Hacker News: AuthError

New comment by AuthError in "Why we're taking legal action against SerpApi's unlawful scraping"

AuthError — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 18:56:01 +0000

why does google need to offer it?

New comment by AuthError in "Gemini 3 Flash: Frontier intelligence built for speed"

AuthError — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 18:21:33 +0000

flash is closer to sonnet than gpt minis though

New comment by AuthError in "Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for nuanced AI image generation"

AuthError — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 21:54:04 +0000

use it for technical design doc, where i sketch out something on paper and ask nano banana to make flow chat, its incredibly good at this kind of editing (also if want to borrow image from someone and change some bridges usually its hard its embedded image, but nano banana solves that)

New comment by AuthError in "Android developer verification: Early access starts"

AuthError — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 01:48:44 +0000

how many people ll do this though? i would expect sub 1% conversion from existing users if they had to do that

New comment by AuthError in "Corporations are trying to hide job openings from US citizens"

AuthError — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 21:30:09 +0000

or it doesn't have software like margins so you can't pay insane salaries and you still need great talent that's not available in us (those salaries might be higher than normal but it won't match swe salaries)

New comment by AuthError in "Corporations are trying to hide job openings from US citizens"

AuthError — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 01:09:36 +0000

this also holds true for chemical, biomedical researchers, mechanical engineers working in deep tech, software engineering is such an anomaly that it's hard to do income based lottery without overindexing on swe market

New comment by AuthError in "Anthropic judge rejects $1.5B AI copyright settlement"

AuthError — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 00:12:59 +0000

I think the dilution hurts a lot

New comment by AuthError in "Anthropic judge rejects $1.5B AI copyright settlement"

AuthError — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 22:43:57 +0000

they did, judge told authors to get better representation to prove harm. I think it's dicey cause if anthropic loses then it could be catastrophic (i.e. if judge jury thinks reward is 5x of what the proposal is would mean they would need to raise a new round)

New comment by AuthError in "Google Illuminate: Books and papers turned into audio"

AuthError — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 17:55:40 +0000

I would watch history pods for sure

New comment by AuthError in "I Lost Faith in Kagi"

AuthError — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 19:05:51 +0000

cause commenter was making claim that was not grounded in reality so i thought i missed something

New comment by AuthError in "I Lost Faith in Kagi"

AuthError — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 17:46:00 +0000

do they have a decent subscriber base? i thought it was still very niche

New comment by AuthError in "Instagram overtakes TikTok as most downloaded app"

AuthError — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 18:54:57 +0000

lot of recommendations has to do with supply, noone has nowhere near as good supply as tiktok

New comment by AuthError in "Music streaming service SoundCloud tunes up for sale"

AuthError — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 19:03:44 +0000

I think you are thinking from soundcloud's perspective, i dont see how this would actually benefit youtube other than just throwing some stuff on the wall and expecting it to stick

New comment by AuthError in "Google pays Apple 36% of the revenue it earns from searches in Safari"

AuthError — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 02:22:39 +0000

They still do it on maps (someone texts you address it ll only open in apple maps and even if you change default app you cant change that), idk if that's any different in europe

New comment by AuthError in "Google pays Apple 36% of the revenue it earns from searches in Safari"

AuthError — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 01:20:20 +0000

it's not customer acquisition though, Google can most likely get lot of users off safari to chrome for cheaper but issue would be that Apple would then get incentive to build search (and like apple maps, they can just embed it into everything without option to change default)

disclaimer: Googler here(not in search PA), this is my personal opinion.

New comment by AuthError in "Google Adsense is transitioning to per-impression payments for publishers"

AuthError — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 16:45:18 +0000

I personally just open a new tab and search for the same (i wonder if google can connect those 2 dots to count it as conversion)

New comment by AuthError in "Google Adsense is transitioning to per-impression payments for publishers"

AuthError — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 19:24:09 +0000

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/mar/04/google-ke... looks like 2 different things (barry dillar met them but larry was on phone which he thought was rude, clicks vs impressions was something google was looking for in CEO (eric schmidt passed that test or something))

New comment by AuthError in "Facebook and Instagram to Offer Subscription for No Ads in Europe"

AuthError — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 16:50:57 +0000

how do you think they make money? its more likely that you live in a bubble than people dont click ads if you look at their earnings

New comment by AuthError in "California suspends Cruise's autonomous vehicle deployment"

AuthError — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 19:34:51 +0000

yes

New comment by AuthError in "Google's 21-year deal with Apple is the "heart" of monopoly case, judge says"

AuthError — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 19:04:22 +0000

in the case they said it's in the teens, so that's after crazy level of dark patterns (probably if they do age analysis it's gonna skew towards more single digit share for younger demographic)