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New comment by enopod_ in "Book review: There Is No Antimemetics Division"

enopod_ — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:20:56 +0000

What article?

New comment by enopod_ in "SpaceX files to go public"

enopod_ — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:42:03 +0000

Best comment I read on SpaceX in a long time

New comment by enopod_ in "Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine"

enopod_ — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 16:08:53 +0000

Can it run Linux?

New comment by enopod_ in "OpenAI is walking away from expanding its Stargate data center with Oracle"

enopod_ — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 08:59:02 +0000

> The problem appears to be that Oracle is building today's DCs... Tomorrow.

By the time Vera Rubins will be available on scale, will they immediately be put into DCs, or will tomorrows chips be running.. the day after tomorrow?

New comment by enopod_ in "The engine of Germany's wealth is blocking its future"

enopod_ — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 19:25:07 +0000

This. VW actually invested a lot into EVs and now they’re outselling every other EV maker in the European market. Mercedes and BMW also invested a lot. All of them have brand new and pretty competitive EV platforms. Heck, even Peugeot make decent EVs. The only manufacturers lagging behind at this point are the Americans. Tesla basically stopped investing into EVs and their tech is outdated, in Europe they get absolutely butchered by VW and in China they‘re only able to keep sales level because the market is growing so fast. But soon Tesla will get annihilated in China too. Other US car makers that build EVs on scale are nowhere to be seen, besides maybe Rivian.

New comment by enopod_ in "I gave Claude access to my pen plotter"

enopod_ — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 15:55:34 +0000

What bugs me the most about this post is the anthropomorphizing of the machine. The author asks Claude "what [do] you feel", and the bot answers things like "What do I feel? Something like pull — toward clarity, toward elegance, ...", "I'm genuinely pleased...", "What I like...", "it feels right", "I enjoyed it", etc.

Come on, it's a computer, it doesn't have feelings! Stop it!

New comment by enopod_ in "Show HN: Algorithmically finding the longest line of sight on Earth"

enopod_ — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 23:48:15 +0000

Such a great project! I remember an older image of the french alps taken from the pyrenees, at over 400 km. Found it again here:

https://beyondrange.wordpress.com/2016/08/03/pic-de-finestre...

New comment by enopod_ in "The next steps for Airbus' big bet on open rotor engines"

enopod_ — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 20:30:43 +0000

Sounds like a helicopter is not very efficient?

New comment by enopod_ in "Microsoft is walking back Windows 11's AI overload"

enopod_ — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 17:06:27 +0000

Ah the good old days. Investing an entire weekend to make your pci soundblaster card work. Nowadays you just install an iso from a thumb drive, it takes 30 mins and everything works out of the box. So boring!

New comment by enopod_ in "Software Pump and Dump"

enopod_ — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 15:11:07 +0000

TIL about all that stuff, Moltbook, Openclaw, Gas Town, and I don't get it anymore. It's too much. Forums for chatbots with their own religion but its actually a crypto scam and vibecoded hypesoftware to scam people with sh*tcoins because yolo and whatnot. I'm out.

New comment by enopod_ in "Tesla kills Autopilot, locks lane-keeping behind $99/month fee"

enopod_ — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 21:04:28 +0000

this is hilarious :)

New comment by enopod_ in "European Alternatives"

enopod_ — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 14:14:26 +0000

Wow, nice! Great resource, thanks a lot!

The Walls Are Closing in on Tesla

enopod_ — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 08:39:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/the-walls-are-closing-in-on-tesla

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46665967

Points: 64

# Comments: 99

New comment by enopod_ in "Tesla’s 4680 battery supply chain collapses as partner writes down deal by 99%"

enopod_ — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 19:05:16 +0000

VW, Mercedes, BMW, Peugeot, Polestar all make great EVs and they absolutely dominate the European market. They built manufacturing capacity in EU first for the domestic market, but are not competitive on the US market because of Trumps tariffs. China produces very cheap, they‘re still competitive even with tariffs. European car companies either have to build EV manufacturing capacity in the US first, or hope for the next administration.

New comment by enopod_ in "Tesla’s 4680 battery supply chain collapses as partner writes down deal by 99%"

enopod_ — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 18:51:35 +0000

Volkswagen EV sales go brrr in Europe, while Tesla is in free fall.

New comment by enopod_ in "4 billion if statements (2023)"

enopod_ — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 12:38:55 +0000

This is the way.

New comment by enopod_ in "IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data centers will pay off"

enopod_ — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 09:01:13 +0000

That's exactly the thing. It's only about bookkeeping.

The big AI corps keep pushing depreciation for GPUs into the future, no matter how long the hardware is actually useful. Some of them are now at 6 years. But GPUs are advancing fast, and new hardware brings more flops per watt, so there's a strong incentive to switch to the latest chips. Also, they run 24/7 at 100% capacity, so after only 1.5 years, a fair share of the chips is already toast. How much hardware do they have in their books that's actually not useful anymore? Noone knows! Slower depreciation means more profit right now (for those companies that actually make profit, like MS or Meta), but it's just kicking the can down the road. Eventually, all these investments have to get out of the books, and that's where it will eat their profits. In 2024, the big AI corps invested about $1 trillion in AI hardware, next year is expected to be $2 trillion. Only the interest payments for that are crazy. And all of this comes on top of the fact that none of the these companies actually make any profit at all with AI. (Except Nvidia of course) There's just no way this will pan out.

New comment by enopod_ in "The Mack Super Pumper was a locomotive engined fire fighter (2018)"

enopod_ — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 11:12:10 +0000

Two of the three crankshafts rotate in the same direction, whereas the third one moves the other way around!

New comment by enopod_ in "Why does Swiss cheese have holes?"

enopod_ — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 10:46:39 +0000

Emmentaler and Gruyère close in texture and flavour and interchangeable? Oh boy, if you ever travel to Switzerland, I recommend you to keep your opinions on cheese to yourself. ;) Emmentaler has holes, is low in salt and has a taste which is on the bland side (I personally don't like it), whereas Gruyère has no holes, is saltier and has a much richer and "rounder" flavour. It comes in different stages of ripening, from young, which is soft in texture and mild, to old, which is hard and has a much stronger flavour. I personally like Gruyère mi-salé a lot, the semi-ripened one. It's close to a perfect cheese if you ask me.

New comment by enopod_ in "Why does Swiss cheese have holes?"

enopod_ — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 10:24:32 +0000

As a Swiss, I can assure you that this is false. Most cheese varieties have very strict quality requirements, if they're not met, the cheese may only end up as no-name ground cheese for pizza or something like that. But an Emmentaler, Gruyere, or Sbrinz always has the same quality, no matter if it's exported or for domestic consumption.