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Ask HN: What Do LLMs Learn 2 by iamflimflam1 | 7 comments on Hacker News. I've been reading the various GPT papers. I'm struggling to understand what these models are actually learning. They can be applied to all sorts of problems, but what fundamental things are beng encoded in the model?

Ask HN: Why does ChatGPT sound like every BS paper you wrote in college? 3 by tamaharbor | 2 comments on Hacker News.

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Ask HN: Are you anxious about AI existential risk? 9 by arisAlexis | 12 comments on Hacker News. I find myself thinking more and more about it. I read the book Superintelligence back in 2020 and that seemed a bit far in the future. I am now in the process of realizing we are running a massive risk very soon and things are getting hotter every day. Planning and other stuff become more stoic exercises than anything else. I would also like to put an extra data point. The ex-CEO of the current medium we are discussing has explicitly talked about the real possibility that AI kills us all.

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Ask HN: Impact of recent AI technology on low level programming 3 by hnthrowaway0328 | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hi experts, By saying low level programming I most mean: - Embedded software - Reverse engineering - OS kernel, driver dev - Complier dev - etc. that is low level in common sense (e.g. Hobbyist APPLE ][ dev) What kind of impact recent AI tech do you think will have on those fields? I'm thinking maybe it's going to help a lot with boilerplate code and maybe also help reverse engineering (I think we already have a lot of automation in this field). What others are in your mind?

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Google just shut down our $1M business 13 by jasonwen | 8 comments on Hacker News. We have just received an email from Google that we still violate their Google policies and they will not reinstate our account. This is not a post to get sympathy but rather a story why it was closed and how HN played a role in this. I’ve been browsing HN for a decade now and somewhere I read on HN that people lose their online account and everything associated with their account. This has stuck with me and at one point I thought to create a second Google ads account to make sure our main Google ads account was able to keep running if the other account somehow received a violation. Just a pure spread-your-risks decision. After we decided to move into Germany with our eco-friendly brand, I used the second Google ads account to create German ads on a new Shopify hosted .de domain. The ads would target by geo location, consumers in Germany, so that there would be no overlap with our main market. After a

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Ask HN: Who is working on WebGPT / Copilot for Google search? 2 by tikkun | 1 comments on Hacker News. Often when I look into things, I'll do some google searching (with 'reddit' appended to the end of the search, of course), read a bunch of reddit posts, look at which comments and posts seem legit, combine that into an assessment of what product I want to use (if it's a product research question) or what the answer is (if it's a general question). This seems pretty possible with a GPT powered tool, now. You could ask it a question, it then performs a bunch of searches, checks the results, assesses the results, and puts the most relevant stuff into a one page report. I'm guessing a few HNers are working on this. Who is working on it, and does anyone have a demo we can play with?

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Ask HN: Best Practices for storing customer secrets? 3 by _mme | 2 comments on Hacker News. For example, when making a SaaS application, what are the best practices for storing a customer secret, such as an API key? Are there any security measures that can be implemented in case an attacker gains access to the database?

Ask HN: Are people still using Pascal in 2023? 5 by p5v | 0 comments on Hacker News. Pascal, and later on Delphi, was what introduced me to programming 20-something years ago. As with most folks in our generation, I quickly discovered other options, more suitable for that relatively fresh thing called the Web. So, i generally considered Pascal a dead language. I was surprised to find out the other day that Delphi is not only alive, but thriving in its own way. Its community is as strong and as fervent about using it as it was back then. Even on the open-source front, there is an alternative IDE called Lazarus that offers a similar developer experience at no cost. This got me curious. Who is still using Pascal/Delphi in 2023 and what for? Has it matured beyond the desktop app? Has it transitioned into the cloud-native era?

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Ask HN: What do you call technical debt, but for your career? 3 by asasidh | 2 comments on Hacker News. How do you overcome it?

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Ask HN: What are the BEST designed SaaS apps 3 by zabana | 1 comments on Hacker News.

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Ask HN: Is Windows That Bad? 8 by freetonik | 7 comments on Hacker News. I need to replace my old MacBook, and I am curious to try something new. Modern thinkpads look pretty attractive, and it’ll be nice to have an option to install Linux (can’t wait for full support for Linux on arm macs). My use case is simple: web programming and general computing. The last time I owned a non-Apple computer was around 2011, and Windows 7 was pretty good for everything I needed. Nowadays, I read a lot of criticisms about Windows 10 and 11, and simultaneously some praise of the Linux subsystem. It’s very hard to understand whether Windows is really that bad? Would be curious to hear some positives, or perhaps successful “Mac-to-windows” transition stories.

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Ask HN: Does your company ban GitHub Copilot? 5 by pqn | 1 comments on Hacker News. Many of my friends are telling me their companies have banned Copilot since it sends sensitive data externally to GitHub, even in their enterprise offering. Have you all heard of which companies have bans, for this or other reasons? Any interesting conversations or internal discussions talking about it?

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Ask HN: Tips for Transitioning into the Music Industry? 2 by aecorredor | 3 comments on Hacker News. Looking for tips from anybody here who’s done it already. What can one expect? Is it profitable enough? EDIT: to be clear, I mean making a transition while leveraging software.

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Tell HN: Oops Upwork did it again 4 by natt_coppola | 0 comments on Hacker News. I've read some horror stories like this, but never thought that this would happen to me. Upwork, out of the blue, suspended my account, oh, and my payments are lost like tears in the rain. This past Friday Upwork informed me that the were some "account overlapings" with an specific client, I provided Id's, answered questions, even provided long ass screens recordings of the conversations with this client, so they could check how much of a boring illustator I am. Still they've decided that I was doing something shady and suspended my account with no further explanation ): I guess I'm posting this to get it off my chest, but also to warn others as to how capricious and arbitrary these platforms can be.

What's the worst codebase you've ever worked on? 3 by zoozla | 5 comments on Hacker News. You know the kind I'm talking about. A huge lumping monolith of spaghetti with barely any tests, class hierarchies a mile deep, and a list of dependencies that can make a grown man weep. Written by a self proclaimed "genius" 15 years ago with junior devs patching features on top of it since. What's your story? How did you deal with that mess? Are you still on that team?

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Ask HN: Why is hiring so dehumanized, and what can be done? 10 by elevanation | 3 comments on Hacker News. As technology permeates the world more and more, the hiring process is becoming more dehumanized, IMHO. What can we do as an industry, to make hiring more efficient for everyone? Some of the pain points I observe are: 1. Applicants must wade through large volumes of job postings, which are often poorly written, and frequently lacking key information which is important to the applicant. 2. Employers are overwhelmed with large numbers of applicants, most of whom don't meet the requested minimum requirements. 3. Employers are then too overwhelmed to reply to all the applicants. 4. Applicants are then annoyed with the lack of replies. 5. By the time an employer finds a potential match, the applicant may be difficult to reach, or is no longer interested. 6. By the time an applicant hears back from an employer, they are disappointed in the quality of the response, and already hav

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Ask HN: Would a DB of startup tech stacks be valuable to you? 4 by lsj0627 | 1 comments on Hacker News. I'm imagining the user would be a Hiring Manager or Recruiter looking for Engineers. If they need Ruby Engineers with startup experience, they click the Ruby box from a tech drop-down list and the search will retrieve the startups that also use it. Ideally, you'd be able to sort by geographical area, founding year, latest funding phase, number of employees (e.g. 50-200), and more. I would also aim for matching the right area of the stack - for example, the option to pick Python AND Backend, so you don't end up with startups using Python only for Data Science/ML work. Note: I did try the StackShare API and there is no filtering feature. So if you purchase the 1,000-company plan, you have no control over what they send you. It'll be a randomly generated list of 1,000 companies that use the technology you requested, a hodgepodge of companies all around the world, big

Ask HN: Has the hype around ChatGPT died down yet? Did Bing miss the boat? 4 by sharemywin | 1 comments on Hacker News.

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Ask HN: Does anyone else feel like they're just waiting for the axe to fall? 9 by ramesh31 | 3 comments on Hacker News. Seems like team morale is at an all time low. Most people are just phoning it in at this point. Our business is doing great, but I guess that's not enough to maintain job security anymore. Feels like Q1 the execs are just waiting for annuals to come in to make their list, as there's been total radio silence since the holidays. I fully expect to be laid off in the next 2-3 months.

Ask HN: How to get good at analyzing and predicting technology/startup trends? 4 by MikeLumos | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: How do you background check a startup as an employee? 4 by tr0waway | 2 comments on Hacker News. Got a job offer from a startup. The job itself and pay are really attractive. A friend knows one of the founders and vouched for them. However... their main investor has some really red flag BS about NFTs on their website that makes me hesitant to leave my FAANG job. Any advice on how to background check a startup/VC firm?

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Ask HN: Is There On-Call in ML? 3 by lkyuchukov | 2 comments on Hacker News. Are ML engineers expected to be on-call? If so, what would you get paged about ?

Ask HN: How fast can you hit all 34M items in Hacker News Firebase API? 2 by marsupialtail_2 | 0 comments on Hacker News. This could be a nice benchmark for a http client. I wonder if anybody with experience with reqwest in Rust could chime in. Currently using aiohttp I can get around 1k requests/s from the Hacker News API, which means it will take around 9 hours to get all the items....

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Ask HN: Sam Altman, things that will be retain value post AI 3 by monkeyonethe | 3 comments on Hacker News. Sam Altman: https://youtu.be/WHoWGNQRXb0?t=924 "Marginal cost of inteligency and marginal cost of energy are going to trend rapidly towards zero, and those are the major inputs into the costs of everything else except things we want to be expensive like status goods wtvr..." What is Sam referring to by "status goods", like porches and LVMH bags? Is art going to be a part of the small amount of things that retain value? Anyone have thoughts on the subject?

Ask HN: Is there a reason every language comes with it's own package manager? 5 by kakadu | 4 comments on Hacker News. wheels, gems, wars etc Why could't PIP just be an apt-extension?

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Ask HN: Why are popups still being used today? 5 by revskill | 3 comments on Hacker News. I have a question (actually a confusion), that my habit is always block a website (means hardly i'll revisit it again in future) if it has popups for marketing purposes. Does that strategy actually work for them ? I might consider myself in minority here. Just ask for some curiosity facts.

Tell HN: There are GPT-based bots on HN commenting sophisticated nonsense 3 by tomthe | 0 comments on Hacker News. I read this comment two hours ago: https://ift.tt/fjXP2Y5 from a first glance, it is just a comment which casually recommends some links. But none of the links really work! I looked through the comment history, which is unsuspicious on a quick glance... but none of the links work! And some comments are also bogus. This is clearly the work of some large language model. But why? Maybe it is just a "funny" weekend project, but it clearly crosses an ethical line (not into deeply illegal, but into deeply ...not nice?!).

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Ask HN: Has ChatGPT gotten worse at coding for anyone else? 6 by Michelangelo11 | 2 comments on Hacker News. I used it for coding in Python, often with the python-docx library, about six weeks ago, and it was superb. It gave me exactly what I wanted, which is no mean feat for a semi-obscure little library, and I was delighted. Then I tried it again a few weeks ago and it did worse than before, but I thought maybe it was just bad luck. Using it today, though, it seemed really really bad and it messed up some very basic Python features, like the walrus operator -- it got so bad that I gave up on it and went back to google and stack overflow. The performance drop is so steep that I can only imagine they crippled the model, probably to cope with the explosion in demand. Has anyone else seen the same thing?

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Ask HN: AWS account suspended, able to access via keys with no console signin 2 by arthurcolle | 0 comments on Hacker News. I have my entire life backed up in AWS, but apparently my account has been suspended for 3 months? Not sure how this is possible, but when I tried to contact support, I am told I must access support after signing in. There must be some way to get my account reinstated. I have buckets that I've had backed up for literally a decade and losing this would be unbelievable. I am trying to backup what I can but was wondering if anyone knows someone that can look into this at AWS? I tried contacting support but was greeted with this message: "Hello there, Greetings from AWS! AWS account security policies don't permit us to discuss account-specific information unless you're signed into the account you're asking about. For your sign-in credentials, use the email address that's associated with the AWS account that you'd like to discuss. Then c

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Ask HN: How Long Does a Deployment Take at Your Company 3 by devtailz | 0 comments on Hacker News. I'm curious to hear what kinds of deployment times everyone works with and what system they are running on. I would guess most have the same times for a staging environment vs. production, but if those are different please specify. For example, I have a Next.js project currently deployed via Vercel and it's about 40-60 seconds before becoming available. I have heard stories of several minutes to deploy and would love to hear what kind of spread there is.

Ask HN: Is data science a dying profession? 3 by usgroup | 0 comments on Hacker News.

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Ask HN: Does wearing a tight undershirt make you feel fat and hence eat less? 3 by amichail | 3 comments on Hacker News. Do you think it would have that effect?

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Ask HN: How do AI chatbots develop personalities? 2 by DidISayTooMuch | 3 comments on Hacker News. If it's all just tensors, matrices, and math behind them, then how do these chatbots have distinct personalities? One possible explanation is that the personality is just an emergent phenomenon. But still, it seems distinct and very human like. Not something random. Could it be that Bing's Sydney personality is just because someone fed it a large data of text which served as the "seed" for that personality? Or did this personality seemingly arise out of nowhere? The Google engineer who made headlines last year also claimed LaMDA had emotions and a personality.

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Ask HN: What's more valuable: expert or broad knowledge in different areas? 3 by lichtenberger | 1 comments on Hacker News. What do you think is more valuable, being an expert for specific topics/stuff as security/database systems/performance engineers or maybe who have expert knowledge in one or two programming languages and perhaps a lot of frameworks and things like that or engineers who know a lot of languages a little bit, to maybe chose the right language for the right "smaller" project? It certainly all depends if you do consulting/customer projects or have projects of your own with consulting on top, for instance. However, after ten years working extensively with Java and lately some Kotlin in the backend, I would like to know if I should have a much broader knowledge or the desire to learn everything (yeah, well, we all know a couple of languages a little bit). I'm currently learning TypeScript, and most languages, if they are not purely functional, are re

Ask HN: What are your favorite GPT prompt engineering resources? 3 by r3trohack3r | 1 comments on Hacker News. Hey HN, I'm working on compiling an awesome list (https://ift.tt/oa0nR2G) of GPT prompt engineering learning material and examples. What are your favorites?

Tell HN: I had an accident and ChatGPT has been helpful 4 by faebi | 0 comments on Hacker News. I had an accident and I‘m in the hospital for a while. No mental issues. I started paying for ChatGPT and asked it all the questions about my situation. It‘s not about the treatment itself but about the process of healing, and all it‘s surroundings. I‘m learning a lot. I found it very helpful to cope with the situation and to kill the boredom with relevant data. It‘s not a replacement for a doctor, I don‘t try that. It‘s giving me the information I‘m curious about which this stressed healthcare system can‘t provide.

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Ask HN: Why do email addresses need a user name? 4 by escot | 5 comments on Hacker News. I was thinking it would be cool to be able to have an email address that is just a domain, for example if I own bobsmith.com why can't I have bobsmith.com as my email address? Why does SMTP require a username, eg bob@bobsmith.com?

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What do you do to be GDPR compliant while staying focused on your business? 2 by roirarrazaval | 5 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: How do you deal with your brain not being “on?” 3 by c1yd3i | 4 comments on Hacker News. My brain isn't "on" 24/7. Depending on motivation, there may only be a few hours a week where I have enough brain power/creative energy to think critically about technical problems. I feel like if my job were just to cut wood in the forest all day, then I'd be golden. I have the physical energy to do any monotonous task. So how do you guys deal with it? I'm a "Senior DevOps Engineer." I'm getting to the point where my job makes me feel numb. I've already tried switching jobs twice. And I'd love to leave forever, but I don't want to lose my paycheck. Right now, I'm a paid professional and just want to deal with getting _something_ done.

Trying to understand how the internals of the stock market work 3 by catasaurus | 1 comments on Hacker News. There is a lot of information online about the stock market, but I am at a loss for something about how it actually works. From how online brokers actually execute a trade with the NYSE or NASDAQ, to basically anything else on how this system actually works. Sorry if there is an easy source for this information, I just haven't been able to find one.

Tell HN: Please let me just buy stuff without having to “Contact Sales” 3 by robbie-c | 1 comments on Hacker News. Context: I'm trying to buy an API for Text-To-Speech. There's a few that look promising but I can't really try them out without going through a sales guy first. All I'm going to tell them is that we want a short trial where I can check out the quality for myself in our specific use case. It's frustrating that I need to wait for our calendars to align and to sit on a call to do this. I don't need the sales pitch, it's an extremely straightforward concept, and I'm likely to choose whichever one lets me build an MVP the fastest.

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Tell HN: Windows 11 update erases Linux boot entries 3 by kartoshechka | 4 comments on Hacker News. Yesterday I've had the misfortune of letting windows do the chunky 22H2 update, simultaneously with actually useful BIOS update. Mind you, it didn't break anything immediately. Today, after at least two reboot cycles between windows and linux, refind gave an "Invalid loader files" error upon choosing linux. Okay, maybe windows didn't finish its update -> do more windows updates -> linux entry is completely gone. Can't even say I'm back to pirating, just beware

Ask HN: Areas for new grads interested in lower level work? 6 by careabit | 2 comments on Hacker News. I will be graduating next year with a CS degree. My issue is that most of the jobs I see are web dev and I am primarily interested in lower level areas. I do not see many opportunities for CS graduates interested in lower level work. A lot of the postings I do see in low level work seem to be in embedded, and desire CE and EE grads. Re: embedded, I am more interested in software than hardware, but hardware does interest me, although I'd prefer to spend as much time as possible coding. Basically, what areas should I look out for that might be open to new grads? I really want to find an area with lots of depth and opportunities to go deep in the stack. That is what brings me the most joy when it comes to programming. Along with ideas for lower level areas, are there any project ideas one could recommend that would be interesting to work on, and that perhaps might help if included

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