Hacker News: giarc

New comment by giarc in "Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production"

giarc — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 17:07:15 +0000

My kids and their friends play a game where when you see certain cars, you do certain actions. Like "punch buggy" with VW bugs but with a bunch of different cars. Cybertruck is "cyberslap" and you get to slap someone when you see one.

New comment by giarc in "Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production"

giarc — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 17:05:59 +0000

I have a buddy that has worked for corporate auto companies for 20 years. In most cities, dealerships make little to no money on the initial sale as competition has driven them down to dealer pricing. They make all their money on add ons (undercoating, paint protection), financing kick backs, warranties, and ongoing maintenance (this being the largest chunk). So there's probably a lot of truth to what you are saying.

New comment by giarc in "Private Jet plane crashes in Florida"

giarc — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 12:56:20 +0000

You would never know a plane caused that crater since there was so little left. Hopefully it puts to bed the conspiracy theories of the plane that crashed into the pentagon. Doubt it though.

New comment by giarc in "Tesla Roadster"

giarc — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 14:01:45 +0000

Imagine if he had just come out to introduce a common sense minivan, shipping in 2027 and lower cost than the Sienna and Odyssey. There are nearly half a million minivans sold every year, I wonder if Tesla could quickly take 30% of that market with regular Tesla look (not cyber punk style).

New comment by giarc in "Waymo in Toronto"

giarc — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 16:37:58 +0000

You can see their planned locations on the map here https://waymo.com/

Includes St Louis, Chicago, Detroit, Pittsburg, Minneapolis etc.

New comment by giarc in "E Ink Kaleido 4"

giarc — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 21:05:26 +0000

My kids have Clara's and they love them for graphic novels. They had b/w kobo's before but would never go back (unless they stopped reading graphic novels).

New comment by giarc in "Apple HomeView"

giarc — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 15:10:08 +0000

I think it does/will? There's an image of it showing the Pluribus image an S1E1 listing. Unless that is acting as a remote for an Apple TV?

New comment by giarc in "Google Playground: Create and play custom games"

giarc — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 13:04:17 +0000

They have updated the link now.

>Not available in your region Playground is expanding to more regions soon. In the meantime, you can explore other experiments today.

New comment by giarc in "Google Playground: Create and play custom games"

giarc — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 14:26:14 +0000

For the main page or for the playground.google link?

New comment by giarc in "Mike Tomlin spent 12 years building a Minecraft city"

giarc — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 21:17:33 +0000

One of his star players posted this in response.

https://x.com/LeVeonBell/status/2105491655142867280

For those without X, "we were tryna win super bowls and coach T was on minecraft building cities "

New comment by giarc in "Apple Pass Designer"

giarc — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 21:12:11 +0000

Tim Horton's allows reward card in Apple Wallet, but not Scan And Pay (which gives rewards and pays for order at same time). I wonder if the addition of the payment creates a dynamic QR code controlled by the app, and therefore not allowed in Apple Wallet for some reason.

EDIT - I think this is the case. When I open and close my Scan and Pay QR code it is changing each time whereas my Reward only card (in Apple Wallet) is static. Must be due to security.

New comment by giarc in "Apple Pass Designer"

giarc — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 21:10:32 +0000

That is really neat! I've made 3, however they are all grouped together in my Apple Wallet, even though they are completely separate. Any idea why?

New comment by giarc in "Apple Pass Designer"

giarc — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 20:59:06 +0000

I have a few apps on my phone for which the only purpose is to open and bring up a barcode (ex. Tim Hortons Scan and Pay). I'd love to delete the app and only have an Apple Wallet thing.

New comment by giarc in "Dots: Always-on agents"

giarc — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 17:33:38 +0000

The muse character is cute, muse the name is not.

New comment by giarc in "California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops"

giarc — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 13:10:17 +0000

Yes, but many of those wineries import their grapes from California (or other places). My wife and I participate in this boycott and were drinking a sparkling white from Mission Hill Winery which is one of the biggest BC wineries. We noticed the label said something like "Produced in Canada" and then listed grapes imported from California.

Wines that are produced from 100% BC grapes are labelled "BC VQA" and only 19% of the wines in BC are BC VQA.

New comment by giarc in "Meta Blocks President Lula's Facebook Page, Campaign Ads 2 Weeks from Election"

giarc — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 14:27:58 +0000

"created a pro russian candidate from thin air 2 weeks before the election"

The way you phrased this made it seem like the candidate didn't exist. The candidate was a real person, but just wasn't well known or polling very well before winning.

New comment by giarc in "I'm the mom in that viral Giants clip. Let me tell you about my husband"

giarc — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 18:03:13 +0000

I was thinking of this recently. I "dogsit" for many families and had one recently that wasn't great on leash. She would do this thing where she would lay down and try to eat something off the ground (sticks, garbage, animal/dog poop, dead mice, dead birds... whatever she could find). Much of it would likely make her sick and therefore I would have to quickly pull on the leash to prevent her from eating some random thing she found. Being an 80lbs dog, I had to tug quite hard to quickly get her away from whatever she had found. If someone saw me in that moment, they'd probably think I was a terrible dog owner. Without the context that I was actually trying to prevent harm, someone could take a video, post online with the caption "Identify this dog abuser!" and ruin my reputation.

New comment by giarc in "Geothermal heat map of US hot springs"

giarc — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 19:17:23 +0000

Toggle the Geothermal Heat Flow button in top right and you'll see why.

New comment by giarc in "Montreal adopts bylaw banning insults against police, municipal employees"

giarc — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 14:55:55 +0000

I think these are the key sentences in that article (below). This bylaw is probably targeted toward citizens that come in and berate staff because they find out they have an unpaid parking ticket from 2 years ago that they have to pay before renewing their license (for example).

>The new Montreal bylaw would ban insults, harassment, threats, abuse and intimidation, as well as offensive and aggressive behaviour.

>It also includes provisions saying city employees could refuse to provide services to someone who misbehaves. However, the bylaw doesn't define what could be construed as an insult.

New comment by giarc in "AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible"

giarc — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 15:18:38 +0000

>If the sign was simple Comic Sans

I remember the days when people would make fun of a sign like that. Then people would make fun of Wordart, then Canva. It appears that unless you spend $1500 on a graphic designer to create your poster, people will shit on your effort.