MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by chakintosh | 2026-01-20 10:51:11+00:00
> but of the (very potential) rise of China as the premier automotive super power.

It's done. They're already the premier automotive superpower now. It might not seem like it in Europe and USA, but anywhere else in the world they are dominating. I live in Morocco and I am not exaggerating when I say that every week I see a new Chinese brand on the road. Not just cars of the same brand, completely new brands. Dacia and a lot of PSA cars are built in Morocco, so naturally they always had a strong positioning here, but now I'm seeing more BYDs than DACIA's most popular car, the Duster. It's anecdotal but it's quite telling considering the foothold French brands have always had here.

Here's a chart showing the sheer dominance of Chinese brands on the EV market in Morocco. 6 out of 10 models are Chinese.

https://www.wandaloo.com/files/2026/01/aivam-bilan-marche-au...
by d--b | 2026-01-20 10:51:14+00:00
This is the kind of question that made us doubt that AI would happen one day, cause meaning is quite remote from its expression.

There was always these contextual meanings that differ widely.

Like "carrots are orange" is a fact that's generally okay, but is not true at all, carrots come in a very wide range of colors.

But LLMs completely crushed through these problems. And vector embeddings are a bit part of why it worked.

So yeah, somewhere in those vectors is something that says that when cash is king, "king" has no relationship to monarchy.
by mnky9800n | 2026-01-20 10:51:43+00:00
I had an electrodynamics professor say that there was no reason to memorize the equations, you would never remember them anyways, the goal was to understand how the relationships were formed in the first place. Then you would understand what the relationships are that each equation represents. That I think is the basis for this statement. Memorization of the equations gives you a basis to understand the relationships. So I guess the hope is that is enough. I would argue it isn't enough since physics isn't really about math or equations its about the structure and dynamics of how systems evolve over time. And equations give one representation of the evolution of those systems. But it's not the only representation.
by gambiting | 2026-01-20 10:51:51+00:00
>>So what is more practical, charging your car overnight without an electric plug or going to the gas station for a few minutes?

100x charging your car overnight with a plug. I don't think people who don't own an EV realize how great that is. Imagine if your petrol car magically got refilled with fuel every single night - add up all of those "few minutes" spent at a petrol station over your lifetime, and realize how much time you're getting back.

>> people are living in centuries old houses converted into high density condos, there are no garages

And yeah, that's a problem everywhere, not just in Portugal. Here in the UK a lot of people wouldn't have anywhere to charge at home.
by ekr | 2026-01-20 10:52:16+00:00
Same here. Living in the Netherlands, I drive a 2008 Daihatsu Cuore, bought for 850E over a year ago, I pay 17E /month in mrb (road tax) and 38E/month insurance. It's basically close to the costs of a scooter. And I average under 4L/100km fuel usage, for my 200km/week commute. I did some calculation and no car comes close to these running costs. Definitely no electric cars, even if I were to get them for free, because road tax here is mainly a factor of weight.

Even a Dacia Spring with its 900kg is slightly more expensive overall to run (in my circumstances. I could charge at home, but don't have solar panels atm), and a lot more expensive up front to buy (used).

It has over 304k km already, and it runs perfectly well with some occasional maintenance and some mechanical sympathy, but I was considering alternatives in case something were to happen. Conclusion? Just buy another one. Suzuki Celerio is the only one in the same ballpark, but it's about 2k EUR more expensive. And I love my Daihatsu.
by johndough | 2026-01-20 10:52:48+00:00
> restricting the search space to syntactically valid programs (how do you even randomly generate that?)

By using a grammar. Here is an example on how to only generate valid JSON with llama.cpp: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/blob/master/grammars/R...

> A trillion is 8 symbols. You still haven't reached the end of your first import statement.

Since LLMs use tokens from a vocabulary instead of characters, the number is likely somewhere in the lower billions for the first import statement.

But of course, LLMs do not sample from a uniform random distribution, so there are even fewer likely possibilities.
by tialaramex | 2026-01-20 10:53:36+00:00
Unlike the 21st century US, historically it often didn't go well for kids who became monarch.

Henry VI doesn't get murdered early on and his regents do a reasonable job but he did end up dying in the Tower anyway because of the Wars of the Roses which is arguably his fault.

Edward V for example was 12 when he became King of England. His uncle sent him to the Tower of London, "for safety" and he never came out, it is generally assumed he was murdered.

Edward VI dies before reaching majority, and seems mostly to have been used as a device to control England by older men.

Liz I is sometimes portrayed as being a young girl but she's in her mid-20s and has survived Henry VIII's court, so nobody was going to disappear her to the Tower.

Trump is of course an old man with only the mind of a toddler. But England never had any of those, and it has long since moved (after killing Charles I) to a constitutional monarchy, separating the figurehead role (for which I think Trump was suited) from the executive role (for which I think it would be hard to imagine a worse candidate).
by DonHopkins | 2026-01-20 10:53:48+00:00
> Whether you had anything to do with it or not, I have no idea. And, since you didn't follow best practices and tell me directly rather than trying to score points here, there's really no way of knowing whether you're the one who caused the problem in the first place.

Are you actually accusing me of hacking your wordpress blog, then pointing it out on Hacker News? What possible evidence or delusional reasons do you have to imply that? Is your security really that lax and password that easy to guess? And even if I did, then why would I post about it publicly or notify you privately? You sound pathologically paranoid and antisocially aggressive to make such baseless accusations out of the blue. That makes me glad I didn't try to contact you directly.
by noosphr | 2026-01-20 10:54:13+00:00
I was annoyed at a post by Karpathy about how much he was falling behind by not chasing every ai fad: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46395714#46429236

Then I saw a few other people reference it and it's as good a term as any to describe the hot air of people telling us how amazing ai coding is without giving the code, the prompts, or the price of what they did.

Just like how that one kid in highschool had a Canadian girlfriend.
by elcapitan | 2026-01-20 10:54:21+00:00
Same here. I use vim over other editors / key schemas mostly because it's easier for me than pressing a whole bunch of keys simultaneously. I use it where I can in other apps too. That's also why I only use a relatively small subset (whatever they all implement) and never spent too much time into going totally overboard with learning all its capabilities.

Also, typing just isn't really that much of task in the first place. I spend way more time trying to find out what to do and how, and then finally typing it isn't as relevant that I would need to optimize it over a certain point.
by pjc50 | 2026-01-20 10:54:21+00:00
> emulate a PCIe card using another device

The other existing solution to this is FPGA cards: https://www.fpgadeveloper.com/list-of-fpga-dev-boards-for-pc... - note the wide spread in price. You then also have to deal with FPGA tooling. The benefit is much better timing.
by fennecfoxy | 2026-01-20 10:54:33+00:00
>every week I see a new Chinese brand on the road

And I think the difference is going to be apparent 15-20 years from now when new parts are needed for these models.

With the big boys like Ford, Toyota etc I can trust that they manufactured (and still manufacture) parts with warehouses full of them and I can always find the part I need to repair a vehicle.

I very much doubt that we will see the same thing with Chinese auto companies, even premier ones like BYD.
by androidparanoid | 2026-01-20 10:55:17+00:00
I built VidSnoop as a simple, no-install tool for inspecting video files right in the browser (or as a PWA if you want offline access).
Key points:

Everything runs client-side: your video file never leaves your device—no uploads, no server processing.
Quickly shows codecs (H.264, H.265, VP9, etc.), container format (MP4, WebM, etc.), bit rate, resolution, audio details, and embedded metadata (including GPS location if present, creation dates, etc.).
Useful for fast compatibility checks, debugging playback issues, or verifying what a video actually contains without installing desktop tools like MediaInfo.

It's deliberately minimal and privacy-first—zero tracking, no ads in the core experience.
Try it here: https://vidsnoop.com (just drag/drop a video file)
Curious to hear HN thoughts: Does this solve a pain point for anyone? Any edge-case videos it fails on? Missing metadata fields worth adding? Tech curiosities about how browser APIs handle different containers/codecs?
Thanks for looking!
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-20 10:55:19+00:00
> What kind of stuff is missing?

I'm in the market for buying a new car, either EV or hybrid. Currently have a Audi, been looking at various BYD models, particularly the new Touring one.

One important feature, that I didn't know I needed before I tried it, was in-seat AC, where the air from the AC hits the back and bottom, instead of just your arms and face. Living in a warm country, and spending most of the time in the car during the summer, this feature is something I really want now.

Heading to Audi and asking what the cheapest model available with that feature? Around 70K EUR. Doing the same but going to BYD: 35K EUR. And that's just considering that single feature, the same happens for almost everything. Want a HUD in the windshield? Audi adds 5K to the price, with BYD it's in the middle variants and up.

Basically, you get the same amount of "features" for half the price, and it's hard to just say "Well, I'm a fan of Audi so that's worth the markup". Still, there are many decisions that go into purchasing a car, not just the features, but I think that explains why you see that argument come up, because they do offer more features for cheaper than at least what the European car makers do.
by isolli | 2026-01-20 10:55:33+00:00
Sounds normal to me... see Eliot Spitzer [0]:

> $4,300 is not an altogether alarming sum of money in the high-end sex market

> In New York, it’s not hard to find sex workers who charge $10,000 per “session,” which can last for 15 minutes or two hours.

[0] https://slate.com/business/2008/03/did-eliot-spitzer-get-cau...
by misja111 | 2026-01-20 10:55:49+00:00
I don't follow this part, can somebody maybe explain?

> Yet on Kalshi, a CFTC-regulated prediction market, traders have wagered vast sums on longshot contracts with historical returns as low as 43 cents on the dollar.

On prediction markets traders can bet both sides. E.g. on Polymarket I can currently bet that Greenland will be acquired by USA before 2027 and get 4:1 odds: or I can bet that this doesn't happen, and give 4:1 odds.
If these odds are off, doesn't this mean that one side gets a bad return on investment, however the other side gets an equally good return?

On balance the average return on investment by traders should just be 100 cents minus the margin of the prediction market, which tends to be only a few percent.
by nkrisc | 2026-01-20 10:56:21+00:00
It doesn’t work because that’s just wrong. The semantic meaning of “king” is much more than simply “royalty” and “male”. And it will be different for different people based on their experiences and familiarity with English and world history as well.

Then there’s the phonetic angle in addition to the semantic one. Why isn’t cash emperor? Because “cash is king” is alliterative.

Then there’s the orthographic angle: it’s a lot easier to write “king” than “emperor”.
by jcgl | 2026-01-20 10:57:09+00:00
That router thing seems crazy. I'm all for having options that are available. But not having, at the minimum, some blessed implementations for basic stuff like routers seems nuts. There is so much ecosystem power in having high-quality, blessed implementations of things. I'm coming from working primarily in Go, where you can use the stdlib for >80% of everything you do (ymmv), so I feel this difference very keenly.
by dandelionv1bes | 2026-01-20 10:57:38+00:00
I struggle with this a bit because while my network isn’t bad - I really can’t stand social network like threads/X etc - I’m not on any social media bar here and LinkedIn.

Do you think investing in bluesky is worth it? I’m in industry but have a PhD ongoing in TTI models so I should probably get on it :/
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-20 10:57:42+00:00
> driving on the road is not supposed to be fun.

Who says it's supposed to boring? It's supposed to be safe and you're supposed to drive with the consideration of others, but I don't think it's supposed to be either fun or boring, that's up to you.

I'm having a blast rolling down the highway in the middle of the night blasting music and singing, am I not allowed to do this because driving is supposed to not be fun?
by grainier | 2026-01-20 10:57:43+00:00
I really prefer the way Codex reviews code—strict P0-P3 priorities, specific "actionable findings," and zero fluff—but I've been using Gemini CLI lately.

So I grabbed the raw system prompts from the Codex repo review_prompt.md and adapted them into .toml slash commands for Gemini.

Now I can just run `/review` or `/review:branch main` in my terminal and get that exact same structured audit style.

Just sharing the config files if anyone else wants that specific review logic in Gemini.
by mystcb | 2026-01-20 10:57:55+00:00
Probably going to illicit some bad responses, but hopefully here, people might see what I am trying to say.

While I am annoyed a "ban" has to come into play for social media, it seems to be the only thing we can do in the short term, but as a person in the IT industry, I do wonder if we are missing doing an RCA on the issue.

Even as an adult with a child, I can't see us ever letting our kid actually use social media till they understand it, and that comes down to parenting properly, teaching them the right way, and letting them know of the dangers.

However, I see the root cause as these are commercial platforms which enable the person with more money to throw their version of events at all of us, not just kids and adults. I can see that it isn't just the kids we have to worry about, but we have adults in high places who will believe the same thing, and while we worry about the children in this, there are adults who could do serious damage to themselves and others, and people would look the other way.

These days, people need to have different ways to talk to each other. Yes, I know we used to have letters, then telegrams, then everything evolves, but live changes, and information is so much more freely available. Locking people out of good information means that you are essentially stopping them from seeing the wider picture. Moving closer to sensorship.

For me, its frustrating that this the direction we are going in, but it doesn't actually solve the issue. It just passes it along to later on, further time away, for it to then cause more damage later on. How many times have we as IT people left something and had to then deal with the issues later on.

Social media is just that, it isn't good. I try to stay away from it, but in a way it is the only way I do get updates on what happens to my friends, globally. The world is changing, and we need to adapt, but we need to put the right guardrails in the right place.

Personally, I think the blanket ban is not the right thing to do, but in the short term, we have ended up being the only option we can do, and that isn't good. That is why for me, a ban isn't good. It isn't because I don't think it will help, I just believe it doesn't solve the problem itself.
by snowmobile | 2026-01-20 10:58:03+00:00
How's using a custom library any way close to "standard"? How about the actual HTML standards? The whole reason you'd use "shadcn" is that customizing the actual HTML radio button isn't enough for you. Otherwise, if you just want a default-looking button, here you go:

<input type="radio" name="beverage" value="coffee" />

If your team can't understand that, how are they going to understand a few KB of JS? Or maybe they're not supposed to understand it, but how can you then guarantee to your customers there isn't a crypto miner or tracker or something in that? Or perhaps you care more about "making money" than protecting your customers from such things?
by hopelite | 2026-01-20 10:59:05+00:00
What is it about this 16 y/o cutoff that seems to be the focus everywhere? Why not 18?

It almost seems like this will make SM attractive by making it a kind of forbidden fruit and/or a social standing status indicator for impressionable, malleable minded, underdeveloped minds of teens seeking to feel like adults.

In other words, if I didn’t know any better, I would have guessed that it might actually be the likes of Facebook pushing these controls internationally (not the least because they seem so coordinated all across the planet) in order to manipulate target users into coveting having a fb/SM account again.

Tell me you think Facebook, the same Facebook that was caught running uncontrolled and illegal psychological manipulation testing on its users, would not do such a thing!
by Antibabelic | 2026-01-20 11:01:32+00:00
What I am talking about concerns how human language relates to meaning. I'm not sure what this has to do with humans being "special". Saying that humans are "just an especially complex hydrocarbon mass that receives external stimuli and remaps them to a physical output" misses the point that what data we have available to us is qualitatively different from that of today's best natural language generation software.
by Zababa | 2026-01-20 11:02:05+00:00
> Mistakes made by chatbots will be considered more important than honest human mistakes, resulting in the loss of more points.

>I thought this was fair. You can use chatbots, but you will be held accountable for it.

So you're held more accountable for the output actually? I'd be interested in how many students would choose to use LLMs if faults weren't penalized more.
by lan321 | 2026-01-20 11:02:35+00:00
It became more of a selling point as regulation came for it. OPF, stricter modification control, etc. Prior it didn't matter as much since it was always decent and you could do whatever you want to it. Now, a pops and bangs tune with a straight pipe will get your car impounded in most countries the first time a cop sees/hears you.
by extraduder_ire | 2026-01-20 11:04:10+00:00
Since a few years ago, you need an account to view what account without a grey checkmark post. This includes realtime delay information from train companies, and outages/incidents from water companies. I know several people who only have accounts for one or both of these reasons, since that information isn't posted elsewhere or as quickly.

Without an account, you either get a single page of random popular tweets from that account or an erroneous message saying they haven't posted anything yet.
by fennecfoxy | 2026-01-20 11:04:11+00:00
Not only that but I find ChatGPT (and LLMs in general) a great partner to discuss my existing ideas with, with the general idea of getting it to challenge me on my decisions and provide ideas that I can shoot down (or make me think "actually...that could work".

I think LLMs are much more effective when you have a good understanding of a field and can work in the above way; their assistance is useful because I don't have time or brainpower to be an _expert_ in many of the fields I'm _knowledgable_ in.
by jbstack | 2026-01-20 11:04:58+00:00
As a matter of adopting sensible definitions, I think you need to draw the line somewhere between what is gambling and what is not.

If the risk taken can, in principle, be shifted in your favour (i.e. to produce positive expectation) through application of skill, then it isn't gambling. For example, in my mind, betting on whether you will win a game of chess is not gambling. On the other hand, if you cannot influence the outcome in your favour through skill, then it is gambling. Roulette is generally a good example of this (with the caveat that in some very specific circumstances it's possible to beat with skill).

If we're limiting the definition to merely risk-taking (you might win or you might lose) without factoring in skill, then virtually everything in life becomes gambling. For example, you gamble when you deposit money in the bank because it might go bust.

There's also the legal definition, in which case it's just a matter of checking whether the jurisdiction you are in considers the activity to be gambling or not.
by ludston | 2026-01-20 11:05:24+00:00
> What is it about this 16 y/o cutoff that seems to be the focus everywhere? Why not 18?

Some studies have found that puberty is the peak problematic age for people to be on social media and 16 is the rough point by which mostly this is finished. There is a book, "The Anxious Generation" that covers this pretty well.
by latexr | 2026-01-20 11:05:26+00:00
> The workarounds to get rid of the nag to log into your icloud account on macOS

Do you have an example? I have to set up macOS on the regular, and after saying no to iCloud on the setup screen, it never bothers me again.

They are very aggressive with trying to get me to “update” to Tahoe, though.
by pjc50 | 2026-01-20 11:06:24+00:00
> And I think the difference is going to be apparent 15-20 years from now when new parts are needed for these models.

Perhaps unstated, but this is going to be like trying to find parts for my Nokia 3210 (current age: 27). EVs are still in the "rapid improvement" phase, and by the time the battery warranty expires (5-7 years) the cars available on the current market will be significantly better in all respects.

On the other hand, they just have far fewer "parts" in the first place. Early indication is very good for lifetimes of the non-battery parts.

I expect the median EV of today to have a shorter life than a corresponding ICE, but the EV of 10 years time to have a much longer one. Which is going to make all the stupid issues around infotainment and subscription issues more acute.

The average age of all cars on UK roads has just hit 10 years: https://www.racfoundation.org/media-centre/average-car-in-th... ; EVs skew young because they're new.
by wongarsu | 2026-01-20 11:07:25+00:00
Why 18? Why not 21, or 26?

I agree with you that this would create a forbidden fruit, and a combination of social media becoming more desirable to under-16yo and teenagers binging social media as soon as they become 16. But the solution to that is to push the age limit down, not up. 14 or 12 would be much more reasonable ages. That gives parents a clear cutoff when their kids have to be ready for social media, and prevents bans in the phase where teens are most rebellious