MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mothballed | 2025-11-05 21:02:19+00:00
Rural AZ

>"my power company wouldn't let me use grid-tied solar without it being permitted." ?

Nah they didn't give a shit what I connected it to. I literally stubbed a 200 amp service entrance on vacant land then just went wild connecting it to whatever I like. I shot the shit with their engineer when they ran secondary off the power pole and that was it, I've never seen them again.

> no government inspectors are coming by anyway, then it doesn't matter.

I don't know for certain but having an unpermitted solar panel visible via satellite would likely trigger a visit.
by shadowgovt | 2025-11-05 21:02:39+00:00
It's probably worth considering that if the technology could be killed by one company pulling its chips off the board, perhaps the technology wasn't standing on its own.

We still use RSS and Atom feeds for podcasts. It's a pretty widely-adopted use case. Perhaps there is a lot more to the contraction of RSS as a way for discovering publishing of "blog"-style media than "Reader got killed" (it seems like Reader offered more features than just RSS consolidation that someone could, hypothetically, build... But nobody has yet?).
by afavour | 2025-11-05 21:02:52+00:00
Did you even read the article?

> KBA said Tesla sold 750 cars in Germany in October, down by 53.5% from a year earlier. The number of Teslas sold in the January-October period dropped 50.4% to 15,595 units, compared with the same period last year.

To be clear, you are suggesting that Tesla had no delivery "wave" between January and October? And that is the sign of a healthy company?
by angiolillo | 2025-11-05 21:03:05+00:00
> if you stretch the definition of TUI a bit, the Bloomberg terminal is a fascinating example

The Bloomberg Terminal uses several different UI methodologies depending on use case -- many functions (applications) are absolutely TUIs whereas Launchpad is more mouse-driven.

> In both cases, people operating these systems develop muscle memory for their everyday usage.

I worked as a UX designer at Bloomberg and when we had to modify existing functions we were careful to maintain shortcuts and keyboard navigation. In a couple cases we even ended up re-implementing UI bugs that one or more users had grown accustomed to. I've never worked anywhere quite so committed to backward UI compatibility, but that came at the expense of a steep learning curve.
by layer8 | 2025-11-05 21:03:08+00:00
https://xcancel.com/thekaransinghal/status/19854160578054965...

This is from Karan Singhal, Health AI team lead at OpenAI.

Quote: “Despite speculation, this is not a new change to our terms. Model behavior remains unchanged. ChatGPT has never been a substitute for professional advice, but it will continue to be a great resource to help people understand legal and health information.”
by verdverm | 2025-11-05 21:03:13+00:00
> The woke left forcing ideological conformity

It's not about forcing conformity, it's about having basic human decency. Right-wingers belittle and dehumanize so many groups and people it's hard to keep track

see also: Paradox of tolerance

> turns out is not a winning electoral strategy

umm, did you look at the election results from yesterday?

#1 economy (i.e. emotionally driven tariffs)

#2 people don't like seeing children and neighbors disappeared by masked thugs (i.e. due-process and rule-of-law)
by Dylan16807 | 2025-11-05 21:03:19+00:00
They measure in a particular way that includes half a frame of unavoidable lag. There are reasons to do it that way, but it's not objectively the "right" way to do it.

Rtings basically gives you a number that represents average lag without screen tearing. If you measure at the top of your screen and/or tolerate tearing then the numbers get significantly smaller, and a lot of screens can in fact beat 1ms.
by lumost | 2025-11-05 21:03:24+00:00
Growing businesses tend to consume capital. How much capital is appropriate to burn is subjective, but there are good baselines from other industries and internal business justifications. As tech companies burn capital through people time, it's hard to directly figure out what is true CapEx vs. unsustainable burn.

You wouldn't demand that a restaurant jack prices up or shutdown in its first month of business after spending ~1 MM on a remodel to earn ~20k in the first month. You would expect that the restaurant isn't going to remodel again for 5 years and the amortized cost should be ~16k/mo (or less).
by keeda | 2025-11-05 21:03:37+00:00
I could see the case for Palantir purely from the ridiculous P/E ratio. On the other hand hey, so does Tesla and it's stayed irrational longer than many shorters have stayed solvent.

But Nvidia seems highly risky to bet against. Also a very high P/E ratio, but not too crazy. And the demand is extremely real and keeps growing.

Until the latest earnings, all the hyperscalers were basically telling us quarter after quarter that they were capacity constrained and backlogged largely due to AI workloads. And capacity generally translated to GPUs. Only now has MSFT reported being constrained on power, which might signal a shift.

But that doesn't mean lower demand, it just means folks lower down the totem pole can finally get their hands on GPUs. Large sovereign nations, including US and China, are jockeying over these things.

Even if this bubble pops, I still don't see demand going down. If you look honestly for indicators, there is tons of data showing rocketing usage which is translating into real productivity wins. In a capitalistic world, that dependency is going to be impossible to wean off of.

I also don't see any real competition on the horizon yet. I kinda understand NVDA's moat is more than just their chips, it's also the ecosystem. I don't claim to deeply understand this (as another comment points out: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45826309), but there are other signs I see:

1. Huawei was forced to train their models on non-Nvidia hardware, and they couldn't get a single training run completed, AIUI due to showstopping bugs and other issues in the stack.

2. Anecdotally I hear AWS has been unsuccessfully trying to get customers to use Trainium. They all prefer Nvidia.

3. Google announced OpenAI would use TPUs on GCP and now is leasing Nvidia capacity from Coreweave to support the deal.

With everyone locked in a Red Queen's race to train the most powerful models ASAP, they can't afford any delays inevitably introduced by new platforms.

The real threat right now is that behind all the smiling partnership announcements, everyone is trying desperately to diversify away from this monopsony. They will eventually succeed, but doesn't seem it will happen anytime soon.
by NotMichaelBay | 2025-11-05 21:03:52+00:00
You're implying that the article has no value because its purpose is to attract readers to ultimately make a purchase. But if you're trying to attract readers, arguably the best way to do that is to provide something of value to them.

If the goal is to attract readers without providing any value at all, it's extremely easy to do that nowadays with AI. And luckily it's just as easy to identify low-effort articles written by AI.
by TheAlchemist | 2025-11-05 21:04:08+00:00
Well, if you follow his adventures a bit, it's quite obvious that there is absolutely nothing preventing him from that.

2 years ago, while claiming that Tesla is the leader in AI, he launched a private ... AI company (xAI), for which he took Tesla GPU chips, and now he tries to make Tesla ... invest in said company, at a valuation (>B100$) that could only be compared to something like Dogecoin.

All of this, with your and my retirement money, since the stock is in the S&P.
by shayway | 2025-11-05 21:04:16+00:00
What would you consider to be truly politically neutral, then? Because it seems we're in agreement that a decision to "refer to all trans people using they/them" would not fit the bill. But whether it's politically neutral or not, it's unnecessarily exclusionary; that's what I take issue with.

(for the record I do realize the phrase 'politically neutral' is vague and unclear, and often used as a conservative dogwhistle, which is why I generally avoid it)

An example of the sort of Code of Conduct I personally feel is the most inclusive and 'politically neutral' in a non-scare-quotes-dogwhistle way is the Hacker News guidelines[0]. I think the moderation in general here does a good job of promoting open discussion across people from a wide variety of backgrounds.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by noosphr | 2025-11-05 21:04:21+00:00
It absolutely does not.

But having electricity 13 days every two weeks is much better than not having it at all.

This isn't about China building out their grid with an over capacity factor of 200% so they can keep everything running even if rain, sun and wind all fail for months on end. This is a developing county getting to the point they can charge mobile phones consistently.
by jaggederest | 2025-11-05 21:04:27+00:00
Yep I'm looking at used solar since I have a ton of roof space and land area, and the shipping is 50% of the price of a pallet of panels. Even if they're derated 25% and 20% fail, the racking and balance of system outweigh them to a silly degree. It's going to be 80% balance of system 20% panels.
by schiffern | 2025-11-05 21:04:27+00:00
>Tesla did not release new cars, except for Cybertruck, for how long ? 5 years ? 10 years ?

As stated earlier, this is extremely bad strategy advice.

Tesla is battery-limited, not demand-limited (delivery wave concern trolling from OP's headline aside). Adding models would only add complexity without meaningfully increasing revenue.

It helps to know basic fundamental facts about the company before commenting.

>Now there is a lot of competition and their lineup did not change at all.

More misinformation. Tesla continuously updates their cars unlike most manufacturers which are stuck in "waterfall" model year refreshes.

See Sandy Munro's excellent breakdowns on the phenomenal pace of innovation at Tesla compared to competitors.
by gessha | 2025-11-05 21:04:28+00:00
I’m with you.

I’m arguing that crippled antitrust and anti-consumer practices are part of the problem that led to Chinese buses full of cameras being deployed in western countries.

I’ll go a step further and claim DMCA, anti-reverse engineering and other copyright-protection policies have further crippled the ability of the west to detect and prevent such foreign tech influence.
by saturn_vk | 2025-11-05 21:05:02+00:00
> Wayland is still years away from usable state

… for you, surely. I’m sure there are some wayland users.

> autotype keepassxc passwords

What is that?

> remote desktop sessions

IIRC, gnome comes with an ootb RDP solution that, last I tried, worked as advertised. I’m not a big remote user though.
by skissane | 2025-11-05 21:05:26+00:00
Poor countries have these problems, yes, but they don’t stop whatever, they just add some expense to it. In certain areas of Mexico, businesses have to pay taxes to the local cartel, but if you do, they’ll leave you alone-and they know that if they demand too much, that’s actually undermining their own self-interest. Effectively, the cartel is just another level of local government, taxing you like all the others do. An armed gang or warlord somewhere in Africa or Syria or Afghanistan very often functions similarly.
by tmtvl | 2025-11-05 21:05:40+00:00
> At the same time as the flurry of lawsuits, the platform controversially banned a user called Schlep after the Texas-based YouTuber, himself previously groomed on the site, worked with law enforcement to pose as a young gamer and out predators.

> Roblox issued him with a cease-and-desist order and removed him from the platform.

I know there's no such thing as bad publicity, but come on, guys, have a little self-awareness for crying out loud.
by DavidPiper | 2025-11-05 21:05:51+00:00
I've also seen this happen for people who:

3. Leave long term relationships

4. Change careers or go back to university

5. See their parents pass away

6. Have children

7. Lose children

8. Completely change their physical health (diet/exercise/sleep) for the better/worse

9. Loss/change/gain of social groups, or specific friends

10. Gain/loss of religion
by Treegarden | 2025-11-05 21:05:53+00:00
This is a catastrophic moral failing on who ever prompted this. Next thing they will ban chatgpt from teaching you stuff because its not a certified licensed teacher. A few weeks ago my right eye hurt a fair bit, and after it got worse for 24 ours, I consulted chatGPT. It gave me good advice. Of course it sort of hallucinated this or that but it gave me a good overview and different medications. With this knowledge I went to my pharmacy. I wanted to buy a cream chatGPT recommended, its purpose being a sort of disinfectant for the eye. The pharmacist was sceptical but said "sure, try it, maybe it will do good". He did tell me that the eye drops that gpt urged me to get were overkill so I didn't get those. I used the eye cream for some days, and the eye issue got better and went away as soon as I started using it. Maybe it was all a conincidence but I dont think so. In the past gpt has saved me from the kafkaesque healthcare system here in Berlin that I pay ~700 a month for, by explaining a MRI result (translating medical language), background info on injuries I've got such as a sprained ankle, and recovery time scenarios for a toe I've broke. Contrast the toe experience with the ER that made me wait for 6 hours and didn't believe me until they saw the X-rays, and gave me nothing (no cast or anything) and said "good luck". The medical system in germany will either never improve or at a glacial pace, so maybe in 60 years. But it has lost its monopoly thanks to chatGPT. If this news is real, I will probably switch to payed grok, which would be sad.
by beoberha | 2025-11-05 21:06:09+00:00
I definitely agree with you, but it’s probably a little apples and oranges. MCP server is a one stop shop for discovering “tools”. To leverage a CLI tool “from scratch”, your agent has to do a web search to find if a CLI tool even exists, figure out how to install it, install it. Not saying those are impossible, but it’s way less automated and “deterministic” than what MCP provides.
by thinkingtoilet | 2025-11-05 21:06:10+00:00
>Asking why smart people aren't happier is a bit like asking why people who can jump high aren't more empathetic.

I laughed at this. However, I have to slightly disagree. I think there is a connection. I find the smarter people I know are actually happy, but they tend to be people who read books, who follow the news, and who care about the world at large and that is something that can easily make you sad. I'm not saying you need to be extra smart to do those things, I'm saying that smart people tend to do those things more than others.
by Retric | 2025-11-05 21:06:11+00:00
Boston Logan is surrounded by water to the point only one end of a single runway isn’t aimed directly at water soon crosses water. The city center requires crossing a bridge. Taipei is a little worse but its only runway is going next to a river here and aimed at a park on each side.

Hong Kong Kai Take would be a solid example except it closed in 1998 because of how the city grew. Look at maps from 1950 and it doesn’t look like a bad location for a small airport.
by zdragnar | 2025-11-05 21:06:54+00:00
As I heard someone say, happiness is your reality minus your expectations.

Smart people see more variables that could be changed, more components that could be modified, and are less likely to accept things as they are. This creates a false sense of ease by which reality could be modified, and thus higher expectations for the world around them.

I suspect this misplaces happiness and contentment, but the two are also very strongly correlated for many people.
by kelnos | 2025-11-05 21:07:39+00:00
I used BioMin F for about a year, and I think it did something, but I'm not sure I'm qualified to evaluate its effectiveness.

Unfortunately it isn't actually available where I live (US), and I had to buy it from Canada... from a shop that hasn't had stock for more than a year now. I've tried ordering from other countries, but haven't found anyone else who will ship to the US.

I've tried the "BioMin Restore" toothpaste that is available in the US, and I don't feel like it's doing much of anything, but... again, not sure I'm qualified to evaluate.
by andyferris | 2025-11-05 21:08:20+00:00
Distributed can do redundancy. It’s relatively cheap.

Consider a family with two cars instead of one. How often do they have zero working cars? The correlated failure rate squares while the cost doubles.

My home now has a grid connection, house battery and solar, a caravan with mounted solar/battery/fridge/inverter beside it, and I also have a portable “powerstation” and portable solar panel which is basically a UPS. My fridge contents and phone charging needs have a several extra 9’s now for costs that have scaled very well.

These systems are tech that is improving rapidly. In some years these African farmers with their increased yields will likely add a bigger, second solar & battery system. In a village you can run a cable next door. Etc.
by noir_lord | 2025-11-05 21:08:52+00:00
> Brain: "What you fail to understand, Pinky, is that intelligence is a most potent tool - though, I must admit, it has fewer applications than one might think."

From Pinky and the Brain watched it as a teenager and it has always stuck with me for some reason.

Also appropriate as The Brain is smart but Pinky is happy.
by abdullahkhalids | 2025-11-05 21:09:51+00:00
Let's be very charitable and figure out a scenario where this could be true.

Suppose, a farmer has a farm which produces 1 unit of crop. Farmer uses 0.8 of the crop for subsistence and sells 0.2 of the crop. They get $600/acre.

Now, crop yields go up 5x, so now the farm produces 5 units of crop. Subsistence needs are the same, so the farmer is now able to sell 4.2 units of crop. This is 4.2/0.2 = 21 times more revenue or $12,600/acre.
by Groxx | 2025-11-05 21:09:52+00:00
in case this implies you haven't found it: it's a feature in Sequoia :) it's just in display settings, though you may have to turn on the "show all resolutions" toggle to show it.

I haven't used Tahoe personally for more than a moment on someone else's computer, but wow they did not think that UI redesign through at all, did they. I'm actually kinda glad I'm mac-less now.
by xethos | 2025-11-05 21:10:04+00:00
Having a framework that can be adaptable, like GTK, allows for padded, but IMO reasonably-sized touch targets. Designing an adaptive desktop app means the effort is only spent once, but can kickstart the virtuous cycle of "Mobile Linux is less trash than it used to be" -> More users are willing to use Mobile Linux -> More effort is spent making it less trash.

Though if you insist on click-targets that are exclusively for the mouse, I've found most KDE apps less mobile-optimized. The elderly and mobile users can appreciate larger touch-targets, and you can avoid GTK, which seems like a perfect compromise
by tekchip | 2025-11-05 21:10:14+00:00
Can confirm. I live in a US city and the only 9 involved is maybe the very first number. I've lived here just over a year and we've had 1 full day without power and probably 8 to 10 short outages between a few seconds and several 10s of minutes. I'm adding batteries and solar permitting be damned.
by 7thaccount | 2025-11-05 21:10:41+00:00
Take a look at what Rebol did in the late 90s. They have a DSL called "View" for making user interfaces with your scripts. Rebol itself shipped with a program that came with a ton of sample applications including Tetris. The creator of Rebol (Carl Sassenrath) was also big on the Amiga scene and envisioned what he called iOS (internet operating system, not the Apple iPhone OS) where you would do stuff like load a web page by just running the page's Rebol script iirc.

It never took off for various reasons. For one, the language was a bit like lisp, but with brackets. More importantly, it was commercial and then closed source for too long when Perl was really taking off.

Long story short though, whatever language you implement should have extremely high level primitives for simple GUI widgets. Forget Qt and Windows Forms...there HAS to be an easier solution. I can see how Rebol did it and surely you can make something like that possible.
by drdaeman | 2025-11-05 21:11:06+00:00
> What makes people happy?

Technically, it's hormones. What makes brains produce them is the perceptions of external world, but the details are different for every culture and then different for every individual.

Now, proverbially, more knowledge brings more sadness^W stress, so perceptive people must have extra hurdles to overcome than blissfully ignorant ones.
by epistasis | 2025-11-05 21:11:38+00:00
I see very little agreement in any way with Bill Gates is talking about.

In fact I suspect that Gates would be dismissed as too woke for making this one of his main points:

> But we can’t cut funding for health and development—programs that help people stay resilient in the face of climate change—to do it.

> It’s time to put human welfare at the center of our climate strategies, which includes reducing the Green Premium to zero and improving agriculture and health in poor countries.

This is just rehashed Green New Deal language for the global stage. (Something I fully support!!)
by mk89 | 2025-11-05 21:11:39+00:00
This is not just German related, apparently. It seems Tesla sales in EU are falling since 2023 [0].

And it seems that until now, Tesla sales in Eu are 30% less than last year [1]

There is more competition, finally.

[0]: https://www.benzinga.com/tech/25/01/43092840/tesla-struggles...

[1]: https://electrek.co/2025/11/03/tesla-tsla-keeps-getting-batt...
by tmuhlestein | 2025-11-05 21:11:40+00:00
The last few months have proven that autonomous agents are testing the web’s guardrails — from robots.txt to checkout flows — and trust is the casualty.

At GoDaddy, we’re addressing this with the Agent Name Service (ANS) open standard — a framework introducing a digital passport for autonomous agents. By binding each agent’s identity to its exact version of code, ANS creates verifiable trust even in multi-agent chains, reducing the risk of compromised code or “trust rot.”

This is more than a technical milestone — it’s the foundation for secure, scalable agent-to-agent commerce. This post follows our announcement from last month: ANS is now live, and we’re partnering with select companies to roll out implementations in the near future.

ANS provides the PKI-based foundation and governance model enterprises need to trust the shift toward a decentralized, agent-driven internet — acting as the bridge between today’s Web2 enterprise reality and the decentralized agentic future.

Exciting times ahead as we continue shaping the agent economy.

Read more in Scott Courtney’s latest post: Why the Agent Economy Needs a Digital Passport https://www.godaddy.com/resources/news/why-the-agent-economy...

What do you think — could verifiable, version-bound identity be the missing piece for safe autonomous collaboration?