MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mindslight | 2025-10-17 16:56:16+00:00
As someone who is half in the market for a new vehicle, this is exactly where my thoughts went to. If I buy a car, I'm expecting that to be a 10-20 year purchase. Whereas the surveillance industry's churn culture considers five years of software support for a cell phone as some kind of amazing thing. And since more of an EV has been newly designed around software control (including the chief wear part, the battery), I would expect them to be much more wed to that disposability culture overall. Am I going to be able to get a new battery for a 20 year old EV at a market-competitive (with other cell packs) price?
by Karrot_Kream | 2025-10-17 16:56:20+00:00
> But they don't have much, so the impact is very low. Their wages, however, do inflate along with the rest of the market.

Yeah and the really poor don't have much by way of savings so it's not like their wealth is being meaningfully impacted.

> And in particular, trying to characterize inflation as a "tax" on them is voodoo nonsense.

Yeah I agree with you FWIW.
by strangattractor | 2025-10-17 16:56:45+00:00
Reminds me of how Popular Mechanics use to alternate between Flying Cars and return of the Blimps issues.

Scott is a sport pilot enthusiast and approached the evaluation from that perspective. I don't think there are many pilots, myself included, that believe we are on the verge of flying cars for mass transportation. They are expensive to purchase, maintain and impractical for many reasons.
by BeetleB | 2025-10-17 16:57:04+00:00
> Tesla for example garuntees >=70% capacity for 8 years or 100k miles.

If you're used to buying used vehicles - that's not sufficient.

For context, all the cars I've bought in the last 20+ years have been at least 8 years old when I bought them. I can get an 8 year old Toyota/Honda and know I'm good for the next 5-7 years.[1]

Buying an 8 year old used Tesla with only 75% capacity? No way.

[1] Likely a lot longer. I'm right now driving a 22 year old vehicle that only started showing issues a year ago.
by lenerdenator | 2025-10-17 16:57:32+00:00
> This has become far too normalized due to decades of bad behavior by the US, and it’s going to come back to bite us as US power declines.

This has been happening long before the US started doing it.

If anything, it's normalized in the US because of the bad behavior prior to the US doing it. China's a great example. What does brutally crushing dissent internally and abroad without even a facade of a single care about human rights get you? Well, in their case, damn near superpower status. Been that way since at the very least Nixon's administration.

The net effect was people started to wonder why we bother with the inefficiencies of "rights" and "privacy". The concern for human rights shown since the end of WWII in the West (particularly the US) is an exception, not norm, in history.
by ekjhgkejhgk | 2025-10-17 16:57:56+00:00
I hate the Ofcom and the clowns that pass for British government.

But I can see how this argument would make sense in the retarded mind of a lawyer. The first amendment doesn't give people rights: people already have those rights. Instead, the first amendment constrains the power of the US government to infringe upon those rights. It doesn't constrain the power of any other government.
by happytoexplain | 2025-10-17 16:58:22+00:00
I suppose the image is genai, but they don't credit it as such, despite crediting the images on all the other articles below it as genai. However, they don't provide any image credit on the linked article, so presumably they just forgot to add it.

It's sickening that a science website uses genai specifically for images of things that are ostensibly real in the context of news about that thing. E.g. this stinkbug, and some kind of fruiting plant in a lower-down article. As opposed to only using it for clearly artificial renderings.
Show HN: Kortx – MCP server connecting Claude Code to GPT-5
by sleepy_ghost | 2025-10-17 16:58:46+00:00
I built Kortx, an MCP server that lets AI assistants like Claude Code consult with OpenAI's GPT-5 models when they need specialized help. Think of it as giving your AI coding assistant a more experienced colleague to bounce ideas off of.

The problem: When you're coding with Claude Code, sometimes you want strategic feedback on your architecture, alternative approaches to a problem, or help debugging a tricky issue. Claude is great, but having a second AI perspective can be valuable.

Kortx provides four specialized consultation tools:

• think-about-plan: Get strategic feedback on technical plans (clarity, risks, dependencies) • suggest-alternative: Explore different approaches with trade-off analysis • improve-copy: Enhance documentation and messaging for clarity • solve-problem: Debug assistance with root cause analysis

What makes it interesting:

• Uses the GPT-5 Responses API (not Chat Completions) with reasoning effort controls • Automatically gathers relevant context from your codebase via Serena, graph-memory, and CCLSP integrations • Built on the Model Context Protocol, so it works with any MCP-compatible AI assistant • Designed to prevent MCP timeouts with optimized defaults (gpt-5-mini, minimal reasoning)

Technical stack: TypeScript, Zod validation, Pino logging, Docker support, full CI/CD with provenance

It's been really useful in my own development workflow - the architecture review and alternative suggestions have saved me from several poor design choices.

GitHub: https://github.com/effatico/kortx-mcp NPM: npx @effatico/kortx-mcp Docs: https://github.com/effatico/kortx-mcp#readme

Would love feedback from the HN community, especially if you're using Claude Code or other MCP clients!
by BeetleB | 2025-10-17 16:59:37+00:00
> Instead, they’ll get something a couple of years old and save maybe a few thousand dollars on a $40,000 vehicle.

A used 2 year old Ioniq 5 is selling for about $15-20K less than MSRP.

Some years ago, a friend bought a 2 year old Forester - for a full $10K less than MSRP.

It's not a "few thousand dollars".

(Oh, and personally, if you buy a 2 year old car - you're paying way too much. 6-8 year old cars are a good value).
by ivan_gammel | 2025-10-17 17:00:06+00:00
Look at this page: https://www.4chan.org/advertise

It explicitly says that 7% of their users are coming from UK. If UK blocks them, they will loose noticeable part of advertising revenue. If there was no money at stake, they could just ignore Ofcom and sleep well. But they appear to be very agitated about the fact that they may loose their second biggest market.

Honestly, I don’t understand anyone on 4chan side here: they are de facto in UK jurisdiction because they earn money from that user base, so either they comply or they leave. All of this freedom-of-speech and US lawsuit hype is just a distraction circus.
by AfterHIA | 2025-10-17 17:00:13+00:00
As pointed out by Scotty Kilmer on YouTube we currently lack the infrastructure both in terms of mechanics trained to work on EVs and the necessary electricity infrastructure to make a full transition possible. The answer isn't, "new types of cars" it's building the, "you don't necessarily need a car" society the Europeans and the Japanese enjoy.

Yes we're doomed is what I mean.
by KaoruAK | 2025-10-17 17:00:47+00:00
Here’s the paper and code: https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/74DXZ

Here’s the code and how to implement it: https://github.com/POlLLOGAMER/RfC-Reinforcement-for-Creativ...

RfC (Reinforcement for Creativity) is a universal, modular AI framework that trains agents to produce genuinely creative and valid outputs across any rule-based environment, from mathematics, programming to games, molecular design, and anything you imagine!
by array_key_first | 2025-10-17 17:00:58+00:00
You control people by instilling fear.

Anybody can merely force someone else to do something. I can, you can. That's small fry stuff.

The real ticket is getting people to do the things you want with no force. Convincing them to act against their own interests. Now, thats much harder, and that's the type of thing the big dogs are looking at.
by throwmeaway222 | 2025-10-17 17:01:10+00:00
2000 - Yikes, why is everything all of a sudden made in China!? 2010 - I guess we don't have any options, there isn't a single one made in the USA, I guess we're doing this - let's hope there's no lead in it 2020 - OH CRAP WE CAN'T GET ANYTHING - WE SHOULD MANUFACTURE LOCALLY 2023 - OH we can get our Cheap Chinese Crap again built with slave labor 2024 - Global awareness that most things made in china are made with slave labor 2025 - Global TDS over tariffs to try to rebuild American manufactoring so we don't repeat the cycle and support slave labor and help create new American jobs.
by 9rx | 2025-10-17 17:01:24+00:00
> I want to hop in a time machine back to the 90s/early 00s before all this crap started and everybody was just generally nice to each other.

The internet was never nice. It, however, did at one time require technical savvy to use. With that savvy came the understanding that computers and people aren't the same thing, so when the computer emitted something not nice you'd laughed at how quant the technology was instead of getting your emotions all tied up in a knot and try to hold a person accountable like those who have no idea about what's going on around them do.
by SoftTalker | 2025-10-17 17:01:41+00:00
All well and good but 8 years isn't that old for a car. I don't even look at cars that new. I start at 10+ years old. The drivetrain on any car should last 20 years if it's not abused and given reasonable care and even if you end up needing to replace the engine or transmission that's a few thousand dollars on an older car. What would a new battery on a 10 year old Tesla cost you? Can you even buy one?
by chaps | 2025-10-17 17:01:48+00:00
Why do you focus on "one fact"? Reporting, fact checking, editing is a fluid project that changes as the piece progresses. What needs fact checking in one draft is very different from what needs fact checking in another draft. And like I said, editors make changes that the fact checkers never see.

Again, these are economic problems. Donate to your local investigative newsroom.
by ibejoeb | 2025-10-17 17:02:40+00:00
I could be milk, right? Or a sheet of paper.

I'll concede that it's not terribly far fetched. If the french entity produced a good that is illegal in the UK put it in the post to be delivered to the UK, then we have something like an analog to producing HTML in one place and displaying elsewhere.

However, the thing about sovereignty is that you don't have it if you can't enforce it.
by busymom0 | 2025-10-17 17:02:53+00:00
"Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them.

In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know."

– Michael Crichton (1942-2008)

https://www.epsilontheory.com/gell-mann-amnesia/
by barathonapp | 2025-10-17 17:03:03+00:00
A few friends and I got tired of ordinary pub crawls, so we built PintPoints, a web app that gamifies nights out.

Hosts create a crawl, set rules and challenges, and invite friends with a join code. Players lose points for rule-breaking, earn them for completing photo quests, and track everything on a live leaderboard.

At the end, you get a recap of scores and photos — fun, chaotic, and social by design.

We’d love feedback from the HN community. Android link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.lunafox.pi...
by projektfu | 2025-10-17 17:03:10+00:00
Sen. JD Vance stood by his false claim that Haitian migrants were eating pets in Springfield, Ohio — an unsupported story that former President Donald Trump has also echoed on the debate stage and on social media.

During a Sunday interview on CNN, the Ohio senator and Republican vice presidential nominee said his evidence for this claim was "the first-hand accounts of my constituents." He then went on to defend the dissemination of this false story.

“The American media totally ignored this stuff until Donald Trump and I started talking about cat memes," Sen. Vance said. "If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that's what I'm going to do."

https://www.npr.org/2024/09/15/nx-s1-5113140/vance-false-cla...
by KaoruAK | 2025-10-17 17:03:38+00:00
Here’s the paper and code: https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/74DXZ

Here’s the code and how to implement it: https://github.com/POlLLOGAMER/RfC-Reinforcement-for-Creativ...

RfC trains agents to generate genuinely creative and valid outputs across any rule-based domain, from formal math to molecular design.
by femiagbabiaka | 2025-10-17 17:04:04+00:00
Getting the notifications is opt-in by default, choosing to hand over your video footage is not:

For Ring users, the process is the same. Your privacy and control over your videos and information are non-negotiable, and your participation is completely optional. Public safety agencies can't see who received a notification or who chose not to respond. You can even turn off Community Request notifications altogether if you prefer. By combining community safety with strong privacy protections, Community Requests respects individual choice while helping neighborhoods thrive.
by bhelkey | 2025-10-17 17:04:20+00:00
> There's a saying that a new car loses 50% when you leave the lot.

New cars in no way lose half of their value when you drive them off the lot. The saying is that a new car loses ~10% of it's value when you drive it off the lot [1].

[1] https://www.carfax.com/buying/car-depreciation
Ask HN: If AI makes no progress, are its abilities enough to justify valuations?
by sendos | 2025-10-17 17:04:56+00:00
I know that AI is improving, but for the sake of argument, if AI makes no progress in the next few years, are current capabilities enough to justify current valuations and investment?

That is, is the economic value that can be unlocked by today’s AI enough to justify the valuations, or are the valuations all predicated on AI becoming much much better than it is today? (AGI, ASI, etc)

I assume it’s a bit of both, just trying to get a sense of the balance between the two.
by austin-cheney | 2025-10-17 17:05:03+00:00
> When you're writing only a "couple lines of code", you can do pretty much anything you want. There's no real tradeoffs to discuss except in a theoretical sense, because the stakes are so small.

The JavaScript logic in the browser is comparatively small compared to the total application. This is absolutely more true when you remove the bloat imposed by a large framework.

Frameworks do not exist to alleviate problems for the developer. They exist to help the employer with candidate selection and training elimination to expedite hiring and firing. I can understand why a developer who is utterly reliant on the framework to do their job might think otherwise, which is a capability/dependence concern.
by PunchyHamster | 2025-10-17 17:05:22+00:00
> The last part of OP's statement is the key. In a field that's rapidly advancing technologically, used prices are depressed because the new product is that much better than the used product.

And 2 years old EV is not twice as bad as current one

> For example there's another post later in this thread that points out that the Nissan Leaf has been the same price forever - except the current-gen Leaf has literally double the range of the last one. Effects like this depress used prices.

The previous gen is 8 years old. It took 8 years to "double" the quality, not 2
by KingOfMyRoom | 2025-10-17 17:05:28+00:00
That’s a good advice, thank you!

I already have a feature list and a basic PRD, and I’m working through the main wireframes right now.

What I’m still figuring out is the planning and architecture side, how to go from that high-level outline to a solid structure for the app. I’d rather move step by step, testing things gradually, than get buried under too much code where I don’t understand anything.

I’m even considering taking a few React courses along the way just to get a better grasp of what’s happening under the hood.

Do you know of any good resources or examples that could help guide this kind of approach? On how to break this down, what documents to have?
by cameldrv | 2025-10-17 17:05:30+00:00
Yeah and the E-7 was recently cancelled. This is what Hegseth said to Congress a few months ago: “The answer is yes. I would. I would file this entire discussion under difficult choices that we have to make. But you know, the E-7, in particular, is sort of late, more expensive and ‘gold plated,’ and so filling the gap, and then shifting to space-based ISR [intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance] is a portion of how we think we can do it best, considering all the challenges"

I wonder if Starshield is the platform that is supposed to replace the E-3.
by fcpk | 2025-10-17 17:06:03+00:00
In my opinion, this is not always a true thing because size of the needed maintenance team can mean a lot. I find that for small-medium deployments cloud can be a lot more efficient despite being more expensive because it can - take away a lot of the expensive maintenance and management of things like databases, backup, storage, that would otherwise requiring at least a couple more people. So if your bill is <10k/month it certainly isn't worth hiring more people - allow you spin up systems with almost 0 cost(think cloud run / container systems) for very low usage systems. - give you global coverage & distributed reliability that can be otherwise hard to get.
by ummonk | 2025-10-17 17:06:17+00:00
Thanks for providing the data. I think that backs up my assertion that Seattle doesn't have a housing shortage as such.

The relative growth in housing units since 2010 has been higher than the relative growth in population and jobs, so housing price growth since 2010 can't be explained by a shortage of supply.

The issue is that the rapid pace of growth means there isn't much old stock housing on the market to provide cheaper options to homebuyers -- most of the housing on the market will be new stock for which the minimum price will be driven by the cost of construction.
by tsimionescu | 2025-10-17 17:06:43+00:00
I dislike this general trend of rejecting the need for adaptation/transliteration and pretending that it's a moral failing or a rejection of diversity.

Like people who insist it's a good idea for a European website of a European business to accept any Unicode input for names, as if an employee who speaks Italian and English could be expected to know how to process a request for a customer named 田中 who claims their correspondence was mistakenly sent to 東京 instead of 京都.

There is generally too much linguistic diversity in the world to be able to expect people to know even the most basic facts about some other culture's language. There's nothing wrong with adapting your message to your audience, even if it loses a lot of nuance that they could theoretically get if they spent just a little bit of time on studying, say, Vietnamese writing.

And I want to emphasize that I'm saying this who is neither American nor English, and who is personally fascinated by language, and who has taken the time to study a little bit about quite a few languages. But I'm also someone who has understood that you can't expect people to be able to, say, pronounce your name correctly, or spell it correctly, and that there's nothing offensive about that.
by krisoft | 2025-10-17 17:06:54+00:00
> where most people don't have security clearances

Are we sure about that? Because i see plenty of clearance required job listings to their redmond facility.

> And as soon as any data from a specific sensor leaks, adversaries would likely be able to pinpoint what satellite produced it.

Yeah. Thats why usually data from any satelite would be very closely held. Even with old satelites it was a big deal when the president just posted an image publicly.

But i don’t understand your argument. Even if it leaks that wouldn’t make the sensor network worthless. Like this argument is true for any spy satelite. If the data from any sensor leaks it is bad. Not a reason to not make the satelite.
by rdlw | 2025-10-17 17:07:04+00:00
The vast majority of readers won't get any information from anything in the article. Why not pseudonymize everything and scramble the place names? I at least appreciate that in principle, I could research the people mentioned. Romanian happens to be intelligible with diacritics removed, but I bet you'd feel differently if you read an article about Mr Ccsrtr and Em Cnr.
by ants_everywhere | 2025-10-17 17:07:11+00:00
You have it backwards. Ideological conformity these days is enforced by creating the illusion that everyone around you is ideologically conforming.

The question is: is there a defense against this?

Your answer currently is there is no defense because creating an illusion of unanimous ideological conformity counts as an exchange of ideas and that exchange must not be hindered.

The debate is over whether the right to conduct Sybil attacks is more precious than the right to freedom of thought. The question is vastly harder than many people in this thread seem to believe.

My personal take is that the right to freedom of thought is more fundamental and that the value of freedom of speech is via its support for freedom of thought.
by xp84 | 2025-10-17 17:07:15+00:00
Yes, and conversely, in cases when the initial model misjudged future needs, the most disastrous projects are those where the requirements or the technical design flies in the face of the original model. When this is solved sloppily, this often begins the slow degeneration - from an application that makes sense to a spaghetti mess that is only even navigable by people who were around when those weird bolt-ons happened. Usually not only the code, but also the UI reflects this, as even massive UI overhauls (like Atlassian's in 2025) tend to just sweep everything awkward under a rug -- those things are still necessary to manage the complexity but now they're hidden under ••• → Advanced Settings → Show More → All Settings.
by strangattractor | 2025-10-17 17:07:50+00:00
Imagine a simple scenario. Take your $260,000 Helix to the grocery store to pickup groceries. While you are in the store a mother fighting with her kids accidentally damages your Helix backing up the car. Are you going to hop into that thing even with what might be considered minor damage? Probably not because you would not know how to evaluate whether it is safe.

A car. You'd just hop in to determine if it is drivable.
by numpad0 | 2025-10-17 17:07:58+00:00
> ... because the new product is that much better than the used product.

This starts reading like a hallucination after a while. How much in a Tesla had changed over past 5 years or so that makes 2020 model completely obsolete and unappealing relative to 2025 model?

The range hasn't doubled, internal volume hasn't, acceleration or braking hasn't. They may have changed implementations under the hood, but none has been clearly communicated to potential customers, so they might as well be the exact same car.

Meanwhile, 2020 Prius is that ugly one with quirky dashboard, and 2025 is that mustard yellow thing with the HUD-like dash.

So what in an EV is so "rapidly advancing technologically" so much that it perfectly rule out much more simpler explanation that people just aren't interested in EVs, in favor of more hand-wavy one that the newer EVs are just constantly enormously more appealing to the customers that older ones tend to lose the appeal faster?