Hacker News: globalise83

New comment by globalise83 in "IBM Bob"

globalise83 — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 18:36:29 +0000

Copy of At least it's not Clippy (2)_final

New comment by globalise83 in "IBM Bob"

globalise83 — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 18:29:53 +0000

IBM Watson 2.0

New comment by globalise83 in "Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B"

globalise83 — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 09:49:25 +0000

Yes, this strategy is known as "commoditize your complement"

New comment by globalise83 in "Russia's businesses under strain from Ukraine's attacks on Wildberries"

globalise83 — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 07:56:33 +0000

What Ukrainian software and hardware engineers are achieving, with very significant European support, is nothing short of inspirational. Within four years, under very tough circumstances, they have invented and deployed at immense scale all kinds of systems and technologies that previously didn't exist, allowing them to conduct warfare via remote control and spare their very limited manpower as much as possible. The level of innovation doesn't get the recognition or study it deserves.

New comment by globalise83 in "DuckDB Internals Part 1"

globalise83 — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 19:22:53 +0000

I have a database on my local machine with 200 million records in one table and 2 other related tables. Even the most complex queries take about 1 minute to vibe code and paste into the DuckDB browser playground UI and always less than 5 seconds to return the result. For a humble product manager it feels like a superpower.

New comment by globalise83 in "Improvement in advanced Alzheimer’s disease following high-dose psilocybin"

globalise83 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 20:42:23 +0000

Well documented in Acute Radiation Syndrome, and features in the excellent show Chernobyl.

New comment by globalise83 in "A €0.01 bank transfer could compromise a banking AI agent"

globalise83 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:57:48 +0000

This kind of prompt injection should also work for customer feedback forms for companies I really don't like, right?

New comment by globalise83 in "How important was the Battle of Hastings?"

globalise83 — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 08:59:09 +0000

When you think that the Norman successors still own the vast majority of England to this day, cramming the Anglo-Saxons into rabbit hutches on high density estates, very.

New comment by globalise83 in "New accounts on HN more likely to use em-dashes"

globalise83 — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 18:09:59 +0000

Your confirmation of the correlation is the first real result.

New comment by globalise83 in "Show HN: CIA World Factbook Archive (1990–2025), searchable and exportable"

globalise83 — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 07:27:50 +0000

My guess is that the current administration has deleted all internal data from the CIA World Factbook to prevent any attempt to revive it in future. Would be amazing if the next US administration were to use this archived data to rebuild it.

New comment by globalise83 in "Wero – Digital payment wallet, made in Europe"

globalise83 — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 20:45:54 +0000

In the EU countries with local instant bank payments schemes they are much more popular with consumers than credit cards when paying attrusted merchants, who in turn pay around a quarter in fees of what they'd have to pay for cards. No need for expensive credit cards schemes in Europe any more.

New comment by globalise83 in "ICE and Palantir: US agents using health data to hunt illegal immigrants"

globalise83 — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 13:18:25 +0000

Key part of what you wrote: "as to the identity and location of aliens" - so whatever claim they have to access health information applies to aliens. The big question is: are they harvesting citizens' health records illegally as part of this effort, and if so, when do those responsible see jail time?

New comment by globalise83 in "Allow me to introduce, the Citroen C15"

globalise83 — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 15:29:07 +0000

You don't HAVE to. In a no fault case you can just take the insurance payout and live with the damage.

New comment by globalise83 in "Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now"

globalise83 — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 17:28:48 +0000

Peak HN - captures it perfectly.

New comment by globalise83 in "Silicon Valley's man in the White House is benefiting himself and his friends"

globalise83 — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 12:56:54 +0000

There were, but it turns out that the moral fortitude required to defend them was just a figment of the national imagination.

New comment by globalise83 in "Trillions spent and big software projects are still failing"

globalise83 — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 09:13:50 +0000

I would add the nuance that the possibility of controlled migration from one versioned API to another should be right from day one, not necessarily the first API version.

New comment by globalise83 in "Show HN: We built an open source, zero webhooks payment processor"

globalise83 — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 06:48:05 +0000

I believe that means you are more or less setting yourself up as a payment facilitator, meaning you and your other merchants will be kicked off Stripe at any time if too many of your merchants misbehave. Is your compliance team ready for that?

New comment by globalise83 in "Shai-Hulud Returns: Over 300 NPM Packages Infected"

globalise83 — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 11:44:20 +0000

No Preventative Measures (NPM)

New comment by globalise83 in "Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem"

globalise83 — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 14:07:13 +0000

The computer science equivalent of choosing between the red, green and blue wires when disarming a nuke with 15 seconds left on the clock

New comment by globalise83 in "Drone footage shows scale of revolting 60M-long mountain of waste next to river"

globalise83 — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 12:44:08 +0000

This should be treated with absolute top priority by the police, with the same level of forensic attention as a terrorist attack. If everybody associated with the crime, including those providing, accepting, storing, transporting and dumping the waste are found an prosecuted to the absolute extent of the law, it would be a very good precedent and deterrent against future repetitions.