Hacker News: Magnets

New comment by Magnets in "OpenCV 5 Is Here: The Biggest Leap in Years for Computer Vision"

Magnets — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 10:30:11 +0000

The announcement itself is pure AI slop

New comment by Magnets in "Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models"

Magnets — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 10:25:38 +0000

They probably started working with gooogle before claude started moving ahead or was on the radar

New comment by Magnets in "Gov.uk has replaced Stripe with Dutch provider Adyen"

Magnets — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 09:59:36 +0000

If £8m/year is a fraction of a mid-size company cloud budget, I don't think you can class them as "mid-size"

New comment by Magnets in "Tell HN: docker pull fails in spain due to football cloudflare block"

Magnets — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:34:14 +0000

BT used to block the entire streamable.com site during football matches

New comment by Magnets in "Britain today generating 90%+ of electricity from renewables"

Magnets — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 14:23:01 +0000

how does the wholesale price of gas explain how the UK is the most expensive in the world/europe?

New comment by Magnets in "90% of Claude-linked output going to GitHub repos w <2 stars"

Magnets — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 12:04:28 +0000

Everyone too busy arguing about the stars issue and not noting how claude really took off since Jan 2026

New comment by Magnets in "CXMT has been offering DDR4 chips at about half the prevailing market rate"

Magnets — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 17:09:25 +0000

This is just marketing. Why would you sell at 50% of market rate? Chinese production of NAND and DRAM is not significant, it's single digit %

New comment by Magnets in "How AI labs are solving the power problem"

Magnets — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 22:12:43 +0000

you didn't consider the 18+ years we have with almost no productivity and the extra resources required to sustain life

New comment by Magnets in "NVIDIA frenemy relation with OpenAI and Oracle"

Magnets — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 21:03:18 +0000

75% margin means they have around $79.2bn of potential revenue sitting in inventory. Next quarter revenue is projected to be $65bn, so 110 days of stock.

New comment by Magnets in "Nearly all UK drivers say headlights are too bright"

Magnets — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 14:30:36 +0000

animals and other objects on the road, and potholes

New comment by Magnets in "YouTube Removes Windows 11 Bypass Tutorials, Claims 'Risk of Physical Harm'"

Magnets — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 23:12:22 +0000

like they did during COVID

New comment by Magnets in "The Onion buys Infowars"

Magnets — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 13:02:16 +0000

are the families the seller or just the beneficiary?

New comment by Magnets in "ArchiveBox is evolving: the future of self-hosted internet archives"

Magnets — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 10:01:45 +0000

Lots of private groups on facebook too

New comment by Magnets in "It's still easy for anyone to become you at Experian"

Magnets — Sat, 11 Nov 2023 20:53:06 +0000

I have an early/obvious gmail account and get around 3 messages per day from unauthorised signups to legit sites. facebook and google (as recovery account) are the only ones that allow you to de-link your address from an account

New comment by Magnets in "Bank of England expects UK to fall into longest ever recession"

Magnets — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 20:16:25 +0000

Governments used QE to soften the shock from covid lockdowns and basically subsidise the economy. We are now seeing the consequences of that decision.

New comment by Magnets in "Google could face class action lawsuit over free G Suite legacy account shutdown"

Magnets — Fri, 21 Jan 2022 23:52:12 +0000

It is possible to have a google account without gmail

New comment by Magnets in "Old TV caused village broadband outages for 18 months"

Magnets — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 21:06:07 +0000

I used to monitor SNR on my DSL line and my neighbours old diesel engine 200ft away would cause it to drop slightly but enough to notice

New comment by Magnets in "Facebook security app used to 'spy' on competitors (2019)"

Magnets — Tue, 08 Sep 2020 20:59:44 +0000

https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/24/21336946/google-android-l...

New comment by Magnets in "Facebook security app used to 'spy' on competitors (2019)"

Magnets — Sun, 06 Sep 2020 21:59:50 +0000

Didn't google get caught doing this recently?

New comment by Magnets in "Reddit app got 50M downloads by making mobile web experience miserable"

Magnets — Fri, 04 Sep 2020 15:12:57 +0000

Reddit is completely infested with politics too, many subs that you wouldn't expect to be political are clearly aligned a certain way.