Hacker News: antonkochubey

New comment by antonkochubey in "Data collected by cars and sold to third parties"

antonkochubey — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 20:33:31 +0000

It’s often an eSIM

New comment by antonkochubey in "216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video]"

antonkochubey — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 12:53:48 +0000

It's also how Amazon Sidewalk works for many Alexa-enabled devices

New comment by antonkochubey in "Shutting down our public encrypted DNS"

antonkochubey — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 04:43:56 +0000

Germany’s last officially fascist government was democratically elected

New comment by antonkochubey in "A 12TB Steam “teraleak” spills more than a decade of lost PC gaming history"

antonkochubey — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 11:09:37 +0000

v34 CSS srcds is very easy to find online

New comment by antonkochubey in "Air Conditioning Is Not a Luxury, It Is a Necessity"

antonkochubey — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 15:17:06 +0000

>Midea pre-filled mini-splits went from €700 to 2000-3000+ and months of lead time. It's crazy.

They're back to normal prices now. At least in Germany. Make sure to grab one before the next Summer hits :)

New comment by antonkochubey in "Proxmox VE now available for ARM64"

antonkochubey — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 14:28:13 +0000

There are some lucky people (e.g. me) who got high-RAM Pi4's and Pi5's before the prices spiked

New comment by antonkochubey in "Proxmox VE now available for ARM64"

antonkochubey — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 14:27:36 +0000

FWIW there exist UEFI implementations for Raspberry Pi 4 and 5, they can be used to boot Windows 11 aarch64 images as well as 'generic' Linux distro images, so I suppose they will support this one as well.

New comment by antonkochubey in "German carmakers flood jobs market with managers after wielding axe"

antonkochubey — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 22:31:02 +0000

>EVs are practically computers on a wheel

There’s nothing about EV drivetrain that requires more complicated software than ICE powertrain. It’s just consumerism telling people that their next vehicle (whatever drivetrain) should be an iPad, a home cinema, and a PlayStation all-in-one.

New comment by antonkochubey in "I'm a USB-C Maximalist"

antonkochubey — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 10:34:01 +0000

New 70W Apple charger is GaN (and much smaller than the old 67W one) FWIW, it's a shame it is single port, though.

New comment by antonkochubey in "Should DayQuil Be Legal?"

antonkochubey — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 16:12:19 +0000

Are you sure you have read the article, not just its title?

New comment by antonkochubey in "Hackers shoveled snow for company, were rewarded with network admin access"

antonkochubey — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 22:10:47 +0000

Alibaba Cloud in 2026 lol

New comment by antonkochubey in "Why jet engines aren't made in China"

antonkochubey — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 11:33:06 +0000

>they have excellent air defenses

in which conflicts have those air defenses proven themselves?

New comment by antonkochubey in "EU commissioners shut down air conditioning for employees, leave theirs on"

antonkochubey — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 16:57:42 +0000

My multisplit system costs <€60 a month to run even during the hottest months, which is way below heating costs during winter. And that's keeping entire apartment at constant 22ºC - people with higher "comfort temperature" can keep the bill significantly lower.

New comment by antonkochubey in "EU commissioners shut down air conditioning for employees, leave theirs on"

antonkochubey — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 16:56:39 +0000

Realistically a decent mini-split that won't break in a year and won't make too much noise starts at ~€600-800 + €400 installation in a low-labor-cost country (Latvia), in high-labor-cost countries such as Germany the installation bit might be twice-thrice as expensive.

New comment by antonkochubey in "The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party"

antonkochubey — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 18:54:12 +0000

Yes, increasing demand for housing and increasing supply of labor definitely does nothing for both salaries and housing prices

New comment by antonkochubey in "Hetzner Price Adjustment"

antonkochubey — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 18:48:35 +0000

it's not that bad, EX63 dedicated servers were a great deal until this week (especially with 192 GB ECC RAM upgrade) and it has a 2025 CPU, for example

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

antonkochubey — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 09:21:17 +0000

In most EVs motors are watercooled, so that energy can indeed be scavenged – problem is, during low-speed driving, the heat output is not high enough to get noticeably above ambient temperature.

New comment by antonkochubey in "macOS 27 Beta breaks the ability to boot Asahi Linux"

antonkochubey — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 23:31:44 +0000

>ARM based systems, including the Apple M series, don't.

You're thinking of old SBCs, most likely. ARM SystemReady devices (which is a requirement for Thunderbolt 4+ on ARM, so Macs are included) have +/- same level of auto-configuration and hardware resource discovery as x86 PCs.

New comment by antonkochubey in "Major P2P issues in Israel and possibly other Middle East countries"

antonkochubey — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 14:18:50 +0000

It’s fascinating how (mostly western liberal) game developers argue in favor of 99% taxes for general population “for maintaining infrastructure” and yet cannot fathom paying a fee for maintaining actual infrastructure that is necessary for their business to function.

New comment by antonkochubey in "CT scans of BYD car parts"

antonkochubey — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 21:13:52 +0000

The kind of software needed in a car (minimal or ideally none at all except for DME and CarPlay display) is indeed not something that Germans were able to build on their own in the recent times.