MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by odogwu200 | 2025-11-02 08:22:03+00:00
Early 1900s — Cash or Bust When cars first became popular, you either paid cash or you didn’t drive. Automakers quickly realized most people couldn’t afford full cash payments, so installment plans appeared. 1919 — GMAC changes everything General Motors created GMAC (General Motors Acceptance Corporation) in 1919. For the first time, people could finance cars through loans tied to the manufacturer. This exploded car sales and cemented financing as the “normal” way to buy. Post–WWII — Banks step in As demand grew, banks jumped into auto lending. They made it easy to get loans, but they structured them so they’d profit from interest over long periods. The standard car loan went from 12 months in the 1950s to 72–84 months today. 1980s–2000s — Leasing & subprime boom Leasing became popular in the 1980s as another way to stretch payments. In the 2000s, subprime auto lending grew rapidly — banks realized they could charge higher interest rates to people with lower credit, securitize the loans, and sell them off (just like the mortgage market). Today — A $1.65 trillion machine • Americans owe $1.655 trillion in auto loans. • Average loan: $41,720 for new cars. • Average monthly payment: $745. • Terms have stretched up to 7 years, trapping borrowers in negative equity cycles. • Over 1 in 4 trade-ins are underwater, meaning people owe money even after they give the car back. How banks win: • They make billions on interest, fees, and loan securitizations. • The longer your loan, the more they profit. • Negative equity means when you trade in, the old loan gets rolled into the new one — keeping you in debt while the bank collects more interest. How people lose: • Cars depreciate faster than loans are paid off. • Many borrowers end up paying 150%+ of the actual car value over the loan’s life. • Subprime borrowers get hit hardest — high rates, higher default risk, and fewer options. The result: Car financing wasn’t designed to give people freedom — it was designed to sell more cars and lock people into debt streams that enrich banks and manufacturers. That’s the cycle AristoCarWare is trying to break with subscriptions: flexibility instead of 7-year contracts, transparency instead of hidden fees, and no negative equity.
by oskarkk | 2025-11-02 08:22:04+00:00
My logic is that past results don't indicate future results, and assuming that the growth rate from the last 5 years will stay the same for the next 10 years is a big "if". For new companies, new products, high growth rates over many years are normal, but we're talking about an established market that has already seen big growth rates over a long time (as the other commenter pointed out). Smartphone sales today are the same as in 2015, because there's an obvious ceiling to growth in that market, and it has been reached a long time ago. Number/power of solar installations is also a very different thing than revenue, because the growth in that market is caused by the rapidly falling prices (~10x in the last 15 years), so the installed power grows much faster than the cumulative cost of that power. As the computing power is still getting cheaper, and cloud usage is already high, with many competitors, I'd expect the revenue growth to slow down in the next 10 years.
by wafflemaker | 2025-11-02 08:24:44+00:00
I'm not on level as power users here, but have one good tip on having good and clean configuration.

Just like config.d dir in ~.ssh/, you can have a 'load' instruction in your emacs.el/init.el file and a separate directory for configs. This way you can easily do see what does what (by name) and have even more comments in the beginning of files.

So even if you added some modification late at night/under influence of substances, you can still tell that you were thinking and easily switch it off or improve it.

Edit: and love your question, even tho I used Emacs for over 10 years, I've learned a lot in here.
Show HN: I built a free VPN that runs directly in Chrome
by hritik7742 | 2025-11-02 08:24:49+00:00
I built a lightweight VPN Chrome extension called QuickVPN Proxy that connects instantly without signup or configuration.

I made it because I was frustrated with VPN apps that require accounts, slow down the browser, or log user data. QuickVPN runs entirely in your browser and connects with one click.
by thih9 | 2025-11-02 08:24:57+00:00
Such content is already available. As an experiment I entered “zombie elsa” into google and I found some very disturbing youtube videos, e.g.: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=M5urB3u4aRk .

If you want a specific tool, here is Elsa with a cigarette generated using Midjourney and more: https://journeyaiart.com/tag/Elsa .
by code51 | 2025-11-02 08:25:21+00:00
I doubt he's letting LLM creep in to his decision-making in 2025, aside from fun side projects (vibes). We don't ever come across Karpathy going to an LLM or expressing that an LLM helped in any of his Youtube videos about building LLMs.

He's just test driving LLMs, nothing more.

Nobody's asking this core question in podcasts. "How much and how exactly are you using LLMs in your daily flow?"

I'm guessing it's like actors not wanting to watch their own movies.
by vlovich123 | 2025-11-02 08:25:57+00:00
I’m really not sure what I said that warranted this reaction.

I was literally talking about Microsoft moving the compositor that was inside the kernel in their old Windows 9x kernel architecture to outside the kernel in Windows NT.

That literally every other kernel (OSS and comercial, Unix and not) does this separation suggests this is a generally accepted good security practice.

I’m not aware of any kernel research that alters the fundamental fact that having compositing in-kernel compositing is a big security risk surface area and the OS you are proposing isn’t even pure Rust - it’s got C and assembly and unsafe Rust thrown in which suggests there’s a non trivial attack surface area that isn’t mitigated architecturally - AFAIK capability security won’t help here with a monolithic design and you need a microkernel design to separate concerns and blast areas to make the capabilities mean anything so that an exploit in one piece of the kernel can’t be a launching pad to broader exploits. This is also ignoring that even safe Rust has potential for exploit since there are compiler bugs around soundness in terms of generated code so even if you could write pure safe Rust code (which you can’t at the OS level) a monolithic kernel would present issues.

TLDR: claiming that there’s decades of OS research to improve on that existing kernels don’t take advantage of is fair. Claiming that a monolithic kernel doesn’t suffer architectural security challenges, particularly with respect to compositing in-kernel is a bold statement that would be better supported by explaining how that research solves the security risks rather than launching an ad hominem attack against a different kernel family than I even mentioned is just a weird defensive reaction.
by juanre | 2025-11-02 08:26:11+00:00
Skills are also a convenient way for writing self-documenting packages. They solve the problem of teaching the LLM how to use a library.

I have started experimenting with a skills/ directory in my open source software, and then made a plugin marketplace that just pulls them in. It works well, but I don't know how scalable it will be.

https://github.com/juanre/ai-tools
by simonw | 2025-11-02 08:26:16+00:00
> Claude still sometimes insists that iOS 26 isn't out yet.

How would you imagine an AI system working that didn't make mistakes like that?

iOS 26 came out on September 15th.

LLMs aren't omniscient or constantly updated with new knowledge. Which means we have to figure out how to make use of them despite them not having up-to-the-second knowledge of the world.
by fakedang | 2025-11-02 08:29:04+00:00
I don't see the original comment tying the tensions to Islam anywhere. And yes, the conflict is heavily tied to ethnicities - RSF is Arab-dominated and has been systematically genociding other ethnicities, and both sides are effectively enabling a resource grab for their backers.

Arab vs non-Arab conflicts are also nothing new. See Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Somalia, etc.
by KingMob | 2025-11-02 08:32:16+00:00
That particular part is the same, roughly. The bigger issue is just that CC's a better agent than Cursor, last I checked.

There's even an official Anthropic VS Code extension to run CC in VS Code. The biggest advantage is being able to use VS Code's diff views, which I like more than in the terminal. But the VS Code CC extension doesn't support all the latest features of the terminal CC, so I'm usually still in the terminal.
by guywithnoh | 2025-11-02 08:32:21+00:00
I am building Facts after realizing social platforms solve the wrong problem.

They optimize for engagement. We optimize for understanding.

Problem: You discover something useful (a bug fix, a research paper, a free resource). Sharing it feels like performance, building a brand instead of helping. So you don't share it.

Solution: Share naturally. Our AI evaluates your actual interests (from connected socials and online infos) and delivers your message to people who genuinely need it. No feeds. No followers. No noise.

Think of it as: routing information based on real need instead of artificial engagement, and building a shared knowledge base.

Early stage, just launched the waitlist. Looking for feedback from people tired of social media theater.

Feedback welcome. Facts.social
by hexbin010 | 2025-11-02 08:32:32+00:00
https://xunroll.com/thread/1984778105504879000

> I was on the Huntingdon train. I only know of one attacker, he got on the train from Peterborough. He was black mid 20’s

The Twitter poster has also been featured by major news outlets [0] [1]

[0] https://x.com/BBCBreakfast/status/1984873101646028883

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live/2025/nov/02/cambrid...
by confirmmesenpai | 2025-11-02 08:32:39+00:00
what you did here is called confirmation bias.

> I think congrats again to OpenAI for cooking with GPT-5 Pro. This is the third time I've struggled on something complex/gnarly for an hour on and off with CC, then 5 Pro goes off for 10 minutes and comes back with code that works out of the box. I had CC read the 5 Pro version and it wrote up 2 paragraphs admiring it (very wholesome). If you're not giving it your hardest problems you're probably missing out.

https://x.com/karpathy/status/1964020416139448359
by kaoD | 2025-11-02 08:33:03+00:00
Aren't green threads and async-await orthogonal concepts?

As I understand it async-await is syntax sugar to write a state machine for cooperative multitasking. Green "threads" are threads implemented in user code that might or might not use OS threads. E.g.:

- You can use Rust tokio::task (green threads) with a manually coded Future with no async-await sugar, which might or might not be parallelized depending on the Tokio runtime it's running on.

- ...or with a Future returned by an async block, which allows async-await syntax.

- You can have a Future created by an async function call and poll it manually from an OS thread.

- Node has async-await syntax to express concurrency but it has no parallelism at all since it is single-threaded. I think no green threads either (neither parallel or not) since Promises are stackless?

Is this a new usage of the term I don't know about? What does it mean? Or did I misinterpret the "but"?

As a non-Haskeller I guess it doesn't need explicit async-await syntax because there might be some way to express the same concept with monads?
by camillomiller | 2025-11-02 08:34:01+00:00
I’ve been thinking long and hard about how AI could disrupt the field of ads creative, because a significant part of my income is tied to motion design applied to html5 banner campaigns for large companies in Europe.

What I see is that clients that invest in a campaign do not want to think about what an AI can produce. They don’t want to interact or brief an AI, they don’t want to do feedback rounds with an AI. They want a group of professionals that knows them to take over and do it all. If the professionals then use some AI for it, they mostly don’t care.

This is true so far for any campaign that allocates relevant funds (mid 5 figures and upwards). When it comes to the actual creation phase, right now AI is fundamentally immature and incapable of being controlled past the creation of static content.

All the motion and animation part for example is still somehow terra incognita for these tools. Take Adobe Animate, which is the go-to tool for anything 2D-animation, or Google Web Designer. Zero AI-features, simply because you can’t LLM frame by frame animations and have a result that is as precise as you need it. Or maybe you can, but for some reason these companies don’t see a business case for allocating resources to this specific development.

These tools can be great for smaller business that won’t have access to large campaigns, but as someone else mentioned, why do that when hiring a working gen-z social media native student will cost you slightly more, and possibly perform 100-times better with their native social media aesthetic?

Ps: Pomelli means door handles in Italian, and that’s… weird? Feels like a name randomly regurgitated by an LLM as well.
by watwut | 2025-11-02 08:34:34+00:00
> soldier will bomb a village for the sake of their nation’s geostrategic position.

Soldier does that to please the captain, to look manly and tough to peers, to feel powerful. Or to fulfill a duty - moral mandate on itself. Or out of hate, because soldiers are often made to hate the ennemies.

> Nobody would throw someone out of their home or deny another person lifesaving medicine

They totally would. Trump would do it for pleasure of it. Project 2025 authors would so it happily and sees the rest of us as wuss. If you listen to right wing rhetorics and look at voters, many people will hapilly do just that.
by Jackson__ | 2025-11-02 08:34:46+00:00
Thinking that there is anything worth scraping past the llm-apocalypse is pure hubris imo. It is slop city out there, and unless you have an impossibly perfect classifier to detect it, 99.9% of all the great new "content" you scrape will be AI written.

E: In fact this whole idea is so stupid that I am forced to consider if it is just a DDoS in the original sense. Scrape everything so hard it goes down, just so that your competitors can't.
by ho_schi | 2025-11-02 08:35:49+00:00
People say that. Don’t call out the bad examples (there are some!). The never mention the good examples?

ioQuake3 - still work's CS2 - still works HL1, HL2, CS1,CSGO - still works Unrailed - still works? UT2003 - there it is getting hard, unmaintained since ca. 2003. But it is doable if you want it. Quake3 - same as above.

Most bad ports were made by inexperienced developers. And honestly, these people need to learn! Especially Windows developers which aren’t Linux users are causing the problems. Linking weird 3rd party libraries which aren’t itself is a receipt for disaster. Which indicates planing mistakes in early stages. A bad sign is when they start to package for specific distributions…run as fast as you can.

I would look to applaud the high quality work id and Valve or Daedalic. Weirdly Microsoft ships a port of Minecraft. Valve now ships the Linux-Runtime to ease ports. And Flatpak allows developers which want to package itself (weird hill to die on…) doing it.
by hathawsh | 2025-11-02 08:36:02+00:00
Very insightful and very weird. It's impractical now, but it's a glimpse into some significant part of our future. I can imagine an app called The Last Game, which morphs itself into any game you might want to play. "Let's play 3-D chess like Star Trek: TNG. You should play as Counselor Troi."

(I also just thought of that episode about Moriarty, a Holodeck character, taking over the ship by tricking the crew. It doesn't seem quite so far-fetched anymore!)
by bloak | 2025-11-02 08:36:12+00:00
Talking about memorising numbers, one should definitely mention this well-known system which maps consonants to digits: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mnemonic_major_system

With a system derived from that you can quite easily learn to memorise a shuffled pack of playing cards, by which I mean: someone shuffles the pack of 52 cards and deals them out in front of you, one card every couple of seconds. An hour later you are able to recite the sequence of cards forwards or backwards. (But you can't do random access! What you've done is associate each card with its neighbours, so you can step through them forwards or backwards, without necessarily knowing which direction is which.)
by dns_snek | 2025-11-02 08:36:29+00:00
Does this count?

https://signal.org/blog/cellebrite-vulnerabilities/

> Given the number of opportunities present, we found that it’s possible to execute arbitrary code on a Cellebrite machine simply by including a specially formatted but otherwise innocuous file in any app on a device that is subsequently plugged into Cellebrite and scanned. There are virtually no limits on the code that can be executed.

But it was a product using a 9 year old ffmpeg build (at the time).
by donavanm | 2025-11-02 08:36:48+00:00
financing huge deals for use of OCI https://finance.yahoo.com/news/oracle-corp-orcl-q4-2025-0701.... See Q4 FY25

> Total Cloud Revenue (SaaS + IaaS): $6.7 billion, up 27%. CapEx (Full Year): $21.2 billion. The company is facing supply constraints, unable to meet the high demand for its cloud services, leading to scheduling customers into the future.

Much lower name recognition for smaller customers. But there are some big big name "AI" & B2C companies who have _huge_ spend with OCI. This isnt "rent a couple of instances" its much more like "provide a couple GW of compute for X years."
by defrost | 2025-11-02 08:37:21+00:00
Less killing, considerably more buggery: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-29/former-bishop-broome-...

The Christian Brothers missions were hell holes across the undeveloped regions.

* https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/mar/02/child-migran...

* https://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/case-studies/ca...
by epiceric | 2025-11-02 08:37:30+00:00
My reasoning is that they are normally transmitted as strings in JSON, and you could use an identifier like DateTime("2025-11-02T02:33:00Z") if you need to be explicit.

Making them part of the language would increase the complexity of parsers - how would you validate that a date is actually valid? It's doable (YAML and TOML do it, after all) but requires extra steps.
by reppap | 2025-11-02 08:37:48+00:00
First of all Anubis isn't meant to protect simple websites that gets read once. It's meant for things like a gitlabs instance where AI bots are indexing every single commit of every single file. Resulting in thousands of not millions of reads. And reading an Anubis page once isn't expensive either. So I don't really understand what point you are trying to make as the premise seems completely wrong.
by Gigachad | 2025-11-02 08:39:37+00:00
An accurate test would just be handing them a real piece of work to complete. Which would take ages and people would absolutely hate it. The interview questions are significantly faster, but easy to cheat on in online interviews.

The better option is to just ask the questions in person to prevent cheating.

This isn’t a new problem either. There is a reason certifications and universities don’t allow cheating in tests either. Because being able to copy paste an answer doesn’t demonstrate that you learned anything.
by sublinear | 2025-11-02 08:40:10+00:00
The AI doesn't make anything harder for the people downstream.

If anything it gives all the people downstream more power. The power to justifiably ignore the AI summary and do whatever they originally wanted as they see fit. This makes the people upstream even more obviously redundant than they already were before all the AI slop. The downstream people picking up the slack are effectively promoted.

This is pretty much the definition of a layoff. It's just a different and much more streamlined way this time to weed out the losers. The top AI users within an organization hang themselves by proving they're not needed. The system works.
by fractallyte | 2025-11-02 08:40:32+00:00
And yet Sailfish is a mature mobile OS, sufficient in many cases to be a daily driver, and an essential EU-based alternative to the Apple/Google monopoly. So there's that...

On a more superficial front, the UI is far ahead of both iOS and Android. Complaining about it being closed-source misses the point: the platform is Linux, and other than the proprietary front-end, everything else in Sailfish is wide open to hacking and independent development. So there's that too...
by asim | 2025-11-02 08:42:12+00:00
This is the future I had always envisioned but could never execute on. The idea that the visual format is dynamic. The data is there, we have the logic and APIs but we need transformation into visual formats based on some input. Ultimately this is the answer. Where you're going to get some pregenerated "cards", embeds and widgets but then also larger flows will be generated and then saved to be used over and over. We're really in the early innings of it all. What it also means is how we consume content will change. The web page is going to get broken down into snippets. Because essentially why do we need the web page or web a website. We don't. It's specific actions we want to perform and so we'll get the output of that. It also means in the long term how data is stored and accessed will be change to reflect a more efficient format for LLMs e.g the vector database for RAG is only the begining.
by Razengan | 2025-11-02 08:44:07+00:00
Look. I wanted to change the volume. My hand went to the keyboard. I felt the key. I felt the key press down. The volume changed.

That's all the feedback I need! I don't need my vision stuffed with that information.

But yeah, it did look cute and should be an option between "Expressive" or "Minimal" UI.
by 0wis | 2025-11-02 08:44:20+00:00
Great project and build. I wonder if using a small fan would not help energy transmission, which is eventually the goal of cooking. It may also make the oven work like it’s at higher température while not consuming much energy. It would discharge energy from the walls faster using convection in addition to radiation.

Plus, you can experiment with tray materials depending on what you want to cook.

Suggestions inspired by my experience with convection/classic oven and copper pizza plates

https://www.italiancookshop.com/products/hammered-copper-rou...
by watwut | 2025-11-02 08:46:11+00:00
> That would mean that practically everybody in human history has been a man-child.

I would argue that this statement is blatantly false. Currently, most people really do not care about anubis anime cat girl icon which is actually fairly tame and boring picture.

In history, people used all kind of images for professional things, including stuff they found funny or cute.
by cjfd | 2025-11-02 08:46:15+00:00
The bike shedding is optional once one accepts that code written by someone else might look a bit different from ones own. _Some_ conventions are beneficial, and one might discuss those, but one does not have to have complete uniformity.

Bike shedding for weeks might happen and is not helpful. On the other side of this argument there are not-so-very-pleasant things as well. A: We follow this-and-this coding convention and we do not like wasting time on discussing it so we follow it to the letter. B: I don't like this small thing that I would like to write differently. A: We follow this-and-this coding convention and we do not like wasting time on discussing it so we follow it to the letter. B: You actually don't follow this-and-this coding convention because you are not following this-and-that rule. A: Yes, that is a change that I liked.

One can easily end up with a very old coding convention that only the oldest developer likes so the oldest developer can now be dictator over everybody else.