Hacker News: lode

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

# Comments: 0

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

# Comments: 386

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

# Comments: 3

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

# Comments: 0

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

# Comments: 0

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

# Comments: 0

New comment by lode in "Ghent University rector Petra De Sutter uses AI-fabricated quotes in speech"

lode — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 13:27:04 +0000

This was first reported by Apache.be, not exactly what I would call a zionist publication.

The speech in question was a speech given at the opening of the academic year at the second largest university in Belgium. De Sutter became rector last year. As part of her election platform, she warned about the dangers of AI in terms of plagiarism, bias and hallucinations - so in this context this is quite relevant.

Ghent University rector Petra De Sutter uses AI-fabricated quotes in speech

lode — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 12:58:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/en/2026/01/08/ghent-university-rector-petra-de-sutter-uses-fabricated-quotes-i/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46540469

Points: 3

# Comments: 6

New comment by lode in "[dead]"

lode — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 17:04:53 +0000

Clicked the button and immediately got redirected to a new tab with a fake “your iPhone has been hacked” spam site. Closed & flagged.

The Architects of AI Are TIME's 2025 Person of the Year

lode — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 14:01:20 +0000

Article URL: https://time.com/7339685/person-of-the-year-2025-ai-architects/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46231459

Points: 13

# Comments: 5

New comment by lode in "Israel used Palantir technologies in pager attack in Lebanon"

lode — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 08:03:37 +0000

First of all, you are conflating Hamas and Hezbollah. Second of all, the stories about beheading of babies and mass rape on October 7, 2023 have been thoroughly debunked. Third: the pager operation caused indiscriminate explosions at places where non-combattant citizens were present. Not very gentlemen-ly (to use your words), and indeed a war crime. Fourth: What they did in Gaza is arguably worse than carpet bombing.

New Copenhagenize Index – Global Ranking of Bicycle-Friendly Cities [pdf]

lode — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 15:46:36 +0000

Article URL: https://copenhagenizeindex.eu/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/INDEXReport_VFLight.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45967799

Points: 1

# Comments: 0