Hacker News: csomar

New comment by csomar in "Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers"

csomar — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 19:03:49 +0000

To add to your experience: It was also very hard, for me, to find the setting that disables this JavaScript.

New comment by csomar in "GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities"

csomar — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 13:41:24 +0000

I am talking about my general impression not this particular occurence. I have a suspicion that someone/some entity is buying old accounts to bypass the new accounts penalty. I even created (https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/hn-users-filter/ine...) to filter these accounts/comments (disclaimer: vibe-coded)

New comment by csomar in "GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities"

csomar — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 10:22:35 +0000

There should be some kind of moratorium on new accounts. HN's always had waves of newcomers, but their impact was always limited. The wave passes and people either get filtered out or adapt. That doesn't seem to be happening anymore, since bots can churn out endless gibberish.

He did answer you though. Native is x10 the non-native speed. 50/50 that's not a bot; though it could be a meat-proxy

New comment by csomar in "GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities"

csomar — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 09:44:55 +0000

Most of the money will come from companies/corporations who will be required to buy safe AI. The public will be just banned from buying which might make it hard (ie: site/payment blocked) but not impossible. It could be good enough for the big whales.

New comment by csomar in "GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities"

csomar — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 08:48:53 +0000

The car industry is also a trillion $$ market in the US. I don't see why that would go any differently from the Chinese cars ban.

New comment by csomar in "Deutsche Bank becomes first foreign yuan clearing bank in Europe"

csomar — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:40:31 +0000

https://ember-energy.org/data/china-cleantech-exports-data-e...

Meanwhile everyone is being confused with AI-slop.

New comment by csomar in "Grok Bot"

csomar — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 11:07:14 +0000

I don't know which part of the world you are in, but in the one I am in, commerce websites are hostile to proper SEO and even crawlers. (ie: Shoppy and Lazada, there is literally a market to buy their and it's very expensive for search).

New comment by csomar in "Grok Bot"

csomar — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 08:44:27 +0000

Do you have even an example of this (one should ask for measurable data openness) or are you just making stuff up? Everything around has/is becoming more closed and I have one example: Reddit. It is not impossible to read without an account (account-walled).

New comment by csomar in "Nvidia's Risky Business"

csomar — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 18:58:00 +0000

Software has always been the moat but for some reason it's always hamstrung by upper management. The latest of the frenzies being replacing sane (or whatever we have) of development practices with AI-slop.

Management likes it because it removes software developers from the loop.

New comment by csomar in "Hyperspace"

csomar — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 07:02:13 +0000

There is a giga ton of content in the homepage. Are you really going to read it all? The main window doesn’t suggest it’s a paid app.

New comment by csomar in "Why Wall Street is ignoring big tech's debt [video]"

csomar — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 14:28:41 +0000

Currently, a $20/month openai subscription gives roughly $400 in codex api credits. That doesn’t count what you can get from the web chatbot.

So it better be that api tokens are seriously overpriced. There is value at $20/month. I am not so sure if it’s $400/month or more.

New comment by csomar in "Gentoo bugzilla closed due AI bot scraper overload"

csomar — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 09:59:27 +0000

It's the default setting and most website operators have no idea what they are doing.

New comment by csomar in "Gentoo bugzilla closed due AI bot scraper overload"

csomar — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 09:58:29 +0000

Only very minimally. A dollar is no longer worth that much. People who live under 1-2 dollars a day probably aren't browsing that much internet per day.

- https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-living-with-less-th...

New comment by csomar in "Gentoo bugzilla closed due AI bot scraper overload"

csomar — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 15:52:52 +0000

How many pages does the average software developer visit everyday? 1.000? Price at 0.001 per load and it’ll be completely impractical for crawlers but super cheap for the average connected human on earth.

New comment by csomar in "What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers"

csomar — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 04:45:12 +0000

The previous poster doesn’t realize he is part of the problem. He wants everyone to go back to the office so that he can see people face to face again and have the social pressure to wash himself. Makes you wonder why no one wants to be his friend?

If you are ever in a situation where you are alone and no person works for you, realize you are most likely the problem. It took me a while to figure it out and it’s hard to make friends that you resonate and align with. But there are billions of people around the world and unless you live in a small village, there are always people looking to strike a conversation; and some of those will make good/reliable friends.

New comment by csomar in "GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability"

csomar — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 08:33:37 +0000

I have a barely known/used GitHub application and losing it from time to time over some qq#%@ repo that blows up both my actions and CloudFlare workers. Over a few hundreds of repos that were installed, I have now seen two where the authors installed every AI system on the planet. This starts a vicious circle where one app comments on the PR, triggers all other installed apps, who also start commenting on the PR. This quickly reaches the limit of number of comments on the PR BUT GitHub will keep pinging you about any event that is happening to that insane PR. Of course, your app itself will fail to comment so that triggers the redundancy I have including emails from my app about a failure (which I can't read on the email itself for logs privacy, so I need to check my system logs). Just last week, I had a blow up with hundreds of failure emails. All of this was coming from a single dude PR which had nothing but AI apps fighting one another.

New comment by csomar in "Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work"

csomar — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 12:45:43 +0000

Open Source is a marketing term if your solution takes $2m worth of compute or devops time in order to run properly. The idea is, you have a way out if you want to leave. An option. But if leaving costs $x,xxx,xxx then that option was never there for most people. One example is NextJS. It's open source but even CloudFlare couldn't figure out how to run it properly on their platform.

New comment by csomar in "Cloudflare Wallets: the programmable wallet for the agentic Internet"

csomar — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 11:48:16 +0000

What a bunch of garbage

- permission-ed system when we’ve got lightning and super low cost blockchains. They could even run their own L2.

- I am typing my name in a cafe and hear some clacking sounds. I was puzzled there for a full minute to where the sound was coming from. Who thought this is a good idea?

- So I finish the reservation and there is actually no product yet?

New comment by csomar in "Keyv and friends compromised in active Shai-Hulud supply chain attack"

csomar — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 15:32:42 +0000

These half-measures is why everything has gone to shits. Instead of properly auditing software, reducing the quantity and increasing the quality, we keep pushing more and more garbage where all you find is 2FA that, captcha this, not supported this, app not signed, etc..

New comment by csomar in "Apple is getting this wrong"

csomar — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 09:08:32 +0000

Yes, the CEO is Sam Altman.