<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: raspasov</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=raspasov</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 13:53:24 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=raspasov" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by raspasov in "California's new tire efficiency rules could save drivers $1B a year"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have seen that goofy warning in SBUX stores, for whatever it's worth haha (not on the coffee cup).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 21:31:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49352997</link><dc:creator>raspasov</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49352997</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49352997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by raspasov in "California's new tire efficiency rules could save drivers $1B a year"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I live in SF, California. I think the cleaner gasoline laws are a good thing. Driving a car that emits a high volume of cancer-causing chemicals is obviously bad for everyone. For example, benzene, a cancer-causing chemical, is reduced by ~50% in CA gasoline vs Federal regulations. That's a good thing.<p>But that doesn't make the tire efficiency rules, as stated, a good idea, as I pointed out above. Less grippy tires -> more car crashes and more human deaths.</p>
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<p>Exactly.<p>Especially "how many more accidents worse-gripping tires cause that result in more totaled vehicles". Forget about the totaled vehicles.<p>Worse-gripping tires are guaranteed to cause more deaths, all else equal.</p>
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<p>California has about 30 millions cars. $1B total fuel savings are … $33 per year, for a whooping less than $3 of fuel savings per car, per month. Thing of all the places you can go with that extra half a gallon, all the work you can accomplish with that large SBUX coffee. It’s all totally worth it.</p>
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<p>Study link and/or source?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:44:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49332875</link><dc:creator>raspasov</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49332875</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49332875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by raspasov in "Don't Take the Black Pill [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't often laugh on HN, but when I do, it's a big LOL.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 03:36:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49044268</link><dc:creator>raspasov</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49044268</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49044268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by raspasov in "MacBook Neo is so popular that Apple doubled production"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Apple Intel laptop + a butterfly keyboard was the absolute gutter tier experience. Not only it was slow and ran hot, but after a few months a random key would get stuck and stop working.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:42:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48390538</link><dc:creator>raspasov</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48390538</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48390538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by raspasov in "MacBook Neo is so popular that Apple doubled production"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think the laptop hardware pre Apple M chips was just terrible and has pretty much stayed that way. There’s a reason why Apple moved away from Intel.<p>Before M chips an Apple Intel laptop  was just a shiny wrapper for a PC laptop experience: fans turn on to full blast all the time, battery lasts <3 hours under any regular usage beyond just browsing (say having an IDE open, and frequently switching between apps). Laptop would get hot to the point where you need padding if you keep it on a lap so you’re not boiling yourself. Made for a good leg warmer during the winter though haha.<p>With an Apple M4 laptop, the only time I’ve heard the fan turn on is when I almost 100% filled the memory with some local LLM model. I can’t recall any other times. Battery life is finally as advertised, can last many hours, laptop is consistently fast, never gets hot and any CPU throttling is not perceptible under medium to high CPU usage.</p>
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<p>^^^ This.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 01:11:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48378464</link><dc:creator>raspasov</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48378464</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48378464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by raspasov in "My thoughts after using Clojure for about a month"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What can the Erlang / Golang runtimes do that the JVM can’t?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 01:10:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48378447</link><dc:creator>raspasov</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48378447</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48378447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by raspasov in "I am not a black belt"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes, he’s throwing himself. Aikido is often practiced solely as a non-competitive art.<p>If you want to see what competitive throws/takedowns with a kimono/gi look like against live resistance, watch Judo. Example <a href="https://youtu.be/fLD87nqwp3Y" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/fLD87nqwp3Y</a><p>For the same but without kimono, watch Greco-Roman. Example <a href="https://youtu.be/4Xc-wxNSsTk" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/4Xc-wxNSsTk</a>).</p>
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<p>Boeing and others do complete in that area.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:58:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47691990</link><dc:creator>raspasov</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47691990</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47691990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by raspasov in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A reminder that both things can be true at the same time:<p>1. Trump is a bad president<p>2. The Islamic Republic of Iran should not be allowed to have nuclear weapons</p>
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<p>The US Navy has quite a few more tricks up its sleeve apart from aircraft carriers. Just one publicly known that immediately comes to mind: amphibious assault ships, which can launch/land F35s.<p>[0] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Tripoli_(LHA-7)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Tripoli_(LHA-7)</a>
[1] <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCMSKTxgQI4" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCMSKTxgQI4</a></p>
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<p>>>> SpaceX is an amazing success story<p>100%, and something that is underappreciated and often taken for granted nowadays, especially on our little forum here.<p>>>> It would benefit even better by having many SpaceXs around.<p>That made me chuckle, sounded to me a bit like "our house would benefit from having a few cats around". Perhaps the reason why there aren't too many SpaceX-like companies around is that it's truly among the hardest companies to ever create.</p>
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<p>I’ve rented many different brands and the BMW interface is by far the best and quite consistent across generations. It hasn’t changed all that much since early 2000s. What exactly do you think was “user-hostile”?  If you want to see bad UI/UX, try a Range Rover. Unfortunately all brands collectively (even BMW) have taken a step back with the latest generation of cars and the touch-screen-all-the-things craze.</p>
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<p>Exactly. Unfortunately, it seems like the ship has sailed towards exploitation of the current local maximum (I got GPUs and Terawatts, let’s go!) instead of looking for something better.</p>
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<p>I live in SF, and drive alongside Waymos every day. Also, they park in my buildings garage, where they frequently cause major delays and blockages inside the garage.<p>I am pretty sure Waymo does not disclose how many human interventions they get. It would destroy their magic aura. A fancy RC car with self-driving experimental features is not very futuristic after all. By all the evidence, that’s what we observed when the internet went out. I don’t buy the 4-way stop explanation. Waymos handle 4-way stops just fine on an average day. I drive alongside them daily.<p>I’ve long suspected that they get many human interventions on the road, frequent enough that when the internet connectivity slowed down to a crawl across the city, Waymos could not get themselves unstuck from a variety of situations and simply just blocked the roads. That’s not a paragon of safety, nor is it “self-driving”. Self-driving cars were 10 years away in 2015, and in 2025, they are still 10 years away.</p>
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<p>Because almost no one (outside of accessibility needs) truly needs or wants to use voice to control their device. It’s one of the few UX fetishes that refuses to die.</p>
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<p>When someone realized that the inheritance glass castle is doomed to always get shattered upon contact with the real world.<p>Inheritance <i>might</i> be OK for formally finite domains but I can’t envision other cases where it should be favored.</p>
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