Hacker News: wasmitnetzen

New comment by wasmitnetzen in "How Madrid built its metro cheaply (2024)"

wasmitnetzen — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 07:50:24 +0000

Because of the lesser impact on land usage, fuel usage, noise, ...?

New comment by wasmitnetzen in "German ruling declares Google liable for false answers in AI Overviews"

wasmitnetzen — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 11:48:44 +0000

Wikipedia doesn't have to shut down, but they have to remove the libel.

The problem for LLMs is that they do not learn, and can't be prevented to produce that libel ever again. If Google finds a way to make that happen, no court would stop them from offering an LLM.

New comment by wasmitnetzen in "The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen"

wasmitnetzen — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 11:35:51 +0000

There's a lot of online-only banks who have figured this out. Do video auth, outsource it to the postal service, ...

New comment by wasmitnetzen in "Nvidia announces new AI chip for personal computers"

wasmitnetzen — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 12:27:10 +0000

It'll be just another round of the client-side vs server-side processing rounds. We've been through them, we will keep going through them.

New comment by wasmitnetzen in "Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions"

wasmitnetzen — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 09:38:19 +0000

Ultimately the consumer is paying for the ad spend as well, so it can't be an outsized part of the budget.

New comment by wasmitnetzen in "Incident with Actions and Pages"

wasmitnetzen — Tue, 26 May 2026 14:25:16 +0000

Shouldn't Github be large enough to not have anyone on-call, but just rotate the responsible team around the world?

New comment by wasmitnetzen in "Norway's 2 petabytes of Huawei flash storage and LLM training"

wasmitnetzen — Tue, 26 May 2026 12:27:14 +0000

> If you assume that "culture" is a resource like "microchips"

I do not. American culture exports American values, which are not universal. Simplest examples being the attitudes towards violence and nudity, which are very different in Europe, and vary within Europe as well.

New comment by wasmitnetzen in "Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods"

wasmitnetzen — Fri, 22 May 2026 08:17:09 +0000

Are you also implying that people who maintain vehicles for a living do a worse job at it than the owners doing it themselves? I would say the opposite is true.

Plenty of companies around the world have well-maintained fleets of vehicles. Trucking businesses, bus companies, train companies, even some taxi companies with salaried drivers, ...

New comment by wasmitnetzen in "First tunnel element of the Fehmarnbelt Tunnel immersed"

wasmitnetzen — Mon, 11 May 2026 15:13:10 +0000

The tricky part will be the the train tunnel on the other end of Fehmarn, the current best guess for the finishing date is 2032[1]. They haven't started building yet[2], so I wouldn't put a lot of trust in that number.

[1]: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fehmarnsundtunnel [2]: https://www.anbindung-fbq.de/streckenabschnitte/sundquerung....

New comment by wasmitnetzen in "Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users"

wasmitnetzen — Sat, 09 May 2026 16:55:13 +0000

DB has been finicky for me from abroad as well, using a VPN to Germany usually helped. Still sucks though.

New comment by wasmitnetzen in "Removable batteries in smartphones will be mandatory in the EU starting in 2027"

wasmitnetzen — Mon, 04 May 2026 18:14:09 +0000

I don't think the mobile phone market produces variety, somehow its market forces make it strive for uniformity. All phones are basically of the same from factor (with the two foldable ones being niches), roughly the same size, same battery, same connectors, one of two OS, etc.

New comment by wasmitnetzen in "Dutch central bank ditches AWS and chooses Lidl for European Cloud"

wasmitnetzen — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 18:29:07 +0000

Lidl famously blew 500M on a failed SAP project, so they're understandably a bit into running things themselves.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17541092

New comment by wasmitnetzen in "Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price"

wasmitnetzen — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 11:32:17 +0000

The problem with making a low-tech car is that a lot of high tech stuff is mandatory for the car to be road legal.

New comment by wasmitnetzen in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"

wasmitnetzen — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:12:49 +0000

The EU already requires 5 years of patches since last year. Motorola thinks they have found a loophole, so there are still some, ahem, patches needed to the law.

New comment by wasmitnetzen in "Tell HN: Litellm 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 on PyPI are compromised"

wasmitnetzen — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 09:32:47 +0000

Take this as an argument to rethink your engineering decision to base your workflows entirely on the availability of an external dependency.

New comment by wasmitnetzen in "More than 135 open hardware devices flashable with your own firmware"

wasmitnetzen — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 14:12:05 +0000

There's a paginated list on the front page for me. Maybe already fixed?

New comment by wasmitnetzen in "SSH has no Host header"

wasmitnetzen — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 08:45:28 +0000

I would say it's best practice to use a key agent backed by a password manager.

New comment by wasmitnetzen in "Silicon Valley's "Pronatalists" Killed WFH. The Strait of Hormuz Brought It Back"

wasmitnetzen — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 14:05:40 +0000

You should really try to write abbreviations in full the first time they're used. I have no idea what CEE, FDI and GCC mean.

New comment by wasmitnetzen in "Source code of Swedish e-government services has been leaked"

wasmitnetzen — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 11:28:33 +0000

Swedish news has some quotes from authorities that nothing of value has been leaked, and a quote from the service CGI that it only concerns test servers.[1][2]

[1]: https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/uppgift-statlig-it-inform...

[2]: https://www.cgi.com/se/sv/news/cybersakerhet/cgi-informerar-...

New comment by wasmitnetzen in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans."

wasmitnetzen — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 22:20:08 +0000

Luckly, something with the English language makes it that especially native speakers quite often have atrocious grammar: They're - their - there mistakes, who/m, the list goes on.

Funnily enough, I've noticed myself getting worse with they're/their the more is use English (which is my third language).