Hacker News: dasKrokodil

New comment by dasKrokodil in "New 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6"

dasKrokodil — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 07:51:48 +0000

NeXTSTep

New comment by dasKrokodil in "AfD Leak: What 421,179 Hacked Emails Show about the German Far Right"

dasKrokodil — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 11:19:12 +0000

And this is the party endorsed by Elon Musk. The guy who performed a Nazi salute on stage, twice.

New comment by dasKrokodil in "Apple routed a graphite pipe through the iPhone Duo's hinge to dissipate heat"

dasKrokodil — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 11:39:15 +0000

As a user, I'm much closer to 'the masses' than to the power users and still I have to say that Apple's software keeps getting worse.

New comment by dasKrokodil in "Danish Supreme Court Finds That AI CSAM Is CSAM"

dasKrokodil — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 08:27:54 +0000

Where does the training data for AI-CSAM come from?

New comment by dasKrokodil in "Ask HN: Why do people say "I built it" when we should say "Claude built it"?"

dasKrokodil — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 12:15:22 +0000

Keeping in mind who generated all the training data for Claude, maybe people should say 'we built it'?

New comment by dasKrokodil in "RimWorld 1.7 moves from Unity to Ludeon's in-house Waylith engine"

dasKrokodil — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 07:11:24 +0000

Wow, that's really cool! And rather unexpected (at least from my side, but I'm also not really keeping up with RimWorld news).

And then, at the end of the announcement, it says:

"RimWorld isn’t the only game on Waylith. We’re working on something new! It may be a little while before we can share more details, but we couldn’t resist telling you."

Exciting!

New comment by dasKrokodil in "Scandinavia's first farmers slaughtered hunter-gatherer population, DNA suggests"

dasKrokodil — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 06:11:08 +0000

'Slaughtered' is a bit hyperbolic. Opening the article, I kind of assumed this was about cannibalism, which it isn't.

New comment by dasKrokodil in "US Forces Exit Iraq"

dasKrokodil — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 07:50:23 +0000

Mission Accomplished!

New comment by dasKrokodil in "People hooked on vapes try a new way to quit: cigarettes"

dasKrokodil — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 09:43:56 +0000

> At least with cigarettes the smoke is such an intense irritant you self-regulate pretty quickly compared to a cupcake flavoured vape you can just suck on all day long.

In my experience: no, you don't. You just arrange your life around the fact that you need to smoke all the time.

New comment by dasKrokodil in "People hooked on vapes try a new way to quit: cigarettes"

dasKrokodil — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 07:22:25 +0000

A while back I saw this on reddit... in case you don't want to click the link, it's a picture of a cigarette with the caption "This plant-based alternative promises to help high schoolers stop vaping".

I would have never thought that people would be stupid enough to try this for real, but here we are...

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd....

New comment by dasKrokodil in "Volkswagen Just Built an EV That Can Go Nearly 900 Miles on a Charge"

dasKrokodil — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 07:18:55 +0000

Yes, it's a prototype. But it's from a company that has built countless production cars, and which also produced a road-legal limited production run of a pretty similar car (just with ICE instead of electric): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_1-litre_car

I'm pretty sure they could bring this to market almost immediately, if there was a sizeable market for this kind of vehicle.

Aptera on the other hand has been around for a long time now, changing their product strategy every now and then, making announcements... I wish them all the best, I really do, but until they actually ship something, I will also stay skeptical.

New comment by dasKrokodil in "Volkswagen Just Built an EV That Can Go Nearly 900 Miles on a Charge"

dasKrokodil — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 13:58:02 +0000

Aptera is even more vaporware-y than this though.

New comment by dasKrokodil in "Pixel 11 Pro Fold feels like the end of an era"

dasKrokodil — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 07:38:40 +0000

For me personally, the only valid use case for a foldable phone would be Nintendo DS/3DS emulation. Other than that.... meh, they suck.

New comment by dasKrokodil in "The New Berlin Wall"

dasKrokodil — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 14:12:00 +0000

> "Technologically, we are rapidly moving into an age where it is feasible to colonise the solar system, but there are those who would try to wall us into this planet using legal and political means."

Is it really feasible though? I'm not up to speed with the state of the art, but in my limited understanding, we are still pretty far away from being able to colonise our solar system. I'd be happy to be proven wrong, but I don't see it happening any time soon.

New comment by dasKrokodil in "Warm up your MacBook (2019)"

dasKrokodil — Thu, 28 May 2026 07:54:22 +0000

Speaking of cold weather and warming up computers... I've had my fair share of long bicycle commutes during cold winters and I always wondered whether booting up the laptop right after arriving has any effect on the long-term reliability? Like, are there any components which suffer from being activated when they're really cold?

New comment by dasKrokodil in "The Steinwinter Supercargo"

dasKrokodil — Wed, 27 May 2026 12:13:02 +0000

Sure, visibility would be worse than on a normal truck, but no worse than a low sportscar (which is also road legal and no problem to drive). I don't think it would have been much of an issue.

New comment by dasKrokodil in "UnDUNE II"

dasKrokodil — Tue, 12 May 2026 18:20:03 +0000

This is very cool! And very impressive that it was made to work on PICO-8.

A small nitpick: I'm pretty sure the sand worms wouldn't eat foot soldiers in the original, only vehicles.

New comment by dasKrokodil in "First tunnel element of the Fehmarnbelt Tunnel immersed"

dasKrokodil — Mon, 11 May 2026 14:15:45 +0000

> With this tunnel done, I believe Copenhagen to Hamburg will be less than three hours.

Even when the tunnel will finally be done, Deutsche Bahn will find creative ways to make it take five hours again.

New comment by dasKrokodil in "Scientists warn Atlantic current at risk of shutting down"

dasKrokodil — Sun, 10 May 2026 19:19:34 +0000

Great, I live in coastal northern Europe, so the question will be whether I'll freeze to death from AMOC shutting down, or drown from the rising sea levels. Maybe I should move to Switzerland or something.

New comment by dasKrokodil in "The Joy of Folding Bikes"

dasKrokodil — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 09:54:52 +0000

If you're into folding bikes and recumbents, check out the prototype for the folding Baron:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTsTKdqVTY8

It's a shame that it never went into production, but I guess at that time Optima already saw the writing on the wall that two-wheel recumbents wouldn't be profitable for much longer.