Hacker News: csomar

New comment by csomar in "Gold is now the top U.S. export"

csomar — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 19:43:48 +0000

I don't think that counts as exports although they could be selling in the US and buying locally where traders move the gold (then it will be counted as exports).

New comment by csomar in "Ledger confirms spy chip implant behind wallet crypto thefts"

csomar — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 07:04:13 +0000

My current pet-peeve with the top providers is that they all refuse a fully-airgapped solution. You have all these widgets and gadgets like it's a toy when you are planning to hold millions in there. Their apps are also a joke and polymarket-like these days.

At this point, the best is a 2-multi-sig solution where one is some hardware wallet and the second is an iPhone app wallet where the seed is stored digitally only. So even if your offline seed is compromised, you are still covered.

New comment by csomar in "Ledger confirms spy chip implant behind wallet crypto thefts"

csomar — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 07:00:35 +0000

Conveniently, there is no KYC in acquiring a data-only eSIM. KYC is only enforced for the number which is not needed here.

New comment by csomar in "Ledger confirms spy chip implant behind wallet crypto thefts"

csomar — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 06:43:34 +0000

It's stupidly easy to open the device. I opened mine last night with a knife and a hairdryer. I left no perceptible marks either. I watched a few videos where the device was opened without a hairdryer. Apparently, those who did the implant put more glue than Ledger itself.

New comment by csomar in "Ledger confirms spy chip implant behind wallet crypto thefts"

csomar — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 22:06:08 +0000

Nope. Though I did leave a few hundreds just to see if it was compromised after all.

New comment by csomar in "Ledger confirms spy chip implant behind wallet crypto thefts"

csomar — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 21:44:41 +0000

My thinking was it is safer to buy from an authorized reseller than just shipping it. Many people get to access your mail in transit. Granted the devices come in mail regardless for anyone but I thought maybe the authorized thing had some more due diligence or something.

New comment by csomar in "Ledger confirms spy chip implant behind wallet crypto thefts"

csomar — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 21:33:05 +0000

It's the official Ledger reseller in that country.

New comment by csomar in "Ledger confirms spy chip implant behind wallet crypto thefts"

csomar — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 21:05:12 +0000

I bought from this very reseller in the last 90 days and I just opened my Stax with a knife to find out it was implanted. It is a very good job too, if I didn't watch the Youtube video, I would think it's part of the original Ledger hardware.

New comment by csomar in "Research Firm Calls Anthropic's IPO 'Unprecedented Test of Investor Gullibity'"

csomar — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 15:50:51 +0000

I don't feel like going through the list but Uber definitively botched their IPO. If they are up 60% only since the IPO they are just matching inflation and pretty much below the index.

New comment by csomar in "Deloitte falsified documents to evade tax on Abramovich's wealth"

csomar — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 13:55:59 +0000

It is literally impossible to operate in any other way. We call them multinational but they just own the child company or the brand. If you operate at any country, your "parent" is irrelevant.

New comment by csomar in "Deloitte falsified documents to evade tax on Abramovich's wealth"

csomar — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 13:53:27 +0000

I don’t think this is possible under the latest rules, especially in the EU. But a small firm could easily get bad advice and think it’s outsmarting the system. Right now in the EU, it’s either pay or leave completely.

New comment by csomar in "Deloitte falsified documents to evade tax on Abramovich's wealth"

csomar — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 13:50:55 +0000

> How this company can proceed to exist is beyond me.

How can they not proceed. They are making money doing nothing and have no moral boundaries. And now we find out they have no legal boundaries either.

New comment by csomar in "Deloitte falsified documents to evade tax on Abramovich's wealth"

csomar — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 13:49:06 +0000

There should be a limit. You can’t expect me to keep a client’s records for two decades. For software development, I think 2 years is reasonable. Many industries already have proper (and mandatory) limits, usually somewhere in the 3-7 year range depending on the field (finance tends to be higher) and the country. Some countries, especially developing ones, have no bookkeeping rules at all.

But after 2 decades for a financial account, I'd assume any recovery as a gift rather than a right.

New comment by csomar in "I gave Opus 5.5 one prompt and six hours to visualize Invisible Cities"

csomar — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 16:05:41 +0000

It's low entropy. The amount of entropy is prompt + model but now that you have seen the model various times, the entropy comes down back to the prompt only.

You'd not be amazed by seeing a 2 sentences prompt and thus you are not amazed by this work either.

New comment by csomar in "Visa, Mastercard, major banks facing new litigation over 'anticompetitive' fees"

csomar — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 19:04:33 +0000

Wallet/Qrcode payments in many countries are roughly free. Visa/MC/Banks charge roughly 3-5% when you account for all fees (ie: Stripe). The security angle is also BS because these costs are hidden from consumers as they are thrown on merchants who will average them out again on consumers.

They are draining/milking the cow. At some point, they had significant value in quick information transmission when the internet and smart phones weren't really a thing. But now the only advantage is chargebacks/refunds which coincidentally, the experience there is being made shittier.

Still, not worth the 3-5% premium. Glad many merchants are starting to charge for credit card use and push back.

New comment by csomar in "State of Devs 2026"

csomar — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 13:14:15 +0000

Most people in gov./bureaucratic functions do little or nothing (though depending on country, they could be doing negative work or harming the process itself). Developers are not the worse out they represent a very small percentage of the human capital.

New comment by csomar in "Sharing AI progress in mathematics"

csomar — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 11:49:18 +0000

We have no idea how much compute or man hours Open AI is burning at this. It could be thousands/millions per problem. They are doing this specifically for PR and are ready to pay billions.

New comment by csomar in "Huawei and Qualcomm announce broad patent license agreement"

csomar — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 15:43:56 +0000

Are you saying Huawei will collapse if their Canadian R&D centers shutdown?

New comment by csomar in "Apple Pass Designer"

csomar — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 16:37:42 +0000

The stack is so complex now that the experience/bugs experienced are different to different users. Fun time to debug these bugs probably.

New comment by csomar in "Ask HN: Email leaked while traveling abroad?"

csomar — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 04:33:06 +0000

How many aliases do you have? If this is the only one, then I'll be more suspect this is a fail on your end or the guy you sent a message to.

Also, I don't see the connection to Germany?