Hacker News: soco

New comment by soco in "Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman"

soco — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:08:30 +0000

"protest without a disruption is just a parade"

New comment by soco in "Women are getting most of the new jobs. What's going on with men?"

soco — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:55:54 +0000

First hurdle: get a guy accepting the label of "male nurse" in the days of the manosphere.

New comment by soco in "France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech"

soco — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:19:51 +0000

I'd think the only Office part difficult to replace is Excel. It has a lot of functionality, provides a lot of value and is the workhorse of most business processes I see. Now how do you replace THAT?

New comment by soco in "France Launches Government Linux Desktop Plan as Windows Exit Begins"

soco — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:14:42 +0000

I'm typing on Acer right now. And there's Asus, MSI, Fujitsu...

New comment by soco in "US plans to automatically register young men for military draft"

soco — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 10:17:55 +0000

Maybe because according to the same government philosophy a woman's place is in the kitchen or something?

New comment by soco in "I still prefer MCP over skills"

soco — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 07:48:57 +0000

Also, the skills can be ignored or thwarted if the LLM feels like, while a policy at the MCP server level stays there.

New comment by soco in "Study found that young adults have grown less hopeful and more angry about AI"

soco — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 07:36:48 +0000

Maybe the comparison is imperfect, but: we also built a wonderful, novel and excellent bomb, the atom one, not remotely close to whatever humans did before, yet I'm not totally thrilled by it.

New comment by soco in "Study found that young adults have grown less hopeful and more angry about AI"

soco — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 07:24:47 +0000

Where the commenter is right is that luddites didn't have (or had they?) a global competitor more than happy to push their entire system aside. Not that they personally thought about this argument, just that the context and possible consequences were different.

New comment by soco in "Show HN: Is Hormuz open yet?"

soco — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 22:08:50 +0000

I was also surprised to see that arewegreatyet.com is in use already...

New comment by soco in "Iran demands Bitcoin fees for ships passing Hormuz during ceasefire"

soco — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:31:36 +0000

Little correction: Trump has a different objective every second day, and at some point there was (also) regime change on the menu. Might come again, I don't know.

New comment by soco in "Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones"

soco — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:47:17 +0000

On bike paths, totally agree with you. On shared paths, nobody owes you that speed.

New comment by soco in "Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones"

soco — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 10:31:04 +0000

And when you must walk with your small dog on a section of road where suddenly high speed e-cyclists zoom past you, now that's constant terror. At times you really get killer ideas.

New comment by soco in "Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones"

soco — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 10:21:37 +0000

No honk in Switzerland, some honk in Romania, all honk in India. There's no one rule to rule them all.

New comment by soco in "Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones"

soco — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 10:20:04 +0000

This only leaves open how to enforce all of it without everybody shouting domestic terror.

New comment by soco in "I tried to prove I'm not AI. My aunt wasn't convinced"

soco — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 13:12:18 +0000

2FA has tried to solve exactly this. Not many attacked people will hand over their password AND their phone. Yes I know, they might hand over one authentication code (and I know people who did exactly that)... We should also look into reducing the attack surface - if you get Instagram hacked you shouldn't get your Facebook hacked as well. But the current big tech centralization leads us to that single point of failure, because they don't care about the user's concerns only market grab. So... what now? Do we get the politics into this?

New comment by soco in "Tell HN: Litellm 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 on PyPI are compromised"

soco — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 13:33:26 +0000

I was just wondering why the Trivy compromise hit only npm packages, thinking that bigger stuff should appear sooner or later. Here we go...

New comment by soco in "BYD is seeing a flood of new EV buyers"

soco — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 19:31:04 +0000

I'm in Western Europe and while there are chargers everywhere, you need hundred apps to register to charge, some slots are broken (empty yet show busy), some refuse to charge my PHEV... we're not there yet.

New comment by soco in "4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches"

soco — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 19:28:23 +0000

I think people here are also more fond of 4chan than the average citizen, and also in general rather fond of technological freedom of anything. Makes sense, being players basically in the team about to get a red card. Like it or not, the global internet became a convenient way to skirt local laws and I don't see any reason why exempting something in one place only because it originated in some other place. Is now enforcing a law "the CCP way"? Should internet be kept lawless only because... internet?

New comment by soco in "Show HN: Three new Kitten TTS models – smallest less than 25MB"

soco — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 17:46:22 +0000

That, and also using English words in the middle of another language phrase confuses them a lot.

New comment by soco in "Show HN: Three new Kitten TTS models – smallest less than 25MB"

soco — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 17:45:04 +0000

I think I tried on my Android everything I could try and 1. outside webpage reading, not many options; 2. as browser extensions, also not many (I don't like to copy URLs in your app) 3. they all insist reading every little shit, not only buttons but also "wave arrow pointing directly right" which some people use in their texts. So basically reading text aloud is a bunch of shitty options. Anyone jumping in this market opening?