Hacker News: bestham

New comment by bestham in "The EU has begun enforcing the AI Act: first RFIs to model providers"

bestham — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 04:46:06 +0000

I really oppose the notion that “European legislation … disproportionately impacts American tech companies”. US tech has a profound impact on the lives of everyday Europeans while the US has almost no checks and balances in place for the tech industry. Europeans are ought to be able decide how they want to live their lives and build a society. This must include deciding how much influence American tech companies shall be allowed to have by passing laws for Europe.

New comment by bestham in "Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B"

bestham — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:53:56 +0000

From where I’m sitting in Europe, Tesla feels like the disposable car. Gatekeeping repairs and parts and more quality defects needing post shipment corrections than other brands.

To take a concept and refine it to reach mass production is success. It is what made the US what you believe it is today and it is what is creating a healthy supply chain in China. Just look at the challenges of Destin of Smarter Every Day[1] when producing a grill scrubber using only US suppliers and materials.

A “Made in the USA” label is no guarantee of superior design or manufacturing quality to me but if Japan is mentioned I have a greater confidence in the quality of the product.

[1]: https://www.smartereveryday.com/smarterscrubber

New comment by bestham in "The End of an Athlon"

bestham — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 03:41:08 +0000

I had a friend whose Athlon Thunderbird was crushed under the heatsink, but everything seemed worked apart from playing MPEG clips under Windows. I guess that some part of the acceleration for full monitor video or MPEG decoding used a component in that portion of the chip (3D Now! ?).

New comment by bestham in "New Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro"

bestham — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 10:07:11 +0000

We do not know that prices are coming back down. Perhaps they will just sit while inflation slowly makes them seem normal.

New comment by bestham in "Activation Energy is a good model for a lot of things"

bestham — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 11:44:57 +0000

I also have the same problems with reimbursements, but I think that is because my brain has already given me the dopamine of getting the money back, simply because it is my money to claim. The tiny problem that I won't get the money unless I claim it, seems to be ignored by my brain.

New comment by bestham in "California's new tire efficiency rules could save drivers $1B a year"

bestham — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 05:57:59 +0000

And Walmart has it in stock in Anchorage. So a moot point.

New comment by bestham in "YouTube will now count a view as soon as a video starts playing"

bestham — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 05:50:10 +0000

It incentivises clickbait. The creators that we are talking about provide value in long form videos. If all you need to get paid is a five second view (lower bars to payment) the market will adapt and “automated solutions” will take a chunk of what now goes towards creators.

New comment by bestham in "Cloudflare's AI Psychosis"

bestham — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 06:50:08 +0000

Innovation is only linear in hindsight . Pure speculation on my part but once CF made some leaps in a particular area this enabled them to gather more data and shift direction to reach their over all goals by stifling the causes and the innovation that lead them there. New management comes in, requirements change and this is evident to us on the outside as disjointed behaviour. Companies need to make money from the internet for it to exist. Companies also need to behave and refrain from tragedy of the commons for the internet to keep existing as we know it.

New comment by bestham in "Apple Silicon and macOS VMs: Faster LLM Inference with llama.cpp"

bestham — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 17:06:28 +0000

Because it cannot be safely virtualised?

New comment by bestham in "Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength"

bestham — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 21:16:37 +0000

This is true. But you can also run gigabit ethernet over a single pair (1000BASE-T1) often called SPE. The transceivers are more expansive than normal four pair gigabit and the official cable requirement is Cat6A but even if the headroom is lower it will work on lesser Cat levels.

New comment by bestham in "Almost no skill required to cook a steak"

bestham — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 05:40:38 +0000

Are you saying that the temperature of the water when it hit the ground beans that matter or the fact that the water was brought up to a boil or 100°C?

New comment by bestham in "Show HN: Run an 80B Qwen in 4.3 GB of RAM on a Mac, and a 35B on an iPhone"

bestham — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 11:21:28 +0000

No, CVEs are on average still actively being exploited for far longer than 5 years. The oldest CVEs on CISA’s KEV (Known Exploited Vulnerabilities) catalog are from early to mid 2000s.

New comment by bestham in "Third Drone Shot Down in Three Days in Romanian Territory"

bestham — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 13:09:24 +0000

The asymmetry between the drones and the F16 neutralising them quickly makes this financially unsustainable.

New comment by bestham in "Eight facts about air conditioning amid an overheated global debate"

bestham — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 13:13:34 +0000

In the Nordic’s heap pumps are very common, approximately 48, 52 and 63 % of households in Sweden, Finland and Norway have heat pumps installed. [1]

[1] : https://ehpa.org/news-and-resources/press-releases/heat-pump...

New comment by bestham in "Camera with transparent display launches for the equivalent of $29"

bestham — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 05:15:30 +0000

I believe that Notebookcheck is natively written in German and translated.

New comment by bestham in "CarPlay Is Additive"

bestham — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 09:08:43 +0000

The wheel in an Enyaq before the facelift is the same haptic one-button shitshow. They have some buttons that act like shortcuts below the infotainment. But it the screen is still essentialistisk for managing crucial functions.

New comment by bestham in "Long Wave radio era set to end with switch-off"

bestham — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 17:46:30 +0000

> DAB was implemented using the old MPEG2 audio codec. No, it was MPEG 1 layer 2 often at 192 kbps. Later they switched to HE-AAC with DAB+.

New comment by bestham in "Codex just found a "workaround" of not having sudo on my PC"

bestham — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 06:17:36 +0000

If they can override sudo, they can override which.

New comment by bestham in "Digital Identity Management in Norway Is a Catastrophe"

bestham — Fri, 29 May 2026 20:45:44 +0000

The proper terminology is Level of Assurance (LoA) for an eID as opposed to “secure” or “highly secure”.

eIDAS (EU Regulation No 910/2014) derives the LoA definition from ISO/IEC 29115:2013 LoA 2,3,4 to LoA “Low”, “Substantial” and “High” (LoA 1 is not mapped in eIDAS). eIDAS article 8 refers to the Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/1502 and it refers to ISO/IEC 29115:2013.

New comment by bestham in "Introducing USB4STREAM Protocol for Linux – Opening Up Some Nifty Uses for USB4"

bestham — Tue, 26 May 2026 04:42:40 +0000

It sounds like we are inventing the DSSD D5 again? But why would one use volatile DDR5 if the bandwidth constraints it? Better to rely on cheaper nonvolatile flash.