision... ;)
As someone who has been running a short term rental in an apartment building for over 6 years, I would ask: were there any genuine attempts to reconcile from either parties?

I myself had some troubles as well, but it didn't look impossible to run a short stay and keep the peace at the same time.
Neal Stephenson has a funny anecdote about explaining PowerPoint to a friend of his who had managed to be unaware of it until now, culminating in Stephenson's explanation "for people who can't communicate, it's what a dialysis machine is for people who don't have kidneys" [1].

This is the culmination of his response [2] to a question [3] in the Q&A period of a talk on his book tour for Seveneves [4]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIHF6vDv8AE#t=40m20s

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIHF6vDv8AE#t=38m46s

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIHF6vDv8AE#t=38m06s

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIHF6vDv8AE
Yes, I've been following it for a while - it's exactly the kind of research that I had on my mind. I don't necessarily agree with some of the design choices (I don't think we need a middle layer underneath VT100 emulation to make TUI apps, TUI is IMHO just terrible as a concept to begin with), but SHMIF has the mark of a battle-tested protocol, and many other concepts are very interesting.
I absolutely care about quality and I choose Android.

The fact that different people choose different qualities should surprise nobody.

(Some people are obviously price constrained out of the Apple price bracket, but there are also plenty of people who actively prefer Android)
WebArchive still has a copy of a website that I made that is just text "John Smith is stupid", with John Smith being a friend of mine from teenage years.
Slides are cursed with multiple audiences and lifetimes. After an initial persuasive speech, perhaps some new initiative gains momentum, and the slides are often the first and only relic associated with The Project for quite some time. They are a cultural artifact onto which many beliefs, hopes and dreams are projected in ways that are not at all evident from their content. Minions are asked by their managers if this thing is actually possible or desirable. Vendors are asked to pitch in. If you’re very unlucky you’re asked to start estimating for the thing and you’re sat, puzzled, thinking “but this is just some bullet points?” Sometimes the detail only comes later once things are signed off and someone is made accountable, and it’s that poor soul’s job to go back and find out exactly what gaps everyone has filled in inside their heads.

I don’t actually think PowerPoint is responsible for all this, I think it’s just people are often too lazy to create more structure and depth at the right time, and transition to something else.
I also made this mistake! I recommended the author to read an adjacent work, which turned out to be by the very same author. He had just forgot to include it his work.
Meant somewhat tongue in cheek ...

... but I do find the (alleged) IQ progression of AI systems somewhat concerning. And I do think 2025 is going to be "make or break" for AI ...

... thus the mention.-
Author here. Disagree on not slowing down. Indeed "dead end" isn't really the focus of the argument, editor's choice of title, not mine. Focus of argument is these systems are foundationally unreliable so can't be used as critical applications [though maybe as intensively managed components of such].
They verify by phone number.
That’s fair, I should have caveated this statement with the fact that I don’t know much about using the modern AWS console.

There are likely a few factors at play here, including the fact that Netflix decided to go its own way in this regard ~15y ago.

Though I work at a smaller (but still large), newer company now we still also have our own stuff for this.
I have literally never seen ASCII porn, and I've been on the net since 1994.
Tdf: Terminal-Based PDF Viewer
Thanks for your feedback. This problem has been fixed now. Dragon Ball and How to Train Your Dragon have been added. The website is still under construction and there will be some imperfections. If I want the name to fit the background, it will take a lot of time to fine-tune the prompt. Welcome to play again later.
This isn't true. Mitmproxy and burp can both proxy TLS. Maybe you're misunderstanding the use case.
A website can work offline, too. Service workers are a feature that any website (installed or not) can use to (pre)cache assets, etc. On iOS, that data will get evicted if the user doesn't visit the site at least every 7 days, though. Other platforms keep the data for a lot longer, but will evict at some point, too.
Tried it, Facebook gives me captcha on every request.
Option b could be more about breaking into some office that happens to contain those keys ;)
Part of the story that is mentioned but not discussed is that X_10 had a fixed and tight schedule. Under that constraint you expect some compromises for writing the mental model down in a way others can learn, because that model presumably lived in her head.

It might have been possible to say, great job you delivered on time, now you have as much time as you need to write your mental model down. On full pay of course, and we won't count that against you as non-technical work in the next performance review.

That increases the upfront cost of SVC but is an investment that pays back interest as soon as someone else has to fix anything.
I've tried mechanical keyboards a few times. Wasn't a fan. Didn't like how they felt or the noise they made
The idea that they're automatically better seems very odd to me.
I find this confusing because the point of an API is to be known, yes? Otherwise who's accessing it?
How Good Are AI 'Clinicians' at Medical Conversations?
Even if it does use certificate pinning, you can generally disable that using tools like Frida (https://frida.re) with scripts like https://github.com/httptoolkit/frida-interception-and-unpinn...
Feels hard to believe "Anglophilia" is the main reason people watch it, when it's all about making over-the-top fun -- way beyond Wodehouse, even -- of all the things those "Anglophiles" could be reasonably supposed to love.
I hate it! Good CAPTCHA.
ARPANET was established in 1969. In 1966 Ken Knowles at Bell Labs created the "Computer Nude" which "by scanning a photograph with a camera and converting the analog voltages to binary numbers, which were assigned typographic symbols based on halftone densities. It was printed in The New York Times on October 11, 1967". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Knowlton
As an end-user having my last four phones as Xiaomi's that get upgraded to LineageOS upon their replacement as the primary phone, this affects me in an indirect fashion:

I bought Xiaomi's because they were popular for custom ROMs, and their popularity was based on decent hardware for a decent price with a boot loader that's unlockable without too much hassle.

Once the bootloader unlock becomes a hassle, fewer developers will want to touch them, so their popularity for hobbyists will decline, therefore their sales will decline, leading to even further decreasing popularity amongst developers.

It'll be interesting to see how much difference it makes to sales, but Xiaomi will no longer be a preferred brand for me to consider. Pixels seem to be great for custom ROM compatibility, but they're ridiculously expensive even on the second hand market. Motorola might be the new go-to.
Wait, it works fine on production APIs, what it doesn't work on is "production clients". You're deliberately man-in-the-middling yourself.
It depends a lot on the application. I have a little Django app that I haven't updated in years and is used by one person—it's basically just a nice frontend for a database. For that use case, being able to just directly plug forms into database models is super convenient!
Compiling Clipper those days took around 45 minutes.
IMO, the dangers of AI are mostly overrated. AI is just a new fancy way of generating pictures and text. It does those things better in some regards, but the danger is the same we already had.
You absolutely don't need to understand code signing to know what an OID is or does.

Also, the suggestion that you need to pay $1000 to get your own OID tree to use is naive at best and disingenuous at worst.

The Private Enterprise Numbers registry is a thing that exists and is free to use: https://www.iana.org/assignments/enterprise-numbers/
Maybe, because it works?

What value does "not coupling" give you, when you end up copy pasting the attributes from one object to another anyway?
>>cost of tokens is a bit of an issue indeed

Their cost is $0.7 per 1M token.

DeepSeek is $0.14 / 1M tokens ( cache miss)
Are most companies this flexible in allowing developers to install whatever they want?

> My physical machine is a 2023 MacBook Pro with M2 Pro CPU

> I’m using VMWare Fusion Pro

> Quite often I’ve found developers frowning up Ubuntu and preaching for folks to use NixOS, Arch, Debian or other distros. The reality for me was Ubuntu was the fastest way to get set up and now

I'm in integrated circuit / semiconductor design. At every big company over the last 30 years we are given a computer and we can change the desktop environment but we aren't installing our own operating system.

The people I know in software have a common OS, compiler, and build environment. They aren't dictating what text editor you use but you aren't working on projects individually but together.

So if everyone at the author's company is doing their own thing do they have problems integrating all the code together? "Oh you used version 2.3.4 but I used version 2.4.7 which fixed this issue, what are we using to ship with?" Or is this not a problem?
I don't. A laptop is used for email when needed.
Author here. Unfair point, article makes clear I don't expect "outdated verification methodology" to catch up - and I even link that pessimistic expectation with the issue of emergence that fatally undermines NNs.
Point about lab vs reality is fair.
One thing I don't get about the current Rails direction is pushing hard to use SQLite and removing external dependencies but at the same time also advocating to use Docker.

Running Postgres and Redis in Docker is a matter of adding a few lines of YAML to a file once and never thinking about it again. I have done this for 10 years, it is painless.

I'm all for reducing moving parts and would also choose the same strategy if there were no down sides but DHH is running their apps on dedicated hardware with some of the best performing SSDs you can get. Most VPS providers have a lot worse disk performance.

There's also downsides to running your DB (SQLite or Postgres) directly on your single VPS when it comes to uptime. If your server is stateless then you can upgrade it with zero downtime. All you have to do is spin up a new server, provision it, add it to DNS, wait a day or 2 and then decommission the old one. This is nice for resizing instances or big OS updates in a zero risk way. You can just make a new server.

That works because it doesn't matter if the old or new server is writing to your externally hosted DB. If your DB is directly on the host or using block storage that can only be connected to one instance at a time then you can't spin up a new server since one of the DBs will get out of date.
If the form is basically raw CRUD then it works out well, and being able to get up and running quickly and replace it with something more sophisticated later when you actually need that is a good thing.

It does require the discipline to actually _do_ the 'replace it' part when you reach that point and the results of failing to do that are ... not pleasant ... but that doesn't mean it's _always_ the wrong choice, especially when getting started.
Managers who know what they're paid for also want code with a bus factor of more than 1, just like in other engineering disciplines. Having code well documented is a feature in that sense; like unit tests it won't fix all problems but it goes a long way.

Speaking of tests, I've many times learnt more about how some code is supposed to work from the tests than from the documentation. Yet another reason to test everything you can.
I've worked in companies with similar frameworks both as a dev and as manager, and it was great. Everything has issues, but the framework gave useful guidance.

Sorry you've worked for such terrible companies.
Never Check Your Saved Posts? Same Here, So I Built Linksy in 3 Days
Do you ever actually check your saved posts on social media? Personally, I never do.

I’ve always struggled with saving posts across platforms. Telegram saved messages and Google Docs were my go-tos, but they always felt messy. And in-app bookmarks? Let’s be honest, I never go back to them.

So, I built an MVP: a simple web app to save, manage, and share links/bookmarks. It’s not perfect (just 3 days of work!), but it solves my problem for now.

I’d love for you to try it out and share your thoughts or suggestions! What features would make it more useful for you? Oh, and it’s open source—feel free to contribute!

Link to the app : https://linksy1.vercel.app
Link to GitHub : https://github.com/yeabnoah/linksy
At some level you need engineers to roughly accomplish the sane things.

I looked at the definition at Principal which is where I siy now at another firm.. and I've held at other firms... and it lines up. that's what I expect to do.

Work with director+ managers, show the way by being the way, etc. Very standard. I'd expect a bit higher tech bar... But bot hugely, it helps to convince people when you are stronger technically, it also helps with technical vision. You have to understand the details and own 'em. One small detail can turn your architecture upside down.... (Making push/pull choices is a classic issue, often with no good answer... but a bad one is possible, depending on constraints.)

.... I find it nice to see "Yup, that's what I'd sign up for." basically.
>Writing code is easy when you have a spec to work to.

In my forty year career I never saw a spec that was anywhere near accurate or complete.
Back in the day I heard an argument "Photshop and 3DS MAX are so easy to pirate because the companies want the kids to learn these tools, so that later as adult professionals they'll pay license for using them", but if that's no longer true, then good riddance
Your comment is excellent, inspiring and quite true.

Please stay, otherwise the rest of us are stuck with the alternative (which essentially someone saying "read this wikipedia and Schrödinger original talks", with a perplexing pile of unhappyness, pretending to correct things that you didnt get wrong)
It’s one per year and the stated reasons are fair enough. Even if you get a new phone every year it’s business as usual.
https://archive.is/Ypicw
I don't understand the shallow cynicism. Isn't everything we do at a company in order to make the owner and shareholders richer?
After 40, it's musical chairs. The music will stop and there won't be a chair for you.
McKinsey comes in and says "cut staff."
HR comes in, says "cut 5% and replace them with Desi H1-B's."
Your best bet is to take a deep breath and build another start-up.
In the meantime, take any job of any nature.
The court was also very important for his campaign. So it’s really a no-brainer for them.
Yea this is clearly just slop. Even the description text reads like it.

For another solid name gen I’d recommend the rinkworks name gen http://www.rinkworks.com/namegen/
Show HN: YPerf – Compare LLM models with performance/cost/uptime metrics
I've iterated YPerf since last submission with features to make LLM selection more data-driven:

- Added benchmark rankings from lmarena.ai to quantify model intelligence
- Built-in cost estimator to forecast average usage expenses
- Real-time uptime monitoring across providers
- Side-by-side provider comparisons for identical models

The goal is to help teams make more informed decisions when choosing LLMs by providing transparency around performance, reliability and costs.
Yeah, I should have been clearer that my intent is that the delta should be used to increase empathy, not decrease it. Anyone out there could be dealing with anything.

I've lashed out at people before while under a great deal of stress. I've been the recipient of such as well. I've seen and experienced what poverty, illness and depression can do to the mind, how it warps habits and motivations. How things that some people might see as no-brainers for fixing a situation might simply not be options for others at that moment, at least not without assistance. A good support network makes all the difference in someone's life.

There is some truth to Maslow's hierarchy of needs, and in addition to not being jealous of those dealt a better hand, we should be supportive and attentive to those who weren't, and resist applying our own heuristics to their lives.