Hacker News: delfinom

New comment by delfinom in "NY announces game ownership bill requiring ownership rather than licensing"

delfinom — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 14:00:22 +0000

Scraping the barrel for votes,, while it is an issue a few people are passionate about, I doubt its going to win anyone ever across party lines nor get any additional people out to vote lol.

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

delfinom — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 15:55:54 +0000

If that account was truely forgotten about, there is no way it wasn't closed and simply sent to the relevant state Unclaimed Funds group of the state treasury where it waits to be claimed for quite indefinitely.

New comment by delfinom in "A Remote Employee Refused 160 Webcam Photos a Day. Her Employer Fired Her"

delfinom — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 23:47:31 +0000

Not sure there's much value in training the AI on the executives playing golf. Lol

New comment by delfinom in "Micron CEO Says Memory Supply Will Be Much Tighter in 2027 and 2028 Than in 2026"

delfinom — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 15:43:58 +0000

Well like the very short 3D-TV fad, I can see a big sudden goldrush into AI powered robots (more than companies are in now).

It is also possible they all pivot to copying Neural Link and upselling the whole world on brain implants that the oligarchs can control.

New comment by delfinom in "America.gov"

delfinom — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 12:37:47 +0000

But it doesn't funnel billions in government money to the private sector.

New comment by delfinom in "macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess"

delfinom — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 15:10:11 +0000

We are seeing the benefits in real time in this release if those images mean anything lol

New comment by delfinom in "GPT-6 Astra has made a major breakthrough in the Goldbach Conjecture"

delfinom — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 11:20:32 +0000

O Lord, the next wave of desperation, now they all have to "solve" some challenging math problem.

Can't wait to see how late to the party Google is with this one later on. Lol

New comment by delfinom in "Big Tech uses guarantees to keep $300B AI exposure off balance sheets"

delfinom — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 15:19:54 +0000

The entire stock market is being held up by AI. Any company that is not AI for the last 5 years has been declining or flat. But are retirement funds really impacted by the bubbling bursting, or are they simply correcting back to the real economic condition for the majority of the country.

New comment by delfinom in "Big Tech uses guarantees to keep $300B AI exposure off balance sheets"

delfinom — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 15:17:53 +0000

> but is who ultimately owns the downside risk of the AI infra boom?

The US taxpayer for the inevitable corporate bailouts.

New comment by delfinom in "Salesforce launches Hunter, an outbound sales agent"

delfinom — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 21:09:02 +0000

So the cold call emails that I regularly mark as spam will get slightly more personalized and less templated?

Sounds like a great use of tokens.

New comment by delfinom in "Apple's Siri AI Can Be Swapped Out for Claude, ChatGPT, Code Shows"

delfinom — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 14:11:25 +0000

Well, either corporate security got incompetent or they intentionally let select leaks exist to "test the market response". Established companies tend to get more risk averse overtime.

New comment by delfinom in "OpenAI's Sam Altman says it would be 'ill-advised' to go public in 2026"

delfinom — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 22:16:54 +0000

Only if they can find a way to dress up their financials for the IPO filing. They don't want to get WeWorked.

New comment by delfinom in "Crypto farm in Mexican mountains puts spotlight on cartel funding"

delfinom — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 18:19:18 +0000

I wager the stolen electricity part. The cartels have historically have even forced employees of utilities to hook them up on cellular towers at gun point.

New comment by delfinom in "iPhone Duo"

delfinom — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 14:54:34 +0000

Apple's own TOS allows them to datamine your data to sell you ads the same as anyone else.

New comment by delfinom in "Show HN: Copperhead – Cursor for circuit boards"

delfinom — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 12:18:24 +0000

PCB design is no bottleneck. These services are solutions in search of a problem.

There are already millions of vendors all over the world making infinite variations of PCB designs for the same/similar product. You can hire a design shop in China for peanuts to make a variation as well.

Ultimately the bottleneck is the consumer does not care for infinite variations. The vast majority just want a "top rated product" at the lowest price. Which is whatever Amazon sorts their results as or whatever the Jones are buying that they need to keep up with.

The biggest driver of "unique product" (not just the 9 millionth clone product) commercial success is marketing, it is branding, it is finding a unique niche, it is timing, it is existing social & business relationships to drive sales.

New comment by delfinom in "Flock Wants a Closely Surveilled World with No Exit"

delfinom — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 11:47:25 +0000

Or you know, just stalking exs using Flock like most cops charged with wrongdoing have been.

New comment by delfinom in "South African diamond mines are closing due to weak sales and lab-grown stones"

delfinom — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:16:33 +0000

At least they aren't blaming millennials still.

New comment by delfinom in "Netherlands pulls gold out of the US"

delfinom — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 16:57:13 +0000

That is exactly why the bond yields keep rising.

New comment by delfinom in ".name Termination"

delfinom — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 17:35:53 +0000

There is already ENS.

New comment by delfinom in "How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs"

delfinom — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 14:39:16 +0000

Small businesses result in innovation. There is little innovation from big business whose entire mission becomes profit maximization once sufficiently large enough. The little guys are that ones that come with new ideas and move fast to grow it. This is the entire story of startups in the US, silicon valley and more.

Big business also drives down wages way more than small businesses. When you are one of the few major employers in an industry, there is zero need to pay more while sucking in profit. Sure, maybe you could get an union involved but you are still subservient to the same employer who no longer has to respond to any labor market pressure other than quelling the union once in awhile.