skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Couldn’t agree more — this is definitely a cold start + network effects problem at its core. We’re under no illusion that we can out-network LinkedIn by being shinier or faster.

You nailed it: their true moat isn’t tech, it’s scale and inertia. Everyone’s on it, even if they hate it. That’s what makes it both frustrating and interesting to challenge — not because it's easy, but because it’s overdue.

We’re not trying to beat LinkedIn at their own game (at least not yet) — we’re focused on solving one painful wedge: helping people actually stand out and get discovered without shouting into a noisy feed or spraying cold applications into the void.

If we can win on that one slice of user need (especially among early-career folks, designers, PMs, indie hackers, etc.), we believe there’s room to build up a meaningful alternative, piece by piece. Small, high-signal networks that grow from the edge rather than trying to eat the core from day one.

Appreciate the thoughtful challenge — these are exactly the conversations that keep us grounded and ambitious at the same time.
Optimal(?) strategy for driving down vaccination rates:

(1) Make sure that infections which have highly unfavorable outcomes are perceived as extremely rare.

(2) If any anti-vaccine memes appear, react with contemptuous dismissal - both of the memes, and of people attracted to them.

(3) If any such memes persist, work to make them part of the hottest culture war available. Should any well-intended Public Health advocates on "your" side fail to understand that angrily being RIGHT in the culture wars matters far more than mere human welfare (especially for the "wrong sort of people") then do whatever is needed to marginalize or silence them.
> Imagine calling an accountant a typist

Bad analogy because accountants need to be qualified by a centralized body.
In my day, the term was “Osborne’d”.

“One of the unfortunate things about the ‘Osborne Executive’ was that the owners were unaware of marketing strategies. The ‘Executive’ was a computer that was a bit outdated, so Osborne decided to make an announcement of a future unit that was IBM compatible. The announcement caused a chill on the sales of this particular computer which eventually caused the company to go under. The Osborne Executive came out in 1982 and the company filed for bankruptcy in September of 1983.”

https://vintagecomputer.com/osborne-occ-2-executive.html
I find the Libertarian obsession with Argentina quite curious. There seems to be this view that Argentina is massively over-regulated with massive government and that if you strip that all away Argentina will be a power house of productivity and wealth. The problem I have with that is... that's not libertarianism. Thinking that Argentina should be regulated and taxed a bit more in line with a modern liberal European democracy is not a demonstration of the successes of Libertarians. I would think that the libertarian would be far better pointing at a low regulation, low tax economy and demonstrating how reduced regulations would help there. Maybe for example, take the US banking regulations and strip them away - if the libertarians are right, we'll see a boom lifting all boats. If they're wrong we'll see a string of notorious and massive scams ripping of the average American. Unfortunately that'll never happen so I guess we'll never know.
Yeah not every developer does html templates for wordpress.

Of course if your job is extremely simple and generic, AI can kinda figure it out.
3 years at that high of a position is a little short.

But, yeah, seems like just a nothing burger from the Verge.
The submission was precisely because I want to post this comment.
Some people don't live in the US woooow... In the UK and especially certain parts, shite is the actual word to use. Shite is definitely not the same as gosh or shoot. It's (more) vulgar as shit but our own.

I personally also don't like gosh or shoot as we all know what you mean, but this is not that case, look it up.
London's poor 5G blamed on spectrum, investment, and timing of Huawei ban
Open-sourcing OpenPubkey SSH (OPKSSH): integrating single sign-on with SSH
I think he writes HTML pages and some JS occasionally.
its based on screen width, thats why!
GCC and LLVM Clang Merge Support for the Nvidia Olympus Cores with the Vera CPU
I reinstalled a BLE inspect app to troubleshoot something, and I was shocked at the sheer amount of Samsung TVs (and I own none) I had to wade through to find my device. The fact they're all in discoverable mode at all times makes opening my regular Bluetooth just as bad, too.
The loneliest people (and places) in America
People are not looking to "add" to the library. They don't like it at all and want to completely stop it from doing what it does. There is no proposal process that is going to make them happy.

Fortunately, that is not a prerequisite for their happiness.
The goal of an interview isn't to get the candidate to write code that will be used in production. The goal is to observe the candidate doing something that predicts whether they're a viable hire. If a candidate cannot write a function to reverse a given sequence, especially in a situation where candidates have been led to expect that they'll be asked to do something just like that, then it becomes harder to believe that the candidate is a viable hire.
Musk has always been an opportunist. All of his companies are things he's jumped on because they offered him a chance at a huge payout. He was acquired by PayPal, and he forced his way into Tesla. Likewise with Twitter, he was willing to burn huge piles of cash for what it offered him. He's a master of picking up a new project and amplifying it through the hype cycle.

The Tesla hype cycle is either nearing its end or peaked and I'm sure he knows this. The valuation for this company is ridiculous by any standard. So he's on to his next thing. By joining ranks with MAGA and he's purchased himself a driver seat for the most powerful country and strongest economy.

Obviously he still cares about Tesla, but it's not his primary focus anymore. He's moved on to his next big thing which I'm sure he expects to be many times more lucrative than Tesla was.
Show HN: A 3-minute AI-generated daily podcast summarizing top HN stories
I built an agentic AI workflow that autonomously:

- Collects top Hacker News stories daily (from /front)
- Reads the full content of the news
- Prepare a newsbrief
- Feed the newsbrief to wonderpod for the rest

This is an extension of Wonderpod (previously posted here [1]) with an autonomous agent that requires zero human intervention to produce daily episodes.

Tech details:
- Agentic workflow built with openGPA [2] (an open source project of mine)
- Web browsing action using Playwright

I'd love your feedback, especially on the quality of the AI's content selection and summarization!

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42804735
[2] https://github.com/eschnou/OpenGPA
> Imagine if people started calling constant functions

We are already calling procedures "functions". So it's kinda game over already unfortunately.
Joe Paterno?
Yeah with most appliances its... not smart to go for highest of their ranges. Way too many functionalities crammed into 1 device just to justify much higher price. All want to be online to do what... pester you with notifications and updates?

I love Bosch, all the stuff we have from them works perfectly many years after buying. Similar for Siemens. But for me - AEG, Whirlpool and Electrolux are the crappiest of the crappiest stuff I've experienced, those brands are banned at my home.

But there is the trick - go for highest offline-only range, which is normally in the middle or just above middle of the range. Best value for money. Plus I couldn't care less of some online features, don't need them, hate them, its just a ticking bomb regardless of manufacturer.

Same as recently discussed here Samsung HW-Q990D surround soundbar update bricking the devices for some. Why the heck would I ever want to update surround speakers which work perfectly fine now? Some sort of OCD out of hands? They never add anything important with such updates, and the general risk is not worth doing it. Plus avoiding not-another-stupid-app-in-phone syndrome.
It's beyond Tesla. The thing that really worries me is that he's linked the concept of space exploration and settlement to himself in many peoples' minds, discrediting the idea by linking it to inane 4chan /pol politics.

The human future in space is important and needs a better champion.

He's massively empowered the worst elements of the left and the right, which of course feed on each other. On the right he's reviving fascism and race science, and on the left he's giving tremendous ammunition to the "anti-everything" crowd. "See! human ambition is fascist! stop everything now!"

He was, for a time, the antidote to that, a liberal who built things and seemed to believe in a better future.
TSLA is up 60% from a year ago and 700% from 5 years ago. He's not in any way hurting.
What is the likelihood or even plausibility of SpaceX purchasing what is left of Tesla once it gets really bad?

Not something I want to see but if it's possible I am afraid something like this may happen.

At that point it would be the US government via contracts keep Tesla afloat. An even bigger conflict of interest then already.
NUS CS5242 Neural Networks and Deep Learning
Not to be meta, but this talk and this discussion are insanely pedantic.
Shite isn't a euphemism like shoot, it's a synonym of shit.
When I made this decision 20 years ago I landed on Software Engineer because people calling themselves that generally earned more than people calling themselves programmer, coder or developer.
Haha, also have several thousand hours in factorio and you're right I don't hold this standard with all my games. That being said, if i was immune to pollution I would at least want to walk around my factories a bit
Love that it's just an sql file
One might even say PATHETIC.
Elon Musk is mostly out of his Tesla position. He doesn't need that contribution to his net worth any more, and getting status with the Trumpian right was worth it. His Tesla holding is worth only $70B right now, and like the rest of the executives, he has been dumping stock as fast as possible onto whoever wants to hold the bags.
As an IT professional; It's not even worth my time to substantiate those claims. The user gets a new mouse and I record it as a ticket. I've never had to "cut anyone off" from issuing new equipment, but if there's ever a problematic user I'll have a record of their equipment issues on file.
I'm currently managing several Government contracts for a third party, and the GDS + Government Technology Code of Practice are woven into the contracts and milestone evidence we have to provide. The two standards are clear and sensible.

I have had many meetings with Government back-end and dev staff and they all seemed knowledgeable, rational, non-beaurecratic and keen to listen as much as talk. They are also accessible and helpful.
I'm in Sweden. I'd guess the nordics and baltics are all as far or further ahead.

I actually once knew some programmers who worked there, so know its in-house etc, but don't remember exactly what it is called etc.

A quick google found this, hope it is the right thing and helpful https://www.government.se/government-agencies/the-agency-for...
MCP (Model Context Protocol): Simply explained in 5 minutes
Just for what it's worth, the whole speech is a fairly insightful and approachable talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nj9BZz71yQE, were it not the gaffe it'd have been viewed very positively.
Pink snow tints the edges of Antarctica
https://simple.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Haber
I'd imagine he's British. "Shite" seems to be the spelling favored by the British. Much like arse/ass
>"Yeah not every developer does html templates for wordpress. Of course if your job is extremely simple and generic, AI can kinda figure it out."

Keep telling yourself this. It's only hurting you.

I think anyone who isn't working heavily with agentic systems right now has absolutely no clue about the revolutionary things that have happened in the last six months or so. Our industry is going to be in a completely different universe this time next year.
Policy is a political issue.
The Salton Sea: A Reservoir of Lithium
Bear in mind the drop in deliveries from Musk's fascist antics isn't even reflected in this data yet due to lag time between sales and delivery.
Unsure if its a new issue but I've checked the used car market and these things are dirt cheap, 2 year old cars are about as much as a modest Golf, 4-5 year olds match the price of a Polo.

If you can handle the occasional funny guy chucking you a heil as you drive past and tech that tries to murder you about once a month they look highly affordable. Probably not what they were going for but hey ho.
Heliogabalus? That guy managed to be Roman emperor and was condemned to damnatio memoriae after his death. He did some very unpopular things such as trying to change the pantheon to a singular, sun-god entity. Didn't end well. And we're talking about him 2k years later
Don't people read manuals before spending $$$ on things? Or is that just me
since when has HN been overran by fascists? Concerning how GP got downvoted but this pro-nazi comment hasn't been.
he should never use twitter tbh, back then elon is likeable until he tweet 20 times a day
The current dollar value of his stake in SpaceX is also twice that of his stake in Tesla.
There are always reasons (rationalizations) why it had to be exactly like that. Like so many acronyms that are really backronyms. Or, if you are familiar with IT, why a certain technology is "needed" in a product.

I'm not saying that these camo patterns don't work, but the particulars (e.g. why it had to be rectangular pixels, not hexagons or nature-inspired fractals) are often connected to fashions. My personal opinion is that dazzle camo looks cool, by the way ;)
Yeah I had a request on GitHub for it, so I implemented it! But it was only a "fix" for a very specific technical group people, not ALL the users. Good lesson learned there.
Yes, using a browser is different from writing a program, and there is a difference between "writing (or copy pasting) a script" and [...].
Even if I don't subscribe to their views, Kevin Carson, and Gary Chartier have the non-right wing form of libertarianism put up for discussion, instead of this Ayn Rand/Milton Friedman corporatist view of libertarianism.
>Do you need a citation or can I safely assert: "Things are good for me that make me feel good absent it being a poison."

I don't need a citation, no, this is pretty obviously false.

Once again, go ahead do do what you want, but asking for a citation when people are recommending a change in lifestyle because it is "good for you" is a completely reasonable thing to do.

Especially when their first ask was "Just a simple explanation why it is so obvious and so beneficial." (i.e., not a scientific study or anything), to which you responded with some hand-waving and a question instead of a simple explanation.
I've already seen at least two posts on X with claims that this was actually all intentional and that "Trump is playing 5D chess"... and I think they were serious.
This implies it's intentional, that there's some sort of master plan. I don't think that's it. I think he's just intoxicated by the prospect of basically unlimited power and is unable to think rationally about the entire situation.
Snapshots of home directories grow to ridiculous amount due to trash that piles inside of it. Off the top of my head:

- ~/.local/share/docker is 29G of data that continuously mutates.
- Rust/Cargo produce "target" directories in $PWD whenever they run, which is gigabytes of crap littered all over the place.

Keeping snapshots of home would take up a huge amount of disk space, especially if you ever want to keep more than one.

That said, keeping TWO snapshots for 24hs for "un-deleting" files might be an interesting idea.
i always recommend simon willison's blog: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/11/using-llms-for-code/

he's the creator of django and has been writing about coding with LLMs since the beginning. he was one of the first people to report about prompt injection and hallucinations. you will learn about the strengths and weaknesses of coding with LLMs if you approach his blog with an open mind.
Hacking isn't coding isn't programming isn't software development isn't software engineering. But in the end many people use these terms mostly interchangeably and making a point of the differences between the definitions you personally use is rarely a productive use of time.
values in China and California were also similarly horrible, no?
The only way we'll be seeing that trend go away is if they're banned. Those shoes improve race times so much they stretch the definition of what should be legal in racing. Nobody's going to revert to barefoot running for racing unless they don't care about their times.
> nuclear fusion is also pretty basic.

Get 'em hot and smash 'em is a remarkably effective method at multiple scales :)
My experience is that around 200-300 lines, the LLM is no longer able to understand the context of its own work. At that point, it also usually contains a significant mistake.

And around that scale, you’ll get much better code if you refactor it yourself and clean up its logic (which tends to be verbose, at best).

Someday, it will be better; today, none of them (Grok, ChatGPT, Claude) are good enough for what you describe.
>> Was Pheidippides barefoot when he purportedly ran from Marathon to Athens?

I doubt it. I would think thin soled leather sandals were quite common at the time. Curious what the evidence has to say about this.
Not shown: the EU cleaning requirements are inadequate in reality which is why dishwashers previously defaulted to higher-energy modes - because those modes are the ones that actually work reliably for users. It's almost like the regulations are ideologically motivated rather than having anything to do with reality.
What Killed Innovation?
They absolutely shouldn't, but unfortunately it's not just the US that's corrupt.

There's also the fact that most people in leadership are not great with IT and appear to be easily sold to.
>Musk has always been an opportunist.

Can you name me any billionaire who isn't an opportunist? How can you become super wealthy without being opportunistic? Do you think by being kind and law abiding gentlemen, massive wealth just lands into your lap while your competitors let you by? This entire platform is full of opportunists. You don't get anywhere in life by not being opportunistic, life is just too competitive the higher up you go.
I've started using X a lot more in the last few months since I built an app that let's you track habits with a tweet called Xtreeks (yeah, I know..).

I enjoy the product, but wish they'd spend more time making the core elements of the product work. For example, aspects of the API just don't work as expected, like for some reason search and mention endpoints do not have support for long form posts (>280 characters) enough though X supports posts with thousands of characters. The result is the API appears to work for some posts and just silently fails for others.

In addition to the API issues, we've struggled with inexplicable labeling/suspension and shadow banning, even on the personal account I've had for over a decade (seemed to be triggered by using my VPN). I understand the desire to control spam, but it seems excessive. Or if you do it excessively, at least provide adequate tools/support to request review.

On my app's X account I paid for both API access ($200/mo) and the Verified Org status ($2,000) and had a hard time getting support that took days to reply, when it did reply at all. And when the person replied they had nothing to do with the account label process, so weren't able to help, which was quite frustrating. It was fine since this was a little side project, but if this was a business at scale and I was paying that much in addition to ad spend I'd be furious.

Anyway, I know nothing about the Head of Eng or what's at the root of these issues, but I'm a big fan of X and hope they're able to fix these things. It's such. valuable tool. I'm even fine if it's pay to play, but if someone is on the higher tiers of your paid plans the support should be available when they need it.
It's not in any way a recent thing.
Soonish he will own one of the biggest ISPs in the world (Starlink). Hes going to have a consumer monopoly on cube sats and a lot of the worlds bandwidth in places that dont have other options (much of the world). I thibk Tesla eas just a scam or means to an end to acconplish his other goals.. One app for everything/mega corp or whatever.
It's down 26% since he took an active role in government, and we haven't seen quarterly results showing the sales dip since.
> full sell driving in china

Full sell, indeed!
I don't think Tesla in China will amount to much, given the local competition has spun up their factories and is outproducing anyone else on the market. Just look at the numbers from last year [0], BYD was outselling Tesla 7:1, with Tesla barely doing any better than other manufacturers. "Full self-driving" won't fix that, and the competition will be offering similar features themselves.

Tesla lost their innovator / first mover advantage years ago, choosing to spend their R&D on dead ends and vanity projects like autopilot and the cybertruck while not delivering on projects that might have merit if they would actually listen to their target audience like the semi. They would've remained pretty successful had they iterated on their existing offerings, improving range, quality and reducing production costs of their existing lineup.

[0] https://autovista24.autovistagroup.com/news/which-brand-won-...
Did I read this right that it's a problem with k8s, and not nginx? Seems not very nice to have nginx in the title, when it's not the problem.
Should also point out that even if the model has Wi-Fi, it's optional. (Source: just bought one in EMEA) Even if you set it up, the app can't remotely activate it without the washer being pre-set to the "Remote Start" side of the knob.
Genuine question: I'm aware that 100% automation for pretty much all agricultural processes is likely highly impractical if not borderline infeasible. As someone inexperienced with either robotics or agriculture, are you saying that chasing the "100%" is bad or are you saying that we're already mostly past the point of diminishing returns? My uninformed opinion is that I agree with the statement "let farmers farm", but we should keep looking at robots / software / AI to find ways to let farmers farm more for less. But keeping the mindset of building tools to enable individuals to do more is essential, moreso than the idea of replacing the farmer.
You're assuming it was a business transaction. Of course not. Musk never intended to make a direct profit.

As a political transaction, if anything, Musk paid very little for what he got.
Looks beautiful. And the best part is, if you ever need to fill out a PR template with what you did or list the changes, it becomes so much easier. You don’t even have to remember exactly what was changed, it’s all right there in the commit message.
> Wang first joined Elon Musk’s X in July 2023 and has been an integral part of the company’s leadership, often serving as a conduit between Musk and the rest of the company’s engineers. More recently, he was seen internally as X’s defacto head of engineering and product

How do you get three years from the article?

It's been like 20 months.
he's a drug addict so his critical thinking skills are compromised

just look at all the batshit conspiracy theories he greenlights on X if not states directly
I don't think it implies that it's intentional.