MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by aerostable_slug | 2025-12-12 00:54:50+00:00
If it's smart it won't be what you planned, but it'll almost always be what you like. If you thought the Vader scene at the end of Rogue One was stupid fanservice, it leans one way; if you went "FINALLY! YES!" it leans another. Lather rinse repeat across many potential inputs.

With the right sensors, your sentiment will be apparent to the system and it will be able to tune on the fly.
by red75prime | 2025-12-12 00:55:34+00:00
I can't find how it will operate. Will it detect a situation where lines are not painted sufficiently clearly, warn you, and disengage? Or will you need to detect where it begins to operate wonky because lines aren't painted sufficiently clearly and to take over? I guess it's the second. It's hands-off, not eyes-off.

Also, I would like to see a car company that is further down the road of full autonomy clearly describing all the long tail scenarios. It's just impossible.
by eek2121 | 2025-12-12 00:55:45+00:00
Well, that was a wild read. I'm surprised it isn't getting more traction.

So, full disclosure, I'm no longer a developer due to disabilities, including one that keep me from being able to write code, however: I love C# and .NET, and a good portion of my early career was working with C#, .NET, and SOAP. That being said, Microsoft's response to this bug alone have turned me off to the language and framework. They clearly don't take security seriously. They favor possible compatibility issues over the hijacking of a bunch of servers on the internet. That attitude is not okay. I bet a simple code scan could probably find a whole bunch of endpoints that are vulnerable to this.

I would not be surprised if some of their own web applications are affected by this vulnerability.

Thanks for the read.
by iambateman | 2025-12-12 00:55:54+00:00
it seems like car-makers themselves feel burdened to make their own self-driving tech, as opposed to outsourcing the software to a third party.

Dell and HP don’t make operating systems…it seems like having a handful of companies focused on getting the self-driving part right without the need to also specialize in manufacturing would be beneficial.

My first inclination was to be bullish on Rivian, and there’s no question that their vehicles are beautiful. But is there anything to suggest they have an advantage over Tesla or other automakers when it comes to self-driving?
by alliao | 2025-12-12 00:55:59+00:00
i've long held a view that what CCP is doing is cancer to all citizens in previously free countries, our democratic leaders are quick to show disgust and disdain, but the actual owners of the country, actual powers that be are enamored and mesmerised by what they're doing to the Chinese populace especially when it comes to messaging/propaganda. block and track everyone then just tiktok your way high heavens. it's not even what aldous huxley meant by the pleasure essay anymore it's deeper and more manipulative
by ethbr1 | 2025-12-12 00:56:31+00:00
Folks spend so much time talking about second+ order effects of immigration, but it's the economy that's primarily important.

I don't know too many nativists / nationalists who agree with the statement 'I am fine with my country being poorer and worse off economically in exchange for getting rid of immigrants.'

Their political champions bill is as though removing immigrant labor will somehow make the economy better.

Because, yes, when has a smaller, more expensive domestic labor pool ever helped a country's economic competitiveness? /s
by xmprt | 2025-12-12 00:56:37+00:00
An echo chamber is a product of your own creation. If you're willing to upvote people who disagree with your and actively seek out opposite takes to be genuinely curious about, then you're probably not in an echo chamber.

The tools for controlling your feed are reducing on social media like Instagram, TikTok, Youtube, etc., but simply saying that you follow and respect the opinions of a select group doesn't necessarily mean you're forming an echo chamber.

This is different from something like flat earth/other conspiracy theories where when confronted with opposite evidence, they aren't likely to engage with it in good faith.
by berekuk | 2025-12-12 00:56:39+00:00
I've been using React since its initial release; I think both RSC and App Router are great, and things are better than ever.

It's the first stack that allows me to avoid REST or GraphQL endpoints by default, which was the main source of frontend overhead before RSC. Previously I had to make choices on how to organize API, which GraphQL client to choose (and none of them are perfect), how to optimize routes and waterfalls, etc. Now I just write exactly what I mean, with the very minimal set of external helper libs (nuqs and next-safe-action), and the framework matches my mental model of where I want to get very well.

Anti-React and anti-Next.js bias on HN is something that confuses me a lot; for many other topics here I feel pretty aligned with the crowd opinion on things, but not on this.
by wtallis | 2025-12-12 00:57:06+00:00
It's really common for laptops to only support charging, display output and Thunderbolt on the USB-C ports on one side of the laptop while the other side gets just a 5 or 10Gbps USB port (and probably the headphone jack). This asymmetry usually comes from a design where the high-speed/high-power ports are on the motherboard and the lower-speed ports are on a separate board connected by a ribbon cable. That enables the OEM to use the same boards for multiple laptop sizes (eg 13" and 15", or 15" and 17") just by swapping in a longer ribbon cable. Using a cable capable of carrying Thunderbolt signals and charger input would negate a lot of those cost savings.
by dmoy | 2025-12-12 00:58:02+00:00
Ah ha, so.... come to Minnesota, there's talk with !False all the time. It fits very naturally brain-wise coming from Chinese. Just, hope you're from Dongbei or similar 'cus lol weather.

Actually in Minnesota it goes way past just !False construction, in a way that also translates well from Chinese, because you get a lot of face saving phrases. Like "that's different" as a polite way of saying something is bad.

I suspect you just learned a different kind of English.
by AlotOfReading | 2025-12-12 00:59:20+00:00
Orin is Nvidia's last generation. Current gen is Thor at 1k TOPS. Rivian's announcement specifies TOPS at the module level. The actual chip is more like 800 and probably doubled. Throw two Thors on a similar board and you're looking at 2000 sparse int8 TOPS.

I've been involved with similar efforts on both sides before. Making your own hardware is not a clear cut win even if you hit timelines and performance. I wish them luck (not least because I might need a new job someday), but this is an incredibly difficult space.
by marcus_holmes | 2025-12-12 00:59:42+00:00
but then once charged you can be held for years on remand [0], there is no limit to how long the court can take to actually getting around to holding your trial. The law says now 8 months, but (as this site says) people are held for years.

[0] https://legalknowledgebase.com/how-long-can-someone-be-held-...
by DrewADesign | 2025-12-12 00:59:51+00:00
I think curated interactive environments like games are a much more realistic application of those distant technologies than automatically modified Hollywood movies on the fly.

And personally, I have absolutely no desire to modify movies that bothered me, story-wise, artistically, or editorially, with my own ideas. Likewise, I also don’t want to modify classic paintings to make the people fit my preferences for attractiveness. And I sure don’t want it done automatically.

Art is interesting because it comes from other people’s brains.
by iammjm | 2025-12-12 01:00:13+00:00
Interesting read. Digging in and fortifying positions is very much still a crucial part of war. For example, in the current Russo-Ukrainian war, structures such as trenches, bunkers, basements, towers, buildings etc. are crucial for holding onto terrain. Also obstacle-like structures such as concertina wire, anti-tank ditches, dragon's teeth, minefields, czech-hedgehogs, etc. are all over the place. Wherever soldiers appear, they basically dig in and start fortifying, constructing structures both for their own protection as well as for obstructing enemy movement. An interesting recent development are kilometers-long anti-drone tunnels along key logistical routes, meant mostly for stopping rotary FPV drones that are trying to intercept logistics
by sholain | 2025-12-12 01:00:13+00:00
One cannot just release whatever one wants, and some of the docs should not have been released.

There were huge variations in the nature of the content that he released, and this is the problem with the narrative.

He's a 'whistle blower' and 'broke the law' at the same time.

A lot of people seem to have difficulty with that.

Edit: we need better privacy laws and transparency around a lot of things, that said, some state actors are going to need to be around for a long while yet. It's a complicated world, none of this is black and white, it's why we need vigilance.
by stopachka | 2025-12-12 01:00:14+00:00
For those curious about the question: "how well does GPT 5.2 build Counter Strike?"

We tried the same prompts we asked previous models today, and found out [1].

The TL:DR: Claude is still better on the frontend, but 5.2 is comparable to Gemini 3 Pro on the backend. At the very least 5.2 did better on just about every prompt compared to 5.1 Codex Max.

The two surprises with the GPT models when it comes to coding: 1. They often use REPLs rather than read docs 2. In this instance 5.2 was more sheepish about running CLI commands. It would instead ask me to run the commands.

Since this isn't a codex fine-tuned model, I'm definitely excited to see what that looks like.

[1] The full video and some details in the tweet here: https://x.com/instant_db/status/1999278134504620363
by michaelt | 2025-12-12 01:00:43+00:00
> Insurance is a capital management game. We’ll likely see a tech company try this, fail to cover a catastrophic liability due to lack of reserves, and trigger a massive backlash.

Google, AFAIK the only company with cars that are actually autonomous, has US$98 Billion in cash.

It'd have to be a hell of an accident to put a dent in that.
by throw0101a | 2025-12-12 01:00:45+00:00
Executive order (EO) count over the last few presidents:

* Bush (41): 166

* Clinton (two terms): 364

* Bush (43; two terms): 291

* Obama (two terms): 276

* Trump (45): 220

* Biden: 162

* Trump (47; <1 year): 218

Source:

* https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/statistics/data/executive-or...

Someone commented that (one of?) the reason that Trump is using EOs so much is probably because is not willing (or able) to actually get deals on in the legislature to pass his policies (or what passes for policy with him).
by hateselfdriving | 2025-12-12 01:00:47+00:00
I'm 31 and I'm very excited by the '86 Chevy truck I just got. You know why? It's _not_ "smart". The smartest thing on it is the old-school AM/FM radio. There's no software updates, there's nothing (built-in) tracking my every move. It's just a simple, repairable truck, for, you know, _driving_.

People have this strange obsession with over-complicating everything they possibly can.
by spopejoy | 2025-12-12 01:01:48+00:00
If you're trying to connect Alexander to software patterns like GOF, it's important to include Gabriel's "Patterns of Software" [1] as the first genuine attempt to apply Alexandrian patterns to software. It also introduces the first and probably the best takedown of OO inheritance as not reuse but instead a form of _compression_ that is in many ways worse than just copy-and-paste.

1 - https://www.dreamsongs.com/Files/PatternsOfSoftware.pdf
by hatthew | 2025-12-12 01:02:24+00:00
Eclipse was great for java specifically, but a lot of its useful/reliable features came from java being easy to standardize around. Strong static typing and javadocs combined allow for a lot of convenient and reliable features like previews, intellisense, refactoring, etc. For me, vscode feeling worse come from the fact that I'm using it for python and javascript which are inherently harder to design IDE features for, and also vscode is designed to be a good all-round programming editor, not a java-specific editor.

Taking its broader scope into account, I feel like vscode is a significantly better IDE than eclipse, though if I went back to exclusively coding in java and nothing else ever, I might switch back to it.
by seba_dos1 | 2025-12-12 01:02:56+00:00
Why go through that device-breaking battery dance when you can still get a BL-5J battery pretty much everywhere?

Booting from an SD card, while possible, is rather impractical on N900 because it gets disconnected whenever you open the back cover.

The N900 that lays next to me right now still works as a phone. I have to replace its screen though, as recently it took some damage in my pocket and got a small crack in its bottom middle. Touch still works perfectly though, so I'm not in a hurry :D
by bccdee | 2025-12-12 01:03:28+00:00
What other discussion boards? They've all been subsumed by Reddit.

I was on Reddit a lot as a teenager. I was the kind of argumentative kid who likes to iron out the wrinkles in their beliefs by defending them, and the internet offers and endless stream of people willing to discuss niche subjects. It had a positive impact on me.

What mental health impacts? We haven't really established that social media has any, writ large. Jonathan Haidt's The Anxious Generation has been very influential in teen social media ban discourse (in fact, I'm not sure the Australian ban would have happened without it), but Haidt never manages to establish a link between social media and depression or anxiety [1]. People just assume social media is really bad for teens, but the extent to which this is true, the proportion of the population for which it is true, and the extent to which social media may actually be valuable to some teens (e.g. to gay kids in conservative towns who are looking for community) is just not established.

I have a real problem with policy that seeks to cut teenagers off from communities they're part of without any interest in establishing the value provided by or the harm caused by those communities.

[1]: Haidt notes that teen hospitalizations related to mental illness have risen since the early 2000s, discounts the recession and climate change as possible explanations, and then just assumes that social media is the only other explanation (it isn't; for instance, teens started getting hospitalized way more after Obamacare lowered the cost of hospital stays). Elsewhere, he's cited a self-report survey indicating that social media use had a high mental health impact on teens, but the indicated impact of social media was greater than the impact of binge drinking, which was greater than the impact of eating fruit, which was greater than the impact of having survived sexual assault (https://bsky.app/profile/michaelhobbes.bsky.social/post/3kxs...). So, that survey is not reliable. Basically, Haidt doesn't actually have any evidence of how bad social media is for teens. He relies on his audience already believing this intuitively.
by neodymiumphish | 2025-12-12 01:04:35+00:00
I think there will actually be a couple interesting adjustments/market forces acting in the car companies' favor.

First, if the insurance applies to fully autonomous driving only, then I suspect they’ll reach a point where the cost of insurance+automation ends up being less than just insurance through third parties.

Second, cutting into the traditional insurance market share is likely to increase costs for those who remain on traditional insurance, assuming there’s a significant enough number of people jumping ship. Combined, this creates a huge incentive for more users to jump on the self-driving bandwagon.
by exasperaited | 2025-12-12 01:04:50+00:00
OK... drum roll please!

I suppose you mean this famous quote:

"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism, since it is the merger of state and corporate power"

I have news: this is bullshit.

This quote is literally falsely attributed to Mussolini. There is no evidence whatsoever that he said it. It's also somewhat at odds with things he did say (though most of that was pseudointellectual gibberish) and the way he ruled.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:Benito_Mussolini

It's simply wrong. It is one of the great falsely-attributed quotations that will not die.

https://blog.skepticallibertarian.com/2013/02/07/fake-quote-...

It's central to the 21st century misunderstanding of Fascism and it is the convenient misattribution that will not die. (Also what I was referring to up thread)

And what "corporatism" means, in a Fascist context, is not what western readers think it might mean. It is a term talking about collective organisation, not capitalism.

It's part of why the word "fascist" is so completely blunted to the point of uselessness in US debate.
by austin-cheney | 2025-12-12 01:04:53+00:00
The article mentions that things were fine until around 2010 when developers collectively lost their minds. So what’s special about 2010?

It’s about that time that everything needed a website with a domain and all the domains were gobbled up by squatters. Also people were inventing new words looking for the fewest possible syllables for SEO and marketing.
by Zee2 | 2025-12-12 01:05:26+00:00
The ping-ponging is certainly a Gen1 problem. (My Gen1 does this.) Gen1 was essentially an off-the-shelf Mobileye unit, and the performance was, as expected, not good.

Gen2 autonomy stack is completely unrelated to Gen1, and from what I hear is a completely different level of reliability.

(also - this presentation covered yet another, unrelated, gen3 autonomy stack, which shares none of the hardware or models with the existing gen2 stack, either.)
by swores | 2025-12-12 01:05:46+00:00
I agree that it's not currently reality and the person you replied to could have made their point by using actual examples of appalling ICE actions rather than a scenario that's currently just fantasy.

That said, it's not just "someone posted an idiotic idea on Twitter". The idea of stripping people of their citizenship has literally been suggested by the current president to a press gaggle, and that's not a one off random statement it follows years of things like prominent political voices suggesting that certain Muslim members of congress should be deported despite their having been born in the US...

As to the technical difficulties of passing a constitutional amendment, I agree it's hard to imagine that happening. Depressingly though it's less hard to imagine the president signing an executive order telling ICE to go against that part of the constitution, followed by one or both of ICE actions outpacing judicial ability to enforce the constitution, and/or judges ruling in favour of ICE being allowed to ignore the constitution.

These are possibilities that, if suggested 30 years ago would sound like crazy conspiracy theory territory, but in 2025 they're actual plausible scenarios looking at the coming months, yet alone years. I wish this was just scare mongering, but the truth is if you don't think this is possible then you haven't been following US politics closely enough - from the words of Trump and his team, such as Stephen Miller, to the actions of agencies such as ICE and the FBI, to rulings of the Supreme Court such as the one giving Trump unqualified immunity that anything he does as a work act rather than a personal one can't be treated as illegal, even if it goes against the constitution.
by masfuerte | 2025-12-12 01:06:09+00:00
> Also the whole thing moved incredibly quickly; it went from new organization to banned almost immediately.

Are you sure? They were founded in 2020.

You can argue that destroying property may be legitimate protest, but that is not all they did. In 2024 they used sledgehammers to destroy machinery in an Elbit factory. Again, arguably legitimate protest. But then they attacked police officers and security guards who came to investigate with those same sledgehammers. That is in no way legitimate.

If the government was going to proscribe them for anything it should have been for that. The RAF thing was indeed bullshit.

Anyway, it seems to me that to simultaneously believe that

a) telling a group of people that they can't use a particular name is an unacceptable attack on our freedoms yet

b) physically attacking people with sledgehammers is OK

requires quite some mental gymnastics.
by credit_guy | 2025-12-12 01:06:23+00:00
I see this sentiment quite often. The Economist chose the "word of the year"; it is "slop". Everybody hates AI slop.

And lots of people who use AI coding assistants go through a phase of pushing AI slop in prod. I know I did that. Some of it still bites me to this day.

But here's the thing: AI coding assistants did not exist two years ago. We are critical of them based on unfounded expectations. They are tools, and they have limitations. They are far, very, very far, from being perfect. They will not replace us for 20 years, at least.

But are they useful? Yes. Can you learn usage patterns so you eliminate as much as possible AI slop? I personally hope I did that; I think quite a lot of people who use AI coding assistants have found ways to tame the beast.
by bastard_op | 2025-12-12 01:06:39+00:00
>> The growing deployment of DNS Security (DNSSEC) and IPv6 has increased response sizes and therefore the use of TCP. > Yes, but doesn't IPv6 also increase the "maximum safe UDP packet size" from 512 bytes to 1280?

DNS mostly has to support larger sizes, and has for decades for things like svc/txt records used for various encryption and large blocks of text. Having worked for a registrar and dealing with ddos, not much you can do but filter more intelligently. There are ddos appliances/services built just to deal with volumetric queries from hosts for such reason.
by RivieraKid | 2025-12-12 01:08:16+00:00
My first instinct is also that Rivian's strategy doesn't make sense. Self-driving is a monumentally hard problem, to be successful you need a world-class engineering and research team, resources and time.

I suspect that when Rivian has an L3 product, Waymo will be already offering an L4 package to car manufacturers.
by 5upplied_demand | 2025-12-12 01:10:42+00:00
> You can configure parental controls or take away the phone.

Your first suggestion was silly, so now you have pivoted to telling me another way to parent. All the while have zero experience of your own. Did you know that social media is accessible on devices other than personal phones? Kids use computers and tablets at school (as early as 1st grade) with access to the internet.

> Yes, of course!

Which is my entire point. Parents, on the other hand, have to worry about people other than themselves.

> They protect me by discouraging other people from committing violence on me, obviously.

Now you are outsourcing your personal protection to the government. I have to pay extra because you can't defend yourself. You took on the responsibility of protecting yourself by being born.

> Cost/benefit for me

We get it, you don't care about anyone else. Things that help you are good, things that inconvenience you are a product of other people's errors. Nothing more really needs to be said.