MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cityofdelusion | 2026-02-11 07:59:55+00:00
ICE maintenance is pretty cheap, with the exception of tires, which are a huge outlay (but also the most important safety item!). My Honda only needs $35 of oil/filter once a year, maybe $40 of brake pads once in 80,000 miles, and a burned out bulb for a few bucks. Top tires all around though, easily $600-$800. A few one time things around the 100k mile mark, maybe plugs/sparkys/belt or similar, but not regular in any sense, most cars will only have them ever done once.
by jonathanlydall | 2026-02-11 08:01:12+00:00
Why would you expect people not living in the Netherlands to just know this?

In South Africa where I live, anywhere that accepts cards accepts Visa and Mastercard. Outside of the "informal business" sector (e.g. tiny "businesses" like a roadside stall), card acceptance is so ubiquitous I don't carry cash anymore and it's very rarely an issue.
by nottorp | 2026-02-11 08:01:39+00:00
Item one, that has been mentioned a lot of times in this discussion, is that a payment system that is independent of Visa/MC but is dependent on US based smartphones is about as useless.

Item two is convenience. All these systems are "faster wire transfers". I don't really see the point of them when you can already do instant IBAN or even phone number based transfers.

What they do not have is a line of credit backing them. Got to make sure you have money in "the particular system your merchant accepts". Also at least in eastern europe credit cards come with the possibility to pay in a few installments with zero interest (paid for by the merchant of course, so not everyone does that). This is gone in the new system.

What they also do not have is the fraud protection of a credit card. You may be able to revert a transaction but the money is gone from your account and it will take a long time to see it back.

On the other hand it's harder to spend money you do not have so perhaps the EU is trying to make its citizens more financially responsible? :)
by matttproud | 2026-02-11 08:02:07+00:00
Driving discipline, culture, and rules in North America are Mickey Mouse.

The reality of car dependency there means that there are people driving and owning cars who can't really afford to do it properly, nor do they know they need to do it properly (e.g., having a second set of tires for the winter). You can see this evidenced by the rust buckets on the road that look like they are one pothole away from losing part of the vehicle body.
Show HN: 15% of Forbes 30 under 30 winners did fraud
by yevbar | 2026-02-11 08:02:34+00:00
15% of Forbes 30 under 30 winners can be attributed to fraud. Here is an interactive visualization of 8215 winners and whether or not they're in some controversy.

I originally vibe scraped the winners and hit my weekly Claude limit, manually Googled over 2500 times (around 2400 I actually got an internal error), then realized Gemini has a free API with search supported.

Few are funny, some may from common names, feel free to DM me on X @itisyev if there is something you'd like to see changed.
by tgsovlerkhgsel | 2026-02-11 08:04:10+00:00
> instruction manuals ... often have useful information ... A surprising number of my peers don’t realize this.

That's because instruction manuals always have a lot of useless information, and many of them have only such useless information. One of my computer mice came with guidance to avoid prolonged contact with skin and I'm pretty sure nothing in that manual was of any value.
by pmig | 2026-02-11 08:04:12+00:00
Thanks for sticking around! Yes indeed, Distr already has a lot of features and can replace many other tools in your deployment stack (e.g., CI, log collection, alerts, licensing, secrets, OCI registry, customer & user management).

Users definitely also use us for internal deployments, but there are some trade-offs you’ll need to make compared to the zero-config setup you get when deploying your Next.js app to Vercel on the one hand, and the hardcore customization you get when running your own GitOps/Terraform setup on the other.

Is there any specific feature you’re missing, or is it just that our website doesn’t really highlight that use case?
by plastic-enjoyer | 2026-02-11 08:04:35+00:00
> I don't think that's what people are upset about, or at least it's not for me. For me it's that writing code is really enjoyable, and delegating it to AI is hell on earth.

Maybe this is the reason why I don't care that much about coding agents or have a strong opinion about them, because code was only a means to an end for me. What I enjoy is to learn about and understand systems and designing those systems, whether it's computers, operating systems or software architectures. I never did enjoy just hacking away or writing CRUD stuff.
by growse | 2026-02-11 08:05:07+00:00
> [citation needed]

My citation is the membership of the CAB.

> IMHO "other relying-party software applications" can include XMPP servers (also perhaps SMTP, IMAP, FTPS, NNTP, etc).

This may be your opinion, but what's the representation of XMPP etc. software maintainers at the CAB?
by watwut | 2026-02-11 08:05:26+00:00
Maybe the boy who cried wolf is actually about a boy who successfully saved the flock multiple times in a row, by making noise and commotion. Then he fails one night and the wolf eats him. The villagers, instead of sayin "oh, so there was a wolf after all" insisted on blaming the boy, because otherwise they would have to admit they were wrong.

That would be 100% realistic.

And looking at past years, maybe the wolf even have eating a sheep every night, because the people who were accused of hysteria and false panic were 100% correct and right.
by LeafItAlone | 2026-02-11 08:06:16+00:00
>what's the value of paying someone for a product like this vs just building it myself?

Same thing it’s always been. Convenience. Including maintenance costs.
AI tools have lowered the bar significantly on some things, so SaaS offerings will need to be better, but I don’t want to reinvent every wheel. I want to build the thing I want to build, not the things to build that.

Just like I go to restaurants instead of making every meal myself.
by splonk | 2026-02-11 08:06:38+00:00
I am exactly the type of nerd that is super excited about this kind of engineering, to the point where I visited a couple years ago and rode a boat on the wheel when I happened to be in Scotland. I mentioned having gone to a local in Edinburgh and got a very confused "why would you ever go to Falkirk?" It's a pretty easy half-day trip out of Edinburgh or Glasgow, and I recommend it if you have the time.

One fun thing if you have kids is that the playground there has some demonstrations of Archimedean principles, like how an Archimedes screw works. Also, I don't keep many souvenirs of my travels, but I do have a refrigerator magnet of the Falkirk wheel that spins freely. It doubles as a cat toy.
by kalleboo | 2026-02-11 08:07:19+00:00
No the GP, but in the 10 years of owning my ICE vehicle I've had these things serviced:

Oil change/Oil filter, Spark plugs, Alternator belt, Aircon belt, Brake pads, Brake fluid, Wiper blades, Wiper fluid, 12V battery, Tyres, an accessory fuse, a jammed seatbelt buckle. Two of the power locks are a bit sticky and probably need a touch-up of oil.

The first 4 are ICE-only, and brake pads are worn less if you mostly use regen. The rest are the same on EVs.
by fwsgonzo | 2026-02-11 08:07:46+00:00
Same here, also on an island. We lost power for ~8 hours during a storm, however that is the longest I've ever experienced. I have this stone fireplace: https://www.norskkleber.no/ovner/marcello/ (Marcello 140), which kept my 75sqm living room heated through the whole thing.

Since that storm, we have decided to buy a second fireplace for upstairs with a cooking top.
by jader201 | 2026-02-11 08:07:51+00:00
> seatbelt receptacle, a cruise control buttons, roof exterior rubber trim, a headrest, a window switch, washer fluid spray nozzles, lug nuts, wiper blades, shocks, struts, door weather stripping, rivets holding the front plastic splashguard on, headlight bulbs, headlight buffing, washer fluid reservoir cap, replacement speaker, turn signal switch, windshield repair, backup light switch.

Other than washer fluid, wiper blades, and the occasional headlight bulb, many of these I’ve never had to replace on any of my vehicles (ICE or EV), and the few that I’ve had to replace was maybe once on one car.

I feel like you’re an unlucky sample of 1.

Most of my ICE vehicles needed none of these, and only things related to ICE vehicles (oil/fluid changes, brake pads/rotors oil leaks, transmissions, alternators, belts).
by growse | 2026-02-11 08:08:23+00:00
> CABF started imposing restrictions on the public CA operators regarding the issuance of non-HTTPS certificates.

The restriction is on signing non web certificates with the same root/intermediate as is part of the WebPKI.

There's no rule (that I'm aware of?) that says the CAs can't have different signing roots for whatever use-case that are then trusted by people who need that use case.
by TeMPOraL | 2026-02-11 08:08:33+00:00
> if OpenAI can essentially work with Monopolly money, whey can´t "we" do it too?

The answer is, in case anyone wonders: because OpenAI is providing a general purpose tool that has potential to subsume most of the software industry; "We" are merely setting up toll gates around what will ultimately become a bunch of tools for LLM, and trying to pass it off as a "product".
by atoav | 2026-02-11 08:09:22+00:00
So what you say is that if someone is clearly ethically wrong, it doesn't matter whether it is legal or not.

That is also my opinion. If we are lucky, we are born into a society in which what we perceive to be right aligns with what the rules say. The next step down on the luck ladder would be a society where there is misalignment in some cases, but there are mechanisms you couls use to change the rules (as is the case in most free countries), and then there are cases where not only are the rules unfair, but you have no way of changing them. In that case resistance is only way to deal with it.

Now with the wisdom of hindsight you can say, the Nazis were clearly bad. But this was much harder to see for thr people during the time. I know because one of my grandfathers was in the Wehrmacht while the other hated the Nazis. Money quote (translated from German): "Everybody thought Hitler would make Germany great again".

My grandfather died in 2009.
by dlcarrier | 2026-02-11 08:09:58+00:00
I wonder if it's a carryover of an old regulation that used to make sense. Modern all-season tires are better in snow than the best winter tires were several decades ago.

Also, you need studs or chains to get traction on ice. The difference between a winter tire and a summer tire is the temperature range where the rubber stays flexible. When the rubber gets hard, it will keep its shape instead of complying with the surface of the road, so it loses traction quicker. Ice is flat, so there's no difference between tire types, and there's nothing to grip on to.
by jonasdegendt | 2026-02-11 08:10:14+00:00
Took a winter trip to Norway once with friends, which included a Norwegian that'd immigrated away to the much milder climate the rest of us were all used to. We got a meter of overnight snow and I'd never seen a person so eager to get shoveling, it took her right back to her childhood. What a machine too, once she got going.

We were dealing with -10C to -20C , but as someone else pointed out my takeaway was that it's really your extremities that you need to think about, there rest of my body was easy to keep warm in comparison. I ended up taking a pair of winter motorcycle gloves I had laying around on the trip, water and wind proof and those worked like a charm with an additional pair of thin, inner gloves, so there's a tip!

I didn't quite nail keeping my feet warm though, but I was wearing regular hiking boots with very thick wool socks. Still felt like I was draining heat to the ground at a rapid rate though.
by Tor3 | 2026-02-11 08:10:39+00:00
Manuals used to have tens of pages of useful information, if not more. These days it's just tens, if not a hundred pages of (mostly meaningless) warnings, in different languages, and sometimes only that. If you're lucky there's a single page of mostly pictures and a few lines of text, and typically just the obvious parts.
I went through some old storage boxes yesterday. Found "manuals" for a number of items. One had four manuals. Turned out it was just that they could only stuff half a dozen languages of warnings in one manual, so they made a bunch of them, all just the same warnings, in different languages. More paper for the recycling centre.
by pmyteh | 2026-02-11 08:10:58+00:00
British canals are smaller than you imagine, and were even when they were commercial waterways. The standard lock widths are only 7ft or 14ft (2.1m/4.3m) so the boats are narrow, proportionally long, and very small compared to a Rhine barge or something.

As with the railways, we built early, to a small gauge, and lived with the consequences of that later.
by Der_Einzige | 2026-02-11 08:11:08+00:00
Third parties exist. Folks act like Ross Perot and Pat Buchanan don't exist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_United_States_presidentia...

18.9% as recently as 1992. I predict we will have a similar viable third party showing sometime in the next few elections due to the radical shift in the party system that AI is causing as we speak. I really hope Yang Gang can rebuild itself and try again, maybe without #MATH.

Also, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_Minnesota_gubernatorial_e...

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man" - George Bernard Shaw
by TZubiri | 2026-02-11 08:11:45+00:00
Would it really make a difference if they just added a CNAME from foobar.github.com to point at github.github.io?

Yes, that would help, but it's not very discoverable.

I think a certificate mechanism would be much more appropriate for that.

The SSL certificate should be emitted for github.com and github.io

Of course since github.io is rented out, it doesn't make sense. But if you ever have an alias, that's the way to do it, if I get a link to getproduct.com and it gets redirected to product.com I can check the cert and see that it was issued for both domains.
by keiferski | 2026-02-11 08:11:59+00:00
For sure, the vast majority of people taking the roundabout path don't achieve his level of success.

I just mean it's interesting how there don't seem to be more young people trying to emulate his particular route. Many claim they want to be "the next Steve Jobs" or achieve the same level of success, but then just go the same route as every other ambitious person.
by da_chicken | 2026-02-11 08:12:42+00:00
That's my question. Why is there infrastructure that has open access to port 23 on the Internet. That shouldn't be a problem that the service provider has to solve, but it should absolutely be illegal for whomever is in charge of managing the service or providing equipment to the people managing the service. That is like selling a car without seatbelts.

We are beyond the point where not putting infrastructure equipment behind a firewall should result in a fine. It's beyond the point that this is negligence.
by tgsovlerkhgsel | 2026-02-11 08:13:37+00:00
I particularly miss the spec page that used to be standard in every manual and is now increasingly rare.

Of course, the really old/good manuals also had schematics, and there were a few cases where those were really help when we actually had to repair stuff like that. For some simpler things that would make sense even today but it ain't happening...
by exDM69 | 2026-02-11 08:13:39+00:00
> look up the extension on vulkan.gpuinfo.org and see ... currently 0.3% of all devices support it.

Afaik the extension isn't even finalized yet and they are pre-releasing it to gather feedback.

And you can't use gpuinfo for assessing how widely available something is or isn't. The stats contain reports from old drivers too so the numbers you see are no indication of hardware support.

To assess how widely supported something is, you need to look at gpuinfo, sort by date or driver version and cross reference something like steam hardware survey.
by beardyw | 2026-02-11 08:15:04+00:00
A difficulty I have is a conflict between my distaste for AI artistic output of any kind, and the argument that it is wrong that it is trained on art, music whatever.

That's what humans do. No one complains that another musician has listened to someone else's music. Or even that they are influenced by it. It's how things happen.

The problem is that AI has nothing to add. Somehow that needs to be brought into a cogent argument.
by Stratoscope | 2026-02-11 08:16:32+00:00
Lately I've been fascinated by Yakutsk, the coldest large city on Earth.

About 350,000 people live there, and winter temperatures can drop to –64°C (−83°F).

And regardless of the temperature or time of year, they have shopping malls, restaurants, and everything else you might expect to find in any big city.

Here are a few recent videos I enjoyed:

24 Hours in the Coldest City on Earth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-WGGDRyf68

How We Live in the World's Coldest City - Typical Apartment Tour

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikUSFU7TlYc

How We Heat Our APARTMENT at -64°C| -83°F

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHbsYYELV94
by eitland | 2026-02-11 08:16:48+00:00
It is really interesting for me to hear your experience.

I have lived in Norway all of my >45 years on this earth and I can say that in the first half of my life were I lived on the west coast, power outages was totally expected.

We had a generator, and we had a gas stove ("everyone" in Norway use electricity for cooking) for those days, a kerose lamp and a wood stove.

The longest power outage I experienced was 3 days, somewhere around 1986 I think, but a few hours could happen multiple times and overnight outages were not unusual.
by varjag | 2026-02-11 08:18:36+00:00
It wasn't easy to geofence due to fluid nature of the frontline and lack of single official supply channel to Ukraine. A huge part of Ukrainian terminals were also procured abroad by volunteers.

However a recent development was Russian use of terminals on attack drones. Out of that Starlink was able to block terminals with certain velocity (and possibly bearing) in the region. In addition Ukraine got around to making internal registry of all frontline terminal allowing Starlink to white-list. So no it was a bit more than a tweet involved.
by embedding-shape | 2026-02-11 08:18:40+00:00
> Looks like a TOS violation to me to scrape google directly like that

If something was built by violating TOS' and you use that to do more TOS violations against the ones who initially did the TOS violations to build the thing, do they cancel out each other?

Not about GPT-OSS specifically, but say you used Gemma for the same purpose instead for this hypothetical.
by Tor3 | 2026-02-11 08:19:07+00:00
Indeed. The first thing I do when buying a second-hand car (I never buy new cars, what a waste of money) is to buy the best winter tires (and summer tires if needed) that money can buy (lots of that available, as I save so much on the car). I never have any problems in any conditions (and there are a lot of "conditions..")

All seasons tires are rubbish. Also the "new" ones (re sister comment).
by dlcarrier | 2026-02-11 08:19:32+00:00
Once I shoveled some stairs immediately after the first snowfall of the year, on a night well below freezing, and there was a boot print of solid ice frozen onto one of the steps. It's one of the creepiest unexplainable things I've ever seen. I can't think of any way it could have formed, and it was in the middle of a staircase with at least a dozen steps.

My best guess is that, because it was a wooden step, the boot print was permanently imprinted into the step itself, and somehow it had filled with water and frozen before the snowfall.
by ellebelle | 2026-02-11 08:19:56+00:00
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by simonw | 2026-02-11 08:20:04+00:00
I'm not convinced Markdown's various flaws matter for the way I'm using it here.

I want a simple, widely-enough supported format for mixing text, code samples and images. The non-standard (because what even is a standard when Markdown is in play?) subset of Markdown I've picked for this project works fine for what I need in Showboat.

If it turns out to need more I can expand the format in the future - likely though embedding YAML in frontmatter but I could add sidecar JSON files instead if that proves to be more robust.
by embedding-shape | 2026-02-11 08:20:14+00:00
Have you tried GPT-OSS-120b MXFP4 with reasoning effort set to high? Out of all models I can run within 96GB, it seems to consistently give better results. What exact llama model (+ quant I suppose) is it that you've had better results against, and what did you compare it against, the 120b or 20b variant?
by socialcommenter | 2026-02-11 08:20:24+00:00
> Did you know EV motors can also require oil changes

Please enjoy an excellent podcast I quite like: https://youtu.be/YvE164Ubgss?t=900 (wait for 15:45)

Again, probably only relevant for extremely long term ownership, but someone will need to own and maintain all the high mileage decade-old EVs a decade from now.
by grey-area | 2026-02-11 08:21:23+00:00
Natural language is in fact a terrible way to express goals, it is imprecise, contradictory, subjective, full of redundancies and constantly changing. So possibly the worst format to record business rules and logic.

This lesson has been learned over and over (see AppleScript) but it seems people need to keep learning it.

We use simple programming languages composed of logic and maths not just to talk to the machine but to codify our thoughts within a strict internally consistent and deterministic system.

So in no sense are the vague imprecise instructions fed to LLMs the true source code.
by 1718627440 | 2026-02-11 08:21:43+00:00
I think we are talking past each other. I was saying that passing an array with a size to a function was standardized 27 years ago, asking if that isn't long enough. Sure, some may don't like how it was standardized, but it is possible.

Beside the sibling comment about this specific proposal, I also think that fat pointers don't belong in the C standard. There is nothing in the C standard that says that pointers on the abstract C machine don't come with the allocated size, in fact the behaviour is described as if they do. Pointers are essentially scoped by allocation. All that is missing is code for that in a C implementation, the language allows that just fine.
by 1drop100soap | 2026-02-11 08:22:06+00:00
I mean, I CAN see the value in pushing the context summary to git. We already have git blame to answer "who", but there is no git interrogate to answer the "why". This is clearly an attempt to make that a verb git can keep track of. It's a valuable idea.

I also seen examples of it before. I've got opencode running right now and it has a share session feature. That whole idea is just a spinoff on the concept of the same parent that led to this one.
by jader201 | 2026-02-11 08:22:31+00:00
There are many things that break or need maintenance on my ICE vehicles that I don’t want to mess with myself: oil changes, transmissions, alternators, belts, engine issue (oil leaks). Engine air filters are about the only ICE-specific piece I don’t mind doing myself.

Re: brakes, where I live, I don’t think salt will play much a factor, and not sure what you mean by “fuel efficient driving” wearing your brakes, but I’m using regenerative braking 95+% of the time.