skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fake deadlines suck. They cut against high-trust teamwork. They obscure real deadlines, including real commitments to customers.

The author writes "Once I became a manager, I finally saw why they were needed, but felt guilty about using them."

You SHOULD feel guilty. Truth matters. Trust matters.

If you're having problems with estimation and planning, then success looks like working on these areas-- not faking them.

Good tactics to try are work breakdown structures, planning poker, transparency for timelines, good project management tooling, critical chain scheduling, and above all trusting your teammates.
> Once I became a manager, I finally saw why they were needed, but felt guilty about using them.

The "why they were needed" is some guy with exponentially more university connections than sense trying to squeeze the engineering department for his bonus.

Don't lie to your employees, you snotball.
Please introduce me to the fantasy world where everything else can survive without deadlines and schedules.

As an engineer, I don't like deadlines either given how unpredictable large scale software development can be, but the fact of the matter is that most software is in service to a business, and businesses need to run on schedules. If you don't like that, you shouldn't be working in a software business, you should be working in a research think tank or academia.
I like that this article puts the onus on the individual to do the thing.

I think there are jobs that set unrealistic expectations, but I also think A LOT of Americans who never disconnected from work ... simply choose that lifestyle.

I recently had some free time and fired up my personal computer and realized that my personal profile was out of date on a lot of software and so on. But I'm on a computer a lot ... I'm on my work computer. I don't regret the work I put in on the work computer on and off hours sometimes, but it was pretty jarring to notice how "neglected" my personal computer was.
100000%. If I was put through stress to to meet a deadline that I later found out was totally arbitrary "So that I can do more work". I would instantly lose motivation. Everything is made up and the points don't matter. Got it.
I recently got it. Device and firmware is a good value. I wish device would have better plastic quality but for something that hangs on the wall it doesn’t really matter.

It was very easy to make my own server with reactjs rendering for it. Now, adding new views is super easy and customizable.
That was my main reason for installing Django Extensions absolutely everywhere I could.
Are there examples of companies that survived a massive fall in stock price but continued to thrive?

Tesla is really looking at at least 10x stock price reduction to make things more realistic again and in line with EPS of competitors.
> With no deadline, there's no urgency, and so things just don't happen.

At least for private projects, this is not true. Nearly all private projects that I do are because I hate the status quo so much that the intrinsic motivation (and thus the felt urgency) is insanely high.
If you press ^Z does it stop entirely?

And do these sorts of ideas ever get you into trouble?
And to get presidential records out of Peter Navarro’s Protonmail account requires a lawsuit:

https://apnews.com/article/lawsuits-donald-trump-peter-navar...
I was given my first real important project and asked how long it might take for me to complete it. I thought I could get it done in four months but I was scared. So I said six months.

After the project was done, I was told that management didn't believe my six month estimate and put down nine months for completion in their timeline.

I finished in three. Thinking I had three months to work on personal projects, good off, etc., I eventually gave in out of boredom and told them I was finished a few weeks later.
I've never really understood what people mean when they talk about recovery. Is this something you can feel? Or does it mean you couldn't lift the same weights the very next day or something? I lifted consistently for years, no supplements, 1RM around 65kg OHP, 115kg BP, 140kg squat, 200kg DL and apart from immediately after the gym I never felt like I needed to recover. Maybe my volume wasn't high enough? I was very much a 3x5 compound lifts then out kind of guy rather than spending hours in there doing 10 rep sets and accessories etc.
Added example files demonstrating the usage of AnuDB.
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/04/01/how-crawlers-impact-th...

This is interesting on the subject. Maybe gives you some understanding. Posted on HN a few minutes ago.
Using OneOf library or something similar instead of discriminated unions / sum types.

Trying to use a functional pipeline instead of DI.
can you generate electricity without emissions, YES.

can you burn anything in air without emissions, NO.

for me it is easy logic.

fossil cars are literally literally killing people. and live people is what capitalist needs to buy his products. so fossil cars are anti capitalistic.
> Just one more rep

It don't work like that.

The amount you can work out (at intensity) is limited by your recovery time.

Thus you take that "supplement" and can do one more rep, or go to gym extra time a week, especially if it comes to "regulated and risky" supplements, then you can do many, many more reps.
Tech just became yuppie 2.0, just like in the 80s and early 90s every sociopath looking for a large paycheck jumped into finance, in the 2010s onward it's been tech.
Speculation: If not already, it will be a data broker market for public-ish data too. What I mean by that is a separation of entities where open ai and ”legitimate” AI companies will buy data from data brokers of shadily scraped data, and throw them under the bus if shit hits the fan to protect the mothership. This makes sense from a corporate risk perspective, creating a gray area buffer of accountability. OpenAI and Anthropic already pleaded to the government to not take away their fair use hall pass, (by invoking the magic spell ”China”), but if this won’t work and publishers win they’ll need to be prepared.

At the same time, publicly and easily available quality content is a race against time. Platforms like Reddit and Xitter already lock down with aggressive anti-bot measures and fingerprinting, and the cottage industries are following. Meanwhile, public data is being polluted by content farms producing garbage at increased rate using AI.

Together this creates a perfect storm of bad incentives: (1) the data hoarders are no longer just Google and Microsoft, but probably thousands of smaller entities and (2) they’re short on time, and try to scrape more invasively and at a fast rate.
> Agree, I was also mislead by the submission title, which has been changed from the original article title: "Optical Discs From Japan – Part 6: TDK UV Guard, Fuji, LG/Sony, Maxell, CMC"

I changed the original title, to express it's testing "new old stock" of DVD-R and CD-R 25 years later, as in "writing to these DVD-R and CD-R that were made a long time ago, and kept in their box".

Quoting from the article: "The Fuji did well even after all these years – it’s likely that disc is at least 25 years old. "

I think this is more informative than the original title, because there is not much interest in testing how to burn optical media (we have figured that out by how), while checking in great detail if OLD optical media can STILL be burned is very interesting!

I was captivated by the spectrometer test to check the UV protection, as I would expect that to be the #1 problem for data longevity testing.
There is value in studying things that are "settled" science. You can reinforce or deepen the existing understanding, or uncover nuance that wasn't widely understood before.

Note that this link is not the study! The published paper makes much more specific claims.

https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/17/6/1081
What puzzles me about the reported birth of coffee is that I wouldn't expect that just eating the cherries would give you that much of a caffeine kick to be noticeable. Yes, there's a little bit of caffeine in them, but far more in the "beans" (seeds).
I fail to see the significance of the past here. Per the comment in question, the deliverables have already been delivered. The size and shape is known. All that is left to do is to get shovels in the ground (i.e. compile it).
It's almost more like singing than speaking. When I teach it to actors, I start with having them sing a speech, and then making it progressively more like spoken words. Singing naturally encourages a smooth, constant flow of air, rather than the choppy way you naturally speak.

That said, the more tired you get, the harder it is to do that. You start straining your muscles, and your vocal cords start slamming together. For singers, who do this a lot, it eventually causes scarring, and it can end your career.

I don't think I could do 25 hours. And Booker is going to be out of commission for days -- he literally shouldn't talk for a week. He may just have learned all this by intuition and example rather than training, but either way, it's gonna rip him up.
Oracle faces Texas-sized lawsuit over alleged cloud snafu and radio silence
For all of its benefits and market dominance, Tetra Brik is not really suitable to drink directly from from, but I guess we have all done it.
I have to mostly agree with you, in the sense that the jocks were no less nice than anybody else, maybe even more so. That's a pretty low bar for teenagers, though. Furthermore, the jocks by and large didn't really understand the misery of bullying, so they treated it lightly, and they did more than their share.

In my typology of bullies, there's the archetypal "unhappy at home" kind of bully who is troubled and traumatized and takes it out on other people. After-school specials will teach you that all bullies are like that, but in my experience, they were relatively rare in real life. The more common type, who accounted for almost all of the bullying, were the "protecting community standards" bullies, who were happy and popular and bullied people as a public service, sometimes even for the good of the victim. When people did something disruptive or destructive to the community, like being gay, thinking they were as good as people that they weren't as good as, or talking to a jock's girlfriend, the community needed to be repaired, and the violator needed to be put on a more healthy path in life. As budding community leaders, the jocks naturally stepped into that role, especially when physical work was required.

I managed to escape bullying in high school by being incredibly bland and repressing any inappropriate social ambitions (i.e., any at all) but I could see from cases around me that if there had been anything socially disturbing about me, a strong effort would have been made to correct the situation.
This is by far the most believable explanation I've heard.
Biome partners with Vercel to improve type inference
Biome is a formatter and linter for JavaScript, TypeScript and other web languages.

With this partnership, we aim to develop TypeScript-compatible type inference that works out of the box for use in our lint rules.
>She just told me to focus on trying to get 1 gram of high quality protein daily for pound of body weight.

You hear this a lot, but it is incredibly difficult to eat eg 175g of protein every day. That's 4 chicken breasts, every day.
There a few European countries that publish daily details cars registration numbers. Here's Tesla in Norway: https://eu-evs.com/brands/TESLA/NO/Models-Daily

Looks like delivery of their most popular model took off once they've finished retooling the production lines (March 11).

They seem to prioritize specific countries, NO being the first maybe?

The big question now is: how long would it take to compensate for the weeks with near zero deliveries at the start of Q1?
I feel that Brazil doesn't get enough love. It's my favourite Xmas movie.
I was hoping this was a parody, god I would hate to have a manager like that.
Nothing is ever as simple as a single cause, but we can be sure thst negative PR is going to impact sales, as it's basically a form of reverse advertising, and unlike most car brands, Tesla relies almost entirely on word-of-mouth rather than traditional ad campaigns. Thus, I would expect an outsized impact from the backlash.
Or, here's an idea, how about you not drive your engineers crazy by not using fake deadlines?

In the end, engineers have to deal with actual reality. Don't shove random fake stuff at us - not to motivate us, and not for any other reason.
Amazon's share price lost 90% of it's value during the 2000 Internet crash. I don't think Tesla is an Amazon, but you asked for an example.
CD audio data is indeed lossless data, and has some form of spreading the data physically (CIRC), but has limited error correction. Data CDs have more error correction data than audio CDs, so are more resilient to media degradation, scratches, etc.

When CD audio has errors, more often than not, the CD drive conceals the error -- it interpolates for this unreadable data and doesn't tell the host. Some drives do report C2 errors, but many lie about their capabilities, or have poor implementations.

Secondly, when you ask for CD audio, you can't say "give me the samples from 00:01:23.567 to 00:49:20.211". You can say "seek to 00:01:23.567; start playing; give me the audio samples over ATA as you read them". You can also say "tell me where you think you are on the disc right now". CD drives do not do this reliably, or give reliable answers. Exact Audio Copy is looking to detect this and account for it.

EAC is best used with drives which reliably report wrong locations, i.e. are always wrong by a fixed amount, and EAC can learn by how much by comparing how your drive reports known discs to what's in the AccurateRip database.... but EAC can also work with drives that are unreliably wrong as well, it just has to read the same audio data multiple times over to get a good fix on where that audio really is on the CD.

See https://www.accuraterip.com/ for more details of how CD drives lie to you and let you down
Luck or skill?

Almost certainly both. Very few ventures can succeed with only one or the other.
No? There are a lot of studies showing positive benefits:
>The primary benefit of creatine is an improvement in strength and power output during resistance exercise. Creatine is well-researched for this purpose, and its effects are quite notable for a supplement, both in the general population,[6][7][8][9] and specifically in older adults.[10][11][12] When used in conjunction with resistance exercise, creatine may modestly increase lean mass.[7][12][11][13] In trained athletes, creatine has been reported to reduce body fat and improve some measures of anaerobic exercise performance, strength, and power output.

https://examine.com/supplements/creatine/?show_conditions=tr...

And as a general rule of thumb: Don't take anything from 4chan seriously.
Too many players
Show HN: Quickpoll.cc – AI-powered event polls from natural language
Hey HN,

Three months ago, I decided to shift careers into software development and indie entrepreneurship. This is my second web app since then.

The idea came from a simple, frustrating experience: I needed to organize a meetup with multiple possible dates. I looked for a quick tool to create a poll... and finally decided to use a group chat instead...

So I built quickpoll.cc – an AI-powered tool that lets you create scheduling polls just by describing what you want in plain language. For example:

“A team dinner next week with options on Tuesday evening, Thursday lunch, or Friday afternoon.”

It instantly turns that into a shareable poll. No sign-up, no fluff, no waiting.

Highlights:
- No account needed
- Available in English, French, and Spanish
- Totally free (just a small promo for my first mobile app)
- Designed to be simple and fast
- Works well on desktop and mobile

This was mostly built to solve my own problem, but I’m hoping it can help others too. I’d love your feedback on:
- How well does the natural language processing handle your inputs?
- Any bugs or usability pain points?
- Ideas for improvements or other use cases?

Appreciate your time!

Br.
Alessandro
Did they remake Exile too?
Show HN: You Don't Have Time Not to Test
For myself, after switching to vegan food, taking a creatine supplement had very noticeably improved the endurance for things like weight lifting or short sprints at maximum speed.

However, that has just restored the level of performance from when eating non-vegan food.

The effects of creatine should vary both between humans, because they may have different capacities for internal creatine synthesis, and depending on the kind of food that they eat, i.e. whether it is naturally rich in creatine, or not.
So click on another story. What everyone else is allowed to read or talk about shouldn’t be held hostage to the personal tastes of a tiny handful of anonymous people.
That reminds me of a presentation the CEO of one of my former employers gave. Somebody asked why we weren't expanding into Europe and he said because it's harder to fire people there.
In 2025, how much does it still make sense to go the Django way vs FastAPI ?
Looking for well founded opinions. Not controversy.
We’re probably used to higher levels of caffeine now, but if we weren’t, maybe chewing the berries would give a noticeable boost.

Kinda like ok you can eat a poppy but then there’s a reason morphine exists. (Sorry for the stupid analogy ;)
Tangentially: Belgium's interregional environment agency (irceline) publishes very detailed information on our (awful) air quality: https://irceline.be/en
My understanding is that everyone wants to be first in the AI race, so they throw all the rules everyone else agreed on overboard.
This makes no sense at all. The business needs to make money to pay you. Your time is the development cost of the software. It is completely reasonable and rational for a company to say, "This is valuable to us if it can be built in three weeks, but if it takes longer, we don't want it." Because three weeks of paying your team costs a certain amount of money, and a cost higher than that puts the value of the work underwater.

If you cannot forecast whether it can be built in three weeks and then deliver against that forecast, you aren't doing your job.

> Wasn't agile created to solve this BS?

Agile sets regular deadlines for shipping to customers, that is literally the core idea. Instead of one big deadline 6 months from now, you have a small deadline every two weeks for the next 6 months. It's still a deadline.
Search engines link to websites. They want the websites up, so its worth a little extra work to avoid harming them. LLMs seek to replace the websites.

Search engine crawlers are more mature and better written.

I suspect a lot of LLM crawling an development is done under time pressure to get things done while the investors money is still coming in to fund it. DO stuff in a hurry, and it will be less competently done.
in one of the startreck movies is a sceen with "Scotty" having improbably survived into the future durring a crash by suspending himself in the "data buffers" of a transprorter, where he gives advice to a young engineer, on how to manage the expectations of his comanding officers
"ach Captain she's gona blow"
You said: "This kind of language is why these threads get flagged. "

But you don't know that, so the claim is projection. As a flagger, you only know why you flagged, but don't know why anyone else flagged. There are many alternative reasons any given story, political or otherwise, could be flagged. People can be engaging in tribalism as their reason for flagging. What's worse: engaging in discussion that is along tribal lines, or hiding discussion for tribal reasons? Which does more damage to this community?

Since we can't know why a given story is flagged, a better discussion might be: given that many people in the community want to discuss a topic despite a flag, how can HN better support those community members?

We have one signal: a low-fidelity binary flag we can't know the reason for and how many people voted for it; and another signal: the discussion, a high fidelity signal we can look into and see all kinds of useful discourse. So clearly your claim that these topics are not wanted on HN is false, given the community involvement in these topics.

Maybe there is some tribalism, but generally it's not at all like reddit, and I find those discussion insightful. Maybe you don't, and that's fine. But why does that mean you get veto over the many people who want to have those discussions here?

Why can't we support those discussions, that again people here want to have, in a way that doesn't involve treating the topic as verboten? Because you keep saying these topics miss the HN mark, yet the community is continually interested in these topics.

So maybe it's the guidelines miss the mark and need updating to meet the community where it's at.
So I guess that any article from the Guardian is automatically flagged, no matter the subject?
Name: Eli Sennesh
Location: Nashville, TN, New York, NY, or Boston, MA
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: To New York or Boston yes, to other places maybe
Technologies: PyTorch, Pyro, Jax, Numpyro, deep probabilistic programming, Haskell, C, firmware and embedded systems, etc etc
Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eli-sennesh-412126b/
Email: <first name><last name> @gmail.com

Basically I'm something like a cognitive scientist with deep learning skills. Reach out about what you might be interested in working on!
I've liked it so far. It is what the start menu search SHOULD be!
You need to step up your goof-off game.
Yeah, it's super weird that having been on the other side they don't see the normal agile-ish process as getting you all the benefits of fake deadlines with buy-in from the developer's themselves. We planned out the work, quantized it, estimated the time for each portion, and assigned them. If someone consistently isn't completing cards in the expected time and doesn't have good reason then you have a convo with them.

Ya know, basic manager stuff.
Something I often think that politically naive people over-index on is the ability to bully people when you have no leverage. I see comments on the left all the time about this “why doesn’t Biden just pull Joe Manchin into his office and threaten him! Because Joe Manchin would come out of the office, tell his voters Joe Biden threatened him and he told him to f* off, and gain like 100k new voters!

It’s wild to maybe watch our president make the same mistake. This conservative attitude of throwing bout weight around in the world, leading through strength, not realizing everyone has other options.

In a weird way, I think some of this might be healthy for the world? To create a more anti fragile world order? But it’s not great for us.
I think parsing the config in multiple target langs is definitely a counter-example where having a type system in the config lang can be useful as a lowest common denominator that you then conform all the parsers too
Wish there was a "vouch" option for when things that the US political right feels is an attack, despite it just being facts and worthy of discussion in an economic sector that is heavily connected with immigration, is flagged.
The real horror is "1d9" + 1 = 2, as does PHP: https://3v4l.org/Dn6Sm
People thought "canned music" (aka prerecorded music) would be the death of music, and art in general

>The time is coming fast when the only living thing around a motion picture house will be the person who sells you your ticket. Everything else will be mechanical. Canned drama, canned music, canned vaudeville. We think the public will tire of mechanical music and will want the real thing. We are not against scientific development of any kind, but it must not come at the expense of art. We are not opposing industrial progress. We are not even opposing mechanical music except where it is used as a profiteering instrument for artistic debasement.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/musicians-wage-war-ag...