Hacker News: pieterr

New comment by pieterr in "Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment"

pieterr — Wed, 20 May 2026 15:44:13 +0000

Similar to PayU.

https://czech.payu.com/en/

Make It Blink: Over-the-Air Exploitation of the Philips Hue Bridge

pieterr — Fri, 15 May 2026 06:37:10 +0000

Article URL: https://www.synacktiv.com/en/publications/make-it-blink-over-the-air-exploitation-of-the-philips-hue-bridge

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48145276

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

The Shell That Runs the World [video]

pieterr — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 16:31:38 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6MwzBwdl3o

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47923773

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Using AI to track the cost of Guinness

pieterr — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 09:04:02 +0000

Article URL: https://fortune.com/2026/03/30/guinness-beer-prices-ireland-anthropic-claude-ai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47637285

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Intel Binary Optimization Tool: Enhanced Performance for Gaming

pieterr — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 17:12:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000102604/processors.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47505947

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Mark Russinovich set Claude on his 1986 Apple II code, says it found vulns

pieterr — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 17:07:10 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/09/claude_legacy_code_vulns/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47311890

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

NASA's Perseverance Now Autonomously Pinpoints Its Location on Mars

pieterr — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 06:45:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nasa.gov/missions/mars-2020-perseverance/perseverance-rover/nasas-perseverance-now-autonomously-pinpoints-its-location-on-mars/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47133662

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

ASML unveils EUV light source advance that could yield 50% more chips by 2030

pieterr — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 17:18:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/china/asml-unveils-euv-light-source-advance-that-could-yield-50-more-chips-by-2030-2026-02-23/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47125349

Points: 371

# Comments: 106

TSMC Eyes Tripling Arizona Investment to $465B in Tariff Deal

pieterr — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 14:17:01 +0000

Article URL: https://mlq.ai/news/tsmc-eyes-tripling-arizona-investment-to-465-billion-in-tariff-deal/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47023844

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by pieterr in "More Mac malware from Google search"

pieterr — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 21:13:38 +0000

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/detections/osx-atomicsteal...

The Panic That Built WeChat's $700B Super-App

pieterr — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 18:01:59 +0000

Article URL: https://howardyu.substack.com/p/the-panic-that-built-wechats-700

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46916021

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Apple Platform Security (Jan 2026) [pdf]

pieterr — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 16:04:03 +0000

Article URL: https://help.apple.com/pdf/security/en_US/apple-platform-security-guide.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46837814

Points: 224

# Comments: 192

US sanctions former EU commissioner over efforts to curb online hate speech

pieterr — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 11:23:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.politico.eu/article/us-sanctions-former-eu-commissioner-thierry-breton-for-curbing-online-hate-speech/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46374630

Points: 8

# Comments: 1

New comment by pieterr in "WBlock: A New Ad-Blocker for Safari"

pieterr — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 17:12:45 +0000

https://apps.apple.com/nl/app/wblock/id6746388723

Researcher scores $250k for Chrome bug

pieterr — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 16:49:42 +0000

Article URL: https://news.risky.biz/risky-bulletin-researcher-scores-250-000-for-chrome-bug/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44866451

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

When to Hire a Computer Performance Engineering Team

pieterr — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 18:17:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2025-08-04/when-to-hire-a-computer-performance-engineering-team-2025-part1.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44839990

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Does this look like a real woman? AI model in Vogue

pieterr — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 08:42:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgeqe084nn4o

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44775110

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

New comment by pieterr in "Encoding Jake Gyllenhaal into one million checkboxes (2024)"

pieterr — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 19:43:59 +0000

More context:

https://eieio.games/blog/the-secret-inside-one-million-check...

‘We will block the canals’: Young protesters target Bezos Venice wedding

pieterr — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 13:52:10 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/17/travel/jeff-bezos-wedding-protests-divide-venice

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44318696

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by pieterr in "Why Understanding Software Cycle Time Is Messy, Not Magic"

pieterr — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 12:54:55 +0000

Hofstadter's law. :-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hofstadter%27s_law