Hacker News: slac

New comment by slac in "Starship V3"

slac — Wed, 13 May 2026 03:11:50 +0000

Gotta pump that Grok IPO /s Seriously though, the whole SpaceXAI makes zero sense to me. SpaceX was a wonderful company and there was zero need to pollute it with Twitter and a service that creates sexual images of people without their consent.

New comment by slac in "Googler... ex-Googler"

slac — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 12:14:17 +0000

The EU is not a country. Labor laws vary massively between countries.

New comment by slac in "Signal to leave Sweden if backdoor law passes"

slac — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 14:56:51 +0000

Some background: Lots of stories in the media in Sweden recently about how murders are now ordered via chat apps. Today in fact, there was one about a Snapchat murder. https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/8qL3A1/uppgifter-missta...

New comment by slac in "End-to-End Encrypted Cloud Storage in the Wild: A Broken Ecosystem"

slac — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 05:59:43 +0000

Google Drive has allowed for client side encryption since 2022... This papers first paragraph is false.

New comment by slac in "Tesla Robotaxi"

slac — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 05:56:43 +0000

I strongly believe that once you have everything working it's much easier to start working on the costs.

New comment by slac in "Google Meet rolls out multi-device adaptive audio merging"

slac — Tue, 28 May 2024 05:21:44 +0000

Not great if you have dogs in the office unfortunately.

New comment by slac in "Telegram has launched a pretty intense campaign to malign Signal as insecure"

slac — Mon, 13 May 2024 13:08:11 +0000

To add to this: and they may have hired a FSB agent without knowing it.

New comment by slac in "Tesla Cybertruck's Stuck Accelerator Pedal Creates 6,800-Pound Land Missile"

slac — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 12:26:46 +0000

And there is no refund button for the deposit. I would have pressed it long ago.

New comment by slac in "Google goes all in on generative AI at Google Cloud Next"

slac — Sun, 14 Apr 2024 12:05:00 +0000

Its quite the shakeup... How will you design your software now that computers can understand you?

New comment by slac in "Apple to wind down electric car effort after decadelong odyssey"

slac — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 23:11:55 +0000

The market is being flooded by Chinese brands... all with deep pockets thanks to subsidies from the state. So many brands in Europe right now: xpeng, honqchi, MG, nio, byd, maximus,... the list goes on and on.

New comment by slac in "Jeff Lawson steps down as CEO of Twilio"

slac — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 11:03:28 +0000

Having been in Eric reviews, let me tell you he was very involved in what I was working on... And I learned a ton.

New comment by slac in "Tesla Cybertruck Charging Curve Confirms Poor Charging Performance"

slac — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 20:31:38 +0000

This is a sample of one. Not many of these things out there.

New comment by slac in "Apple has what it needs to launch its own Google replacement"

slac — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 19:11:34 +0000

Remember Ping?

New comment by slac in "Robbie Robertson has died"

slac — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 13:06:56 +0000

His mother was Cayuga and Mohawk. I fail to understand why he would be accused of cultural appropriation? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbie_Robertson

New comment by slac in "Fire Mark Zuckerberg"

slac — Fri, 21 Apr 2023 19:04:37 +0000

But will the competitors allow for third party worlds connecting to their headset... This will be a walled garden.

New comment by slac in "The DeLorean Alpha"

slac — Sun, 12 Mar 2023 08:46:28 +0000

It is sad that the Ioniq 5 design was dropped in the 6 model. Loved that car's design so much!

New comment by slac in "Man beats machine at Go in human victory over AI"

slac — Sat, 18 Feb 2023 09:31:16 +0000

How on par to AlphaGo is it? I feel it is like saying Nascar racecar beat an Indycar, which is on par with a Formula One car.

New comment by slac in "App founder quits Google, says company doesn’t serve users anymore"

slac — Fri, 17 Feb 2023 07:59:13 +0000

Funny how customers disliked this person.

New comment by slac in "Frankfurt rail work damaged fibre, causes global Lufthansa check-in system fault"

slac — Wed, 15 Feb 2023 20:58:38 +0000

This is data sovereignty at work.

New comment by slac in "Google's live from Paris event private/deleted immediately"

slac — Wed, 08 Feb 2023 15:30:09 +0000

The audio was horrible... Something wrong with the microphones i think.