BYD is very much present in the UK (Telsa still seem the most common, but BYD are getting close), it must be the same in mainland Europe unless the EU is blocking them more aggressively. The Ford dealer down the road from me turned into a BYD service centre in the last couple of months.
> BYD has overtaken Tesla in overall European registrations for the first time in 2025 (BYD outsold Tesla across EU + EFTA + UK in several months)
> Across EU+EFTA+UK in October 2025, BYD’s registrations (~17 470) were ~2.5× Tesla’s (~6 964), and YTD BYD’s total (~138 390) was closing the gap on Tesla’s (~180 688).
Still not as strong as in other markets. In Finland, BYD is not even in top10:
- 1. Skoda Enyaq (~1614 units)
– 2. VW ID.4 (~1582)
– 3. Tesla Model Y (~1516)
- Other brands include VW ID.7, Kia EV3, Volvo, Audi, Polestar.
Western corporations optimise for share price. The way to do that is by pulling strings at the government level to block your competitors and by getting nice tax breaks; not by having the best product for the consumer.
China and Chinese companies still want to shake off the "China means bad quality" image, so they actually want to make a great product at a good price for the consumer. To-the-moon share price growth doesn't happen by giving your customers a good deal.
Also the CCP doesn't want corporations forgetting who calls the shots, so there is some internal pressure keeping things less "frothy" than Western markets (where most governments are running scared of the big global corps).
Well, they can use tools, and tools includes physics simulations, so if it is possible (and FWIW the tool-free "intuition" of ChatGPT is "there will never be an age of antimatter"), then why couldn't LLMs grind those tools to get a solution?
Actually, this has already happened in a very literal way. Back in 2022, Google DeepMind used an AI called AlphaTensor to "play" a game where the goal was to find a faster way to multiply matrices, the fundamental math that powers all AI.
To understand how big this is, you have to look at the numbers:
The Naive Method: This is what most people learn in school. To multiply two 4x4 matrices, you need 64 multiplications.
The Human Record (1969): For over 50 years, the "gold standard" was Strassen’s algorithm, which used a clever trick to get it down to 49 multiplications.
The AI Discovery (2022): AlphaTensor beat the human record by finding a way to do it in just 47 steps.
The real "intelligence explosion" feedback loop happened even more recently with AlphaEvolve (2025). While the 2022 discovery only worked for specific "finite field" math (mostly used in cryptography), AlphaEvolve used Gemini to find a shortcut (48 steps) that works for the standard complex numbers AI actually uses for training.
Because matrix multiplication accounts for the vast majority of the work an AI does, Google used these AI-discovered shortcuts to optimize the kernels in Gemini itself.
It’s a literal cycle: the AI found a way to rewrite its own fundamental math to be more efficient, which then makes the next generation of AI faster and cheaper to build.
This is obviously cool, and I don't want to take away from that, but using a shortcut to make training a bit faster is qualitatively different from producing an AI which is actually more intelligent. The more intelligent AI can recursively produce a more intelligent one and so on, hence the explosion. If it's a bit faster to train but the same result then no explosion. It may be that finding efficiencies in our equations is low hanging fruit, but developing fundamentally better equations will prove impossible.
The whole reason for GOG existing was they strip dead DRM from old games so the work again without "warez scene" cracks; and fix all the OS/driver incompatibilities along the way.
As far as I know all the games you can buy on GOG will be completely DRM free.
Well, you don't "stop using Steam" unless you don't care about playing most games released in the last 10-15 years. But the premise is solid, given that GOG has no DRM. Steam did get DRM "right" though.
My problem with Steam are the casino tactics Valve inject into their own games and the platform. That is an entire gaming industry problem however. At least Valve do some good things with the dirty money.
Don't bother, getting arrested and spending 2 hrs in a police station is the same as political prisoners going to a Siberian camp for 5 years, in the eyes of Americans.
It is scary how Trump has really taken over America. This war on European ideals is directly from Trump and Vance in the Whitehouse. Americans seem to be loving it.
Ah yes, that famous "joke" which evolves a Nazi salute after antisemitic phrases are said. I think Israel is undermining the Jewish cause with their current label-everything-we-dont-like-as-antisemitic rhetoric. But this "joke" is probably where the line should be drawn for actual antisemitic behaviour.
Whether the person was an antisemite or not, just don't go there. There is no reason to. As a joke between you and your girlfriend, maybe. But not broadcasting it to the whole world on Youtube.
Israel is surrounded by a ocean of minority genociding imperialist islamo supremacists using proxies and petrodollars to subvert the umbilical keeping it alive. Up to and including pushing narratives about a genocide that never happened.
It has ever right to be worried and frankly seeing how much activist media and the west republished terrorist propaganda.. they are right.
The "the UK is a police state" meme is something amplified by the US right wing (it's always people from the US going nuts about it on HN, or those that consume too much American media). Like you say, it's dumb that the police are wasting their time moderating Twitter, but if someone (or a group) was verbally abusing another person enough in real life they would be arrested.
The law should be changed to somehow accommodate assholes on social media abusing people. Probably by forcing the social media platforms to moderate their shit. What little moderation there was, was all thrown out when the Trump second term started. Either to curry favour (Zuckerberg, probably) or just to create chaos for governments (Elon).
There is an explicit strategy from the US right wing to undermine centre ground politics in Europe. This comes directly from the Whitehouse via Vance and Trump.
I agree with you this is greatly exaggerated by the US right wing - along with much else about the UK.
However, there are serious issues with hate speech laws. They go a long way beyond preventing abuse - threatening behaviour and similar were illegal before hate speech laws were passed. What hate speech laws made illegal were things that were not illegal, bit views that were judged unpleasant. We also now have criminalisation of behaviour such as silent prayer, or offering help in the wrong place.
On top of that we have "non-crime hate incidents" where the police investigate and record people for doing things that are legal.
IMO it actually helps racist groups such as the BNP as they can hint to the worst of their supporters that they would like to say things that are more racist by the law prevents them, while at the same time not frightening off more moderate supporters by using extreme language.
Racists and xenophobes have a lot of gain from ambiguity. Not only not frightening off supporters from the ethnic majority by being too extreme, but also using bigotry between minorities. There are European immigrants who hate non-whites, there are Islamphobic Jews (a group the EDL works with), antisemitic Muslims and more.
> We also now have criminalisation of behaviour such as silent prayer, or offering help in the wrong place.
These are the kinds of examples that I keep seeing given as to why the law is bad. But nobody ever shares specific examples. Can you give specific examples of people being arrested, or even just warned, for "offering help in the wrong place"?
