Hacker News: wstrange

New comment by wstrange in "German police name alleged leaders of GandCrab and REvil ransomware groups"

wstrange — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 21:00:02 +0000

Insurance money doesn't grow on trees. The economy is highly connected, so increased costs impact most consumers.

Ransomware is a scourge enabled by crypto. We should do whatever we can to eliminate it.

New comment by wstrange in "Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events"

wstrange — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 23:38:01 +0000

A bunch of people here are conflating low stakes amateur sports with elite sports.

Mixed league works fine for your company softball team. Not so much for professional sports.

New comment by wstrange in "Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events"

wstrange — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 23:23:21 +0000

If we are talking about amateur sports where the stakes are low, the concept of slotting athletes into divisions makes sense.

In elite sports, no one wants to see "best in division X". They want to see the best hockey players, the best golfer, the best skier, etc. The money incentives are considerable.

This would destroy women's professional sports.

Maybe version ranges are a good idea after all?

wstrange — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 13:18:32 +0000

Article URL: https://neilmadden.blog/2026/03/19/maybe-version-ranges-are-a-good-idea-after-all/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47438916

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by wstrange in "UBI as a productivity dividend"

wstrange — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 17:48:48 +0000

UBI will require a more progressive tax system. The Oligarchs are having none of that.

New comment by wstrange in "Tesla 'Robotaxi' adds 5 more crashes in Austin in a month – 4x worse than humans"

wstrange — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 19:58:49 +0000

Clearly they have not reached parity, as evidenced by the crash rate of Tesla.

It's far from clear that the current HW4 + sensor suite will ever be sufficient for L4.

New comment by wstrange in "Waymo robotaxis are now giving rides on freeways in LA, SF and Phoenix"

wstrange — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 18:07:37 +0000

I have HW4, and have tried FSD with every major release.

It works brilliantly, 99.5% of the time. The issue is that the failure mode is catastrophic. Like getting confused with the lane marking and driving off the shoulder. And the complete inability to read construction zone signs (blasting through a 50 KM zone at 100 KM).

I'm deeply skeptical that the current sensor suite and hardware is going to have enough compute power to safely drive without supervision.

It will no doubt improve, but until Tesla steps up and assumes liability for any accident, it's just not "full self driving".

New comment by wstrange in "Tesla Recalls Almost 13,000 EVs over Risk of Battery Power Loss"

wstrange — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 16:12:31 +0000

For the back seats you can order webbing strips from Temu for five bucks. They are easy to spot (bright yellow).

I point them out to any passengers in the back seat.

If you have kids that are likely to pull them ... different story.

New comment by wstrange in "Apple takes down ICE tracking apps after pressure from DOJ"

wstrange — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 01:30:12 +0000

Reading the comments on that Fox site is depressing. A lot of hate for Apple, but for the wrong reasons (as in, completely missing the danger of centralized app stores..).

New comment by wstrange in "ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel’s show ‘indefinitely’ after threat from FCC chair"

wstrange — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 00:14:03 +0000

Well, you have Larry Ellison and Elon doing their best to corner social media - so I think the right wing has it's bases covered.

New comment by wstrange in "Delayed Security Patches for AOSP (Android Open Source Project)"

wstrange — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 19:21:01 +0000

Or a more likely scenario is that Apple picks up even more market share, and we go from a duopoly to a monopoly.

New comment by wstrange in "Telo MT1"

wstrange — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 19:10:05 +0000

This is what Tesla should have built instead of the Cybertruck.

With their distribution and service centers, this would sell like hot cakes.

New comment by wstrange in "Most RESTful APIs aren't really RESTful"

wstrange — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 18:40:14 +0000

It should be obvious that the thing doing the interpretation and navigation is a human, not an automated system.

New comment by wstrange in "Most RESTful APIs aren't really RESTful"

wstrange — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 18:17:52 +0000

> Clients can be almost automatic with a HATEOS implementation, because it is a self describing protocol.

That was the theory, but it was never true in practice.

The oft comparisons to the browser really missed the mark. The browser was driven by advanced AI wetware.

Given the advancements in LLMs, it's not even clear that RESTish interfaces would be easier for them to consume (say vs. gRPC, etc.)

New comment by wstrange in "MCP is eating the world"

wstrange — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 13:52:46 +0000

Looking at the demo I can see project managers going wild with this. And not in a good way.

Foreign Scammers Use U.S. Banks to Fleece Americans

wstrange — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 13:29:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.propublica.org/article/pig-butchering-scam-cybercrime-us-banks-money-laundering

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44377104

Points: 116

# Comments: 124

What's New in Flutter 3.32

wstrange — Tue, 20 May 2025 22:19:43 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/flutter/whats-new-in-flutter-3-32-40c1086bab6e

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44046510

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by wstrange in "Android and Wear OS are getting a redesign"

wstrange — Wed, 14 May 2025 01:56:23 +0000

It all went to shit when they removed the floppy drive.

New comment by wstrange in "A Tour Inside the IBM Z17"

wstrange — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 21:25:00 +0000

Consider me skeptical. A mainframe has to be the least cost effective "crypto-style" math machine you could imagine.

New comment by wstrange in "Gemini Robotics"

wstrange — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 20:43:10 +0000

Tesla's insane valuation based on future hypothetical robots is hard to justify given announcements like these.

It seems unlikely that any company (Google included) will have a robotics moat.