Recent submissions

Comment · 1 year ago
Breakthrough in prime factorization before end of 2026
Comment · 1 year ago
Then they should not be quoting from it at all if they are not going to release it in its entirety as without context quote can have completely different meaning.
Comment · 1 year ago
For dying off Russia, it might be both.
Comment · 1 year ago
In Eastern Europe is saying - They pretend that they pay us, so we pretend that we are working.
Comment · 1 year ago
If you are a CEO who is making money on torturing and killing its customers by denying them what they prepaid for, it is going to make you a lot of enemies. Absolute majority won't harm you, but will cheer up that one person who will.
Comment · 1 year ago
Rich people want to be seen, they want to show their wealth, their status and their power. What is the point of having money and power when you need to hide among the plebs? It is like breathing for them. You can willingly stop breathing for a while but eventually you need to inhale. And they are going to start brandishing their wealth and their status again.
Comment · 1 year ago
After my fair share of car being incompatible with basic CCS (Connector fits, car tells me it does not like the electricity here) I just want the charging to be working without some fancy features which charger manufacturers are going to implement wrong anyway.
Comment · 1 year ago
> I mean one thing the charging business has going for it is that after the initial investment the ongoing investment is basically 0

That's not actually correct. You need to pay for reserved power in the grid, which can be significant amount regardless if you are using that power or not. So installing big DCFC charger where nobody is going to use it will eat you up on fees for reserved power.

Comment · 1 year ago
Charging via application brings unnecessary friction and severely degrades UX.

Another UX offenders are QR codes on charging stalls and locking charging cables unless you will find that correct QR code so you can unlock your charging cable. Not that one, that will unlock charging cable in the stall next to you. For FFS why do I need to search for QR codes at a first place...

I can imagine a simple solution - take a cable, connect it to the car and start changing by tapping a contactless credit card reader next to your cable. But I never saw simple solutions, seems like every provider wants to torture its customers with half assed applications.

Comment · 1 year ago
These alarmist articles has exactly opposite effective, than author intends - it is making people apathetic about climate change. Why should they try to solve it if we are telling them that they are dead?

It is like company founder would go on all hands meeting and said: "yep we are going bankrupt. Thanks for attending." This would not inspire anyone to work harder to save the company, people would likely just start searching for another job.

Comment · 1 year ago
I would guess that doctors might find problematic for a patient to regain conciseness mid operation for a patient who can't afford full anesthesia.
Comment · 1 year ago
Then it should not be a tip, but part of the price?
Comment · 1 year ago
> Build out the necessary charging infra on a war footing

Why? If electric cars are the future, certainly building infrastructure will make sense for private companies. If it is not profitable for companies to build such infrastructure, then maybe electric cars are not the future but a fashion trend.

> I could accept EV tariffs if they were meant to give domestic manufacturers breathing room to catch up. I don't see that anyone has gotten the memo though.

China is overplaying their hand. They are having massive overcapacity in the car manufacturing, but most of the world can't afford such cars either due to price and/or due to non-existent infrastructure. You can forget on selling 30k EUR cars in Africa, India or Central Asia. You can also forget on selling such cars in most of China. So tariffs will decimate Chinese car industry.

Comment · 1 year ago
You just described what was happening in 1950s in Eastern Europe when communism came to town and started purging every "evil capitalist pig". It has turned out that loyalty can't be exchanged for merit and all the countries slowly declined until 1990s when communism just imploded.

But instead of paying ransoms, result would be concentration camp. We were calling them "Labor camps" because communism is not Nazism. However sign "Work to Freedom" was used on the entrance of such camps.

Live from the official Hacker News API

A modern reader for Hacker News · SvelteKit + Skeleton