Hacker News: odo1242

New comment by odo1242 in "Malware developers added nuclear and biological weapons text to to their spyware"

odo1242 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:44:10 +0000

You need enough people to work on it that some information will leak, and the facilities needed to build nuclear power are pretty big (uranium refinement, etc.), big enough to be visible on satellite footage. Mostly the first point.

New comment by odo1242 in "AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42"

odo1242 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:10:48 +0000

AWS is known for refunding or partially refunding people if they accidentally rack up a huge bill in a short amount of time. They even reduce the bill in this case. (I do think reducing a bill in the tens of thousands to hundreds is unlikely though)

New comment by odo1242 in "RIP software hackathons. Long live the hardware hackathon"

odo1242 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 05:45:25 +0000

It depends a lot on the hackathon/what the judges are looking for. A few are run by technical people who pick the coolest technical architectures, a few are run by casual users who pick the best looking result.

The majority of the ones I’ve been in have tended to be run by people who judge based on their notion of how useful the app will be societally, with the tie breaking factor being the UI/architectural design.

New comment by odo1242 in "Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions"

odo1242 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:49:03 +0000

It sounds a lot like Discord Nitro

New comment by odo1242 in "The people who actually want AI to replace humanity"

odo1242 — Sun, 31 May 2026 15:20:43 +0000

Socialism is public ownership of the means of production. If there isn’t a way for regular people / “the proletariat” to influence the government, it’s not socialism because an autocratic government isn’t “the public”

New comment by odo1242 in "AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale"

odo1242 — Fri, 22 May 2026 03:05:27 +0000

I don’t think Anubis proves the idea much though. I feel the main reason it’s worked is that AI companies haven’t yet tried to bypass it.

And AI companies still scrape Anubis protected websites, it just forces them to not DDOS the website

New comment by odo1242 in "AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale"

odo1242 — Thu, 21 May 2026 14:52:53 +0000

To be specific, it would be more of a hassle for human visitors than for the AI companies with infinite money and specialized browsers.

New comment by odo1242 in "Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops?"

odo1242 — Mon, 18 May 2026 15:07:08 +0000

There’s also Mattermost

New comment by odo1242 in "Apple Silicon costs more than OpenRouter"

odo1242 — Sun, 17 May 2026 16:17:34 +0000

Yea this; it’s the same reason why mortgaging is cheaper than renting

New comment by odo1242 in "Restore full BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab printers"

odo1242 — Sat, 16 May 2026 22:33:47 +0000

Honestly, a lot of devices that use cloud apps for things could be improved both for the customer and manufacturer by using a "STUN/TURN" style proxy for the cloud service rather than forcing all data to go through a cloud service (to add to the other advantages, you don't need as many developers on the cloud side). But nobody in the engineering departments of these companies seem to be willing to touch WebRTC with a nine-foot pole lol

New comment by odo1242 in "Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged"

odo1242 — Sun, 10 May 2026 15:40:02 +0000

https://www.honeygain.com/ for example (it’s really not that much money though)

New comment by odo1242 in "Distributing Mac software is increasing my cortisol levels"

odo1242 — Sun, 10 May 2026 14:22:29 +0000

They removed it

New comment by odo1242 in "Distributing Mac software is increasing my cortisol levels"

odo1242 — Sun, 10 May 2026 14:18:45 +0000

They disabled the right-click-and-select-open feature; you now have to go to Settings to run the app.

New comment by odo1242 in "Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license"

odo1242 — Thu, 07 May 2026 17:49:44 +0000

Hmmmm, I suppose that makes sense

New comment by odo1242 in "Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license"

odo1242 — Wed, 06 May 2026 20:35:52 +0000

To be fair, the trading feature is part of what enables the gambling system to work (i.e. selling weapon skins). Most game companies will explicitly try to not have a trading system on any items that are obtained by random chance because, well, gambling.

New comment by odo1242 in "Zuckerberg 'Personally Authorized and Encouraged' Meta's Copyright Infringement"

odo1242 — Wed, 06 May 2026 02:52:32 +0000

You’re splitting hairs over a definition that isn’t relevant here (theft and copyright infringement are different things) to defend something that even you agree is bad.

New comment by odo1242 in "Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw""

odo1242 — Sat, 02 May 2026 16:29:53 +0000

Oh ok

New comment by odo1242 in "Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw""

odo1242 — Fri, 01 May 2026 05:20:15 +0000

What is BEAM? I get, like, physical beams when I try looking it up.

New comment by odo1242 in "Issue links now open in a popup"

odo1242 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:29:23 +0000

https://zen-browser.app/ - it’s not exactly what you describe but it’s basically redesigned from the ground up for the same interaction model

New comment by odo1242 in "Issue links now open in a popup"

odo1242 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 17:59:11 +0000