MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kjksf | 2025-10-10 22:30:26+00:00
Even if true, I don't see this as significant.

The current battle for electric batteries is cost, not energy density.

LFP and sodium batteries are less dense that non-solid state lithium ion batteries but they are good enough to be used in standard version of Model 3 or Model Y and those are best selling ev cars.

Energy density is good enough, durability is good enough, what matters is lowering the price.

A battery with higher energy density but without lower price is not competitive.

Toyota still doesn't have a high volume electric car. Lack of batteries is not the cause of that but Toyota's own decisions.

Even if they get a slightly better battery, they still need to design a good ev car and that's way more to that than replacing gas tank and engine with a battery and motors.

Furthermore, you don't just mass produce ev batteries. Panasonic was struggling and loosing money for several years making batteries for Tesla. When Tesla decided to make batteries themselves, it also took them years to go from 0 to a significant number of batteries.

Idemitsu doesn't seem to make ev car batteries so I don't see how the could possibly have meaningful production in 2 years.

Furthermore, going solid state is only an incremental improvement of a component of the battery. It has the most economic value when applied at scale. So it would make most sense to license this technology to existing high volume manufacturer like LG Chem or CATL.

The realities of volume production vs. cost make it very unlikely you can just compete with CATL and LG Chem making 1/100 of their volume even if your battery is slightly better.
by zdragnar | 2025-10-10 22:31:07+00:00
That's how you get the dead zone off the shore of Louisiana. The algae doesn't get to the bottom before it starts decomposing, and during calm periods (especially the summer months) the deep waters don't get mixed and replenished with oxygen faster than the bacteria decompose the algae.

You'd need lots of careful planning to avoid causing more harm than good.
by mostlysimilar | 2025-10-10 22:31:39+00:00
Government forcing institutions to conform to a specific ideology.

> Signatories commit themselves to revising governance structures as necessary to create such an environment, including but not limited to transforming or abolishing institutional units that purposefully punish, belittle, and even spark violence against conservative ideas.

> Institutions commit to defining and otherwise interpreting “male,” “female,” “woman,” and “man” according to reproductive function and biological processes.
by rurp | 2025-10-10 22:32:50+00:00
I'm not surprised since I think most UI overhauls replace one system with another that is roughly equally good, except that nobody is familiar with the new system so everyone burns a bunch of time and attention learning the new one just to get back to par. The new UI often isn't worse in any objective sense, it's just not better and the whole exercise is a giant waste of everyone's time.

Some subset of users like re-learning how to do the same basic things in a new way, such as switching browser tabs, but most people want to spend ~0 time on that stuff and get justified annoyed when it's pushed on them.

Of course over time people will get used to the new design, but even if the new one is materially worse what are people going to do? It's not like Apple cares that much about random user opinion and the joy of a monopoly or duopoly is that the companies controlling one don't have all that much incentive to keep people happy.
by jimrandomh | 2025-10-10 22:33:23+00:00
There are some types of legal action that service providers can get, which both force the service provider from droppig you, and also forbid the service provider from telling you why or what has happened. Eg, this happens in banking with SARs; when they drop a client for suspected money laundering, not only can't they tell that to the client, they can't even tell their own support agents.

I don't know anything about your sites or your activities, but based on the behavior described, something like this has probably happened to you.
by operator-name | 2025-10-10 22:34:08+00:00
As a long time Android user, I find these magical gestures frustrating difficult to discover. How on earth is someone supposed to guess such a gesture exists, and how am I supposed to guess the rules for when certain gestures work and certain gestures don’t?

Even long time friends who are iOS fanatics, and who have used iOS since the beginning are often surprised when I show them a new gesture I’ve learnt. Am I missing something? I’m really grateful to learn this now but I can’t imagine the “Apple way” is to stumble upon these by forum comments?
by modeless | 2025-10-10 22:34:23+00:00
Emperically, we have plenty of participation by the public in prediction markets without a prohibition on insider trading. We don't need to encourage any more.

> Allowing insider trading seems like a nearsighted way to increase volume for prediction markets, at the cost of long term value.

It's exactly the opposite. Banning insider trading in prediction markets would be a nearsighted way to increase volume (by encouraging more public participation) at the cost of long term value (accuracy, because insiders have the accurate information). Prediction markets can only be an "information value source" to the extent that they are accurate.
by SecureBitChat | 2025-10-10 22:34:27+00:00
Hello everyone, I’m Volodymyr, founder and lead developer of SecureBit.chat — a privacy-first P2P messaging platform built on a fully serverless architecture with end-to-end encryption using ECDH, DTLS, SAS, and AES-GCM 256-bit.

We are currently looking for independent researchers, cryptography experts, and security auditors who would be interested in conducting a third-party audit of our project. Our goal is to ensure the highest level of security, transparency, and trust for our users and community.

If you have experience in:

Cryptographic protocol analysis

Secure P2P communication systems WebRTC / DTLS / ECDH implementations Browser security or code auditing
by smcin | 2025-10-10 22:34:32+00:00
Sure, but Congress invariably pretend to say the former but mean the latter. You're asking for single-payer instead of privatized health insurance, they will sooner bankrupt the country than switch to sanity. Congress and its funding sources are now captured by privatized health insurance:

In 2023-4, Health came #7 in total political donations, #8 is Lawyers & Lobbyists; the combined "Finance/Insur/RealEst" is #1; would be useful to see "Insurance" broken out by health insurers vs non-health (can anyone cite a more granular breakdown?). [https://www.opensecrets.org/elections-overview/sectors]
by formerly_proven | 2025-10-10 22:35:01+00:00
> I do not get why Toyota is so wedded to hydrogen. There's no infrastructure for it. It would require a far bigger revamp than the switch to BEVs. There's no existing hydrogen source, and the stuff is tricky to transport and store.

I think the answer is really simple and basically the same as for where this headline comes from: FUD about EVs so people instead buy a Toyota gas car while pretending to be eco.

> They already had a lead in battery-powered hybrids. It would have made so much more sense to lean into that, first into plugin hybrids and then plugin-only.

That was twenty years ago though.

Just like twenty years ago "hydrogen cars" sounded like a possible solution.
by drpixie | 2025-10-10 22:36:05+00:00
Traditionally, winch cables are single strand steel (fencing) wire - I guess because that's cheap. But they break quite often.

Cable falls can be a problem. A cable falling over power lines causes all sorts of fuss!

Cable breaks can be terrible. The cable will spring back, whip around, and is incredibly destructive - hence the cage around the winch operator. I would not have been standing anywhere nearby and certainly not next-to or behind the drum.
by dtagames | 2025-10-10 22:36:12+00:00
It's a great effort and, as a game dev I love that you've built several kinds of UI components to handle various aspects of navigating the story.

I agree with you that AI agents need to be corralled and led in a tight path to get to reusable software.

I wrote about this very thing recently[0].

[0] https://levelup.gitconnected.com/you-are-bugs-improving-your...
by chaps | 2025-10-10 22:36:18+00:00
Ah Crowdstrike. One of the bigger problems we had at $company deploying the daemon to client servers was that there was (at the time) no config item to change the log file location. So we had a client who'd run out of disk space and IIRC Crowdstrike similarly refused to make any change. I think we "fixed it" by using GDB to change the outfile to a `grep -v` and into the same file.
Verge Genomics (YC S15) Is Hiring for Multiple Engineering and Product Roles
by alicexzhang | 2025-10-10 22:37:16+00:00
Verge is using AI to develop better drugs faster. We are one of the few AI drug discovery companies to advance from data to clinic – delivering two new AI-derived drugs in the last three years, discovered using our industry-leading proprietary datasets and tooling. Along the way, we've signed commercial partnerships with Eli Lilly and AstraZeneca totaling $1.6B in contract value and $67M in near-term cash.

We're hiring for the following roles on our platform team:

* Head of Product & Engineering

* Principal Full-Stack Engineer (Django)

* Senior Computational Biologist (AI/ML)

* Senior Data Engineer

Please apply through our careers page, and mention Hacker News in your application:

https://www.vergegenomics.com/openings

Our platform team is developing Verge's CONVERGE drug discovery engine into a transformative tool for partners and customers across pharma and AI. We are a small, nimble group of scientists and software engineers.

Successful applicants will have a significant role in steering, scoping, and prioritizing the work we do.

All of our roles are remote within the US, and require a willingness to travel to San Francisco a few times per year. We do not currently offer visa sponsorship.
by walkabout | 2025-10-10 22:38:05+00:00
The only time before this I've felt like Apple took a huge UX or appearance dive on an OS upgrade was iOS6 -> iOS7. People complain about almost every macOS upgrade, but the closest they've come to bothering me is that I hated the new tab styles in desktop Safari they introduced a while ago, but that was configurable so I just set it back to normal and that was that. I've disliked other things (the Touch Bar was never anything but a way for me to accidentally open Music—I basically had to disable it to make any of those MacBooks usable) but never really been bothered by an OSX/macOS update's appearance.

So, I didn't expect to mind this at all, despite lots of people apparently hating it.

Then I upgraded. And yeah, it's remarkably shitty looking, first time I've agreed with the "haters" for a macOS release. It looks like an above-average GTK theme, which is to say, awful. Plus they found a new and different way to make Safari's tabs look like crap (and I'd swear tab manipulation is super laggy now, where it wasn't before) and this time I can't fix it with a settings toggle. Like, that element specifically looks and feels like it's from a below average GTK theme.
by wintermutestwin | 2025-10-10 22:38:19+00:00
>Fortunately, the software capability to handle different text sizes can make it easier to support people with a vision disability. You can design your software with a “zoom” feature that increases the size of characters or graphics on the screen.

If only the iPhone "menu bar" designers took that to heart. It is insane that I have to put on glasses to read the time when there is plenty of room to increase the damn font, but no option to do so.

I am gonna be LMAO when all these youngster UI designers age up to the point where they have to wear readers to use their crap UI.
by rayiner | 2025-10-10 22:38:58+00:00
I thought people were overreacting. But this is rancid. I have an OCD reaction to rubber-banding in the UI (e.g. when a browser content area can’t keep up when resizing a simple page like HN). This has been a smooth operation since OS X 10.3? Tahoe can’t do it on my Mac Mini M1!
by samrus | 2025-10-10 22:39:01+00:00
The benefit grabbing attention using ads feels like something that only exists in relative measure. So if everyone is boosting themselves on tour timeline, its kinda like no one is. If none of them boost themselves, then they dont lose out against each other

The only thing is that, compared to before, they get less attention relative to content that was always unboosted. Which includes organic unbiased content which is better for the consumer so thats actually a plus

But that unboosted content also includes astroturfing which can now become more of a persons timeline

If the regulators are motivated to clear up the online content space of bad faith political influence, the next thing they should do is try to curb botting and astroturfing (while respecting freedom)
by bsder | 2025-10-10 22:39:36+00:00
> Vulkan forces you to statically specify a ton of state that's actually dynamic on modern GPUs.

Desktop GPUs. Tiling GPUs are still in use on mobile and you can't use the tiling hardware effectively without baking the description into pipelines.

> You could cut things down a ton with a new API.

VK_KHR_dynamic_rendering is what you are looking for

> Actually, it would be kinda neat to see an API that's fully designed assuming a coherent, cached, shared memory space between device and host.

You can just ask for exactly that--even on Vulkan. If you don't want to support computer systems that don't support RBAR, you can do that.
by sandreas | 2025-10-10 22:39:53+00:00
There are several projects here in germany doing similar things.

There is https://tonies.com, which is cloud based and pretty expensive, but hackable (https://github.com/toniebox-reverse-engineering/teddycloud).

Then there is the RFID Jukebox: https://github.com/MiczFlor/RPi-Jukebox-RFID

And Tonuino: https://github.com/tonuino/TonUINO-TNG

I built ours with the RFID Jukebox and wrote a little tool called labelmaker to print labels for audio books and music: https://pilabor.com/projects/labelmaker/, but in the end it took too much time to print so many labels :-)
by thereitgoes456 | 2025-10-10 22:40:12+00:00
I don't think he's right about everything. He is particularly weak at understanding underlying technology, as others have pointed out. But, perhaps by luck, he is right most of the time.

For example, he was the lone voice saying that despite all the posturing and media manipulation by Altman, that OpenAI's for-profit transformation would not work out, and certainly not by EOY2025. He was also the lone voice saying that "productivity gains from AI" were not clearly attributable to such, and are likely make-believe. He was right on both.

Perhaps you have forgotten these claims, or the claims about OpenAI's revenue from "agents" this year, or that they were going to raise ChatGPT's price to $44 per month. Altman and the world have seemingly memory-holed these claims and moved on to even more fantastical ones.

He has never said that OpenAI would be bankrupt, his position (https://www.wheresyoured.at/to-serve-altman/, Jul 2024) is:

I am hypothesizing that for OpenAI to survive for longer than two years, it will have to (in no particular order):

- Successfully navigate a convoluted and onerous relationship with Microsoft, one that exists both as a lifeline and a direct source of competition.

- Raise more money than any startup has ever raised in history, and continue to do so at a pace totally unseen in the history of financing.

- Have a significant technological breakthrough such that it reduces the costs of building and operating GPT — or whatever model that succeeds it — by a factor of thousands of percent.

- Have such a significant technological breakthrough that GPT is able to take on entirely unseen new use cases, ones that are not currently possible or hypothesized as possible by any artificial intelligence researchers.

- Have these use cases be ones that are capable of both creating new jobs and entirely automating existing ones in such a way that it will validate the massive capital expenditures and infrastructural investment necessary to continue.

I ultimately believe that OpenAI in its current form is untenable. There is no path to profitability, the burn rate is too high, and generative AI as a technology requires too much energy for the power grid to sustain it, and training these models is equally untenable, both as a result of ongoing legal issues (as a result of theft) and the amount of training data necessary to develop them.

He is right about this too. They are doing #2 on this list.
by breve | 2025-10-10 22:40:16+00:00
> In this way, "full" was intended to describe the system's intended ability to perform the full task of piloting a vehicle, not that the system has achieved some unspoken threshold of engineering perfection.

No. Tesla simply lied. Tesla very specifically claimed it would outperform human drivers.

In 2016 Tesla claimed every Tesla car being produced had "the hardware needed for full self-driving capability at a safety level substantially greater than that of a human driver":

https://web.archive.org/web/20161020091022/https://tesla.com...

Wasn't true then, still isn't true now.
by Fraterkes | 2025-10-10 22:40:42+00:00
If you take that at face value, shouldn't every investor just back Google or Apple instead? Like, OpenAI is, at best, months ahead when it comes to model quality. But for them to get integrated into the lives of people in the way all their competitors are would take years. If the way in which ai becomes this ubiquitous trillion dollar thing involves making it hyper-personalized, is there any way in which OpenAi is particularly well positioned to achieve that?
by comrade1234 | 2025-10-10 22:41:11+00:00
So far the most I've seen is that it's a bit annoying and not set up for working with fingers.

For example, I'm in safari and push the bookmark button and it and the neighboring buttons light up. But my finger is blocking the button I'm pressing so I don't know it's the brightest button. Instead I see the neighboring buttons light up and my brain thinks I'm pressing that.

It's been a few weeks now and you'd think I'd be over it by now but I'm not. I press the screen, a button I don't want lights up, oh no wrong button, oh wait never mind.
by labrador | 2025-10-10 22:42:41+00:00
What am I supposed to do with his musings on the Anti-Christ? What's his point even? Is he the new Marshall Applewhite so I should get some poison ready for when he gives the signal when it's time to leave Earth?

It's like Trump nonsense about windmills killing whales. Will The Gaurdian take that seriously and do an in depth article about windmills and whales? Oh wait they did [1] but they put "false claim" in the title. How about they call the Thiel article "Tech billionaire Peter Thiel's deranaged fantasies about the antichrist." Keep it real please, The Gaurdian.

[1] How a false claim about wind turbines killing whales is spinning out of control in coastal Australia "They have imported some of the absolute worst tactics of Donald Trump and others who use deliberate misinformation"

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/12/how-a-fa...
by rhetocj23 | 2025-10-10 22:43:30+00:00
Difficult to say for certain.

It depends on the extent to which the promise was peddled and whether MSFT can be trusted with the cash balance - investors will reflect that in the stock price in future if there is a bubble bursting event. If that scenario pans out, Apple will be sitting there very pretty given it has not spent any real money on pursuing LLMs.
by fedsocpuppet | 2025-10-10 22:43:53+00:00
I can deny it because it's obvious bullshit lol. I don't think that way and neither does anybody I know from MIT think that way. This is reality versus your imagination. If there's anyone I look down on it's my classmates who could've worked anywhere and still went to palantir...

I can't claim 100% aren't assholes, but the vast majority realize the luck and arbitrary nature of it. Are you going to be stuck in decision day sadness mode for the rest of your life? Life is too short
by ryukoposting | 2025-10-10 22:44:18+00:00
OpenAI's moat is the data you give it. It's the same reason so many people have GMail accounts, even though we all know Google sucks. It's not that you like GMail better than any other email service, it's because migrating to another service is a pain in the ass.

OpenAI will either use customer data to enshittify to a level never seen before, or they will go insolvent.
by serf | 2025-10-10 22:44:59+00:00
I kind of hate smart TVs -- my family got a Samsung one that got feature obsoleted in months , but I needed a cctv kiosk -- I bought a fire stick and the cheapest +speakers monitor on amazon with an HDMI port and USB power, was pleasantly surprised; 4k, tiny, performant, adb access isn't fucked up, and you can change the home screen.

By the end of the day it's just an android device with an HDMI out, and that's exactly what I wanted.
by doctorhandshake | 2025-10-10 22:45:21+00:00
Nice timing. I’m right in the middle of doing this for music and video media for my kid (using an elaborate concoction of python, nocodb, home assistant, Jellyfin, a NAS, an RPi, and a chromecast) and the thing I had yet to figure out was the physicality of the RFID-sticker-containing cards themselves
by Kon5ole | 2025-10-10 22:46:38+00:00
>Domestic PV is really gaming the rate system, avoiding costs while still benefiting from the things those costs support.

All powerlines, transformers and everything else is the same with or without solar panels. What new costs are happening because of solar that solar owners are avoiding?

Tax reductions for voluntary things is not comparable to payouts. They are method to get the rich to pay for solar so the non-rich don't have to, and in the past few years it has gotten us more carbon neutral energy than anything else. Clearly a win-win good thing.

Trying to describe it as the opposite doesn't hold up.

Edit: Utility cos that sell electricity themselves may increase prices to make up what they lose when they can't sell as much gas, nuclear, coal etc, and blame it on solar. That's not a subsidy for solar though, it's a subsidy for corporations.
by vel0city | 2025-10-10 22:47:16+00:00
Kind of true, but potentially also untrue. If that TV is running a crappy WiFi chip running an older WiFi standard on the same channel, it'll end up performing worse or not playing as nice with other clients during those bursts of buffering. That'll potentially be seen by other clients as little bursts of jitter.

That's true of any client with older and crappier WiFi chips though, but TVs are such a race to the bottom when it comes to performance in so many other things.
by DebtDeflation | 2025-10-10 22:47:29+00:00
That's why OpenAI is hard pivoting towards products now. The big one IMO is Instant Checkout and Agentic Commerce Protocol. ChatGPT is going to turn into a product recommendation engine and OpenAI is going to get a slice of every purchase, which is going to disrupt the current impression/click adtech model and potentially Google and Amazon themselves. It's an open question how hard they can do this without enshittifying ChatGPT itself, but we'll see.