Hacker News: Faaak

New comment by Faaak in "For most US drivers, EVs offer emissions benefits and cost savings"

Faaak — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 07:01:01 +0000

EVs and PHEVs are completely unrelated though: price, reliability, and mileage wise

New comment by Faaak in "Workspaces – Explore the workspaces of modern creators"

Faaak — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 17:47:28 +0000

Yeah, id like to see their day-to-day workshops, not the cleans after versions.

Mine is a real mess (partly because of ADHD, but not only)

New comment by Faaak in "Nintendo announces new product revisions in Europe with replaceable batteries"

Faaak — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 21:15:45 +0000

And even then, torque screwdrivers are not that expensive

New comment by Faaak in "Do you need separate systems when you already have Postgres?"

Faaak — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 16:37:03 +0000

because if you already have postgres, and dont need thousands of k/v per second, then postgres can do the same ?

New comment by Faaak in "Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk"

Faaak — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 16:31:15 +0000

you can call the police

New comment by Faaak in "Monetization Gateway"

Faaak — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 16:09:56 +0000

Depends on the website though. I want LLMs to scrap my B2B website, because then it's shown to the user and they will likely use my product afterwards

New comment by Faaak in "Israel targeted Gaza children resulting in genocide, UN inquiry says"

Faaak — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 21:24:41 +0000

Political? What about simply human ?

New comment by Faaak in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)"

Faaak — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 15:33:42 +0000

A french company that allows electricity producers to sell their energy directly to consumers: https://www.sisol-pro.fr . B2B2C is hard

New comment by Faaak in "Porting the ThinkPad X61 to Coreboot"

Faaak — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 07:55:52 +0000

I had a T420s which is a bit smaller than the T430 and I really loved this thing. Did my whole scholarship with it, even bought a second hand to have as a fail-safe. Really nice machine for its time

New comment by Faaak in "How much of Thermo Fisher's antibody data has been manipulated?"

Faaak — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 12:41:31 +0000

More pretty, which would signify that the sample has less impurities -> better value

New comment by Faaak in "Apple unveils new accessibility features"

Faaak — Tue, 19 May 2026 15:58:38 +0000

In practice, it's also to help vision impaired people

New comment by Faaak in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

Faaak — Sat, 16 May 2026 20:06:55 +0000

Resources are finite though

New comment by Faaak in "Canonical/Ubuntu have been under DDoS"

Faaak — Fri, 01 May 2026 08:34:31 +0000

Tinfoil hat mode: a competitor wants to exploit copy.fail on some ubuntu servers, and is DDoSing canonical so that they can't update and thus patch the vuln

New comment by Faaak in "Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones"

Faaak — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 09:34:28 +0000

not all of them do

New comment by Faaak in "Slightly safer vibecoding by adopting old hacker habits"

Faaak — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:18:15 +0000

> I SSH into that server with key-forwarding

Almost back to point A then. If the server is compromised in some way, they can use (not copy) OP's keys and use them to clone repos/inject code/etc..

New comment by Faaak in "Improving my focus by giving up my big monitor"

Faaak — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 08:28:34 +0000

In sway + Wayland, these UI scaling bugs are fixed

New comment by Faaak in "Solar and batteries can power the world"

Faaak — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:47:22 +0000

Heat pumps help quite a lot, thanks to Carnot's law

New comment by Faaak in "My astrophotography in the movie Project Hail Mary"

Faaak — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 18:22:21 +0000

A bit indiscrete, but how much does the licence cost? Is it around hundreds, 1k, 10k?

New comment by Faaak in "The bridge to wealth is being pulled up with AI"

Faaak — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:08:12 +0000

You can use AI because you know its good for you, but still think it won't make all people better off

New comment by Faaak in "Apple's 512GB Mac Studio vanishes, a quiet acknowledgment of the RAM shortage"

Faaak — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 13:38:03 +0000

That doesn't take into account the profit generated by selling the mac in itself