Hacker News: lucasban

New comment by lucasban in "Changing How We Develop Ladybird"

lucasban — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 11:09:27 +0000

Why do you care if they want to put stickers on their laptop? It’s not my taste, either, but it’s subjective.

New comment by lucasban in "Intelligent Terminal 0.1"

lucasban — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:39:53 +0000

Nice to see that they are using ACP.

New comment by lucasban in "A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro"

lucasban — Sat, 09 May 2026 16:53:30 +0000

Not that I agree with them, but your tone could be more constructive as well.

New comment by lucasban in "Brazil's Pix payment system faces pressure from Visa and Mastercard"

lucasban — Fri, 08 May 2026 14:05:36 +0000

They can federate the systems, I know Singapore’s PayNow connects to Malaysia and Thailands systems

New comment by lucasban in "South Korea introduces universal basic mobile data access"

lucasban — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 18:05:10 +0000

During COVID in Singapore, music in restaurants was banned, as people may talk more loudly to compensate.

New comment by lucasban in "Anthropic drops flagship safety pledge"

lucasban — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 13:34:49 +0000

I’m not a lawyer, but my understanding is that HIPAA wouldn’t apply to consumer use of Claude or ChatGPT in most cases, even if you’re giving it your health data. Look up what a HIPAA covered entity. This is another reason why the US needs a comprehensive data protection law beyond HIPAA.

New comment by lucasban in "The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from using any banking app"

lucasban — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 17:35:56 +0000

This should be enforced by the backend, why should you ever trust the client to tell you what access you have?

New comment by lucasban in "It's ~2026 –. ChatGPT still doesn't allow email change"

lucasban — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 23:43:30 +0000

Phone either, I’ve moved countries and no longer have access to the phone number I signed up with. I was hoping they’d address this before that number came up for reassignment but maybe not at this rate.

New comment by lucasban in "Meta Segment Anything Model 3"

lucasban — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 13:26:32 +0000

I thought it was a joke about YAML

New comment by lucasban in "Building more with GPT-5.1-Codex-Max"

lucasban — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 20:13:08 +0000

The fun one for me is that I moved countries and last I checked there’s still no way to change your phone number on ChatGPT short making a new account, so now my account is associated with a phone number that I no longer have access to and will eventually be reassigned to someone else.

New comment by lucasban in "Dark mode by local sunlight (2021)"

lucasban — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 18:11:46 +0000

My understanding is that white on pure black can be troublesome for people with a certain level of astigmatism as they will experience halation, which can make things appear blurrier.

New comment by lucasban in "Dark mode by local sunlight (2021)"

lucasban — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 17:56:06 +0000

I believe most OS that have an option to do this by location also allow for manually specifying the schedule

New comment by lucasban in "Using AI to negotiate a $195k hospital bill down to $33k"

lucasban — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 23:34:12 +0000

One thing also to keep in mind, is that this experience is not uniform throughout the US. Many Americans like -their- employer based insurance, even if they don’t like the system. I personally pay nothing for visits and nominal fees ($1-10) for prescriptions. I have not been hospitalized while on this insurance, but my understanding is that it is relatively low cost. I also have no monthly premium. Meanwhile, my mother works at a small business, pays a significant percentage of her income for insurance from the ACA marketplaces (the public marketplaces created during the Obama administration) with the current subsidies, subsidies that are in question under the current administration. The American healthcare payment system is broken, but we aren’t all living through the worst case scenario experiences that get the attention. Add to that the amount of money and effort that went into turning healthcare reform into yet another partisan issue, and there’s a good recipe for maintaining a broken status quo for a while yet.

New comment by lucasban in "The AirPods Pro 3 flight problem"

lucasban — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 15:41:06 +0000

For what it’s worth I did not experience this issue on my most recent overseas flights, but I also only wore them at full altitude

New comment by lucasban in "It's not always DNS"

lucasban — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 21:31:32 +0000

I wish it had a little bit more padding on mobile, but I agree otherwise

New comment by lucasban in "OpenAI acquires Sky.app"

lucasban — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 23:28:17 +0000

Yeah the closest thing I recall using is tasker but that relies on mostly private intents, the nice thing with shortcuts is it uses the same intents developers use for things like Siri Shortcuts so there’s first class support

New comment by lucasban in "RFK Jr pushes fringe claim linking autism to circumcision"

lucasban — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 13:47:42 +0000

Right - if it results in fewer children having body parts removed unnecessarily, at least something positive will have come of this.

New comment by lucasban in "Social anxiety isn't about being liked"

lucasban — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 00:06:47 +0000

I mostly agree but I think the nuance with comedy is that there can be a mismatch in audiences, sometimes the others participating are not the intended audience, but are instead used as props. In that case it could be successful comedy independently of if they enjoyed it. Whether or not that’s ethical in a given situation is a separate question.

New comment by lucasban in "Meta will listen into AI conversations to personalize ads"

lucasban — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 17:51:56 +0000

Why not both?

New comment by lucasban in "ChatGPT Pulse"

lucasban — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 13:34:34 +0000

How is blockchain technology mutually exclusive from being able to take legal action against e.g. fraud?

Sure there are implementations that can be used that way, but the core idea of a blockchain could be used to do the opposite as well, for example by making transaction information public and verifiable.