Https://hn.algolia.com/?q=open+source+alternative I have some personal hypotheses on why this is a common pattern, but I am mostly wondering whether any of these have really succeeded as projects / businesses. Are there any examples of these "open source alternative"-type products really taking off? - Source: Hacker News / about 4 hours ago

Here are 14 years of HN discussions/criticisms of R: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=R%20language&sort=byPopularity&type=story "Does what it intends to do reasonably well" is going to be widely subjective, depending on whether the user's use-case is statistical/life-sciences vs more general purpose coding and relying on many packages; whether the user uses base-R, or... - Source: Hacker News / 4 days ago

Love these reflections from Gian-Carlo Rota In the past, similar discussions have occured: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=Gian-Carlo+Rota. - Source: Hacker News / 5 days ago

"Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, bots, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. - Source: Hacker News / 5 days ago

Yeah it sounds unbelievable but there really are. Maybe not many that think they never write bugs, but plenty that think they very rarely make the same mistakes that everyone else makes. If you search for "don't write bugs" on HN there are hundreds of results where someone has effectively claimed that.... - Source: Hacker News / 6 days ago

Except that there are Android applications (like ABRP - https://abetterrouteplanner.com/ ) that do planning _better_ than the built-in navigation software in Tesla. > Maybe a separate map app that ran inside carplay to provide the required featureset? Yup. It's a pretty straightforward feature. Heck, I'd write it myself once I get an EV with Android Auto. - Source: Hacker News / 6 days ago

The above poster said it would take hours each charge of a few hundred km. You're acknowledging it only takes 31 minutes for a few hundred km charge but you're saying that's worse? Here's a similar route in an ID.3. https://abetterrouteplanner.com/?plan_uuid=13a0bcb2-9052-405f-ac27-9b8d38bd01fe Average charging wait time on this trip is a bit under 22min. For almost 12 hours of driving it... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

It's actually a 915km trip ending up in the French Alps during winter time, so it's more taxing on the battery, and I need some juice left on arrival (30%) You can test it out yourself on ABRP [0]. My trip goes from Lier, Belgium to Les Saisies, France. With "quickest arrival" setting, ABRP does 4 stops with a total charging time of 1h25min (and 8h29 driving). The stops are 28, 18, 18 and 22 minutes respectively.... - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

Https://abetterrouteplanner.com/?plan_uuid=f10ce8fe-c1b7-4ade-9c5e-bc564189a799 22h of driving, of which 2h38m for rest&charging Seems totally reasonable to me. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

> With ICE I don't have to worry about any of that. You don't do that with EVs that nav takes all of that into account. The only valid issue are the poorly maintained Electrify America chargers on non Tesla EV's. But that about to change in the U.S. Since pretty much everyone is adopting NACS/SAE J340 Standard. Which will make them compatible with Tesla Superchargers. Apps like ABRP also exist that is compatible... - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago