Hacker News: shell0x

New comment by shell0x in "EU fines Temu €200M for allowing sale of illegal products"

shell0x — Thu, 28 May 2026 20:11:57 +0000

Taobao and Temu are great. The quality is not always amazing, but the prices are low and many sellers even offer customisation.

In Australia, the product selection is often limited, and a lot of local stores are just reselling Chinese-made products with huge markups anyway. At that point, you may as well order directly from China and save money.

It also saves 10% GST.

New comment by shell0x in "Ferrari Luce"

shell0x — Tue, 26 May 2026 14:22:15 +0000

Temu Ferrari

New comment by shell0x in "I love my Bluetooth keyboard"

shell0x — Mon, 25 May 2026 09:29:33 +0000

I’m planning to take an iPad air on a trip and thought about getting a bluetooth keyboard too.

What do people generally recommend for travel?

I don’t plan to use it for extensive periods of times, mainly writing some emails/docs/notes in the hotel room.

New comment by shell0x in "The four-day workweek in Australia: insights from early adopters of 100:80:100"

shell0x — Mon, 25 May 2026 01:58:07 +0000

Good job paying that off. I’m sure Australia has benefits for some but without kids, not having grown up here, paying my own insurance and not driving I don’t really see it.

New comment by shell0x in "The four-day workweek in Australia: insights from early adopters of 100:80:100"

shell0x — Mon, 25 May 2026 01:48:25 +0000

They would be much worse off if they stay in their own country and they even get 1 day rest per week.

New comment by shell0x in "The four-day workweek in Australia: insights from early adopters of 100:80:100"

shell0x — Mon, 25 May 2026 01:38:46 +0000

I lived in Singapore and Hk before, don’t drive, work from home and countries are pretty much interchangeable. I left Germany for high taxes for a reason.

I pay private medical so don’t benefit much from tax anyway. No kids, no car, paid off my apartment. I can get much better value elsewhere right?

If I tell you you can pick 3 dishes

a) singapore: safe, low crime, low tax, efficient, excellent public transportation, better roads b) hk: safe, low crime, low tax, politically getting worse, excellent public transport, better airport c) australia: higher crime compared to the other too, high tax but bad services

I basically pay for an overpriced dish with bland taste, so why would I keep doing that?

New comment by shell0x in "The four-day workweek in Australia: insights from early adopters of 100:80:100"

shell0x — Mon, 25 May 2026 00:14:18 +0000

Taxes are a financial loss.

I preferred living in Hong Kong and Singapore and do not enjoy living here honestly, but if you treat it as payment for my+partner’s backup citizenship, it seems more justifiable.

New comment by shell0x in "The four-day workweek in Australia: insights from early adopters of 100:80:100"

shell0x — Mon, 25 May 2026 00:02:43 +0000

You realize this is the standard in Asia right? They only cost like 2.5k a month which is pretty good value

https://www.life.gov.sg/guides/domestic-helper

https://www.immd.gov.hk/eng/services/visas/foreign_domestic_...

New comment by shell0x in "The four-day workweek in Australia: insights from early adopters of 100:80:100"

shell0x — Sun, 24 May 2026 23:38:35 +0000

I can get PR in Singapore through my partner, so no 60%. Company paid medical and everything so expat life and no responsibilities. And if I were ever have to have kids, you can’t hire a maid here sleeping at your apartment and you have to clean yourself which is ridiculous. In Hk, SG, Dubai you can get domestic helpers cheaply and they take care of everything

New comment by shell0x in "The four-day workweek in Australia: insights from early adopters of 100:80:100"

shell0x — Sun, 24 May 2026 23:35:46 +0000

If you live in inner Sydney, the rent alone is $1350 pw and tax is ridiculous. I basically sold my stocks to have a down payment but then that got added on top of income. If i’d have stayed in HK, i’d have paid 0% for that.

I just treat it as paying for Australian citizenship to make me feel better and it still comes out cheaper than buying a Saint Kitts and Nevis passport. Australian passport also opens up the E3 visa to go to the USA

New comment by shell0x in "The four-day workweek in Australia: insights from early adopters of 100:80:100"

shell0x — Sun, 24 May 2026 23:33:12 +0000

I could as a German but my partner has a weaker passport so I’m just waiting till she got her australian passport

New comment by shell0x in "The four-day workweek in Australia: insights from early adopters of 100:80:100"

shell0x — Sun, 24 May 2026 22:42:34 +0000

The tax is already bad here, even without it. I paid $89,000 taxes just for the last financial year because stock gains are added up on top of the income and my partner doesn’t work and there’s no family support allowance here.

I can apply Australian citizenship next year but I will leave ASAP after becoming a citizen for Singapore, Dubai or Hong Kong where the tax is < 20%

New comment by shell0x in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

shell0x — Sun, 24 May 2026 09:22:54 +0000

Skilled people have O visas. The H1Bs are the ones you don’t want long-term.

New comment by shell0x in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

shell0x — Sat, 23 May 2026 23:36:26 +0000

That makes sense to me. If you come on a non-immigrant visa, you can’t become a permanent resident easily. it’s a privilege, not a right. Other countries like the UAE also take a lot of foreign workers but do not want them become PRs or citizens and there are tons of people moving there for opportunities. The labor is needed but they don’t want these people permanently. You made your money, now leave

New comment by shell0x in "Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia, UAE"

shell0x — Wed, 20 May 2026 14:46:15 +0000

“Meta blocks Western propaganda from reaching the Middle East” would be a good title

New comment by shell0x in "Cisco workforce reductions"

shell0x — Thu, 14 May 2026 05:34:57 +0000

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New comment by shell0x in "GitHub outage: CCR and CCA failing to start for PR comments"

shell0x — Thu, 07 May 2026 06:06:53 +0000

refs/pull/1234/head is missing

New comment by shell0x in "GitHub outage: CCR and CCA failing to start for PR comments"

shell0x — Thu, 07 May 2026 05:18:21 +0000

copilot review and copilot agent I’d assume.

The API is flaky for me, pull requests don’t show up in the list anymore and webhooks are failing

New comment by shell0x in "Our AI started a cafe in Stockholm"

shell0x — Tue, 05 May 2026 22:07:46 +0000

Yeah screw these people wasting police time and suppliers time. The cops should just start fining them.

New comment by shell0x in "Apple Cuts More Mac Studio and Mac Mini RAM Options as Memory Shortage Worsens"

shell0x — Tue, 05 May 2026 21:55:52 +0000

I bought a Mac Studio with 128gb RAM and M4 Max a year ago for local LLMs. 96gb memory doesn’t seem to be sufficient?