Hacker News: tokai

New comment by tokai in "European AI. A playbook to own it"

tokai — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 22:02:24 +0000

Imagine all the great investments the US VCs are missing outside of AI.

New comment by tokai in "[dead]"

tokai — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 21:39:22 +0000

Its the minimum you can expect in any real democracy.

New comment by tokai in "Am I German or Autistic?"

tokai — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:56:24 +0000

Most of the German stereotypes are not just untrue, reality is actually the opposite. Germans are not efficient as an example, they love layers of formality and documentation for its own shake at the cost of getting stuff done.

New comment by tokai in "Help Keep Thunderbird Alive"

tokai — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:04:37 +0000

get over yourself

New comment by tokai in "Show HN: Is Hormuz open yet?"

tokai — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 21:57:38 +0000

No insurance has been fixed for a while now. Its as simple as shipowners not wanting to lose their boats and their future earnings potential.

New comment by tokai in "Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones"

tokai — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 13:23:21 +0000

Non of those laws are enforced, ever. Even if you get stopped by police. When have you last seen a bike with all the mandetory reflectors?

New comment by tokai in "Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones"

tokai — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 13:18:43 +0000

>I do that. This was never a problem

The most problematic people in traffic are never aware that they are the problem.

New comment by tokai in "Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones"

tokai — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 13:17:58 +0000

ofc they are

New comment by tokai in "Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones"

tokai — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 13:16:33 +0000

Skoda is a huge sponsor of professionel cycling.

New comment by tokai in "Lunar Flyby"

tokai — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 13:07:33 +0000

Its a classic feeling when seeing things there one not normally see. There's a whole conspiracy that the war in Ukraine is fake, because video of combat looks weird compared to movies and video games.

New comment by tokai in "Haunting Photos Show the Aftermath of the Kursk Submarine Disaster in 2000"

tokai — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:45:19 +0000

The survivors possibly had a change if Russia had accepted the offer for help from the Norwegian rescue divers right away.

New comment by tokai in "Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)"

tokai — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:25:27 +0000

Isn't the ornamental 'urban decay' detail kinda the opposite of the utilitarian and functional style of brutalism?

New comment by tokai in "Iran Is Not Blocking the Strait of Hormuz. It's Running a Toll Booth"

tokai — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:10:37 +0000

>Iran has no authority to collect toll

That's like that old copy pasta "If you're being mugged, just say no. Your robbers cannot legally take any of your possessions.". Its not legal sure, but their authority lies in high explosives delivered by sea and air.

New comment by tokai in "Are We Idiocracy Yet?"

tokai — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:38:45 +0000

How is it unlikely? Several researchers has pointed to the Flynn effect reversing since the turn of the millennium.

New comment by tokai in "Got kicked out of uni and had the cops called for a social media website I made"

tokai — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 22:01:30 +0000

Facemash, Mark's pre-facebook project, was a page to vote on student attractiveness, with names and pictures of female students scraped from Harvard.

New comment by tokai in "German police name alleged leaders of GandCrab and REvil ransomware groups"

tokai — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 21:33:23 +0000

And you should reread the HN guidelines.

New comment by tokai in "German police name alleged leaders of GandCrab and REvil ransomware groups"

tokai — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:45:56 +0000

Yevgeny Prigozhin was well known for his restaurants and catering businesses.

New comment by tokai in "German police name alleged leaders of GandCrab and REvil ransomware groups"

tokai — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:47:11 +0000

> 56.10 — Restaurant activities and food delivery services

That one is a classic for russian criminals and warlords.

New comment by tokai in "With one million displaced, Lebanon turns to digital wallets for aid"

tokai — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 17:35:31 +0000

Hasn't Hawala been a thing in Lebanon for hundreds of years? It doesn't seem like a novel development at all, besides the digital tools. Informal money transfer systems are not new thing challenging the banks at all. The banks are the new thing here.

New comment by tokai in "US deploying nearly all stealthy long-range JASSM-ER cruise missiles to Iran war"

tokai — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 18:36:27 +0000

Why make up unsubstantiated claims about Chinese support, when it is known that Russia supports Iran with military hardware?