skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to be on-call too. I still have muscle memory of the buzz that’d make me leap off my couch like my house was on fire. Except it wasn’t. Just prod, doing prod things.

We all know it. You trade your peace of mind, sleep, and sometimes personal freedom (hello, “don’t go beyond cell signal” life). And I agree with many of you—it shouldn’t be this way.

We’ve seen teams turn their on-call rotations into something way more humane. Not perfect (nothing in ops is, let’s be real), but sustainable.

At Zenduty, we work with a lot of SREs, DevOps folks, and incident commanders who’ve said, “We can’t keep doing this.” So they started rethinking on-call. One of our partners cut their alert volume by 50%. Half! That’s not a magic trick. Just better processes, better tooling, and some good old-fashioned empathy for the humans behind the screens.

And if your team’s not giving you breathing room after an all-nighter? You deserve better. I’ll just say it.

I saw some of you mention how this stuff becomes political or gets deprioritized in favor of shiny new features. Ugh. I feel that in my bones. The best teams we’ve worked with treat incidents as opportunities to make things better. Every alert is basically your system saying “Help me, I’m tired.” And when you listen and fix it? Less 3 AM wake-ups. Win-win.

Anyway, I didn’t mean to ramble, but this topic is close to home. If you’re still stuck in on-call hell, or just want to vent about it. Always happy to swap war stories or chat about how folks are making on-call suck less.

Stay sane out there,
Rohan
DevRel @ Zenduty
Thing is: changing the colours _could_ be improving the UX.

Eg I'm colourblind, and a careful revision of a colourscheme can make my life easier. (Though I would suggest also using other attributes to differentiate like size, placement, texture, saturation, brightness etc.)
Is it possible to have Hindley–Milner type system for a LISP?
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Yeah, I think the goal of these systems is not that everyone has a MW charger in their home. You still (relatively) slow-charge the car at night, and only use the MW chargers for infrequent highway top-ups
"It is backed up to a Raspberry Pi, also on the DMZ network but not directly accessible from the Internet."

I find it strange that a discussion of storage talks about backing things up to a Raspberry Pi, as if that means anything.
Yes, why bother learning how to use things?

(or invest in UX/user research)
MinLZ Compression Algorithm
I started vibe coding an agentic marketplace for agentic marketplaces. It will disrupt the agentic marketplace marketplace market. I have early MVP but still trying to get Claude not to write code that endlessly recurses.
They do that to preserve data. If you’re making a complex image with all sorts of layers and masks and then you save to a JPEG, you lose all that information as the image is flattened and compressed. Saving in the native format lets you be able to open the file again at a later time and resume working without losing any data.

Users would be seriously upset if they made JPEG the default and the native format a buried option. People would be losing data left and right.
I'm not sure whether this negativity is justified. It seems like a genuine breakthrough that could alleviate the range anxiety of many people who are interested in EVs but not fully convinced.
There have been some recent advances which greatly improved the optical bandwidth and make such projects much more feasible cost wise: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41377-023-01201-7

Single digit amount of photons is needed per bit.
Deel's business practices are wild. I've had to call them out for overstepping their role as an EOR and to stop sending marketing email to my team about "virtual deel events". Deel treated the people I "hired" through their platform like their own users. I will never use deel again.
I first heard of this in humorist Dave Barry's column. His description is worth a read.

https://www.theexplodingwhale.com/evidence/resources/dave-ba...
Tech isn't the best at naming thing but it hasn't really stopped much. A version control system is named after an insult in UK English. The tip tech companies are a fruit, a name thst sounds like clown sounds, and a rain forest (so, pretty horrible communication on what they do). The name of this site sounds like some kind of silk road at firs blush.

There can be some absolutely dreadful, politically incorrect names, but I don't think any of GIMP's significant problems came from it's namesake.
Hey, but in return you receive government tokens which will pay back in worse times... if you satisfy a lot of conditions, and wait in many queues, and send many letters.
> Go looks nice to work with but actually is a hidden monster full of footguns.

Really? Me and my team been using it for years with no problems whatsoever.
A lot. Problem is that sometimes the hardware is lost due to renovation to the building.

https://www.theregister.com/2001/04/12/missing_novell_server...
In SI unit m means mili and M means mega.
Yeah, if you wanted to study usability (or what we call UX today), you'd take the ergonomics course, and there'd be usability classes. So you'd learn about how to sit at a desk, how to design a remote control, and where to put the buttons in an application.

It does seem a bit weird, but I feel like this bigger picture is what a lot of today's design lacks.
Then please correct your comment into Berlin/SF rather than EU/US. Otherwise it sounds like you're talking uninformed nonsense.
Can only agree.
The common toolbar plus extensive menus were the best and most accessible.

Office 2003 were amazing in this regard, you could customize the toolbars as you needed to optimize your workflow.
The EU is ran by lawyers and political science majors. They have absolutely zero idea how to setup proper incentives. Any hope of EU getting its act together is wasted. Much like our tax euros.
CoreWeave Is Both a Time Bomb and a Bad Omen for Generative AI
What drew you to gitolite over alternatives (e.g., Forgejo)?
My company is looking into a move from GitLab to https://forgejo.org (Codeberg, essentially). Seems way easier to self host. Seems fine so much for all my team's needs.
An important reason to continue buying printed books and supporting print media.

Most web content I've consumed in my lifetime is already lost, many floppy disks and burned CD-ROMs I held onto are now unreadable, and in 200 years, the situation will only be worse.

But I can go to the British Library and read a 1000+ year old text without much difficulty.
Why not gitea?
LLM and structured output as a translation service
I recall experiencing an incredibly fast hallucination with my eyes closed—like tiny dots moving at an extreme speed.

Faster than anything I had ever seen, almost like an intense vibration, beyond the refresh rate of the eye. It was both intimidating and exhilarating.

Perhaps screens are unable to replicate this type of hallucination.

The animations on this website are impressive. However, in my experience, closed-eye visuals tend to have a central focal point, along with folding or tunnel-like movements and recurring patterns.

I feel deeply grateful for having had some psychedelic experiences, even though hallucinations are the least interesting aspect of them. For me, they acted as a magnifying glass for my overall state of being—allowing me to step outside myself and honestly assess how I feel. They also foster a deeper appreciation for nature.

It would be fascinating to have this discussion within this community. These substances are often demonized due to a lack of understanding, yet they can have a profound impact. For instance, after taking a small dose of LSD, I completely lost interest in alcohol. In the past six months, I’ve only had three nights of drinking, lost a significant amount of weight, and feel fantastic.
My company has operated a 24/7 shift rota for 100 years. American “On call” is not normal.

Some companies might have exceptional on call - the C suite will get called back from holidays or whatever should things really hit the fan. That’s once every few years.
I only passed the coding test because they asked me exactly the same question the second time. I was definitely one of their top developers there, got great reviews and got approached directly for some great projects so it was pretty obvious I was an above average performer there.

Coding tests suck for people from countries that have a more practical mindset at universities. I remember needed algorithms exactly once where I had to apply algorithms to cluster 100,000's of map pointers and every built-in solution was completely slow.

Got it to an agreeable performance, which was cool. However using the Geo capabilities of the database directly was much faster, and could be cached for all users, so I just used that instead in the end.
Yeah, It's not about what's easy (especially in a community like this). These tools aren't for people who necessarily desire easy solutions. It's just about hat pays and what you grew up with. Microsoft used a similar approach decades ago, and it paid off in spades. But navigating Windows also isn't as easy as we'd think as people who grew up on it.

Example: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-innovation/teaching...
While the often advertised point of auto scaling is to handle some imagined large load, in reality it's used as a reliability principle.

For example, it enables seamless rollout strategies for frequent cicd. Any regressions in application performance are automatically handled by scaling up, etc.
I've used it for some command line [tools][1]. Nothing running on production. Mostly programs that process programs or markup. I haven't used Typed Racket.

[1]: https://github.com/dgoffredo?tab=repositories&q=&type=&langu...
A VC Controlled Company Hijacked One of the Most Successful Open-Source Projects
My problem is that I do not want to replace one centralilzed service with another. I do not see any difference between the US and the EU (or Australia) in handling privacy. Most politicians are super keen on destroying privacy for people, for the "good cause". There are so many examples of this I lost count. We need strong encryption and true peer-to-peer networks where the connection is going through random routes (impossible to predict) and there is no government controll of any of the nodes it touches.
I find the Proton tools to be a joy to use and I use them for my business. For clients, I can't do that to them. Microsoft completely dominates and people just expect to be able to video call, chat, work on docs, etc. MS365 remains incredible value for money and pretty optimal for normies.
This looks interesting, I have self hosted gitlab but it is so slow and I don't need most of the features it offers. Thanks for sharing!
You can say he killed himself it’s not kitkots
https://archive.ph/2025.03.18-084516/https://gizmodo.com/rem...

(Had a page crash and strange refreshes from ads.)
At the same time, fibre-optic drones have being successfully fielded by Russia and now increasingly by Ukraine. Immune to jamming with a minimum range of 10km.

There is no way these technologies won't be at least trialled for mil use, not when electronic warfare is employed to this degree.

https://thedefensepost.com/2025/01/08/ukraine-fiber-optic-dr...
Yeah, I worked in a couple companies that had the same requirements.

It also meant having to wake up on command in case the phone beeped, being unable to drink in my free time, being limited in which activities I could go to.

It was hell.

I know people are gonna hit back with "you're doing it wrong", but in this case it's the company doing it wrong, but nobody on HN will go there and tell them.
Since you are switching anyways you could try to adopt local first and that way you make sure you don't have yet another cloud dependency ie political dependency.
That's pretty cool, bookmarked :)
One could argue that using copyrighted content in LLMs, much like reposting, should fall under fair use. This is also Microsoft's claim in the GitHub Copilot lawsuits. It's up to the court to decide though. (IANAL)
Vivaldi 7.2: Speedy and smart, a serious update
They did interesting things with priorities of keyboard shortcuts for the browser and changing the addressbar. Discussions: https://www.reddit.com/r/vivaldibrowser/comments/1jdzoyv/viv...
>At the very least, think twice before signing up for new US services. Consider European services instead.

To be clear, this Europe?

https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/euro...
I wonder if shifting to cloud providers in the EU will lead to the rise of giant European cloud companies in both technology and infrastructure, or if this is just a short-term trend.
The Nvidia Shield is the best thing I've ever bought. I love it. I hope Nvidia make a new one, because i'd buy it immediately.
Vibe-based science policy.
> Perhaps Science and Religion are undergoing some sort of schism.

There's no schism. Religion and science are both ostensibly attempting to describe the underlying truth. The issue is that any institution/engine that has money/power, will obviously attract people that want money and power too, truth be damned.

The idea that the institution is about 'uncovering truth' is certainly given lip service/held as an article of faith as this is required by the naive masses to invest themselves in to the idea (science/religion), but the underlying reality is a somewhat dirtier political jostling for money/power.
I thought maybe “m” means “metric mega” as usual in US, so.
There's a reason why the saying goes "people don't quit companies, they quit bosses".
> Unless the "new way" has obvious advantages

I agree with this. The cases are rare. Still there are cases like the current sad state of motion control in video game consoles, where I have to agree to the opposite. Pretty much everyone who's put the time to play with motion controls outperforms those who don't and can play to satisfaction even without aim assist (which is relentlessly ubiquitous, for those unaware). But the tech started out kinda ass, and the Xbox still don't have a built in gyroscope, so the adoption is artificially stunted. The result? The masses still call it "waggle" with disdain.
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For code review and merge workflow gerrit used to be good a decade ago, it's probably good today, too. Github PRs are strictly worse today than what I remember from gerrit back then.
There isn't even a short-term trend. We saw posts like this a few years ago (in the blog post even admits he tried this before) and they went nowhere, just like this "movement" will.
Line of sight is not immune to jamming, in fact it’s susceptible to more.

Physically.
Adobe is infuriatingly intrusive. So much so that at some point I wanted to uninstall it and never deal with anything adobe ever again, only to find out they demand that I log in to uninstall their crap.

Nothing Adobe will ever again be installed on my PCs.
Fart detector
In many countries, the theft of trade secrets is a serious crime. In the US, for example, it carries a penalty of up to 10 years in prison and a $5M fine. It’s unclear to me why this is a civil suit. It may have to do with the alleged activity taking place overseas.
I moved my side project websites off of US VPS providers to an old MacBook Air 2015 I had lying around.
You can listen to an explanation of the paper here: https://www.pdftomp3.com/shared/67d8abf0ecf38326f8973e49

I created this tool last year to listen to a machine learning book, now I use it for ML papers. The explanations are still a bit repetitive, its not perfect yet.
There are literal mountains of software named for no particular reason (let alone sounding nice), or named by origins no person would ever infer without digging in deeper.

Reasonable people realize this and won't discard a project as a joke because of such a teneous connection, and the fact they've gotten traction is a testament to that.
Racket has been used outside academia for years.
Racket has been production ready for years.

Here is a recent example
https://blog.cloudflare.com/topaz-policy-engine-design/
I believe in China EV batteries are commonly on some kind of subscription system, replaced at service intervals or when their total capacity runs low, so from a consumer point of view it doesn't matter so much if it shortens the battery life. If you’re buying the pack outright it matters more.
When I started in tech, Freedom was key. You put a value in your freedom to run and modify your code.

Over time that has not only regressed to just free to run, but not even that - you have to have permission to run your stuff

It’s easier to be a vassal. I won’t say good luck though. Live in favour of the king and you’ll be fine. Until the king does something and you get to kiss his ring.
“In a commercial for the Alto, we meet a man - some kind of upper middle management, presumably - going about his daily business. He works in a spacious private office and, using the Alto, he can read and send email and produce laser printouts. Eventually, the Alto conjures up a high resolution image of flowers. The man wonders why, and the computer replies - with text on screen - that it's the man's wedding anniversary. "I forgot," says the man, to which the Alto replies, "It's okay, we're only human."”

Sounds like fruit intelligence features
Good - worst service I've had in years and no response from them on thousands of dollars worth of instruments. Not surprised at all.
Almost no one is a dick on purpose. Everyone belives in their truths. Mutually incompatible truths. That is perceived as being dick from other person's truth perspective. That's the tragedy of situation. Everybody is right to some extent. Plus ego plus interest plus strong belives makes hard to move from own truth. So no, we can't stop being dicks. We're just being normal humans.
I mean, let’s divide it into before and after the Trump era. Will we see the same trend once the new sheriff in town steps down for peace?
Evolving C: Interview with C Lernö, the author of C3
Using C++ while keeping people on a common subset of C++ features is very hard in practice. Google for example do a pretty extreme amount of restrictive code standard, training, linting and reinventing libraries to that end.

A lot of the motivation behind inventing golang seems to be to remove C++ toys, because it's too hard to get people to not use them if they're there.
You don't quit companies, you quit managers. I've fortunately had great ones who balanced being into my development with making sure the job was being done. But that's not a universal experience, sadly. I work in games so you can find plenty of horror stories on what happens under bad management without me giving second hand stories of other teams I worked next to being raked in the coals.

I simply want to focus on working "in the ground" so management never really rung for me. My endgame goals focus on the opposite of managing a large beauracracy of tech workers on a massive project.
Yeah, we've been using gitea for five years, and from administrator's point of view it's one of the easiest things to self host. Updates can happen automatically and require very little downtime, and it's light on server resources.

In comparison, Gitlab was a massive pain and became close to unusable on that same server before we migrated to gitea, even though Gitlab was used just for code hosting, and gitea is used for everything it supports (container image and package repositories, issues, etc).
Open-source notification Inbox for Next.js
what advantage does gitlolite over gitea? If i wanted to replace GitHub my intuition would be to replace it with gitea. It seems to have similar interface, pull requests, workers etc to gh.
Claude Shannon was interested in this kind of thing and had a paper on the entropy per letter or word of English. He also has a section in his famous "A Mathematical Theory of Communication that has experiments using the conditional probability of the next word based on the previous n=1,2 words from a few books. I wonder if the conditional entropy approaches zero as n increases assuming ergodicity. But the number of entries in the conditional probability table blows up exponentially. The trick of combining multiple n=1 of different distances sounds interesting, and reminds me a bit of contrastive prediction ml methods.

Anyway the experiments in Shannon's paper sound similar to what you describe but with less data and distance, so it should give some idea of how it would look:
From the text:

* 5. First-order word approximation. Rather than continue with tetragram, : : : , n-gram structure it is easier and better to jump at this point to word units. Here words are chosen independently but with their appropriate frequencies.

REPRESENTING AND SPEEDILY IS AN GOOD APT OR COME CAN DIFFERENT NAT-
URAL HERE HE THE A IN CAME THE TO OF TO EXPERT GRAY COME TO FURNISHES
THE LINE MESSAGE HAD BE THESE.

6. Second-order word approximation. The word transition probabilities are correct but no further structure is included.

THE HEAD AND IN FRONTAL ATTACK ON AN ENGLISH WRITER THAT THE CHAR-
ACTER OF THIS POINT IS THEREFORE ANOTHER METHOD FOR THE LETTERS THAT
THE TIME OF WHO EVER TOLD THE PROBLEM FOR AN UNEXPECTED
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Who is currently, though? Please dont point to a YouTube channel
> sculpture, an artistic form in which hard or plastic materials are worked into three-dimensional art objects.
- Encyclopaedia Britannica
Perfect is the enemy of good. The EU has it's flaws, but if you can't see the difference between the US privacy climate and the EU privacy climate then you need a reality check.
I remember learning about the furin cleavage site in the first weeks. Massive smoking gun.
Honestly, I've never really understood the hate towards the GIMP UI. Maybe it's because I'm a programmer so I'd probably end up creating a UI like it, but generally things are where I'd expect them to be. Sure, there's a learning curve but it's not that steep, and I do have to google how to do things sometimes but then I have to do that in blender too
One relatively simple thing we're missing on the Swedish cloud market is someone offering OIDC SSO, Chat, Video meetings, e-mail, calendar and file sharing.

I can't even say which European company offers this, Proton maybe?

Being a long time open source advocate I think it can be done, but system integration would never be as good as MS or Google.

But this simple platform would get a lot of SMB's to migrate.
I'd like that. Personally, I prefer to self host all my stuff.

But I can't do that to our clients. I want to provide them with something that makes them independent from us, something they can just hire any random agency or freelancer to work on. That leaves AWS and Azure as strong options.

There's a number of European cloud providers (https://www.stackit.de looks especially interesting), but I'm looking for too-big-to-fail options. Hetzner sure is that, but you don't get managed relational databases, object storage and a couple of other things that typical web apps rely on.

I know I can host stuff like Postgres and MinIO myself on Hetzner cloud instances. But when it comes to _managed_ services for this stuff, from a too-big-too-fail provider, I'm drawing a blank when it comes to European providers right now.
Honda to revise consumer privacy data practices after $632,000 fine
That is called copyright laundering FYI.
The only real indication of progress being made is a log output of steps completed. All a spinner or similar indicator tells you is that the UI thread is not hung but that isn't really useful information.
This is the first time I hear about "metric mega", and I hang out a lot here, where Americans use their units without explanation.
Best tool I've seen for diagrams in a long time, Congratulations! I'll use this anywhere.