Hacker News: bombcar

New comment by bombcar in "The "Passive Income" trap ate a generation of entrepreneurs"

bombcar — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 06:11:48 +0000

They do exist if you dig - for example: https://johntreed.com/products/how-to-write-publish-and-sell...

New comment by bombcar in "GPT‑Rosalind for life sciences research"

bombcar — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 02:07:26 +0000

The real hubris will be to name a model Turing, or Alan if you’re a bit more discrete.

New comment by bombcar in "Claude Opus 4.7"

bombcar — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 02:06:03 +0000

Lemonade and blockchain rides again!

Or was it ice tea?

New comment by bombcar in "Claude Opus 4.7"

bombcar — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 02:02:57 +0000

Shades of “repeat” in lather, rinse, repeat.

New comment by bombcar in "GPT‑Rosalind for life sciences research"

bombcar — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 23:16:59 +0000

I'd rather the AI companies make up names, or name their products things like "Clod" than use my name (if they were to ask) - as no matter how good it looks today eventually it'll be some form of laughingstock.

New comment by bombcar in "Apple accelerates eco progress with highest-ever recycled materials"

bombcar — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 22:26:33 +0000

I agree, it seems to be something Tim Apple personally cares about and he'd not likely to want the smoke blown.

Apple has independently clamped down on suppliers without being forced to, iirc.

New comment by bombcar in "Apple accelerates eco progress with highest-ever recycled materials"

bombcar — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:54:16 +0000

Only in some areas, and only voluntarily (perhaps except for CA) - Apple will take a computer I believe, but sometimes you get $0 'value' from it.

If they offer even anything, you'll get a lot more pickup - everyone will learn "get a discount at the Apple Store if you bring in an old PC" and reduce the amount of electronic waste.

However, done too well or for too much, and you could greatly reduce the availability of older still-working machines.

New comment by bombcar in "Apple accelerates eco progress with highest-ever recycled materials"

bombcar — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:45:27 +0000

It could be a low bar for "you can't bring in a destroyed remains of a Mac Classic and get the discount" - but actually, allowing that would be a net good for the world, and wouldn't cost more than the (easily gamed) EDU discount anyway.

New comment by bombcar in "€54k spike in 13h from unrestricted Firebase browser key accessing Gemini APIs"

bombcar — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:16:45 +0000

Is there a cloud provider that does have hard unbreakable billing caps? Everything I've seen has always been notifications or soft caps.

Not talking about fixed-access things like a Hetzer box.

New comment by bombcar in "Apple accelerates eco progress with highest-ever recycled materials"

bombcar — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 13:54:48 +0000

They missed out on the massive trademark lawsuit over “Fairpods Pro”.

New comment by bombcar in "Apple accelerates eco progress with highest-ever recycled materials"

bombcar — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 13:54:18 +0000

It really comes down to whether we trust Apple to do the work; auditors can be found that will certify anything you need even if not at the fraud levels of Arthur Anderson.

And this kind of thing can be hard to independently verify.

Given Apple’s track record I suspect they actually do care about this internally and spend the effort to make sure it is “real”.

New comment by bombcar in "Apple accelerates eco progress with highest-ever recycled materials"

bombcar — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 13:43:42 +0000

Since they offer the EDU discount they might as well offer a blanket “it boots get $100 off” deal for returned machines.

Though the cost of responsibly recycle and dispose of an old computer might make the $0 offer actually a decent one.

New comment by bombcar in "Stealth signals are bypassing Iran’s internet blackout"

bombcar — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 13:42:05 +0000

FEC and Reed-Solomon and other various methods have existed for decades, and are common and non-crypto related.

New comment by bombcar in "€54k spike in 13h from unrestricted Firebase browser key accessing Gemini APIs"

bombcar — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 13:11:09 +0000

This is exactly it - and the normal "resolution" is a class-action lawsuit but no doubt their terms and conditions forbid that.

However, anyone affected should probably pollute their docket with lawsuits anyway.

New comment by bombcar in "We ran Doom on a 40 year old printer controller (Agfa Compugraphic 9000PS) [video]"

bombcar — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 11:34:56 +0000

Probably AMD’s: https://redhill.net.au/c/c-4.php

New comment by bombcar in "Live Nation illegally monopolized ticketing market, jury finds"

bombcar — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 01:00:10 +0000

The only "fair" ways are to have a lottery for non-transferrable tickets, or have something akin to a dutch auction so that the band/venue captures all of the value - meaning tickets would be astronomically priced.

New comment by bombcar in "Live Nation illegally monopolized ticketing market, jury finds"

bombcar — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:50:32 +0000

We'll start a HN online marketplace, called "Dive Station" that will guarantee everything and offer insurance and double-your-money back guarantees.

We'll get bought out by TicketMaster within 5 years.

New comment by bombcar in "Metro stop is Ancient Rome's new attraction"

bombcar — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:00:09 +0000

Blasting through rock is expensive and only done if needed - I'd suspect that most projects now are cut and cover or tunnel boring machine - both of which can also be terribly expensive (see: Seattle).

New comment by bombcar in "Tell HN: Fiverr left customer files public and searchable"

bombcar — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 13:28:11 +0000

https://structuretech.com/?s=new+construction and the "That Ain't Right" guy https://www.tiktok.com/@gold.star.inspections are enough to tell you that if you're buying new, you want to get there before it's built, from a builder that's been in business for at least a generation, and have your own inspector riding their ass the whole way.

New comment by bombcar in "Tell HN: Fiverr left customer files public and searchable"

bombcar — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 01:29:42 +0000

They have a dating site password! They can get real hugs.