- > The best video generation AI is right here.
no, please don't turn this "just fucking use..." meme (that seems to be mostly used for opinionated developer advice) into yet another way of advertising random products.
- > One of the reasons the door handle would stop working is if the structure was bent enough to jam the doors.
right...if a car gets T-boned, that might jam the doors such that they couldn't open. that's true of every model of car.
I have a non-Tesla car, with "old-fashioned" manual door handles. if I got rear-ended, and my driver's side door wasn't physically damaged, I can reasonably expect that my door handle still works, right?
on a Tesla, that's not true. a rear-end collision that damages the electrical system can cause doors that are physically undamaged to stop working. that is a ludicrous design flaw.
- > they don’t want people using the emergency release. It makes an alarm sound and scrapes the glass on the trim a bit when you use it.
wait. waitwaitwaitwait.
previously, you said:
> Teslas have mechanical door handles on the interior of the front doors. It’s not hard to find. In fact, it’s so obvious that passengers unfamiliar with the car tend to use it rather than the button.
I'm having trouble believing those two things are both true.
are you seriously saying that Teslas have an "emergency" mechanical door handle...and it's placed in an obvious spot where passengers tend to grab for it...but using it sounds an alarm and scrapes up the car?
- > How often does it happen in Chevys or Toyotas?
three things in life are certain: death, taxes, and whataboutism from Tesla apologists
from the article I linked:
> In an effort to take a comprehensive and systematic look at this issue, Bloomberg sought to examine every fatal EV crash in the US involving a fire. From there, the reporting centered around cases in which there was documented evidence that victims had survived initial impact, and that nonfunctional electric doors had impeded either the occupants’ efforts to escape or rescuers’ attempts to save those inside the vehicle.
this has nothing to do with the Jaws of Life. this is about the car catches fire and the door handles stop working.
- > for the most part outside the Cybertruck they have decent products
your definition of "decent products" is different from mine.
15 People Have Died in Crashes Where Tesla Doors Wouldn’t Open [0, 1]
0: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-12-22/tesla-doo...
- from the opening paragraph:
> After all, God is the Word who became a human person and we are given this truth in an essential divine Book.
Focus on the Family is probably not the best source for news like this.
- this appears to be unrelated to the Nano Banana offered by Google? seems like some pretty egregious trademark infringement & attempt to cash in on user confusion.
- the article is very vague on the details of where the highway actually is, and the only map I could find is a ~15mb PDF [0] that took forever to load, probably because it's meant to be 60x30 inches when printed.
so here's a google map link: https://maps.app.goo.gl/iPjj2M2r2f3qnHQC8
that lake will be just north of the new road, which will run east-west between US 27 and SR 429.
it looks like it will run more or less parallel to an existing road (Schofield Rd) which is only one lane in each direction.
you could also drive 6 miles south and use US 192 (the W Irlo Bronson Memorial Highway) which is 3 lanes in each direction.
that seems like a strange spot for a ~4 mile toll highway but I'm neither a Floridian nor a traffic engineer so maybe I'm missing something.
0: https://www.cfxway.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/SR-516-Dis...
- > The World's Most Important Machine
de-clickbaiting: machines that manufacture computer chips
based on these section titles from the video description, I get a pretty strong impression that this is spon-con for ASML Holding [0]
> 21:59 How ASML Conquered The Chip World
> 35:35 Who are ASML’s biggest customers?
> 37:40 The Most Important Tech Company In The World
> 41:25 Inside ASML
- the initial commit [0] is from 3 days ago, and contains ~45k lines of Rust "Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>"
in the last three days, if the readme is to be believed, it's grown to 92K lines of Rust.
so it seems like this is somewhere between 99% and 100% vibe-coded?
it might be worth mentioning that in the readme, possibly instead of the "not a proof-of-concept" claim.
the architecture diagram in the readme seems like it describes ZFS, including identical terminology (ARC, RAID-Z, etc). so that's either inaccurate, or it reveals that the prompt given to Claude was basically "write a clone of ZFS but in Rust".
0: https://github.com/artst3in/lcpfs/commit/dd0678e24f1f98b121a...
- > It stores all password entries (including names) in a single encrypted file (vault).
> a simple custom vault format.
I understand what you're saying about password-store's directory structure exposing website names as plain text filenames...but, the upside of that design is that it tends to be very resilient.
imagine that you're updating an entry in your vault, and right as you save it you lose power, resulting in file corruption.
with password-store's design, the blast radius of the corruption is limited to that one single entry.
with your design, the potential blast radius of corruption could be my entire password vault.
in particular, looking at your file-management code [0, 1] it looks like it does a complete rewrite of the vault file on every save, without doing "rewrite to temp file then atomically rename" or any similar tricks meant to handle partial file writes.
if you haven't seen it before, I'd suggest reading "SQLite As An Application File Format" [2] and consider using SQLite as the storage backend.
0: https://codeberg.org/jlucas/pacc/src/branch/master/src/db.c
1: https://codeberg.org/jlucas/pacc/src/branch/master/src/vault...
- c'mon, please find better things to post on Hacker News besides "here's a trending topic on X"
- > This framework is the definitive answer to the AGI stability problem, engineered by The World's Most Advanced AI Professional
- > A Washington state Tesla owner rode his way into the record books after completing a fully autonomous coast-to-coast drive across the United States, which he detailed in a viral X thread.
another entry in the long category of "news article that's just summarizing a Twitter post"
from the thread itself [0] the owner claims "absolutely 0 disengagements of any kind even for all parking including at Tesla Superchargers"
I'd like to see some actual evidence for that claim (such as internal dashcam video) rather than blindly accepting it at face value, as the NY Post has done here.
- > Million dollar idea?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
- the all-important question - does "thinking of leaving" mean:
a) thinking of actually leaving the state, or
b) thinking of telling their team of accountants to claim on tax paperwork that their permanent residence is in another state
because things like this make me think it's the latter:
> In mid-December, three limited liability companies associated with Mr. Page filed documents to incorporate in Florida, according to state records.
at the amount of wealth we're talking about, it's trivial for a billionaire to buy an additional mansion in (Florida|Texas|Nevada|Wyoming|etc), and claim that as their "official" residence.
if they get billed with a wealth tax, their team of lawyers will claim that they live in that other state, and simply happen to spend a huge amount of their time on "business trips" to California.
so the success or failure of this will hinge on how thoroughly it's actually enforced. the "progressive" Governor Newsom is opposed to it:
> The measure faces opposition from Silicon Valley investors and others, including Gov. Gavin Newsom. At The New York Times DealBook conference this month, Mr. Newsom said a wealth tax was not pragmatic. The Democrat, who has been close with people like Mr. Page, is raising money for a committee to oppose the measure. The committee received a $100,000 donation from the venture capitalist Ron Conway in November, according to state campaign finance records.
which makes me think that even if it does pass, he won't make enforcement of it a priority (especially since he'll be busy running for President)
- > I’d appreciate hearing what others would do differently.
the answer is staring you right in the face:
> I fed my setup, budget, and constraints as context into Gemini CLI
> The commit message claimed “60% cost savings.”
don't outsource your critical thinking to a chatbot.
or, if you feel you simply must have the chatbot do this work for you, supervise it more closely. instead you ignored it for 6 weeks:
> From Nov 2 to Dec 14, Cloud Run accrued ~$4,676.
- there are many free "offline-only" password managers, eg `pass` [0] comes to mind.
you're charging $149. what does yours have that the free ones don't?
(other than a website full of cryptographic gibberish like "By using the unique DNA state-vector of every file as a seed, the engine generates distinct, unrelated keys for every file in the batch.")
- here it is, in magnet link form:
(exported from my currently-seeding torrent client, then pasted into a separate torrent client, to verify that it works correctly)magnet:?xt=urn:btih:734abc77f48d11c78543c52004b6f57db71d6d92&dn=60minutes-cecotsegment&xl=1483256352&tr=http%3A%2F%2Fbt1.archive.org%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=http%3A%2F%2Fbt2.archive.org%3A6969%2Fannounce&ws=http://ia601703.us.archive.org/32/items/&ws=http://ia801703.us.archive.org/32/items/&ws=https://archive.org/download/ - > “My goal is to eliminate every line of C and C++ from Microsoft by 2030,” Microsoft Distinguished Engineer Galen Hunt writes in a post on LinkedIn.
from the LinkedIn post [0]:
> I have an open position in my team for a IC5 Principal Software Engineer. The position is in-person in Redmond.
> My goal is to eliminate every line of C and C++ from Microsoft by 2030.
so perhaps a more accurate title would be "one guy at Microsoft, in a LinkedIn job posting, says it's his goal to replace all C/C++ code with Rust"
0: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/galenh_principal-software-eng...
- > until I switched to this password manager
un-clickbaiting: Bitwarden
- for Garage's particular use case I think SlateDB's "backed by object storage" would be an anti-feature. their usage of LMDB/SQLite is for the metadata of the object store itself - trying to host that metadata within the object store runs into a circular dependency problem.
- yeah, their docs look pretty comprehensive, but there's a disturbing number of 404s that scream "not ready for prime-time" to me.
from https://rustfs.com/ if you click Documentation, it takes you to their main docs site. there's a nav header at the top, if you click Docs there...it 404s.
"Single Node Multiple Disk Installation" is a 404. ditto "Terminology Explanation". and "Troubleshooting > Node Failure". and "RustFS Performance Comparison".
on the 404 page, there's a "take me home" button...which also leads to a 404.
- > Imagine you have an AI button. When you click it, the locally running LLM
sure, you can imagine Firefox integrating a locally-running LLM if you want.
but meanwhile, in the real world [0]:
> In the next three years, that means investing in AI that reflects the Mozilla Manifesto. It means diversifying revenue beyond search.
if they were going to implement your imagination of a local LLM, there's no reason they'd be talking about "revenue" from LLMs.
but with ChatGPT integrating ads, they absolutely can get revenue by directing users there, in the same way they get money for Google for putting Google's ads into Firefox users' eyeballs.
that's ultimately all this is. they're adding more ads to Firefox.
0: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/leadership/mozillas-next...
- if you read the article instead of just criticizing the headline:
> They listened to Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel criticizing the lack of transparency with DTE, the utility that's associated with the Saline Township proposal, and legislators who protested tax breaks for data center projects.
> ...
> "We're talking about 1.4 gigawatts, which is, of course, enough to provide energy to a city of a million people," Nessel said. "I think we should be taking this extremely seriously, don't you? Do you guys trust DTE? Do you trust Open AI? Do we trust Oracle to look out for our best interests here in Michigan?"
this wasn't just a random group of 100 people, they were organized enough to get the state AG as well as multiple state legislators to speak. seems fairly newsworthy to me.
- nope, it's "starts at $499" with "up to 4TB" of storage
if you click "Buy Now" and then...click "Buy Now" again, that takes you to the actual pricing. $500 for 1TB, or 4TB for $800.
- according to [0] it looks like the "Umbrel Home" device they sell (with 16GB RAM and an N150 CPU) can run a 7B model at 2.7 tokens/sec, or a 13B model at 1.5 t/s.
especially when they seem to be aiming for a not-terribly-technical market segment, there seems to be a pretty big mismatch between that performance and their website claims:
> The most transformative technology of our generation shouldn't be confined to corporate data centers. Umbrel Home democratizes access to AI, allowing you to run powerful models on a device you own and control.
0: https://github.com/getumbrel/llama-gpt?tab=readme-ov-file#be...
yes, 100%
I think that way too often, discussions of the current state of tech get derailed by talking about predictions of future improvements.
hypothetical thought experiment:
I set a New Year's resolution for myself of drinking less alcohol.
on New Year's Eve, I get pulled over for driving drunk.
the officer wants to give me a sobriety test. I respond that I have projected my alcohol consumption will have decreased 80% YoY by Q2 2026.
the officer is going to smile and nod...and then insist on giving me the sobriety test.
compare this with a non-hypothetical anecdote:
I was talking with a friend about the environmental impacts of AI, and mentioned the methane turbines in Memphis [0] that are being used to power Elon Musk's MechaHitler slash CSAM generator.
the friend says "oh, but they're working on building nuclear power plants for AI datacenters".
and that's technically true...but it misses the broader point.
if someone lives downwind of that data center, and they have a kid who develops asthma, you can try to tell them "oh in 5 years it'll be nuclear powered". and your prediction might be correct...but their kid still has asthma.
0: https://time.com/7308925/elon-musk-memphis-ai-data-center/