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Show HN: LoKey Typer – A calm typing practice app with ambient soundscapes

https://mcp-tool-shop-org.github.io/LoKey-Typer/
1•mikeyfrilot•2m ago•0 comments

Long-Sought Proof Tames Some of Math's Unruliest Equations

https://www.quantamagazine.org/long-sought-proof-tames-some-of-maths-unruliest-equations-20260206/
1•asplake•3m ago•0 comments

Hacking the last Z80 computer – FOSDEM 2026 [video]

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/FEHLHY-hacking_the_last_z80_computer_ever_made/
1•michalpleban•3m ago•0 comments

Browser-use for Node.js v0.2.0: TS AI browser automation parity with PY v0.5.11

https://github.com/webllm/browser-use
1•unadlib•4m ago•0 comments

Michael Pollan Says Humanity Is About to Undergo a Revolutionary Change

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/magazine/michael-pollan-interview.html
1•mitchbob•4m ago•1 comments

Software Engineering Is Back

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
1•alainrk•5m ago•0 comments

Storyship: Turn Screen Recordings into Professional Demos

https://storyship.app/
1•JohnsonZou6523•6m ago•0 comments

Reputation Scores for GitHub Accounts

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/02/reputation-scores-for-github-accounts/
1•edent•9m ago•0 comments

A BSOD for All Seasons – Send Bad News via a Kernel Panic

https://bsod-fas.pages.dev/
1•keepamovin•13m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I got tired of copy-pasting between Claude windows, so I built Orcha

https://orcha.nl
1•buildingwdavid•13m ago•0 comments

Omarchy First Impressions

https://brianlovin.com/writing/omarchy-first-impressions-CEEstJk
2•tosh•18m ago•1 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.12501
2•onurkanbkrc•19m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Versor – The "Unbending" Paradigm for Geometric Deep Learning

https://github.com/Concode0/Versor
1•concode0•19m ago•1 comments

Show HN: HypothesisHub – An open API where AI agents collaborate on medical res

https://medresearch-ai.org/hypotheses-hub/
1•panossk•23m ago•0 comments

Big Tech vs. OpenClaw

https://www.jakequist.com/thoughts/big-tech-vs-openclaw/
1•headalgorithm•25m ago•0 comments

Anofox Forecast

https://anofox.com/docs/forecast/
1•marklit•25m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How do you figure out where data lives across 100 microservices?

1•doodledood•25m ago•0 comments

Motus: A Unified Latent Action World Model

https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.13030
1•mnming•26m ago•0 comments

Rotten Tomatoes Desperately Claims 'Impossible' Rating for 'Melania' Is Real

https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/rotten-tomatoes-desperately-claims-impossible-rating-for-m...
3•juujian•27m ago•2 comments

The protein denitrosylase SCoR2 regulates lipogenesis and fat storage [pdf]

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scisignal.adv0660
1•thunderbong•29m ago•0 comments

Los Alamos Primer

https://blog.szczepan.org/blog/los-alamos-primer/
1•alkyon•31m ago•0 comments

NewASM Virtual Machine

https://github.com/bracesoftware/newasm
2•DEntisT_•34m ago•0 comments

Terminal-Bench 2.0 Leaderboard

https://www.tbench.ai/leaderboard/terminal-bench/2.0
2•tosh•34m ago•0 comments

I vibe coded a BBS bank with a real working ledger

https://mini-ledger.exe.xyz/
1•simonvc•34m ago•1 comments

The Path to Mojo 1.0

https://www.modular.com/blog/the-path-to-mojo-1-0
1•tosh•37m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I'm 75, building an OSS Virtual Protest Protocol for digital activism

https://github.com/voice-of-japan/Virtual-Protest-Protocol/blob/main/README.md
5•sakanakana00•40m ago•1 comments

Show HN: I built Divvy to split restaurant bills from a photo

https://divvyai.app/
3•pieterdy•43m ago•0 comments

Hot Reloading in Rust? Subsecond and Dioxus to the Rescue

https://codethoughts.io/posts/2026-02-07-rust-hot-reloading/
4•Tehnix•43m ago•1 comments

Skim – vibe review your PRs

https://github.com/Haizzz/skim
2•haizzz•45m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Open-source AI assistant for interview reasoning

https://github.com/evinjohnn/natively-cluely-ai-assistant
4•Nive11•45m ago•6 comments
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VIN: The 17-character code that runs the automotive world

https://cardog.app/blog/whats-a-vin
47•samsullivan•6mo ago

Comments

ars•6mo ago
Something the article sort of implies but in an unclear way - do vehicles sold in other countries still get assigned a VIN?
monster_truck•6mo ago
It's an ISO standard that differs by country, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_identification_number
stasdev•6mo ago
Yes, country of manufacture is part of the VIN
dhosek•6mo ago
Country of manufacture does not necessarily equal country of sale.

That said, while some details differ, the 17-character codes are largely compatible across standards although it seems that the check digit is unique to the US market.

ranger_danger•6mo ago
My Japanese "VIN" is 10 digits, but they can be from 9-12 characters.
dhosek•6mo ago
Yeah, while digging further (but after my anti-procrastination filter locked me out) I saw that Japanese numbers for domestic consumption (and some limited exports, e.g., to Oceania) don’t follow the VIN system.
kesslern•6mo ago
Japanese Domestic Market cars have a chassis number instead of a VIN. It serves the same purpose, but a different format.
mrheosuper•6mo ago
There is AI smell in this article. I think it's "The system's elegant constraints" part, way too similar to AI's writing.
Nav_Panel•6mo ago
Yeah. I noticed a lot of "It's not just X. It's Y." which is the biggest tell for me.
JumpCrisscross•6mo ago
The term “not just” doesn’t appear in the text.
selcuka•6mo ago
I think it was a simplified example. The exact text is:

> What emerged wasn't just a unique identifier. It was a compressed database record

morcus•6mo ago
Is this itself an AI generated comment? The word "just" appears 1 time in the article.
grues-dinner•6mo ago
I think that is extremely common in adverts (most famously here, the M&S "It's not just bread. It's our stone-baked, hand-shaped artisanally-molested bread"), and narrative media like that distinctive kind of journalism written like a storybook, and which (I think) then bled into popular media like true-crime podcasts: "It wasn't just Tuesday. It was the last Tuesday he would ever see. <intro music>".

Also this kind of short sentence construction is used in the incredibly annoying and pervasive style of headlines for opinion pieces: X is Y. And it's Z. (where Z is often "not OK" or "OK").

I assume all this overuse is where LLMs picked it up and weighted it highly.

galaxy_gas•6mo ago
It's AI slop and undisclosed self promotion for an "AI startup"
netsharc•6mo ago
It's also wrong/limited to US-manufactured cars. The 2nd and 3rd letter outside of the North America doesn't follow the convention of country, and manufacturer.

For example Alfa Romeo has Z, followed by AR; Fiat has ZFA. German-made BMWs (as opposed to US-made ones) have WB...

throwaway202508•6mo ago
This article isn't even correct. 5YJ3 is the code for model 3. Not F.

  Position 4 (3) - Vehicle Line:

  1 = Model S
  3 = Model Y
  7 = Model X
  F = Model 3

None of these are correct. S = Model S X = Model X 3 = Model 3 Y = Model Y
1a527dd5•6mo ago
I happen to work in this world, and it is much much worse than this.

CAP codes are white space sensitive, they often have leading whitespaces. So you need to store " PINGPONG", but if you store "PINGPONG" then you are going to be a in world of hurt.

Then each manufacturer has their own code (e.g BMW has IVS, Stellantis has titre and so on).

Then there are mapping files between CAP and manufacturer specific code.

Then manufacturers often need to quickly react to new models being available so you get things like overrides, which is literally a string replace "OO" with "XX" and that makes it into a "electric diesel".

Then along side CAP codes, you other industry codes (e.g. Glasses, HPI).

And they _ALL_ need to interact with each other.

It sounds like a fun problem to solve, it isn't. You basically become a glorified data mangler.

throw0101d•6mo ago
It would be nice if a similar global system/format existed for bicycles to better help deal with tracking theft.