Hacker News: MaKey

New comment by MaKey in "Kona EV Hacking"

MaKey — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 21:31:03 +0000

Their battery upgrade is trash though: https://www.goingelectric.de/forum/viewtopic.php?p=2350326#p...

New comment by MaKey in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans"

MaKey — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 15:52:59 +0000

That's a false dichotomy. There are other possible approaches to address these issues that don't include ID verification. It also isn't the golden solution, verified accounts could still be stolen or bought.

Hunter Alpha – 1T parameter and 1M token context window AI model

MaKey — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 15:15:53 +0000

Article URL: https://openrouter.ai/openrouter/hunter-alpha

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47365616

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New comment by MaKey in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans"

MaKey — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:37:26 +0000

>The sad thing is, it needs to happen.

No, it doesn't.

New comment by MaKey in "Lego's 0.002mm specification and its implications for manufacturing (2025)"

MaKey — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 18:37:20 +0000

Other manufacturers give LEGO a run for their money nowadays. Look at the CaDA Mercedes-AMG One for example.

New comment by MaKey in "Training students to prove they're not robots is pushing them to use more AI"

MaKey — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 22:09:24 +0000

That's how it was for me - one exam per course at the end of each semester. To qualify for the exam you had to do take-home assignments. Didn't pass? Try again next semester. Was it easy? Hell no, but I learned a lot.

New comment by MaKey in "Croatia declared free of landmines after 31 years"

MaKey — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 16:57:53 +0000

> Here's that chart for Bosnia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_mines_in_Bosnia_and_Herze...

What caused the sudden uptick in 2008?

New comment by MaKey in "New accounts on HN more likely to use em-dashes"

MaKey — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 01:17:54 +0000

You're still arguing from a technical perspective while not addressing the societal issues that online ID verification leads to. Do we as society really want an internet that resembles a gated community where you can only enter with an ID? What about the people we exclude? Should we abandon the free internet just because of bots and sock puppet accounts? What about other ways to address the issue?

New comment by MaKey in "New accounts on HN more likely to use em-dashes"

MaKey — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 23:34:10 +0000

This is not a technical issue - it's a societal one. Do we want online ID verification? Are the trade-offs worth it? Do we want to make the internet a place that requires an ID everywhere for age verification or to prove that you're human? What would the implications be?

Regarding your implementation: Most people don't have a passport, so it's a non-starter - but again, this topic is not a technical issue.

New comment by MaKey in "New accounts on HN more likely to use em-dashes"

MaKey — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 21:12:00 +0000

> I think we’re on the precipice of this being a requirement to have any faith you’re talking to another human.

Except that it doesn't prove you're talking to a human - it just increases the hurdles for bot operators (buy or steal verified accounts).

New comment by MaKey in "The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection"

MaKey — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 19:21:22 +0000

Identity checks do not prevent bot noise. They just increase the difficulty for bot operators a bit (steal / buy identities or verified accounts). Added bonus for them: Their bot comments now appear more authentic.

New comment by MaKey in "The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection"

MaKey — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 15:25:52 +0000

This is what I was wondering too. It doesn't seem genuine. Most people in tech I know will strongly oppose ID checks for internet use, rightfully so.

New comment by MaKey in "Toyota’s hydrogen-powered Mirai has experienced rapid depreciation"

MaKey — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 11:29:00 +0000

With the upcoming MCS charging standard you won't need battery swaps for trucks or busses. Even today you have trucks that can charge with up to 400 kW, which is good enough for charging during mandatory pauses or downtimes.

New comment by MaKey in "Toyota’s hydrogen-powered Mirai has experienced rapid depreciation"

MaKey — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 10:57:41 +0000

>Is suspect large trucks may eventually move to hydrogen [...]

They won't, why would they? The number of hydrogen gas stations is going down and the price is going up. Batteries are good enough already - the Mercedes eActros 600 with its 600 kWh battery has a range of 500 km.

New comment by MaKey in "Don't rent the cloud, own instead"

MaKey — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 14:21:00 +0000

Usually you can figure out what went wrong pretty quickly. Freaking out doesn't help with the "quickly" part though.

New comment by MaKey in "Deutsche Telekom is throttling the internet"

MaKey — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 23:00:41 +0000

You might be able to switch to a different ISP, e. g. 1&1. They rent the line from Telekom but you still get their peering.

New comment by MaKey in "IPv6 is not insecure because it lacks a NAT"

MaKey — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 00:36:50 +0000

A $60 MikroTik hEX refresh will also solve your issues.

New comment by MaKey in "IPv6 is not insecure because it lacks a NAT"

MaKey — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 00:28:03 +0000

fd00:1337::1, here you go! This address is the equivalent to a private IPv4 address and human-readable.

New comment by MaKey in "IPv6 is not insecure because it lacks a NAT"

MaKey — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 23:42:44 +0000

You could set up a monitoring solution that alerts you if one of your devices is suddenly reachable from the internet via IPv6. It will probably never fire an alert but in your case might help you sleep better. IPv6 privacy extensions could help you too.

In practice I don't think it's really an issue. The IPv6 firewall will probably not break in a way that makes your device reachable from the internet. Even if it would, someone would have to know the IPv6 address of the device they want to target - which means that you have to connect to a system that they have control of first, otherwise it's unlikely they'll ever get it. Lastly, you'd have to run some kind of software on that device that has a vulnerability which can be exploited via network. Combine all that and it gets so unlikely that you'll get hacked this way that it's not worth worrying about.

New comment by MaKey in "IP Addresses Through 2025"

MaKey — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 20:13:13 +0000

I doubt that most consumer routers expose this functionality. IPv6 NAT is rarely needed and should be avoided. Interestingly enough I stumbled upon a use case today. No IPv6 connectivity at my office but at my dad's house. Since a WireGuard tunnel is layer 3 I can't use router advertisements and the prefix is dynamic, so private IPv6 addresses and NAT66 it is. It was an exercise out of curiosity though, route64.org works much better for IPv6 connectivity.