Hacker News: AlexandrB

New comment by AlexandrB in "Tesla Roadster"

AlexandrB — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 19:10:22 +0000

It's a numbers game. As much time as Waymo had been on the road, it has not been long enough to hit a "drunk driver running red light" situation. It'll happen eventually.

New comment by AlexandrB in "Tesla Roadster"

AlexandrB — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 19:00:42 +0000

Unless you have to replace the battery, then it's probably $20k just for that.

New comment by AlexandrB in "Tesla Roadster"

AlexandrB — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 18:59:58 +0000

$6k maintenance per year? That's crazy high, where are you getting that number?

New comment by AlexandrB in "Tesla Roadster"

AlexandrB — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 17:53:40 +0000

> Wild that they devoted so much effort to an economically completely infeasible model.

If this ships, it will deliver a fraction of what's promised here. My money is on the "flying" version being delayed repeatedly until it's quietly cancelled. Anyone remember the fast battery change stations[1]?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj6LaYFall4

New comment by AlexandrB in "US Rep Announces Congressional Legislation to Protect Video Game Ownership"

AlexandrB — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 17:48:05 +0000

You're dreaming. Prepare for DMCA2, where it will be illegal to run an LLM on a compiled binary for the purposes of decompiling under penalty of jail time.

New comment by AlexandrB in "New Withings Users Must Pay $99/Year for Apple Health Syncing"

AlexandrB — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 14:52:15 +0000

Surely, the user is doing all the hard work. The scale or whatever is just a tool to do so - like a ruler. Imagine if your measuring tape put the measurements you take behind a paywall.

New comment by AlexandrB in "New Withings Users Must Pay $99/Year for Apple Health Syncing"

AlexandrB — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 14:46:24 +0000

The V in IOT stands for Value.

The E in IOT stands for Ethics.

New comment by AlexandrB in "Siri is so bad at everything"

AlexandrB — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 16:29:19 +0000

Yeah, the lack of memory is a huge problem - makes it impossible to conversationally correct a mistake. Instead, you have to start the interaction from the top and hope that this time it works out.

New comment by AlexandrB in "Siri is so bad at everything"

AlexandrB — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 16:00:17 +0000

That's also what drives me absolutely insane - I want a guide from Apple that gives me a regular syntax I can use to get predictable results with Siri. The fuzzy, natural language stuff in Siri is so bad that it's completely unpredictable what will work.

New comment by AlexandrB in "Siri is so bad at everything"

AlexandrB — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 15:53:53 +0000

The #1 reason is while driving. It's also the only reason I have Siri enabled at all since you can't use CarPlay without enabling it.

Edit: There are other cases where hands are not free as well - like cooking - where it's useful to be able to start music or add a todo.

New comment by AlexandrB in "Switzerland proposes banning profiling-based ads to minors"

AlexandrB — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 14:19:36 +0000

I don't know, but is "free journalism" actually good? If the incentives of free journalism (thanks to being ad funded) are to increase engagement and avoid criticizing their advertisers is the product actually journalism at all?

New comment by AlexandrB in "AI is a tool and using it well takes skill"

AlexandrB — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 14:16:54 +0000

> but i also don't make any effort to write clearly anymore

This seems like a huge mistake considering that prompting AI clearly seems to yield better results.

New comment by AlexandrB in "Bitwarden Dual License Model"

AlexandrB — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 17:23:06 +0000

Can you be more specific? A lot of things called "far right" in 2026 are Democrat policies from 2016.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vf-k6qOfXz0

New comment by AlexandrB in "Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 to Navanethem Pillay"

AlexandrB — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 16:56:14 +0000

They're so independent from politics they gave a Peace Prize to President "Drone Strikes" Obama after he was in office for merely a year.

New comment by AlexandrB in "Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program"

AlexandrB — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 16:09:35 +0000

It's driven by demand too. As soon as Canada restricted student visas, housing and rental prices (finally) started to drop. This wasn't because of supply.

New comment by AlexandrB in "Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program"

AlexandrB — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 16:01:04 +0000

Going after immigration is challenging their billionaire bosses. Whose bottom line do you think is benefiting from all the cheap labor immigration brings? I don't get how folks got so confused about this in the last 10 years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vf-k6qOfXz0

New comment by AlexandrB in "Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program"

AlexandrB — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 15:58:28 +0000

Mask off about what? Supporting Bernie Sanders' opinion on immigration from 2020[1]?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KT2G3wcDMTU

New comment by AlexandrB in "Theranos.world"

AlexandrB — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 13:01:19 +0000

I don't think that follows. A lot of folks like to position themselves as "holier-than-thou".

New comment by AlexandrB in "Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days"

AlexandrB — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 21:19:58 +0000

I would love to as well. It sounds like something that's plausible but potentially a minefield of liability for the manufacturer.

I could also see some kind of partnership with ISPs to use their "public" WiFi hotspots[1]. This seems more likely since it's (probably) harder to honeypot but requires making regional deals.

[1] https://www.highspeedinternet.com/resources/is-your-router-a...

New comment by AlexandrB in "AI-assisted proof of optimal packing for 11 squares"

AlexandrB — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 15:42:04 +0000

Look at some of the other links people have posted for optimal packings. The optimal 11 square packing looks nothing like what you're describing ("just stack the cubes next to each other").