<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: Aspos</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Aspos</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 08:23:20 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=Aspos" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Aspos in "Malware developers added nuclear and biological weapons text to to their spyware"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Centrifuges dont need to be mechanically sophisticated and, frankly, do not require tech which did not exist in the 50es.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 21:06:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48509427</link><dc:creator>Aspos</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48509427</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48509427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Aspos in "Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This looks as a benefit on the surface, but it is not. In the end everybody loses -- the bank, the network, the customer, the merchant.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 14:33:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48208551</link><dc:creator>Aspos</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48208551</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48208551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Aspos in "Kickstarter is forced to ban adult content by payment processors"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Well, at least such pressure will be well documented and there will be legal avenues of controlling those.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 18:59:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48125975</link><dc:creator>Aspos</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48125975</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48125975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Aspos in "Kickstarter is forced to ban adult content by payment processors"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There should be a national payment processing operator as an alternative to VISA/MC. Just like they do it in many other countries.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 15:54:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48123581</link><dc:creator>Aspos</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48123581</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48123581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Aspos in "The dangers of California's legislation to censor 3D printing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I believe EFF did address the yellow dots but got nowhere. Yellow dot problem is decades old.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:11:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47770823</link><dc:creator>Aspos</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47770823</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47770823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Aspos in "How Passive Radar Works"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not really. Starlink can be turned on and off over certain territories.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:51:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47742428</link><dc:creator>Aspos</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47742428</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47742428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Aspos in "How Passive Radar Works"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Such radar would be a game changer.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 13:26:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47730400</link><dc:creator>Aspos</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47730400</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47730400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Aspos in "Why Switzerland has 25 Gbit internet and America doesn't"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Infrastructure is laughable in northeast. 
And no, we do not have competition here in NJ. Yay "free market"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 02:11:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47656202</link><dc:creator>Aspos</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47656202</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47656202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Aspos in "$96 3D-printed rocket that recalculates its mid-air trajectory using a $5 sensor"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes, but they still approach in just a few seconds.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 14:17:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47387599</link><dc:creator>Aspos</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47387599</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47387599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Aspos in "The first sodium-ion battery EV is a winter range monster"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Air drag energy losses are tiny comparing to other losses when burning petrol so you don't notice the difference.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 00:12:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46939976</link><dc:creator>Aspos</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46939976</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46939976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Aspos in "Show HN: Nogic – VS Code extension that visualizes your codebase as a graph"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The illustration gif is way too fast. Hard to understand what is going on. Slow it down 2x or so.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2026 21:46:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46608657</link><dc:creator>Aspos</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46608657</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46608657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Aspos in "The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from using any banking app"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Let's say you are a bank and you make $10 on each $100K transfer. If customer disputes a transaction and you must return the money, you lose the whole amount and twice as much on lawyers, internal audit, compliance people working on the case. 
With this math you can't afford the risk if it is more than 1 in 30000.<p>For many European banks the math is even more brutal.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2026 21:37:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46570163</link><dc:creator>Aspos</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46570163</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46570163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Aspos in "The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from using any banking app"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No bank got fined for not root checking, correct. However banks are on the hook for unauthorized transactions. And "unauthorized" means different thing in different countries.<p>In some jurisdictions if bank can prove that transaction was made with customer's key then customer can not demand their money back. That's the best case, but there are only few of such jurisdictions and even there the burden of proof is on the bank and it costs a lot.<p>In other jurisdictions bank must reverse a transaction even if it was proven that the transaction was signed with a legitimate key, but the key _may_ have been stolen.<p>In some jurisdictions (i.e U.S.) banks are required to reverse a transaction at a customer’s request, even if the customer does not dispute having made the transaction.<p>In any case dealing with all this is too expensive and risky.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2026 19:28:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46558064</link><dc:creator>Aspos</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46558064</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46558064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Aspos in "The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from using any banking app"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Practically impossible to store secrets in a desktop app too.
Besides, customers would not willing to install a desktop app. And those who would, will require support.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2026 18:11:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46556986</link><dc:creator>Aspos</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46556986</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46556986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Aspos in "The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from using any banking app"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Well, I've built a bunch of mobile banking apps and we did detect if the phone was rooted, was in dev mode, etc. and it is not because we were "stupid, consumer-hostile, and anti-competitive".<p>If someone steals the secrets from a rooted phone and steals customer's money the bank is on the hook, so banks do everything they can to minimize this risk.<p>There is no way to store customer's secrets in a PC browser securely, so all the "dangerous" transactions were outright prohibited in the web app or made available only via temporary QR login.<p>All this is just is a negative side effect of customer protection laws.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2026 17:46:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46556612</link><dc:creator>Aspos</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46556612</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46556612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Aspos in "Immersa: Open-source Web-based 3D Presentation Tool"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I could use a 3D powerpoint. Even the most basic, boring arrows and boxes will look better in 3D. Some of the slides in a preso I use almost daily would convey the message better if they were in 3D.</p>
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<p>maps as well. 
email client in the browser.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:48:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45969604</link><dc:creator>Aspos</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45969604</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45969604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Aspos in "Harnessing America's heat pump moment"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I would argue that accurate sizing is not that important as labor constitutes the bulk of the cost. My total bill was about $20K and going for 30% less capacity would net about $19K so its easier just to go for the maximum. Calling in an IR imaging drone would certainly cost more than the potential savings from accurate sizing.<p>Unlike gas furnaces which basically can only do ON or OFF, heat pumps can regulate the heat with much higher granularity.<p>What certainly calls for innovation is managing the labor costs. In my case installation involved way too many people and way too many visits.</p>
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<p>Hey, corruption is rampant on each and every continent, except Antarctica. Asia is not the worst by far.  Why are you singling out Asia specifically?</p>
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<p>So "blowing smoke up one's arse" isn't a completely baseless resuscitation technique after all.</p>
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