Hacker News: cft

New comment by cft in "'This can't go on': thousands protest against housing crisis in Spain"

cft — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 09:55:56 +0000

Retiro is a park, no buildings there. Are you proposing CA style encampments?

New comment by cft in "Crypto Capture of Foreign Aid"

cft — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 01:12:41 +0000

That's why in Northern California all the roads are constantly under construction, but in Finland they're perfect. I was thinking that in California one needs to get an SUV simply because a sedan's suspension will not last much longer

New comment by cft in "Crypto Capture of Foreign Aid"

cft — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 21:27:41 +0000

I developed a three-tier corruption test in US:

1. Perfect roads. Little visible construction despite high traffic: no corruption.

2. Awful roads. Almost no visible construction - medium corruption.

3. Continuous years-long construction. Roads always semi -closed, semi-permanent "work zone". When one construction ends, another immediately starts - extremely high corruption

Best Bitcoin Commercial

cft — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:34:23 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/bramk/status/2105780416141738076

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49928600

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by cft in "Sonnet 5.5"

cft — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 08:49:20 +0000

I ran out of Opus 5.5 20x plan in 4 days out of 7, so my experience is different from yours.

New comment by cft in "When did Google get so weird?"

cft — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 23:43:04 +0000

The politically intriguing CEO and all the upper management that he hired need to go. Their focus is not the product but the corporate intrigue, dividing the pie and infighting, riding on semi-monopoly status.

After the initial AI flop, it seemed likely that the founders recognized that Google doesn't have an AI monopoly. But now it's becoming clear that this CEO is not leaving; therefore, Google is going down long-term.

By the way, that doesn't matter to the CEO because he has already extracted sufficient benefits.

New comment by cft in "New York Times and The Athletic workers demand company scrap Kalshi deal"

cft — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 19:50:40 +0000

No accountability in their doublespeak means no partisan interest, no lobby prescribing how to spin the news. This is what they (and the downvoters here) don't like.

New comment by cft in "New York Times and The Athletic workers demand company scrap Kalshi deal"

cft — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 18:09:48 +0000

Prediction markets as a news source are politically unbiased and nonpartisan , and this is what the establishment people here don't like.

New comment by cft in "New York Times and The Athletic workers demand company scrap Kalshi deal"

cft — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 18:06:35 +0000

The cancerous Wikileaks which also leaked news just like prediction markets has also been eliminated. I hope you celebrated.

New comment by cft in "Anthropic banned me for "suspicious signals""

cft — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 04:17:16 +0000

It's a difference between peer-to-peer Bitcoin decentralization and extreme AI datacenter centralization. Open weight models currently also require centralized datacenters for training, even though inference can be done decentralized.. We will see whether centralization or decentralization wins long term.

New comment by cft in "Anthropic banned me for "suspicious signals""

cft — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 04:14:44 +0000

Have you thought about the fact that the author is in the Philippines and English isn’t his first language?

New comment by cft in "Waymo in Dallas"

cft — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 22:01:38 +0000

Good case for shorting Uber longer term. The Persian taxi driver may be a good exec but he lost the race

New comment by cft in "How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023)"

cft — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 22:23:18 +0000

No, because it's not cross platform, it doesn't take you outside of a Google product

New comment by cft in "GPT-5.6 vs. Claude Fable 5 for Physical AI, which performs best?"

cft — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 07:24:16 +0000

I just spent 50% of my weekly Sol Ultra on a $100 plan to purge Claude worktrees on something that may have tripped Fable guardrails.

New comment by cft in "Android Developer Verification: Threat masquerading as protection"

cft — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 17:22:26 +0000

Carry a second cheap smartphone, like Pixel -a series or iPhone -SE. That one should be used for banking, government apps, for border inspections, etc. On your main GrapheneOS phone your financial app should be a Bitcoin wallet. The main phone should be off or in the BFU state when you are in a vulnerable situation.

New comment by cft in "U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6"

cft — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 22:23:27 +0000

If true, I think Trump is nuts. He's alienating the very people in the Silicon Valley that helped him to win.

Why Peter Thiel Is Decamping to Argentina

cft — Fri, 29 May 2026 22:51:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/28/world/americas/peter-thiel-argentina.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48330381

Points: 8

# Comments: 3

New comment by cft in "Google employee charged with $1M Polymarket insider trading bet on search term"

cft — Thu, 28 May 2026 06:04:50 +0000

That's a very naive take of someone who never professionally traded. There are liquidity providing, market making trading strategies that work in absence of insider information.

New comment by cft in "OpenAI Is Preparing to File for an IPO Soon"

cft — Thu, 21 May 2026 06:41:08 +0000

Expect ⅕ codex quotas after

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

cft — Wed, 20 May 2026 18:41:48 +0000

How do you use DeepSeek 4 Flash? Via a cli?