skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm, well I don't know. Not everyone like the same kind of shiny stuff. And even if you like some kind of shiny, sometime a huge load of it is just too much of it. Even the most bling bling people will die if you really put them under a metal mountain of gold.

You might think smart people will better well balance than not the poison in their drug to keep their junky customer base just afloat so business have a perennial flow of serfs. But even smart people are humans and make errors. And even if they plan with error rate in mind, they can be overthrown by one of their many far more stupid rivals. The number of mindless wannabe will always largely exceeds the anticipation power of the sharpest minds.
Do the waterways support ship freight anymore? We'd need to redevelop the Great Lakes and riverways I think.
Seems like a whole new market is opening for people looking to game the hiring process. In my short few years being involved in interviewing, I've seen 1) obvious AI use off screen/a second person feeding answers 2) Person A showing up for the interview process and Person B showing up after being hired 3) candidates covering their lips moving with a large headset mic and someone else speaking for them.

Wild
Doesn't running ads on my computer without consent fall under 1a?
I think if I were hiring remotely right now I’d look to create exercises that could be done “open book” using AI, but that I’d validated against current models as something they don’t do very well on their own. There are still tons of areas where the training data is thinner or very outdated, and there’s plenty of signal in seeing whether someone can work through that on their own and fix the things the LLM does wrong, or if they’ve entirely outsourced their problem solving ability.
Unlocking of devices is distinctly different than “write your password on a slip of paper”. Even if they shred the paper, the room for sure has CCTV video recordings so they’ll have a copy there as well.
I use tor and see captchas everywhere, some sites give me 403 and Youtube reguraly blocks the video and tells me to prove that I am not a bot by signing in (which I assume will block the Google Account as well). And in some cases any page on Youtube gives me 403 (and I don't even use an adblocker).
Is it the biggest wildlife crossing? This one [1] is 50x150 meters. Granted, it's in flat land so it's not covered with such a thick layer of soil.

[1] https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/natuurbrug-zanderij-crai...
I don’t think this was a serious comment
That’s not what the person you’re replying to said
I think you are underestimating the context, we all stand on shoulders of giants. Let's think what would happen if kid Einstein, at the young age of 5, was marooned on an island and recovered 30 years later. Will he have any deep insights to dazzle us with? I don't think he would.
It's not for leetcode. It's for people who need AI to help them solve FizzBuzz, because they are struggling. (Also, pro tip: AI won't help you here anyways.)
> In 2024, California boasted 178,500 total EV ports compared to around 120,000 estimated gas nozzles

If 2024 was when they crossed that threshold, that feels like a huge jump in EV chargers (almost 50%) in a single year.

I feel like they maybe crossed that threshold prior to 2024?

EDIT: it addresses this:

> Part of the dramatic increase in the statewide tally is due to new data sources that track operational chargers, though there has also been a large increase in new chargers installed, the agency said. Roughly 73,500 chargers were incorporated into the state’s data in 2024, but only approximately 38,000 of those were newly installed chargers.

So it did, indeed, cross the threshold prior to 2024, they just didn’t have the data.
And you can say the same for employers that exploit their workers. No one is the villain in their own story.
Centralised platforms have strong economic incentives to invade privacy.

Its not really about FOSS vs proprietary. FOSS is better because it can be verified, but, for example, Whatsapp is better than a FOSS platform that is not E2EE and not decentralised.

Ideally we would use decentralised, E2EE encrypted FOSS.

Governments also like centralised platforms because they enable surveillance.
> if you agree to buy more American goods

What goods are you expecting foreigners will buy more of?

The points you've made make sense to me in a world where USA has a lot of domestic production of tangible goods. But it doesn't. USA primarily produces services - nearly 80% of GDP is service based.
if you wanna find out who sampled who theres great sites where people collect this info (whosampled)
The "calculations" of trade deficits not including services (which America became a services economy) is a bold choice. Ie, the iPhone might be buying from China, but if you purchase an iTunes or iCloud subscription.

It's completely possible that America produces luxury goods (ie John Deere tractors, Ford sprinter vans, airplanes) that can only have so much demand to smaller nations.
Can you share a link to your web server please?

I'm finding it hard to make sense of your comment: I can't reconcile some of the stuff you're saying. My gut feeling is you're either ridiculously smart, so smart that defining and implementing a security rules engine for a web server is something genuinely trivial for you, and the world has a lot to learn from you. Or, you're really, really not aware of how much you don't know, so much so that you're going to end up doing something stupid/dangerous without realising.

Either way, an example of a supposedly fast web server written by you should clear it up pretty quickly.

Sorry, because this feels a little rude, and I don't mean it to be, but you're contradicting quite a lot of widely held common sense and best practise in a very blasé way, and I think that makes the burden of proof a little higher than normal.
You could still do it as a userland feature and implement add/sub/mult/div as methods on the type.
92+ Year old Galapagos Turtle gives birth
This is good news considering that the Galapagos Turtle is endangered. The mom has been in the Philadelphia Zoo since 1932 and has never had offspring till now. Here's to wishing the children a long and healthy life and many children.
Great, I cant wait to go back to onsite interviews where I have to spend an entire day (at least) getting to some random office and sitting in an uncomfortable chair to do my on-sites
I’ve always been mildly curious about this. When you say “looked through my files” what exactly do you mean? They opened finder and scrolled through the standard folders like downloads, documents, pictures, etc?
Does “in-person” mean flying in the candidate, and performing the interview on-site?

Does “100% of their loops” mean everything after the initial contact?

I suspect smaller companies could find this challenging.

I’m old enough to remember when independent recruiters acted almost like “talent agents,” with large payouts.

This encouraged them to curate a “personal brand,” and they would often do a lot of the vetting, themselves.

I believe that executive recruiters still operate that way, but engineering recruiters seem to have sharply declined, since those days.
I couldn't agree more. LLMs are legitimate tools and, ideally, I want to see how effective a candidate is in using their available tools to solve complex problems.

The service on offer here is different. It's providing a means to use LLMs to fake your way through a technical interview.

Showing that you can use LLMs to quickly and correctly solve problems is a good skill to have. Offering up a solution from an LLM as your own work without acknowledging how you got there is just misrepresentation... or to put it another way is just lying. Maybe fake your degrees and experience while you're at it, right?

At least in the long run, many that need these tools to get in will be found out once they start having to solve real problems on the job. Just a shame about other, more qualified people being turned away. Of course if the LLM was sufficient enough on its own, perhaps a real software developer was never required to begin with.
Reminiscent of the dramatic release of a Syrian prisoner reported on CNN that was determined to be fake.

“CNN is acknowledging that a gripping story it aired last week depicting a Syrian man being let free from a Damascus prison after the fall of dictator Bashar Assad’s regime was not what it seemed.”

https://apnews.com/article/syria-prisoner-clarissa-ward-fake...
The problem with people that think they're too smart is that they usually lack theory of mind

This crap is transparent. A person actually solving the problem won't type that fast or not think silently about it. And even better, the LLMs usually get stuck in a snag on some of the problems, or they write weird snippets

(though this might bring down the number of interviewers asking for leetcode)
My approach to technical interviews is just to talk shop with the candidate for an hour.

Throughout the conversation, we mostly stay light and touch on a lot of different topics. But every so often, I’ll drill in and start discussing some random topic at depth. If you drill in just 2-3 times throughout the interview, you get a pretty clear picture of the candidates average depth of knowledge.

Not only is this LLM proof, but you also get a sense of their opinions, their interests, their passion, etc.
Incentives for what, exactly? Have more followers, which by itself only makes one feel good through validation of others? Validation other platforms that don't have followers still manage to achieve?
The equivalent wattage of a gas pump is something like 1-2 megawatts, based on energy transfer per time. (Internalizing this fact is important for understanding why gasoline is hard to displace!)
Strangely this diversity within Europe does not seem to be a problem for companies active in armaments, cars and food supplies.
You should do this on CGNAT IP for maximum effect. I want to watch cloud flare ban an entire userbase.
The industry seems so divided on AI right now.

We have interviews where we aren't allowing the use of it (yet interviewees are using stealth AIs to cheat). At the same time, I am also hearing of organizations mandating the use of it, ie: "20% of the code committed needs to be generated". There's probably a set of orgs that exist that do not allow the use of AI in coding interviews, yet practically mandate the use of AI in day-to-day work!

We are at an inflection point I think, but my guess is AI is going to win out soon enough.
Being alone has its benefits − a psychologist on the 'loneliness epidemic'
Don't forget about implementing quicksort on a whiteboard.
It helps to look at where & why the author has settled: thanks to tech like Zoom (that really came into its own around Covid) one can be physically settled in a place and also participate in global markets and global conversations.

Good for fomo and good for anyone looking to design a life; why not live in a place that enriches your body! Wherever you live, you can now find work that connects and enriches your mind. Your designed life provides so much of what you seek from travel but also community: getting to say hello to the same people each day for years.
On-site and leetcode aren't mutually exclusive. We'll simply go back to in-person leetcode questions which will be equally shit.
This is true, a lot of progress can still happen based on simulation and synthetic data. But I am considering the long term game. In the long term we can't substitute simulation to reality. We can't even predict if a 3-body system will eventually eject an object, or if a piece of code will halt for all possible inputs. Physical systems implementing Turing machines are undecidable. Even fluid flows. The core problem is that recursive processes create an knowledge gap, and we can't cross that gap unless we walk the full recursion, there is no way to predict the outcome from outside. The real world is such an undecidable recursive process. AI can still make progress, but not at exponentially speed decoupled from the real world and not in isolation.
Money; the same reason everyone in VC land does anything.
Hmm, my wife likes to swim, I better start calling her my fish.

Whales need to take breaths on the surface, unlike fish, which can stay underwater basically indefinitely. Without that difference, whaling would be a lot more complicated, if not outright impossible, especially in the 19th century - you just can't catch a huge solitary animal in an ocean on purpose if it doesn't have to surface from time to time. Or only with sheer luck.

Even the ancient whalers were aware of the fact that whales need to breathe, and thus, at the very least, could say "well, these are some rather special fish, you know".
Humans are addicted to narrative. Deep, deep down. It’s the single best tool for making compelling propaganda.
Just ask all the techbros on HN who earn shitloads more than what's possible in other countries
To my knowledge there was a long lockout period in CUC Sierra acquisition. When Sierra employees were finally able to sell their CUC stock, it had already tanked as the massive fraud was exposed.

(Spoiler for Part II of this article, I guess!)
Yeah, and their response is also not related to the topic at hand. We are not arguing about moving away from US-controlled platforms because we are measuring what is "better". We are talking about leaving US-owned platforms in order to have a sovereign alternative.
How? I rather think that it uses a borrow checker with ownership and borrowing rules.
Great for whom? Travel agents?
Maybe we should enumerate the types of emergencies it applies to so there’s a limit beyond a gentleman’s agreement.
Some people here seem to believe this will make leetcode obsolete. I'm afraid it will just make cheatting a status quo - if everyone else aces the coding part of the interview because of some AI tool, then you are at a severe disadvantage if you try to play by the rules. From the perspective of the hiring manager it'll look like the coding questions are too easy, since everyone gets them right, except that one experienced person for some reason.
leetcode is a bastard. I fucking hate it with a passion.

Its almost useless as a way to learn how to be a better coder, as most of the "fastest" answers are unreadable.

But if you are using it as a basis for interviews, you are more likely to bump into someone who has trained on that particular question.

I'm not sure what the answer is, as other said, pair programming is kinda the answer. Maybe debugging something in your code base.
> And now they can do fizz buzz with AI, Cursor, Copilot, etc.

No, they can't. These are the people who don't know the difference between a variable and a function call or what a module is. (90 percent of applicants.)

AI can't help them here. Even if they can copy-paste an AI response they still don't have the vocabulary to explain what they're copy-pasting even in most basic terms.
You are likely correct.

> Of the 73,537 chargers added to the data set in 2024, 37,983 new chargers were installed in 2024. The remaining 35,554 chargers were installed before 2024 and identified through new data sources.
The Future of Redwood Launches Today
It appears that RedwoodJS as we know it is being wound down. I've never used Redwood JS but I've watched it from a distance as it was (to my knowledge) striving to be a proper fullstack JS framework akin to rails, which is a noble pursuit. Seems like they had some challenges getting traction and supporting React Server Components and now they're pivoting to a new project which revolves around cloudflare workers.
When I think of the hundreds of hours I’ve devoted to learning how to solve leetcode problems that could’ve otherwise been spent on learning tools, technologies, and architecture patterns that would be useful for my actual job, I genuinely feel a deep, deep sorrow.
Globalization Is Collapsing. Brace Yourselves
does it? i haven't noticed. how about crossing the border at 3am with young kids and lots of luggage? once you have children the time of zero responsibilities is gone. at least until they are all grown up. i do enjoy a nice hotel only on business trips, because someone else is paying for it...
If you don't want install a binary I found way cheaper option for an interview assistant:
https://interview.sh
This seems perfect for streaming while vibe coding before an audience like Twitch or maybe sharing screen in a classroom setting.
If your main machine, your money-making linux computer, were infected with a very sophisticated rootkit and/or bootkit, how would you go about ridding your device of it?

Boot off Thumb or iPXE and flash the BIOS after confirming with the vendor in writing this is how they would do it for this particular bootkit. If this is not sufficient replace the BIOS chip. If that is not an option write off the server and accept the losses and lessons learned. Implement better security. File lawsuits against the vendor if the server came with the bootkit.
> 1. Crimea, Donetsk People's Republic, Lugansk People's Republic, Kherson Oblast, Zaporozhskaya Oblast are now parts of Russia.

Not factually, nor legally.
That’s fascinating. I always figured that real estate hyperinflation just drove all the arts and cool counterculture stuff away.

The upper Midwest had a lot of culture too. Disco (Chicago was a big place for that), Motown (named after Detroit), techno (also Detroit), industrial (Cleveland / Akron), and house music (Chicago and Detroit) all either came from or had large contributions from what is now called the rust belt.

That whole region used to be solidly Democratic. It drifted a bit R in the 90s and 2000s until Trump flipped it with one word: tariffs. Another quote I remember from a guy in Michigan in 2016: "when Trump started talking about trade... I'd die for this man. I don't care what else he does."

Different people have different reasons for supporting a politician, but for these people it's... I'm not even sure it's hope at this point. For some of them it's revenge. They feel lied to and betrayed.

I guess that's part pretty different from the old Cali weed industry. Nobody promised them anything. For these people the Democrats told them NAFTA would bring jobs.
How did you know he used tools like this one? You sit him down and interrogate him? Or did they own up to it? What was the result? Did you cut them loose?
This only results in that technical interviews won't be done remote or as homework in the future. Even before covid i wouldn't have recommended this remote interview approach. The by far best results in interviewing were a technical talk-through over their past experiences or some short pair-developer task (mob programming or refinement) were they can use whatever tool they want if they lack experience to talk about - i wanna see how they tackle real problems by asking good questions. Hardly to fake even with
advanced ai tools if the interviewer is a very experienced engineer.
It’s wild that Chinese automakers are getting to equivalent charging rates.
What do you mean with "as accessible"?

All the link I receive hosted by them will only show door kind of NDA or whatever you call a "click here to mindlessly accept all our ridiculous terms".
Web Application Security in Web3: SSRF and IDOR
Is the wikipedia page a about eg. Coca Cola an ad?
At home charging complicates the issue, and you don’t need a level 2 charger at home here. ~10 hours per day from a wall outlet and 3miles/kWh ~= 15k miles per year which is all most people drive.
Underground subways heat up the rock so much they have to add cooling eventually.
> It would have been a far better language.

I like Tcl and I think it has some very admirable traits. That being said, I don't even want to picture the hellscape of an ecosystem that would have flourished if it became the language of the web. JS was the better timeline I will admit begrudgingly, and that includes the Scheme timeline as well.
Leetcode interviews only became popular because FAANG needed a somewhat objective way to weed out large quantities of applicants in an initial round. In this context, and as part of a broader interview process, it somewhat makes sense.

But then of course, since FAANG did it, everyone else jumped on the leetcode bandwagon and started asking ridiculous DSA-exam-type questions that had nothing to do with their actual work, even if they had the capacity to conduct proper interviews for their candidate volumes.
Pretty much every company I've applied to or worked at commits both legal and moral fraud against its employees and applicants, on an industrial scale. They've also created a broken interview process that punishes honesty and forces applicants to find creative solutions. So personally I see no moral fraud here.
Why...? As if "vibe coding" wasn't useless garbage to begin with...
> Which is actually part of his strategy. You need fools that commit outrageous claims, threats and actions. Then he can play the good cop when it makes sense and just fire the fool. That is basically applied game theory on a meta- and psychological level.

Firings that support this: Flynn, McCabe, Esper, Bolton

Firings that support Trump’s Razor: Comey, Sessions, Tillerson, Nielsen, Krebs

“The dumbest explanation is often the correct one.” tells us that the increase in information from those moves is uselessly low for both him and us. Nevertheless, if Trump is able to influence the rules, the accumulation of side effects of high strategic value gives his advisers something to work with.
I'm seeing a lot of justification for this tool (on the tool's page and in the comments here) based on the "LeetCode is bad, companies shouldn't test for orthogonal skills".

While I agree with that sentence broadly, tools like this undermine the process even for non-orthogonal skills. For instance, we administer System Design interviews and Practical Coding interviews (usually, we give the candidate a code base and ask them to make a modification to it)—things that are not LeetCode and are pretty relevant to day-to-day work. We actually let candidates use AI, as long as they show how they're using it. Tools like still undermine our process even for those types of interviews.

I'm a realist and understand that tools like this are inevitable. But I don't think they're ethical, and I think the "Fuck Leetcode" argument justifies their existence. In general, trickery is wrong (whether it's companies doing it, or candidates).
> The problem is that our industry clings to this bizarre ritual where we test for skills that are completely orthogonal to the actual job.

I agree. And it's not a good sign for the industry when engineers have to spend months working up to being good at answering these questions just to get the job.
I’d be pleased if I could refuel in a minute or two. It feels more like ten to fifteen by the time I queue for the pump and queue to pay.
I imagine a lot days they say very little, then maybe they go out with friends or have a presentation or something and speak 10000+ words. My life is pretty similar.
By this do you mean that Chinese automakers are getting close to a charging rate that would be equivalent to the time it takes to pump gasoline for the equivalent energy? If so, do you have any sources on that?
And the story is in fact largely true. Daisey is a storyteller, not a journalist, and TAL is not a news program.

The lesson for journalists is that this isn't journalism, and the first clue is that it didn't come from a journalistic source. Listeners should have found that suspicious from the get-go... and so should Glass.

TAL screwed up. And the worst part is it fits a narrative in which NPR is a propaganda source, which is eagerly gobbled up by people who themselves are being uncritical.
If the problems are tailored to the role and the job requirements can be completed using AI, isn’t this sort of the correct outcome?

If you have job requirements that extend beyond “trivially completable with AI” ask questions that aren’t trivially completable with AI.