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Tailwind Labs is joining Shopify

https://tailwindcss.com/blog/tailwind-is-joining-shopify
567•EdwinHoksberg•4h ago•228 comments

Apple Introduces AirPods 5

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/09/apple-introduces-airpods-5-with-best-in-class-open-ear-act...
30•awad•13m ago•26 comments

GPT-6 Astra, looped transformers, and hidden reasoning

https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/gpt-6-astra-looped-transformers-and
157•ModelForge•3h ago•54 comments

GNU Radio in the browser

https://gnuradioworld.com/
71•kristianpaul•1h ago•12 comments

Qwen 3.8 follows GPT-5.5 Pro reasoning prefills

https://gist.github.com/wsxiaoys/e0286dc6bb624ff5fdf49e7f4c528ba3
15•wsxiaoys•28m ago•1 comments

Desert Ant Labs: local, fast models that run on device

https://desertant.com/blog/introducing-desert-ant-labs/
293•willwhitedc•6h ago•80 comments

Understanding the recent DDoS attack against Read the Docs

https://about.readthedocs.com/blog/2026/09/2026-ddos-attack/
43•davidfischer•1h ago•12 comments

Planet Labs' open satellite feed

https://tech.marksblogg.com/planet-labs-open-satellite-feed.html
57•marklit•2h ago•11 comments

What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks

https://tautology.town/2026/06/01/card-networks.html
16•evakhoury•23h ago•0 comments

How I advertise malicious software on Google Ads

https://xlii.space/eng/malicious-software-on-google-ads/
271•xlii•6h ago•169 comments

The UN challenges five centuries of cartography

https://www.not-ship.com/united-nations-map/
30•speckx•1h ago•21 comments

No Man's Sky Cosmos

https://www.nomanssky.com/cosmos-update/
137•Limb•2h ago•128 comments

Rivian's gambit for full autonomy

https://spectrum.ieee.org/rivian-self-driving
30•1970-01-01•22h ago•38 comments

Why Emacs Consult async searches feel slow and how to speed them up

https://www.jamescherti.com/emacs-consult-speed-async-searche-grep-ripgrep-fd-find/
6•mpweiher•39m ago•1 comments

We accidentally built a synthetic cell factory

https://bnext.bio/post/we-accidentally-built-a-synthetic-cell-factory
34•rajivm•2h ago•1 comments

Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives

https://spectrum.ieee.org/are-self-driving-cars-safe
43•bookofjoe•37m ago•55 comments

Every Millisecond Counts

https://jordivillar.com/blog/every-millisecond-counts
10•theanonymousone•55m ago•1 comments

Roame (YC S23) Is Hiring Viral Content Editor

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/roame/jobs/KuVVqSh-content-systems-builder-editor
1•zman0225•5h ago

Claude, change the "Add to Cart" button to blue

https://opusfived.dev/
719•matthieu_bl•8h ago•293 comments

Bespoke: A programming language for people who say please

https://blog.hofstede.it/bespoke-a-programming-language-for-people-who-say-please/
26•birdculture•3d ago•8 comments

Magic Move for Code Snippets from first principles

https://rahulrav.com/blog/magic_move.html
9•rahulrav•2d ago•0 comments

DeepSeek launching v4.1 flash cheaper and more capable than v4 pro

347•nickweb•6h ago•179 comments

Better AI code comment detector

https://entropicthoughts.com/better-ai-comment-classifier
21•ibobev•2h ago•14 comments

Coyote v. Acme (1990)

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1990/02/26/coyote-v-acme
124•ChrisArchitect•3d ago•55 comments

I haven't lost a customer service fight in seven months

https://www.sudomoin.com/p/consumer-claims
20•dimitri-vs•1h ago•8 comments

Generating the P3 Tiling

https://k-monk.org/blog/generating-the-p3-tiling/
5•evakhoury•23h ago•0 comments

Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent

https://ai.meta.com/muse/
606•yks•22h ago•663 comments

Show HN: Give your AI agent on-screen guides that show users where to click

7•pancomplex•2h ago•3 comments

Playing whack-a-mole is losing

https://dadrian.io/blog/posts/whack-a-mole-is-losing/
41•surprisetalk•4h ago•10 comments

Searching for the best silicone USB cable

https://www.frankchiarulli.com/blog/best-silicone-usb-cable/
73•evakhoury•4d ago•46 comments
Open in hackernews

Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives

https://spectrum.ieee.org/are-self-driving-cars-safe
43•bookofjoe•37m ago

Comments

dlisboa•29m 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•20m 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•20m 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•16m 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•10m 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.
Terr_•5m ago
Assuming you're already stuck with such a vehicle, is there any benefit to a dashcam that captures the alert-noises to prove the that you, the driver, never chose to brake unsafely?

I realize this relies heavily on the questionable sanity and ethics of insurance companies.

WalterBright•1m ago
Some years ago, I was in a major crash. The traffic in front of me stopped, I braked hard and stopped in time, the truck behind me rammed me into the car in front. Nearly killed me.

Some time later, I was on a snowy road. The cars in front of me stopped, I stopped, and checked my rearview mirror. There was a truck, who clearly wasn't going to stop. I pulled off to the side, and he hit the car in front of me.

dlisboa•15m 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.

MostlyStable•17m ago
The problem with mostly-but-not-entirely autonomous is that humans will tend to treat it like entirely autonomous.
AlotOfReading•16m 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•25m 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•22m ago
"Move fast and break things" looks obviously bad for an autonomous vehicle ...
anon84873628•14m ago
Which autonomous vehicle company has that as their motto?
warkdarrior•8m ago
Stop asking relevant questions! I have a narrative to push and you are getting in the way.
n0us•22m 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•14m 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•13m ago
How selfish. Why should I, someone who wants a safer AV, subsidize those who are riskier drivers?

Extremely selfish.

gottorf•11m 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.

linkregister•6m ago
It is understandable that you think this is the case as someone who is not above the age of 50. You will see that health and life insurance premiums rise precipitously once you reach certain milestones. Once you reach 90 years old, you will find that car insurance companies will discontinue your policy based on a single traffic ticket.

We replaced preexisting condition coverage with age-based tiered pricing. If you doubt me it's trivial to validate this using your state's ACA marketplace.

dghlsakjg•20m 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•18m 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•18m 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•6m ago
Real world data results are so much more important than an obstacle course to overfit for.
AlotOfReading•2m ago
There's no legislated standard in the US, nor pre-sale verification that a vehicle has met most of the other automotive standards. That's just not how the US regulatory environment works.

There's the beginnings of a standard for L2/L3 vehicles in Europe, and ongoing discussions about what L4 standards could look like, but neither addresses "adversarial" situations.

32ahgf•16m ago
So can 100% public transport, non-autonomous. But there is less lobbying money for award winning journalists.
danieldevries•15m 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•12m ago
Isn't it... quite a well known thing?
watwut•11m ago
I was reading about autonomous cars being better then people 6 years ago ... along with cries about the cars are treated unfairly.
fierycatnet•7m 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.
WalterBright•30s ago
I'll be sad when I'm forced to give up driving my old cars.
officeplant•10m 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.

throw1234567891•2m ago
Good news, everyone. Soon you won't be able to switch it off.
jedberg•11m 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.

jjordan•4m ago
Yes, I definitely trust insurance companies to do the right thing here.
iknowstuff•9m ago
No there should not. Human drivers kill a million people every year. WW1 killed 15-22M.
intrasight•9m 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
lefra•4m ago
Rates for human drivers are currently at the correct level for insurance companies to pay for damage and make some profit.

If autonomous cars result in less damage than humans, their insurance price will be cheaper than human drivers, but there's no reason to raise the human rate at the same time, their accident rate should stay the same.

jjordan•2m ago
Why should they skyrocket? As more autonomous vehicles appear on the roads, incidents with non-autonomous vehicles will go down. Driving will become inherently safer.
linkregister•9m ago
Incumbent rent-seekers want regulatory capture to insulate them from externalities. Dog bites man.
pessimizer•8m 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•7m 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 partially mitigate the externality generated by human drivers.
matchbok3•13m ago
The knee-jerk conspiratorial reactions to new technology is depressing to see on HN. Do better.
nancyminusone•2m ago
If your knee is just now jerking, you've got a problem with your reflexes. Discussions like this have been happened for 15+ years.
bko•13m ago
Growing proof that comment sections from tech forums have been overrun with unhelpful negativity unrelated to the actual posts they're commenting on.
ThrowawayTestr•6m ago
This place is basically Reddit now
entropi•3m ago
You are dismissing this as "unhelpful negativity", but are not addressing in any way the obvious (and rather malicious, I would say) PR play that parent comment points out.

This is exactly the message, and I for one welcome the anti-cool-aid sentiments being very visible in public spaces.

parapsychic•13m ago
Reminds me of that scene from I Robot where Will Smith was not supposed to drive his car himself.
vagrantJin•11m 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.
dmurray•2m ago
Your car does that already. It has a superhuman braking system that saves a lot more lives than cruise control, though not quite sub-millisecond in its reaction time.
CM30•9m 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•9m 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•7m ago
<posted from phone while driving through red light>
atleastoptimal•5m ago
You cannot deny the evidence though, driverless cars are safer per-mile than human drivers on average. 1/100 deaths in the United States are due to car accidents, even shaving off 10% of those would save ~4000 people per year.
4d4m•51s ago
Thanks for clearly stating the danger - your point is reasonable