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by doodlebugging | 2026-01-14 19:56:03+00:00
This also is affecting used vehicle prices in the USA enough that prices for a used, high-mileage F-series truck in running condition sold through a reputable network after a certified inspection are within a few percent of the price one would've paid for the vehicle when it was brand new nearly 30 years ago. I have been looking at prices and have found numerous F-150, F-250 trucks with high mileage that are advertised above the price that I paid for my 1996 F-250 crew cab powerstroke back in 1996.

Trucks are like tractors nowadays. A good tractor holds its value over the long term and as long as it is in running condition and immediately usable there is a floor on the pricing. That floor appears to be about 1/3 the price of a new tractor with similar specs. Tractors produced through the mid-1970's may sell for more money today than they did brand new.
by torginus | 2026-01-14 19:56:11+00:00
Its not just the compiler - MSVC like all others has a tendency to mangle code in release builds to such an extent that the debug info is next to useless (which to be fair is what I asked it to do, not that I fault it).

Now to hate a bit on MSVC - its Edit & Continue functionality makes debug builds unbearably slow, but at least it doesn't work, so my first thing is to turn that thing off.
by DiabloD3 | 2026-01-14 19:56:16+00:00
Unfortunately, that might be your only solution.

From what I can tell from photos of your new monitor's pixels, it has a polarizer that is of similar taste of my Dell U2414Hs, just much newer. It aims for natural reproduction, which means pixels aren't sharply defined from neighbors, and subpixels blend together.

I prefer monitors like these, so I can't really argue with your choice. Sadly, due to a lot of younger kids being raised on phones (which have exceptionally sharp screens), modern high end screens keep being pushed towards sharper and clear to a fault.

Apple refuses to adjust rendering, since Apple's own taste in screens prefers natural over sharp. Even their OLEDs clearly have a film on them to hide the subpixel misalignment; the side effect of this is their brightness and contrast is lower, but eye fatigue is also lower.

Unfortunately, this is why I won't take OSX seriously: I bought a MBPr many years ago, I really tried to like OSX, I tried to understand why people like it, but it ultimately is a death by a thousand cuts, and entirely Apple's fault.

That MBPr ran OSX for a year, then Windows 10 a bit, and then Linux until it died. The text rendering was only fatigue-free on Windows and Linux, OSX had always been too fuzzy, especially with dark themes.

If you're not willing to break up with Apple, yeah, you're stuck just buying Apple-friendly monitors. A lot of OLEDs are just too clear and sharp and I don't disagree with you on sending it back.
by swsieber | 2026-01-14 19:56:19+00:00
The down detector site has Verizon outage reports two order of magnitude bigger, so it doesn't seem like a cyber attack to me.

https://downdetector.com/status/t-mobile/ ~ 1,600

https://downdetector.com/status/att/ ~ 1,500

https://downdetector.com/status/verizon/ ~ peaked at ~169k, dropped to 67k
by n8cpdx | 2026-01-14 19:56:27+00:00
Of all the lessons society failed to learn from 2020, the importance of clean air is perhaps the most disappointing.

I wear N95 masks on local trains, long distance trains, planes, buses (most of the time), and movie theaters when busy. The few times I haven’t, in particular local train (unfortunately, lots of unhealthy people) and Amtrak, I have gotten sick - strep and covid. Being sick is in some ways not a big deal, but is serious enough I will keep wearing the masks forever. I get sick far less often than my non mask wearing peers.

The tragedy is that the people operating these services - and schools and hospitals - should have installed filters and UV lamps to make this less unnecessary. At least planes have air circulation, the Amtrak trains are an absolute disaster.

Flu is spreading like wildfire right now. With the advent of these and other technologies, that is essentially an opt-in choice society is making. Totally unnecessary. You don’t have to stop many flu cases before a lamp pays for itself.
by Maxatar | 2026-01-14 19:56:28+00:00
I'm addressing the intent of the original question.

No one would ask this question in the case where the struct is generic over a type parameter bounded by the trait, since such a design can only store a homogeneous collection of values of a single concrete type implementing the trait; the question doesn't even make sense in that situation.

The question only arises for a struct that must store a heterogeneous collection of values with different concrete types implementing the trait, in which case a trait object (dyn Trait) is required.
by SahAssar | 2026-01-14 19:56:30+00:00
Yes, by using the <picture> element with <source> elements declaring the individual formats with the last one being a regular <img> with the gif.

Or you could use content-negotiation to only send avif when it's supported, but IMO the HTML way with <picture> is perhaps clearer for the client and end user.

I think the webp problem was due to browsers supporting webp but not supporting animation, transparency or other features, so content negotiation based on mime types (either via <picture> or HTTP content-negotiation) did not work properly. Safari 16.1-16.3 has the same problem with AVIF, but that is a smaller problem than it was with webp.
by mbesto | 2026-01-14 19:56:31+00:00
> Yes, lots of people want 34kw of standing load, because they want to ensure the offset of their HVAC unit.

The author of the post lives in the UK and averages 2kW load, a 4 kW PV system, and 45 kWh battery system. It's literally impossible for them to run a standing load of 34 kW for more than 1.5hrs without a grid tie. Why do you keep ignoring this?
by impossiblefork | 2026-01-14 19:56:33+00:00
Except that isn't what happened.

Norwegians who fled to Sweden were organized into military forces intended to eventually retake Norway. My own grandfather fled to Sweden after the Nazi occupation of Norway, but was for some reason not part of this (he was sent to university instead). We even warned the Soviet Union of Operation Barbarossa after breaking the Geheimschreiber code.
by ImPostingOnHN | 2026-01-14 19:56:39+00:00
Unless you're talking about a different event, tj-actions wasn't "compromised because there aren't any security specialists looking at the library". Instead, an API key was used, maybe by the author, maybe by someone else, to replace good code with bad code, including modifying historical release tags to point to the bad code.

That said, everything in my previous post still applies: a nonzero buglist is totally normal and widely accepted.
by dangus | 2026-01-14 19:56:45+00:00
If you truly believe that casual conversation will inevitably lead to any kind soul to speak a quote like that you have some serious warped morals.

It’s actually worse when you’re doing it as your job because you’re supposed to know better and be proficient at that craft. It’s not like someone hot micced him having a private conversation with his buddies, this was a man who had been interfacing with the public for decades.
by ncruces | 2026-01-14 19:56:51+00:00
Yes. Apart from the countries which live off of foreign direct investment, taxes are generally pretty high.

Also, in many EU states, companies contribute to social security. In some this is indexed to profits, but on others this is indexed into wages, so if you count that bit, taxes directly attributable to your income can easily exceed 60% of what a company pays out.
by permo-w | 2026-01-14 19:56:55+00:00
people understandably love to understand complex things as simple logical puzzle pieces. they do it with words too. people have this tendency to act like words are formally-defined mathematical concepts, and then, thinking that, agonise over whether their experiences fit those concepts, then use those concepts as proof for their arguments. this is very common with emotionally loaded terms, like for example "fascism" and "sexual harassment" and "eugenics"

don't say someone is "essentially a eugenicist". it's such a vaguely defined term that this borders on useless. if you believe something like this, justify it with: "she supported x policy I disagree with" or "she believed in the reduction of y trait in the populace" or whatever it is that triggered you to take on this belief in the first place.
by bluGill | 2026-01-14 19:57:55+00:00
Where can I find chargers on demand like that? There are a lot of slow chargers that won't give you much range in an hour. There are a few fast chargers that will, but they are much less common - enough to make the long trips possible but you need to stop where the fast charger is not where you are going to eat a meal or use a bathroom anyway. (gas stations are everywhere and so if you need a bathroom you can get gas at the same time)
by wolrah | 2026-01-14 19:58:09+00:00
> Some review of the Lightning I read said it has less than a 100 mile range towing a full load.

Because of course towing long distances is the only reason you'd ever want a truck.

Obviously we can start by acknowledging that the vast majority of F-150s (and other half-ton pickup trucks) sold in the US these days are purchased by people who maybe haul a load of mulch or dirt once a year and otherwise use them as daily commuter vehicles for which no part of their "truckiness" actually matters for any reason other than image. I absolutely agree that these people should drive something that's not a truck, but that's a battle we're not going to win, so I'd rather have them driving an EV truck instead of a gas-guzzling V8. It's an improvement in some ways even if in reality that suburban parent would be best off with a minivan as their daily and renting a pickup from Home Depot for that mulch run.

My one friend who has a Lightning is exactly this. She used to have a gas F-150, replaced it with a RAV4 that she didn't like so she rapidly replaced that with the Lightning and loves it. Lots of power, quiet, smooth, and never needs to go to the gas station. I don't think she's ever fast charged it, just plugs in at home and goes about her life.

Where I live there are a lot of people who actually do need a truck or truck-based SUV for recreational purposes but don't really go long distances, like towing their boat up to the lake for the weekend, towing ATVs to the trail, or towing a RV trailer to a nearby state/national park where they'll then plug in to the nice 50A outlet and charge back up overnight without having to think about it.

There are also an absolute ton of commercial fleets that need pickup trucks for one reason or another but their trucks never leave their metro area and always end up back at the office every night. Lawn care, delivery, etc. where the only downside of the current lineup of electric trucks is that they're all only offered as the ultra short bed crew cab configuration instead of a long-bed standard cab.

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EVs are absolutely the wrong choice for time-constrained long distance travel, like long-haul trucking or the midwestern three-day-weekend road trip, but the Lightning and its GM competition that were actually designed to be good at things instead of a pure image machine are very good at certain roles.
by spacecadet | 2026-01-14 19:58:14+00:00
While largely true, that trucks have adorned the comforts of luxury cars, most are running 6' beds. This largely ignores the evolution of the truck and the job site. My family operates contracting and excavating businesses that operating in all manner of weather and terrain, no one is carrying loads in their truck beds anymore... its not even legal most places unless you convert to a dump bed...

Whats in their trucks? Well, a crew cab occasionally is used for car pooling workers, where they all park their vintage beater trucks at the business... Sometimes weather sensitive tools, or job related items, documents, you can just throw these in a glove box... The bed usually has a gas pump for refilling remote equipment. Cones and other safety shit. Sand hoppers for plowing. Yes they also use these "luxury" trucks to plow.

The thing is... These people are making decent salaries... my direct relatives are multi-millionaires who still pick up a welder, a hammer, a shovel.

Im see alot of assumptions about why trucks evolved the way they did, who owns them, and what for... I would argue the "luxury faker" is a very small crowd, one that likely moved to the cybertruck... and despite the trucks looking modernized, are beaten to pulp over long service lives.

Now, go get in a modern tractor, dump truck, or excavator. They are also all AC, Radios, Computers, Leather Seats, etc... People want to be comfortable.
by ryandrake | 2026-01-14 19:58:28+00:00
I'm optimistic actually. I think "Gen Alpha" is gonna be alright and sufficiently wary of Internet sharing and privacy. Unlike the previous few generations, esp. Milleneals and to a somewhat lesser extent Gen Z and Boomers, who have massively over-shared and are now reaping some of the horrible harvest that comes from that oversharing. Today's teens and tweens seem to finally be getting the message.

I also actually think AI might be a savior here. The ability to fake realistic 18+ year old selfies might help put the nail in the coffin of these idiotic "share a photo with the Internet" verification methods.
by fjklasfifefj | 2026-01-14 19:58:43+00:00
You will have to define death cult.

Wearing skulls on their uniforms? Check. (Punisher symbols)

Disappearing "undesirables" to foreign camps? Check. (CECOT)

Murderous paramilitary brown shirts? Check. (Rene Goode)

Anti-science? Check. Anti-accountability? Check. Nationalistic? Check.
by Kye | 2026-01-14 19:58:51+00:00
"Pack contains 6 Mega Rolls (224 Sheets Per Roll) of Charmin Ultra Soft Toilet Paper"

to

"MEGA ROLLS, MEGA VALUE: Pack contains 6 Mega Rolls (208 Sheets Per Roll) of Charmin Ultra Soft Toilet Paper"

Everyone saw that coming when they changed roll sizes and reframed it, right?
by arjie | 2026-01-14 19:58:52+00:00
I actually prefer the economic system where providers don't have to care about the use cases and we're able to use the exchange of money for services to get things. I doubt Subaru cares about a yuppie couple going on a road trip to the redwoods. They just want my money. That's the sort of relationship I want with most vendors.

If Subaru started talking to me about how much they like that I take road trips with their cars I'd probably switch to a different vendor.
by Workaccount2 | 2026-01-14 19:58:57+00:00
If you often mowed a town park, you wouldn't buy a hand-push lawnmower and then be upset about lawn mower technology.

The Renault 5 is a town car. Its specs are closer to a golf cart than a motorcar. It fills a niche, but if you are traveling often, a different EV would suite you better.
by deepsun | 2026-01-14 19:59:06+00:00
> A word of explanation. I’m building tmplr for 4 platforms:

> Linux ARM
> macOS ARM
> Linux x86_64
> macOS x86_64

Oh, here we go again. Java was invented to solve that, "Write once run everywhere" :] I.e. `int` means `i32` on all platforms, no `usize`.
by bahmboo | 2026-01-14 19:59:11+00:00
Interesting. I do not agree with your summary of his post, in fact he goes so far as to say "an idea, really. Incredibly half-baked. Poke all the holes you want. It’s very unwrought and muy unripe."

So yes, we can laugh at the proposed mechanism but I feel the world would be a better place if we could funnel more resources to OSS creators rather than just take because that's an easier path.
by drannex | 2026-01-14 19:59:16+00:00
Ladybird is in the process of switching over to Swift, and has been for a little over a year now.

Not linking to the pedophilic nazi-site, and as Nitter is dead-ish, here is the full-text announcement archived on tildes: https://tildes.net/~comp/1j7m/ladybird_chooses_swift_as_its_...
by kjgkjhfkjf | 2026-01-14 19:59:50+00:00
Proposals like these seem to assume that FOSS is mostly produced by unpaid volunteers. But a lot of the open-source stuff that I personally use is produced by massively profitable companies.

For example, I am currently working with React, which was produced by Meta. I write the code using TypeScript, which was produced by Microsoft (and other corporate behemoths such as Google). I am writing this comment in Chrome (produced by Google). Etc.
Show HN: Rethinking the user interface of AI, open source<3
by urjit | 2026-01-14 19:59:54+00:00
Hi everyone,

I've spent the last year using tools like NotebookLM and ChatGPT for stuff ranging from studying, research, and writing. Its been okay, but I've found that this standard chat interface has been a bottleneck for sustained work. The answers are useful, but all of the information remain limited in linear, ephemeral threads than would also span across multiple conversations.

ThinkEx is an open-source alternative that augments the normal the chat interface with a spatial, grid-like canvas. It works like a physical desk: instead of your context scrolling away or getting lost across different windows, you spread out PDFs, videos, and notes side-by-side to interact them easily.

Its fully open source as well :)
by alnwlsn | 2026-01-14 19:59:58+00:00
It supports the developer by preventing blatant ripoffs of the Teensy.

Paul is one guy, and has put in a ton of effort writing high quality libraries for it. Most or all of them are open source. Only the bootloader chip is closed source.

If you want to rip off the Teensy, you can use the same MCU but you'll need to come up with your own bootloading process. It wouldn't be that difficult but is enough of a barrier to stop casual cloning. Seeing as how Amazon and Aliexpress are filled with cheap Arduino clones but not Teensys, it seems to have gone well so far. Nobody wants to be undercut by someone who has no intention of contributing back.
by muwtyhg | 2026-01-14 20:00:07+00:00
> Because it's just a vessel for the puritans and the usual "cares more about feeling righteous than about being right" political activists. I have no love for either.

People are (or were, as of a couple of weeks ago) having nude images generated from pictures of them, and were posted publicly, by a company worth billions. You think the outage around that is just puritan hand-wringing? Not that real people are actively being harassed?
by chippiewill | 2026-01-14 20:00:14+00:00
Wrong way round. She was born in the UK and was a British Citizen at birth and had a British passport

She is (maybe) entitled to Bangladeshi citizenship which is why the UK government was allowed under UK law to remove her British citizenship because British courts didn't consider her to be stateless.

The only people who can't have British citizenship removed are British citizens with no other citizenship or entitlement to a citizenship. I think in theory that means the British government is legally allowed to remove citizenship from any person from Northern Ireland if they justify it (since they're allowed to claim Irish citizenship under the Good Friday agreement).
by gotthatdata | 2026-01-14 20:00:30+00:00
Three days after Google announced Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) at NRF 2026, we analyzed AI-agent readiness across platforms. Compared Kajabi ($2B SEO titan) vs a platform built for agent protocols. Key finding: traditional SEO excellence doesn't translate to AI discoverability. Platforms missing Schema.org/JSON-LD, MCP servers, and A2A agent cards are invisible to UCP. In simulations, ACO-optimized platforms achieved 100% win rate. Adobe reports 1,200% AI traffic surge. Gartner projects 80% agent commerce by 2029.
by brightbeige | 2026-01-14 20:00:41+00:00
Here’s the Lamb and Flag in Oxford

https://www.ismypubfucked.com/pub/11447801200

> the Inklings, a literary group including J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis, started meeting at The Lamb and Flag.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamb_%26_Flag,_Oxford
Show HN: Real-time video to high-resolution ASCII using WebGPU (major updates)
by luthiraabeykoon | 2026-01-14 20:01:38+00:00
I’ve been iterating on vid2ascii over the past couple of months and wanted to share a progress update.

vid2ascii is a browser app that converts video into high-resolution ASCII art in real time. The main goal was to push quality and performance further than the typical canvas or WebGL approaches by moving the heavy work onto the GPU using WebGPU compute.

Recent improvements since the initial version:

Switched from CPU-only rendering to GPU-backed WebGPU compute for per-frame processing

Much higher effective resolution and frame rate, even on large videos

Full RGB color ASCII output instead of grayscale only

Better luminance mapping and character selection for sharper detail

Real-time controls for contrast, brightness, and character sets

Video export support (.webm), not just live playback

The original prototype started as a quick experiment, but most of the work since then has been about making it actually usable and performant for longer videos and higher resolutions.
by DiabloD3 | 2026-01-14 20:01:39+00:00
Man, it's weird being an American sometimes.

I do not drink. I am half Irish and half German.

Drinking is a _very_ weird cultural artifact from our past. It doesn't improve your life, it has been scientifically proven to not 'help you relax', and there may in fact be no safe amount of alcohol to drink; all the pop-sci headlines that say 'one glass of wine a week may improve your health' are really about studies that put the safe max at one glass per week.

From what I can tell, the UK is no longer subsidizing what is effectively a criminal enterprise that is centuries old.
by arjie | 2026-01-14 20:01:42+00:00
This transformation of open-source into rent-seeking behaviour is quite distasteful to me. If you don't want to share your stuff without taxing everyone, then don't share it. Other licenses exist. You don't have to use MIT or the GPL.

Meta has even demonstrated an alternative with the Llama 4 License which has exclusion criteria:

> 2. Additional Commercial Terms. If, on the Llama 4 version release date, the monthly active users of the products or services made available by or for Licensee, or Licensee’s affiliates, is greater than 700 million monthly active users in the preceding calendar month, you must request a license from Meta, which Meta may grant to you in its sole discretion, and you are not authorized to exercise any of the rights under this Agreement unless or until Meta otherwise expressly grants you such rights.

Go put such terms in your licenses.

This is particularly rampant in the Rust community and if I'm being honest this forced tithing church nonsense from people who want to be priests makes participating in that community less desirable. I don't even want to donate to the RSF as a result.

All the other projects I've donated to in the past have been much more reasonable. This kind of pushy nonsense is unacceptable.
by anal_reactor | 2026-01-14 20:01:45+00:00
It's never been about porn. By marking certain part of the internet "adult-only" you imply that the rest is "family-friendly" and parents can feel less bad about themselves leaving their children with iPads rather than actually parenting them, which is exactly what Big Tech wants for obvious reasons. If I had a child I'd rather have it watch porn than Cocomelon, which has been scientifically developed so that it turns your child's brain into seedless raspberry jam. Yet nobody's talking about the dangers of that, because everyone's occupied with <gasp> titties.