MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Wistar | 2025-10-23 19:38:14+00:00
In the early 80s, a friend restored a 1936 Mercedes-Benz 170V Saloon that he found in pieces in the attic of an old downtown Seattle body shop. It took five pickup truck loads to get the entire car to his shop and about three years to completely restore it to original condition. He had almost every part except for the steel wheel that was for the spare tire, the instrument dial backgrounds, and the rubber window surround moldings.

Despite combing the Earth for that fifth wheel for the spare, he was never able to find one but, since the spare tire was kept underneath a trimmed cover on the back of the car, it wasn't missed. The instrument dials he faked by carefully photographing, and printing on photographic paper, a set of dial faces.

Those rubber window moldings?

He was able to have a well-connected German friend contact Mercedes in Germany where they responded by breaking out the original molds and producing two complete sets for the car.

The year after the car was complete, it won a local Mercedes-Benz of America concours show by 4/100ths of one point over a Gullwing that had just gone through a $200,000 restoration.
by dgacmu | 2025-10-23 19:38:22+00:00
If it's taking images every 30 seconds, it's getting 86400 x 30 = 2.5 million images per day per camera. So when it causes enormous, unnecessary trauma to one student per week, the company can rightfully claim it has less than a 1 in 10 million false positive rate.

(* see also "how to lie with statistics").
by mk89 | 2025-10-23 19:38:41+00:00
It's not always to gain views, because you can often see that the relative directors/presidents of such media companies openly support certain types of people. The way I see it, especially lately in Germany, is really about elections and politics. Even a stupid article can lead to "i will vote for xyz" in no time.

I would agree with you if media didn't have a direction, but in many cases they do.
by IlikeKitties | 2025-10-23 19:38:57+00:00
Sure, but given that the USA isn't a dictatorship on paper, there would have to be some law forbidding SpaceX from doing what they are doing or at least some incentive like the lucrative government contracts. But that's just diplomacy between nations. Consider a country that the USA doesn't give a shit about complaining. They wouldn't stop SpaceX they would tacitly encourage them in fact.
by KaiserPro | 2025-10-23 19:39:08+00:00
> Can "second life" EV batteries work as grid-scale energy storage?

Yes

is it profitable? probably not.

Looking at the price for brid battery storage, and its dropping precipitously. The cost isn't as much in the batteries them selves, it packaging, placing and then controlling them.

For example if you want to have a 200Mwhr 100Mw storage site, you'll need to place it, join it to the grid, all doable. Then you need the switch gear to make it work as you want it to.

For day ahead, 30 minute trading, thats fairly simple.

For grid stabilisation, thats a bit harder, you need to be able to lead/match/lag the grid frequency by n degrees instantaneously. which is trivial at a few kw, much harder at 100Mw
by joshmoody24 | 2025-10-23 19:39:12+00:00
For the record, I'm the author of the article, and even I barely understand any of this code. And that's after months of thinking about combinatory logic on a daily basis. It's not designed to be understood.

And I can empathize - watching Hacker News dissect this post is causing me some serious imposter syndrome right now, lol
by ben_w | 2025-10-23 19:39:35+00:00
The problem at the moment is not that Tesla doesn't make money. That was a problem when Tesla was a very young company, and Elon Musk absolutely did solve that problem, and absolutely does deserve credit for solving that problem.

No, the problem is that by all sane metrics, Tesla is currently overvalued by a factor of 20. The markets could shift the decimal point left one place, and it would still be wildly overpriced. That cash pile you're talking about is significantly smaller than the amount of money that Musk has made from owning Tesla shares.

Now, can Tesla sell 20 million cars? Yes, eventually, sure why not, is there a time limit?

Can they get 1 million Robo taxis on the road? They're currently about six years behind Waymo, so probably not.

10 million FSD subscriptions? Only if given away with something else. Like, if it comes free with Grok Pro that might be cheap enough.

Can they sell 1 million humanoid robots? This isn't inconceivable, but the market has yet to be validated. We have yet to see how good the software really is in the real world, or what the real world really needs. I wouldn't bet on it either direction.

But the share price target? That only makes sense if the USA experiences genuine hyperinflation. Which isn't impossible, and sadly is starting to be no longer inconceivable either.
by eviks | 2025-10-23 19:39:40+00:00
> In my mind, "Apple" as a brand used to be synonymous with "attention to detail" but sadly, over the course of the last 8 - 10 years

You outgrew this myth, congratulations!

> Look, I've got nothing but respect for the perfectly lovely humans who work at Apple. Several are classmates from university, or people I had the pleasure of working with before at different companies. But I rather suspect what's happened here is that some project manager ... convince Tim

But haven't outgrown this one yet, well, maybe in another 8 years...
by tim333 | 2025-10-23 19:39:41+00:00
That video seems over pessimistic to me. It has "sodium ion battery cells don't have a good chance of reaching parity with LFP cells until about 2039" but BYD who are making the things are talking about next year.

I could see quite a rapid takeoff if they prove successful next year after being mass produced because they look like maybe the best solution for grid storage.
by Terr_ | 2025-10-23 19:40:04+00:00
> These are not model improvements. They're engineering workarounds for models that stopped improving.

One might characterize it as an improvement in the document-style which the model operates upon.

My favorite barely-a-metaphor is that the "AI" interaction is based on a hidden document that looks like a theater script, where characters User and Bot are having a discussion. Periodically, the make_document_longer(doc) function (the stateless LLM) is invoked to to complete more Bot lines. An orchestration layer performs the Bot lines towards the (real) user, and transcribes the (real) user's submissions into User dialogue.

Recent improvements? Still a theater-script, but:

1. Reasoning - The Bot character is a film-noir detective with a constant internal commentary, not typically "spoken" to the User character and thus not "performed" by the orchestration layer: "The case was trouble, but I needed to make rent, and to do that I had to remember it was Georgia the state, not the country."

2. Tools - There are more stage-directions, such as "Bot uses [CALCULATOR] inputting [sqrt(5)*pi] and getting [PASTE_RESULT_HERE]". Regular programs are written to parse the script, run tools, and then replace the result.

Meanwhile, the fundamental architecture and the make_document_longer(doc) haven't changed as much, hence the author's title of "not model improvement."*
by anechouapechou | 2025-10-23 19:40:14+00:00
Despite Apple's walled garden, its anti-consumer practices of trying to keep you in the ecosystem, and other behaviors (like the green/blue bubbles fiasco) that are absolutely reprehensible and inexcusable, I still used iPhones because it seemed far superior to the other offerings on the market. Fortunately, Apple is doing its best to make me see the light.
by mpeg | 2025-10-23 19:40:19+00:00
No, it's not.

I have shoes that I know always beep on the airport scanners, so if I choose to wear them I know it might take longer or I might have to embarrassingly take them off and put them on the tray. Or I can not wear them.

Yes, in an ideal world we should all travel without all the security theatre, but that's not the world we live in, I can't change the way airports work, but I can wear clothes that make it faster, I can put my liquids in a clear bag, I can have bags that make it easy to take out electronics, etc. Those things I can control.

But people can't change their skin color, name, or passport (well, not easily), and those are also all things you can get held up in airports for.
by mike2872 | 2025-10-23 19:41:13+00:00
They send packets to and from each other in a mesh network. It's quite small packets and not a large amount of packets a second. For a standard use case (3-4 zones) the interference is quite low on 2.4Ghz, and almost negligible on either 2.4Ghz (Wi-Fi 6, like the ESP32-C6) or 5Ghz (ESP32-C5).
by comboy | 2025-10-23 19:41:14+00:00
On multiple devices when doing system update on ios 26, pin entry displays full keyboard instead of standard pin input. It's been like that for like 5 versions (of iOS 26) already.

It's fascinating to me because that's the single thing which every user goes through. It's the main branch and not some obscure some edge case. How do you do testing that you miss that?
by timmg | 2025-10-23 19:41:34+00:00
I wonder if anyone else here is old enough to remember the "I'm a Mac", "And I'm a PC" ads.

There was one that was about all the annoying security pop-ups Windows (used to?) have. (FWIW, it starts here: https://youtu.be/qfv6Ah_MVJU?t=230 .)

Lately I've gotten so many of these popups on Mac that it both annoys and amuses the hell out of me. "Die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain", I guess.

But, man, Apple hardware still rocks. Can't deny that.
by ayaros | 2025-10-23 19:41:48+00:00
'Don't get me wrong, I do like trillion dollar tech companies to be transparent, but this right here is certainly not what I meant when I said: "Apple needs to be more transparent".'

lol

Apple is burning their remaining goodwill among longtime customers, myself included. It's sad to see. Next WWDC, they need to be incredibly transparent about how they plan to fix these issues and get their house in order. If they aren't capable of accepting feedback after this public excoriation, I don't have high hopes for their future.
by jimmydoe | 2025-10-23 19:42:07+00:00
Amreicans want to make the economy looks good, so they have to fake AI growth. To do that, they have to give OpenAIs a lot of money.

OpenAIs have so much money they have to make bets.

The best ways to make bets are: (a) do what others do: social video, app store, online shopping... (b) buy out other small promising companies so investors have no where else to look.
by morshu9001 | 2025-10-23 19:42:09+00:00
Looks exceptionally bad, but OSX Lion and iOS 7 were worse releases. It's also been a long time since I've actually wanted an update, at this point more something that's semi forced.

On the bright side, Apple Silicon is amazing, and it seems like Apple decided in 2021 to make the MBP good again like it was in 2015.
by taftster | 2025-10-23 19:42:12+00:00
I hear you about "links are blue" ... except when you are a link aggregator.

The links are blue design from early HTML was meant to highlight links in the context of a paragraph of prose, not a list of link items. "Blue" means something special about the text in the context of the text around it.

In this case, the blue font is distracting because the links are the content. You don't need the blue to help your links "stand out". Because the links are normal text, using a normal palette would be appropriate.

I don't mind some subtle clues that these are links. Underlines, slight grey text. Or even a subtle hover effect. Two cents.
by whatever1 | 2025-10-23 19:42:28+00:00
Apple supports a ton of platforms (iOS, MacOS, iPadOS, WatchOS, Web, Windows etc).

When they release a new feature it needs to be everywhere. That happens every September. The cadence has not changed, but the scope since Apple was just making MacOS has been multiplied.

You can 10X your staff, but the coordination under 10X velocity will suffer.
by cogman10 | 2025-10-23 19:43:13+00:00
> who they cannot coerce

If the market is a consumer need then yeah, these companies can coerce simply by being the only (or one of a few) options in town. Food, healthcare, and housing are all markets that appear to be narrowing which means increasing in their coercive abilities.

It's true that the USSR and East Germany were worse, but that had a lot more to do with the concentration of power into a strongman leader rather than the people. And, in fact, a major part of why West germany did so well wasn't really due to market forces, but rather due to the US spending ungodly amounts of money on rebuilding them (and Japan). The USSR was always pretty cash strapped. Especially since the only nations they could really interact with were nations under the USSR umbrella. Even other communist nations like China had pretty tense and often not friendly relations with the USSR.

In today's money, we dumped about $120B on West Germany. Just to put things in context.
by ahnick | 2025-10-23 19:43:34+00:00
There were laws requiring disclosure before GDPR and there were already tools to disable or prevent trackers built into browsers or adding on with plugins. (organic market developments) You also had alternatives to services that used the lack of tracking as a reason to choose a particular service offering over another. GDPR ended up just making these disclosures more in your face. Text like "It shall be as easy to withdraw as to give consent" is so vague as to be useless, which is why there are so many disagreeing opinions are whether companies with their current implementations are complying or not. GDPR is a bad law and in general the EU hasn't learned it doesn't get to enforce its laws in countries outside of its jurisdiction.
by Projectiboga | 2025-10-23 19:43:36+00:00
I think both them and BMW have all the tools to make any part they used on production models. Not sure exactly how far back either catalog goes, but from what I've heard it is total for even 60s & 70s and maybe 50s models. Of course the way out of date stuff will cost but they could make something for you if your really want it.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-10-23 19:43:39+00:00
What other reasons are you thinking about?

I mean, reducing motivations down to the fundamentals:

- Will it give you power?

- Will it get you laid?

Yes and yes, but only indirectly; you need to be in the right environment that allows you to use this knowledge to convince others you're smart, and you need to be able to capitalize on it. Other than that? Nope.
by LeoPanthera | 2025-10-23 19:43:43+00:00
A significant fraction of the bugs in this article are because the author has deliberately chosen settings that cause problems (disabling all location access) or are just bugs, some of which I can't reproduce myself. He throws in random comments like "goodbye accessibility" with no attempt to justify them, when in fact iOS and macOS are famous for their unusually strong accessibility features.

I'm not trying to excuse Apple, but this article attempts to paint the impression that every issue is connected in some kind of serial incompetence, but that simply isn't the case.
by akoboldfrying | 2025-10-23 19:43:57+00:00
> Make them pay money for false positives instead of direct support and counselling.

Agreed.

> This technology is not ready for production

No one wants stuff like this to happen, but nearly all technologies have risks. I don't consider that a single false positive outweighs all of its benefits; it would depend on the rates of false and true positives, and the (subjective) value of each (both high in this case, though I'd say preventing 1 shooting is unequivocally of more value than preventing 1 innocent person being unnecessarily held at gunpoint).
by jazzyjackson | 2025-10-23 19:43:59+00:00
Didn't mean to position Zen as an alternative to Firefox, just that it adds viability to recommending a non-chromium browser cause it has nicer usability than the competition (imo, + arc was a pretty big hit before they pivoted but of course every YC start up was encouraged to use it so that might have helped with the hipness)
by constantcrying | 2025-10-23 19:44:01+00:00
I do not believe in this whitewashing of Apples history, throughout their history they always had problems, either with their hardware or their software.

The one thing that really changed is that every single company looked at Apple and saw something worth copying. Now there are dozens of phone makers, all seeking to emulate Apples success, putting effort into UI, polishing and design. This wasn't the case a decade ago. Just compare the circus bizarre design choice of Android Lollipop (either Stock or with manufacturer/user added layers on top) to iOS 7.

Now Apple is no longer particularly unique, in many regards. And I believe that they were absolutely aware of that and desired to continue being a defining force, instead of being "one of many". It's not that Apple has changed, it is that it hasn't and now desires to force through change.
by taftster | 2025-10-23 19:44:14+00:00
Better, to be honest. Keep refining of course. But this is definitely more readable.

I admit that straight black is not quite the right answer either. A slightly toned down dark grey would be nice. And again, subjectively, I like how HN has a row of non-link smaller (lighter shaded) text under each listing, which I think plays nice for the white space between each item.
by moralestapia | 2025-10-23 19:44:23+00:00
Agree.

I was in a (tech) meetup last week. We meet regularly, we are somewhere between acquaintances and friends. One thing that came up was a very candid comment about how "we should be able to tell someone 'that is just stupid' whenever the situation warrants it".

I believe that does more good than harm, even to the person it is being directed to. It is a nice covenant to have, "we'll call you on your bs whenever you bring it in", that's what a good friend would do. Embracing high standards in a community makes everyone in it better.

The Linux kernel would be absolutely trash if Linus were not allowed to be Linus. Some contexts do and must require a high level of expertise before you can collaborate properly in them.
by mandeepj | 2025-10-23 19:44:28+00:00
> pardons are useful when the delivery of justice was mistaken or excessive

If you look at a slew of the recent pardons, the beneficiaries had already pleaded guilty. In those cases, the pardons should be ineligible. I think the most a President could do - should be - give defendants the ability to appeal the case to a new judge or jury. It's wrong and should be corrected! Added it to my todo list
by thom | 2025-10-23 19:44:33+00:00
People just forget stuff. All this was said about Tiger. Snow Leopard was an entire paid OS upgrade the only selling point of which was that it made Leopard less crap. Your battery used to expand, your GPU used to overheat, you used to stare at a beachball helplessly every few seconds. You remember the good times, just like in ten years I'm going to remember fitting giant models in shared RAM on a monster GPU while the fans were completely silent, not this nitpicky stuff that has been par for the course for all operating systems forever.
by proee | 2025-10-23 19:44:40+00:00
How many audit the police videos have you seen on Youtube? There are an insufferable amount of "white" people getting destroyed by the cops. If you replace the "white" people in these videos with "black" then 99% of viewers would assume the cops are hardcore racist, when in fact, they are just bad cops - very bad cops, that have some deep psychological issues - probably rooted from a traumatic childhood.
by froggit | 2025-10-23 19:44:47+00:00
So i can't remember the specifics or find any references, but many years ago i remember reading about a car (prius maybe?) that would shut off and lock the doors when pulling away from a stop. (Ex: stopped at a red light, when it turns green the car would go far enough to cut off in the middle of an intersection then trap everyone inside.)

"This is Fine."
by mike2872 | 2025-10-23 19:44:51+00:00
Thanks! Glad you like it.

Honestly, it doesn't stand for anything! A couple years ago I was playing around with the concept and a song came on that mentioned "Tommy" repeatedly. I jokingly started calling it Tommy when talking to my girlfriend about it.

So every time the lights turned on or off it was "Tommy who did it" and the name just stuck. Now I'm too invested to change it.

There's a dedicated thread on the Discord channel where people are coming up with good ideas for what TOMMY stands for. Some of the suggestions are "Totally Overengineered Motion Monitoring" and "Through-Obstacle Motion Monitoring". People are still working on what the Y should stand for.
by surgical_fire | 2025-10-23 19:44:54+00:00
> In my mind, "Apple" as a brand used to be synonymous with "attention to detail" but sadly, over the course of the last 8 - 10 years, their choices have become anything but detail oriented.

In my mind it is synonymous with style over substance. Bad software packaged in a user hostile interface, sitting atop shitty hardware that looks sleek and fashionable.

It doesn't matter anyway. It's fashionable enough that it will keep selling.
by dgfl | 2025-10-23 19:44:56+00:00
As a relatively young person with good eyesight, I can’t really say that Liquid Glass has caused any real visibility issues for me. I think it looks pretty sleek 95% of the time. The app search when pulling down from the home screen is much faster, it has a delay of almost 1 second before which feels more like 0.1s now.

But nonetheless, there’s so many more bugs and visual glitches. Battery life is still unstable and feels markedly worse than before. Safari looks cool, but UI buttons being on top of content is foolish for the reasons highlighted in this article. Overall, it’s just much more visually inconsistent than before. And the glass effect on app icons looks blurry until you get 5cm away from the screen and really pay attention to the icons. I definitely won’t be upgrading my Mac any time soon.

I just wish we would get away from this annual upgrade cycle and just polish the OS for a while. We don’t need 1 trillion “features”, especially when they increase the complexity of the user experience. MacOS in general did this very well, ever since I switched I’ve been very impressed at how much you can accomplish with the default app in macOS, all while looking cleaner and leaner than windows software. No new feature is even close to that balance of power and UI simplicity anymore.
by raesene9 | 2025-10-23 19:45:10+00:00
Unfortunately I don't think they're going to get involved there. There are already multiple "official" images on Docker Hub that are unmaintained and have plenty of CVEs (e.g. Centos https://hub.docker.com/_/centos/tags)

I think the most they'd do is add the DEPRECATED note to the Docker hub page as they have done for things like Centos