MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vlovich123 | 2025-04-25 16:15:52+00:00
While the password recommendation stuff is changing (the US government updating it guidelines last year), it’s generally best practice to not share passwords which itself implies using a password manager anyway which makes the whole “long passphrase” vs “complex” password moot - just generate 32 lowercase random characters to make it easier to type or use the autogenerated password your password manager recommends.

The long passphrase is more for the key that unlocks your password manager rather than the random passwords you use day to day.
by rozap | 2025-04-25 16:16:12+00:00
Really? I think it's pretty normal to use your moral compass to take into account someone's work history during hiring decisions.

Did they work for a tobacco company, advertising harmful products to kids? I think that's bad, but you're right, it is a personal bias. Some argue that tobacco is actually fine.

Did they work for a buy-now-pay-later company which sneakily traps people into debt cycles? Again, I think that's bad, but it is just my opinion. And some people can argue that bnpl companies are good because they provide low cost* loans to consumers to buy Coachella tickets. *until you miss a payment then you're fucked.

Did they work for the Trump 2024 Campaign? Plenty of people voted for him so it's just like, my opinion man.

Or, did they work for Facebook, an antisocial, anticompetitive growth at all costs company which is absolutely a net drain on society. But hey - they did produce, er, buy, a messaging app which allows you to keep in touch with your family.

And I could go on and on.

There are plenty of smart people with a moral compass. I've been blessed to have worked with many - truly it has been a joy. There are also unscrupulous, smart people who will do any work as long as the money is there. I've also worked with those types, and it's not as pleasant. The best projects I've been a part of have had teams of people who truly care about the customer, they aren't trying to outsmart or trick them.
by mcoliver | 2025-04-25 16:16:31+00:00
This is amazing. More car manufacturers should get out of the infotainment business. tablet tethered to a cellphone for reception, and a connection to OBD2 for car data is all you need and allows for easy upgrades/replacements when things fail.

I do think they should keep in mind that people will want to do this and at least design the dash to easily accept a tablet mount (vesa standard), amp mount (plug and play Pyle 120v?), speaker wire, and speakers (6x9 or 6.5”). That’s an easy hour install if everything is standardized, accessible, and doesn’t require drilling.

Would also love seating for 5.
by djoldman | 2025-04-25 16:16:41+00:00
The arrest itself (not necessarily the charges) is best described as a publicity stunt. If you want to charge a lawyer or judge or anyone unlikely to run of a non-violent crime, you invite them to the station:

> “First and foremost, I know -- as a former federal prosecutor and as a defense lawyer for decades – that a person who is a judge, who has a residence who has no problem being found, should not be arrested, if you will, like some common criminal,” Gimbel said. “And I'm shocked and surprised that the US Attorney's office or the FBI would not have invited her to show up and accept process if they're going to charge her with a crime.”

> He said that typically someone who is “not on the run,” and facing this type of crime would be called and invited to come in to have their fingerprints taken or to schedule a court appearance.
by vid | 2025-04-25 16:16:49+00:00
My experience of rural areas is that few are actual farmers. After all, farming has largely consolidated and become automated. Most country people just don't want a city lifestyle. They might have some of the accoutrements of a farmer and have added lifestyle (enjoyable/fulfilling) overhead and significant attitude (independence & sometimes xenophobia) for themselves, but it's a lifestyle choice. Therefore most don't have a welder (though they probably know someone who has one).
Show HN: OWASP Scanner for Vibe Coded Apps
by h_jain | 2025-04-25 16:17:21+00:00
Hey HN,

We just launched an early version of Circuit — a lightweight tool that helps vibe coders, citizen developers, and indie hackers run fast security scans focused on the OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities and get practical fixes.

The problem we noticed: A lot of projects being built in no-code/low-code environments (Replit, Lovable, V0, Bubble, etc.) ship quickly but rarely get security reviewed. Even small apps often expose APIs, misconfigure auth, or leak secrets without realizing it.

With Circuit, you can: • Submit your app URL • Get a security report checking OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities • Get suggested fixes for the issues found (not just a scary list)

We’re aiming to make security reviews fast and accessible for solo developers and small teams — without needing to be a security expert.

Right now: • It’s free while we’re in early stages • Feedback reports are emailed manually after scanning • You can see a sample report to know what to expect

Try it here: https://circuit.sh/
by ryandrake | 2025-04-25 16:17:49+00:00
Not only the backend, but what happens 40 years in the future, when our phones don't run the app anymore, or we're all on phones that are totally unlike the phones of today, or if we don't even have phones or apps? I would expect the car to still work after that long, and making it dependent on a technology that is specific to a particular decade risks premature obsolescence.
by HeyLaughingBoy | 2025-04-25 16:18:01+00:00
Most small SUVs should be fine though. You switched between wood shavings and hay bales, but I reliably fit 7 hay bales in a 2005 Saturn Vue (wife always managed to get 9 in there), which means that 10 bales of shavings should not be a problem since they're much smaller.

TBH, I think a minivan would make it even easier.
by alabastervlog | 2025-04-25 16:18:08+00:00
It's a relatively recent change, too. Transition from "the executives and managers mostly came up through 10-25 years of doing 'lower' jobs in the company, and very much know how the business actually works" to "we hire MBAs to those roles directly" was throughout the '70s-'90s.

Finance and business grads have really taken over the economy, not just through technocratic "here's how to do stuff" advice but by personally taking all the reigns of power. They're even hard at work taking over medicine and pushing doctors out of the work-social upper-middle-class. Already did it with professors. Lawyers seem safe, so far.
by the8472 | 2025-04-25 16:18:13+00:00
In small orgs that might happen, in large orgs it's some game of telephone where the insurance requirements are forwarded to the security team which makes the policies which are enforced by several layers of compliance which come down on the local IT department.

The underlying purpose of the rules and agency to apply the spirt rather than the letter gets lost early in the chain and trying to unwind it can be tedious.
by tzs | 2025-04-25 16:18:29+00:00
I keep an insert in my phone's USB-C port that blocks it. It would be kind of annoying to have to take it out whenever I want to connect the phone to the car and then put it back in when I leave the car.

I'm not actually sure that this is necessary with USB-C, but when I had Lightning phones I noticed that every so often they would stop charging when I plugged them in.

I determined that was from pocket lint getting into the port. Scraping the lint out with a toothpick would fix things. When I got a phone with wireless charging I switched to using that and put a cover on the Lightning port.

I kept the habit of using a port cover when I got a USB-C phone. I've not actually checked to see if pocket lint is a problem with USB-C ports.
by Spivak | 2025-04-25 16:18:30+00:00
If it turns autocratic then there's no discussion to be had. Judge will waterboarded in Gitmo and Trump is de-facto king. We are no longer a nation of laws, the USA is renamed to Trumpopolis and we all have to get government mandated orange spray tans.

So assuming that doesn't happen, this is an action by a non-autocratic executive meant to have a chilling effect on low level judges who don't want to spend a few days in lockup just because. A knob that the executive is (mostly) allowed to turn but that is considered in poor taste if you wish to remain on good terms with the judiciary. The bar for arrest is really low and the courts decide if she committed a crime which she obviously didn't.
by reginald78 | 2025-04-25 16:18:51+00:00
Nice idea in theory. In practice, apps imply ongoing OTA connectivity, which means the truck will be updated to show ads or at the very least collect and sell all my driving information to any dirtbag that can rub two nickels together. Connected devices can alter the deal so they will, after all I've lost any leverage against them after I purchased the vehicle.
by gmuslera | 2025-04-25 16:19:06+00:00
As a tool, it can be misused. It gives you more power, so your misuses can do more damage. But forcing training wheels on everyone, no matter how expert the user may be, just because a few can misuse it stops also the good/responsible uses. It is a harm already done on the good players just by supposing that there may be bad users.

So the good/responsible users are harmed, and the bad users take a detour to do what they want. What is left in the middle are the irresponsible users, but LLMs can already evaluate enough if the user is adult/responsible enough to have the full power.
by instaclay | 2025-04-25 16:19:29+00:00
Oh sweet. Delicious. Very reassuring. Was really hoping this thing was going to be device agnostic.

My 2015 car had 3g "smart" features that no longer work since 3g has been sunset in the US. Awesome to see forward thinking of a smart feature-set that can be updated with a module you'll likley already have an upgrade path for.
by bko | 2025-04-25 16:19:31+00:00
Being backed by Bezos and the appearance of infinite funding isn't necessarily a good thing. You need someone at the helm that is driven and in control. Don't know who's running the company or if they have the proper mentality to get through production issues, but it's certainly not Bezos.

Either way, I'm rooting for their success. The low end car market is pretty much non-existent. I've heard people blame the cash for clunkers program that got rid of a ton of low end supply in 2009, but haven't looked into it too much.
by CrimsonRain | 2025-04-25 16:19:31+00:00
1. You have read somewhere...but you don't have any experience. LLMs are really bad for Junior developers.

A. They have no skills/exp to judge AI output B. They don't learn from sudden magical wall of code output C. They don't get to explore; thus don't learn. D. Ultimately, LLMs act as a bad drug to them that keeps them dependent and stagnant. E. LLMs are really good for higher end of senior devs. This also means, they don't need as many Juniors anymore and they don't mentor juniors much. This is the biggest loss for Juniors.

2. I think you are absolutely right. I became a Staff Engineer with junior level LLM coding. More power to me I guess :(
by burnerthrow008 | 2025-04-25 16:19:34+00:00
Huh, you're right[1]. Trump only got 49.80% of the popular vote.

Of course, Kennedy (who is in Trump's cabinet, and seems broadly aligned with the MAGA agenda) got another 0.49%... and Oliver (the MAGA-adjacent Libertarian candidate) got another 0.42%. Hardly the ringing endorsement of "American's didn't really pick the guy" that Canadians want to hear.

[1] https://www.fec.gov/resources/cms-content/documents/2024pres...
by kemayo | 2025-04-25 16:19:58+00:00
I'm not saying it's good, for sure. But I don't think it's a sign that the push for autocratic authoritarianism is winning, either.

My optimistic take is that this is the sort of stupid overreach that works to turn other arms of government against the executive. The judiciary tends to be prickly about its prerogatives, and Trump's far from the point where he can just push stuff through without some cover.
by LeafItAlone | 2025-04-25 16:20:20+00:00
I’m fine with calling it censorship.

That’s not inherently a bad thing. You can’t falsely yell “fire” in a crowded space. You can’t make death threats. You’re generally limited on what you can actually say/do. And that’s just the (USA) government. You are much more restricted with/by private companies.

I see no reason why safeguards, or censorship, shouldn’t be applied in certain circumstances. A technology like LLMs certainly are type for abuse.
by cornstalks | 2025-04-25 16:20:23+00:00
There's a difference between phone-dependent and phone-augmented. I don't know the details of the truck, but I think a happy medium would be for an app to exist to augment the truck's abilities and allow at-home updates, but to not require the app or phone to just use the truck (even for long periods; i.e. you could go forever without using the app and the truck will just keep working in its current state).
by johnyzee | 2025-04-25 16:20:50+00:00
I wanted to try this in the image playground, but I was told I have to add a payment method. When adding this, I was told I would also have to pay a minimum of $5. Did this. Then when trying to generate an image, I was told I would have to do "verification" of my organization (?). OK, I chose 'personal'. I was then told I have to complete the verification though some third party partner of OpenAI, which included giving permission to process my biometric information. Yeah, I don't want to try this that bad, but now I already paid you and have to struggle to figure out how to get my money back. Horrible UX.
by stouset | 2025-04-25 16:21:13+00:00
Yeah, sorry, I didn’t mean to necessarily single you out.

I just hear the argument that the constitution gives both illegal and legal residents that right and conservatives simply respond that illegals shouldn’t have rights and that’s that.

It needs to be hammered in that due process is necessary even to establish the legality of their residency in the first place, otherwise the government can disappear whoever they want as long as they invoke the illegal immigrant boogeyman.
by aabha_tiwari03 | 2025-04-25 16:21:21+00:00
I’ve been noticing a weird disconnect lately in B2B SaaS:

Companies obsess over lead generation, talk about LTV and retention, but then take days to follow up with high-intent leads.

A prospect shows interest—fills a demo form or downloads a report—and the reply is:

“Thanks! Our team will reach out soon.” Or worse, “Let’s schedule a call for next week.”

Meanwhile, that prospect’s interest fades in hours.

We ran an experiment recently where we tried talking to leads within 60 seconds of form submission, and it radically improved conversions. We didn’t use automated emails or nurture flows—just real-time human conversations. No scheduling links, no waiting.

Is anyone else here experimenting with faster response cycles in B2B? Does anyone have benchmarks for real-time vs delayed follow-up?

Would love to hear what others are seeing on the conversion front—especially with declining CTRs, higher bounce, and slower reply loops across sales teams.
by teachrdan | 2025-04-25 16:21:25+00:00
> Being a judge might just be circumstantial (sensational?). The arrest may be because of the person's personal actions; not their professional actions as a judge.

I'm sure you're an intelligent person, but this response seems almost deliberately obtuse. This is clearly an act by the current administration to intimidate the judiciary. It is impossible to separate the unprecedented act of arresting a sitting judge for failing to arrest someone on behalf of ICE from the administration's illegal (according to the Supreme Court) sending immigrants to a prison in El Salvador without due process.
by hedora | 2025-04-25 16:21:45+00:00
You could get a used non-truck EV, add a tow hitch and you'd be able to move more weight in the trunk and in the trailer than this thing can.

Of course, it's a truck, so it can move light + bulky stuff, like appliances and furniture.

Personally, I'd want to pay another $5-10K and get one that can also handle heavy loads. This, but for $30K ($37.5K pre incentives) with no truck-related caveats would be amazing. I'm guessing it wouldn't cost $10K for them to upgrade the suspension + drivetrain.
by constantcrying | 2025-04-25 16:22:03+00:00
>A small affordable truck works great as a commuter

Not if it has two seats and you want to carry more than two people.

>picking up supplies from a hardware store for home improvement.

I don't remember where I heard it. But it was something like "most people buy cars for reasons least likely to happen". If you aren't using your bed daily you bought the wrong car. Buy a trailer if you need to go to a hardware store once a month.
by bsnnkv | 2025-04-25 16:22:04+00:00
> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

> Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

> Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents, and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by alganet | 2025-04-25 16:22:32+00:00
> it lacks universality

"there can be only one" vibes.

---

The benefits of notation are obvious. It's like good asphalt for thinking.

However, can you make a corner in the dirt road?

"I don't like dirt" is not an excuse, right? Can you do it?

"I run better on asphalt". No shit, Sherlock. Are you also afraid of problems with no clear notation established to guide you through?
Ask HN: Stopping Gmail-Originated Spam?
by donnachangstein | 2025-04-25 16:22:40+00:00
80% of spam - mostly phishing - that slips through my filters these days originates from hacked Gmail accounts. The other 15% from hacked Office 365 instances with the last 5% coming from compromised AWS instances. I seem to have had some success reporting these to Microsoft and Amazon, but no such luck with Google, and I am being inundated with them. Google's abuse report form is a dead letter box, a useless elevator button, and is probably read by AI anyway, if it's read at all.

Any ideas how to stop this? You can't filter Gmail-originated traffic because by having a partial monopoly over email means they are too big to filter (and spammers know this).
by danans | 2025-04-25 16:22:41+00:00
> Infotainment systems tend to get outdated, and are also a common point of failure that can be expensive to fix

Android Auto and CarPlay solve that problem for navigation/communication/entertainment. The automakers aren't going to provide an open API to the vehicle control systems, for both competitive and safety reasons.

What would be nice is the old fashioned DIN interface, where you could install an aftermarket AA/CarPlay unit like this:

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/pioneer-10-1-hd-screen-luminous...
by crooked-v | 2025-04-25 16:22:53+00:00
There was no "misdirecting" here. The judge truthfully told the agents they wouldn't be allowed to detain someone in the middle of a hearing without exceptional permission, at which point they all left, apparently didn't even bother to watch the courthouse doors, and upon their return had the judge arrested for not detaining a man it wasn't her job or legal authority to detain.
by hurray-sandbag | 2025-04-25 16:23:25+00:00
Those Coastal cities have lot of people, yes, but not a lot of land.

It also isn't just north California, but also the east.

Here, check out this map. https://www.politico.com/2024-election/results/california/

It seems reasonable to expect all of the Trump-voting areas to stick with the United States.

This would end up being more of a Hong Kong type situation, and less of a Taiwan-type situation.

Without having any of it's own agriculture, and without being able to act as the middle-man for all of the trade between Asia and America, California would find itself in an extremely precarious situation.
by kyledrake | 2025-04-25 16:23:43+00:00
All micro cargo van providers have stopped building them. The Transit Connect, Metris, Promaster City and NV200 are all now discontinued. The VW Caddy isn't sent to the states.

There are rumors that they will make a cargo van based on the Maverick but they make them in Mexico, and with the tariff situation I'm not sure if they will be going through with that anymore.

All of the perfect compacts and hatchbacks are slowly disappearing, and solid work trucks have been replaced with $60k+ fake trucks that will melt their gaskets with crappy turbos and can't even fit a piece of 2x4 in the back. There is an enormous category of consumers that just want an auto that's simple, affordable, safe, fuel efficient and reasonably sized. Almost nobody is serving them right now.
by com2kid | 2025-04-25 16:24:02+00:00
I helped with pgo work at Microsoft over 15 years ago, back when it was a Microsoft Research project.

The issue with early pgo implementations was getting a really good profile, as you had to have automation capable of fully exercising code paths that you knew would be hot in actual usage, and you needed good instrumentation to know what code paths those were!

The same problem exists now days, but programs are instrumented to hell and back to collect usage data.
by bitwize | 2025-04-25 16:24:11+00:00
Jaron Lanier was a critic of the view that files were somehow an essential part of computing:

https://www.cato-unbound.org/2006/01/08/jaron-lanier/gory-an...

Typing on a keyboard, using files and writing on a word processor, etc. are accidental skills, not really essential skills. They're like writing cursive: we learned them, so we think naturally everybody must and lament how much it sucks that kids these days do not. But they don't because they don't need to: we now have very capable computing systems that don't need files at all, or at least don't need to surface them at the user level.

It could be that writing or understanding code without AI help turns out to be another accidental skill, like writing or understanding assembly code today. It just won't be needed in the future.
by scblock | 2025-04-25 16:24:12+00:00
Looks like a concept that will never actually reach the market.

And if it does and I'm completely wrong, this concept is probably doomed anyways, as it is swinging far too far to the other side away from fancy tech and right into uselessly bare. I'm sure a few people are excited by this, but realistically it will have a tiny real market. Nearly no one wants manual windows and leaving them out isn't saving huge amount of money.

Make it comparable to a decent conventional vehicle, but electric, and you may do well. This though is more useless and non-functional than my old Jeep, which has a trip computer and bluetooth as the biggest "tech features".
by mancerayder | 2025-04-25 16:24:13+00:00
And why is there such an antiwork sentiment?

Housing prices as a ratio of income is higher than it was in the good old days of employee loyalty; pensions have mostly disappeared; most people don't get greater than inflation raises unless they leave. In the US, new hires get paid more than previous employees, due to the bargaining power the former have. We can give work from home, and out of nowhere it's RTO again, because contracts and employee hand books favor employers.

It's not sad at all, it's normal and healthy. Why does it make you sad?
by petercooper | 2025-04-25 16:24:14+00:00
Not yet, other than on X, because the project's comms is oriented around Discord which involves some hoop jumping.

(Update: On the way to doing that, I decided to run my tests again and they now work without Cloudflare being touchy, so I'll keep an eye on it!)

(Update 2: They just replied to me on X and said they had fixed their Cloudflare config - happy days!)