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Ducks Go Quack, Chickens Say Cluck - Onion Talks - Ep. 3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tom6_ceTu9s

YouTube algorithm is right. This is uncannily Thought-Leading, like the original post, but better, because it's shorter by half, and still receives a standing ovation.
You sir are having a mid-life crisis. You may need to change your career but do not give in to the urge to buy a sports car. It won't fix your career aspirations nor make you any younger.
> AI has struggled with this because, until recently, it couldn't truly reason or draw on experiential data. It was good at remixing existing information but not at generating genuinely original insights.

Hhaha ho.
LLMs still can't reason and have no ability to "experience" anything.
They are still tools for remixing existing (and often stolen) content.

Nothing has changed.
Very cool to see people still working on hacking the 360. I used the RGH on my 360 years ago. Was really fun back in the day going through all the cat and mouse that went on.

A soft mod would be cool as the RGH does require soldering some very tiny wires to some very tiny pads and I remember seeing posts of many people lifting pads trying to do this mod. But in the end I had a perfect install on my 360 and would boot almost every time on the first try.
But with an US fab that’s a threat mainly to China, without it’s global.
Love it! Friction is part of (language) learning, so hopefully some doses will remain down the line.
Pixel Art Tips for Programmers
AI firms follow DeepSeek's lead, create cheaper models with distillation
Thank you! So glad it's been useful :D
Another Verge [dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43243065
Well, right, that's what it usually comes back to. If you expect to spend all but 20 minutes of your day concentrating on your screen doing solo work, remote work is definitely the best model. The managers pushing RTO want ICs to spend more time collaborating than that.
Venkatesh Rao on Baumol, entrpreneurs, and Myers-Briggs personality clusters
Location: NYC
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No

[Technologies]
Programming: C/C++, Python, JavaScript, Kotlin, Dart
Embedded Systems: PowerPC, ESP32, STM32, Altera MAX10, Lattice iCE40UP5k
ML: TensorFlow Lite, PyTorch, ONNX, OpenCV, MATLAB
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 from ultra-low power remote applications to mid-range edge compute, up to HPC.

My latest roles have been in full-stack edge AI R&D, memory controller firmware dev, and chip bring-up/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. Also WIP on a 3D-printed robot arm to practice control systems and actuation.
If your language supports good strong/weak references and containers thereof, cleaning up dead interned strings isn't hard. I'm not aware of any language that provides this out-of-the-box, unfortunately.

Why do so many languages make weak references such second-class citizens? Why do all containers suck so much that you have to implement your own (and that's hoping the language is actually efficient enough to let you?)
Tim Cook teases new Apple product this week: 'There's something in the air'
> While I don’t doubt the behavior, I have a hard time believing that a product manager would let an expensive part like a battery get added to the BOM if it’s only purpose was to fail after ten years.

It depends how much of the BOM price was the battery.
They're essentially being forced to by Google.
[dupe]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43221549

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43222842

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43224350

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43093859
Location: BLR, India
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Nope, Maybe
Technologies: Python, R, SQL - Typical Data Science Stack, LLMs, Llamaindex, Langchain, Agents
Résumé/CV: https://youtube.com/c/1littlecoder
Email: 1littlecoder ad gmail dod com

After a decade of being a data scientist, trying to venture into Developer Relations especially for AI focused Products, brownie points - if it's leveraging and appreciating open source!
Nice I can see this being useful. It would be nice if you could add an example of how it looks in the readme.
That result is stashed in a small china teapot that is orbiting the sun.
Dragon Copilot from Microsoft – For Clinicians and Healthcare [video]
It went up considerably because of nordic exports to the rest of Europe. They are producing enough for themselves, but not if they have to share.
It's the same reason why US gas prices are somewhat on the high side lately - a lot of it is exported to Europe, and the price differential is large enough to make this worth the trouble.
Mass transit is a non-issue in a functional society which incarcerates criminals and institutionalizes the insane. This does not describe the vast majority of major cities in North America. This is why people move to the suburbs in the first place - the inaccessibility of every service except by car is a moat that keeps undesirables from settling there. In an ideal world I would prefer mass transit to driving a car, but not in a world where every train station has an addict using drugs in it, which describes the vast majority of mass transit systems in North America today.

> And the ones protesting every single bit of housing development on grounds it mighty change their neighborhood?

If they constitute an actual majority of residents, it's their right to dictate the development of the neighborhood as they see fit.

> Yeah, you don’t have the eternal right to keep things exactly as they were the day you moved in.

This is exactly the kind of hyperbolic dismissiveness that characterizes all of these arguments.
Before Uncle Sam gets his cut. Much less after the robbery. How much of the 7 million be sucked up by Germany’s taxes?
I really like the idea of dynamically changing the UI of an application based on your current task. I could see this becoming very useful for me during work. If im working on something specific, I would want to visually block all unrelated slack notifications and conversations, same thing with notion, etc.
Most people don't realize that many CxOs have employment contracts with a set term (that has to be renewed), pay schedules and pre-negotiated departure payout.

I'm not saying whether or not this payout is right. What I'm saying is, it was probably required due to contractual employment terms negotiated years ago.
SEEKING WORK | USA | REMOTE

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/architect with experience in software, hardware, IoT, and machine learning. Seeking projects from low-power remote applications to mid-range edge compute and HPC.

My latest projects 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. Also WIP on a 3D-printed robot arm to practice control systems and actuation.
I wonder it'd make sense to rent out vehicle drone launchpads for delivery drones to attach to to hitchhike, while recharging. You could imagine a fleet of always-connected private cars uploading their autopilot routes, and a parallel fleet of quadcopters matching *their* routes and picking out optimal carriers.

- extend range

- higher uptime due to recharging
Every big company i have worked at (2) didn't really reach out to anyone from my previous job to verify my details. Every startup I've worked at (3, all early stage) did extensive background verification on all my claims. Guess the risk for early stage startups getting a new hire wrong is more pronounced.
Not related to this post, but I was wondering about AI music generators and I don't have experience with their capabilities. The ones I know seem catered to making entire songs.

I was having a discussion with a friend who writes a lot of guitar music but can also play bass and sing. However, getting good drums is a problem. What he'd like is a service to upload his songs in some form (just guitar, or a mixed version with bass and vocals) and get an output that layers a drum track without altering the input. Ideally with appropriate fills, etc. I mean, just getting an in-time drum stem would probably be even better.

Is there any GenAI service to do this kind of incremental additive drums?
At my last job (Senior SWE at a startup that's been around for 10 years) the company had an interview step after the technical interviews where 1) you the applicant step through your résumé with the Head of Engineering and talk about what you did at each of the jobs on it and what each manager at each place would say about you and 2) afterwards that interviewer calls one manager from each of those jobs (including your current one, but that can be a coworker) and asks what you did there and how you were as an employee. So I found myself having to get contact info for people from 8 years back and then talking to them like I'm a lawyer prepping a witness. Kinda wild.

At my current gig (SWE at a big corporate place) they outsourced all verification to another company who verified my employment and college enrollment was when I said it was.
There are so many "if you do that then it's not good" in this article that it actually seems like evals can in fact be all you need as long as you do them right?

I build an LLM-based platform at work, with a lot of agents and datasources, and yet we still don't fit in any of those "ifs".
That is covered in the linked article.
It’s a condition of the payout (along with a huge NDA I’m sure) for exactly that reason.

Otherwise, in theory the CTO would be free to make a giant mess with ‘everyone was fucking each other’s wives, and I got confused which one I was doing today so here we are’.

I’m sure whatever group cut the check feels it was worth it.
Good to know. It is interesting to think how much electricity is wasted when most people don't have Copy-on-Write, all over the world.
I have been extremely excited about cooperatives and doing research but good info is scattered (suggestions welcome!). From what I learned I will echo what you said - laws are stacked against cooperatives. In general the corporation, a structure that is centuries old, gets preferential treatment in all situations. It is like human development has been abolished in that domain in the 1800s and that is the status quo.
s/Amazon/amazing/ but really funny honestly.
I mean it could also be exceptional competence among key customers. This certainly doesn’t have to be nepotism
Hard to say. With microcontrollers like ESP32 [1] it has never been easier to make cyberphysical objects.

A big story is that the center of gravity of innovation has shifted to China, I am impressed with Govee [2] in smart lights, and QooCam [3] and 7Artisans [4] in photography. There isn't a Chinese competitor that goes head to head with Canon, Sony or Nikon but in terms of real innovation or value for the dollar (I have 10x fun with this lens [5] than I have with a Sony lens that costs 10x more)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESP32

[2] https://us.govee.com/

[3] https://www.kandaovr.com/qoocam

[4] https://7artisans.store/

[5] https://7artisans.store/products/7artisans-50mm-f0-95-large-...
Extend | Senior/Staff Software Engineer | NYC | Full-time | $175k-$250k | 0.50% - 1% Equity

Extend is building a LLM-native document processing platform (massive market w/ low NPS existing solutions) (https://extend.app/)

Apply here: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/extend/9d4d8974-bd9b-432d-84ec-8268

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- We're supporting customer and revenue metrics with 1/2 the team size of other startups, so everyone joining at this stage will have outsized impact

- Backed by YC, Homebrew, investors from OpenAI, and more
> Heavy and hard to move

This only applies to very large amounts of monetary value. $1m USD is currently under 24lb/10.7kg.
there are parts of Flow that definitely look incredible imo
Location: San Francisco, CA

Remote: Sure

Willing to relocate: No, staying in Bay Area

Technologies: 15 years full stack - react and ruby -- but very broad bleeding edge. Build 0-1 products with Founders for 10+ years. Built geosite.io first year beta/foundation before entering Y-Combinator in 2019. Building AI in 2025 - competed and won Hacking Agents Hackathon put on by Datastax (Langflow) at Cloudflare two days ago, March 1st 2025.

Résumé/CV: https://valdezm.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/markavaldez/

Email: hello@valdezm.com
That has been every single legacy system i've seen and the last time i worked with the government was 20 years ago.

Once something runs for long enough, with millions of people using it, you will acquire corner cases and if you try to rebuild it from scratch you'll just introduce all the corner cases again, but now one incident at a time.
Even if you've effectively defected to another country as these guys have?
no you need to pay taxes on the 100k. The 7.1M payout can easily pay a tax lawyer to find some convenient loophole to keep most of it.
Eedi | Senior Developer (.NET) | London or Remote (UK) | Full-time | https://eedi.com/

Eedi is an edtech startup. We make software that helps children learn maths.

We've secured a $12M grant from a prestigious US foundation and partnered with major education providers and other big (household name) companies. We're looking to hire a senior .NET person that can take what we've built and figure out how to scale/integrate it within other education platform—we're going to call you an API designer.

Our mission is to sustainably improve learning outcomes for 1 billion students by 2030.

Come join us: https://eedi.factorialhr.com/job_posting/software-engineer-b...
Does this really have to be spelled out?? Because a single human can only intimately converse with and convince a small number of people, while an LLM can do that with thousands (what is the upper limit even?) of people at a time.

Also, because AI is being relentlessly marketed as being better than humans, thereby encouraging people to trust it even more than they might a fellow human.
Tell you what, I'm started to get a liiiiiittle tempted at the prospect of upgrading my M1 air, but this year, with a government hell-bent on triggering, at minimum, a bad recession? Nah man, gotta keep that emergency fund extra healthy. Maybe by 2027.
Seems there's a case to be made for SAP to alter any future contracts of that nature to contain a clause that if you're leaving for a serious breach you get nothing. Willy Wonka style.
Yeah, it’s what I thought at first, but a VC suggested the two names for easier scalability. That’s why I’m asking HN.
Ask HN: Why Does Supabase Charge $75/Mo for SMS OTP Authentication?
I've been trying to find an answer to this for a while now. I pay for the Pro plan of Supabase and am confused around their thought process for gating SMS OTP for passwordless login around a $75/mo charge when you are also providing the Twilio credentials. It's essentially using an Edge function to call Twilio and ensure it's the correct OTP before allowing sign-in..
Varies on the company. Meta does a relatively thorough background check as of this last year. They verify past employers and other background check stuff using HireRight. If you accept an offer in their NYC office, they do a more extensive background check for some reason. Maybe that kind of background check is outlawed in CA and WA but isn't in NY. I have no idea. I only know cause I've gone through the team match with them. (Don't recommend - never received an offer even after being in team match for 9 months)

Some of these systems are relatively automated but almost every company uses a third party. Very few employers will do the phone calls themselves. If you worked at small startups, they will often call the CEO's personal phone number. So, you'll need to tell them to pick up the phone. They will verify things like title and dates you were employed.

I've had five different employer in the valley. Personal references never got called - which I always found funny. Some places wanted references before they even gave you an offer! Those guys are a waste of time, btw. They always sent insane low ball offers. Like if you said your minimum was $200k/yr salary in the first interview, they'd send you an offer for $150k/yr. I was floored at such idiotic behavior. You went from having little chance because I was using you for practice anyway to literally zero.
For me, going to Oslo and walking around inside "Fram" was much more amazing.

Sweden has Wasa, a ship that sank after 3km on her maiden voyage.

Norway has the most successful polar explorers in the world, and Fram was the most successful ship, used in overwinterings by both Nansen and Amundsen.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fram_(ship)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fram_Museum

(And finally Gjöa has made it indoors as well, what a save!)
It now reads "MUST provide the title of the `agents.json` specification file. ..." Thanks for the heads up!
I do some language learning study at roughly the same time every morning with gum. I spike it with 1mg dose of Nicorette (which I get by cutting a 4mg square into quarters) for its well documented effects on learning and cognition. It hadn't ocured to me that chewing might have a benefit as well. As a former smoker, I'm well aware of how addictive nicotine is, so I'm careful.
Do you sponsor visas? Or alternatively, are you able to hire/contract remotely outside of the US?
I love this question!

Yes, I am bilingual. I was fortunate enough to study both in Korea and Canada.

I use our product every day when I’m meeting with customers in Japan and China. We joke that we are our very first customers. Personally, it’s best when I get to meet them in person and use our in-person meeting feature since I get to see their reactions.

I would say half of our users are fluent in English since they mostly work for U.S. companies. The other half would be people in Korea, Japan, China, and more who need the language support.
A simple way to view this is to look at each economic quintile's "income multiplier", the lower ones spend their money quickly and often locally. Whereas the wealthy spend slowly and often within their own class on possessions or much later overseas. Adam Smith and John Stewart Mill both advocated for a steeply progressive income tax and strict controls on Banks and Corporations. The wealthy can wait to spend while many others can't. I learned about this during my Economics Major.

Estimating the Marginal Propensity to Consume Using

the Distributions of Income, Consumption and Wealth
Jonathan Fisher, David Johnson,
Timothy Smeeding, and Jeffrey Thompson

From https://www.bostonfed.org/-/media/Documents/Workingpapers/PD...
Recent studies of economic inequality almost always separately examine income, consumption,
and wealth inequality and, hence, miss the important synergy among the three measures explicit in the life-cycle budget constraint. Using Panel Study of Income Dynamics data from 1999 through 2013, we examine whether these changes are more dramatic at higher or lower levels of wealth and find that the marginal propensity to consume is lower at higher wealth quintiles. This suggests that low-wealth households cannot smooth consumption as much as other households do, which further implies that increasing wealth inequality likely reduces aggregate consumption and limits economic growth.
I'm hesitant to even say this because it sounds so callous and naive, so with apologies in advance: how would one maintain a superior military if that military isn't involved in any aspect of combat for long stretches of time? To use a sports analogy, could you build a Super Bowl capable (American) football team if none of the players or coaches have done more than watch football on TV and played lots of flag football scrimmages amongst themselves?

(I'm wondering about this after reading today's NYT article about the escalating use of drone warfare in Ukraine.)
"The key innovation lies in the microscopically small concentric rings that the researchers can pattern on the substrate. Unlike the ridges of FZPs (Fresnel Zone Plate), which are optimized for a single wavelength, the size and spacing of the flat lens' indentations keep the diffracted wavelengths of light close enough together to produce a full-color, in-focus image."
I long for your confidence in your own ingenuity. If you think private repos on third party systems are hidden from training I suppose you have more trust in expendable developers working to maximize training.

At this point I am fairly convinced that software development is solved. The reality has not been understood by most as typing syntax is now a trivial task best left to AI.
I used to have an association between screen colors and numbers from another Microsoft Basic, for the Tandy Color Computer.

Long since forgotten them. There weren't that many.

I love the mnemonic devices, though.

A friend of mine changed the way she teaches English sounds to non-native speakers; she and a partner developed the Color Vowel Chart.

https://www.colorvowel.com/interactive-chart

I don't know if that is relevant to this neat article, but I do enjoy the use of color to reinforce conceptual mappings.
> And how will the store owner authenticate that it's actually gold?

Umm this is a solved problem. Believe it or not gold has been used as currency for thousands of years.
Cuckoo x Duolingo - the best combo!
Show HN: QuietFeed – Control the social media feed
Hey HN! I just launched QuietFeed, a Chrome extension that lets you mute keywords, hashtags, and users on X, Facebook, and Reddit to reduce noise and distractions.

Why I built this:
I was tired of seeing the same annoying topics and trends in my feed, so I made a tool that lets you filter out unwanted content instead of relying on platform algorithms.

How it works:
Add keywords, hashtags, or usernames to your mute list
Choose to hide or blur filtered posts
Syncs your mute list across devices
Import/export your list easily
It’s free to try for 7 days, then €10/year for unlimited filtering. Would love to hear your thoughts and feedback!
I was a Slashdot regular for around 10 years. Then somewhere around 2008/9 I realized that almost all of the stories appearing on the /. front page had featured on this new site called Hacker News days earlier, minus the random trolling and "frist post" spam. I briefly used both and ended up switching to HN entirely. Still my daily source of tech news.
Aren't higher energy prices exactly what we need to combat climate change though?
https://archive.ph/2025.03.03-161011/https://www.theatlantic...
Chrome with Ublock origin works through June 2025, via "browsers using the ExtensionManifestV2Availability policy will be exempt from any browser changes until June 2025". Discussion on how to enable: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41812638