MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by RajT88 | 2025-06-17 18:35:40+00:00
Actions like leveraging the relationship with Trump to get the government to buy a ton of StarLink and Cybertrucks? Him and his companies hold a few billion in crypto, and is possibly one of the major holders of the Trump shitcoin?

It appears to be self-dealing for profit to me, the Trump relationship being his path to his next hundred billion dollars in net worth. What does it look like to you?
by cherryteastain | 2025-06-17 18:35:50+00:00
It's definitely behind Waymo level, but the selling point of Tesla FSD is apparently that it works with 'normal' cameras as opposed to the super expensive Waymo kit so they can afford to put it in an upper mid range car.

I've seen it action only in my friend's Tesla in SF, and he also had to manually intervene, but to be fair Tesla themselves say you must be ready to take the wheel at any time. I think it may reach fully autonomous level with a few more years in the oven though.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-06-17 18:35:50+00:00
Yeah, LLMs seem like they'll allow us to side-step the difficult parts by synthesizing projections instead of maintaining them. I.e. instead of having a well-defined way to go back and forth between a specific view and underlying code (e.g. "all the methods in all the classes in this module, as a database", or "this code, but with error handling elided", or "this code, but only with types and error handling", or "how components link together, as a graph", etc.), we can just tell LLMs to synthesize the views, and apply changes we make in them to the underlying code, and expect that to mostly work - even today.

It's just hell of an expensive way to get around doing it. But then maybe at least a real demonstration will convince people of the utility and need of doing it properly.

But then, by that time, LLMs will take over all software development anyway, making this topic moot.
by standardUser | 2025-06-17 18:36:08+00:00
Waymo has already lapped Tesla. They sell 250,000 rides per week and rising, for a total well over 10 million. That compares to precisely zero rides sold commercially by Tesla. It's possible Tesla could catch up, but first they need to stop losing ground and develop technology that can actually compete with their leading competitor. Plus, right now the Tesla brand is synonymous with the most obnoxious blowhard in America. Meanwhile the Waymo brand is on the way to becoming the "Kleenex" of self-driving technology.
by steveBK123 | 2025-06-17 18:36:15+00:00
Robotaxis are a pleasant experience now partially because, like early zipcar, it's mostly richer nerds using the service.

Over time they are going to run into all the problems of public infrastructure in low trust places like NYC where, unattended, you will have people use the backseat as a dining room, smoking lounge, bar and toilet. Time will tell how they deal with bad riders.
by Certhas | 2025-06-17 18:36:42+00:00
Wikipedia would beg to differ:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders_of_magnitude_(mass)

The table at right is based on the kilogram (kg), the base unit of mass in the International System of Units (SI). The kilogram is the only standard unit to include an SI prefix (kilo-) as part of its name. The gram (10−3 kg) is an SI derived unit of mass. However, the names of all SI mass units are based on gram, rather than on kilogram; thus 103 kg is a megagram (106 g), not a kilokilogram.

The tonne (t) is an SI-compatible unit of mass equal to a megagram (Mg), or 10^3 kg. The unit is in common use for masses above about 10^3 kg and is often used with SI prefixes. For example, a gigagram (Gg) or 10^9 g is 10^3 tonnes, commonly called a kilotonne.

One context where I have seen this used is carbon stocks, e.g. petagram of carbon (PgC):

https://www.pmel.noaa.gov/co2/story/Carbon+Cycle

Of course Gigatonne of Co2 is also found very frequently.
by bloak | 2025-06-17 18:36:50+00:00
"Nineteen eighty-four" is probably his most famous book, but many would say that "Animal farm" is a better book and that Orwell was best at writing essays, so make sure you've read a collection of his essays before you decide whether he was a good writer!

You're not wrong about Orwell being posthumously enlisted as an anti-Soviet propagandist, but "Animal farm" is beautifully written and makes perfect sense to a reader who knows nothing about (and has no interest in) the early history of the Soviet Union.
by bkraz | 2025-06-17 18:36:51+00:00
I measured the pure iron powder as well. It shows no measurable area inside the BH curve, which at first seems incorrect since the textbook retentivity value for pure iron is fairly high. The textbook may be referring to a single iron magnetic domain. In a practical sample (even a solid piece of iron, let alone powder in epoxy), there are likely many magnetic domains that cancel each other out, and "soft iron" is used commercially for the very reason that is has extremely low retentivity in bulk.
by bob1029 | 2025-06-17 18:37:00+00:00
If you really want to engineer web products for users at the edge of the abyss, the most robust experiences are going to be SSR pages that are delivered in a single response with all required assets inlined.

Client-side rendering with piecemeal API calls is definitely not the solution if you are having trouble getting packets from A to B. The more you spread the information across different requests, the more likely you are going to get lose packets, force arbitrary retries and otherwise jank up the UI.

From the perspective of the server, you could install some request timing middleware to detect that a client is in a really bad situation and actually do something about it. Perhaps a compromise could be to have the happy path as a websocketed react experience that falls back to a ultralight, one-shot SSR experience if the session gets flagged as having a bad connection.
by sjsdaiuasgdia | 2025-06-17 18:37:03+00:00
> I don't understand how you could look at Elon's actions and think he has any interest in making as much money as he can.

Oh totally. That's why when Tesla shareholders sued Tesla over Elon's massive compensation package, Elon said, "I reject the compensation package entirely. Pay me nothing! Actually, I'll pay you to let me work here!"
by encom | 2025-06-17 18:37:07+00:00
Your post triggered a deep seething hatred in me of stoves with touch anything. Last place I lived (rented) was a stove with touch buttons on the stove top, which was itself a glass surface. Never mind that it beeped annoyingly on every input. Operating it with wet hands was impossible. A common situation in a kitchen. But the worst was that, if anything boiled over, the touch buttons went bananas, and usually ended up shutting everything off. Adding further annoyance and inconvenience to the situation. Because I had limited countertop space, I often wanted to use the stove as a working surface (when not in use, obviously), but it had some godforsaken detector that registered when something was put on top of (or near) the buttons (capacitive or not), and it would continuously beep until you moved it. I mean I kind of get it as a safety feature, but on the other hand I also want to override the machine, tell it to fuck off because I'm in control of the situation, and we wouldn't even have this problem in the first place, if it wasn't for this touch garbage.

Whoever designed that thing should be fed feet first into a wood chipper.
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-06-17 18:37:26+00:00
> The performance is abysmal after ~32k.

Huh. We've not seen this in real-world use. 2.5 pro has been the only model where you can throw a bunch of docs into it, give it a "template" document (report, proposal, etc), even some other-project-example stuff, and tell it to gather all relevant context from each file and produce "template", and it does surprisingly well. Couldn't reproduce this with any other top tier model, at this level of quality.
by almosthere | 2025-06-17 18:37:30+00:00
LLMs don't hallucinate THAT badly, and if you're doing many calls for small pieces, it rarely makes those kinds of mistakes.

As far as international emitting of interfaces - yes it absolutely makes sense to do it this way. If you're asking for an address and the customer is in the US, the LLM can easily whip up a form for that kind of address. If you're somewhere else, it can do that too. There's no reason for bespoke interfaces that never get the upgrade because someone made it overly complicated for some reason.

Back in the day, AOP was almost a big thing (for a small subset of programmers). Perhaps what was missing was having a generalized LLM that allowed for the concern to be injected. Forgot your ALT tag? LLM, Not internationalized? LLM, Non-complicated Lynx compatible view? LLM
Chemistry-first dating that actually makes sense
by ryantrw | 2025-06-17 18:37:44+00:00
Hi HN - I built Tenr because I couldn’t stand to go on another date from a traditional dating app.

You match with someone you’ve never spoken to. You have no sense of their personality or their vibe. Yet, you jump straight into a 2 hour first date, plus commute time, plus getting ready time, plus money. This makes no sense.

You know within 10 minutes (often much faster) of meeting if you’re interested or not. But even if you know immediately it’s not gonna work, you sit there painfully asking about siblings, hobbies, etc. when you don’t care. You’re just waiting for enough time to pass so you can leave without being an asshole, though in reality you're wasting each other's time.

Tenr is a dating app that defaults to scheduling people into a time-capped 10-minute video date (called a Tenr - for a "ten minuter") to evaluate chemistry upfront, before committing time and money to someone. It ends automatically after 10 minutes no matter what.

After the Tenr, you say whether you want to meet in person or not. If you both want to meet, phone numbers are exchanged.

I used Cursor, Windsurf, and Codex (more recently) to write most of the code. It took only a few weeks to build. One of the biggest challenges has been de-stigmatizing video-first dating.

Hope you guys check it out. Happy to answer any questions, and looking forward to any feedback.

You can try it here: https://tenr.co

Deeper thesis behind the app: https://www.tenr.co/whitepaper
by savanaly | 2025-06-17 18:38:04+00:00
But the designs literally go from bad to good once people know how to use them. Unlike war, which is bad whether people are used to it or not. If you're insisting the hamburger design is bad for some other reason rather than people not knowing how to use it, it's the same mistake the designers made in the first place when they insisted it was good despite people not knowing how to use it.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-06-17 18:38:22+00:00
Thanks. I didn't realize 'patio11 even has a podcast, I'll definitely want to listen to that one.

> Unless of course people talking in any capacity is human interaction sounds, in which case, yes, every podcast is > 90% human interaction sounds.

No, I specifically mean all the thing that is not content - hellos, jokes, emoting, interrupting, exchanging filler commentary, etc. It may add character to the show, but from the POV of efficiently summarizing a topic, it's fundamentally even worse than the enterprisey BS fluff in the example in question.
by 2b3a51 | 2025-06-17 18:38:32+00:00
I saw Brendel perform Beethoven, Mozart and Schubert pieces at Symphony Hall in Birmingham some time ago. Google tells me it was 2008 [1].

The Schubert sonata in B flat was the last piece and I was in pieces, I've always found that one a roller-coaster. The hall was full, 2000+ people, and for a change plenty of younger people (I'm in my 7th decade and often I'm sort of lower quartile in age at some concerts).

We have the recordings at least.

[1] https://www.business-live.co.uk/retail-consumer/review-alfre...
by muppetman | 2025-06-17 18:38:51+00:00
I don't think that's the same, is it? That's just Spotify letting you play files on your local device. With YT Music you upload them from one device to the YT Music cloud, and then any device can access them/stream from the YT Cloud. You can't upload your music to Spotify, only use it to access media that's stored locally on your device.
by thatjoeoverthr | 2025-06-17 18:38:57+00:00
I would admit it could be possible that the iPhone is what slams the brakes while I'm slowly and cautiously reversing, or turned on the parking brake while I'm trying to move, but since the pairing wouldn't restore on start up, and I gave up on having Spotify or a good map app, in fact the phone was often not connected at all.
by xpointer | 2025-06-17 18:39:02+00:00
More specifically, The Humble Programmer is about "professionalizing" programming. In the '50s and '60s, programmers justified clever tricks due to the strict constraints of early machines. Dijsktra is saying enough already with that, we need to move to a neutral style and favor clarity above all else, so programmers can understand others' work. Esolangs, which often annihilate readability, give an excuse to show off technical feats that aren't justified in mainstream code, a return to the "Wild West" (as Backus put it) or early computing.
by BenjiWiebe | 2025-06-17 18:39:12+00:00
If your ISP is available during a power outage (as they should be) a UPS that only powers a WiFi router could be quite small/cheap.

Or you could use a Raspberry Pi or similar and a USB WiFi adapter (make sure it supports AP mode) and a battery bank, for an "emergency" battery-operated WiFi router that you'd only use during power outages.

EDIT: Unless your ISP's CPE (modem/whatever) runs on 5 volts, you'd need more than just a USB power bank to keep things going. Maybe a cheap amazon boost converter could get you the extra voltage option.
by rconti | 2025-06-17 18:39:13+00:00
Is this freeway stat per lane-mile? Rail often has 2 sets of tracks along a corridor, or at most 4. Roads have a lot more.

I'm guessing even a busy/congested freeway has a greater throughput per lane than transit; even with automobiles with only 1-2 people in it, vs a train that may have hundreds but pass only every few minutes at most.

One problem with roads is that once you get off the freeway, you need more roads to serve housing and businesses; and the size of those leaf nodes pushes businesses and houses all further apart from each other, necessitating MORE road trips and decreasing walkability.
by tshaddox | 2025-06-17 18:39:13+00:00
> I'm a bit surprised that the ISO8601 spec dictates that absent the Z the date-time ought to be interpreted as local

My understanding is that an ISO8601 timestamp with no offset simply means that no time zone is specified, like what the JS Temporal API calls a PlainDateTime. This is a reasonable concept, and to avoid footguns it should be impossible to implicitly convert such a timestamp to a timestamp with a time zone.

This concept isn’t representable as a JS Date, which will always have a time zone specified (always the local time zone).
by philips | 2025-06-17 18:39:29+00:00
I have a Tesla with HW3 and FSD is an absolute dangerous joke. It nearly pulled me into a curb on its first attempt to enter a freeway.

Also, I think it keeps getting overlooked that freeways are designed from the ground up as a exclusive use of motorized vehicles. FSD performs OK there. But, taxi services are everywhere in cities around the clock in all sorts of weather. And I can't imagine trusting FSD for that use case.
by officeplant | 2025-06-17 18:39:44+00:00
No they aren't? There is a collective industry move towards larger rims which actually means less tire, but sacrifices comfort in my opinion. But that industry move isn't for EV or ICE cars just a buying audience that seems to like larger rims.

Generally they use the same tires as normal cars/trucks/vans/suv's.

ie. My E-Transit uses the exact same tire as the regular Transit van because it was already rated for a vehicle that maxes out at nearly 10,000lb.
by kiitos | 2025-06-17 18:39:50+00:00
This repo is completely unsound, code like [1] is pervasive and demonstrates a total misunderstanding of what guarantees are provided -- or, really, not provided -- by "atomic" reads of unsafe.Pointer values. Data races everywhere!

Not safe, do not pass go, do not collect $200, absolutely do not use.

[1] https://github.com/sirgallo/cmapv2/blob/280e3017ae4ba212f6f8...
by vunderba | 2025-06-17 18:40:00+00:00
Well... kinda. WebP is a bit of an unusual format in that it supports both lossy and lossless forms of compression.

Most decent image editing software (Photoshop, Pixelmator, etc) will let you choose what you want.

https://www.adobe.com/creativecloud/file-types/image/raster/...

But if you're not a professional it would be easy to mix up the two and slowly end up with VHS level degradation.
by JCattheATM | 2025-06-17 18:41:05+00:00
> Sounds like redistribution and perhaps public performance of copyrighted content without a license.

Unless they take from a server with a more permissive license that had the right to distribute it...

Kind of hard to stop it since stuff being federated and re-distributed is kind of the point.

I guess you could refuse permission to corporations operating something like threads specifically.
by guptadeepak | 2025-06-17 18:41:13+00:00
I’ve led multiple B2B SaaS growth journeys and found that scaling tactics must evolve with each stage—what worked for 10 customers fails at 100. According to recent data, most founders underestimate mental shifts required at key inflection points. At the 10-100 customer stage, pattern recognition and repeatable systems are vital. Beyond 100, optimizing for leadership and efficiency matters more than sheer growth. Stage-appropriate metrics (like NRR >100% and CAC payback <12 months) are essential.

How are you adapting your ops and psychology for each growth phase?
by adgjlsfhk1 | 2025-06-17 18:41:26+00:00
depends what you mean by 3d. jpeg-xl does let you add arbitrary channels, so you could add a depth channel, but it's not going to do a good job for full 3d (e.g. light field/point cloud).

one place I think jxl will really shine is PBR and game textures. for cases like that, it's very common to have color+transparency+bump map+normal map, and potentially even more. bundling all of those into a single file allows for away better compression
by tuckerman | 2025-06-17 18:41:32+00:00
I'm a huge proponent of e2e learning for robotics (worked at two places doing e2e before Tesla adopted it) and personally believe its the right approach long term. I also have FSD on my Model 3 and love it for L2+. That said, my experience with disengagements is very different than yours.. I have a few a week for things like road works, school zones, route map following. Perfectly fine for L2+, L4 it would be unacceptable.

If these robotaxis end up looking more like my experience than yours then another layer of trouble will be root causing and fixing failure modes. Training models e2e makes both of these much more difficult.
by nunorbatista | 2025-06-17 18:41:34+00:00
Being a manager is not benefiting from other people's work, is to try my best to eliminate barriers so they can do their best work. That includes making them comfortable in the work environment. When you reach a point where you work with many people from different backgrounds, you really have to learn to adapt to people and accommodate to their ways of working.

If that means that I don't get triggered when they leave me a "hi" and never come back, that's fine by me.
by tshaddox | 2025-06-17 18:41:38+00:00
> At the least, I expected there would at least be a way for me to say "trust me JS, this date is UTC so please parse it that way" - but the only way I could find to force that to happen was to manually add a "Z".

FWIW, I always use parseISO from date-fns for this. I agree it’s bonkers that this is necessary!

https://date-fns.org/v4.1.0/docs/parseISO
by layer8 | 2025-06-17 18:42:03+00:00
The hamburger menu would be fine, even great, if it was a standard menu that every mobile app had in the same place with the same look [0]. But its purpose, positioning, and look is different in every app, so it’s just one more thing to click on to see what it does. It also doesn’t make sense as soon as you have more than one menu [1], or on the desktop — mostly because a single menu rarely makes sense on the desktop, and because an icon tends to be a much smaller pointer target compared to a regular labeled menu, for such a main entry point.

[0] like in Windows 1.0, I guess: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4e/Windows1.0.pn...

[1] unless it’s a secondary but universal menu like the Windows system menu in [0]
by softfalcon | 2025-06-17 18:42:05+00:00
If you are dropping packets and losing data, why would it matter if you're making one request or several?

Even if I SSR and inline all the packages/content, that overall response could be broken up into multiple TCP packets that could also be dropped (missing parts in the middle of your overall response).

How does using SSR account for this?

I have to deal with this problem when designing TCP/UDP game networking during the streaming of world data. Streaming a bunch of data (~300 Kb) is similar to one big SSR render and send. This is because standard TCP packets max out at ~65 Kb.

Believing that one request maps to one packet is a frequent "gotcha" I have to point out to new network devs.
by starik36 | 2025-06-17 18:42:29+00:00
I've tried it with various models. And 4o is really good given that it returns data at least 10 times faster. But if you ask it to fill out a Json document, o3 (or other reasoning models) is still better, more correct and predictable. Or at least, better enough to justify waiting a minute for the API call to return vs 3-5 seconds.
by lubujackson | 2025-06-17 18:42:51+00:00
I have been using o3 almost exclusively in Cursor now for my "vibe coding" project. I was able to get to a point with faster models before hitting a thrashing problem of forgetting about structure/not updating types/no using right types/ignoring existing functions, etc. Even when providing specific context. o3 rarely hits those issues and can happily implement a fully feature without breaking anything that touches multiple files. Speed is definitely an issue, but much less hassle on the back side.
by LENT4869 | 2025-06-17 18:43:17+00:00
Hi HN!

I'm a solo developer who built Quori, a Chromium-based browser that focuses on user-side security.

Features: - Requires a 12-word passphrase (RPS) to unlock before you can use the browser. - Blocks extensions, DevTools, new tabs, and address bar input until verification. - Records login attempts (success/failure) with a simple security log. - Auto locks after a timeout period for safety. - No external API calls; it's all handled locally.

This was a personal learning project to explore browser security at the Chromium level. I'd appreciate any feedback on design, security, or ideas for improvement!
by krunck | 2025-06-17 18:44:19+00:00
Ultimately the article offers Panoptic Smart Dust Sousveillance(PSDS) as a solution.

> “We would finally have an answer to Juvenal’s question from Roman antiquity “Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?’ (Who watches the watchers?),” said van Nedervelde. “And the answer will be: We, the people, the citizenry, ourselves — which would be wholly appropriate, in my view.”

Naive, in my view. Those in power would never consent to being surveilled. Especially when they could be profiting(power and money) off heightened surveillance and control of others.