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Ford and the Birth of the Model T

news.ycombinator.com Brian Potter 2025-11-12 16:52:48

This is an excerpt from my forthcoming book, The Origins of Efficiency, out September 23rd. Ford’s status as a large-volume car producer began with the predecessor to the Model T: the Model N, a four-cylinder, two-seater car initially priced at $500. At the time, the average car in the US cost more than $2,000, and it seemed nearly unimaginable that a car with the capabilities of the Model N could cost so little. In 1906, the year the Model N was introduced, Ford sold 8,500 of them, making the

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Show HN: Spotilyrics – See synchronized Spotify lyrics inside VS Code

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-16 06:09:19

See synchronized Spotify lyrics inside VS Code while coding. ✨ Features 📌 Live lyrics sync with your Spotify playback. with your Spotify playback. 🎨 Lyrics colors auto-themed from album cover (via colorthief ). ). 🖥️ Smooth side panel view – code on the left, lyrics on the right. – code on the left, lyrics on the right. 🔑 Simple one-time login using your own Spotify Client ID. using your own Spotify Client ID. 🚪 Quick logout command to reset session. 📸 Demo ⚡️ Installation Open VS Cod

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Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for Sept. 1 #547

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-16 03:00:05

Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Today's NYT Strands puzzle has a neat theme, though it took me a while to hunt down some of the answers. If you need hints and answers, read on. I go into depth about the rules for Strands in this story. If you're looking for today's Wordle, Connections and Mini Crossword an

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Sept. 1, #343

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-16 11:03:00

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Today's Connections: Sports Edition is pretty fun -- especially if you're into athletes who share the same first name, or know the teams that don't actually play in the city on their jerseys. If you're struggling but still want to solve it, read on for hints and the answers. Connections: Spor

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Code Is Debt

news.ycombinator.com Tornike 2025-11-16 05:58:07

“Tornike, what do you think of AI coding tools?” I like to answer this frequent question by way of an example. An example of two companies. It goes something like this: Imagine two very similar companies. Both companies generate similar revenue and produce a similar software product. The only difference between these companies is that Company A uses 1 million lines of code and Company B uses 100 thousand lines of code. Which company is better off? Clearly, the company with fewer lines of code

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Vibe coding as a coding veteran: from 8-bit assembly to English-as-code

news.ycombinator.com Marco Benedetti 2025-11-12 12:55:15

Note 1: On Tower of Hanoi Solutions and their Complexity. I chose the Tower of Hanoi puzzle (Lucas, 1883) because of its almost mythical status in computer science and discrete mathematics communities. It’s a staple in AI education and typically the first encounter with elegant doubly recursive algorithms for CS undergraduates. And, I chose the search algorithms mentioned in Section 1 because they constitute the core of the “state space search” paradigm in most AI textbooks (e.g., Chapters 3 and

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10-20x Faster LLVM -O0 Back-End

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-16 03:50:35

5 years ago, @nikic wrote: I can’t say a 10% improvement is making LLVM fast again, we would need a 10x improvement for it to deserve that label. We recently open-sourced TPDE and our fast LLVM baseline back-end (TPDE-LLVM), which is 10-20x faster than the LLVM -O0 back-end with similar runtime performance and 10-30% larger code size. We support a typical subset of LLVM-IR and only target x86-64 and AArch64. Posting this here, as this might be interesting for the LLVM community – questions/com

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How is Ultrassembler so fast?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-16 05:42:43

How is Ultrassembler so fast? Ultrassembler is a superfast and complete RISC-V assembler library that I'm writing as a component of the bigger Chata signal processing project. Assemblers take in a platform-dependent assembly language and output that platform's native machine code which runs directly on the processor. "Why would you want to do this?" you might ask. First, existing RISC-V assemblers that conform the the entirety of the specification, as and llvm-mc , ship as binaries that you r

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Survey: a third of senior developers say over half their code is AI-generated

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-16 02:55:56

Fastly’s July 2025 survey of 791 developers found a notable difference in how much AI-generated code is making it into production. About a third of senior developers (10+ years of experience) say over half their shipped code is AI-generated — nearly two and a half times the rate reported by junior developers (0–2 years of experience), at 13%. “AI will bench test code and find errors much faster than a human, repairing them seamlessly. This has been the case many times,” one senior developer sai

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Launch HN: VibeFlow (YC S25) – Web app generator with visual, editable workflows

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-16 05:00:19

Hi HN! We’re Alessia and Elia, the founders of VibeFlow ( https://vibeflow.ai ). VibeFlow lets semi-technical people (i.e. people with some technical skill but who are not professional programmers) build full-stack web apps from natural language prompts, while making the underlying business logic clear and editable as a visual workflow. Demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CwWd3-b1JI The problem we’re trying to solve: today, people who want to build apps without coding often have to sti

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Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Sept. 1, #1535

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-16 09:00:03

Looking for the most recent Wordle answer? Click here for today's Wordle hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's Wordle puzzle isn't that tough. I like the ones with common letters, especially vowels. If you need a new starter word, check out our list of which letters show up the most in English words. If you need hints and the answer, read on. Today's Wordle hints Before we show

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Sept. 1, #813

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-16 09:00:04

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's NYT Connections puzzle is a fun one. As an English major, I especially liked the blue group. Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go there after you play to receive a numeric score and to

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iPhone just became a wireless dual-camera rig for pro video production

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-11-16 05:44:50

RODE is rolling out a major firmware update for the RODECaster Video this week that turns the iPhone into a powerful wireless camera source. The update adds NDI support and is available now at no additional cost. NDI (Network Device Interface) is an industry standard for high-quality, low-latency video over IP. With the new update, the RODECaster Video can receive up to four NDI inputs and output one stream over Ethernet, making it easy to connect cameras and devices across the same network w

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OpenAI is testing "Thinking effort" for ChatGPT

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-16 04:26:42

OpenAI is working on a new feature called the Thinking effort picker for ChatGPT. With the Thinking effort picker, you can choose how hard ChatGPT can think. When a model thinks harder, it doesn't necessarily mean a great response. You might not want the model to think harder when you're not sure what to do tomorrow. However, you may want the model to think harder when you're working on a complex topic, such as econometrics, bond valuation, healthcare and so on. As spotted on X, OpenAI is te

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Older developers are down with the vibe coding vibe

news.ycombinator.com Iain Thomson 2025-11-16 08:55:56

For those who thought AI vibe coding was just for the youngsters, newly published research shows that developers with over 10 years of experience are more than twice as likely to do it. According to a July survey of 791 US developers from cloud services platform Fastly, around a third of senior developers with more than a decade of experience are using AI code-generation tools such as Copilot, Claude, and Gemini to produce over half of their finished software, compared to 13 percent for those d

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Vibe Coding as a Coding Veteran. From 8-Bit Assembly to English-as-Code

news.ycombinator.com Marco Benedetti 2025-11-12 18:55:15

Note 1: On Tower of Hanoi Solutions and their Complexity. I chose the Tower of Hanoi puzzle (Lucas, 1883) because of its almost mythical status in computer science and discrete mathematics communities. It’s a staple in AI education and typically the first encounter with elegant doubly recursive algorithms for CS undergraduates. And, I chose the search algorithms mentioned in Section 1 because they constitute the core of the “state space search” paradigm in most AI textbooks (e.g., Chapters 3 and

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Notes on Managing ADHD

news.ycombinator.com Fernando Borretti 2025-11-16 06:49:01

The pleasure is in foreseeing it, not in bringing it to term. — Jorge Luis Borges, Selected Non-Fictions This post is about managing ADHD. It is divided into two sections: “Strategies” describes the high-level control system, “Tactics” is a list of micro-level improvements (really it should be called “stratagems”, since most are essentially about tricking yourself). Contents Strategies High-level advice, control systems. Chemistry First ADHD has a biological cause and drugs are the first-l

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Reolink Elite Floodlight WiFi Review: A Top-Tier Light and Security Camera

gizmodo.com Wes Davis 2025-11-16 04:00:33

2025 Smart home cameras are just better when they’re wired. Yes, it’s a pain in the ass to install them, but if you can manage it, you’ll never have to change a battery or climb a ladder to get a camera down and charge it, or wait very long for its video feed to load in an app. If they’ve got a wired internet connection, all the better, but as Wi-Fi cameras with wired power go, the $220 Reolink Elite Floodlight WiFi camera is one of the best. The Elite Floodlight WiFi reminds me a lot of Googl

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Earth models can predict the planet’s future but not their own

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-16 04:00:12

In the 1960s, meteorologist Edward Lorenz was running weather simulations on an early computer system when he realized that a small rounding difference led to extremely divergent weather predictions. He later called this idea the butterfly effect to communicate that small changes in initial conditions, like a butterfly flapping its wings in Nepal, could produce wildly different outcomes, like rain in New York. But better understanding those initial conditions and how the biological world couple

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How Does Timecode Vinyl Work? (Pt. 3)

news.ycombinator.com Jan Claußen 2025-11-12 00:09:18

How Does Timecode Vinyl Actually Work? (Pt. 3) Since its release in 2011, the Traktor Control Vinyl MK2 has sparked curiosity among digital DJs and audio developers alike. Its timecode format stands apart from Serato’s, which we explored in the previous posts. With the MK2 system, Native Instruments introduced a more advanced timecode that boosts resolution and accuracy by applying advanced cryptographic techniques. In this post, we’ll break down how it works at a basic level and how Mixxx is

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Aug. 31, #342

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-16 08:01:51

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Today's Connections: Sports Edition is tough. The purple category does that thing where the editors chop up a team name and expect you to find it. If you're struggling but still want to solve it, read on for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta now, making its deb

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Meta is reportedly looking at using competing AI models to improve its apps

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-16 02:22:09

Meta may be interested in more than Google and OpenAI's employees when it comes to artificial intelligence. According to The Information, Meta is considering using its competitors' models to improve its own apps' AI features. The report said that leaders at the Meta Superintelligence Lab have looked at integrating Google Gemini into its Meta AI chatbot to help it provide a conversational, text-based solution to its users' search questions. Not only with Google Gemini, Meta has also had discussi

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You Have to Feel It

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-15 21:38:33

August 30, 2025 You see a series of checkboxes checked. Schedules met. Requirements satisfied. Demos delivered. It's a good day. Good job, you, good job! A promotion is in sight. But you didn't feel it. You didn't feel it. We, as people, feel something with every interaction. Frustration, joy, relief, confidence. A feeling. A person interacts with our work. Our work evokes a feeling. The feeling matters. The feeling is part of the work. The desired feeling is part of the requirements. When y

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Cognitive load is what matters

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-15 18:58:48

Cognitive Load is what matters Readable version | Chinese translation | Korean translation | Turkish translation It is a living document, last update: August 2025. Your contributions are welcome! Introduction There are so many buzzwords and best practices out there, but most of them have failed. We need something more fundamental, something that can't be wrong. Sometimes we feel confusion going through the code. Confusion costs time and money. Confusion is caused by high cognitive load. It'

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Massive Recall Doesn’t Affect 15% Leap in Company Share Price

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-11-16 04:12:41

The stock price of a company that is in the middle of a major recall still managed to see a 15% gain by the time the market closed Friday. That recall has been issued for nearly 760,000 power tools following reports of explosions and fire hazards. The move is one to watch because some companies in the power washer market are beginning to integrate into their devices. These AI-powered pressure washers can analyze the surface being cleaned and optimize their own performance to provide a better r

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 31, #812

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-16 04:00:04

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's NYT Connections puzzle has a fun mix of categories. If you played a lot of Monopoly then you'll ace the green group. Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go there after you play to receive

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Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 31 #546

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-16 04:00:05

Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Today's NYT Strands puzzle might be the easiest the Times has ever offered. I hardly needed any clue words to unlock in-game hints. If you need hints and answers, read on. I go into depth about the rules for Strands in this story. If you're looking for today's Wordle, Conne

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Labor Day sales include Apple's MacBook Air M4 for an all-time-low price

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-16 03:00:36

If you've put off getting a new MacBook then Labor Day sales might be just what you needed to take the plunge. Right now, the 2025 13- and 15-inch MacBook Air M4 are available on Amazon for record-low prices. The 13-inch model is our pick for best MacBook to buy this year, and it's one of the best laptops for college students going back to school soon as well. You can pick up the 13-inch MacBook Air M4 for $799, down from $999 — a 20 percent discount. This model comes with 16GB of RAM and a 256

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AI models need a virtual machine

news.ycombinator.com Shraddha Barke 2025-11-16 02:25:39

AI Models Need a Virtual Machine Applications using AI embed the AI model in a framework that interfaces between the model and the rest of the system, providing needed services such as tool calling, context retrieval, etc. Software for early chatbots took user input, called the LLM, and returned the result to the user; essentially just a read-eval-print loop. But, as the capabilities of LLMs have evolved and extension mechanisms, such as MCP were defined, the complexities of the control softwar

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Cognitive Load is what matters

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-16 00:58:48

Cognitive Load is what matters Readable version | Chinese translation | Korean translation | Turkish translation It is a living document, last update: August 2025. Your contributions are welcome! Introduction There are so many buzzwords and best practices out there, but most of them have failed. We need something more fundamental, something that can't be wrong. Sometimes we feel confusion going through the code. Confusion costs time and money. Confusion is caused by high cognitive load. It'

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Ford and the Birth of the Model T

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iPhone just became a wireless dual-camera rig for pro video production

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Reolink Elite Floodlight WiFi Review: A Top-Tier Light and Security Camera

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Labor Day sales include Apple's MacBook Air M4 for an all-time-low price

AI models need a virtual machine

Cognitive Load is what matters

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