Hacker News: tencentshill

New comment by tencentshill in "Electric motors with no rare earths"

tencentshill — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 05:14:55 +0000

BMW also produces Mini EVs, which start at £26,840

New comment by tencentshill in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

tencentshill — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 05:02:36 +0000

They would have to verify every user is a US citizen, which would not go down well to say the least. Maybe we'll get insane KYC regulations for AI models!

New comment by tencentshill in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

tencentshill — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 04:35:33 +0000

That's one way to pop the bubble. Where are all of those billions going to go now, if not to make better models?

New comment by tencentshill in "New privacy frontier: Europe eyes crackdown on smart glasses"

tencentshill — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 20:41:01 +0000

So they have maybe 3 years of fun before regulations return. Never miss an opportunity to be evil, I guess. Hopefully in 2029 they can be fined for all of the money they end up making from this.

New comment by tencentshill in "Tell HN: Meta is down"

tencentshill — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 20:37:43 +0000

They might do a post-mortem on https://engineering.fb.com. They have before.

https://engineering.fb.com/2021/10/05/networking-traffic/out...

New comment by tencentshill in "CRISPR tech selectively shreds cancer cells, including "undruggable" cancers"

tencentshill — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:47:02 +0000

The US government funds a lot of these programs, as they are obviously in the public interest. Until one man decided to stop it.

New comment by tencentshill in "A Call to Action: Stop the FCC's KYC Regime"

tencentshill — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:28:46 +0000

Apple has implemented a mitigation for this in their new modems, but unfortunately its a carrier opt-in, so only actually useful in Europe.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/apple-expands-this-location-focus...

New comment by tencentshill in "SpaceX's president is floating a Tesla merger as the company begins trading"

tencentshill — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:02:52 +0000

Stop asking those questions and just give him your money already.

New comment by tencentshill in "Poland to jail online streamers of violent crimes and cruelty for up to 5 years"

tencentshill — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 19:31:33 +0000

Why punish the act of recording? If they're stupid enough to film themselves committing a crime, don't get in the way.

New comment by tencentshill in "iFixit Trump phone teardown confirms it's an HTC U24 Pro"

tencentshill — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:37:13 +0000

"thank you for your attention on this matter"

New comment by tencentshill in "Solar generates more energy in US than coal for first time"

tencentshill — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:40:25 +0000

Have you seen this? Free battery in NYC if you charge it with off-peak power

https://everyelectric.com/

New comment by tencentshill in "Waymo Premier"

tencentshill — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:34:59 +0000

That payment gets you a $28k used car at best, assuming no other costs. It won't be anything fancy.

New comment by tencentshill in "Cheap Iranian drone downed $25M US Army helicopter–maybe by chance"

tencentshill — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 14:18:58 +0000

US export controls are terrible. It's how they got all of their Ubiquiti gear.

https://hntrbrk.com/ubiquiti/

New comment by tencentshill in "Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use"

tencentshill — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 13:18:38 +0000

Linux is great, it wont do anything you don't specify. The issue is it wont do anything you don't specify.

New comment by tencentshill in "US Consumer Price Index up 4.2%"

tencentshill — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:11:23 +0000

It's currently headed by a pretty by-the-books guy, after a series of trump loyalists were rejected. Next up for nomination is another boring career professional, who actually pushed back against trumps bullshit and survived.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-nominee-head-bls-supp...

New comment by tencentshill in "ICE denies having a protester database. A letter to Congress sheds more light"

tencentshill — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:14:16 +0000

ICE was ordered to confront and escalate without a reason. They came looking for trouble.

New comment by tencentshill in "Donut Lab's 'solid-state' battery exposed as regular li-ion in investigation"

tencentshill — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 21:12:21 +0000

It tarnishes my impression of Finland as well. I assumed scams like this didn't happen very much. I still assume justice will be served swiftly and they won't be able to worm out of it.

New comment by tencentshill in "Federal judge blocks H1B visa $100K fee"

tencentshill — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:50:35 +0000

ctrl+f "diversity" - DOGE has automatically rejected your petition.

New comment by tencentshill in "macOS 27 Brings Direct Touch Control to Sidecar"

tencentshill — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:17:10 +0000

Cool, but macOS with a touchscreen is still a UX disaster. They can try to make macOS touch friendly, but then we'll have the worst of both worlds, like Windows 8.

New comment by tencentshill in "Botnet of more than 17M devices dismantled"

tencentshill — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:51:34 +0000

Like BADBOT and Kimwolf, people buy these infected devices at walmart and put them in their homes willingly. Free TV piracy is the motivation. I'm very surprised the FCC still allows these things to be imported, and then banned all new routers instead.