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Statin drugs safer than previously thought

https://www.semafor.com/article/02/06/2026/statin-drugs-safer-than-previously-thought
1•stareatgoats•1m ago•0 comments

Handy when you just want to distract yourself for a moment

https://d6.h5go.life/
1•TrendSpotterPro•3m ago•0 comments

More States Are Taking Aim at a Controversial Early Reading Method

https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/more-states-are-taking-aim-at-a-controversial-early-read...
1•lelanthran•4m ago•0 comments

AI will not save developer productivity

https://www.infoworld.com/article/4125409/ai-will-not-save-developer-productivity.html
1•indentit•9m ago•0 comments

How I do and don't use agents

https://twitter.com/jessfraz/status/2019975917863661760
1•tosh•15m ago•0 comments

BTDUex Safe? The Back End Withdrawal Anomalies

1•aoijfoqfw•18m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Compile-Time Vibe Coding

https://github.com/Michael-JB/vibecode
3•michaelchicory•21m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Ensemble – macOS App to Manage Claude Code Skills, MCPs, and Claude.md

https://github.com/O0000-code/Ensemble
1•IO0oI•24m ago•1 comments

PR to support XMPP channels in OpenClaw

https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/pull/9741
1•mickael•24m ago•0 comments

Twenty: A Modern Alternative to Salesforce

https://github.com/twentyhq/twenty
1•tosh•26m ago•0 comments

Raspberry Pi: More memory-driven price rises

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/more-memory-driven-price-rises/
1•calcifer•31m ago•0 comments

Level Up Your Gaming

https://d4.h5go.life/
1•LinkLens•36m ago•1 comments

Di.day is a movement to encourage people to ditch Big Tech

https://itsfoss.com/news/di-day-celebration/
3•MilnerRoute•37m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AI generated personal affirmations playing when your phone is locked

https://MyAffirmations.Guru
4•alaserm•38m ago•3 comments

Show HN: GTM MCP Server- Let AI Manage Your Google Tag Manager Containers

https://github.com/paolobietolini/gtm-mcp-server
1•paolobietolini•39m ago•0 comments

Launch of X (Twitter) API Pay-per-Use Pricing

https://devcommunity.x.com/t/announcing-the-launch-of-x-api-pay-per-use-pricing/256476
1•thinkingemote•39m ago•0 comments

Facebook seemingly randomly bans tons of users

https://old.reddit.com/r/facebookdisabledme/
1•dirteater_•40m ago•1 comments

Global Bird Count Event

https://www.birdcount.org/
1•downboots•41m ago•0 comments

What Is Ruliology?

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/01/what-is-ruliology/
2•soheilpro•43m ago•0 comments

Jon Stewart – One of My Favorite People – What Now? with Trevor Noah Podcast [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44uC12g9ZVk
2•consumer451•45m ago•0 comments

P2P crypto exchange development company

1•sonniya•58m ago•0 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
2•jesperordrup•1h ago•0 comments

Write for Your Readers Even If They Are Agents

https://commonsware.com/blog/2026/02/06/write-for-your-readers-even-if-they-are-agents.html
1•ingve•1h ago•0 comments

Knowledge-Creating LLMs

https://tecunningham.github.io/posts/2026-01-29-knowledge-creating-llms.html
1•salkahfi•1h ago•0 comments

Maple Mono: Smooth your coding flow

https://font.subf.dev/en/
1•signa11•1h ago•0 comments

Sid Meier's System for Real-Time Music Composition and Synthesis

https://patents.google.com/patent/US5496962A/en
1•GaryBluto•1h ago•1 comments

Show HN: Slop News – HN front page now, but it's all slop

https://dosaygo-studio.github.io/hn-front-page-2035/slop-news
7•keepamovin•1h ago•1 comments

Show HN: Empusa – Visual debugger to catch and resume AI agent retry loops

https://github.com/justin55afdfdsf5ds45f4ds5f45ds4/EmpusaAI
1•justinlord•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Bitcoin wallet on NXP SE050 secure element, Tor-only open source

https://github.com/0xdeadbeefnetwork/sigil-web
2•sickthecat•1h ago•1 comments

White House Explores Opening Antitrust Probe on Homebuilders

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-06/white-house-explores-opening-antitrust-probe-i...
1•petethomas•1h ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Why the $25,000 car is going extinct

https://thehustle.co/originals/why-the-25000-car-is-going-extinct
7•paulpauper•6mo ago

Comments

PaulHoule•6mo ago
Kinda funny, but I've been noticing a lot of rednecks driving compact cars lately -- probably because that's what they can afford. This weekend one helped me move a turtle out of the road (I wasn't sure if it was a snapper, but he wasn't afraid, he just grabbed it by the tail) and another helped me jack up a 79 Thunderbird with a flat tire.
orionblastar•6mo ago
My friend from India, Zubin, told me about the $500 to $1000 used car. It is cheaper to fix it up than it is to pay interest payments on a new car. It usually is a compact car like a Toyota that is easy to fix and doesn't have a computer to control the car. Just replace the stereo with a better one and keep fixing the car.

My son is the same way; he learned from YouTube videos on pickup trucks, earned his CDL, and learned how to fix diesel engines. He just welded his exhaust pipe on his truck today.

Rich people used to do this. Sam Walton had a Ford pickup truck from the 1960s that he kept getting repaired.

PaulHoule•6mo ago
My son needed a car to drive to work about two years ago, we figured it should be in my name so I can get an adult insurance rate. We found a $3500 '96 Buick Park Avenue which has needed more than the purchase price in repairs to keep on the road but it sure beats a new car or a newer used car and if it fails completely tomorrow we got our money's worth.

My son wanted a car for fun and saw a $2500 '79 Thunderbird on the side of the road which we picked up a week and a half ago. You can't drive a car like that in Upstate NY in the winter because salt will eat it, but it is fun to drive around and be a bit of a celebrity.

My wife and I have been in the habit of buying new or almost new Asian cars but the way things are going our next car will be a sub-$10,000 used car because (1) they're not making the cars we want to buy and (2) prices are too damn high.

orionblastar•6mo ago
Funny that they use robots and outsource factories to third-world nations, and the price is still too expensive.

My wife likes new cars, just got a Mazda 2025 with 1.9% interest, 2023 model is only a few hundred bucks cheaper but 8.9% interest. Cheaper to buy the new model and get warranty and service. My wife is a nurse and can afford it.

billy99k•6mo ago
You are de-humanizing the two people that helped you by referring to them as 'rednecks' and using terms like 'one helped me ...".

Seems kind of racist.

a_vanderbilt•6mo ago
Instead of getting offended on behalf of others, why not just ask one of those rednecks how they actually feel? Seems kind of like you are being inflammatory under the guise of concern.
PaulHoule•6mo ago
Well they helped me so I thought they were cool. I mean, my "prod it with a stick" would get it to go right down the middle of the road but not off to the edges, I wasn't brave enough to pick it up by the tail. Maybe I had this on my mind

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Redneck

It certainly breaks the stereotype that they all drive pickup trucks.

a_vanderbilt•6mo ago
You're fine. As one of those "rednecks" my problem wasn't with what you were saying, it's obvious it wasn't malicious in intent. The person who replied to you with their accusations of racism (??) was clout-seeking/rage-baiting at your expense and I call those kinds of people out in an instant.
NaOH•6mo ago
Duplicate:

The $25k car is going extinct? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44414115 - June 2025 (1122 comments)

a_vanderbilt•6mo ago
The prices will continue to increase so long as buyers keep paying for them. In a car-centric country like the US, the demand isn't as elastic as it is elsewhere. People could buy more cost-effective vehicles, but they don't for a variety of reasons.

I foresee that car loans will contribute to the next market crash, as the abysmal LTVs trap people similar to the way vehicle loans originated during COVID did.

The OP is a poignant example. I have been in the market for an AWD Maverick, but I cannot find a vehicle on sale at a reasonable price. I see Mavericks with high milage selling for 80% as much as a brand new one MSRPs for. Dealers add to the fire by adding markups or tacking on insane windows prices. The outcome of the loan doesn't matter to them, just so long as they can get the initial sale.

I feel so much of this problem could be resolved be eliminating the middle man. Allow manufacturers to sell direct to consumer, and so much of the perverse incentive evaporates.