Hacker News: oger

New comment by oger in "Google restricting Google AI Pro/Ultra subscribers for using OpenClaw"

oger — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 09:05:51 +0000

While I see the point of limited capacity, it also shows that Google did not plan for rate limiting / throttling of high usage customers. This is ALWAYS the problem with flatrate pricing models. 2% of your customers burn 80+% of your capacity. Did see that in former times with DSL, not too long ago with mobile and now with AI subscriptions. If you want to provide a "good" service for all customers better implement (and not only write in your T&Cs) a fair usage model which (fairly) penalises heavy users.

Good on them that they want to provide a way to bring back customers on board that were burned / surprised by their move.

BUT: The industry is missing a significant long term revenue opportunity here. There obviously is latent demand and Claws have a great product market fit. Why on earth would you deactivate customers that show high usage? Inform them that you have another product (API keys) for them and maybe threaten with throttling. But don't throw them overboard! Find a solution that makes commercial sense for both sides (security from API bill shock for the customer / predictable token usage for the provider).

What we're seeing right now is the complete opposite. Ban customers that might even rely on their account. Feels like the accountants have won this round - but did not expect the PR backlash and possible Streisand effect...

New comment by oger in "Google restricting Google AI Pro/Ultra subscribers for using OpenClaw"

oger — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 07:04:06 +0000

Both Google and Anthropic are choosing the wrong route here. While I see the formal aspect of abusing an OAuth token and burning through subsidized tokens, this only creates an internal accounting problem in the short term.

Meanwhile the rising popularity of Claws creates a yet untapped new market segment where users spend significant tokens.

A „soft“ migration of users by explaining to them how the API works, how to pay and how to change from OAuth would be way smarter.

The way this plays out right now is that current Claws users are massively penalized by being suspended indefinitely and new users will think twice. And we can expect a solid PR disaster / Streisand effect for the „poor“ model providers like OpenAI or Anthropic.

Commercially choosing the soft route by warning and throttling will be way smarter and possibly generate more long term revenue

New comment by oger in "Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use"

oger — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 05:30:43 +0000

So here goes my OpenClaw integration with Anthropic via OAuth… While I see their business risk I also see the onboarding path for new paying customers. I just upgraded to Max and would even consider the API if cost were controllable. I hope that Anthropic finds a smart way to communicate with customers in a constructive way and offers advice for the not so skilled OpenClaw homelabbers instead of terminating their accounts… Is anybody here from Anthropic that could pick up that message before a PR nightmare happens?

HumanCompiler – Compile humans into AI agents – a Claude Code plugin

oger — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 05:12:26 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/Gerstep/HumanCompiler

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47070165

Points: 2

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New comment by oger in "A Lament for Aperture"

oger — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 05:40:48 +0000

Aperture is dearly missed even today. And to make matters worse: you cannot even import Aperture libraries into Photos any more. Essentially leaving you with picking out the raw images from the package. And don’t get me started on excellent support for tethered shooting in a studio setting. And I could go on and on. The only thing I really missed in Aperture was first level support for Nik tools which are cool for their adaptive and non destructive masks.

Show HN: 1D-Pong Game at 39C3

oger — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 20:23:14 +0000

Building a 1D-Pong game is a bit of a rite of passage at the Chaos Communication Congress.

I was inspired by a version I saw at 38C3 and built my own interpretation for 39C3. Lots of people enjoyed playing it and even Elliot Williams featured it in his 39C3 Hackaday Podcast. And I can attest: it's truly fun because it's sooo simple at first sight - but wait until the speed increases... Not a bad work to fun created ratio for such a little project.

I used the opportunity to play around with Claude Code on my preexisting codebase to publish a nice-ish repo on GitHub. It worked great without any hitch or compile errors - impressive. What a nice way to test some capabilities.

Have fun with it an build your own version. And there are soooo many ideas that could be implemented. I am waiting for your feedback!

Will we end up with a league of networked 1D-Pong games? ;-)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46579612

Points: 69

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New comment by oger in "[dead]"

oger — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 20:08:39 +0000

Sigrok was offline for a couple of days but seems to be back online.

While researching the outage (which seemingly was caused by AI scrapers hitting the site hard) I learned that interesting discussions about the future direction of the project are happening on the mailing list

https://sourceforge.net/p/sigrok/mailman/message/59249346/

New comment by oger in "[dead]"

oger — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 16:06:09 +0000

It seems PayPal is having issues with their login according to downdetector.com . Multiple reports on X with similar issues: Login problems, Captcha loops ad infinitum.

Issues seem to start around 15:00 GMT

UK: Phone networks down: EE, BT, Three, Vodafone, O2 not working in mass outage

oger — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 13:17:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.the-independent.com/tech/ee-bt-three-vodafone-o2-down-phone-networks-outage-latest-b2795260.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44670326

Points: 227

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New comment by oger in "GLP-1s are breaking life insurance"

oger — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 13:19:09 +0000

The topic of per-country pricing was mentioned several times.

I was wondering how big the price differences would be so I set up a quick form to collect some data points from several countries and for several products.

It would be cool if you could provide some data - I would then share it back as a reply to this thread within 1-2 days after closing the survey. The latest data entry will be possible on Sunday.

https://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/DjDgH62s21

New comment by oger in "GLP-1s are breaking life insurance"

oger — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 11:44:46 +0000

I didn't have look on the studies but I would not be surprised if a decent amount of participants were completely healthy individuals. And maybe (more from random sampling) some unsuspicious mildly overweight without other problems. Especially in the earlier cohorts of testing.

New comment by oger in "GLP-1s are breaking life insurance"

oger — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 11:40:47 +0000

Is that the cost in the U.S.??

New comment by oger in "GLP-1s are breaking life insurance"

oger — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 11:03:51 +0000

That's why the Brits are having it ;-)

Sigrok Website Still Down

oger — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 13:11:32 +0000

Article URL: https://sigrok.org

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43844758

Points: 1

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New comment by oger in "Keeping our free tier sustainable by preventing abuse"

oger — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 21:57:45 +0000

Great writeup. Simple heuristics very often work wonders. The fraudsters are out there and try to pinch holes in your shield. Some time ago we were running a mobile service provider and had some issues with fraudulent postpaid subscribers - however the cost of using background checking services was substantial. We solved it quite effectively by turning the background checks on when the level of fraud went over a certain threshold which made them go away for some weeks. We kept this on and off pattern for a very long time with great success as it lowered the friction to sign up significantly when turned off…

New comment by oger in "Ask HN: What Is Far Field Exploits (Kicad sponsor)"

oger — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 12:46:38 +0000

Same experience today (Mon Feb 24). Actually I am negatively surprised.

Slovak Interior Ministry confirms cadastre system hit by foreign cyber-attack

oger — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 17:54:30 +0000

Article URL: https://enrsi.rtvs.sk/articles/news/388877/slovak-interior-ministry-confirms-cadastre-system-hit-by-foreign-cyber-attack

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42648099

Points: 2

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New comment by oger in "38C3: Blinkencity, radio controlling street lamps and power plants [video]"

oger — Sun, 29 Dec 2024 21:43:54 +0000

The researchers did a great job in pointing out the failures in what basically is an old DIN standard that should not be used in this century. I congratulated them after the talk as I did similar research and didn’t get it finished for 38C8. Their presentation is spot on. The attack vector is definitely feasible and publicly known for a while. I honestly don’t understand why nobody in the industry wanted to switch to a safer alternative. The reaction by EFR will create an unnecessary Streisand effect and after all they will be able to upsell their customers to a (soon to be legacy) 450 MHz LTE system.

New comment by oger in "[dead]"

oger — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 14:13:17 +0000

Seems multiple users are experiencing the same phenomenon...

Hacker Claims Data Breach on French IT Services Giant Capgemini

oger — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 16:43:29 +0000

Article URL: https://cyberinsider.com/hacker-claims-data-breach-on-french-it-services-giant-capgemini/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41522784

Points: 2

# Comments: 0