Hacker News: slaw

New comment by slaw in "Half of Europe's towns and villages have fewer residents than 60 years ago"

slaw — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 07:03:09 +0000

These 1 Euro houses are scam. You have to pay for renovation more than it is worth.

New comment by slaw in "Adults over 65 will outnumber children by 2029"

slaw — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 17:56:06 +0000

Median age in Africa is 19.5 years.

Africa doubled it's population in the last 28 years.

New comment by slaw in "DeepSeek V4 Flash on a Single AMD MI300X"

slaw — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 12:30:32 +0000

The AI bubble will pop when China gets access to EUV, so the earliest it could happen is 2030

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

slaw — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:05:30 +0000

Quota will be 70,000 vehicles per year in 2030. That's almost nothing.

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

slaw — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:02:46 +0000

EVs are still more expensive? You should thank EU bureaucrats for setting penalty tariffs on Chinese EVs.

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

slaw — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 23:54:03 +0000

Chinese made vehicles are limited to 49000/year only. 2.5% of Canadian market.

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

slaw — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 22:09:36 +0000

Tesla FSD and infotainment is the best in the US only. Tesla is no match for Xiaomi or Li Auto.

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

slaw — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 21:37:37 +0000

The best charging experience would be any of 10 BYD models with flash charging.

10% to 70%: 5 minutes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BYD_Flash_Charging

New comment by slaw in "eSIM was supposed to replace SIM cards, but carriers turned it into a trap"

slaw — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 22:38:10 +0000

I'll buy phones with regular SIM as long as they are available. I hope for the next 10 years there will be options.

New comment by slaw in "eSIM was supposed to replace SIM cards, but carriers turned it into a trap"

slaw — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 22:35:23 +0000

it looks like regular sim card, but doesn't have any profiles build in. It is an adapter for phones without eSIM capability to use eSIMs.

New comment by slaw in "eSIM was supposed to replace SIM cards, but carriers turned it into a trap"

slaw — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 21:28:04 +0000

1. Buy physical esim on AliExpress. Even the cheapest ones have 15 profiles.

2. trip.com has the lowest prices for esims.

New comment by slaw in "Germany maybe found a new source of renewable energy"

slaw — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 19:22:23 +0000

You forgot 14.8% electricity was made by brown coal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lignite

New comment by slaw in "Canada to buy 12 hi-tech German submarines after bidding war"

slaw — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 22:00:34 +0000

Pakistan bought 8 larger submarines Type 039b for $5bn.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_039A/B/C_submarine

New comment by slaw in "BYD Denza Z steer-by-wire"

slaw — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 06:21:34 +0000

Could I have now joystick instead of steering wheel?

New comment by slaw in "Older tech workers are tapping out early"

slaw — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 19:54:31 +0000

It is tech workers at Microsoft.

New comment by slaw in "Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities"

slaw — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 06:30:49 +0000

I don't mind being paid for using LLM, but working for free?

New comment by slaw in "Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities"

slaw — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 06:14:05 +0000

> Dumping is selling goods below cost.

Chinese cars are not sold below cost in Western markets. So it is not dumping.

New comment by slaw in "Iran requires insurance on ships using Strait of Hormuz, fees likely to follow"

slaw — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 05:24:12 +0000

Yes, the US military is not prepared for modern war.

New comment by slaw in "I need your clothes, your boots, and your motorcycle"

slaw — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 11:11:13 +0000

Singapore - 223.119.20.232

New comment by slaw in "Can Europe train a frontier AI model on the compute it owns?"

slaw — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 20:57:16 +0000

Or force replaceable batteries with exceptions that every LLM passes anyway.

> If a battery can do 1000 cycles and remain above 80% capacity it is exempt