MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by arcfour | 2026-01-29 20:51:06+00:00
I doubt judgement is heavily impaired at 0.05 BAC. That is at or below the legal limit to drive a car.

And it really is more of a red herring since they were obviously not visibly intoxicated and they didn't actually do anything illegal. Their BAC is more of an issue between them and their employer, and has no bearing on their false arrest.
by MBCook | 2026-01-29 20:51:42+00:00
Where did I say that?

I was using the classic idea of the flying car as an example of a thing that has been out of reach as an as a product for normal people and may not actually be successful if it were to really be sold.

Replace flying car with whatever example you want.

To put it in a different way, you could be so busy figuring out how to do it that you don’t figure out that a business case doesn’t actually exist.

I wasn’t trying to comment on any of Musk‘s other companies specifically. Only that we don’t know if making robots will actually make money.
by tristor | 2026-01-29 20:51:45+00:00
It's relevant, because border patrol on the Southern border is heavily staffed by Hispanic officers, in part because they need officers that are bilingual as most immigration happening on the Southern border is from Spanish-speaking countries. But these same officers as a matter of policy are told to racially profile and target vehicles with Hispanic occupants. Power structures need the complicity of at least some defectors from the targeted group to be effective.

Further, within racial groups colorism is also a thing and can result in behaviors that seem incongruent. I've heard some of my in-laws say things like "I'm Mexican, but I'm not Mexican Mexican." It's not something people want to think about or admit, but racial identity is not a bloc, and these types of colorist attitudes can contribute to why folks may defect against their racial group to side with power structures.

Living in South Texas, I see a lot of shit, and what was said in the article neither surprised me nor seemed like a detail meant to evoke a race card. If anything it was pointing out that the officers pitted against the writer should theoretically had some empathy rather than acting out racial profiling. The truth is, that racial profiling happens a lot and sometimes the people doing it are of the same race as those being profiled.
by 0dayz | 2026-01-29 20:52:03+00:00
Then why even make the statement?

Your point about that it's not wise to have a gun on you or flee is completely irrelevant to fact that official officers killed people for it.

Why also not state that it's unwise to go outside because you might be killed by a police officer?

And again was it unwise for tea party, anti government lock down and j6 rioters to have guns on them?
by bell-cot | 2026-01-29 20:53:29+00:00
> The agency chief's warnings come one week after the European Commission presented a proposal to overhaul its Cybersecurity Act legislation. The bill would allow the EU's cyber agency, based in Athens, to expand its personnel by 118 full-time staff and to spend more on operational costs. The agency now has approximately 150 staff.

I'd guess the EU's cyber agency is relevant, if only because it does some of the EU-wide coordinating. And because the smaller and poorer EU nations can't afford much on their own.

Might anyone here be familiar?

After that - in a giant bureaucracy, head count is a very poor measure of effectiveness. Would upping the agency's head count do much good. Or are there structural problems which will make that (by itself) mostly a waste of funds?
by boogrpants | 2026-01-29 20:53:39+00:00
The American public is no different than an American corporation; trying to extract as much allegiance and loyalty as possible for as little compensation as possible.

Your neighbors in the street protesting for comprehensive single payer healthcare? Yeah they're perfectly fine leaving your existence up to "market forces".

Copy-paste office workers everywhere reciting memorized platitudes and compliance demands.

You're telling me I could interact even less with such selfish (and often useless given their limited real skillset) people? Deal.

America needs to rethink the compensation package if it wants to survive as a socio-political meme. Happy to call myself Canadian or Chinese if their offer is better. No bullets needed.
by pousada | 2026-01-29 20:53:56+00:00
Thanks for the offer!
I don’t wanna dox myself on this account just yet - and I am slowly building an audience on IG/SC now, basically have admitted defeat of my previous strategy. Also have 2 gigs coming up in the summer _fingers-crossed_

I just was feeling some type of way seeing that comment and wanted to vent thx for listening
by flutas | 2026-01-29 20:54:08+00:00
even as far as we know they aren't

The Waymo blog post refused to say the word "child", instead using the phrase "young pedestrian" once.

The Waymo blog post switches to "the pedestrian" and "the individual" for the rest of the post.

The Waymo blog post also consistently uses the word "contact" instead of hit, struck, or collision.

The Waymo blog post makes no mention of the injuries the child sustained.

The Waymo blog post makes no mention of the school being in close proximity.

The Waymo blog post makes no mention of other children or the crossing guard.

The Waymo blog post makes no mention of the car going over the school zone speed limit (17 in 15).
by saubeidl | 2026-01-29 20:54:16+00:00
Most of Silicon Valley isn't neutral. A lot of them are aligned with the rising authoritarianism.

Thiel has been anti-democracy for a long time; Musk, Zuckerberg, Bezos, Cook, Andreessen and many others have also shown their true colors.

Turns out the oligarchs are pro-oligarchy. Who could've guessed.
by pjscott | 2026-01-29 20:54:17+00:00
Slowing the adoption of much-safer-than-humans robotaxis, for whatever reason, has a price measured in lives. If you think that the principle you've just stated is worth all those additional dead people, okay; but you should at least be aware of the price.

Failure to acknowledge the existence of tradeoffs tends to lead to people making really lousy trades, in the same way that running around with your eyes closed tends to result in running into walls and tripping over unseen furniture.
by dudeinhawaii | 2026-01-29 20:55:16+00:00
To play devils advocate, why do we have to layout a simple task in PAINSTAKING DETAIL to an AI model which is "PHD LEVEL" and going to take our jobs in 6-12 months?

Why am I still holding its hand like it has the intellect and experience of a new-hire intern that's coded one project in college?

I would never expect to have to layout every detail about "how to write code" to someone I hired to code on my team, at the SWEII and above level. (I.e, sub-senior but beyond junior)

In fact, often times backlog items are "fix bug in x where y is happening" or "add instrumentation to X so that we can see why it's crashing at runtime".
by 1970-01-01 | 2026-01-29 20:55:24+00:00
That's what I tried to say. The chance for a 400V EV taking an 800V by mistake is getting out of control. As more EVs are built this ratio of 400V EVs to 800V stations will only grow. More 800V today is needed. We should not maintain the same ratio of 400V to 800V stations.
by int0x29 | 2026-01-29 20:55:25+00:00
I'm not trying to do it on a per app basis. I mean that some apps work and some don't. I should not be playing with rendering backends per app to get them working. If thats needed its broken.

People keep pushing KDE+Wayland to beginners either through recommendations or preconfigured stuff like bazzite. My experience is that the defaults in such a setup are broken and frustrating.
by Aurornis | 2026-01-29 20:56:00+00:00
> I doubt judgement is heavily impaired at 0.05 BAC. That is at or below the legal limit to drive a car.

0.05% BAC will result in a DUI in many countries. Regardless, any impairment on a job where you're doing things guaranteed to summon the cops is a very bad idea.

BAC also declines linearly over time. I doubt (hope?) they weren't drinking on the job, but a 0.05% BAC measured after their arrest means their BAC would have been higher when they started breaking into the building earlier in the night.
by avansledright | 2026-01-29 20:56:16+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m the creator of CrumbCounts.

The Problem: Most home bakers and cottage food producers (people selling cookies, sourdough, or jams from their kitchen) have a "vibes-based" pricing model. They know a bag of flour costs $5, but they have no idea how much the 425g in their sourdough loaf actually costs after accounting for the starter, the salt, and the electricity.

When you're trying to turn a hobby into a side hustle—or just trying to manage a household budget during a period of high food inflation—"guessing" doesn't work. I found that most people were either using messy, disconnected spreadsheets or expensive enterprise software designed for commercial restaurants.

The Solution: I built CrumbCounts to bridge that gap. It’s a dedicated recipe cost calculator and inventory tracker designed specifically for the "aspiring home chef" and the micro-entrepreneur.

Key Features:

Unit Conversion Engine: Input ingredients in bulk units (lbs/kg) and use them in recipes in smaller units (grams/tsp) without doing the mental math.

Dynamic Costing: If the price of butter at your local store jumps 20%, you update it once in your inventory, and every recipe using that butter updates its cost-per-serving instantly.

Profit Margin Analysis: For cottage bakers, you can set a target margin and the app tells you what you should be charging.

Simple UX: No "enterprise" bloat. Just recipes, ingredients, and costs.

The Tech Stack: The app is built to be fast and responsive. I wanted something that felt lightweight enough to use on a phone while standing in the kitchen but powerful enough to handle complex batch scaling on a desktop. (Optional: Insert your stack here, e.g., Next.js, Tailwind, Supabase).

Why I’m sharing it here: I’ve reached a milestone of 10k+ recipes tracked on the platform, and I’m looking for feedback from the HN community. Specifically:

UI/UX: Is the flow from "adding an ingredient" to "viewing a recipe cost" intuitive enough?

Feature Creep: What’s the one thing a home cook actually needs that I’m missing (e.g., nutritional data vs. simple cost tracking)?

It’s currently 100% free to use. I’d love for you to kick the tires and let me know what you think.

Check it out: https://crumbcounts.com

Looking forward to your comments!
by tw04 | 2026-01-29 20:56:16+00:00
I for one, after doing a bit of reserach, was shocked to find out the person in question is apparently completely unqualified for the job (if him pasting sensitive information into public ChatGPT didn't already make that abundantly clear). But the highlight from his Wikipedia page is this one:

>In December 2025, Politico reported that Gottumukkala had requested to see access to a controlled access program—an act that would require taking a polygraph—in June. Gottumukkala failed the polygraph in the final weeks of July. The Department of Homeland Security began investigating the circumstances surrounding the polygraph test the following month and suspended six career staffers, telling them that the polygraph did not need to be administered.[12]

So the guy failed a polygraph to access a highly controlled system full of confidential information, and the solution to that problem was to fire the people in charge of ensuring the system was secure.

We're speed running America into the ground and half the country is willfully ignorant to it happening.
by hn_user82179 | 2026-01-29 20:56:28+00:00
multiple children in my area have died due to being hit by distracted drivers driving near schools. One incident resulted in 2 children being dragged 60 yards. Here's a snippet from an article about the death I was referencing:

> The woman told police she was “eating yogurt” before she turned onto the road and that she was late for an appointment. She said she handed her phone to her son and asked him to make a call “but could not remember if she had held it so face recognition could … open the phone,” according to the probable cause statement.

> The police investigation found that she was traveling 50 mph in a 40 mph zone when she hit the boys. She told police she didn’t realize she had hit anything until she saw the boys in her rearview mirror.

The Waymo report is being generous in comparing to a fully-attentive driver. I'm a bit annoyed at the headline choice here (from OP and the original journalist) as it is fully burying the lede.
by t-3 | 2026-01-29 20:57:26+00:00
A powerful-enough pocket computer that can run a "real" OS with good input is the holy grail. Specialized types (gaming platforms mostly) seem to be converging on a few specific designs, but full general-purpose computers with keyboards etc still haven't really produced a "good enough" model. I used my GPD Win 2 daily when I was traveling often and frequently found myself in situations where it wasn't convenient to carry or use a full laptop due to weight/size, and even that thumb keyboard is 10000x better than a touchscreen keyboard in termux etc. There's definitely a niche to be served by either a better design or reimagining of the interface.
by munksbeer | 2026-01-29 20:57:27+00:00
Every time someone asks for good examples of AI written code, and they are given one, they either move the goalposts or simply don't reply.

I went from using copilot autocomplete and mostly just disabling it because it was not great, to now using claude most of my day. I gets stuff wrong. It does generate inefficient code. It definitely has a way to go, but otherwise it just saves so much time.
by dwaite | 2026-01-29 20:57:27+00:00
Apple doesn't do partner exceptions (one of the complaints Epic had about working with them is that Apple wouldn't negotiate lower rates with companies, unlike the game consoles.)

They do have carve outs in the agreement, such as the 'reader' exception. Newspapers I believe also fall under the 'reader' exception.

I have suspected for a while that the 15%-after-the-first-year subscription rate drop was a carve out targeted specifically at trying to retain Netflix IAP. However, Netflix was able to operate without IAP because of the "reader" exception.
by maxchehab | 2026-01-29 20:58:20+00:00
Absolutely. We make it obvious to the user when a query/chart is using a non standard metric and have a fast SLA on finding/building the right metric.

It only works because all of the data looks the same between customers (we manage ad platform, email, funnel data).

So if we make an “email open rate” metric, that’ll amortize to other customers.
by aendruk | 2026-01-29 20:58:40+00:00
Ambitious!

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by delecti | 2026-01-29 20:59:13+00:00
As far as I can tell, the criteria previous package were basically about getting the market cap up. Based on all the "no"s in the "Met" column here [1], I think you could reasonably accuse him of hitting the goals for that bonus package by driving investor hype for what Telsa "might" accomplish some day.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_predictions_for_autono...
by jedberg | 2026-01-29 20:59:24+00:00
We've been experimenting with combining durable execution with debugging tasks, and it's working incredibly well! With the added context of actual execution data, defined by the developer as to which functions are important (instead of individual calls), it give the LLM the data it needs.

I know there are AI SRE companies that have discovered the same -- that you can't just throw a bunch of data at a regular LLM and have it "do SRE things". It needs more structured context, and their value add is knowing what context and what structure is necessary.
by aiisjustanif | 2026-01-29 20:59:53+00:00
I’m more surprised that it’s not believable for some of management depending on how process driven there job is.

I’ve definitely had roles where I sadly realized I’m automating the QA person next to me well before LLMs were mainstream.

In my experience I think, you would automate enough of a mid manager role that upper management doesn’t care for, and whatever left over responsibilities that couldn’t be automated is split between a high level IC and the next above. Then the bureaucracy sells is as a success.
by alexpotato | 2026-01-29 21:00:30+00:00
One of my kids recently had a no-contact knee injury while playing basketball. He immediately started limping and crying and I had to carry him from the court to the car.

I did some searching with Grok and I found out:

- no contact injuries are troubling b/c it generally means they pulled something

- kids don't generally tear an ACL (or other ligament)

- it's actually way more common for the ligament to pull the anchor point off of the bigger bone b/c kid bones are soft

I asked it to differentially diagnose the issue with the details of: can't hold weight, little to no swelling and some pain.

It was adamant, ADAMANT, that this was a classic case of bone being pulled off by the ligament and that it would require surgery. It even pointed out the no swelling could be due to a very small tear etc. It gave me a 90% chance of surgery too.

I followed up by asking what test would definitely prove it one way or the other and it mentioned getting an X-Ray.

We go off to the urgent care, son is already kind of hobbling around. Doctor says he seems fine, I push for an X-Ray and turns out no issue: he probably just pulled something. He was fully healed in 2-3 days.

As someone who has done a lot of differential diagnosing/troubleshooting of big systems (FinTech SRE) I find it interesting that it was basically correct in what could have happened but couldn't go the "final mile" to establish it correctly. Once we start hooking up X-Rays to Claude/Grok 4.2 etc equivalent LLMs, will be even more interesting to see where this goes.
by burnte | 2026-01-29 21:00:45+00:00
Yep, it's all just a shell game. He used xAI to move the Twitter debt so it couldn't be taken away for failure to pay debts. He's already been using SpaceX to buy Cybertrucks to prop ups sales and Tesla. Using SpaceX to generate revenue to pay off the xAI debts is just another step in the shell game.
by kstrauser | 2026-01-29 21:00:47+00:00
Wow, what a nostalgia trip. We had our fair share in the comp.sys.amiga.* groups.

I feel bad about one in particular. Don't get me wrong: he was incredibly annoying and liked to jump into nearly every single thread and turn it into some persecution complex thing. I was unkind to him, as were many others.

Looking back, it seems obvious to me that he had some mental issues and was battling demons the rest of us didn't see. I wish younger me had the wisdom to just killfile him and pretend he didn't exist. Whatever his problems, I'm sure I didn't make the world any nicer by yelling at him.

Sorry, man. I'd have handled that differently now.
by godelski | 2026-01-29 21:00:48+00:00
You don't need to but in a dark crater to use the ground as your sink.

Also you need to consider that the thermal conductivity of lunar regolith is quite low.

I'm not saying it's not possible but I am saying there's a lot of technical challenges that make naïve approaches not so simple.

Oversimplification is a footgun
by groby_b | 2026-01-29 21:01:01+00:00
"Our tooling was defective" is not, in general, a defence against liability. Part of a companys obligations is to ensure all its processes stay within lawful lanes.

"Three months later [...] But the prompt history? Deleted. The original instruction? The analyst’s word against the logs."

One, the analysts word does not override the logs, that's the point of logs. Two, it's fairly clear the author of the fine article has never worked close to finance. A three month retention period for AI queries by an analyst is not an option.

SEC Rule 17a-4 & FINRA Rule 4511 have entered the chat.
by bsimpson | 2026-01-29 21:01:18+00:00
Since the article mentions deaths due to ICE custody -

There's a headline today (I think it was CNN) about a disabled kid who died because his dad was in ICE custody. Came over as an unofficial refugee from Kuwait, had a kid, and was selected for deportation 20y ago. Deportation was stayed due to his kid's condition, so long as he registered with ICE (né INS) every year.

He went in for his annual meeting this winter and never came back out. His kid's health cratered and the kid died. Dad wasn't allowed to the funeral.
by procone | 2026-01-29 21:01:37+00:00
I fail to see your point. Kernel development by the aforementioned big players benefits everyone and is all done in the open. Hence, "open source". In fact they use a public mailing list to submit patches.

All of the patches are auditable. If I don't want a patch, I can *trivially* omit it from my kernel before compiling.

How exactly are open source kernel modules and drivers affecting my freedom?
by direwolf20 | 2026-01-29 21:02:12+00:00
The reasons for learning to drive a manual transmission aren't really about the transmission, they're about the learning and the effects on the learner. The more you get hands on with the car and in touch with the car the more deeply you understand it. Once you have the deepish understanding, you can automate it for convenience after that. It's the same reason we should always teach long division before we give students calculators, not after.
by breve | 2026-01-29 21:03:22+00:00
> Tesla + Panasonic has a built in advantage in terms of battery manufacturing.

What advantage do they have over CATL, BYD, and LG?

CATL batteries perform better: https://electrek.co/2026/01/06/catl-ev-batteries-significant...

CATL is rolling out sodium ion batteries: https://electrek.co/2026/01/23/ev-battery-leader-plans-first...

CATL, BYD, and LG are developing solid state batteries. Everyone is.

> It is likely that the experience Tesla gets with Optimus robots will help other robotics companies

Why? Other robotics companies have been doing it for longer. Is Optimus better than Atlas:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9e0SQn9uUlw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIhzUnvi7Fw
by schappim | 2026-01-29 21:03:33+00:00
I'm 100% for this, but I think you can go even more granular than "gives agents their own inboxes".

Thanks to Action Mailbox in Rails[1], I give all my records email addresses. Eg let ecommerce "order" records accept forwarded emails that are pinned as comments. It opens you up for doing things like forwarding a purchase order and having the PO number pulled out and attached to an order, or forwarding tracking information from a supplier and having it attached to a "supplier order" etc.

In my personal life I have individual email addresses for all my utilities and emails automatically get filed away.

If this idea tickles your fancy, I opensourced Emitt[2], an inbound email processing server with LLM-powered automation.

1. https://guides.rubyonrails.org/action_mailbox_basics.html

2. https://github.com/schappim/emitt