MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by madamelic | 2025-11-10 00:22:12+00:00
13 is quite good. 14 is even better.

2,000 may be stretching it but it is possible if the driver is trusting enough. Personally many of my disengagements isn't because it is being dangerous, but just sub-optimal such as not driving as aggressive as I want to, not getting into off-ramp lane as early as I like, or just picking weird navigational choices.

Trying to recall but I haven't had a safety involved disengagement in probably a few months across late 13 and 14. I am just one data point and the main criticism I've seen from 14 is: 1) getting rid of fine speed controls in favor of driving style profiles 2) its car and obstacle avoidance being overtuned so it will tap the brakes if, for instance, an upcoming perpendicular car suddenly appears and starts to roll its stop sign.

Personally, I prefer it to be overly protective albeit turn it down slightly and fix issues where it hilariously thinks large clouds of leaves blowing across are obstacles to brake for.
by johnnyApplePRNG | 2025-11-10 00:22:23+00:00
A couple of facts on the Florida case: it was a jury verdict, not a judge. The jury found Tesla 33% at fault for a 2019 Key Largo crash. Damages were $129M compensatory (Tesla responsible for 33% of that) plus $200M punitive, for $243M total.

The driver admitted he looked down after dropping his phone and blew a stop sign; Tesla argues his foot was on the accelerator, but the jury still assigned partial fault because Autopilot was allowed to operate off limited-access highways and the company didn’t do enough to prevent foreseeable misuse. The driver had already settled separately.
by yason | 2025-11-10 00:22:50+00:00
> It feels like we are in a weaker position then ever: militaristically, > economically, scientifically, and so on. Meanwhile the threats of China > and Russia and what could happen in the next few years are quite concerning.

On the other hand, it's not only USA really.

Russia with their czarist structure of power and control hasn't really had an economy that's more sustainable than USSR ever pretended to have, and their government keeps digging the country further in the grave as we speak. Russia can be a nuisance to its neighbours by their size alone but as their failing offensive in Ukraine shows they don't really give much to worry about in their peer countries of similar size and position.

Europe is running around like a group of headless chicken pecking eachother with minimal ability to make decisions cohesively and in unison, and many larger European countries are trampling knee deep in the mud when you compare to their heydays.

China is indebted, lacking energy, yet wants to expand their projection of military power but having enough to do with their current neighbours and desperately needing to maintain trade relations around the world means that, at best, the ruling party can only think about it. Unlike some other peer nation states I think they just might ultimately be wise enough to understand their position themselves, too, despite the desire to posture hard.

Further, I can name many countries that are, in relative terms, doing similarly stupid things now that they didn't do before and few that have actually managed to preserve some common sense but they're either small enough to not matter a squat on the global stage or they aren't interested in global power in the first place.

Not that USA isn't actively destroying the very relations that did help them extend their power across the globe cheaply through allies, working to weaken the dollar, and in internal affairs shooting themselves in the foot at a rate that could make even Russia jealous, but USA is still pretty good in comparison to their competition. There's no serious contender for USA at the moment and won't be any time soon even if USA keeps hitting even lower and lower bars of statehood.

I'm more pessimistic than optimistic about the future but the reason is that it seems the world as a whole has enshittified themselves down to a level that would have seemed even theoretically impossible by the key players only a few decades ago.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-11-10 00:23:01+00:00
I had an Australian criminal defense attorney with my name, register the .au version of my personal domain.

I used to get very sensitive documents sent to me. A lot of juvenile cases. I suspect people could have gone to jail for sharing it.

It's really on the sender, to make sure, but it's still a nasty situation.

It eventually stopped. I think they ended up registering a different domain name. I used to diligently respond, when sent erroneous documents, but never got a reply. I destroyed them, but there's no telling where other copies might have gone.
by jonway | 2025-11-10 00:23:18+00:00
Well I asked about this and now you're saying "It was actually worse" and invoking cope. If I promise to have zero follow up questions can you tell me why you think this?

I do live in a northern municipality and we have a number of Venezuelan people here, which is why I mentioned the TPS Act. I became more closely aware of the TPS when I talked to one of the guys about his country. This was a couple of years ago, but I still see his car (he has a Toyota with a "Venezuela" badge on the rear over the "TOYOTA" he ripped off of it, which is how I figured he was Venezuelan)

But I was wrong about the time frame of the bill which apparently did come into effect during Biden admin, giving them rights to work. Sorry about that inaccuracy, it never mattered to me who did it since it seemed like we were helping these people out quite a lot, and I liked him.
by igouy | 2025-11-10 00:23:37+00:00
Let's remember: Dancin' Duke Java Applets distributed with Netscape's web browser.

"Sun is giving away Java and HotJava free, in a fast-track attempt to make it a standard before Micro-soft begins shipping a similar product"

https://archive.gyford.com/1997/wired-uk/1.08/features/java....
by perpil | 2025-11-10 00:24:21+00:00
Its predecessor (mkdocs material) supported blogs via a plugin and rss feeds via a mkdocs plugin (https://guts.github.io/mkdocs-rss-plugin/). I don't believe it supports blogs yet according to this: https://zensical.org/compatibility/#phased-transition-strate... but will in the next phase when it supports plugins.

It doesn't support loading content from a database that I'm aware of, it uses markdown files on disk as input.
by dr_dshiv | 2025-11-10 00:24:42+00:00
Perhaps not eggs, but misplaced pelican neck pouches?

Opus4.1: https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/b47c2dd5-41a6-452c-8701-5...

Sonnet 4.5: https://gemini.google.com/share/a8ebea2c31dd

Gemini 2.5pro: https://gemini.google.com/share/a8ebea2c31dd

“a pelican riding on a bicycle in 3d. Works for mobile“
by groundzeros2015 | 2025-11-10 00:25:42+00:00
That article is from 2003. What about this one on the front page values?

https://aflcio.org/issues/immigration

> The only way to stop the race to the bottom in wages and standards is for working people of all races, religions and immigration status to stand together

> Find resources to help union members know their rights and ensure they are prepared to defend themselves and the immigrant members of their families and communities in the event of workplace or community raids

What about this one that explicitly advocates for non-Americans?

https://aflcio.org/issues/global-worker-rights

> The AFL-CIO believes that confronting these challenges requires building power for people around the world.

The whole site is just college leftist activism. This isn’t about bettering my job and career
by binarybard | 2025-11-10 00:26:12+00:00
I built https://forvard.org/ with Tauri + Svelte; Forvard is a accomplishment tracker where your data lives locally (think of Obsidian but for career tracking), it has a bit of smartness to summarize your accomplishments (without sending your data over the network). I'm working on fixing bugs and adding couple of features!
by _heimdall | 2025-11-10 00:26:22+00:00
It may be a short term solution, on the right time scale I'd give it that.

The only way its a long term solution is if globalization is so fundamentally different from what other countries and empires have felt with that they can actually devalue at just the right rate to bring work back here.

Getting that rate right seems like a tiny needle to thread though, and that only works if this situation is different from when other currencies were devalued intentionally.
by muragekibicho | 2025-11-10 00:26:39+00:00
Here it is: https://patents.justia.com/patent/20230401438

On Google Patents: https://patents.google.com/patent/US20230401438A1/en

The authors simply implement a continued fraction library in Pytorch and call the backward() function on the resulting computation graph.

That is, they chain linear neural network layers and use the reciprocal (not RELU ) as the primary non-linearity.

The authors reinvent the wheel countless times:

1. They rename continued fractions and call them ‘ladders’. 2. They label basic division ‘The 1/z nonlinearity’. 3. Ultimately, they take the well-defined concept of Generalized Continued Fractions and call them CoFrNets and got a patent.

IBM's lawyers can strip out all the buzzword garbage if they feel litigious and sue anyone whose written a continued fraction library. Because, that's what the patent (without all the buzzwords) protects.
by rtpg | 2025-11-10 00:27:11+00:00
is there any blame to be associated to Tesla for its feature? what's the right percent for you? 20%? 10%? 5%? 0%?

If the wheels of the car fell off, whould Tesla have any blame for that? If we had laid wires all along the road to allow for automatic driving, and Tesla's software misread that and caused a crash, would it be to blame?

When is Autopilot safe to use? Is it ever safe to use? Is the fact that people seem to be able to entirely trick the Autopilot to ignore safety attention mechanisms relevant at all?

If we have percentage-based blame then it feels perfectly fine to share the blame here. People buy cars assuming that the features of the car are safe to use to some extent or another.

Maybe it is just 0%. Like cruise control is a thing that exists, right? But I'm not activating cruise control anywhere near any intersection. Tesla calls their thing autopilot, and their other thing FSD, right? Is there nothing there? Maybe there is no blame, but it feels like there's something there.
by notepad0x90 | 2025-11-10 00:28:01+00:00
I have a couple of problems with this, although kudos for the author and I won't dismiss this project's usefulness or value.

1) Email shouldn't be used for this purpose. It is inherently insecure. Many have tried, you won't succeed.

2) The subject line of the email should not contain verification details (code), it shouldn't even imply the content of the email. "A secure message from <insert site>" is enough.

3) The device receiving the verification message is often not the same device that initiated the process. It is very important that users are able to easily type out the code in the webapp, instead of what many do: require a link to be opened.

4) Alright, use email, but don't treat as a special or absolute means of contacting users. The whole "contact user" aspect should be abstracted to a point. Any messaging app that the user would like to use should be used. There are dozens of them, and all of them should be abstracted to the webapp. Managing api keys and integrations sounds like a nightmare, this is one big reason no one is doing it. But again, that's my gripe, this is a solvable problem, services and libraries to make it easier should exist, but where they don't .. the developers of the application should take on the costs associated with supporting them. Maybe not dozens but a handful of messaging protocols, based on target audience can be used (e.g.: Signal,Whatsapp, Weechat, VK, Telegram, Bluesky, Twitter) - 7 api keys to rotate once every few months and you've just made billions of potential users happy!

5) Perhaps the problem is a lack of a "secure address resolution layer" to messaging? Without requiring api keys and all of that, it should be possible to resolve the address of a recipient, encrypt a message to them, using their public key, and simply send it. Messaging apps should support a standard protocol of receiving external messages this way. The protocol should also allow including a "reply" address?
by dragonwriter | 2025-11-10 00:28:10+00:00
> 2014 was years before it became a mainstream cry to treat trans women as cis women. I didn’t really hear or notice this until the late 2010s.

That's because somehow you only managed to notice the protests against the rollback of protections by those favoring discrimination but somehow missed the long push for those protections that led up to the federal policy wins (many of which were in 2014, specifically) including:

* Executive Order 13672 (explicitly prohibiting discrimination on gender identity or sexual orientation for federal agencies and federal contractors)

* Formal DoJ guidance that discrimination on the basis of gender identity was included within the scope of sex discrimination prohibited by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964—an interpretation later validated by the US Supreme Court in Bostock v. Clayton County, 590 U.S. 644 (2020).

* A wide array of regulatory and administrative actions by other federal agencies, mostly applying the same logic as the DoJ guidance referenced above to other existing sex-discrimination provisions in law an regulation.
by alephnerd | 2025-11-10 00:28:11+00:00
> Adjusted for cost of living, $300,000 in SF or NYC is about $170,000 where I lived back then, so ~$80/hr

I've lived in SF over the same time period as well, and my CoL hasn't changed aside from rent - I've kept the same consistent savings rate - but even rent was largely manageable for me because of job opportunities and a mix of local and state rent control.

That said, I do think being Asian or Latiné means having different buying preferences (eg. the bulk of my shopping is at ethnic grocery stores and my "white people food" is primarily sourced from Costco or TJ).

Ofc, looking visibly ethnic also gives me the ethnic discount at most places I shop at.

> Said kid out of high school like I was back then isn't going to find that much in today's market. As you point out, the market has tanked big time — and has been tanking for decades

Oof, that is actually a good point. Sadly, you are right about that. I don't think hiring managers in the US would take a risk on hiring a HSer even if they have the right skills and domain experience.

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That said, I am starting to come around to your argument.
by eru | 2025-11-10 00:28:32+00:00
I recreated a little tool to simultaneously mount all the commits in a git repository as directories at the same time (but re-use the same inodes for the same content).

The code is at https://github.com/matthiasgoergens/git-snap-fs

The original was in Python and actually had a decent excuse for existing for a very specific problem at work a few years ago. The new version is in Rust and exists just for fun.

This was also a small experiment in coding with OpenAI's codex. I wrote the Python original by hand---like a caveman. Codex was mostly ok at the actual code, especially once I told it to make `cargo clippy` happy, but it needed lots of help with the design. It kept insisting on extra complications and state.

But perhaps I'm a bit unfair here, because I only figured out the nice and simple design after reflecting on the connection between Linux's fuse and git's design for a while when writing the original. So it's only fair that the computer would also need some help to see how to match them up nicely.
by latexr | 2025-11-10 00:28:59+00:00
I don’t recall the license in every case, but I remember some were with BSD3 and another was with The Unlicense. Even if the latter means Public Domain, it was still a shitty thing to do, and (I checked) it was specifically illegal according to the law in their country (it specifically said you can’t put your name on someone else’s work, even if public domain).
by tptacek | 2025-11-10 00:29:19+00:00
At no point did mismanaged immigration during the Obama administration cause a crisis in my local municipality or force us to reallocate funds or scramble to find housing for over 100 people that were otherwise living in makeshift tents outside a police station. I think you'll find it pretty easy to pull up news stories; October 2023 was the peak of it in Chicagoland but you'll see stories running all the way into the middle of the next year.

(I liked Biden too and am directionally supportive of TPS; especially for Haitians, but broadly for everyone. My belief in the fundamental moral rightness of that program makes me less tolerant of the ineptitude with which the programs were managed, not more so: Biden's mishandling of this will probably set similar efforts back for the next 20 years.)
by d4rkn0d3z | 2025-11-10 00:29:46+00:00
No evolutionary clock models used, instead a numerical model was used.

1) The rate of change not being constant is not significant as long as its variation is normally distributed about some mean. I expect that changes in environment are randomly distributed.

2) This is too small scale to have any impact on the trajectory of the numerical growth in number of base pairs.

We don't need to guess, life isn't special. The growth of complexity under favorable conditions is observable and occurs all over the place at the same rate, at scale.
by irundebian | 2025-11-10 00:29:56+00:00
I doubt that most critical systems are air gapped. Even if there are, most part of Russians economy is not, but is still using IT based on COTS systems. Why wouldn't the Ukraine DoS or compromise the whole non air-gapped IT infrastructure of Russia to hit the economy if they could have easy access to RCE just because they are a government?
by georgemcbay | 2025-11-10 00:30:30+00:00
I'm certainly not defending such code, just saying that its out there and in some very successful projects.

If the managers where you work understand the dangers of taking on such tech debt and are willing to put in the resources to avoid it, consider yourself lucky, because in my experience that's not at all universal, or even particularly common, though it does certainly exist at some places.
by _heimdall | 2025-11-10 00:30:46+00:00
There is an interesting argument to be made that they have no choice once the problem passes a certain point.

The interplay between bond yields, the fed funds rate, and inflation can lead to weird situations. Right noe the Fed is having to lower rates because (a) job numbers are pretty bad and (b) the US debt is held in a surprising number of short term bonds and higher rates make the debt just rack up faster. They're also watching inflation continue to chug along higher than their 2% target though, a scenario they'd normally raise rates for.

I won't be surprised if we ultimately realize that, in the end, those in charge had way less control of the economy than they like to claim. I'm biased though, that's always been my view and it frustrates me that economics claims to be a field of science at all. It can be a very interesting and important historical analysis but it isn't predictive, and at the level of macroeconomics it can't realistically be isolated and tested.
by pizlonator | 2025-11-10 00:30:49+00:00
Porting Ruby to Fil-C

It's very interesting because the Ruby codebase uses a `typedef uintptr_t VALUE` type to mean any of the following:

- A pointer to the heap

- A Ruby tagged value (which may be a pointer to the heap)

- Any integer value that fits in `uintptr_t`

Fil-C doesn't allow you to carry around pointers using integers, in the sense that when you do that, the pointers lose their capabilities.

But in Ruby's case, it's not as simple as changing the typedef to a pointer type, since `VALUE` variables often end up being used for integer math (including bit math, shifts, etc).

So, it's going to take a nontrivial patch to Ruby to get it to work in Fil-C. I think I'm about 70% of the way through (I started Friday afternoon).
by Barbing | 2025-11-10 00:31:04+00:00
Certainly gamified a bit as I learned from:

LISTERS: A Glimpse Into Extreme Birdwatching

https://youtube.com/watch?v=zl-wAqplQAo

1.9m view | 2mo ago | 2hr long (buckle in, documentary by a couple young goofball brothers)
by oh_my_goodness | 2025-11-10 00:31:34+00:00
When I'm counting letters it's more convenient to go "one, two, three." When I'm finding the offset between letters it's more convenient to go "zero, one, two." Neither of these methods is going to displace the other.

Definitions are fine, and I agree that "A" is the first letter. But that's no use to people who need to think clearly about the offset between "A" and "C" right now. Should I tell them they're wrong, they have to count to three and then subtract one? Because the dictionary says so?
by abirch | 2025-11-10 00:32:03+00:00
I'm ignorant of the world outside of the USA.

TERF was started in 2008: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TERF_(acronym)

The GOP started to make it a major issue prior in 2016. See Bathroom Bill: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=%...

In 2017 the Southern Poverty Law said that the Christian Right was trying to separate from the T from LGBT. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminist_views_on_transgender_...

The GOP started what is a woman in 2022 https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=%...
by adithiya_shiva | 2025-11-10 00:33:37+00:00
Hello HN,

I’m Adi, co-founder of MXFLO. We are building an iOS/Android app that lets anyone create, play, and monetize games entirely on their phone. We are building Replit meets Roblox for games, but mobile-first.

Users use our simple, chat-based editor to vibe code games in minutes, with no PC or coding experience needed. Games are instantly playable and published to a "TikTok-like" discovery feed where they can go viral.

This started with a personal frustration. I love playing simple games like Wordle before sleep, but I hated paying $6 a month for the NYT Games app. It felt crazy that an app hosting simple word games makes over $100M a year, while basic LLMs can now generate infinite variations of these games for free.

At the same time, you have Roblox making $4B a year. They proved people want to create, but they only care about the 1% of users who have a PC and can learn complex desktop tools. They treat the other billions of mobile users just as passive consumers.

We think that is a massive missed opportunity. We want to do for gaming what YouTube/TikTok did for video. We want to unlock that 99% of mobile-only users and turn them from players into creators.

What we are building:

1. A "vibe coding" interface. You describe your game in chat, and our backend (using Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Stable Diffusion XL) generates the initial game loop.

2. Instant Play. The game runs immediately in a secure WebView on your device. No compiling, no waiting.

3. On-Device AI (The hard part). Right now we do inference in the cloud. Our long-term technical moat is moving 2D asset generation directly onto the phone to reduce latency and server costs. My co-founder Tejas has been working on edge AI optimization since 2017 and it is a massive technical challenge we are excited to solve.

We are currently in closed beta and applying to YC. I put up this landing page to see if others agree that this is a problem worth solving.

I would love to hear from this community:

- Do you think a "mobile-only" workflow can ever be powerful enough for real games?

- What is the biggest technical bottleneck you see for on-device game generation?

Thanks!