MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by buran77 | 2026-01-30 12:35:12+00:00
> The comparison isn't really like-for-like.

This is a statement of fact but based on this assumption:

> low-speed contact events that would often never show up as police-reported crashes for human drivers

Assumptions work just as well both ways. Musk and Tesla have been consistently opaque when it comes to the real numbers they base their advertising on. Given this past history of total lack of transparency and outright lies it's safe to assume that any data provided by Tesla that can't be independently verified by multiple sources is heavily skewed in Tesla's favor. Whatever safety numbers Tesla puts out you can bet your hat they're worse in reality.
by mlrtime | 2026-01-30 12:35:14+00:00
>One take-away for us from that viewpoint was that knowledge in fact is more important than the lines of code in the repo. We'd rather lose the source code than the knowledge of our workers, so to speak.

Isn't this the opposite of how large tech companies operate? They can churn develops in/out very quickly, hire-to-fire, etc... but the code base lives on. There is little incentive to keep institutional knowledge. The incentives are PRs pushed and value landed.
by whynotmaybe | 2026-01-30 12:35:15+00:00
Outside of the personal opinions of Musk, what is the most annoying for me is the constant false promises.

They sell cars based on promises that a missing function will work in a few months/years and that your car will be compatible.

With the years of feedback we have now, we know that those were not promises but lies.

Other brands sell as-is cars, without empty promises. (outside the stupid "perfect outback trip" in every SUV/pickup ad)

I now see Musk as a con man, a very smart con man with a lot of money, not a visionary.

Yes there is dieselgate and yes, every car manufacturer tries to circumvent the system to improve profit. (Every includes also Tesla)
by functionmouse | 2026-01-30 12:36:26+00:00
As this is the first time I've seen a device branded as a "dedicated vibe coding device", I'd like to christen the term "SlopTop" for this.

More generally, I can't believe these modern UMPC people keep getting this wrong: The trackpoint goes in the middle of the keyboard so that you can use the mouse without your hands leaving the home row. It's for touch typing!
by SapporoChris | 2026-01-30 12:36:40+00:00
"I'd love to see video of the incident because driving 17mph (27kph for metric types) in this context is reckless and not something human would typically do"

I am not sure what your definition of typical is. The reason we have lower speed zones in school districts at specific times is because humans typically drive fast. The reason police officers frequently target these areas and write a plethora of tickets is because humans typically ignore speed limits.

Your claim seems to be that a human would drive much slower than the posted speed limit considering the conditions, but the laws and the court room suggest otherwise.
by ThisNameIsTaken | 2026-01-30 12:37:38+00:00
That is on the main branch. Behind the scenes [1] they're working a a huge rewrite to use the Bevy engine. A big effort that seems to be moving at a quite constant pace. It seems they're doing it quite rigourously: I've seen some issues in the bevy tracker where they check what is specific to their project, or where bevy can use some work.

[1]: https://github.com/nannou-org/nannou/tree/bevy-refactor
by shmeeed | 2026-01-30 12:38:51+00:00
>anyone interested in a spyware-eviscerating, copilot-extracting, settings-preserving app that allows you to retain a mostly-XP style look, and which remains resident to alert you of Microslop changing settings back?

I'm not, MS already lost me. But I would bet there's a market for such an app, if done right.
by marricks | 2026-01-30 12:38:57+00:00
Wait, so your argument is there's only 9 crashes so we should wait until there's possibly 9,000 crashes to make an assessment? That's crazy dangerous.

At least 3 of them sound dangerous already, and it's on Tesla to convince us they're safe. It could be a statistical anomaly so far, but hovering at 9x the alternative doesn't provide confidence.
by anonymous344 | 2026-01-30 12:40:15+00:00
for ibs: no coffee, milk (any milk), vegetable oils, wheats, soy, or anything from USA :D and no sugar or alco
then slippery elm and probiotics, d-vitamin + c-vitamin.
fasting, intermediate is also helpful.
add berries and yes, beef meat and lots of greens.
with strict diet ibs goes better.
by PxldLtd | 2026-01-30 12:40:36+00:00
OP here. I built a simple CLI wrapper that pipes the stdout of text adventures into real-time image generation.

It uses a state-machine so the visuals stay somewhat consistent as you traverse. It's fully playable now but not validated against many games. It generally costs in the cents/pennies per session thanks to caching.

To try the built-in demo:

`pip install pipedream-fiction`

`export GEMINI_API_KEY=...`

`pipedream-gui`

Let me know what you think
by bryant | 2026-01-30 12:40:48+00:00
I get the emotion behind this comment (and the previous one you deleted), but putting leadership credit where it's due, 99.999% of the operational and strategic leadership at SpaceX is Gwynne Shotwell's.

She's essentially the CEO, even if not in title. And she does a great job isolating and insulating SpaceX and its staff from the specific tilts of its named CEO.
Show HN: Turkish Sieve Engine – Reaching 1.1T-Items/S on a Single GPU
by bilgisoft | 2026-01-30 12:40:58+00:00
Hi HN,

I’ve been working on an optimized prime sieve implementation called the Turkish Sieve Engine (TSE). I recently got my hands on an RTX 5090 and managed to break the 1 Tera-item/s barrier, reaching 1.136 T-items/s at the 10^12 range.

The project uses a methodology I call "N/6 Bit-Indexing." By mapping only numbers of the form 6k±1 and using a bit-compressed representation, I’ve managed to significantly reduce the memory footprint. This allows processing ranges up to 10^14 (100 trillion) with about 17GB of VRAM usage, which is well within the limits of modern consumer GPUs.

Key results from my latest benchmarks:

Range 10^12 (1 Trillion): 0.880 seconds (1.13 T-items/s)

Range 10^14 (100 Trillion): 359 seconds (6 minutes) on an RTX 5090

Twin vs Cousin Primes: Verified the Hardy-Littlewood conjecture at 10^14 with a variance of only 0.0003%.

The engine uses a hybrid CUDA/OpenMP approach. For the CPU side, I optimized it for the L3 cache of the Ryzen 9 9950X3D (using 192.5 KB segments), hitting 66 G-items/s.

I’ve archived the results and the methodology on Zenodo (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18038661) for those interested in the academic side.

The code is open source and I’d love to hear your thoughts on further CUDA kernel optimizations or memory management.
by johnnyanmac | 2026-01-30 12:41:02+00:00
Yes. And here I am nearly 3 yesrs post last full time, 9 years of exexperience, and still looking (feel free to read my struggles in detail below).

What do you recommend applying to? I work in games so I guess I'm playing on hard mode (especially in these times), but the common wisdom of "normal software jobs love taking game programners in" hasn't rung true this time around.

----

Life story: Laid off mid 2023. I took a few months off when I got laid off, but the last quarter of 2023 wasn't kind to me.

2024 got me some freelance work, so I wasn't out on the streets, but it was a complete circus of an interview racket. Honestly worse than my first job hunt out of college. Its bad when you feel deep down there was someone better than you, but when you go 5 rounds in with good vibes to hear... Nothing back? That's truly disrespectful. And it sadly wasn't a one off.

Then in 2025 I hit some medical emergencies so I needed to urgently find anything. So I found part time work outside of tech and made due with that as I paid down those debts. That totaled up to a part time freelance gig, a part time job, and a few (failed) attempts at some hustles over 2025 only to end up making maybe a third of what I made back in 2022.

Now it's 2026 and I'll try again next month. My freelance work covers any gaps I would have had, I have a website almost ready with some personal projects to point to, and I'm overall more adjusted to the realities of this current market and will approach accordingly. I'm optimistic, but I know we're still in the thick of the weeds here. So I'll take any leads I can get.
by dzonga | 2026-01-30 12:41:57+00:00
> The drill doesn’t ask how you’re enjoying your experience drilling. It doesn’t upsell you on premium hole-making

Damn you wonder how we as a Software Industry lost the plot - hell - I have a product in e-commerce analytics one of the features I never put in was 'Retention / Cohorts' etc - coz in the real world retailers don't speak in those terms
by WillAdams | 2026-01-30 12:43:18+00:00
(ob. discl., I work for a company which sells software in this space)

I wrote up a bit on Carbide Create at:

- https://willadams.gitbook.io/design-into-3d/2d-drawing (note that there is a link to a free (as in beer) download for Windows or Mac OS at that link)

- https://willadams.gitbook.io/design-into-3d/toolpaths

Other commercial programs which one licenses and installs and which don't intrude beyond that include:

- MeshCAM https://www.grzsoftware.com/

- Alibre https://www.alibre.com/ (note that there is a CAM option which is a re-badged MeshCAM)

- Moment of Inspiration 3D https://moi3d.com/ (this is probably the next commercial package I try)

and of course FreeCAD has a CAM Workbench which has seen great strides and Solvespace has a basic facility for G-code generation and some folks just program G-code/CAM directly --- I've been working on a tool for that myself: https://github.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview
by andy12_ | 2026-01-30 12:44:18+00:00
How is it not a world model? The latents of the model apparently encode enough information to represent a semi-consistent interactuable world. Seems enough world-modely to me.

Besides, we already know that agents can be trained with these world models successfully. See[1]:

> By learning behaviors in imagination, Dreamer 4 is
the first agent to obtain diamonds in Minecraft purely from offline data, without environment
interaction. Our work provides a scalable recipe for imagination training, marking a step
towards intelligent agents

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.24527
by epolanski | 2026-01-30 12:44:40+00:00
Elon is aware that Tesla insane market valuation would crash 10x if it stays a car company.

There isn't enough money and most importantly margin in the car industry to warrant such a valuation, so he has to pivot away from cars into the next thing.

Just to make an example of how risky it is to be a car company for Tesla.

In 2025 Toyota has had: 3.5 times Tesla's revenue, 8 times the net income and twice the margin.

And Toyota has a market cap that is 6 times lower than Tesla.

It would take tesla a gargantuan effort to match Toyota's numbers and margins, and if it matched it...it would be a disaster for Tesla's stock.

Hell, Tesla makes much less money than Mercedes Benz and with a smaller margin..

Mercedes has 60% more revenue and twice the net income. Yet, Tesla is valued around 40 times Mercedes-Benz.

Tesla *must* pivot away from cars and make it a side business or sooner or later that stuff is crashing, and it will crash fast and hard.

Musk understands that, which is why he focusing on robo taxis and robots. It's the only way to sell Tesla to naive investors.
by FrancisMoodie | 2026-01-30 12:44:51+00:00
If all companies fire 50% of their engineers, how will anybody find similar new jobs? In an ideal world software productivity doubling WOULD be a huge boon for the economy IF companies used the increased productivity of their engineers as a way to manage tech debt, R&D and other issues that were put in the backlog because historically there were no resources for this. In reality all companies look at increased productivity as a source for layoffs which does not translate in higher output but the same output done by less people. Which is a net negative because now you have 50% of all engineers without a job and no discernible increase in quality of deliverables.
by nirui | 2026-01-30 12:45:29+00:00
Unlikely. What's more likely is that they just simply don't care. They have turned this into an arms race now, killing off competitors is much more important than caring about coastal damage or even their own future.

But this does highlight the fact that most of our hardware is produced (and thus can be restricted) by a few cartel-like players, just like what's happened in the Internet industry.
by hnthrow0287345 | 2026-01-30 12:45:49+00:00
It can be I guess, but I think it's more about solving problems. You can fix a lot of peoples' problems by shipping different flavors of the same stuff that's been done before. It feels more like a trade.

People naturally try to use what they've learned but sometimes end up making things more complicated than they really needed to be. It's a regular problem even excluding the people intentionally over-complicating things for their resume to get higher paying jobs.
Show HN: Underscore – Code with AI in the browser, zero setup required
by antonellof | 2026-01-30 12:45:58+00:00
I built Underscore a browser-based coding environment that runs entirely in the cloud. There’s no local setup, CLI, or Docker—open the site and start coding with AI assistance from any device.

Each project runs in its own persistent cloud container (Cloudflare) with common languages and tools preinstalled (Node.js, Python, Go, Rust, Bun, etc.). It’s built on top of opencode (https://opencode.ai
), an open-source AI coding agent.

Features:

Cloud containers with persistent storage

Access from any browser

75+ AI models (Claude Sonnet 4.5, GPT-5.2 Codex, DeepSeek R1, etc.)

Project templates (AI agents, serverless functions, web apps, APIs, E2E tests)

GitHub integration (clone repos, push changes back)

MCP directory with one-click setup for 20+ services (GitHub, Linear, AWS, Sentry, PostgreSQL, etc.)

Automatic public preview URLs for dev servers

Built-in terminal and file browser (code editor coming soon)

Status: Beta. Core workflows work, but there are rough edges.

I’d love feedback from HN on what’s useful, what’s missing, and where this fits (or doesn’t) in your workflow. Happy to answer questions about the architecture or AI integration.
Show HN: Aethra – Composing music with a clean, beginner-friendly DSL
by CzaxTanmay | 2026-01-30 12:46:10+00:00
Hi HN,

I built Aethra — a small, easy-to-learn domain-specific language specifically for making music.

It's implemented in C# (.NET) and lets you express musical ideas directly as code without fighting general-purpose language boilerplate.

The syntax is intentionally minimal and music-first (inspired by live coding environments but much simpler to get started with).

Repo: https://github.com/TanmayCzax/aethra

Would love to hear:
- What do musicians / coders think of the syntax?
- What musical features are missing for you?
- Any horrible design decisions?

Thanks for looking!
by dissent | 2026-01-30 12:46:31+00:00
I saw more of an awkward guy doing a weird gesture, either because he was trying to be edgy, or he meant it as something else. He might even have done it as an ill advised joke because people were already calling him one.

It's silly to call him a nazi because he doesn't fit the profile well at all. It only works if you redefine nazi to be whatever you don't agree with at the moment. This might even be harmful, as it's an obvious strawman that provides cover for his real faults.

He denies being a nazi. We can take his word on that. One thing about nazis is they are weren't shy about their beliefs.
by seethishat | 2026-01-30 12:46:40+00:00
Many game mods and community maps, etc. are only available on PC. You can play the vanilla version on console, but not the mods you watch Twitch streamers playing. So, it's not b/c they like building PCs, it's because they want to play the mods with their friends.

I am speaking as an old gamer. I no longer play.
by gzell | 2026-01-30 12:46:58+00:00
I've had that same sense starting years ago, and this is the first time I've seen another programmer articulate it. For me, the disillusionment started with Microsoft Foundation Classes and J2EE. They made creating systems challenging in all the wrong ways, and the learning not really learning. Now that it no longer matters whether I learn the latest fad or not, I'm happy to let AI work the libraries. But I'm grateful I'm not entering the field today and that AI wasn't around when I started, because I never would have learned what it really takes to create something from nothing. Still, ML is and damn fun, or more accurately, seductive.
by NietTim | 2026-01-30 12:47:12+00:00
What claims are you even responding to? Your comment confuses me.

This is just a tool that uses existing models under the hood, nowhere does it claim to be "actual intelligence" or do anything special. It's "just" an agent orchestration tool, but the first to do it this way which is why it's so hyped now. It indeed is just "ai" as any other "ai" (because it's just a tool and not its own ai).
by btreecat | 2026-01-30 12:47:29+00:00
>idk why Arch doesn't invest in whats standard in every other major distro

Because in reality, you should be able to use the wiki for installing. Because if you can't, you might not be able to use the wiki to support yourself in the future.

The issue most people have with slapping some paint on arch then riding the coat tails is the eternal September effect. Arch community prefers folks who try to help themselves _first_ and reading an install wiki is a good indicator you're going to do that.
by noncoml | 2026-01-30 12:47:52+00:00
> other approaches, which use sensors like LIDAR as a crutch for their more rudimentary software.

Do me a favor and take Musk and get on a plane with just a bunch of cameras instead of sevsors like radar, airspeed sensor, altimeter, GPS, ILS, etc.

No need for those crutches. Do autopiloting like a real man!
by luxuryballs | 2026-01-30 12:48:18+00:00
I expect, especially in things like transit or healthcare, that people still need to review the code that is written. Even if we write bots that are good at scanning code for issues, we still can’t risk trusting any code blindly for some industries…

I can start to see the dangers of ai now, whereas before it was more imaginary sci-fi stuff I couldn’t pin down. On the other hand a dystopian sci-fi full of smart everything seems more possible now since code can be whipped up so easily, which means perhaps that the ability for your smart-monocle to find and hack things in every day life is also way more likely now if the world around you is saturated by quick and insecure code.
by iamflimflam1 | 2026-01-30 12:48:54+00:00
I would also point out that a lot of real world problems don’t need a complex architecture. They just need to follow some well established patterns.

It is a pattern matching problem and that seems to me to be something AI is/will be particularly good at.

Maybe it won’t be the perfect architecture, or the most efficient implementation. But that doesn’t seem to have stopped many companies before.
by kreetx | 2026-01-30 12:50:01+00:00
The Alex Pretti shooting is what started this thread (way up).

Though back to filming, while it's legal to just film a cop, then it may not be while an operation is ongoing. If you film the operation in quiet then I guess it's up to debate whether that is interfering with police work. But the protesters were also whistling along with the officers, i.e, giving away that they're there, etc.
by verhash | 2026-01-30 12:50:34+00:00
This repository implements a deterministic exclusion engine where governance decisions are treated as a mechanical process rather than a probabilistic one. Candidates exist as stateful objects that accumulate strain under a scheduled constraint pressure. Pressure is applied across explicit phases—nucleation, quenching, and crystallization—and exclusion occurs only when accumulated stress exceeds a fixed yield threshold. Once fractured, a candidate cannot re-enter; history matters.

There is no ranking, sampling, or temperature. Given identical inputs, configuration, and substrate, the system always produces bit-identical outputs, verified by repeated hash checks. The implementation explores different elastic modulus formulations that change how alignment and proximity contribute to stress, without changing the deterministic nature of the process. The intent is to examine what governance looks like when exclusion is causal, replayable, and mechanically explainable rather than statistical. Repository: https://github.com/Rymley/Deterministic-Governance-Mechanism
by drooby | 2026-01-30 12:51:14+00:00
Exactly this.

I’m starting to believe that people who think AI-generated code is garbage actually don’t know how to code.

I hit about 10 years of coding experience right before AI hit the scene, which I guess makes me lucky. I know, with high confidence, what I want my code to look like, and I make the AI do it. And it does it damn well and damn fast.

I think I sit at a unique point for leveraging AI best. Too junior and you create “working monsters.” Meanwhile, Engineering Managers and Directors treat it like humans, but it’s not AGI yet.
by paride5745 | 2026-01-30 12:52:53+00:00
Yep, luckily they represent a very small, albeit loud, minority of Linux users.

The vast majority of Linux users are very happy to get an official GOG Galaxy for Linux. I hope they will plug into Proton and collaborate with Valve, but we really need official tools and brands on Linux for common users to feel comfortable enough to come over.
by whizzter | 2026-01-30 12:52:56+00:00
The context was also weirdly random, probably with some logic for longtime Blender users but just weirdly random.

The usual context for modelling, [[[ Mode(model/uv/anim) -> Object/Mesh selection -> Face/Line/Vertex selection ]]] that is found [[[ (top-to-bottom)-(left-to-right) ]]] since Blender 2.8 and most other programs used to be placed [[[ middle of screen-top of screen-middle of screen ]]], just an insane order and that stuff was actually defended by Blender-die-hards (that probably used keybindings for these context switches anyhow).

There is still things placed "weirdly", but once we got past that it became immensly better (and not rage-quit worthy).
by Uehreka | 2026-01-30 12:53:03+00:00
I feel like I’ve unlocked a magic cheat code here, everyone listen up:

I read that GasTown post, thought it was cool, pulled it down, found out the principles are there but the implementation is still a little glitchy, took a couple IDEAS from Gas Town (beads and the idea of controlling an agent with hooks and tmux), made a small ralph-wiggum-loop-ish thing, and I’m now building my 4th (this is not a joke) Acid3-compliant browser this week (Acid3 doesn’t include HTML5, so this is a large but not unreasonable project).

And I did it all without investing a dime in any crypto, or telling anyone to do so (for the record: stay in school kids, don’t invest in crypto). I have somehow achieved all of the upside with none of the downside. Study me. I’ve clearly figured out something that has eluded all of these pump-and-dump callout bloggers.
by stephen_g | 2026-01-30 12:53:10+00:00
The idea isn’t great, tunnels for cars or pods have really low throughput (low occupancy + safety margin headways, even at a high speed). And it hinged on them magically revolutionising an already highly mature field, which surprise, surprise didn’t work out.

If it had been possible to speed up and reduce the cost of tunneling, the thing that would most make sense is running regular trains through them. But they never had any real ideas to actually make it cheaper or faster (apart for making it too small for proper emergency egress), just the idea that SV tech guys would be able to find a way to do it.