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New comment by sschueller in "Repair Cafe – Fix Your Broken Items"

sschueller — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 10:58:28 +0000

Here is a list of Repair Cafes in Switzerland: https://www.repair-cafe.ch

Supported by the Switzerland Department for the Environment.

New comment by sschueller in "How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots"

sschueller — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 05:59:24 +0000

It's MY phone that I paid over $1000 for. Let me choose what is exposed and what is not.

New comment by sschueller in "DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813"

sschueller — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 17:48:16 +0000

Deepseek seems to have gotten too cheap. I have been using it for a long time and it's at a point now where my credits balance barely moves even at max setting.

New comment by sschueller in "Dutch Train Map Simulator"

sschueller — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:07:49 +0000

Here is the same type of map for the Swiss long distance rail network: https://network.sbb.ch/en/

New comment by sschueller in "Dutch Train Map Simulator"

sschueller — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 11:58:00 +0000

Very cool. If you want to see what people have created using the Swiss public rail data checkout the showcase here: https://data.opentransportdata.swiss/showcase

New comment by sschueller in "France to ban unsolicited telemarketing calls"

sschueller — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 12:04:23 +0000

I hope they can make it work

We have a ban on telemarketing calls regarding insurance in Switzerland. But we still get them.

So what happens is that insurance agents (which are required to be licensed) don't call them selves. Instead they use 3rd party call centers outside the country which make the calls. They "warmup" the clients to get a meeting in which the agent then in a visit can make the sale.

For law enforcement to punish these people and revoke their licenses they would need to do costly sting operation which they can only do so much.

New comment by sschueller in "Why a Raspberry Pi shouldn't be powered through its GPIO pins"

sschueller — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 13:58:53 +0000

I have many 3d printers powered pi's via the GPIO strip and I haven even made a HAT that does this. It isn't an issue if you do it right. As far as I remember the PI PoE Hat does it as well.

New comment by sschueller in "Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work"

sschueller — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:14:10 +0000

So to run this 'OS', I need to have an existing running OS...

New comment by sschueller in "Bitcoin cold-wallet attack spreads to 4,500 addresses as losses near $89M"

sschueller — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 08:22:27 +0000

Yep, also greedy. If he only emptied a few large wallets and sent them to different addresses each also not all at the same time the vulnerability may not have been discovered so quickly.

Most would have blamed the card holder as was seen in the initial few posts that showed up on reddit.

New comment by sschueller in "AI doesn't generate working products, that's still your job"

sschueller — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 10:28:24 +0000

OpenClaw sold for how much?...

DeepSeek API service will soon adopt a peak-valley pricing strategy

sschueller — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 17:12:05 +0000

DeepSeek API service will soon adopt a peak-valley pricing strategy, with peak-hour prices being twice the regular price, applicable to all billing items. The specific effective date will be subject to official notice.

Peak hours (in UTC): 1:00–4:00 AM and 6:00–10:00 AM. (UTC+8 equivalent: 9:00 AM–12:00 noon and 2:00–6:00 PM.)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49125926

Points: 2

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New comment by sschueller in "DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis"

sschueller — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 13:34:19 +0000

I wonder which one of these releases between DeepSeek, GTM and Kimi will be the death-blow that collapses the US AI bubble. At some point investors have to realize that there is nothing preventing someone from switching to another model that is much cheaper and open to boot.

New comment by sschueller in "Atomarine: Nuclear Data Centers at Sea"

sschueller — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 11:00:37 +0000

Sealand[1] is becoming attractive real estate again...

[1] https://sealandgov.org/

New comment by sschueller in "Google will expand age checks on Android worldwide till the end of the year"

sschueller — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 10:58:29 +0000

Why do we need to verify age?

You can't tell me that these social media companies don't already know exactly how old someone is just based on the enormous data that is collected.

New comment by sschueller in "Google will expand age checks on Android worldwide till the end of the year"

sschueller — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 10:55:02 +0000

If you have more than 100 million in the bank you should be barred from using the internet...

New comment by sschueller in "Google will expand age checks on Android worldwide till the end of the year"

sschueller — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 10:53:55 +0000

There should be a law that forces social media companies to use a different algorithm for anyone under a certain age and be required to disclose it to the public. Possibly different algorithm depending on age group.

There should however be no force age verification. Social media companies already know how old you are or very close to it using the data they collect everyday. Using this data they should be required to use "best effort" to determine which algorithm you fall in. Nothing is 100% and we should stop pretending it is, sure some kids will find a way around but they would also if there is a age verification system.

New comment by sschueller in "Open-weight AI is having its Kubernetes moment. Let's not ruin it"

sschueller — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 18:03:45 +0000

Kilo code with direct API payment to DeepSeek. It costs pennies per day event at max.

New comment by sschueller in "Open-weight AI is having its Kubernetes moment"

sschueller — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 18:00:21 +0000

Model-on-Chip is coming. GPU are for general computing but have a huge bottle neck for doing model inference.

Even not being able to significantly update a model that is burned on a chip the performance gains are immense. You also don't need the latest chip fabs to make them drastically reducing the cost.

New comment by sschueller in "OpenAI and Anthropic unite against open-weight AI risks to their bottom line"

sschueller — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 13:46:32 +0000

The problem isn't only them, it's all the greedy investors and enablers around them thinking they can hold the potato just long enough to enrich themselves before the whole things explodes. The "enablers" are the real problem and this is why Elon is still not behind bars.

New comment by sschueller in "OpenAI and Anthropic unite against open-weight AI risks to their bottom line"

sschueller — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 13:44:49 +0000

The US will try to force Europe to implement such restrictions as well.