MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lnsru | 2025-12-05 11:14:16+00:00
I am no Tesla fanboy. But let’s face the truth. Teslas leave factory with end of line check. Then they are driven more than average cars for 3 years without any maintenance. Then go for check. And surprise surprise, the first model Ys were not well made. I bet with 1000-1500€ maintenance cost over these 3 years the TUV result would be dramatically different.

Btw, my petrol car had ugly rusty rear brakes. No way to pass the check. The car had manual handbrake and I used in every highway exit to slow down and removed rust.
by lucideer | 2025-12-05 11:15:06+00:00
Fantastic!

Suggestion: similar to what you've done with your HN link, it would be nice to have some suggested URLs in a dropdown on the homepage searchbox to give new visitors something to try immediately, to get a feel for what it does (without having to leave the site & find their own link to trial the functionality with).

Also - minor bug report: I've imported 1 recipe (by clicking your HN link) but the upsell popup tells me I've imported 4 recipes.
by jinzo | 2025-12-05 11:16:31+00:00
I won't go into details about 'training access for ISTA usage' - cause I don't know what exactly Vanja means by this - but generally speaking in EU BMW provides the easiest access from all OEMs for aftermarket repair. Everyone has to provide it by law, but BMW has the most straightforward way of registering/paying/using it. For sure not ideal, but far from really being problematic IMHO.

But other than that I mostly agree, I don't think that the over-engineering is greed driven - but the EU Manufacturers (but honestly, even other ones) have a really hard time with anything software based. Be it in car or outside of it. But BMW is far from the worst on that front.

P.S: VW ODIS original diagnostic is based on Eclipse :D
by otikik | 2025-12-05 11:16:44+00:00
Agreed that the world (the Universe) is quite brutal, and often it requires brutality to just survive.

I will point out though that the companies mentioned in the article don't have humanity's survival as an objective. Only to increase their profit. And that a lot of people see them more like a risk to humanity than an ally.

And, the world is pretty brutal.
by charcircuit | 2025-12-05 11:16:46+00:00
From what I see the researchers aren't running a classifier on prompts they've acquired.

>The classifier is deployed within OpenRouter's infrastructure, ensuring that classifications remain anonymous and are not linked to individual customers.

OpenRouter has to have access to your prompts in order to route it somewhere else. The researchers don't get access to these prompts. They only get access to the metadata being generated from routing a prompt.
My mom doesn't like cat videos anymore
by FrankyHollywood | 2025-12-05 11:16:46+00:00
"What's so funny mom, another cat video?"

"No I don't watch those anymore, most of them are AI now... I don't like watching a fake cat."

Is this generation bounded, will young people enjoy an artificial reality?

Who knows, but my mom doesn't like it, it actually made her reality less enjoyable.
by SkiFire13 | 2025-12-05 11:16:51+00:00
> And yet somehow the internet went down because of a program written in rust that didn’t validate input.

No, it _did validate_ the input, and since that was invalid it resulted in an error.

People can yap about that unwrap all they want, but if the code just returned an error to the caller with `?` it would have resulted in a HTTP 500 error anyway.
by lambdaone | 2025-12-05 11:17:00+00:00
We never see Kyoko speak in the film, which is explained away by Nathan as being because she does not speak English. The implication is that she is an earlier model than Ava, with less intelligence. There is certainly sexism and orientalism in this, but it's Nathan's, and the film is explicitly critiquing it, not endorsing it.
by jack_tripper | 2025-12-05 11:17:03+00:00
> lobbying is not a problem in itself.

It kinda is though, since massive sums of money never comes for free with no strings attached but favors are expected in return. And those strings attached typically are to undermine the best interest of the working class to enrich those paying the lobby money.

>Calls to ban lobbying is the usual "slippery slope" that leads to authoritarianism.

Where do you see me calling to ban lobbying?
by iggldiggl | 2025-12-05 11:17:37+00:00
> Imagine some future hotel service trend where, right after the customer checks in, the checkin agent punches the customer in the face, by policy. I shouldn't have to check beforehand whether this is a "face punch" hotel or a "non face punch" hotel.

Reminds me of that Burkiss Way sketch where somebody wants to book tickets to a West End show, but they all involve the spectators being poked in the eye with a pencil:

https://www.buttercookie.de/The%20Burkiss%20Way/Transcripts/...
by zozbot234 | 2025-12-05 11:18:17+00:00
> I somewhat disagree, specifically on the implicit claim that all GC has overhead and alternatives do not.

Not a claim I made. Obviously there are memory management styles (such as stack allocation, pure static memory or pluggable "arenas"/local allocators) that are even lower overhead than a generic heap allocator, and the Rust project does its best to try and support these styles wherever they might be relevant, especially in deep embedded code.

In principle it ought to be also possible to make GC's themselves a "pluggable" feature (the design space is so huge and complex that picking a one-size-fits-all implementation and making it part of the language itself is just not very sensible) to be used only when absolutely required - a bit like allocators in Zig - but this does require some careful design work because the complete systems-level interface to a full tracing GC (including requirements wrt. any invariants that might be involved in correct tracing, read-write barriers, pauses, concurrency etc. etc.) is vastly more complex than one to a simple allocator.
by komali2 | 2025-12-05 11:18:19+00:00
> Switching over to a Substack newsletter, in the summer of 2023, revived my interest in writing online. It felt like rejoining an intellectual community — not quite the same as the golden age of blogging in the 2000s, but something equally as lively, in a way that I don’t think quite gets enough credit in the 2020s.

This makes me sad because I really want to be a part of such a community, but I really don't like how bloated and centralized Substack is, and how much control they take away. Seems that's a requirement for community formation these days though?
by l5870uoo9y | 2025-12-05 11:19:54+00:00
The Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) introduces (yet another) massive administrative burden on EU companies requiring them to check all their subcontractors by "identify actual or potential risks and harm to human rights and the environment as well as establishing processes and standards to diminish these risks". Using human rights and climate arguments the EU micro-manages everything and I have given up on the idea that the EU can be reformed.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_Sustainability_Due_D...
by croon | 2025-12-05 11:20:15+00:00
I hear this a lot. I never see examples.

The fact checking I've looked at starts with something like a claim, then dives into context, then lists supporting evidence of either verifying that claim or disproving it, leaning on that supporting evidence.

For fact checking not to be valuable, either the supporting evidence is wrong, the reasoning leading from that to the conclusion is wrong, or something third is wrong.

If that is the case in fact checking, that should absolutely be criticized, and any fact checker with integrity would put up a correction.

For all the vague critique against "fact checking" I've heard, I've never actually seen anyone give examples.

If the critique instead is "they selectively only fact check this and not that", the conclusion should not be that fact checking is bad, but that more is needed.
by throwaway290 | 2025-12-05 11:20:16+00:00
I think you are living in a different Russia.

There is a good reason to use the term "white" and that is because non-whites (you know what I mean) are discriminated. I have various stories but I won't go in detail. I don't blame you, I didn't really think about it in that way for most of my life.

And if you talk to more normal people you may find out that it's not just force, many people follow "party line" because they think the government says truth. Control of information is a magical thing
by camauri | 2025-12-05 11:20:24+00:00
SedaiBasic2 is a small experimental BASIC interpreter built around a pure register-based virtual machine. The goal of the project is to explore a clean and compact VM design rather than to recreate any specific dialect of BASIC.

Current implementation details: - FSM-based lexer with fast-path scanning; - Packrat parser with memoization; - Pratt parser for expressions; - Semi-pruned SSA generator with an 11-stage optimization pipeline; - Bytecode compiler with two additional optimization stages; - Register-based VM with separate Int64, Float64, and String register files (256 slots, auto-expanding up to 65,535); - Tiny BASIC subset implemented; Commodore BASIC v7 and Visual Basic 6 coverage planned.

There is also a benchmark script in the repository used mainly for validating the VM and measuring the impact of the register architecture.

The project is written entirely in Free Pascal, and feedback is welcome — especially from people interested in language design, virtual machines, parsers, and compiler pipelines.
by kragen | 2025-12-05 11:20:41+00:00
You're quoting the NPR article, which misleadingly conflates the people we're talking about (who work for news agencies to verify their stories before publication) with social-media moderators, not the State Department directive, which (if we can believe the Reuters reporting at https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-orders...) is fairly clear that it's only talking about the second.
by sensanaty | 2025-12-05 11:21:01+00:00
> 500,000,000 people paying $80/mo

Or better yet, you just need 100 people paying 400 million each to get the same amount!

> "Get them hooked on the product, then jack up the price"

That only works if the product is actually good. The average person isn't going to be paying EIGHTY dollars a month to generate recipes or whatever, that's just delusional
by dragonwriter | 2025-12-05 11:21:17+00:00
> Am I crazy for thinking that anyone using computers for doing their job and making their income should have a $5k/year computer hardware budget at a minimum?

Yes, you are crazy for saying that.

> but compared to revenue it seems silly to be worrying about a few thousand dollars per year delta.

There is a very wide range of incomes of people using their computers, and, more to the point, $5k/yr on hardware is way past the point where, for most people using their computer for income, additional hardware expenditure has any benefit to income generation.

> Even if you don’t go the overkill route like me, we’re talking about maybe $250/month to have an absolutely top spec machine which you can then use to go and earn 100x that.

Most people using their computer to earn income do not earn anywhere close to $25,000/mo ($300k/yr), and hardware expenditures aren't the limiting factor holding them back.

Also, the minimum of $5k/yr you suggested is not $250/mo, but more than 1.5× that at $417/mo.

> Spend at least 1% of your gross revenue on your tools used to make that revenue.

Median annual wage for a US software developer is ~$140k per most recent BLS numbers, and that's one of the higher-paying fields of work that people use computers for. Neither your original $5k per year nor even the $3k/year suggested by your later $250/mo suggestion are warranted by your 1% on tools rule for most people earning income with their computer, especially on hardware alone, as that is far from all of the "tools" that are relevant to most computer work.
by intended | 2025-12-05 11:22:25+00:00
Perhaps this will translates the ground reality into the framework you seem to be using.

1) The conversation has been had

2) There are people who are making a concerted effort to overturn the status quo

3) They have decreed that content moderation workers are a category of workers which is not to be granted entry to the USA.

You can say the conversation has been had, as much as you want - which is your freedom and right. However some people have decided they don’t like the status quo and want to change it.

You are preaching to the choir here. I would love for you to convince THOSE people that they are party to this agreement.
by jinzo | 2025-12-05 11:22:26+00:00
I worked with Vanja before EVs were mass produced, he is very driven and smart, but also eccentric. With his previous experience with Mercedes Electric repair he figured out that, sooner or later repair/knowledge/tools will get commoditized, so push at the start and try to get a big foothold/mindshare before this happens. Very few people actually have the knowledge to judge your work early on, so you can get very far if you are intentionally promoting yourself and behaving very confident.

His Tesla Battery cell repair stuff, anyone that was near a open battery knows it's fucking dangerous thing that has VERY low chance of actually working in medium term - but it gets him a lot of respect by clueless people. But he also does good stuff, but his image and reality are VERY different things.
by inglor_cz | 2025-12-05 11:23:10+00:00
The left has a nasty problem with autophagy.

If you are left (I am not, but I have observed it) and you agree with 90 per cent of the ideas of some group, but disagree on the remaining 10 per cent, they will turn on you in fury, denounce you as a traitor, hate you more than an actual opponent. Deviation from orthodoxy is a capital sin.

(This is not new, see how Trotskyists were extirpated by their Stalinist comrades 100 years ago. Heresy is simply not tolerated.)

The right wingers of today are a lot more capable of building a bigger tent, at least right now. Personally, I am somewhat rightwing, but very secular, as usual in Czechia. I still get invited to Christian events even though they know that I am not a believer, and they won't grill me to convert.
Show HN: TaskWand – Generate n8n workflows using RAG on 2k+ real examples
by ronanren | 2025-12-05 11:24:11+00:00
Hello HN,

I built TaskWand (https://taskwand.io) to make creating n8n workflows faster and less error-prone.

The Problem I love n8n, but building complex workflows from scratch takes time. While standard LLMs can suggest logic, they often "hallucinate" nodes that don't exist, get parameter names wrong, or output JSON structures that n8n can't actually import.

The Solution I built a specialized RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) system. I indexed two thousands of working, verified n8n workflows. When you describe a task, the system retrieves relevant, valid workflow snippets to ground the LLM's response. This significantly reduces hallucinations and ensures the output is import-ready.

Key Features:

Visual Preview: You don't just get JSON; I built a UI that renders the n8n workflow preview directly in the browser so you can verify the logic before exporting.

Prompt Refiner ("Improve"): Writing detailed technical specs is hard. This button takes a vague idea (e.g., "sync hubspot to slack") and rewrites it into a highly detailed, technical prompt optimized for the generator.

Interactive Context ("Ask"): A Q&A copilot to answer questions about nodes and logic or troubleshoot concepts before generation.

The Tech Stack I decided to use a bleeding-edge stack for this:

Frontend: Next.js and Tailwind CSS.

AI/RAG: OpenRouter API (GPT models) and Qdrant (Vector DB).

Backend: Supabase (Auth & DB), Next.js Serverless Functions.

UI Components: react-markdown, react-syntax-highlighter, and the official n8n component for the visualization.

I’d love to hear your feedback on the generation quality and the UI experience.
by Terr_ | 2025-12-05 11:24:12+00:00
> taking the knee

Taking the knee to say what though?

1. Before: People warning about a problem of corrupt police forces of power-tripping fools and bullies that routinely get away with murder.

2. After: A corrupt police state has metastasized onto the national state age, with its own fools and bullies, including illegally imprisoning and murdering people.

I wouldn't label that a "pendulum swing" between opposite situations.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-12-05 11:24:40+00:00
That's the harsh reality, first (anecdotally / personal view) it became social media that linked to blog posts - especially Twitter was used as an aggregator for "I wrote a blog post about xyz".

Then Medium took off, and there was a vibe of blog posts being more authoritative if they were published on Medium. It was like the TED talks of blog posts. But also it mean that if you had a blog of your own and its contents were reposted on Medium, the latter would get more views.

I don't have the full picture of the whole issue. I suspect consumers generally want a single website to read stuff on, instead of the sometimes jarring style differences between blog sites - even if that means they have individual personality.
by bilekas | 2025-12-05 11:24:47+00:00
You say it like it's one or the other.

> Walmart annual gross profit for 2025 was $169.232B, a 7.12% increase from 2024. Walmart annual gross profit for 2024 was $157.983B, a 7.06% increase from 2023. Walmart annual gross profit for 2023 was $147.568B, a 2.65% increase from 2022.

You're telling me poor walmart just HAVE to increase prices because they have to pay a living wage ? All thanks to those darn Unions ?

This false dichotomy.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/WMT/walmart/gross-...
by tialaramex | 2025-12-05 11:25:09+00:00
I have to say that I still feel the same way about a country cover of "Lose Yourself" after listening to it. I've never had great love for country, but then I'm not a huge rap fan either, yet to me that cover/ version is only good for the same reason as the original, lyrically this still works even if I don't believe Kasey whereas I did believe Marshall, that this was (or at least seemed) their only way out, but, nothing new was brought to the table IMHO.

Johnny Cash's "Hurt" is an example where the performance was transformative. Reznor's "Hurt" is a song by a 20-something addict feeling sorry for himself. However Cash is a man who knows he actually doesn't have much time left†, and so almost identical lyrics ("Crown of shit" is changed) feel very different.

† Cash died about a year after his recording was published.
by ansgri | 2025-12-05 11:25:09+00:00
Probably the one type of PHEV that should survive is basically a BEV with builtin backup generator. One that's not necessarily powerful enough to drive you directly at full speed, but enough to basically eliminate range limitation of a (cheaper and smaller) battery by continuously charging it when needed. Maybe this 'backup generator' can even be made as a removable option.

I'm thinking of a semi-rural use case, when your typical daily trip is 20-50 km, but the charging infrastructure is poor and occasionally you do need to drive 200-300 km in winter.
by corkuptake8j | 2025-12-05 11:25:17+00:00
Location: Europe, Poland Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: with visa sponsership and good oportunities - yes

Technologies: Python, Javascript, C#, C, AWS, GCP, RADIUS, Passpoint 2.0, d3.js

Résumé/CV: Upon request via e-mail. Profeesional work since 2012. Full remote since 2017. Backend, Fullstack, Problem solver.

Email: cork.uptake.8j@icloud.com
by JimDabell | 2025-12-05 11:25:26+00:00
Curiously, Can I Use says:

> All major browser engines are working on implementing this spec.

However their official positions are absent:

https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/1167

https://github.com/WebKit/standards-positions/issues/453

And Firefox’s bug for implementing it has no activity:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1981485

And Can I Use’s underlying data doesn’t have this note:

https://github.com/Fyrd/caniuse/blob/fedfb067aceccb2a5edadcc...

So it’s unclear why the Can I Use website is saying that everybody is working on it.
by Lucasoato | 2025-12-05 11:26:36+00:00
A company that is free to harm the environment and human rights is more competitive than a company that doesn't abuse other human beings and protect our fragile biosphere. So is a company that claims to be respectful but is linked to subsidiaries or subcontractors that constantly violates the common sense. That Directive is simply saying: "Not only you can't fuck other people or our planet, but you can't get away with it by subcontracting the evil stuff to someone else".

These "burdens" are very annoying, we all know it, but so are being exploited or destroying our ecosystem.
by dogman1050 | 2025-12-05 11:26:49+00:00
For me, the failure of Fe is all the races are run on street courses with few high speed turns and no elevation change through the lap. That, and they sound like an NBA games with more tire squeaking noise than the propulsion system sounds.

I'm really looking forward to this weekend's F1 finale. Three drivers have a shot at the top three spots in the championship.
by mytailorisrich | 2025-12-05 11:26:53+00:00
What is you definition of "markets"?

Markets are nothing more than the aggregate expression of what people do, need, desire. It's an expression of a free society. No market means a Stalinist society.

> Markets produce wealth inequality.

That always reminds of Margaret Thatcher's famous words in Parliament: "They'd rather the poor be poorer provided that the rich were less rich."
by onjectic | 2025-12-05 11:27:20+00:00
I’m not sure how this counter argues my observation. You seem to be implying that the end goal would be to stop people from saying certain things you find abhorrent. Humans won’t ever stop doing that, it’s that it would sometimes be nice to know that the person presenting themselves as a disillusioned American voter is actually on the opposite side of the planet.
by VBprogrammer | 2025-12-05 11:27:50+00:00
In fairness most cars get taken for scrap with an engine which starts and runs. Even when they are running a bit rough it's more often fueling and ignition components than a mechanical problem with the engine components.

That said, the synergy drive is by design a very robust mechanical system. It has no dog gears, clutch or torque converter. I'm sure this contributes a lot to their long life.
by jinzo | 2025-12-05 11:28:11+00:00
You can replace the fuse (not that easly) but for approximately the same price in a BMW. You do have to put in more work but the problem is with re-certifying the battery. Tesla does not care if the battery was damaged in the crash, they will (more or less) happily re-enable it. BMW decided that the only safe way is to re-certify the whole battery. I'm not saying it's the right decision, I think they over did it and VW does it better - but I do understand WHY they chose to do it so, and the WHY is not nearly as outrageous as a lot of people here think.
by orac81 | 2025-12-05 11:28:27+00:00
TinyLife6502. GOL in 114 bytes.

Download with source:

https://github.com/orac81/miniapples/raw/refs/heads/main/lif...

https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=105285

This is a "size-code" version of the classic LIFE game, for the Commodore C64, C16, C128, VIC20, PET40/80. The smallest version is 126 bytes (see smallbin folder), but I recommend using the slightly bigger version with built in edit and help.

To use, just edit using the PET editor to create the patterns using the letter "O" for the cells. Note that the program is very simple, ie. it doesnt handle screen wrap properly. But it is quite fast.

The "small" version needs the user to edit before running. Put the "run" command on the 2nd line. This version needs VIC20 users to type: POKE 36879,8:print chr$(5)chr$(147) before editing.

To avoid all that, use the "big" version!

The small version can be 114 bytes if the basic stub is removed and the code started with a SYS.

Released as FREE/GPL3 software, source included.