Hacker News: tomasphan

New comment by tomasphan in "Banned by Anthropic?"

tomasphan — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 23:02:20 +0000

Why not a credit card charge back? That’s what it’s for (assuming he paid with one)

New comment by tomasphan in "The quiet disappearance of the free-range childhood"

tomasphan — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 13:15:39 +0000

Pedestrian traffic deaths are going down again after peaking in 2022. Accidents are less survivable in the US due to bigger cars and higher hoods.

Quote from CDC

During 2013–2022, U.S. traffic-related death rates increased a relative 50.0% for pedestrians and 22.5% overall, compared with those in 27 other high-income countries, where they declined a median of 24.7% and 19.4%, respectively. Across countries, U.S. pedestrian death rates were highest overall and among persons aged 15–24 and 25–64 years.

New comment by tomasphan in "A Crazy Expensive U.S. Drone Just Disappeared over Strait of Hormuz"

tomasphan — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 01:48:52 +0000

Better a drone be shot down than a crewed P-8 no?

New comment by tomasphan in "Iran demands Bitcoin fees for ships passing Hormuz during ceasefire"

tomasphan — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:11:02 +0000

Business idea - Iran Bitcoin fee intermediary. Realistically the CIA will handle this for US companies and maybe allies until they figure something out.

New comment by tomasphan in "Claude Code is locking people out for hours"

tomasphan — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:20:44 +0000

98% uptime is not great. Our eng department is thinking about going half half with Codex but of course there’s a switching cost.

New comment by tomasphan in "Why do Macs ask you to press random keys when connecting a new keyboard?"

tomasphan — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:55:33 +0000

Apple has to make it annoying to use a non-Apple device with your Apple device. That sort of friction probably nets them 2% in keyboard sales per year.

New comment by tomasphan in "Show HN: I Built Paul Graham's Intellectual Captcha Idea"

tomasphan — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:15:27 +0000

I answered 8/10 correctly but mostly on instinct, for example betting that the Trump tweet is misleading. Opus 4.6 got 9/10 correct. You might need an internal time limit (don't show the user) and some strawberry questions.

New comment by tomasphan in "The Intelligence Failure in Iran"

tomasphan — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 12:22:34 +0000

In the case of Iraq, they lied on purpose to support the invasion. In the case of Iran, Trump just ignored the intelligence. I do think the intelligence community is capable. For example, they warned of the Russian invasion weeks before it happened when all other European countries said it wouldn’t.

New comment by tomasphan in "The Cloud: The dystopian book that changed Germany (2022)"

tomasphan — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 13:17:19 +0000

I think also the actual Chernobyl fallout might have something to do with it. They just declared wild mushrooms safe to eat last year, 40 years later.

Of course I agree with you though. This fear based approach doesn’t matter when France, Switzerland and Belgium have tens of reactors on the border.

New comment by tomasphan in "AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is more worrying"

tomasphan — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 17:52:39 +0000

It’s a tale as old as time: start a war to support the military industrial complex. Imagine a $4 billion investment into public transportation or parks. Every 10 years we can invest into a new city instead of bombing some kids overseas (whose siblings, fueled by hatred, then commit terror attacks on the west).

New comment by tomasphan in "My astrophotography in the movie Project Hail Mary"

tomasphan — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 13:50:26 +0000

I doubt that good looking IMAX quality astrophotography is just a prompt away.

New comment by tomasphan in "Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland"

tomasphan — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 13:23:34 +0000

The United States is a bully in a China shop and that China shop is the world. It constantly destabilizes the Middle East under false pretenses and lets Europe pick up the refugees. It brain drains and takes innovation to be commercialized. It makes money on the hard labor of others. So yes probably for the best for Europe to do what China is doing and decouple.

Specific examples: Francis Lowell stealing British Loom designs in 1800.

Bessemer steel process replicas. Bell vs European Telephone patents.

Radio: Marconi was initially backed in the US then Bell filed the patents.

Operation Paperclip and all that entails (thousands of German patents invalidated and filed in the US).

New comment by tomasphan in "Airbus is preparing two uncrewed combat aircraft"

tomasphan — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:48:48 +0000

They are reprogramming a US built drone to the German datalink equivalent with some AI sprinkled on top. Unfortunately far away from a real industry.

New comment by tomasphan in "Google Fiber will be sold to private equity firm and merge with cable company"

tomasphan — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 03:43:38 +0000

At this point purchasing Google services/products is a real risk for business continuity.

New comment by tomasphan in "Colon cancer now leading cause of cancer deaths under 50 in US"

tomasphan — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 18:13:05 +0000

Here take your pick:

Antibiotics, Potassium bromate, aspartame, Red 40, rBGH/rBST, Chlorpyrifos, Atrazine and many more

New comment by tomasphan in "Physics Girl: Super-Kamiokande – Imaging the sun by detecting neutrinos [video]"

tomasphan — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 18:30:32 +0000

It was the same detector that imploded. Mark 2 was then reinforced so it didn’t happen again.

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

tomasphan — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 13:16:35 +0000

It’s objectively easier to build a frontend now and therefore that moat is disappearing. What you can argue is the moat is in incumbent advantage at the UI layer, not the UI itself.

New comment by tomasphan in "Discord Rival Gets Overwhelmed by Exodus of Players Fleeing Age-Verification"

tomasphan — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 01:11:22 +0000

some of OSS if you search for it:

* https://github.com/jkleincodes/echo

* https://github.com/ericellb/React-Discord-Clone (not maintained anymore)

* https://github.com/SashenJayathilaka/Discord-Clone

New comment by tomasphan in "AI is going to kill app subscriptions"

tomasphan — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 17:24:01 +0000

Free sites steal your data. Besides people don't care about the tool, they care about the result. People don't want a faster horse. I strongly believe that this will democratize "doing things" with computers where the tool doesn't matter anymore.

New comment by tomasphan in "Ghidra by NSA"

tomasphan — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 15:43:57 +0000

How willing is Claude to help you there?