Hacker News: Phlarp

New comment by Phlarp in "Coinbase says hackers bribed staff to steal customer data, demanding $20M ransom"

Phlarp — Thu, 15 May 2025 17:47:45 +0000

This is a feature of bitcoin not a bug.

If you sling code for cryptocurrency you and your loved ones are "in the game" now.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c20qee5030do

New comment by Phlarp in "LG Chem develops material capable of suppressing thermal runaway in batteries"

Phlarp — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 15:06:30 +0000

Generally speaking, thermal runaway is not the lithium reacting directly with water in the air, it's a self oxidizing fire-- The electrolyte fluid is combustable, metal oxides in the anode material release oxygen when heated and a short circuit provides the heat and ignition source.

New comment by Phlarp in "OpenAI and Anthropic Revenue Breakdown"

Phlarp — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 14:32:52 +0000

>'our software is done, send all the programmers home.'

Twitter

New comment by Phlarp in "US eyes antitrust investigation against Nvidia as market value surpasses $3T"

Phlarp — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 19:02:38 +0000

Kind of, all the other advantages they have are a result of being in such a dominant position in the market, which they gained more or less through that superior toolkit (CUDA).

New comment by Phlarp in "US eyes antitrust investigation against Nvidia as market value surpasses $3T"

Phlarp — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 19:00:00 +0000

Claim eminent domain or BIS over CUDA and allow it to be used on all those other chips.

You fix the anti-trust issues and super charge AI development just by open sourcing CUDA.

New comment by Phlarp in "Real estate giant China Evergrande will be liquidated"

Phlarp — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 22:20:25 +0000

We said we were 100% collateralized, actually it's only 50% but you can trust us that it really is 50% collateralized this time and we aren't lying again. Transact with trust!

New comment by Phlarp in "Winding down Google Sync and Less Secure Apps support"

Phlarp — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 18:26:09 +0000

Don't even need that, just an emergency data request sent from a compromised municipal police email account.

1)https://krebsonsecurity.com/tag/emergency-data-request/ 2)https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30842757

New comment by Phlarp in "Electric buses withdrawn in south London after fire"

Phlarp — Sun, 14 Jan 2024 18:53:34 +0000

A universal problem for all EVs in cold climates

New comment by Phlarp in "Can flow batteries finally beat lithium?"

Phlarp — Mon, 25 Dec 2023 09:43:31 +0000

So the same math as making all the cars electric to begin with?

New comment by Phlarp in "Can flow batteries finally beat lithium?"

Phlarp — Mon, 25 Dec 2023 09:07:57 +0000

The amount of cope in this comment is astronomical

New comment by Phlarp in "The U.S. Government Has $5B in Bitcoin"

Phlarp — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 15:01:10 +0000

This was always the plan. Get the criminals to concentrate the funds into a currency that's easier to confiscate.

Bonus points if the NSA/CIA can steal it to fund black ops.

New comment by Phlarp in "Why SaaS prices are still going up when companies are spending less"

Phlarp — Sun, 10 Sep 2023 19:23:42 +0000

Greed.

New comment by Phlarp in "Seattle becomes first in U.S. to protect gig workers from sudden 'deactivation'"

Phlarp — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 01:49:12 +0000

But won't someone think of the shareholders? Surely we can't deprive them of positive financial outcomes over something as silly as a living wage for workers?

New comment by Phlarp in "Tarsnap outage postmortem"

Phlarp — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 02:09:12 +0000

Don't let the CTO be a scapegoat. Entire executive leadership, all board members and the 5 largest shareholders.

New comment by Phlarp in "Tesla exaggerated EV range so much that drivers thought cars were broken"

Phlarp — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 01:59:28 +0000

Uber greyball, VW emissions test profilers, Tesla range shenanigans.

Seems we should default to assuming it lies until otherwise proven.

New comment by Phlarp in "Electric bike, stupid love of my life"

Phlarp — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 16:24:54 +0000

They take steroids and it turns them into narcissists with anger issues. See also: American Cops.

New comment by Phlarp in "Electric bike, stupid love of my life"

Phlarp — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 00:59:44 +0000

You've clearly never been on a bike path in America! Road cyclists wearing spandex suits are the most universally obnoxious group of assholes you'll meet here. They make Tesla and BMW drivers look polite, and will openly roid range on anybody that doesn't dive out of their way while they ride shoulder to shoulder in the middle of the path.

New comment by Phlarp in "Single Fire Hydrant Nets NYC $33,000 a Year"

Phlarp — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 18:58:44 +0000

"Inflation reduction"

New comment by Phlarp in "Single Fire Hydrant Nets NYC $33,000 a Year"

Phlarp — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 18:57:21 +0000

Not sure I'm in love with the idea of emergency services spending a bunch of time breaking windows and putting hoses through a car.

Although not in love with fire hydrants as a revenue source either.

New comment by Phlarp in "Reddit’s blackout protest is set to continue indefinitely"

Phlarp — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 17:12:07 +0000

It's insane because Discord has the usage stats to see that the first thing a majority of users do when joining a new server is to force mute group @ notifications.

I honestly wonder why this is even a feature they support, but it should absolutely be defaulted to mute and/or have a checkbox for it in the new server join banner. They force collect phone numbers while highlighting the fact that they will spam the ever-loving fuck out of your notifications.