MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jrochkind1 | 2025-09-09 02:17:39+00:00
This was my question and wasn't clear to me at all from the announcement -- that there was a roadmap for my own (not Signal cloud) cross-platform, incremental, secure encrypted backups as well.

(That presumably would let me store as much as I wanted without a fee).

I wasn't even aware of the existing "local backup feature" making it more confusing -- but reading the announcement I was like, wait, the only backups avail are in Signal cloud? that doesn't seem right, why can't I get my own backup file to do what I want with?

I feel like I now understand, thanks! Personally would recommend the announcement at least reference this future roadmap too, for clarity.
by apurvanataraj | 2025-09-09 02:18:07+00:00
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by mh- | 2025-09-09 02:18:58+00:00
And if we're including the RAV4, then you probably also need to include Chevy and Ford's pickup offerings, which would also be far ahead of any Tesla.

(And yes, a quick google confirms[0] the RAV4 is ahead of any Tesla offering this year.)

[0]: https://www.caranddriver.com/news/g64457986/bestselling-cars...

edit: see replies, this is US-only.
by ncr100 | 2025-09-09 02:19:14+00:00
Politics aside, Musk is lying there -- or at least telling some people what they want to hear while behaving differently elsewhere .. politics aside.

Tesla's received favorable attention for it's "claim" they are (were?) working on a $30k car.

And that techno-ideological claim that "all you need for self-driving is a camera" is a cost-savings solution. [ A robotics prof, ( I think at a university in Philadelphia ? ) cites a statistic that camera based navigation will succeed 97% of the time, max. So, 3% failures over all scenarios. ]
by roywiggins | 2025-09-09 02:19:49+00:00
MTP is so slow that when I have enough photos and videos on my phone, Windows will crap itself and stall out just trying to list the folder. It's functionally unusable and I don't know how I'd get those files off the phone if I didn't use literally anything else. If it was mass storage I could just rsync it over USB but it isn't so I can't.

I ended up using rclone on Windows with an rsync server running on the phone, I think sshd4a usually.
by randycupertino | 2025-09-09 02:20:11+00:00
I low key have a conspiracy theory that the "1 trillion dollar pay package" is just Tesla PR fluff - smoke and mirrors to steal attention away from the poorly performing cybertruck sales and falling stock. If they spin news with dramatic flair highlighting Musk’s bonkers pay package it's a distraction from Tesla’s more immediate and tangible troubles, political alienation of their buyers and ongoing regulatory and manufacturing operational crises.
by userbinator | 2025-09-09 02:20:52+00:00
Interesting to see this show up literally the day after I post a comment with this 11-year-old article on the same topic:

https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/188396-the-final-isa-sho...

It is a little ironic to see AMD making the backwards-compatibility argument, when they were the ones who made the very inelegant AMD64, had some known differences to Intel's CPUs in some edge-cases, and then much later, https://www.os2museum.com/wp/vme-broken-on-amd-ryzen/

There are some very-low-power x86 SoCs which are largely found in embedded systems; the most famous of these may be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vortex86
by hyperadvanced | 2025-09-09 02:21:19+00:00
OTOH, Cybertruck is one of the only original car designs in modern memory. It’s dumb as hell, but I like it. That said, I have no idea who it’s for, I wouldn’t buy one. But I respect them for designing such a ridiculous vehicle, and for it actually being able to sell, albeit somewhat poorly compared to expectations.

I say all of this as a recent $TSLA bear with a healthy short position.
by transcriptase | 2025-09-09 02:22:11+00:00
Here’s one of many articles about the phenomenon:

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2022/11/17/meta-disciplined-or-fire...

A related scheme is the existence of brokers who will, for a fee, recover banned or locked accounts. User pays the broker $X, broker pays their contact at Meta $Y, and using internal tooling suddenly a ban or suspension that would normally put someone in an endless loop of automated vague bullshit responses gets restored.
by zer00eyz | 2025-09-09 02:22:36+00:00
Your site is very much letting the work down.

You dropped me onto a page with no sense of range or scope. Clicking around results in some very "odd" perceptions about what it is your putting out.

Categorize them so they can be filtered (colored, geometric, organic), load randomly by those tags or at least put a breadth of samples out front.

I like your stuff, but you need to have a better introduction and better access for it.
by drzaiusx11 | 2025-09-09 02:23:15+00:00
This article is a bit all over the map with discussions of high trust societies and their relation to language design and software dependency management.

That said I think the final takeaway is that systems that allow you to pin versions, vendor all those dependencies and resolve/reproduce the same file tree regardless of who's machine it's on (let's assume matching architectures for simplicity here) is the goal.

Note that removing 'manually' here, this still works:

> Copying and vendoring each package {manually}, and fixing the specific versions down is the most practical approach to keeping a code-base stable, reliable, and maintainable.

The article's emphasis on the manual aspect of management of dependencies is a bit of loss, as I don't particularly believe it _has to be manual_ in the sense of manually copying files from their origin into your file tree; that certainly is a real world option, but few (myself included) would take that monk-like path again. I left this exact situation in C land and would not consider going back unless adopting something like ninja.

What the OP is actually describing is a "good" package manager feature set and many (sadly not most/all) do support this exact feature set today

PS I did chuckle when they defined evil in terms of something that gets you to dependency hell faster. However, we shouldn't be advocating for committing the same sins of our fathers.
by Nursie | 2025-09-09 02:23:43+00:00
Why?

Democracy is being served. People want this stuff. HN people maybe not, but let's not pretend we represent anything but a noisy minority. It's entirely democratic AFAICT, "think of the children" and "think of the terrorists" won the argument some time ago.

Free speech is not held as an absolute in many countries as it is in the US, and never has been. It is in a bad state in some places (the UK seems to be performing poorly on this measure) but a lot of places feel the right to spew whatever toxic lies spring to mind without consequences might not be entirely healthy either.

Justice? I think justice is performed better in many European nations than most of the rest of the world.

And freedom... lots of people like to claim the US is the most free place on earth, but it's really not clear that's true. There are freedoms in other countries not enjoyed in the US. Here in Australia for example, I am free to collect the rainwater and filter it for my drinking-water supply, something that's not true in every state.
by MBCook | 2025-09-09 02:24:24+00:00
Whatever the hardware cost is it must pale in comparison to trying to implement the instructions set directly. Wasn’t that the huge benefit of the Pentium Pro?

The main reason to have both A and M series chips, I think, is related to which custom processors are available as well as how many of each. There’s no point in putting the full GPU from an M4 into a cell phone, it’s just gonna waste a ton of power.
by const_cast | 2025-09-09 02:24:24+00:00
Gmail's magic algorithms are notoriously unreliable. When they work they work, but when they don't, they really don't. And you won't know, because them not working means you won't get any kind of notification they don't work.

I've gotten direct responses sent to my spam. I've gotten emails, WITH ATTACHMENTS, sent to my spam from a known email address. Its a good thing I check my spam. Many (most?) don't.
by FireBeyond | 2025-09-09 02:24:59+00:00
I think there's something else going on there, although yes, that was the statement.

> Tesla’s head of sales for Canada, emphasized in a March 28 letter that the filings followed program guidelines, which allowed post-delivery submissions despite recommendations for pre-delivery assessments.

but this alludes to something more:

> Despite the clearance, Tesla will still be excluded from future iZEV programs

Huh. Why, I wonder?
by jmward01 | 2025-09-09 02:25:39+00:00
There is a lot of discussion of the brand being hurt, but I will say that personally I just don't want a new car period and Tesla specifically in large part because of privacy concerns. My understanding it that Tesla is one of the worst offenders in a group of massively offensive (to privacy) options. Are there actually privacy preserving options left in the market at all and in the EV market specifically? If Tesla promised, and delivered, privacy (actually didn't track) it would go a long way to rehabilitating them as a brand in my eyes. It probably wouldn't be enough, but I would at least look at them again.
Show HN: Yapyap – a simple and fast dictation for Linux using whisper.cpp
by lxe | 2025-09-09 02:26:00+00:00
I was looking for a push-to-talk tool that allows me to just paste my speech transcription automatically into whatever application I'm using.

I wasn't able to find anything simple enough that works, so I built my own. For now, it's just a basic CLI that works on Linux only using whisper.cpp.

It is incredibly simple. You hold down the buttons, say stuff, release and then it will pipe the transcription lines to stdout.

I'm using it to write this comment :)
by asadotzler | 2025-09-09 02:26:15+00:00
I chatted with Dean Hachomovich at a blogging conference as he was copying our (Firefox) tabbed browsing and RSS implementations. Soon after, a MS lawyer reached out to me to ask what they needed to do to re-use our RSS icon in the upcoming IE 7 release. We gave them the okay. I still have the jacket he gave me with "Longhorn loves RSS" on it.
by wilg | 2025-09-09 02:26:19+00:00
"even has political statements in it" is a wild take. It would be journalistic malpractice to not mention the political context.

If your CEO bribes voters to help elect a traitorous pedophile and then personally (and illegally) cuts aid funding directly causing hundreds of thousands of deaths and all of that hurts business, that's something you have to include for context! That's some crazy stuff!
by mandevil | 2025-09-09 02:26:51+00:00
It's complicated. Tesla sales rose 7% in July, month-over-month, but the expiration of subsidies hangs over the whole thing. This factor caused total EV sales in the US to jump 24%, month-over-month, as a whole bunch of sales got pulled from future quarters to the present. But because of the expiration of subsidies, those sales that got pulled ahead into July will probably not be there in September or October. This is why outside analysts expect that for 2025 as a whole, Tesla car sales numbers will decline versus 2024 as a whole. 2024 for Tesla as a whole, incidentally, was a 1.1% sales decrease over 2023. Two consecutive years of sales decline is a big warning sign, especially for a company that is considered a growth stock.
Show HN: A deep reading tool for those engaging with cutting-edge knowledge
by mngrwl | 2025-09-09 02:26:54+00:00
Hi everyone, I'm Aman, the creator of DenseWiki.org.

DenseWiki is an experimental deep reading tool.

It aims to amplify human ability to read hard content (research papers, technical articles etc) OUTSIDE our expertise, by rapidly learning new disciplines on the fly.

Here's the key idea (as demonstrated in the video on the website):

When you read something in a new discipline (let's say a paper using AI for biochem, and you nothing about biochem), the challenge is jumping right into an OCEAN of knowledge. You're prone to feel lost and overwhelmed.

DenseWiki's approach is that using the browser extension, if you come across any jargon, it identifies the ONLY few relevant concepts / knowledge you need at that moment, help you quickly become familiar with those few concepts with one click, and let you continue reading.

So as you read, you're able to INCREMENTALLY build your familiarity with the new field and SMOOTHLY expand your knowledge graph, without getting lost — and you're able to engage with the content you want from day 1!

Furthermore, it uses gamification to help you build a consistent deep reading habit.

It also simultaneously builds a global knowledge graph — i.e. if you identify a novel concept introduced in a paper that came out only yesterday, you can add it to DenseWiki immediately. So as more people use it, it can become more current than any LLM or blog or web encyclopedia over time.

Looking forward to feedback.

P.S. You'll have to download a browser extension, but if you don't want to sign up, you can log into this test account directly:

Email: team+hn@densewiki.org

Password: HACKERNEWS
by BrenBarn | 2025-09-09 02:26:55+00:00
> 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.

There's a bit more to it than the +2 electoral votes from the senate, because even within the House the representations are skewed due to the strange decision to cap the size of the House at 435 seats while guaranteeing each state at least one seat. Thus California has 52 times as many reps as Wyoming although its population is about 67 times greater.

> 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.

Strictly speaking this too could be changed to some extent without changing the electoral college itself, namely by states switching to allocate their electoral votes in proportion to the popular vote, instead of winner-take all. That is entirely possible now and two states already do it, but it has minimal effect because those states are tiny. But if, for instance, you could win 20 EVs in CA by winning ~40% of the popular vote, you can bet that some campaign dollars would shift to CA from, say, Ohio, because Ohio doesn't even have a total of 20 EVs. You could win more EVs in California while losing the election than you could by winning in Ohio! But most states will not do this because usually the party that wins all the EVs is also the party that controls the state government, and they don't want to give away half their EVs to the other party.
by marcus_holmes | 2025-09-09 02:27:41+00:00
None of them.

Humans have always believed that we are headed for imminent total disaster. In my youth it was WW3 and the impending nuclear armageddon that was inevitable. Or not, as it turned out. I hear the same language being used now about a whole bunch of other things. Including, of course, the evangelist Rapture that is going to happen any day now, but never does.

You can see the same thing at work in discussions about AI - there's passion in the voices of people predicting that AI will destroy humanity. Something in our makeup revels in the thought that we'll be the last generation of humans, that the future is gone and everything will come to a crashing stop.

This is human psychology at work.
by giraffe_lady | 2025-09-09 02:27:44+00:00
No of course it isn't exhaustive I wouldn't want or expect that from this kind of article.

> The Secret History is generally regarded as the prototype for the modern subgenre though.

Well, but that's why I mentioned possession. I know the secret history is considered the original dark academia, but possession predates it, is retrospectively just as firmly within this genre as it is understood now, and while not as famous is probably as influential on authors within it. It's a striking omission in an overview of the history of the genre.

Vita Nostra definitely fits the genre descriptively but I think it's more connected to a russian fantasy/slavic magical realism tradition that there isn't really a name for and that we only get a little bit of translated decades later. To me it shares a lot more with like mariam petrosyan and sergei lukyanenko than it does donna tartt.
by jogu | 2025-09-09 02:28:57+00:00
The MNT Reform does not use Li-Ion batteries, resulting in much poorer energy density. It's going to depend on the cells being used but this is what I could see from the Reform Next detail page: 8× LiFePO4 cells (16000 mAh total). Assuming 2200mah cells, I think this nets you around 56 Wh in a 4S2P configuration, Li-Ion cells would be closer to 65 Wh.

According to Apple's website it seems a 14 inch macbook pro has a 70 Wh battery.
by eviks | 2025-09-09 02:29:13+00:00
Think the article makes a good distinction between games being hard because they're bugged and not designed well enough, so your expectations are broken and you're frustrated by how (game) life is unfair vs. a perfected design with precise match between your skill and results

> movement is so finely tuned and so precise that I know deep in my bones that any hit or death is entirely on me. Of course, that in turn makes tangible improvement extremely visible. You go into a boss fight and die, and then you die again, and then again. Each time you get a bit further, and do a few more hits. And slowly, finally, painfully, you come out on top victorious
by dgoodell | 2025-09-09 02:30:09+00:00
I'm a NASA civil servant and I'm regularly involved with SBIR contracts. While there are definite wins that make the SBIR program feel totally worth it, those are probably exception.

A big factor, however, is that much the tech NASA needs to develop for space applications has no commercial viability outside of NASA. We're the only potential buyer. And since it wasn't directly motivated by a specific NASA program and funded by a NASA project dollars, it has little chance to continue development once the SBIR contract ends. For many technologies, SBIR funding is the only fundamental tech development funding they get at all.

How can a private company develop a technology only the government needs when the funding from the government is extremely irregular, inconsistent, and insufficient?

I guess they could have a bunch of irons in the fire so they have a decent shot of getting some funding for anything they can do to stay in business. Maybe some of them eventually turn into SBIR mills.
by rramadass | 2025-09-09 02:31:30+00:00
Very good advice!

To add to the above; IME, #3 comes first. Study the domain to understand the concepts and their relationships. Read some books/Articles, Watch some Videos, Read Documentation etc. to come up to speed on the terminology/jargon and the general concepts/ideas. Then, in order to understand their mapping to the specific application at hand, sit with the local "guru" (there is always at least one in every group) and pick his/her brain for a few sessions (getting them brown bag lunches works great for this) on the overall architecture of the System. Next sit with testing and use the app as an end-user to understand use-case scenarios which brings all of the above together.

During all the above stages, take copious notes, draw diagrams/graphs/etc. use source code analysis/documentation/browsing/etc. tools eg. doxygen/cscope/opengrok/etc. tools to navigate the codebase and cement understanding. Note also that the above stages are to be done both iteratively and parallelly until you are somewhat comfortable and not necessarily know/understand everything.

With the above in hand, pick one use-case scenario, preferably the most complicated, critical and important one and walk through the code from beginning to end for that path. Remember that you are trying to get the overall picture and hence treat all irrelevant details as blackbox abstractions during initial phases. Over time as you iterate and review the code again and again you can slowly add in the details for a more comprehensive understanding.

Finally, there is no shortcut to the above; it takes time and self-effort. We Humans are natural-born, trial-and-error, continuous-learning problem solvers and so trust to your intelligence and commonsense to find a path to move ahead when stuck at something.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-09-09 02:31:37+00:00
"Or just undercutting Wi-Fi vendors like Ubiquiti who basse their work on OpenWRT anyway."

Not sure about today, but this company used to sell hardware whose capabilities were IIRC only "fully enabled" if the buyer used the company's closed source OS. An open source OS might work with the hardware but the buyer would not get the same performance.

At the time, the HN comments continuously supported this company. It appeared that for these commmenters, this was a worthwhile sacrifice. They would just keep recommending Ubiquiti. (Unsolicted recommendations)
by brucehoult | 2025-09-09 02:32:25+00:00
The main weakness is -- opposite of dumbfib -- it has no function calls at all!

But I find it correlates well with other CPU core & L1 cache/SRAM benchmarks such as Dhrystone and Coremark. The Embench guys added a cut down version -- smaller arrays, shorter execution time [1] to their benchmark suite a couple of year back.

[1] baseline ~4s on typical microcontrollers ... I'd started at ~5s on Ivy Bridge, 10-30s on the Arm boards I had back then
by petertodd | 2025-09-09 02:32:49+00:00
Not at all. Ukraine had operatives inside Russia. The trucks were not driven in from outside Russia. The system was assembled inside Russia. Also, every single drone had its own pilot: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq69qnvj6nlo

That's also just one of many operations inside Russia. There's lots of sabotage and assassinations that have been done.

You just can't do operations like that without secure communications.
by p_ing | 2025-09-09 02:32:59+00:00
Windows 10 introduced memory compression. Here's a discussion from 2015 [0]. And one on Linux by IBM from 2013 [1]. But the history goes way back [2].

I don't know why that '8GiB is great!' -- no, no it isn't. Your memory usage just spills over to swap faster. It isn't more efficient (not with those 16KiB pages).

[0] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/shows/Seth-Juarez/Memory-C...

[1] https://events.static.linuxfound.org/sites/events/files/slid...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_memory_compression#Ori...
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-09-09 02:33:49+00:00
GM stopped supporting both CarPlay and Android Auto in most of their EVs, except I think for those made by Cadillac, in effort to push customers into using the onboard infotainment where they can sell subscriptions.

I’m not sure that’s going to work out for them in the long run. Last I knew, Honda’s Prologue which is a rebadged Blazer EV and supports CarPlay/AA is outselling the Blazer.
by giveita | 2025-09-09 02:34:19+00:00
There is going to be an element of affordability. I doubt someone worth $1bn would spend it all on art but maybe they would spend $10m or if you prefer the growth of $1bn invested in SPX for a month. So a month's "work". A bit like $10k to many of us (I bet many of us have $10k of furniture)... which seems rediculous to someone earning $50k/y. It's all relative.