Hacker News: daft_pink

New comment by daft_pink in "Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident"

daft_pink — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 20:18:08 +0000

It’s just so bizarre that they would pick or obsess over him. He’s just a financier/leader.

New comment by daft_pink in "Polymarket gamblers betting millions on war"

daft_pink — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 20:12:34 +0000

Just want to reiterate that prediction markets are beneficial, because they are the most accurate way to provide us with a dynamic mechanism to predict future outcomes from complicated systems.

As was put forth in James Suroweicki’s the Wisdom of Crowds, prediction markets provide predictions that tend to be more accurate than any expert, team of experts, etc. That doesn’t mean it’s 100% accurate, but it tends to be more accurate than any other mechanism that we have.

The benefit is not that gamblers have a place to gamble, but that society has a way to gauge the risks of different outcomes and plan accordingly.

New comment by daft_pink in "Nowhere is safe"

daft_pink — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 22:41:02 +0000

I definitely think that Saudi Arabia is wishing it’s pipeline was underground right now.

A New Case Exposed the Clever Workaround the FBI Uses to Read Secure Messages

daft_pink — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 22:38:10 +0000

Article URL: https://www.inc.com/chloe-aiello/a-new-case-exposed-the-clever-workaround-the-fbi-uses-to-read-secure-messages-on-iphones/91329762

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47724591

Points: 3

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New comment by daft_pink in "ChatGPT Pro now starts at $100/month"

daft_pink — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:16:23 +0000

It says 5x or 20x more usage, so does that mean they have copied clause and have a 5x for 100 and 20x for 200?

New comment by daft_pink in "EFF is leaving X"

daft_pink — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:12:39 +0000

Just noting it. The other post was submitted earlier. The mod's can figure out how to combine/reconcile. Update: I think you are correct and this one won :)

New comment by daft_pink in "EFF is leaving X"

daft_pink — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:25:01 +0000

Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47706120

New comment by daft_pink in "Apple signs meaningless deal to make some less-important parts in America"

daft_pink — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:40:55 +0000

Reality is that people in Western countries need TSMC to make high end chips outside of Taiwan, because we’ll all be screwed if China decides to invade Taiwan. This has nothing to do with how you feel about Trump. It’s just the cold hard facts.

If you want stable access to technology in the future, you should be demanding secondary sources of high end chips, because none of us want to die fighting China in a war a few hundred miles off China’s coast line and 5,000-6,000 miles from most western countries (excluding Japan/Korea).

New comment by daft_pink in "One item purchased, ten emails"

daft_pink — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 22:10:16 +0000

The issue is that I want to see the email that says my order shipped so I can drop the tracking number into parcel.

New comment by daft_pink in "Muse Spark: Scaling towards personal superintelligence"

daft_pink — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:49:20 +0000

This really reinforces the idea that the AI race and the Railroad Mania of the 19th century are very similar.

So many different companies are going to have similarly powerful ai that there will be no moat around it and it will be cheap. They will never earn their investment back.

New comment by daft_pink in "F-35 Got Hit"

daft_pink — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:42:33 +0000

To be fair, most stealth bombers also have countermeasures against infrared.

New comment by daft_pink in "Why do Macs ask you to press random keys when connecting a new keyboard?"

daft_pink — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 18:32:27 +0000

Thanks I’m always worried. I do the wrong thing when that thing pops up for my mouse.

New comment by daft_pink in "Iran's Network of Cameras Bolsters Air Defenses, Expert Says"

daft_pink — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:54:54 +0000

They claimed this bolsters defenses, but the United States and Israel have run thousands upon thousands of sorties and they’ve hit one old aircraft 30 year old aircraft?

Can they really claim this is effective?

New comment by daft_pink in "What if the browser built the UI for you?"

daft_pink — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:48:47 +0000

Sounds really cool, but how do you build support documents or explain to a user how to do something if they completely customize the interface?

New comment by daft_pink in "Extra usage credit for Claude to celebrate usage bundles launch (Pro, Max, Team)"

daft_pink — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:27:36 +0000

I feel this is a payoff to alleviate the complaints of people who already paid for the month and they restricted usage after the fact. Not impressed.

New comment by daft_pink in "Gold overtakes U.S. Treasuries as the largest foreign reserve asset"

daft_pink — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:23:49 +0000

It’s obvious that printing money is the best way out of the USAs debt problem. Gold still sucks though.

New comment by daft_pink in "Why are we still using Markdown?"

daft_pink — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:36:24 +0000

Markdown is essentially plain text with a couple extra features. I think Markdown’s basic appeal is that it’s plain text.

New comment by daft_pink in "Lower Price for ChatGPT Business"

daft_pink — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:17:30 +0000

They need to allow us to add the $200 per month seat for certain business users.

New comment by daft_pink in "Tailscale's new macOS home"

daft_pink — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 18:47:47 +0000

Ironically, I have trouble with Tailscale and Mac SSO. I setup my tailnet with Apple SSO and when I want to connect on my non Windows device there is not an easy way to add a new user and the new user has their own tailnet. I wish I could just use tailscale with a passkey without using third party sso.

New comment by daft_pink in "Qwen3.6-Plus: Towards Real World Agents"

daft_pink — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 17:19:47 +0000

So I guess if it’s your personal data that’s up to you, but if you have private client data and client of your client data and that’s the fundamental reason why you are doing local ai, I can’t imagine moving from qwen local to qwen alibaba after not choosing google/anthropic/openai