Hacker News: bhc

New comment by bhc in "Muse Spark 1.1"

bhc — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 18:30:17 +0000

Your Meta account profile region has to be in the U.S., and they do Geo IP and SMS verification.

New comment by bhc in "NeXT Computer Offices"

bhc — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 01:39:15 +0000

There's a promotional video of the NeXT factory.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhIwfu73reE

New comment by bhc in "Americans increasingly see legal sports betting as a bad thing for society"

bhc — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 14:39:45 +0000

The gambling industry has funneled a ton of cash into academic researchers producing papers that gave credence to the idea of "addictive personality," which in turn was massaged by PR experts into the notion that some people are just born addicts, and the gambling industry can't help it if they become addicted to gambling too. "Addictive personality" itself is on very shaky grounds statistically, and the derived PR messaging certainly is false. The gambling industry is likely more culpable in this mess than even a typical, generally well-informed person might be aware.

New comment by bhc in "I found a 1-click exploit in South Korea's biggest mobile chat app"

bhc — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 22:42:40 +0000

In case of Kakao Taxi vs Uber, it was Uber's unwillingness to work with existing taxi operators that killed any chance Uber had in the Korean market. Kakao (at least until they became dominant) acted more like an agent that sends additional customers to existing independent taxi drivers while Uber kept trying to find legal loopholes to bypass the taxi licensing system. S Korea is a civil law country, and its courts have no patience for actors whose entire legal strategy is to subvert the intent of the laws, and that was the end for Uber there.

New comment by bhc in "Filling Nuclear Power's $5T Hole Is Beyond the Banks"

bhc — Sun, 24 Mar 2024 16:37:45 +0000

I find it strange these types of articles never mention UAE's Barakah nuclear power plant (which did not source reactors from a nation unfriendly to the U.S.) and experienced only 4 year delay from the originally projected commercial operation start date and relatively limited cost overruns.

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

A tiny spark of hope in another soul-crushing round of CRTC hearings

bhc — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 03:06:54 +0000

Article URL: https://www.readtheline.ca/p/peter-menzies-a-tiny-spark-of-hope

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38705004

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by bhc in "The One Thing I Can’t Stand About Teaching English in Japan (2019)"

bhc — Sun, 09 Apr 2023 18:28:36 +0000

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

New comment by bhc in "Apple’s 2½ year old iPhone 12 is 6% faster than the new Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra"

bhc — Thu, 09 Feb 2023 19:59:29 +0000

Less than 1 percent of Lithium-ion batteries get recycled in the US and EU.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/04/lithium-costs-a-lot-...

New comment by bhc in "Qualcomm says ARM to prohibit proximity of CPU and 3rd-party modules in one chip"

bhc — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 14:32:42 +0000

It's possible that Samsung got a briefing on what's happening with ARM and Qualcomm and negotiated an extended reprieve from the new licensing scheme about a month ago when Masayoshi Son had a high profile meeting with the head of Samsung to discuss "a strategic alliance between Samsung and Arm."

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/SoftBank2/SoftBank-to-discu...

New comment by bhc in "Zero Trust SIM"

bhc — Mon, 26 Sep 2022 17:38:55 +0000

>But in recent years, nearly every modern phone shipped today has an eSIM

How many phones other than iPhone, Pixel, and (very recent) Galaxy S/Z have eSIM? There aren't that many cellular IoT boards that support swappable eSIM either (some boards say eSIM, but what they mean is that the IoT vendor's SIM is soldered onto the board - thus "embedded SIM"- not that you're allowed to load eSIM of your choice).

New comment by bhc in "iPhone 14 Pro comes with dual-frequency GPS"

bhc — Sat, 10 Sep 2022 15:38:11 +0000

Crowd-sourced list of Android phones that support dual-frequency GPS: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jXtRCoEnnFNWj6_oFlVW...

Be Safe

bhc — Sun, 21 Aug 2022 16:43:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.besafe.global/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32541903

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by bhc in "Why are nuclear power construction costs so high?"

bhc — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 18:24:24 +0000

The government that was in power from 2017 to 2022 put a moratorium on new reactor construction there and promised a full phase-out, and although the newly-elected government promised to reverse this, it likely has done some damage to S. Korea's civilian nuclear capabilities.

New comment by bhc in "Italian CPU – The Genesys B52 MMX"

bhc — Mon, 06 Jun 2022 00:14:27 +0000

I often hear US investors have a higher risk appetite, but why is that the case? I imagine it can't be just cultural differences.

New comment by bhc in "Internet drama in Canada"

bhc — Fri, 27 May 2022 14:52:49 +0000

That's true, but Canada has suburban sprawl just like the U.S. where, in most cities, home internet is just as expensive if not more so. Think how much less wire, amplification/splitter/switching/etc. equipment, and drilling would be required to install new home internet infrastructure to serve the same number of people if the Greater Toronto Area was as dense as the (4x denser) Stockholm metro area. The one of the obstacles (in addition to monopolies and regulatory capture) may be that the built-up area near the U.S. border still aren't dense enough to have infrastructure efficiency comparable to European countries with cheaper and faster home internet like Sweden, Finland, France, etc.

New comment by bhc in "Show HN: I built a website to find nearby cafes to work remotely from"

bhc — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 15:16:29 +0000

There is a cafe chain in Russia that charges by the minute but most drinks are free. They tried to expand to the U.K. in the mid-2010s, but their test cafes failed, and they pulled out after a few years.

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

New comment by bhc in "Samsung Electronics cultural issues causing disasters in foundry, LSI, DRAM"

bhc — Sun, 17 Apr 2022 23:53:42 +0000

Former Samsung head Lee Kun-hee had a heart attack in 2014, and his son Jay Y. Lee took over. I don't know if that had any effect on the alleged culture problems the article talks about.

New comment by bhc in "Mobile LTE Coverage Map"

bhc — Wed, 29 Sep 2021 03:27:17 +0000

It's based ISED's bimonthly CSV data dump of licensed radio transmitters. Heavy concentration of cellular antennas in some blocks might be because ISED's database lists even nano/picocells.

http://sms-sgs.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/sms-sgs-prod.nsf/eng/h_0001...

I'm calling Bullshit on Medtronic's Open Sourcing of a ventilator design

bhc — Tue, 31 Mar 2020 03:52:55 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/mikelectricstuf/status/1244748790810247169

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22734799

Points: 73

# Comments: 27

New comment by bhc in "Why Sleep Apnea Patients Rely on a CPAP Machine Hacker"

bhc — Fri, 16 Nov 2018 02:43:03 +0000

How do people obtain regulated medical devices like CPAP without a prescription? I assume a sleep study is required to get a prescription from a doctor.