Hacker News: lode

Binance set to lose permission to operate in EU, sources say

lode — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 07:03:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/binance-set-lose-eu-licence-bid-permission-offer-services-bloc-sources-say-2026-06-16/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48581796

Points: 2

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New comment by lode in "Asciline – real-time ASCII video rendering engine"

lode — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 12:55:24 +0000

While this is presented as a way to evade ad blockers, using it to serve ads is explicily prohibited in the license:

The permission granted by this license explicitly EXCLUDES the right to use this software, in whole or in part, for the purpose of serving, delivering, or displaying digital advertisements, sponsored content, or any form of commercial marketing to end-users. Any such use immediately terminates this license.

Explosive Weapons Monitor 2025

lode — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 14:02:11 +0000

Article URL: https://explosiveweaponsmonitor.org/reports/9/explosive-weapons-monitor-2025/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48490492

Points: 1

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Former congressman Barney Frank has died

lode — Wed, 20 May 2026 14:12:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/former-rep-barney-frank-champion-wall-street-reform-lgbtq-trailblazer-rcna342642

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48208162

Points: 7

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New comment by lode in "iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet"

lode — Tue, 05 May 2026 14:53:54 +0000

The problem is that those are treated almost like an app, you need a $99/year developer certificate to publish them.

Many third party ticketing solutions venues and events use do support this, but for instance if you want to sell tickets for a party and self-host, you need another external integration, or a developer account. Generating a PDF with a QR code, and publishing an .ics file is essentially free.

New comment by lode in "iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet"

lode — Tue, 05 May 2026 14:42:20 +0000

> The same is true in a physical card wallet.

Not at all.

In my physical wallet, those identical looking cards have different names on them, ie. and for joint accounts. I can also mark them up with a marker, or request a different picture from some banks.

In iOS I need to remember that the one ending with 0044 is mine, and 0073 is for our joint account. I have no way to add an alias or distinguish them otherwise. This is ridiculous.

New comment by lode in "Spain to expand internet blocks to tennis, golf, movies broadcasting times"

lode — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:33:25 +0000

See this story from 2 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47738883

Basically, to combat pirate streaming of football matches, La Liga (the Spanish football association) can compel Spanish ISPs to block wide ranges of IP blocks that are suspected of hosting those streams.

This includes Cloudflare, which - due to lots of websites depending on them (see what happened when they went down last year: https://blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-2025-outage/ ) feels like half of the internet is unusable. This happens weekly when football is on.

Now it looks like those bans are going to become even more frequent, which will have all kinds of unintended consequences.

Data breach at European fitness chain Basic-Fit [pdf]

lode — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 07:22:39 +0000

Article URL: https://corporate.basic-fit.com/docs/Basic-Fit%20informs%20members%20of%20an%20unauthorised%20data%20access?q=3W97qQx2g4cDXrju5NrDeZ

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47748809

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Six People. 236 Episodes. 1 Coffee Shop. – Friends visualised

lode — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:51:31 +0000

Article URL: https://sheets.works/data-viz/friends

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47679700

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

Inside Nepal's Fake Rescue Racket

lode — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 11:40:41 +0000

Article URL: https://kathmandupost.com/money/2026/03/27/inside-nepal-s-fake-rescue-racket

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47613078

Points: 307

# Comments: 131

DarkSword Exploit Chain, Unpackaged

lode — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 08:12:35 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/DarKDevz/DarKSward

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47527826

Points: 2

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US and TotalEnergies reach 'nearly $1B' deal to end offshore wind projects

lode — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 17:35:38 +0000

Article URL: https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2026/03/23/us-and-totalenergies-reach-nearly-1-billion-deal-to-end-offshore-wind-projects_6751739_4.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47492599

Points: 448

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New comment by lode in "OnlyFans owner Leonid Radvinsky dies of cancer at 43"

lode — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:35:58 +0000

https://archive.is/WfRAa

OnlyFans owner Leonid Radvinsky dies of cancer at 43

lode — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 13:06:02 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/3451dc9c-dc09-435e-b32e-8e6feed87ab3

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47488964

Points: 13

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New comment by lode in "Pinterest is drowning in a sea of AI slop and auto-moderation"

lode — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 14:37:34 +0000

TIL this exists... C2PA can digitally sign the complete lifecycle of an image, starting from capture on the camera:

https://petapixel.com/2026/02/21/a-look-at-an-image-verifica...

(I submitted this article to HN too as I thought it was pretty interesting)

How An Olympics Photographer Proves the Authenticity of His Photos

lode — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 12:09:16 +0000

Article URL: https://petapixel.com/2026/02/21/a-look-at-an-image-verification-process-for-olympics-photos/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47121266

Points: 3

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2026 Barkley Marathon Results: No Finishers, Sébastien Raichon Completes Fun Run

lode — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 13:28:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.irunfar.com/2026-barkley-marathon-results

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47034702

Points: 2

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New comment by lode in "OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again"

lode — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 10:49:49 +0000

That's what I did, which is why I abandoned my experiment this quickly.

I'd find it hard to write such an article about how this is the next best thing since sliced bread without mentioning it spending so much money.

New comment by lode in "OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again"

lode — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 10:03:43 +0000

I tried it out yesterday, after reading the enthousiastic article at https://www.macstories.net/stories/clawdbot-showed-me-what-t...

Setting it up was easy enough, but just as I was about to start linking it to some test accounts, I noticed I already had blown through about $5 of Claude tokens in half an hour, and deleted the VPS immediately.

Then today I saw this follow up: https://mastodon.macstories.net/@viticci/115968901926545907 - the author blew through $560 of tokens in a weekend of playing with it.

If you want to run this full time to organise your mailbox and your agenda, it's probably cheaper to hire a real human personal assistant.

Music Assistant 2.7 – Taking over the airwaves

lode — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 15:29:37 +0000

Article URL: https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2025/12/17/music-assistant-2-7/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46542146

Points: 1

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