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New comment by lurkshark in "Carolina Cloud pays SOFR on unused prepaid credits"

lurkshark — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 16:08:51 +0000

In the US they call those Prize-Linked Savings Accounts. They’re actually legalized in a majority of states but aren’t marketed particularly heavily (especially when compared to lotteries, sportsbooks, prediction markets, …)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prize-linked_savings_account

New comment by lurkshark in "Monetization Gateway: Charge for any resource behind Cloudflare via x402"

lurkshark — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 17:25:43 +0000

I don’t think this is aimed at the labs and pre-training, it’s aimed at end users and their agents. Like if you’re a news site the paying customer isn’t a lab scraping your articles for training, it’s an end user that asked their agent to lookup the news of the day

New comment by lurkshark in "Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools"

lurkshark — Sun, 17 May 2026 14:41:06 +0000

The part I don’t totally understand with the age verification laws is that as I understand it, the websites need to implement the age verification. It seems like the bad actors just won’t do that, and we could’ve made compliance easier for the good actors by just requiring something like the Restricted to Adults label as a meta tag.

https://www.rtalabel.org/

New comment by lurkshark in "I want to live like Costco people"

lurkshark — Fri, 08 May 2026 03:04:26 +0000

To maybe add some framing, 37% of Americans don’t have enough cash to cover a $400 unexpected expense. Obviously $400 > $65 but I think it puts some perspective on how tight cash flow is for a good chunk of the population.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/consumerscommunities/sheddata...

New comment by lurkshark in "The operating cost of adult and gambling startups"

lurkshark — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 13:52:53 +0000

> it isn't constructed to extract money from you

I mean yes, it is; It’s not a charity. I guess you could argue it tends to do it slower than gambling?

Understanding Flock's Testing and Development Program

lurkshark — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 06:23:08 +0000

Article URL: https://www.flocksafety.com/blog/understanding-flocks-testing-and-development-program

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47813579

Points: 1

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New comment by lurkshark in "Mozilla Thunderbolt"

lurkshark — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:52:51 +0000

By that logic wouldn’t it be pretty much over for Mac OS as well?

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share

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

lurkshark — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 03:19:42 +0000

There was a Minnesota company called Healthsense (was acquired by GreatCall which was then acquired by BestBuy, not sure if the company/tech exists anymore) that had a similar approach on a broader scale. Their system used a bunch of mundane smart home sensors in the usual configuration (e.g. contact sensors on doors, motion sensors, etc) but also for tracking patterns and habits, like the refrigerator door, toilet seat, bed, etc. The idea being that an abrupt shift in behavior would trigger a notice for a loved one or nurse to check in. I always thought this was a cool idea and it's a shame it didn't take off a bit more.

The question of "intrusion" was always interesting to me because old folks often face going from nothing to assisted living or nursing home which is often quite intrusive, where somewhat ironically adding a bunch of sensors to your home allows you a bit more privacy.

Kind of a tangent, but I like your type of system as an alternative to the emergency pendants. It always struck me as strange to expect old folks at risk of fall to remember to charge and wear a pendant at all times.

New comment by lurkshark in "EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security"

lurkshark — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:00:20 +0000

Malus is (well crafted) satire.

New comment by lurkshark in "About the Atmosphere"

lurkshark — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 06:40:57 +0000

They cover a couple reasons on their FAQ

https://atproto.com/guides/faq#why-not-use-activity-pub

New comment by lurkshark in "Sky Wins Irish Court Order to Unmask 300 Pirate IPTV Users via Revolut Bank"

lurkshark — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 01:30:53 +0000

It’s a little different because it’s easy for these IPTV pirates to whip up slick branding. Something more like if a guy in a nice looking uniform for a DVD company you hadn’t heard of offered to sell you movies. Especially for folks who aren’t very internet savvy, it can be easy to miss the subtle tells that an offering isn’t legit (even more so when the service works just fine)

New comment by lurkshark in "rpg.actor Game Jam"

lurkshark — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 20:35:46 +0000

I found rpg.actor while looking to see if anybody had done character sheets on ATProto. I really like the work they’ve put into it but they use a static “self” key to make it 1 character per identity/account. That makes a ton of sense for the character-heavy kind of play (like 5e) that it looks like they’re aiming for. I mostly play Cairn and similar games though where characters are a bit more transient. Although they do support DCC which kind of straddles those two worlds

New comment by lurkshark in "We haven't seen the worst of what gambling and prediction markets will do"

lurkshark — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 07:18:05 +0000

Part of the argument of prediction markets is that it incentivizes good forecasting. Theoretically if you wanted to concoct a novel political polling technique or rent some compute for a new hyper local weather model, you could recoup your costs via the prediction market.

I think in practice the volume of sharp money in the prediction markets is a small fraction and the majority would be better served with the limits you’re proposing

New comment by lurkshark in "I Reverse-Engineered the TiinyAI Pocket Lab from Marketing Photos"

lurkshark — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 05:42:39 +0000

Someone posted this analysis to their Kickstarter comments (they dodged)

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tiinyai/tiiny-ai-pocket...

New comment by lurkshark in "Oregon school cell phone ban: 'Engaged students, joyful teachers'"

lurkshark — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 18:45:09 +0000

TurnItIn.com was starting to be a thing when I was in high school. I found out it didn’t sanitize the papers you upload and had no CSRF protection, so I could upload a doc with inline JavaScript to hit the change-password and logout APIs.

Was pretty impactful for my education, just not in the intended way

New comment by lurkshark in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans."

lurkshark — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 22:07:02 +0000

I assume we’ll end up with proof-of-identity attestation as a part of public posting (e.g. Worldcoin) which doesn’t necessarily solve the issue but will at least identify patterns more likely to be LLMs (e.g. a firehose of posts at all hours of the day from one identity). Then we’ll enter the dystopia of mandated real identity on the internet

New comment by lurkshark in "Qwen3.5 122B and 35B models offer Sonnet 4.5 performance on local computers"

lurkshark — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 15:14:05 +0000

There are a few “updating” benchmarks out there. I periodically take a look at these two:

https://swe-rebench.com/

https://livebench.ai/

New comment by lurkshark in "Cognitive Debt: When Velocity Exceeds Comprehension"

lurkshark — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 20:06:04 +0000

Things like MemGPT/Letta, ToM-SWE, and Voltropy have made long context documentation pretty manageable. You could probably build some specialized tooling/prompts for development artifacts specifically too. But I’ll be the first to admit this is basically “Throw more agents at the problem”

New comment by lurkshark in "Cognitive Debt: When Velocity Exceeds Comprehension"

lurkshark — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 19:58:00 +0000

I agree with this, I like spec-driven-development tooling partially for this reason. That being said, what I’ve found is often that I don’t include enough of the “why” in my prompt artifacts. The “what” and “how” are pretty well covered but sometimes I find myself looking back at them thinking “Why did I do this?” I’ve started including it but it does sometimes feel weird because I feel like “Why would the LLM ‘care’ about this story?”

New comment by lurkshark in "Hegseth gives Anthropic until Friday to back down on AI safeguards"

lurkshark — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 20:06:00 +0000

My thought was that if the refusal to service some requests is implemented as an external guard model The Pentagon could try to require them to drop the guard model. This would be similar to saying "we're asking for a 'product' you already 'manufacture'" in the way the DPA is often understood. But if the refusal is baked into the model itself then that argument is dead. Not saying I agree with this, I think it turns into the same kind of problem we saw with the Apple v. FBI conflict and the All Writs Act, but the government doesn't always act in the most sane ways.