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Agentic Credit Card MCP

barbacoa — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 02:42:59 +0000

Article URL: https://robinhood.com/us/en/support/articles/agentic-credit-card/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48535977

Points: 2

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California passes bill criminalizing bypass of 3D printer gun-blocking software

barbacoa — Sun, 31 May 2026 12:36:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/3d-printing/california-assembly-passes-3d-printer-bill-that-would-criminalize-bypassing-mandated-gun-blocking-software

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48345216

Points: 12

# Comments: 3

New comment by barbacoa in "Qwen3.7-Max: The Agent Frontier"

barbacoa — Wed, 20 May 2026 15:46:55 +0000

Try looking into Ryzen AI Max 395. AMD made a CPU/GPU soc with unified memory specifically for ai inference. Can buy mini PCs with up to 128gb ram.

New comment by barbacoa in "Mistral's CEO: Europe has 2 years to stop becoming America's AI 'vassal state'"

barbacoa — Sun, 17 May 2026 17:08:42 +0000

America innovates, China replicates, Europe regulates.

New comment by barbacoa in "Ask HN: Who got hired with Who wants to be hired? (On 2026)"

barbacoa — Wed, 06 May 2026 18:47:00 +0000

I applied for a founding engineer with a startup though a "who's hiring" post. Had 3-4 rounds of interviews, met founders, did a project with them. I had competing offers and ultimately didn't work out. But it was a positive experience.

New comment by barbacoa in "DeepSeek v4"

barbacoa — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 19:19:57 +0000

Apple briefly was selling Mac studio with 512 GB of unified ram, meaning all that was available as vram.

New comment by barbacoa in "SpaceX Is Basically a Huge Meme Stock"

barbacoa — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:22:27 +0000

They are likely including xAI and the massive training costs that entails in order to make it sound like all their ventures are losing money.

New comment by barbacoa in "US labels SpaceX a common carrier by air, will regulate firm under railway law"

barbacoa — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 04:35:57 +0000

Since Twitter is now part of SpaceX, does that mean Twitter is classified as a common carrier too? Can Twitter no longer refuse to allow certain individuals use their platform?

Honest question here.

New comment by barbacoa in "Apple's latest attempt to launch the new Siri runs into snags"

barbacoa — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:06:44 +0000

Apple wants to vertically integrate. Their AI strategy until recently was to develop their own LLM models that were small enough to run on device. But massive scaling is what makes LLMs so powerful, so all their internal models were terrible and unusable.

Basically they bet that compute efficient LLMs were the future. That bet was wrong and the opposite came true.

New comment by barbacoa in "FDA refuses to review Moderna's mRNA flu vaccine"

barbacoa — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 04:15:31 +0000

>I believe in science.

I pray to science every day to deliver us from this heretical reign of RFK jr.

New comment by barbacoa in "DHS Hunts Down 67-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Who Criticized Them in Email"

barbacoa — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 04:24:48 +0000

It's the new pattern you see from this kind of reporting. Innocuous beginning, omit the middle context, then mentioning the end reaction.

"Young mathmatics professor buys cabin in Montana, then gets arrested by FBI!"

"Austrian born artist wants to make Germany better, then the UK firebombs Dresden!"

New comment by barbacoa in "430k-year-old well-preserved wooden tools are the oldest ever found"

barbacoa — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 19:49:28 +0000

>concrete and cement production are quite bad.

Modern concrete construction uses iron rebar liberally. That means every concrete structure built today will crack and crumble in a few hundred years at most, as the iron absorbs oxygen, it swells from the rust. Which is a shame, roman concrete buildings without rebar will still be standing 1000s of years from now.

New comment by barbacoa in "TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues"

barbacoa — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 19:10:25 +0000

The pendulum is in full swing. Soon it will be ban worthy offense to suggest there are more than two genders.

Though I am morbidly enjoying the irony of seeing those on the left suddenly discover an interest in free speech, and those on the right discover their love for campaigning to get people deplatformed.

New comment by barbacoa in "Washington State Bill Seeks to Add Firearms Detection to 3D Printers [pdf]"

barbacoa — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 17:55:25 +0000

To actually implement firearm detection your 3d printer would need to have the ability to reverse engineer the 3d solid model from g-code, then compare that solid model to a list of banned objects.

Germany Considers Broader Legal Authority for Internet Surveillance

barbacoa — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 14:50:10 +0000

Article URL: https://reclaimthenet.org/germany-bnd-surveillance-law-expansion-de-cix-data-retention-hacking

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46589275

Points: 4

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New comment by barbacoa in "Experts explore new mushroom which causes fairytale-like hallucinations"

barbacoa — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 03:27:48 +0000

Some argue that THC in cannabis actually works similarly because when herbivores regularly ingest it, they become lethargic and lazy, causing them struggle to survive in the world. Kinda like my roommate.

New comment by barbacoa in "Stanford Medicine study shows mRNA-based Covid-19 vaccines can cause myocarditis"

barbacoa — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 18:59:02 +0000

>Those gigantic clinical trials (some of the largest RCTs ever conducted) didn't detect this issue because of its extreme rarity.

You assume good faith on their part. These studies are run by the same companies that stand to make billions based off the study outcomes. For example we know now when a toddler died in the Moderna covid RTC of cardiac arrest after vaccination they reportedly covered it up and didn't report it.

This all is starting to sound a lot like what happened with vioxx. Where an increase in heart problems was detected in RTC but covered up. Vioxx would go on to cause an estimated 50000 deaths from heart attack.

New comment by barbacoa in "Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now"

barbacoa — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 18:02:47 +0000

2040 HN:

"Ask HN: How do you prevent ad-injection in my brain implant?"

New comment by barbacoa in "Europe Is Under Siege"

barbacoa — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 17:24:57 +0000

Russia, China, Brazil, India -- all have similar censorship systems but Americans don't find it as troubling because those countries aren't part of the same shared cultural identity known as "The West".

New comment by barbacoa in "Europe Is Under Siege"

barbacoa — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 14:47:50 +0000

Many Americans see Europe's DSA as a framework to allow the implemention of China style state censorship system.