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Ask HN: How did you do your Clickwrap agreement?

vatsachak — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 18:45:01 +0000

Hi HN,

I want to release an end to end encrypted (i.e all data stored on server is encrypted with a private key only stored on device) personal finance tool with a light subscription fee.

I wanted to know if you had any experience with the process of writing a clickwrap for such businesses.

Best,

vatsachak

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50396532

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New comment by vatsachak in "Claude Code sends your email address to websites"

vatsachak — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 23:48:08 +0000

The design decision actually makes sense though.

It's just that Anthropic needs to create an email per user and use it for web searches.

I can do this for you Anthropic. Just give me the tokens and your base salary

New comment by vatsachak in "The Stacks Project, Formalized in Lean"

vatsachak — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 18:18:05 +0000

Okay this is actually useful AI formalization. But the stacks project is basically Lean in natural language anyways, so it makes sense why its high quality.

New comment by vatsachak in "MCP Explained"

vatsachak — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 15:51:53 +0000

Horribly designed

New comment by vatsachak in "US midterm elections 2026 live updates: Democrats win Senate control and edge"

vatsachak — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 06:26:33 +0000

You'd rather read another postgres hacks article written by Claude than discuss the midterms, the second largest political event in the United States?

New comment by vatsachak in "Could a modern chess engine on a Pentium have defeated Kasparov in 1996?"

vatsachak — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 18:36:26 +0000

A modern chess engine plays at like 900 elo above Magnus Carlsen? Why is there any doubt it would beat Kasparov

New comment by vatsachak in "Embedding boolean circuits in a neural network"

vatsachak — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 18:32:58 +0000

Okay but the difficulty here is getting the LLM to use the neural circuit effectively without training just wiping out the circuit. You'd need to have the circuit be a differentiable black box where gradients cannot affect the black box

New comment by vatsachak in "Scaling Git at OpenAI"

vatsachak — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 02:58:54 +0000

Impressive. We're definitely seeing LLMs help create real novel software

New comment by vatsachak in "Supermarket freezers across Europe hit by second suspected cyber-attack"

vatsachak — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 15:01:47 +0000

Have the freezer connected to an air gapped grocery local server. Fixed

New comment by vatsachak in "America on Data Centers: listen to 10,000+ city council comments"

vatsachak — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 01:17:26 +0000

I'm pro AI and data center but a lot of construction is short sighted.

They should invest money into improving electric and community infrastructure. There are so many win-wins to be had and they fumbled

New comment by vatsachak in "Postgres 19 is late because so many more bugs are being found now"

vatsachak — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 01:14:49 +0000

What? AI can't easily implement features. Just write a spec, ask if to expand it and then ask it to implement it

New comment by vatsachak in "Mathematics has changed. Let's act like it"

vatsachak — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 20:00:30 +0000

I mean he's basically admitting that math academia is outdated.

If we don't interview candidates based on results, what is it? Politics. It already was. I had a JEMS paper in grad school and got zero postdoc offers. Many other cases.

The real shift is that math will become a hobbyists game. Make money other ways and then spend your money on humans and tokens to solve your problems.

New comment by vatsachak in "Reading and writing are less symmetric than you (probably) think"

vatsachak — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 16:03:17 +0000

This is true even at the CPU cache level so it's probably going to trickle down all the way.

For example Jon G gave a talk at Jane Street about how he had a mysterious performance bug that was later attributed to cores fighting over the same cache line

https://youtu.be/tND-wBBZ8RY?is=624w3YoDN2QYBWuD

New comment by vatsachak in "Serbia just elected the world's brainiest parliament"

vatsachak — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 15:58:50 +0000

Man hacker news hates academically successful people

New comment by vatsachak in "Simple circuits can create complex behaviors"

vatsachak — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 15:34:33 +0000

A similar mechanism is how lactobacillus actually find food even though their motor propels them in random directions.

They have sensors for the concentration of food and basically stop moving when it's good enough and start when it's low.

New comment by vatsachak in "OpenAI raises less than half of $30B target"

vatsachak — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 05:56:13 +0000

That's 150B shaved off like it's nothing lol

New comment by vatsachak in "OpenAI raises less than half of $30B target"

vatsachak — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 05:55:29 +0000

I mean the super groups are going to break up and make their own bands.

My only request is to keep Opus 5.5 alive

New comment by vatsachak in "Edit an SQLite database in your browser"

vatsachak — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 20:13:17 +0000

Nah, not irrational. No application should show the logic at the forefront. It's just claude-ese convention from RLVR

New comment by vatsachak in "Edit an SQLite database in your browser"

vatsachak — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 20:10:13 +0000

This is like a one hour claude project

New comment by vatsachak in "Edit an SQLite database in your browser"

vatsachak — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 20:09:45 +0000

"contact@editsqlite.com — answered by the person who built it"

I doubt this