Hacker News: pg5

New comment by pg5 in "Tesla delays new 'affordable EV/stripped down Model Y' in the US"

pg5 — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 17:08:54 +0000

Isn't the Carolla the best selling car in the world?

New comment by pg5 in "ElevenReader"

pg5 — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 13:42:11 +0000

When I type anything in their demo, it replies "I'm sorry but I can't I'm sorry but I can't..."

New comment by pg5 in "Building a personal, private AI computer on a budget"

pg5 — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 01:09:37 +0000

I can run the 17b deepseek models (I know, these smaller ones are not actually deepseek) on my old 1080ti gaming desktop with 64 Gb of RAM. Not exactly speedy, but pretty neat nonetheless.

New comment by pg5 in "WikiTok"

pg5 — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 01:47:22 +0000

The swiping mechanic is super smooth! I often find that website based swiping UIs are either too sensitive, not sensitive enough, or have weird acceleration. Not the case here.

New comment by pg5 in "Free Web Hosting Area"

pg5 — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 12:51:19 +0000

Don't know why Adsense has a format that takes up a third of phone screens with position:fixed

New comment by pg5 in "No one is disrupting banks – at least not the big ones"

pg5 — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 01:23:43 +0000

I personally want my bank to be as boring as possible.

New comment by pg5 in "Ross Ulbricht granted a full pardon"

pg5 — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 02:13:27 +0000

So you think heroin, which frequently kills people the first time they try it, should be able to be sold without consequence? Certainly an interesting take.

New comment by pg5 in "Ross Ulbricht granted a full pardon"

pg5 — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 18:09:10 +0000

Couldn't you buy stuff on Silk Road that would ruin your life, like meth or heroin? If true, not exactly a victimless crime to run the site.

New comment by pg5 in "Bypassing disk encryption on systems with automatic TPM2 unlock"

pg5 — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 19:42:59 +0000

Yes.. it is...

It's a risk I'm fine with. Anything I care about is backed up separately.

New comment by pg5 in "Bypassing disk encryption on systems with automatic TPM2 unlock"

pg5 — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 19:27:43 +0000

Fully agree, especially for a laptop. A password that combines three unrelated words and a few numbers takes about 3 seconds to type in.

I shut it down every day, so type in the password every day too. Short of a concussion, I'm not going to get locked out.

New comment by pg5 in "Ford's electric Mach-E outsold the gas-powered Mustang in 2024"

pg5 — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 05:45:21 +0000

I don't think anyone buys a Mustang due to the brand...I mean it's a Ford.

Mustangs have a 4 second 0-60 and great handling (if you know what you're doing, they rival cars 3X the price on the famous tracks of the world).

Don't really get the comparison to a used EV - I guess you're right about straight line speed, but a used EV is pretty sketchy due to battery longevity and crappy reliability from the brands that can actually achieve this straight line speed.

For someone buying new, there isn't much left with comparable performance, considering the camaro no longer exists. Maybe the Nissan Z or the Supra, but those have had crazy dealer markups. If you know such a car in the 40-60k range, I'd love to know!

New comment by pg5 in "Ford's electric Mach-E outsold the gas-powered Mustang in 2024"

pg5 — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 23:55:47 +0000

It's interesting because the EV was made fun of relentlessly when it came out, with Ford fans saying that it would be a flop.

Also, I'm biased, but I have to disagree with the "impractical vanity car" part. The current Mustang coupe is super fun to drive and affordable - the trunk is huge and it is quite comfortable for two people (even 3). The coyote v8 is a marvel of engineering - 460 HP with instant torque, but you can get 29 MPG with it on the highway (if you drive calmly). The turbo 4 is even more efficient.

To get anything comparable from European or Japanese coupes, you have to pay twice as much.

I apologize for the rambling.

New comment by pg5 in "Hyundai just launched its cheapest EV in Japan"

pg5 — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 05:43:54 +0000

I would absolutely love a low tech electric car - like an Elantra hatchback EV. I hate how every EV has to be all touchscreen-based with fancy software that needs to be updated frrquently just to drive.

New comment by pg5 in "DOOM CAPTCHA"

pg5 — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 15:16:56 +0000

Pretty cool, but a little on screen pad would be good for mobile users.

New comment by pg5 in "Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2025?"

pg5 — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 14:47:26 +0000

Thanks, that looks super useful for many of the projects I have in mind!

New comment by pg5 in "Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2025?"

pg5 — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:19:39 +0000

I want to learn how to make fairly simple characters in blender, so that I can make more unique games, as opposed to using 100% pre-made assets.

New comment by pg5 in "Full LLM training and evaluation toolkit"

pg5 — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 13:09:21 +0000

It seems that SmolLM has some issues with forming grammatically correct sentences for longer responses.

New comment by pg5 in "Bitcoin has made a new all-time high price"

pg5 — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 15:03:33 +0000

People in retirement certainly are

New comment by pg5 in "Show HN: Product Hunt for Music"

pg5 — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 00:41:34 +0000

I built something just like this, but I found everyone would drop there tracks and never look at anybody else's stuff. I shut it down as it ended up being kidn of pointless.

New comment by pg5 in "Ask HN: What were interviews like before Leetcode?"

pg5 — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 04:37:44 +0000

I haven't had to be an interviewee in 6+ years, but I can understand why people are upset. Competing with other applicants who spend dozens of hours per week memorizing leetcode solutions sounds not fun.