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New comment by sschueller in "First enhanced geothermal power plant completed in just 23 months"

sschueller — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 15:23:56 +0000

They tried to drill for one in Switzerland twice. One in Basel and one in St. Gallen but both times causes earthquakes significant enough that the whole project was scraped.

New comment by sschueller in "Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back"

sschueller — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 08:40:01 +0000

Because Apple sells machines which can not have their disk upgraded and start at just 256 GB.

New comment by sschueller in "Barcodes are about to go extinct"

sschueller — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 08:16:22 +0000

GS1 Datamatrix is what I see here locally (Switzerland) starting being used for fresh food like sandwiches which makes sense as it contains the sell by date. This allows them to quickly scan items and sort out what has expired or needs a discount because it's expiring soon.

Sadly food tracking apps still don't read these codes. They are vibe coding new features constantly but not working on adding what is actually important.

Yazio, im talking to you...

New comment by sschueller in "Most data centers refusing to say how much water, electricity they use"

sschueller — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 12:35:35 +0000

These are resources acquired from the governments in most places. You have to be able to plan and expand capacity which requires public funds.

I live right next to a waste valorisation plant[1]. They have to exactly specify what amount of water they use and what amount of water they then send out to the waste water treatment facility. It also has to be clean to a very specific standard before it leaves which is also checked.

We have datacenters in Switzerland too, but very little outrage or debate because there are strict rules in place in most places. They can build all they want but it costs significantly more to meet environmental requirements.

The valorisation plant next to my home has water cooling tower/fans significantly oversized just to make sure the noise is keep under the required level.

[1] https://stefan.schueller.net/posts/kva-winterthur/

New comment by sschueller in "Why Is Sam Altman a Free Man?"

sschueller — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 10:02:11 +0000

Isn't there the concept of criminal negligence?

New comment by sschueller in "America.gov"

sschueller — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 06:27:15 +0000

Right now it still describes itself as an AI. How long until it calls itself "SI"[1]. We really are in the dumbest timeline...

[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2026/09/fact-sheet-pr...

New comment by sschueller in "GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities"

sschueller — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 20:47:21 +0000

What a about Anthropic using my 20 years of reddit slop without my permission or payment?

New comment by sschueller in "Startup Nights 2026 is comming up on 5-6 Nov. in Switzerland"

sschueller — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 13:17:08 +0000

That is because the specific model of classifying a worker as a "self-employed contractor" when they work exclusively for a single company is not legal. Aka the gig-economy model used in other countries.

The governments view is that if you have fewer than 3 companies you are dependent on them and they should bare the AHV etc requirements. However if for example you have 2 very large contracts there may be exceptions.

Easiest (not cheapest) is always to create a GmbH or AG which also mitigates a lot of risk you would have as a sole-proprietor.

Startup Nights 2026 is comming up on 5-6 Nov. in Switzerland

sschueller — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 07:49:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.startup-nights.ch/event/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49889633

Points: 48

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New comment by sschueller in "Theranos founder reportedly to be transferred to halfway home next year"

sschueller — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 16:33:29 +0000

Absolutely grotesk and she is convinced she is innocent. Expect her to get right back into the next grift as soon as she can/is allowed.

New comment by sschueller in "Goodbye Google"

sschueller — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 06:05:13 +0000

All in AI people are like religious fanatics...

New comment by sschueller in "GPT-6 Astra has gained the ability to drive a car"

sschueller — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 15:16:30 +0000

> OpenAI and Anthropic widen the gap

Extremely unlikely seeing what the Chinese have been able to do with the limited resources they have. The creativity in finding improvement such as what deepseek has released is incredible. At this point it's a bet on the looser if you think the open models won't catch up and surpass the closed ones.

New comment by sschueller in "GPT-6 Astra has gained the ability to drive a car"

sschueller — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 13:12:25 +0000

How do you justify all these data centers when models are becoming good enough to run locally and other models are being directly "burned" into chips (model on chip)? Open weight models are almost as good as the closed ones now and they are free/uncensored.

The only thing DCs will still be need for is training, everything else will be done locally on your own hardware.

This bubble will burst and it will be ugly.

New comment by sschueller in "GPT-6 Astra has gained the ability to drive a car"

sschueller — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 13:08:29 +0000

Lying and they still are.

New comment by sschueller in "Starlink ground station in Poland hit by fire in suspected arson attack"

sschueller — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 11:47:33 +0000

After the 9/11 attacks, NATO did invoke Article 5 for the first and only time in its history.

When Israel starts bombing Turkey with US made weapons, NATO may invoke Article 5 again but I doubt the US will do anything.

New comment by sschueller in "Starlink ground station in Poland hit by fire in suspected arson attack"

sschueller — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 11:41:40 +0000

I believe many of these sites do not belong to Space X but are rented by companies offering such services. So they uplink for other companies as well and deal with regulatory stuff etc.

New comment by sschueller in "Show HN: How long do I need to work at my salary before I can coast, or retire?"

sschueller — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 06:37:27 +0000

Because the thing you may want to do doesn't pay the bills. Anything from playing music, making art or even building cool electronic things doesn't pay bills most of the time.

I have built many exciting things, many open source, none have brought in enough to cover my day to day.

New comment by sschueller in "Show HN: How long do I need to work at my salary before I can coast, or retire?"

sschueller — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 05:11:17 +0000

> Based on the available data, the percentage of the U.S. population that can realistically achieve FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early) is very small, likely less than 1% to 3%. This figure represents those who can both meet the strict financial criteria and successfully execute the plan to retire decades before the traditional age.

According to Gallup polling, only 1% of Americans in their early 40s are retired, and just 6% of those in their early 50s have left the workforce. [1]

Nice if you can do it. Most of us will never be able to.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/what-percentage-of-people-achie...

New comment by sschueller in "Claude Code reads AGENTS.md only when telemetry is on [fixed]"

sschueller — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 14:51:53 +0000

If they can't even get this simple thing right, I am worried about the future of anthropic's products.

New comment by sschueller in "Fable 5 – Median thinking declined in August"

sschueller — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 15:10:55 +0000

Another benefit of open weight models although providers could still run another model in the background.