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14 giờ trướcdiscuss

I'll never forget Cydia or the PS3 hacks lol.

3 ngày trướcdiscuss

2.75) Test this during the test drive

3) Do not buy car

3.5) Buy a different car

3.75) There are no different cars

4) Buy an old car from 2014 and maintain it carefully

4.25) Give up driving

4.5) Become a hermit

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3 ngày trướcdiscuss

Modern HN is all about the nanny state. If you're doing nothing wrong, you have nothing to hide ... right? It's not like a future government might decide that just existing as a certain race or accessing health care as a certain gender is a crime...

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3 ngày trướcdiscuss

Maybe you'll be able to buy a box to plug into the CAN bus and simulate pressing the button to deactivate it. Sorta like the auto-stop eliminator for that horrid feature (which saves less than 5 gallons of gas per year in my dad's Subaru - thankfully mine is one year too old for that).

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3 ngày trướcdiscuss

I mostly agree in my 2024 Ioniq 5, but not in my 2019 Subaru Outback. You can definitely override the lane keep if you have a firm grip and are ready for it, but it tries to throw me off the road often enough that I don't use it anymore.

The scariest was when I had to swerve into another lane to avoid some trash that was sticking into the road from the highway. It tried to force me back into it twice! Luckily I was ready but it gave me a fright for sure.

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3 ngày trướcdiscuss

Not sure about the systems on cars in the EU, but I got a loaner 2025 Hyundai Tuscon when my EV was in the shop. It had some driver attention monitoring feature with a camera above the steering wheel staring me in the eyes. I covered it with a piece of black electrical tape. It popped a little warning on the main display (IIRC, a crossed out eye, but maybe I'm confusing with Subaru Eyesight) when the car first started up, showing that the camera wasn't working, then proceeded to be silent for the rest of the drive.

I dunno if that'll fly going forward. I know I'll test it in every new car with this feature that I test drive though!

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4 ngày trướcdiscuss

Computers are pretty fast these days. It depends on exactly what kind of general purpose use you're talking about. Trying to push 10 Gbps through a slow old machine? You're doomed. Trying to run SSH, browse the web, or even watch Netflix over a tunnel? Probably fine to send the packet up and down the stack an extra time or two.

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4 ngày trướcdiscuss

They're getting better though. The first gen touchscreens were tiny and unreliable. The one in my 2024 Ioniq 5 is pretty decent. I am really glad I still have physical AC controls though, even if they're capacitive.

Touchscreens are modal. If I want to control the climate, I first have to press the Climate capacitive button or scroll through the screen to find climate. That takes my hands off the wheel and my eyes off the road for longer than just tapping the fan-up button.

As for the cost, I will _happily_ pay the $100 more to have a more premium and tuned interior. Heck, I chose to step up an entire trim model to the top of the line trim just for the fancy LCD screen mirror. I'd happily pay extra for better buttons.

IMO touch screens are great for rarely used features, but anything that gets clicked on most drives should be a dedicated touch point (capacitive button, physical button, steering wheel control, whatever).

Give me multifunction displays from aviation. Touch screen in the middle, rows of modal buttons along the bottom and left side. You can use muscle memory to find the button.

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5 ngày trướcdiscuss

But ... Rayfish creates a layer 3 network too. It assigns IP addresses to each node. I don't really see why it matters from this point of view whether it uses Iroh or something else to provide its backhaul. That's like saying Wireguard works at layer 4 because it uses UDP. The whole point of VPNs is to offer some kind of tunneling over higher level protocols.

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5 ngày trướcdiscuss

> Happy to get into ...

No reply to various questions an hour later. I guess they're not really watching.

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8 ngày trướcdiscuss

Yes, as long as they support the Anthropic API standard. You might have luck converting between standards using litellm's proxy. The system prompt and tool choice are tuned for Anthropic's models. For example, this setup will use Deepseek V4 Pro with their first-party (subsidized) API. Things like the Read tool on images won't work, but mostly this works well. Your mileage may vary.

    #!/bin/sh
    export ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL=https://api.deepseek.com/anthropic
    export ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN=sk-secret
    export ANTHROPIC_MODEL=${ANTHROPIC_MODEL:-deepseek-v4-pro}
    export CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_NONESSENTIAL_TRAFFIC=1
    exec claude $@

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10 ngày trướcdiscuss

The HN title says `strnpy` instead of `strncpy` .....

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10 ngày trướcdiscuss

>It's so strange to me that the argument previously was "we don't have enough energy generation for EVs and heat pumps to electrify and decarbon" but data centers are thought of as must run load that everyone has to suffer in some way to enable

This is because the argument that we didn't have the grid capacity for EVs, heat pumps, and residential solar was never sincere. You could tell because the followup was never "and we should invest more in the grid" but rather the reactionary "and that's why we can't use EVs."

The same people would be opposed to data centers, if not for the fact that the AI buildout is making them all rich.

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10 ngày trướcdiscuss

For personal projects with no data sensitivities, I use Claude Code with DeepSeek v4 Pro a lot. I'm probably going to switch to OpenCode or pi.dev after this. I was already a little annoyed at using a closed source harness, but it matched what I used at work. Nowadays, I'm mostly using Codex at work so no reason not to switch anymore.

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11 ngày trướcdiscuss

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48721551

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12 ngày trướcdiscuss

That wouldn't have contributed much to the discussion. Electrical insights often come from analogies. It's easier for most people to understand time derivatives in the context of an accelerating car than it is to understand them in the context of a capacitor or inductor charging.

Another cool insight is around "dual" relationships in circuits. You can often think of some components as roughly analogous to each other, with a switch of current and voltage. For example, if you connect a capacitor in parallel with a power supply and load, the voltage across it will increase as a function of time until it reaches the power supply voltage. Similarly, if you connect an inductor in series with a power supply and load, the current through it will increase as a function of time until it reaches the current that would otherwise pass through the load.

Like most good analogies, it's not 100% airtight, but it provides useful insights.

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12 ngày trướcdiscuss

Arguably they already did with the "cloud native" systems. There were plenty of examples personally known to me in the mid and late 2010s of smaller tech companies trying to run production PostgreSQL on 8-16 GB of RAM because they didn't want to pay the cloud RAM tax. Many "cloud native" systems were designed under these (mostly artificial IMO) RAM constraints.

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14 ngày trướcdiscuss

Power is just the time derivative of energy, like velocity is the time derivative of position. Both batteries and capacitors store energy, which they can release at some given peak and average power. Batteries tend to focus more on energy density (energy stored per weight), while capacitors tend to focus more on power density (rate of energy stored or released per weight).

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15 ngày trướcdiscuss

Please don't! Getting tricked by the satire and then slowly realizing it's insane is half the fun.

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15 ngày trướcdiscuss

It's available for rental from the domain cartel if anyone wants to drop some $$ on making the joke just that little bit more real.

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