Hacker News: c2h5oh

New comment by c2h5oh in "Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera"

c2h5oh — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 22:01:46 +0000

I've got a fairly new Toyota and I when I found myself needing a 2nd car for my family I ended up buying a 20 year old Honda and I have to say I enjoy driving it much more.

I might also be safer in it - oversensitive security systems nagging me with false positives almost constantly don't pair well with my ADD

New comment by c2h5oh in "Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera"

c2h5oh — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 21:56:08 +0000

People are selling those older cars at a significant discount compared to previous years, because they got banned from low emission zones - you need euro 5 for diesel and euro 4 for petrol to be allowed in centers of many of large EU cities.

New comment by c2h5oh in "I built a mmWave material classification radar (2025)"

c2h5oh — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 11:05:06 +0000

Property managers handling municipal property in mid+ cities will want one.

Any company dealing with construction waste disposal will want one.

Both will have no problem shelling out 1000 euro per unit.

New comment by c2h5oh in "U.S. allows Anthropic to release Mythos AI to ‘trusted’ US organizations"

c2h5oh — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 03:44:41 +0000

Cynic in me thinks it's some or all of the following:

- extract monetary contributions for their side of political spectrum from ai companies

- extract money for personal gain

- grokify ai answers on political / worldview topics, because polls are showing people trust ai answers more than wikipedia

New comment by c2h5oh in "FCC wants to kill burner phones by forcing telecoms to get all customers' IDs"

c2h5oh — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 22:07:49 +0000

This is already the case in most (all?) EU countries. Government-issued photo ID is required to activate a SIM card.

If you really need a burner you can still get one - there are people who activate SIM cards in bulk using their ID and resell them without collecting IDs. The practice itself is either gray area legally or straight up illegal depending on the country

New comment by c2h5oh in "Three of our worst VC stories"

c2h5oh — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 06:34:20 +0000

One that got pushed out by investors, which is good enough for me. No need to name and shame beyond that.

New comment by c2h5oh in "Three of our worst VC stories"

c2h5oh — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 08:29:25 +0000

A CEO got entire 20 man dev team into boardroom and asked everyone to voice any concerns about technical debt, bad development practices, anti patterns as well as project management issues.

The 4 people who spoke up were all fired on the same day 3 or 4 weeks later. 7 more quit shortly after - as soon as they got any decent offer. 6 months later about a quarter of the 20 were still with the company.

New comment by c2h5oh in "Securing a DoD contractor: Finding a multi-tenant authorization vulnerability"

c2h5oh — Mon, 04 May 2026 21:23:37 +0000

More often than not security minded people are encouraged to focus on things that get the product to market faster instead.

New comment by c2h5oh in "GoDaddy gave a domain to a stranger without any documentation"

c2h5oh — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 19:07:19 +0000

I suspect you mean register/renew:

Depends. If it's something really high priority (like main domain for a large corporation) I'd likely be paying CSC 4 digit sums per domain per year.

For stuff a tier below that I'd be looking at companies that are serious about security and happen to do domains as well e.g. Cloudflare, Amazon

New comment by c2h5oh in "Bitwarden CLI compromised in ongoing Checkmarx supply chain campaign"

c2h5oh — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 21:06:20 +0000

They are not, but npm is uniquely bad in that regard. Refusal to implement security features that would have made attacks like this harder really doesn't help https://github.com/node-forward/discussions/issues/29

New comment by c2h5oh in "Pink noise reduces REM sleep and may harm sleep quality"

c2h5oh — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 01:52:03 +0000

7 nights is not nearly enough to get used to new environmental factor introduced in the study, possibly exacerbating disruption from sleeping in a new place (sleep clinic).

n=25? Seriously?

This is barely passable as an early hypothesis test before you perform an actual study.

New comment by c2h5oh in "Capital One to acquire Brex for $5.15B"

c2h5oh — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 01:22:29 +0000

Majority of EU population. Even in US debit is more popular than credit in 18-25 age bracket.

New comment by c2h5oh in "AMD GPU Debugger"

c2h5oh — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 17:37:38 +0000

GDB supports it https://sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb.html/AMD-G...

You also get UMR from AMD https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/tomstdenis/umr

There is also a bunch of other tools provided: https://gpuopen.com/radeon-gpu-detective/ https://gpuopen.com/news/introducing-radeon-developer-tool-s...

New comment by c2h5oh in "Discontinuation of ARM Notebook with Snapdragon X Elite SoC"

c2h5oh — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 17:14:55 +0000

Qualcomm doesn't bother to upstream most of their SoCs. They maintain a fork of a specific Linux kernel version for a while and when they stop updating it or new version of Android requires newer kernel then updates for all devices based on that SoC end.

They have little experience producing code that is high enough quality it would be accepted into Linux kernel. They have even less experience maintaining it for an extended period of time.

New comment by c2h5oh in "A new chapter begins for EV batteries with the expiry of key LFP patents"

c2h5oh — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 11:42:30 +0000

I'd agree if you could stick them in the containers discharged, but you can't. This means that even safer chemistry like sodium battery is still hazardous cargo.

New comment by c2h5oh in "A new chapter begins for EV batteries with the expiry of key LFP patents"

c2h5oh — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 05:48:40 +0000

The small handful of sodium batteries that are currently available retail all seem to have rather bad roundtrip efficiency compared to LFP and voltage drop starting at a high state of charge.

Also LFP prices dropped enough that shipping cost from China became a significant part of the price. This will be even more of a factor should the less energy dense sodium batteries ever reach the promised $30/kWh.

New comment by c2h5oh in "Novo Nordisk's Canadian Mistake"

c2h5oh — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 22:29:52 +0000

With de minimis for US-bound packages suspended I suspect way more packages are inspected than used to be.

New comment by c2h5oh in "The graduate 'jobpocalypse': Where have all the entry-level jobs gone? [video]"

c2h5oh — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 12:35:48 +0000

Similar three stages are also at every job you have:

- you underperform while onboarding and rapidly learning to cover whatever skill gaps you discover

- you slowly go from doing OK to being overqualified, but it doesn't get reflected in compensation or title enough and your employer has little incentive to help you reach the next stage, because you are currently overperforming compared to your pay

- you are so much past your paygrade you quit and go to a company that will pay you what you will be worth after onboarding and learning to cover skill gaps

With everything that companies provided to earn long term employee loyalty being sacrificed to stock price employee growth through multiple roles in the same company has become more of an exception.

New comment by c2h5oh in "Time Spent on Hardening"

c2h5oh — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 23:11:04 +0000

Unless you equate web development and SaaS then no. It's the same in education, finance and SaaS targeting Fortune 500 companies.

Source: most of the companies I worked or consulted for in the past 20 years.

New comment by c2h5oh in "Time Spent on Hardening"

c2h5oh — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 21:30:21 +0000

This is not a "companies don't spend enough time with static and dynamic analysis of their software" problem, it's "less than a third of companies I worked or consulted for in the past 20 years mandated having input validation of any kind" problem.