MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sroerick | 2025-12-16 03:22:03+00:00
Yes, American. There's other better descriptions here, but generally speaking most contractors I know have a truck, which they use for work. That's really all that I mean. I mean we just call them trucks. Nobody would say "Hey, nice work truck!"

People buy vehicles based on their needs. The F150 is sort of a hybrid between a work truck and a prestige family SUV like a Ford Explorer. If people are doing serious towing regularly, they will probably upgrade to a 250/350 class (3/4 ton or 1 ton). Plenty of people buy smaller trucks like the Ranger, which is basically like driving a crossover mini-SUV with a bed. People who are doing really serious transport may have a flatbed on an even bigger truck, but nobody uses those as family vehicles. I know people who have those little RHD mini trucks, which seems super useful to me.

I don't know Utes, which by googling, basically looks like a midsize (Ford Ranger, Toyota Tacoma) with a flatbed. We don't really use those.

Actually, it's kind of a market problem. Tons of people I know have expressed desire for a smaller truck like that little barebones Toyota Truck, but they don't make them here and we aren't allowed to import them.
by MPSFounder | 2025-12-16 03:22:18+00:00
I think you are wrong. Anyone who is not blind sees this is about Ghaza. I would feel much better if someone besides Ellison (a religious jewish man who is pro Israel) did not control TikTok. Israel is losing support in the West (and rightfully so) at an alarming rate. Netanyahu himself said controlling social media (and singled out Tiktok) is imperative for Israel to continue its genocide. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3tdrO8bA7rs
by Spivak | 2025-12-16 03:22:55+00:00
Program running as user can read data owned by user. If this is a vulnerability then the entire linux userspace is compromised. Can you believe that applications I run can execute gpg2 and steal all my secrets?

The dbus process is run by and owned by your user. The only people that can access it is you and root. There is a system-wide bus but your secret manager isn't using that one.

It's just this: https://xkcd.com/1200/
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-12-16 03:23:26+00:00
The incentive for me is just that it's not the most fun to use git's rebase tools to move things between commits. I'm pretty OK at rebase, but I still would way way rather not try to rebase move a file from one commit to another. And if I did, I'd probably do something hacky to copy the file out rather than try to use git to checkout the file from a rev.

Where-as jj makes rework operations, IMO, basically easy enough (after a couple weeks of use to) that I worry much less about making the right commit the first time.
by MPSFounder | 2025-12-16 03:24:32+00:00
What does China have to do with Israel? Israel killed so many children in Ghaza. And Journalists. It is the greatest enemy of the west, for its values (stealing land, no respect for human life or property) is alien to what Voltaire described as western traits (and voltaire by the way regarded both China and Jews in Europe as antithetical to the west, though more out of sinophobia and antisemitism). No impartial observer can look at Israel and see a western nation. I do not know of any country (Russia and Iran included) who has starved a population and committed rape while defending it. Vile people.
by eudamoniac | 2025-12-16 03:24:36+00:00
I lost the post I meant to reply to, but here is the reply:

I tend to see literature, especially fiction, as a way to practice empathy. A lot of people mentally stagnate later in life, and books help break that. Empathy isn't some magical trait, it's something you can actually train. Think Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep even if the animal is fake, the act of caring still has meaning. Practicing empathy like that helps you understand other people's worldviews. You don't have to agree with them, but if you want to function in life, you at least need to understand why people think the way they do. You can also take Paul Schrader's view that art is a vessel for emotion. It's a place to purge or process uncomfortable feelings. Watching Taxi Driver, for example, gives you a space to confront isolation, violence, and male nihilism. Instead of becoming Travis Bickle, the film lets you observe him and put those thoughts into words. That's Schrader's defense when people say the movie glorifies Bickle; the art itself is the safe space, not the man.
by shark_laser | 2025-12-16 03:24:38+00:00
Please take a look at my other replies to other posts.

Read about the outbox model, or Bitchat.

The large relays are not required. They are a public service but not essential. There are plenty of community relays charging for access too, and the outbox model means you're not even depending on them. Nostr can and does successfully operate via even Bluetooth Mesh Networks. Search up Bitchat and see how it has been used in Nepal, Indonesia, and elsewhere.
by lallysingh | 2025-12-16 03:24:56+00:00
I don't understand this comparison. An EV's battery cooling system is a cooling system. Regen braking isn't more complicated than an alternator.

The rest, yeah. The chemical stacks in the batteries are expensive, and dealer markup was a problem (now they're 47-56k new). But the energy costs! $7-12 for a fill-up on home power overnight instead of $75-85 at the gas station.

And maintenance. So little maintenance. For local non-towing fleets these would save a lot.
Show HN: Shai – a tiny tool for managing AI config files
by sebasjimenezv | 2025-12-16 03:26:49+00:00
I built this as a small experiment after getting tired of copying AI prompt files and agent configurations between machines and projects.

shai is a tiny CLI that lets you organize, share, and install AI config files with a single command. The idea is to make AI setups reproducible and easy to reuse without having to manually move files around.

It’s early and intentionally minimal — I’m mostly sharing it here to learn whether this workflow is useful to others, and what feels confusing, unnecessary, or missing.

Repo + docs: https://shaicli.dev

(Author here — happy to answer questions.)
by tom_ | 2025-12-16 03:26:56+00:00
It's got a definite creamy tinge to it, not B&W.

A quality=90 jpeg exported from GIMP is ~1.4 million bytes and not obviously visually different. (Test process was loading original image into one Firefox tab, and quality=90 jpeg image into another, holding Ctrl+PgDn to flip between them quickly, and looking at the screen with my eyes to see if any obvious differences leapt out.)

quality=20 (~0.32 million bytes) wasn't obviously different either.

quality=10 (~0.21 million bytes) was noticeably different. And, on second glance, the obviously different areas were actually slightly different in quality=20 too.

I didn't do any more tests. So, they could have made the image less than 10% the size, I guess - but, they can probably afford the bandwidth, and the thing needs to end up fully uncompressed at some point anyway just so that it can be displayed on screen. It's not even like 4 MBytes is a lot of memory nowadays.
by HankB99 | 2025-12-16 03:27:07+00:00
> A good old ICE car will be cheaper to make than an EV

How much of that is the result of the relatively maturity of the technology? We've been continuously improving ICE based transportation for well over a hundred years. It's been a lot shorter for electric vehicles.

I suspect that there are bigger strides to make with electrics that may eventually turn that around.
by stopbulying | 2025-12-16 03:28:05+00:00
Calibri https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calibri :

> In Microsoft Office 2007, it replaced Times New Roman as the default font in Word and replaced Arial as the default font in PowerPoint, Excel, and Outlook. In Windows 7, it replaced Arial as the default font in WordPad. De Groot described its subtly rounded design as having "a warm and soft character".[3] In January 2024, the font was replaced by Microsoft's new bespoke font, Aptos, as the new default Microsoft Office font, after 17 years

...

> In 2013, Google released a freely-licensed font called Carlito, which is metric-compatible to Calibri, as part of ChromeOS.[20] Carlito's metric-compatibility ensures ChromeOS users can correctly display and print a document designed in Calibri without disrupting its layout. Carlito's glyph shapes are based on the prior open-source typeface Lato. [21]

Times New Roman > Free alternatives https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Times_New_Roman#Free_alternati...
by themafia | 2025-12-16 03:28:16+00:00
Which is odd because this is how they mostly marketed it on release:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42BmZ6Rgqkc

Also most people I know who use F-150s in the way you describe also typically have two children or more. It's not as if this was a segment that was particularly hard to pin down.

They just completely wiffed.
by lern_too_spel | 2025-12-16 03:28:42+00:00
Chevrolet makes these. The Blazer and the Blazer EV look roughly the same. The Equinox and Equinox EV look more different but not completely different. The Silverado and the Silverado EV look completely different, but given those other models, I don't think it's for lack of trying.

Similarly, Volvo's EX cars look almost exactly like their XC counterparts.
by Den_VR | 2025-12-16 03:30:00+00:00
There are a lot of old feds that can afford the area because of how it was priced 25-40 years ago. That’s how stable some fed jobs and careers were.

Now, talking to a barista in DC and the solution is 4-5 roommates. Not unfamiliar to those in the bay area, but less upside.
by themafia | 2025-12-16 03:30:08+00:00
> The incumbent auto makers understand fully that the ICE version of whatever model they electrify will suffer enormously.

So you're saying they make _less_ profit on the EVs? That seems dubious.

> They believe that they can somehow retain all of the sales of the existing ICE model while adding growth sales of a different electric model.

Well.. precisely. Isn't the solution to make the EVs more profitable than the ICEs? Meanwhile Toyota's out here killing it in Hybrids.
by miladyincontrol | 2025-12-16 03:31:27+00:00
Oh, a free of cost vpn extension that requires access to all sites and data is somehow spyware, color me surprised.

With those extensions the user's data and internet are the product, most if not all are also selling residential IP access for scrapers, bots, etc.

Good thing Google is protecting users by taking down such harmful extensions as ublock origin instead.
by verdverm | 2025-12-16 03:31:52+00:00
Hey, we're #1 on a benchmark that none of the major players use or are even entered with by 3rd parties.... looks like only 2 submissions since the paper a year ago.

No Gemini, No Claude, just old models

Does IBM wonder why no one takes them seriously in the Ai space? I would be embarrassed to have this "#1" so prominently on display
by aryonoco | 2025-12-16 03:32:13+00:00
Not widely known but the original Binder, OpenBinder, was not even for Linux or Android It was developed for BeOS.

OpenBinder was one of the few pieces of code which was open sourced in Be Inc’s dying days just before it was acquired by Palm.

Many of the principal Be developers who worked on OpenBinder, Dianne Hackborn, Jean-Baptiste Queru, et al then moved from Palm to Danger, which was developing Android and which was later acquired by Google.

And the rest, as they say, is history.
by linsomniac | 2025-12-16 03:32:46+00:00
>That was your argument, right?

I wasn't intending to make an argument, I was specifically replying to:

>does not mention a single specific SaaS subscription he’s cancelled

I was imagining it could start a thread of examples where it's happened.

>would they have chosen you to do the replacement, or someone who had recent experience in the tech?

I get what you're saying, but those aren't the only two options; they very likely would have chosen neither of those options. The resources we had available was an ops guy who is pretty handy with the LLMs.

I get the point you're making, I really do. My counterpoint is that there are some SaaSes out there that people can build replacements for by using the LLMs at no incremental cost.

>I am skeptical that the company failed to leave the SaaS earlier because they didn't want to eat the cost of a 1.5 paid days for an employee

Sure, I'd be skeptical about it when put that way as well. That's not how it played out however: We were having a retro and the guy running it said that our subscription was expiring the end of the month and wanted discussion about whether we wanted to purchase it for another year. 2 weeks later, before our next retro, I threw a prompt at Claude Code and asked a couple people to try out the result, incorporated their feedback and we ran the retro on it. We aren't planning to renew.

This was not something "the company" had a big discussion about; my boss made an offhand comment about it, and I did it as a side project while I was doing something else.
by dalyons | 2025-12-16 03:34:38+00:00
Remains to be seen if it’s smart - personally I think erev is going to be obsoleted very quickly by batteries getting better and cheaper. You can already buy 1000v 5min charging EVs in china, as well as semi-solid state batteries. And the batteries get cheaper year on year, relentlessly.

EREVs are a way better idea than the lie of PHEVs, but their time in the market is still limited. I wouldn’t be making that bet as an auto manufacturer , unless I had protectionism to hide behind.
by analog31 | 2025-12-16 03:34:51+00:00
For me the friction of dealing with licenses would make it hard to fully integrate a commercial package into my routine. Commercial developers have to decide how they expect a product to be used, so they can allocate finite resources. This invariably imposes limits on users.

In my case, trivial uses are as important as high-visibility projects. I can spin up a complete Python installation to do something like log data from some sensors in the lab, while I do something in another lab, and have something going at my desk, and at home. I use hobby projects to learn new skills. I've played with CircuitPython to create little gadgets that my less technically inclined colleagues can work with. I encouraged my kids to learn Python. I write little apps and give them to colleage. I probably have a dozen Python installations running here and there at any moment.

This isn't a slam on Matlab, since I know it has a loyal following. And I'm unaware of an alternative to Simulink, if that's your bag. And Matlab might be doing the right thing for their business. My impression is that most "engineering software" is geared towards the engineer sitting at a stationary workstation all day, like a CAD operator. And this may be the main way that software is used. Maybe I'm the freak.
by pornel | 2025-12-16 03:35:53+00:00
In the sidebar of the Amazon website (which may vary by device/locale), I get Prime, Echo, Alexa, Fire TV/Tablets, Kindle, Audible listed before all other product categories. The special treatment so explicit, I didn't think anybody would even doubt it, but rather reply "duuuh, of course Amazon.com is for selling Amazon's own stuff".

I'm a follower of Cory Doctorow's anti-enshittification ideology (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwkaS389W-g). Amazon is well-known for giving preferential treatment to its own products, while squeezing other sellers to pay for placement (Amazon ads).

If you want something more data-driven, see "Self-Preferencing at Amazon: Evidence from Search Rankings" (DOI 10.1257/pandp.20231068), but this one is about everyday products. I'd expect Roombas to get more blatant promos like Kindle, Fire, and Ring products get. For example, if I search for "doorbell" on Amazon, the very first thing I get is a huge promo for Blink products (an Amazon company), four results from random brands nobody heard of, and then another huge promo for Ring (Amazon brand).
by retsyx | 2025-12-16 03:36:16+00:00
In a similar vein, I created a project, Amity, that uses HDMI-CEC to control the whole home theater with one remote. Using a simple streamer remote you can select an activity (watch Apple TV, play on the PlayStation) navigate interfaces, control the system's volume, and power it off. One of several fairly common streamer or TV remotes can be used.

Amity, too, is based on a Raspberry Pi but also uses a very simple custom PCB to hook into the HDMI-CEC bus between the TV and the receiver. One of the most common problems encountered with HDMI-CEC is that different components will often compete to be displayed by the TV (for example, turning on your Apple TV, turns on the TV, which turns on the PlayStation, which requests to be displayed, which switches the TV to displaying the PlayStation. So you end up viewing the PlayStation when you wanted to stream Netflix on your Apple TV). I found that the only way to fix this problem is to sit between the receiver and the TV to break the cycle. Hence, the PCB.

Amity is available here:

https://github.com/retsyx/amity
by wkat4242 | 2025-12-16 03:36:28+00:00
Huh cool, we don't have any such large online libraries in Europe. Some countries or regions have some small online repos but it's a real PITA to get working as they all use Adobe drm.

I used to buy on kindle but since they made it much harder to break drm I just pirate now. I'm not paying for content I don't get to own.
by wilg | 2025-12-16 03:36:35+00:00
It is at least brainrot garbage to think that this mostly imaginary Gaza drama is worth allowing the PRC to operate an uncontrolled propaganda tool directly influencing millions of Americans! The millions of Americans in a position to be influenced by it should have clear assurances that it is being operated in accordance with the laws and systems that they control via democratic methods, not a geopolitical adversary working in opposition to them!
by fc417fc802 | 2025-12-16 03:37:37+00:00
> Why would "every relay getting pummeled by a load of clients simultaneously, all trying to push the same message"?

Because that is the obvious thing that would happen without further implementation details. A few large relays taking the brunt of the vast majority of the network. It isn't an inherently scalable architecture.

Of course you can do other stuff in addition and thereby achieve scalability. At least arguably. But then a relevant explanation needs carefully walk through those additional non-obvious details.
by rlue | 2025-12-16 03:39:34+00:00
I use koreader, including its OPDS server support! While I'm always grateful for all FOSS (and especially for well-written FOSS), koreader's OPDS UI still has a long way to go to approximate what I'm imagining. It's basically a file browser in List view, whereas a good digital book storefront would include gallery views with cover art, synopses and other metadata when clicking into any individual publication, search functionality, recommendation carousels, and more.
Ask HN: What does it take to get hired into applied research without a PhD?
by snyp | 2025-12-16 03:40:04+00:00
I’m a mid/senior software engineer (~7 YOE) trying to move into applied research in AI/robotics. No PhD

If you’ve hired for research engineer / applied scientist / robotics roles:

What differentiates a strong non-PhD candidate from "Smart SWE who likes ML"?

Which artifacts are most convincing (reproducing papers, open source contributions, working on real-world systems, conference workshop paper, etc.)?

What skill gaps usually show up in interviews?

And if you’ve made the jump, what worked for you?
by lukeschlather | 2025-12-16 03:40:43+00:00
If privacy wasn't their objective they would just have a database of all the phone numbers.

Perfect privacy would mean not sending any messages at all, because you can never prove the message is going to the intended recipient. Any actual system is going to have tradeoffs, calling Signal anti-privacy is not serious, especially when you're suggesting cryptocurrency as a solution.

A ZKP system where you make a public record of your zero-knowledge proof sounds anti-privacy to me. Even if you're using something obfuscated like Monero, it's still public. I see where you're coming from, but I think I would prefer Signal just keep a database of all their users and promise to try and keep it safe rather than rely on something like Monero.
by vel0city | 2025-12-16 03:41:13+00:00
This is exactly the situation. ICE also has a massive range hit as well, it's just easy to put a massive fuel tank in to get a stupid amount of range not towing compared to a battery electric that struggles to get a similar range. When you start with almost 600mi losing half isn't too bad, when it's maybe 300mi on a good day and you cut it in half is just not as usable for that usage.

That said, if it's not the towing but the bed you need, the range but isn't nearly so bad.
by wyldfire | 2025-12-16 03:41:28+00:00
As others have said in this thread, they did.

But to answer your question as if they had not yet: it's never "just" recompiling. It's:

* recompile (and fix any warnings/errors indicated by the compiler)

* re-test ... the entire game

* fix the bugs that are encountered in test

* release/publish the game for Windows ARM64

Whatever this effort is, it's much much more than "just" recompiling. You could imagine motivated individuals on the engineering team chipping away at this list of their own accord. But following through with a product requires significant effort and coordination that often is weighed against the potential revenue that this new market could provide.
by netbioserror | 2025-12-16 03:42:13+00:00
"You don't get your best performances by trying harder" is just another way of saying that our talents come so naturally that they don't feel like work.

Does that mean that if you're trying, you're fighting a losing uphill battle against something you'll never excel at? I think many skills are learned and must be earned with discipline. But the culture places excessive weight on excelling in specific fields that most people simply can't brute-force. Hence the prevalence of chemical assistance at the highest ends of productivity, intellectual competition, and athletics.

We probably need to place more emphasis on doing things that come naturally to us. Emphasis on doing. But also enjoy downtime and not-doing occasionally.
by matheusmoreira | 2025-12-16 03:43:24+00:00
No idea about the rest of latin america but Brazil's situation is bad. It's estimated that organized crime gangs dominate over a quarter of Brazil's continental territory.

They have essentially created an informal government. They have leaders, armies, territory, laws, tribunals, subjects, even goddamn taxes. They pulled off a stealthy unannounced secession.

The lines between the official government and organized crime are increasingly blurry. People speculate that they control politicians, judges. To me it feels like they're merging into one. This never really gets proven to the point something gets done about it but that's what it feels like to me and I don't think I'm alone. Crime has become normalized. It's just an everyday normal thing now.

Check out this war zone:

https://www.cnnbrasil.com.br/nacional/sudeste/rj/operacao-no...

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

Drug gangs have discovered drone warfare and are remotely bombing police and each other now.