Hacker News: aetch

New comment by aetch in "The Vespa at 80"

aetch — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 15:38:59 +0000

Electronic money? Electric vehicles are cheaper to operate long term.

New comment by aetch in "Espionage Against the European Parliament"

aetch — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 15:16:00 +0000

I didn’t say anything has changed, the 2010 example he mentioned is pre Snowden.

New comment by aetch in "Espionage Against the European Parliament"

aetch — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 22:28:56 +0000

That’s pre-Snowden

New comment by aetch in "CarPlay Is Additive"

aetch — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 04:21:54 +0000

Mazda has knobs and buttons that can even control carplay

New comment by aetch in "CarPlay Is Additive"

aetch — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 04:14:03 +0000

I’d rather have the map shown on the headunit screen rather than have the phone screen next to a larger but unused headunit screen.

New comment by aetch in "CarPlay Is Additive"

aetch — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 04:08:03 +0000

The main dashboard screen of CarPlay lets you navigate, manage music, and view the calendar and take calls all at once. Have you used that before?

New comment by aetch in "CarPlay Is Additive"

aetch — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 04:03:41 +0000

Do you understand how headunits work and have you ever sat in a car? It doesn’t sound like it since you think cars are forced to use CarPlay.

New comment by aetch in "Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown"

aetch — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 11:58:31 +0000

Won’t someone think about the students who get cramps from typing on keyboards as well??

New comment by aetch in "The US ambassador had Belgian police stop our reporting"

aetch — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 11:57:30 +0000

Sounds like they had a legitimate question for the ambassador who reacted badly - which is no surprise for someone in this administration.

New comment by aetch in "Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown"

aetch — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 02:58:07 +0000

What are you even talking about? It’s normal for young students to be using a pencil to write for multiple hours in a day in school.

New comment by aetch in "Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown"

aetch — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 02:56:45 +0000

Because students aren’t AI and aren’t measured by tokens/s

New comment by aetch in "GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks"

aetch — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:05:09 +0000

You can then rent spare capacity out to people on a subscription or token basis ….wait

New comment by aetch in "Health insurance claim denial rates range from 13% to 35% by insurer"

aetch — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 17:47:14 +0000

Had me in the first half there

New comment by aetch in "Did Anthropic ask for this?"

aetch — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:02:05 +0000

Yes, maybe don’t say your product is so good that the customer can’t use it.

New comment by aetch in "Show HN: DomainTasker – avoid losing domains and surprise renewals"

aetch — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 01:55:09 +0000

So…we’re going to pay money to be reminded to pay money for domains?

New comment by aetch in "The IsUpMap lets you check the status of over 100 major sites at once"

aetch — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 13:43:50 +0000

They said major sites

New comment by aetch in "When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement"

aetch — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 05:44:39 +0000

You can use Claude for that

New comment by aetch in "WH proposes rules giving political appointees final approval on research grants"

aetch — Sun, 31 May 2026 02:49:55 +0000

That’s even worse, the incentives are completely misaligned for a political appointee vs unelected civil service workers who are just carrying out their jobs.

New comment by aetch in "The Current Crisis: What's Happening to Science in America"

aetch — Fri, 29 May 2026 04:22:49 +0000

You haven’t been outside, have you?

New comment by aetch in "Can we have the day off?"

aetch — Thu, 28 May 2026 01:26:26 +0000

I think it’s the other way around. Hourly wages are paid directly for time at work