<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: nostromo</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=nostromo</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 04:50:50 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=nostromo" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nostromo in "I built a vulnerable app and spent $1,500 seeing if LLMs could hack it"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I was using a local Codex project as a personal knowledge base.  So I would dump in documents, basic medical docs (like blood labs), and other things and have it file them.<p>It’s great at filing!<p>But it’s terrible at retrieval because it would refuse to show me documents or information with personal details - which was everything in the project.<p>It would say, yes, I know this is your information, sitting on your hard drive, but I still can’t show it to you.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 02:31:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48392937</link><dc:creator>nostromo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48392937</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48392937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nostromo in "A walking tour of surveillance infrastructure in Seattle (2020)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think this is just the new normal.<p>My car was stolen in Seattle and it was found with the person driving it when he was pulled over by police.  In the car he had paperwork with his name on it, a weapon, and his work uniform in the trunk with a name badge (he was a security guard - lol) along with a neighborhood witness.<p>Despite a mountain of evidence, the prosecutors declined to press charges because without direct video evidence of him stealing the car, they would not get a jury to convict, because jurors in Seattle have become accustom to thinking that the only way to overcome reasonable doubt is to have it on video.  And even that often isn't enough...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:15:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48373132</link><dc:creator>nostromo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48373132</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48373132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nostromo in "Stripe is friendly to “friendly fraud”"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The customer screwed you over, and then their bank did too.  Stripe didn't.  I'm not sure why Stripe is getting blamed in the title and the article.<p>Yeah, maybe Stripe could do more without Radar, but I imagine it could also be fraught if Stripe was in the business of blocking customers from their entire network based on one vendor's complaint.  Obviously a lot could go wrong with such an approach.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 02:43:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48288889</link><dc:creator>nostromo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48288889</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48288889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nostromo in "US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's because latinos can be white, black, or native - and historically most people tracking these data wanted to group latinos independently of non-latino whites, blacks, and natives.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 19:54:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48014079</link><dc:creator>nostromo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48014079</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48014079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nostromo in "US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I wish it were illegal to ask or record people's race in any commercial context in the US.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 19:49:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48014010</link><dc:creator>nostromo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48014010</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48014010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nostromo in "Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The company with the access to cheap and plentiful energy and the real estate to build data centers will be Saudi Arabia in your analogy.<p>This is why SpaceX could be a dark horse in this race.  Putting compute in space is expensive but so is building a data center in the US.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 21:16:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47895920</link><dc:creator>nostromo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47895920</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47895920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nostromo in "Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Running AI at a loss long enough to kill the competition would run afoul of antitrust laws.  Even more so since they’re bundling their AI products with their search monopoly.<p>Although I doubt this will stop them if they think it’s advantageous…</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 21:13:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47895888</link><dc:creator>nostromo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47895888</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47895888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nostromo in "Landmark ancient-genome study shows surprise acceleration of human evolution"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Science is about truth not social outcomes.<p>People keep wondering why trust in scientific findings is in free fall.  A big part of it is because many scientists have become comfortable lying when they feel it’s for a noble cause.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:10:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47811955</link><dc:creator>nostromo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47811955</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47811955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nostromo in "Make macOS consistently bad unironically"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Clearing notifications on macOS Tahoe is ridiculously tedious.  The "Liquid Glass" button is slow to respond, the notifications hang for a bit before being cleared, and then sometimes you have to jiggle the cursor to clear the next one.  It's absurdly frustrating.<p>And the updates to Music (formerly iTunes) are so bad the entire team should be dressed down, Steve Jobs style.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 20:00:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47547482</link><dc:creator>nostromo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47547482</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47547482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nostromo in "Bets on US-Iran ceasefire show signs of insider knowledge, say experts"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Insider trading makes prediction markets more accurate, not less.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 21:16:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47495222</link><dc:creator>nostromo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47495222</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47495222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nostromo in "Show HN: Will my flight have Starlink?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Starlink isn't expensive by those standards either.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 21:44:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47431802</link><dc:creator>nostromo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47431802</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47431802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nostromo in "Where things stand with the Department of War"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In that context he is clearly referring to his previous combat roles on the ground in Iraq.<p>It would be like a barista becoming CEO of Starbucks and saying, "the employees are happy to have a barista as CEO."</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 18:47:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47279280</link><dc:creator>nostromo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47279280</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47279280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nostromo in "Where things stand with the Department of War"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm not sure how much more clear warfighter could be.  "One who fights wars."<p>Service member is extremely vague.  "A member of a service."</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 04:51:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47271013</link><dc:creator>nostromo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47271013</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47271013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nostromo in "Where things stand with the Department of War"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Warfighter is not a new term and has been used in the military since at least the 1990s and was used by Clinton, Bush, Obama, Biden, and Trump.<p>Service members are anyone serving in the military.<p>Warfighter is used to describe combat roles.<p>If useful to distinguish between the two, warfighter is the correct term.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 04:46:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47270984</link><dc:creator>nostromo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47270984</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47270984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nostromo in "GPT‑5.3 Instant"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This didn't work at all for me.<p>It still rambles, but now it prefaces it with "here's the <i>short</i>, <i>to the point</i>, direct answer:" ... followed by the same a long-winded answer.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:48:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47241468</link><dc:creator>nostromo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47241468</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47241468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nostromo in "California's new bill requires DOJ-approved 3D printers that report themselves"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Which this bill will do nothing to solve, which you absolutely 100% know.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 20:44:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47079004</link><dc:creator>nostromo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47079004</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47079004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nostromo in "California's new bill requires DOJ-approved 3D printers that report themselves"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ah yes, the actual problem facing America right now...  unsanctioned 3d printers.<p>Thank you California for acting on this, our top national priority.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 20:39:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47078936</link><dc:creator>nostromo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47078936</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47078936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nostromo in "California's new bill requires DOJ-approved 3D printers that report themselves"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No conspiracy required.  There's a lot of money to be made lobbying against guns - in the hundreds of millions of dollars a year - regardless of efficacy.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 20:37:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47078893</link><dc:creator>nostromo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47078893</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47078893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nostromo in "Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm old, so I remember saying the same thing about Google and search.<p>I hope you're right!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 07:05:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47070811</link><dc:creator>nostromo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47070811</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47070811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nostromo in "Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They'll all do this eventually.<p>We're in the part of the market cycle where everyone fights for marketshare by selling dollar bills for 50 cents.<p>When a winner emerges they'll pull the rug out from under you and try to wall off their garden.<p>Anthropic just forgot that we're still in the "functioning market competition" phase of AI and not yet in the "unstoppable monopoly" phase.</p>
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