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by smilekzs | 2025-05-12 05:35:09+00:00
I'd argue that chassis tech is more sophisticated in the BEV case due to more weight. Adaptive dampers, air springs, rear-axle steering, etc. might not be necessary on a comparably sized ICE vehicle.

OTOH, ABS and ESP systems can achieve similar or even better results with less complexity because motor torque control is inherently low-latency, which can also complement brake deployment (hydraulics is not as well behaved as e-motor).

You do get rid of emissions control and tiny little sensors / flap actuators sprinkled all around the engine bay, so yeah, probably overall still a simplification win, but I doubt you can get very far without "massive amounts of [Mechatronics] engineering".
Show HN: Blog comments, nice looking, open source – Talkyard
by KajMagnus | 2025-05-12 05:35:41+00:00
Disqus alternative. License: AGPL. Uses a bit much memory (2 GB min, 4 better), should be possible to get below 0.5 GB if pre-compiling JVM stuff.

There's SaaS hosting. Long term (2027+ ?), the idea is that inactive blogs (those that don't get comments) pay 1? 2? EUR / month. Then, one wouldn't need to feel stressed up about having an inactive blog — it'd cost about the same as the domain name.

Previously on HN: (as you can see, I've been working on this for a while — had another job in between, and, sleepiness health problems, making things take longer, plus, being generally clueless in the beginning)

- Show HN: New embedded comments, open-source, new features, alt to Disqus and Talk, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15242630 (1 comment, 2017)

- New open source Disqus alternative: Debiki Embedded Comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7205878 (9 comments, 2014)

- Show HN: A better discussion system. For blogs, forums, perhaps sites like HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4823103 (7 comments, 2012)

Biz model isn't really blog comments — instead, it's forum software and B2B (the software works for forums too). But blogs are fun :-) and I need blog comments myself, so much to write about. Made in Sweden. No ads, no tracking.
by Retric | 2025-05-12 05:36:09+00:00
As long as a fixed percentage of the economy is going to UBI there’s natural feedback loops. Fewer people work, UBI goes down and incentives to work increase. However, long term efficiency gains keep pushing up the standard of living for people on UBI which then makes not working more appealing. The specific numbers only matter in the short term if in 500 years 1% of the economy went to UBI people would likely be very well off by modern standards, but still be tempted to work for even more.

There’s a long way between uncomfortable and death here, entitlement spending is already over 10k/person/year and that’s excluding the impact of progressive taxation. Revenue neutral flat tax and a 20+k UBI isn’t unrealistic. A reasonable argument can be made for universal healthcare being part of UBI, but that’s a separate and quite nuanced discussion.

Not that I think there’s any chance of a UBI in the US, but it’s an interesting intellectual exercise.
by harrall | 2025-05-12 05:36:49+00:00
To support your point, I live in the complete opposite of a food desert but I know a lot of people who don’t know how to cook… like not really. “Cooking” to them going to Trader’s Joes and buying one of those frozen packs. If I gave them a bunch of chicken breasts and broccoli, they would struggle to make it tasty, even if I told them it load it up with fats and sugars.

Cooking — as in being able to make any set of common ingredients tasty, quickly, with few dishes to wash, and without looking up recipes each time — is the skill you need before you can “unlock” supermarkets. If I was still 19 and a new supermarket showed up, I would know f— all to do except browse the frozen section.
by owenversteeg | 2025-05-12 05:36:56+00:00
Sorry, that's incorrect. I have actually read the law and its relevant standards. The standard requires at least two pre-accident locations to increase accuracy and other fields with pre-crash data are encouraged.

And come on. Car manufacturers, which are notorious producers of insecure software, are legally mandated to make an inexpensive device which includes an LTE radio and a connection to the vehicle buses, and you think that is... unhackable? I can't tell if you're trolling me, but your average blackhat only needs 1 of (shitty car OEM software/LTE radio/vehicle bus connected device) to break into a system. This system is a trifecta of hackable crap. To call that, of all devices, "unhackable" is priceless.
by al_borland | 2025-05-12 05:37:21+00:00
A reasonable person doesn’t start a company with a stated goal to make humans a multi planetary species.

A reasonable person thinks, “it sure would be neat if there was a way for humans to live on Mars,” then finishes his shower and goes to work selling insurance.

To get some of these advancements in the world, it takes giving a little allowance to the unhinged from time to time.
by yreg | 2025-05-12 05:37:38+00:00
Convincing people to finance their groceries is absurd. Ideally, everyone should have a few months’ worth of income saved. And if they do, there's zero reason to finance a burrito.

In the Western world, if you have a job but no savings buffer, it’s usually not due to extreme poverty—it’s often a lack of basic financial literacy.

Klarna, et al. market in direct opposition to that education.
by inkyoto | 2025-05-12 05:37:47+00:00
I was actually commenting on the need to support aspect being a myth.

x86 is not a legacy, it is a legacy of legacies as the x86 ISA ascends all the way to 8008 via 8080 at least as a spiritual predecessor even if it can't directly execute the 8008 binary code.

Intel also had their own, indigeneous, RISC design – i960, which was a very good RISC design. At some point – if I am not mistaken – Intel contemplated phasing out the x86 ISA and replacing it with i960, but there was a change of plans, and they went all in with the 80486 CPU. i960 remained around in embedded and defence applications.

Intel also had their own hybrid VLIW/RISC design, i860, which preceded Itanium, and which they did not know what to do. Similarly, they faced the same issue with compilers of the day not being to produce fast code.
by Aicy | 2025-05-12 05:37:48+00:00
Is it just me who thinks this article is silly? The entire point of it seems to establish causation that removing digital friction increases friction in the real world.

But they barely manage to do this, they just have a single example of their flight being delayed repeatedly over and over. You'd think if this was an actual phenomenon they could come up with lots of examples and not need to keep repeating themselves.

I can think of obvious and damning counter examples, too. In China their physical infrastructure massively improved during the same period they got access to smart phones and unlocked the digital world. Contactless payments, including Google and Apple Pay, along with apps like Monzo to easily send money to friends have rendered cash obsolete where I live (London). I have an app that connects to my automatic cat feeder so I no longer need to feed my cat 3 times a day. She still loves me, sits on my laps and purrs all the same.

Am I missing something or is the central point of the blog that digital frictionless increases real world friction obviously untrue?
by lotsofpulp | 2025-05-12 05:38:26+00:00
https://ir.tesla.com/press-release/tesla-first-quarter-2025-...

Apparently, 300k+ people in 2025 Q1, and that is with a refresh in the most popular model happening in March (presumably people who would have bought held off until the new one came out and will buy in Q2 or beyond).

For comparison, this is 2024 Q1:

https://ir.tesla.com/press-release/tesla-vehicle-production-...
by d1sxeyes | 2025-05-12 05:38:28+00:00
Your assumption that customers will not buy accessories until they have repaid the Klarna loan is a long way from certain.

Loans like this also encourage customers to increase spend, because adding an extra few dollars (cents, etc) to your monthly payment is psychologically not as big of a deal as waiting another month or two before you can afford the more expensive item.
by sdeframond | 2025-05-12 05:39:32+00:00
Imagine an all-blonde beach party in Siciliy. Pretty rare right?

So is a beach party where everyone is tall, or short, or has the same name, or a beach party during which there's an earthquake, a meteor etc etc.

All would be rare events, but there are so many rare events that could possibly happen that is is not that rare to witness something rare, especially if we are looking for that.

Therefore witnessing a rare event may not mean much.

This is related to p-hacking https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_dredging
by defrost | 2025-05-12 05:41:11+00:00
How it has worked, until recently at least, is opaquely with little real oversight into various national chapters or into the more octopus like tendrils of the central body.

It's been only a decade since any real effort has been applied to financial transperancy in the Catholic Church affairs:

Financial reform shows crafty political side of pope (2014) - https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/world/2014/02/25/financial-...

Whatever that was or may still be under a new Pope was likely disrupted by the court room adventures of Cardinal George Pell.

> The idea that the pope might sell one church to support another

My read, admittedly a skim some years back, of Catholic Church real estate reports is that church property ownerships are a small part of a larger, much larger, real estate portfolio that includes mueseums, schools, apratment complexes, large historic multi-million dollar houses with spectacular views in Sydney, commercial office complexes for rent, etc.
by somenameforme | 2025-05-12 05:41:28+00:00
It feels dubious to appeal to job stability with software in modern times. Companies in the past were hiring and building out during unprecedently great times, and there's no reason to think those times will return. And on the issue of physical ailments - the one ailment we all hope to suffer is growing "old."

In software there's widespread "age discrimination". Mostly it's companies not really valuing experience in software much, so they'd rather hire a younger guy for much less. But the outcome is the same - software is a relatively shortlived occupation for most people, and that's after spending another 4+ years in university, then spending however much time paying off your debts, and then finally seeing your full salary.

By contrast working in the trades until retirement is entirely possible. And it's undoubtedly better for your body as well. Our bodies are meant for doing things - not idle sitting and staring at screens. I did software and CS, but will not be recommending it to my children. At this point I think the best future proofing is some sort of field where computer science is applied, rather than the occupation itself, like electrical engineering.
by unethical_ban | 2025-05-12 05:41:40+00:00
>Now, they need to make compelling apps, slick new features and all-new electrical architectures that neither the companies nor their suppliers are used to using. They need to build Tesla-level upgradeability with far less willingness to ship unfinished goods, all while tucking it behind a military-grade firewall to ensure your car can’t be remotely hacked.

Did the market demand this? Does safety? Fuel efficiency?

I'm holding onto my 2014 vehicle precisely because of this over the air update, constant tracking bullshit.

If you can't deliver a reliable car without needing to patch it weekly, I don't want it.
by ldubost | 2025-05-12 05:42:22+00:00
We do believe having an API is valuable and a good selling point. It's also a great way to get an ecosystem to help us extend the product. Now it's also more responsibility to maintain compatibility. We want to be able to continue to upgrade services (in particularly cryptpad.fr). Apps using the API would need to continue to function or by security be locked out. This is a lot more work for the small team.

Ludovic from the CryptPad team
by LoganDark | 2025-05-12 05:42:40+00:00
> I think that you’re right that Apple is different, but it’s different so that Apple can control it.

Control would not be such a bad thing if Apple could still be trusted. Unfortunately it seems that they have started to lose their way.

It's not like they became worthless or evil at the flip of a switch - it takes time for such a large company to die like that. But they are declining (in ways other than profit, of course).

They have still managed to create some genuinely good innovation, such as Apple Silicon Macs, but they are seeming to gradually lose their ability to do that properly.

I don't see any problem with wanting more control over the user experience so that it can be improved. Honestly, it seems like the problem you're describing started with how that control has been (ab)used since Steve Jobs' death. I feel like that brought all the corruption out of hiding because Tim doesn't necessarily shoot it all down like Jobs would have.
by r14c | 2025-05-12 05:43:15+00:00
"market radicalism" as in, the notion that ~all aspects of life should be subject to market forces. I think markets are good for a lot of things, but competing for basic necessities like food and shelter puts people in a really unhealthy headspace. The green revolution made a lot of our concepts about food scarcity obsolete.

A good example of market radicalism at play in the US is the healthcare system. "Everyone knows" that the market is better at allocating resources, but we actually have terrible outcomes and there is no political will to change an obviously broken system. Despite having real-world examples of single-payer (and hybrid) healthcare systems out there that are more cost effective and have better outcomes.
by lumost | 2025-05-12 05:43:31+00:00
I wonder how much of this is “don’t hat the player, hate the game.”

As a society, we decided that academics must get funding outside of their department. We also chose that funding bodies liked blockchain for reasons unknown. There is probably a professor somewhere who is working on peer incentives to support education, and realized the work would get funded if they stored the incentives in a blockchain rather than a database. If this professor had stronger professional ethics - someone else would have the same realization.

Is it the professor, the department, or the funding agencies fault?
by kelseyfrog | 2025-05-12 05:43:35+00:00
Footnote one is where the whole thing goes off the rails. The Copyright Office asserts that the works in question are not merely "data" in the ordinary sense, but somehow "embody creative expression" in a way that constitutes protected authorship.

This is metaphysics, not law or computer science.

They're smuggling in a kind of authorial transubstantiation, as if creative essence somehow imbues the bits themselves, rendering them qualitatively different from any other arrangement of bytes. The implication is that once a work has passed through the sacrament of human intention, it permanently carries a kind of spiritual copyright residue, regardless of its subsequent transformation or use.

But that's not how data works. A copy of a copyrighted work in a training corpus is still just data. It doesn't emit rights. It's not radioactive. There's no Platonic form of "authorship" that permeates the latent space. What matters, legally, and practically, is what the system does with that data, not some mystical essence the data supposedly contains.

This is authorial essentialism dressed up as policy. And it doesn’t hold up under inspection.
by whiteboardr | 2025-05-12 05:44:33+00:00
Get out if you can!

Spent 7 years at the three pointed star within design and UX - one day, when i’m over all i had to witness and experience i’ll write a book about the downfall of the german automotive industry.

It’s all politics and due to constant battles and changing ownership throughout departments they won’t ever have a solid foundation. And i dare to assume that this goes for most of the automotive industry.

It’s sad to see that a once driving force of innovation is stumbling over its own arrogance and ignorance.

A major factor contributing to this are cost saving measures from the early 2000s where most of them stopped in-house research and development giving most of the work to contractors - a very expensive cost saving measure long term.

We’re down to them using “technology” as a seasoning for consumption like a fancy restaurant - very little long term thinking.
by Pooge | 2025-05-12 05:44:56+00:00
I'm convinced Wise is using AI for their customer service. I had absolutely no trouble getting help when I needed and the employee was always helpful, but ever since the birth of ChatGPT I don't even get an answer anymore.

They don't understand the problem, and when I point that out by explaining my issue another way they just answer "Have I solved your issue?". Well, no, you didn't; you didn't even understand the problem.

The worst part is that they are pretending they are humans.
by __turbobrew__ | 2025-05-12 05:45:01+00:00
Yes this is the way: you go into the trades, become a journeyman to learn the ropes, open your own shop, maybe eventually hire a few others, and then comfortably retire. All the people I know in trades who made good money went this way. There is a huge differential in trades between the cost of work being billed out and how much the worker is paid, and that surplus goes into the business owner's pocket. If you do good work as an independent you will always be busy.
by mjevans | 2025-05-12 05:45:31+00:00
To do what? People want to live near three sorts of things:

Social connections like family / friends / potential mates

Livelihood needs like education / jobs / foods (1st world, the food they like is fresh / better; historic / other food exists!)

General QoL climate / beauty / recreational opportunities

Many big cities cost more because it's where the opportunity is, or where their family that previously/currently prospered from that opportunity resides. For many of us on HN it's where the sort of jobs we'd be good at contributing to society exist. Even if some corp opened an office in the middle of Montana there wouldn't be anything else there as other opportunities. Heck given UBI, I'd rather join Star Fleet with awesome healthcare for all, cool technical challenges, and anything other than Starbase 80.
by cousin_it | 2025-05-12 05:46:45+00:00
Or you could have one system where people are treated like adults and taken care of. The risk of getting into unmanageable debt isn't any better than the risk of a car crash, it should be minimized, not celebrated. "I drive without a seatbelt because I'm an adult and can drive responsibly!"

Except it's even worse. A car crash is terrible, but at least nobody profits from it. With debt you create a market for manipulating as many people into debt as possible.
by anonymoushn | 2025-05-12 05:46:59+00:00
I evaluated Windsurf at a friend's recommendation around half a year ago and found that it could not produce any useful behaviors on files above a thousand lines or so. I understand this is mostly a property of the model, but certainly also a property of the approach used by the editor of just tossing the entire file in, yeah? I haven't tried any of these products since then, but it might be worth another shot because Gemini might be able to handle these files.
by Vinz_ | 2025-05-12 05:47:37+00:00
Because in a lot of cases, the driver isn’t in the correct place, and so if you have their location you can easily tell them how to get to you. I’ve had multiple deliveries where the Uber Eats app just could not tell the driver the correct location for my address, and I wouldn’t have been able to tell the driver how to get there by just them telling me where they were.
by shamirallibhai | 2025-05-12 05:49:01+00:00
I love stories like this one because it is a good reminder you can just do. No permission needed, excuses be damned.

===

David F. Sandberg made fear go viral—with one light switch.

No film school. No connections. Just a Canon 7D, a hallway, and his wife. He uploaded a $0 short called Lights Out to YouTube—and Hollywood called back.

Fast forward: he’s directing Shazam! for DC.

While most people wait for permission to start, David just started. Shot horror shorts in his apartment. Taught himself VFX, editing, sound. Uploaded every test to YouTube. Treated DIY like a discipline.

Lights Out hit 18M views. Warner Bros came knocking. He stayed scrappy even on studio sets—previz in Blender, edits in Premiere, storyboards by hand.

He didn’t ask to be a filmmaker. He acted like one.

If you need a sign to just make the damn thing—this is it.
by TowerTall | 2025-05-12 05:50:08+00:00
i would say depends. If you use it for writing the code, I will say yes. If you instead use it to discus how to aproach the problem I would say "no/not sure". One of the best ways to become a good developer is to learn from the code we write. On the other hand we also often need someone to speak with about the code we write or plan on writing. I think the best cause of action is that you write the code and then use LLM as a reviewer and someone to talk about writing code with.
by YouWhy | 2025-05-12 05:50:11+00:00
Bell Labs grew to be a dominant player in an age that was characterized by an oversupply of a manageable number highly capable scientists who did not all have a chance for getting anything resembling funding.

Today we have a huge oversupply of scientists, however there's too many of them to allow judging for potential, and many are not actually capable of dramatic impact.

More generally, a standard critique for "reproducing a golden age" narratives are that the golden age existed within a vastly different ecosystem and indeed - stopped working due to systemic reasons, many of which still apply.

In particular, just blaming 'MBA Management' does little to explain why MBAs appeared in the first place, why they were a preferable alternative to other types of large scale management, and indeed how to avoid relapsing to it over a few years and personnel shifts.

Overall I am afraid this post, while evocative , did not convince me what makes 1517 specifically so different.
by Bkimmy16 | 2025-05-12 05:51:11+00:00
I built this ai news app for a quick read way to stay up on tech and business news because i wanted news that matter to my personal goals so when you sign up you tell the ai about yourself and it would give you 5 news stories a day and tell you why it matters to you and why you should read it. it also helps summarize it if you don't want to read the whole thing
by harrall | 2025-05-12 05:51:13+00:00
Setting up telemetry is really easy if you’ve done it before and it’s a learning opportunity if you haven’t.

I have Dockerfiles from 10 years ago for Grafana and a time-series DB so basically you learn it once and you can bang out basic telemetry infra in an hour afterwards.

And I still actually use InfluxDB and Grafana for my hobby stuff. My current Dockerfiles just look like my old ones…
by ldubost | 2025-05-12 05:51:26+00:00
Drive might be 'useless' to you in it's form because you want more from CryptPad (more features in it, more local sync, more anything), but it is very useful to organize your docs that you work on in CryptPad. It also allows shared folders and so on.

What's interesting is that surveying our users did not show local sync as hugely demanded. Mobile access comes up the highest.
by conk | 2025-05-12 05:54:10+00:00
I like the idea of this product. Simple, safe, plug and play solar should be a thing.

I was looking at this product last week. I remember seeing a photo with a current transformer (CT) in it. Maybe they have the user install a CT on the upstream breaker to ensure the total load for the branch circuit isn’t exceeded. Without that they run into an issue where it could overload the branch circuit wiring.