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Show HN: I'm not a PostgREST fan this is why I'm building an alternative

https://github.com/rustrum/xepak
1•rumatoest•20s ago•0 comments

Welcoming think-cell as the first gold sponsor to Meeting C++ 2026

https://www.meetingcpp.com/meetingcpp/news/items/Welcoming-think-cell-as-the-first-gold-sponsor-t...
1•dalvrosa•48s ago•0 comments

How a worm gave the South a bad name

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/how-a-worm-gave-the-south-a-bad-name/
1•skanderbm•1m ago•0 comments

The Bolivia Case: How Commodity Tokenization Attracts Global Capital

https://rocknblock.io/blog/the-bolivia-case-how-commodity-tokenization-attracts-global-capital
1•dalvrosa•1m ago•0 comments

AI Independence Day

https://adlrocha.substack.com/p/adlrocha-ai-independence-day
1•dalvrosa•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Hordev – Claude Code skills that build instead of asking questions

https://github.com/heffrey/hordev
1•heffrey•2m ago•0 comments

Drawably: Hand-Drawn UI Controls

https://github.com/Danilaa1/drawably
1•ingve•2m ago•0 comments

I Gave My Model the Answer. It Still Couldn't See the Break

https://skyliquid.medium.com/i-gave-my-model-the-correct-answer-it-still-failed-9aacb06afe69
1•skyliquid22•2m ago•0 comments

New Embedded.fm Episode with Programmers at Work Author

https://embedded.fm/episodes/533
1•slammers123•3m ago•0 comments

Google Decided to Index My Blog Again

https://blog.matthewbrunelle.com/google-decided-to-index-my-blog-again/
2•speckx•3m ago•0 comments

What Is Pix

https://whatispix.com/
1•hmokiguess•4m ago•1 comments

Shattered Pixel Dungeon v4.0.0

https://shatteredpixel.com/blog/shattered-pixel-dungeon-v400.html
1•ErenayDev•5m ago•0 comments

Kova: The hardware ecosystem from sketch to shelf

https://kova-five-zeta.vercel.app/
1•awalGarg•6m ago•0 comments

Arm Neoverse CSS N4 Launched for Next-Gen CPUs and DPUs

https://www.servethehome.com/arm-neoverse-css-n4-launched-for-next-gen-cpus-and-dpus/
1•pella•6m ago•0 comments

The End of Software Engineering

https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.05608
2•Anon84•7m ago•0 comments

Map: The True Size Of...

https://thetruesize.com/
1•pseudolus•7m ago•0 comments

Native Async/Coroutine Reads in RocksDB

https://rocksdb.org/blog/2026/08/24/native-coroutine-reads.html
1•andrewstetsenko•8m ago•0 comments

Apple Introduces AirPods 5

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/09/apple-introduces-airpods-5-with-best-in-class-open-ear-act...
18•awad•8m ago•6 comments

Three Jurors in Clancy Trial Describe Frustration with Holdout

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/us/jurors-lindsay-clancy-trial.html
1•whack•9m ago•0 comments

Popular navigation apps unlikely to ditch Mercator maps despite UN resolution

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/09/un-correct-the-map-resolution-wont-change-mercator-map-us...
1•pseudolus•9m ago•0 comments

Microsoft/tgrep: grep with trigram indexing in Rust

https://github.com/microsoft/tgrep
1•adamnemecek•10m ago•0 comments

Use Firefox

https://ramkumar.me/essays/2026/09/08/use-firefox/
2•speckx•10m ago•0 comments

Find investors for your startup for free

https://leadagentx.ai
1•liranbr•10m ago•0 comments

Europe Considers Tech Sovereignty

https://cacm.acm.org/news/europe-considers-tech-sovereignty/
2•pseudolus•11m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AI Burn Clock – the cost of agents reading whole files

https://aiburnclock.org/
1•Nikolaichuk•11m ago•0 comments

Italy proposes no fees for digital euro payments under €10

https://www.euronews.com/business/2026/09/08/exclusive-italy-proposes-no-fees-for-digital-euro-pa...
5•giuliomagnifico•12m ago•0 comments

I want a data center job

1•incalculablecac•13m ago•1 comments

Lean certificates accompanying Navier-Stokes and Euler results

https://github.com/openai/NavierStokesAndEuler/tree/main
1•thunderbong•14m ago•0 comments

Apple debuts iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/09/apple-debuts-iphone-18-pro-and-iphone-18-pro-max/
10•meetpateltech•14m ago•0 comments

Scan your hand, build a keyboard

https://ryanis.cool/cosmos/
1•tripdout•15m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives

https://spectrum.ieee.org/are-self-driving-cars-safe
41•bookofjoe•33m ago

Comments

dlisboa•24m ago
ADAS + human driver seems enough to solve most of the shortcomings of both human and robot drivers.

Full self-driving doesn't strike me as necessary to prevent deaths.

jpcfl•15m ago
There is a moral hazard with ADAS + human drivers:

> Once drivers move from the novelty phase to the post-novelty operational phase, behavioral adaptation may begin to occur and overreliance and over-trust in the automation features potentially develop, including a greater willingness to look away from the forward road (as shown in the VCC data set). [1]

I'm not sure if this is more dangerous than strictly human-operated vehicles, but I would wager that it is more dangerous than strictly autonomous vehicles.

1. https://aaafoundation.org/research/understanding-the-impact-...

redwall_hp•15m ago
Automatic braking alone is a huge deal: if you're a bit late in braking, you get a warning. If you go past that, brakes auto apply. When configured correctly, I don't even notice it's there 99.9% of the time...and the times I do I'm glad it's there, because the beep pulls you out of a momentary distraction.

The only problem is not every car on the road has it yet.

epgui•11m ago
Anecdotally, the only times I've ever noticed these chimes and the auto-braking (even automatic rolling-up of windows), it was false positives, and it was mildly terrifying: for a brief and unexpected moment I was no longer in control of my vehicle. [Recent Honda Civic and Audi A3 models]
stephencanon•6m ago
I've only had a couple weeks in rentals with automatic emergency braking, and was very nearly been rear-ended twice due to false positives. Anecdotal, and I'm sure they'll improve with time, but I would never allow the system I experienced anywhere near a car I owned. It was profoundly unsafe.
dlisboa•10m ago
> The only problem is not every car on the road has it yet.

Yep. ADAS should be mandatory like seat belts and airbags. A regulatory body should be able to come up with a minimum standard for it.

officeplant•5m ago
>Automatic braking alone is a huge deal

Except I had to turn it off for my Ford E-Transit, because it will freak out at nothing. Sometimes it screams at me for cars that aren't even in my lane that suddenly slowed. Sometimes it misjudges a ripple in the crappy asphalt here as an obstacle I'm going to hit. There is a high chance its going to brake for no reason at all and cause an accident.

I left the warning system on, but I will never give it control over the brakes.

MostlyStable•13m ago
The problem with mostly-but-not-entirely autonomous is that humans will tend to treat it like entirely autonomous.
AlotOfReading•11m ago
An ADAS would be L4 if it was designed to be truly autonomous. If it's not designed to be truly autonomous, you have to somehow address the attention problem. Even a good attention monitoring system isn't sufficient, because people have the ability to appear superficially attentive by all external metrics, while not engaging with the driving task mentally.

The data to differentiate these levels is pretty limited for a variety of reasons, and the problem only worsens when you conflate AEB with ADAS as the IHS/IEEE do in this article rather than use an OEDR-based definition.

Junk_Collector•21m ago
It could, but maybe not if your motto is, "Move Fast and Break Things."

Article is short on data instead referencing a bunch of aggregated IIHS studies.

bestouff•17m ago
"Move fast and break things" looks obviously bad for an autonomous vehicle ...
anon84873628•9m ago
Which autonomous vehicle company has that as their motto?
warkdarrior•3m ago
Stop asking relevant questions! I have a narrative to push and you are getting in the way.
n0us•17m ago
Growing proof that PR for autonomous car companies has aligned on a strategy of painting you as a bad person if you want to drive your own car, and therefore you should pay them money to continue being a good person.
jjordan•10m ago
There should be laws put in place to ensure drivers will always be able to drive their cars, if they choose, and also prevent insurance companies from skyrocketing your rates for doing so. This is IMO past due.
matchbok3•8m ago
How selfish. Why should I, someone who wants a safer AV, subsidize those who are riskier drivers?

Extremely selfish.

gottorf•6m ago
This happens in insurance all the time. Healthy people who eat right and exercise subsidize people with poor habits.

It appears to some degree that we as a society do not want risk priced optimally to each individual.

jedberg•6m ago
Why? Insurance companies use detailed risk data. If they discover that letting you drive your own car is a much higher risk than an auto-drive, why should they not be allowed to account for that?

Insurance companies aren't political -- they charge for whatever costs more.

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dghlsakjg•15m ago
Is there a standard that these cars have to meet?

Really there should be an obstacle course of some kind based on the most common anomalies leading to accidents. Partially obscured road signs, worn paint markings, obscured sight lines caused by dense parking, driving on a snowed over surface, etc.

throwup238•13m ago
If it’s anything like my San Francisco DMV driving test, they did a loop around Fell and Oak St (both one way streets with no opposing traffic).

I passed because I didn’t kill anyone in the span of eight blocks.

margalabargala•13m ago
While I would like to see that just for the data, from a regulatory standpoint all we really need are the manufacturers being liable in a crash if their cars were driving. The insurance savings of their cars being safer will create the incentive they need.
iknowstuff•2m ago
Real world data results are so much more important than an obstacle course to overfit for.
32ahgf•11m ago
So can 100% public transport, non-autonomous. But there is less lobbying money for award winning journalists.
danieldevries•10m ago
Of course. This seems so obvious.

More sensors with 360 degrees. Faster reaction time. Constantly improving, be it from real world data or from a simulated environment. Zero fatigue. No emotion evolved. No drugs are alcohol in the system.

Fyi. Long robotaxis.

raincole•7m ago
Isn't it... quite a well known thing?
watwut•6m ago
I was reading about autonomous cars being better then people 6 years ago ... along with cries about the cars are treated unfairly.
fierycatnet•2m ago
I have a feeling that once everything goes EV and autopilot, they will start phasing out regular cars or will make it more difficult to obtain the license.
4m ago
No there should not. Human drivers kill a million people every year. WW1 killed 15-22M.
intrasight•4m ago
I agree with your first statement but certainly not with the second. Rates for human drivers should and will skyrocket. Individual states may try to push back with regulation but it won't succeed in the long-term
linkregister•4m ago
Incumbent rent-seekers want regulatory capture to insulate them from externalities. Dog bites man.
pessimizer•3m ago
The law put into place would be that the people who put autonomous cars on the road would risk their freedom and safety just as much as a driver if that car causes an accident through their neglect.

This will never happen, because the entire purpose of the corporate structure is to avoid responsibility.

raincole•2m ago
There should be laws taxing people who insist on driving themselves. And the money should be used to subsidize people who switch to self-driving or install automatic assisted systems on their old cars. That'd at least mitigate the externality generated by human drivers.
matchbok3•8m ago
The knee-jerk conspiratorial reactions to new technology is depressing to see on HN. Do better.
bko•8m ago
Growing proof that comment sections from tech forums have been overrun with unhelpful negativity unrelated to the actual posts they're commenting on.
nalekberov•3m ago
Growing proof that some people have become so intolerant of any opposition to tech overlords.
parapsychic•8m ago
Reminds me of that scene from I Robot where Will Smith was not supposed to drive his car himself.
vagrantJin•6m ago
Thats too much of an honest assessment. An age old playbook. I'd like the tech do actually do things that are hard for me, like taking control of the car in a high stress situation. Sub-milisecond reactions to correct for a mistake. Something, anything more useful than a fancier cruise control.
CM30•4m ago
Yeah, and it should not be understated how bad only having autonomous cars would be for privacy and security conscious folk.

A lot of the time you don't own them, so they're operating on the terms provided by the companies and government, even when it's directly against your own interests. The idea of a car that can't drive certain places, be used at a certain time or be used by certain people feels like a terrifying inevitability, and one which society should refuse at all costs.

If you drive your own vehicle, it goes where you want it to go. If you don't drive your own vehicle, it goes where a company or government wants it to go.

foobarian•4m ago
But.. what if it's true? It's like not wearing a seat belt, or smoking, or drinking while driving. If AV are widely available it becomes similarly opt-in high risk behavior.
WillPostForFood•2m ago
<posted from phone while driving through red light>