<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: t0mas88</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=t0mas88</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 23:24:53 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=t0mas88" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by t0mas88 in "Teardown: The BMW / Harman IDC23H Infotainment Unit (B423)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>BMW has a talent in that space. Over engineered modules with terrible software. I recently drove a Toyota rental and they seem to have hired some former BMW software people as well.<p>I don't need 120hz Apple-like design, but it's crazy how they can't even keep a basic 30fps UI running smooth. And they still try to throw in more and more bad running animations.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 18:16:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49050126</link><dc:creator>t0mas88</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49050126</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49050126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by t0mas88 in "A system prompt to get AI to stop pretending to be human"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>GPT 5.6 seems to have this more than previous versions and more than Claude. It recently said to me "As a PPL holder I would..." So I asked whether it held a PPL :-) the correction was something like "No I'm an AI but a PPL holder would..."<p>This is probably the result of training on human written Reddit comments that would put it like that.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 18:01:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49049976</link><dc:creator>t0mas88</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49049976</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49049976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by t0mas88 in "We made Grok 4.5, GPT-5.5, and Claude build the same apps"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That number is not just a statistic, it's load bearing. ;-)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 06:53:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48841912</link><dc:creator>t0mas88</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48841912</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48841912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by t0mas88 in "How Bending Spoons built a $23B tech empire from struggling brands"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Their model sounds similar to ESW Capital. The main threat would probably be some form of SaaS-pocalypse, they both own a lot of fairly simple SaaS products with high prices.</p>
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<p>Did you read the article? This was not a case of "fixing their car" this was a 4 million dollar business selling illegal services to disable emission controls. They absolutely deserved to be prosecuted.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 06:14:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48791677</link><dc:creator>t0mas88</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48791677</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48791677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by t0mas88 in "U.S. allows Anthropic to release Mythos AI to ‘trusted’ US organizations"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>But do they want to start a game of chicken with Google? Doing it to Anthropic is one thing, they're much smaller and less B2C. But Google is far more powerful and likely to defend their UK/EU business because they're also fucked if they don't.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 16:34:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48699636</link><dc:creator>t0mas88</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48699636</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48699636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by t0mas88 in "OpenRA"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>OpenRA is great, it feels like a better version of Red Alert 2.<p>The one thing I'm missing is C&C Generals and Zero Hour. Those were also really fun to play over LAN.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 16:17:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48699492</link><dc:creator>t0mas88</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48699492</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48699492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by t0mas88 in "U.S. allows Anthropic to release Mythos AI to ‘trusted’ US organizations"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I thought "Free market!!1!" was basic US policy. But apparently you can't do any consumer protection laws, but you can regulate AI access to only your wealthy friends / campaign sponsors.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 08:03:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48696179</link><dc:creator>t0mas88</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48696179</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48696179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by t0mas88 in "U.S. allows Anthropic to release Mythos AI to ‘trusted’ US organizations"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Consider it from a European perspective: The US under this administration is more unreliable than China. If Trump decides tomorrow that he's unhappy about something he'll pull some random other thing to bully the other side. You can't do business with that.<p>Rebuilding trust and foreign relationships is going to take a long time after Trump is gone.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 07:57:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48696146</link><dc:creator>t0mas88</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48696146</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48696146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by t0mas88 in "U.S. allows Anthropic to release Mythos AI to ‘trusted’ US organizations"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>These are export restrictions, so if the model is in London (how do you determine that? The weights? The training itself?) there is no need to export it from the US. Then Google may have found gold. They can sell it to everyone that can't get the best OpenAI or Anthropic models.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 07:48:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48696111</link><dc:creator>t0mas88</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48696111</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48696111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by t0mas88 in "Founding a company in Germany: €9600, 152 days and I still can't send an invoice"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sounds like bad advice. Registering a local company in the Netherlands is super simple, tax is an online portal, everyone could do it. Setting op a foreign Delaware company means you're then dealing with international tax issues.<p>Unless you also personally relocate, then it probably makes sense.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 19:10:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48664408</link><dc:creator>t0mas88</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48664408</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48664408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by t0mas88 in "Founding a company in Germany: €9600, 152 days and I still can't send an invoice"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That's the American viewpoint, right of the strongest, sue if they wronged you. European systems typically have a different philosophy where the counterparties are more protected.<p>It's expressed in stronger consumer protection laws, but also these German things where you can't start a GmbH/LLC with zero capital and wish the counterparties good luck suing you if you never pay them.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 18:57:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48664239</link><dc:creator>t0mas88</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48664239</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48664239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by t0mas88 in "Founding a company in Germany: €9600, 152 days and I still can't send an invoice"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The Netherlands changed the rules 14 years ago to allow a BV (equivalent to a German GmbH or US LLC) with zero starting capital. If suppliers want to check company capital, the data is public with the companies register (KvK for locals).<p>There are two reasons not to go this way in NL, 1. There are tax discounts for small businesses that only apply to a sole proprietorship kind of structure and 2. Administrative costs for a BV are slightly higher because the legal entity itself needs to file taxes, instead of only the owners having to do so.<p>But the difference is now very small, #1 has been reduced the past few years and #2 is quite simple. It's an online portal to submit the numbers, if you know what you're doing you don't need an accountant.<p>And I think this is the key criticism for the German system. They don't seem to have a simple online portal for this and they still require 25k starting capital. That makes it harder for a small business to get started.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 18:51:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48664157</link><dc:creator>t0mas88</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48664157</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48664157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by t0mas88 in "All train services in Germany halted after train radio communications disruption"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The railroads have their own mobile network, GSM-R, it's in the article...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 21:50:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48651959</link><dc:creator>t0mas88</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48651959</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48651959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by t0mas88 in "Dutch Railways offers unlimited off-peak train travel nationwide for €49/month"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The time of tapping in at the ticket barriers counts for the whole trip. If you get in just before the start of peak-hours, you still pay the off-peak rate for the whole trip. But if you tap in before 9am, the whole trip counts as peak-rates also the part that happens after 9am.<p>Transfer don't change it, they're all part of the same trip. Going out of a station and then back in also doesn't interrupt your trip. As far as I know you need 60 minutes of being "out" of the train system for it to be considered a new trip.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 21:07:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48591627</link><dc:creator>t0mas88</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48591627</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48591627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by t0mas88 in "Dutch Railways offers unlimited off-peak train travel nationwide for €49/month"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It started out as an idea to introduce the same concept as the Deutschlandticket in NL. But the government has a budget deficit and the national railway company expected a capacity issue during peak hours. As a result the ticket is only valid in off-peak hours and the low price is only for 2 months.</p>
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<p>Planes don't age in the same way cars do. There is a maintenance schedule that inspects and replaces almost literally every component at some point. So the engines on these planes can be just a year old for example.<p>And the military has a tendency to also upgrade the avionics and capabilities at several points in the lifetime of a program. So there is a lot of tech in these planes that's much newer than 60 years old.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 20:37:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48546723</link><dc:creator>t0mas88</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48546723</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48546723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by t0mas88 in "My Homelab AI Dev Platform"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There is, but it's limited. For example Forgejo does not expose CI build logs via the API so it's hard to make Claude auto-fix a build issue.<p>I still need to find the time to get into the Forgejo code and add that endpoint.</p>
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<p>Nice! I've done that with Claude Code + Forgejo but as a small separate app to run Claude in Docker: <a href="https://github.com/smithy-ai/smithy-ai" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/smithy-ai/smithy-ai</a></p>
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<p>They are not raising prices for existing contracts, only new ones.</p>
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