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Some specs about the car:

- 31.5kWh

- 630kg

- 300km (186mi) range

This review explains the concept behind the car in more detail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aTzuUrdyIc


Lack of DC fast charging makes the range even more limiting. It takes 2.7 hours to add another 150 miles. Modern EVs can add 150 miles of range in 10-15 minutes.


It's a recreational vehicle for booting around to and from the country club and out to the fancy places that European gentlemen go on afternoon Sunday drives to impress their mistresses.

Oh that reminds me, I should go check my lottery ticket.


They’re a Dutch company.

You can drive from just about any point in the Netherlands to any other in less than 300km.

For a weekend toy in the densely populated parts of Europe the range is fine.


Take a look at the video the car driving. I don't think people who buy this are worried about range anxiety.


Modern EVs also have airbags. This is just a toy for the wealthy, like a golf cart.


300 km with an extra battery. 200 km and 590 kg with a smaller one. It's about weight of a Lotus Elan, a bit heavier than a Fiat 500.


186 mi for 31.5 kWh would indicate nearly 200 mpge which is quite impressive.


Pros: Proper EV motor scream. Cons: 56HP.


Yeah, the unfortunate reality with EVs is power and weight are tightly correlated, since the power output is limited by the batteries, and more battery capacity generally means more power output.


Ah... that could explain the apparent absence of airbags.


haha, however, just because you can't move very fast doesn't mean something else moving fast won't hit you.


The car starts at about €45k, about the same price as a Tesla Model 3!


That's ex VAT.


Hi Alex,

Thank you for the feedback and #23 on a weekend day is very impressive!

I found there are a couple of those small improvements that make HN significantly easier and more pleasant to read. Good to hear that the red names are not too distracting!


Thanks, it actually went all the way to #2, really unexpected and had other plans for the day but then ended up being around to attend to the commenters, some gave really good feedback.

It surely helps on the very long discussions where the OP replies and the max-width helps also with readability.


The creator of https://hackerdaily.io here!

The reason for a timezone specific RSS feed is because, like the site itself, the RSS feed only updates once a day at midnight. And _when_ the day changes depends on the timezone. Therefore we created different RSS feeds, one for each time zone.


This happened in the sixties, during and after the six-day war between Israel and Egypt. Therefore I think a movie could be made out of this story any day now.


See Curtis — bitter lake?


It's been a couple of years since I watched it, but I don't recall the GBLA being mentioned in the film.

For anyone interested, the film we're talking about is the 2015 documentary "Bitter Lake" by Adam Curtis which tells the story of how an agreement signed on the Great Bitter Lake back in 1945 could have had an unexpectedly huge impact on how the modern world developed through the next 60+ years.

It's long, but entertaining and as always has a great soundtrack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84P4dzow1Bw


Pretty sure the GBLA isn't mentioned, but I think the Six-Day War probably was?


Indeed, coincidentally just watched this a week before the Ever Given blockage. It's relevant to this thread. The soundtrack, the archival footage and the pairing between them makes for fantastic viewing, although I personally found this not as intellectually interesting and even more 'tenuous' than Hypernormalisation or Can't Get You Out of My Head.


I’m building some projects to slow the internet down.

1. A less addictive Hacker News (https://hackerdaily.io)

2. A brief overview of yesterday’s world events (https://abriefhistoryofyesterday.com)


#2 is fantastic. I would love for it to be even slower. Something like a brief overview of last week, or last month. I can't news I've read yesterday, which means most it was pointless.


Absolutely agreed! I really like the concept, if you could make it into a weekly newsletter it could be something quite good.


That’s a great idea! I’ll think about how to summarize this even further.


Awesome ideas! Reading news in retrospect allows more insight and less emotion-driven rants. And I dig the minimalist design. They load fast too.


1. seems like an awesome concept!


Thank you! I would love to hear from you on what could be improved.


I didn't find any links to the original page on HN. And second: may be the timezone accounting would be great. There is friday morning at may location now, but I still see only thursday.


2 is amazing! How do you pick the news and create the summaries? Is it automated?


Love it! I've been looking for minimalist sites to browse everyday.


DNS isn’t resolving for #2


Sorry, I put in the wrong URL, it should be working now!


https://abriefhistoryofyesterday.com

News in the digital age updates constantly. No matter what, there is always some "breaking news". This causes news sites to become more of a slot machine than a substantive source of information.

A Brief History of Yesterday tries to be an antidote. It uses Wikipedia to show a summary of what happened yesterday. It's no news anymore, the content is already gradually becoming history.

I started working on it last weekend. It is still in a pre-alpha state, but please let me know what you think of it!


Kind of an interesting aggregation but Wikipedia is a lot of information to try and consume for a "brief history" I do like the tree view, but I don't like having to open up the different sections, I think I should be able to get what I'm looking for on the landing page. Also, and this is subjective but something about the UX makes it feel like an overwhelming amount of information, especially the health and environment section. I would want it to feel like something I could absorb in a few minutes.

How are you generating the trees?


Yes, the 'Health and environment' section is quite overwhelming, mostly due to COVID-19. That's why I close each section initially, this way you open only the sections that interest you.

I modify the tree from Wikipedia slightly to get a less cluttered overview.[1]

[1] https://github.com/RubenVanEldik/a-brief-history-of-yesterda...


Ok, I added a quick shortcut. You can now go to a specific date by just going to that page, for example, the page for exactly a month ago is https://hackerdaily.io/2020-11-29. My database goes back to roughly the start of October, so that's the furthest you can go back for now.

I haven't add anything to the UI for now. Do you have an idea how to add this nicely to the existing UI?


Thanks for the prompt response. I get a “404 This page could not be found” error page when I visit that link or any other URL I type manually with the date in the last one month.

As a start, I think adding a “Choose Date” link and providing a date picker to navigate to a specific day may be nice.


Great point! Let me see if I can quickly add this.


Do you mean a page to show all AskHN/ShowHN posts? Because it already shows all the posts (including AskHN/ShowHN) with more than 100 points.


Correct. But my request is rooted in the fact that AskHN/ShowHN are often more niche questions/show posts. The signal:noise ratio for them is, imo, different than that of popular posts on the front page. Therefor i'm describing that they should not be required to be front-page-popular to be browse-able.

Another way to think about it is i often want to see discussions and projects from HN folks. The frontpage can often just be full of popular nonsense - Reddit-esque. However ShowHN and AskHN often have gems that are obscure, with a much smaller amount of points.

Yet another way to look at it is: i'd love a toggle filter to only show me AskHN/ShowHN on the front page. However most days it would only be one or two posts.

Hopefully this illustrates my desires :)

(one final example, hah, might be this very post. I suspect it'll get over 100, but currently it's sitting at 60 pts)


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