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by close04 | 2026-02-11 09:57:23+00:00
Maybe it’s a “but when it happens you’re screwed” situation. I’m thinking of the story of BMW’s battery safety fuse (the one that trips in an accident to protect first responders and the people in the car) actually tripping when you hot the curb or a pothole harder. It requires a very expensive trip to the dealer. Some of my Tesla owning friends keep spending time in the shop getting something about the suspension fixed 2-3 times already.

I have no idea if Chinese EVs are consistently better, Volvo can be seen as one and I don’t think they excel at reliability lately.

P.S. Software issues are reliability issues. The software is a core part of the car and its value proposition, you can’t discount them as “just software issues, not reliability”.
by krapp | 2026-02-11 09:57:41+00:00
I grin a bit whenever someone gets that infantile on what's supposed to be a board of high-minded intellectual sophisticates.

But I'm serious. This forum is meant for human beings to satisfy their intellectual curiosity discussing topics of interest which are usually but don't need to be related to tech or programming. The humanity matters, even if it's damned hard to find sometimes because expressing humanity is a negative social signal here.

AI may be the nexus of the industry at the moment but it's destroying everything this community and culture are supposed to be about. Every vibe coded project, every comment passed through ChatGPT, every conversation lacking in any technical merit because 99% of people here only know how to engineer a prompt and are aggressively ignorant about everything else. Every tedious philosophical drain-circling about whether AIs are sentient or whether humans even are. Every arrogant declaration by AI bros about its futility. And the implication behind all of it that the human element doesn't matter.

I mean, Show HN is supposed to be a place for passion projects, and it's turned into nothing but vibe-coded slop. It isn't fun anymore.

So they don't want us here, and we don't want them here. Someone vibe code a forum - because no one else will want to touch it then - and the AI bros can leave so those of us who think human effort still has value can discuss the things we have an interest in in peace, and there they can be as positive about AI as they want.
by baxtr | 2026-02-11 09:57:50+00:00
Look that’s the thing: we know about mass extinction events. So we can use these to extrapolate.

A 10+ kilometer wide asteroid will most likely cause global mass extinction, by blocking sunlight and collapsing ecosystems. That’s how the dinosaurs were wiped out 66 million years ago.

Such events are estimated to occur roughly once every 100 to 200 million years. That’s not fiction that’s science.

We never had a robot revolution. That’s why anything about it belongs in the realm of fiction.
by porknbeans00 | 2026-02-11 09:58:06+00:00
So... there once was a company called First data. Founded by some JPMC execs who got chased out of the bank after being caught performing espionage for Palantir.

They sold their transaction platform as a service to Apple Pay. And funneled all your transaction data to palantir.

Financial networks are side channels for intelligence gathering. And that makes the folks doing them outside of your nation an adversary.

With the US choosing to become an enemy of western democracy in Europe, the need for more investment in building trusted core infrastructure is inevitable.

Certainly none of this is ever simple. But this is just a microcosm of a much larger shift across many industries in Europe and we as tech nerds should be mindful of the tectonic shifts that are happening currently. The capital investments occurring have serious long term implications for us all.
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by exceptione | 2026-02-11 09:59:11+00:00
> Imagine a commit in a patch series changes 100 lines. 99 of the lines are good, but the first round of review suggests to add a missing semicolon on one of the lines. The author does that by amending the existing commit, to avoid an unseemly "add missing semicolon" commit ending up in the project history. After a force-push (or new patch series submission), reviewers are generally presented with the full 100-line diff to review, because the tools don't understand that only one line changed since the last review.

In the PR-workflow, why not add fixup! commits? I think that when the PR is approved, the PR owner should be free to rewrite the history in their PR.

Flirt looks interesting, but I am not sure if it would solve a real problem for me.
by romankolpak | 2026-02-11 09:59:36+00:00
Hire excellent programmers who spent their lifetime learning how to write good code and build systems, and then the code is easy. Hire some bad ones and watch them struggle and fail and learn why maybe coding is not that easy. AI doesn't change this, it just shifts failure modes a bit since the volume of code produced is now larger, and AI-enabled bad programmers are still bad.

I remember a tennis survey where something like 70% of respondents believed they could win a game against a Tennis pro player (I can't find the source anymore, but it was discussed on Andy Roddick's podcast). If you watch Roger Federer effortlessly and elegantly make beautiful shots, it's very easy to fall into this trap and think -- it must be so easy, right?? Are people falling into the same trap watching Claude Code regurgitate CRUD apps for them?
by PranayKumarJain | 2026-02-11 10:00:44+00:00
OpenClaw is particularly useful for bridging this gap. Because it's a self-hosted agent with persistent memory (via MEMORY.md and AGENTS.md), it doesn't just "forget" the big picture between sessions.

The "supervisor" workflow mentioned by others in this thread (using one agent to manage multiple worker agents) is exactly where the industry is heading. It turns the human from a "vibe coder" into an architect who manages state and requirements while the agents handle the implementation "beads".

If you're hitting the "stupid zone" on larger tasks, try breaking the plan into smaller, specific markdown specs first. OpenClaw's ability to "interview" a codebase and then implement from those specs in commit-sized chunks is a game changer for non-trivial monorepos.
by gorgmah | 2026-02-11 10:01:01+00:00
I use antigravity now, I think they made it a little bit more stable, it crashes less often lately. Limits are quite high. Someone made a proxy tool to use your antigravity token allowance in claude-code, I haven't tried it but worth considering if you want cheaper option for claude-code.
Antigravity has per model limits, so you can start by using opus 4.6 then use opus 4.5 then use gemini-3-pro before you have to start paying additional tokens.
by PranayKumarJain | 2026-02-11 10:01:08+00:00
The setup is definitely the biggest hurdle right now. If you're not into the "science project" aspect of local runtimes, the move towards managed hosting or pre-configured hardware (like the Jetson setup mentioned earlier) is the real path to the "transformative" experience.

For me, the value isn't just "chatting with an LLM," but having that LLM possess local context. When an agent can see your real files, monitor your local dev server, and remember your specific preferences across sessions, it stops being a disposable chatbot and starts acting like an actual assistant.

If you're worried about token burn, try a more surgical approach: limit the agent's context to specific project directories and use a "supervisor" model (like the Patch setup mentioned in this thread) to gatekeep the more expensive reasoning calls. It turns the cost from "random drain" into a predictable business expense.
by pdimitar | 2026-02-11 10:01:48+00:00
Thanks. I see much less. I am on Win10 though, are you on Win11?

I have come homework to do, it seems. I have no idea why I see like 3x less distros.

And huge shame if that comes with Linux 6.12 kernel. I might as well just bump Debian to unstable and work there. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
by bsaul | 2026-02-11 10:02:28+00:00
At least in France, the general work legislation is generous enough that people in the industry don't feel the need to unionize. We've got 5 weeks holidays per year, plus additional ones if your work contract has more than 35hours of work per week.

Needless to say, burnouts are pretty rare. When they do, it's mostly because of toxic management which can't fire you because of legislation, so they just make your life miserable until you snap. I've also seen it happen in some startups where people have to take super long holidays after a successful exit because they've worked insane hours. However it was mostly self inflicted.
by ddtaylor | 2026-02-11 10:03:01+00:00
Oof. That's a special kind of stupid. I get how it happened, but like, they found a way to make calc bad while also bringing an obscure feature in modern browsers I hate with a passion.

It reminds me of King of the Hill where Hank says "Can't you see you're not making Christianity better and you're only making rock music worse?"
by tuetuopay | 2026-02-11 10:03:43+00:00
Well, yes, we pay "cash" in the sense we pay direct debit. So literally the same as you, we tap the card. Except we don't have to keep track of the credit balance at the end of the month: money's taken directly from the account. The bank app shows you have enough? You're set.

As to how, in the financial term: we europeans don't really have the credit culture the US has. Having a credit is something very last resort, especially for "trivial" stuff (e.g. christmas shopping, to keep your example). Most europeans will have one or two credits tops: real estate loan, and sometimes car loan. Companies (mostly US) start offering payments spread over multiple months, but it does not really have a high penetration (at least in France), being in small useless debts is something we avoid like the plague.

And how do we have enough money in the bank? We just shop after payday, not after. Or, for most people, we keep a somewhat constant amount in the daily account. It's just another way of managing your own money.
by fnordpiglet | 2026-02-11 10:04:12+00:00
Future me would have a really high quality EV with an amazing charging network, clean air and water, a habitable planet for my grand children, no domestic political extrajudicial paramilitary surveilling everyone with megawarehouse detention cities everywhere, outright ideological warfare against urban areas, etc.

We had a choice between Star Trek future world and Blade Runner+MadMax+Idiocracy, and we predictably chose the one we deserve because memes and a podcast.
by Aerroon | 2026-02-11 10:04:48+00:00
>If a grandma or teen can get saddled with life ruining punitive damages for something as innocent as filesharing

That's the same thing these corporations were found guilty of though. Or well, maybe not even that, since it was about downloading copyrighted material, not necessarily sharing:

https://www.npr.org/2025/09/05/g-s1-87367/anthropic-authors-...

>The company has agreed to pay authors about $3,000 for each of an estimated 500,000 books covered by the settlement.
by a96 | 2026-02-11 10:06:34+00:00
Another thing I've never got them to generate is any G code. Maybe that'll be in the image/3d generator side indirectly, but I was kind of hoping I could generate some motions since hand coding coordinates is very tedious. That would be a productivity boost for me. A very very niche boost, since I rarely need bespoke G code, but still.
by ampersandwhich | 2026-02-11 10:08:09+00:00
Recently, I was pleasantly surprised to discover that the Microsoft Store has a built-in CLI with that exact functionality. You just run `store updates` to check for updates to store-managed apps, and you can target specific items with `store update <update-id>`. Of course, there's also winget for non-store applications (`winget upgrade`). I find them pretty handy as I have become quite used to managing my Linux installations with pacman over the past year or so. I discovered the store CLI completely by accident. It's not widely advertised.
by GodCreation | 2026-02-11 10:08:40+00:00
Webinar on how to build your own programming language in C++ from the developers of a static analyzer.
PVS-Studio presents a series of webinars on how to build your own programming language in C++. In the first session, we will go over what’s inside the “black box”. In clear and plain terms, they’ll explain what a lexer, parser, a semantic analyzer, and an evaluator are.

Yuri Minaev, C++ architect at PVS-Studio, will talk about what these components are, why they’re needed, and how they work.
by vidarh | 2026-02-11 10:08:42+00:00
TDD does not require you to know everything you're building up-front. Tests can come out of experimentation, to validate the final build. Tests can be driven by autonomous directed planning.

I'm currently, in fact, working on a system where the LLM semi-independently build up an understanding of a project and its goals from exploration, and then creates small targeted improvement plans, including the acceptance criteria that then feeds into building test suites which the build will finally be measured against.

It still needs direction - if you have a large spec or a judge/fitness function, such as you would for a compiler for an existing language, you can achieve a lot just from using that and may not need much additional direction. But even for far more exploratory projects, you can have the LLM surface perceived goals and plans to meet those goals, and "teach it" on the way by giving it points on how to revise a given goal or plan, and have e.g. implementation successes and failures feed into future plans.

My current system has "learned" [1] quite quickly on fairly complex test projects, and I'm in fact right now testing it on a hobby compiler project. The first cycles are frustrating (and an area I'm refining), because it's dumped into a project it doesn't know the real motivations for, and it will start making some code changes you know are bad, and letting go obsessing over that is hard. But ultimately using it as input to a feedback cycle where you add to its goals (e.g. make clear one of the goals is code that meets your specific standards) is more useful than managing it in detail yourself.

I'm very closet to putting this improvement agent in a cron job for a project I rely on for day to day use (yes, I'll make sure I can roll back), because it now very consistently implements improvements both entirely unilaterally, or based on minor hints (it has access to some files on my desktop, including a "journal" of sorts, and if I put a one-liner about an idea or frustration, I'll often come back to find a 300+ line implementation plan for a change to fix it, or lay the foundation for fixing it.

[1] "Learned" in this instance is in quotes for a reason. I'm not fine-tuning models - I have the agent do a retro of its own plan executions, and update documents with "lessons learned" that gets fed into the next planning stage.
by nextaccountic | 2026-02-11 10:08:56+00:00
> thus it remains obscure. Hyperbolic growth hits the limits (electricity? intractable problems?) the same way exponential growth does.

Indeed, exponential or larger than exponential growth in nature is always the beginning of a S curve. The article cites

> Moore's Law was exponential. We are no longer on Moore's Law.

This will also happen with super-exponential growth. A literal singularity won't happen - it will inevitably exhaust resources and will slow down.
by Sharlin | 2026-02-11 10:10:09+00:00
Because near/mid infrared has many uses other than high-z objects, and it’s been something of a relative blind spot to us until now, although before Webb we did have Spitzer.

For far IR/submillimeter observations we had Herschel in space, SOFIA in the stratosphere (flying on a 747), and several large terrestrial telescopes at very high altitudes can also observe at FIR/submm wavelengths. But sure, there are likely many astronomers who would love nothing more than a new spaceborne FIR telescope, given that it’s been more than a decade since Herschel’s end of mission, and SOFIA was also retired in 2022.

For microwave we’ve had several space telescopes (COBE, then WMAP, then Planck), mainly designed to map the cosmic microwave background. That’s the farthest and reddest that you can see in any EM band, 300,000 years after the big bang.

Past microwave, that’s the domain of radio astronomy, with entirely different technology needed. We have huge radio telescope arrays on the ground – the atmosphere is fairly transparent to radio so there’s no pressing reason to launch radio telescopes to space, and their size would make it completely infeasible anyway, at least until some novel low-mass, self-unfolding antenna technology.
by usrusr | 2026-02-11 10:10:20+00:00
You must frequent a very interesting subset of German web shops then. Yes, some do offer bank transfer (many don't because latency is just so terrible), but I've never seen credit card not on the list. Perhaps with the exception of credit card available only through some intermediary like PayPal (which I tend to prefer over direct credit card, I don't really like spreading my CC details to servers of questionable maintenance state than strictly necessary)
Show HN: Chroma Master A premium Flutter color suite with 7 integrated games
by Krishna_Avatar | 2026-02-11 10:10:25+00:00
Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.chromamast...

Hi HN,
I’ve always found standard color utilities to be a bit dry. Most focus on just providing HEX codes, but as a developer, I wanted to build something that felt alive—a creative playground that helps you "master" color theory through gameplay.
I built Chroma Master - Color Tool. It’s a suite that combines professional color tools with a full "Game Hub" (Arcade).
### The Technical Challenge
The biggest hurdle was performance. I wanted a "Glassmorphism" look with real-time animated mesh backgrounds that wouldn't drain the battery or lag on mid-range Android devices.
- UI Logic: Built entirely in Flutter, utilizing heavy optimization for the custom mesh animation loops and OLED-ready true blacks.
- AI Integration: Implemented a real-time camera segmentation picker that extracts palettes directly from the physical environment.
- Color Mixing Engine: I had to re-implement digital pigment blending from scratch to make the "Merge Puzzle" feel physically accurate.
### The Arcade (7+ Games)
To keep the experience engaging, I integrated games that teach color relationships:
- Hue Rush: A high-speed coordination game testing your ability to switch color shields in rhythm.
- Merge Puzzle: A rethink of the 2048-style logic using additive/subtractive color blending.
- Memory Match: A high-fidelity memory trainer that uses hue variations to challenge your visual perception.
- Gradient Build: Playing with easing functions and lerping to create perfect smooth transitions.
I’m really interested in hearing from the HN community regarding the balancing of the game difficulty and the performance of the Flutter-based animations on your specific hardware.
by saithound | 2026-02-11 10:10:53+00:00
> you were being paid to produce software, and the process was incidental to it.

Yes, the people who write articles like the one in this post understand this. Previously, they could do it and get paid while doing a thing they loved.

Now that process is no longer economically viable: they can get paid, or they can do the thing they loved. They lost something, so they mourn the loss. At least they would, but a bunch of tone-deaf people keep interrupting them to explain why they shouldn't.
by NekkoDroid | 2026-02-11 10:11:09+00:00
> are you on Win11?

Yes I am, though I am surprised that it possibly has a different distro list for Win 10 vs Win 11.

> And huge shame if that comes with Linux 6.12 kernel.

I actually lied, its 6.6 that is currently shipped.

I have no concrete information but considering the previous kernel was 6.1 it is about time that the kernel gets an update to a newer version.
by greazy | 2026-02-11 10:11:57+00:00
> FDA took issue with the “comparator” in its clinical trial — the vaccine the company used as a benchmark to evaluate its own shot.

> FDA said the use of the standard flu shot as a comparator “does not reflect the best-available standard of care.” The standard flu shot is FDA-approved.

The standard flu vaccine using inactivated virus grown in eggs is a very good comparator.

Please elaborate further, currently you are acting more mysterious than helpful.
by crazyloglad | 2026-02-11 10:12:31+00:00
The entire article is from the browser internals angle. The page-writer one comes when we have tools to compile pages into app and layer in user features. The rough path for that is simpler ones first (Sile typesetter and Pandoc), then more exotic ones. An example of the later would be a "print to" modification to a browser that can preserve more content like animations and audio and not be restricted to fixed sized pages.

It is forever backwards compatible. API levels is for the rare few cases where we need to deprecate or break something on the engine side but can apply a runtime fix-up script to replicate the behaviour on the scripting level.

Decode/Encode/Network/Terminal is user-relevant insofar as the set of those are interchangeable binaries. If you want more or less (paranoia, legal environment restrictions) media format support, export or streaming capabilities, etc. those can be swapped out per site without any changes to the engine. What is being considered is to be explicit about expected formats in the manifest so that incompatibilities can be detected.

SHMIF is user relevant insofar as "wasm or low-level compiled code" running as local software can be embedded and controlled by the app, allow-listed by the user.

> No third-party storage, and maybe first-party is optional too (not sure what's the plat for this.. user prompt? explicit action?)

Can you clarify what you mean by this?
by lelanthran | 2026-02-11 10:12:32+00:00
The real tragedy is that I can only give a single upvote. This post needs to be added to the HN guidelines, I feel.

We are being overwhelmed with slop. Not even original slop, but carefully specced slop that poorly replicates some existing functionality, but as a SaaS.

This is the 90s equivalent of "Doing $FOO, but on the internet", only it's "Copying $FOO, but with added costs as a SaaS".

That it is AI is just another black mark against it.
by jjav | 2026-02-11 10:12:41+00:00
> The difference between what winter-only tires can handle vs winter-rated all-season tires is so minimal that they're not with getting.

Yeah.. no. The difference is night and day.

Put on some Nokian Hakkapeliitta tires and prepare to be amazed. The grip on snow is spectacular.

All the years I lived in snow areas I drove a Miata of all things.. RWD, light, no ABS, no TC, 4" clearance. But with Hakkapeliitta tires I never once had any trouble, while people in their trucks and 4x4s were stuck on the side of the road due to all-season tires. A true snow tire is a whole different level.

> Northern California ... chain controls

The whole California chain thing is brain damage. The proper safe answer to driving in snow is top quality snow tires, not chains. Chains is the worst possible idea. The chain laws are laws created by politicians who live in sunny Sacramento and have never seen snow and have no clue.

A car with Hakkapeliittas (Blizzaks are good too) will outhandle a car with chains 100% of the time.