Hacker News: daft_pink

New comment by daft_pink in "Keys Not Included: recovering the signing keys for US driver's license barcodes"

daft_pink — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 16:33:40 +0000

Maybe we should create petitions for each of the 31 states covered by IDEMIA and all the states covered by Canadian Bank Note to add this to the ID cards.

I can't imagine Illinois, where I live that I believe uses IDEMIA from what I know about the Apple Wallet rollout wouldn't want to add this.

New comment by daft_pink in "NHTSA Orders Tesla to Provide Answers on Cybercab Certification"

daft_pink — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 16:23:19 +0000

Government wants Tesla to explain how it self-certified the Cybercab as complying with federal safety standards even though it has no steering wheel, accelerator pedal, or brake pedal.

NHTSA Orders Tesla to Provide Answers on Cybercab Certification

daft_pink — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 16:23:19 +0000

Article URL: https://driveteslacanada.ca/news/nhtsa-cybercab-special-order-aq26002/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49729368

Points: 6

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New comment by daft_pink in "Devastated father says his 9-year-old son spent $118,000 on YouTube ads"

daft_pink — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 16:16:38 +0000

Pretty crazy. We use Ramp at work and it allows you to specifically set budgets for every single credit card and get approvals, etc. This should be an advertisement for them.

Hope they setup a go fund me as I would be happy to contribute $20 towards paying the $'s back.

New comment by daft_pink in "Nike exits the S&P 100 after 18 years and a $200B market-cap wipeout"

daft_pink — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 16:04:06 +0000

after the kaepernick nonsense, i started buying lululemon clothes and hoka shoes and never bought another nike product ever again.

New comment by daft_pink in "Why is privacy so hard? (2019)"

daft_pink — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 02:49:17 +0000

Because there are numerous choke points where people need to use devices to do a thing and those devices can record you and the financial incentives for the companies that own these choke points is so great that they end up selling your data.

Even if Apple truly had perfect privacy you still need to use credit cards, bank accounts, insurance, cell towers, drive a car, etc.

I think that’s the underlying reason why privacy is so hard.

New comment by daft_pink in "AI is not a normal technology"

daft_pink — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 02:44:59 +0000

I think what you are missing is that it will dramatically lower the cost of living so that everyone’s standard of living increases. It’s not about jobs.

New comment by daft_pink in "google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update"

daft_pink — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 15:10:40 +0000

so glad i use kagi

New comment by daft_pink in "Will there be a 7G?"

daft_pink — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 15:09:13 +0000

there will obviously be a 7g, the real question is whether carriers would adopt it.

New comment by daft_pink in "Killing with a car costs $1.6M, California requires drivers to carry $30K"

daft_pink — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 15:07:16 +0000

i'm not sure that the minimum should be 1.6M, but it should be more than $30k, when the average vehicle is well above that.

New comment by daft_pink in "Detecting and countering misuse of AI: September 2026"

daft_pink — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 18:19:04 +0000

if I just randomly asked claude how to build a bioweapon would it flag it and then they would claim they stopped it in a press release, even though i have no ability to actually build something like that?

New comment by daft_pink in "Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX"

daft_pink — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:01:48 +0000

makes sense. cursor is a real competitor to openai. we're completely switching to grok bot at work after going from claude code >> codex >> grok bot.

New comment by daft_pink in "Identifying fake cosmetics using AI"

daft_pink — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 23:59:59 +0000

i really would love to see an app we could use to detect these?

my wife bought some cosmetics from amazon that turned out to be counterfeit and the only reason we knew it was because we had previously purchased the correct item from sephora and the bottle was quite different.

i tried to complain to the brand and amazon, but no one really cared and they gave me a refund and kept on selling.

it would be really awesome if there was a way for companies to upload high quality imagery of legit products and they could be used by ai engines to identify fakes.

New comment by daft_pink in "Trade (and Tariffs)"

daft_pink — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 20:57:25 +0000

i'm a little bit confused by the current news. I thought the supreme court said the tariffs are illegal without congressional approval and the government started refunding the money.

now the news is full of all these tarriffs about canada?

What's the factual non-partisan reasoning by which trump has been found not to have the power to create tarriffs, but is still doing it with canada?

New comment by daft_pink in "Needle: The benchmark your search engine can't memorize"

daft_pink — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 20:54:09 +0000

so is this an independent search engine benchmark or a blog post from a search engine provider showing their search engine at the top of the benchmark?

i'm a little bit confused as at first when I was reading it i thought it was a search engine benchmark, but it seems that keenable is at the top which i assume is related to the web domain owner? i've never heard of keeenable

New comment by daft_pink in "[dead]"

daft_pink — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 23:02:27 +0000

I would just mention that your summary of the poster's comment omits the central issue, whether their conduct includes criminal terrorist acts. They aren't being designated as a terrorist group because of the cause or the solely from the actions of a random protestor. They are being designated as a terrorist group because their leaders promoted and encouraged and planned criminally violent behavior. Whether the the majority of actual street level protestors are the same and easily switch from cause to cause isn't really relevant to this analysis.

I would suggest that the OP is suggesting that because the terrorist organization supports palestine and engages in these activities, the label is more controversial than other organizations such as irish unification, communist revolution, drug cartels, white supremacy or neo-nazism organizations that are also labeled as terrorist groups without much controversy.

New comment by daft_pink in "Anthropic Sees over $30T in Potential Revenue"

daft_pink — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 21:14:53 +0000

What will inflation have to be for us to reach that?

New comment by daft_pink in "Starbase, LA"

daft_pink — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 21:14:14 +0000

A quick ctrl f for Gulf of America yield no results. Just curious lol.

New comment by daft_pink in "Fastmail offers EU data region"

daft_pink — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 03:34:46 +0000

Actually thrilled that I can choose US data residency. Apparently, it was always that way? Happy that I can choose it though as I would prefer my data not be stored somewhere else.

New comment by daft_pink in "What I love about Django"

daft_pink — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 16:46:36 +0000

I like Django too, but find it difficult to deploy. While frontend frameworks can be easily deployed via a cdn and some microservice backends on something like cloudflare or aws, I find Django very difficult to deploy because it needs an underlying server running 24/7.