MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by csomar | 2026-01-20 04:44:51+00:00
The quality angle was true 10 years ago, but that's no longer the case. Chinese cars are now superior in some areas and inferior in others (you can feel that some finishing is incomplete), but on average (and especially considering the price) they're better. The gap in the inferior areas is very small, and I wouldn't be surprised if they fully surpass European cars this year, given the new models they're releasing.
by idiotsecant | 2026-01-20 04:45:02+00:00
Haha that little 'during that time' is doing some heavy lifting there. You don't think there might have been some slight lingering resentment and fear that the slouching monster that Japan was during WWII would come back? I think Japan's neighbors might have felt 'pretty bad' too, but it didn't matter. In the end the money wins.
Show HN: Crapless craps – flutter PWA vibe coded from my phone
by calderwoodra | 2026-01-20 04:45:48+00:00
Hi HN,

This project came out of combining a few of my hobbies: craps, mobile development, vibe coding, and coding directly from my phone.

I built the entire app using only:
Termux on Android, exe.dev as a remote VM, Claude Code as my only assistant

I chose Flutter for cross-platform support so the same code could run on Android and iOS.

I started off by writing tests for the core game engine, then switched to a simple loop: play the game, notice what’s missing, add a feature.

In the spirit of “build for one user,” I only implemented the craps mechanics that I personally use when I play in real life.

Enjoy!
by nickysielicki | 2026-01-20 04:46:05+00:00
It's a regulatory requirement:

> Replicating a broadly practiced mitigation mechanism that is established in EU institution and government hiring practices, operational control and access will be restricted to EU citizens located in the EU to ensure that all operators have enduring ties to the EU and to meet the needs of our customers and partners.

- https://www.aboutamazon.eu/news/aws/aws-european-sovereign-c...
by bruce511 | 2026-01-20 04:46:24+00:00
Rinse and repeat for Korean cars. And now China are deep into their cycle too. They're already producing high quality, at half the price, and I've noticed that the quality narrative is changing.

Regardless of where they are perception wise, the long term lesson is clear - local manufacturers may ride the "quality" bandwagon for a while, but ultimately it's a losing strategy.

ICE cars, and manufacturers who don't gave an EV strategy are already inside their Kodak moment. It's fairly obvious that at some point "all" cars will be EV, just like "all" cameras are digital. Those who remain ICE only will fade into obscurity.

Unfortunately the politicians in the US right now are driving a narrative away from EVs (and Tesla has become semi-toxic). Which in turn affects local manufacturers planning near term sales. By the time the mood swings it may be hard to catch up.

Or maybe not. Maybe they come late to the party simply skipping a bunch of iterations, going straight to great, cheap, reliable. Time will tell I guess.
by hpdigidrifter | 2026-01-20 04:46:29+00:00
This was discussed on polymarket with the Galve Goat burning bet and assume it's why

Essentially it's a big straw goat in Sweden that vandals sometime set on fire.

Right towards the end as the probability approaches zero there's a huge profit incentive, "done deals" usually go under well under 1¢ meaning 100-200x returns.

A US man once traveled to Sweden to set the goat on fire, he was caught, fined $20k(?) and then fled the country before paying the fine.

Risk reward in a situation like this absolutely creates a situation for prediction markets similar to the observer effect in physics, it's no longer predicting the future and instead altering it.
by conception | 2026-01-20 04:49:52+00:00
The Anthropic models are great workers/tool users. OpenAI Codex High is a great reviewer/fixer. Gemini is the genius repainting your bathroom walls into a Monet from memory because you mentioned once a few weeks ago you liked classical art and needed to repaint your bathroom. Gemini didn’t mention the task or that it was starting it. It did a pretty good job after you had to admit.
by kamranjon | 2026-01-20 04:50:33+00:00
I have an Olivetti Lettera 22 typewriter and it's the perfect machine, just immaculately designed. But one thing that absolutely floors me and I have no idea how they did it - is they have infinite, programmable tab stops on a completely manual machine (no electricity). So you can set as many tab stops as you want, and then hit the tab key and it will jump between all of the stops in order. It's great for creating lists of things or for creating simple tables. How the machine is able to remember your settings, and allow you to jump between and clear you tab stops completely mechanically is just so cool to me and seems like a marvel of engineering.
by arbitrandomuser | 2026-01-20 04:51:24+00:00
leap.nvim

you press a keybind and then press one or two characters , all instances of that character pair in the viewport will get get a hint (a characteror two in highlight) , hit those two hint keys and the cursor jumps to that location

its incredibly fast to navigate around your viewport with this.

https://codeberg.org/andyg/leap.nvim
by marcus_holmes | 2026-01-20 04:51:31+00:00
Every time an EV driver charges their car at home, a gas station loses a customer.

Eventually this compounds and gas stations start closing.

That accelerates the switch to EVs because gas becomes hard to find. Which accelerates gas station closures, and so on.

The point at which it becomes impractical to drive a gas-fuelled car is approaching. It will hit different countries at different times, but it's there. 10 years, 30 years, whatever, but it's coming.

Long before that point, a hybrid is just an EV that has to carry around a chunk of useless engine that is hard to fuel.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2026-01-20 04:53:44+00:00
Works where archive.md is blocked:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/society-culture-and-history/pop-cu...

Text-only:

https://assets.msn.com/content/view/v2/Detail/en-in/AA1UwggM...
by guessmyname | 2026-01-20 04:54:41+00:00
> Optimized fmt.Errorf — With the new Go release, this debate should finally be settled. For unformatted strings, fmt.Errorf now allocates less and generally matches the allocations for errors.New. Specifically, fmt.Errorf goes from 2 allocations to 0 allocations for a non-escaping error, and from 2 allocations to 1 allocation for an escaping error […]

Thank you so much!!! I used to always take an extra second to decide which one to use based on the function’s parameter(s), and now I feel like I’m getting that time back, no sarcasm at all. This is a genuinely great improvement.
by bruce511 | 2026-01-20 04:56:51+00:00
>> I never understood the big push for full EVs over hybrid

Weight, space and reliability.

Dragging that generator (and fuel) around costs weight and space, reducing range. Exhaust, fuel tank, radiator- all the support systems the ICE motor needs.
Which leaves less space for batteries, which reduces range.

Plus, the maintenance burden is still there. All those ICE parts still need all the maintainence etc that full ICE needs. One of the joys of EV is that maintainence is sooo much simpler.

So yes, hybrid is much more efficient than gas only, but a poor cousin of full EV.

By contrast full EV has range limitations. And yes distances in Europe are much shorter than the US. No that's less of an issue there. But even there we're seeing range go up, and charging come down.
Show HN: Stashcast – Self-hosted custom podcast feeds for any media
by jonotime | 2026-01-20 04:56:58+00:00
Stashcast lets you save any online video/audio (YouTube lectures, podcast episodes, etc.) for offline use and auto-generates podcast feeds (RSS/Atom) so you can consume them in your player of choice – without subscribing to entire channels.

Built as a single-user web app with async task queues for background yt-dlp downloads. Key features:
- Handles playlists, embeds, direct URLs via yt-dlp (500+ sites)
- Auto-detects audio/video; optional ffmpeg transcoding
- Multi-language UI/subtitles (i18n docs in repo)
- Extractive summarization from subtitles
- One-click bookmarklet for ingestion
- Admin CLI/web UI for management
- Demo: https://demo.stashcast.dgt.is/ (demo/demo backwards; read-only)

Motivation: Friends send random podcast eps/YouTube vids. I want to watch them all, but later when I have time (and may be offline).

Repo: https://github.com/jonocodes/stashcast

Feedback welcome on UX, yt-dlp edge cases, or self-host scaling!
by pear01 | 2026-01-20 04:57:38+00:00
Yes, not to mention the fact that Chinese EVs can't be sold here... protectionsim for weak American companies that can't compete globally. We've gone from an automotive superpower and the land of Henry Ford to the government propping up automakers and depriving Americans of free choice. If Chinese cars would actually be allowed to sold here they would sell like Toyota Camrys.
by mpyne | 2026-01-20 05:01:33+00:00
> I never understood the big push for full EVs over hybrid.

Being able to shed the ICE bits from the car's powertrain eliminates multiple entire classes of maintenance burden. With hybrid and EREV you get the problems of both types of powerplant and drivetrain, and even though ICE has evolved to be fairly reliable, it's still a very complicated assembly and basic wear-and-tear still is still a challenge.

There will probably be parts of the country where hybrid or EREV make sense for some period of time due to the distances involved and the incredible energy density of gasoline, but a lot of the driving that happens day to day can already be handled with pure EVs as long as you have a 120V plug accessible to your car.
by johnnyanmac | 2026-01-20 05:01:43+00:00
I understand. as early as a month ago I may have agreed with you.

But we're already off to a horrid 2026 between Venezuela and Minnesota, and even Jerome Powell. This isn't just big words anymore. Trump's shown he's willing to escalate to foreign intervention, shoot citizens in the street in broad daylight, and disrupt the core Dollar itself to fit his needs. I wouldn't rule out anything at this point.

>The long term mess will be inherited by his successor and they will be blamed for it.

Sure, but that was never in question. Trump appointed Powell and no one in the media brings this up. People still think Biden is the one who screwed up the immediate COVID response (hell, Trump caught COVID and I almost feel we're in some bizarro world that no one talks about this). And I've even seen absolutely fringe takes that Biden was president during Jan 6th.

We're sadly in a post truth era. You don't change the minds of people like that with obvious, verifiable facts. I don't know what to do with them. I feel it takes less energy to focus efforts on those who can still be reasoned with than to convert the devout.
by bruce511 | 2026-01-20 05:03:00+00:00
For foreign (read Chinese) cars a big piece of the price charged to US customers is the tarrifs (taxes) which US customers pay.

Elsewhere in the world EV prices are steadily coming down. They're not as low as ICE yet, and maybe never will be, but a nice entry level ICE car here is circa $15k, and a nice EV entry level is circa 25k.

Factor in fuel and maintenance costs and the real price is getting very close....
by Fuzzwah | 2026-01-20 05:03:36+00:00
For me the advantage of nova is increasing the density of app icons able to be displayed on the home screen and app drawer.

I run with a 9x7 home screen grid and 8x6 app drawer.

This allows me to have a weather widget with a large clock and an excellent calendar widget called Todo Agenda displayed while still allowing me to have all my apps accessible on one screen.
by bcrosby95 | 2026-01-20 05:05:20+00:00
Holy shit, imagine of the whole of federal congress could be controlled with gerrymandering rather than just the house: the house through districts, and the senate through districts for state representatives. The fireworks would be insane.

Put another way: it would do nothing. If it did something, it would likely make everything worse, not better. Legislatures would pick the most partisan hack. They would be answerable to fewer, more partisan people. It would pour fire on an already tenuous situation.

It would also make congress significantly less representative of the country, but I guess that's the point.
by ycombiredd | 2026-01-20 05:06:05+00:00
You just caused flashbacks of error messages from BIND of the sort "cannot have CNAME and other data", from this proximate cause, and having to explain the problem many, many times. Confusion and ambiguity of understandings have also existed since forever by people creating domain RR's (editing files) or the automated or more machined equivalents.

Related, the phrase "CNAME chains" causes vague memories of confusion surrounding the concepts of "CNAME" and casual usage of the term "alias". Without re-reading RFC1034 today, I recall that my understanding back in the day was that the "C" was for "canonical", and that the host record the CNAME itself resolved to must itself have an A record, and not be another CNAME, and I acknowledge the already discussed topic that my "must" is doing a lot of lifting there, since the RFC in question predates a normative language standard RFC itself.

So, I don't remember exactly the initial point I was trying to get at with my second paragraph; maybe there has always been some various failure modes due to varying interpretations which have only compounded with age, new blood, non-standard language being used in self-serve DNS interfaces by providers, etc which I suppose only strengthens the "ambiguity" claim. That doesn't excuse such a large critical service provider though, at all.
by randerson | 2026-01-20 05:06:05+00:00
I wanted to replace my gas Macan with the new EV one. After a test drive I decided to just keep the gas one.

As an EV it is excellent. But Porsche is known for engaging driver's cars, and without the visceral sounds and vibrations of an engine it is bland and boring. The flaws in a gas engine's power curve give it character. Letting the driver manage that power curve is fun. A perfectly linear sub-3s 0-60 with fake electric sport sound played through the speakers does nothing for me.

I'd have probably bought it at $75K, but at $125K it needs to be more special. Especially considering the rate at which they depreciate. Its not a surprise to me that their EVs aren't selling as well as hoped. The Taycan sure is pretty though.
by energy123 | 2026-01-20 05:06:50+00:00
I posit that the growing anti-immigration sentiment partly comes from informational borders being eliminated by social media.

People want some of that friction back but can't put their finger on where the unease is coming from.

I further posit that this partly explains why Trump's approval rating around immigration are very negative despite successfully stopping immigration, which was one of the issued he polled the best on. He took away immigration, but the unease and insecurity from having zero information borders remains. (Yes there are other factors too especially around ICE conduct).
by Insanity | 2026-01-20 05:07:26+00:00
I stopped watching short form content last year. I’m not on instagram/X etc, only on YouTube.

My only annoyance is that YouTube still insists on shoving them in my face on the app homepage even though I don’t watch them. It just requires a modicum of willpower now not to click and go down the rabbit hole, which I’ll occasionally fail at.
by adventured | 2026-01-20 05:07:45+00:00
> So the US would destroy all of its diplomatic relations specifically to avoid asking Canada for permission?

This is about not having to ask for permission to deploy vast military assets to Greenland, not a matter of having to ask Canada for permission. I didn't mention Canada.

And no, Canada is not a particularly cooperative military partner. Canada barely has a military at this point. Canada is highly skeptical of most of the global military adventurism of the US. While you can agree with that skepticism, it would be wildly unrealistic to think the US wants to be beholden to Canada for much of anything when it comes to force projection.

It's quite plausible the US is looking to begin using its superpower military, to become the empire it has always been accused of being (but never actually was).

Canada allowing the US use of its airspace for nuclear weapons is laughable. I'm talking about the US stationing a large number of nuclear weapons in Greenland, thousands of KM closer to Moscow than any other point in the US now. What does Canada have to do with that?

Having Greenland gives the US an extremely powerful position over the Arctic Ocean for the next century. Build multiple ports.

The logistical value is extremely obvious.

And possessing Greenland reduces the need to have so many military bases in Europe. It lessens the US dependency on Europe.
by bruce511 | 2026-01-20 05:08:17+00:00
Sounds like a market opportunity for kerb-side, low speed, charging points.

Not to mention parking garages for daytime parking at work.

Not to mention mall parking lots.

The garage is an obvious starting point, because your car spends a lot of time there, but there are lots of opportunities elsewhere.

Once upon a time 44 million households didn't have electricity. Things change.
by anon291 | 2026-01-20 05:08:25+00:00
We killed millions over the ability to own humans because the north viewed it as a religious duty to do so. This is demonstrated in our national hymn, the Battle Hymn of the Republic, which talks about how God is damning to hell the old south.

I legitimately do not understand these takes connecting everything to slavery. It's been more than a hundred years at this point. The trope is getting old.

The criticisms you rightly levy against the Senate are themselves decades old.

The idea that this era is especially defined by the aristocracy controlling the government is honestly just ahistoric.
by fy20 | 2026-01-20 05:08:44+00:00
Toyota hybrids are full hybrids however, not mild hybrids like other manufactures, so all you really need is a bigger battery and charger. My 10 year old RAV4 Hybrid (not plug-in) can deliver 160kW just from the electric motors, without the engine. That's 3x a Dacia Spring. They have the technology for motors and control electronics, and they know it works long term without issues.

Most of the European EVs are basically just electric city cars, unable to drive long ranges due to small batteries and limited fast charging. And most of them after 100,000km will need a new battery. Doesn't really fit in with Toyota's 'long term reliability' stance.

I can't blame Toyota for waiting for the technology to mature before they go all in on EVs. Plus they do have the bz4x / RX which are full EVs you can buy today.
by somenameforme | 2026-01-20 05:09:42+00:00
I think something modern times should emphasize more than ever is that what matters is the lifestyle of the people. Here's [1] a fun graph I just threw together. That's real GDP/capita and real wages graphed alongside each other, both indexed (at 100) to the start date when real median earnings began being measured by by the Fed, which is 1979. Since 1979 real GDP/capita is up 117% while real wages are up 12%.

And if you consider that modern times has far more necessary expenses that often involve rent (internet, computing devices, etc) then it's quite likely that real median wages are down since 1979 in terms of how much money the average person has left to themselves at the end of each month. Even without these adjustments it's likely that real wages today are lower in absolute terms than they were in the 50s as by 1979 inflation had already started getting out of control.

The point of this all is that I don't think the numbers mean much of anything. And that's assuming you could even reliably measure them - you cannot. Go back into reconstructing 19th century data and earlier and you're going to rely on assumptions where the degree of uncertainty is much higher than the differences over time you're trying to assess. So I think far more informative than numbers are personal accounts. How did people live? Of course there's a literacy bias there, but even such accounts will shed light on the illiterate.

[1] - https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1QHEN
by Insanity | 2026-01-20 05:10:12+00:00
Same for me!

I kinda forget they exist. Last time I used Facebook is around 2015, and I never jumped on Instagram.

Stopped using Twitter when Musk bought it.

Sometimes I forget how much of a luxury it is to not spent cycles doomscrolling on those apps. Until an article like this pops up and I’m just grateful that I don’t feel the need to use social media.
by rintrah | 2026-01-20 05:10:39+00:00
I keep coming back to this article in the context of agents -essentially we are bottlenecked by agents passing the next actions (the 'monkeys') back to us. This prevents us from actually delegating tasks effectively to agents.

The article outlines the following process:
1. Describe the monkey. The dialogue between a manager and a staff member must not end until appropriate next moves have been identified and clearly specified.

2. Assign the monkey. All monkeys shall be owned and handled at the lowest organizational level possible.

3. Insure the monkey. Every monkey leaving you on the back of one of your people must be covered by one of two insurance policies: (1) recommend, then act, or (2) act, then advise.

4. Check on the monkey. Proper follow-up means healthier monkeys. Every monkey should have a checkup appointment.

When combined with Karpathy's verifiability criteria to assess whether a task actually is a good candidate to hand off (perhaps step 0), this process becomes very suggestive in the context of (Claude code) agents.
by anon291 | 2026-01-20 05:12:08+00:00
Well... That's only part of the problem.

The real problem is that Congress delegated all its responsibility to the executive and judicial branches.

To the executive branch it gave the power to declare war (war power act), and to make new law (administrative law). Then it created a new branch, the federal reserve, to make monetary policy.

To the judiciary it handed the power of checking the president.

Now Congress does nothing as evidenced by how little actual legislation they've passed while Trump has just done everything via executive order.

But this entire system developed while one party held all three branches but also while the branches were held by different parties.

Since the house is up for election every two years, they have every incentive to delegate so they can wash their hands free of any decision.
by toephu2 | 2026-01-20 05:13:23+00:00
A bit sad that you're in the industry and you don't understand why pure EVs are better than hybrids.

Full EVs:
Less moving parts = less maintenance required = less issues to worry about (think no oil changes, no timing belt changes, no spark plug replacements, no belt/filter changes, no exhaust system checks, etc).

Also zero emissions = better air quality around you.

Bonus: it's like waking up with a full take of gas every morning

I've owned my full EV for almost 10 years now and had 0 maintenance done whatsoever (apart from tire rotation and window wiper fluid replacement). I would never go back to an ICE vehicle.
by tornikeo | 2026-01-20 05:13:53+00:00
> The volume of a sphere grows faster than the surface area. But if traversing the interior is instant and frictionless, what does that imply?

It's nearly frictionless, not frictionless because someone has to use the output (or at least verify it works). Also, why do you think the "shape" of the knowledge is spherical? I don't assume to know the shape but whatever it is, it has to be a fractal-like, branching, repeating pattern.