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by tracker1 | 2026-01-29 18:18:33+00:00
For me, it's mostly that I'm more comfortable with TS/JS ecosystem... Deno is really nice in that you can import module references directly... I guess you can do similar with uv installed and have dependencies in comments in the top of the file (in another comment).

For me, though TS is something I'm generally using anyway, web projects, etc. I'm comfortable with it, and there are modules for almost everything under the sun.. except a working MS-SQL client for Deno.
by ollin | 2026-01-29 18:18:46+00:00
Really great to see this released! Some interesting videos from early-access users:

- https://youtu.be/15KtGNgpVnE?si=rgQ0PSRniRGcvN31&t=197 walking through various cities

- https://x.com/fofrAI/status/2016936855607136506 helicopter / flight sim

- https://x.com/venturetwins/status/2016919922727850333 space station, https://x.com/venturetwins/status/2016920340602278368 Dunkin' Donuts

- https://youtu.be/lALGud1Ynhc?si=10ERYyMFHiwL8rQ7&t=207 simulating a laptop computer, moving the mouse

- https://x.com/emollick/status/2016919989865840906 otter airline pilot with a duck on its head walking through a Rothko inspired airport
by Zigurd | 2026-01-29 18:19:06+00:00
Vehicle design also plays a role: passenger cars have to meet pedestrian collision standards. Trucks don't. The silly butch grilles on SUVs and pickups are deadly. This is more of an argument for not seeing transportation as a fashion or lifestyle statement. Those truck designs are about vanity and gender affirming care. It's easier to make rational choices when it's a business that's worried about liability making those choices.
by jjice | 2026-01-29 18:19:31+00:00
The most interesting part of it to me (that isn't anything particularly special, but I hadn't seen it before) is giving it full file system access so it'll write it's own tools to come back to later.

It's an obvious move in hindsight, but I hadn't thought of it. Now, the amount of people running it outside of a sandbox or isolated machine and giving it that kind of access would probably make me cry.
by direwolf20 | 2026-01-29 18:20:17+00:00
But it's true. Microsoft's reputation is in the toilet. After everything from the ICC sanctions to the AI spam in Windows to this month's Patch Tuesday incident, everyone knows to avoid Microsoft products like their life depends on it.

But if you want an actionable idea here's one: make it a hundred times cheaper, or free. People use Oracle Cloud because it's free, even though Oracle is even worse than Microsoft. If you want people to use it, you know what to do.
by shoaibmerchant | 2026-01-29 18:20:44+00:00
Creator here,

For the IMX8MP - The pinephone was 1.2 GHz, this is 1.8 GHz on all four cores. As far as geekbench goes it hits between the Pi 3 and Pi 4, faster EMMC and LPDDR4 gives it a bigger boost compared to the Pi 3. The PCIe 3.0 is also there. Yes it is not equivalent to a desktop use, but for a phone sized usecases, the processor has not been a bottle neck. The advantage you get is a battery life that goes 7 hours on idle with the display on, and on sleep it can go upto 8D and wake up instantly.

The IMX95 is 4xA55 at 1.8GHz but you can check the geekbench below, it matches the single core performance of Pi 4 and beats it at multi-core performance while offering LPDDR5. But at the same time, is only 15% more power hungry than the 8MP.

So the way we see it -

Pi 3 < Comet 8MP < Pi 4 < Comet 95 < Pi 5

Ref: https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/compare/15259040?baseli...
by crazygringo | 2026-01-29 18:21:16+00:00
> There is no evidence that the UN estimate actually used better methods.

The article certainly argues that the UN used better methods. Do you have evidence to the contrary? See:

> So the 2022 population estimate was an extrapolation from the 2000 census, and the number that the PNG government arrived at was 9.4 million. But this, even the PNG government would admit, was a hazy guess... It’s not a country where you can send people to survey the countryside with much ease. And so the PNG government really had no idea how many people lived in the country.

> Late in 2022, word leaked of a report that the UN had commissioned. The report found that PNG’s population was not 9.4 million people, as the government maintained, but closer to 17 million people—roughly double the official number. Researchers had used satellite imagery and household surveys to find that the population in rural areas had been dramatically undercounted.
by koolba | 2026-01-29 18:21:20+00:00
> Waymo said its robotaxi struck the child at six miles per hour, after braking “hard” from around 17 miles per hour. The young pedestrian “suddenly entered the roadway from behind a tall SUV, moving directly into our vehicle’s path,” the company said in its blog post. Waymo said its vehicle “immediately detected the individual as soon as they began to emerge from behind the stopped vehicle.”

As this is based on detection of the child, what happens on Halloween when kids are all over the place and do not necessarily look like kids?
by vel0city | 2026-01-29 18:21:39+00:00
They give potentially worse pricing on a lot of the basic things (egress bandwidth, basic VM hosting, storage pricing) because their real value-add are all the extra managed services they offer on top of those things, the scale they're able to offer, and the more enterprise features.

If you're using AWS/GCP/Azure to just host a couple of VMs for a small group you're massively overpaying.
by coppsilgold | 2026-01-29 18:21:50+00:00
My understanding is that it has gotten fairly complex. Don't know if they still use this particular facet but look at the Fourier-Mellin transform: <https://sthoduka.github.io/imreg_fmt/docs/fourier-mellin-tra...>

They don't use the highest frequencies as those watermarks are easy to obliterate, and they don't use the lowest frequencies as those would noticeably affect quality, the focus is generally on the mid range frequencies. However for A/B watermarking in particular which involve 1-bit watermarks, low frequencies may actually be fair game.

Keep in mind that when embedding watermarks of significant size (>100 bits) as for example if you want to create a camera that includes the serial of the device in every photo, error correcting codes would also be used. For 1-bit watermarks the error correction is likely ad-hoc and involves constructing some mathematical object (for example, a few real numbers derived from frames of a segment) which remains approximately fixed through transformations, you can afford to be wasteful.
by johnsmith1840 | 2026-01-29 18:21:54+00:00
This has been happening for years. Tgere's a great paper from microsoft on Deepspeed AI inference.

Basically the paper showed methods for how to handle heavy traffic load by changing model requirements or routing to different ones. This was awhile ago and I'm sure it's massively more advanced now.

Also why some of AI's best work for me is early morning and weekends! So yes, the best time to code with modern LLM stacks is when nobody else is. It's also possibly why we go through phases of "they neutered the model" some time after a new release.
by boondongle | 2026-01-29 18:22:08+00:00
I just hate that what's actually going on with this company is so buried between Musk's bs, and people hate Musk so much that they spew bs as well. Seems to be just "pick your liar" with this company.

X going away probably isn't surprising given sales dynamics. More people would tend to opt for the cross-over or sedan. The model S is a little more shocking since it was always niche, but honestly Tesla doesn't have the trim to be priced like that and I suspect in order to get from where they're at to BMW/Audi etc., just isn't where they want to invest their money.

This definitely feels like an "oh no, people stopped buying" pivot but the moves themselves make sense.
by toast0 | 2026-01-29 18:22:14+00:00
Ok, that's not really a simple change anymore, because you need more space for that. Unless it's really just a drop off queue, but then it's not parked cars, since a parked car blocks the queue.

We would really need to see the site to have an idea of the constraints, Santa Monica has some places where additional roadway can be accomodated and some places where that's not really an option.
by linuxhansl | 2026-01-29 18:22:34+00:00
The regulator must step in now and allow installing applications outside of the AppStore! We are witnessing in real-time what a monopoly and a walled garden leads to.

I'm not betting the US to do this right now. But look at the EU... Alternative app stores are allowed (forced by EU regulations), and it already lead to lower fees.

The vast majority of people will continue find and install (and pay for) stuff via the AppStore.

Let this be a cautionary tale for Google's plans with Android (developer verification, etc).
by jjk166 | 2026-01-29 18:22:34+00:00
How can any estimate, even a very poor estimate, be not genuine if there isn't a known better estimate? If I estimate there are 8 alien civilizations in the milky way it may be a truly terrible estimate, and the methods by which I came up with that estimate (eg one per galactic arm) may not stand up to any rigorous scrutiny, but it's as genuine an estimate as any other. To be not genuine, there must be something that is genuine, which it is not.

You don't need to necessarily know the right answer to have a fake estimate, but you have to be doing something to the estimate that you know is making it worse, which is equivalent to having the estimate where you didn't do that, which would be better.
by usefulposter | 2026-01-29 18:22:39+00:00
Precisely. Environmental context is not considered in Waymo's "peer-reviewed model" (I encourage reflexive commenters to first read it: https://waymo.com/safety/collision-avoidance-benchmarking), only basic driver behavior and traffic signal timings.

Note the weaselly worded "immediately detected the individual as soon as they began to emerge" in the puff piece from Waymo Comms. No indication that they intend to account for environmental context going forward.

If they already do, why isn't it factored in the model?
by throwup238 | 2026-01-29 18:22:47+00:00
Bamboo is orthotropic so it’s strong parallel to its fibers but much weaker perpendicular to them whereas wood is adapted to grow in both directions at the expense of being much slower. When you start adding fasteners (screws, nails, etc) bamboo starts to split along the fibers, becoming brittle and weakening the entire support structure.

That’s not to say it’s not strong enough necessarily, but building with bamboo requires different construction techniques and people are still working on validating its safety and updating building codes, which takes decades.
by frootoftheloom | 2026-01-29 18:22:58+00:00
Code visualization tools exist but are static, paid, intrusive, or not descriptive

In any case it's been a nice to have for years. Now with AI, I can't really read every line it changes, so I decided to make a top-down view.

I think there's a mismatch between execution and decision speed, so I'm trying to bridge that here.
by siavosh | 2026-01-29 18:23:14+00:00
I’ve heard it said that monopolies aren’t a flaw of the system—they’re its product. What else could perpetual, cutthroat competition lead to? This isn’t an unintended consequence. In every new era, even when an industry is disrupted or reinvented, a small number of dominant companies work aggressively to prevent real upheaval—by acquiring smaller competitors, engaging in regulatory capture, and shaping the rules in their favor. Historically, governments have often served the interests of their corporate patrons. The system itself is built for maximal extraction, and there is no “invisible hand” waiting in the wings to protect consumers. There are no evil and good CEOs, just cogs in this machine doing what they're incentivized to do, accumulate.
by nozzlegear | 2026-01-29 18:23:53+00:00
This is why I moved off of Azure and over to Hetzner's US VPS's. For what I was deploying (a few dozen websites, some relatively complex .NET web apps, some automated scripts, etc.), the pricing on Azure just wasn't competitive. But worse for me was the complexity; I found that using Azure encouraged me to introduce more and more complex deployment pipelines, when all I really needed was Build the container -> SCP it into a blue/green deployment scheme on a VPS -> flip a switch after testing it.
by oakesm9 | 2026-01-29 18:24:08+00:00
As someone who lives on a residential street right by a primary school in the UK, the majority of drivers are going over 20mph even at the peak time when there are children everywhere.

While in theory human drivers should be situationally aware of the higher risks of children being around, the reality is that the majority will be in their own bubble of being late to drop their kid off and searching for the first free spot they can find.
by simoncion | 2026-01-29 18:24:13+00:00
If he did care, then why would he advertise and widely make the tool available? Wouldn't he keep it a secret closely held between him and his friends and colleagues?

After all, if folks that make real, sustained use of Gas Town are permitted to do it for 200, 400, or 600 USD per month, then widespread use of Gas Town absolutely destroys the heavy subsidy that his use of Gas Town theoretically relies on.

No, I don't buy it.
by bigyabai | 2026-01-29 18:24:19+00:00
It was 2008; "big box" software was largely seen as obsolete to the vast majority of developers. Marketing was done online, and the benefit of investing in retail had stopped outweighing the consequences. Online updates quickly became the norm, and service features supplanted point-of-sale business model (much like Apple's double-dip into microtransaction profits).

Apple chose 30% because they knew they weren't a retailer. You can hunt for a cheaper Diablo II copy online or at Wal-Mart, but not on iPhone.
by fennecbutt | 2026-01-29 18:24:21+00:00
>reacted after seeing the child step out from behind the SUV.

Lmao most drivers I see on the roads aren't even capable of slowing down for a pedestrian crossing when the view of the second half of the crossing is blocked by traffic (ie they cannot see if someone is about to step out, especially a child).

Humans are utterly terrible drivers.
by joe_mamba | 2026-01-29 18:24:23+00:00
That's a nicely thought out setup, but why would other people want to do that hassle, instead of just getting a cheap laptop, which is what most people do?

You're making up niche scenarios for the sake of winning an argument, but you don't daily drive, you don't dog-food yourself, they're only good as concepts on paper, but not in practice.

The market for people buying obsolete phones to connect to their TV as their daily driver workhorse computers is insanely small, even on quirky HN let alone outside this bubble. So who do you think you are convincing/converting with this?

Like the most popular Androids are Samsungs and Samsung has been shipping DEX on their flagships since for-ever, and how many of their users actually use it? Or how many buy them just for that feature alone? You haven't discovered an untapped market here that will replace PC/laptops for most average people.
by api | 2026-01-29 18:24:25+00:00
It's super cool but I see it as a much more flexible open ended take on the idea of procedurally generated worlds where hard-coded deterministic math and rendering parameters are replaced by prompt-able models.

The deadness you're talking about is there in procedural worlds too, and it stems from the fact that there's not actually much "there." Think of it as a kind of illusion or a magic trick with math. It replicates some of the macro structure of the world but the true information content is low.

Search YouTube for procedural landscape examples. Some of them are actually a lot more visually impressive than this, but without the interactivity. It's a popular topic in the demo scene too where people have made tiny demos (e.g. under 1k in size) that generate impressive scenes.

I expect to see generative AI techniques like this show up in games, though it might take a bit due to their high computational cost compared to traditional procedural generation.
by cucumber3732842 | 2026-01-29 18:24:27+00:00
School pick up and drop off traffic is just about the worst drivers anywhere. Like visibly worse than a bunch of "probably a little drunk" people leaving a sports stadium. It's like everyone reverts to "sixteen year old on first day behind the wheel" behavior. It's baffling. And there's always one token dad picking up his kid on a motorcycle or in a box truck or something that they all clutch their pearls at.
by OutOfHere | 2026-01-29 18:24:44+00:00
> Wouldn't worry about a few BPA chemicals.

Huh. The whole point is to worry and take action to prevent them, no matter their source.

> the water you have been drinking

From the link you shared, the supplied water contains endocrine-disrupting chemicals. Drinking water indeed is one source of xenoestrogens (that disrupt the endocrine system). There exist other sources, like plastics in contact with food and soil, also thermal receipt paper. It doesn't make any sense to ignore a subset of the major sources.
by _tk_ | 2026-01-29 18:24:44+00:00
I’m a little surprised by the takes in the comments. Obviously, heads of departments or agencies, CEOs, or similar personnel are generally not in the same league as normal employees when it comes to compliance.

Productivity and efficiency are key for their work. I am sure there are lots of Sysadmins here, that had to disable security controls for a manager or had to configure something in a way to circumvent security controls from actually working. I have been in many situations where I have been asked by IT colleagues if doing something like that was fine, because an executive had to read a PowerPoint file NOW.
by owaislone | 2026-01-29 18:25:10+00:00
Thanks. My two cents would be to not lock technical features behind a paywall. Lock "enterprise" features like encryption, FIPS, compliance reports, etc which make sense for a big corp. This would be far more palatable for someone small like my one-two person teams to adopt it and pay if we ever become big enough to care about enterprisey features.
by Archio | 2026-01-29 18:25:28+00:00
It's hard to imagine how any driver could have reacted better in this situation.

The argument that questions "would a human be driving 17mph in a school zone" feels absurd to the point of being potentially disingenuous. I've walked and driven through many school zones before, and human drivers routinely drive above 17mph (in some cases, over the typical 20mph or 25mph legal limit). It feels like in deconstructing some of these incidences, critics imagine a hypothetical scenario in which they are driving a car and its their only job to avoid a specific accident that they know will happen in advance, rather than facing the reality of what human drivers are actually like on the road.
by jerlam | 2026-01-29 18:26:04+00:00
I am not sure. Self-driving is complex and involves the behavior of other, non-automated actors. This is not like a compression algorithm where things are easily testable and verifiable. If Waymos start behaving extra-oddly in school zones, it may lead to other accidents where drivers attempt to go around the "broken" Waymo and crash into it, other pedestrians, or other vehicles.

I know Tesla FSD is its own thing, but crowdsourced results show that FSD updates often increase the amount of disengagements (errors):

https://electrek.co/2025/03/23/tesla-full-self-driving-stagn...
by zamadatix | 2026-01-29 18:26:27+00:00
I never claimed people don't make apps with AI. Of course it does - I can do that in a few clicks and some time with most any provider. You've been able to do that for a few years now, and that (linear) trend line starts over a year ago.

I can guarantee if you restricted yourself to just that 60% you wouldn't be responding to me doubting AI apps are already amazing things people are actually supposed to be so excited about using though.
by ericmay | 2026-01-29 18:26:35+00:00
I don't think that's a good analogy.

But if you want to stick with it, in this scenario the situation would be you aren't friends, and don't intend to be because you both made each other really mad, and by having sex with the wife she gives you a lot of good stuff that you want and you're not really concerned with your former friend's feelings.
by Bender | 2026-01-29 18:26:41+00:00
That's just it. The first cars were designed to be reliable for 50+ years, then Edward came along and cars were about sex appeal and other things not required for a car. I have not seen many real improvements to cars. Quite the opposite, they are full of crap that can break that was never needed in the first place. Keep it simple and keep it just a car. We can keep the air bags though, that was an improvement. Engine efficiency design has gone backwards since the 1940's. There were cars designed to get 20mpg which does not sound great but they were almost 5000 pounds. The creator was assassinated for making it. Had we continued down that line we would have low emission and highly efficient engines without the bogus smog gear that could likely get 120+mpg and could outrun a Tesla S with all the mods. People just don't know what they are missing.
by direwolf20 | 2026-01-29 18:26:46+00:00
If I subscribe to a small number of low volume feeds, I want to read everything or voluntarily ignore it, and the UI helps me with that. If I subscribe to a higher volume feed, I can't possibly read everything and it's not useful.

I can subscribe to both types of feeds.

Unread emails don't mean someone wrote to me either. Most of them are marketing or confirmations of autopayments.
by dragonwriter | 2026-01-29 18:26:54+00:00
> But if the EU "decouples" from the US, there's no incentive for the US to not, for example, take over Greenland.

I dunno, I think Denmark and its remaining allies, including at least two nuclear weapons states, might be able to provide some incentive for the US not to take over Greenland.

> But the EU is sitting here telling us it's this huge problem that Russia is invading Ukraine, yet they're happy to increase cooperation and trading with China who is providing support to Russia for their invasion?

No, they aren't happy being backed into that by the open threat of US aggression. They weren't too happy having to ally with the USSR against the Nazis, either, but, you sometimes you have to deal with the overwhelming immediate problem, first.

> Maybe increasing trade will help China stop helping Russia's war against Ukraine

Its not Russia’s aggression in Ukraine that the shift toward China is aimed at.

> we could just look at that activity and say, well, maybe we shouldn't help the EU here and if they really think Ukraine is a problem they should take these other actions instead, whatever they may be.

We aren't helping the EU, we are threatening an EU and NATO state (and another NATO state, and consequently an ally of many EU states) with invasion. That’s literally the source of the shift you are complaining about. Trying to use the response to justify the action it responds to is...mind-boggling mental gymnastics.
by seemaze | 2026-01-29 18:26:58+00:00
While this would obviously be harmful to the consumer, I don't see this as plausible.

Amazon was able to achieve this by positioning themselves as the primary distributor of the goods in question. Apple is in no position to leverage a monopoly over fiat transer or housing supply.

With regard to municipal transportation, perhaps they are edging closer with Apple Pay, NFC, Wallet, etc.. but I can't imagine municipalities supporting, or constituents accepting, a tax on their existing taxes.

Of course, maybe Apple.gov is the long game. Hard to say whether that would be better or worse that the status quo..