Hacker News: guiambros

NY announces game ownership bill requiring ownership rather than licensing

guiambros — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:14:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/new-york-rep-announces-game-ownership-bill-that-would-require-consumer-ownership-rather-than-sale-of-licenses-would-also-require-publishers-to-keep-the-game-functional-after-support-ends

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50136536

Points: 430

# Comments: 203

New comment by guiambros in "OpenAI employee arrested by FBI over hidden listening device, company says"

guiambros — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 02:31:53 +0000

Yep, lots of opportunities for insiders to make money [1]. Particularly on things like product launch dates, when will it announce its IPO, which banks, etc.

[1] https://kalshi.com/search?q=openai

New comment by guiambros in "US man given prison sentence for bot-farming music streams"

guiambros — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 22:02:49 +0000

What does it have to do with the crime at hand? Spotify is not asking for special protection. Someone defrauded thousands of musicians; it's the justice's job to step in and ensure markets operate fairly. This is working as intended.

Also, this is not (just) about Spotify; all streaming platforms have some sort of subscription and/or ad revshare, and were abused by the same fraudster.

Per the original case: "Music can be streamed through platforms such as Amazon Music, Apple Music, Spotify, and YouTube Music... SMITH created thousands of fraudulent accounts on the Streaming Platforms that he could use to stream songs".

New comment by guiambros in "US man given prison sentence for bot-farming music streams"

guiambros — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 22:02:31 +0000

> For ad supported users you can still defraud the advertisers of course

Who do you think receives the ad money paid by advertisers?

New comment by guiambros in "US man given prison sentence for bot-farming music streams"

guiambros — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 21:55:19 +0000

> Juicing some streaming numbers hurt who? Spotify's margin?

You don't seem to understand how the streaming revenue model works, and why this is an egregious fraud against the public interest. You believe that stream fraud is someone simply stealing from Spotify/YouTube/etc, so who cares.

In reality, all musicians share a pool of revenue across ads + subscriptions on each platform (typically two-thirds of the total, although each platform has a different rev share model).

This fraud only marginally impacts Spotify financials, as their cut is fixed and taken from the topline [1]. But someone abusing the system like this guy breaks the model for everyone. Not only you're stealing money from millions of musicians, but you're undermining the confidence in the whole industry.

I don't have an opinion if this merits jail time or not, but yes, this is pretty bad. Like money counterfeiting-bad.

[1] ps: of course, if this becomes rampant, musicians get screwed and turn against Spotify, so it's in their best interest to do whatever it take down the fraudsters. It's a never-ending cat-and-mouse game.

Understand What Whales Are Saying

guiambros — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 05:19:00 +0000

Article URL: https://www.projectceti.org

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49960952

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by guiambros in "A man who listens to whales"

guiambros — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 05:15:12 +0000

In my opinion using an AI system to judge an AI system is perpetuating slop.

If you read the article and thought it was superficial, then say so. Constructive criticism is helpful for others, including the author. But simply copying and pasting from LLMs (including Pangram) is not much better than the the alleged slop you're implying in OP's submission.

More specifically, I read the article and felt it was a bit shallow, but still appropriate quick intro to Dr. Gruber and his work at Project CETI. A better link would be to Project CETI [1] directly.

I've seen a talk by Dr. Gruber and briefly spoke with him, and was mind-blown by what they're trying to accomplish. If they continue making progress, may be a decade or two away from achieving inter-species communication. Just think about it for a minute: if we manage to communicate with whales (or any other non-human species for that matter), we'd have massive philosophical, ethical, and even legal implications.

[1] https://www.projectceti.org/

New comment by guiambros in "NAND-16: a computer built from 277,248 NAND gates"

guiambros — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 22:07:27 +0000

This is pretty sad. Seeing this a couple of years ago would be mind blowing. An impressive technical feat by someone with grit and resilience to painstakingly build this from scratch.

Today? Meh.

New comment by guiambros in "Meta VR Glasses"

guiambros — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 01:10:30 +0000

Owner of DK2 here, well before Facebook acquisition. It was for developers, but it was a shipped product nonetheless.

New comment by guiambros in "Ask HN: How do we deal with "hacking" Hacker News?"

guiambros — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 01:11:20 +0000

I tend to agree, although I wonder if we won't get flooded by agents pretending to be regular users and submitting their slop to HN. It might well be happening already (e.g., [1]).

Worse: it will get harder to differentiate what is a legitimate ShowHN from a nefarious agent trying to infiltrate malware. Yes, supply-chain attacks existed for ages, but now script kiddies can create xz-level attacks without even realizing it.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49667385

ASCII City: Traffic and Detail Update [video]

guiambros — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 02:11:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSRooHo_HSI

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49486272

Points: 13

# Comments: 0

New comment by guiambros in "Gemini-3.5-Transcribe"

guiambros — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 05:53:30 +0000

Except when you have multiple participants in the same room -- which happens pretty frequently in many business environments.

New comment by guiambros in "RustDesk now supports true unattended remote access on Wayland"

guiambros — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 02:41:22 +0000

Only if you use a relay server. Direct connections in a local network are not encrypted, and RuskDesk doesn't plan on implementing it [1].

[1] https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk/issues/3714#issuecommen...

New comment by guiambros in "Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM"

guiambros — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 19:25:30 +0000

Unrelated, but it reminds me of this C64 demo [1] I posted earlier this week: the whole thing in 17.8 KB.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49205592

C64 Demo Effects Explained: Rodents in the Attic [video]

guiambros — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 03:25:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZ1atMUOUMU

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49205592

Points: 16

# Comments: 0

New comment by guiambros in "A directory of people who love RSS"

guiambros — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 18:18:02 +0000

And... it's gone. I guess mods don't like emoji in titles.

Can't blame them; it draws a bit more attention than normal.

New comment by guiambros in "What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph"

guiambros — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 01:04:53 +0000

Both things can be true. SO was universally hated because they let (or actively incentivized) bullying run rampant and destroy the culture.

And yes, it's possible AI would have killed it anyway, despite its best efforts. But in this version of parallel universes, AI was only a catalyst. Its fate was sealed well before 2020.

New comment by guiambros in "What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph"

guiambros — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 16:39:07 +0000

No, of course not coincidence. It's just that people didn't have an alternative until 2021-ish. Users hated SO for many years prior, but had nowhere to go other than small niche communities. When LLMs came into play, it was just the obvious choice.

In an alternate universe, where LLMs didn't exist, I bet you SO would be equally dead by this decade. Someone better, with healthier values and a more welcoming community, would come up and steal their lunch.

New comment by guiambros in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)"

guiambros — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 03:19:11 +0000

Big fan of SW:KOTOR series. Would love to test Vestiges when ready.

You should consider creating the game on Steam, so you can start building your audience.

New comment by guiambros in "Why Switzerland has 25 gbit internet and America doesn't"

guiambros — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 04:56:45 +0000

You missed the point (and I should have clarified better). It's not that 1 Gbps is bad; it's pretty good, actually. And I do think Verizon is one of the least bad options.

The problem is that there's zero competition. And while many other countries have 2, 5, 8Gbps available, there's zero reason for Verizon to offer it, despite being a densely populated area.

And 1 Gbps has been the max available for 10 years. It's very likely in 2036 we'll be in the exact same situation.

I wish we had a model like Switzerland, where the fiber is centrally managed, and providers compete just to connect you to the network.