Hacker News: Snafuh

New comment by Snafuh in "Ferrari Luce"

Snafuh — Tue, 26 May 2026 11:27:00 +0000

The Luce seats 5 and has a trunk.

The Rimac Nevera is a different car category. Ferrari just decided to not make this a 2 seat hypercar.

This is the daily driver Ferrari for a small family, similar to the Porsche Cayenne or Panamera.

New comment by Snafuh in "A successful Japanese trial of a ramjet engine designed for Mach‑5 aircraft"

Snafuh — Mon, 25 May 2026 23:22:52 +0000

Good luck getting a launch and landing pad anywhere close to a population centre.

Logistics around the flight would be a big asterisk behind the flight time.

New comment by Snafuh in "AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale"

Snafuh — Thu, 21 May 2026 16:04:25 +0000

Simple piraciy is not even the worst possible outcome.

Without copyright, nothing stops one from simply selling a book under their own name.

Big publishers could just reprint anything and get it into brick & mortar stores. No money for authors.

Advocating for absolutely no copyright is wild.

New comment by Snafuh in "Bun Rust rewrite: "codebase fails basic miri checks, allows for UB in safe rust""

Snafuh — Sat, 16 May 2026 08:35:19 +0000

The bun team must love all the people pointing out errors. That's how they get a free, crowd sourced code review of their million lines.

New comment by Snafuh in "France Launches Government Linux Desktop Plan as Windows Exit Begins"

Snafuh — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:18:05 +0000

I use an European made computer from Schenker (their XMG subbrand actually).

Of course the components are not European made. But Dell's components are not US made either.

I can also buy a Japanese or Korean (or Chinese) computer. There is no dependency on a single country.

New comment by Snafuh in "We rewrote JSONata with AI in a day, saved $500k/year"

Snafuh — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 10:45:47 +0000

The engineer who identified 500k in savings is a great candidate I'd say. But solving a problem requires a problem to be there in the first place.

New comment by Snafuh in "FCC updates covered list to include foreign-made consumer routers"

Snafuh — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:02:20 +0000

Do you apply the same scrutiny to the food you eat?

Some trust has to be created through testing standards and the law, but generally we do believe what the label says in day to day life.

New comment by Snafuh in "Accepting US car standards would risk European lives"

Snafuh — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 11:55:29 +0000

They are not even in the same ballpark size wise

https://www.carsized.com/en-us/cars/compare/porsche-cayenne-...

But or course you are correct this is not only about American cars. Europeans can build big cars as well.

Cars are taxed by engine displacement in Germany. It's rather low compared to insurance and gas cost though. Indirectly larger cars are taxed through high gas tax.

New comment by Snafuh in "Alphabet tops $100B quarterly revenue for first time, cloud grows 34%"

Snafuh — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 12:22:35 +0000

It's already happening. Coal use in the US was up 15% in H1/25 compared to the previous year. Partially due to a shift from higher prices gas.

Coal retirement in the US is almost entirely driven by economics. If someone needs the power, coal plants will stay open and capacity factor go up.

https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/steo/report/elec_coal_renew.php

New comment by Snafuh in "Uncle Sam shouldn't own Intel stock"

Snafuh — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 07:48:01 +0000

The money was already granted without being tied to 10% equity. This looks like the government retroactively changing the deal.

New comment by Snafuh in "How we made JSON.stringify more than twice as fast"

Snafuh — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 22:40:51 +0000

There is a PR open since June. It's currently blocked by a MacOS CI issue.

https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/58491

New comment by Snafuh in "X Prevents Research on Potential Election Interference"

Snafuh — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 17:46:42 +0000

Just last week a report about election interference by foreign entities on a Twitter was released.

Twitter does not seem very interested in transparency or stopping behavior favoring certain views

https://www.canva.com/design/DAGesRcirKQ/4-mOPKQEfWtozFtO_jU...

New comment by Snafuh in "Is the use of reCAPTCHA GDPR-compliant?"

Snafuh — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 10:08:13 +0000

Germany also requires an imprint with name and address on any non-personal website. Non-Personal can basically mean anything beyond a purely personal blog without comments or anything.

New comment by Snafuh in "Spotify Shuts Down ‘Unwrapped’ Artist Royalty Calculator with Legal Threats"

Snafuh — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 13:06:07 +0000

Both Apple Music and Tidal (and Google Music, Amazon) can afford to lose money as long as leadership want the service to stay online.

I don't think it's sustainable for musicians to rely on cross financing via other services or VC money. Further consolidation under under big tech conpanies would be a negative IMO

New comment by Snafuh in "The Porsche Macan EV is being recalled because its headlights are too bright"

Snafuh — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 09:28:22 +0000

Germans cycle more than 4 times as much per capita than Brits. Absolute numbers are meaningless, you have to look at deaths per km. Germanies bike infrastructure is not great and there is lots to criticize, but that's true for most places in Europe.

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Kilometres-cycled-per-in...

New comment by Snafuh in "Wind turbines are friendlier to birds than oil-and-gas drilling"

Snafuh — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 11:40:14 +0000

Even Chinese panels in Canada have a energy payback of less than 2 years

PDF link to a study comparing different installation countries: https://www.ise.fraunhofer.de/content/dam/ise/de/documents/p...

New comment by Snafuh in "Grok is an AI modeled after the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy"

Snafuh — Sun, 05 Nov 2023 14:06:47 +0000

Does this work the other way round? Will it reference a deleted tweet, or even data that was deleted under a GDPR request?

I bet some people will do experiments, just like when AI code assists appeared and people found out it copies complete code snippets including comments.

Referencing "deleted" data might be an issue with laws in some countries.

New comment by Snafuh in "Unreal Engine will no longer be free for all"

Snafuh — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 16:16:20 +0000

Tim Sweeney confirmed on Twitter there will be a revenue threshold just like for game dev. Small time studios or individuals won't have to pay unless they make money.

Lots of enterprise customer paid before already anyway for Epic's (questionable) support

New comment by Snafuh in "OSS Game Engines are increasing their stars on GitHub due to Unity's missteps"

Snafuh — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 11:22:56 +0000

Godot actually has a bit of an issue with too many PRs. Lots of them are just small changes, usability or documentation changes, but they still have to be reviewed.

They need steady funding to have a team of capable full time devs. Their fund seems a step into this direction.

New comment by Snafuh in "Norway to fine Meta $98,500 a day over user privacy breach from 14 August"

Snafuh — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 10:15:29 +0000

How much are they making in Norway? Why would global revenue/profit be relevant for a fine in Norway about Norwegian users?