Hacker News: AtlasBarfed

New comment by AtlasBarfed in "Renault: Electric motors with no rare earths"

AtlasBarfed — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 23:58:16 +0000

what is a prsm? Do you mean pmsm?

New comment by AtlasBarfed in "Electric motors with no rare earths"

AtlasBarfed — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 23:55:51 +0000

Superior temperature range in cold weather as well IIRC.

New comment by AtlasBarfed in "Tesla Full Self Driving uses bicycle lane in official Denmark approval video"

AtlasBarfed — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 21:07:46 +0000

Tigers can initiate global thermal nuclear war?

What a comment

New comment by AtlasBarfed in "Tesla Full Self Driving uses bicycle lane in official Denmark approval video"

AtlasBarfed — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 21:04:42 +0000

And companies engage in far more shady things than they get "smeared" for in the press.

Jeez, AI auto response agents are going to bury the world in astroturf

New comment by AtlasBarfed in "A dumpster arrived behind my university's library"

AtlasBarfed — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 19:48:52 +0000

Society is completely overloaded with a vast surplus of commercial property. Something can be done

New comment by AtlasBarfed in "A Call to Action: Stop the FCC's KYC Regime"

AtlasBarfed — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:00:45 +0000

Yeah if US mail is as spam compromised as it is, you can forget about phone calls ever being cleaned up.

In the era of Target specialized AI that can mimic voices, writing styles, communication is now fundamentally compromised without some sort of actual reform

New comment by AtlasBarfed in "OpenAI mulls slashing prices as it competes with Anthropic for users"

AtlasBarfed — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 02:35:15 +0000

Do you know the money these places are burning through?

New comment by AtlasBarfed in "Who Runs the Ransomware Group 'The Gentlemen?'"

AtlasBarfed — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 02:33:47 +0000

These guys must be having a lot of fun running penetration tests with unrestricted AI models.

With enough full access AI running at a company, all they have to do is insert their own unguardrailed AI into the org...

New comment by AtlasBarfed in "macOS 27 Beta breaks the ability to boot Asahi Linux"

AtlasBarfed — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 02:10:06 +0000

I did not realize all the tech companies had completely changed their behaviors to be granted the benefit of the doubt.

Sure they don't do EVERYTHING we think they do, but they do so much, and so much more we DON'T know about...

Anyway, Apple could help the Linux team in months to close huge amounts of functionality gaps but ... they don't.

New comment by AtlasBarfed in "macOS Container Machines"

AtlasBarfed — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 19:43:48 +0000

sshfs?

New comment by AtlasBarfed in "FCC wants to kill burner phones by forcing telecoms to get all customers' IDs"

AtlasBarfed — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:05:18 +0000

It will simply go through a reseller layer

New comment by AtlasBarfed in "CEOs who think AI replaces their employees are just bad CEOs"

AtlasBarfed — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:04:18 +0000

The interests of the shareholders is to maximize the final stages of the war on labor by capital.

New comment by AtlasBarfed in "Mercedes‑Benz starts large‑scale production of electric axial flux motor"

AtlasBarfed — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:59:38 +0000

I'm not saying there isn't room for innovation but... Electric motors have been around for a century now already in many applications.

It's not like the Dawn of the steam engine

New comment by AtlasBarfed in "Claude Fable 5"

AtlasBarfed — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:24:19 +0000

That's not how it works. They don't need revenue, they need addicts.

Specifically they need businesses that fired people and adapted their business to the products, so when the unsubsidized costs hit the businesses are forced to eat the true costs.

Yes they can't afford to give the products for free, but what is essentially happening with AI services is economic dumping, keep costs artificially low to get people to fire everybody, and then Jack the rates once they have Monopoly control

New comment by AtlasBarfed in "xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab"

AtlasBarfed — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 05:05:07 +0000

- iran destabilization will shift middle east capital to military spending and infrastructure repair

- Ukraine war similarly is triggering an EU buildup and reduction in us dependency

- all the IPOs indicate the companies themselves know the private investment is coming to an end so they need the retail investors to keep the boondoggle moving

New comment by AtlasBarfed in "xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab"

AtlasBarfed — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 23:29:42 +0000

There is a compute shortage.

In fact, for all these companies to do what they're going to do, they need a massive, massive massive amount of data centers, a highly improbable number of data centers that need to be built in an highly improbably short amount of time.

And the capitals about to dry off in about a year. So it's a race between these improbable timelines on data center construction, with capital evaporating.

New comment by AtlasBarfed in "Confidential submission of draft S-1 to the SEC"

AtlasBarfed — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 23:26:45 +0000

Capital is going to dry up. All the AI companies are racing to get to market before the dumb money disappears

New comment by AtlasBarfed in "Meta repeatedly snubs EU body over Facebook and Instagram user bans"

AtlasBarfed — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 15:16:47 +0000

I hope they find them a billion dollars a day

New comment by AtlasBarfed in "Toshifumi Suzuki, founder of Seven-Eleven Japan, has died"

AtlasBarfed — Tue, 26 May 2026 15:45:52 +0000

It's not like the corner store isn't a thing in places like New York and Chicago.

Is that sector ripe for consolidation?

New comment by AtlasBarfed in "Toshifumi Suzuki, founder of Seven-Eleven Japan, has died"

AtlasBarfed — Tue, 26 May 2026 15:44:43 +0000

Aren't in late stage techno consumerist demographic collapse that many others (Germany, China, yeesh, South Korea) aren't going to suffer from to an even worse degree?

I guess one could point to various policies, especially with pseudo- protectionist benefits given to the Japanese mega conglomerates, which like in Korea are kind of just an extension of the government.

But I wonder if such economic policy fumbling is in an evil outgrowth as people try to deal with the underlying collapse.