Hacker News: maigret

New comment by maigret in "Tesla profits drop 43% in Q3"

maigret — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 06:14:12 +0000

Totally, I’ve sat multiple times in Tesla and I don’t see what I am missing. Their interior and design is quite meh also.

New comment by maigret in "Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?"

maigret — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 10:21:08 +0000

You have to keep it secure, so it’s not “pay once” but has running costs, and need some kind of security scanning, citizen developer devops platform etc etc

New comment by maigret in "Hitachi launches CO2 heat pump water heaters with solar-friendly tariff controls"

maigret — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 12:19:47 +0000

Absolutely in that case it would be more for fiddling and having a conversation starter with friends. It also depends on how reliable your grid is etc.

New comment by maigret in "Hitachi launches CO2 heat pump water heaters with solar-friendly tariff controls"

maigret — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 10:01:23 +0000

What kind of electricity usage do you have? Because a used electric car probably around 20k provides you with easily 50+kwh in car to grid, + you get a working car for free.

New comment by maigret in "Mistral raises €3B"

maigret — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 18:01:46 +0000

How many days do you actually take?

New comment by maigret in "Hitachi launches CO2 heat pump water heaters with solar-friendly tariff controls"

maigret — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 17:37:31 +0000

Solar + batteries is cheaper than ever. Americans are often full preppers and DIY but when we speak about energy autonomy and efficiency they immediately get some weird allergy.

New comment by maigret in "iPhone Duo"

maigret — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 21:34:45 +0000

Will they though? They would capture more windows users. They already have the Neo actually. iPad still has another job mainly around simpler tasks. I’ve not yet got to love the Macosy windows management.

New comment by maigret in "iPhone Duo"

maigret — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 21:24:32 +0000

Bad luck, accessibility standards require you to support 320px width without horizontal scroll bar for most elements, especially the main layout. (1280px with 400% zoom)

New comment by maigret in "Why humanoid robots won't catch up to human workers any time soon"

maigret — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 14:41:18 +0000

Med school has its own issues and is a very demanding learning and career path. Lots of stress, long shifts etc. I am very impressed by the people doing it but it’s not for everyone.

Anyway, who can predict the future? There are still lots of things to do in IT in the age of AI - actually, more than before. The question is most whether you like writing software and doing planning and bug fixes all day for the next decades.

New comment by maigret in "Dutch central bank moves share of gold from U.S., Canada to London"

maigret — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 14:34:36 +0000

That’s the definition of democracy. Of course voting is significant and has consequences.

New comment by maigret in "Super El Niño Keeps Growing as New Forecasts Reach Record Territory Ahead Winter"

maigret — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 13:29:04 +0000

Actually private equity have been accumulating stakes quickly in renewables lately. Makes sense. Talk bad of a future tech to own most of the cake early for cheap...

https://www.cfainstitute.org/insights/articles/private-equit...

New comment by maigret in "Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation"

maigret — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 09:41:16 +0000

“Distilled”? I mean what model is not distilled from other data? The American models happily trained from my blog and social media data without any kind of rewards. If I can pay the inference I don’t see why I wouldn’t do this. Also, I have not seen proof that the US lab do not use other models for training either.

New comment by maigret in "Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation"

maigret — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 09:38:01 +0000

In Germany you are obligated to provide usable contact information, and there are even lawyers who make their business model on suing you for not applying that perfectly (it’s has been abused a lot in the past decades btw).

New comment by maigret in "Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc"

maigret — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 09:22:12 +0000

VS Code is hard to escape as well.

New comment by maigret in "Ten Ways NAS Is Getting Enshitified"

maigret — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 07:40:16 +0000

Yes because most people don’t have an off site backup strategy.

New comment by maigret in "Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown"

maigret — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:40:35 +0000

Most French people write cursive.

New comment by maigret in "W Social, public institutions and the theater of European digital sovereignty"

maigret — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 06:19:12 +0000

I never understood that point too. It shows quite some cognitive decline in the users mind. Searching for 20 minutes is now too much even if your privacy depends on it. I suspect also this was a well planted thinking point by the social media conglomerates.

I mean of course I have to choose an instance! That’s called a market. People have been lobotomized to prioritize monopolies.

New comment by maigret in "Age verification is just a precursor to automated attribution of speech"

maigret — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 06:06:34 +0000

Indeed a lot of social media platforms are used by foreign powers to create discord. Human psychology is much more attentive to negative messages and this is too easy to weaponize. A solution against that would probably be world changing. It would have to preserve anonymity still of course.

New comment by maigret in "Age verification for social media, the beginning of the end for a free internet?"

maigret — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 21:00:01 +0000

Well the thing is that people often love when the government tells other families how to live, and partly for good reasons including enabling basic education for everyone. Partly the wants of the parents and the needs of the kids might be at odds. Society is a complex construct.

New comment by maigret in "The dead economy theory"

maigret — Sat, 30 May 2026 18:32:02 +0000

If the rate of failure is slightly consistent then more layoffs will lead to more startups, so more will get on top. Many companies business are easier to attack than it looks. Look early 2000, early 2010 have both brought their set of amazing startups. 5 years ago people were most motivated to switch companies for more money.