Hacker News: orwin

New comment by orwin in "EV demand up 50% in France and Germany since Iran war"

orwin — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 12:33:36 +0000

There will be no winner, only a side who loose less. I am not really angry at the hypocrisy, i am angry that people act like cheerleaders for war crime and terrorist attacks. The hypocrisy is a given, and tbh, it's okay. I just want people to understand what they are cheering for, and in this case, it is terrorism.

If you support this kind of strike, you support the same kind of strike as 9/11. And it's okay, you do you, i just want you to realize that.

New comment by orwin in "Cheap Iranian drone downed $25M US Army helicopter–maybe by chance"

orwin — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 12:23:47 +0000

I believe no country should have access to nuclear weapons. I think this conflict started because the US citizen elected an idiotic warmonger who was led to believe this would take a few weeks.

New comment by orwin in "Israeli firm BlackCore suspected of meddling in New York and Scotland votes"

orwin — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 10:16:36 +0000

Forced displacement and systematic art/books destruction, I don't need more arguments tbh.

New comment by orwin in "EV demand up 50% in France and Germany since Iran war"

orwin — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:26:58 +0000

Let's try to not glorify terrorism too much and still pretend the west do not target civilians and civilian infrastructure please. Remember, the pesky Arabs are the one who target civilians, that's why they are terrorists. We only occasionally target civilians, and when it happens, it's because they are evil and support an evil man, so we aren't.

New comment by orwin in "Digital Sovereignty Becomes an Imperative as the US Reads Dutch Emails"

orwin — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 08:30:10 +0000

In Europe, we dissociate public servants from elected officials. Dutch officials, receiving a lot of money from US-based NGO/foundation, push for chat control and other US interests. Dutch public servants obey official in matters of laws, but can lobby for the tools they use.

New comment by orwin in "War Crimes Seem to Be Official US Policy Now"

orwin — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:13:56 +0000

I guarantee you it isn't the same. Even anti-atlantists here were more 'we should imitate them' than 'we should fight against their culture'. Nowadays even my very Catholic, very right wing, very pro-Bush/Irak war family is quite cross with the US.

New comment by orwin in "BYD is bringing its 5-min 'Flash' electric car charging to Canada"

orwin — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 14:26:26 +0000

Having the best tech do not often result in the most sales.

New comment by orwin in "Lines of Code Got a Better Publicist"

orwin — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 14:06:07 +0000

'something that solves enough users problems it's worth it to implement it' rather, and I think it is often difficult to judge how much engineering time to spend on user issues.

I'm currently working in an internal team, so I value cost savings estimation, but even before prioritising was also a bottleneck (although a small one compared to architecture and design)

New comment by orwin in "Lines of Code Got a Better Publicist"

orwin — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 14:00:10 +0000

Depends on your company. I'd say very rarely, and never for long.

New comment by orwin in "Why SpaceX 2040 Revenue FCST $4.3T in highly unlikely"

orwin — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 10:43:02 +0000

It won't work btw, unless they don't put the satellites in LEO. Earth radiate away big time (it's like 200K in earth shadow in LEO

New comment by orwin in "Why SpaceX 2040 Revenue FCST $4.3T in highly unlikely"

orwin — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 10:36:35 +0000

SpaceX published their datacenter satellite plans, I think they assumed that if they hid their radiators from the sun, they can consider space temperature to be 3-5K. Which is a fairly good assumption if:

- you have a perfect shadow on all side (no light is reflected from a nearby celestial body)

- and nothing is radiating nearby. Earth radiate a lot, I space temperature around the iss is fairly high.

I'm fairly sure the current design either need high temp chips or needs to be far from LEO. Or they will have to make the radiators bigger.

New comment by orwin in "Cheap Iranian drone downed $25M US Army helicopter–maybe by chance"

orwin — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 08:25:19 +0000

Because the US fired missiles from other countries? It's not a game of mounted tag.

New comment by orwin in "Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension"

orwin — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 23:32:21 +0000

A week or two?

New comment by orwin in "How do you design a $30k electric pickup? Inside Ford's skunkworks"

orwin — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:08:06 +0000

I think e-tron have some success. As do Renault (and Nissan) despite Gohsn insistence on not building on it (goshn was a very successful manager and finance engineer, but people should understand he destroyed R&D at Nissan, Renault and Alpine, killing any chance at success they had despite their leg up on electric car)

New comment by orwin in "Notepad++ Zero-Click RCE via Path Traversal (CVE-2026-52884)"

orwin — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:00:01 +0000

Local attack vector without privilege escalation should downgrade cve from high to low, and moderate to 'not a cve'.

New comment by orwin in "German ruling declares Google liable for false answers in AI Overviews"

orwin — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 11:36:23 +0000

If instead of scammers, it was 'registered sex offender'. Each time someone search your name and surname in Google, it show a picture of you next to the words 'registered sex offender'. Do you think your neighbours and the parents of your child's friends will do their due diligence or will they prefer not take any risks?

New comment by orwin in "Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension"

orwin — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 08:39:46 +0000

Opera was a strong contender to become my main browser (luckily firefox copied the most useful feature, it's vpn), if ublock is deactivated, I will let it go without a second look.

New comment by orwin in "Pentagon raised threat of Israeli spying on U.S. to highest level, sources say"

orwin — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 07:33:28 +0000

HRANA and other watchdogs who actually have people in Iran.

[Edit] https://www.en-hrana.org/the-crimson-winter-a-50-day-record-...

It's even better documentation that i thought, they added the methodology now.

If I remember correctly, the methodology from the NYT and other western MSM was 'the last time, IRGC said 80 death and HRANA said 800, so now since the IRGC recognise 3k death, it should be 30k!' which was then amplified to 40, 50 and even 60k from an Israeli outlet, in 3 days, when the protests and insurgency lasted over 50 days. Honestly I don't trust any numbers if it's published in an American outlet anymore. I now trust 'house of Saoud' more than WaPo or NYT.

New comment by orwin in "We Think the SpaceX IPO Is Overvalued"

orwin — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 05:39:25 +0000

The radiators then need to be protected from earth's heat/light if you want to reach 0K. I agree with GP, it doesn't seem great.

New comment by orwin in "New Referendum Would Flip Brexit Result 10 Years On, Poll Finds"

orwin — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:21:41 +0000

Inequality destroy high trust societies, and low trust cultures implement a surveillance state to replace trust.