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by hypeatei | 2025-10-21 12:58:57+00:00
> Give me a boring ass 90s control layout with the electric drive train

Exactly. The minimalist interior is super unappealing to me. I want something that's not all based on one screen. It's not just bad from a usability perspective but also seems risky if there are any issues with the screen (climate controls are very important for visibility certain times of the year)
by Forgeties79 | 2025-10-21 12:59:21+00:00
I always appreciate posts like this even though it’s clear a lot of people already know about KDE connect. I only took the plunge into a Linux daily driver for my machine a couple of months ago, so I’m still learning a lot. Just tested it and this is really useful! I depend a lot on LocalSend which is fine but this is so far looking like a better option overall.

Gets a little funky talking to my iPhone but I’m surprised how easily things like the remote control work right out the box
by llamajams | 2025-10-21 12:59:38+00:00
Somewhat out of my league in this thread but,I think I am.one of these people. I do remember a time before I had an internal monologue , in fact I remember the day in elementary school when I learned, after having been explained to me by my teacher, that everyone else was "talking to themselves in their head". I think I spent the next month or so obsessing over this new found ability. But before that day I was perfectly capable of thought, and conversation, and writing. Even now I can "switch modes" and have coherent thoughts occur, with no labeling or accompanying narrative. I can distinctly identify concepts and transitions between them but there are no words involved until I open my mouth. So I dont know if it was just a hidden background process before that day. But it definitely "feels' different when its in the foreground or back, or nor there.
Show HN: Django Keel – 10 Years of Django Best Practices in One Template
by sanyam-khurana | 2025-10-21 13:00:13+00:00
After a decade of shipping Django to production, I got tired of solving the same setup problems on every new project.

Environment-first settings. Sensible auth defaults. Structured logging. CI from day zero. Pre-commit hooks. Docker. Security hardening. Every project meant two days of boilerplate before writing business logic.

So I built Django Keel: a production-ready Django starter that eliminates the yak-shaving. GitHub: https://github.com/CuriousLearner/django-keel

*What you get*:

- 12-factor config with environment-based secrets - Production-hardened security defaults - Pre-wired linting, formatting, testing, pre-commit hooks - CI workflow ready to go - Clear project structure that scales - Documentation with real trade-offs explained

*Background*:

I maintained a popular cookiecutter template for years. Django Keel is what that should've been from the start—battle-tested patterns without the accumulated cruft.

*Who it's for*:

Teams and solo builders shipping Django to production who want a strong baseline without tech debt. Feedback welcome on what works, what doesn't, and what's missing. Issues and PRs appreciated.
by chronci739 | 2025-10-21 13:00:30+00:00
> during the period where they decided on this disastrous and dangerous vision-only approach that has resulted in multiple deaths

To be fair, it was a direct decision from Elon due to covid supply chain shortages of radar and ultrasonic sensors. Not from engineers (as is common at Elon companies)

But Andrej deserves some of the blame because he was too busy sucking on the $TSLA stock teat to say anything
by micromacrofoot | 2025-10-21 13:00:47+00:00
As a Chinese citizen, China would already be doing it and Chinese companies are willingly complying.

There's no difference to me. My government and its adversaries respect my privacy equally, which is to say they don't at all.

Even in cases of hostages, American citizens have been left languishing until a deal that satisfies both sides has been brokered. All governments view us as little more than pawns. I feel like I'd be an idiot to expect differently when there are dozens of examples of our government being outright hostile to innocent citizens, both directly and indirectly.
by DocTomoe | 2025-10-21 13:00:53+00:00
Matter of fact, I can, and have done, all of these things. Recreationally.

The idea is not to be hypergeneralist. What I observe - subjectively - is that we are losing whole generations of what used to be the 'nerdy IT/ham-radio/electronics-folks'. Sure, there is a small remnants with the makerscene, but that's mostly older people (beginning in their late teens).d
by aDyslecticCrow | 2025-10-21 13:01:01+00:00
Unfortunately (or fortunately if you like cheap good cars) China has gotten ridiculously good at lithium batteries, and is rapidly eating the EV market. The traditional American and European brands are either sold to china, or falling behind.

Tesla lead the market for quite a while, but lost their way trying to become a software company instead of perfecting manufacturing. They don't heave a lead anymore, and trust for their brand is tanking. Between tesla and a chineese EV, i trust both about equally now.
by Noaidi | 2025-10-21 13:01:38+00:00
Intelligence has been defined in many ways: the capacity for abstraction, logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, emotional knowledge, reasoning, planning, creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving. It can be described as the ability to perceive or infer information and to retain it as knowledge to be applied to adaptive behaviors within an environment or context.

(from Wikipedia)

Intelligence is multifactoral. Being good at chess was one aspect of intelligence in the complexity of Daniel's life, and in anyone's life.
by watwut | 2025-10-21 13:02:39+00:00
Per number of words in article possibly. But I do not think he "sucks air out of other critics".

I mostly assume that most people end reading his articles somewhere in first third and go on reading something easier to read. His articles are not exactly casual read material and they are loooong. You have to have certain kind of personality to get over first few paragraphs.
by bluGill | 2025-10-21 13:02:56+00:00
Maybe, exactly what are you asking? What even is intelligence - that is a question I've never seen formally answered (and even if someone does, their definition may not match your intuitive feel for what it means and thus it is useless outside of the exact paper they defined it in)

Formal definitions aside, it isn't possible for "stupid" people to be good at chess. There also is no other animal or known alien that is good at chess. Thus being good at chess is a strong sign of an intelligent human.

We can't go the other way. There are plenty of humans generally known to be "intelligent" who are not good at chess. There is a lot more than intelligence needed to be good at chess (practice and study come to mind, there might be more).

While there are no known aliens that are good at chess, that doesn't preclude that we may discover them in the future. (not in your lifetime though - the speed of light is too slow for them to learn the rules of our chess and communicate back proof that they are good, no matter how intelligent they are)
by mrtksn | 2025-10-21 13:03:23+00:00
It’s a cult, in cults people don’t demand refunds from the messiah. IRL they ask what else I can contribute to the church to fix that because it mist be their fault that the prophesies didn’t come true. In the end it’s not a problem if parties choose not to make a problem if it.

In recent years the leader of a cult in Turkey known for being filthy rich died and when cult split the new factions summoned the believers to re-do their inauguration ritual, which involves money collecting, since the old one expired within the death of the leader. And they went and did that, because although its not the members that are rich they still benefit from being in the community and the business connections.

Tesla has a similar thing, they are on a mission and many make money from being part of the community as they collect referrals, make content and sell accessories. Even if not doing any of that they ysually have Tesla shares and even if that’s not the case they want to keep the value of their vehicle high. Also in comes with the emotional baggage of having told everyone how their tesla drives autonomously etc.
by boringg | 2025-10-21 13:03:58+00:00
I'd say the UK isn't representative of the Tesla market is my guess. Ive talked to a bunch of friends who own them and are the antethesis of red pilled. They lament that the competition is still not there at all and that their Teslas are a much better experience then the rest of the market. Take it for what its worth - anecdotal.

Would they buy them again? Probably not but thats because of politics.
by DuperPower | 2025-10-21 13:04:30+00:00
so another victim of the algorithm? social media promotes this type of bullying behavior as advertisers are Happy to put their ads in harasing videos as long they dont say certain words. Ridiculous. Its sad that platforms themselves are above the law, of course in the TOS they promise democracy but its a lie and they give us Roman colloseum as its what sells the most
by coldpie | 2025-10-21 13:05:32+00:00
> Tesla really makes charging about as seamless as can be. It integrates into the navigation system (the car will automatically add charging stops, pre-warm the battery, tell you how many spots are open, etc.), integrates the payment, etc.

Other cars have all that, too, yeah. I got a 2025 Ioniq 5 and it does all that, and it's also not restricted to just one charging company's chargers. The payment integration stuff exists, but it requires support from the charging company obviously, and IMO that's kind of a mis-feature anyway, so I never bothered to set it up.

> can I just pay by card or do I need some stupid app

In my experience, almost all chargers just use a card. 100% of the ones I've used in regular gas stations on freeway exits just use a card. Once in a blue moon you run into a stupid app one, but it's usually an older charger that was installed in a city center in the early days of EV charging. The apps seem to be mostly disappearing, thank god. Ironically I'm pretty sure Tesla's chargers require a stupid app for non-Tesla cars, but I've never used one, so not certain.

> determining if it has the right connection

Yeah, the adapters are clunky. It's just gonna take time to phase out CCS. Hopefully that's a solved problem in 10 years as everyone switches over to NACS. I did use a native NACS non-Tesla charger with my native NACS non-Telsa car once on a recent road trip. The future is... almost here!
by micromacrofoot | 2025-10-21 13:05:44+00:00
> The downside for the FBI blackmailing an American is significant. Of course it happens and has happened

In what sane society is this an acceptable point in conversation to be hand-waived away. The FBI has murdered American citizens in some cases and no one has faced any consequence. To me how is the FBI any different from the FSB at that point?
by heyjamesknight | 2025-10-21 13:05:45+00:00
Nah, mate, the conversation never went "beyond my depth." You're just not an enjoyable conversation partner.

It doesn't matter how smart (you think) you are. If nobody wants to talk to you, you'll be spinning all that brain matter in the corner by yourself. Based on your comment history here, it looks like this happens to you more often than not.

I'm sure you have good points. I could probably learn a thing or two from you—maybe you could learn something from me too! But why on earth would anyone want to engage with someone who behaves like you do?

Again, best of luck.
by greenavocado | 2025-10-21 13:06:06+00:00
Speculating here based solely on general networking knowledge. You may have "AP Isolation" enabled and/or multicast blocking on your network may be causing problems.

If I was working on KDE Connect I would add a microphone and speaker based pairing system using OFDM modulation lifted from Rattlegram. Each device would share all IP addresses associated with themselves using sound to broadcast the information.
by PunchTornado | 2025-10-21 13:06:36+00:00
the reranker is a cross encoder that sees the docs and the query at the same time. What you normally do is you generating embeddings ahead of time, independent of the prompt used, calculate cosine similarity with the prompt, select the top-k best chunks that match the prompt and only then use a reranker to sort them.

embeddings are a lossy compression, so if you feed the chunks with the prompt at the same time, the results are better. But you can't do this for your whole db, that's why the filtering with cosine similarity at the beginning.
by account42 | 2025-10-21 13:06:42+00:00
If you throw a party in your rental apartment you are not a host? I guess you could even claim that renting means you do not actually have a home if you want to be really pedantic.

Perhaps you care about qualifications, but others just care about being in control of the servers they depend on and having options when the providers helping to run those servers become unreliable and choosing the most cost-effective option to achieve that. Unless you have an actual argument why the distinction matters besides "it allows the plebes to play" then few will care about what you think the term "self-hosted" should mean - even more so when you yourself still depend on your ISP and power company.
by aDyslecticCrow | 2025-10-21 13:07:07+00:00
The Tesla charger is now the North American Charging Standard NACS (standardized as SAE J3400). So most or nearly all new EV's in USA use it. So that's not an issue anymore.

In Europe, Tesla use the European standard Type 2 (standardized as IEC 62196-2) charger. So that's not an issue either.

> correction: I thought Tesla still used their own charger in Europe.
by pton_xd | 2025-10-21 13:07:34+00:00
I don't think I've ever heard emacs described as "batteries included" -- maybe more like "batteries available." If anything it has the opposite reputation, that doing anything requires extensive and continual config adjustments, which isn't accurate either.

There are plenty of emacs "starter kits" that do aim to provide more of a batteries included experience. My favorite is doom, it's worth checking out and does setup all the features you mention.

Pointing new users at those more advanced default configs as an option would be pretty helpful, I think.
by scott_w | 2025-10-21 13:08:09+00:00
The chess community is generally against it, though they're also laughing at Kramnik for his absurd his behaviour is. I'd be surprised if Kramnik's behaviour is a major contributing factor (given we don't know anything about Danya's cause of death), but if it is, I would hope he finds himself shunned from the community at a minimum.

As it is, he's already behaved in awful ways: accusing children of cheating without evidence, for example, and effectively doxxing them.
by mannykannot | 2025-10-21 13:08:24+00:00
The point that your scheme requires just one date to select single newspaper as a key for one U-boat per patrol underscores how feasible it would be for an organization with the resources of the German navy to generate the same sized random keys, your personal experience with key generation notwithstanding.

As for key interdiction, it would have to be at massive scale, as having a handful of random keys does not enable industrial-scale decryption, which is what the allies needed (and had, some of the time) for signals intelligence to be useful against U-boats. In contrast, the leaking of one date would compromise the entirety of the communications conducted under it (i.e., at least those for one U-boat for the duration of the patrol), especially given that German newspapers were readily available in neutral and occupied countries. OTPs are, in fact, way more resistant to espionage than your newspaper scheme.

The failure of the location-shifting scheme (as mentioned in my previous post) to stop the allies interdicting rendezvous, despite its periodic changes, also suggests that one date per patrol is not going to be good enough.

We have reached the point where the alleged superiority of your newspaper scheme hangs on the tendency of dice to roll off your desk!
by baggachipz | 2025-10-21 13:08:29+00:00
> seems like regulators might be getting some balls to do the same in the US soon

You must be new here. Kidding aside, the only reason they would do anything would be if Tesla doesn't sufficiently kiss the king's ring, which they did to the tune of $250 million quite recently. More payments will likely be required, but it's a cost of doing "business" these days.
by mazone | 2025-10-21 13:09:51+00:00
Trying not to sound too cold, he seemed like a very nice guy and i did not know him. It was not surprising for me. I remember seeing interview with him when he took things very personal and could not let things go some year back. Thought at that time that he was at high risk of suicide. He seemed to have a self loathing personality / depression and obsessive behaviors.

Staying on the Internet and be dependent on it in some way financially working as a streamer with all the short form communication and negativity online. Together with cyber bullies etc. A lot of things creating a perfect storm for what seemed to be a sensitive and very nice guy. Easy to say that his family and real life friends should have seen it too and make him change path but in reality it is difficult. Especially since things that make it worse like sitting down and playing chess all day / night and not getting enough sleep, together with cyber bullies is also the things that you love, you earn money on and you have many of your friends there.
by andsoitis | 2025-10-21 13:10:55+00:00
"The fundamental problem is that by rewarding speed and scale over productivity and differentiation, the internal plumbing of China’s political economy incentivizes businesses to produce too much stuff."

and

"China’s tendency to overproduce starts in an unlikely place: the Chinese Communist Party’s performance and promotion system. In the CCP bureaucracy, local officials are evaluated primarily on their ability to deliver growth, employment, and tax revenues. But China’s largest single tax, the value-added tax (VAT), is split evenly between the central government and the local government of the place where a good or service is produced, not the place where it is consumed. Since the system allocates tax revenue to regions based on production, it rewards the decision to build larger industrial bases. Local Chinese officials try to retain as much upstream and downstream activity as they can to expand their tax base. (The U.S. tax code, by contrast, apportions much of the corporate tax base to where companies’ customers are, rather than where firms produce goods, so the tax base is more evenly spread across jurisdictions.) This feature of the Chinese tax system explains the proliferation in China of “full stack” industrial clusters: EV assembly lines are located near battery production facilities, and solar panel factories are integrated with raw material and component suppliers. This system effectively encourages provincial and municipal leaders to act like industrial investors or venture capitalists. And in many cases, it has produced profound efficiencies."
by leeter | 2025-10-21 13:12:07+00:00
So there is a reason that in the C++ spec if a std::thread is still joinable when the destructor is called it calls std::terminate[1]. That reason being exactly this case. If the house is being torn down it's not safe to try to save the curtains[2]. Just let the house get torn down as quickly as possible. If you wanted to save the curtains (e.g. do things on the threads before they exit) you need to do it before the end of main and thus global destructors start getting called.

[1] https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/thread/thread/~thread.html

[2] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20120105-00/?p=86...
by c0balt | 2025-10-21 13:12:26+00:00
> The UI/UX is perfect

While I like curl, this is highly subjective, some people just prefer a GUI that can guide you and/or be visually explored.

This whole piece also reads like someone is quite angry at people preferring a different workflow than them. Some aspects, like shell history, are also not the magic bullet they propose here as it doesn't, e. G., cover the actual responses.

Curl's ability to do almost everything is a minor curse here too as it means that any documentation (man pages, options help) is very large.
by gregw2 | 2025-10-21 13:12:52+00:00
Larry (SGI) had lived through IRIX fine grained locking and even SGI's NUMA hardware cache coherency based on Stanford research right? Was his take that the complexity wasn't worth it given his experiences at SGI, or that it was just too much for an open source community to tackle without owning the hardware layers?

(And did Maddog (DEC) with a different set of experiences agree?)
by CaptainOfCoit | 2025-10-21 13:12:53+00:00
For repeated commands, my projects have a Make/Just file that has cURL commands I wanna validate. Sometimes I even load JSON from a tests/fixtures/*.json file, that also can be reused for other non-E2E tests.

Not sure how some developers could be so allergic to the terminal, don't you already spend a lot of time there?
by taylodl | 2025-10-21 13:13:10+00:00
Curl and jq are plenty to get the job done. As the author points out, you can capture all your curl commands in scripts and then orchestrate with other scripts for testing purposes. On top of all the benefits the author has already mentioned, you get a boost if you're doing your development work in a VM, as I do. It's less you have to install, configure, and manage. Sure, that can be automated, but it's just more stuff you have to take care of and the longer you have to wait for a fresh VM to be ready.
by pjc50 | 2025-10-21 13:13:14+00:00
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 "you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software." -- on why Dropbox should not exist.

People absolutely will pay for software rather than reading or thinking, if it makes doing the work easier. You may have heard of this thing called chatgpt.

(not being a web developer, I've only lightly used Postman, and it is definitely handy for things like authentication. Especially once you touch OAuth. But I uninstalled it once they went unnecessarily cloud)
by vbezhenar | 2025-10-21 13:14:08+00:00
> For internal addressing, why do we use DNS?

Why not? It's standard protocol for name-address mapping.

> In case of an address swap (hardware swap, load balancing or whatever reason), one could broadcast it to the network, and the relevant clients would acknowledge & update the address.

Client just performs DNS query before HTTP query or client caches DNS response for some time. It's solved problem and "pull" approach usually preferable to "push" approach. For example, what if that broadcast gets lost (UDP is not reliable protocol)? How application handles initial discovery?

Of course it is possible to replace DNS with something else. But why? If you're afraid that your DNS server will fail, the same could happen with your custom service discovery server.