MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by awesome_dude | 2025-12-29 19:01:46+00:00
We have BYD here, it's a stiff competitor for Tesla, but it's not end game for Tesla material.

I personally prefer a BYD, Musk has damaged his brand by being so political, but the BYD product is (IMO) superior.

Having said that BYD isnt without its issues (eg. over reporting of range)
by toss1 | 2025-12-29 19:01:57+00:00
>>he's not the richest man on earth for nothing.

He engineers perceptions, finance, and govt funds, not technology. Every report and available evidence shows he is barely technologically astute, nevermind genius; the accomplishments of his teams are despite him not because of him.

Which is why a better description would be: The Greediest Man On Earth.
by TheAlchemist | 2025-12-29 19:02:31+00:00
It's really amazing. Anyone still remembers Dojo ? 2 years ago or so they stated that they start to mass produce Dojo and it was supposed to be a top 5 supercomputer in the world by the end of 2024...

https://thedriven.io/2023/06/22/tesla-to-start-building-its-...
by neelc | 2025-12-29 19:02:42+00:00
The funny thing is, I used eSIM on a Pixel 3, since it was the easiest way to activate on Sprint. Now, no big carrier will use a Pixel 3's eSIM.

But then on Sprint, they tried to copy the CDMA activation system on LTE whereas everyone else just used SIM cards directly. Sprint was very progressive on eSIM even if they were slow to VoLTE.

My Pixel 3 moved to a physical SIM due to switching to T-Mobile 3 months before the merger, and I've mostly used physical SIMs before the Pixel 10 Pro outside of international travel. I avoid MVNOs as my primary service because of the specter of eSIM-only phones, and that was pre-Pixel 10.

And yes, if my Pixel 10 Pro had a physical SIM card slot I'd use it.
by ben_w | 2025-12-29 19:02:43+00:00
No.

1. "Postponed" is not "cancelled"

2. "Postponed" is entirely normal within British politics. For most of my life, even the timing of general elections were at the whim of the government.

3. Given how Starmer polls, the delay is almost certainly going to make things un-favourable for him. Also unfavourable for Labour, unless they kick him out first.

Not that it would matter much if your conspiracy theory held water, given that one of the many constitutional problems the UK has is that local councils have negligible power (options are tied all over the place) and therefore local elections are functionally little more than opinion polls done in a voting booth.
by Ekaros | 2025-12-29 19:03:09+00:00
I was thinking someone should build reasonably low priced FPGA based word processor(you know one of those pre-PC things). Only simple editor in it. Possibly supporting WYSIG or markdown per writer preference. Minimal network connectivity to central server to save periodically answers and maybe download questions.

I wonder if touch screen might be possible. But might be too complex. Still minimal device with keyboard to minimise cheating.
by epistasis | 2025-12-29 19:03:16+00:00
Only investor's share prices at risk, there's no risk to the future of electrification.

Look at solar, an industry that has continual bankruptcies, yet is eating the world. New players grow, die, and get replaced all the time, in a continual churn of new technology.

That Tesla would die a death was not inevitable, merely a choice due to recent years of extremely poor leadership and terrible mismanagment. Even now, Tesla may pull out of the slump and recover! It's doubtful it will ever justify its share price, but it's likely that if it ever gets fairly priced as a company, it could be sold to a US auto major that is regretting it's failure to produce EVs for the international market, and wants to try to catch up. Maybe. That time might have passed too...
by lawlessone | 2025-12-29 19:03:43+00:00
Keyboards have had functions that let them play music at the touch of button for decades.

Decades later we still don't consider anyone using that function a musician.

>actual artists who use AI as a tool to make novel forms and styles of art.

writing a prompt lol

We don't compare Usain Bolt to Lewis Hamilton when talking about fastest runners in the world.

But hey think about how much money you could save on a wedding photographer if you just generate a few images of what the wedding probably looked like!
by sedatk | 2025-12-29 19:03:48+00:00
You’re missing my point. QNX live floppy came out in 1997. My experience with Slackware 3.x at the time was exactly like how I said it was. You needed two floppies just to boot up the kernel (they were called boot disk and root disk), so Linux setup could start.

I wasn’t claiming Linux couldn’t achieve this, merely stating why QNX was mind blowing: because it was way ahead of what was available, not what was possible.

Congrats on your live floppy project, I guess.
by bgwalter | 2025-12-29 19:04:02+00:00
Tesla has the government and a vast propaganda apparatus behind it:

https://fortune.com/2025/03/20/howard-lutnick-pumps-tesla-st...

“If you want to learn something on this show tonight, buy Tesla,” Lutnick told Fox News host Jesse Watters.

In this economy we have a billionaire clan selling hot air and backing each other up. The main "achievements" of this administration are in pumping Bitcoin, "AI", cannabis sales and and online gambling.
by escanda | 2025-12-29 19:04:15+00:00
I am from Spain and know some agents. Those are also known events under the freemasonry term umbrella.

I have seen, after writing through Tor to a known intelligence agency, a ministry of a cabinet through my inner eye, or whatever you may call it.

Black and white video so to speak. I was even threatened by a twice loaded gun so I could go away to my own businesses in that affair.

I can talk without being in the same room with a lot of cni agents, and interestingly, this is not a known fact of the intelligence community outside it.

I can even receive and transmit figures using my mind alone. Tested with a CIA agent. Greets to the spy museum series.

I would predict in the past, a year ago or so, a future event seen as it was filmed. Also diverted pathways in the past: if I could have went into the foreign legion I could be dead at the time and my mother could had defenestrated herself after being noticed by two officers: movie style too.

Sometimes I have listened to people thoughts, small phrases without them noticing.

Disclaimer: I am not on any agency payroll at this time.
by hvb2 | 2025-12-29 19:04:29+00:00
The model Y is a genuinely good car... I can't think of an automaker with better software.

I've recently been shopping for another electric SUV and to be told that to get charging stops on your long trip 'through an app on your phone' instead of built into the navigation is.... Wild

Edit: it needs to be said that I consider a car a solution to the A to B problem, and nothing more :)
This was one of the premium German automakers by the way. On a ~$50k car....
by spankibalt | 2025-12-29 19:04:36+00:00
> "In Germany, you'll get grandmothers calling you a child-killer for setting a bad example if you did the same."

Yeah, some Bavarian villagers can be hylariously weird. I, personally, have jaywalked all my life growing up in East and West Germany, and I only got "the lecture" twice: once in deeply pious Bavaria, and once in... Spain. Both involved the rolemodel-shaming routine as kids were to be seen, but only one came with a small fine attached.

> "Here in North America I'll jaywalk without a thought if there's no traffic."

Most likely not a POC and not from NY or Washington D.C., I see (I'm reporting for a friend). Ah, anecdotes. The spice of life!
by antonvs | 2025-12-29 19:05:03+00:00
The original ELIZA ran on an IBM 7094 mainframe, in the 1960s. That machine had 32K x 36-bit words, and no support for byte operations. It did support 6-bit BCD characters, packed 6 per word, but those were for string operations, and didn't support arithmetic or logical operations.

This means that a directly translated 40 KB Z80 executable might be a tight squeeze on that mainframe, because 40K > 32K, counting words, not bytes. Of course if most of that size is just 2-bit weight data then it might not be so bad.

ELIZA running on later hardware would have been a different story, with the Z80 - released in 1976 - being an example.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-12-29 19:05:04+00:00
In the US, which is due to policy, which is temporary. The rest of the world remains very hungry for affordable electric vehicles [1], which only China seems interested in producing at scale. Once that manufacturing capacity and distribution systems are spun up (BYD has its own car carrier for exports, the BYD Shenzhen, for example [2]), it will remain in production. "Can Tesla survive until regime change?" is an important question for those with economic exposure to it. Ironically, its peril is entirely self inflicted.

> BYD announced in 2022 its plans to launch a fleet of car carriers to build what it calls a “maritime bridge” to support its global sales growth and supply chain. The company said it would invest about $687 million to develop a fleet of eight car carriers. The first of the vessels, BYD Explorer No. 1 was delivered in January 2024 followed by BYD Changzhou in December 2024, and BYD Hefei, which was the company’s first owned PCTC. Each of the first three vessels has a capacity of 7,000 units. [My note: current BYD vertical integration marine fleet capacity is ~30k units when including the Shenzhen vessel mentioned above, but does not include capacity through third party charters]

[1] China EV Exports Worldwide Rise 87% Year over Year to 199,836 in November [2025] - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-29/china-ev-... | https://archive.today/Q80Zs - December 29, 2025

[2] Chinese EV Manufacturer BYD Takes Delivery of [World's] Largest Capacity Car Carrier - https://maritime-executive.com/article/chinese-ev-manufactur... - April 24th, 2025

(think in systems; US light vehicle TAM is ~18M units/year, global TAM is ~90M units/year; Tesla US sales will finalize at ~600k units for 2025)
by andsoitis | 2025-12-29 19:05:09+00:00
> Sorry, I lost the thread - GM looks twice as profitable

You got it reversed.

For Q3'2025, GM net income $1.3B on $48B revenue (down 0.3% YoY). Tesla, in contrast, generated $1.5B income on $28B revenue (up 12% YoY).

GM's income was down 56.6% while Tesla's was down 37%.

GM had higher operating income than Tesla, however. Explained by Tesla's more aggressive investment in R&D and AI.
by enopod_ | 2025-12-29 19:05:16+00:00
VW, Mercedes, BMW, Peugeot, Polestar all make great EVs and they absolutely dominate the European market. They built manufacturing capacity in EU first for the domestic market, but are not competitive on the US market because of Trumps tariffs. China produces very cheap, they‘re still competitive even with tariffs. European car companies either have to build EV manufacturing capacity in the US first, or hope for the next administration.
by someone7x | 2025-12-29 19:05:18+00:00
For what it’s worth that tracks with me experience in video games.

When I sat with 30 other testers for 6 days per week I achieved mastery I did not believe possible. Eventually I could cakewalk even the most difficult challenges in those games and I was generally recognized as a highly talented tester.

Meanwhile I’ve sunk more cumulative hours alone into Elden Ring and I have accepted I will never reach that same level of mastery.

It’s a humbling realization how much of my prior greatness was actually just my environment at the time.
by 101008 | 2025-12-29 19:05:30+00:00
There is something you are not explaining (at least I couldn't find it, sorry if you do), but how do you manage apps states? Basically databases?

Most of these agents solutions are focusing on git branches and worktrees, but at least none of them mention databases. How do you handle them? For example, in my projects, this means I would need ten different copies of my database. What about other microservices that are used, like redis, celery, etc? Are you duplicating (10-plicating) all of them?

If this works flawlessly it would be very powerful, but I think it still needs to solve more issues whan just filesystem conflicts.
by roguecoder | 2025-12-29 19:06:28+00:00
This is where an architect is useful, because they can ask "why?"

Sometimes there is a reason!
Sometimes there isn't a reason, but it might be something we want to move everything over to if it works well and will rip out if it doesn't.
Sometimes it's just someone who believes that functional programming is Objectively Better, and those are when an architect can say "nope, you don't get to be anti-social."

The best architects will identify some hairy problem that would benefit from those skills and get management to point the engineer in that direction instead.

A system that requires homogeneity to function is limited in the kinds of problems it can solve well. But that shouldn't be an excuse to ignore our coworkers (or the other teams: I've recently been seeing cowboy teams be an even bigger problem than cowboy coders.)
by supratims | 2025-12-29 19:06:41+00:00
First and foremost majority of people need to agree that there is a problem and it needs solving. Most people living in urban cities are too busy to just survive and fulfil the basic needs, they dont have time to think of pollution, corruption, devolution etc , ironically so. A leading tv news host even said India is already a developed country and when he lands in Mumbai traveling back from London he feels as if he coming from a developing country to a developed country. If majority of educated city dwelling folks now feel there is no problem in India and never challenge the status quo then there is nothing to be improved. Many are happy to just live in the unliveable cities simply thinking its better than their neighbours at the very minimum. Where will the outrage come from.

Secondly, the government does its best to distract people from questioning about such basic issues. They seem to be busy capturing more power and delivering so called growth for the sake of it and very good at advertising every single thing they have done (and yes some progress has been seen in last 20 years). Ever since the current government is in power noone has been allowed to challenge any of their decisions or lack thereof. Also outrage or questioning the authorities is now seen as a anti-national sentiment.
Ask HN: How to do a Personal Cybersecurity audit
by preciousoo | 2025-12-29 19:06:48+00:00
I am acutely aware that if I were targeted by a non sophisticated actor (like a very motivated hacker, or a phone/laptop thief with programming knowledge), I would be toast if they figured out, e.g my windows password, as that is the key to my Chrome keychain, for e.g, which allows them into a pandora's box of accounts.

Even more likely, if I were to get a laptop stolen while unlocked, they could get access to my primary email(s), which could lead them to getting access to accounts via password reset. There were a lot of similar other failure points I used to keep enumerated mentally, but now there's too many to count. The biggest ones are email access however.

Is there a process or method I can use to enumerate/track and fix those kids of failure points in my personal cybersecurity?
by observationist | 2025-12-29 19:06:54+00:00
Imagine being at the legal mercy of terminally online reddit mods who can deploy police to arrest you, and the police strategy is to roll up on you between 1 and 5 AM at night, to catch you vulnerable and off-guard.

If they don't like a comment you make, or if your face isn't sufficiently supportive in a picture taken of you, or if you downvote the wrong post, all someone has to do is claim they are offended, and you can get taken to jail.

Oi! You gotta loicense for that smirk?

They're still in the civilized phase of this, with people being politely disturbed but still playing along with authority. I can't imagine this ends well, however - I think they're gonna get riots in Guy Fawkes masks, widespread mayhem, and murder before it's over.
by zer00eyz | 2025-12-29 19:06:56+00:00
> Once again I am reminded of the circular nature of money flowing around in this economy.

Its called the velocity of money, its a thing see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocity_of_money

The problem is that there is all this capital and no place to put it, so yes it seems circular, but some of that is to be expected.

As for Burry, he recently called out the changes to how the big players are amortizing their capital expenses for all these data center build outs. He is correct in calling it out, but he's getting the wrong signal from it. Mores law died a long time ago, and now were basically hitting multiple walls at the same time: Node scaling at the chip fabs, power and cooling in the data center, and just more linear growth from product (because of all three factors).

Go back to 2008 ish time period. There were a lot of data centers that hit the wall with availability of power and cooling and they were hard problems to solve then. The solution was not to upgrade rather to "build new", and were seeing a lot of the same types of issues today.

Nvidia has unmaintainable margins, the memory manufacturing side is now in on the grift too... They are sucking up the profit while they can because the dip is going to be BRUTAL (likely a boon to consumers but neither here nor there).
by KronisLV | 2025-12-29 19:06:56+00:00
> They could sell you everything DRM free. They don't because too many people pirate games to make that a viable business.

Depends on the game and DRM. Nowadays I buy all of my games (a little bit safer than running who knows what on my PC), but when I didn't have a job or money I used to pirate a lot - most DRM protected games would eventually be cracked and made available regardless. If an uncrackable DRM was in place, I wouldn't buy the game - I just wouldn't play it. Depending on the mindset, the same logic applies to someone with money, they might never be a customer regardless of whether it can or cannot be pirated, especially for games that never go on big discounts and sales. I say that as someone who by now owns about ~1000 games in total legally (though mostly smaller indie titles acquired over a lot of years and sales).

The good online stores at least make the act of purchasing and installing games equally if not more convenient than pirating them - something all of those streaming companies that crank up their subscription prices and want to introduce ads would also do well to remember. I like Steam the best because it's a convenient experience, the Workshop mod support is nice, as well as Proton on Linux and even being able to run some games on my Mac, just download and run. I think the last games I pirated were to check if they'd run well on my VR headset, because I didn't want to spend a few hours tweaking graphics settings and messing around just to be denied a refund - in the end they didn't run well, so I didn't play or buy them, oh well.

Also, despite me somewhat doubting the efficacy of DRM (maybe it's good to have around the release time to motivate legit sales, but it's not like it's gonna solve piracy), it better at least be implemented well - otherwise you either get performance issues, or crap that also happens with gaming on Linux with anti-cheat, where you cannot even give the companies money because they can't be bothered to support your platform. Even worse when games depend on a server component for something that you don't actually need for playing the game on your own, fuck that. It's like the big corpos sometimes add Denuvo to their games and then are surprised why people are review bombing them.
by simonw | 2025-12-29 19:07:22+00:00
Nobody here claimed that Boris wasn't a biased source.

I do however think he is not an actively dishonest source. When he says "In the last thirty days, I landed 259 PRs -- 497 commits, 40k lines added, 38k lines removed. Every single line was written by Claude Code + Opus 4.5." I believe he is telling the truth.

That's what dogfooding your own product looks like!

https://twitter.com/bcherny/status/2004887829252317325
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-12-29 19:07:36+00:00
It's also leaving out that system only works (worked) for building airplanes because it happens (happened) to be an industry with a hugely passionate workforce. Switch it to contracted out wage slaves and 'the system' doesn't work. Because the system never 'worked', many passionate people worked via sheer force of will/desire/care/investment into the final product. It was about the people all along.
by threemux | 2025-12-29 19:07:37+00:00
This is also a fair response, however I'd argue that the current architecture, far from supporting hundreds or thousands, won't even support dozens in a small area with meaningful traffic being exchanged (e.g., not just heartbeats and routing data). The solutions exist and no revolutionary approach is needed. That's the crux of the complaints.

Now, for the hobbyist these solutions are harder to implement and that's not nothing, but I don't even see a movement to switch over to something more robust.
by mjr00 | 2025-12-29 19:08:24+00:00
> For example, the EQ on any SSL channel strip is a nightmare because they slavishly stick with a skeumorphic design of the original hardware.

True though I would put this very much in the "feature, not a bug" bucket. These tools are for people who have worked with the original hardware and want a very faithful emulation, including the look and feel. In the digital world with a modern PC there's not much purpose of a channel strip plugin in the first place, so the only people using one are doing so with intention.

It's a bit like saying that manual transmission cars could be controlled more easily if they were automatic transmission; it's completely true, but if you're buying a manual you want that experience.

Pro-Q is a great example of a digital-first tool (the automatic transmission equivalent), with lots of great visual feedback and a lot of thought put into a mouse+kb workflow. All of Fabfilter's stuff is like this actually, though sometimes to its detriment; the Fabfilter automation and LFO system feels very different from basically every other plugin. It's actually a more efficient workflow when you get used to it, but due to how different it is from everything else most people I talk to dislike it unless they've really bought into the Fabfilter suite.

Which kind of goes back to the original point: VSTs use knobs because it's what people are used to, and using something different might be a negative even if it's better!
by ben_w | 2025-12-29 19:08:36+00:00
You could save 93% of the money in concrete, at the cost of ???* in the more-expensive-than-ever time of the engineer themselves who now dominates the sticker price.

(At this point the analogy breaks down because who pays for the software being slower is the users' time, not the taxes paid by a government buying a bridge from a civil engineer…)

* I don't actually buy the argument that the last decade or so of layers of "abstraction" save us developers any time at all, rather I think they're now several layers deep of nested inner platforms that each make things more complicated, but that's a separate entire thread, and blog post: https://benwheatley.github.io/blog/2024/04/07-21.31.19.html