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New comment by garrettgarcia in "Binance fired employees who found $1.7B in crypto was sent to Iran"

garrettgarcia — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 19:42:42 +0000

It's clearly not untrackable. It's never been untrackable. That's how they know it went to Iran.

New comment by garrettgarcia in "2002: Last.fm and Audioscrobbler Herald the Social Web"

garrettgarcia — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 21:39:18 +0000

I'm still scrobbling after all these years.

New comment by garrettgarcia in "Yale Journal on Regulation: Navigating the Web of Agency Authority with AI"

garrettgarcia — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 22:01:09 +0000

The tool: https://nondelegationproject.org/ The working paper: https://pacificlegal.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/SR-1097-...

Yale Journal on Regulation: Navigating the Web of Agency Authority with AI

garrettgarcia — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 22:01:09 +0000

Article URL: https://pacificlegal.org/yale-journal-on-regulation-navigating-the-web-of-agency-authority-with-ai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46018639

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by garrettgarcia in "Supercookie: Browser Fingerprinting via Favicon (2021)"

garrettgarcia — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 03:32:08 +0000

According to the Github page, you can just run `rm ~/Library/Safari/Favicon Cache/*`

New comment by garrettgarcia in "Many hard LeetCode problems are easy constraint problems"

garrettgarcia — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 17:25:12 +0000

> My biggest problem with leetcode type questions is that you can't ask clarifying questions.

Huh? Of course you can. If you're practicing on leetcode, there's a discussion thread for every question where you can ask questions till the cows come home. If you're in a job interview, ask the interviewer. It's supposed to be a conversation.

> I wouldn't even mind the studying on leetcode types sites if they actually had decent explainers

If you don't find the hundreds of free explanations for each question to be good enough, you can pay for Leetcode Pro and get access to editorial answers which explain everything. Or use ChatGPT for free.

> It's not a matter of skill, it's just my ability to take in certain types of problems doesn't work well.

I don't mean to be rude, but it is 100% a matter of skill. That's good news! It means if you put in the effort, you'll learn and improve, just like I did and just like thousands and thousands of other humans have.

> Without any chance of additional info/questions it's literally a setup to fail.

Well with that attitude you're guaranteed to fail! Put in the work and don't give up, and you'll succeed.

New comment by garrettgarcia in "Many hard LeetCode problems are easy constraint problems"

garrettgarcia — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 17:19:34 +0000

"Follow-up question since you solved that so quickly: implement a constraint solver."

New comment by garrettgarcia in "AirPods live translation blocked for EU users with EU Apple accounts"

garrettgarcia — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 16:47:40 +0000

Apple will more likely pull out of Europe incrementally (and eventually completely) as the cost of doing business continues to skyrocket. Other American targets of EU regulators will do this as well. Apple isn't a charity, it's a company. If parts of its business are no longer profitable, those parts will cease to be.

New comment by garrettgarcia in "AirPods live translation blocked for EU users with EU Apple accounts"

garrettgarcia — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 16:39:23 +0000

> and is making me want to not hang out here anymore.

Agreed. No matter which side of the issue one is on, the fact you and everyone else who explains the incentive structure is getting downvoted to hell and receiving eloquent responses like "Bull fucking shit dude" is really pathetic.

Is HN really just another emotionalist monoculture echo chamber now? We're downvoting everything we disagree with whether it's true or not? Count me out.

New comment by garrettgarcia in "AirPods live translation blocked for EU users with EU Apple accounts"

garrettgarcia — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 14:37:48 +0000

How are they not complying with the regulation? This is what compliance looks like.

Why does AnkiMobile cost more than a typical mobile app?

garrettgarcia — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 06:52:11 +0000

Article URL: https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/free-version-of-the-iphone-app/56407

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45124336

Points: 3

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Learning to See America's Promise Through Its Failures

garrettgarcia — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 01:52:30 +0000

Article URL: https://outliving.substack.com/p/learning-to-see-americas-promise

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44496263

Points: 4

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New comment by garrettgarcia in "Bruteforcing the phone number of any Google user"

garrettgarcia — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 21:08:37 +0000

Anything under $100k for this is pathetic.

New comment by garrettgarcia in "The Universal Tech Tree"

garrettgarcia — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 22:45:27 +0000

I don't know why you're being downvoted. The political climate, and more broadly the culture of a society, is the crucial component to whether or not technological progress happens. Evidence of this is all around us, even today. Look how much more progress there's been in South Korea vs. North Korea over the last 75 years. That is a direct consequence of the differing cultural and political climates.

New comment by garrettgarcia in "Colleges must give up federal funding to achieve true intellectual freedom"

garrettgarcia — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 22:27:14 +0000

It may look like typical libertarian argument, but it isn't.

And the fact that taxes are collected coercively is just that: a fact.

Collected coercively by a government != stolen. Taxes aren't theft.

New comment by garrettgarcia in "The Universal Tech Tree"

garrettgarcia — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 22:21:44 +0000

Au contraire: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inosculation

I do agree that branches staying separate is the essential property of a tree data structure.

New comment by garrettgarcia in "The Universal Tech Tree"

garrettgarcia — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 21:07:38 +0000

I see your point about it not being a strict tree. It is tree-like, however, in the sense that the branches/edges only point in one direction: forward in time.

New comment by garrettgarcia in "The Universal Tech Tree"

garrettgarcia — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 21:06:42 +0000

I've been wishing that this existed for a long time, and am thrilled to see that it does now!

Something that fascinates me about early technology is that a significant amount of it was invented prior to Homo sapiens.

New comment by garrettgarcia in "Colleges must give up federal funding to achieve true intellectual freedom"

garrettgarcia — Sat, 31 May 2025 17:25:30 +0000

Yet another reason to not take federal money

New comment by garrettgarcia in "Colleges must give up federal funding to achieve true intellectual freedom"

garrettgarcia — Sat, 31 May 2025 17:24:50 +0000

> It is certainly intellectually dishonest to claim that the government funding anything you don't like is a violation of your "intellectual freedom".

Agreed. I never claimed that of course, and neither did the authors. What they claimed is that government funding ALWAYS comes with strings attached, therefore the only way to have true intellectual freedom is to reject all funding. Moreover, the difference between government strings and private funding strings are that only government strings come under the threat of force.