Hacker News: mzhaase

New comment by mzhaase in "The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing"

mzhaase — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:02:36 +0000

Why should we only do things that produce some sort of value? Do we really want to reduce all of human existence to increasing profits?

New comment by mzhaase in "I don't know how you get here from “predict the next word”"

mzhaase — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 07:21:12 +0000

It always occurred to me that LLMs may be like the language center of the brain. And there should be a "whole damn rest of the brain" behind it to steer it.

LLMs miss very important concepts, like the concept of a fact. There is no "true", just consensus text on the internet given a certain context. Like that study recently where LLMs gave wrong info if there was the biography of a poor person in the context.

New comment by mzhaase in "Man accidentally gains control of 7k robot vacuums"

mzhaase — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 20:47:32 +0000

Until it can disassemble a robot to attach a programmer to the mainboard, it cannot.

New comment by mzhaase in "The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling"

mzhaase — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 07:23:47 +0000

Instead of market capitalization, have you looked at comparisons for happiness?

New comment by mzhaase in "Why is the sky blue?"

mzhaase — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 07:27:51 +0000

Liquid oxygen has the same color.

New comment by mzhaase in "I built a light that reacts to radio waves [video]"

mzhaase — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 07:27:34 +0000

Yes it has been done: https://youtu.be/sXwDrcd1t-E?si=V75bEPMT8qGbo1wG

New comment by mzhaase in "CLI agents make self-hosting on a home server easier and fun"

mzhaase — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 09:46:16 +0000

Instead of the vibe-admin approach, why not have the LLM write an Ansible playbook? At least its repeatable and auditable that way.

New comment by mzhaase in "My Home Fibre Network Disintegrated"

mzhaase — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 08:45:33 +0000

Water based or solvent based paint?

New comment by mzhaase in "Claude Code gets native LSP support"

mzhaase — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 14:16:20 +0000

You can put it all on a hotkey.

New comment by mzhaase in "How China built its ‘Manhattan Project’ to rival the West in AI chips"

mzhaase — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 08:06:41 +0000

I recommend the HTX Studio YouTube channel. The things that they release on a regular basis would be year long engineering projects on other channels.

New comment by mzhaase in "Roomba maker goes bankrupt, Chinese owner emerges"

mzhaase — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 09:57:57 +0000

There is also another thing where quality Chinese products are very cheap compared to western products. Since Chinese engineers are cheaper, they can live with lower margins on their products.

A roomba was twice as much as a roborock that was better.

Prusa MK4S is 720 EUR, the arguably better Bambu Lab A1 is 260 EUR.

New comment by mzhaase in "Roomba maker goes bankrupt, Chinese owner emerges"

mzhaase — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 09:48:06 +0000

Check out valetudo.

New comment by mzhaase in "The Whole App is a Blob"

mzhaase — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 09:45:26 +0000

Italian is also very easy to learn while German makes absolutely no sense.

A turnip is female, the fishmongers wife is neutral, a boy is male, a girl is neutral, the wife is female. Plural of Tür is Türen plural of Öffnung is Öffnungen, plural of Vogel is Vögel plural of Fenster is.. Fenster.

Hundreds of unspoken rules regarding word order, some verbs that can be separated and others cannot.. Completely random.

And good luck even being able to hear the difference between spucken and spuken if your language doesn't have long vs. short vowels.

New comment by mzhaase in "X blocks EU Commission's advertising account after €120M fine"

mzhaase — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 19:55:00 +0000

I did.

New comment by mzhaase in "Germany votes to bring in voluntary military service programme for 18-year-olds"

mzhaase — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 14:15:39 +0000

Germany already had mandatory conscription for a long time and not once were conscripts send abroad.

New comment by mzhaase in "Kohler Can Access Pictures from "End-to-End Encrypted" Toilet Camera"

mzhaase — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 07:20:26 +0000

I watched a teardown of it and the truly bizarre thing was that the build quality was actually amazing. Machined out of a huge block of aluminum, really big bearings, etc.

New comment by mzhaase in "250MWh 'Sand Battery' to start construction in Finland"

mzhaase — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 06:44:10 +0000

Its kind of done. Active heating systems often have the intake air go through the foundation so it heats up in summer and cools down in winter reducing both heating and cooling costs.

New comment by mzhaase in "Cherry gives up German production and wants to sell core division"

mzhaase — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 20:53:38 +0000

Yeah well there are now plenty of Chinese designed products with quality as good or better than what you get in Europe: roborock, dji, bambu labs. The old Chinese = bad quality is no longer true.

New comment by mzhaase in "DIY NAS: 2026 Edition"

mzhaase — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 06:48:50 +0000

I would like to point people to the Odroid H4 series of boards. N97 or N355, 2*2.5GbE, 4*SATA, 2 W in idle. Also has extension boards to turn it into a router for example.

The developer hardkernel also publishes all relevant info such as board schematics.

New comment by mzhaase in "Ozempic does not slow Alzheimer's, study finds"

mzhaase — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 21:20:06 +0000

A lot of medical research is "x is correlated with y and we have no idea why".