MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by greenavocado | 2025-10-09 14:36:18+00:00
German drivers are objectively WORSE than MOST American drivers, speaking from experience driving thousands of km/mi in both. German drivers completely unnecessarily accelerate very strongly, take corners quickly, and slam on the brakes when stopping much more so than in the USA. The main difference I can attribute fewer deaths to by observation and critical thinking, is that Europeans have to be far more vigilant of random stuff appearing on the side, since many streets can have cars randomly coming from the right side because of what qualifies as a secondary road, and in some cases, you must yield to them, so the paranoia is much higher in towns. Of course, there are way more stops and crosswalks, cyclists, and pedestrians in most European towns, also elevating ones alertness. Finally, speed limits in European towns are much lower than anything in equivalent US towns because everything is more compact. Also of note is truck speed limits in Europe are generally 80 KILOMETERS/H whereas American truckers frequently drive north of 80 MILES/H. Cattle haulers are known for going 90-100 MILES/H on I-10.
by criddell | 2025-10-09 14:36:20+00:00
I don't really have a problem with that. The scope of the sub is:

> Appreciation subreddit dedicated to the life and art of Michael Joe Jackson

Criticism of Jackson would be off-topic.

Plus it's not like anybody who is a fan of Jackson doesn't know about those allegations and some of the weird things he did. People who feel the need to say he was weird about kids in that subreddit are probably just trying to troll Jackson fans. It's not going to make the subreddit better for fans who are there to celebrate the art and music of Jackson.
by modeless | 2025-10-09 14:36:39+00:00
We will never run out of small inconveniences. Today's world would look impossibly convenient and easy to anyone from 100 years ago, let alone 1000 or 10,000. Yet we still perceive hardships. Humanoid robot servants won't change human nature.

Besides, servants are nothing new. They're rare in the US but common in some other countries, and the people who grow up with them are maybe somewhat different but not radically changed IMO.
by andsoitis | 2025-10-09 14:36:39+00:00
I would love a Roma EV - https://www.ferrari.com/en-EN/auto/ferrari-roma

If the new Tesla Roadster comes out before something like a sexy Ferrari Roma EV, I would go with the Roadster.

The next generation care less about the noise a “sports car” makes, in fact the opposite; it is obnoxious.
by tomashubelbauer | 2025-10-09 14:36:43+00:00
Tesla showed a prototype of a "snake"/"tentacle" charger that would find its own way to the Tesla's charging port a long time ago. Gotta be 5+ years by now. To my knowledge it has never become a real product or certainly not mainstream among Tesla owners. I believe this gives some credence to Tesla struggling to build robots that can plug a cord in, even in cases where the robot is the cable.
Show HN: Debugg – 0-Config AI browser (E2E) tests that review every commit
by quinnosha | 2025-10-09 14:36:56+00:00
TL;DR:

I hated writing tests, my end to end's never worked, and dealing with browsers was brutal. AI made this 10x worse because it'll change random stuff across your app that will pass unit tests but break something obvious. So I wanted and then built a system that handles everything for you and then updates you with results after each commit or PR (configurable). LMK what you all think!

The Long:

I was writing a ton of code, particularly with AI for a previous startup idea and kept feeling like things were moving really quick until I tried to go and use pieces of it. This isn't uncommon in general, but i think the new thing with AI is that stuff you didn't think you touched would start breaking too cause I wasn't watching or making every single edit.

Granted AI has gotten much better since then, but in general my view is that everyone (even AI) needs someone to give a second set of eyes on something and then send back the results. That's what debugg.ai attempts (cough cough - to be seen if you think we do) to do. Currently that feedback is in the form of PR review comments or email updates & our app, but our nearterm plan is to offer the ability to pull that right back into whatever AI you use so that it can get its own feedback and iterate until it's done.

I'm tired of opening an app that Claude Code said was 'working perfectly' only to find the main page won't even load or has some react hydration problem. The cool thing about this is that even though it may not be best - yet - for super complex and detailed test flows, most people wouldn't write an E2e just to make sure the main page loads cause that's a 'manual' test thing. Because this removes all the browser handling, building, ci / cd, etc setup you can have really simple and a lot of quick tests that reign in you AI and also just give you peace of mind as you're making changes.

On the tech side i def had some fun:

Built a use-specific crawler agent that sequences and learns your application from top down. Think of it like a sitemap, but actually useful – it knows "login button on homepage → takes you to /login → which has a form → which posts to /api/auth" and includes files from /auth/components/... etc.

The above improved our ability to track github code changes and associate them with tests that could be impacted & create new ones for stuff that hasn't been seen.

Ultimately my goal is to build myself out a job a bit so i can just prompt Claude to make changes then have a hook that sends debugg's test results (failures) back to Claude to keep making changes until it actually works :).

Open to all feedback & thoughts on whether you've felt this pain as well!
by fao_ | 2025-10-09 14:37:08+00:00
Of course it's difficult for Linux to support devices when a) the OEMs have contracts with Microsoft, b) the OEMs are writing drivers for windows, and c) Linux developers have to reverse-engineer said drivers to provide a modicum of support, with all of the legal and technical challenges thereof.

I don't think it's fair to blame Linux for "bad device support" when really it's entirely on the OEM and how shitty they are to non-Microsoft developers, and that varies a lot between manufacturer. A Lenovo Thinkpad, for example, is almost guaranteed to have a decent-to-good level of support because of how they, as a company, act and implement their systems. Other manufacturers like Asus, the relationship is more adversarial.

Linux support of mainline devices is in many ways expecting to catch up to a freight train with a little handcar. The fact that Linux supports so many devices and that I've been able to use it satisfactorily for every day work and life on Thinkpads, HP Pavilions, and other random devices, is itself a miracle. The fact that you can install it on a laptop and expect it to mostly work with only maybe sound card issues or lid detection issues, is itself a testament to the skill and effort invested in it. And then when there are problems, it's easy to dril down to the root of things. Versus my dad's USB and wifi card randomly disabling itself within Windows and there being no support for this and no way to figure out what's wrong.
by slybot | 2025-10-09 14:38:11+00:00
Couple of years back, I made a mistake on trusting Deutsche Bahn. I took a regional train from Düsseldorf, hoping to get at some connection hub (never reached and don't remember, possibly Cologne), I have to ICE to reach Brussels. It was evening and at some point the train stopped in the middle of nowhere and an announcement followed 20 minutes later, saying the train went through the wrong tracks and it cannot return! And, we need to wait couple of hours before the rails are cleared and then we will need to get of the next station, a tiny town where only few trains run per day and none after 10pm!. Genius idea to leave people there, conductor also puts his unsatisfaction because apparently he also needs to get off there and request a ride. Let alone, I missed my connections. I had to either wait there until morning or get a ride. Never used Deutsche Bahn again, I feel less stressed by driving, even I really enjoy train rides in general.

Did I get compensation? Yes I did after four months for the ticket price only (around 40 euros), but after ridiculous process of that I need to send them forms and tickets via regular post, with a stamp that can only post within Germany. Nice try by their side..
by roncesvalles | 2025-10-09 14:38:13+00:00
>There was no point at which the internet was /not/ worth investing in and everyone who had experience with it knew that.

I don't get this. Of course there was. Specifically, March 10, 2000.

To declare that something is not worth investing in doesn't imply that it's useless. (and actually, swing investors will argue something can be worth investing in even though it is in fact useless, e.g. web3 and most crypto).
by solstice | 2025-10-09 14:38:31+00:00
While it can certainly be difficult for anyone to be aware of intra-community drama (especially if it's in semi-transient media like Discord), the moment someone makes you aware of deeply problematic issues is the moment when you have to make a choice how to respond.

The fact that framework leadership responded to this by effectively downplaying the issues raised in the OP shows me that they are deeply misguided. Very disappointing.
by dahcryn | 2025-10-09 14:38:38+00:00
both make a lot of sense, but the biggest mistake they make is to see people as capacity, or as a counter.

Each human can be a bit more productive, I fully believe 10-15% is possible with today's tools if we do it right. But each human has it unique set of experience and knowledge. If I do my job a bit faster, and you do your job a bit faster. But if we are a team of 10, and we do all our job 10% faster, doesn't mean you can let one of us go. It just means, we all do our job 10% faster, which we probably waste by drinking more coffee or taking longer lunch breaks
by dylan604 | 2025-10-09 14:38:40+00:00
Regulatory agencies are always going to be behind for a long time when a new comes along. Regulations still have not caught up to social media. The unfortunate part is that by the time regulations are obviously needed, the company that would be regulated has grown to some massive behemoth with lots of money to spread around the regulators to ensure that regulations come in to not stop them but make it difficult for anyone to follow as a competitor.
by rglover | 2025-10-09 14:38:58+00:00
A SaaS is just the focus but it can build plain websites just fine. IMO, it streamlines everything. But people have to get out of their own way and try it—not form surface-level opinions from a quick scroll. I'm actually shocked how few people will even try it. They sit and bitch about React/Next, but when someone offers a solution, they poo poo it (usually for superficial reasons) and then go back to suffering. Joystick is for developers who are tired of that cycle and just want to build something that just works (and they actually understand why it works). Honestly, I'm surprised more people don't trust my way of doing things and continue to walk on to the kill floor that is corporate and VC-backed tech.
by notTooFarGone | 2025-10-09 14:39:03+00:00
Also you can cancel your Deutschlandticket only before the 15th of the month. And somehow getting a Deutschlandticket not starting at the first of the month is impossible.

It's all around scams and it's utterly embarrassing that 210k people are actually employed in Germany for this. There are people who get payed for implementing dark patterns as a government service to get a little bit more money.
by neko_lover | 2025-10-09 14:39:04+00:00
i thought about including packet captures and some analysis on that, but ran out of steam. you're right that it would have made a more interesting post. maybe ill amend it at some point :)

there were other peculiarities i noticed in testing, like udp trackers not working through the socks proxy even after fixing the listening port problem. id like to revisit the topic at some point to see if that can be fixed as well.
Show HN: Sluqe AI voice notes turn conversations into searchable memory
by Team_Sluqe | 2025-10-09 14:39:41+00:00
Features:

- One-tap recording & instant transcript + summary

- Search & query across all conversations

- Export data, privacy controls, retention options

We have 100+ non-paid users. Looking for UX feedback, accuracy issues, feature ideas & integrations.

/Team Sluqe
by vjvjvjvjghv | 2025-10-09 14:39:51+00:00
Other countries are making efforts to keep things in check though https://www.npr.org/2025/01/04/nx-s1-5246231/potential-fraud.... The US for some reason can’t even address blatant fraud. One example is the stuff insurers do with Medicare Advantage. There is fraud and Congress knows about it but besides some hearings nothing is happening.
by southernplaces7 | 2025-10-09 14:39:52+00:00
>sums up what is wrong with modern conflict --- the abandonment of the moral high ground and a failure to take into account the will of people and their right to self-determination

Pray tell, when in the whole of humanity's so often sordid history has warfare mostly been even within audible laughing distance of a tendency towards promoting moral high ground or taking into account people's right to self determination?

If anything, the wars of the last few decades have made more pretense of both those things (pretense, not necessarily real application) than any typical war at any previous time, when naked, crude, unvarnished conquest was the main justification most leaders felt inclined to think good enough.
by Lutger | 2025-10-09 14:40:01+00:00
Honestly, I never heard of people being confused about open source like this. Either you know about open source and then you know exactly what it means, or you know nothing about it at all. At least, that has been my experience. Open source, FOSS and source available are quite well defined and their definitions commonly known amongst anyone with even the slightest clue about software licenses.
by i80and | 2025-10-09 14:40:21+00:00
I really want to know what's going on inside the military.

Of course I'm not naive enough to expect anybody outside of a few noble souls to actually disobey orders when push comes to shove, but for years people in and around the military have assured me that officers do training to prepare for rejecting illegal orders, and so I shouldn't worry.

And these orders seem pretty prima facie blatantly illegal.
by rarisma | 2025-10-09 14:40:22+00:00
I went to germany and got a DB card, for some reason despite giving them my card details, they instead asked me to pay them within 14 days (after the ticket has expired) via bank transfer or they would fine me an extra 50eur

(I checked, they never took the price of the ticket from my account initally, why not is bizzare)
by forgotoldacc | 2025-10-09 14:40:27+00:00
There are many, many corners of the internet with people actively celebrating every boat bombing. Evidence of a crime isn't necessary. Beyond just the boat bombings, we're in an era where you can see HD footage of actual people crying, begging for their lives, and being blown up by governments. Half the world loves seeing it so long as it's preceded with a disclaimer, true or not, that "these are (people who are against you in some way)".

It's a modern day Roman colosseum event. Human lives are throwaway entertainment, and the more you kill, the more your political base gets fired up and outright overjoyed. From a political standpoint, there's no longer any consequence for killing small time nobodies with no name. It's only beneficial for a politician. And this phenomenon is spreading to more and more countries.

But those same people who are celebrating these killings, the same people who are ordering killings for their political gain, will say "It's time we come together to condemn political violence" when a small guy strikes someone else. It's interesting.
by delusional | 2025-10-09 14:41:04+00:00
> Does anyone want what you're producing though?

He's either lying or hard-selling. The company in his profile "neofactory.ai" says they "will build our first production line in Dallas, TX in Q3." well, we just entered Q4, so not that. Despite that it has no mentions online and the website is just a "contact us" form.
by strangescript | 2025-10-09 14:41:12+00:00
You don't want your agents to ask questions. You are thinking too short term. Its not ideal now, but agents that have to ask frequent questions are useless when it comes the vision of totally autonomous coding.

Humans ask questions of groups to fix our own personal short comings. It make no sense to try and master an internal system I rarely use, I should instead ask someone that maintains it. AI will not have this problem provided we create paths of observability for them. It doesn't take a lot of "effort" for them to completely digest an alien system they need to use.
by kome | 2025-10-09 14:41:17+00:00
ok, it was an hyperbole,

perhaps the same kind of hyperbole krasznahorkai likes to use when talking about the "arabs": "I'm sure the Arabs would accept me now that they're gonna cut off my nose, then my eyes, and then they'll poke my eyes out, my tongue rip it out, everything that sticks out of me, cut it off, tortured me, and then shoot me. So that is the Jewish past is enough for me. That’s all the family history" (https://www.szombat.org/kultura-muveszetek/krasznahorkai-las...) (...that's an example among many)
by rkomorn | 2025-10-09 14:41:25+00:00
No, it was 2018, but of those students, more than 50% are now/still in tech.

Edit: Well, that said, I still mentored recently, and the numbers for the one bootcamp I mentored for are about 50% over the last couple of years, which honestly seems pretty good considering the state of things, but that bootcamp has also skipped a couple of cohorts because of market conditions.

It is most definitely less rosy now, but I think the "the student is the main driver of success" aspect is still correct, IMO.
by forinti | 2025-10-09 14:41:30+00:00
That is precisely the point that should be discussed because, from what I've read, UPFs are much worse than plain fatty or sugary food cooked by human hands.

The extra stuff in UPFs interacts with your body in ways that you are not prepared for and some of them are designed to make you consume more. The first example that comes to mind is the sodium added to make you tolerate more sugar.
by burkaman | 2025-10-09 14:41:36+00:00
Here's a list of senators that just voted last night to let this continue (the NAYs are in favor of the strikes): https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1...

I think this issue is intellectually interesting because it is so indefensible that the administration has not even tried to defend it. As far as I can see they have not offered any evidence against the people they're killing or any legal justification whatsoever. They seem to just enjoy killing these people and they know nobody can stop them.
by swydydct | 2025-10-09 14:41:44+00:00
My wife is a bench scientist. The perspective I get from her is that automation is typically much slower than doing it by hand, especially since there are tools like multi-channel pipettes that give you a lot of the benefits of automation without needing to do any coding. The general task of sucking up liquids is also tough to calibrate due to differences in viscosity. An automation engineer will need to spend a lot of time calibrating while someone who has a lot of experience can go by feel.
by ryandrake | 2025-10-09 14:41:45+00:00
Calling "victim blaming" is not a retort.

There is nothing wrong with dividing up blame among both people who offer a risky choice and people who make the risky decision to accept that choice, just because one of them suffered the downside of that risk. There are a lot of other examples where if you screw something up you might get hurt, and the victim is definitely at fault. It's a spectrum, as someone else put it.

Sending your government ID over the Internet is a very risky decision, given the number and frequency of data breaches. The people who got burned here are not totally at fault but they share at least a little responsibility.
by lossolo | 2025-10-09 14:41:49+00:00
Quadratic pushfive is just a cautionary tale about misusing reserve_exact. Basically use reserve_exact when you know the final size (reserve once), or you're doing a one off tight sizing where memory footprint matters.

Don't pre reserve inside pushfive, just push the 5 elements (Vec handles growth) or if you know how many times you'll call pushfive in a loop, reserve up front once vec.reserve(5 * times) or use reserve instead of reserve_exact for incremental growth.
by Braxton1980 | 2025-10-09 14:41:49+00:00
This is a major flaw in decision making that some people have:

A new solution that has less problems is worse than an existing solution with more problems.

There's also a willingness to be less upset with humans making a mistake than a machine.

Edit:

Unknown problems may or may not exist so while I think that concern makes sense it doesn't matter until they come up.

I'm making the decision based on the current state. If additional issues come about then you reevaluate if the new solution is better or worse than the existing.

If you consider unknown problems then how can you make a decision?

X+Y > Z?

Where X is the weight of problems for the new solution, Z is the weigh for the existing solution, and Y is a value between 0 and infinity (unknown problems)
by bshep | 2025-10-09 14:41:53+00:00
but the landscaper has a photo of the clean yard after they finished. They send it to you but you ( as the insurance company) say they need to call a specific time and speak to your 12y/o who is the yard representative of the house.

The 12 y/o say ‘no you stink’ and hangs up. Then you send the landscaper a letter saying ‘sorry your peer to peer was denied’

( I know this is exaggerating a bit and made to sound funny but it mostly works like that in healthcare )
by bdcravens | 2025-10-09 14:42:05+00:00
I'd like to believe that this is done in the interest of driver safety. However unlike past administrations, where most departments tended to stay in their lane (no pun intended), everything these days seems driven from the top, with punishment and retribution often the goal. I can't help but think this is an opportunity to get back at Musk for his post on X saying that Trump was in the Epstein files (the post was deleted, and Musk issued a hand-wavy apology, but he never retracted the statement)
by bluGill | 2025-10-09 14:42:17+00:00
IT is beyond our control because we have setup a system where the people who are paying don't want to control things.

My boss wants insurance to be expensive - if I could afford it I would be more willing to quit (retire early).

Finding cheaper services isn't in my interest - I'm not paying any bills anyway.

Insurance companies like the complexity because it means I can't understand the system and so I have to use them.

Doctors don't really care as they just have administrators play the game for them. Once in a while they look at the game and say something, but really this is just they don't understand how the game is played (they shouldn't - they are doctors, they should be looking at medical issues not administrative ones).
by msandford | 2025-10-09 14:42:35+00:00
It can't just be better than the average human driver. it has to be some like 10x as good as the average human driver or on par with a race driver.

Everyone thinks they're above average, even people who know statistics! So if it's merely 20% better than the average driver a huge number of people will conclude "I am above average so I'll do a better job"

Will some of them be wrong? Of course. But tons of them will be right, too.

It can't be statistically significantly better, it has to be statistically overwhelmingly better. Not a part of a standard deviation but several of them.