Hacker News: thatsit

New comment by thatsit in "I’m joining OpenAI"

thatsit — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 13:49:58 +0000

Altman is the startup idea king. He should definitely know his moves. Even worse for antrophic is the renaming from clawd to openclaw. It is almost comical now that Peter had to rename it and now it sounds more like OpenAI

New comment by thatsit in "MinIO repository is no longer maintained"

thatsit — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 19:54:47 +0000

What is especially annoying is the aistor/minio business model, either get the „free“ version or pay about 100k… How about accepting some small dollars and keeping the core concept? However this seems to be the business type of enshitification. Instead of slapping everything with ads, you either pay ridiculous dollars or move on.

New comment by thatsit in "Ford F-150 Lightning outsold the Cybertruck and was then canceled for poor sales"

thatsit — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 16:15:17 +0000

Sales fell 4% in North America last year. EV share is more like 20% globally and seeing a YoY increase every year for at least 10 years now.

New comment by thatsit in "Ford F-150 Lightning outsold the Cybertruck and was then canceled for poor sales"

thatsit — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 16:00:42 +0000

We are slowly getting there, the used EV market takes time to build up a stockpile of good and fast charging cars. Also for total cost of driving you need to factor in cheaper charging than fueling on average, lower maintenance and maybe reduced (road) taxes depending on the country.

New comment by thatsit in "Ford F-150 Lightning outsold the Cybertruck and was then canceled for poor sales"

thatsit — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 15:47:02 +0000

Toll gates in general are a waste of time. I use bip&go + telepass lanes in Italy to get through them faster.

New comment by thatsit in "Photos capture the breathtaking scale of China's wind and solar buildout"

thatsit — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 12:36:59 +0000

And you can buy them and use them right now, as i can go and shop some solar panels, inverters, batteries, some cables put them about anywhere and just have free electricity after the initial expense?

New comment by thatsit in "Photos capture the breathtaking scale of China's wind and solar buildout"

thatsit — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 12:24:33 +0000

Solar panels etc. will last decades and can and will be recycled afterwards. Further, most materials needed for renewable energy infrastructure (iron, lithium) are highly abundant on earth. Most of the suppliers work to use cheaper (=more abundant) materials in their products, replacing lithium with sodium in batteries and silver with copper in solar panels. Wind turbine blades are produced now using re-solvable resins.

New comment by thatsit in "Ski map artist James Niehues, the 'Monet of the mountains' (2021)"

thatsit — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 12:12:17 +0000

Being used to European style ski maps, I don’t really understand why you would paint a ski map. A ski map is a map and should convey all the information you need without being overwhelming. I don’t get it why it would show different trees or why the colors need to be natural. A map is a man made thing, nature is outdoors. There is no need to reflect it on the mapy

I appreciate the artwork though.

New comment by thatsit in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

thatsit — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 08:13:28 +0000

Good work, but the headlines are still in „newspaper“ style and not in hacker news style

New comment by thatsit in "Germany drops opposition to nuclear power in rapprochement with France"

thatsit — Mon, 19 May 2025 13:18:03 +0000

Imho it’s a good thing to not block other countries approach to clean power from a german perspective.

However, there is just no way new nuclear power makes any sense for German grid. Just last week we had negative prices for _every_ day during peak demand (yes, peak demand is usually around noon, it’s just not visible because there is so much solar self-consumption) https://www.energy-charts.info/charts/power/chart.htm?l=en&c...

What‘s really needed is more batteries. At lot more batteries soon.

New comment by thatsit in "Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic"

thatsit — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 20:34:53 +0000

I‘m currently visiting Paris for the second time in my life after 2008. I can tell you it’s much cleaner now than it has been back then. There are many electric (cargo) bikes, scooters, cars and buses. The city is much quieter and there is way less crazy traffic. There are few cars parked on the side of the street. However these parking spots were cleared for bike lanes and bike sharing parking. Biggest polluter are the garage trucks, which are still diesel and noisy. If they manage to replace them by electric ones, many parts of the city will be really quiet.

New comment by thatsit in "Why I'm No Longer Talking to Architects About Microservices"

thatsit — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 16:37:01 +0000

Right, there is no measurements involved and most decisions are gut-based. In the end most systems will work somehow, it’s just that the pain points in development are different.

New comment by thatsit in "Why I'm No Longer Talking to Architects About Microservices"

thatsit — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 16:32:56 +0000

Oh well, it’s not just about microservices… The whole damm IT/software world is just like that. Very few well-defined things, very few good standards, very few agreed upon architectures.

From an electrical engineering background, it is mind-boggling to me how we got to this convoluted software world. It’s like having different electric sockets in the same building. The only hard standards seem to be IP and HTTP.

I just have two basic explanations for that: 1. Most software today has no relationship to physics or the hardware it is running on. Hence, there is no need for optimization. 2. In new projects you always start from scratch and there are few guidelines/truths/principles to hold the developer accountable to. And if there are, then you can always discuss their applicability to your problem.

New comment by thatsit in "Fire risk assessment of battery home storage compared to general house fires"

thatsit — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 17:02:34 +0000

The biggest danger is trying to recharge them after they have been stored for a long time. The anode and cathode might short-circuit and then a fire will likely start. If you want to check out an old gadget or battery make sure to watch it while charging and have a fire safe container or a plan to extinguish the fire at hand.

New comment by thatsit in "Australia's 3G Shutdown – Why your 4G/5G Phone is now Blocked"

thatsit — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 13:37:25 +0000

Well, i have to say that is one area where Germany actually shines. We shut off the stupid, power-hungry and slow 3G, but kept 2G as a basic service. That was a very good decision. All data comms can switch to 4G/5G, while voice comm can remain on 2G as backup. Low data rate devices can also use 2G/GPRS/EC-GSM.

New comment by thatsit in "Taiwan is heading toward an energy crunch?"

thatsit — Sun, 06 Oct 2024 22:22:22 +0000

Ever heard of „battery storage“?

New comment by thatsit in "Taiwan is heading toward an energy crunch?"

thatsit — Sun, 06 Oct 2024 22:20:31 +0000

helicopter pads… are you serious? so the whole freaking country is a helicopter pad? Maybe a warm welcome for the CCP? It’s not that hard putting some solar panels on buildings. Helicopter pads as a general excuse is the dumbest i have ever heard.

New comment by thatsit in "A terrible way to jump into colocating your own stuff"

thatsit — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 09:57:29 +0000

„If you just locked yourself out of sshd because you didn't install ssh keys first, STOP HERE. You are not ready for this.“ that one had me chuckling

New comment by thatsit in "Eagles changed migration route to avoid Ukraine war"

thatsit — Tue, 21 May 2024 16:12:52 +0000

I‘m not sure if they factored in the massive GPS jamming and spoofing going on in a war zone?

New comment by thatsit in "How to fix America's aviation system (2023)"

thatsit — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 11:01:13 +0000

> It is actually not like self driving at all. In the self driving case the nominal situation requires hard AI.

I agree with that. One could easily automate aviation like subways. However, you need to push the humans out, at least the controllers, possibly the pilots. This is far from doable and that’s why we end with the driving situation. In order to solve it, you need a lot of AI in order to deal with all the human-machine interactions.

First step in this would be to install a high-bandwidth digital comms between ground and planes. Currently they use analog AM, which is a century old! CPDLP is from the 80s, so much like SMS in phones. Nobody should even dare to market it as new.

Then again there simply isn’t anyone or any organization that is seriously pushing new technologies on planes and on the ground simultaneously. The plane-ATC interface has not gotten any update for decades and there is nobody aiming for redoing it. ATC and airlines, together with their respective manufacturers and suppliers are trapped inside their silos, unable to see trees from the forest.