Hacker News: jacobgorm

New comment by jacobgorm in "Tesla's supervised self-driving software gets Dutch okay, first in Europe"

jacobgorm — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 11:02:40 +0000

More like third in Europe after BMW and Ford, according to https://electrek.co/2026/04/10/tesla-fsd-supervised-approved...

New comment by jacobgorm in "[dead]"

jacobgorm — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 09:20:32 +0000

I have been developing local AI on Apple devices since 2019, and they already had great AI support via Accelerate and MPS back then. Contrast to the Windows DirectML fiasco, which was basically just finger-pointing between MS, Intel and AMD all saying “it works on my machine” for years, I would say that Apple was always far ahead and did invest where it actually mattered to developers and users.

New comment by jacobgorm in "Pi – A minimal terminal coding harness"

jacobgorm — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 16:23:35 +0000

Some of us never left the terminal. Welcome to the future.

New comment by jacobgorm in "Members-only Philly cop bar has been linked to two DUIs and a third crash"

jacobgorm — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 10:02:34 +0000

When I lived in the US I was surprised about how casually everyone treated DUI. In Northern Europe, where I am from, driving after drinking is socially unacceptable in Generation X and younger.

New comment by jacobgorm in "Halt and Catch Fire: TV’s best drama you’ve probably never heard of (2021)"

jacobgorm — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 09:23:14 +0000

The pilot episode was so lame I almost skipped this, but the rest is just stellar.

New comment by jacobgorm in "I fixed Windows native development"

jacobgorm — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 21:29:02 +0000

I’ve found that just installing LLVM, CMake and Ninja is enough to get started developing on Windows for most things C/C++.

New comment by jacobgorm in "Volvo EX60 Targets 400-Mile Range and Coffee-Stop Charging"

jacobgorm — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 16:20:58 +0000

It is produced in Sweden.

New comment by jacobgorm in "Danish pension fund divesting US Treasuries"

jacobgorm — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 10:21:10 +0000

PFA, the largest private Danish pension fund already started reducing exposure to USD and UST last year https://www.pfa.dk/news-archive/2026/01/19/10/21/pfa-anbefal...

New comment by jacobgorm in "I'm making a game engine based on dynamic signed distance fields (SDFs) [video]"

jacobgorm — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 22:34:22 +0000

GameGlobe from Haptico and Square Enix, the engine of which also powered Project Spark from Microsoft, also used an SDF engine. Former colleagues of mine built the tech in Copenhagen and I remember getting a super impressive demo back then. This was the first time I heard of SDFs.

New comment by jacobgorm in "Tesla's Germany Sales Down 72% from Their Peak"

jacobgorm — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 17:22:11 +0000

In Northern Europe we have lots of fast chargers now, and apart from Tesla, which is open to anyone with their app, none are tied to a particular car brand. I’ve never encountered problems fast-charging my BMWs. Most cars you can buy today have the option to pre-heat the battery, but it is possible that not all owners know how to activate that. The newer Renaults run on Google software, which is said to be very user friendly and good at route planning.

New comment by jacobgorm in "Tesla's Germany Sales Down 72% from Their Peak"

jacobgorm — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 23:31:41 +0000

At least in Denmark where I live, since Tesla started competing on cost a few years ago, and then the DOGE fiasco. It’s the car you get if you’re already a Tesla owner and hardcore believer, or just see a car as a means of transportation and buy purely on specs. The days when Teslas were status symbols are long gone. We can buy so many other interesting EVs here, for example I just had a friend who was an EV hater six months ago come by showing off his brand new Renault R5 today. That car has 10x more character than a TM3 and costs less even if he got it fully loaded. VAG has a very strong lineup of TMY competitors that combined are vastly outselling it, and so has Kia/Hyundai and Renault. Those with more money will go for BMW, Mercedes, Audi, or even Porsche. And then there are all the Chinese brands starting to make inroads. Most here see buying Chinese as less problematic than buying Musk.

New comment by jacobgorm in "Tesla's Germany Sales Down 72% from Their Peak"

jacobgorm — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 22:35:36 +0000

The cars now look generic and driving them will brand you as either the type of person who gets all their news from alt right social media or someone who just can’t afford buying from a more established car maker.

New comment by jacobgorm in "London–Calcutta bus service"

jacobgorm — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 19:29:08 +0000

1997 for me.

New comment by jacobgorm in "London–Calcutta bus service"

jacobgorm — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 15:44:18 +0000

I took that once from SF to NYC when in my twenties. Definitely recommend.

New comment by jacobgorm in "Donut Lab’s all-solid-state battery delivers 400 Wh/kg of energy density"

jacobgorm — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 14:00:42 +0000

Apparently Nordic Nano is a spin out from the University of Tampere, and the CEO of Donut Labs seems to have his own money. I happened to spend three weeks in Tampere by accident 15 years ago, and I have no reason to believe that people there don’t know what they are doing. It is where Nokia was originally founded, and where the first GSM phone call was made.

New comment by jacobgorm in "Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI"

jacobgorm — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 21:55:57 +0000

I liked the way Red Hat thanked important contributors to open source prior to their IPO better https://www.sonarsource.com/blog/the-red-hat-ipo-experiment-...

New comment by jacobgorm in "CUDA Tile Open Sourced"

jacobgorm — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 09:51:04 +0000

Who would anyone want to pair a subpar language with a subpar ML framework?

New comment by jacobgorm in "The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine"

jacobgorm — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 18:17:20 +0000

Not if you’re a vaccine skeptic and personal friends with the CDC director https://www.statnews.com/2025/12/18/cdc-grant-controversial-...

New comment by jacobgorm in "Danish postal service to stop delivering letters"

jacobgorm — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 09:46:02 +0000

Denmark has an official system for sending digital mail, which is how we receive letters from the government, bank statements, pay slips, and so on. Without this base load of paper mail, the economics of delivering paper mail stopped working.

New comment by jacobgorm in "Launch HN: Nia (YC S25) – Give better context to coding agents"

jacobgorm — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 21:59:40 +0000

SOTA on internal benchmark?