skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not to proclaim any love for Jeff, nor Amazon - but if you're being paid $2B/year, to accomplish almost nothing, then you really shouldn't expect your cushy gig to last very long.
When I say “the golang community” I mean “the people online who talk about golang”. I don’t mean the actual maintainers.
The Lynx project was originally named independently without thinking this far ahead. Since so much code and so many users already rely on it, we decided to stick with the name rather than change it just for open-sourcing.
> DeepResearch is a cosmetic enhancement that wraps the results in a "report" - it looks impressive but IMO is much more likely to lead to inaccurate or misleading results.

I think that if done well deep research can be more than that. At a minimum, I would say that before "deep search" you'd need some calls to an LLM to figure out what to look for, what places would be best to look for (i.e. sources, trust, etc), how to tabulate the data gathered and so on. Just as deep search is "rag w/ tools in a loop", so can (should) be deep research.

Think of the analogy of using aider straight up going to code or using it to first /architect and then code. But for any task that lends itself to (re)searching. At least it would catch useless tangents faster.

At the end of the day, what's fascinating about LLM based agents is that you can almost always add another layer of abstraction on top. No matter what you build, you can always come from another angle. That's really cool imo, and something Hassabis has hinted lately in some podcasts.
The latter is definitely true, and i don't claim otherwise.

But that's not actually the argument really being made here with any evidence.
That would be a reasonable argument, but it's also always true - we are human, not robots, that's how humans work in any group setting. So it's not particularly interesting or particular to this that social and other things matter as much as pure technical merit or hard work.

But again, this isn't the argument the post makes. Instead, in this case, the argument being made is (basically) "Nobody in those rooms is operating in good faith, they are instead deliberately trying to make it harder for newcomers. They also only have any power at all through illegitimate means in the first place".

I do not believe any of this to be true.
Show HN: AI Tools in Interviews: Leveling the Field or Breaking It?
Lately, I’ve been noticing a shift in how candidates approach job interviews. AI-powered open source tools like AI Interview Copilot: https://github.com/nonymous911/interview-copilot and other tools like FinalRound AI, LockedIn AI, and Verve AI are becoming common names in the interview prep world. These tools help candidates structure their answers, build confidence, and refine responses. In many ways, they act like a personal coach, guiding job seekers through what can often be a stressful process.

While this seems like a natural evolution of interview preparation, it also raises an important question: Are we still evaluating a candidate’s true skills, or just their ability to leverage AI-generated insights? If someone relies on AI to craft perfect answers, are we really seeing their authentic problem-solving and communication skills, or just a well-polished script?

This brings up a larger discussion about the future of hiring and automation. If AI is helping candidates present themselves better, is it an inevitable progression in how people prepare for jobs, or does it create a bias where companies aren’t truly assessing the person behind the responses? Will hiring managers need to change how they evaluate candidates to account for AI-assisted answers, or will AI simply become another tool like resumes and cover letters—something expected rather than questioned?

I’m curious to hear what others think. Should we embrace AI as a normal part of interview preparation, or is there a risk that it could distort the hiring process? Could this trend eventually lead to a completely different hiring model where AI plays a central role in both interviews and assessments? Would love to get the thoughts of the community on where this is headed.
Bitcoin.
If kids can figure out how it works - so can you - you're a software engineer !!
I stand corrected, thank you.

The evidence is not unequivocal, and that itself is suspicious.
I am not worried about missing posts, on my own reader. I specifically only grab the single newest post, so I may be missing posts by design.

That said, I think 3 or 4 days seems reasonable.
Navigation just seems comparatively easier than earth. You are much more likely to have a clear view of the terrain or sky. And the terrain is much less likely to change than the earth so computer vision should be easier.
I don’t get this retro-futuristic trend in modern Sci-Fi …
This is a good explanation of chirality but I think the parent meant to say enantiomer instead of racemate:

– enantiomer refers to each mirror image of the molecule. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enantiomer

– racemate refers to a 50-50 mix of the two enantiomers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racemic_mixture
University-taught computer science curriculum is going to have to change drastically.

Disclaimer: I am not a CS degree holder. But I did attempt a masters in software engineering and it was really eye-opening to me to see how far behind "traditional" curriculum was when compared to real-world opportunities. My university completely overlooked things like front-end web development and a host of other modern needs at the time; when I spoke to the dean, he recommended the school might just not be a fit.

So if we're leaving students behind for AI outputs and shutting the door in favor of the old guard, what happens to the new wave? Will schools train them to get to the point of working with systems enough to call bullshit on AI? Are schools even teaching students AI right now?

I ask sincerely just because when I pushed for change in curriculum, I basically was shown the door that led to me dropping out and (thankfully) landing a gig at a startup that opened up another (better) door for me.
I thought this was confirmed a couple years ago.
Is there a particular use case where you'd need the extra (I'm assuming you're wanting this for on the go use cases, otherwise you'd probably use a hub at your "home" location)
V4 was the final death blow. But the Google Panda algorithm update (and vote manipulation) set the stage.
Yeah, sorry about that. Having a nasty day and haven't had my meds thanks to the scam that is insurance. Gotta watch myself. Have a nice timezone.
> To be fair, if a hammer is sitting unused in a toolbox for 10 years, you might find it does "need an update", as the handle might have dried out and rotted, needing replacement.

And hey the only place left to get hammers sells 50 brands of identical, low quality hammers (all clearly made in the same factory) under a variety of inscrutable, all-caps brand names like AOXIUN and KUDUO.

So actually maybe the advice for hammers and software is the same ... if you rely on it, make sure you can build it yourself.
You can modify the uhk firmware quite extensively with the included Agent application. I typically stick to holding a keys to access different layers, but you can also double tap them to make it stick to a new layer. I only rarely use that functionality myself tho.

Being able to modify each button, in each layer has it's downsides tho: if I'm ever on a keyboard other than my own, I can barely type anymore!

I've edited away my most common typos on my keyboard layout, eg the key that's normally caps lock is just another shift key in my keyboard, since I find only ever use that key by mistake.

Now when I'm on another keyboard I hit it all the time, since I'm so used to it not being a problem
Seems like you haven't actually looked into it if that's the impression you got, because both Thinkpad (X1) and Framework (13) make a laptop that fit your requirements. The X1 carbon even offers a 4k OLED option if you want it.
Show HN: Automatically Turn PDFs into Fillable Forms
My hobby project is building a form filling assistant for complex forms, but it turns out that not every PDF form is digitally fillable. A lot of PDF forms are still made with the expectation that you print and fill them by hand. To fix this, I trained a series of models that detect where form fields _should _ exist, then built this utility to turn them into interactive forms.

In my experience it's the best tool for the job across nearly every form. It ended up being super useful and pretty close to free to run (thanks Modal!), so I've hosted it as a free utility at https://detect.penpusher.app.

There are some advanced settings as well, so if you're not getting good results with a specific pipeline you can try tweaking those, or let me know and I'd be happy to take a look. Plus the next round of model training is focused on improving handling of scans.

Hope this is useful and happy to answer any questions!
Definitely for anyone living in an environment that contains animals. Vastly more so for anyone connected to the Interwebs. Soooo many videos of animals responding to music by dancing. Trying to portray this as "science" is more than just irritating, it is fodder for the anti-science population to advance their garbage positions.

If you are a professor somewhere and this is all you can come up with to publish, might I suggest you need to find a different line of work. Everyone has the right to _try_ becoming whatever they want but there is no right to success at it.
They should just pull a Trump and call IT a Deal.
Thank you, I didn’t realise kph is actually only used in English.

In Europe, kph is non existent, and I felt that it’s bizarre to convert like that.
Gen question: why do people care how bulky a laptop is?

I buy gaming laptops because they're the only powerful laptops and their size has never bothered me when traveling
Free speech must include unpopular and even grotesque speech. That's not moving the goal post that's the entire point.

It's no coincidence that the laws used to punish people for speech are exceptionally vague. There is no clearly defined benchmark of harm. In fact harm does not need to be demonstrated at all. Simply asserting without evidence that a blog "leads to violence" is sufficient for those who don't believe in free speech.
Not even remotely impossible.
Yep, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_bison
I don’t see why cancelling and resubscribing wouldn’t work.
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just give them your signal number and use signal desktop

i do the same as you as i dont carry a phone anymore (fucking with the police).
Just made the switch here to /e/OS on Fairphone:
https://willem.com/blog/2025-03-05_durable-smartphone/
> "pressure treated wood" is treated with a compound of arsenic.

It depends--I am assuming you're referring to chromated copper arsenate [0] (CCA), which has been widely phased out in favor of other treatments, like copper azole [1].

I wouldn't go and build a raised garden bed out of copper azole treated wood either, but I also wouldn't be surprised if the leached copper etc. is quite a bit safer than CCA.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromated_copper_arsenate

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_preservation#Copper_azole
A lot of consumers prefer high refresh rates.
Probably so. Socrates witnessed the end of the Athenian Golden Age during his lifetime.
What I keep not understanding - from this side of the Atlantic where the debate over COVID restrictions appears to have been a lot less charged - is why 'the right' in the US seem to lose sight of the fact that these restrictions were put in place because of a global pandemic whose ultimate trajectory was unknown at the time. They were not put in place because of some social ideology - though I would accept there was overcaution on the science front. I don't think the left worships Fauci, he just came to represent 'scientism' - as opposed to gargling with bleach - and was blindly defended just as Musk and Thiel have come to represent anarcho-capitalism, whether this is a fair representation of their views.
Do we know if is it slower because of hardware is not as well suited for the task or is it mostly a software issue -- the code hasn't been optimized to run on Apple Silicon?
That's absolutely professional levels that you are demanding both in storage and RAM.

Apple sells computers in the premium/professional market segment. They're not going to change that. If you're not making money from the equipment or if you can't afford it for consumer use, there's probably nothing that they will do for you, you're not in the intended customer segment.
> wifi for servers

I urge you to reconsider. Potential customers and applicants will immediately go all in and the "but this doesn't make any sense" step will never happen. We'll be reading blog posts like "I'm hooked on PCP (the Post-Cabling Paradigm)" from Google SRE's with comments praising the downfall of "Big Ethernet" while the emissions from datacenters vaporize flocks of migrating birds.
Not OP, and not my favorite language, but I don’t see how “Apple ships large amount of RAM in expensive workstation” is a legitimate complaint about any language. It isn’t even in the same universe of topics. Completely off-topic JS (and Rust!) drama permeating every single discussion isn’t something that happens in code review. It’s very much an expression of the HN community and its culture. And it’s really tiresome, especially when there are both better complaints and better topical venues for these languages and more.
Just to add onto this point, you expect different experts to be activated for every token, so not having all of the weights in fast memory can still be quite slow as you need to load/unload memory every token.
You obviously don't know my comment history regarding dynamic languages and JIT compilers.

If only CPython was half as fast as V8, or if PyPy wasn't a black swan in the community.

Still doesn't change the point I made.
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Given that strategy has never worked in the history of the world, it's probably a good time to figure out how we will put the right guardrails in place and how we will adjust to the new normal.

If "we" don't build it, someone else will.
The story of Maier is also re-told in a beautiful tome by a French artist:

Not knowing about who Maier was, I picked this up at a local book fair because of the way the compositions in the panels reminded me of photography. Only by talking to the author at the fair did I realize that she told the story of some of Maier's best known photographs, and that's why it looked the way.

Anyhow, if you speak french, I wholeheartedly recommend it:

https://peinture-fraiche.be/en/book/vivian-maier-a-la-surfac...
I believe that this will eventually make the motivation to create websites for humans disappear, and instead of SEO, we will be optimizing for SAIO.
I know it's basically nitpicking competing luxury sports cars at this point, but I am very bothered that existing benchmarks for the M3 show single core perf that is approximately 70% of M4 single core perf.

I feel like I should be able to spend all my money to both get the fastest single core performance AND all the cores and available memory, but Apple has decided that we need to downgrade to "go wide". Annoying.
Have never heard anyone in my life that isn’t an engineer comment on Pro Motion. Not even in an accidental sort of “hmmm why does my phone just feel faster” kind of way.

This is a feature that really only matters to the Hacker News crowd, and Apple is very aware of that. They invest their BOM into things the majority of people care about. And they do have the Pro Motion screens for the few that do.

Even I — an engineer - regularly move between my Pro Motion enabled iPhone and my regular 60Hz iPad and while I notice it a little, I really just don’t see why this is the one hill people choose to die on.
I have a very similar setup but with HLedger[1]. A "do-nothing"[2] script helps me download statements by opening bank websites, waits for manual import and finally checks balances. That makes it a lot less repetitive and error prone. Or at least, I catch the errors faster.

I've found HLedger and Shake to be fast enough to process almost a decade of finances. Dmitry Astapov has an extremely well produced tutorial workflow[3].

How have you managed the PDF parsing? Mine has become a bit of a mess dealing with slight variations in formatting as they change over time. I've been considering using LLMs but have been nervous about quality.

[1]: https://hledger.org
[2]: https://blog.danslimmon.com/2019/07/15/do-nothing-scripting-...
[3]: https://github.com/adept/full-fledged-hledger
> despite app authors worst intentions

All app authors must comply with the rigorous App Store guidelines so the technical limitations on what they can do don't really matter anyway.

Add sideloading as an option and we'll get to see how secure iOS really is.

GrapheneOS is definitely secure enough to tolerate sideloading, but I don't know if iOS is or not.
Didn't know it was a blunder until afterwards though right?

Hence, innovation. Now you just get risk-averse updates that offer little reason to upgrade from previous models.
See here, it’s music, which makes sense for a non-Music subscription: https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/ima...
Ahh the nostalgia:
https://youtu.be/W1_YoG7lqI4
Banks in the UK allow to export transactions in many formats. Login, pick time range, download in ofx format. Why is this a pain?
Show HN: NerdyNotes – Markdown based note taking app for pro developers
The criteria for purchase for anybody trying to use it is "run slowly but acceptably" vs. "run so slow as to be unusable".

My memory is wrong, it was the 32b. I'm running the 70b against a similar prompt and the 5950X is probably going to take over an hour for what the M4 managed in about 7 minutes.

edit: an hour later and the 5950 isn't even done thinking yet. Token generation is generously around 1 token/s.

edit edit: final statistics. M4 Pro managing 4 tokens/s prompt eval, 4.8 tokens/s token generation. 5950X managing 150 tokens/s prompt eval, and 1 token/s generation.

Perceptually I can live with the M4's performance. It's a set prompt, do something else, come back sort of thing. The 5950/RTX3080's is too slow to be even remotely usable with the 70b parameter model.
Most A/B tests should not be done in a production like way. Grab some post-it notes and and sketch out both A and B: then watch users work with it.

For a lot of what you want to know the above will give better information than a 100% polished A/B test in production. When people see a polished product they won't give you the same type of feedback as they will for an obvious quick sketch. The UI industry has gone wrong by making A/B in production too easy, even though the above has been known for many decades.

(A/B in production isn't all bad, but it is the last step, and often not worth it)
The thickness can change wrist ergonomics of typing
I don't use beancount but if you're already in sheets, Tiller might be easier to switch to to get lots of built-in dashboards/metrics
About $12k when Project Digits comes out.
Chromated arsenic treatment was banned in pressure treated wood in 2003. Pressure treatment with less toxic chemicals is not banned.

https://www.epa.gov/ingredients-used-pesticide-products/over...
You probably mean inbreeding. Interbreeding is good. It is good that the bison herds mingle and interbreed.

Anyway, for mammals an initial population of a couple dozen individuals (assuming they're reasonably genetically diverse in the first place) is plenty enough to produce a population of any size without problems.
Cost adjustment tariffs is my argument -

You use tariffs to equalize actual costs plus a little (environmental/climate rules, labor costs, regulatory environment, human rights, etc) between the US and a foreign country. It doesn't have to be a huge amount of increase either, 5-12% - and probably wouldn't apply to most developed countries, because it is based on that matrix of total cost of doing business.

As far as rationale here - I personally want to onshore as much production as I can - but you can't start with finished goods necessarily, you often have to start with the base supportive industries needed - but even I acknowledge that may not be practical for everything.

But, to do what I want to do is a decades long process and must be done strategically and carefully - blanket tariffs dont do that, and are just a blowtorch to the delicate interconnections of a modern economy. Like targeting agricultural goods is absurd, for example - and will just raise prices for no tangible good.
Nepotism is a route to success.
Any hub actually worth using (Thunderbolt ports, high enough charging wattage, dual displays, 2.5Gb Ethernet) will run you like $300-$400, which is almost half the price of the Macbook. I'd rather have a couple more ports on the device.
The politics are so bad that I think people should stay away from Lemmy period. It's like saying it's fine to create a Xitter account these days as long as you stay away from politics.
Can you use that app for any/all YouTube videos? I want to listen to long-form video interviews and such, not just listen to music and 'actual' podcasts.
You could always buy one at an apple store without sales tax (e.g. Portland Oregon). But they might not have that one in stock...
Makes sense. In Zoo tycoon, these fuckers kept breeding like no one's business.
Open-sourcing is/was the perfect time to change it. Otherwise it might be even more painful if a name change is needed later.
> What are the current limitations if not gold any more?

Inflation on one side, employment rates on the other. It's literally in most central banks' headline policy goals.

> How has that "unlimited" money supply worked out ever since?

Pretty well, seeing how it's largely coincided with unprecedented growth in living standards and helped us avoid what could have been a repeat of the 1930s due to Covid's impact on economies, among other things.
Did you seriously just try and conflate austrian economics with racism?
First, SimonW, I devour everything you write and appreciate you most in the AI community and recommend you from 0 all the way to 1!!!

Thank you.

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Second, thank you for bringin up Jina, I recently discovered it and immediate began building a Thing based on it:

I want to use its functions to ferret-out all the entanglements from the roster from the WEF Leadership roster, similar to the NGO fractal connections - I’m doing that with every WEF member, through to Congress.

I would truly wish to work with you on such, I so inclined..

I prefer to build “dossiers” rather than reports, and represented in json schemas

I’m on mobile so will provide more details when at machine…

Looping through a dossier of connections is much more thoughtful than a “report” imo.

I need to see you on someone’s podcast, else you and I should make one!