Hacker News: Haven880

New comment by Haven880 in "Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school"

Haven880 — Fri, 08 May 2026 06:24:37 +0000

Caning proven to work.

New comment by Haven880 in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce"

Haven880 — Fri, 08 May 2026 06:21:49 +0000

Most of the time, management don't even know what they don't know. As a result, entire America lost engineers and builders and now don't even know how to build rails, factories and rockets to moon.

New comment by Haven880 in "DeepSeek V4 – almost on the frontier"

Haven880 — Sun, 03 May 2026 20:53:27 +0000

Run it on an NVIDIA GPU and charge $20 a month, and it becomes 'frontier.' That is what the term means these days. In terms of performance, it beats ChatGPT 5.5 and Mythos on several metrics.

New comment by Haven880 in "Pushed by Trump policies, top U.S. battery scientist is moving to Singapore"

Haven880 — Sun, 03 May 2026 20:49:44 +0000

Singapore is sovereign country. A lot of Chinese there escaped from China a century ago during Qing era. They are more in common with Malays in that region than China. Plus, if you read up Singapore policies, they are way more pro western countries than China. Try to read more before typing indiscriminately.

New comment by Haven880 in "Security through obscurity is not bad"

Haven880 — Sun, 03 May 2026 20:43:19 +0000

The problem with obscurity is that it breeds complacency; the implementer is often uninformed or assumes it protects everything else.

New comment by Haven880 in "Mini PC for local LLMs in 2026"

Haven880 — Sun, 03 May 2026 13:03:48 +0000

Just learn to use cloud API AI. Gwen and Deepseek API are dirt cheap enough for you to play with for 2 years intensively and still cheaper than buying these mini PCs. By then, Chinese ram and GPU production would have bring down all the prices. And if you are lucky a newer faster and smaller LLM and even recession to put you in a better position to buy these mini PCs at fraction of a cost now.

New comment by Haven880 in "Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous 'Stop Cop City' Protester"

Haven880 — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 13:18:51 +0000

Using Proton for privacy and security is quite ignorant. They are known to support legal requests without ever challenge that request. At least Yahoo has way better record than Proton. I use Proton, but never for privacy reason. It is as good as hotmail and yahoo mail. If you truly care privacy do it in another country. So qq mail and yandex mail have zero chance being look at by any western authorities. And the same with if you distrustful of China and Russia which cant look into Google mail.

New comment by Haven880 in "Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable"

Haven880 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 04:07:33 +0000

Korean and western made stuff guarantee to have such thing. CNC devices in Russia stopped working. Even NVIDIA gpu has back door according to China and NVIDIA had to settle this matter behind the scene with China government. At this point, your phone is 100% backdoorable by western government. The only thing protect you is you are non-threat and too small to be bother with.

New comment by Haven880 in "Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable"

Haven880 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 04:03:14 +0000

Iphone is made by Chinese companies too. Same with Tesla. A lot of those components made by purely Chinese companies and yes can be trace to individuals who are CCP. It is extremely hard to source another purely away from any Chinese connections. If you say the main company is USA, you seems to ignore how the pager exploding setup was done. Go into any IT rooms in USA and you audit it as zero from China even if you ignore Taiwan as recognized by American law as part of China. We can't buy anything truly made non-China. Even F35 has some components (and that is official, unofficial we dont know) made in China. Google want to sell Motorola to American companies, not even Pentagon or NSA bother back then. Think about it, how hard to engineer a backdoor exactly same components (say capacitor) or motors during shipment for those phones.

New comment by Haven880 in "Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed in Israeli strike, ending 36-year rule"

Haven880 — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 06:44:12 +0000

Another Ayatollah is being ushered in. This is no news. Khameni is old and without the missile, he would be dead soon. This sttike is just bonus to galvanize support for Ayatollah. So in a way Trump prolong the regime. And consequence from this: every other middle east countries now starting their nuke program. Good luck.

New comment by Haven880 in "Samsung Galaxy update removes Android recovery menu tools, including sideloading"

Haven880 — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 06:39:47 +0000

Don't buy Samsung. They have rights to turn monopolistic ignoring existing customer base. They did that with Chinese market and decimated from 90% to now less than 1%. I boycott their stuff for 10 years and restart using their product across multiple product line around 2015. Then in 2022 I conclude another boycott is necessary. This time is 20 years. Hopefully my grandkids will get to see this embargo lifted. Their LG got eqiivalent suffered similar fate just that faster because smaller. Good luck Sammy. You dont need me.

New comment by Haven880 in "Binance fired employees who found $1.7B in crypto was sent to Iran"

Haven880 — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 04:36:38 +0000

Originally there is mixer parties. That was taken down massively in the covid years. That is the one that can trackless. Currently the only one that near impossible to track is Monero. But that is actively suppress worldwide. You rarely heard it and any YTber promoting it, usually algo suppressed. Now crypto are even more trackable than bank transfer. I guess cash and maybe diamonds is still king.

New comment by Haven880 in "Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston"

Haven880 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 12:46:26 +0000

You probably havnt been to Shenzhen yet. Try visit there once. You will change the text you typed here.

New comment by Haven880 in "Hetzner Prices increase 30-40%"

Haven880 — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 10:48:17 +0000

More like China-factor to get us out of the mess. We wait for Huawei photonics gpus (end of this year), CXMT and YMTC ramping up production to flood the market or as Janet coined it overcapacity. You know China will undercut the price significantly.

New comment by Haven880 in "Russia's economy has entered the death zone"

Haven880 — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 06:04:07 +0000

Russia will win on this one. Productions are largely internal. What they lack they get from China. Ukraine loss so many men. Their populations will just go down from now on. USA and China are on the verge of recessions. I really doubt USA will prioritize Ukraine over Israel or China ignoring its own needs. Cede the land and rebuilt. Better to cut losses now than even more loss.

New comment by Haven880 in "Russia's economy has entered the death zone"

Haven880 — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 06:01:57 +0000

Russia sells wheat too. Minerals too. Weapons. You will be surprised the oil part isnt at 100% as what western media is telling you. Plus this source is mostly based on what western finance can see. BRICS dont submit data to westrrn finance analysyst anymore since 3 years ago. Anything you want to buy stock or trade you must absolutely ignore western hypes. Incredibly unreliable.

New comment by Haven880 in "Russia's economy has entered the death zone"

Haven880 — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 02:41:00 +0000

The only way is just to cede the land and move on. Keep the people alive. 100 years later one can renegotiate. This kind of copium hope wishing the economy collapse or something like Mongol collapse is just not practical. The longer this drag on, the lesser fertile men exist in Ukraine and the population recovery will take even longer while Russian outbirth in the long run. Sometime to win one has to abide by time. Joan or Arc and King Goujian of Yue demonstrated that principle well either by divine intervention or human vengeance. Russia is doing very well. You can check with your Russians or Northern China friends that see the conditions with their eyes and not western propaganda.

New comment by Haven880 in "AI adoption and Solow's productivity paradox"

Haven880 — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 02:26:32 +0000

I think both. Most organizatuons lack someone like Steve Jobs to prime their product lines. Microsoft is a good example where you see their products over the years are mostly meh. Then meetings are pervasive and even more so in most companies due to msteam convenience. But currently they faced reduced demands due softer market as compare 2-3 years ago. If you observed that no effect while they layoff many and revenue still hold or at least no negative growth, I would surmise that AI is helping. But in corporate, it only counta if directly contributed sales numbers.

New comment by Haven880 in "US Military preparing for potentially weeks-long Iran operations"

Haven880 — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 08:12:59 +0000

4 years with confirmed Crimea and 20% new land into Russia constitution. Tried and defeated every conventional American weapon. Assisted Iran to let them know how to jam starlink. Oreshnik? Against entire EU and standing much much stronger with 1-2M soldiers trained. Helped NKorea to be significantly stronger to pin down American troops in SKorea? Rise of Brics processing account siphoning 40% of swift volume making it now dark to western analyst? You ask anyone if that is a big lost. And take a look at Ukraine 2 generation of men gone especially the fertile one. This setup for Ukraine war 2 to finish the job 1-2 decades down the road (read how Chechen got tamed). American did that with Iraq 1 and Iraq 2 wars. I dont even know what is the outcome. While Americans drilling oil in Syria, China is deploying Thorium reactors right now. Meanwhile Americans is planning bigger sitting duck fleets that can wipe out by multiple Oreshnick that cost a few million dollars. The golden duck cost? Estimated 22B.

New comment by Haven880 in "US Military preparing for potentially weeks-long Iran operations"

Haven880 — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 08:04:17 +0000

I would expect this a 40 years adventure. Are you sure? We know Bush and Dick underestimated against goat herders and Babylon opponents without support that still inflict Americans 10T usd and 20 years of wastefulness allowing China to leap frog. Another 40 years to absolute give China the world dominance and load one 100T extra debts? What they teach at Westpoint? Maybe Putin can assist a better training syllabus.