Kona EV Hacking
Anyway, this would be a new phase of car ownership … or more like two phases and a ground, heh. The whole experience didn’t take long to build into quite the saga, so what follows is a linkfest-style timeline of contents for different subsections. Some of the sections are NOT completed yet, flagged by […]
Britain is ejecting hereditary nobles from Parliament after 700 years
LONDON (AP) — Centuries of British political tradition will end within weeks after Parliament voted to remove hereditary aristocrats from the unelected House of Lords. On Tuesday night members of the upper chamber dropped objections to legislation passed by the House of Commons ousting dozens of dukes, earls and viscounts who inherited seats in Parliament […]
Many SWE-bench-Passing PRs would not be merged
Summary: We find that roughly half of test-passing SWE-bench Verified PRs written by mid-2024 to mid/late-2025 agents would not be merged into main by repo maintainers, even after adjusting for noise in maintainer merge decisions. Since the agents are not given a chance to iterate on their solution in response to feedback the way a […]
New ’negative light’ technology hides data transfers in plain sight
The research team, led by UNSW Professor Ned Ekins-Daukes and Dr Michael Nielsen, and including Professors Michael Fuhrer and Stefan Maier from Monash University and Imperial College London, have so far managed to send data at about 100 kilobytes per second in lab experiments. But they believe speeds could reach gigabytes or even faster with […]
Where does engineering go? Retreat findings and insights [pdf]
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The dead Internet is not a theory anymore
I recently invited a job applicant to a first-round interview. Their CV looked promising and my AI slop detection didn’t go off. But then I got this reply: This made me realize that the dead Internet arrived faster than expected. A few other purely qualitative examples confirmed the feeling. HackerNews HN now restricts ShowHN for […]
Don’t post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans.
Hacker News Guidelines What to Submit On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one’s intellectual curiosity. Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they’re evidence of […]
I’m glad the Anthropic fight is happening now
By now, I’m sure you’ve heard that the Department of War has declared Anthropic a supply chain risk, because Anthropic refused to remove redlines around the use of their models for mass surveillance and for autonomous weapons. Honestly I think this situation is a warning shot. Right now, LLMs are probably not being used in […]
Bus travel from Lima to Rio de Janeiro
kenschutte.com / lima-to-rio-by-bus In 2025, I traveled by bus in South America, starting in Lima, Peru and ending in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Here are some details for anyone interested in doing the same. Click map for interactive version Leg Start End Company Date Depart Arrive Distance (mi) Duration (hh:mm) Price 1 Lima → Arequipa […]
//go:fix inline and the source-level inliner
Go 1.26 contains an all-new implementation of the go fix subcommand, designed to help you keep your Go code up-to-date and modern. For an introduction, start by reading our recent post on the topic. In this post, we’ll look at one particular feature, the source-level inliner. While go fix has several bespoke modernizers for specific […]