Hacker News: century19

New comment by century19 in "In the UK, EVs are cheaper than petrol cars, thanks to Chinese competition"

century19 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 02:56:09 +0000

I think mostly like Tesla in the EU. And warranties are long, like 10 years.

New comment by century19 in "In the UK, EVs are cheaper than petrol cars, thanks to Chinese competition"

century19 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 02:53:15 +0000

So no free market. Consumers have to subsidise crap companies.

New comment by century19 in "In the UK, EVs are cheaper than petrol cars, thanks to Chinese competition"

century19 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 02:51:52 +0000

Vehicles have road taxes. It’s a very clumbsy and annoying way the UK have planned this new tax. I hope other countries do not copy it.

New comment by century19 in "A proposed amendment to ban under 16s in the UK from common online services"

century19 — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 15:06:44 +0000

It’s not about Andrew Tate, it’s about Gaza.

New comment by century19 in "The warning signs the AI bubble is about to burst"

century19 — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 17:02:04 +0000

Maybe it is 2000 in your analogy.

New comment by century19 in "Claude says “You're absolutely right!” about everything"

century19 — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 12:51:07 +0000

Yes and I’ve seen this at work. People saying I asked the LLM and it said I was right. Of course it did. It rarely doesn’t.

New comment by century19 in "Reviving a Modular Cargo Bike Design from the 1930s"

century19 — Mon, 12 May 2025 17:03:38 +0000

Bakfiets no? That’s what the Dutch call it and they use them widely. Especially the electric versions you can get nowadays.

New comment by century19 in "How long does it take to create a new habit? (2015)"

century19 — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 06:39:04 +0000

People that I have seen substitute with vaping seem to get more addicted to that.

New comment by century19 in "Twitter.com – Is Twitter Down?"

century19 — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 19:17:46 +0000

I don’t think you are the hero in this story. Pretty terrible behavior.

New comment by century19 in "It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds"

century19 — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 17:12:41 +0000

I have interviewed Turkish people that did not have Cloud experience as their large companies (e.g. banks) were not allowed to use US cloud services. Seems like that was wise now.

New comment by century19 in "It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds"

century19 — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 17:08:27 +0000

I've worked with many and it was always Windows, with some use of MacBooks in recent years. Never once seen Linux desktops.

New comment by century19 in "Tech jobs have dried up"

century19 — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 14:15:17 +0000

Don't worry. There is plenty to be done. These stories come up every few years. Previously it was outsourcing to India, or low-code tooling, etc. AI can make you more productive but there will still be plenty of jobs.

New comment by century19 in "X permanently stops Grok AI from using EU citizens' tweets – Irish court action"

century19 — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 17:23:16 +0000

How come Stack Overflow posts are fair game for AI without user permission?

New comment by century19 in "UK chip giant ARM developing GPU in Israel"

century19 — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 18:30:31 +0000

Intel cancelled a 25 billion site in Israel. The future of multi national companies in Israel does not look bright. This feels like a propaganda piece.

Sellafield apologises after guilty plea over string of cybersecurity failings

century19 — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 18:56:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/aug/08/sellafield-apologises-guilty-plea-security-failings-nuclear

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41194950

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by century19 in "Why Steve Jobs Went 'Thermonuclear' over Android (2014)"

century19 — Sat, 22 Jun 2024 11:58:03 +0000

Jobs famously muscled his way in and took their ideas, albeit from a dumb board.

Famous story:

Steve Jobs confronted Bill Gates after he announced Windows' GUI OS. "You’re stealing from us!” Bill replied "I think it's more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it."

New comment by century19 in "20 Years of Gmail"

century19 — Sat, 30 Mar 2024 12:35:40 +0000

You don’t consider Maps a Google product? I guess there was some tech acquisition part there.

New comment by century19 in "Engineer bought prison laptop and 1,200 incarcerated folks lost their devices"

century19 — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 14:11:56 +0000

Folk is as old as folk. As Lou Reed said when asked about folk music he said, “let me tell you about folk music, the folk are listening to rock and roll”.

Solid-state batteries: inside the race to transform electric vehicles

century19 — Sun, 04 Feb 2024 04:21:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/04/solid-state-batteries-inside-the-race-to-transform-the-science-of-electric-vehicles

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39247571

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by century19 in "As Nepali villages modernize, mokha art is on the verge of disappearing"

century19 — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 15:22:25 +0000

Checkout this map of outdoor art in Amsterdam.

https://amsterdam.kunstwacht.nl/plattegrond

A lot of them are small adornments to housing, one large area of which (Apollobuurt) was built as social housing 100 years ago.