Hacker News: IlikeMadison

New comment by IlikeMadison in "Mistral Large 4"

IlikeMadison — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 19:37:15 +0000

> Well I'm european and...

Yea sure. You sound like a typical Russian bot.

New comment by IlikeMadison in "Mistral Large 4"

IlikeMadison — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 19:32:00 +0000

Imagine being so bitter you are lying this much. Wow.

New comment by IlikeMadison in "Mistral Large 4"

IlikeMadison — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 19:29:06 +0000

>The minimum wage in some parts of the US is now higher than the average wage in most of Europe.

definitely not in Western Europe.

New comment by IlikeMadison in "The new Firefox design is here"

IlikeMadison — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 14:11:36 +0000

so sad you have to use the surveillance enabled chrome browser now, I feel so sorry for you

New comment by IlikeMadison in "Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS"

IlikeMadison — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 11:47:48 +0000

Completely agree. Before that I would have add the Adobe Suite as well for a lot of people but it's less a problem now fortunately.

New comment by IlikeMadison in "Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils"

IlikeMadison — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 08:45:34 +0000

sandboxing a browser makes total sense. my firefox and chromium running as snaps never crashed a single time for as long as I can remember, and I use both every day, at the same time.

New comment by IlikeMadison in "Mistral OCR 4.1"

IlikeMadison — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 03:33:01 +0000

GigaChat is russo-centric and is completely useless outside Russia itself, performs absolutely worse than Mistral once you start using English. Reminder that Russia's economy is smaller than Italy's alone. They are not winning over Europe in any single metric, let alone against the poorest country in Europe, which is not even part of NATO nor the EU, on the battlefield.

New comment by IlikeMadison in "Future euro banknote design proposals"

IlikeMadison — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 12:17:40 +0000

>there's a very genuine risk of people being upset over being underrepresented

Explain yourself. Who the hell could feel upset upon seeing Marie Curie, Beethoven, da Vinci or Maria Callas? They are all very recognizable, well known European figures with astounding achievements and highly respected by any true European worth its name.

Are you suggesting we should erase them because of someone's feeling?

New comment by IlikeMadison in "EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0"

IlikeMadison — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 08:55:20 +0000

Not true. A lot of the left voted in favor for it. Ylva Johansson, the person behind all this who introduced Chat Control since the very beginning, is a literal ex-Communist and she's now at the left wing of the Social Democrats in Sweden and EU parliament.

New comment by IlikeMadison in "Russian artist and Putin critic shot dead in Poland"

IlikeMadison — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 14:09:26 +0000

>respected religious symbols in his country

lol... are you from the Middle Ages?

New comment by IlikeMadison in "Swedish parliament abolishes permanent residence visas for migrants"

IlikeMadison — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 23:03:53 +0000

Economic migrants are not refugees, try again.

New comment by IlikeMadison in "Swedish parliament abolishes permanent residence visas for migrants"

IlikeMadison — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 22:59:41 +0000

It has been proven again and again that immigration, even massive like what happened in Sweden a decade or so ago, isn't even a solution to that problem, so I don't know what you are talking about.

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

IlikeMadison — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 02:33:20 +0000

Because it's grossly untrue and backed with propaganda slop articles. I suspect this is a bot.

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

IlikeMadison — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 02:31:34 +0000

No, and it was mentioned by the consortium of European cars manufacturers after the joint press release with Der Leyen herself: the implementation of factories and research centers in India is solely to be able to sell on that market. It is the exact same process that happened with China in the past. The exact same also happened with Airbus.

You are also wrong on the market importance for Renault. For 2024, France was the biggest, followed by Italy, Turkey, Spain, Germany, Brazil, UK, Morocco, BENELUX, Romania, Poland, Netherlands and... #13 India with 0.9% market share...

Supply chains didn't change at all, in fact it did the opposite, and Europeans won't rely on anything Indian made for the near future, as local re-industrialization is already acted on and even accelerated since the pandemic.

Production numbers across all manufacturers even Volkswagen (which was unexpected) show the number of cars manufactured in Europe increased in the past 2 years.

Electric cars in Europe mostly come from China, the US and European brands. Nothing Indian-made, not even parts.

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

IlikeMadison — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:05:07 +0000

European and Indian manufacturers/engineering are definitely not in the same category though.

New comment by IlikeMadison in "Emacs appearances in pop culture"

IlikeMadison — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 01:06:10 +0000

Yann LeCun is an Emacs user

New comment by IlikeMadison in "GrapheneOS user reported to authorities for using GrapheneOS"

IlikeMadison — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 09:48:54 +0000

So we shouldn't be using GrapheneOS neither nor any Sony products if we follow your logic right? Because obviously it means we are addicted to both.

New comment by IlikeMadison in "Notes from the Mistral AI Now Summit"

IlikeMadison — Sat, 30 May 2026 06:08:49 +0000

are you born yesterday?

New comment by IlikeMadison in "Stockholm poised to become leading European geospatial intel player"

IlikeMadison — Tue, 26 May 2026 15:37:17 +0000

Sweden relies on foreign technology for this (US), compared to France and Germany. They also depend on the ESA/France to put these satellites into orbit. That's not what I would call a leader player.

New comment by IlikeMadison in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

IlikeMadison — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 03:58:46 +0000

Germany has 80+ mil inhabitants. Also 90,000,000 people doesn't mean 90,000,000 soldiers, especially when a large part of them hate their own regime.