MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by amiga386 | 2026-02-06 17:43:36+00:00
See also: China bans hidden car door handles over safety concerns

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp37g5nxe3lo

> It comes as EVs are facing scrutiny from safety watchdogs around the world after a number of deadly incidents, including two fatal crashes in China involving Xiaomi EVs in which power failures were suspected to have prevented doors from being opened.

You had one job, door handles... but being made sleek and sexy and unlike normal door handles also made you a fucking liability.
by iamnothere | 2026-02-06 17:44:10+00:00
Pixl97:

>> Who owns the forest and why do you think you get to say if people build on it or not?

You:

> The town, a democratic institution for which you are a tax paying constituent, owns the forest.

That’s what I was arguing about, primarily. The other points emerged after you deviated from that point further down.
by mellosouls | 2026-02-06 17:44:30+00:00
Deepmind's Project Genie under the hood (pun intended). Deepmind & Waymo both Alphabet(Google) subsidiaries obv.

https://deepmind.google/blog/genie-3-a-new-frontier-for-worl...

Discussed here,eg.

Genie 3: A new frontier for world models (1510 points, 497 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44798166

Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds (673 points, 371 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46812933
by D-Machine | 2026-02-06 17:44:32+00:00
Pro-tip: Do NOT use LLMs to generate recipes, use them to search the internet for a site with a trustworthy recipe, for information on cooking techniques, science, or chemistry, or if you need ideas about pairings and/or cooking theory / conventions. Do not trust anything an LLM says if it doesn't give a source, it seems people on the internet can't cook for shit and just make stuff up about food science and cooking (e.g. "searing seals in the moisture", though most people know this is nonsense now), so the training data here is utterly corrupt. You always need to inspect the sources.

I don't even see how an LLM (or frankly any recipe) that is a summary / condensation of various recipes can ever be good, because cooking isn't something where you can semantically condense or even mathematically combine various recipes together to get one good one. It just doesn't work like that, there is just one secret recipe that produces the best dish, and the way to find this secret recipe is by experimenting in the real world, not by trying to find some weighting of a bunch of different steps from a bunch of different recipes.

Plus, LLMs don't know how to judge quality of recipes at all (and indeed hallucinate total nonsense if they don't have search enabled).
by mbesto | 2026-02-06 17:45:05+00:00
The word miracle itself is hyperbolic in nature...it's meant to enchant and not to be used literal or concretely.

No need to be pedantic here, there is a large cohort of the population that seemingly never thought a robot would be able to write usable code ("inexplicable by natural or scientific laws") and now here we are seeing that happen ("hey this must be preternatural! there is no other explanation")
by jghn | 2026-02-06 17:45:17+00:00
> You’re in the butter zone now, baby!

I've seen the movie countless times. It was only last year that I learned it was "butter zone" and not "border zone". And I never understood why Nikon called it "border zone" as it made no sense in context. But I also had never heard the term "butter zone". So there you go.
by bondarchuk | 2026-02-06 17:45:53+00:00
> * even if you don't use it you're forced to live in a dumbed down society where wealth and power is becoming concentrated in the hands of those [...] *

Exactly the same applies to TV but where is all the handwringing about that? Remember those stats about people watching 7 hours of TV a day? Those people need some serious help too. What's happening is clearly just the old mass-media-supported order refusing to yield power to new media used by younger people. Governments couldn't care one bit about false information[1], nor about zoomers getting brainrot, it's all about controlling the flow of information.

[1] ("disinformation", another nice example of framing which ignores the fact that people have agency)

edit: the system is escaping my asterisks automatically now, anyone know how to get italics now?
by plqbfbv | 2026-02-06 17:46:13+00:00
Looks like my job is ensuring stuff builds, tests and ships correctly, not learning the 100th no-design botched homegrown language that will keep changing for the next 10y until it's a different thing altogether. And because I'm one person out of two in a ~15ppl company, where time and efficiency matter, LLMs really helped out.
by cmrdporcupine | 2026-02-06 17:46:42+00:00
I never saw this movie back in the day, but now I want to.

Just listening to Halcyon & On & On is putting a lump in my chest. That era in time was just so fantastic and I don't think it's just because I was 21 and utopian.

I think I could perma stay in 1995/96, Groundhog Day style. Just relive those same "halcyon" days over and over perfecting and absorbing everything over and over.

"We have to go back!"
by RegnisGnaw | 2026-02-06 17:47:00+00:00
I'm thinking most countries. Most countries have some kind of ID. Most countries in Europe does. If not its easy to setup one if there is will.

I've never said is an 100% solution, nothing is an 100% solution. This is a 90% solution, which is already a huge improvement. Why would non-verified users have same access as you? Sure they can read, but no creation.

I'm from China and use the Chinese Internet regularity. The amount of disgusting content is way less then the global internet and they have less people doing filtering for abusive content.
by Larrikin | 2026-02-06 17:47:18+00:00
You are patronizing. Every student with an iPhone has access to a computer even if it isn't their own. If they are so poor that none of their facilities have one then they have a cheap Android.

This fictional person you describe also has access to the web and Anki on there.

Anki is not a very useful tool if you are not making or editing your own decks or a teacher is for you. This is an incredibly painful experience on mobile.
by grvdrm | 2026-02-06 17:48:00+00:00
Close second: conference apps.

They infuriate me. Data harvesting machines in all ways. Incredibly user hostile.

Example: making me scroll endlessly through attendee lists. Lack of good filters. Etc. Can’t download attendee lists.

I finally lost my patience and wrote a Selenium script to page through an app and extract everything. Worked well after some initial trial and error.
by John23832 | 2026-02-06 17:48:07+00:00
> I’ve noticed that the type of people to have problems with these kind of jobs - people who think this is some type of neocolonialism - can not appreciate the difference between real material poverty and metaphysical problems with watching some abusive content.

I think THIS shows that you've never dealt with people in abject poverty. Just because you live in poverty doesn't mean you lack humanity.

People lie, cheat, steal, sell their bodies and kill to subsist in poverty. Whatever it takes to survive. That is totally separate from the toll that that type of surviving takes.
by pixl97 | 2026-02-06 17:48:08+00:00
People wonder "Why is there a law for this stupid thing, it's a regulatory hassle", and yet time and time again it comes around there was at least some partially legitimate reason said rule exists.

Simply put vehicles are at the point where we need a rule that says "The doors can be unlocked and open if the battery is dead" Full stop, no ifs, ands, or buts.
by lpopul | 2026-02-06 17:48:11+00:00
Just launched Music Distro MCP

AI agents can now:
- Generate original music with Suno
- Distribute to Spotify, Apple Music, etc.
- All through Claude Desktop

Try it: distromcp.xyz
GitHub: github.com/lp-opul/music-mcp

#MCP #AI #Claude #AIMusic
by Tachyooon | 2026-02-06 17:48:31+00:00
I heard about lottocracy/sortition for the first time not long ago and I quite like the idea. The last time was when I heard a professor talk about it, and I was recommended reading the book "Lottocracy: Democracy Without Elections" by Guerrero [0].

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/217981747-lottocracy
by axndyg | 2026-02-06 17:49:34+00:00
Location: Berkeley, California (U.S. Citizen)

Remote: Open to

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Python, C/C++, Pandas, NumPy, PyTorch, git, scikit-learn

resume: https://meet-andy.me/assets/files/Andres_Gutierrez_Resume.pd...

personal page: https://meet-andy.me

email: axndy.g@gmail.com
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-02-06 17:49:36+00:00
True

And to address the point about consulting, at the cloud providers themselves, the consulting departments were - even at AWS when I was there working at ProServe from 2020-2023 - considered a loss leader until 2022 to get companies to bring more work onto AWS. If you don’t take into account all of the credits that AWS gave companies toward ProServe, that divisions loss would be even higher.

Even at third party consulting companies a lot of the revenue comes from credits given to the customers from AWS and Microsoft. I purposefully didn’t say Azure. Microsoft has been playing this game for longer than Azure has been a thing.
by Panino | 2026-02-06 17:49:47+00:00
Watching with a big public group of people you mostly don't know but maybe should is a special experience. This may depend on region, but in the US there used to be frequent midnight openings for superfans like myself. People dress up in costumes, local shops hand out prizes and it's an event. Saw Phantom Menace this way, LOTR, Watchmen, and maybe others, but I haven't seen a midnight opening offered in years. Maybe the theater managers are swimming in the pool on the roof.
by aymrick | 2026-02-06 17:50:37+00:00
After building several SaaS admin dashboards, I found JWT to be limiting for security and team management.
I built AdminCraft V2, a React admin frontend + secure Node.js backend using HttpOnly cookies.

Frontend is public: https://github.com/Aymrick97/admincore-frontend-v2
Premium backend with auth, roles, Stripe & team management: https://gumroad.com/l/admincraft-backend-v2
by bondarchuk | 2026-02-06 17:50:58+00:00
"Hijack our brains" - exactly what I mean by pretending people don't have agency. Who gets to decide what counts as hijacking and what is just normal culture? Anything is "hijacking" to some extent - boy bands hijack teen girl brains, the BBC created Teletubbies to hijack toddler brains, heck any artistic representation is a hijack to the extent that it is interpreted by your brain at least partially as something other than what it really is i.e. some colours on a flat surface. The point is a new form of culture, communication and coordination is emerging and the old powers are shitting their pants.

(Fully agree on the Portugal approach though. The difficult to accept answer is that if people are choosing a shit life of scrolling 10 hours a day maybe we should do the actual hard work of improving the kind of life open to them.)
by foco_tubi | 2026-02-06 17:51:12+00:00
Sheldon was a wealth of information when I first started tinkering on my vintage 3-speed back in 2007. I would pore over these simple pages for hours in my dorm at college instead of studying. That led to dropping out and working in the bike industry for almost 10 years. It was a great preparation in problem solving and systems-oriented thinking before I got into programming.
by TitaRusell | 2026-02-06 17:51:23+00:00
I actually had a conversation about this with my mom. We were talking about the hotel cleaners in Dubai walking around with toothbrushes to clean the shower which seemed mildly ridiculous to our European eyes.

But we came to the realisation that these folks were probably happy that they could send money back to their villages. And we left a nice tip.
Show HN: Cbx – Local TTS CLI Wrapping Chatterbox ONNX (Single Rust Binary)
by Tsarp | 2026-02-06 17:51:30+00:00
I built cbx: a single-binary CLI for local/offline text-to-speech.

It wraps Resemble AI’s Chatterbox ONNX models behind a Rust CLI (ONNX Runtime under the hood). Goal: “I want good TTS in a shell script” without Python envs / pip / venv juggling.

Quick start:
cbx speak --text "Hello from cbx." --voice-wav ./your-voice.wav --out-wav ./output.wav

First run downloads the model files (~1–2GB depending on variant). After that it runs locally. If you’re doing repeated runs with the same reference voice, you can cache the voice encoding once:
cbx voice add --name myvoice --voice-wav ./your-voice.wav
cbx speak --voice myvoice --text "Much faster now." --out-wav ./output.wav

What it does (intentionally small surface area):
- single binary, cross-platform CLI
- built-in model download/list/clean commands
- voice profile caching (avoid re-encoding the reference clip every run)

What it doesn’t do:
- it’s not the full Chatterbox project (multilingual, fine-tuning, etc). It’s a packaging + UX layer for basic TTS.

Slightly counterintuitive perf note: on an M1 MacBook Pro, CPU ended up faster than CoreML for this model due to accelerator partitioning overhead; numbers are in the README.

If you try it, I’m especially interested in feedback on: install/packaging trust, cache layout, and what you’d want from a “tiny model / fast mode”.
by CodingJeebus | 2026-02-06 17:52:02+00:00
I agree with the sentiment of this, but it makes one major assumption that I don't think will pass muster in the long run: that people generating output care enough themselves to do it "the right way". Many don't and never will.

Low-effort content mills will never, ever care enough to generate more accurate, consensus-based output, especially if it adds complexity and cost to their workflows.

> That kind of structure seems more scalable than adding disclaimers after the fact.

Not if your goal as a business is to churn out slop as fast and cheaply as possible, and a whole lot of online content is like that. A disclaimer is warranted because you cannot force everyone to use the kinds of approaches that you're talking about. A ton of people who either don't know or don't care what they're putting out will inevitably exist.
by sunil_peru | 2026-02-06 17:52:31+00:00
This is elegantly simple and brilliantly practical. While everyone's racing to build complex orchestration layers and cloud-based memory systems, you've solved the shared context problem with a JSON file on disk. Sometimes the best architecture is the one that doesn't need architecture.

The timing couldn't be better either – shipping this right as Anthropic drops agent teams is like releasing an umbrella stand the morning it starts raining. The real genius here is that you pre-loaded project decisions before spawning agents, so they didn't waste cycles re-discovering the wheel (or in this case, the JWT strategy).

Zero conflicts between 3 agents working in parallel? That's the kind of result that makes you wonder why we've been overcomplicating this. Starred the repo – looking forward to seeing how this evolves as more developers realize they don't need a distributed database to share context between agents running on the same machine.
by gwbas1c | 2026-02-06 17:53:05+00:00
A day after reading this, I keep thinking about this article.

I wonder if Humphreys had rigged up something that faded out the interference, and then used it when pulled over, if he could have "played dumb" enough to not get his vehicle searched? IE, if the interference "faded out" instead of abruptly turning off, would the FCC agents have suspected they got the wrong vehicle?

Likewise, if Humphreys had hidden the interference device well enough, such as inside the dashboard, could it have remained undiscovered during a search?

Or, did the FCC agents collect evidence in such a way that they would know to take the car apart?

---

One trend that I've seen in cases against cell phone jammers is that the criminals often appear unsavvy; IE, they don't realize what they're doing is a crime, so they don't take precautions in case they're caught. (But that doesn't excuse their behavior.)
Show HN: A customer billing portal built to reduce "can you resend the invoice?
by ShreyaChaurasia | 2026-02-06 17:53:54+00:00
Hey HN,

A recurring problem we kept running into with billing systems was the human layer around them.

Customers asking:
“What’s my current balance?”“Which invoice is pending?”“Why did usage spike last week?”And the answer was usually someone digging through dashboards, exporting PDFs, or pasting screenshots.

So we built a read-only customer billing portal inside Flexprice (open-source metering + billing infra).

It gives customers visibility into:
subscriptions and billing periodsprepaid wallet balances and credit transactionsinvoices (status, search, download)feature-level usage and cost breakdowns

Docs (including API + session model): https://docs.flexprice.io/docs/customers/customer-portal

Curious how others here approach customer-facing billing UX, especially around access control and audit-ability. Happy to answer questions or drop-in by our community if you have anything particular - http://bit.ly/4huvkDm
by idiotsecant | 2026-02-06 17:54:42+00:00
Before you get too excited about this just imagine the average line of people at the DMV or the Grocery store and now imagine that those people are in charge of the lives of hundreds of millions. If you think HOAs are bad, you aint seen nothing yet.

The current system of oligarch patronage is bad, but at least it keeps the train mostly on the rails.
by omnimus | 2026-02-06 17:54:54+00:00
The whole story of Skoda is interesting because they were bought by Volkswagen as "budget" brand but kept their own development department. They get consistently pushed down as the cars shouldn't compete with VW but they do. It's not surprising they were able to adjust to EVs better than VW. If anything VW should learn something from their own Skoda but from what i've heard the VW deparments got very comfy and quite old (not in a good way).
by FL33TW00D | 2026-02-06 17:56:30+00:00
Completely false: https://x.com/i/status/2019213765506670738

Listen to the statement.

The operators help when the Waymo is in a "difficult situation".

Car drives itself 99% of the time, long tail of issues not yet fixed have a human intervene.

Everyone is making out like it's an RC car, completely false.
by jjtheblunt | 2026-02-06 17:56:36+00:00
agreed on fingerprints, though i bet the rationale is coefficient of drag, not lack of experience with various door handle designs.

in the article, it shows a Magna-Steyr handle on a Mercedes Gelaendewagen, which looks like those on the Ineos Grenadier, and not very different than the ones that Ford uses on various trucks.

that contrasts with those on Audi and BMW evs, for examples i see often, where the CoD is a stated spec for ev shoppers, and the handles have motion to them, but are flush (but not Tesla vanishingly flush). Weirdly, some Porsches (intimately related to Audi...just read the shared parts) use flush handles and some the protruding handles with an actual handle.

i admittedly pay an unusual amount of attention to car componentry, sort of a hobby really.
by KPGv2 | 2026-02-06 17:56:52+00:00
Right. I don't know how many times I've been exasperated by how monads are perceived as difficult.

Do you understand "flatmap"? Good, that's literally all a monad is: a flatmappable.

Technically it's also an applicative functor, but at the end of the day, that gives us a few trivial things:

- a constructor (i.e., a way to put something inside your monad, exactly how `[1]` constructs a list out of a natural number)

- map (everyone understands this bc we use them with lists constantly)

- ap, which is basically just "map for things with more than one parameter"

Monads are easy. But when you tell someone "well it's a box and you can unwrap it and modify things with a function that also returns a box, and you unwrap that box take the thing out and put it inside the original box—

No. It is a flatmappable. That's it. Can you flatmap a list? Good. Then you already can use the entirety of monad-specific properties.

When you start talking about Maybe, Either, etc. then you've moved from explaining monads to explaining something else.

It's like saying "classes are easy" and then someone says "yeah well what about InterfaceOrienterMethodContainerArrangeableFilterableClass::filter" that's not a class! That's one method in a specific class. Not knowing it doesn't mean you don't understand classes. It just means you don't have the standard library memorized!
by al_borland | 2026-02-06 17:57:07+00:00
Serious question, how/why do you keep using an app that behaves like this?

I subscribed to Apple One for a period of time and tried to use News+. Even when paying, it seems like most of the article were behind a paywall. That, plus the ads, I didn’t understand what I was paying for. I can have a much better user experience with RSS.
by pjmlp | 2026-02-06 17:57:07+00:00
The Pandora box is already open.

There are people playing around with straight machine code generation, or integrating ML into the optimisation backend, finally compiling via a translation to an existing language is already a given in vibe coding with agents.

Speaking of which, using agentic runtimes is hardly any different from writing programs, there are some instructions which then get executed just like any other applications, and if it gets compiled before execution or plainly interpreted, becomes a runtime implementation detail.

Are we there yet without hallucinations?

Not yet, however the box is already open, and there are enough people trying to make it happen.
by dgxyz | 2026-02-06 17:57:32+00:00
This is on the mark.

But there's another issue which is what cripples windows for dev! NTFS has a terrible design flaw which is the fact that small files, under 640 bytes, are stored in the MFT. The MFT ends up having serious lock contention so lots of small file changes are slow. This screws up anything Unixy and git horribly.

WSL1 was built on top of that problem which was one of the many reasons it was slow as molasses.

Also why ReFS and "dev drive" exist...
by anthonypasq | 2026-02-06 17:57:57+00:00
sigh... he is saying that addictiveness itself is not a justification to ban something. exercising is addictive to some people, sex is addictive, reading is addictive for some people. everything worth doing in life is addicting.

what matters is the negative consequences of doing something. so the justification for banning tiktok is that it destroys childrens attention spans for life and lets them get propagandized by a hostile foreign government, NOT that its addictive.
by cucumber3732842 | 2026-02-06 17:58:11+00:00
It is not the government's job to enumerate every specific brand of stupid design that may be harmful multiplied by every class of product nor should it be.

If you want to do that stuff, do it with a performance test or criteria, not with stupid whack-a-mole rules. And don't think that weasel wording the test to the same effect is any better. If you want to do this the not stupid shit way you need to actually do the hard work and figure out what the over-arching general case performance characteristics need to be.
by afarah1 | 2026-02-06 17:58:32+00:00
>every country that has imposed a considerable sugar tax has seen benefits across the board

The first study that pops up if I search this suggests otherwise, that it could increase consumption of sugar-substitutes and overall caloric intake. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tjnut.2025.05.019

>we need guardrails to defend against

There is no "we". You say that I and others need it, and you want to impose your opinion by taxing us.
by vee-kay | 2026-02-06 17:59:17+00:00
You really are begging for spoonfeeding.

Alrighty then..

Page 15 - text in bold:
https://www.hsrii.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/72.pdf

Page 7 - first paragraph:
https://www.icmr.gov.in/icmrobject/static/icmr/dist/images/p...

Now I challenge you to connect those 2 dots I just spoonfed you, and give their gist here, truthfully, if you dare..