MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mikestew | 2025-11-18 18:55:02+00:00
How else would you have any control of the forward motion of the vehicle otherwise, especially when starting on an uphill slope?

By learning to drive a manual? Pardon the snark, but that technique should be reserved for severely steep hills, otherwise heel-toe or just be quick on the pedals. I live in the Seattle area, where you either learn to drive a manual on hills, or you get a punch card from the transmission shop for clutch replacements. Even someplace like going up the hill from 1st and Madison (picking a random, extremely hilly intersection in Seattle), I'll roll back maybe six inches. I'm nothing special, my wife does the same thing. And if you live around Seattle and you sit six inches off someone's rear bumper on a hill, that's a "you" problem when they roll back on you.
by recitedropper | 2025-11-18 18:55:42+00:00
This is the million dollar question. I'm not qualified to answer it, and I don't really think anyone out there has the answer yet.

My armchair take would be that watt usage probably isn't a good proxy for computational complexity in biological systems. A good piece of evidence for this is from the C. elegans research that has found that the configuration of ions within a neuron--not just the electrical charge on the membrane--record computationally-relevant information about a stimulus. There are probably many more hacks like this that allow the brain to handle enormous complexity without it showing up in our measurements of its power consumption.
by hrimfaxi | 2025-11-18 18:56:03+00:00
> I'd rather advocate for a solution that doesn't induce centralization. Because that still does. It's a weird suggestion to pay twice. I'm assuming in your hypothetical, cloudflare not only doesn't ever go down, but also absorbs only malicious traffic, and not any organic? Why should cloudflare do that and not my primary host? I'll assume I have XX to spend on hosting, you don't see how if I have to also allocate some of that to cloudflare, in addition to the real host

You don't have to pay cloudflare anything at all for them to act as CDN and provide basic DDoS protections.
by bitpush | 2025-11-18 18:56:04+00:00
This is an understandable, but simplistic way of looking at the world. Are you also gonna blame Apple for mining for rare earths, because they made a successful product that requires exotic materials which needs to be mined from earth? How about hundreds of thousands of factory workers that are being subjected to inhumane conditions to assemble iPhones each year?

For every "OMG, internet is filled with ads", people are conveniently forgetting the real-world impact of ALL COMPANIES (and not just Apple) btw. Either you should be upset with the system, and not selectively at Google.
by ThrowawayR2 | 2025-11-18 18:56:16+00:00
Why are you directing the statement that "[Corporations are] not a moral entity" at me instead of the parent poster claiming that "[Google has] been the great balancing force (often for good) in the industry."? Saying that Google is a force "for good" is a claim by them that corporations can be moral entities; I agree with you that they aren't.
by qwertox | 2025-11-18 18:56:29+00:00
I can't get the agent to use my MCP server. The MCP config is provided, and the application can query the tools, but the agent can't access my server, only the http operations the application performs to list the tools is something i see in my server logs. It knows there are tools, because it sees the list, it tells me when it's trying to connect to which tool. But that fails.
by viccis | 2025-11-18 18:56:41+00:00
Last time I read it, I did not find it challenging outside of some of the more obscure words used (particularly things like names of types of buildings and similar mundane objects), and my Kindle's built-in dictionary was able to define all of those in one tap.

As far as "for no reason", I would say that McCarthy's impressionist prose that meanders, leaves out some details while focusing on others, etc., is some of the best English language prose ever written. It's beautiful and conveys affect better than almost anything else I've encountered. All the "reason" I needed.
by mikeyouse | 2025-11-18 18:56:52+00:00
The system in question is actually pretty interesting from a tech standpoint;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Radio_Satellite_System

> In 2007, the SOSS was retired for the newest and current system of the PRSS, the ContentDepot. The ContentDepot no longer uses linear feeds of SCPC-based digital audio bitstreams like the SOSS. Instead, it uses a dedicated TCP/IP-based one-way connection uplinked via satellite from PRSS, which is received by a storage receiver (a combination satellite data receiver & file server) manufactured by International Datacasting [5]. Program feeds are requested and set up at a special internet-accessible web site (known as the ContentDepot Portal) that member stations can log on to, where they can subscribe to specific programs and live feeds. The subscribed programs are then delivered via satellite as a file transfer to the storage receiver in the form of MP2-encoded ACM-based WAV files, which then can be imported into a station's automation and/or playback system.

> Live feeds are sent in the ContentDepot system as streaming MP2 audio, sent over the same satellite transponder, but as an IP multicast stream (as opposed to a file transfer for pre-recorded programs) which is decoded by a special streaming audio receiver (called a stream decoder) set to the IP multicast addresses assigned for live audio streams on the satellite transponder used by ContentDepot.

> The newest generation of ContentDepot hardware for the PRSS, as of 2014 and also manufactured by International Datacasting, is a special version custom-manufactured for PRSS of their commercially available "Superflex Pro Audio" receiver. It combines both the stream decoder for live programming and storage receiver for pre-recorded programming in one rack-mounted system, in previous comparison to separate units for live decoding and program storage respectively with the introduction of ContentDepot.

> Some components of the previous SOSS still are in use in the ContentDepot era: one of the ABR-700 demods (as well as the downconverter) is still used by NPR as a "squawk box" for verbal announcements regarding programming to NPR stations
by kuschku | 2025-11-18 18:57:01+00:00
> What device with 2kB of RAM is going to generate any kind of useful RSS feed?

Such devices usually don't generate RSS feeds, but e.g. sensor measurements as XML (which can be processed directly, or opened in a browser with XSLT to generate a website and an SVG chart from it)

> Why would you not use something more capable, which is not only going to have more memory but also a lower power consumption?

Because anything else will have >100× more power consumption?
by kedean | 2025-11-18 18:57:16+00:00
Thanks to automatic high beams, its a problem in residential urban areas too. My neighborhood does not have much in the way of streetlights, and automatic high beams operate by detecting whether there is significant oncoming light. That means that in my neighborhood, cars with AHB always have their high beams up when there isn't oncoming car traffic. They also tend to function really badly around road curves in residential areas, where they'll affect other drivers.

PSA: Turn off your automatic high beams, they aren't worth it the damage they do to the rest of us.
by mikestew | 2025-11-18 18:57:41+00:00
EVs will sit there until you hit the accelerator,

Some do, some don't. Most I've driven try to replicate the bug in ICE automatics that causes the car to creep when your foot's not on the brake.

manual ICE cars (especially diesels) can be held on the clutch just under the 'biting point'

I, too, love the smell of burning clutch plates. Use the brake, that's what it's there for.
by john01dav | 2025-11-18 18:58:14+00:00
Regarding Robot, I think that it's completely fine for what it is. I almost never interact with it, and instead just configure my server as I see fit over ssh. Hetzner's value proposition is extremely cheap no frills servers -- you're paying for the server, not the management interface. If you want management interfaces that do a lot of useful work, use a cloud.
by bitpush | 2025-11-18 18:58:22+00:00
Why stop at YouTube? Blame Apple for creating an additive gadget that has single handedly wasted billions of hours of collective human intelligence. Life was so much better before iPhones.

But I hear you say - you can use iPhones for productive things and not just mindless brainrot. And that's the same with YouTube as well. Many waste time on YouTube, but many learn and do productive things.

Dont paint everything with a single, large, coarse brush stroke.
Show HN: We built a generator for Vue+Laravel that gives you a clean codebase
by codecannon | 2025-11-18 18:58:24+00:00
Hey HN, My team and I built a tool to scratch our own itch. We were tired of spending the first few days of every new project setting up the same Vue + Laravel boilerplate: writing migrations, models, basic CRUD controllers, and wiring up forms and tables on the frontend.

So we built Codecannon. It’s a web app where you define your data models, columns, and relationships, and it generates a full-stack application for you.

To be clear, the code isn't AI-generated. It's produced deterministically by our own code generators, so the output is always predictable, clean, and follows conventional best practices.

The key difference from other tools is that it’s not a no-code platform you get locked into. When you're done, it pushes a well-structured codebase to your GitHub repo (or you can download a .zip file). You own it completely and can start building your real features on top of it right away.

What it generates: - Laravel Backend: Migrations, models with relationships, factories, seeders, and basic CRUD API endpoints.

- Vue Frontend: A SPA with PrimeVue components. It includes auth pages, data tables, and create/edit forms for each of your models, with all the state management wired up. - Dev Stuff: Docker configs, a CI/CD pipeline starter, linters, and formatters are all included.

The idea is to skip the repetitive work and get straight to the interesting parts of a project. It's free to use the builder, see a live preview, and download the full codebase for apps up to 5 modules. For larger apps, you only pay if you decide you want the source code.

We’re in an early alpha and would love to get some honest feedback from the community. Does the generated code look sensible? Are we missing any obvious features? Is this something you would find useful or know anyone who might? Let me know what you think.
by grayhatter | 2025-11-18 18:58:37+00:00
> You don't have to pay cloudflare anything at all for them to act as CDN and provide basic DDoS protections.

I object to centralization and consolidation of power, how is this not both?

I'll duplicate my follow up question, from a sister thread.

If I actually start using the DDoS protection or other services... will cloudflare cut me off unless I pay? Will that charge be exorbitant? Does that behavior feel like extortion? Have they done that before?
by kragen | 2025-11-18 18:58:53+00:00
The specific thing you can do in Smalltalk (or Ruby, Python, Objective-C, Erights E, or JS) that you can't do in C++ (even Qt C++, and not Simula either) is define a proxy class you can call arbitrary methods on, so that it can, for example, forward the method call to another object across the network, or deserialize an object stored on disk, or simply log all the methods called on a given object.

This is because, conceptually, the object has total freedom to handle the message it was sent however it sees fit. Even if it's never heard of the method name before.
by dpark | 2025-11-18 18:59:00+00:00
Java differs from C++ in an endless number of ways.

What I’m saying is that in both C++ and Java, there are a set of primitive types that do not participate in the “object-orientedness”. C++ primitives do not have class definitions and cannot be the base of any class. This is very much like Java where primitives exist outside the object system.

If the C++ standard used the term “entities” instead of “objects” I don’t think this would even be a point of discussion.
by floatrock | 2025-11-18 18:59:01+00:00
What happens when a major CDN goes out? Or, god forbid, a major datacenter region has a DNS blip that apparently 1/3 of the internet depends on?

Or, what if a hurricane or ice storm knocks out some internet connectivity? That would be a time when you really want to broadcast a message to anyone with a cheap fm/am radio.

Cheaper isn't always the metric here.
by panarky | 2025-11-18 18:59:30+00:00
The jump in ARC-AGI and MathArena suggests Google has solved the data scarcity problem for reasoning, maybe with synthetic data self-play??

This was the primary bottleneck preventing models from tackling novel scientific problems they haven't seen before.

If Gemini 3 Pro has transcended "reading the internet" (knowledge saturation), and made huge progress in "thinking about the internet" (reasoning scaling), then this is a really big deal.
by jiveturkey | 2025-11-18 18:59:34+00:00
You're retconning. Brighter headlights (xenon) were invented in '61 and first appeared in '91. By 2000 the tech made its way to less premium cars.

Tesla didn't have the big screen (which heralded the current stupid trend) until 2012, and of course it took a number of years for Tesla and the giant omni screen to be popular. Thumb in the air I'd say 2018-2020.

You want brighter headlights so you can see better and drive more safely. The interior brightness is a separate independently evolved problem.

The horizontal cutoff is a tradeoff that comes with the bright lights (Xenon tech anyway). And there is plenty of low light leakage to reflect off of animal eyes. The problem IMO isn't pure brightness but rather these intensely bright lights (itself a benefit) coupled with poor aiming or poor maintenance of aim. Some states in the US have a mandatory annual vehicle inspection which includes headlight aim checks.
by rfw300 | 2025-11-18 19:00:11+00:00
My audio experiment was much less successful — I uploaded a 90-minute podcast episode and asked it to produce a labeled transcript. Gemini 3:

- Hallucinated at least three quotes (that I checked) resembling nothing said by any of the hosts

- Produced timestamps that were almost entirely wrong. Language quoted from the end of the episode, for instance, was timestamped 35 minutes into the episode, rather than 85 minutes.

- Almost all of what is transcribed is heavily paraphrased and abridged, in most cases without any indication.

Understandable that Gemini can't cope with such a long audio recording yet, but I would've hoped for a more graceful/less hallucinatory failure mode. And unfortunately, aligns with my impression of past Gemini models that they are impressively smart but fail in the most catastrophic ways.
by prodigycorp | 2025-11-18 19:00:19+00:00
after taking a walk for a bit i decided you’re right. I came to the wrong conclusion. Gemini 3 is incredibly powerful in some other stuff I’ve run.

This probably means my test is a little too niche. The fact that it didn’t pass one of my tests doesn’t speak to the broader intelligence of the model per se.

While i still believe in the importance of a personalized suite of benchmarks, my python one needs to be down weighted or supplanted.

my bad to the google team for the cursory brush off.
by recitedropper | 2025-11-18 19:00:23+00:00
Not sure if this is agreeing or disagreeing with there being astroturfing.

But I'd reckon that the negative sentiments at the top, combined with that there are over eight Gemini 3 posts on the front page recently, is good evidence of manipulation. This actually might be the most posted about model release this year, and if people were that excited we wouldn't have negative sentiment abound.
by toast0 | 2025-11-18 19:00:51+00:00
I will always champion the compact pickup truck. A 1980s S-10 or Toyota Truck (HiLux) can do light truck things, is relatively economical, and doesn't have a large footprint. Alas, nobody makes similar vehicles for US/Europe anymore --- kei trucks are still made for Japan, and less developed economies can get simple small trucks. Maybe some of the EV compact trucks will actually be made.
by pwg | 2025-11-18 19:00:53+00:00
> When I was younger you could stare at the yellowish glow of a car with headlights on and just not be blinded.

The older incandescent bulbs were a different color temperature (more on the yellow side of the color spectrum) and were not a point source (filament instead). Both contributed to them not seeming quite so bright, even if the net lumens was the same.

The newer LED's are much more on the blue end of the color spectrum (automatically making the same lumen level appear much brighter) and the LED's are much closer to point sources, which further makes the result appear significantly brighter even if the lumen level was the same.

Couple the "harsh blue light" and "point source" with "significantly more lumens" as well and you get modern headlights that are painful to look towards, much less to look directly at.
by flatline | 2025-11-18 19:01:05+00:00
Humans are just better at communicating about their process. They will spend hours talking over architectural decisions, implementation issues, writing technical details in commit messages and issue notes, and in this way they not only debug their decisions but socialize knowledge of both the code and the reasons it came to be that way. Communication and collaboration are the real adaptive skills of our species. To the extent AI can aid in those, it will be useful. To the extent it goes off and does everything in a silo, it will ultimately be ignored - much like many developers who attempt this.

I do think the primary strengths of genai are more in comprehension and troubleshooting than generating code - so far. These activities play into the collaboration and communication narrative. I would not trust an AI to clean up cruft or refactor a codebase unsupervised. Even if it did an excellent job, who would really know?
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-11-18 19:01:41+00:00
The whole topic reminds me of Deviant Ollam's talk "Lawyer. Passport. Locksmith. Gun." (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ihrGNGesfI) He spends a fair amount of time talking about getting his queer and trans friends interested in guns. I suspect this has been the trend for a few years, at least.

He includes a quote that is rather salient: "If you do not have the means of violence, you aren't peaceful; you're harmless."
by mcny | 2025-11-18 19:01:43+00:00
> I disagree. I’m working hard to keep the Pebble ecosystem open source. I believe the contents of the Pebble Appstore should be freely available and not controlled by one organization.

I hate to say this but I have to agree with Eric. I want to side with Rebble But they are clearly misguided. The goal should not be to have an ongoing revenue stream for Rebble.

The goals should be

If and when Eric sells out again, there is a way for

1. all pebble and core devices to continue to get updates somehow (Rebble or otherwise)

2. all apps and metadata will continue to be available somehow (Rebble or otherwise)

The otherwise is key here. If someone wants to not use Rebble, they should be able to do that.

Rebble is not the end goal. Core is not the end goal. The users are.
by torginus | 2025-11-18 19:01:46+00:00
There's a marked difference between AI safety as it's portrayed (AI will let me make smallpox and TNT at home and hack the Pentagon), and AI disabling auth on an endpoint in code because it couldn't make it work with auth or reaffirming me that my stupid ideas are in fact brilliant.

AI companies want us to think AI is the cool sort of dangerous, instead of the incompetent sort of dangerous.
by hyperrail | 2025-11-18 19:02:11+00:00
Aside: Why do we use the terms "mutable" and "immutable" to describe those concepts? I feel they are needlessly hard to say and too easily confused when reading and writing.

I say "read-write" or "writable" and "writability" for "mutable" and "mutability", and "read-only" and "read-only-ness" for "immutable" and "immutability". Typically, I make exceptions only when the language has multiple similar immutability-like concepts for which the precise terms are the only real option to avoid confusion.
by theamk | 2025-11-18 19:02:35+00:00
pinterest - the "most popular user-blocked website", according to Kagi. And by huge margin, too!

I wonder what their email client will look like? Probably extract the images from random emails, mix them up, and never disclose _where_ did those images come from?

(/s, but I really would not trust that company)

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20230804222406/https://kagi.com/... discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37006082
by E39M5S62 | 2025-11-18 19:02:38+00:00
I'm curious too. As a complete outsider to that problem space, it seems like a lot of the tech was designed/created in an era before wide-spread broadband and internet-based content distribution. I'm sure a lot of it is simply that new hardware from that vendor is largely a drop-in replacement for each station, so there's no need to re-engineer their broadcast booth.

...

I guess HN is the new Reddit. Downvotes, not a single response. You can do better, HN.
by aanet | 2025-11-18 19:02:56+00:00
Thanks for posting this. I concur with the writer...

I started taking early morning walks during the pandemic. First to get out of the house and relieve the burden of being cloistered indoors with endless zoom calls. Then the walks started feeling refreshing; my mind wandered freely, sometimes listening to engaging podcasts ("A history of the world in 100 objects", several BBC In Our Time episodes, etc), sometimes reaching out to distant family members / friends / colleagues in different regions. Net-net, I appreciated both the remote connections of (sometimes long-lost) friends & family, and freeing up the literal constraints of space and mind.

I've continued my walks, now with my partner. We regularly go on our 45-minute, 2.5 mile walks every morning, rain or shine.

Highly recommended!
by ebbi | 2025-11-18 19:04:33+00:00
I love how confidently you reply in a way that makes you think Israel just has a right to do it. Like they have a right to just level buildings because they think it's booby trapped.

You're someone that has deepthroated the Israeli narrative, with no critical thinking whatsoever. I hope, for your own sake, you start to see more of the reality, as defending a violent regime like this can have an impact on ones soul, which will affect - if not already - other areas of your life.
by ewoodrich | 2025-11-18 19:05:18+00:00
What exactly are the "extras" that Copilot gets?

I've had a Github Copilot subscription from work for 1yr+ and switch between the official Copilot and Roo/Kilo Code from time to time. The official Copilot extension has improved a lot in the last 3-6 months but I can't recall ever seeing Copilot do something that Roo/Kilo can't do, or am I missing something obvious?
by TZubiri | 2025-11-18 19:05:18+00:00
Hey.

The way it works is that these pwned IoT devices sell themselves to paying customers as proxies. So the pwners are not the ones actually running the DDoS service/Ransomware distribution/malicious activities. Rather it's an economy where each malicious actor offers their specific service.

In this case IoT device pwners pwn the device, install a VPN server and place their devices on a marketplace where they charge cents per hour using cryptocurrency. Then whoever needs an anonymous IP address pays for a couple of hours of 10k ip residential addresses, and sends their traffic wherever they need to.

So both are true: DDoSers (and malicious actors in general) use pwned devices, but they also use VPNs