Live data from Hacker News

Viewing profile — mavhc

mavhc

HN member
Joined
Sun, Mar 18, 2012, 10:38 AM UTC
HN karma
3,405
Public activity
2,394 items

About mavhc

Nottingham, UK

Recent public activity

  1. comment
    Comment #48758004

    why would a token a) last forever, and b) not be created as a response by your smart ID card to a challenge token?

  2. comment
    Comment #48757901

    Bring back nntp

  3. comment
    Comment #48658855

    Air-conditioners are heat pumps and everyone should be using heat pumps

  4. comment
  5. comment
    Comment #48436295

    When will we see an open source car?

  6. comment
    Comment #48433483

    writing and calling an entire python setup seems massive overkill, surely just have an internal way of calling a simple calculator function would be millions of times faster

  7. comment
    Comment #48361245

    SpaceX already dominates the global industry, there's barely anything left to grow into at current $/kg, but of course reducing $/kg by 10x means 10x more cargo to launch

  8. comment
    Comment #48361213

    Self driving is already here, so far the remaining bugs are pretty much just noticing thin objects and parking in restricted spaces

  9. comment
    Comment #48361133

    They're second in the race to self driving after Waymo, they're making the Cybercab, seems to be working out great as their cars will cost way less than Waymo's

  10. comment
    Comment #48206888

    Except the only way to watch some shows is now piracy, they've been erased from streaming and never available on disc

  11. comment
    Comment #48118755

    https://terafab.ai/ has a diagram of the proposed satellites

  12. comment
    Comment #47733482

    Planned to get a discount from MS at least

  13. comment
    Comment #47723476

    I have an ARM desktop from 1986 or 1987 https://chrisacorns.computinghistory.org.uk/Computers/A500.h...

  14. comment
    Comment #47722842

    https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/hardware-dev-center...

  15. comment
    Comment #47704933

    And the other half run BSD

  16. comment
    Comment #47704047

    you can still remove the drm and sideload them

  17. comment
    Comment #47375450

    Most of our thinking now is about how we made rocks think, gods, and fiction. None of those are created by evolution

  18. comment
    Comment #47375114

    Internet is way behind on democracy. In general everyone likes democracy until they're in charge, then they realise they're the best person to be in charge and the idiots who vote …

  19. comment
    Comment #47375089

    The metric being house fires

  20. comment
    Comment #47375069

    1. subscribe to channels you like 2. only use the subscription tab

  21. comment
    Comment #47333739

    He said moon first, not no Mars. And a decade to build a moon city, not to get there. However what people say and their real reasons aren't always the same. I assume Issacman went …

  22. comment
    Comment #47204678

    Space X cares way more about reusability than the moon, they're not actually in a race to the moon. Step 1: build the best general solution. Step 2: do everything

  23. comment
    Comment #47187885

    Once Starship has launched 1000 times without problems it'll be obviously safer despite having no abort system

  24. comment
    Comment #47187828

    Going to Mars takes about the same delta-v as the moon. SpaceX launches 80% of the world's mass to orbit, they probably know what they're doing. Starship is an extremely hard probl…

  25. comment
    Comment #46972867

    You want to add a load of buttons? Should be easy enough, just get them to send codes to the computer via the network. Door handles are harder, what do you want to change? Inner or…