MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jmyeet | 2026-01-15 00:06:15+00:00
> The modern US pickup truck isn't built for utility.

Not really true. Something like an F150/250/350 is absolutely built for utility. It's popular for a reason. It's just not used for utility by a large number of buyers. It's a "pavement princess".

The Cybertruck is an objectively bad product for many reasons of which utility is pretty high up there.

For example, it's really heavy because of the steel body yet it has an aluminium frame. The problem with aluminium is that it deforms with stress in a way that steel doesn't. Why does this matter? If you're towing a heavy load over rough terrain the frame is going to face large forces up and down that will end up snapping that frame.

> It's the suburban equivalent of a yuppie's Rolex Submariner.

That's a funny example because it shows you know just as much about watches as you do about trucks, which is to say nothing.

Sure, finance bros might buy Submariners but that doesn't change the fact that it's a very robust product designed for diving, originally. Now the need for that has been diminished because we now have dive computers, quartz dive watches and such and you can argue it's not worth ~$10k or that there as good or better options for less (which there are) but it's still an excellent product with many years of design to suit its original purpose.

Even if you use a dive computer as an experienced diver, you'll generally also have a dive watch because computers can fail [1].

> I say all of that to say that making a pickup truck for that market segment isn't a bad idea from a numbers perspective

So we have luxury SUVs where once the SUV was a commercial vehicle (eg Toyota Land Cruiser) and they may sacrifice some of the features such vehicles originally had (eg AWD) but the trades are made for a product that people want.

So yes, you could make an equivalent truck and say it has a market. Maybe it does. But even if it does, the Cybertruck isn't it. Because it's a terrible product for every purpose other than an expensive demonstration of your political leanings.

[1]: https://www.analogshift.com/blogs/transmissions/watches-for-...
by fpoling | 2026-01-15 00:06:35+00:00
We have a washing machine that also has a drier function. It dries much slower than a standalone drier as it consumes water during the drying circle to cool and condense the hot air from the clothes. But the big plus is that it works in mostly closed cycle reusing the air. And there is no need to clean the filter, just unclog the sink pipes once in few months.
by protocolture | 2026-01-15 00:06:42+00:00
Ok, a field test. Vs Australias actual full scale implementation, and the subsequent implementations by social media companies.

You cant honestly expect people to ignore the actual real world implementation right? Its not disingenuous to discuss whats actually been inflicted upon a full populace in favour of a test?

Not to forget that the UK was making lists of those it was providing digital licenses to. And that the UK has a history of leaking data like a sieve. The government making a list of known digital ID users can be coloured the same way.

Not to mention that not everyone will end up with a supported cryptographic device will they? Are we expecting this to run on linux without TPM 2.0? Lots of recent Linux migrants are there to avoid TPM 2.0 requirement. You keep mentioning hardware security, so I suspect its not going to be as easy as loading a certificate. Or even if extra methods for edge cases will be supported at all.

But its all still hypothetical anyway. We have an actual implementation to dissect. One that the Australian government is actively trying to sell to other countries.
by Dylan16807 | 2026-01-15 00:06:43+00:00
2G speeds are awful, and cell companies clearly want it that way since 3G plans throttled to "2G speeds" and 5G plans still usually throttle to "2G speeds".

Starlink is offering 1Mbps here, which is enough for a normal internet experience. It's enough to stream video at 480p or 720p depending on the exact content and encoding settings.
by yndoendo | 2026-01-15 00:06:46+00:00
US was also the one that started the solar panel industry during the cold war. After the cold war the politicians saw no value in it and a lot of the IP was sold to China. China is now out pacing the technology in solar. [0]

It is not about being first it is about continual investment to do it better. China are also the ones that have the most electric infrastructure to greatly reduce their reliance on foreign countries because of that momentum they kept up.

[0] https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262537070/taming-the-sun/
by andrekandre | 2026-01-15 00:07:09+00:00
fn Calculate Portfolio Risk(Initial Investment, Risk Factor) {
let My Very Special Adjustment = 0.95
Initial Investment * Risk Factor * My Very Special Adjustment
}

that is so cool; this is actually something i've been looking for a long time

and jam karet looks interesting; `if input ~= "yes"` made me smile.

i also liked the keyword replacement for multiple languages as well, that could be super usefull for children learning programming i'd think!
by wat10000 | 2026-01-15 00:08:12+00:00
It's also pretty common for people to want their tools to be able to access a lot of external stuff.

From Anthropic's page about this:

> If you've set up Claude in Chrome, Cowork can use it for browser-based tasks: reading web pages, filling forms, extracting data from sites that don't have APIs, and navigating across tabs.

That's a very casual way of saying, "if you set up this feature, you'll give this tool access to all of your private files and an unlimited ability to exfiltrate the data, so have fun with that."
by potato3732842 | 2026-01-15 00:08:37+00:00
Ford had a terrible but well packaging rear suspension design in those cars. It was designed to not have strut towers so he gets the full width which is probably around 4ft.

No way does the length check out though. I haul lumber in a similar size car and 8ft is basically trunk to dash so there's no way he's hauling an 8ft by 4ft sheet without it conflicting with the driver's seat if not torso.

Individual boards should fit in just about anything though.
by jt2190 | 2026-01-15 00:09:15+00:00
To be clear, you’re literally saying:

Legacy == vibe coded

And:

Others can not depend on vibe coded software

Thus you seem to mean:

Legacy code can not be depended on

I presume that through some process one can exorcise the legacy/vibe-codiness away. Perhaps code review of every line? (This would imply that the bottleneck to LLM output is human code review.) Or would having the LLM demonstrate correctness via generated tests be sufficient?
by ndsipa_pomu | 2026-01-15 00:09:22+00:00
However, one of Putin's aims is to destroy NATO and the U.S. attacking Greenland would likely lead to that. Also, Trump seems keen to flex military might (despite his FIFA Peace award), so it's not wise to ignore threats that he's made more than once.

It often makes more sense to view Trump's behaviour as him being a Putin plant to destroy the USA and weaken Europe. I'd guess that Putin has a lot of incriminating evidence of Trump being involved in dubious sexual acts.
by Eiriksmal | 2026-01-15 00:09:23+00:00
I bought a SpeedQueen washer-dryer set to have a dedicated wool wash option to care for my Gustin wool flannels and various 100% merino wool sweaters. Does that count?

I would imagine most people on this site don't deal with clothes shrinking any more because they are wearing screen-printed, startup-logo-emblazoned tri-blend t-shirts with a very low cotton count. So even though the shirt is presumably using the cheapest, gnarliest short-staple cotton the manufacturer could get his hands on, the sheer amount of manmade fibers in it allows that Custom Ink goodness to remain firmly a Medium for years. Well, that and the hugely boxy fit. How would you notice if any of it shrank?

"Modern" dryers' ability to tumble clothes on low until they are still pretty damp, but now wrinkle-free, then pull it out to finish on a rack means I don't have to give much thought to the proper maintenance of 99% cotton jeans or 100% duck canvas pants. I don't think the 100% cotton American Giant shirts and hoodies are particularly prone to shrinking, either, but they do seem to soak up stains more readily than American Apparel's tri-blends given away as swag.
by tanimasa | 2026-01-15 00:10:34+00:00
Since you mentioned encrypted document workflows, you likely suspected that we can't rely on the server to manage state transitions. You are correct: we rely entirely on client-side validation of "Replaceable Events" (Nostr NIP-01/NIP-33).

Here is the pattern OpenSlots uses to handle availability changes:

The Mechanism: Parameterized Replaceable Events

The original text mentioned "publishing encrypted, replaceable events." In the Nostr protocol, this refers to specific event kinds where relays are instructed to only store the newest version of an event from a specific pubkey with a specific identifier (the d tag).

1. Immutable Identity, Mutable State: The "Room" or "Schedule" is identified by a deterministic ID (derived from the random seed in the URL). This is the d tag.

2. The Update Loop:
- When the host changes availability (e.g., removes a Tuesday slot), the client generates a new availability bitmask.
- It encrypts this new payload with the same key (so existing URL holders can still read it).
- It signs and publishes a new event with the same d tag but a newer created_at timestamp.

3. Resolution (LWW):
- Relay Side: Relays discard the old event and store the new one (purely based on timestamp and ID, zero knowledge of content).
- Client Side: Even if a relay sends multiple versions (due to propagation delay), the client logic applies a Last-Write-Wins (LWW) policy, simply rendering the event with the latest timestamp.

Why this works for Scheduling

Since scheduling (in this specific context) is usually single-writer (the host defines availability) and multi-reader (attendees view it), we avoid complex merge conflicts.

- Host: Sole authority on the "Availability" event.
- Attendees: Sole authority on their own "Request/Booking" events.

If an attendee tries to book a slot that was just removed (a "stale read"), the host's client—upon receiving the booking request—checks it against its current local state and rejects it cryptographically (or simply ignores it), preventing the double-booking.
by themeiguoren | 2026-01-15 00:10:43+00:00
I ran my power bill for a small single family home through chatGPT and it was interesting. Cold winters/hot summers, electric stove, air conditioning during summers, and nothing else out of the ordinary that uses power.

- Base electricity: 17 kWh/day (10 in months without AC)

- Heating (currently gas): 33 kWh/day

- Heating (if I switched to heat pump with COP 3): 10 kWh/day

- EV charging at 10k miles/yr: 9 kWh/day

Total if I was fully electrified: 36 kWh/day, or 13 MWh/yr
by danpalmer | 2026-01-15 00:11:26+00:00
I'd disagree that that is usable today. A few days ago I had some network trouble that restricted me to about 350kbps, although stable without much packet loss, and a lot of stuff just didn't practically work. At that speed, loading images and resources on webpages within timeout limits is hard. Many web apps don't work, or degrade enough that you wouldn't want to use them.

Also what do we actually use the web for? A lot of streaming video and audio that won't work. A lot of reading webpages with a lot of images and ads, that won't work. I'm sure that Wikipedia would load and work slowly, but that's not really representative of web usage today.

There's a separate argument about whether the web should be like that, but regardless of your thoughts on that, it is like that.
by franciscop | 2026-01-15 00:11:28+00:00
I was going to comment exactly the same thing, thanks for expressing it so well and here's my upvote. I think part of why I wanted to comment the same, is that for me this IS exactly the reason I make open source! It is my gift for everyone, please use it well.

I do think it would be nice to get paid anything at all, but that wouldn't change at all how I do things/release code. In fact, unless it'd be really no-strings-attached, I'd prefer to keep the current arrangement than being paid a pittance per month and then have extra obligations.
by renewiltord | 2026-01-15 00:12:00+00:00
Yeah, “the science” has “found no evidence” for lots of things. And proven a lot of falsehoods. People are still walking around bullshitting bogus “The Science”. The reality is that the snail darter wasn’t some unique experience. The standard is to create papers that reflect the interests of the scientists, and to lie if required.

Given that and the Somali autism scam that is quite clearly a scam I think we’re well past “trust me, I’m an expert”
by antonymoose | 2026-01-15 00:12:06+00:00
Well, depending on the state, you can come into illegally America and work for below-minimum wage under the table, have several children (legal citizens through birthright citizenship) and then attain benefits on behalf of those children who, on paper, live in a household with little or no income.

None of this is made up. I grew up with several friends that had this arrangement and later in life attained citizenship, usually through military service, and told me the reality of their upbringing. It’s a complex environment.
by aspenmartin | 2026-01-15 00:12:49+00:00
“The marketing says it does more than that”

Then saying the scam is calling the technology AI because it isn’t “intelligent”?

You say only a matter of time until the definition is “clarified” — do elaborate on this. What’s your definition here that is so obvious that going against it is a scam?

Bubbles are bad, so nobody take risks anyone! To say this is a naive take is an understatement, what would you do if you were dictator, right now? What would you change?
by xyzzyxy | 2026-01-15 00:12:50+00:00
Yes, the broader context of that email chain is a broad unloading of a 'greatest hits' of a decade of grievances against SparkFun (the meme site mentioned was made in 2017, by an employee who no longer works there).

I quoted the lines that seemed to most obviously tip that particular email exchange beyond a measured harassment report (as originally implied), crossing the line into what could be reasonably considered 'unappropriately aggressive behavior' (to quote the SparkFun CoC).

I would agree that the ex-employee's 'Sincerely, Fuck Off' was similarly aggressive, but less relevant since he's no longer an employee anyway, and it seemed pretty clear that he was the one being subject to targeted harassment in this instance (having accusations being forwarded to his partner's employer) rather than the other way around.
by alexfoo | 2026-01-15 00:13:46+00:00
I agree with the bit about the having to enter a full postcode on some sites, I often use one nearby or, if they make me select a specific address for no valid reason I make sure I use a random address nearby. Apologies to some of my neighbours who might be bombarded with junk mail for services I’ve once been half interested in.

A full postcode is often much less than a single street.

Picking something at random stick “SW15 6DZ” into Google maps and you’ll see it only covers 6 buildings (most are individual houses but some are split into flats). According to the Royal Mail address finder site there are only 12 unique delivery addresses that share that postcode. The Western half of that road has 12 or so full postcodes for only 100 houses.

A full postcode and one other bit of information can often be enough to uniquely identify someone.

If a US 5 digit zipcode is roughly equivalent to the “general area” part of a UK postcode (94107 <=> SW15) then the full UK postcode is like the 9 digit US Zip+4 format where the extra 4 digits narrow location down to a block, part of a block or even a specific building.
by kylecazar | 2026-01-15 00:14:00+00:00
The current CEO's of Alphabet, MSFT, Nvidia, Uber, IBM, Adobe, AMD and many more are themselves immigrants.

There was an article from last year about Meta's AI lab, claiming all top researchers were foreigners. If you look into the research teams in any of the big tech companies you will see they are riddled with people born abroad. It turns out if you want the best in the world, many won't be American born.

Its not just about standard H1B's working in normal SWE roles. Immigrants hold key roles at key companies in SV and have a disproportionate influence on tech's direction. I agree with parent that we should be careful what we wish for.

Found the Meta article:

https://m.economictimes.com/nri/latest-updates/no-american-g...
by inferiorhuman | 2026-01-15 00:14:21+00:00
Nah, it's a spectrum. Companies like NXP and Infineon are at one end. NXP wants a ton of personal information to access even the most basic docs on some of its chips, sometimes even an NDA. Infineon won't even acknowledge you for the most part.

Companies like STM, RP, and TI are at the other end. STM got super popular because they're cheap and the documentation is incredibly easy to get at. I think RP is following suit.

Renesas puts out some documentation, but it's really rough. Anything that has even a whiff of crypto is completely undocumented. They're also squatting on a few Rust crates where Espressif actually hired a Rust developer to work on their Rust HAL. The most comical thing is that while they version their reference manual they don't seem to update it and instead issue a ton of broad errata that apply to multiple manuals.

Before the acquisition Atmel's documentation was well written and organized.
by vishyouluck | 2026-01-15 00:14:23+00:00
The central breakthrough of this implementation is the move from static, database-driven visualizations to living, AI-controlled interfaces using A2UI Protocol. Instead of simply querying a pre-indexed graph, an AI agent dynamically constructs the visualization in real-time using A2UI protocol based on the specific context of the investigation.
https://medium.com/@visrow/a2ui-protocol-tutorial-building-d...
by wat10000 | 2026-01-15 00:14:23+00:00
It's not for you.

It's self-centered to want others to communicate well to you when they aren't attempting to communicate with you in the first place.

You want to learn about the thing? You have the entire internet at your fingertips. Click search bar, type "pub rates," boom, thousands of news stories.

If you want to know what's going on, put in the bare minimum effort to find out. If you don't care then ignore it and move on.
by vdupras | 2026-01-15 00:15:16+00:00
One explanation could be that, if Trump is a Russian asset, he'd be more effective at it if he wasn't obviously one. Seizing all tankers except russian ones might be too obvious.

Therefore, it might be worth it for Russia to lose a few tankers in order to keep one of their greatest assets.

All hypothetical of course. I'm sure Trump isn't a Russian asset. No way they can have kompromat on such a virtuous guy.
by JPKab | 2026-01-15 00:15:39+00:00
You mean the Gazan civilians living in a densely populated area governed by a group of insane 9th century theocrats who launched a war they knew they couldn't win militarily with the objective of using their own citizens as human shields?

Yeah, they should be remembered, and Hamas should be remembered for refusing to surrender the hostages and letting them get slaughtered while they hid in their tunnels.
by defrost | 2026-01-15 00:15:45+00:00
Right here.

Got welders, maps, legs (useful for walking), ropes, furnaces, hand tools, old cars, old workstations, soldering irons, a kitchen, gardens, paddocks, saddle making tools, radio towers, .. you know, regular house in the country from the 1930s kind of stuff.

As I mentioned, this world still exists.
by _carbyau_ | 2026-01-15 00:15:54+00:00
> Scott Adams seems to have confined himself to merely expressing prejudiced views, amplified somewhat by his modest fame. But then his creative work doesn't in any way match Picasso's or Gill's either.

Scott's body of work spans many years and - like music bands - the early stuff is much different to the later stuff. To say he confined himself to "expressing prejudiced views" seems to overlook a whole lot of that early work.

To say his work doesn't "match" other artists work is subjective. I got/get the occasional giggle out of Dilbert - more often in the earlier ones. I don't care for Picasso's art at all but I recognise that other people do. Who's body of work should I personally rate higher? The top comment mentions feeling like Scott was family, while acknowledging all the flaws of Scott.

This is why I mention that good and bad actions can both stand.
by ajb | 2026-01-15 00:16:53+00:00
This is sad, and it doesn't reflect especially well on either party. Here's the thing, though: we evolved in a world where being expelled from the tribe was a death sentence. When people fall out, often their instinct is to try to preemptively convince everyone else that the other guy is the evil guy who should be kicked out. To convince everyone else to take a side.

We don't live in that world any more. You're not gonna die if you don't convince everyone that the other guy is the evil one. It's perfectly fine to decide that you just can't deal with someone else, and you can do that while accepting that you don't need everyone else to take a side or be convinced of your reasons.
by Dylan16807 | 2026-01-15 00:16:53+00:00
There's all this blank space to the left of the comment. Some of that could be used for bigger arrows.

Or some of the buttons on a comment could be hidden until you tap the comment. (And you can do it in CSS if div toggle is an offensive amount of javascript.)

There are some low-hanging fruit that would make the experience better. It's fine but it's not great.
by potato3732842 | 2026-01-15 00:16:57+00:00
I drive a wagon, among other vehicles. I live in a "tech area" of the country.

Last weekend I hauled ~700lb of rebar on the roof (because they come in 20ft sticks so the wagon is the best choice). The number of dirty looks I got was off the charts. The same exact demographics that are in here shitting on pickups were judging me for not using one. Good thing I don't give a shit what anyone else thinks.
by alexpotato | 2026-01-15 00:17:24+00:00
One of my favorite stories from the dotcom bust is when people, after the bust, said something along the lines of: "Take Pets.com. Who the hell would buy 40lb dogfood bags over the internet? And what business would offer that?? It doesn't make sense at all economically! No wonder they went out of business."

Yet here we are, 20 years later, routinely ordering FURNITURE on the internent and often delivered "free".

My point being, sure, there is a lot of hype around AI but that doesn't mean that there aren't nuggets of very useful projects happening.
by Analemma_ | 2026-01-15 00:17:34+00:00
The Octal app has better touch targets on mobile and manages to show more text at the same time. Here’s a pair of screenshots from my iPhone of the top of the “Is Rust Faster than C” comments. [0] is mobile Safari, [1] is Octal. The app shows more text.

This is exactly what makes me nuts about this whole debate: the complete lack of empiricism or nuance. People would rather just have their knee-jerk outrage about JavaScript or web design fads, instead of actually checking whether the things they’re saying are true.

[0]: https://imgur.com/a/aOvLFcM

[1]: https://imgur.com/a/7R14m4d