Tiny electric motor can produce more than 1,000 horsepower

596 chris_overseas 2025-11-03 09:20:01 UTC supercarblondie.com Llama Share 583

YASA unveiled a tiny electric motor weighing 28 pounds that delivers 750 kilowatts of power, equivalent to 1,005 horsepower. This ultra-efficient motor is smaller, lighter, and more powerful than traditional motors, potentially reshaping the future of EVs.

Why Nextcloud feels slow to use

449 rpgbr 2025-11-03 13:21:09 UTC ounapuu.ee Llama Share 341

User is experiencing slow performance with Nextcloud despite optimizing resources, attributing it to large JavaScript bundles. They're considering alternatives due to poor functionality to bundle size ratio.

AI's Dial-Up Era

448 nowflux 2025-11-03 21:01:09 UTC wreflection.com Llama Share 400

The AI boom is a complex phenomenon with both optimists and pessimists predicting different outcomes, but most experts agree that AI will unlock unmet demand and create new jobs, rather than eliminating them. The future of work and AI is uncertain, but it's likely that new industries and job categories will emerge, and the way we work and live will be transformed in ways we can't yet imagine.

Simple trick to increase coverage: Lying to users about signal strength

433 tsujamin 2025-11-03 01:27:48 UTC nickvsnetworking.com Llama Share 178

Android's Carrier Config manager has a hidden flag to inflate signal strength by one bar. AT&T and Verizon have this flag enabled, potentially misleading users about network coverage.

Google suspended my company's Google cloud account for the third time

408 agwa 2025-11-03 13:39:18 UTC agwa.name Llama Share 190

Google suspended SSLMate's Google Cloud access without notification twice, forcing a choice between weakening security or reducing usability. SSLMate's current solution is susceptible to arbitrary account suspensions and Google's OIDC setup process is unnecessarily complicated.

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2025)

383 whoishiring 2025-11-03 16:00:00 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 456

Here are the summaries in 2 concise English sentences each, not exceeding 200 characters:

Things you can do with diodes

372 zdw 2025-11-03 23:49:03 UTC lcamtuf.substack.com Llama Share 107

The diode is often overlooked in electronics, but it's a crucial component that can be used as a voltage-controlled gate, allowing current to flow when the voltage exceeds a certain threshold. Diodes can be used for circuit protection, voltage references, and rectification of AC signals.

The Case Against PGVector

362 tacoooooooo 2025-11-03 12:50:27 UTC alex-jacobs.com Llama Share 134

The author discusses the limitations of using pgvector for vector search in production, including memory-intensive index rebuilds, suboptimal query planning, and operational complexity.

Learning to read Arthur Whitney's C to become smart (2024)

349 gudzpoz 2025-11-03 16:23:11 UTC needleful.net Llama Share 152

Arthur Whitney's code style is compact and dense, using macros and implicit arguments to reduce repetition. He aims to keep logic on one screen, but this style can be daunting and may not be suitable for all codebases.

</> Htmx – The Fetch()ening

338 leephillips 2025-11-03 19:33:02 UTC htmx.org Llama Share 141

Carson Gross is planning a major update to the htmx library, version 4.0, which will simplify the implementation and address quirks and cruft accumulated over time. The update will replace XMLHttpRequest with fetch() and introduce new features like streaming support and a more predictable event model.

Israels top military lawyer arrested after she admitted leaking video of abuse

309 NomDePlum 2025-11-03 17:28:58 UTC theguardian.com Llama Share 135

Israeli military's top legal officer Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi was arrested for leaking footage of soldiers attacking a Palestinian detainee and lying about it. Her arrest raises questions about Israel's rule of law and accountability for abuse and killing of Palestinians.

First recording of a dying human brain shows waves similar to memory flashbacks (2022)

272 thunderbong 2025-11-03 06:39:13 UTC louisville.edu Llama Share 274

Scientists recorded brain activity of a dying patient and found that the brain remained active and coordinated during and after death, possibly recalling memories. This discovery challenges the understanding of when life ends and raises questions about organ donation and the definition of death.

State of Terminal Emulators in 2025: The Errant Champions

257 SG- 2025-11-03 14:40:51 UTC jeffquast.com Llama Share 258

A new version of the ucs-detect tool and blessed library has been released to automatically detect terminal support for DEC Private Modes, sixel graphics, pixel size, and software version. The tool tests terminal cursor positioning and compares values against the Python wcwidth library result, logging discrepancies, and provides a general tabulated summary of Unicode features for each terminal.

The Case That A.I. Is Thinking

256 ascertain 2025-11-03 17:55:10 UTC newyorker.com Llama Share 901

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei predicts AI will surpass human intelligence by 2027, while OpenAI's Sam Altman says the 2030s will be wildly different due to digital superintelligence. Researchers are divided on whether AI truly understands or just mimics human thinking, with some arguing that AI's ability to compress and represent complex data may be a form of understanding.

A friendly tour of process memory on Linux

231 0xkato 2025-11-03 23:04:22 UTC 0xkato.xyz Llama Share 27

Linux builds an illusion of a continuous slab of memory by mapping virtual addresses to physical frames one page at a time using page tables and the kernel's page cache. The kernel manages memory through various mechanisms including copy on write, transparent huge pages, and page table isolation to ensure efficient and secure memory access.

Why we migrated from Python to Node.js

220 yakkomajuri 2025-11-03 16:35:44 UTC blog.yakkomajuri.com Llama Share 261

We rewrote our backend from Python to Node after just one week of launch due to scalability concerns with Django. The migration to Node has already shown a 3x throughput gain and we're planning to do more concurrent processing.

OpenAI signs $38B cloud computing deal with Amazon

216 donohoe 2025-11-03 14:20:05 UTC nytimes.com Full Share 226

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China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research, documents show

214 giuliomagnifico 2025-11-03 08:15:50 UTC bbc.com Llama Share 104

Sheffield Hallam University staff were threatened by China's National Security Service to halt research into alleged human rights abuses in Xinjiang. The university eventually apologised and allowed the professor to resume her work.

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2025)

194 whoishiring 2025-11-03 16:00:00 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 377

Multiple individuals are seeking full-time or part-time work in various tech fields, including AI/ML engineering, robotics, DevRel, and software development, with experience in Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, and other technologies. They are open to remote work and willing to relocate, with a focus on solving real-world problems and contributing to impactful projects.

I analyzed 180M jobs to see what jobs AI is replacing today

191 AznHisoka 2025-11-03 12:52:18 UTC bloomberry.com Llama Share 151

Job postings declined 8% in 2025, with creative execution jobs and regulatory roles hit hardest, while AI infrastructure and senior leadership roles saw significant growth. AI's impact is selective, with some jobs like software engineering and customer service remaining resilient, while others like medical scribes and computer graphic artists decline.

Oxy is Cloudflare's Rust-based next generation proxy framework (2023)

183 Garbage 2025-11-03 03:13:46 UTC blog.cloudflare.com Llama Share 85

Cloudflare introduces Oxy, a modern proxy framework developed using Rust, designed to provide a flexible and scalable solution for high-performance proxy applications with business logic. Oxy offers a wide range of features, including multi-layer traffic processing, advanced HTTP tunneling, and comprehensive monitoring and analysis capabilities, making it a critical component in Cloudflare's ...

The Mack Super Pumper was a locomotive engined fire fighter (2018)

173 mstngl 2025-11-03 20:37:34 UTC bangshift.com Llama Share 119

The New York City Fire Department's Mack Super Pumper System was a powerful land-based firefighting truck created in the 1960s to battle massive blazes. The system consisted of five trucks, including a central pumping unit powered by a 2,400 horsepower Napier-Deltic diesel engine, and responded to over 2,200 calls from 1965 to the early 1980s.

'No idea who he is', says Trump after pardoning crypto tycoon

169 jmsflknr 2025-11-03 06:25:23 UTC bbc.com Llama Share 144

US President Donald Trump claims he doesn't know Changpeng Zhao, a cryptocurrency billionaire he pardoned last month. Trump pardoned Zhao despite government prosecutors saying he caused significant harm to US national security.

Python Steering Council unanimously accepts "PEP 810, Explicit lazy imports"

165 Redoubts 2025-11-03 16:36:29 UTC discuss.python.org Llama Share 58

The user suggests preventing incorrect eager imports by using a global flag to warn on eager lazy imports or by writing tests to ensure modules are lazy. They propose a function in importlib to check if a module has been eagerly imported, but with implementation details not guaranteed.

VimGraph

158 gdelfino01 2025-11-03 13:40:47 UTC resources.wolframcloud.com Llama Share 30

Vim is a text editor with modal editing, allowing fast navigation with custom movements. It offers options to restrict or define new movements with ResourceFunction[].

The problem with farmed seafood

153 dnetesn 2025-11-03 13:48:39 UTC nautil.us Llama Share 129

Scientists have found a solution to the problem of overfishing forage fish to feed farmed fish by developing plant-based and alternative feeds. This innovation aims to reduce pressure on wild fish stocks and create a more sustainable seafood system.

Why engineers can't be rational about programming languages

152 spf13 2025-11-03 17:08:22 UTC spf13.com Llama Share 180

A company's programming language choice is often driven by identity, emotion, and ego rather than technical merits. This invisible conversation can lead to costly decisions that harm velocity, budget, and runway.

Skyfall-GS – Synthesizing Immersive 3D Urban Scenes from Satellite Imagery

144 ChrisArchitect 2025-11-03 13:46:19 UTC skyfall-gs.jayinnn.dev Llama Share 36

Researchers created Skyfall-GS, a framework for large-scale 3D urban scenes using satellite imagery and a diffusion model. It produces high-quality, immersive scenes without costly 3D annotations and outperforms state-of-the-art approaches.

No Socials November

129 speckx 2025-11-03 16:45:12 UTC bjhess.com Llama Share 168

The author is challenging themselves to avoid social networks in November and invites readers to join them. They plan to blog more and recommend Pika as an alternative, offering a 15% discount with the NOSOCIALSNOVEMBER coupon code.

Gallery of wonderful drawings our little thermal printer received

126 busymom0 2025-11-03 18:27:32 UTC guestbook.goodenough.us Full Share 29

This is a gallery of all the wonderful drawings our little printer received.

Guideline has been acquired by Gusto

119 surprisetalk 2025-11-03 22:54:20 UTC help.guideline.com Llama Share 113

Guideline has been acquired by Gusto, allowing for more integrated payroll and 401(k) services. The service remains the same, with no changes to current 401(k) setups or investments.

Update and shut down no longer restarts PC, 25H2 patch addresses decades-old bug

118 taubek 2025-11-03 11:22:59 UTC windowslatest.com Llama Share 80

Windows 11 and 10's "Update and shut down" option was broken due to a bug that caused PCs to restart instead of shutting down after updates. Microsoft fixed the issue with the October 2025 optional update (KB5067036).

ECL Runs Maxima in a Browser

116 seansh 2025-11-03 06:21:20 UTC mailman3.common-lisp.net Full Share 11

An Illustrated Introduction to Linear Algebra, Chapter 2: The Dot Product

115 egonschiele 2025-11-03 13:28:37 UTC ducktyped.org Llama Share 55

User discussed using weights to calculate the importance of criteria in city selection and realized it's a dot product operation. They applied this to calculate the expected value of a Minnesota lottery ticket.

OSS Alternative to Open WebUI – ChatGPT-Like UI, API and CLI

98 mythz 2025-11-03 12:05:28 UTC github.com/servicestack Llama Share 30

The llms tool is a lightweight CLI and API for accessing multiple large language models (LLMs) offline, with data kept private in browser storage. It supports various models, providers, and file types, including images, audio, and documents, and can be customized with a configuration file and GitHub OAuth authentication.

Show HN: a Rust ray tracer that runs on any GPU – even in the browser

91 tchauffi 2025-11-03 13:45:15 UTC github.com/tchauffi Llama Share 27

To render scenes, use cargo run with --release flag and redirect output to a PPM file. Alternatively, build and run separately with cargo build and ./target/release.

Robert Hooke's "Cyberpunk” Letter to Gottfried Leibniz

90 Gormisdomai 2025-11-03 15:45:31 UTC mynamelowercase.com Llama Share 39

Robert Hooke's 1681 letter to Gottfried Leibniz shows early cyberpunk ideas. Hooke envisioned a universal language for science enabling individual freedom and counterculture.

Tech workers' fight for living wages and a 32-hour workweek is a battle for all

86 robtherobber 2025-11-03 13:56:11 UTC thechiefleader.com Llama Share 178

The Chief-Leader is seeking support to maintain independent reporting on labor and civil service. Kickstarter United, a union of tech workers, is on strike for a 32-hour work week and living wages.

Syllabi – Open-source agentic AI with tools, RAG, and multi-channel deploy

86 achushankar 2025-11-03 01:59:07 UTC syllabi-ai.com Llama Share 19

Syllabi is an open-source chatbot platform for building intelligent chatbots with customizable knowledge bases and multi-app integrations. It offers omnichannel deployment, AI-powered support, and custom API integrations for developers and teams.

The great decoupling of labor and capital

85 walterbell 2025-11-03 02:48:45 UTC mbi-deepdives.com Llama Share 64

The author discusses how major tech companies have decoupled their growth from headcount, with some companies adding significant revenue without increasing employee numbers. This trend is expected to continue with the rise of AI.

Google pulls AI model after senator says it fabricated assault allegation

84 croemer 2025-11-03 16:17:22 UTC theverge.com Llama Share 91

Google removed AI model Gemma from its AI Studio platform after a senator complained it fabricated serious criminal allegations about her. The model was never meant for factual questions, but was used by non-developers who asked it for information.

Is Health Insurance Even Worth It Anymore?

83 brandonb 2025-11-03 13:48:25 UTC church.substack.com Llama Share 187

The author questions the value of health insurance, suggesting it may not be worth paying for due to rising premiums and deductibles. They propose a system with lower premiums and higher out-of-pocket costs for routine expenses.

Claude Code refused to add rainbows and unicorns to my app

80 glamp 2025-11-03 23:04:24 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 65

The user wants to change a label to "rainbows" and make a toggle switch fun, but the developer refuses due to professional software concerns. The user insists on the change, claiming their customers are rainbows and unicorns.

Linkers (2007)

77 mattrighetti 2025-11-03 23:01:08 UTC airs.com Llama Share 3

The author is writing about linkers, a process that converts object files into executables and shared libraries, and is working on a new linker called gold to improve speed. The author's goal is to explain the linking process and provide a detailed essay on linkers.

Agent-o-rama: build, trace, evaluate, and monitor LLM agents in Java or Clojure

71 yayitswei 2025-11-03 18:16:43 UTC blog.redplanetlabs.com Llama Share 5

Agent-o-rama is a library for building scalable and stateful LLM agents on the JVM, providing APIs for Java and Clojure with feature parity. It fills the gap in integrated tooling for the JVM ecosystem, allowing developers to evaluate, observe, and deploy LLM-based systems rigorously and at scale.

Wikipedia row erupts as Jimmy Wales intervenes on 'Gaza genocide' page

70 lehi 2025-11-03 19:11:52 UTC thenational.scot Llama Share 104

Wales criticized the Wikipedia article on Gaza genocide for lacking neutrality, citing a violation of Wikipedia rules. He argued that the article should not take sides in the controversy, but rather accurately summarize all relevant views.

America is bracing for political violence – and significant portion think its OK

64 alephnerd 2025-11-03 18:14:02 UTC politico.com Llama Share 88

Most Americans expect political violence to increase in the US, with 55% believing it will rise, and a significant minority, 24%, thinking violence is sometimes justified. A majority, 64%, reject violence as never justified, but experts warn of growing public support for it.

A collection of links that existed about Anguilla as of 2003

56 kjok 2025-11-03 13:47:27 UTC web.ai Llama Share 24

The user shares various Anguilla-related content including tourist information, villas, and activities such as tennis and diving. The content includes websites, stories, and photos showcasing the island's beauty and attractions.

FreakWAN: A floor-routing WAN implementing a chat over bare-LoRa (no LoRaWAN)

53 teleforce 2025-11-03 19:28:46 UTC github.com/antirez Llama Share 23

FreakWAN is an open WAN network built with LoRa technology, providing a plaintext and encrypted distributed chat system for technology amateurs and areas without internet. It supports sensors data collection, home automation, and has a robust protocol for LoRa communication.

Türkiye will not sell rare earth elements to the USA

52 bookofjoe 2025-11-03 14:12:15 UTC ceenergynews.com Llama Share 118

CEENERGYNEWS is a portal delivering up-to-date energy news in 20+ Central and Southeastern European countries. It uses cookies to provide the best experience and offers newsletters for curated news and trends.

Is the Internet Making Culture Worse?

46 Luc 2025-11-03 18:33:22 UTC asteriskmag.com Llama Share 65

The author reflects on W. David Marx's book Blank Space, which argues that contemporary art and culture are in decline. The author questions whether this is true, considering the role of critics in shaping artistic movements and the current state of the critical ecosystem.

Offline Math: Converting LaTeX to SVG with MathJax

46 henry_flower 2025-11-03 13:29:17 UTC sigwait.org Llama Share 11

Pandoc can render LaTeX math using MathJax, MathML, or SVG. MathJax requires JavaScript and a CDN, while MathML and SVG are more portable options.

Nvidia to invest up to $1B in AI startup Poolside

46 mgh2 2025-11-03 10:47:11 UTC reuters.com Full Share 70

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Big Tech Needs $2T in AI Revenue by 2030

42 chilipepperhott 2025-11-03 21:50:05 UTC wheresyoured.at Llama Share 22

Big tech has spent over $776 billion on AI infrastructure in three years, with little scrutiny of return on investment. They need $2 trillion in AI revenue in the next four years to break even.

Show HN: FinBodhi – Local-first, double-entry app/PWA for your financial journey

39 ciju 2025-11-03 15:29:13 UTC finbodhi.com Full Share 20

FinBodhi: track, understand, and plan your finances. Local-first and end-to-end encrypted.

Port of Linux to WebAssembly

37 naves 2025-11-03 13:26:16 UTC lore.kernel.org Llama Share 3

Anubis is a server protection system using Proof-of-Work to prevent aggressive AI scraping. It requires modern JavaScript features, so disable JShelter or similar plugins for this domain.

Working Past 100? In Japan, Some People Never Quit

24 mooreds 2025-11-03 11:54:51 UTC nytimes.com Full Share 12

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R interface to Apple's MLX library

22 dash2 2025-11-03 21:47:41 UTC hughjonesd.github.io Llama Share 2

Rmlx provides an R interface to Apple's MLX framework for high-performance GPU computing on Apple Silicon. It enables R to utilize Mac GPUs for matrix operations, crucial in statistics, at no additional cost due to shared CPU-GPU memory.

Linux running in a browser tab via WASM

22 primer42 2025-11-03 13:30:08 UTC joelseverin.github.io Llama Share 2

A proof-of-concept Linux system running in the browser using WebAssembly (Wasm) has been created, but it's not stable or secure. The system has many limitations and workarounds, but it could lead to a production-ready Wasm-powered Linux system in the future.

Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System (1999)

19 Jtsummers 2025-11-03 19:37:57 UTC donellameadows.org Llama Share 6

Systems analysis identifies leverage points where small shifts can produce big changes in complex systems. These points include constants, parameters, buffers, material flows, information flows, rules, power, goals, and mindset, but are often counterintuitive and difficult to find.

The Stallman Paradox: How Web3 Became the Ultimate Open Source Theater

14 nabla9 2025-11-03 18:38:00 UTC paragraph.com Llama Share 10

The Stallman Paradox describes how successful technology initiatives start open, build community, capture value, and extract rents, often abandoning cooperative principles for shareholder value. This pattern is seen in Web2 and Web3 platforms, including Base, Redis, Android, and Web3 projects, highlighting the need for antifragile, community-owned infrastructure.

Show HN: I was tired of wasting engineer time on screening calls so I built Niju

14 radug14 2025-11-03 16:53:46 UTC niju.dev Llama Share 44

Niju replaces long technical screening calls with a 20-minute coding session reviewed in 5 minutes. This saves 90% of engineering time and shortens the hiring cycle by 30%.

Geonum – geometric number library for unlimited dimensions with O(1) complexity

12 embedding-shape 2025-11-03 14:10:57 UTC github.com/mxfactorial Llama Share 9

Geometric numbers, or Geonums, unify and simplify mathematical foundations by representing numbers as angles and blades, eliminating the need for matrices and tensors. Geonums enable constant-time operations regardless of dimension, unlike traditional approaches that scale exponentially.