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Re:Why are car keys so expensive to replace? on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @12:13AM (#50348360)
We don't care about fobs. It's not a thing we want in a Tesla outside of just having merch. We don't carry keys or fobs or anything. We've moved beyond that. We walk up to our car and it senses our phone and it unlocks.
Re:Why are car keys so expensive to replace? on Monday November 02, 2026 @07:52PM (#50346522)
I love it, so many things just make sense on my Tesla, which is why I have two. It's really a step backwards getting into any other car at this point. I just walk up to it, it unlocks automatically (because it senses my phone). I fasten my seatbelt, touch one button on the screen, and it then drives me to me to work (through busy city and highway roads). I don't have to do anything, I don't even have to drive it.
Re:Why are car keys so expensive to replace? on Monday November 02, 2026 @07:44PM (#50346448)
What are you talking about? Most people just use their phone for their Tesla. Most carry they $40 credit card style key in their wallet just in case, but rarely use it. The $175 fob is just a kind of collectors item nobody has except for people who are really into Tesla and buy all the merch.
Re:Why are car keys so expensive to replace? on Monday November 02, 2026 @07:42PM (#50346425)
For my Tesla, I don't even have a key, I just use my phone.

But, I can use a credit card style key I want. They are only $40 for a key. I can program them in various ways. https://shop.tesla.com/product/key-card

Re:TCP Use-After-Free: CVE-2026-98432 / CVSS 9.8 on Saturday October 31, 2026 @04:39PM (#50319957)
As much as I hate to link to this site, this particular sub is very good:

https://www.reddit.com/r/openwrt/comments/1xka85h/is_the_ope...

They say 25.12-SNAPSHOT has it fixed

Offtopic: I only see "genius" used these days to describe an idiot. I guess this is how words change meaning over time. At some point in the future being called a "genius" will always be seen as pejorative.
Re:QGIS bans AI assisted contributions on Monday October 12, 2026 @10:51AM (#50057259)
Understandable. Surprised that's not automated though. Would be worth the time to invest in that area, will save a lot of pain and time in the future. As we shift more to AI, testing is more important than ever and all of that can generally be automated.

Multiple companies I know of have internal tool websites that are the front end to the major AI companies and it has access to cut PRs so non devs are able to open PRs

Re:QGIS bans AI assisted contributions on Monday October 12, 2026 @10:09AM (#50056717)
This comment captures the essence of why HN is largely anti AI. They feel their security and roles as software devs starting to devalue. Non coders are encroaching on their turf. A PM can do now what mid level devs did before. As AI continues to advance there will be less of a need for devs and the pool size of devs will start to shrink, as it already has. I understand the human reaction to this. It’s a hard situation to watch us being replaced by a machine. Especially after sitting at the top of the comp ranking for so many years. It’s a scary time.
Why are you waiting for this?
Failure is a part of life and is one aspect of our growth as humans. If one has never failed then one has probably never attempted to do much in life.
Fsd is amazing. I use it daily, it completely changed my daily drive in that I don’t. All of my driving is now on fsd, I sit back and chill while the car takes me to my destination.
I have some open source code that’s used a lot in a certain area. I’ve been busy with work and am behind in maintaining it. Someone using AI has come along and fixed an enormous amount of bugs and implemented feature requests. It’s completely AI and I’m 100% fine with it. It solves real problems that I otherwise had no time for. I’m thankful for this person doing this.
Re:Why is Hacker News like that? on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @11:53AM (#49817999)
Yes. Flag everything political. From both sides. We are here for tech. Not Reddit level content.
Re:Not all AI workers think the tech could kill everyone on Sunday September 20, 2026 @09:03PM (#49781830)
Every few years there’s a new thing that’s going to kill is all. Here we are. This is the new thing.
I really think the hate is just masked jealousy, now project managers, tpms and line managers can submit rather substantial code. That wasn’t possible before and it took away some value from devs (I say this as a dev of more than 25 years). I watch PM fix issues now instead of waiting for a dev. I understand the anger but these tools are not going away
And what’s wrong with that? Nothing. AI is an amazing tool that has made me and many other more productive. It’ll only get better and stronger.
So you are for shutting down xcancel?
Re:How GPT‑5.6 Sol helps run quantum computing experiments on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @10:49AM (#49627567)
Yes. That’s not what I want to read on hn. You can go to Reddit or many other places for that and fill yourself with anger all you want. I personally do not want that for me and if hn continues the way it’s headed then I’ll block it like I did Reddit.
Re:How GPT‑5.6 Sol helps run quantum computing experiments on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @07:29AM (#49624694)
The political posts have definitely increased and the front page is increasingly filled with negative sentiment posts that leaves one angered and not filled with a positive light. For years I didn’t flag anything. Now I’m daily flagging political posts.
Re:How GPT‑5.6 Sol helps run quantum computing experiments on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @07:25AM (#49624665)
Generally the comments are heavily anti AI to the point where it almost seems like it’s a foreign adversary trying to mold the public opinion to be anti ai to slow the progress of AI advancement in the USA
As an avid fsd user, your list makes me more comfortable using fsd than not. If there were more you’d parrot it around, but in the end, fsd is safer than humans at the wheel. As much as you dislike it because of Musk, fsd will continue to march forward and improve and millions will use it. You are beta testing fsd even if you don’t want to be.
It’s not an idea. Just an observation of what’s happening with populations around the world, there’s lots of data on it.
It’s happening not just in Spain but across most of Europe, the USA, and East Asia. But lots of Europe and the USA have immigration to offset the population decline. China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, are in dramatic population declines. Even India has stared to level off and expected to decline.
Re:How I Find Problems to Solve as a Staff Engineer on Sunday August 23, 2026 @04:06PM (#49412092)
I think almost all of tech is bloated and massive layoffs wouldn’t phase most companies (though it would be harmful to people’s lives so it seems cruel to do this). Fewer people per teams means less context switching and devs own more. They don’t have to look for work, it will be in front of their face. In so many of these big tech companies I’ve worked at I’ve seen too many not having enough work to do. They end up creating meetings and other wasteful things (doc writing) to occupy their time. Managers and directors seem to want big bloated teams, the larger their head count the more they can demand and push for a promo.
Very different. Lots of cars other than Tesla have cameras. Cars record the surroundings on streets (and if Tesla, there’s no audio). Meta glasses are in your face and in very private social settings recording people in vulnerable situations, and as seen on TikTok vids, often used to get embarrassing reactions from people who don’t realize they are being recorded. Cameras on cars have a real purpose, self driving and to record accidents/vandalism
Funny that two of the greatest modern mathematicians share the same uncommon first name.
Not really. The people who oppose them don’t want data centers anywhere, at all.
They probably do. I’m thankful for every contributor because each edit makes my Tesla that much better
Re:Elastic lays off 7% of employees on Wednesday June 24, 2026 @07:59PM (#48667028)
HN is very much pro regulations of all types.

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