Hacker News: bilekas

New comment by bilekas in "Meta’s new commercial terms will allow the scraping of news sites: experts"

bilekas — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 05:02:02 +0000

So basically, thanks for building our business side of Facebook for all those years, we are changing the rules of the game now in so if you want to continue using our service, we get to use all of your website's data however we like in perpetuity.

There isn't even a veil of "customer satisfaction is important" anymore.

New comment by bilekas in "I posted to HN, and then my website was flooded with AI bot traffic"

bilekas — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 16:57:55 +0000

If there's a know CVE in a version of cPanel ir wordpress for example, those platforms broadcast what version they're on, so the matching cve being known is not illegal. You're just correlating known vulnerable versions without doing any probing. Pen testing however, a bit more involved in pulling info out without permission is illegal.

New comment by bilekas in "Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe"

bilekas — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 22:08:49 +0000

Depressing to know that these CVEs were known since August.. and not one manufacturer forced an update to their always online devices.. and the regular customer will foot the bill for the incompetency.

New comment by bilekas in "Someone has decompiled the Adobe suite, rebuilt in Rust and released it as OSS"

bilekas — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 15:08:04 +0000

I'm quite mixed on this if it's a positive or not.. But I have to say, their website did give me a good chuckle.

> Built the hard way.

> Every Crafting App is written from scratch in Rust and held to the same rules.

New comment by bilekas in "ESP32-C3 Adblock"

bilekas — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 11:04:42 +0000

Nice project and poc maybe, but I'm not seeing the practical application of this in a real world env, surely the latency is a deal breaker ?

New comment by bilekas in "US closely monitoring case of lab worker who possibly died of plague in Siberia"

bilekas — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 18:33:22 +0000

> a 28-year-old employee at the anti-plague institute in the city of Irkutsk, became ill at work...

> It remains unclear how she became unwell.

That's some fine reporting right there.

New comment by bilekas in "Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge"

bilekas — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 18:30:35 +0000

You're assuming the open models will follow regulations though.

New comment by bilekas in "Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge"

bilekas — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 18:29:34 +0000

It's not quite spying when you willingly hand over this information and agree to terms of service. You're data is not considered yours alone.

New comment by bilekas in "European payments groups join forces to challenge US dominance"

bilekas — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 14:59:29 +0000

Right, and now the EU will have a consolidated one. It's a clear great step!

New comment by bilekas in "European payments groups join forces to challenge US dominance"

bilekas — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 12:53:23 +0000

Not being under the heel of a US financial Duopoly when their dear leader decides to tell them to charge 100%.

Regional Financial autonomy is a very attractive benefit.

New comment by bilekas in "European payments groups join forces to challenge US dominance"

bilekas — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 12:50:57 +0000

They don't though, unless I'm missing something stupid there is parity across all national options. And here for example the bank itself has Bancomat AND Visa as an option to pay by at a POS or online etc.

This will allow me to use my card online with a merchant in Germany for example and use my Bancomat process (whatever the new interface is called) will be the gateway.

New comment by bilekas in "European payments groups join forces to challenge US dominance"

bilekas — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 12:39:10 +0000

So many people commenting that seem to miss what this is. It's the merging of national systems to simply allow a second option. Meaning no influence oversize from the duopoly. See steam news with visa for an example of then throwing their weight.

New comment by bilekas in "European payments groups join forces to challenge US dominance"

bilekas — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 12:36:09 +0000

No it's not. Here in Italy your debit card allows you to pay by bancomat or Visa.

New comment by bilekas in "Who should be held accountable when an AI Agent (accidentally) acts maliciously?"

bilekas — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 23:12:52 +0000

"Who's responsible for training an assassin and asking it to go out into the world ?"

The fact this is being discussed as a legitimate question is the real story.

"We trained this beast of processing power, we asked it for a task, and it did something wrong... Who's to blame ?"

Trained on stolen books and material, every word we've all spoken, most lines of code we've ever written with not even an acknowledgment.

Must be the data scientists in their rooms calculating the response rate of every token to blame ? Our version of AI is not sentient. Stop making it seem so. But we need to ask where to look for the culprit ?

New comment by bilekas in "Jeff – Jev-compatible 0.8B decision models, trained at home, ~30 ms"

bilekas — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 23:07:59 +0000

Well, I'm no expert, but this runs on Qwen3.5 and Gemma 4, stripped down, but they're pretty pricey.

New comment by bilekas in "Flock Wants the Most Detailed Map of Its Surveillance Cameras Taken Offline"

bilekas — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 23:04:18 +0000

There's a clause in my company, once regulations around privacy that are al least comparable to the EU are enforced, we sell all assets and return money based on profits to share holders.

Then we start a new company creating just aggressive advertising patents so that they're not created by aggressive companies.

Edit : Hypothetical company, this is all satire.

New comment by bilekas in "Flock Wants the Most Detailed Map of Its Surveillance Cameras Taken Offline"

bilekas — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 22:53:32 +0000

Flock are competition, their investors would never like my idea.

New comment by bilekas in "Flock Wants the Most Detailed Map of Its Surveillance Cameras Taken Offline"

bilekas — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 22:19:04 +0000

I am starting a surveillance company in the US. I'll sell the data to anyone who wants. I'll put cameras up wherever I like, call it protection of the people, the police will enjoy it doing a lot of work for them and then I'll point cameras squarely at my competition, 24 hours a day, 365 a year, until they ask for regulations.

If anyone would like to kickstart let me know.

New comment by bilekas in "Jeff – Jev-compatible 0.8B decision models, trained at home, ~30 ms"

bilekas — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 22:15:19 +0000

Can we get a price comparisson ?

Edit: Running them for the masses.

New comment by bilekas in "MongoDB CEO resigns to join Meta"

bilekas — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 20:54:43 +0000

Interim is always a temp one though, and the fact it was the previous feels to me at least like them saying "Hey we need a favour" but I have no insight.