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Tesla Cybertruck Isn't Allowed in Germany, Not Even the US Army Can Change That

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-14 18:10:54

Tesla's stainless-steel wedge known as the Cybertruck won't be prowling the streets of Germany anytime soon—and not even the might of the U.S. military can change that. According to a U.S. Army Customs Agency news release that surfaced on Reddit's r/teslamotors forum, the Cybertruck does not qualify for the usual rules exemption that applies to American service members. Why did the German government deny the Army's request? It turns out there are several reasons—and most of them relate to safet

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Amber Room

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-16 06:19:18

Decorated royal chamber Hand-coloured photograph of the original Amber Room, 1931 Autochrome of the Amber Room in the Catherine Palace, 1917 Reconstructed Amber Room, 2003 The Amber Room (Russian: Янтарная комната, romanized: Yantarnaya Komnata, German: Bernsteinzimmer) was a chamber decorated in amber panels backed with gold leaf and mirrors, located in the Catherine Palace of Tsarskoye Selo near Saint Petersburg. Constructed in the 18th century in Prussia, the room was dismantled and even

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EV tax credits are dead in the US. Now what?

technologyreview.com Casey Crownhart 2025-10-19 02:00:00

Ultimately, it’s not terribly surprising that there are local effects around these policy changes. “The question is really how long this decline will last, and how slowly any recovery in the growth will be,” Robbie Andrew, a senior researcher at the CICERO Center for International Climate Research in Norway who collects EV sales data, said in an email. When I spoke to experts (including Andrew) for a story last year, several told me that Germany’s subsidies were ending too soon, and that they w

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The elusive roots of rosin potatoes (2022)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-25 23:41:18

• • • When World War I broke out in 1914, so did anti-German hysteria. Ohio, once a bilingual state, declared English its official language and banned German language classes in schools before eighth grade. German street names changed. The press renamed sauerkraut “liberty cabbage” and hamburger “liberty steak.” The Espionage Act of 1917 explicitly outlawed interfering with military operations and recruitment and essentially outlawed anything un-American, aka German. “That was the death blow,”

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In a major policy shift, Germany considers offensive weapons in space

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-28 18:54:24

Germany's defense minister, Boris Pistorius, said Thursday that it's time for his country to consider putting "offensive capabilities" in space after revealing Russian spacecraft are tracking two communications satellites used by the German military. Speaking at the German industry's Space Congress event in Berlin, Pistorius said the country must ramp up its investment in space security to counter threats from Russia and China, which he said have rapidly expanded their capacity for space warfar

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Just let me select text

news.ycombinator.com Artyom Bologov 2025-10-31 10:56:37

Oh, I see you disabled JavaScript. Keep up the good work, my fellow cleanweb person! Untranslatable Bios # I’m lonely. Like everyone-ish else. Naturally, I’m on Bumble. (Because Tinder is a rape-friendly lure trap.) When work calls get boring I inevitably start swiping (mostly left 😢) There are lots of tourists in Armenia in the summer. From all over the world really. Speaking a stupefying range of languages. With bios and prompt answers in these numerous languages. Not necessarily discernibl

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Just Let Me Select Text

news.ycombinator.com Artyom Bologov 2025-11-01 01:56:37

Oh, I see you disabled JavaScript. Keep up the good work, my fellow cleanweb person! Untranslatable Bios # I’m lonely. Like everyone-ish else. Naturally, I’m on Bumble. (Because Tinder is a rape-friendly lure trap.) When work calls get boring I inevitably start swiping (mostly left 😢) There are lots of tourists in Armenia in the summer. From all over the world really. Speaking a stupefying range of languages. With bios and prompt answers in these numerous languages. Not necessarily discernibl

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Can Your GrimDark Beat the Germans (2022)

news.ycombinator.com Illuminati Ganga Agent 2025-11-08 00:30:09

Press enter or click to view image in full size When Germans want to make a show that is ‘Dark’ they are really good at picking names. This is an article with a title written in the form of a question but ending with an exclamation point because the obvious answer is of course No, it fucking can’t. Your GrimDark cannot beat the Germans! First of all the Germans are unbeatable on this front because their national park is called the Black Forest and their children’s literature is all about littl

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Not so fast: German court says Apple can’t call Watch carbon neutral

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2025-12-27 10:35:27

Two years ago, Apple announced its Watch Series 9 as its first carbon-neutral product. From cradle to grave, the company said the manufacturing, use, and disposal of the then-new model didn’t contribute to global warming. Now, a German court says that Apple has to recant the claim. Each aluminum Apple Watch Series 9 and Series 10 — two models with the carbon-neutral designation — generates just over 8 kilograms of carbon emissions. Apple then offsets those emissions through the purchase of car

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The Apple Watch is not actually carbon neutral, says German court

9to5mac.com Benjamin Mayo 2025-12-28 05:56:41

Apple is no longer allowed to advertise the Apple Watch as carbon neutral, a German court ruled following a protest from environmentalists about Apple’s promoted claims. The Frankfurt court found the company misled consumers for describing the Apple Watch as a CO2-neutral product. Apple first unveiled its first carbon neutral products starting with the Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 in September 2023. The German ruling means that language relating to these devices being carbon neutral will h

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Sütterlin

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-01 16:56:44

Historical form of German handwriting, used 1915–1970s Sütterlinschrift (German pronunciation: [ˈzʏtɐliːnˌʃʁɪft], "Sütterlin script") is the last widely used form of Kurrent, the historical form of German handwriting script that evolved alongside German blackletter (most notably Fraktur) typefaces. Graphic artist Ludwig Sütterlin was commissioned by the Prussian Ministry of Science, Art and Culture (Preußisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Kunst und Volksbildung) to create a modern handwriting

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Car Company Charges Monthly Fee for Its EVs to Drive Faster

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-13 14:30:42

Cars aren't just cars, these days. They have to be stuffed with smartphone-like tech. Maybe it was inevitable, then, that they'd start using the subscription model of a phone app. As Electrek reports, drivers of several Volkswagen EV models will have to pay a monthly fee to unlock the full horsepower of their cars — at least in the UK, though we wouldn't rule out the scheme expanding to other markets. The affected models are the Volkswagen ID.3 and ID.4, which start at 201 horsepower. But if

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Exit Tax: Leave Germany before your business gets big

news.ycombinator.com Oliver Eidel 2026-01-29 11:06:50

Here’s an interesting take on Germany’s exit tax, which I have written about before: Leave Germany before your business gets big. What do I mean by that? I mean that once you’re a business owner in Germany and your business has reached a certain size, you are essentially barred from ever moving out of the country again. Crazy, right? I think it’s also pretty crazy that no one really talks about this. This is, quite literally, erecting a “Berlin Wall” around German entrepreneurs, forcing them

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You know more Finnish than you think

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-30 04:08:19

Linguistics illuminates the linguistically obscure – or so I’ve always thought. It’s a common theme of my online output that a little bit of historical linguistics goes a long way, making helpful connections and breaking down psychological barriers. This theme was present in two old posts of mine that used etymology to elucidate two Old English texts, namely Beowulf and The Wanderer. Now, as an unplanned third installment, allow me to show you how familiar a whole language can be. This is the i

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Germany's identity crisis: The trains no longer run on time

news.ycombinator.com Aaron Wiener 2026-02-05 04:32:58

BERLIN — Germany: the land of beer, sausage and trains that run on time. Actually, make that the land where 56 percent of trains run on time. More precisely (or imprecisely, depending on how much of a rush you are in), the land where 56 percent of trains arrive within six minutes of the scheduled time — which is the cushion Deutsche Bahn, the national railroad company, allows itself for an “on-time” arrival. In Germany, punctuality is part of the national ethos. So to hear Germans talk about it

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Germ brings end-to-end encrypted messages to Bluesky

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2026-02-16 09:25:03

A new startup called Germ is bringing end-to-end encrypted messaging to the Bluesky social network, allowing its users to have a more secure option for chats than Bluesky’s existing DMs. After over two years of development, the service is launching its encrypted DMs for Bluesky into beta this week, with plans to gradually onboard new testers ahead of a public launch. In time, the technology that Germ is building, much of which is open sourced, could allow Bluesky to introduce encrypted messagin

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Europol disrupts pro-Russian NoName057(16) DDoS hacktivist group

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-03-15 00:07:30

An international law enforcement operation dubbed "Operation Eastwood" has targeted the infrastructure and members of the pro-Russian hacktivist group NoName057(16), responsible for distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks across Europe, Israel, and Ukraine. Operation Eastwood was led by Europol and Eurojust with support from 12 countries. It took place on July 15, 2025, and targeted the systems and individuals behind the group's activities. NoName057(16) is a pro-Russian hacking group tha

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Orwell Diaries 1938-1942

news.ycombinator.com Posted On 2026-03-22 22:58:59

D[avid] A[stor] very damping about the Dieppe raid, which he saw at more or less close quarters and which he says was an almost complete failure except for the very heavy destruction of German fighter planes, which was not part of the plan. He says that the affair was definitely misrepresented in the press [1] and is now being misrepresented in the reports to the P.M., and that the main facts were: – Something over 5000 men were engaged, of whom at least 2000 were killed or prisoners. It was not

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George Orwell Diaries 1938-1942

news.ycombinator.com Posted On 2026-03-23 08:58:59

D[avid] A[stor] very damping about the Dieppe raid, which he saw at more or less close quarters and which he says was an almost complete failure except for the very heavy destruction of German fighter planes, which was not part of the plan. He says that the affair was definitely misrepresented in the press [1] and is now being misrepresented in the reports to the P.M., and that the main facts were: – Something over 5000 men were engaged, of whom at least 2000 were killed or prisoners. It was not

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The Origin of the Research University

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-21 13:50:52

If you were alive in 1800 and someone asked you about the future of research, it wouldn’t occur to you to mention the university. Real scholarship happened in new, modern, enlightened institutions like the British Royal Society or the French Académie des sciences. Universities were a medieval relic. And nowhere was it more medieval, hidebound, and generally dysfunctional than in the German-speaking world. But something happened to German universities at the turn of the 19th century — they develo

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Latest Tech News

Tesla Cybertruck Isn't Allowed in Germany, Not Even the US Army Can Change That

Amber Room

EV tax credits are dead in the US. Now what?

The elusive roots of rosin potatoes (2022)

In a major policy shift, Germany considers offensive weapons in space

Just let me select text

Just Let Me Select Text

Can Your GrimDark Beat the Germans (2022)

Not so fast: German court says Apple can’t call Watch carbon neutral

The Apple Watch is not actually carbon neutral, says German court

Sütterlin

Car Company Charges Monthly Fee for Its EVs to Drive Faster

Exit Tax: Leave Germany before your business gets big

You know more Finnish than you think

Germany's identity crisis: The trains no longer run on time

Germ brings end-to-end encrypted messages to Bluesky

Europol disrupts pro-Russian NoName057(16) DDoS hacktivist group

Orwell Diaries 1938-1942

George Orwell Diaries 1938-1942

The Origin of the Research University

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