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New comment by timpera in "Cloudflare's new AI traffic options for customers"

timpera — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 22:57:20 +0000

It really depends on the difficulty level chosen by the website. I'm testing on both a Xiaomi Redmi 5 and my university library's computer.

New comment by timpera in "Cloudflare's new AI traffic options for customers"

timpera — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 22:54:38 +0000

The solution is building simpler and more efficient websites. You won't win the arms race, so make it irrelevant. Any random VPS hosting a static website can already serve millions of requests an hour.

New comment by timpera in "Our position on open-weights models"

timpera — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 22:50:26 +0000

Anthropic has been surprisingly bad at comms for the last few months, which I find crazy in such a competitive market.

New comment by timpera in "French firefighters face 'pyrocumulonimbus' for first time"

timpera — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 08:21:12 +0000

From Le Monde:

> Some efforts have begun to diversify the Landes forest and to maintain or promote deciduous trees, particularly along the edges of plots. The major difficulty, according to foresters, is that very few species are able to grow in this region, where the sandy soil is very poor and very acidic (it is one of the poorest soils in Europe). Foresters describe the maritime pine as a "miracle species" in this regard.

> While other species can still grow, it is much more slowly and with greater difficulty. Radically transforming this vast forest, currently 80% dominated by maritime pines, therefore seems complicated, and there is also a significant economic stake involved in timber production in the region.

New comment by timpera in "I wouldn't say Pangram is broken, but I would say that it's brittle"

timpera — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 13:49:47 +0000

I recently tried Pangram, created an account, wrote a few lines about how my day went, and it was flagged as likely AI-assisted. It clearly doesn't work.

It's especially bad that they keep insisting that it works very well, because thousands of people will probably end up falsely accused of AI usage as a result.

New comment by timpera in "ASK HN: Why has technology become so unreliable?"

timpera — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 11:34:55 +0000

Poorly-built tech is obviously an issue, but unfortunately I think you might just be unlucky.

New comment by timpera in "Cloudflare's new AI traffic options for customers"

timpera — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 10:46:50 +0000

Please don't use Anubis, it makes visiting websites very difficult (often multiple minutes wait times) on old hardware and low-end smartphones.

New comment by timpera in "Cloudflare's new AI traffic options for customers"

timpera — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 10:44:04 +0000

Blocking bots should not be the default behavior, it should be opt-in. Is Cloudflare trying to play both sides in order to secure a fee on every pay-to-crawl in the future?

New comment by timpera in "Future euro banknote design proposals"

timpera — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 10:35:23 +0000

Bills are imo way easier to manage and carry, especially when you don't have a wallet, which is why I prefer the US system, but I agree that durability is the main issue.

New comment by timpera in "Future euro banknote design proposals"

timpera — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 10:32:35 +0000

I'm in Paris and can confirm that most ATMs don't give €5 bills, but some do, and it's pretty nice to withdraw a stack of fresh, brand new €5 bills that are way more convenient than coins.

Microsoft pressures LG into killing unwanted McAfee ads

timpera — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 11:08:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/tech/970489/lg-mcafee-ads-windows-microsoft-crackdown

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49033849

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by timpera in "Future euro banknote design proposals"

timpera — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 11:05:20 +0000

I try to pay everything in cash as much as I can, so it's nice to see the banknotes get some love from the ECB (even though the absence of €1 and €2 banknotes still hurts…).

I think it's a bit strange to feature people on these, plus it would be difficult to agree on who to feature between the 21 € states. The birds look cool! But it would have been nice to modernize the current architecture-based design rather than feature random EU office buildings.

New comment by timpera in "EU fines Google €890M for competition breaches over search and apps"

timpera — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 11:55:13 +0000

The lengthy legal battle against these fines is going to be extremely interesting, especially on the Shopping/Hotels/Flights side since it is an extremely competitive market. I wonder if the lower EU court will keep its overly proactive approach despite the CJEU's reversals.

New comment by timpera in "Google Lawsuit Against Data Scraper Tossed over Authority Issue"

timpera — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 17:46:08 +0000

More reporting without paywall and link to the court filing here: https://www.seroundtable.com/google-lawsuit-serpapi-dismisse...

Google Lawsuit Against Data Scraper Tossed over Authority Issue

timpera — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 17:45:27 +0000

Article URL: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/google-lawsuit-against-data-scraper-tossed-over-authority-issue

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49010603

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by timpera in "French parliament approves social media ban for under-15s, a first in the EU"

timpera — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 22:49:14 +0000

Adult websites have already been age-gated in France for a while, and it's not going well: almost two years later, there's still no privacy-friendly way to verify your age, and almost everyone I know is using a VPN. This is stupid.

New comment by timpera in "Tate brothers arrested in US as further UK charges take total to 59"

timpera — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 15:21:43 +0000

I don't really understand why the Tate brothers (who, I assume, are advised by multiple great lawyers) came back to the US after getting out of their legal troubles in Romania, instead of enjoying their freedom in some extradition-free paradise. Do they need to be in legal troubles for the publicity?

New comment by timpera in "LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent"

timpera — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 16:10:25 +0000

Excellent hardware and software support (especially for Snapdragon/ARM64 CPUs and Microsoft Office) and best in class multitasking/window management are the top 2 reasons for me. Like someone else said, it's the worst OS, except for all the others :)

New comment by timpera in "LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent"

timpera — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 16:07:57 +0000

Windows may not be the best OS for you but it definitely isn't malware.

New comment by timpera in "AI content is everywhere on social media, especially LinkedIn"

timpera — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:29:04 +0000

I just tried it, created an account, and wrote a few sentences about how my day went. These sentences got classified as AI assisted, so clearly their classifier doesn't work that well.