Hacker News: danso

New comment by danso in "Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI"

danso — Mon, 18 May 2026 21:09:07 +0000

How do you imagine justice functioning in a system that lacks a statute of limitations?

Making the news available at no cost is a victory

danso — Wed, 13 May 2026 19:14:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2026/05/12/just-days-tribune-reporting/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48126156

Points: 143

# Comments: 136

New comment by danso in "Kickstarter is forced to ban adult content by payment processors"

danso — Wed, 13 May 2026 16:06:57 +0000

Has Mir in the past ever implemented any kind of bans or restrictions for specific vendors or use cases?

New comment by danso in "Instructure Security Incident Update"

danso — Tue, 12 May 2026 02:20:12 +0000

Sounds like a ransom was paid:

> With that responsibility in mind, Instructure reached an agreement with the unauthorized actor involved in this incident. As part of that agreement:

> The data was returned to us. We received digital confirmation of data destruction (shred logs).

> We have been informed that no Instructure customers will be extorted as a result of this incident, publicly or otherwise.

> This agreement covers all impacted Instructure customers, and there is no need for individual customers to attempt to engage with the unauthorized actor.

Instructure Security Incident Update

danso — Tue, 12 May 2026 02:08:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.instructure.com/incident_update

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48103368

Points: 7

# Comments: 2

New comment by danso in "Japan's New Care Workers: Bodybuilders, Wrestlers and MMA Fighters"

danso — Mon, 11 May 2026 00:36:42 +0000

Non-paywall link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/world/asia/japan-care-wor...

Japan's New Care Workers: Bodybuilders, Wrestlers and MMA Fighters

danso — Mon, 11 May 2026 00:36:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/world/asia/japan-care-workers-bodybuilders-sumo-mma.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48089719

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by danso in "I want to live like Costco people"

danso — Thu, 07 May 2026 23:17:01 +0000

I was just struck by this line:

> there were hordes of people standing lifelessly in a huge line waiting to check themselves out

Where are the retail experiences where people waiting to checkout are expressing an abundance of joy in life to you? Is the problem the “horde”? Sure, popular places tend to have a lot of people. I’m not sure why Costco customers act way less fun to you than at other places? This whole comments reads like a petulant “everyone is a NPC but me” screed

New comment by danso in "Canvas is down as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data"

danso — Thu, 07 May 2026 23:08:04 +0000

I wonder how much old data Canvas keeps around? Are students who graduated in 2016 going to be at risk of having their academic data leaked?

New comment by danso in "I want to live like Costco people"

danso — Thu, 07 May 2026 15:49:37 +0000

How are people supposed to act while waiting in line to check out?

Man finds $1M worth of Yu-Gi-Oh cards in a dumpster

danso — Wed, 06 May 2026 13:54:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.404media.co/man-finds-1-million-worth-of-yu-gi-oh-cards-in-a-dumpster/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48036289

Points: 181

# Comments: 54

Journal goes dark after impersonating Eric Topol and others

danso — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 13:00:52 +0000

Article URL: https://retractionwatch.com/2026/04/23/eric-topol-ellinger-publishing-media-journal-digital-health-impersonation/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47933966

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by danso in "Her life savings mysteriously disappeared after a systems glitch"

danso — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 10:40:01 +0000

Sorry but this is rich. The vast, vast majority of times that Github goes down, even though the issue is almost always resolved within the day if not in the next couple of hours. Yet we'd all agree that "Github is down" posts are worth their time on HN, even though everyone knows how to access to status API, because it's not so much about being notified about the outage but understanding why it happened.

What exactly is "clickbait" here? Is the disappearance "mysterious" or not here? I'm not a banking tech engineer, so I don't have the slightest clue how a bank's app could completely glitch out for days about something as critical to people as their life savings. Were you even aware that this is something that could just happen? Do you have a notion that this issue would have resolved itself without the aggressive petitioning by the account holder? Explain to us how you would go to the FDIC with a claim when the FDIC covers customers with provable losses, and the article reports that this person was so ghosted out of the system that Fidelity's customer support was telling her, “Are you sure you shouldn’t be calling Schwab”?

From the article:

> Ms. Gruntmane felt she had little choice, and was forced to cancel her 20 or so patients for the day. After a quick stop at home to retrieve her personal computer, identification and other records, she got back into her car and started driving. “It just felt out of, like, a psychological thriller,” she said.

> As she was driving through Vail, she called her mother, who suggested trying to reach Fidelity’s fraud department one more time. She pulled over, and finally reached a rep who was more helpful. He also couldn’t immediately find any evidence of her accounts, but she had found one account number to share with him. After a second hourlong call, he promised they would continue to investigate, but said it was most likely a systems-related issue.

Explain to me how this isn't of interest to people who touch online systems? Is there a status.fidelity.com that we have access to, that you could point out how systemic or non-systemic this kind of incident is?

New comment by danso in "Her life savings mysteriously disappeared after a systems glitch"

danso — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 23:32:18 +0000

Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/your-money/fidelity-inves...

Her life savings mysteriously disappeared after a systems glitch

danso — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 23:32:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/your-money/fidelity-investments-fraud-alert.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47905681

Points: 75

# Comments: 60

New comment by danso in "An update on recent Claude Code quality reports"

danso — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 02:15:03 +0000

Genuine question: is the cost to keep a persistent warmed cache for sessions idling for hours/days not significant when done for hundreds of thousands of users? Wouldn’t it pose a resource constraint on Anthropic at some point?

New comment by danso in "US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid"

danso — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 01:51:01 +0000

It’s arguable that opening the doors for greedy soldiers to do a little insider trading and inadvertently expose the illegal covert violent raid that they’re party to might be one of the few positive outcomes in a society gamified by Polymarket

New comment by danso in "SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B"

danso — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:15:38 +0000

Has the availability of deepfake porn generation reduced the demand for deepfake porn featuring real people? When deepfake generators are capable of creating convincing imagery of flawless ideal fake humans, why do you suppose there’s so many real humans who report being non-consensual subjects of deepfake porn?

New comment by danso in "What killed the Florida orange?"

danso — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 21:00:44 +0000

gift link: https://slate.com/business/2026/04/florida-state-orange-food...

What killed the Florida orange?

danso — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 21:00:43 +0000

https://slate.com/business/2026/04/florida-state-orange-food...

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47840618

Points: 170

# Comments: 182