MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by user_7832 | 2026-01-25 16:19:22+00:00
> EV aren’t ready for world wide use.

Fully agree (I'm 100% team PHEV or EREV/REEV) as a mechanical engineer. IMO BEVs and PHEVs/REEVs should be on parity in terms of tax/govt incentives, while encouraging electric use - for eg, subsidized (PH)EV charging, high(er) costs in city centres if running in ICE mode, etc.

I was just curious if EV manufacturers use any other tricks that're "well known" in EV-land but not for the average consumer.
by arter45 | 2026-01-25 16:19:23+00:00
So if you are born in a water scarce town, just move somewhere else.

But what if an entire country or a large area has this kind of issue?

Don't you need money, or something you can trade, to travel and build a new home somewhere else? Do you think everybody has enough money and resources to move an entire family in a new country?

What about language? Do you think everybody, even poor uneducated people in a small rural town with very limited access to water, know English or another common language? And if this is not the case, how easy it is to settle down somewhere where no one speaks your language?

Additionally, borders exist, and some countries have stricter immigration policies than others. You may not find it easy to move to a close country even if you have the money to travel, simply because the country you are going to may not want immigrants. Illegal immigrants exist, but then there are additional risks, like jail or death.

Even without enforced borders, don't you think concentrating a lot of people in the same area can recreate some scarcity issues, unless resources keep increasing with the population?
by seanmcdirmid | 2026-01-25 16:19:25+00:00
They don’t mean actually “do your own research”, they mean “do your own research from these far right biased resources.” All you have to do is plant the seed of a bias and lead them to confirming those biases. Real research would require not having an opinion in the first place and just looking for the cause of a problem from a variety of sources with different biases.
by MarkusQ | 2026-01-25 16:19:41+00:00
There is in fact a method, and it got us quite far until we abandoned it for the peer review plus publish or perish death spiral in the mid 1900s. It's quite simple:

1) Anyone publishes anything they want, whenever they want, as much or as little as the want. Publishing does not say anything about your quality as a researcher, since anyone can do it.

2) Being published doesn't mean it's right, or even credible. No one is filtering the stream, so there's no cachet to being published.

We then let memetic evolution run its course. This is the system that got us Newton, Einstein, Darwin, Mendeleev, Euler, etc. It works, but it's slow, sometimes ugly to watch, and hard to game so some people would much rather use the "Approved by A Council of Peers" nonsense we're presently mired in.
by tjohnell | 2026-01-25 16:20:29+00:00
Hi - this is the author. I can explain that, ha!

Right now I'm using a vision library to detect head height which was good enough. I went down a tangent where I hooked it up to my Claude Code instance to take a screen shot and have Claude Code assess how bad my slouch was. Claude would watch a folder for screen shots, read it in, and if it detected bad posture, write to a file the program was watching to adjust blur.

I did this weird work-around so I could use my Claude Code subscription as opposed to the API.

Anyways, it was too slow and Claude was a bad judge of slouchiness. Head height works well enough!

I'll clean this up.
by rahimnathwani | 2026-01-25 16:20:40+00:00
It seems weird for the government to collect data useful for research, but then to gate access based on the viewpoints of potential users. This restriction doesn't support the search for truth.

Whatever people think of Lasker (Cremieux) and his views, isn't data being available to all interested parties the best way to find the truth?

The article mentions this towards the very end:

Adam Candeub, the top lawyer at the Federal Communications Commission, wrote a law review article in 2024 criticizing the N.I.H.’s discouragement of stigmatizing research. He compared it to the persecution of Galileo.
“A liberal society should support the search for truth,” Mr. Candeub wrote, “regardless of how uncomfortable and unsettling that truth turns out to be.”
by king_geedorah | 2026-01-25 16:21:09+00:00
io_uring supports submitting openat requests, which sounds like what you want. Open the dirfd, extract all the names via readdir and then submit openat SQEs all at once. Admittedly I have not used the io uring api myself so I can't speak to edge cases in doing so, but it's "on the happy path" as it were.

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/io_uring_prep_open.3.h...

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/readdir.2.html

Note that the prep open man page is a (3) page. You could of course construct the SQEs yourself.
by tacostakohashi | 2026-01-25 16:21:37+00:00
The thing is, for management, they don't use the product or deal with reality, so for them, the JIRAs _are_ reality, and the more that get done, the better, and any gaps are a problem to be solved.

Idle time can still be incorporated, it just has to be _in_ the tickets, not between the tickets, then everyone is happy.

A ticket for one day to add a new button, then an idle day is bad. A ticket for two days to add a new button keeps everyone happy.
by bryanlarsen | 2026-01-25 16:22:05+00:00
Race is not a genetic concept, it's social.

Or more accurately, if it were genetic the races would look very different.

The genetic diversity of "black" alone exceeds the rest of the world combined.

So you have two choices:

1. Everybody is black.

2. The other races roughly stand, but there are dozens of different black races.

Or you can be more accurate and say race is cultural.
by terminalshort | 2026-01-25 16:22:43+00:00
You are a perfect example of what I am talking about. That is an obvious lie. Of course it means something scientifically because it refers to a genetic grouping. e.g. black people are much more likely to have the genetic disease sickle cell anemia. Nobody seems to have much of a problem with that statement but if it were a gene related to intelligence you people would lose your minds.

If it isn't a scientifically valid concept, then why did the NIH label the genetic data by race?
by seanhunter | 2026-01-25 16:23:16+00:00
Probably most people outside the Wall St bubble don’t care very much. However if some of these financial institutions take big hits that could cause ripples in the broader “real” economy that might have a bigger impact. Given the current backdrop of inflation and uncertainty due to tariffs etc this could be bad but it’s hard to say how bad.

Although people have tried to make the financial system more resilient since the 2008 crisis, it’s really impossible to say how well those measures will hold up until they are really tested, which isn’t a very comforting thought. It’s very unlikely (in my opinion) that things melt down in exactly the same way as last time, but there’s nothing to say they won’t find a new and exciting (slightly) different way to melt down. Financial engineering isn’t the only thing that can cause a financial crisis.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-01-25 16:23:17+00:00
Actually the risks for academic misconduct have never been higher. For quite a while now there's been borderline activism to go out and search the literature for it - various custom software solutions have been written specifically to that end. We're also rapidly approaching a reality in which automated cross checking of the literature for contradictions will be possible.

Unfortunately academia as a pursuit has never had a larger headcount and the incentives to engage in misconduct have likely never been higher (and appear to be steadily increasing).
by __MatrixMan__ | 2026-01-25 16:23:48+00:00
There are non-google android OS's you can install (it's easy these days). Kagi is nice for search. Fastmail is nice for mail. Brave is a fine browser (though I'm aware that it's a chrome derivative). It just takes a bit of determination.

Maps is the last hold they have on me. I haven't yet bothered to find an alternative.
by stavros | 2026-01-25 16:23:56+00:00
It came across to me as "keep your batteries always under 0 C", which obviously almost nobody can do, and it leads to a sense of "eh, I won't go to these lengths, might as well do nothing", which is counterproductive.

I see the same reaction with healthy eating, where people are so put off by extremely militant advice that they think "I can't eat only vegetables all day, fuck it, I'll eat these three cheeseburgers".

I agree with your second comment, the first one just could be misconstrued as very hard-to-follow advice.
by AndrewKemendo | 2026-01-25 16:24:27+00:00
Hang on, this looks like classic Internet trolling:

//

Pathways: Navigating the Internet and Extremism is a simple multiple choice format game with basic animation. Its players are taken on a journey as characters at a college. They are invited to make decisions in scenarios including whether or download potentially extremist content or join an Amelia character on a rally organised by “a small political group” protesting against changes in society and the “erosion in British values”…

However, it is a subversion of the Amelia character that has exploded across social media channels …

Manga-style Amelia, a Wallace and Gromit version and AI-generated “real life” encounters between her and the characters of Father Ted or Harry Potter, accompanied by racist language and far-right messaging.

…We have seen the meme having a remarkable spread and proliferating among the far right and beyond, but what’s also been of note is how it is now international

//

So a bunch of trolls did classic troll things (which is to be expected because you’re on the internet) then the right wingers picked it up and ruined it and then it spread to become a meme coin

The article wants to make this as though there’s a hardcore group of right wing meme-lords in some giant conspiracy

This is keeps happening and it’s super wierd.

Remember the 2007 mooninite panic? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42225609

Is trolling considered right wing now?
by orwin | 2026-01-25 16:24:41+00:00
That's remarkably similar to Saddam Hussein organization, except the 5. Do they need that much because they are a minority in the country too?

(Also, were your family part of the mujahideen/OMPI/MEK? I know two French iranian from the diaspora: one had his family involved in the revolution against the shah, and then had to leave when fundamentalists took power, and the other is from a Persian northern clan who supported the Shah and got booted out when the Shah fell, but they still had property (Hashish and poppy seeds if i understood the "import export" subtext correctly) in Afghanistan and northern Iran. Wildly different family stories, both still sad at what Iran became)
by Nextgrid | 2026-01-25 16:25:09+00:00
Wait until you see an actual failure; you will get individual alerts for every dependent system as if the dependent system failed directly. A single communication glitch with the ABS for example will trigger 5+ alerts for ESP, lane keeping assist, and so on... and even things like the check engine light, despite the engine being totally fine and maybe just operating in a degraded mode.
by dismalaf | 2026-01-25 16:25:41+00:00
It's not the pricing gap, there's Android phones more expensive than the most expensive iPhone. There's just also tiered alternatives.

It's the fact Euro carriers are less likely to subsidize or finance the phone. And realistically, a $500 phone is pretty good these days.

In Canada (where phones are subsidized and/or financed) there's very few budget Android phones too. Almost all Samsung flagships, Pixels, etc...
by socrateslee | 2026-01-25 16:27:06+00:00
SEO became a standardized industry discipline pretty much after Google dominated the market and stabilized the rules of engagement. The search engine giants evole their ranking algorithms mostly to fight exploiting of their mechanims, the core principles of SEO don't change much.

In contrast, LLMs are still constantly evolving. Not only the models, the way of agents doing things, the tools/skills agent shall use, the whole system may be completely different next month. GEO is merely an attempt to ride the LLM hype，clumsily stitching together unrelated concepts.
by readthenotes1 | 2026-01-25 16:27:08+00:00
But he shoveled the neighbor sidewalks when it snowed.

I have a relative who lives in Memphis, Tennessee. A few years ago some guy got out of prison, went to a fellow's home to buy a car, shot the car owner dead, stole the car and drove it around until he got killed by the police.

One of the neighbors said, I kid you not, "he's a good kid"
by dahart | 2026-01-25 16:27:19+00:00
> for just 5kWh we can desalinate 250 gallons … pipes are relatively cheap

I live 1500km from the ocean at 1500m altitude with 3 million other people in a place that’s neither poor nor a war zone.

Ignoring the cost of pipes for a minute (which is probably not small), googling the energy required to get 250 gallons (or about 1 cubic meter) of water from there to here, I get at least 140kWh [1], assuming a straight shot and no ups and downs along the way.

If that cubic meter is distributed to 5 households per day (so ~30kWh / household), which is less water than the average household uses [2] but might be reasonable for drinking water needs, we’d still probably be doubling the energy requirement for the entire region from ~30kWh per household [3] to ~60kWh. And the current ~30kWh usage is somewhat elastic and reducible, where the energy to pump water is not.

[1] (my calculation: large pipeline, 112MJ * 3<altitude> * 1.5<distance> ~= 140kWh) https://www.quora.com/How-much-energy-would-it-cost-to-pump-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Residential_water_use_in_the_U...

[3] https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/use-of-energy/electricit...
by NeutralCrane | 2026-01-25 16:27:35+00:00
> Not to mention that when it comes to art, I'd rather consume something that someone deemed important and interesting enough to dedicate skill and time to.

As would I, and we are welcome to. That doesn’t mean alternatives must be eliminated.

I agree with you that the ultimate issue is the surrounding capitalist system. But that means solutions need to address the actual problem, the system, and not the symptom, the technology.
by hubber | 2026-01-25 16:27:39+00:00
If you think about it for just a moment, it would actually be extraordinary for the races to have diverged in so many easily observable and visible ways, yet somehow miraculously demonstrate absolutely no aggregate differences in any measurable way in any psychological, social, or intellectual attributes. It's so absurdly unlikely that it ought to require a mountain of evidence (and one hell of a theory explaining it) to not be laughed out of the conversation.
by saurik | 2026-01-25 16:29:13+00:00
The point isn't that things are better on this axis on iOS, but that things are better on numerous other axes, to the point where many people are only using Android at all because it feels slightly more open and free than iOS... if Google wants to play Apple's game, then the only reasons to bother with the mess that is Android are gone, and so you'll see people switch to iOS.
by crazygringo | 2026-01-25 16:30:17+00:00
If a story-sized task takes 4x more effort than expected, something really went wrong. If it's blocked and it gets delayed then fine, but you can work on other stories in the meantime.

I'm not saying it never happens, but the whole reason for the planning poker process is to surface the things that might turn a 3 point story into a 13 point story, with everyone around the table trying to imagine what could go wrong.

You should not be getting 2-12 variance, unless it's a brand-new team working on a brand new project that is learning how to do everything for the first time. I can't count how many sprint meetings I've been in. That level of variance is not normal for the sizes of stories that fit into sprints.
by KernalSanders | 2026-01-25 16:32:19+00:00
It's hitting cars too. Our 2026 Chevy equinox has so many alarms and chimes that we have zero control over, the worst one has no notification of what its alerting us of.

As a pretty decent driver, this terrifies me, because I first think, "What am I missing?" But then it hits me - these alarms and chimes are breeding generations of drivers, not just young ones, who are grossly incompetent and should not be driving.

The fact that I cannot control what alarms go off is asinine. And they put a lock on how low you can turn the chime volume. So, basically, you're telling me that I have to harass my neighbors at 5 am when I load the car for work, because you want to chime nonstop when the door is open and I have zero control to turn it off or lower than the locked minimum. Oh, and don't forget the threats of voiding the warrantee if you dig deeper to disable anything. My favorite alarm and warning pops up randomly when you're driving, sometimes blocking the map, and it says something to the effect of, "Remember to stay focused on driving!"

I see this slipping into not just alerts and notifications, but also ads. Waze does not care if they block my directions by blasting an ad on part of my screen, which has absolutely caused me to miss exits since they don't want to tell you the exit ahead of time on longer strips, only, "drive for 45 miles"...

I see this like popups, and if industry can't handle themselves they need to be forced to stop doing this altogether and find a rework, since it's clearly affecting private and public machines that could burnout or kill people.
by forgotpwd16 | 2026-01-25 16:32:20+00:00
>For each frame our pipeline constructs a scene graph with React then

Either is me being old-school or React is an odd choice for TUI.

Also, situation slightly reminds me Windows Terminal renderer being slow af, devs saying* improving performance is equivalent (probably due to thinking within the complexity they created themselves) to doctoral research project, and Muratori coming up with a much more performant one within a weekend.

*Could've been hyperbole but certainly looked like they weren't expecting to indeed be simple.
Ask HN: What's the best place to look at snow webcams?
by bastawhiz | 2026-01-25 16:33:09+00:00
Back in the day public webcams were everywhere. Now it's a lot harder to find directories of diverse public cams unless you want to look at ski slopes, it seems. This used to be how my friends and I would spend free periods in computer labs: peeking through cameras pointed out windows and from rooftops around the world.

If I wanted to look at webcams up and down the east coast of the US to see the aftermath of the snow storm, where should I look?
by benesch | 2026-01-25 16:33:27+00:00
Often not a dealbreaker, actually! We can spin up new tpuf regions and procure dedicated interconnects to minimize latency to the on-prem network on request (and we have done this).

When you're operating at the 100B scale, you're pushing beyond the capacity that most on-prem setups can handle. Most orgs have no choice but to put a 100B workload into the nearest public cloud. (For smaller workloads, considerations are different, for sure.)
by crazygringo | 2026-01-25 16:34:44+00:00
That's definitely one way of doing it! And totally valid.

I think it often depends a lot on who the stakeholders are and what their priorities are. If the particular feature is urgent then of course what you describe is common. But when the priority is to maximize the number of features you're delivering, I've found that the client often prefers to do the bounded investigation and then work on another feature that is better understood within the same sprint, then revisit the investigation results at the next meeting.

But yes -- nothing prevents you from making mid-sprint reevaluations.
by wiredfool | 2026-01-25 16:34:58+00:00
Me too. Mini has gone from main dev machine, to backup, to kids, and now to Lightroom. It wasn't a slouch BITD, 6 core and 32G ram. It's a bit slow now, but not that bad even on the 4k screen. But it's the best thing I have that runs 32 bit MacOs.
by wholinator2 | 2026-01-25 16:35:13+00:00
I agree with most of what you said but i'd like to raise 2 points

1) the immediate action _is more important immediately_ than the systemic change. We should focus on maximizing our "fixing" and letting a toxic element continue to poison you while you waste time wondering how you got there is counterproductive. It is important to focus on the systemic change, but once you have removed the person that will destroy the organization/kill us all.

2) I forgot. Sorry
by jonator | 2026-01-25 16:35:40+00:00
I can attest to everything. Using Tidewave MCP to give your agent access to the runtime via REPL is a superpower, especially with Elixir being functional. It's able to proactively debug and get runtime feedback on your modular code as it's being written. It can also access the DB via your ORM Ecto modules. It's a perfect fit and incredibly productive workflow.
by nevi-me | 2026-01-25 16:36:17+00:00
I somehow thought the launch of the car was next week, I see it was this week.

I thought I'd wait for it but my ICE started giving me mechanical issues that weren't being resolved. With this and the BMW iX3 being around a year away from my local market, I ended up getting a PHEV X5.

The Volvo looks shorter than the XC60, looks more like a station wagon than an SUV. I'm only on my 3rd car so I don't have experience/knowledge to understand what people mean when they say Volvo is no longer what it was.

On the 'coffee shop charging', I don't really prioritise quick charges because when I make trips long enough to require pit stops, those stops are normally a chance for the kids to play and eat.

Performance-wise, I don't mind 0-100 in the 4-5 seconds range. I test drove the EX30 and accelerate sharply from a stop. My wife complained about the whiplash, so I imagine it would be dangerous to restless toddlers, as they already complain about the X5.

Lastly, V2L is welcome, the range is good (for me) for the battery sizes, but it looks like the iX3 would be a better car for the larger battery. Tangentially, BMW claimed that the iX3 would set a new benchmark in EV efficiency, yet Volvo is claiming similar ranges with a 10% smaller battery.
by alin23 | 2026-01-25 16:36:27+00:00
Notarization is mostly a glorified malware scan. There's no Apple engineer auditing what's being sent for notarization. Even clever malware can evade notarization scans and be distributed as a notarized binary, it has happened in the past [0]

There's no better way for auditing such an app than having the code easily available and looking through it, and compiling it yourself. Which is already the case here.

[0] https://thehackernews.com/2025/12/new-macsync-macos-stealer-...
by 7bit | 2026-01-25 16:36:43+00:00
Answering after your edit:

Yes, Jerry Nixon claimed something like that (he's not just a dev though). But Microsoft never confirmed that, so it's just a statement by one person.

The Wikipedia quote is problematic, because it doesn't reference any sources for their claim. Whoever the author of that paragraph, it's journalistically bad practice not providing any sources to that claim.