<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: apexalpha</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=apexalpha</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 02:33:35 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=apexalpha" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by apexalpha in "Europe's new robotics unicorn: Germany's RobCo hits $1B valuation"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><i>You can’t opt out from it</i><p>This is the part that makes it universal.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 14:44:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49965563</link><dc:creator>apexalpha</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49965563</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49965563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by apexalpha in "US tells France and Germany to release diesel stocks or face US export ban"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><i>"It is in Europe’s best interest to work with the United States as we pursue multiple pathways  to boost the supply of refined products and lower costs for consumers," one of the sources, a US official, told Reuters.</i><p>It is currently in Europe's best interest to force this clown to back down in Iran.<p>I will happily take €5 per liter (not gallon) for a month just to annoy Trump in the slightest.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 10:04:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49931764</link><dc:creator>apexalpha</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49931764</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49931764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by apexalpha in "America.gov"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Weird it never doubts when I ask about other "partisan" issues like the Reichstag fire or the attack on Pearl Harbor or so.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 05:56:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49904915</link><dc:creator>apexalpha</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49904915</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49904915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by apexalpha in "US Forces Exit Iraq"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This seems like weird timing to this amateur seeing how they're at war with Iran and Iraq was recently used to stage attacks against Saudi oil infrastructure.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 09:12:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49890299</link><dc:creator>apexalpha</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49890299</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49890299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by apexalpha in "US Forces Exit Iraq"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Don't worry they also make films celebrating the passion behind the killings like <i>American Sniper</i></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 09:11:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49890293</link><dc:creator>apexalpha</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49890293</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49890293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by apexalpha in "Toyota is taking the Corolla electric"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Toyota sells more cars per year than the US manufactures combined.<p>(Though there is some overlap as Toyota also builds in the US)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 09:11:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49841990</link><dc:creator>apexalpha</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49841990</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49841990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by apexalpha in "California is chasing wealth that has feet"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As a rather economic left European person I think this:<p><i>Last week California certified a Billionaire Wealth Tax for the November ballot: a 5 percent one-time levy on the state’s billionaires, paid out over five years, to raise about $20 billion a year for health care, food aid, and schools after federal cuts</i><p>Is just flat out crazy.<p>To pretend that politicians who are in a perpetual political battle for short-term survival will somehow use this weapon of mass financing responsibly and only once it comically absurd.<p>This will open Pandoras box.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 09:08:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49841971</link><dc:creator>apexalpha</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49841971</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49841971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by apexalpha in "California is chasing wealth that has feet"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Just allow natural persons to defer these taxes until after death. Then when the house goes for sale you just subtract the taxes from the inheritance.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 09:05:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49841957</link><dc:creator>apexalpha</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49841957</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49841957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by apexalpha in "What California is learning from solar panels built over irrigation canals"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For fossil fuels the cost in in the fuel, usually.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 05:39:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49826660</link><dc:creator>apexalpha</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49826660</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49826660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by apexalpha in "What California is learning from solar panels built over irrigation canals"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Probably cheaper? Renewables have a big upfront Capex usually financed.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 07:26:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49812767</link><dc:creator>apexalpha</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49812767</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49812767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by apexalpha in "What California is learning from solar panels built over irrigation canals"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Acquiring a lot of cheap land can still be expensive if it takes you a lot of time to process everything.<p>Plus the people selling it to you will simply play you off each other since you're publicly committed to buying it. Like with that train they're building.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 07:24:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49812754</link><dc:creator>apexalpha</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49812754</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49812754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by apexalpha in "What California is learning from solar panels built over irrigation canals"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><i>It seems like it would be more effective to simply put all the solar panels in a field, and construct a cheap shade over the entire canal no?</i><p>Not if you already own the canal but would have to buy or rent the fields.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 07:12:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49812679</link><dc:creator>apexalpha</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49812679</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49812679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by apexalpha in "US criticises Australia's proposed algorithm opt-out laws as 'censorship'"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How can a opt-<i>out</i> ever be considered censorship?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 07:06:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49812639</link><dc:creator>apexalpha</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49812639</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49812639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by apexalpha in "M5 Ultra Mac Studio Review"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If I had 0 privacy concerns I could just use deepseek directly in the cloud but the whole point is to not put your data on someone else's computer.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 11:23:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49799502</link><dc:creator>apexalpha</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49799502</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49799502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by apexalpha in "M5 Ultra Mac Studio Review"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You can run Deepseek 4 flash on a 128gb Mac, comfortably with lots of cache and context on a 256gb one.<p>These models are not 'barely capable', they're contemporary near frontier.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 07:43:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49797846</link><dc:creator>apexalpha</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49797846</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49797846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by apexalpha in "M5 Ultra Mac Studio Review"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You're just spending money to have the computer value normal people will have a few years from now.<p>There's value in knowing what capabilities local models will have on regular hardware in the near future.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 07:41:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49797836</link><dc:creator>apexalpha</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49797836</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49797836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by apexalpha in "Robin Williams' Daughter to Fans Creating AI Videos: 'Have Some Shame'"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This lady needs some proper advice on this. She is only digging this hole deeper by feeding it attention.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 05:29:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49797117</link><dc:creator>apexalpha</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49797117</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49797117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by apexalpha in "US Revokes Limits on Power Plants' Climate Pollution"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Virtually all roofs in the Netherlands aren't concrete but wood frames with ceramic tiles. The PV is just attached to the wooden frame, not the shingles or tiles.<p><i>Shingles have a shelf life of ~25 years. Most people buy old homes. And the roof is somewhere in the middle of its life. Its usually better to replace the roof and add solar at the same time.</i><p>You can just take off the PV when replacing a roof, costs a few hundred if you don't want to do it yourself. Trivial compared to the cost of a new roof and probably less than the savings in the meantime they're on the old roof.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 06:44:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49783814</link><dc:creator>apexalpha</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49783814</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49783814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by apexalpha in "Spain Orders Blocks on Archive.today and Its Mirrors"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I am already subscribed to 2 papers in my own country at ~$50 total since one comes in print once a week.<p>Just a matter of priorities.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 14:11:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49776080</link><dc:creator>apexalpha</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49776080</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49776080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by apexalpha in "Spain orders blocks on Archive.today and its mirrors"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They are the only reliable way for me to read proper news in Economist / FT / WSJ / WashingtonPost etc...<p>Well except paying $300 a month I guess.</p>
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