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Re:Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @06:22AM (#50069455)
There's also the Dacia Hipster, which I'm honestly more excited about.

Launch price £9500-£11500, up to 150mi. Seems very practical if you live in a city apartment and need to do grocery runs or go to work.

Love the design too, reminds me of a futuristic, mini Jimny.

Re:Mistral Large 4 on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @01:18PM (#49981431)
It's shaping up to be much more like a game of 'chicken' where each company tries to raise more cash without going bust... Ultimately the game of musical chairs is going to have to stop. In the US it looks like they are trying to get a government sanctioned truce in the form of regulation. That's what 'Pacing the frontier' means...
Re:GPT-6 Astra has gained the ability to drive a car on Thursday September 24, 2026 @12:28AM (#49826256)
This is so stupid.
Re:Good people refuse to do bad things on Monday September 21, 2026 @07:06PM (#49794648)
Thank you. I'm glad I'm not the only one. It looks like he's good at math and graduated Cambridge but a second rate engineer who was heading for the door anyway and decided he'd do well out of doing some scare mongering. Jacob's own words on CBS were "I think [it] clearly there was some latent demand for this sort of sentiment". He knows this is what people are eager to hear and he's providing that... It's the same grift Anthopic and OpenAI have been doing for years: "AGI in the next 6 months!" for the last 4 years...
Re:Good people refuse to do bad things on Monday September 21, 2026 @01:42PM (#49790595)
The downvotes are funny to me because it's true.

To quote Coxon on CBS News: > I think it clearly there was some latent demand for this sort of sentiment or people were gradually coming to this sort of conclusion because obviously so many other people have been saying the same thing for a long time. ... > Yeah. Honestly, when I talk to my friends and family about this, I find it easier to or people seem to actually get more of a sense for it if they're further away from technology. Because I honestly think it sounds more like science fiction than real technology.

He's quite open about it, saying the quiet part out loud. Tech is strange place to be if you're, well... technical. Being constantly gaslit by people who haven't built anything or have 3 years in the industry like here Coxon.

Re:Good people refuse to do bad things on Monday September 21, 2026 @12:21PM (#49789342)
Coxon is a shithead who thought he could have a better career as an AI scaremonger than an engineer.

He's still working in service of the AI companies though (same narrative) and no doubt will land a cushy job at so-callef "AI Safety" labs or make a living on the news/podcast circuit.

Re:The AI Situation in Software Development on Saturday August 15, 2026 @12:15PM (#49311781)
And you immediately give up your IP for someone else to use. The 4th option, if you have something in your mind worth building, is to just build the thing, without an LLM.
This is an assumption, but not confirmed.
Can anyone point me to where in the MDVN page it mentions requiring Apple and Google account? Thanks
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2025) on Monday June 02, 2025 @05:07PM (#44163045)
Location: Manchester, UK Remote: Any Willing to relocate: No Technologies: JVM, Py, JS/TS, C++, Haskell Résumé/CV: https://base.nu/files/cv.pdf Email: [email protected]

Polyglot engineer, worked in fintech space on event driven systems, but also comfortable frontend android/iOS/web and lower level systems stuff.

Linux kernel contributor (ALSA)

Recently doing computer graphics stuff for fun.

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2021) on Sunday February 14, 2021 @07:39PM (#26137723)
Location: Manchester, UK

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Maybe

Technologies: C/Python/JS/Haskell/Kotlin/SQL/LATEX Programming. | Refactoring | USBRev.Eng. | API Design | Frontend Dev | UNIX/Linux Systems | Protocol Knowledge (HTTP, SMTP, USB in particular)

Résumé/CV: https://base.nu/files/cv.pdf

Email: [email protected]

A software engineer with 6+ years experience primarily developing high-availability web applications for businesses, often using Python and JavaScript. As of 2021, I’m looking for ethical and sustainable opportunities within the software industry. The current business models of technical surveillance are quite disillusioning. I'm open to working with all sectors but particularly the green and renewable sector, communications and audio.

I'm a contributor to open-source projects including K-9 Mail and the Linux Kernel and enjoy reverse engineering and playing with electronics.