Hacker News: formerly_proven

New comment by formerly_proven in "Tesla Roadster"

formerly_proven — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 20:10:22 +0000

Well you still take a compromise on range, charging speed, comfort, size etc. with those options.

New comment by formerly_proven in "Strafe: A new open-source, E2E Encrypted, and federated alternative to Discord"

formerly_proven — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 11:55:34 +0000

Building strafe.chat and expecting people to not expect it’s a D/s chat app is hilarious.

Also “strafe on your desktop”. Plus this is obviously entirely vibecoded.

New comment by formerly_proven in "Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age"

formerly_proven — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:57:27 +0000

An M4 Sherman is about 6m long which production SUVs don't reach. That's about the length of an L3 delivery van, which is usually the longest version they make.

The M4 is 2.6m wide. No car is 2.6m wide. That's wider than a coach bus.

The M4 is 3m tall. Even the fattest SUVs do not come close.

The M4 weighs 30+ tons.

New comment by formerly_proven in "Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age"

formerly_proven — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 10:28:03 +0000

No, the data is in on the Spring. It's just bad. But it's also not even a Dacia/Renault, but rather badge engineered Dongfeng.

11 year old unsoundness bugs found in Rust borrow checker

formerly_proven — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 10:27:00 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/164250

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50069499

Points: 749

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New comment by formerly_proven in "Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age"

formerly_proven — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 21:21:02 +0000

False. M1E means type approvals will be valid for ten years instead of requiring compliance to changing / updating rules and requirements on a roughly biennial schedule. The requirements will be the same as the current M1 requirements. You can just sell an outdated/unsafer car for way longer without investing into changes and R&D.

New comment by formerly_proven in "Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age"

formerly_proven — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 21:14:05 +0000

> Sure, but that's a different kind of safety than _crash_ safety.

It literally is not. Both are crash safety systems, active and passive, respectively. The active category also includes things like ABS and ESP.

> (which, mostly, I already prevent by paying attention)

This is an extremely well researched area (car crashes cause trillions in dollars of damages annually and therefore get a lot of attention) and not to the support of your stance.

New comment by formerly_proven in "Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age"

formerly_proven — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 21:06:09 +0000

EX2 has short range and charges even slower, I doubt it's a particularly interesting car for europe outside certain niches (like delivery services).

New comment by formerly_proven in "Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age"

formerly_proven — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 21:03:54 +0000

Dacia Spring is basically everything some people think all Chinese cars are. I.e. extremely cheaply built, will definitely not last (it's one of the worst performing cars for safety-critical defects in 2/3 year inspections), with bad safety and somehow worse performance.

It's a typical example of boots theory. So cheap and compromised you'll spend more in the long run.

New comment by formerly_proven in "The RAM shortage is bringing back DDR4"

formerly_proven — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 20:33:27 +0000

Lots of precedent for that: In the EU WEEE has incentivized companies to crush working electronics rather than selling them, because it is way less bureaucracy to hand something to a certified recycler than it is to legally sell the stuff. And once something has been entered into the WEEE system as waste it's pretty much impossible to legally recover it: the recyclers are literally not allowed to simply pick working equipment out of the pile and sell it. Technically WEEE is supposed to enable reuse, but it's way easier and less bureaucracy to just crush stuff. The necessary per-item paperwork, testing and certification (it has to actually work, broken/non-working equipment cannot be removed from the WEEE system, because it is waste, legally) and logistics required for reuse exceed the residual value anyway.

That's why used enterprise/industrial electronics are way less common on EU eBay compared to other places, despite the industrial base being so large (or used to being so large). You can actually see when WEEE came into force because very little used T&M equipment entered circulation in the EU after the early 2000s.

Another factor is lease agreements, where companies don't buy equipment and the lessor "recycles" (i.e. crushes) the equipment to avoid creating a used/second hand market as an additional benefit.

New comment by formerly_proven in "The tilde in your PATH may not be your HOME"

formerly_proven — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 15:08:00 +0000

Array of arguments is vastly superior and more secure than every program/runtime inventing a slightly different way of splitting a command string into an array of arguments. No debate. A real problem is the related birth defect in ssh2.

New comment by formerly_proven in "Bitwarden Dual License Model"

formerly_proven — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 16:53:03 +0000

Over 1k words for something which fits in two paragraphs. Painful.

New comment by formerly_proven in "Hackers obtain counterfeit TLS certificates for Google and other large services"

formerly_proven — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 09:22:04 +0000

Google Chrome has a static, preloaded pin set for Google's own web properties, I guess these minor ccTLDs were not covered by that.

New comment by formerly_proven in "The Four Horsemen of Agentic Coding"

formerly_proven — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 16:29:01 +0000

Really seems more like you got used to their verbal tics and unmonitored quality, to be honest.

New comment by formerly_proven in "Backblaze drive stats for Q2 2026"

formerly_proven — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 10:41:19 +0000

The 16 TB drive won't be anywhere close to 4x faster than the 4 TB drive, though. Maybe 20% (~200 MB/s vs ~230-250 MB/s). That's because most of the capacity increase comes from more tracks and more platters, not linear density, which determines throughput.

New comment by formerly_proven in "Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain"

formerly_proven — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 13:38:37 +0000

Non-plugin hybrids are just regular gas cars. It would be bizarre to give them any sort of preferential treatment in anything, though their rules are already strange to begin with (giving tax advantages to PHEVs and EREVs, which are almost exclusively used as pure gas cars).

New comment by formerly_proven in "There are no "rogue" AI agents"

formerly_proven — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 18:55:42 +0000

The rogue unaccountable hacking will continue until OAI/Anthropic get their regulatory moat by banning foreign and open competition.

New comment by formerly_proven in "Toyota is taking the Corolla electric"

formerly_proven — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 19:24:07 +0000

The EV6 GT is a 1550mm tall crossover SUV-coupe weighing almost 4900 lbs with 577 hp, but is more of a young man's sports car than a 1380mm tall sedan weighing 100 lbs more but approaching twice the power? Seems sensible.

New comment by formerly_proven in "Toyota is taking the Corolla electric"

formerly_proven — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 19:18:23 +0000

Most hybrids Toyota sells have a ~1 kWh battery which cannot be charged externally.

New comment by formerly_proven in "Toyota is taking the Corolla electric"

formerly_proven — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 18:54:41 +0000

Historically most of these "Whether it’s a battery EV, plug-in hybrid, hybrid, or internal combustion engine vehicle―whatever the power source" platforms have been utter ICE-first EV-distant-fourth-priority shit shows. Most of the exceptions are rather expensive.