Hacker News Reader

We test these things in production.

agildehauson Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 6.19

The keyboard has a much shorter lifespan than the SSD, and it's incredibly difficult/expensive to replace.

A single bad key or trace and any Apple laptop is basically toast. $800+ to have Apple replace the top cover.

Maybe an independent shop can do it cheaper, I don't know.

agildehauson Beginning fully autonomous operations with the 6th-generation Waymo driver

Waymo has posted videos of accidents they've avoided purely because their lidar picked up on a pedestrian before their cameras saw anything.

A favorite of mine: https://x.com/dmitri_dolgov/status/1900219562437861685

agildehauson The Waymo World Model

https://www.mobileye.com/news/mobileye-to-end-internal-lidar...

Um, yes they did.

No idea if it had any relation to Tesla though.

agildehauson You can now download Windows 7 and Vista ISO images with all the updates

Through Azure, Office, LinkedIn, gaming. Not so much Windows.

agildehauson Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain

> since it’s always with you

Isn't my watch always with me? Why not use that instead of have some new device?

agildehauson Grok 4.1

For reference, here's Gemini 2.5 Pro: https://tools.simonwillison.net/svg-render#%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D...

agildehauson WeatherNext 2: Our most advanced weather forecasting model

They integrated "MetNet-3" into Google products and my personal perception was accuracy decreased.

agildehauson AI World Clocks

I'm assuming the "Gemini 2.5" referenced on this site is Flash, not Pro. Pro is insane, and 3.0 is just around the corner.

agildehauson Winamp clone in Swift for macOS

reAmp (https://re-amp.ru/) is a faithful recreation as well, but no updates since 2020 (and not OSS)

agildehauson Collaboration sucks

The Conjoined Triangles of Success

agildehauson Tesla influencers tried coast-to-coast self-driving, hit debris before 60 miles

It's because anecdotal experience means very little. In ~2021, these vehicles could almost never make it from A to B without a safety-critical intervention.

That they can today doesn't mean they can do the same route 10,000 times without a safety-critical intervention. In fact, public tracking indicates Tesla's numbers are MUCH lower than that.

agildehauson Tesla influencers tried coast-to-coast self-driving, hit debris before 60 miles

The humans in the vehicle spotted it fine, and we should not tolerate self-driving systems that are only as good as the worst of us.

agildehauson Tesla influencers tried coast-to-coast self-driving, hit debris before 60 miles

A friend of mine who loves Tesla watched this video and said "many humans would have hit that". I feel we'll be hearing a lot of that excuse.

agildehauson US Gov acknowledges that 100K fee does not apply to existing H-1B visas holders [pdf]

Indeed. They'll use this to hurt companies they want to hurt.

agildehauson Show HN: Sink – Sync any directory with any device on your local network

Has any open-source project done it better? Serious question, I've been looking.

agildehauson Jokes and Humour in the Public Android API

Reminds me of BeOS (and now Haiku), which have "is_computer_on()" and "is_computer_on_fire()" both with great descriptions.

https://www.haiku-os.org/legacy-docs/bebook/TheKernelKit_Sys...

agildehauson ALICE detects the conversion of lead into gold at the LHC

Gold-197? The article does not specify.

agildehauson Gmail will soon stop support for the 3DES encryption cipher for incoming SMTP

3DES isn't as easy to exploit versus, say SSLv3 and RC4 which were both quickly removed.

agildehauson Tesla Releases Stripped RWD Cybertruck: So Much Worse for Not Much Less Money

The DMC-12 has a classic movie attached to it. If it didn't, most every single one of them that exists today would be in the scrap heap.

agildehauson How a $2k 'Made in the USA' Phone Is Manufactured

It's not like you can't doomscroll TikTok on an iPhone 8. I don't think getting slightly lower FPS on 3D games would lower addiction rates.

agildehauson Waymos crash less than human drivers

Both the longer wait time and the double price can likely be explained by the lack of highway.

Highway is coming.

And scale will make it cheaper. It's only cheaper than Uber sometimes currently. That will change.

agildehauson Amazon to kill off local Alexa processing, all voice requests shipped to cloud

Do it. Quite a bit has improved in the last few years and I've entirely replaced Windows.

agildehauson Elon Musk's Demolition Crew

After the Act. Read the very first line of JFK's order that created it.

https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/executive-order-10...

agildehauson Elon Musk's Demolition Crew

Something like USAID is established by statute (The Foreign Assistance Act of 1961). It cannot be eliminated or gutted by executive order.

Sidestepping this, which is happening left and right currently, is democracy failing.

agildehauson Starship Flight 7

Load it in Chrome and cast the tab. Sucks that you have to involve your computer for the duration, but that's the most reliable way to do it IMO.

agildehauson Extending the context length to 1M tokens

Seems a very difficult problem to produce a response just on the text given and not past training. An LLM that can do that would seem to be quite more advanced than what we have today.

Though I would say humans would have difficulty too -- say, having read The Three Body problem before, then reading a slightly modified version (without being aware of the modifications), and having to recall specific details.

agildehauson Waymo closes $5.6B investment round

It's impressive software for an ADAS.

But it's not a robotaxi. Even its level of sensor and compute redundancy is not ready to be a robotaxi. Nothing shown at the Cybercab event changed that. They go for form over reliability every time.

With HW3, they ate their redundant compute node because they underestimated the compute required for the task.

Now even with the redundant node utilized for non-redundant purposes, that doesn't seem to be enough as they are finally admitting HW3 will never not be "supervised".

And then the many years of lying about its upcoming readiness. There are websites out there where you can find all of Musk's quotes about it being just around the corner, or their current generation of vehicles all becoming money-making robotaxis with a little software update worldwide.

There's no indication at all they'll break out of the 100-120 miles per safety disengagement they currently sit at (community tracker, Tesla themselves doesn't publish reviewable safety data).

You being happy that your car can finally make zero intervention trips is NOT the standard necessary for taking the driver out of the seat.

agildehauson Waymo closes $5.6B investment round

You're not going to be taking that roundabout at 50 mph. That why, significantly before the roundabout, there's a 15 mph roundabout warning that FSD completely ignores.

agildehauson Waymo closes $5.6B investment round

I have videos of safety critical interventions in v12.5. Here's one of it attempting to drive straight through a roundabout at 50 miles per hour:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1XagBTmpgw

Your understanding of remote support is entirely wrong. At no point can a remote operator "drive" a Waymo. They confirm or change plans when the car gets stuck -- that's it.