Hacker News: tobltobs

New comment by tobltobs in "Stripe Launches L1 Blockchain: Tempo"

tobltobs — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 20:42:58 +0000

People on HN fighting for the EU VAT clusterfuck ... wasn't on my Bingo card.

New comment by tobltobs in "Gandi March 9, 2025 incident postmortem"

tobltobs — Mon, 05 May 2025 13:30:53 +0000

I wouldn't mind a "small premium", but 300% price increase is robbery. Can't imagine that this kind of greed doesn't affect their quality of service.

New comment by tobltobs in "Mercedes takes biggest swing yet at Tesla as it unveils CLA with 492-mile range"

tobltobs — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 10:46:27 +0000

Temperatures inside a car can easily reach 140 °F (60 °C), in extreme conditions 80°C.

VanEck Invests in DeFi Real Estate Platform Manifest

tobltobs — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 19:18:27 +0000

Article URL: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/vaneck-invests-defi-real-estate-221500329.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43439869

Points: 1

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New comment by tobltobs in "Software engineer pay heatmap for Europe"

tobltobs — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 18:58:29 +0000

I don't think it is only because the financial sector pays more than average. They don't reach the pay level of FAANG companies having their R&D in Switzerland. Also be assured that this level is only reached in Zurich.

New comment by tobltobs in "Htmx changes license to Zero-Clause BSD"

tobltobs — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 20:09:49 +0000

So MongoDB was an inconsistent DB for at least 70% of its lifetime. It doesn't sound too ensuring.

Jump Executes Counter Exploit Against Wormhole Exploiter

tobltobs — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 14:29:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.blockworksresearch.com/research/we-do-a-little-counter-exploit

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35041410

Points: 1

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New comment by tobltobs in "Bitcoin core developer claims to have lost 200 BTC in hack"

tobltobs — Mon, 02 Jan 2023 14:53:59 +0000

If the other house has better protection against thief's and you trust the owner and inhabitants then, yes, maybe that makes sense.

New comment by tobltobs in "Argentina Wins the World Cup"

tobltobs — Sun, 18 Dec 2022 18:40:12 +0000

And if no more players are on the field and it is still a tie then what?

Postmark Is Sendgrided

tobltobs — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 22:19:13 +0000

Article URL: https://ea5d5bbc.sorryapp.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34021323

Points: 1

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GPT3 Injections

tobltobs — Sat, 17 Sep 2022 20:06:22 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/amasad/status/1570598156160897024

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32881070

Points: 1

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New comment by tobltobs in "I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanical keyboard"

tobltobs — Thu, 18 Aug 2022 11:05:58 +0000

also not available in metallic pink.

New comment by tobltobs in "Road to war: US struggled to convince allies, and Zelensky, of risk of invasion"

tobltobs — Thu, 18 Aug 2022 06:13:48 +0000

Your first link only says that at the beginning it was only 30%, which isn't a too big surprise considering the chaos at this time and it is talking about non lethal weapons only anyway.

"Jonas Ohman is founder and CEO of Blue-Yellow, a Lithuania-based organization that has been meeting with and supplying frontline units with non-lethal military aid in Ukraine since the start of the conflict with Russia-backed separatists in 2014. Back in April, he estimated that just "30-40%" of the supplies coming across the border reached its final destination. But he says the situation has significantly improved since then and a much larger quantity now gets where it's supposed to go."

New comment by tobltobs in "Google execs threaten workers with layoffs: ‘There will be blood on the streets’"

tobltobs — Fri, 12 Aug 2022 20:06:15 +0000

Maybe the 2023 deadline to overtake MS or shutdown is real.

New comment by tobltobs in "Tell HN: Today I made my first “bucks” on the web"

tobltobs — Thu, 21 Jul 2022 14:24:59 +0000

Not true for Ireland, Malta, Switzerland and United Kingdom.

New comment by tobltobs in "Coinbase Announces 18% Layoffs"

tobltobs — Tue, 14 Jun 2022 12:29:11 +0000

We would still be below 2%. Interest Rate in the United States averaged 5.44 percent from 1971 until 2022.

New comment by tobltobs in "The cryptocurrency sell-off has exposed those swimming naked"

tobltobs — Fri, 20 May 2022 09:08:12 +0000

It includes DCA because you don't know if the market will turn around.

New comment by tobltobs in "Not a single car was sold in Shanghai last month"

tobltobs — Mon, 16 May 2022 16:21:34 +0000

Could you explain the obvious a bit more? They crash their own economy to do what?

New comment by tobltobs in "Tether starting to lose its peg too, after Terra did"

tobltobs — Thu, 12 May 2022 14:58:26 +0000

What is your research telling you about those red flags:

Being "audited" by a company nobody ever heard of,

not disclosing what commercial papers they hold for "privacy reasons",

being the seventh-largest holder of commercial papers without any traders seeing Tether buying anything.

Price of algorithmic stablecoin UST drops 2% below dollar peg

tobltobs — Mon, 09 May 2022 19:02:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/145828/price-of-algorithmic-stablecoin-ust-drops-2-below-dollar-peg

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31318328

Points: 11

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