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New comment by nico_h in "New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra"

nico_h — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 18:10:18 +0000

Just insane RAM price. Can’t wait for the bubble to pop. AI is useful but not at the currently unsustainable price (too expensive for the provided value to corporate customers at too cheap per token vs the actual cost of creating it)

New comment by nico_h in "How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs"

nico_h — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 15:12:42 +0000

It passed on a technicality of present reps voted against in majority but not enough total votes because the president had triggered a special vote for the last session before recess when less reps are present.

New comment by nico_h in "In Australia, a home battery boom has helped cut wholesale power prices"

nico_h — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 18:11:28 +0000

Porque no los dos? Given the number of billionaires in China, it can both be true that workers are exploited, meaning they could earning more for less hours, and that the living conditions are better on average and possibly medianely than the local minima of 1966.

New comment by nico_h in "Why is everyone trying to build a solid-state battery?"

nico_h — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 14:36:56 +0000

Electric long distance passenger planes. Possibly requiring the help of EMALs.

Electric long distance container ships.

Useful portable laser, coil- and rail- guns.

Even longer range drones.

New comment by nico_h in "Advertise in ChatGPT"

nico_h — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 06:55:22 +0000

The downside of hydratation, with its kidney saving, headache preventing benefits is that the more hydrated you are, the sooner and more frequently you need to leave the workstation…

New comment by nico_h in "REO Trucks I4 4WD Pickup Truck Starts at $21,500"

nico_h — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 18:43:06 +0000

Is there anything special in making a $21k gas truck in 2026? I’m guessing you could get a second hand gas truck for this price?

New comment by nico_h in "I Like Small Keyboards"

nico_h — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 18:05:11 +0000

They are nice but please also look into the atreus, it uses a column stagger and has least some angling for your wrists. It’s both a finished product and also a set of instruction for DIY. Otherwise r/ergoMechKeyboards has a plethora of unibody and split small keyboards

New comment by nico_h in "Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?"

nico_h — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 09:27:07 +0000

The current AI tech (LLM and other Gen image stuff) is impressive as heck, but it has flawed origins (facebook torrenting the books, everyone scraping the web and anything they can without attribution) and downright evil boosters advocating for the elimination of humans livelihood (they are talking to CEO). The “hyperscalers” moving fast and breaking things (their local environment mostly) don’t help.

New comment by nico_h in "Who will buy your services if you fire us all?"

nico_h — Mon, 18 May 2026 23:23:24 +0000

The rich already have control over the government, as exemplified by the fact that it’s impossible to tax them. Amd also over large part of the media (as they own it and are concentrating the outlets). The poor (all of us HN reader) have some control over small to mid sized towns and somehow new york, except where someone wants a data center constructed and the city can’t afford the lawyer to defend against it.

New comment by nico_h in "What happens when US economic data becomes unreliable"

nico_h — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 19:40:55 +0000

The very plot of rainbow 6, a 1998 Tom Clancy novel, except the preppers are actually helping the catastrophes along.

And, if I’m not misremembering, of Silo as well.

New comment by nico_h in "DjVu and its connection to Deep Learning (2023)"

nico_h — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 13:44:54 +0000

I don’t know how relevant the samples are, but while the details are lost, the essence seems well preserved. It seems it would be really useful for performing OCR on.

New comment by nico_h in "AI Doesn't Reduce Work–It Intensifies It"

nico_h — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 18:14:14 +0000

Oh you sweet summer child. Under capitalism money is a function of how low you can pay your fungible organic units before they look for other opportunities or worse, unionize (but that can be dealt with relatively easily nowadays). Except for a few exceptional locations and occupations, the scale is tilted waaay against the individual, especially in the land of the free (see H-1B visas, medical debt and workers on food stamps). (See also the record profits or big companies since Covid).

New comment by nico_h in "AI Doesn't Reduce Work–It Intensifies It"

nico_h — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 18:06:21 +0000

What about coops? Or partnerships?

New comment by nico_h in "France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc."

nico_h — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 07:56:25 +0000

Maybe the high sea will become less policed by the Canadian IP police

New comment by nico_h in "Show HN: Ferrite – Markdown editor in Rust with native Mermaid diagram rendering"

nico_h — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 09:54:28 +0000

It’s a cool name but there is already another project called ferrite, related to audio recording. https://www.wooji-juice.com/products/ferrite/

New comment by nico_h in "Allow me to introduce, the Citroen C15"

nico_h — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 16:25:31 +0000

I’ve been a passenger in the front and the back of a C15 and they are pure utility vehicule. You get heating in winter and ventilation in summer. The windows are manual, front seat are okay, and I don’t know if they have updated models with aircon before stopping the production.

New comment by nico_h in "How the UK lost its shipbuilding industry"

nico_h — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 09:16:32 +0000

If it’s sourced from abroad it has to be shipped (blockades anyone ?)

If your usual trading partner is inaccessible for reason X , what are the odds your alternate trading partner is also affected by reason X? Are there geopolitical or national political reasons that partner B might become unavailable or unpalatable at the same time?

New comment by nico_h in "Mini smartphones from Japan [video]"

nico_h — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 21:41:17 +0000

Same! I want a small and not too expensive phone for typing and using on the go, fits in my hand and in my pocket.

And a (small) tablet for drawing and videos, it has less constraints in term of size, and can live in my bag.

New comment by nico_h in "Mini smartphones from Japan [video]"

nico_h — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 21:38:57 +0000

iPhone 4 was a beautiful piece of hardware, but it felt indulgent. Just too heavy (it’s still my second favorite iPhone design). The iPhone 5 and 5S were a better compromise in terms of performance and design per gram. I contend they were the peak of utilitarian industrial design. Plus lightning port, and touchid on the 5S. Maybe the finest example of the “naked robotic core” that you stuff in the case of your choice.

New comment by nico_h in "High-power microwave defeats drone swarm"

nico_h — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 07:50:13 +0000

Probably not enough margin in microwaves ovens to justify putting GaN stuff in it yet. Maybe for premium products. Bigger volume! Silent operation! More efficient!