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by cogman10 | 2025-09-09 01:52:01+00:00
The problem is that the X isn't a particularly large SUV. The X is slightly wider and about 1ft longer.

And in many ways it's inferior to the Y. Tesla's mega casting and structural pack gives the Y excellent range and a lower weight for a cheaper battery.

I think the reason Tesla hasn't done mega casting and structural packs for the other lineups (besides the equipment costs) is because it'd make them eat into the revenue of the top tier models. A model 3 cutting down several hundred pounds would be range competitive with the model S. The shorter range LFP batteries could still land you in previously long range land.
by satisfice | 2025-09-09 01:52:23+00:00
A bubble that will pop is the one where they say that AI will replace creative humans. This is certainly wrong, because it requires consumers to stop being fans of actual people.

Consider XKCD. Will I lose interest in Randall Munroe because an AI thing will auto-generate any number of XKCD-style comics? Of course not.

The proliferation of AI has been compared to the proliferation of polyester.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-09-09 01:53:58+00:00
> How do I reach out to more people?

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=how+to+find+customers

https://www.ycombinator.com/library/Ip-how-to-get-your-first...

https://web.archive.org/web/20231211111753/https://www.indie...

https://web.archive.org/web/20230519174725/https://www.indie...
Ask HN: How do developers learn design intuition?
by mercat | 2025-09-09 01:55:09+00:00
As the title says: as a programmer and a wanna-be solopreneur, I often catch myself thinking way more about app architecture than about what actually matters for the user experience and satisfaction. Stuff like the API between frontend and backend, how the components are laid out, what data structures I’ll need, which questions the database queries answer. Which abstractions to introduce and how early in the development lifecycle, how to organize files so I do not confuse myself later.

On the flip side, when I build something, I am doing it for customer satisfaction. Any tool or product should solve someone’s problem. I can sketch a Problem Statement. And I can more or less orchestrate the code - how to capture the problem, solve it and pass the results along.

But showing it — that is the main problem for me. Yes, I can work in Figma. Yes, there are decent AI tools for generating designs now, but they mostly spit out the same thing. And a UI that looks average at best. It feels like as soon as I touch design, I start thinking it is not quite what I like and I often drift back to what I do like — app architecture, how everything connects and all that I already described. Wireframes are one thing, but when it gets to higher fidelity design, I end up leaning on pre-packaged UI tools and libraries like shadcn and similar stuff.

I would love to internalize at least a bit of the intuition that seasoned designers have, the folks who have done this for years and know how to lay things out.

I also get that this is like a designer asking a developer how to become a developer while knowing only 10% of what devs know and still shipping. But I will be a bit bold and say that visual design and the tools we have to create it still have fewer dimensions than software development.

I think it is also clear from my post that I have consumed tons of content and taken design courses, but nothing sticks (even after applying some to practice). If you are a developer who also designs, what advice would you give? Are there any foundational rules you can stick on the wall and lean on before you dive into a design from one angle or another? And how do you usually validate a design? Especially for views that are data heavy or where the user needs tools to get the job done, so they do not have to click too much to reach a goal.
by williamstein | 2025-09-09 01:55:24+00:00
They have a bunch of claims comparing this to JuiceFS at https://www.zerofs.net/zerofs-vs-juicefs

I am in no way affiliated with JuiceFS, but I have done a lot of benchmarking and testing of it, and the numbers claimed here for JuiceFS are suspicious (basically 5 ops/second with everything mostly broken).
by crazygringo | 2025-09-09 01:55:56+00:00
> I’d rather check my email (or other X app) once or twice a day, if that, and catch up on low priority things, rather than get interrupted 5-10 times a day for these low priority things.

Nobody's saying you're wrong. That's great.

I'm just saying there are also people who are the opposite, and their way of doing it is also valid and works great for them.

Also, stuff on HN and YouTube isn't for you personally, and it doesn't need your reply, so it's not really an analogy for personal messages.
by jmclnx | 2025-09-09 01:57:54+00:00
From my experience, 6 years is about right, maybe a slighty longer than normal.

When IBM purchased Lotus, they pretty left it alone left it alone for 5 years. In 2000 changes started to be forced on Lotus and in a year or two, it was gone.

So, IBM bought RH in 2019, it is now 2025, that seems to have followed their play book almost exactly. I also think other large acquisition proceeded the same way.

Well, luckily there are other distros out there should IBM/RHEL stumble during this "assimilation".
by andsoitis | 2025-09-09 01:58:24+00:00
> As the link you provided shows Tesla's revenues have been flat almost 3 years now.

2024: $97.69 B, i.e. +0.95% vs. 2023

2023: $96.77 B, i.e. +18.8% vs. 2022

2022: $81.46 B, i.e. +51.35% vs. 2021

So flat for 1 year (going into 2024) and we don't yet know 2025 numbers, which is less pessimistic than your "almost 3 years flat".
by PaulHoule | 2025-09-09 01:58:39+00:00
One radical answer that question which is often neglected for the facile "regulations" explanation is that we quit building coal burning power plants at the same time we quit building nuclear plants because the steam turbine and heat exchanger cost too much compared to natural gas plants.

If that's really the case then a Gen 4 reactor that runs at higher temperature, uses printed circuit or other advanced heat exchangers and a Brayton cycle gas turbine could win on the capital cost but it's easier said than done. There's not a lot of hope I think the LWR but the BWRX300 is at least trying to do it by deleting the heat exchanger and the only way you're going to get costs down radically will be by deleting things. Commercial Gen 4 reactors are at least 20 years out and we should have gotten started 20 years ago.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-09-09 01:59:29+00:00
> The other thing to keep in mind is that thanks to the electoral college, that percentage of viewers translates to a higher percentage of electoral votes.

Except that it's the opposite. The Dakotas are over-represented in the electoral college but getting them from 60% Republican to even 99% Republican wouldn't gain them a single electoral college vote. Meanwhile states like Michigan and Ohio where changing minds could change outcomes are under-represented in terms of electoral college votes.

But the vote allocations are the least impactful part of the electoral college. If you got rid of the +2 electoral college votes for each state independent of its population, votes in Arizona would still matter more than California. The primary thing the electoral college does isn't to give red states slightly more power than blue states, it's to give swing states dramatically more power than safe states.
by coldcode | 2025-09-09 01:59:41+00:00
I make an unusual kind of art, but I haven't tried selling it, as you need a stable of interested people, and I can only post it in one place at the moment (a Facebook interest group on tiling, Instagram is overrun with AI, you can't start a new profile without lots of existing supporters). I've considered opening a gallery in my local area just to sell my art (5 million people in the metro, and barely a real commercial art gallery). My overhead would be just me and a location. The idea of selling art for tens or hundreds of thousands seems nuts.

I do see that there are too many galleries in places, selling too many artists, to too many people, with massive overhead (in the story, the gallery had $100k+ a month in expenses). Also, it's hard to make something new that is still saleable, almost every kind of art is basically something people did 50 or even 100 years ago; I look at art people are selling all the time, and most is not anything different. The best stuff is from people that hardly anyone knows, who like me just make something different because they want to.

I'd love to sell it online, but without an audience, no one will visit. I could sell it at https://www.saatchiart.com, but they don't really market most of what they have. You have to drag people there. Plus they take 30% or 40% (50% is normal for galleries). Locally, in the right location, people see your art, and stop by. It's just the pain of setting it up, and then sitting there while you wait!

Mentioned it here before, https://andrewwulf.com if interested.
by southernplaces7 | 2025-09-09 01:59:44+00:00
>But solar isn't built like nuclear. Solar involves parallel exploration of device designs at very small scale, installed with massive redundancy and resilience. The real cost decline driver is manufacturing automation. Nuclear, even SMRs, have orders of magnitude coarser granularity.

Because the level of permitted development without being crushed by onerous regulatory burdens has been absurdly hamstrung on nuclear. All of the issues you add as "but" cases are things that many different innovations in a fluid market for research could have refined. The same has been done for many complex technologies over the decades, yet for nuclear there's always some excuse like the ones you mention. The comment you replied to is right. We're talking about something that since decades ago could have been improved enormously, and hasn't been thanks to a multitude of stupidities.

The United States Navy trusts extremely compact reactors (designed and working despite the DoD's notoriously lax financial and schedule stringency with defense contractors) to power its absolute most important, costly, defense-crucial war machines, and regularly docks them right inside the country's (and world's) largest urban areas, but somehow there's just no way to make nuclear power for civilian use more compact, cheaper and effective?
by JustExAWS | 2025-09-09 01:59:55+00:00
You know you’re arguing my point for me that universal health care provided by taxpayer funds is better than depending on your employer for health care?

And becoming a permanent resident of Costa Rica is just a matter of either proving you have $1000 a month in guaranteed income as a retiree or $2500 a month in passive income or put $60K in a local bank account and they will dispense $2500 a month to you. They don’t tax foreign income.
by ropable | 2025-09-09 02:00:24+00:00
A review from having used this project seriously for three months (self-hosted on a small NAS device, deployed/updated via Docker Compose): it's great. The web application is stable and very configurable (though ML performance will depend on the host). The Android web app is excellent, and a drop-in replacement for Google Photos. I'm still running the two side-by-side until they get to a stable release, but I wouldn't hesitate to recommend this as a self-hosted solution.
by MBCook | 2025-09-09 02:00:45+00:00
Oh there certainly is. And there’s a reason Apple works hard for really fast single core performance. For a lot of tasks it still matters.

I suspect one of the issues is that pushing the clock is a really easy way to get an extra 2% so you can claim the crown of fastest or try to win benchmarks. It’s easy to fall into a trap of continuing to do that over and over.

But we know the long-term result. You end up blasting out a ton of heat and taking up a ton of power, even though you may only be 10% faster than a competitor who did things differently. Or worse you try to optimize for ever increasing clocks and get stuck like the Pentium 4.

As said up thread, no one really compares Apple CPU speeds with megahertz. That’s partially because Apple doesn’t talk about it or emphasize it which makes it more difficult, and partially because it’s not like you have a choice anyway.

It would never happen but it would be interesting to see how things would develop if it was possible to simply ban talking about clock speeds somehow. What would that do to the market?
by Nursie | 2025-09-09 02:01:37+00:00
I mean, not just the UK - it eventually changed in the US, but anything deemed too strong to crack was classified as a munition for a while in the 90s and 00s, and some things are still banned from being shipped to some places -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_from_th...

"It's just math, you can't ban it" has never been true.
by ack_complete | 2025-09-09 02:02:05+00:00
> Detection of available extensions: we usually have to rely on OS to query available extensions since the `misa` register is accessible only in machine mode.

Not a RISC-V programmer, but this drives me crazy on ARM. Dozens of optional features, but the FEAT_ bits are all readable only from EL1, and it's unspecified what API the OS exposes to query it and which feature bits are exposed. I don't care if it'd be slow, just give us the equivalent of a dedicated CPUID instruction, even if it just a reserved opcode that traps to kernel mode and is handled in software.
by bsder | 2025-09-09 02:02:49+00:00
> You can thank CAFE er al for that.

Somewhat, but I'll blame business finance way, way, way more.

The US automakers are doing the exact same dumbass thing they did in the 1970s with "BIGGER!-shouted (and more profitable)-whispered" until the Japanese automakers showed up and wiped the floor with them.

Well, BYD is coming and is going to wipe the floor with them.

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
by airobus | 2025-09-09 02:04:20+00:00
Hey! Thank you so much for playing my game and for taking the time to write such thoughtful feedback. I truly appreciate it!

That's an excellent question, and you're right that the first few levels are designed to feel very familiar to ease players in. The main differences in Enhanced Queens Game really start to shine on the more complex boards:

The Colored Regions: My version adds a third, crucial rule – you must have only one queen per colored region, in addition to one per row and column. This introduces a new layer of spatial reasoning that completely changes the strategy.

The Adjacency Rule: Queens cannot be placed in any of the 8 squares immediately surrounding another queen (horizontally, vertically, or diagonally).

And thank you especially for the feedback on the crown's visibility for players with color blindness. This is incredibly helpful and something I hadn't fully considered. Accessibility is very important, and I will definitely work on a fix to improve the contrast or add a more distinct visual indicator for the queens. I've logged this as a high-priority task.

Thanks again for the fantastic feedback! It's invaluable for a solo developer like me. I hope you'll give some of the later levels a try and see the new mechanics in full action!
by simondotau | 2025-09-09 02:04:54+00:00
It was funny a decade ago, now it’s no longer funny… but it’s still completely relevant. Battery bullshit is still as prevalent as ever.

Toyota, for example, is seemingly trying to outdo Musk’s “self driving next year” claims with their own “solid state batteries next year” claims. Toyota have been making these promises for nearly a decade now, and it looks like Musk’s lies will come true before Toyota ever ships a single solid state battery to a customer.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-09-09 02:05:21+00:00
More than half of vehicles sold in China currently are battery electric or plug in hybrids. Similar for 25% of global vehicle sales as of this year. Batteries have already won, it’s just how fast they scale up that’s up for discussion.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/china-car-sales-hit-2025-1226...

https://about.bnef.com/insights/clean-transport/global-elect...

https://www.iea.org/reports/global-ev-outlook-2025

https://web.archive.org/web/20250904191345/https://www.ftpor...
by neilv | 2025-09-09 02:07:08+00:00
IMHO, Toyota did an awesome job of taking the 2004 Prius funny wedge compact eco-nerd-mobile look (which might have been exactly what it needed at the time), and making it look sleek and modern and powerful.

I'm imagining a designer looking at the earlier windshield slant, and knowing they could work with that, and retain references to the iconic earlier design.
by MBCook | 2025-09-09 02:07:13+00:00
At the same time they have a guaranteed customer who will buy the chips. How many other companies would be willing to try a process with a 30% success rate?

I think Apple helps them with money (loan?) to get some of the equipment or build the new lines. In exchange they get first shot at buying capacity.

And of course Apple is certainly paying for the privilege of the best process. At least more than other companies are willing. And they must buy a pretty tremendous volume across a couple of sizes.

It benefits both companies, otherwise they wouldn’t do it.
by lmkg | 2025-09-09 02:07:21+00:00
They weren't "just" raw dumps of internal C structures. It takes careful design work to dump raw memory in a usable fashion. Consider: You can't just write a pointer to disk and then read it back next week.

Binary MS Office format is a phenomenal piece of engineering to achieve a goal that's no longer relevant: fast save/load on late-80's hard drives. Other programs took minutes to save a spreadsheet, Excel took seconds. It did this by making sure it's in-memory data structures for a document could be dumped straight to disk without transformation.

But yes, this approach carries a shitton of baggage. And that achievement is no longer relevant in a world where consumer hardware can parse XML documents on the fly.

I have heard it argued, though, that the "baggage" isn't the file format. It's actually the full historical featureset of Excel. Being backwards-compatible means being able to faithfully represent the features of old Excel, and the essential complexity of that far outweighs the incidental complexity of how those features were encoded.
by BrenBarn | 2025-09-09 02:07:54+00:00
Other commenters already mentioned that the current situation in the US shows how fragile this "ironclad" norm is. Aside from that, though, the fourth amendment wouldn't necessarily prevent a law that requires companies to scan the data and creates certain liabilities if they don't. The weakness in the US's version of such "rights" is that none of them are actually guarantee that any individual rights are to be protected against all comers; they restrict the government from doing certain things but allow private actors to do those same things.
by fluoridation | 2025-09-09 02:08:24+00:00
Nah, man. I work in the space and I was there. NFTs were the second attempt on an earlier idea that had already been discarded as pointless: supply chain management. The problem with NFTs was the same as with supply chains; there's no link between the blockchain and IRL, so the blockchain doesn't really add anything, just makes things more complicated. NFTs were therefore a tool to part fools from their money right from the start, because they couldn't be anything else.
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-09-09 02:11:16+00:00
It's a stretch. Basically the speculators moved into NFTs, which scratched the gambling itch, and NFTs and other forms of crypto made money laundering much more straightforward.

The art part of the market - in the sense of original creativity that means something to someone - had become a footnote. And large parts of it were more about performance than craft.

So resale values collapsed, and now everyone is walking through the rubble and wondering if there's anything left to rebuild.

AI is both completely irrelevant to this and absolutely central, but for non-obvious reasons.
by moonshinefe | 2025-09-09 02:12:56+00:00
I wish I could go back and experience soulslikes for the first time! They really are a treat if you experience them as you describe (not everyone feels that way, but I certainly do).

You're in luck because that subgenre has exploded in popularity and there are a lot of good ones out there if you want to keep playing them these days. Elden Ring is one of the best though for sure.
by asdfasvea | 2025-09-09 02:13:00+00:00
You've not been paying attention. Laws can be undone easily with laws.

Pass your 'no KOSA' law. And then when they want KOSA, they just pass KOSA with a sentence that says this KOSA law supersedes prior 'No KOSA' laws.

You need to limit their power to do that and the only way is constitutionally.
by foobarian | 2025-09-09 02:15:35+00:00
Thanks for those details! I came along a similar trajectory, starting when we had our first kid which happened right around the time when phone cameras got good. Which means many gigabytes of video from phones filling up monthly.

I actually ended up building something like immich just a bit more halfbaked for our home use, that could take the whole /MobileSync iOS backup and pull out anything that looks like a photo or video. That way our workflow was, back up the phone in iTunes, let the app process the MobileSync backup, confirm they are visible, and hit the delete all button on the phone. Rinse, repeat. The storage was on a beige box with a couple mirrored drives.

At this point the collection is about a terabyte, which is not extreme by modern home lab standards. My main remaining concern at this point is that the file system is just plain ext4. Even though I mirror the collection on a regular schedule, more and more I am wondering if there is a chance of bitrot since as far as I know none if it is checksumed. I would love a solution that periodically scans objects on the file system. I would love to have an easy way to tell which of the copies is the corrupted one, since with two copies in my case I can't take the majority.

p.s. and I guess one question for you, do you think I would benefit from switching to immich for part of this workflow? I'm thinking I can't just throw raw iOS backups at it so maybe I need a bit of preprocessing there, but otherwise let it take over the cataloging and just keep the underlying storage backed up.
by dwa3592 | 2025-09-09 02:16:10+00:00
Y’all are missing a few key points.

- There is a ML model which was trained on 31 hours of silently spoken text. That’s the training data. You still need to know the red fruit in front of you is called apple bc that’s what the model is trained on. So you must be literate to get this working.

- The accuracy in the paper is on a very small text type, numerals. As much as I could understand, they asked users to do mathematical operations and they checked the accuracy on that. Someone with a deeper understanding please correct me.

- Most of the video demo(honestly) is meh, once you have the text input for a LLM, you are limited to what the LLM can do. The real deal is the ml model that translates the neuromuscular signals to actual words. Those signals must be super noisy. So training a model with only 31 hours of data is a bit surprising and impressive. But the model would probably require calibration for each user’s silent voice, like say this sentence silently , “a quick brown fox jumped over the rope”. I think this will be cool.

- I really hope this tech works. I really really hope they don’t sell to big tech jerks like Meta. I really really really hope this tech removes screens from our lives(or at least a step in the right direction).
by anorwell | 2025-09-09 02:17:18+00:00
Seems like a really interesting project! I don't understand what's going on with latency vs durability here. The benchmarks [1] report ~1ms latency for sequential writes, but that's just not possible with S3. So presumably writes are not being confirmed to storage before confirming the write to the client.

What is the durability model? The docs don't talk about intermediate storage. Slatedb does confirm writes to S3 by default, but I assume that's not happening?

[1] https://www.zerofs.net/zerofs-vs-juicefs