MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by SR2Z | 2025-09-16 19:29:21+00:00
I think that as long as the autopilot is able to fly in a crosswind or with an engine failure, it can probably land with one. Autopilots are already able to do these things.

I doubt anyone has tested this in depth, but I'm not sure there are too many configurations of airplane these days where a human can safely land it and a computer can't. Maybe if a big chunk of wing or control surfaces were totally gone, but even a human pilot isn't getting 99% reliability in a situation like that.

In any case, I don't think that the first candidates for automation are gonna be passenger flights. It will probably be small cargo planes first - Cessna Caravans and other turboprop aircraft where the cost of paying pilots is roughly similar to the price of fuel.
by mjr00 | 2025-09-16 19:29:25+00:00
> Trains are great when going to tourist attractions, especially in the center of old cities. When you live and work in a city, they're much less practical.

This is the most "tell me you live in America without telling me you live in America" thing I've seen in a long time...

America basically the only place in the world where in its cities, trains and other public transport aren't a major part of people's lives. In other places (Seoul, Tokyo, many European cities, etc.), even people who own a car will sometimes commute via train due to the convenience.
by felipe-pathwave | 2025-09-16 19:29:28+00:00
That's a very cool idea!

To me the main barrier of adoption would be asking my users to create an account with a 3rd party provider in order to be able to pay me.

That's a lot of added friction and I'd be afraid of the impact this would have on conversion rates.

Wouldn't it be possible to embed your solution on my website so the user just adds their Credit Card once then gets properly billed from there?
by sjsdaiuasgdia | 2025-09-16 19:29:45+00:00
This seems to have some data that suggests they have seen a decline: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ijc.35081

There's a chart about 2/3 down the page that shows a drop in several age groups, and a particularly striking drop in the 20-29 age group: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/cms/asset/fd3e820c-4610-4c4e...
by skapadia | 2025-09-16 19:30:04+00:00
I expect less time spent on boilerplate and documentation, and more time spent on iterating, experimenting, and increasing customer satisfaction. I also wouldn't accept "I don't know how to do that" as an answer. Instead, I'd encourage "I don't know how to do that, but I can use AI to learn faster, and also seek out someone with experience to help review my work".
by Foomf | 2025-09-16 19:30:39+00:00
"Am I using the correct language runtime distribution (or version thereof) so I don't get into legal trouble?" Is a question none of Java's competitors have to ask.

Even using OpenJDK is a sword of damocles waiting to fall. If I forget to update OpenJDK, Oracle could come after me. It's just risk that I don't have to worry about by choosing not to go with Java. It's probably not a lot of risk, but it's risk nonetheless that doesn't exist with Java's competitors.

Competition is so fierce in the language space and there are so many good options that java can't afford to have any friction points like this.

EDIT: I got oracle openjdk and oracle jdk mixed up. They're different things. It looks like the oracle openjdk does not have its license change, the oracle jdk does. This is a problem/risk I don't have to worry about with any other language, but getting the two mixed up is on me.
by Saaster | 2025-09-16 19:30:39+00:00
It’s commendable to want to start a “cooperative socialist paradise”, you can pitch it and see if there’s interest with others. But it’s totally OK as well for others to not want to join that, and go the more conventional way.

It sounds like Nate is set on starting a conventional company, and that should be fine. The previous company apparently never made financial sense so it also doesn’t work to just continue that model directly and so things and people get cut. It can be both hard to communicate and to hear, doubly so when you’re emotionally invested. That’s why IMO it’s important to separate your self worth from your job at some level, for your own mental wellbeing.
by stockresearcher | 2025-09-16 19:30:48+00:00
I watched an interview with Jeff Snover once and he said that they tried to make a unixy bash-like shell a few times and decided it was never going to fit in Windows. So they went a different way and took a lot of inspiration from OpenVMS.

So don’t expect PowerShell to be like a UNIX shell. It isn’t, and wasn’t meant to be one. It’s different, on purpose :)
by mendeza | 2025-09-16 19:30:56+00:00
I feel like code fed into this detector can be manipulated to increase false positives. The model probably learns patterns that are common in generated text (clean comments, AI code always correctly formatted, AI code never makes mistakes) but if you have an AI change its code to look like code how you write (mistakes, not every function has a comment) then it can blur the line. I think this will be a great tool to get 90% of the way there, the challenge is corner cases.
by 1718627440 | 2025-09-16 19:31:38+00:00
> You later mention "boundaries of bodies"

You claimed the mother has authority over the life of the baby, because its body is part of her. I don't think that is true, thus I quoted you a definition for body boundaries.

> There has always been a clash between morality and science. Science always wins.

Weird statement. There is a fight between a compiler and a memory model. The compiler always wins.

You claimed, because it is possible to perform abortion now, it should be moral automatically.

> is dangerous b/c if someone wants to delete your authority they can merely delete you.

Exactly the argument why "deleting" someone is immoral without pointing to religion.

> So you believe the Romans killed Jesus and Peter?

Yes? Palestine was a roman province, so only the procurator could order executions. Petrus was a roman citizen so could demand to be judged by the emperor in Rome, which he did, so he got executed in Rome.
by rkomorn | 2025-09-16 19:31:47+00:00
And you don't need rudder input or any aileron input because of crosswind, and other bits that falls into "technically correct but not particularly relevant" territory.

It's fun to see/feel planes do stuff "on their own" (eg making them oscillate, or level on their own, or feeling ground effect, or even your own wake on steep turns) but it's not something you'd want to rely on (maybe with the exception of ground effect on short field takeoffs, but I digress).
by neither_color | 2025-09-16 19:32:01+00:00
I've been eyeing the home battery space and every year there are new options(mostly from China) to get 10-15kwh stored. Powerwalls aren't keeping up in per kwh value. At some point it's gotta be cheaper to just buy a tesla and strip the battery(assuming you have the skill to remove and repurpose it).

Model 3 or Y with 70-80KWH capacity battery ~~ $40-50,000

Powerwall price: ~$15,000 for 13.5 kwh storage.

You're paying around double for a fancy case and the UI.
Show HN: An LLM chat app using Apple's FoundationModels
by alariccole | 2025-09-16 19:32:20+00:00
Despite Apple’s fairly clear warnings that their 3B 4K model is not for use as a chat app, I had to try anyway. There’s definitely plenty of work to do but it’s starting to become useful.

Happy to answer any questions about limitations, what it’s good at, and how to coax it. The safety guardrails and forced disneyfication make this especially challenging.
by dang | 2025-09-16 19:32:25+00:00
Edit: since you've posted egregiously like this before and have ignored our requests to stop, I've banned the account.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44738555 (July 2025)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44362828 (June 2025)

Bottom-of-the-barrel antisemitism ought to be the easiest thing in the world to avoid, regardless of your views or feelings about the ongoing situation. In any case, there's no place for it on Hacker News—never has been and never will.

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rimunroe is correct, you've repeated a classic antisemitic trope. We ban accounts that post like that, so please don't post like that again.

It's entirely possible, and ought to be entirely easy, to make any substantive point you have without any of that.
by gspencley | 2025-09-16 19:32:51+00:00
There's a content creator I used to follow who said her outlook on social media changed the day she discovered that her 11 year-old nephew was an "edge-lord" on Twitter who was trolling at such a sophisticated level that it caused her to rethink every post that had ever provoked an emotional reaction.

Apparently he came across as articulate enough that she couldn't tell the difference between his posts and that of any random adult spewing their political BS.

This predated ChatGPT so just imagine how much trouble a young troll could get up to with a bit of LLM word polishing.

20 years ago it was common for people to point out that the beautiful woman their friend was chatting up is probably some 40 year-old dude in his mom's basement. These days we should consider that the person making us angry in a post could be a bot or it could be some teenager just trying to stir shit up for the lulz.

Dead Internet theory might be not be literally true, but there's certainly a lot of noise vs signal.
by HaZeust | 2025-09-16 19:33:08+00:00
The conversation was about a single vape, and casual use, in the first place.

And yeah, I bet that's happened before, just like I bet a day-trader who ran on margin has lost all of his savings, house, cars, and wages through garnishment. That doesn't mean it's how 99% of situations, even in trading on margin, goes.

Even as it relates to underage dealers - even the stupid ones, a very few amount of teens buy in bulk - let alone do it only to fail on sales and get coerced into crime for payback. Not to downplay, the old "ATL" story like that is definitely real shit for illicit drug selling. But for vapes/alcohol/sanctioned (but legal and readily-available) substances? C'mon now. The market's there, but the incentives for coercion (due to the commodities being readily-available) are not.

I'd sooner assume that a story like that is a teen that's making a BS "blame the system" excuse for the fact that they actually bought vapes in bulk, squared it away, wanted to make more money than that hustle could offer, and voluntarily graduated to higher crime on their own. Fair play if they pull the excuse off, though - they've got us talking about it.
by 0cf8612b2e1e | 2025-09-16 19:33:09+00:00
The internet disagrees. NPM will gladly ignore and update lock files. There may exist a way to actually respect lock files, but the default mode of operation does not work as you would naively expect.

- NPM Install without modifying the package-lock.json https://www.mikestreety.co.uk/blog/npm-install-without-modif...

- Why does "npm install" rewrite package-lock.json? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45022048/why-does-npm-in...

- npm - How to actually use package-lock.json for installing based on locked versions? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47480617/npm-how-to-actu...
by GioM | 2025-09-16 19:33:34+00:00
I don't get this part either.

if the scammers had spoofed the email, they would already have that code, and if they hadn't spoofed that email... I mean it looks like a case ID, why would they need it?

Maybe the reading back the code was to get buy in, then there's a missing step here like they had him hit "allow" on a 2fa prompt. Or maybe the email was legit, since it references a "temporary code" and the case ID allowed access with that code?

Good chance my reading comprehension is shot and I'm missing something, I suppose, but I don't understand.
by Pet_Ant | 2025-09-16 19:33:41+00:00
I really wonder why Arabic has never gone back to printing. What we think of the Arabic "alphabet" is just it's cursive form. They have an alphabet that is basically just Syriac. Would have been easier to render on low bit displays. wouldn't have to deal with the word initial variants etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabataean_script
by lucideer | 2025-09-16 19:34:00+00:00
I'm not a Java (nor Kotlin) developer - I've only done a little Java project maintenance & even less Kotlin - I've mainly come at this as a tooling developer for dependency management & vulnerability remediation. But I have seen a LOT of varied maven-managed repos in that line of work (100s) and the approaches are wide - varied.

I know this is possible with custom plugins but I've mainly just seen it using maven wrapper & user properties.
by mrandish | 2025-09-16 19:34:07+00:00
Yes, my background is in broadcast video engineering. An edit suite I'm in regularly has a $10,000 24-inch BVM-E251 reference monitor for color grading. At home I have a $4,000 LG C5 OLED. My dedicated home theater room is based around a $12,000 4k laser projector. I also own a Sony BVM series broadcast CRT, various Trinitrons CRTs and a retro gaming arcade cabinet built around a 25-inch analog RGB industrial CRT (Wells Gardner D9200). I use an optical colorimeter for display calibration.

All of these displays are unique tools each with differing capabilities. I own and use them all for what they are best at. Flat panel technologies can produce incredible visuals with certain strengths no CRT can replicate (when properly calibrated and given a high-quality source signal). However, the reverse is also true, extremely high-end cathode ray technology, with an appropriately high definition dot/shadow mask and phosphors, can generate visuals with traits no current flat panel display technology can duplicate. To be clear, I'm not talking about any CRT consumer television you've ever seen. A decent OLED display of today can look far better than even the best 1990s televisions, but consumer televisions were standard definition and hard-limited to less than 6 MHz of signal bandwidth (usually much less), so any comparison between the fundamental display technologies ('cathode ray-irradiated phosphors' vs 'light emitting diodes') is meaningless if not evaluated with the same resolution and bandwidth input signal. And you've never seen a high-definition CRT like a KW-3600HD fed with a 30 MHz HD source signal. But they exist and I've seen one.

Everything in display engineering involves trade-offs. CRTs and light emitting diodes are based on different materials with fundamentally different optical properties and underlying physics. Each has their own unique strengths. Neither can fully replicate the entire range of the other in every respect. This is not a personal aesthetic opinion, it's a carefully qualified technical assessment based on objective measurement and it's consistent with the physical capabilities of the respective technologies.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-09-16 19:34:09+00:00
> None of these mega-corporations pay any tax. They can avoid doing so by setting up a shell company in a tax haven that owns the rights to the branding, to then create subsidiaries that then license the branding for vast sums, as per the Starbucks business model

What do you think would happen to tax revenues if all the Starbuckses disappeared?
by jiveturkey | 2025-09-16 19:34:10+00:00
I would caution any reader to generalize your statement. Just because you used it at your company to limit abuse, and yes that is a lazy approach and 100% what's going on with Anthropic and most API companies, doesn't mean that every company uses phone number gating for this purpose.

The (probably) most famous example being https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/07/fixed-ftc-orders-faceb...

And it's not enough to say "well we don't use it for that". One, you can't prove it. And two, far more important, in an information leak, by taking and saving the phone number (necessarily, otherwise there's no account gating feature unless you're just giving fake friction), you expose the user to risk of connecting another dot. I would never give my phone number to some rinky dink company.

Now that said, I don't use lazy pejoratively. Products must launch.
by stephenpontes | 2025-09-16 19:34:23+00:00
I grew up loving magic. I watched David Copperfield on a grainy old tv, and vividly remember rewatching taped performances of "The World's Greatest Magic" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World%27s_Greatest_Magic) trying to figure out how the big illusions were done. I was part of a magic club and loved peeking behind the curtain. It fascinated me how as you learned those building blocks of simple sleight of hand, you could compound and build on those components to pull off more and more impressive tricks. A double lift, palming, french drop, etc...all pulled together to a cohesive "trick".

I feel like a lot of what entertained me about magic also pulled me towards web development. Sites and interactions online seem like magic until you realize they also break down into simple problems, simple components that build upon one another to deliver the trick. That interest in figuring out how things work just never went away I guess!
by joshstrange | 2025-09-16 19:34:47+00:00
It was interesting but at the end of the day the phone he created is not compelling in any way to me. He says "give us something other than a rectangle" multiple times (to phone makers) but the phone he cannibalized is a zFlip 5 which was already not (just) a rectangle. Also, I actually like my rectangle phone.

I fully expected this to be some kind of fully custom phone but it's just a nerfed android phone. No knock on what he accomplished, it's impressive as hell, but "built my own phone", eh...

It's cool but past making it for this video and maybe carrying it for a month or two I predict this is destined for a junk drawer.
by kelnos | 2025-09-16 19:35:30+00:00
As a user of npm-hosted packages in my own projects, I'm not really sure what to do to protect myself. It's not feasible for me to audit every single one of my dependencies, and every one of my dependencies' dependencies, and so on. Even if I had the time to do that, I'm not a typescript/javascript expert, and I'm certain there are a lot of obfuscated things that an attacker could do that I wouldn't realize was embedded malware.

One thing I was thinking of was sort of a "delayed" mode to updating my own dependencies. The idea is that when I want to update my dependencies, instead of updating to the absolute latest version available of everything, it updates to versions that were released no more than some configurable amount of time ago. As a maintainer, I could decide that a package that's been out in the wild for at least 6 weeks is less likely to have unnoticed malware in it than one that was released just yesterday.

Obviously this is not a perfect fix, as there's no guarantee that the delay time I specify is enough for any particular package. And I'd want the tool to present me with options sometimes: e.g. if my current version of a dep has a vulnerability, and the fix for it came out a few days ago, I might choose to update to it (better eliminate the known vulnerability than refuse to update for fear of an unknown one) rather than wait until it's older than my threshold.
by SR2Z | 2025-09-16 19:35:34+00:00
> I can tell you the streets and neighborhoods where it’s almost 100% new (non-legal and low skill) residents. The rents in those neighborhoods are very much in the 2000-3000 range. Section is likely a factor but I don’t know that non-fully legal residents get section 8. It certainly wouldn’t surprise me if they did.

Sorry, you think the government is giving low-skill non-citizens thousands of dollars a month to live in the most expensive parts of the country?

That's an utterly ridiculous claim and I would like to see proof.

> Section is likely a factor but I don’t know that non-fully legal residents get section 8. It certainly wouldn’t surprise me if they did.

I think you have bad priors and are assuming that welfare is a lot more generous than it really is. To qualify for Section 8, you must be a citizen or here on a permanent resident visa. If you are not in the country legally, you generally cannot access welfare.

> You cannot reduce rent period. Inflation is permanent typically, you can slow the rate of increase but prices don’t go back. Even massive building projects like the yimby’s lobby for can’t move the needle on housing costs according to economists who study the issue.

This is trivially wrong. Just Google "rent declines."
by desolate_muffin | 2025-09-16 19:35:53+00:00
Do you actually own AirPods or just assume that's the case? Nobody I know has really had to replace their AirPods unless they lose them, forget them in a pocket and wash them, or decide to upgrade after a few years (myself included). Certainly there are some people on the edges who replace them more often for whatever reason, but you might consider the possibility that they sell well because many people (myself again included) believe they are a pretty damn good product.
by browningstreet | 2025-09-16 19:36:19+00:00
I think the clip is possibly (and hopefully unintentionally) problematic, but I wouldn't go so far as to say Nazi. If you google "Paddington prison" you'll see a similar striped outfit. So prison labor.. still not awesome, but not necessarily Nazi. And, well, maybe relevant to mass electronic goods manufacturing in certain countries.

That said, he works at Midjourney.. so it's a weird blind spot, if it's a blind spot.
by mauvehaus | 2025-09-16 19:36:26+00:00
As a general rule, if you're given a price for something by a company that specializes in that thing, and you think you can do better, you're wrong.

The creator alludes to this when he says not to ask how long it took him to build the machine.

As a corollary to this rule, if you've estimated your costs to do a job, and a company says they can beat it, you should probably do the job yourself. I bought a 3/4 ton jointer four hours from my shop, got a quote to rent a lift gate truck and a quote from a moving company/rigger. They were about the same. There's no way they can pay someone for a minimum of eight hours of time, plus cover their truck and fuel costs for what it costs me to rent a truck. The delta on their truck costs can't possibly be enough to pay someone good for eight hours.
by zahlman | 2025-09-16 19:36:28+00:00
The people "criticizing" Kirk are not simply quoting him, but taking him out of context and misrepresenting him. I have seen many of them insist on this even after they were shown correct information.

The Guardian headline is completely unsupported by the facts. Nobody proposed going after critics. The problem is that there is widespread glorification of political violence out there, and even calls for more. I have personally witnessed many examples.
by jncfhnb | 2025-09-16 19:36:29+00:00
Unless they become autonomous I don’t think drones will be as huge as people think. They’re dynamic mines, basically. That’s undoubtedly a crazy effective concept. But most countries aren’t as bloodlusted as Russia to order their troops and material to charge into a minefield. Unless electronic warfare hits a new inflection point I feel this is just going to make war more heavily indexed on long range strikes
by h2zizzle | 2025-09-16 19:36:35+00:00
To be fair, this is just a further constriction of the current cohort of people allowed to live their lives with relatively little friction. Current disqualifiers include being poor, being a felon, and having an accent. May also include being a minority (interactions with law enforcement), being a woman (interaction with doctors and tradesmen), being a white dude with limited EQ (interactions with retail workers), and so on.

I just want to be explicit that my point isn't, "So what?" so much as, "We BEEN on that slippery slope." Social expectations (and related formal protocols in business) could do with some acknowledgement of our society's inherent... wait for it... ~diversity~.