MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by moogly | 2025-12-05 04:05:41+00:00
> Get out of any other car and you forget you can't just walk away from it and it'll shut itself off and lock the doors.

A lot of cars have that. My (gulp) BMW EV for instance. Newer BMW ICE cars too.

But sure, some brands have had problems getting it to work for some dumb reason, recently, even the keyless entry part, which really has been a solved problem since at least the 2010s.
by krick | 2025-12-05 04:06:27+00:00
I was pondering on this very thing not so long ago. I didn't discover anything new, of course, but I ended up convinced that the whole thing exists only because most people don't take a moment to think how absurd it is, and not so much time has passed since its somewhat forceful foundation (meaning, it wasn't something that "people of the Europe willingly decided to establish"). And, hence, it's only a matter of time it falls apart, and it may happen any time. Which is a pity, because I like open borders, I like EU as an idea, and I don't like wars, revolutions and other rapid changes, which I'd otherwise prefer to happen outside of my lifetime.

What I mean to say is that the whole EU political system is an epitome of citizen alienation, and it is like that by design. It is the purest faceless Kafkian bureaucratic machine. And, by the way, I think it works pretty well for what it is. I don't know how to measure it, but I suppose the overall quality of legislation is higher than what, say, Russia or USA produce. But the fact it is completely opaque by design, that no one is ever truly accountable for anything, I think, just isn't what anyone would willingly accept, and it's only a matter of time when the critical mass of people truly "notice" the fact.

You can often hear how some guy on the internet calls POTUS "the most powerful man in the world", which is always somewhat funny, because, of course, anyone sane understands how far from truth that is. It's laughable, how little he can really do as a president, how powerless he is to change something he truly wants to change. He is more of a glorified clown, than a ruler or a politic. But I come to believe it's really important to have a role like that in the government, somebody who ignorant people believe to be responsible for everything, somebody they can hate and blame for all that is wrong around them. It is important for the silliest psychological reasons, just by human nature.

Anyway, the comment is too long as it is, so I know I won't be able to properly explain myself, but the thing is I don't imagine things like the meaningless cookie-notification, or that idiotic bottlecap thing being possible almost anywhere but Brussels, certainly not that often. It is both ironic and very characteristic of the system, that both are only some very minor footnotes in an Appendix to some enormous legal package that is "mostly obviously good", and are about the only thing from the whole package that most people notice (and obviously are very costly in the end).
by 9rx | 2025-12-05 04:06:38+00:00
The social contract is broken, but I'm not sure you've correctly identified the cause.

The reality is that a lot of people have truly become useless blobs. Look at Apple's 54 billion dollar cash holdings just sitting there waiting for something of value to cash it in for. That's 54 billion dollars in promises people made to deliver value that they've never made good on. Or, to put it another way, Apple has given away 54 billion dollars in value away for free...

...-ish. Theoretically they can still seek the promises that others made for future value delivery so it isn't technically free is the truest sense of the word, but for all practical purposes it is so. What on earth could you or I ever offer in return to make good on the promise of value we made? I mean, HN tends to be a little more inventive than the general population so maybe you can I can conjure up something at some point. But the average Joe on the street? What are they going to offer to turn that $54 billion promises into actual value? Let's be realistic. At this point, it's never going to happen.

Once upon a time we got this bright idea that if everyone funnelled into university research labs we'd start to all create all kinds of new value to deliver. It was a noble thought, if a bit unrealistic. But somehow that idea got watered down into "go to university so you can get a job pushing paper around", and now the masses don't even understand what value is anymore.
by buildsjets | 2025-12-05 04:06:43+00:00
The LAA classified the proposed modification pf the overall fuel system as minor based on the owner’s description of it, and approved it on that basis. But the owner lied and did not disclose the fact that the induction elbow was modified at all or that it was 3D printed. The report does not discuss any required inspection by a person authorized by the LAA prior to returning the aircraft to service. So it seems like the LAA modification process is a trust-don’t-verify policy.
by vasilipupkin | 2025-12-05 04:07:48+00:00
you are talking complete nonsense, sorry. Nobody pays full tuition at Stanford unless you are rich, it's literally free for families making less than 150k a year.

there is absolutely nothing wrong with getting parking passes, transportation and assistive technology if you are eligible for it and there is no indication fraud here is involved. So, apologies, but your comments here are totally irrelevant to the topic at hand. The article is very much making it sound like people are getting accommodations to get better grades, not to get better parking. If it was simply about better parking, there would not be a story.
by inferiorhuman | 2025-12-05 04:08:04+00:00
From what I can tell the Chinese are targeting the bottom of the market with cars that are essentially disposable. The ones to watch, IMO, are Hyundai/Kia. If they can sort out the reliability issues there's a lot of potential there.

Honestly I'm cautiously optimistic about VW, especially after they've started backing away from those awful capacitive buttons.
by satvikpendem | 2025-12-05 04:09:41+00:00
Consider regulatory capture though. If we have such entrenched copyright that only big companies can afford to pay the licensing fees, then we'll never have actually democratized open source models. It's actually a method of entrenched players of a market to want regulation because they know only they can comply with them, effectively turning it into a de facto monopoly. That is precisely why I want all information to be free, and to allow anyone and everyone to copy my works. And also because copyleft exists only as a response to copyright, otherwise those that favor copyleft would just prefer no copyright at all; many only prefer it because that's the only way to enforce their wishes to have copyright be abolished. In my mind, I see the higher order effects of only allowing big players to pay for copyright, because it's not as simple as licensing it to them. Hopefully I have changed your mind as to copyright, otherwise I'd be happy to continue the conversation.
by inferiorhuman | 2025-12-05 04:09:52+00:00
This seems like more of a BMW issue than EV. On my E46 and E39 there's a pyrotechnic fuse on the negative battery terminal. It's somewhere around $400 in parts to replace. It's only gotten more expensive and more complex with their newer ICE cars.

Back in the 80s and 90s Ford's solution was a reusable inertia switch.
by spir | 2025-12-05 04:10:04+00:00
Coincidentally, there is a renaissance in micropayments happening in crypto right now. It is only a few months old and growing fast. It's called x402.

https://www.x402.org/

https://www.x402scan.com/

Related to x402 micropayments is the ERC-8004 standard for AI agent reputation.

https://8004scan.io/

https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-8004
by Rahul035 | 2025-12-05 04:11:02+00:00
GreyB breaks down the technology and patent landscape behind Pavegen, a company building floor tiles that generate electricity from footsteps. The article explains how the tiles convert kinetic energy into usable electrical power, the evolution of Pavegen’s designs, and how their IP strategy has developed over time. It also highlights real-world deployments, limitations of the system, and where the tech might go next.
by nutjob2 | 2025-12-05 04:11:19+00:00
You're blaming the wrong thing. EVs are ultimately much, much simpler than ICE cars, it's just that certain manufacturers are taking this opportunity to turn their cars into elaborate scams.

Everything is a computer these days, but that doesn't mean that they have to be needlessly complicated. I think EVs are great, but I won't be buying one until they start selling cheap, simple ones.
by tptacek | 2025-12-05 04:12:57+00:00
I think this is kind of a telling observation, because the advantage to working in Go over Rust is not subtle: Go has full automatic memory management and Rust doesn't. Rust is safe, like Go is, but Rust isn't as automatic. Building anything in Rust requires me to make a series of decisions that Go doesn't ask me to make. Sometimes being able to make those decisions is useful, but usually it is not.

The joke I like to snark about in these kinds of comparisons is that I actually like computer science, and I like to be able to lay out a tree structure when it makes sense to do so, without consulting a very large book premised on how hard it is to write a doubly-linked list in Rust. The fun thing is landing that snark and seeing people respond "well, you shouldn't be freelancing your own mutable tree structures, it should be hard to work with trees", from people who apparently have no conception of a tree walk other than as a keyed lookup table implementation.

But, like, there are compensating niceties to writing things like compilers in Rust! Enums and match are really nice there too. Not so nice that I'd give up automated memory management to get them. But nice!

I'm an ex-C++/C programmer (I dropped out of C++ around the time Alexandrescu style was coming into vogue), if my background helps any.
by spir | 2025-12-05 04:14:17+00:00
We should be increasingly skeptical of the claim that crypto can't do better than the existing system.

I myself use defi all the time. At this moment, I could go borrow money on the blockchain and send it to anybody in the world with 5 minutes of notice. I can also swap dollars into gold or NVDA 24/7/365 with 5 minutes of notice. How can we claim this isn't better than the incumbent traditional finance system?
by lmm | 2025-12-05 04:14:23+00:00
> I cloned a repo of some of my old manually-written code, cd'd into it, ran `claude`, and gave it the prompt "code review" (or something close to that), and it told me a whole bunch of things wrong with it, in natural language, even though I didn't have the relevant static analysis tools for those languages installed.

Well sure, but was the result any better than that of installing and running the tools? If the AI can provide better or at least different (but accurate!) PR feedback from conventional tools, that's interesting. If it's just offering the same thing (which is not really "code review" as I'd define it, even if it is something that code reviewers in some contexts spend some of their time on) through a different interface, that's much less interesting.
by wallacrw | 2025-12-05 04:14:33+00:00
I think you’re onto something here with people thinking they know a lot, but isn’t the real issue anonymous internet posting? Having to take zero responsibility for sharing ideas has ruined intelligent discourse society-wide: Web 2.0, then social media, turned out to be the beginning of the end of experts having credibility. Journalists, scientists, all experts became demonized by persuasive bots or anonymous internet posters. Instead of a world of democratized intelligence as promised, we got a world of “anyone’s opinion is valid, and I don’t even need to know their credentials or who they are.” If we forced everyone to have to stand by everything they said online on every forum, we’d have a lot fewer strong opinions and conspiracies, IMO. People (voters) would be thinking a lot harder about their ideas and seeing a lot fewer validations of the extreme parts of themselves.
by noduerme | 2025-12-05 04:14:56+00:00
Just to name a different but related approach, as a hobby project I built a (non LLM) model that trained mainly on data from stocks that didn't move much over the past decade, seeking ways to beat the performance of those particular stocks. I put it into practice for a couple of years, and came out roughly even by constantly rebalancing a basket of stocks that, as a whole, dropped by about 20%. I considered that to be a success, although it would've been nicer to make money.
by thymine_dimer | 2025-12-05 04:15:07+00:00
It’s a great process where I live. But you’re right. Doesn’t scale to populated areas.

Wonder what the potential microbial turnover of lawn is? Multiply that by the average walk length and I bet that could handle one or two nuggets per day, even in a city.

That’s a side hustle idea for any disengaged strava engineers. Leave me an acknowledgement on the ‘about’ page.
by nerdsniper | 2025-12-05 04:17:04+00:00
AV1 is fine as-is. Plenty of technical titles on HN would need to be googled if you didn't know it. Even in yours, HDR10+ "could be anything if you don't know it". Play this game if you want, but it's unwindable. The only people who care about AV1 already know what it is.
by somenameforme | 2025-12-05 04:17:55+00:00
It also opens the door to competition. Right now in many things we can't compete against places like e.g. China because everything is dramatically more affordable there, including regulatory compliance. Tariff's change this and make it such that domestic producers can produce things at a cost comparable, and ideally less, than other countries.

These tariffs should have been immediately deployed following changes in labor, environmental, and other laws anyhow - because otherwise all we do is just end up defacto outsourcing pollution and other externalities to the lowest foreign bidder, where the only person who really loses is the American worker.
by shubhamjain | 2025-12-05 04:17:55+00:00
I am a person who wants to maintain a distance from the AI-hype train, but seeing a chart like this [1], I can't help think that we are nowhere near the peak. The weekly token consumption keeps on rising, and it's already in trillions, and this ignores a lot of consumption happening directly through APIs.

Nvidia could keep delivering record-breaking numbers, and we may well see multiple companies hit six, seven, or even eight trillion dollars in market cap within a couple of years. While I am skeptical of claims like AI will make programming obsolete, but it’s clear that the adoption is still going like crazy and it's hard to anticipate when the plateau happens.

[1]: https://openrouter.ai/state-of-ai#open-vs_-closed-source-mod...
by tguvot | 2025-12-05 04:17:56+00:00
ofcom is "fun". been working on implementation UK Telecommunications Security Code of Practice that been managed by ofcom. There are some very undefined controls with rather vague examples (that say "for example" and "not exhaustive list"). I tried to get from them clarification about how it should be applied, as controls/examples not clear. they wrote me back that I should simply look at example as they explain everything
by energy123 | 2025-12-05 04:19:45+00:00
One of the recent NeurIPS best paper recipients is relevant here: https://openreview.net/forum?id=saDOrrnNTz

> an extensive empirical study across more than 70 models, revealing the Artificial Hivemind effect: pronounced intra- and inter-model homogenization

So the inter-model variety will be exeptionally low. Users of LLMs will intuitively know this already, of course.
by keepamovin | 2025-12-05 04:19:53+00:00
I’d say Grok did best because it has the best access to information. Grok deep search and real time knowledge capabilities due to the X integration and just general being plugged into the pulse of the Internet a really best in class. It’s a great OSINT research tool.

Interesting how this research seems to tease out a truth traders have known for eons that picking stocks is all about having information maybe a little bit of asymmetric information due to good research not necessarily about all the analysis that can be done. (that’s important but information is king) because it’s a speculative market that’s collectively reacting to those kind of signals.
by yorwba | 2025-12-05 04:20:51+00:00
The Wikipedia section you linked ends with

The report concludes that "exhaustive research of several government agencies failed to reveal even one conclusively documented case of 'brainwashing' of an American prisoner of war in Korea."

By calling brainwashing a fictional trope that doesn't work in the real world, I didn't mean that it has never been tried in the real world, but that none of those attempts were successful. Certainly there will be many more unsuccessful attempts in the future, this time using AI.
by willturman | 2025-12-05 04:20:57+00:00
I think this kid's mom was mentioned in the Atlantic article [1] the link in the post is based on.

> Other accommodations risk putting the needs of one student over the experience of their peers. One administrator told me that a student at a public college in California had permission to bring their mother to class. This became a problem, because the mom turned out to be an enthusiastic class participant.

Woof.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/01/elite-universit...
by aperture147 | 2025-12-05 04:21:17+00:00
Valve cuts 30% of your revenue no matter how much you earn. They also cut 15% of the transaction by being the middleman on the market.

They also ignored the gambling/trading plague for too long, until a lot of countries threatened them to stop indirectly promoting gambling (which definitely hit them financially).

They are sitting on a money printing machine and their job is making it print no less to buy GabeN another yatch. They are like the cigarette company who donates shit load of money to the charity and cancer prevention lab while making more cigarrate then ever because people love smoking it.

I don't think they wanted or planned to be monopolized, but they are definitely taking the advantage of being it.
by oskarkk | 2025-12-05 04:22:15+00:00
Seems that in the end it didn't work out well for them:

> The Hunts lost over a billion dollars through this incident, but the family fortunes survived. They pledged most of their assets, including their stake in Placid Oil, as collateral for the rescue loan package they obtained. However, the value of their assets (mainly holdings in oil, sugar, and real estate) declined steadily during the 1980s, and their estimated net wealth declined from $5 billion in 1980 to less than $1 billion in 1988.
by cal_dent | 2025-12-05 04:23:17+00:00
I so wish every new starter in professional working life is given a 101 on literally this. I've seen so many talented people over the years think they're above taking part in the corporate optics and then subsequently get bogged down by resentment watching lesser people getting pats on the back.

The system is crap. It should all be about meritocracy and all that but it's not. It is what it is. People need to stop being naive shooting themselves in the foot

EDIT

The other thing to it is that its so infuriating because people who say they wish the game wasn't the game and genuinely could change things because they have the right sensibilities, and are talented enough to rise up to position where they can make decisions that matter, choose not to engage in the game to make that happen. Wake up, you're letting the "wrong people" (in your view) win.
by sinkasapa | 2025-12-05 04:24:33+00:00
It is interesting how accommodations can reveal dysfunctions in educational practice. In my courses, requests for accommodations generally change the course design for all students. This is because the accommodation does not alter expected learning outcomes, but it is clearly something that aids students with difficulty learning the material succeed. My goal is that all students succeed in the expected learning outcomes. I don't want the course to be challenging for the wrong reasons. So often the request reveals something I was doing that is unnecessary and makes the class more difficult for little reason. That isn't to say that there are not learning environment that should add additional stress. Sometimes such conditioning is needed so that one can succeed in the challenges they are being trained for. That isn't the case for my students.
by armada651 | 2025-12-05 04:26:29+00:00
> It also makes discourse hard because the (this is causing me to truly not be able to function) gets mixed in with the (this is a way that my brain behaves, but I can mostly live a life).

They're both two sides of the same coin though. You can get a neurodivergent person to a level that they're able to function in life, but they won't thrive or be happy.

Do we think it's enough for people do be a productive worker or do we actually want to give them the ability to live their life to its fullest?
by adgjlsfhk1 | 2025-12-05 04:26:49+00:00
AV1 has plenty of good stuff. AOM (the agency that developed AV1) has a patent pool https://www.stout.com/en/insights/article/sj17-the-alliance-... comprising of video hardware/software patents from Netflix, Google, Nvidia, Arm, Intel, Microsoft, Amazon and a bunch of other companies. AV1 has a bunch of patents covering it, but also has a guarantee that you're allowed to use those patents as you see fit (as long as you don't sue AOM members for violating media patents).

AV1 definitely is missing some techniques patented by h264 and h265, but AV2 is coming around now that all the h264 innovations are patent free (and now that there's been another decade of research into new cutting edge techniques for it).
by rconti | 2025-12-05 04:28:18+00:00
As they point out, the Tesla pyro fuse (at least on a Model S) is a cheap part. However, in some model years it's on top of the pack, which means you have to drop the pack to get to it. And, from memory, it's a 10 year lifespan part. However, on other Model S cars, it's easily accessible from the bottom.

I wonder how we can make automakers make more repairable cars. Obviously, right-to-repair and allowing access to documentation and tools for independent shops is a a necessary but not sufficient step.

I shudder to think at some of the other possibilities -- heavy-handed attempts to regulate how much specific repairs can cost.

Maybe mandating the sale of manufacturer-provided extended warranties for no more than x% the cost of the vehicle purchase price would be an incentive to keep repair cost in check?
by zdragnar | 2025-12-05 04:28:47+00:00
CAFE standards have made that pretty hard. The trucks got bigger to hold more complex engine setups to boost mileage, coinciding with preferences shifting to super crew cabs because buying a new truck is basically the same price as buying a luxury vehicle.

I did own a 1994 Dodge ram up until a few years ago, but it needed new brake lines and there was so much rust coming off the frame I honestly wasn't sure I trusted it anymore, and the cost of the brake lines was probably more than it was worth at that point.
by margalabargala | 2025-12-05 04:29:24+00:00
Yes, I agree.

Trouble is, getting teenagers to accept and live by that isn't something that will pan out. Societies have been trying for millenia.

If your system built for teenagers relies on the social contract in this way, it's a bad system. People who are over a half decade from a fully developed brain aren't going to grasp this.