Hacker News: cryptonym

New comment by cryptonym in "I’ve joined Anthropic"

cryptonym — Wed, 20 May 2026 09:12:32 +0000

Just like most industries, masses are looking for the cheapest solution with ok-ish perceived quality.

If you are looking for purpose, find a niche or do something else. If you want a job, embrace the slop.

New comment by cryptonym in "Eric Schmidt speech about AI booed during graduation"

cryptonym — Mon, 18 May 2026 13:41:22 +0000

His former company keeps firing people and saying the very reason for that is AI.

There sure is hope for C-level to juice more and more. People who are about to join work market may not share the positivity.

New comment by cryptonym in "Docker 29 has changed its default image store for new installs"

cryptonym — Tue, 05 May 2026 14:52:43 +0000

To save disk space /s

New comment by cryptonym in "Trademark violation: Fake Notepad++ for Mac"

cryptonym — Mon, 04 May 2026 10:44:27 +0000

First step would be taking down the website, second step is an apology, third step is bringing back online with new branding and eventually a final word to thank them, share the link and say they remain open to criticism.

It's not rocket science. Pretty sure even his LLM would give that strategy and implement it without burning too many tokens.

More than inexperienced, either he really can't read a room or he knows very well what he is doing.

New comment by cryptonym in "Your phone is about to stop being yours"

cryptonym — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:09:52 +0000

I miss data to confirm any of this does significantly improve security.

Anecdata: I have yet to meet someone who have been targeted by unknowingly side-loading apps.

If they really want to improve security they can work on much more impactful changes. I know people having been scammed by ads proudly delivered by instagram and google. I read about malicious apps that somehow went through official store filtering.

New comment by cryptonym in "Your phone is about to stop being yours"

cryptonym — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 09:31:30 +0000

Let's not be naive by pretending improving user security is the main purpose of that move.

New comment by cryptonym in "OpenAI CEO's Identity Verification Company Announced Fake Bruno Mars Partnership"

cryptonym — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 14:57:23 +0000

rage-baited? I think it's pretty clear to everyone they did a mistake due to lexical proximity with their actual partnership.

New comment by cryptonym in "Another Day Has Come"

cryptonym — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:01:02 +0000

I does apply.

Battery should be sold for 5 years+ after EoS and it still must be replaceable without proprietary tools, nor proprietary parts.

New comment by cryptonym in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"

cryptonym — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 12:32:05 +0000

Vendor or even model specific tools plus fighting with glue is not that complicated for someone willing to dedicate the effort, but it won't help recycling economy.

New comment by cryptonym in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"

cryptonym — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 12:22:37 +0000

It also makes recycling much easier.

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

cryptonym — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:08:17 +0000

They don't have to compute it in real time. They can cut service when they detect it reached the cost and the difference is free of charge.

Overcharge protection doesn't have to be free. It could be +5% on prices or a fee of 25% when you reach the threshold.

They would have financial interest in calculating cost in real time and it'd magically become more and more precise over releases.

New comment by cryptonym in "Nothing Ever Happens: Polymarket bot that always buys No on non-sports markets"

cryptonym — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 08:59:33 +0000

I fully agree with not participating and would go even further: it's far worse than a casino, which was already bad. It's not regulated. It has a stronger impact on the outside world. With bets you can put a target on people job or head.

New comment by cryptonym in "Nothing Ever Happens: Polymarket bot that always buys No on non-sports markets"

cryptonym — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 08:54:58 +0000

> I don't have a gambling addiction, I just enjoy throwing money away in casinos. I come home thousands of dollars poorer. It's a net return to my finances. Totally healthy.

Weird way to validate polymarket.

New comment by cryptonym in "Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block"

cryptonym — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 08:45:49 +0000

Cloudflare is a private company, they might (unwillingly) benefit from hosting illegal services. They don't implement a quick or proactive process to take down content that is obviously illegal. The money made by illegal streaming websites doesn't end in good pockets, which raises further concerns. Such streaming is quickly spawn for the event, then disappear. Even if you fight them legally after the event, they operate from countries that won't cooperate.

Cloudflare could change their policy to take down quickly obvious abuse during live events. They could proactively check new customers before allowing public traffic.

People can vote against protecting property if they think it creates unreasonable effects.

Not sure where you got your stats but top website owners can easily deploy technical solutions to this issue.

We live in a complex word. This problem is not completely manufactured by bad people at sports and television companies. What should right owners do? Accept that content they own is streamed illegally, for profit, and not use recourses the law provides?

New comment by cryptonym in "Nothing Ever Happens: Polymarket bot that always buys No on non-sports markets"

cryptonym — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 16:13:16 +0000

By design it's a game where people with inside knowledge or enough power to bend reality can steal money from people with gambling addiction. Automating your addiction might not be the best move.

New comment by cryptonym in "Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block"

cryptonym — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:52:13 +0000

1 - Cloudflare is not the entire internet. 2 - They close people who decide to go with a cheap/free shared host.

Solutions exist if this market is important to your business.

New comment by cryptonym in "Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block"

cryptonym — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:45:43 +0000

It does not block all of cloudflare, it blocks their shared IPs. If you are doing serious business you may not want to do it on IPs that are also used for shady content. IP reputation is a well known strategy, used by emails and other firewalls.

New comment by cryptonym in "Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block"

cryptonym — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:30:29 +0000

A bank may use another provider and/or their own IPs

New comment by cryptonym in "Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block"

cryptonym — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:12:37 +0000

Are blocking unlawful? I don't think so. Their country their rules.

Business-wise it's risky to deliver your service from IPs that also serves dirty content. Technical solutions exists, even if you want to stay on Cloudflare.

New comment by cryptonym in "Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block"

cryptonym — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 09:27:45 +0000

If cloudflare is providing services to illegal websites, they very much are in full control of the situation. They knowingly choose to keep hosting that content, and have legal customers exposed to that risk.

You may like that the platform is open by default to everybody, but that's the obvious consequence.