Hacker News: cft

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?

New comment by cft in "Gemini 3.5 Flash"

cft — Wed, 20 May 2026 16:35:40 +0000

Perhaps they would have made the basic spell-checker work on MacOS apple silicon then in this long time?

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

cft — Wed, 20 May 2026 16:32:39 +0000

Downloading this and cancelling Google Antigravity Pro at the same time:

I had a Google Pro account that I inherited from buying a Pixel 9 XL - it's free for a year after a flagship Pixel phone purchase. After a year they started charging for it, and i tolerated it, because Flash was usable in Antigravity for dumb auxiliary tasks that I did not want to waste GPT/Opus on. It had a separate generous quota from Gemini 3.1 Pro. Now with Flash 3.5 they combined the quotas with Pro, such that on a Google pro account you can work 4-5 hours per week in Flash. And by the way, 3.1 Pro is useless for programming, compared to Codex/Opus

New comment by cft in "Gemini 3.5 Flash"

cft — Tue, 19 May 2026 20:09:19 +0000

This should become the new Apple's hardware and software play. I am hopeful about the new CEO

New comment by cft in "Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler"

cft — Mon, 11 May 2026 09:10:12 +0000

I think it's quite telling that this comment was written in Brazil. The so-called Third World is the future source of freedom (or Western countries that become third world perhaps). It may not be a bad idea now to start building open compute and banking alternative ecosystems based in those countries, marketed at Western citizens.

Microsoft Edge stores all passwords in memory in clear text, even when unused

cft — Mon, 04 May 2026 18:22:42 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/L1v1ng0ffTh3L4N/status/2051308329880719730

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48012735

Points: 644

# Comments: 234

New comment by cft in "Credit cards are vulnerable to brute force kind attacks"

cft — Fri, 01 May 2026 22:44:05 +0000

I also noticed that my Google Wallet cards no longer have expiration dates- when a card expires and they issue a new one, the Wallet card works without any intervention on my part

New comment by cft in "California high-speed rail price tag jumps to $231B, nearly 7x 2008 estimate"

cft — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 21:08:05 +0000

For comparison, the construction cost of AlBoraq 200mph bullet train in Morroco is $5.3–5.7 billion in today's dollars. The line length is 200 miles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Boraq

New comment by cft in "Online age verification is the hill to die on"

cft — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:44:33 +0000

I asked META itself:

The push for online age verification started gaining momentum globally, with several countries implementing regulations. Here's a brief timeline:

- 2022: The European Union introduced the Digital Services Act (DSA), establishing a framework for digital services accountability and content moderation.

- 2023:

    - *France*: Passed a law requiring age verification for social media and porn websites.

    - *UK*: Enacted the Online Safety Act, requiring "highly effective" age assurance for platforms accessible to children.

- 2024:

    - *Australia*: Announced plans to ban social media for under-16s.

    - *Italy*: Implemented mandatory age verification for sensitive content websites.

- 2025:

    - *Denmark*: Proposed banning social media for under-15s.

    - *Malaysia*: Required social media platforms to ban users under 16.

- 2026:

    - *EU*: Rolling out digital age verification across member states.

    - *Norway*: Proposed banning social media for under-15s.

    - *Spain*: Announced plans to ban social media access for under-16s.

New comment by cft in "Online age verification is the hill to die on"

cft — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:25:13 +0000

There is a sudden concerted international push for online age verification, and we do not know where this push originates from. That is the scariest thing about it.

New comment by cft in "Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs"

cft — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 21:46:27 +0000

There is only one problem with Meta: Facebook itself is like a TV show that has ran its course. He's riding off what he purchased: Instagram and WhatsApp, but being a product thief he cannot create anything new.

New comment by cft in "Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price"

cft — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 06:27:39 +0000

I wonder if one can start a company selling repairable cars, for example, be it electric or gasoline.