CursedSilicon

Minor correction. Geohot never cracked the PS3. Fail0verflow did.

Geohot watched their talk. Rushed out a "hello world!" jailbroken firmware based on their talk and got the team in massive legal trouble for doing so

But, y'know, nuclear...!

Unlikely.

64-bit Windows cannot natively run 16-bit apps because...reasons? 32-bit Windows still can, however

Except that Windows 11 is now 64-bit only

There was notoriously a bug with the Wii's RSA implementation

https://wiibrew.org/wiki/Signing_bug

Does that mean the 99% RE gets paid at the same rate as the 1% of gas?

Like if gas is $5 and RE is $1 the RE folks get $5 instead?

Devils advocate would say that might work out in RE's favor. Lower production costs mean more profit and therefore more incentive to build more RE

Yeah. Obviously we should ask the people who own them for their opinion. Obviously they'll gleefully deride their not super affordable purchases :)

Speaking of not super affordable. When's that "affordable Tesla" coming. Or did Elmo turn on the 'full self driving' and it drove itself into a ditch along the way?

I'm bullish on EV's at large. They're far nicer to ride in. So I find his coverage informative. I've never owned a Tesla but I've ridden in hundreds and must admit (other than the original Roadster) I've been thoroughly "whelmed" by their mediocrity.

However, short of going to places like Reddit's "Tesla Lounge" or "Cyber Truck Owners Forum" I have yet to see many (any?) places that cover Tesla/Elon positively. Not because "every website is biased against him" but simply because they're reporting on events that've happened

The joke was meant to be that next year is actually 2027. Which means Elmo's promised FSD is almost a decade late

Are you suggesting that markets are rational?

I'm sure the usual detractors will be here to whine "Electrek is biased against Tesla!"

To which I would ask: Is it "bias" because they simply report on Tesla frequently? Would it be "less biased" if they ignored Tesla? Obviously Electrek can't simply invent positive press for Tesla to report on.

Putting that aside though. The Cybertruck by all measures has been an abject failure. Its production run was so limited that insurance companies refused to cover it [1] and the NHTSA took something like two years just to crash test the thing due to how few of them there were on the road.

Combine that with 10 fucking recalls for absolutely horrific safety issues [2] and the company making the batteries taking a 99% slash in its $2.8 billion dollar contract [3] the thing is a complete travesty

[1] https://www.cybertruckownersclub.com/forum/threads/insurance...

[2] https://www.cnet.com/home/electric-vehicles/every-tesla-cybe...

[3] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-29/tesla-cyb...

What welfare are immigrants "consuming" exactly? Given the millions of them that pay taxes but are unable to receive benefits especially

Hey! I'll have you know that trillionaire-because-he-absolutely-deserved-it Elon of Musky promised Full Self Driving in 2017. That's next year! /s

Yes. This administration obviously cares more about

checks notes

software privacy than political disobedience

Even tooling through places like Olympia it seemed to fizzle out

I was rather disappointed by the internet connection on the Cascades line (going Seattle --> Portland and back). As far as I could tell, they use T-Mobile for backhaul. Who are headquartered in Seattle. Yet the connection barely seemed to work for about half of the journey

Not PSN. Sony's Cloud Gaming service. Where they stream an entire PlayStation console to you

Gentoo's Portage build system is (or at least was?) part of Google's ChromeOS

Gentoo also runs the backend infra of Sony's Playstation Cloud gaming service

Anecdotal evidence claims it used to also run the NASDAq

Why not? It's not like they want elections. Either the MAGA voters or the MAGA king

Weird that you felt the need to specify Democrats

Is this something Republicans have simply never done until now?

Very reductive again

That's deeply reductive and really not what HackerNews is supposed to be about

Is it 'exaggeration' when it's all that's there to report on?

Would it be less 'exaggeration' if the site only talked about Tesla "half" the time? (that is to say, just ignored Tesla rather than reported on issues)

Big disagree. ABIT were the kings of build-your-own-PC in the 90's up through the early 2000's

Whenever I see people decry it as "anti Tesla" or "anti Elon" I just wonder "what have they done they can be covered positively?"

While I'm an out and proud "Tesla hater" and freely admit my own bias. The defenders never actually seem to have any "look here's something good that [site] overlooked!" It's just whining about the site being anti-Tesla

That's why I used the phrase "to paraphrase"

You would know this if you paid attention to what I wrote and analyzed it logically. Which is ironic, given the subject.

Is this an impromptu turing test?

>Everybody knows LLMs are not alive and don't think, feel, want

Sorry, uh. Have you met the general population? Hell. Look at the leader of the "free world"

To paraphrase the late George Carlin "imagine the dumbest person you know. Now realize 50% of people are stupider than that!"

That's awfully subjective

I too, enjoy having my DNA samples taken and my phones contents downloaded as an agent scrolls through 5 years of my social media history for wrongthink against Doritos Flamin' Führor

Henry Kissinger? I thought you died!