Hacker News: chakintosh

New comment by chakintosh in "Microsoft to force updates to Windows 11 25H2 for PCs with older OS versions"

chakintosh — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 22:31:12 +0000

My hardware is supported and I'm sticking with 10 until the last ATM finally updates

Whoop is trying to copyright UI patterns, activity rings, dark mode and words

chakintosh — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 21:59:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAcx7kP9sog

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47643929

Points: 7

# Comments: 1

New comment by chakintosh in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

chakintosh — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 11:05:46 +0000

> unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.

That' a cop-out.

New comment by chakintosh in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

chakintosh — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 11:04:18 +0000

The United States will never understand that while they are a technologically advanced army, they will consistently get smoked by countries with a far more rudimentary arsenal. It's been happening in every war since Vietnam.

The US could probably steamroll Russia in a week, because both countries will try to deploy the latest tech they have, and the US blows Russia out of the water. But in Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia ... etc, their stealth jets and raptors stand no chance with weapons so old that those new systems didn't even account for.

SpaceX files confidentially for IPO potentially valued at $1.75T

chakintosh — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 11:20:41 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/01/spacex-files-confidentially-for-ipo-in-mega-listing-potentially-valued-at-1-75-trillion-report-says/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47612895

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by chakintosh in "My MacBook keyboard is broken and it's insanely expensive to fix"

chakintosh — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 10:02:09 +0000

I was gonna suggest to the author to lobotomize the key, but Karabiner is a viable fix too.

New comment by chakintosh in "I built a demo of what AI chat will look like when it's “free” and ad-supported"

chakintosh — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 11:56:00 +0000

i hate it

New comment by chakintosh in "ASML unveils EUV light source advance that could yield 50% more chips by 2030"

chakintosh — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 12:16:33 +0000

> Thanks for mentioning ASML sponsoring this. I was about to buy an EUV machine from another vendor

lol

New comment by chakintosh in "Qwen-Image-2.0: Professional infographics, exquisite photorealism"

chakintosh — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 14:34:07 +0000

Is it related to "Mr Hands" ?

New comment by chakintosh in "Luce: First Electric Ferrari"

chakintosh — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 08:42:41 +0000

I had to double check the URL to make sure this isn't a parody.

The interior is akin to something from a compact Chinese car. Nothing to do with Ferrari.

New comment by chakintosh in "Microsoft's Copilot chatbot is running into problems"

chakintosh — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 13:23:37 +0000

I opened Excel today to view a spreadsheet and just out of curiosity, I decided to use the Copilot integration for the first time to ask it about a column's content. Copilot was clueless. The spreadsheet was open, the Copilot button is right there in the UI, as a user, the affordance of that button for me is that Copilot should already have the context (which is the spreadsheet content). But it didn't, and it kept asking me for the spreadsheet like it's open in a browser window.

New comment by chakintosh in "Spanish track was fractured before high-speed train disaster, report finds"

chakintosh — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 09:21:31 +0000

> What do they do differently?

Accountability.

New comment by chakintosh in "A Year of 3D Printing"

chakintosh — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 14:34:26 +0000

The way I see it is that a 50g piece of 3D printed PLA could be used to fix a 5kg item that would have otherwise gone to the landfill. I for example have a broken hook for the door tray in my fridge, it's a tiny piece but it being broken rendered the entire 1kg tray useless, it's sitting on top of the fridge waiting for me to buy a 3D printer and fix it.

New comment by chakintosh in "Porsche sold more electrified cars in Europe in 2025 than pure gas-powered cars"

chakintosh — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 09:33:53 +0000

And Chinese brands are more than willing to tank the prices to absorb those tariffs

New comment by chakintosh in "Level S4 solar radiation event"

chakintosh — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 11:10:14 +0000

Crazy how many starlink satellite trains can be seen here. I spotted 4 trains, in that one cam

New comment by chakintosh in "Porsche sold more electrified cars in Europe in 2025 than pure gas-powered cars"

chakintosh — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 10:51:11 +0000

> but of the (very potential) rise of China as the premier automotive super power.

It's done. They're already the premier automotive superpower now. It might not seem like it in Europe and USA, but anywhere else in the world they are dominating. I live in Morocco and I am not exaggerating when I say that every week I see a new Chinese brand on the road. Not just cars of the same brand, completely new brands. Dacia and a lot of PSA cars are built in Morocco, so naturally they always had a strong positioning here, but now I'm seeing more BYDs than DACIA's most popular car, the Duster. It's anecdotal but it's quite telling considering the foothold French brands have always had here.

Here's a chart showing the sheer dominance of Chinese brands on the EV market in Morocco. 6 out of 10 models are Chinese.

https://www.wandaloo.com/files/2026/01/aivam-bilan-marche-au...

New comment by chakintosh in "Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley"

chakintosh — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 09:14:43 +0000

> The Hamas Charter explicitly called for the “annihilation” of the Jewish state.

See, this is what grinds my effing gears. On one hand you have a party "calling" for the "annihilation" of Israel. On the other hand, you have a part who is calling for the annihilation of palestinians AND they are ACTIVELY doing it. But no, you have to draw an equivalence somehow ...

New comment by chakintosh in "Google broke my heart"

chakintosh — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 09:10:07 +0000

The author is a bit naive for thinking Google even cares. It's the same company (among others) who used copyrighted material to train their LLM.

New comment by chakintosh in "Anti-aging injection regrows knee cartilage and prevents arthritis"

chakintosh — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 09:53:38 +0000

Or just treadmills, I find them more gentle on my joints than concrete because it's slightly cushioned.

New comment by chakintosh in "Who Watches the Waymos? I do [video]"

chakintosh — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 15:16:36 +0000

Waymo's been doing for the past 5 years what Elon's promised to deliver 10 years ago (and is still not delivering)