<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: kay_o</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=kay_o</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 20:38:47 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=kay_o" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kay_o in "Scammers are abusing an internal Microsoft account to send spam links"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have not seen one of these that wasn't a compromised hotel email or booking account. I have had to "help" a hotel get malware/RATs off their system more than a dozen times as a _guest_</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 09:04:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48255745</link><dc:creator>kay_o</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48255745</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48255745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kay_o in "We're testing new ad formats in Search and expanding our Direct Offers pilot"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You would need to ensure the legal death penalty will significantly outperform the conversion rate.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 10:24:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48234018</link><dc:creator>kay_o</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48234018</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48234018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kay_o in "Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Check out <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/offline_catalogs.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/offline_catalogs.html</a><p>Don't hit the site with agent. The section furtherst bottom machine readable.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 16:34:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48150669</link><dc:creator>kay_o</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48150669</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48150669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kay_o in "Show HN: Tilde.run – Agent Sandbox with a Transactional, Versioned Filesystem"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Does this interact with sql or only fs?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 18:23:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48039712</link><dc:creator>kay_o</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48039712</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48039712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kay_o in "Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Edit: OHH perhaps you are saying this is one of the benefits of Steam; that it shields you from all this.<p>Yes. In a sijmilar way: regular companies get Stripe at commodity pricing, games get xsolla, paysafe, tebex, and a massive compliance questionnaire, games are software (to you) but closer to porn or gambling on risk (to MoRs and processors).<p>People are less "likely" to charge back Steam because of their other games being frozen and Steam has volume to dilute chargebacks whereas you starting out may hit double digit dispute rates in one. Whether this is fair is an exercise best left to the reader ;.</p>
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<p>As that has done both sides of games, I would like to propose some doubts for people to consider on that is dissimilar to the standard b2b saas; for to clarity I'm not saying 30% is good<p>- One chargeback for your 5$ game can consume you 55$ or more, handful and you permanently lose the ability to accept the payment anywhere including future businesses outside of games<p>- Amount of people that will take parents cards is eye watering<p>- The value of offline payment acceptance in the form of physical cards (kids do not possess standard payment rails but can acquire your game on steam in the cash)<p>- They don't take flat 30% for almost a decade now<p>- You don't often get to use Stripe or 2-3%. Your cost closer about 15% if you choose to process you own payments</p>
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<p>Huh. Were they anywhere that pixel perfection was necessary such as games, or required constant browser universal testing for compliance, accessibility, being required to support cross platform?<p>Have any of your places used a service such as Saucelabs or Browserstack or rolled their own similar inhouse, or seen such as <a href="https://percy.io/how-it-works" rel="nofollow">https://percy.io/how-it-works</a> (random example; not affiliated or recommending this)?<p>I am hope I was not being too rude about it, not my intent, mostly surprising to me because a service like Browserstack is a decade and a half old already and the concept predates that.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 02:10:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48031311</link><dc:creator>kay_o</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48031311</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48031311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kay_o in "Codex's precision and attention to detail is *crazy* when set up correctly"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> No one takes automated screenshots of webapps or games or what have you at pre-determined timestamps to make sure the app looks identical with every change.<p>I'm confused. We have done this at every place I have ever worked, it's very standard. Set timestamps, post-action, pre-action & on dozens to hundreds of combinations of OS and rendering engines. This includes pre LLM, using similarity and perceptual hashing, screenshot-ing single DOM elements during hover and off hover, both fuzzy and pixel perfect.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 01:59:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48031237</link><dc:creator>kay_o</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48031237</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48031237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kay_o in "Codex's precision and attention to detail is *crazy* when set up correctly"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> but no one does this for regular apps these days - never heard of it before<p>Everyone does this to match files as identical, be it sha, md5, or something else. I cannot imagine any other method such that it would first come to mind easily you would be doing to check if two files are the same.<p>I don't mean to offend but I quite literally mean <i>everyone</i> does this. <i>Every</i> software updater, game patcher, checking if two binary files are identical (pixel perfect/lossless in this case: BMP, PNG created by same encoder off same inputs would qualify, JPG would likely not), all of them do exactly this.<p>GPT-Analysis or a similarity and image chunk hashing would not be the first thing you turn to if what you wanted was exact identical pixel perfect. I am curious what your background is if this is the case.</p>
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<p>Apologies, thread title said hour.</p>
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<p>Are you misaligned against GMT/BST vs UTC?</p>
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<p>Have you seen that IPvwhatever proposal from a handful of weeks back that has OAuth/OIDC in packet spec</p>
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<p>Before CC and Codex removed thinking/verbose and hid most of it, both do that .</p>
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<p>You can run a charge with only the card number if you have sufficient trust. Each additional piece you add reduces liability and transaction fees (add exp, add cvc, add 3ds, ...)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 23:49:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47981838</link><dc:creator>kay_o</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47981838</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47981838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kay_o in "RNet: Users pay for their own AI usage instead of apps covering token costs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>- Add a field for users to paste their key and endpoint URL in<p>- You are done<p>Why do you need "rnet" ?<p>????</p>
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<p>> However, there are lots of people in the world who live their whole life by vibing<p>Why are they often so desperate to lie and non-consensually harass others with their vibing rather than be honest about it? Why do they think they are "helping" with hallucinated rubbish that can't even build?<p>I use LLMs. It is not difficult to: ethically disclose your use, double check all of your work, ensure things compile without errors, not lie to others, not ask it to generate ten paragraphs of rubbish when the answer is one sentence, and respect the project's guidelines. But for so many people this seems like an impossible task.</p>
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<p>GLM 5.1 and DeepSeek 4 are acceptable, but the cost of hardware and energy cost that depending on your use case you may as well purchase a Tokens. They get useless and stupid rapidilty if you quant enough to run on single 16-24GB GPU style.</p>
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<p>> developed this along with my favorite french intern (Claude)<p>Not Mistral be french one ?</p>
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<p>Most tech heads would just use the activator, since the key selling sites are simply sending <$20 to criminals for a key that is equally illegal as the activator.<p>The last few I've seen on G2A were phished/stolen bizspark or similar accounts and bulk "reclaimed". I would imagine most keyshops are similar.</p>
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<p>For dating? It would not have more than half of the things on one of these resumes and yes it would be extremely creepy if I was asked many of the items on this<p>How deeply embedded the cultural is it that you are supposed to care about parents and caste?</p>
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