Hacker News: 0x3f

New comment by 0x3f in "Grok Bot"

0x3f — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 07:12:03 +0000

> Just register these things in the IDP and let them sign into their own accounts.

And when you get blocked by whatever anti-bot tech the site is running?

New comment by 0x3f in "Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots"

0x3f — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 17:27:35 +0000

Seems unlikely. All three market leaders have roughly equivalent products, even ignoring the Chinese models. Google is better vertically integrated, as well. They'll end up competing on price, or worst case capacity rationing.

New comment by 0x3f in "This July I Was Fired from Simple AI (A Deeply YC Company)"

0x3f — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 16:53:56 +0000

I think he's just young and awkward, as we all were at some point.

New comment by 0x3f in "This July I Was Fired from Simple AI (A Deeply YC Company)"

0x3f — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 16:52:11 +0000

When you say own you mean fractionally, or founder level share only?

The thing is even if you 'have' the equity share as an employee, you might never get liquidity. And (super obviously) most startups fail.

So even if you have a decent chunk of 'ownership', you really, _really_ need to believe in it to be working those hours. I'm talking the kind of belief built on your specialist and insider knowledge about why it's very likely to crush everything else. And even then you can get screwed!

New comment by 0x3f in "London Gatwick has launched a robotic airport parking service"

0x3f — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 16:44:58 +0000

Ferries tilt and jolt in a way that predictable-path car lifts don't.

New comment by 0x3f in "London Gatwick has launched a robotic airport parking service"

0x3f — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 16:03:10 +0000

Most 'London' airports are outside of London and they still charge a ton for parking. Captive audience. This one is unusually cheap, even for Gatwick.

New comment by 0x3f in "London Gatwick has launched a robotic airport parking service"

0x3f — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 15:57:43 +0000

I don't think car alarms detect these kinds of vibrations. It's specifically tilt and more impactful stuff. Certainly, the alarm is never going off when I get my car back via the lifts that I've used. It's probably too smooth.

New comment by 0x3f in "London Gatwick has launched a robotic airport parking service"

0x3f — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 15:50:49 +0000

Where was this? I've only seen it in London at very high end residential places. Even then it's rare. Most privately-owned public car parks in London are dilapidated and full of thieves, but still command premium pricing. It would surprise me if one bothered to build the infra for this.

New comment by 0x3f in "Tell HN: Namecheap gave my account to an unverified third party"

0x3f — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 18:57:20 +0000

That's not clear to me.

> He convinced them the domain registered in my name and address really belonged to his club

Convinced how? Often such things are via "knowing things" about the account holder.

New comment by 0x3f in "Tell HN: Namecheap gave my account to an unverified third party"

0x3f — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 23:04:57 +0000

Seems pretty relevant to a social engineering attack to have more correct pieces of info to give to support.

New comment by 0x3f in "Tell HN: Namecheap gave my account to an unverified third party"

0x3f — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 23:02:47 +0000

It's just traffic based: sales try to get you on a paid plan, or a higher tier. For some accounts they've given ultimatums ("pay for the higher tier by x date or we have to stop providing service"). But I believe those cases were e.g. online casinos doing specific things with the platform (say, evading national blocks on gambling websites) IIRC.

New comment by 0x3f in "Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects"

0x3f — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 21:38:11 +0000

Only GitHub and Gitlab have a large intersection of features. You can probably choose around one from the rest of the list, if they happen to have what you need.

New comment by 0x3f in "Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects"

0x3f — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 08:50:23 +0000

It's a bit of an inappropriate comparison though, since restaurants are ubiquitous and reasonable GitHub alternatives are vanishingly rare. People are quite rightly more troubled when providers in a low-cardinality space become unviable.

New comment by 0x3f in "Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects"

0x3f — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 07:05:50 +0000

> If you violated the GPL, and your project was taken down, how political is that?

It's political, inherently, but it's not "only" political, or it's not necessarily political on the part of the host. As in, most practical hosts _have_ to obey US IP law. They don't _have_ to ban crypto or LLMs. The former only inconveniences or restricts me insofar as the host is unwilling to go to prison. The latter on their whims or personal views.

New comment by 0x3f in "Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects"

0x3f — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 06:43:16 +0000

> Well, if you're not part of the community, what do you care?

One benefits from the availability of alternatives and a healthy market regardless.

New comment by 0x3f in "Judge approves $1.5B Anthropic settlement for pirated books used to train Claude"

0x3f — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 15:55:21 +0000

Rents are just amounts beyond what's needed to cause the thing to exist. At the point of copying something, it already exists.

So payments for the right to do so aren't payments required to bring anything new into existence at that point, save for the legal fiction.

Now you might argue that the future copy-licencing rents are necessary to bring the _original_ creation into being. But that doesn't make them _not rents_.

But I would say that's the second assumption you're baking in here.

As in, we live in a world where e.g. the movie Toy Story exists. Now, certainly Toy Story does provide some good or value to the world. But I don't think you can assume such things provide more value than e.g. open science, free transformation of works, etc.

I get that people enjoy our current IP culture but saying certain things wouldn't exist in an IP-free world is just an argument from consequences that doesn't even really compare consequences between the two.

New comment by 0x3f in "Judge approves $1.5B Anthropic settlement for pirated books used to train Claude"

0x3f — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 08:06:06 +0000

You assume your premise. But plenty of "intellectual work" is already done without legal cover. It just typically attracts normal profits, rather than super-normal rent-seeking ones.

New comment by 0x3f in "British Steel taken into public ownership to protect 'vital' UK supply"

0x3f — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 13:50:55 +0000

Only if you assume it's sustainable until you personally die. But that seems in constant question even now.

New comment by 0x3f in "SpaceX stock erases all its gains and slides below IPO price in intraday trading"

0x3f — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 13:45:38 +0000

I guess it depends on the framing: a scam perpetrated on whom? It's not a scam on active investors if you lock in a bump from guaranteed passive investors. The active investors will see gains from that bump. But on the passive investors? On wider society?

If you spot the regulator looking the other way and try to sneak one past, is that legitimate, or sketchy? What if you recently had the influence to make them look the other way or be under-resourced?

You could argue 'treason' is a better word than 'scam'.

New comment by 0x3f in "British Steel taken into public ownership to protect 'vital' UK supply"

0x3f — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 13:40:21 +0000

Why can't steel be recycled or taken by force?