Hacker News: elictronic

New comment by elictronic in "Dutch 'idealist' bank ASN blocks non-Google Android, including GrapheneOS"

elictronic — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 15:59:38 +0000

Ehhhh, I'll take a law over begging and praying.

New comment by elictronic in "I wish tech companies knew more about me"

elictronic — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 20:24:06 +0000

You are forgetting that the big tech ad companies are cooking the numbers in other ways making them generally untrustworthy. Ask yourself deep down do you trust Meta or Google.

The New York Times doesn't have to bullshit because people want to use it, thus it's a more trustworthy advertising point.

New comment by elictronic in "Guerrilla bike lanes: San Francisco makes illicit infrastructure permanent (2016)"

elictronic — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 19:58:20 +0000

Getting transient college students to engage with the slow process of government is difficult.

The college students also generally don’t vote in that location lowering the desire of public government to engage with them as much. Again transient. You’re right to ask but I’m guessing this was the primary issue.

New comment by elictronic in "Guerrilla bike lanes: San Francisco makes illicit infrastructure permanent (2016)"

elictronic — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 19:55:17 +0000

The city and the school are different management structures. The issue is the mayor of the city isn’t focused solely on the school nor should he be. But this means change takes longer.

New comment by elictronic in "The $6.3B Binance hack was pulled off in just 20 minutes"

elictronic — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 16:15:53 +0000

It’s their money, that they are borrowing against everyone else’s money that is locked in accounts. The copium with these people is real.

New comment by elictronic in "The $6.3B Binance hack was pulled off in just 20 minutes"

elictronic — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 16:14:15 +0000

Basically they didn’t insure themselves against there actual risks and will likely have further fines placed against them for being underinsured.

New comment by elictronic in "The $6.3B Binance hack was pulled off in just 20 minutes"

elictronic — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 16:12:21 +0000

Fines are paid out over time by taking loans against your very profitable business. Do you want to loan money to someone who just had one of the biggest thefts in history and has secondary obligations and risks.

New comment by elictronic in "Gemini 4 Carbon is the new #1 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5"

elictronic — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 15:23:25 +0000

It’s hard to get interested in Google products because they throw them out all the time. If it’s not a step change in functionality why even go near their baggage.

New comment by elictronic in "Anthropic S-1"

elictronic — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 15:52:46 +0000

Biggest issue Tesla, SpaceX, Anthropic and all these companies have is you can't inflate your value beyond the total market. It's the same thing as bitcoin pushers trying to imply the value would 100x again pushing beyond the total valuation of the Earth.

These companies have the benefit of a real product at least, but eventually the rubes get fleeced.

New comment by elictronic in "Show HN: I put employees inside S&P 500 market-cap bubbles"

elictronic — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 19:14:37 +0000

Tesla's market cap at this point is not based on building vehicles but technology/Automation/Hype.

If it were based on building vehicles there market cap would be 30x less than it was today comparing with Toyota.

Putting it in Information Technology is correct and the price is still stupid even then. It's why SpaceX is being forced to buy it, otherwise the whole deck of cards collapses.

New comment by elictronic in "Woman charged with computer fraud due to scam CashApp account being in her name"

elictronic — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 14:21:41 +0000

It's not just an accusation. Her identifying information is basically found at a crime scene.

Every part of this would be fine if the companies allowing fraudulent parties to use their platforms were prosecuted for mail fraud, or interstate commerce fraud. Put the executive in jail. It's really this simple. The moment executives have repercussions they change their actions. Make cashapp prove they did their due diligence.

New comment by elictronic in "Gold is now the top U.S. export"

elictronic — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 22:35:11 +0000

China likes blocking various minerals such as rare earths to force countries to accept whatever outcome they desire.

I’m guessing those new mines opening are to limit the impact of this sort of situation in the future.

New comment by elictronic in "An Apology"

elictronic — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 06:34:35 +0000

The average person doesn't think about bikes of the ring ring variety costing 15k dollars.

New comment by elictronic in "An Apology"

elictronic — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 06:30:58 +0000

Probably 2-3 people. From a random search online it looks like the company has about a dozen employees.

New comment by elictronic in "Cyberattack halts construction of tunnel between Denmark and Germany"

elictronic — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 19:34:21 +0000

Data centers are a somewhat difficult target. Not alot of explosive content, highly redundant operations, low staff count to impact operations.

It's much easier to destroy the power generation for those data centers than the center itself, and power generation is much less redundant and more easily impacted. It can be highly visible if you are only hitting a few targets, but the actual impact ends up being pretty low.

New comment by elictronic in "Apple HomeView"

elictronic — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 18:34:12 +0000

That's a Nest issue, not an apple one. Google neutered their own API as of 2019, then did even more shenanigans after that. It's a google product, assume it will be killed the moment whoever is actively working it sees a new shiny.

New comment by elictronic in "Apple HomeView"

elictronic — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 18:29:09 +0000

Please spend tokens recreating Homeassistant. Signed -AI companies.

New comment by elictronic in "Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe"

elictronic — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 21:01:45 +0000

Comparing Control automation of boring systems running all the time to robots is really funny to me. Those systems weren't previously run by humans before the more electronic approach, the control mechanism was physical in nature but less adjustable.

Most of the HVAC based control system changes are about saving energy, not labor.

New comment by elictronic in "Gemini 4 Argon"

elictronic — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 02:28:50 +0000

Large existing players are pretty notorious for screwing up their leads and trying to move in many directions at once, or go to hard into the wrong one. Based on Google's huge number of failed products and poor ability to maintain products outside of ads I am not yet sold. They are very good at buying out their competition, but what happens when their competition has enough money not to be bought out?

New comment by elictronic in "OpenAI agents tried to bruteforce a UN website's API fields"

elictronic — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 06:00:14 +0000

One is a legal grey area that laws are slowly starting to be written for, while the other is theft under existing laws. Breaking into companies to get access to their data is actionable by both Civil and Criminal courts. This is just setting a complicated timer for the computer to do it at a delay.

Sounds like a good way to make alot of lawyers alot of money.