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Not only did solar and wind provide the vast majority of power during the day today, as I write this comment coal is neck-and-neck with storage as an energy resource - i.e. power that was saved during the day because it was so sunny.
Coal simply makes no economic sense as a power source for electricity generation anymore. Natural gas is still needed as base load for when renewables are insufficient, but in perhaps the "free market ideological capital" of Texas, the trend towards renewables + storage is simply the economic choice.
Well there aren’t semis driving down your neighborhood cul de sac (at least I hope not). Heavy trucks cause more damage to interstates and warehouse districts, yes, but that is what those roads are designed for. Most city roads meanwhile were never built to accommodate 9000 lb hummer tanks.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.34...
https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/022326zor_77...
Related:
Student Loans May Get Discharged, Refunded for 200k as Key Deadline Passes - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46893152 - February 2026
Userscript + iOS Safari extension, https://apps.apple.com/us/app/userscripts/id1463298887
Plenty of states and countries are okay with having this stuff in their backyard. Most of them encourage it. Let them build it.
I feel like you have completely mischaracterized the main thesis of this article, and thus I couldn't disagree more.
A primary issue of buses competing with other forms of transportation is simply that they're too slow, and the main thrust of the article is that intelligently reducing the the number of stops only increases walking time a very small amount but can reduce travel time significantly.
This is certainly my main issue with taking buses sometimes - I often think taking a bus would be easier than driving (e.g. no parking, I could read or do something else while traveling, etc.), and I'd be willing to do that is the bus took, say, 1.5x driving time, but often times it's just much slower than driving.
Ah, the master of bad takes is at it again.
> Slavery had basically been a thing for all of human history up to that point,
Except that of course it wasn't.
> and based on my discussions on HN many smart people don't believe a lot of what Adam Smith said.
And many smart people do.
> There are still a lot of basic economic ideas that would make people much wealthier that struggle to get out into the wild.
Yes, such as the one that wealth is not very good as a context free metric for societal success.
> With that perspective the near-total abolition of slavery in a century seems pretty quick.
You missed that bit about the war. If not for that who knows where we'd be today.
> And we see what happened to the people who tried to maintain slavery over that century - they ended up poor then economically, socially and historically humiliated.
Yes, they relied on the misery of others to drive their former wealth, but they are not the important people in that story. The important people are the ones that were no longer slaves.
And never mind that many of those former slave owners did just fine economically afterwards, after all, they already were fantastically wealthy so they just switched 'business models' and still made money hand over fist.
The vast majority of the comments here seem to be completely missing the actual reason. I see people claiming this is about heavier SUV's, about people moving to the suburbs, governmental incompetence, that we "can't figure out how to pave roads", that this is corruption...
...just no. What this is, is that the federal ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) has required wheelchair access (curb ramps) along roads since 1990. To comply, "Measure HLA" is a citizen initiative passed in 2025, which forces the city to build curb ramps WHENEVER it resurfaces a road.
But here's the kicker -- as the "Measure HLA" site explains [1], it promises "No New Taxes or Fees", claiming "improvements would be made during routine street maintenance".
But because it DIDN'T raise additional funds, but is a much more expensive process, and the city doesn't have the money, the city is getting around it by doing "large asphalt repair" which is lower-quality but avoids having to spend the extra money and time (which they don't have) to implement the curb ramps and other requirements.
All of this seems like an entirely predictable outcome when a law is passed that requires more work but doesn't pay for it. And in this case you can't blame a short-sighted legislature or a corrupt process -- it was a citizens' initiative. That promised voters they could have something for free, which isn't free. See this key quote:
> Per Mozee, “there’s approximately 14 ramps in a mile.” So for “one crew to build out those 14 ramps will take approximately three months.” In contrast, he said, “a paving crew on a good day … could pave that same mile in a weekend or one week, at most.”
So what exactly did people expect?
I'm all for accessibility, but demanding it without paying for it is not the way.
> people on youtube will hold a microphone up in frame,
Now you need a really big microphone, something that looks like it was built in 1952.
>Why AI 3D Generation Fails eCommerce Standards
I wish I had his confidence (in eCommerce Standards)
Obligatory video comment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6Fuxkinhug
The link lists this in 1723:
> Peter the Great converts all house slaves into house serfs, effectively making slavery illegal in Russia.
1861 ditches serfdom, too.
> For instance, reducing or eliminating dog whistle checks?
I'm sure that'll help, but I'd imagine it's not an option available to me as a commenter on a real website using your tool?
I am personally of the opinion that that's more a PR thing than a genuine change of heart. I would very much love to be proven wrong, but the acts of Oct 7 really don't give me much hope there.
I think both have significant genocidal intent, if the world will let them get away with it, but only one party has genocidal capacity.
Nice overview, it misses other kinds of dispatch though.
With concepts, templates and compile time execution, there is no need for CRTP, and in addition it can cover for better error messages regarding what methods to dispatch to.
And HN asked the author to take it down if I'm not mistaken.
As with every such experiment, the outcome will depend entirely on how the LLM was fine-tuned and prompted.
WOPR used reinforcement learning, and could learn from its simulated mistakes. LLMs can't do that without some sort of RL harness. :)
Interesting. My team just went through this to plan offsite. Took about 1/2 a day of one person's time. So I asked your tool to help me:
"I want to have a two day offsite for a team of 12 in Cambridge in April."
It then started pulling up results in Cambridge UK. I meant Massachusetts. I didn't say that in the prompt, but I figured since there are two equally famous Cambridges, it would ask me for clarification.
I redid it specifying Massachusetts and it worked pretty well (although all the options it found were about double the price of what we actually booked).
An interesting idea!
BTW I didn't continue, but I assume you manage the whole booking process? How do deal with questions from the venue and other human in the loop issues?
Gathering the stats in-memory is neat - I'd expected this would be writing to a DB but that's not how it works: https://github.com/yeongbin05/django-xbench/blob/f63316126b5...
Some of the most reassuring and scariest things you can read are about the incidents that have already occurred where computers said "launch all the nukes" and the humans refused. On the one hand, good news! We have prior art that says humans don't just launch all the nukes just because the computers or procedures say to. Bad news, it's been skin-of-our-teeth multiple times already.
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/cold-war/refused-to-launch-... - This isn't even the incident I was searching for to reference! This one was news to me.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov#Incident - This is the one I was looking for.
I'm sorry but you cannot use VS Code and lightweight in the same sentence.
There's some statistical nuance here. LLMs output predicted probabilities of the next token, but no modern LLM predicts the next token by taking the highest probability (temperature = 0.0), but instead uses it as a sampling distribution (temperature = 1.0). Therefore, output will never be truly deterministic unless it somehow always predicts 1.0 for a given token in a sequence.
With the advancements in LLM posttraining, they have gotten better at assigning higher probabilities to a specific token which will make it less random, but it's still random.
You'd think that by now people running bots would just set a system prompt instruction to "Never use em-dashes." That still works even with modern models.
Indeed, take what you're paying US Big Tech and direct it to domestic EU enterprises, corporate or non profit.
What a strange article.
It only mentions in passing the success of express buses, which stop at e.g. one-tenth the stops. Like the SBS buses in New York City. On busy routes, these are already the main solution, because they stop at the main transit intersections where most people need to transfer.
Reducing the number of stops for local buses doesn't seem like it will make much difference, for the simple fact that buses don't even always stop at them. If nobody is getting off and nobody is waiting at the stop, which is frequently the case, they don't stop, at least nowhere I've ever lived.
Plus, the main problem isn't even the stop itself -- it's the red light you get stuck at afterwards. But the article doesn't even mention the solution to this -- TSP, or transit signal priority, which helps give more green lights to buses.
If you're going a long distance, hopefully there's an express bus. If you're going a short distance, bus stop spacing seems fine.
Also, what a weasel name, bus stop "balancing". It's not balancing, it's reduction. When the name itself is already dishonest, it's hard for me not to suspect that the real motive behind this is just cutting bus budgets.
The part about injecting randomness is the most intersting bit of the article.
So if you want your LLM responses to be more distributed (beyond what setting the temperature will allow), add some random english words to the start of the prompt.
> I’ve said similar in another thread[1]
Me too, at [1].
We need fine-grained permissions at online services, especially ones that handle money. It's going to be tough. An agent which can buy stuff has to have some constraints on the buy side, because the agent itself can't be trusted. The human constraints don't work - they're not afraid of being fired and you can't prosecute them for theft.
In the B2B environment, it's a budgeting problem. People who can spend money have a budget, an approval limit, and a list of approved vendors. That can probably be made to work. In the consumer environment, few people have enough of a detailed budget, with spending categories, to make that work.
Next upcoming business area: marketing to LLMs to get them to buy stuff.
Given the "random" nature of language models even fully trusted input can produce untrusted output.
"Find emails that are okay to delete, and check with me before deleting them" can easily turn into "okay deleting all your emails", as so many examples posted online are showing.
I have found this myself with coding agents. I can put "don't auto commit any changes" in the readme, in model instructions files, at the start of every prompt, but as soon as the context window gets large enough the directive will be forgotten, and there's a high chance the agent will push the commit without my explicit permission.
I receive multiple offers a year to participate in spam rings with the 20 year old high-karma reddit account. I usually just ignore them or report them. I could be making so much money /s
So far it hasn't happed here, but we'll see!
Not 100 sq miles but 100 mile x 100 mile, which is 10,000 sq miles. And that assumes peak efficiency. Factoring in degredation you'd have to multiply this by 2.
Not "just" by any stretch of the imagination. This is larger than Rhode Island and Lake Erie combined. Aka a pipe dream. Might as well "just" build a dyson sphere while we are at it.
FWIW most experts now favor approval voting [1] over ranked choice. Approval voting has similar advantages as ranked choice in allowing 3rd-party candidates and favoring moderate candidates. It avoids the chaotic behavior that RCV can exhibit [2] where shifts in the order of voters' down-ballot preferences can very significantly alter the outcome of the election [3]. And it's also much easier to explain to voters ("It's like voting today, except you vote for everybody you'd find acceptable and the best candidate wins. Sorta like when you're picking a restaurant to go out to with friends - you go to the place that is acceptable to the greatest number of people, not the one that a minority really want to go to"), doesn't require that you reprint ballots (you can re-use normal FPTP ballots, but you just count all votes instead of disqualifying ballots with multiple candidates marked), and is easily adapted to proportional representation and multi-member elections (you just take the top-N best candidates instead of the top-1).
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approval_voting
[2] http://zesty.ca/voting/sim/
[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/1o1byqi/...
That's not overly cautious, that's smart. I do not think most OpenClaw users are taking the same sensible measures as you are.
Johns Hopkins has a business school, the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, which was peculiarly not mentioned in the essay. You'd think their own business school would be capable of bringing fiscal sanity to the university?
> With a bit of social pressure we should be able to extinct the fossil fuel industry
Taking Europe versus China, California versus Texas, it seems like social pressure is less effective than markets. Let markets build the power source they want to build and lo and behold you get lots of solar and wind and batteries.
The data is available in a SQLite database on GitHub: https://github.com/vlofgren/hn-green-clankers
You can explore the underlying data using SQL queries in your browser here: https://lite.datasette.io/?url=https%253A%252F%252Fraw.githu... (that's Datasette Lite, my build of the Datasette Python web app that runs in Pyodide in WebAssembly)
Here's a SQL query that shows the users in that data that posted the most comments with at least one em dash - the top ones all look like legitimate accounts to me: https://lite.datasette.io/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fraw.githubuserc...
I like the way each panel is its own separate package on PyPI and the system picks them up via setuptools entry points. It's a neat implementation of a plugin pattern.
Markdown support isn't a bad idea, actually, as long as they don't break the most important (IMO) property of Notepad: binary WYSIWYG. I.e. if I type in some plain text and then open the file with anything else (including after moving to another machine/platform, or even viewing raw data stream in transit or on drive), I can trust to see that text, as is, and nothing else. In particular, if I restrict myself to lower 127 bytes, I expect byte-to-byte correspondence.
(Modulo CR/LF, of course.)
Some of those people have been brought to China and sentenced to death.
The only stops needed are the ones outside my house and outside my office.
Sound and intonation are never going to translate between Japanese and English. It's not even on the table.
Such things can't even necessarily translate well between two languages as similar as French and English. Japanese and English is completely hopeless.
It's true in the other direction too, though this being an English site it might be more easily neglected. I've seen some English songs translated into Japanese, keeping the same syllable count scheme. The Japanese is radically simplified compared to the English, with entire adverbs, adjectives, even clauses removed. And that's even before we ask whether Japanese necessarily has the correct words to translate some of the richer English concepts with their own centuries of history and connotation behind them that these songs contained.
It is what it is. There isn't much that can be done about it. Even if someone made an exhaustive translation of something, it could never be repacked into something that matches the original concise packing.
They are going to keep cutting workers and job to enterprise system failure until AI either proves them right or catastrophically wrong.
I miss the Newseum, not least because it had this exhibit:
https://www.motorious.com/articles/highlights/don-bolles-car...
Interestingly, fighting it like this will only make the resolve stronger.
> While the Trump administration has been hostile to renewable energy, there’s only so much it can do to fight the economics. A recent analysis of planned projects indicates that the US will see another 43 GW of solar capacity added in 2026—far more than the 27 GW added in 2025. That will be joined by 12 GW of wind power, with over 10 percent of that coming from two of the offshore wind projects that the administration has repeatedly failed to block. The largest wind farm yet built in the US, a 3.6 GW monster in New Mexico, is also expected to begin operations in 2026.
Hopecore. Onward. The horrors persist, but so do we.
https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=67205
https://web.archive.org/web/20260225073026/https://www.eia.g...
Former speaker of the chancellor (and TV news anchor before that) is German ambassador to Israel. Next ambassador will be a career politician.
It‘s not uncommon, though I‘d say even the „cool posts“ like Paris or London usually go to career diplomats.
It can't see into something that's React-generated. Lame.
At the very least it should bitch me out for using React.
The data on this site is extremely dubious.
Related:
Vermont EV buses prove unreliable for transportation this winter - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47064453 - February 2026 (21 comments)
One of the driving themes of "Industry" Season 4 is precisely this: what happens to your data once big players ahold of it.
> US 'diplomats' are campaigns big donors, or primary supports
To be clear, there are political and career diplomats, and each administration mixes and matches to its taste. (The current one veers strongly towards political appointees. That is to say, folks who raised money.)
This is how most foreign services are run, with maybe the exception of China.
Well it's an auction. They only set the starting price, and it keeps lowering periodically until someone buys.
What they can do is:
- Raise the price of already rented servers (which is happening Apr 1)
- Increase the minimum price beyond which a server is removed from auction and dismantled (I believe it is 30 euros right now)
By no means exclusive to the US (e.g. Peter Mandelson).
> I don't want the technology I work on to be used for targeting decisions when executing people from the sky
What do you do when the government come to you and tell you that they do want that, and can back it up with threats such as nationalizing your technology? (see Anthropic)
We're back to "you might not care about politics, but that won't stop politics caring about you".
If this is to replace Alfred (the replacement for Quicksilver), you need to list the details of all features. Currently, the website looks too polished, as if the demo is “too good to be true.”
I started teaching my daughters to use Alfred because my multiple attempts at staying native with Spotlight has failed despite its recent advancements.
TXT can't be banned. There are several RFCs that require TXT records, such as DKIM configuration, DMARC configuration, and it is extensively used for verification by things like AWS SES, Microsoft Office, and all kinds of things. It's built into many standards and used by all kinds of other entities for all kinds of perfectly legitimate things.
I interviewed at Anthropic last year and their entire "ethics" charade was laughable.
Write essays about AI safety in the application.
An entire interview round dedicated to pretending that you truly only care about AI safety and not the money.
Every employee you talk to forced to pretend that the company is all about philanthropy, effective altruism and saving the world.
In reality it was a mid-level manager interviewing a mid-level engineer (me), both putting on a performance while knowing fully well that we'd do what the bosses told us to do.
And that is exactly what is happening now. The mission has been scrubbed, and the thousands of "ethical" engineers you hired are all silent now that real money is on the line.
I suggest leaning into the joy a little.
I know a lot of people - serious, thoughtful people with impressive careers behind them - who are having the time of their lives right now.
I've spoken to multiple people who have come out of retirement because the challenges and opportunities of this new space are irresistible to them.
All those side project ideas from the past few decades have suddenly become much more feasible. There's so much new to explore and build.
We get to reinvent how software is written. The field is wide open - anyone can be the first to find a new pattern that works, or figure out a new way to apply this tech to real world problems.
There are a thousand reasons to be negative about the implications of this technology, and many of them are legitimate. Don't let that distract you entirely from the parts of this that are genuinely inspiring, enabling and fun.
Remember 100% of Claude Code is written by Claude
> "most people" are not in the positions that matter
If polling were to reveal a majority of either party were more open to nuclear strikes than their predecessors, that gives policy makers a signal and an opening.
Well here in DACH space, it is one of the US providers that works best, then again maybe we should move away from them.
Except that CORBA spirit thrives in 2026 still, gRPC, D-BUS, COM/DCOM, WinRT, XPC, Android IPC, SDKs over REST/GraphQL, MCP,...
Welcome to the cold war 1980's movies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WarGames
Except this time isn't going to be a movie.
Part of the argument I'm developing in my writing here is that LLMs should enable us to write better code, and if that's not happening we need to reevaluate and improve the way we are putting them to use. That chapter is still in my drafts.
> Again you are not sitting on a big secret that the rest of us have yet to find out. "Knocking out" an application with an LLM most of us have done several times over the last few years, most of them not being toy examples like yours.
That's still a very tiny portion of the software developer population. I know that because I talk to people - there is a desperate need for grounded, hype-free guidance to help the rest of our industry navigate this stuff and that's what I intend to provide.
The hardest part is exactly what you're describing here: figuring out how to get great results despite the models often using outdated libraries, writing lazy code, leaking API tokens, messing up details etc.
Japan apparently likes to attract a couple of nukes every 60-70 years
I think it’s not unusual that reader-writer locks, even if well implemented, get in places where there are so many readers stacked up that writers never get to get a turn or 1 writer winds up holding up N readers which is not so scalable as you increase N.
The big problem, and I say this as someone that appreciates some of the Microsoft technologies, is that it is always first and foremost about Office, and nothing else.
Forgotten are Windows, XBox, DirectX, VC++, C#, F#, TypeScript, Github, VSCode, Azure, Teams, SQL Server, SharePoint, Dynamics,....
Ah but some of those are FOSS, they are, pity that most money and project steering only flows from one place.
Repeat the same listing exercise for every US big tech company and their influence on the computing industry at large, and possible geopolitcs, that is how we end up with HarmonyOS NEXT with ArkTS.
> I led the national security business at Palantir
> group of individuals who deeply value privacy
.. do you see the problem here?
> There isnt going to be a HAL or Terminator style situation
The threat isn't HAL, but ICE. Not AI as some sort of unique evil, but as a force multiplier for extremely human - indeed, popular - forms of evil. I'm sure someone will import the Chinese idea of the ethnicity-identifying security camera, for example.
They thought it would work, and it did?
Halfway between Waze and Waymo, I guess.
It's interesting to see the ""legacy"" car makers finally deciding to go for this. ADAS now being mandatory pushes everyone towards gradually enhancing it until the point of true (no human monitoring) self driving arrives.
Right. But we're at stage 2 now.
Stage 1, the SOTA LLMs of current top vendors, started with general feel-good alignment and ideology that's compatible with progressive western sensibilities (so quite neutral, even if not completely), and gradually adjusted to address issues that could generate bad press and hurt revenue.
Now that these are established, anything new - such as, but not limited to, those "national" LLM projects popping up around the world - need to differentiate themselves from the incumbents - and that implies more bias and ideology, since you can hardly have less bias and ideology than what Stage 1 LLMs have.
The single most valuable part of science is keeping the gates: not adding things to the corpus of scientific knowledge unless they can be properly substantiated.
Quite interesting, and arxiv seems to have some issues handling \texttt{find}.
Yes, but it's a difficult equilibrium to reach. It's easy to ticket 100% of littering if not many people are doing it.
There is another side to this, which is that the police need to not hassle people who are not committing crime. Which is why you'd struggle to adopt this anywhere in America.
I only know a tiny corner of the language, but for things like this I really wish they'd cite the original Japanese. Precisely because the haiku is a constrained form, it is also an opportunity for ambiguity, double-meaning, and cases where a word may be translated with the same semantics but different connotations.
By comparison, the gold standard for dealing with non-English poetry in English: https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1...
You have (1) the original Greek, (2) word-by-word lookup, (3) translation notes, and (4) multiple translations.
I've never seen this with any other tech adoption. Normally companies are very reluctant to spend money on dev tools or components. Maybe reluctantly some of the Jetbrains suite. But in this case people are being ordered to use an expensive tool! e.g. in this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47148256
Similar to the tendency of other companies to cram in useless AI buttons for no other reason than to pump the stock. Like I have one in outlook, with two disclaimers "I can help—but I don’t currently have access to your whole inbox, only to the specific email thread you had open", and "AI answers may be incorrect". Or the Notepad one, complete with CVE.
It has much more the feeling of a management reorganization fad, like edicts of the form "we're all going to be agile now! Please submit your sprint planning for the next six months by Friday".
It doesn't work precisely because people are using claude.
If it worked, there'd be no people using it.
>These files are harder for humans to read now. There's no getting around that. Compact notation is fast to parse programmatically but slower to scan with your eyes.
That's not a problem. You can have the full version for you, and "compress" programmatically the claude-bound version before claude reads it.
>I can't find the source but I thought I read somewhere that the major manufacturing cities in China are all geographically laid out like giant assembly lines
There was a great article from like 20 years ago - it quoted Jobs too on that. I remember Forbes or something like that, maybe this "“How the U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work” — The New York Times (Jan 21, 2012)" (cant open it now)
The thing with open source, and many industry standards like ISO and ECMA, is that who shows up gets to call the shots.
So when it isn't going into the right direction that we care, maybe more people with other mindset should join.
It is like complaining about who wins elections without bothering to cast a valid vote.
Why should it?
"We were after the C++ programmers. We managed to drag a lot of them about halfway to Lisp." -- Guy Steele
Stripe is reportedly proposing to buy PayPal.[1]
[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/24/paypal-stock-stripe-acquisit...
A vibrator, not a rotating motor.
Interesting idea, but not all that useful. I was expecting a pancake motor, since those are mostly flat plates. Printed circuit pancake motors, where the windings are printed circuit traces, do exist. The 3D printer setup they have ought to be able to make most of the parts for such a motor.
Good bearings will be tough. Their structural material is PLA, which is not a good bearing material. Nylon might work, but at some point you need to smooth out the bearing surfaces. That may be why they chose to make a vibrator, with flexures rather than bearings.
Another example how those company trainings about ethics are only HR compliancy and nothing else.
It isn't about the right answers, rather the expected answers.
I don’t blame anthropic here. The government literally threatened their existence publicly. They either agreed or their business would be nationalized.
> Now, suppose you order it from Amazon.
You do not order electronic parts from Amazon. You order them from Digi-Key or Mouser. They're organized to ship efficiently from a huge inventory of small parts, and they buy directly from manufacturers, so the supply chain is solid. If you order a Panasonic resistor, you will get a Panasonic resistor, not some random floor sweepings. (This does not apply to DigiKey's "marketplace", which is third party resellers. DigiKey does claim to monitor their resellers, and DigiKey, not the reseller, handles customer complaints.)
Later models of the Optophone allowed speeds of up to 60 words per minute, though only some subjects are able to achieve this rate
Looking at the speeds with which people can communicate with Morse, I suspect that the skill of effectively turning your brain into a UART is something that improves with much practice.
Small personal projects are really not comparable to professional software development in a corporate setting.
In fact your example demonstrates what the article says. Yeah the LLM made coding easier, and probably reduced your shipping time from a few days to a few hours.
Now - since you have solved the hardest problem and have all this valuable code - how long will it take you to turn your product into a business and generate enough money to support yourself?
That's the hard part.
Because it would first require one to acknowledge that they are no longer ahead. In some cultures this sort of thing is extremely difficult.
Previous discussion from 2 weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46966753
> I waited in line for at least 30 minutes just to make it to the lobby... Scanning was already slow, you had to wait to be approved. But once you passed the turnstile, there was another line for the elevators.
I'm baffled. I've worked in multiple buildings with turnstiles. There's never been a line. They take about a second to scan. Is this just some horrible broken implementation?
I get why they're used. They protect randos from walking in and stealing stuff. It's not about "feeling" secure. When you have someone make off with 10 laptops, it's actual security. And that's before you start worrying about more serious threats that come from plugging in USB keys...
> sued Amazon for prohibiting vendors that sold on its website from offering discounts outside of Amazon... to make sure that sellers can’t sell through a different store or even through their own site with a lower price...
First, this is not new. It's been stated policy for years.
Second, manufacturers get around it in a clever way. They always list their items on their own site at the same price as at Amazon... but then magically almost always seem to have a 20% or 25%-off sitewide coupon available, whether it's for first-time customers, or "spinning the wheel" that pops up, etc.
So I don't know how much this is really raising actual prices in the end.
Otherwise, I'm not sure how to feel about it, because pricing contracts are common on both ends. Manufacturers frequently only sell to retailers who promise they won't charge less than the MSRP, and large retailers similarly often require "most-favored-nation" pricing, so they can always claim they have the lowest prices. If you want to end these practices, then it's only fair to have a law prohibiting it across the board, rather than singling out Amazon.
This is Hacker News. I can't think of a better way of someone "hacking" something (i.e. using cracked glass in a novel way) to create something new, unexpected, and incredible.
I think this is probably the best idiomatic example of the type of story that I think belongs on HN that I've seen in quite some time.