MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ljf | 2025-09-23 12:19:15+00:00
Not sure which of the three, but afriend bought one new here in the UK for around £22k - which at the time the dealer assured him he could sell back to them at £15-18k a year later.

He needed the car to tide him over to a work based EV scheme.

A year later the dealer said he'd be lucky to get £8kfor private sale and that the dealership didn't want the car as had 5 on forecourt already.

He's kept the car and loved it, but 2nd hand EV prices here can be great (or bad if you are a seller) - I saw a 10year old Nissan Note EV for £1K the other day - if I already had a charger I would have snapped it up, even if the range was less than 50 miles now.
by lillesvin | 2025-09-23 12:19:23+00:00
> Almost all of this is solved by basically putting quotes around strings.

Yeah, that was my first thought as well. I personally don't mind YAML, but I've also made a habit out of quoting strings. And, I mean, you're quoting both keys and strings in JSON, so you're still saving approx. 2 double quotes per key/value pair in YAML if that's a metric that's important to you.
by rhubarbtree | 2025-09-23 12:19:49+00:00
I think this is accurate and it applies to both sides of the spectrum.

It’s just impossible to engage with polarised people. Either you’re open minded and humble, and able to learn, or you’re certain you’re correct and angry about it.

This is social media’s bequest to humanity. I don’t know how people can work for those companies.

Social media was the death of nuance, critical thinking, and self-reflection.
by constantcrying | 2025-09-23 12:19:53+00:00
>I’ve ridden in an e-Golf (California compliance car basically), but not the newer ones.

It wasn't (just?) a compliance car. It was a testbed for EV development by VW. The ID Models have had serious software problems, the ID.7 is the newest and best one. An even smaller car than the ID.3 was announced some weeks ago.
by bobalob | 2025-09-23 12:20:01+00:00
Unless you're arguing for the abolishment of all single-sex spaces, which you don't seem to be, I don't see how your analogy works.

The reasons that women and girls are provisioned with female-only spaces are entirely different from the reasons behind the racist exclusion and segregation of black people in a white oppressor society.

It seems that you made this analogy without really thinking about it in any depth.
by alephnerd | 2025-09-23 12:20:13+00:00
> The visa previously cost employers only a few thousand dollars. But the new $100,000 fee would flip the equation, making hiring talent in countries like India - where wages are lower and Big Tech now builds innovation hubs instead of back offices - more attractive, experts and executives told Reuters.

> "We probably have to reduce the number of H-1B visa workers we can hire," said Sam Liang, co-founder and CEO of popular artificial intelligence transcription start-up Otter. "Some companies may have to outsource some of their workforce. Hire maybe in India or other countries just to walk around this H-1B problem."
by em-bee | 2025-09-23 12:20:42+00:00
how is this not against immigration?

https://world.hey.com/dhh/as-i-remember-london-e7d38e64

London is no longer the city I was infatuated with in the late '90s and early 2000s. Chiefly because it's no longer full of native Brits. In 2000, more than sixty percent of the city were native Brits. By 2024, that had dropped to about a third. A statistic as evident as day when you walk the streets of London now.

Copenhagen, by comparison, was about eighty-five percent native Danes in 2000, and is still three-quarters today. Enough of a foreign presence to feel cosmopolitan, but still distinctly Danish in all of its ways. Equally statistically evident on streets and bike lanes.

But I think, what would Copenhagen feel like, if only a third of it was Danish, like London? It would feel completely foreign, of course. Alien, even. So I get the frustration that many Brits have with the way mass immigration has changed the culture and makeup of not just London, but their whole country.
by phtrivier | 2025-09-23 12:20:42+00:00
I don't know how much the battle matters, compared to pure money.

For example, according to this source, people bought less BEVs in May because... they want to benefit from the government subsidy later this year. So maybe the headline will read "incredible success" six months after having read "terrible failure". [1]

Surprisingly, BEVs are _more_ visible in the country side (where many smaller models make complete sense as a "second car" for a household that needs to drop kids at school, get the groceries, etc...) than in cities. Never mind.

Even more surprisingly, people do buy some French EVs, even though, well... our glorious national brands have spent the last few years working hard on removing the knobs from the autoradio, and that justified all the "R&D tax rebate" they could get, but sadly none was left for chemists and physicists to increase range, lower prices, etc... Again, go figure.

[1] https://www.go-electra.com/fr/newsroom/ventes-voitures-elect...
by flyinglizard | 2025-09-23 12:21:17+00:00
Well, lets see how that worked out:

1. Hamas, an Iranian proxy, attacked Israel on October 7th 2023. Until that time, the death toll in the 100 years of Israeli-Palestinian conflict was about 10k Israels to 40k Palestinians. It since became 12k Israelis to 110k Palestinians. I don't think that proxy fulfilled its intention.

2. Hezbollah, another Iranian proxy, attacked Israel on October 8th in support of Hamas. The ensuing war killed about 4k Lebanese. That proxy, too, seems to have failed in its mission to reduce the death tol..

3. The Houthis, yet another Iranian proxy, attacked Israel in support of Gaza. Since then, Israeli counter attacks killed several hundreds in Yemen. Not good.

Now these proxies are heavily damaged, deprived of most strategic capabilities and the death toll in the ensuing battles dwarfed all of the past deaths in the Israeli-Arab conflict.
by comrade1234 | 2025-09-23 12:21:30+00:00
I'm curious how this would work without being traced. Someone is paying rent on the apartments. For the simcards, I think they are all able to call 911 even if they don't have credit/dataplan. They're also able to connect to a tower and take up slots. So probably the only way to financially trace the simcards is the initial purchase.
by xtiansimon | 2025-09-23 12:21:34+00:00
Good point.

“All park resources are protected so that all visitors may enjoy them. It is against the law to remove any of the natural (petrified wood, other rocks, plants, animals) or cultural resources (pottery pieces, arrowheads, Route 66 debris), including picking flowers.”

https://www.nps.gov/pefo/faqs.htm
by petre | 2025-09-23 12:21:37+00:00
Well, that's too bad. Lifting sanctions opens up opportunities for non-alligned government spies and saboteurs. I recall there is a problem with remote workers from the DPRK employed by Western companies. These citizens are already collectively punished by their governments. I used to live in such a country until the US managed to lead on the USSR into bankrupting themselves. Thank you, America! Thank you Ronald Reagan for all the USSR jokes! Thank you Michael Gorbachev for letting it slide!
by rmu09 | 2025-09-23 12:21:57+00:00
Europe is not the US, we have somewhat functional public transport in most parts of the continent, you are not _that_ dependent on a car. Also, EVs will become cheaper than ICEs, with or without subsidies or tax incentives, it's only a matter of time. Battery prices on a cell level approach €40/kWh. A new drive-train incl. battery will be < 2000€.

Also, given that polluted air affects poor people the most, getting rid of all that exhaust of old worn out cars with ICEs will be a good thing in any case.
by rhubarbtree | 2025-09-23 12:22:13+00:00
Sir, I think you will find that the private sector have always failed to invest in the UK, and that is one of the major reasons the country is right royally screwed.

Of all the systemic failures of uk government and industry, “taxing the rich” is so far down the list it’s a rounding error.

More free market capitalism on the bonfire of free market capitalism is unlikely to rescue Britain from the ashes.
Show HN: Kvatch – query APIs, CSVs, Google Sheets, and databases as one source
by squeakycheese | 2025-09-23 12:22:28+00:00
Hi HN,

A few weeks ago I shared Kvatch.com a federated SQL engine I’ve been hacking on that lets you query across multiple data sources with plain SQL.

Since then, I’ve added support for querying live APIs alongside files and databases. That means you can now join data from:

REST APIs

CSV files

Google Sheets

Postgres / SQLite

Git repositories

All as if they were one datasource.

Example use cases:

Join your GitHub issues with commits from a repo

Combine a Google Sheet of leads with enrichment data from a REST API

Build quick dashboards that mix API + database + CSV data

Kvatch is open-source, written in Go, and still early — but I’d love feedback on what data sources / features would make it most useful.

Docs & example -> https://github.com/kvatch-hub/kvatch-cli/tree/main/examples

GitHub -> https://github.com/kvatch-hub/kvatch-cli

Website -> http://kvatch.com

Blog -> http://kvatch.com/blog

Thanks for checking it out!
by colechristensen | 2025-09-23 12:22:32+00:00
Once again, he's like a toddler. I'm not trying to be vaguely insulting, he's best actually understood as someone with the psychology of a small child given tremendous wealth and power.

You wouldn't ask why your toddler didn't scream about green beans last week but won't shut up about them today, that's just the kind of thing they do.
by scrumper | 2025-09-23 12:22:44+00:00
Yes true, that is a possibility and something that's quite hard to police remotely. It doesn't feel likely, everyone's working kind of the same, booking the same hours and overtime is no different, but I can't rule it out.

It'd mean that hundreds of people would all be goofing off silently. I'd expect at least overtime bookings to decrease and they haven't - even with our strong incentives to not book o/t.
by kace91 | 2025-09-23 12:22:44+00:00
>For some even more others, they feel able with their medication and useless without. Luckily for them, their medication lasts all day, medication shortages do not exist, and their psychiatrist will always prescribe their medications forever.

The sarcasm there is unwarranted. Need for a treatment, when it exists, is orthogonal to its convenience. If you need an organ transplant to live, you need it regardless of whether you have donors and hospitals available or whether the lifelong meds they require can run dry at some point.

As for your larger point, to be clear, I understand the idea you’re trying to convey. Diagnoses can be limiting for some people either internally (limiting self perception) or by external judgement.

I don’t deny that, what I’m saying is that I feel you’re (probably unintentionally) falling into a different extreme that is just as damaging to others, which is to deny the need or convenience of treatment for those for which _there is no successful alternative_.

Shutting down a person through a label is harmful, dismissing their limitations because that would be labelling is harmful as well.

For the point of advice, advice can and will be harmful when it assumes realities that don’t apply to you.

To leave the analogy aside and give actual examples, methods to keep organization and accountability like checkboxes or diaries will not only be failed tries to those who need meds, but also reinforce a feeling of inadequacy as the user now feels lacking in discipline to commit to the method. Lack of self steem and negative self perception (lazy, messy, uncaring, etc) is a way too common comorbility with ADHD for a reason.
by delta_p_delta_x | 2025-09-23 12:23:21+00:00
> So he built a "runtime" that is actually ran by the compiler around this idea for fun.

Funnily enough, sufficiently enough of C++ is constexpr-able that it was the driving force for compile-time reflection in C++[1], which is not unlike what the author has done.

Although the new syntax is much more readable than what the author chose to do with expression templates, it's still annoying, as is much of C++. But I still like it, so I am decidedly Stockholmed.

[1]: https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2025/p29...
by maweki | 2025-09-23 12:23:28+00:00
We found yaml to be a great exchange format for electronic exam data. It allows us to put student submitted answers and source code into a yaml file and there is no weird escaping. It's very readable with a text editor. And then we just add notes and a score as a list below and then there's the next submission.

For readability of large blocks of texts that may or may not contain various special characters and newlines the only other alternative we have seen was XML, but that is very verbose.

So what the author finds as a negative, the many string formats, are exactly what drew us to yaml in the first place.
by joakleaf | 2025-09-23 12:23:48+00:00
Here is a list of EV sales in Europe by country first half 2025:

https://www.best-selling-cars.com/europe/2025-half-year-euro...

This gives a much much more nuanced look, and it doesn't look as completely clear cut as the headline implies.

For example: Spain saw an increase of 83.9% and France a decline of 6.9%

... And then you see that Denmark bought as many EVs as spain, although Spain has 10x population.
by gruez | 2025-09-23 12:23:50+00:00
>Also, in practice, no, you cannot make a political party in Greece. There's a country-wide threshold of 3% that you need to exceed to get into the parliament.

You can quibble about whether a 3% threshold is "democratic" or not, but for all practical purposes if your movement can't get 3% you stand no chance of getting your policies enacted.
by patricktttt4 | 2025-09-23 12:23:52+00:00
> I noticed in the past that some Ruby on Rails conference websites were built using React and kinda sucked because they didn't have bookmarkable URLs for when the user clicked on a talk to expand it and read it, preventing users from being able to share direct talk links with others.

You're right that this is a common issue, but it's not inherent to React itself. React apps can absolutely have bookmarkable URLs and proper navigation using client-side routing (React Router, Next.js router, etc.). The problem is that some developers don't implement this correctly, they build everything as modal overlays or state changes without updating the URL. It's definitely a best practice that should be followed, but unfortunately isn't always.
by baggy_trough | 2025-09-23 12:24:13+00:00
He said this on the Bundler discord yesterday:

'My work in Bundler & RubyGems is completely halted, including the Bundler 4 project which I expected to complete in the next ~2 months. The immediate reason for this is simple: my commit access to the repository has been revoked, so I can no longer do the job anymore. The more fundamental reason is that I completely lost motivation after all the recent events, regardless of whether work is paid or not.

I'll be happy to resume my work in Bundler & RubyGems if maintainer ownership prior to September, the 9th is restored, and thus the previous maintainer's team is allowed to continue building a transparent and democratic governance model for the project.'
by lloeki | 2025-09-23 12:24:27+00:00
If 2024 (19%) is more than the help to Ukraine that means the cut of cash flow to Russia i.e the drop from 45% to 19% (26%) is also more than the help to Ukraine.

> that is about 3 years later than it should have come

We can always wish it would be possible to arbitrarily turn a big faucet closed overnight, the harsh reality is that one can't turn their own economic, industrial, and ultimately social system to a grinding halt as well, which is counterproductive to any effort at fighting this war.

Note that the original plan from 2022 was to cut by two thirds within a year and completely by 2030, so 2027 is 3 years earlier.

You could argue that the mistake was to have 45% of pre-war gas imports coming from a single source... but it's hard to argue that EU is not pulling their weight in this fight given the hole they were in.
by bayindirh | 2025-09-23 12:24:30+00:00
2000 FPS is impressive.

Not detecting overturned semis, road debris, and swerving to road dividers is even more impressive with that tech.

Where a relatively simple radar can prevent without running a slow-motion camera rig and a wannabe supercomputing cluster on the car.

To be frank, I'm not against 2000 FPS cameras, but I can't come into terms with not adding a simple radar to detect something unknown is dangerously close and the land missile needs to stop.
by sfn42 | 2025-09-23 12:24:34+00:00
Well ideally they should peacefully replace the government with one that aligns with the people's alleged views.

Failing that, I don't know. I guess they'll have to figure it out as they go. All I'm saying is it's their country, their responsibility. And for example in the case of Russia there's clearly widespread support for Putin and his war so I'm not really expecting nor calling for them to do anything about it. I'm just saying I hold them responsible and I think the rest of the world should too. A leader is nothing without followers.
by jacquesm | 2025-09-23 12:25:23+00:00
So that's the tip. Makes you really wonder about the iceberg, this raises many more questions than it answers.

The UK has criminalized possessing or using SIM farms or related gear in response to these popping up with some regularity. But the operators are pretty clever and know how to hide. I've been thinking about how easy it would be to detect these when you're a telco and I think the signature is unique enough that it should be possible to detect which SIMs are part of a farm, even if you don't know the exact location of the farm.
by potato3732842 | 2025-09-23 12:25:27+00:00
I honestly can't tell if this is satire.

As the middle class shrinks it becomes clearer that these sort of heavy handed policies are almost exclusively peddled by what marx would call the bourgeois. You don't see the "my car is a significant expense" or "home ownership isn't a given" class people going off advocating for policy like this on minor issues.
Show HN: Surchee – check how AI search engines view and search your site
by surchee | 2025-09-23 12:25:33+00:00
This started from a chat with my brother-in-law. He was starting a new business and planning to spend a lot of time on SEO. As i’d just started using ChatGPT more often myself, I asked him whether he was optimising for LLM answers, not just Google? Whilst Semrush and Ahrefs were leaning into this space, there was no dedicated tool looking at this.

Anyway, after a few months of building I have now created Surchee:

- Crawl your site and see how AI engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Bing Copilot, etc.) summarise it - Check if your brand, value proposition, or trust signals are coming through clearly - Track whether AI bots are even visiting your site (via a small pixel) - Use dashboards that look a bit like SEO tools, but aimed at LLM/AI visibility instead

It’s quite fresh but the idea is simple: type in a URL, get a score and some insights.

If anyone has any general feedback or more specific feedback per the items below, it would be appreciated:

- What metrics would make this more useful - Whether “AI visibility” feels like a problem worth solving - Any rough edges or confusing parts in the current version

Link: https://www.surchee.com

Happy to answer any questions too.
by Etheryte | 2025-09-23 12:25:44+00:00
This is advice that gets thrown around a lot, but it's missing the important bit of how to buy a meter that's both reasonably accurate and affordable. There are countless articles online showing how widely commonly sold meters vary in their readings. What's more, paying more often does not mean you'll get a more accurate reading. Sure, there's diminish returns and past a certain point it doesn't matter, but many meters are completely unreliable.
by tt_dev | 2025-09-23 12:25:52+00:00
> "Asked about his relationship to the cypress trees that are cultivated for the shrine, Ikeda, the lumber expert, had a one-word answer: “Deep.”

Forty years ago, when he was 24, he drove his grandfather to participate in the tree-felling ceremony. “He said to me, ‘Do you know that the trees cry?’

“I answered, ‘No way, how could a tree cry?’”

But as they watched woodsmen chop down the cypress, “the sound of the axes echoed across the mountains, and after about an hour, when the axe struck the core of the tree, the scent of the cypress filled the air, flowing like blood,” he said.

At the final axe stroke, as the wood snapped, “the sound it made was like a shriek, a high-pitched ‘keee’ sound, and then the tree fell with a thunderous thud. In that moment, I thought, ‘Ah... it really cried.’ I felt as if the tree wept, mourning its own life, as if it knew its life was precious.”"

This was like sipping hot tea in the rain.
by orwin | 2025-09-23 12:26:11+00:00
The PCF is arguing for development and of a subsidized Kei-like electric car (basically a 10k€ EV), and a retraining of car manufacturing workers before any punitive incentive (ZFE, carbon tax on car fuel). This is hardly anti-electric.

I don't know about reporterre though, I've heard of them but I don't think they really have any influence on anyone other than Greenpeace afficionados.

Also? The R5 is great, and I bet the backlog is really long.
by legacynl | 2025-09-23 12:26:17+00:00
> The choice is generally "Either Apple or whatever else in my budget"

Lol dude, stop acting like you know what's happening in my part of the world. People only care about apple because all major news outlets are payed by apple to talk about it when they hold their yearly sales pitch.

People don't act like this with any other product/manufacturer etc.
by gilbetron | 2025-09-23 12:26:18+00:00
I dunno. I'm on the older end, but nowhere near 90, and I've read a lot of these takes, and heard similar from a lot of older people in my lives. While there are good thoughts, often they come from people who didn't do that in their lives and achieved great things because they weren't chasing peace, but chasing success, status, adventure, and the such.

When I read something like this now, I ask if the person writing it lived that way most of their lives, or lived some other way and now are looking back wishing they had lived another (untested) way. I've heard too many old people tell me things like, "appreciate your family" when they were always gone working and built up an amazing life for their families. When my mother told it to me, I believed it because that's the way she lived.

Survivor bias, is what it comes down to. Beware successful people that tell you platitudes!
by malnourish | 2025-09-23 12:26:21+00:00
I disagree; we have gained the ability to understand how different sorts want to share their lives with their families and communities.

Do you hold the same position for marriages in other traditions - for example, Shintoism, indigenous belief systems, Hinduism, paganism, etc? Many such religions don't have the same concept of a marriage as a covenant with God, yet have existed for quite some time.
by johncolanduoni | 2025-09-23 12:26:23+00:00
Golang has a feature that I love in general but that makes it very easy to keep unintended allocations around. If you have a struct with a simple int field, and you store that somewhere as an *int, the entire struct and anything it points to will be kept alive. This is super useful for short-lived pointers, and super dangerous for long-lived pointers.

Most other widely used GCed languages don’t allow the use of arbitrary interior pointers (though most GCs can actually handle them at the register level).