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Sell the plant to another automaker and move on. The brand is dead in Europe via self inflicted harm.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Grant
http://www.robgrant.co.uk/Rob_Grant/Welcome.html
Related:
Red Dwarf Creator Rob Grant Has Died - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47171946 - February 2026
Firefox has to get out of San Francisco. As long as they seeing the same billboards, drinking the same Kool-Aid and able to just drive to Facebook and Google's headquarters to talk with people there whenever they want they are going to be seen as "out-of-touch" to the 99.99% of the rest of us.
Plating operations are a huge headache. They have corrosive plating baths. They have to do some chemical processing on site to neutralize the corrosive chemicals and get them down to a neutral pH.
Some years ago, a plating company in San Jose dumped a plating bath into the sewer system. This was so toxic that it killed the bacteria that reduce organic sludge at the sewerage plant. This knocked the whole plant offline, releasing untreated sewerage into the bay. The lower bay was toxic for a week. It's normally swimmable. San Jose was fined by the EPA. The plating company was heavily fined by San Jose.
It's a good sewerage plant. The output is drinkable, and if you take the tour, you're offered some to drink. Some of the output is used for irrigation. In a severe drought emergency, water could be fed back into the water system. They've never had to do that, but in a big drought a few years ago, things got close to that point.
San Jose, which is more of an industrial city than most people realize, still has plating companies. Here's an inspection report for one of them.[1] This one was releasing too much chromium.
[1] https://19january2017snapshot.epa.gov/www3/region9/water/pre...
One odd distinction is between social networks where the notifications are really notifications about people engaging with you (Mastodon, Bluesky, Facebook, Instagram. Tumblr) and ones where it is mainly spammy events that they blend in so you get a double-dose of spammy algorithmic feed items (LinkedIn, Threads)
One think that has me LFAO about LinkedIn is that normal social networks chime you when somebody responds to your content, LinkedIn chimes you when you post something, just to reinforce that it's a step lower on the food chain.
Yeah, doing a small thing daily can add up so fast.
When I started my niche-musueums.com website I bootstrapped it by posting a new museum I had been to every day for a month. It took 15-30 minutes a day and within a few weeks I had a site I was really proud of.
I think the key is to give yourself permission to stop without feeling guilty about it. Any time I start a new streak like this I deliberately tell myself that it's not going to be forever and I can stop any time for any reason.
Kinda shocking to me that neutrino physics is entirely neglected in this report.
I mean, there are huge mysteries in the neutrino sector, it's the one area of "physics beyond the standard model" where we know there is a something and not a nothing. All that other stuff about precision electroweak measurements, possible third flavor discoveries, and maybe just maybe just maybe the next collider can collect sparticles are just plain boring and a reason to leave the accelerator race to somebody who's willing to make unlimited capital investments to "catch up" to the west.
I think our little corner of the world has a distorted view of AI in that it is actually proving useful for us. Once they passed a certain level of usefulness... I remember when they were still struggling just to output syntactically correct code, you know, like, 18 months ago or so... they became a useful tool that we can incorporate.
But there's a lot of things playing out to our advantage. Vast swathes of useful and publicly available training data. The rigorous precision of said data. Vast swathes of data we can feed it as input to our queries from our own codebases. While we never attained the perfect ideal we dreamed of, we have vast quantities of documentation at differing levels of abstraction that the training can compare to the code bases. We've already been arguing in our community about how design patterns were just level of abstraction our coding couldn't capture and AI has access now to all sorts of design patterns we wouldn't have even called design patterns because they still take lots of code to produce, but now for example, if I have a process that I need to parallelize it can pretty much just do it in any of several ways depending on what I need at that point.
It is easy to get too overexcited about what it can do and I suspect we're going to see an absolute flood of "We let AI into our code base and it has absolutely shredded it and now even the most expensive AI can't do anything with it anymore" in, oh, 3 to 6 months. Not that everyone is going to have that experience, but I think we're going to see it. Right now we're still at the phase where people call you crazy for that and insist it must have been you using the tool wrong. But it is clearly an amazing tool for all sorts of uses.
Nevertheless, despite my own experiences, I persist in believing there is an AI bubble, because while AI may replace vast swathes of the work force in 5-20 years, for quite a lot of the workforce, it is not ready to do it right this very instant like the pricing on Wall Street is assuming. They don't have gigabytes of high-quality training data to pour in to their system. They don't have rigorous syntax rules to incorporate into the training data. They don't have any equivalent of being guided by tests to keep things on the rails. They don't have large piles of professionally developed documentation that can be cross-checked directly against the implementation. It's going to be a slower, longer process. As with the dot-com bubble, it isn't that it isn't going to change the world, it is simply that it isn't going to change the world quite that fast.
My understanding is that WiFi mesh networks are a scam. If you really want good WiFi performance the steps are, in order:
(1) get every device that is on WiFi that you can possibly get off WiFi and on Ethernet
(2) if your cheap WiFi router isn't doing it for you then, get some UniFi hubs and wire them up on Ethernet
The more hops you send data over wireless the more interference it makes, the more chances there are to lose data from packet loss. Look, I understand it, the wives' union has obliterated home theater and people just want to have it all like Apple where it "just works" and you never have to run any wires -- except note that Apple has gotten out of the WiFi business because that ideology just can't deliver WiFi that works and Apple knows it.
We will get an interesting effect if AI plateaus around where it does now, which is that AI code generation will bring "the long run" right down to "the medium run" if not on to the longer side of the short run. AI can take out technical debt an order of magnitude faster than human developers, easily, and I'm still waiting for it to recognize that an abstraction is necessary and invest into putting on in the code rather than spending the ones already present.
Of course if AI continues to proceed forward and we get to the point where the AIs can do that then they really will be able to craft vast code bases at speeds we could never keep up with on our own. However, I'm not particularly convinced LLMs are going to advance past this particular point, to a large degree because their training data contains so much of this slop approach to coding. Someone's going to have to come up with the next iteration of AI tech, I think.
As a passenger I don't know if I believe this. [1]
The basic bane of the passenger's life is that the bus company just does what it wants and is not responsive to your needs.
Let's imagine a world where bus service is competitive and wildly profitable -- there is going to be a LOT more bus service, bus companies are going to be tripping over each other to add new routes, run more busses because improved frequency and better service means: more money to afford running more busses.
If we just say "there is a pool of $X million a year" then buses are always going to be scarce and there is no incentive for the bus operator to improve in any way whatsoever because they can run the worst service possible and get $X million or run the best service possible and get $X million.
I was first exposed to the "free buses" idea in the 1990s and it has some logic because collecting fares does slow buses down, but transit geeks I respect now are skeptical because the real problem with buses is that there aren't enough routes and they don't run frequently enough: it is not like there is this vast population of people who can't afford to ride the bus, rather there are many people for whom the bus is dead to them because the bus doesn't come where they are or go where they want to go when they want to.
[1] I'm in the unusual situation that I ride the bus almost every day from a rural location and ride for free because I work at a university with a nearly impossible parking situation. It works for me because I work 9-5 and I'm a software developer so if i am 30 minutes late one morning it is not like there are customers who need me right then. The bus service has been close to perfect for the last two months but we've had plenty of times when 30 minutes late in the morning or evening has been absolutely routine.
FYI, there are whole companies built around this concept. You tell them which repos are interesting to you, and they give you a list of people who interact with that repo. They also de-anonymize the users so you can find them on LinkedIn or elsewhere.
We could be... but why? What's the product?
It makes sense they prototyped it. But putting it into production is $$$, way more expensive than current street view.
Current street view works well enough. How is a massively upgraded 3D version, that is bloated and slower to use on older devices, going to make Google more money?
It feels more like a separate product to license to architecture firms, city planners, video game studios, etc.
I don't know about anyone else, but since vibe coding, I'm making more things than I've ever made before. Just a constant stream of making, all day.
Couldn't be happier. I make things because I want to see them exist, not because it was hard.
...But it can be hard to tell the difference between content that’s been
AI-generated, and content created without AI.
That's just Slashdot's influence. They did the same thing at some point.
and even calling the things they consume "experiences" is overselling them
The title of the linked article is "Vibe Coding and the Maker Movement" but the title on Hacker News is "Will vibe coding end like the maker movement?" - I think the original title should be restored.
I've been using it to replace things that I used to do for personal projects in photoshop/gimp. Remove a background, add a person, put a letter in here that looks like the same crayon as the other letters.
Things that would take me an hour or so the old way takes three minutes with NB.
But I can see this applying to small businesses. Something that some random person would have to spend on hour photoshopping can be done in a few minutes with NB.
Because models can be used to alter existing images, you can use open and commercial models together in content creation workflows (and also the available findings of open models, and the ability to further tube them very specific used, are quite powerful on their own), so the censorship on the commercial models has a lot less effect on what motivated people can produce than you might think.
I still think, even with that, that like most predictions of AI taking over any content industries, the short-term predictions are overblown.
@dang, can we get the link and title changed?
Recently, the movie "Cleopatra" was on TV. I was watching it with the sound off while I did other things.
There was one scene where Rich Burton and Elizabeth Taylor were arguing with each other. I watched their lips move, and somehow I heard Burton speaking his lines in his voice, and Taylor her lines in her voice. I had to do a double take to see that the sound was actually muted, but my mind re-created it anyway.
No so much rental as "pay $X to see a specific movie".
It pains me so much that people could think, say, XBOX GAME PASS is a good idea whereas if your a Gen Xer you saw the slow decay of cable TV because CNN got paid whether or not you watched it, the painful betrayal of an old man who was never young decreeing you couldn't watch music videos, etc.
And they might have to gasp! get an honest job!
At least for me codex seems to write way more python than bash for general purpose stuff
Aside from a few select product categories, recycling IS a scam.
E.g.: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/aug/17/plastic-...
Recycling mostly means "sent to landfills in the third world":
https://earth.org/waste-colonialism-a-brief-history-of-dumpi...
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2023/03/rich-countri...
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/opinion/trash-recycling-g...
I once suggested HN implement auto-correct because there are so many misspellings here. I was quickly downvoted.
What a great thing this didn't exist in the past. We likely wouldn't have had any of the amazing artworks that we have now. Imagine an AI generated Mona Lisa, Nightwatch or Sistine Chapel ceiling because prompting would have been so much cheaper than paying Leonardo, Rembrandt or Michelangelo...
Now extrapolate to all other artforms. Sculpture seems safe, for now, but only barely so.
Google updated it early in AI Studio so I've been experimenting:
- Base pricing for a 1024x1024 image is almost 1.6x what normal Nano Banana is ($0.067 vs. $0.039), however you can now get a 512x512 image for cheaper, or a 4k image for cheaper than four 1k images: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing#gemini-3.1-fla...
- Thinking is now configurable between `Minimal` and `High` (was not the case with Nano Banana Pro)
- Safety of the model appears to be increased so typical copyright infringing/NSFW content is difficult to generate (it refused to let me generate cartoon characters having taken psychedelics)
- Generation speed is really slow (2-3min per image) but that may be due to load.
- Prompt adherence to my trickier prompts for Nano Banana Pro (https://minimaxir.com/2025/12/nano-banana-pro/) is much worse, unsurprisingly. For example I asked it to make a 5x2 grid with 10 given inputs and it keeps making 4x3 grids with duplicate inputs.
However, I am skeptical with their marquee feature: image search. Anyone who has used Nano Banana Pro for awhile knows that it will strongly overfit on any input images by copy/pasting the subject without changes which is bad for creativity, and I suspect this implementation appears the same.
Additionally I have a test prompt which exploits the January 2025 knowledge cutoff:
Generate a photo of the KPop Demon Hunters performing a concert at Golden Gate Park in their concert outfits.
tl;dr the example images (https://deepmind.google/models/gemini-image/flash/) seem similar to Nano Banana Pro which is indeed a big quality improvement but even relative to base Nano Banana it's unclear if it justifies a "2" subtitle especially given the increased cost.
It's definitely part of the SaaS-apocalypse story. LLMs shine at making little programs that integrate with an existing API to do some small task. Management has always overestimated the effort to develop that kind of thing and underestiamted the effort to develop applications with GUIs because... user interfaces are the Vietnam of computer science.
The greatest danger of the current time is that the likes of Salesforce and LinkedIn who have something interesting behind an API or web site try to lock down access so instead of using competitive high-quality AI agents we're stuck with the brain damaged AI agents they want to force on us.
Being unchanged for decades means that the training data should provide great results even for the smaller models.
Android's investing significantly in reducing the memory usage of the next release simply because the BOM cost of RAM for their low-end partners is becoming prohibitive.
These explanations have no citations, and even the explanations frequently conflict with the category labels. It seems much more like an elaborate propaganda infographic than a useful source of information.
You might be right, but the site is explicit about the Fremont plant being exempted, and opens with the claim that there are facilities grandfathered in.
Very similar to how religion and their associated belief systems are used to control others. I suppose one could consider capitalism a form of religion and "sacred values" that faces an almost autoimmune response when the belief system is challenged, as it also challenges the human's identity (in some cases).
GPT:
There are some mentions online of a Y Combinator startup called Bad News, but nothing official or well-documented shows up in public YC lists or press — at least as of the latest searchable sources.
The only place it’s referenced is in a Hacker News thread where someone claimed there was a YC company whose product was a blacklist of employees so other startups wouldn’t hire them, and they said the name was Bad News. But people in that thread couldn’t find any evidence of it, and there aren’t real search results tying that name to an official YC company on YC’s site, their startup directory, or mainstream reports.
Does the UK force you to disclose years worth of private messaging and social media history at the immigration checkpoint? If not, no American should be opining about this.
There is no obligation for a critic to produce better work than what is being criticized and it is a cheap and dishonest rhetorical tactic to imply otherwise.
I 100% guarantee you have criticized things without trying to produce better work yourself. It is a deeply dishonest standard.
Those "Lucky Wins" are a big part of the LLM success or "looks like success" story.
One reason the teams I was on did not invent models that good in the 2010s was that we didn't want to give them credit for Lucky Wins.
Google does have a security review process on literally everything it launches.
Which is what makes this so notable. Did the security review not catch this, or did they choose to launch anyways because it was too hard to fix and speed was of the essence?
Sometimes they also scrape HN profiles, it is most irritating.
I read your comment and immediately wondered how much of my braincells are permanently occupied with remembering music. Probably quite a lot in an absolute sense but I wonder about the percentage of storage and whether or not that could have been used in other ways. And of course then I wonder if they are stored compressed, and whether that is lossy compression or not ;)
BrainOS 1.1> Optimize Memory (Y/N) __
I interviewed at Anthropic last year and their entire "ethics" charade was laughable.
Write essays about AI safety in the application.
An entire interview dedicated to pretending that you truly only care about AI safety and ethics and nothing else.
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.
Plenty, I can hardly keep up, but then get plenty of stuff to listen to during vacation traveling.
A few ones,
- .NET Rocks!
- Advent of Computing
- ADSP: Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs
- CppCast (just came back)
- CoRecursive: Coding Stories
- Developer Voices
- Foojay.io, the Friends Of OpenJDK!
- Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman
- Inside Java
- Game Dev Field Guide
- Oxide and Friends
- Signals and Threads
- Retro Asylum
- The Retro Hour
- The Fourth Curtain
- The AIAS Game Maker's Notebook
- The Haskell Interlude
The government can very easily change your status from "legal" to "illegal" by flipping a bit. And the newspapers, who are driving this, don't care about skills, they care about the raw numbers. The members of the public driving this don't even care about immigration status, but skin colour.
Always the same "Do no evil" tragedy, don't believe in corporations.
In general public benefit corporations and non-profits should have a very modest salary cap for everybody involved and specific public-benefit legally binding mission statements.
Anybody involved should also be prohibited from starting a private company using their IP and catering to the same domain for 5-10 years after they leave.
Non-profits where the CEO makes millions or billions are a joke.
And if e.g. your mission is to build an open browser, being paid by a for-profit to change its behavior (e.g. make theirs the default search engine) should be prohibited too.
On the other hand, Indians are rejoicing that this might actually be much easier for us. We will still be going through the Visa Application, but we will get the digital version of the e-visa (I read that a physical copy can also be printed).
In all fairness, based on my interactions with Visa Applications, the UK government website is the best so far. I love their Design Systems, consistency, and UX predictability.
https://www.gov.uk/eta/apply also follows the same design language. I’d happier facing this one than many others.
Maybe two years I had been interested in
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitsunetsuki
and last December got serious about it in terms of character acting and found Copilot was initially very helpful. So that’s an example of using an LLM for something really unusual and creative.
The really important developments happened as a result of interacting with people though and “foxwork” turned into “foxography”.
It’s gotten to be less fun to talk about it with Copilot as it fits everything into a schema and doesn’t seem to mirror my emotional highs and lows. It is still thrilling to talk to another LLM about it because most of them seem to think it is a good idea.
> they'd tell you it was the least bad option.
They'd tell you that, but they would be lying.
> corruption+nepotism are unstoppable forces of nature
History suggests it's the other way round. They're awfully prevalent - what is a hereditary monarchy but nepotism - but the value of meritocracy over nepotism enables such better governance that it tends to win handily in proxy or actual conflicts. Similarly, if your society is too corrupt when you go to war you discover that someone has sold the tyres off all your stored vehicles, or suchlike.
You also can't have a complex society without a complex government. This goes all the way back to Qin dynasty vs. "barbarians".
I was expecting the article to end with “he won tens of millions and never has to work again”, but gambling your life savings on a sketchy betting site for a potential 35% return is idiotic.
A different mapping: to Microsoft, the users's computers are cattle, but to each individual user, the computer is a pet. Which is why the users keep getting mad when their pet feature gets euthanized.
Public keys are a thing in computing, though?
Google Maps has one, even. And Stripe.
Who knew there were downsides to forcefeeding your product to an unwilling audience?
This whole Gemini roll-out has me reminded of the Google '+' days when they thought they were going to die if they didn't do social.
The way to approach this is to benchmark and then pick the best solution.
> Europe should invest into manufacturing RAM
It should. And it should enact the political reforms they would make large capital projects like fabs possible. The current confederacy is proving just as much a stepping stone for Europe as it was for America. I’m not saying a full united Europe should emerge. But a system of vetoes is barely a system at all.
Same as the failure of Itanium VLIW instructions: you don't actually want to force the decision of what is in the cache back to compile time, when the relevant information is better available at runtime.
Also, additional information on instructions costs instruction bandwidth and I-cache.
They are really not getting onboard with the transition to EVs... Strange hill for a car company to die on.
> you should then create a bug report referencing the crash report
Reducing friction would be nice here - I don't remember encountering the crash log screen, but if you could file a bug report right from that screen, that'd be perfect. A lot of information can be pre-collected at that stage - precise version, build, OS, architecture, processor type, etc. All that'd be left is the "What I was trying to do", my e-mail, and a checkbox if I agree with the privacy policies and if I want to receive e-mail updates about this bug report.
> you can do your own build with debug symbols
It'd be great if the Document Foundation helped distros to offer libreoffice-*-debug packages for this case - if it's crashing for you, install the debug version and your crash logs will be a lot easier to read.
I have an idea, maybe we could represent that AST as parenthesis.
> showing an ad before it starts translating, will they continue
Yes. What evidence do we have that mass consumers decamp because of ads?
> You're wrong here. You don't need the most cutting edge ASML EUV machines to make RAM. Most RAM fabs still use standard DUV.
Ah. Please check that. Which types of DRAM can be made in a DUV fab? Obviously the older ones, but are those obsolete for new computers. This really matters.
> In my opinion, operating transport as transportation programme, not a social programme, is how you get more adoption in the long term
Yesterday I came across a couple articles that encapsulate this thought.
https://jacobin.com/2026/02/zohran-mamdani-efficiency-nyc-bu...
And
https://coreyrobin.com/2025/11/15/excellence-over-mediocrity...
If someone sets up an AI that reads site traffic metrics and keeps trying things to increase conversion rate, something like that will happen. If someone isn't doing that already, someone will be, this year.
My only adventure with off-brand TLDs has been "aether.ltd". This was for my steampunk telegraph office, "The Aetheric Message Machine Company", an elaborate setup we ran at steampunk conventions from 2011 through 2019.[1] Text in a message, and it's banged out on a restored Teletype machine from the 1930s in a brass and glass case, then delivered by a costumed messenger.[1] This got some press coverage back when steampunk was a thing.
Somehow, Zoominfo picked up the site, and rated The Aetheric Message Machine Company as having revenue of about $5 million a year and, at peak, 24 employees. We had a back story for roleplay purposes, in the operating manual for the cosplayers.[2] Someone apparently took it seriously.
That was a fun project.
[1] https://vimeo.com/124065314
[2] https://aetherltd.com/public/othermanuals/operatormanual05.p...
> That has all changed today
Anecdote, but I knew a couple senior folks at Apple during the San Bernardino encryption dispute [1]. My understanding is Cupertino was surprised—going all the way to the top—how much backlash they got for what they felt was the natural reaction. (Not to unlock.)
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%E2%80%93FBI_encryption_d...
Looking at what companies have bragged about their use of AI and the actual state of their products, it's more likely to be self-regressing software.
Imagine a machine telling you how to think or speak. How dystopian.
This is simply the fact that 365 % 7 == 1, with leap year adjustments.
Yup this is just another case of the HN bubble. I polled a bunch of non technical friends recently who I know use AI on a daily basis. Out of 10+ maybe 2 had ever heard of Claude, and no one had any interest in trying it.
ChapGPT has become the AI verb, and in the consumer space it is not getting dethroned.
I still think it's hilarious that a product name as awful as "ChatGPT" has become so ubiquitous.
I wonder what percentage of its users know what the GPT stands for, or even thought about it for a second?
> I sincerely believed that we were in a post racial world.
I grew up in a post-racial world as a "brown" immigrant in a deep red Virginia county in the 1990s. My daughter, meanwhile, developed a strong "brown" identity from her teachers in our deep blue state. I don't blame Obama for it. But there was a definite shift in thinking during his administration where the distinct politics of black democrats--which is highly focused on racial identity for obvious reasons--became generalized to the hispanics and Asians that democrats sought to court. It was a couple of years into the Obama administration that someone called me a “person of color” for the first time, as if you can properly group people together based on skin color.
shell is already an answer to your questions. Basic shell constructs and well-known commands provide the abstractions you ask about. `cat`, `grep` and pipes and redirects may not be semantically pure, but they're pretty close to universal, are widely used both as tools and as "semantic primitives", and most importantly, LLMs already know how to use them as both.
Electric heavy duty trucks are already here, with existing battery technology.
> In 2020, nearly all new trucks in China ran on diesel. By the first half of 2025, battery-powered trucks accounted for 22% of new heavy truck sales, up from 9.2% in the same period in 2024, according to Commercial Vehicle World, a Beijing-based trucking data provider. The British research firm BMI forecasts electric trucks will reach nearly 46% of new sales this year and 60% next year.
> The share of electrics in new truck sales, from 8% in 2024 to 28% by August 2025, has more than tripled as prices have fallen. Electric trucks outsold LNG-powered vehicles in China for five consecutive months this year, according to Commercial Vehicle World.
> While electric trucks are two to three times more expensive than diesel ones and cost roughly 18% more than LNG trucks, their higher energy efficiency and lower costs can save owners an estimated 10% to 26% over the vehicle’s lifetime, according to research by Chinese scientists.
https://www.ap.org/news-highlights/spotlights/2025/chinas-di...
https://electrek.co/2026/01/24/hybrid-and-electric-semi-truc...
https://www.electrive.com/2026/01/23/year-end-surge-electric...
> you'd think it should not be "us" figuring it out - should it not be the people who are shoving this crap down our throats?
If they're "shoveling this crap down our throats" why should we expect them to help here?
More to the point: a consistent pattern over the last four years has been that the AI labs don't know what their stuff can do yet.. They will openly admit that. They have clearly established that the best way to find out what models can do is to put them out into the world and wait to hear back from their users.
> That's a very arrogant position to assume - on the one hand there is no big secret to using these tools provided you can express yourself at all in written language. However some people for various reasons, I suspect mostly those who wandered into this profession as "coders" in the last years from other, less-paid disciplines, and lacking in basic understanding of computers
I can't take you calling me "arrogant" seriously when in the very next breath you declare coding agents trivial to use and suggest that anyone having trouble with them is a coder and not a proper software engineer!
A hill I will happily die on is that LLM tools, including coding agents, are deceptively difficult to use. If you accepted that was true yourself, maybe you would be able to get better results out of them.
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.
Other comments mentioned Texas, but check out the Ercot dashboard: https://www.ercot.com/gridmktinfo/dashboards
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.
In many states, state law overrides local planning's ability to prevent siting renewables. Check if your state is one of these states if your project size requires it.
> "But what will we eat?" is a propaganda point that you will hear a lot even though it's totally bogus.
Indeed. The US farms almost 60 million acres for biofuels, the size of the state of Oregon. These arguments do not come from serious people imho. People are simply married to their rural identity and ag cosplay, despite it being wildly inefficient and subsidized by the federal government.
https://kaufman.substack.com/p/at-least-31-states-consider-o...
https://cleantomorrow.org/reports/
(have installed 100kw+ in residential solar, and have experience following along for a ~100MW project)
> The invention of the cotton gin increased the use of slaves; it didn’t decrease it.
Because the efficiency increase in that part of the process meant we could grow so much more cotton to be processed. It wasn't very profitable before that, because slave labor wasn't very efficient at the process.
(This led, eventually, to more automation of the planting/harvesting process.)
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.
"The comment mentions 'Cancel Culture' and uses terms like 'edgelords' and 'Nazi' in a context that dismisses and trivializes serious issues. This reflects a trend in discussions that equates legitimate critiques of harmful behaviors with extreme labels, undermining constructive dialogue and signaling acceptance of toxic rhetoric."
"Using phrases like 'Holy crap the edgelords' can come off as dismissive and disrespectful towards a group of people. It’s better to express concerns about behaviors or actions instead of labeling individuals harshly."
"Describing cancel culture as 'over the top' expresses a strong negative opinion without offering specific reasoning. It’s more effective to explain what aspects seem excessive to help others understand your perspective."
"Using phrases like 'the hypocrisy is unreal' can come across as dismissive and sarcastic, which may alienate others from the discussion. It’s beneficial to explain what seems hypocritical instead of making broad statements."
(I picked the "why it's hard to escape an echo chamber" context option, for full disclosure.)
The most effective air force in the world is almost certainly the American one. The second most effective air force in the world may well be the American Navy.
I'm curious who you're ranking at the top here.
> 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)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Grant
http://www.robgrant.co.uk/Rob_Grant/Welcome.html
Related:
Rob Grant, co-creator of Red Dwarf, has died - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47171300 - February 2026