Hacker News: stanski

New comment by stanski in "Toyota is taking the Corolla electric"

stanski — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 18:39:27 +0000

My thoughts exactly! Get the benefits of the electric powertrain (no gearing, instant torque), with the proven range-extension of the ICE generator.

New comment by stanski in "[dead]"

stanski — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 13:09:12 +0000

They are not detached from reality. They just know that repeating a lie works to whitewash what they are systematically doing, and confuse enough people into inaction.

New comment by stanski in "'Lake America' makes one thing clear: We can't trust U.S. tech companies"

stanski — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:33:28 +0000

All well and good until we found out that Google updated the name before GNIS managed to do it. They went out of their way to score points as quickly as possible.

New comment by stanski in "'Lake America' makes one thing clear: We can't trust U.S. tech companies"

stanski — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:27:37 +0000

There was a good editorial cartoon recently in the Canadian Globe and Mail paper related to this: https://ibb.co/fdG9PtST

New comment by stanski in "You Rename My Lake – I Move My Hosting"

stanski — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 20:03:17 +0000

Well, he did get elected so...

New comment by stanski in "'Temu Range Rovers' Are Taking over Britain"

stanski — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 23:00:22 +0000

Doesn't even matter who owns them. Reliability is consistently terrible and the vehicles are consistently nice to drive.

New comment by stanski in "'Temu Range Rovers' Are Taking over Britain"

stanski — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 21:59:30 +0000

I heard that term about the Hyundai Santa Fe first. Now it's the Chinese manufacturers giving JLR competition.

Of course if you drive the actual vehicle back to back with a Land Rover, you'll find that looks or interior do not a Rover make. For now anyway.

New comment by stanski in "The dark underbelly of "Paw Patrol""

stanski — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:16:02 +0000

Is this satire?

New comment by stanski in "Two wheels, a few tradeoffs, and gas prices"

stanski — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 22:20:27 +0000

I'm not so sure that motorcycle emissions are much better than a car's, even if they do consume less gas. Cars have very complicated emissions systems and are under stricter regulations.

I've also never been able to get anywhere close to 3l/100km. As soon as you move onto bigger displacement bikes, you're looking at around 6l/100km, which is comparable to a hybrid car that weights 5-6 times what the bike does! It's far from an extremely efficient mode of transportation given the significantly reduced utility.

Regardless, ride as long as you enjoy it, or until you have to recalculate the amount of risk you can afford!

New comment by stanski in "The State of Google"

stanski — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 03:13:24 +0000

Exactly right. OP determines value differently than a mega corporation.

New comment by stanski in "When does a CEO get involved? When you're on your fourth Ford Focus"

stanski — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 23:06:24 +0000

I was surprised cause I thought the Focus was fairly reliable.

Turned out the post was about an Escape. Title is wrong.

New comment by stanski in "Don't Provoke Russia"

stanski — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 19:25:20 +0000

Must be viral if it says so in the title.

New comment by stanski in "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies"

stanski — Sat, 09 May 2026 00:19:25 +0000

Sounds like an Ayreon song.

New comment by stanski in "Italy blocks US use of Sicily air base for Middle East war"

stanski — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:23:19 +0000

If they could remember they wouldn't keep making the same mistake multiple times. But I guess no danger of that.

New comment by stanski in "How BYD Got EV Chargers to Work Almost as Fast as Gas Pumps"

stanski — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 13:26:34 +0000

I may be in the market for a new car soon, which I hope to keep for at least a decade, so this kind of thing bothers me. I don't want to buy something that's already years behind on efficiency.

New comment by stanski in "Palestinian boy, 12, describes how Israeli forces killed his family in car"

stanski — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 20:42:18 +0000

I think that's the point - to discourage (certain) people from living there at all. Except it turns out people are capable of never-ending suffering and persevering through it.

You would think Israelis would already know this very well.

New comment by stanski in "Ask HN: Have you ever cloned a cat?"

stanski — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 14:05:07 +0000

Grieving for a pet is totally a thing. Comparing its importance to that of a child might be taking it a little far. Nothing would compare to losing a child.

New comment by stanski in "Bye Bye Gmail"

stanski — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 21:48:21 +0000

Been using Zoho for years with no issues. Both via the web interface and IMAP.

New comment by stanski in "Canada Announces Divorce from America"

stanski — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 15:23:17 +0000

Putin is a traitor to Russia but there he is still, 25 years on with no end in sight. The public is too easy to manipulate.

New comment by stanski in "Canada Announces Divorce from America"

stanski — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 15:15:40 +0000

A couple of tiny steps between the likes of Venezuela and Greenland and China though, eh?