Hacker News: reverius42

New comment by reverius42 in "Some car companies are operating without regard for a declining customer base"

reverius42 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 05:43:37 +0000

There are plenty of 2010 Toyotas still out there, running great, if you want one. The market has instead demanded more different-looking cars (for variety), and generally larger vehicles with a higher riding position, not to mention newer creature comforts like air conditioned seats, and safety features like beeping at you when a car is in your blind spot and you try to change lanes.

The evidence that this is what the market demands is that Toyota is selling tons of new vehicles, despite the 2010 Toyotas still being available (used) for a lot less money.

New comment by reverius42 in "Apple is getting this wrong"

reverius42 — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 07:27:04 +0000

Maybe it should be "if the right people like you"

New comment by reverius42 in "Europe EV Sales BEVs Jump 50% & Reach 26% Market Share"

reverius42 — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 22:10:48 +0000

Good luck getting a working car at all for a couple grand these days.

New comment by reverius42 in "Europe EV Sales BEVs Jump 50% & Reach 26% Market Share"

reverius42 — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 22:40:37 +0000

I have found fast-charging prices near where I live to be fairly competitive with gasoline per-mile. The lower maintenance costs of an EV are icing on the cake, so to speak.

But I actually do most of my charging as trickle-charging from a regular home outlet, despite it being slow; it adds about 40 miles of range per 24 hours of charging. My car sits in my driveway most of the time so that's actually sufficient most of the time.

New comment by reverius42 in "AI Mania: From Tulips to Tokens"

reverius42 — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 22:26:22 +0000

Ah, but any 10 year old GPU now is e-waste, not useful LLM hardware. So it might as well have been mining ASICs.

New comment by reverius42 in "Europe EV Sales BEVs Jump 50% & Reach 26% Market Share"

reverius42 — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 22:06:48 +0000

I don't have a gas station at my house, and yet I still own a gas-powered vehicle.

I also don't have a fast electric charger at my house, and yet I still also own an EV.

New comment by reverius42 in "Europe EV Sales BEVs Jump 50% & Reach 26% Market Share"

reverius42 — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 22:05:50 +0000

I am very skeptical that your Model 3 has a "practical range" of 372 miles. EPA range for the long range model is 342 miles, and I would expect usable range to be considerably less (since you probably want to start charging at around 10% remaining, and you probably want to stop charging at 80-90%). 0% - 100% is kind of not "practical" as it would require you to fully deplete the battery, and then wait for the slow charging at the margins (90 to 100% tends to be pretty slow).

New comment by reverius42 in "AI Mania: From Tulips to Tokens"

reverius42 — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 22:00:44 +0000

Random shitcoin mining surely isn't a large fraction of industrial GPU usage?

New comment by reverius42 in "Show HN: What should the GUI for AI agents look like?"

reverius42 — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 09:04:19 +0000

Transition to what?

New comment by reverius42 in "DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update"

reverius42 — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 08:24:48 +0000

I'm running a useful quantization of the previous version of Deepseek-V4-Flash -- quite well but with so much fan noise -- on a MacBook Pro M5 Max with 128 GB.

New comment by reverius42 in "I'm 38 and I Can't Support Myself Anymore"

reverius42 — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 05:16:45 +0000

I thought we were doing that all along.

New comment by reverius42 in "Sam Altman is now talking to the White House about decelerating AI"

reverius42 — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 13:19:15 +0000

You'd think one of the first things the AI would do once it truly gets that powerful is make a lot more money for its owner.

New comment by reverius42 in "Agent-Manager: A Tmux TUI for Running Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode"

reverius42 — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 13:17:30 +0000

Am I the only one who prefers a full on GUI (eg Claude Desktop)?

New comment by reverius42 in "I'm 38 and I Can't Support Myself Anymore"

reverius42 — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 07:19:37 +0000

There's definitely a non-libertarian approach to "free market capitalism" that does not eschew regulation and does embrace ethics.

New comment by reverius42 in "I'm 38 and I Can't Support Myself Anymore"

reverius42 — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 23:34:27 +0000

When did free-market capitalism stop being something to aspire to though?

New comment by reverius42 in "I'm 38 and I Can't Support Myself Anymore"

reverius42 — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 11:38:44 +0000

That's melting my brain. My understanding is that right-libertarianism and capitalism are not only compatible, they are best friends.

New comment by reverius42 in "I'm 38 and I Can't Support Myself Anymore"

reverius42 — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 05:25:54 +0000

No, the term for what you describe is "oligarchy".

Under "capitalism", the invisible hand of the free market is supposed to decide resource allocation.

New comment by reverius42 in "DeepSeek pause fundraise after comments on compute gap to US leaked (transcript) [pdf]"

reverius42 — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 12:29:30 +0000

More like a singularity event.

New comment by reverius42 in "AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt"

reverius42 — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 08:07:14 +0000

Yeah, pre-Apple-Intelligence Siri definitely already did that specific example.

New comment by reverius42 in "AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt"

reverius42 — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 08:05:36 +0000

I'm no expert, but burning coal inside a coal mine sounds like a really bad idea for several reasons.