MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ivewonyoung | 2025-06-05 12:55:21+00:00
"In California, the Tesla Model 3 Is Now Cheaper Than a Toyota Camry"

https://www.cnet.com/home/electric-vehicles/tesla-model-3-ch...

The average selling price for a new car in the U.S. was around $47K, both the Model 3 and some models of the Y come below that.
by throw0101b | 2025-06-05 12:55:35+00:00
I'm curious to know why resurrecting (e)Loran seems to be a hard sell:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loran-C

China built out a GNSS backup with it:

* https://www.gpsworld.com/china-completes-national-eloran-net...

* https://rntfnd.org/2024/10/03/china-completes-national-elora...

* https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/13/23/12703

And there's been some rumblings from Korea and UK:

* https://www.gpsworld.com/south-korea-partners-with-broadcast...

* https://www.gpsworld.com/uk-leading-the-west-in-pnt-with-clo...

but no major moves in most countries, even though there's a recognition of GPS/GNSS vulnerabilities by even the (US) military:

* https://fedtechmagazine.com/article/2022/05/dod-transportati...
Show HN: Maestro-Orchestrator – Containerized AI Council
by defqon1 | 2025-06-05 12:55:40+00:00
So.......some of you may have stumbled upon my first post a while back. Very early pre-alpha stuff. I wanted to post because after about a week I've got an early functional containerized version. You'll need your own API keys or .env configured with it [ i have guides and am a nerd with no friends feel free to msg me directly ]

Maestro-Orchestrator is an open orchestration system for coordinating multiple LLM agents. It uses a 66% quorum rule to reach consensus while preserving dissenting responses. Designed to prevent echo chambers and allow model conflict, not collapse into it.

New in v0.2: - Fully containerized FastAPI + React/Vite UI - Council view shows agent responses + live consensus - Supports OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, and OpenRouter APIs - Custom quorum logic with dissent retention <---WIP - One-line Docker deploy

Built for transparency, disagreement, and open evolution.
by DannyBee | 2025-06-05 12:55:43+00:00
Lawyer here

First - in the US, privacy is not a constitutional right. It should be, but it's not. You are protected against government searches, but that's about it. You can claim it's a core human right or whatever, but that doesn't make it true, and it's a fairly reductionist argument anyway. It has, fwiw, also historically not been seen as a core right for thousands of years. So i think it's a harder argument to make than you think despite the EU coming around on this. Again, I firmly believe it should be a core right, but asserting that it is doesn't make that true.

Second, if you want the realistic answer - this judge is probably overworked and trying to clear a bunch of simple motions off their docket. I think you probably don't realize how many motions they probably deal with on a daily basis. Imagine trying to get through 145 code reviews a day or something like that. In this case, this isn't the trial, it's discovery. Not even discovery quite yet, if i read the docket right. Preservation orders of this kind are incredibly common in discovery, and it's not exactly high stakes most of the time. Most of the discovery motions are just parties being a pain in the ass to each other deliberately. This normally isn't even a thing that is heard in front of a judge directly, the judge is usually deciding on the filed papers.

So i'm sure the judge looked at it for a few minutes, thought it made sense at the time, and approved it. I doubt they spent hours thinking hard about the consequences.

OpenAI has asked to be heard in person on the motion, i'm sure the judge will grant it, listen to what they have to say, and determine they probably fucked it up, and fix it. That is what most judges do in this situation.
by pqdbr | 2025-06-05 12:56:00+00:00
I don't understand this: article states it will drift as space debris for 55 years (!) before reentering the atmosphere? Why isn't this done immediately by just lowering it's orbit even further and letting it burn?

> The final steps included carefully lowering the satellite's orbit to decrease the risk of collisions and ensuring that all energy sources, such as fuel and batteries, are depleted to prevent the satellite from accidentally turning back on or creating debris. As Landsat 7 begins this decommissioned phase, it will drift silently in orbit for about 55 years before reentering Earth’s atmosphere.
by PaulHoule | 2025-06-05 12:56:04+00:00
A lot of people liked it but I thought it was "thoroughly pizzled" [1] and I was resentful about yet another unwanted product shoved down my throat. I guess I'm used to it when Microsoft is doing it but it just seemed Firefox should have done better.

[1] https://scatter.wordpress.com/2018/03/13/thoroughly-pizzled-...
by daniilkhanin | 2025-06-05 12:56:08+00:00
If we can imagine a metaphor to describe the unit-economy, a conveyor belt of customer service and revenue generation would be the best fit.

In fact, the unit economics at the input receives potential customers who came from scaling channels, and further going through the looms of business processes such as conversion, sales, costs, retention - bring profit to the business.

And if this is the case, then as with any conveyor belt, you can apply optimization tools, such as Goldratt's theory of constraints, which will allow you to find points of business growth.
by zppln | 2025-06-05 12:57:26+00:00
This is my experience as well.

People need to ask themselves what benefits Rust would bring to an high assurance system (e.g. DO-178C Level A). You're not gonna want to malloc mid-flight even if you have a borrow checker.

The entire point of e.g. DO-178C is to show that the software only does exactly what it is supposed to do under all assumptions and have any derived behavior fed back to the safety process for evaluation. Software can never in itself make a system safe.

All that aside, modern tooling may be more ergonomic etc so I'm not saying languages like Rust shouldn't be considered, they just aren't as useful here as I think a lot of people assume.
by somenameforme | 2025-06-05 12:57:30+00:00
A war doesn't end when a government is deposed, it ends when resistance ceases (which is generally because morale breaks). Up until, and including, the final day of US withdrawal in Afghanistan the Taliban were fiercely resisting. US troops rarely left their little green zones because they would have been killed, same as in Iraq. The media stopped meaningful coverage of the war relatively quickly, which I think led people to believe that meaningful resistance wrapped up relatively quickly, but that's not the case at all. The Taliban ended up killing at least 75,000 soldiers/security forces and wounding what was likely some large multiple of that.

All of the things you're discussing are not things that the US simply didn't bother to try to solve, but we were ultimately powerless to do so. Americans would never tolerate US soldiers dying by the tens to hundreds of thousands as would have happened if we actually tried to enforce order on foot. So we were left with proxy soldiers, contractors, and a money printing machine. But that simply wasn't enough to defeat the Taliban, let alone carry out the grand changes you mention.
by exceptione | 2025-06-05 12:57:33+00:00
I am in for better public documentation about the various software initiatives the EU supports in general. The reporting seems to follow the internal governments process and structure in form, rather than having some external user in mind.

The EU funds various highly useful, difficult projects across the globe. They make use of lean foundations who are highly knowledgeable in their area of expertise with a focus on delivering improvements for the public. The EU supports even non-EU citizens open source innovations, for example projects with a focus on novel p2p techniques, open hardware etc.

I have a problem with the general "omg public good, money waste" learned response from some other commenters. Neo liberal dogma's are just that, and they end up convincing the public to give consent to State capture. To me the more interesting critique would have been why DNS is not considered public infrastructure, instead of leaving that to commercial control only.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-06-05 12:58:14+00:00
JIRA might be like C++. It's OK if you just use a subset, and everyone uses the same one. If you use all of it, though, you get a mess.

The fundamental problem with JIRA is that it's trying to be usable for all the workflows in all companies in all the world. It's hard to do that simply.

And the problem with using it is that companies don't fix their workflow; they just try to port their existing workflow to JIRA. The result is that all the frustrations with the workflow turn into "frustrations with JIRA" (on top of the frustrations that are actually due to JIRA itself).
by ViewTrick1002 | 2025-06-05 12:58:19+00:00
Which you claim without a source and because you’ve decided that moving the goalpost to ”1 week of storage” is far enough to keep your point safe.

Without any data or science backing your claims.

This is really quite sad. You’ve entwined your identity with an energy source and can’t look objectively at what problems we need to solve and what those tools costs to use.
by versiqcontent | 2025-06-05 12:58:45+00:00
She disappeared in 2007. But the search never logged out.

At some point, a person can stop being just a person and become something else in the system, an object of recursive attention. Madeleine was three years old when she vanished. Eighteen years later, her name still loads. The same photo still circulates. The story is no longer current, but it’s never entirely gone either. It exists in a strange state of permanent visibility.

What happens when a name becomes infrastructure? When a case becomes ritual? When our relationship to disappearance becomes architectural, not something we seek to solve but something we continue to engage with digitally, rhythmically, almost like a loop?

There is no closure here. Not really. But there is presence. And repetition. And memory stored in systems that weren’t designed to forget.

This short essay reflects on that transition, from image to icon, from search to ritual. No answers, just attention.
by wkat4242 | 2025-06-05 12:58:59+00:00
Yes. Cloud is great for a very specific usecase. Venture capital startups which either go viral and explode, or die within a year. In those cases you need the capacity to automatically scale and also to only pay for the resources you actually use so you the service pays for itself. You also have no capex and you can drop the costs instantly if you need to close up shop. For services that really need infinite and instant scaling and flexibility, cloud is a genuinely great option.

However that's not what most traditional companies do. What my employer does, is picking up the physical servers they had in our datacenters, dump them on an AWS compute box they run 24/7 without any kind of orchestration and call it "cloud". That's not what cloud is, that is really just someone else's computer. We spend a LOT more now but our CIO wanted to "go cloud" because everyone is so it was more a tickbox than a real improvement.

Microservices, object storage etc, that is cloud.
by michaelcampbell | 2025-06-05 12:59:12+00:00
I'm reminded of a clip of Mark Cuban talking about his biggest WTF?'s from Shark Tank. One business owner made a product for $15 cost, and sold it for $30, but they were burning cash.

Mark's story is that he asked the owner about it and noticed she was offering free shipping "to make the customer happy". Cost of shipping was, of course, $16.
by buildfocus | 2025-06-05 12:59:18+00:00
This expectation is that this should not work - well behaved network devices shouldn't accept a blind GET like this for destructive operations. Plenty of other good reasons for that. No real alternative unless you're also going to block page redirects & links to these URLs as well, which also trigger a similar GET. That would make it impossible to access any local network page without typing it manually.

While it clearly isn't a hard guarantee, in practice it does seem to generally work as these have been known issues without apparent massive exploits for decades. That CORS restrictions block probing (no response provided) does help makes this all significantly more difficult.
by simiones | 2025-06-05 12:59:53+00:00
The point is not about superseding the law. The point is that if your company privacy policy says "we will not divulge this data to 3rd parties under any circumstance", and later they are served with a warrant to divulge that data to the government, two things are true:

- They are legally obligated to divulge that data to the government

- Once they do so, they are civilly liable for breach of contract, as they have committed to never divulging this data. This may trigger additional breaches of contract, as others may have not had the right to share data with a company that can share it with third parties
by pjc50 | 2025-06-05 12:59:56+00:00
> A fast explosive on the back of a neodynium magnet and a few coils of copper can make a hell of an EMP blast.

I'm having a hard time believing this is effective.

> The only reason we don't use them now is due to all the collateral damage

Russians don't care about collateral damage and there doesn't seem to be any evidence of them using such weapons?
by Xmd5a | 2025-06-05 13:00:05+00:00
The tasks these methods are tackling are generally significant and realistic. Think complex QA like HotPotQA or Google-Proof QA, math reasoning (GSM8K), coding challenges, and even agentic systems. It's not just about toy problems anymore.

Are the improvements robust? It's an evolving space, but the big win seems to be for smaller, open-source LLMs. These techniques can genuinely uplift them to near the performance of larger, proprietary models, which is massive for cost reduction and accessibility. For already SOTA models, the headline metric gains might be smaller single-digit percentages on very hard tasks, but this often translates into crucial improvements in reliability and the model's ability to follow complex instructions accurately.

"Textual gradient"-like mechanisms (or execution traces, or actual gradients over reasoning as in some newer work ) are becoming essential. Manually fine-tuning complex prompt workflows or prompts with many distinct nodes or components just doesn't scale. These automated methods provide a more principled and systematic approach to guide and refine LLM behavior.

So, less "spectacular" gains on the absolute hardest tasks with the biggest models, yes, but still valuable. More importantly, it's a powerful optimization route for making capable AI more efficient and accessible. And critically, it's shifting prompt design from a black art to a more transparent, traceable, and robust engineering discipline. That foundational aspect is probably the most significant contribution right now.
by brookst | 2025-06-05 13:00:10+00:00
This is not true even in the slightest.

The law is not a deterministic computer program. It’s a complex body of overlapping work and the courts are specifically chartered to use judgement. That’s why briefs from two parties in a dispute will often cite different laws and precedents.

For instance, Winter v. NRDC specifically says that courts must consider whether an injunction is in the public interest.
by basisword | 2025-06-05 13:00:27+00:00
We had Windows 2000 :) I look forward to Window 95 (v2) in 70 years. Number versioning is fine until you are releasing a new OS every year. Same with the phones. It's just too hard to keep track of at a certain point for consumers. yyyy.mm.dd style versioning is much better when you're releasing at the rate companies do these days imo.
by Hasnep | 2025-06-05 13:01:01+00:00
Having skimmed it, I had the opposite reaction, the wording is clunky in a way that I haven't seen LLMs do, it feels very human to me.

Stuff like

> Also the learning curve for Zig can be steep, especially for those unfamiliar with low-level programming concepts.

I don't think an LLM would start a sentence with "also" like that

> The small and simple syntax is an important part of the maintenance, as it is a goal of the language to allow maintainers to debug the code without having to learn the intricacies of a language they might not be familiar with.

The wording here feels like someone who's a fan of Zig taking a sentence praising Zig's design and trying to rework it into a slightly more neutral encyclopedia style.
by Vox_Leone | 2025-06-05 13:01:21+00:00
I'm working on an open-source system called SpinStep (just search GitHub) — it's a quaternion-driven traversal framework for orientation-based logic and spatial data structures.

It’s not directly tied to geolocation, but it could integrate nicely with something like Astradia. Since Astradia provides high-fidelity attitude data without relying on GNSS, SpinStep could use that orientation stream to drive autonomous behavior trees, scanning patterns, or state transitions — all without depending on coordinates or maps. Basically: orientation in, logic out.

Would love to hear from others thinking about orientation-first autonomy or mapless navigation.
by triceratops | 2025-06-05 13:01:36+00:00
Residential rooftop solar panels are an inefficient use of money. They're very expensive and most people don't get battery storage. Going all-electric (vehicles and heat pumps) and getting your utility to install solar and wind is much more effective. Or switching to a utility that has green options, in places where such an choice exists.

And the choice isn't "smaller ICE car" and "EV tank". There are many EV hatchbacks, sedans, and compact cars available, arguably more models than ICE vehicles in North America. Most ICE drivers are the ones who buy tanks anyway.
by michaelsshaw | 2025-06-05 13:02:24+00:00
This isn't flame bait, nor political battle. This is objective fact. Vietnam, Afghanistan(twice), Iraq(3 times), and far too many more to list. Operation Condor is a self-admitted terrorist operation committed by the CIA. The United States is responsible for the most despicable crimes against humanity the world has ever seen.

Meanwhile, other people in this topic are complaining about Tiananmen Square censorship and are not warned by the admins for "flame baiting" or "discussing politics". An explanation on that would be appreciated.

Expressing the fact that I'd much rather be spied on by a government that doesn't have a brutal track record like the US is hardly fulminating.
by catlifeonmars | 2025-06-05 13:02:38+00:00
You can use row based encryption and store the encrypted encryption key alongside each row. You use a master key to decrypt the row encryption key and then decrypt the row each time you need to access it. This is the standard way of implementing it.

You can instead switch to a password-based key derivation function for the row encryption key if you want the row to be encrypted by a user provided password
by Thorrez | 2025-06-05 13:02:46+00:00
>edit: localhost won't be restricted:

It will be restricted. This proposal isn't completely blocking all localhost and local IPs. Rather, it's preventing public sites from communicating with localhost and local IPs. E.g:

* If evil.com makes a request to a local address it'll get blocked.

* If evil.com makes a request to a localhost address it'll get blocked.

* If a local address makes a request to a localhost address it'll get blocked.

* If a local address makes a request to a local address, it'll be allowed.

* If a local address makes a request to evil.com it'll be allowed.

* If localhost makes a request to a localhost address it'll be allowed.

* If localhost makes a request to a local address, it'll be allowed.

* If localhost makes a request to evil.com it'll be allowed.
by Oreb | 2025-06-05 13:02:54+00:00
That “if” doesn’t apply to all of us, though. Not everybody is paid by the hour. I’d love to try something like Claude code, but $100 per month is way too expensive for me, and it probably wouldn’t even give me a single extra dollar of income. I think I’ll just wait for the time when local LLMs will be good enough to be a viable alternative.
by AStonesThrow | 2025-06-05 13:02:58+00:00
But why

for (I = I; I <= XIV; I++) { printf("Pope Leo %d is best Pope Leo!\n", I); }

Interestingly, the authors use circumlocutions to avoid naming the Arabic numerals for what they are, while the ones used in their example are known as Eastern Arabic Numerals.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_numerals_(disambiguatio...
by Hotdogsteve | 2025-06-05 13:03:03+00:00
When you dig into what people in the computer science world of the '60s-'80s were thinking about the future of computers, especially as parts became more and more miniaturized, what you find is a lot of them had a pretty strong grasp of where things were heading. Prediction is a tricky thing to give credit for after the fact, obviously, and it's near impossible to tell who is giving their honest forecast vs. who is cribbing some sci-fi plot point (to say nothing of how we interpret predictions to fit our current world), but having just finished The Soul of a New Machine the other day I was struck by the second half of the chapter "Going to the Fair" and its prescience for a computerized world that ended up being not that far off. Similarly, the BBC's Computer Literacy Project videos (thanks HN for that) has a series, aired in 1980, on silicon chips, and people in the first episode who are asked about the future of computers were also hitting things close to the mark.
by bayindirh | 2025-06-05 13:03:13+00:00
> Exactly. You need to infer that, it isn't stated directly.

I don't care. The site is doing something unusual. It's evident, it's enough to take a second look and think about it.

> Same like you need to guess, that "Unable to connect" means...

Again, as a layman, I don't care. As a sysadmin, I don't worry, because I can look into in three seconds flat. Also, Unable to Connect comes with its reasons in parantheses all the time.

We should think in simple terms.
by cmrdporcupine | 2025-06-05 13:03:20+00:00
I think I'm tired, after 20+ years of being around the language, of hearing C++ developers tell people "they're holding it wrong" every time something blows up. Blaming the victim.

C++ is a language seemingly designed with footguns built in on purpose. Even worse it has a community full of elitism and obscurantism.

Rust isn't perfect (I have my gripes), but it has the right idea with ownership management at the static type system level. Ada has its own positives around explicitness and bounds checking etc

C++ for new projects in safety critical sectors makes zero sense to me.
by throw0101b | 2025-06-05 13:03:28+00:00
> Perhaps it uses just the one star, the Sun, at daytime+clouds.

For marine celestial navigation, there are fifty-eight stars that are regularly used / have been standardized on:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stars_for_navigation

With electronics it may be possible to see more than with the naked eye ("Mark One Eyeball"), and have a larger 'almanac' with digital storage than is practical with paper.

As a side note: using only one star and the Sun would give you two lines of position, and they would potentially intersect at two locations, so if you don't have any estimate of your position you don't necessarily know where you are between the two:

* https://en.jeandusud.com/two-equations-for-celestial-navigat...

If you do have some idea, then you'd pick the intersection which is closest.