patrickmcnamara
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Re:M5 Ultra Mac Studio Review: The Dream Mac for Local AI Agents
on Monday September 21, 2026 @11:41AM (#49788727)
HN always has these completely contrived counterarguments. What is actually going to realistically happen that will prevent use of an LLM provider? Did you think that the OP literally meant the 12 years or maybe it was just to show how expensive using a Mac Mini as an alternative is?
Re:ChatGPT now knows what you do on other websites via ad collector
on Sunday September 20, 2026 @05:19PM (#49780178)
When has the EU mandated encryption backdoors?
Re:Sydney Marathon medal mistakenly depicts Munich stadium
on Sunday August 23, 2026 @09:41AM (#49408801)
Wow, the sculptor got 3.5 million USD for copyright infringement from his copycat statue.
Re:Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM
on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @06:28AM (#49343657)
Windows 7 was pretty neat.
Re:Decathlon Germany adds Wero payment option to decathlon.de website
on Monday July 27, 2026 @01:26PM (#49072831)
I don't think the name is that bad. iDeal sounds very dated to me as a native English speaker.
Re:EU Fines Google $1.02B for Favoring Its Own Services
on Monday July 27, 2026 @04:43AM (#49066749)
They could also just have their maps and others show in the results as normal.
Re:Codex starts encrypting sub-agent prompts
on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @08:21AM (#48905665)
Codex CLI not having a rewind makes it useless to me.
Re:Nintendo announces new product revisions in Europe with replaceable...
on Monday July 06, 2026 @12:27PM (#48806902)
Nothing should be improved unless it solves world hunger.
Re:Challenging the Narrative of European Decline
on Thursday June 18, 2026 @11:58AM (#48587388)
https://www.ft.com/content/d419bd2d-a6ba-44a5-a93a-1276f3e5d...
This is the article I was thinking of. I don't think we can pretend that pensions are not a problem, and not a massive strain on government budgets. Incomes of pensioners have increased a lot more than incomes of working-age people, and French over 65 earn more than French working-age (slightly different claim than I made).
> What do you want, when you stress that retired people earn too much
I want to pay less into unsustainable pension system and to be able to save for my own future instead. I would love more of Europe to get a system similar to Australia's superannuation system.
Re:Challenging the Narrative of European Decline
on Thursday June 18, 2026 @09:48AM (#48585272)
I don't know why everyone is being so dismissive. Pensions in Europe nowadays are just transfers from young and poor to older and wealthier. The average French pensioner (not working) has a higher income than the average French worker (working).
Re:Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for e...
on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @03:09PM (#48466048)
True hacker spirit here.
Re:Uber's $1,500/Month AI Limit Is a Useful Signal for AI Tool Pricing
on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @06:53PM (#48391216)
45 billion / 1500 $ is 30 million workers. How did we arrive at 30 million?
Re:Anthropic is expanding to Colossus2. Will use GB200
on Thursday May 21, 2026 @05:12AM (#48219830)
Nobody ever said other models were bastions of objectivity. They only implied they weren't corrupted by Musk. Which is true, and which is good.
Re:I Moved My Digital Stack to Europe
on Wednesday May 13, 2026 @09:52AM (#48121917)
Trump 2 is worse than Trump 1 by far from EU perspective. And it also proved that it wasn't a once-off that Americans will vote in someone who threatens to dismantle NATO, invade Greenland, or start trade wars with allies for no reason.
Re:Anthropic takes $5B from Amazon and pledges $100B in cloud spending...
on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @10:29AM (#47849351)
It's not a marathon, or any race. There is no a finish line. It doesn't matter that much that someone is a minute ahead.
Re:F-35 is a masterpiece built for the wrong war
on Monday April 20, 2026 @05:09PM (#47840786)
Which system are you talking about?
Re:Codex Hacked a Samsung TV
on Thursday April 16, 2026 @07:20AM (#47791468)
Hyperbole.
Re:Anna's Archive Loses $322M Spotify Piracy Case Without a Fight
on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @12:54PM (#47781814)
I never understand these positions. How do authors make money selling books if someone can legally copy it and give it out for free?
Re:Is Germany's gold safe in New York ?
on Monday April 06, 2026 @10:24AM (#47661329)
The big difference is that the assets are given back when they stop invading other another country.
Re:Is Germany's gold safe in New York ?
on Monday April 06, 2026 @07:29AM (#47659529)
> given Europe seized a ton of Russian assets
Those assets are frozen, not seized.
Re:Italy blocks US use of Sicily air base for Middle East war
on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @04:32PM (#47593084)
The majority could have voted for a different government if they didn't want this one. I could understand this argument somewhere else, but the US has fair elections and voted for this twice.
Re:Italy blocks US use of Sicily air base for Middle East war
on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @02:31PM (#47591536)
Americans should stop voting in governments like this then.
Re:Meta told to pay $375M for misleading users over child safety
on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @10:01AM (#47517478)
Who issued this fine?
Re:Plane and ground vehicle collide at New York's LaGuardia airport ha...
on Monday March 23, 2026 @05:59PM (#47495696)
Ryanair are the biggest airline in Europe and they exclusively fly Boeing 737s.
Re:US messageboard 4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches
on Thursday March 19, 2026 @05:19PM (#47446302)
What is the HN way to say "touch grass"?
Re:Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Eu...
on Monday March 09, 2026 @11:33AM (#47310419)
I saw nobody making those arguments. Most people were thinking that Ireland doesn't burn coal anymore. People who think or care about this stuff know that interconnects exist.
Re:UUID package coming to Go standard library
on Saturday March 07, 2026 @03:17AM (#47285643)
I'd love to see proper WebSocket support, and JWTs.
Re:Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
on Thursday February 19, 2026 @01:54PM (#47077556)
Truly we entering the era of AGI.
Re:EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories an...
on Sunday February 15, 2026 @09:27PM (#47030219)
People on HN never been wise to any law. For some reason they think that law operates like a set of instructions that a CPU operates.
Re:Email is tough: Major European Payment Processor's Emails rejected ...
on Thursday February 12, 2026 @03:17PM (#46994512)
Do bugs and bad implementations not exist in US software? If an US company did this, nobody would be bloviating about how it is a cultural issue or whatever.