<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: scarab92</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=scarab92</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2026 12:10:51 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=scarab92" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by scarab92 in "Passkeys are not a trap"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Password managers give you phishing resistance, and most passkey storage is not hardware backed.<p>In typical scenarios, passkeys offer no advantages over a password manager.</p>
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<p>The person you are responding to was attempting to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume there is some sensible nuance you didn’t mention.<p>They are the one acting in good faith rather than interpreting your statement literally, because your literal statement was absurd.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 23:51:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50097282</link><dc:creator>scarab92</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50097282</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50097282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by scarab92 in "Passkeys are not a trap"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Password managers provide all the same security benefits as passkeys, without the lock in.</p>
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<p>Either are possible.<p>They have been collaborating on this solution for a year, and Astra was trained in February this year so it’s entirely possible the direction of their research was in the training corpus.</p>
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<p>Why would China care if Taiwan blows up its fabs?<p>The talent is still there, so they could rebuild, or recruit the talent to work for Chinese mainland fabs instead?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 22:20:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49426638</link><dc:creator>scarab92</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49426638</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49426638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by scarab92 in "Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The cost of producing memory IS low, and is continuing to fall.<p>It makes zero sense to rebase your mental model of the tradeoff between RAM versus developer time because of a temporary shortage.<p>In a few years time you’ll look silly for having wasted developer time on lowering BF memory consumption, while your built new features and waited for supply and demand to rebalance.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 05:02:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49370545</link><dc:creator>scarab92</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49370545</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49370545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by scarab92 in "Stripe will reportedly acquire OpenRouter for $7B+"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is why I would never invest in Stripe.<p>The moat protecting their high margins is temporary.<p>Competitors will obviously improve their developer experience over time, and then win on price.<p>Stripe are stuck. They know they need to lower rates over the long term, but since they already make so much profit overcharging existing customers, they are hesitant to do so, meaning new competitors will enter with a price advantage without a competitive response from Strioe.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 01:14:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49339905</link><dc:creator>scarab92</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49339905</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49339905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by scarab92 in "Stripe will reportedly acquire OpenRouter for $7B+"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Adyen will likely overtake Stripe as well. They are at $1.4T already and growing fast.<p>Stripes fees are uncompetitive, even their negotiated rates, so businesses tend to leave them as their volume grows.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:23:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49339563</link><dc:creator>scarab92</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49339563</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49339563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by scarab92 in "Controversial creators are benefiting from monetization programs run by Meta"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I find those advocating for censorship of right wing voices to be pretty unconvincing, and often acting in bad faith (like this article and its cherry picking)<p>Reddit and Blue Sky are almost entirely left-wing rage-bait and conspiracy theory content these days, and they amplify such content right to the top of the default feed, yet you rarely see the right calling for these platforms to censor their users.<p>If the right can learn to tolerate different opinions that they find offensive, then it’s reasonable to expect the left to do so as well, without resorting to these contrived cancel culture talking points.<p>The vast majority of political violence and riots in the US these days is orchestrated by left-wing movements and individuals. The assassinations of Brian Thompson, Charlie Kirk the attempts on Trump, all the riots surrounding BLM and George Floyd etc<p>Obviously directly inciting violence is not acceptable, but cherry picking obscure instances of it, while simultaneously overlooking the far larger problems that exist on the left, is bad faith. The threads celebrating the murders of Brian Thompson and Charlie Kirk are some of the most shared Reddit posts of all time, with zero self-reflection from the left about this double standard.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:37:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49280431</link><dc:creator>scarab92</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49280431</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49280431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by scarab92 in "Controversial creators are benefiting from monetization programs run by Meta"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The default feed is orders of magnitude more visible than the cherry-picked low-follower-count users that formed the basis of this article.<p>There’s a tremendous double standard here. The offensive right wing content is something you’d have to explicitly search for, whereas the offensive left wing content is front and center.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:31:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49272977</link><dc:creator>scarab92</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49272977</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49272977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by scarab92 in "Wikimedia Foundation refuses union recognition, hires union-busting law firm"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Wikimedia has enough cash in the bank, to fund wikipedia forever from interest alone.<p>At this point, 100% of all new funds raised in the name of Wikipedia are actually being diverted to other projects. It’s incredibly deceptive, borderline fraudulent.</p>
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<p>If it’s really that important to people, they should be able to raise donations for that program in particular.<p>Raising funding for Wikipedia, then diverting 90% of the funds for pet projects is dishonest at best, and most likely fraudulent.<p>The other problem, is that the projects wikimedia foundation has historically funded have a notable political bias, to the point where it has been accused of being a pseudo-PAC.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 06:25:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49151923</link><dc:creator>scarab92</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49151923</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49151923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by scarab92 in "NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Is there a way to make the ChatGPT live experience less dumbed down?<p>It just wants to stay at a superficial level, while annoyingly mimicking human traits like “hmmms” and “umms”<p>I’ve found the better approach is to dictate into the text version and have it read the response. The responses are way better, so long as they don’t contain a table.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 14:47:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48948032</link><dc:creator>scarab92</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48948032</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48948032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by scarab92 in "Stripe and Advent have made a joint offer to acquire PayPal – sources"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Payment processor margins are already very high, especially considering they are basically low-tech utilities.<p>If the US had functioning antitrust laws it would be looking at their margins and be considering whether to break up some of the existing players, not considering when allow even more mergers.</p>
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<p>Most of us don’t have economist subscriptions.<p>Maybe you can just tell us what you mean by not neutral?<p>I find Grok to be far more academically honest than the other models. The other models seem to be much more aligned with public opinion over academic consensus especially on topics around economics and biology.<p>I find public opinion on these topics to be very group think populist and prefer the academic take that grok provides</p>
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<p>Give me an alternative that isn’t trying to shove left wing ideology down my throat and I’ll use that.<p>So far, only xAI makes any attempt to be neutral in its answers.</p>
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<p>Didn’t California effectively legalise shoplifting?<p>That seems objectively pro-crime.</p>
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<p>I’m pretty sure that’s just motivated reasoning. Everyone self-assesses their own beliefs as more accurate, especially as social media over-exposes us to the worst of the worst examples from “the other side”.<p>I’ve never seen any actual research indicating this is true, and given the number of things the left believes that run counter to consensus in economics, biology, social studies, I have a hard time believing accuracy is actually a goal or outcome of left wing philosophy.</p>
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<p>Amazon already delivers to the house next door to yours. The incremental cost of an extra stop is near zero.
The efficiency of home delivery vastly exceeds people going to the shops themselves, even if they are stopping at multiple shops.</p>
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<p>Not convinced.<p>Creativity is much easier than reasoning and discernment.<p>Rarely do I need people to be more creative when problem solving, what I need is better judgement.</p>
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