Hacker News: epa

New comment by epa in "Stripe is friendly to “friendly fraud”"

epa — Wed, 27 May 2026 02:30:43 +0000

Exploiters easily get around this. its a small group of people doing all of the abuse.

New comment by epa in "Show HN: isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of NYC"

epa — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 21:38:48 +0000

Amazing

New comment by epa in "California issues fine over lawyer's ChatGPT fabrications"

epa — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 19:22:41 +0000

$10,000 is nothing. Should be $200,000+.

New comment by epa in "Just How Bad Would an AI Bubble Be?"

epa — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 20:39:19 +0000

Grok fast..

New comment by epa in "Evidence that AI is destroying jobs for young people"

epa — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 01:56:00 +0000

Maybe its the secret recession?

New comment by epa in "Grok Code Fast 1"

epa — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 19:33:30 +0000

What about promoting renewable energy, space exploration, frontier physics and advanced engineering makes you concerned?

New comment by epa in "IQ tests results for AI"

epa — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 18:36:56 +0000

So Grok 4 scores 130 but they put Grok midway in the pack at 110. Bias much?

New comment by epa in "Gemini 2.5 Deep Think"

epa — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 18:12:13 +0000

Unfortunately we are still in the prompt optimization stage, garbage in garbage out

New comment by epa in "Ask HN: Can anybody clarify why OpenAI reasoning now shows non-English thoughts?"

epa — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 00:20:02 +0000

There are many users in India training these models. There is also a lot more content out there the models are consuming.

New comment by epa in "xAI's Grok 3 comes to Microsoft Azure"

epa — Mon, 19 May 2025 20:26:31 +0000

See how you get downvoted for your comment. Redditzation is complete.

New comment by epa in "BuyMeACoffee silently dropped support for many countries (2024)"

epa — Fri, 16 May 2025 16:05:33 +0000

One of the main issues with the margin business model (Profit of 5% of a payment for example) is that fraud is leveraged. This means that when you lose 100% of a transaction due to a chargeback or fraud loss, it takes you 20 non-fraud loss transactions to make up for it. The fraud leverage is a huge issue for platforms like this, and in certain countries half the transactions can be fraudsters.

New comment by epa in "Canada considering charging for road access from USA to Alaska"

epa — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 17:50:07 +0000

This is silly. US is Canada's biggest trading partner and one of the largest borders in the world. 80% of people live within 1 hour of the border. Free trade has allowed both economies to prosper. Canada has everything to gain with free trade. You are right on over reliance, but free trade benefits everyone.

New comment by epa in "DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data"

epa — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:36:28 +0000

Government employees already have access to every text, call, and email you have ever sent. Where was your outrage since the Snowden leaks?

New comment by epa in "Tesla Paid Zero Federal Income Tax in 2024, Despite $2.3B in Income"

epa — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 00:06:58 +0000

When you spend money on manufacturing and equipment, a company does not get to write off the full amount against their taxes when they buy it - they may have to spread it over a period of useful life of that equipment.

New comment by epa in "Launch HN: Karsa (YC W25) – Buy and save stablecoins internationally"

epa — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 21:16:08 +0000

Thats not fully true. These flows do have regulation that can be solved.

New comment by epa in "Doomsday Book (2006) [pdf]"

epa — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 17:06:55 +0000

Page 2, comic sans

New comment by epa in "Be a property owner and not a renter on the internet"

epa — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 02:42:41 +0000

Ctrl+F "Bitcoin", 0 results.

New comment by epa in "Autodesk deletes old forum posts suddenly"

epa — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 06:35:02 +0000

Should be already archived by archive.org?

New comment by epa in "FTC to launch investigation into Microsoft's cloud business"

epa — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 05:21:26 +0000

Blocking the sale of spirit airlines which resulted in its bankruptcy. Claiming that the sale of the Roomba makers would lead to a monopoly. Where is the ‘great’ you speak of?

New comment by epa in "Commercial Chapter 11 Filings Increase 70% in First Half of 2024"

epa — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 22:15:24 +0000

Lets check how many of these received PPP funding and year of incorporation.