Hacker News: bagels

New comment by bagels in "German men 18-45 need military permit for extended stays abroad"

bagels — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:09:58 +0000

I guess this is a new word basically meaning conscription by force.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busification

New comment by bagels in "Tech hobbyist makes shoulder-mounted guided missile prototype with $96 in parts"

bagels — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 14:47:12 +0000

You need a license for most frequencies.

New comment by bagels in "MacBook Neo"

bagels — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 03:36:45 +0000

You eventually run out of caches to evict.

New comment by bagels in "Iran War Cost Tracker"

bagels — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 20:28:38 +0000

JD vance whined that we shouldn't protect middle east shipping lanes because he believes it helps Europe more than the US.

New comment by bagels in "Google Street View in 2026"

bagels — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 18:31:41 +0000

Why is there so much dense coverage in southern Ontario than anywhere else in North America?

New comment by bagels in "Tesla registrations crash 17% in Europe as BEV market surges 14%"

bagels — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 19:32:56 +0000

A used 1000hp car is a lot more fun than even a new cell phone.

New comment by bagels in "Tesla registrations crash 17% in Europe as BEV market surges 14%"

bagels — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 19:31:49 +0000

The US government has already chosen the higher prices via anti-competitive measures route, specifically to keep affordable Chinese and even Japanese cars out of the market.

New comment by bagels in "Tesla registrations crash 17% in Europe as BEV market surges 14%"

bagels — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 19:30:07 +0000

How is it fraud for a company to change focus and start producing other kinds of products? It's not fraud in the same way that promising that the car would be able to drive itself from Los Angeles to New York in 2017 and selling people "Full Self Driving Hardware" is.

New comment by bagels in "Show HN: WARN Firehose – Every US layoff notice in one searchable database"

bagels — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 04:20:31 +0000

Anyone remember this gem from the "dot com" crash? http://fuckedcompany.com/

New comment by bagels in "Show HN: WARN Firehose – Every US layoff notice in one searchable database"

bagels — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 04:18:29 +0000

If the layoff is small enough, it's not triggered.

New comment by bagels in "Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras"

bagels — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 14:37:47 +0000

The real problem is people who don't want to be victims of crime, not the people doing the crime?

New comment by bagels in "AWS Adds support for nested virtualization"

bagels — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 00:56:51 +0000

"* *Feature*: Launching nested virtualization. This feature allows you to run nested VMs inside virtual (non-bare metal) EC2 instances."

New comment by bagels in "Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash"

bagels — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 00:55:08 +0000

Is it a struggle for them? Clearly they're pressing both buttons.

New comment by bagels in "Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash"

bagels — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 00:52:17 +0000

Honestly, that commercial convinced me to dump my Nest cameras because, eventually (if not already), they'll do the same.

New comment by bagels in "WiFi could become an invisible mass surveillance system"

bagels — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 22:18:16 +0000

WiFi is already part of invisible mass surveillance systems, though not in the way described in the article. It's part of how cell phones fix location, based on nearby wifi endpoints, which is then sent to google, apple, every app, every advertiser, etc.

New comment by bagels in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

bagels — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:06:45 +0000

It's definitely fraud, the consideration is access to their service.

New comment by bagels in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

bagels — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:05:38 +0000

Discord doesn't need my identity and I don't need discord. Bye bye.

New comment by bagels in "The Waymo World Model"

bagels — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 00:18:18 +0000

ChatGPT really innovated on making the chat not say racist things that the press could report on. Other efforts before this failed for that reason.

New comment by bagels in "Data centers in space makes no sense"

bagels — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 23:49:24 +0000

You can reject the heat by shedding hot mass, but only once.

New comment by bagels in "AGENTS.md outperforms skills in our agent evals"

bagels — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:29:35 +0000

The context window is finite. You can easily fill it with documentation and have no room left for the code and question you want to work on. It also means more tokens sent with every request, increasing cost if you're paying by the token.