Hacker News: eisfresser

New comment by eisfresser in "Zooming UIs in 2026: Prezi, impress.js, and why I built something different"

eisfresser — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:21:18 +0000

The Home Assistant showcase looks fabulous.

The Autumn of the Ayatollahs: What Kind of Change Is Coming to Iran?

eisfresser — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 19:10:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/iran/autumn-ayatollahs

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47300123

Points: 9

# Comments: 1

New comment by eisfresser in "Qwen3.5-27B-Claude-4.6-Opus-Reasoning-Distilled"

eisfresser — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 20:29:27 +0000

Is this what Anthropic meant with this blogpost https://www.anthropic.com/news/detecting-and-preventing-dist... ? Alibaba was not mentioned, though.

New comment by eisfresser in "Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War"

eisfresser — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 06:47:14 +0000

> mass __domestic__ surveillance is incompatible with democratic values

But mass surveillance of Australians or Danes is alligned with democratic values as long as it's the Americans doing it?

I don't think the moral high ground Anthropic is taking here is high enough.

New comment by eisfresser in "Martial arts robots at 2026 Spring Festival Gala [video]"

eisfresser — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 08:39:36 +0000

It is time to rewatch Terminator 2.

New comment by eisfresser in "OpenClaw is what Apple intelligence should have been"

eisfresser — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 10:12:31 +0000

Not really. Giving the weather forecast or playing music seems pretty low risk to me.

New comment by eisfresser in "Trump 25% tariff on European allies until Denmark sells Greenland to US"

eisfresser — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 07:04:36 +0000

Americans consumer may continue to buy European goods at a higher price, but that's only roughly a third of the pie. The bigger part is European firms selling intermediate goods and capital goods to companies. There is not fuzzy preference in that marked, it's very cost driven. The extra tarif will tilt the balance heavily in favour of domestic producer.

And these tarifs will not go away quickly. Those domestic producers who benefited will lobby hard to keep them, no matter who sits in the white house.

New comment by eisfresser in "Forecats"

eisfresser — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 06:32:00 +0000

Such a great name for a humorous project. My wife rated it 'very cool'. I think I finally found a reason to connect a display to my HA. Thank you for sharing.

New comment by eisfresser in "Efficient method to capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere"

eisfresser — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 21:49:03 +0000

We use the CO2 to synthesize methanol with the H2 we electrolyze using surplus solar energy. The methanol we burn in winter for heat. Yes, that releases the CO2 again. The goal here is not to save the planet. It is to bring solar energy to winter. My house produces many times the electricity that it needs per year, but most of it is wasted in summer. Efficient conversion is not a factor. If I can get 20% of the energy input back as heat in winter, it is worth it: that is oil or wood I don't have to burn for heat.

New comment by eisfresser in "OpenAI's cash burn will be one of the big bubble questions of 2026"

eisfresser — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 08:57:24 +0000

ChatGPT is totally fluid in German and French (i.e.), their market size is my no means limited to the anglosphere.

New comment by eisfresser in "Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros"

eisfresser — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 17:15:55 +0000

Totally. It's miserable. We are watching cycling through HBO max at the moment, where it is still affordable. We get on TNT for the TdF because Rob Hatch. Surely it will go down the drain even further when the Ellisons get it.

New comment by eisfresser in "Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros"

eisfresser — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 17:11:17 +0000

Yes, they really killed MTB. If only Re Bull TV would buy the Discovery/Eurosport part. Or GCN!

New comment by eisfresser in "Ask HN: Should I add comments to my website?"

eisfresser — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 09:14:38 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44826164 discusses the use of bluesky as a comment solution

New comment by eisfresser in "Is Winter Coming? (2024)"

eisfresser — Mon, 19 May 2025 12:28:45 +0000

> another deep seek kinda of breakthrough

That was only six month ago. I don't think this is an argument that things are slowing down (yet).

New comment by eisfresser in "Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf?"

eisfresser — Mon, 12 May 2025 05:48:02 +0000

Windsurf at the moment. It now can run multiple "flows" in parallel, so I can set one cascade off to look into a bug somewhere while another cascade implements a feature elswhere in the code base. The LLMs spit out their tokens in the background, I drop in eventually to reveiew and accept or ask for further changes.

New comment by eisfresser in "Electric cars suffer 'unsustainable' depreciation in secondhand market"

eisfresser — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 10:08:47 +0000

I agree that there is a lot of uncertainty about the longevity of batteries. However, it seems to me that the extra depreciation is driven by price cuts of new electric cars. The article mentions an "electric car could expect to lose £24,000 in value over three years, while a similarly priced petrol car could lose £17,000" - Naturally, given that the sales price of the EV came down by £7,000 last year alone (i.e. Tesla Y).

Cloudflare’s view of Internet disruptions in Pakistan

eisfresser — Sun, 14 May 2023 11:40:15 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflares-view-of-internet-disruptions-in-pakistan/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35937232

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by eisfresser in "Ask HN: When did multiple environments become standard practice?"

eisfresser — Fri, 07 Apr 2023 05:47:05 +0000

I started my first job as a software developer in 1990. We ran only the production environment and of course had lenghty down times. I changed jobs frequently and by about 1994, I found dev and prod environments everywhere. By 1998, dev/test/prod setups were the norm.

New comment by eisfresser in "Jean-Michel Jarre’s ‘Oxygene 4’ Recreated with 19KB of JavaScript"

eisfresser — Wed, 28 Dec 2022 20:05:54 +0000

Smooth on a 12 year old Mac Mini with Safari - hooked to the living room stereo and powering a little retro party right now. Love it!