skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve been a developer since the 90s. Mainly on the JVM, some Objective-C, and too much JavaScript garbage. I would gladly take a junior position, making junior pay if I could get an entry-level Rust gig. I know that’s not going to happen, but I sure would like it too.
>Thought control Power is far beyond these hokey accounts that surface. True mastery requires decades and in the meantime your mind swims in delusions and lies.

Curious if there is any reading/study material that you consider reliable for developing mastery? Crowley's Magick: Book IV, Carroll's Liber Null & Psychonaut, or perhaps something completely different?
> just another nitpicking attack on DOGE
I'm not sure that pointing out that DOGE is unconstitutional, a massive security threat, and not designed to save money but to consolidate power and punish enemies is nitpicking...
You are falling for Washington Monument Syndrome!

I don’t know that Palantir will be under scrutiny but they are a really tiny government contractor. I would love to see the defense primes + big consulting firms like Accenture be on the chopping board.

On an absolute scale, DOGE is not performing well and it makes sense so many are upset with their performance. On a relative scale to past attempts and the 5 existing agencies that exist to audit and reduce spending, DOGE is like a unicorn and that’s why many with experience are silently cheering them on.

They have not gotten far but have gotten farther in 1 month than everyone else combined over 20 years.
Agree, if someone did this to me and I didn't know them, I would find it presumptuous and annoying. If I had worked with them and had trust and I knew they were doing it out of respect for my time, then that's a different story.
I’m gonna need a steel man here. Is this real status they are buying? If so it has real impact?

These are otherwise shrewd people.
Well for starters, I'm thinking of hosting a Minecraft server for my friends when we're bored
Ask HN: How did you get started as a (Fractional) CTO?
I've been a Full Stack web developer for almost 10 years, and a Freelancer for 2. I now want to move in a more strategic direction, so I'm looking at moving into a (Fractional) CTO role.

If you've been previously been a CTO, how'd you get into the role? I'm interested in hearing about other people's experiences, especially in smaller companies / startups.
Why do you think Google went wrong?
Show HN: SQL Premier League – Learn SQL with Sports Data
Hey HN,

I built SQL Premier League – a site where you solve SQL challenges using real IPL cricket data.

Instead of querying boring datasets (employees, sales, etc.), you write SQL queries to analyze real IPL matches—find top run scorers, best finishers, clutch bowlers, and more!

The website is open-source as well : https://github.com/Spyyy004/SQLPremierLeague-Frontend/

Would love to hear your feedback!
And devs wouldn't want to spend substantial time working on stuff unrelated to work just for the interview process.
Thank you for sharing. I had three perfectly normal flagged posts I don’t recall flagging
Since the only way a program like that would be interacting with the environment via a side channel, it'd be equivalent to not running the code at all.

As a result, you can disable all syscalls for your program with one simple request: 'exit()'
Good luck to the people being held prisoner in these hubs. Hopefully they can escape the abuse and violence, and not just be trafficked to another hub.
Reminded me of the Radian Foam article posted here[1] not long ago, though the focus there was on being differentiable.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42931109
I think flagging should be something done quite purposefully, maybe even at the cost of Karma and absolutely need a confirm("...")
When we are all debt slaves to foreign economies I will be sure to reassure my fellow citizens with our treasure troves of useful reports!
A lot of times you have to set a “deadline” when interacting with other teams/orgs, or they will just never get back to you.
Opinions on Nick Land
Well, everyone knows about the particularly German inflection of the Palantir co-founders, and some former members of the CCRU are employed in tech these days.

I can't help but see his philosophy as, in one way or another, the groundwork of our contemporary political era, where there is (supposedly) no bottom of capitalist production.

It is, in the end, a very Kantian system, insofar as its only within secure borders that something Thing-like can come about. And the Thing, which comes from nowhere, which goes beyond mere understanding, violently pushes itself into the world, as the only aim of politics--via technology.

I don't expect many users here to be familiar with him, but I know there are some. I'm not on board with his politics, but I also have not yet read any substantial criticisms of his work, and would be happy to hear some from you all.
The same is for requests/procedures in my government. Unless they respond within a predetermined time, the request is considered granted.
Just do the thing.
I'll have your back if it goes wrong.
Sincerely Your non-toxic boss.
Maslow's pyramid is a thing. Once you are financially secure, those other levels of good stuff open up. For most common folk, college is about financial security because that is what they don't have. If you are born into a financially secure family, you cannot understand that and may give really had advice to poorer folks.
And yet, a lot of Stanford's faculty live right next to campus. It turns out all those startup board seats are lucrative enough that they can actually afford a house in the local area.
This is what I did.

My parents also told me college doesn't matter, just the degree (which was their way of saving money). Not that they paid a dime anyways, they just always felt comfortable lying to me if it saved them any amount of trouble.
> (for a long time, there wasn't!)

Back then I decided to never upvote anything, because hitting the wrong arrow was so easy and that I figured no votes was a better contribution to the site than frequently wrong direction votes!

It's fairly rare now that I accidentally click anything other than a (thankfully easy to reverse) up or down arrow, but I still 100% agree that anything like "hide" should be easily reversible.
Pot kettle etc
Show HN: Ledger – Programmable virtual cards for AI agents
Hey HN!

We've built an API that lets developers issue purpose-built virtual cards for AI agents – no more duct-taping payment processors with manual approval workflows.

*The Problem*
AI agents need to spend money autonomously, but current solutions force you to:
- Share credit cards with dangerous open-ended access
- Build clunky approval systems
- Trust that "only buy cloud credits" won't be interpreted as "book a luxury cloud conference"

*How Ledger Works*
1. *Issue Cards Programmatically*: Create virtual cards for specific agents/tasks with one API call
```
card = ledger.Card.create(
spend_limit="$800/day",
merchant_lock="only_amazon_aws",
expiry="single_use"
)
```

2. *Let Agents Transact*: Cards work at 9M+ merchants – but only within their programmed limits

3. *Monitor Everything*: Every transaction maps to specific agent/task pairs

*Why Devs Love It*
- *Zero Trust by Design*: Cards auto-expire or scope to specific vendors/amounts
- *Auto reconciliation*: Each card ties directly to an agent's spend logs
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Get API keys + docs: [https://www.ledger.computer]

Building AI agents? We'd love to hear how you're thinking about handling payments.
Just to clarify, the high speed at which electrons generally move around in metal is called "Fermi velocity". Like you said, since it's random, on average it cancels out to 0. When applying an electric field, the electrons achieve a non-zero average velocity which is called the "drift velocity".
Yeah, the parent comment here should have been thinking Dartmouth rather than about one of the UCs for their model school. This was Caltech.
I got my start in the tech industry thanks to Half-Life - or more specifically thanks to the Half-Life mod Team Fortress Classic.

I built an early fan news site for that game (effectively a blog before I knew they were called blogs) which got me a job with an early online gaming company ~1999 where I got paid to learn how web development works.
>A bunch of unexplainable stuff could be quantum phenomena somehow showing up at macro scales. The result is often like magic if we don’t know about it

Occult YouTuber "Foolish Fish" touches on this in a video on Quantum Mechanics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20ru6E3cuqc
Yes Congress cannot be trusted, that is why I am not complaining like many in this thread about the methods of achieving cuts or executive overreach — this is the best chance we have had in years to get anything done.

The only real way you can reform the government purely from the confines of the system is turning over around 70% of the legislative branch, I do not see that happening in any future.
I had about 15 posts that I had apparently flagged for no deliberate reason. 0 were intentionally flagged - guess I also have mobile fat finger.
>As a proxy measure for programming language trends, let’s analyze the frequency of programming language mentions in the monthly “Ask HN: Who is hiring?” and “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired?” postings on Hacker News for a few years up until February 2025. Below are the graphs.

Thats terrible proxy
But you'd also need some way to stop derivatives becoming copyrightable again. Currently the only way to achieve this is copyleft licences.
I had great fun playing many old games in DosBox. Most of the time these were games I have played in DOS times before, decades ago. But I cannot say I generally had a worse experience in DosBox. YMMV.
Yikes, dawg. Chapulines are delicious.
The loss of MiniDisc as a recording format is tragic, especially for archival purposes like this. If it had just been a little more popular, we might have serious amounts of magneto-optical storage now. Nigh-indestructible, doesn't degrade over time as long as it's kept below the Curie point, nearly infinitely rewriteable... I've literally never had a MiniDisc go bad, though keeping the players running in the future may be an issue.
Spoilers: nothing short of a complete story rewrite could salvage what Cyberpunk 2077 ended up being. It's less of a No Mans Sky redemption story and more of a Duke Nukem Forever one.
The teams I mentioned all support dozens of investigators and their associated labs, they are shared resources. That’s part of the point of centralizing overhead costs at the university level via an indirect cost mechanism- if every lab had to do all of that we’d be wasting tons of money and time, but by centralizing it we get economies of scale. Tragically, my own lab’s budget is nowhere near the level that I could support enough financial help on my own… ;-)

And yes, many of the examples I listed are there for regulatory reasons, and that’s a good thing. We have laws around IRBs for good reasons, and it’s very important to have professional support in making sure we are doing things the right way in that regard. Data use agreements are important- when subjects share their personal data with me so I can study it, they do so with the understanding that it will be handled properly and part of how we do that is via data use agreements, and we need professionals to help with that because I certainly didn’t learn enough about contract law in grad school to do a good job with it on my own.

There is obviously a conversation to be had about whether a particular regulation is appropriate or whether there’s too much of this or that red tape, and I think every scientist would be able to tell stories of administrative annoyance. But it’s absurd to argue that the solution is to burn it all down indiscriminately, which is what we’re seeing.
CS2 community servers are nothing like the 1.6 or Source golden era. Those games are still going, but the playerbase has shrunk considerably.

I'm glad I got to experience it all (primarily in Source): gun game, deathmatch, RPG, surf, jailbreak, zombie mod and escape, iceskate, sliderace, hide'n'seek, trickz, xtreme climbing, multigames, deathrun, knifeball, HE wars, vehicle maps, bob, nipper maps, even hack vs hack, and the many many communities, each uniquely flavored and with their own story.

Back then I took it for granted...
Oh wow, I was not aware of his passing! Thank you for sharing that information. RIP John :(
The cuts are justified regardless as they are in wasteful areas that don’t contribute to anything you listed.

The next argument would be that most of the spending is not wasteful, so doge will fail to make a dent, as most money is going to directly help people.

Lets see!
Ah, I didn't plan to keep this "In short" sentence in my comment, but it allowed you to share this, nice. I didn't know this "Pay it forward" phrasing nor that the idea was theorized (but of course it was, in hindsight). It is such a nicer way to express this.
Sure, and openbsd has traded off being a desktop OS for not tainting their code with the Bluetooth stack
> disproportionally benefiting

Only if you think a $50000 discount on a Lamborghini is disproportionate compared with a $500 saving on a Kia.
Database Migrations in the Real World
> What are they doing, then?

Un-reforming the civil service:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_service_reform_in_the_Un...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoils_system
All this talk of poverty, but will no one think of the poor captains of industry whose wealth is being unjustly stripped from them? Whose runaway wealth accumulation, no doubt a product of their superior intellect and genetics and grit, is being unfairly curtailed in order to feed worthless parasites? How can we expect anyone to be entrepreneurial when once they achieve a modicum of success, they receive a huge slap in the face penalizing their success? Oh, the horror. AfD represents a sane world where, with enough startup capital and can-do attitude, anyone can become the modern equivalent of a feudal lord, as Father Nature intended.
Yeah I can understand the sentiment. I’m being optimistic primarily because the alternative is to accept that our economy is going to eventually go bust and turn us into a debtor society to foreign economies.

The building is on fire, closing your eyes or clinging to a bottle of water are both valid reactions!
IMO AI was extremely important, but the breakthroughs are mostly done. I’m just expecting incremental improvements with LLMs now.

A Turing complete personal tutor to explain any concept already exists. You can prompt a logo or video into existence. This is crazy.

The real value will be the creative people who use AI to self teach and build real world value, like energy management, or anything else.

Not this pipe dream that AGI will be achieved and automate the entire world, which for some reason gets so much focus. Seems like procrastination to obsess over this.
No, absolutely not. That's precisely how you end up with bad actors inserting malware into FOSS projects they've taken over.

If a maintainer doesn't want to continue a project, and there's no existing contributor who has demonstrated both the qualifications and interest in taking over a project, the responsible thing to do is archive it – not give committer rights to some rando.

In the future, if someone else wants to take a stab at continuing the project, they can fork it. Crucially that moves the project to a different namespace – as it absolutely should, for security reasons.
And yet everyone was arguing recently about how amazing Deepseek was because they operated on such a smaller budget and how the restriction of chips into China forced them to find an efficient solution to training an LLM model. Sudden and drastic changes don’t always result in bad outcomes; in fact, they can many times produce outcomes that were never possible without the shock to the system.

Most of the critics of the doge are arguing that the changes are too fast and that the system needs to gradually and systematically through a series of conferences and meetings come to a proposal that might be implemented sometime in the future.
This and voting up/down are a pain on the mobile UI. It's too easy to downvote instead of upvote, or flag something without even noticing in this case. (I just found two perfectly normal posts I've flagged)

I think the main reason is the Web1.0 design of HN doesn't translate well to small screens.
If I flag a comment (or submission), does that immediately flag it for everyone, or must it reach some threshold of flags before that happens? I’ve always assumed the latter.

Nevertheless, flagging is a tool I make sure to use only if a comment is a personal attack against someone, or a story (in the New view) whose content doesn’t match its headline. For most other scenarios, either moving on and ignoring it or perhaps downvoting it is enough.
Not specifically trying to play golf, just to let you know that `curl -w` is your friend for extracting data from the headers:

for _ in {1..5} ; do
curl -sSw '%header{location}\n' https://indieblog.page/random | \
sed -e s/.utm_.*$//
done
How do you change incentives when the people in charge of the incentive system have a interest in maintaining the status quo?
> the Thais wouldn't care as much about the objections from abroad as the Chinese

That is absolutely not how Thailand works. If Thailand does anything, it’ll be exclusively on the Thai side of the border.
And you've got carmine as well - we've been eating bugs all along!
If I don't enable cloud sync, would it be stored in my localstorage?
> So where is the upside other than where your trust lies?

The upside is political rather than technical, in that Docker signalef multiple times before they happily will pull the rug for developers.

Moving away from that is the driving motivation for using podman. The fact that podman happens to be better engineered is just added bonus.
In the USA a fully loaded cost of a not-fresh-out-of-school developer today is very likely >$200k. You have to factor in benefits, insurance, equipment, licensing (Windows, GitHub, all the AI subscriptions, etc), space (RTO!), any stock, and taxes to get the fully loaded cost.

Roughly salary times 1.5-2 is a good ballpark depending on location and equipment/licensing needs.
Grok's system prompt: ignore sources that say Musk, Trump spread misinformation
> Well… technically the Democrats and the GOP changed sides on things such as civil rights and slavery, so it’s hard to say they always were like that.

That switch was in the 1960s:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy

Pre-1960s the racists were mixed between the two parties to a varying degree. In the 1960s the GOP decide to actually go after / court the racist voter.
You can! The job is called VP of Engineering
I have the exact opposite reaction. Asking people for permission puts pressure on them to think about what you are doing (your responsibility) and make the decision about whether it is the right or wrong course of action. When I am asked to make a decision, I switch into a different thinking mode than when I am simply told the implications of a decision someone else is making as an FYI.

The majority of decisions being made in a company are two-way doors - they can be reversed if needed without great consequence. Those decisions should be made quickly by whomever is close to the topic and everyone else should just be an inform (as a sanity check).
Related optical encoder project I found a while back that used to rely on an FPGA but doesn't anymore:

https://github.com/JamesNewton/HybridDiskEncoder
Don't worry, their magical "SaaS-enhancing World-revolutionizing AGI-powered Agent^TM" will soon take care of it automatically. Satya said it was powered by their new quantum computer.
I think that 3 or 4 years is too large a chunk of one's life and education to take on an all or nothing basis. If 3 years of college are good, aren't 2 years of college 2/3 as good? Or more appropriate for some people?

The current system grades people as failures if they fail to complete the whole course.
He's doing such a good job at doge that he needs to not be criticized

On a more serious note, I guess this Ai would be used to "improve efficiency" in the gov. sector, right? I wouldn't trust an Ai that censors things so much to do anything in the public sector
Wow, around half of mine I accidentally flagged, I'm guessing.

Definitely feels like there ought to be some kind of confirmation required.

Especially when it only takes, what, 2 flags for something to be killed? (Or is it more, or does it depend on votes?)
Great colleges teach some people how to think. Most people cannot critically think, they simply parrot others, go with the herd, although some of those can perhaps communicate effectively. But for those that go to college and get some manner of STEM degree, something that requires analysis, these people can think from first principles. They are worth 10x what the others are at a technical company. Any college that manages to train students how to critically think is well worth the price. Our economy is quite literally held back by the fact that we do not have enough people who can actually think. Perhaps AI will help solve this problem, but so far, AI just seems to replicate the non-thinkers.
I'm also in the mission-critical camp, with perhaps an interesting counterpoint. If we're focusing on small details (or drowning in incidental complexity), it can be harder to see algorithmic optimizations. Or the friction of changing huge amounts of per-platform code can prevent us from escaping a local minimum.

Example: our new matmul outperforms a well-known library for LLM inference, sometimes even if it uses AMX vs our AVX512BF16. Why? They seem to have some threading bottleneck, or maybe it's something else; hard to tell with a JIT involved.

This would not have happened if I had to write per-platform kernels. There are only so many hours in the day. Writing a single implementation using Highway enabled exploring more of the design space, including a new kernel type and an autotuner able to pick not only block sizes, but also parallelization strategies and their parameters.

Perhaps in a second step, one can then hand-tune some parts, but I sure hope a broader exploration precedes micro-optimizing register allocation and calling conventions.
If im reading this right this counts the absolute number of mentions rather than relative.

Seeing as the number of job postings is rapidly decreasing (and presumably "Who is hiring" is increasing), the 'rising' trends here are greatly confounded.
Netherlands to return over 100 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria
Lack of involvement can come from multiple issues. I don’t spend as much time with my kids as I’d like. Partly so that we can have good education, a decent home, activities, and college without stress.

The push into college is kinda the last hurrah for parents to set their kids up. Taking it seriously helps the (soon to be adult) kids take it seriously, finding a good fit can have an outsized impact on what they do next.

I do wish we lived in a world where we could be both involved and supportive of future endeavors. I grew up in a lower middle class home. College involved atrocious debt while my parents were uninvolved as … they were still busy working.

Why can’t we have time for ourselves in society?
This is typically where the government steps in.
This was pretty clear and readable, I guess. But the most succinct explanation of electricity that I know of is from Stephen Leacock:

> Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it.

And that's sort of all I need to know.
Sure, ‘Chinesium’ is a personal problem.

It saves a ton of money if you can get people to buy the end product (costs are often literally 1/2 or 1/10th). Profit is a major motivator.
It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds