Hacker News: delfinom

New comment by delfinom in "Fairphone is now officially available in the United States"

delfinom — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 14:09:20 +0000

Innovation in the US is mainly how many more creative ways they can suck money out of consumers.

New comment by delfinom in "India has paved the way for charging merchants a fee on UPI transactions"

delfinom — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 12:52:29 +0000

>In 2026 it is virtually impossible to quickly move money from one account to another because every single bit of it has to pass through the US Federal Reserve's ancient systems

Which is why FedNow went live in 2024. In 2025 it already completed processing of $864 billion in transactions in real time.

https://www.frbservices.org/resources/financial-services/fed...

2026 is already looking to exceed $1 trillion in transactions.

New comment by delfinom in "Flock cameras haven't improved Atlanta's crime clearance rates"

delfinom — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 01:13:44 +0000

Epstein class wants it.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/oracle-ceo-larry-ellison-says...

New comment by delfinom in "People are worried about America's solvency"

delfinom — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 20:17:16 +0000

Which was never really a problem before cryptocurrencies. Nor does it any way address the core issue we have with physical currency, taking out loans now, against future wealth generation, which is happening in the crypto space too.

New comment by delfinom in "Bluesky Protocol Services"

delfinom — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 15:10:27 +0000

Chrome Windows, zoomed in on paris, france. Click the restaurant filter for search. The tab froze, tried multiple times. :3

New comment by delfinom in "_for-sale DNS records"

delfinom — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 16:39:21 +0000

https://nissan.com/

Archive.org it to see little man beating big corporation

New comment by delfinom in "My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off”"

delfinom — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 03:22:02 +0000

I love when Google maps in the NY metro area makes me want to take a left-turn, at a stop sign at intersection with a 6 lane road that doesn't get a stop. Yes, these insanities exist and are basically fucking death traps to attempt lefts.

New comment by delfinom in "Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI"

delfinom — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:27:30 +0000

Yep a lot of this falls under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act which can lead to criminal prosecution of an individual.

You lost access officially when you left the employer. Just because you still had some vestige credential that _could_ let you see old employer data does not mean you are legally entitled to use it.

New comment by delfinom in "Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI"

delfinom — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:25:16 +0000

The Musk lawsuit was based on a Musk tantrum.

Apple is outright going for corporate espionage claims. They can also fall back to the CFAA and push for criminal prosecution of former employees individually.

New comment by delfinom in "US Military asks troops for 'creative and unconventional' ideas to punish Iran"

delfinom — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 13:55:03 +0000

Because isolation totally works, looks at Cuba and North Korea

New comment by delfinom in "The AI bubble is popping; we just don't know it yet"

delfinom — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 12:52:04 +0000

It's entirely possible China has a little bit of a bubble too when it comes to development investment vs demand. But obviously the bubble in the US is basically a whale compared to whatever small fish China is.

New comment by delfinom in "The AI bubble is popping; we just don't know it yet"

delfinom — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 12:50:14 +0000

Apple is also just partnering with Google.

https://blog.google/company-news/inside-google/company-annou...

New comment by delfinom in "The AI bubble is popping; we just don't know it yet"

delfinom — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 12:47:30 +0000

It's inevitable though. The funny-money has outpaced actual money by lightyears at this point.

On the plus side, our interest rates aren't 0% right now, so there's some room there.

On the down side, our national debt generation now exceeds 125% of GDP and bond rates are shooting up because nobody wants to buy our debt.

New comment by delfinom in "SQLite Critical CVEs or LLM Slop?"

delfinom — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 12:31:08 +0000

It's been a problem for awhile. Daniel Stenberg has talked about it numerous times on his/curl's blog for the last 4 years. They became their own CNA to try and control it, they opened a hackerone with rewards, but now removed the rewards because it got flooded with AI generated slop daily.

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/08/26/cve-2020-19909-is-eve... https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/01/16/curl-is-a-cna/ https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/04/24/how-the-cna-thing-is-...

New comment by delfinom in "CosmosEscape: Taking over Every Database in Azure Cosmos DB"

delfinom — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 17:00:13 +0000

They patched the vulnerability within 2 days. They spent 6 months rearchitecting their backend. It's a major service for themselves and tens of thousands of customers, you don't vibe code yourself a new database query execution engine overnight.

New comment by delfinom in "Codeberg Divides"

delfinom — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 18:48:45 +0000

Codeberg was competition for the EU, in the topic of tech-sovereignty which is a incredibly hot topic in the EU. With the US abusing it's position not only recently but years past, the EU is accelerating funding and plans to decouple from anything the US can mess with legally. Much of that sentiment has been spreading all over the EU governments and software communities.

GitHub for all its purposes remains a platform hostile to EU interests long term.

New comment by delfinom in "Codeberg Divides"

delfinom — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 18:45:48 +0000

Funny enough if you read their blogpost on this, they don't want people with useless toy projects, they want projects with communities...(subtext: to leech off of).

That blog post while on the LLM topic also started throwing the OSS bathwater out and went straight-on leech mode in between the lines.

New comment by delfinom in "Launching Health in ChatGPT to US Users"

delfinom — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 13:27:33 +0000

NYS is trying to make it illegal for LLMs to give medical, legal or engineering advice. Because of course its a state built upon exploitation so.

https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S7263/amendm...

The engineering aspect is quite hilarious. I have a PE license, but don't use it. But the PE definition in NY is wide open. Technically, if you do the right work, even writing software can fall under a PE license, though its incredibly rare. So this could theoretically ban LLM Code assistants.

New comment by delfinom in "I regret migrating to Codeberg"

delfinom — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 19:01:21 +0000

Eh, I release my own one-off individual projects as FOSS. The entire point of FOSS and how most of the common FOSS originated was all one-off individual project. Even Linus created Linux because he could for himself (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/08/how-l...), and not because he wanted to invent a mailing list bureaucracy to blow his spare time.

Codeberg setting such a high bar means FOSS is dead unless you are a company spending millions to fund something from day zero.

New comment by delfinom in "US Government targets Cop City protester over phone operating system"

delfinom — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 17:49:56 +0000

Not to worry, but big tech and government are slowly crafting laws that make non-big-tech operating systems illegal in the name of protecting children.