Hacker News: bhhaskin

New comment by bhhaskin in "CarPlay Is Additive"

bhhaskin — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 05:02:44 +0000

its likely not the metadata, since they already have access and sell that, but then they can sell ads on maps like Google does.

New comment by bhhaskin in "Why Switzerland has 25 gbit internet and America doesn't"

bhhaskin — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 05:00:06 +0000

That's great for Utah, but most other places in the US don't have a system like that and are stuck with one maybe two ISPs.

New comment by bhhaskin in "CarPlay Is Additive"

bhhaskin — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 02:17:04 +0000

It's not that the market is moving away, but more like car companies realized if they want to sell monthly subscriptions in the future, they need to own the software.

New comment by bhhaskin in "UK to require ID or face scan before you can make social media accounts"

bhhaskin — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 17:18:36 +0000

They are quoting the book/movie the circle.

New comment by bhhaskin in "UK to require ID or face scan before you can make social media accounts"

bhhaskin — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 17:13:31 +0000

I agree. I think the only reason it hasn't happened yet is they didn't really have away to do anything with the data. But now with AI they can process it into reports pretty easily at scale. That is what all of these data centers going up is really about.

New comment by bhhaskin in "Let's Encrypt bans certificate usage in any US sanctioned territory [pdf]"

bhhaskin — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:34:45 +0000

It could also be an easy way to not have to implement backdoors for the government/military.

New comment by bhhaskin in "Let's Buy Spirit Air"

bhhaskin — Mon, 04 May 2026 04:34:13 +0000

Sounds like someone is selling securities without a license tbh.

New comment by bhhaskin in "Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?"

bhhaskin — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 23:45:30 +0000

Not yet, but it's only a matter of time. Local AI doesn't need to be bleeding edge either. Even capabilities of older modals would be fine.

New comment by bhhaskin in "Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?"

bhhaskin — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 23:38:03 +0000

And this is why local AI is going to be the future.

New comment by bhhaskin in "EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security"

bhhaskin — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:09:32 +0000

This is the way. WordPress's is so popular because you can get it to do or be anything. I have done some terrible terrible things to WordPress. Need a simple blog? No problem! Want a LMS? Sure why not! e-commerce? Go for it! CRM? Absolutely! Etc etc.

But there are many many "WordPress" developers out there that only know how to glue plugins together, so you often end up with plugin soup.

In the hands of someone who actually knows how to code you don't have any issues.

New comment by bhhaskin in "Windows 11's Start menu was built using React – now switching to native WinUI"

bhhaskin — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 06:00:40 +0000

My best guess is ads.

New comment by bhhaskin in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"

bhhaskin — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 01:46:49 +0000

Don't do instant non-reversible transfers. Specially for a transaction that is highly likely to be fraud. I.e. person transfers to someone you haven't done business with before or foreign accounts. Also the fraud detection needs to go both ways.

New comment by bhhaskin in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"

bhhaskin — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 23:33:48 +0000

Why is it on Google to stop this and not the banks?

New comment by bhhaskin in "NASA targets Artemis II crewed moon mission for April 1 launch"

bhhaskin — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 18:12:25 +0000

Fly-by

New comment by bhhaskin in "NASA's DART spacecraft changed an asteroid's orbit around the sun"

bhhaskin — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 20:54:08 +0000

The technology doesn't exist and it would be a huge waste of money.

How heavy would a telephone pole sized tungsten rod be?

What happens when China, Russia, India or Pakistan find out you are building this (cause you can't hide it if it's in near earth orbit)? They would either knock it out of the sky or hit you with everything they have. We would do the exact same if anyone else was developing such a weapon.

New comment by bhhaskin in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans."

bhhaskin — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:58:50 +0000

Nah they are pretty good a banning users that don't follow the guidelines.

New comment by bhhaskin in "Claude helped select targets for Iran strikes, possibly including school"

bhhaskin — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 03:51:37 +0000

What I can't understand is why? Let's ignore the moral question for a second. I can't imagine an LLM is the right tool for this at all.

New comment by bhhaskin in "A GitHub Issue Title Compromised 4k Developer Machines"

bhhaskin — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 19:57:41 +0000

No way to actually enforce that. It would be an honor system.

New comment by bhhaskin in "California's Digital Age Assurance Act, and FOSS"

bhhaskin — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 05:32:45 +0000

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New comment by bhhaskin in "Homeland Security Spying on Reddit Users"

bhhaskin — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 04:52:08 +0000

They are spying on all of us. Not just Reddit users.