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1 points·by bilekas·18 days ago·0 comments

Cyber-Censorship: Web Censorship Cases Rebound in 2025

statista.com
2 points·by bilekas·25 days ago·0 comments

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Show HN: Keptour – Travel Itinerary Planner

keptour.com
3 points·by bilekas·last month·0 comments

Trump Mobile has a real phone, but it may also have a real data leak

androidauthority.com
6 points·by bilekas·2 months ago·0 comments

An asteroid discovered days ago will narrowly miss Earth

cnn.com
5 points·by bilekas·2 months ago·1 comments

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1 points·by bilekas·2 months ago·0 comments

Show HN: Dial-up-loader, old-school modem terminal and synthesises dial-up

github.com
3 points·by bilekas·3 months ago·0 comments

AI agent called every pub in Ireland to index the cost of a Guinness

guinndex.ai
2 points·by bilekas·3 months ago·0 comments

Tell HN: DeepL Moving Data to AWS

5 points·by bilekas·3 months ago·4 comments

YouTube now determines your watch list [video]

youtube.com
2 points·by bilekas·4 months ago·0 comments

Impact of the "when the fun stops, stop" gambling message on online gambling

thelancet.com
14 points·by bilekas·5 months ago·6 comments

Show HN: SecuriNote Discord Bot

github.com
1 points·by bilekas·5 months ago·0 comments

GitHub Is Down in EU

statusgator.com
1 points·by bilekas·5 months ago·1 comments

Amazon is laying off 16,000 employees

aboutamazon.com
42 points·by bilekas·5 months ago·4 comments

BlackRock CEO Larry Fink: 'What Happens to Everyone Else If AI Fuels Inequality?

investopedia.com
10 points·by bilekas·6 months ago·6 comments

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1 points·by bilekas·6 months ago·0 comments

Building a CPU in Factorio: From D-Flip-Flops to an Operating System [video]

youtube.com
13 points·by bilekas·6 months ago·0 comments

San Francisco Poop Map

arcgis.com
6 points·by bilekas·7 months ago·2 comments

Show HN: SecuriNote – Create shared ephemeral, client-side encrypted notebooks

securinote.com
1 points·by bilekas·7 months ago·0 comments

comments

bilekas
·5 days ago·discuss
The dots connect very normally, politicians make mistakes. People need to protest against it.
bilekas
·8 days ago·discuss
I think that's just gonna make companies set up abroad. But an individual tax of asset wealth over 1 billion, I agree.
bilekas
·8 days ago·discuss
I didn't mention specific politics because those are mutable. Sometimes good sometimes bad. What is in place today can change tomorrow, but holding 5% of a sketchy investment, it's a bit different. Having to bail them out.. It's another mess.
bilekas
·8 days ago·discuss
"Demand". What kind of government would you like ?

Sanders doesn't want that actually.

Taxes are not investments in your company. They're your contribution to the infrastructure and people to help your company grow. In theory. The US seems to just let rich not pay.
bilekas
·9 days ago·discuss
This feels a bit off.. How is the government supposed to be able to regulate them impartially when they're literally invested in them.

What if a competitive startup startup starts to really take away from OpenAi's profits and then all of a sudden requires some approval for merger with Anthropic for example, I don't know if I would trust the government to be fair in their decision here.

Leaving aside the potential for letting the government(tax payers) hold the bag if there is a collapse.
bilekas
·9 days ago·discuss
> Go check the machines in any factory near you, and I can pretty much guarantee you'll find a German one in it.

It is always interesting to see how underestimated the EU is in terms of manufacturing and pharma for example, they're unsung and not always glamourous industries, but nobody does them like the EU.

The tech innovation does happen more in the US, there has always been simply more private capital thrown around there and thats fine. Comparing the EU and the US in terms of economic activities and procedures is a futile exercise. They're just not the same, and thats by design.
bilekas
·9 days ago·discuss
No, these are anti-trust fines. If you want to participate in the EU zone, you can't have monopolistic behaviors. It might sound strange for the US, but you can't simply corner a market and then claim it's innovation and 'good for the customer'. The EU has a LONG history of these regulations, it's nothing new but the more rich a company becomes the more these fines are just the price of doing business.

Instead, here's a wild take. Why don't they just follow the regulations and continue to make profits.
bilekas
·9 days ago·discuss
> the U.S. ambassador to the EU Andrew Puzder told CNBC that Europe “can’t over regulate” and hit companies with “huge fines” if it is going to participate in the AI economy

I love how the US will just let companies walk all over their citizens and then criticize others for not letting it happen. "Please think of the poor multi billion dollar companies".
bilekas
·9 days ago·discuss
I think I'm missing something, but how exactly is this weighing a specific market ? You have a "class UserProduct(BaseModel)" that seems to be very barebones and basic..

I mean, what's different from this vs just asking a regular llm to do some market research for you? Also it seems like it's not using any real data if I'm understanding this correctly, it's simulating similar products and evaluating against it ?

> find optimal pricing by simulating the same product at multiple price points.
bilekas
·10 days ago·discuss
Am I understanding this correct in that you can basically automate monetizing your web/api content to everyone or just agents ? Because I would be very much in support of charging agents per request, but I would want to still offer humans a free experience.
bilekas
·10 days ago·discuss
Because they were purchases, not rentals. Under no circumstances would a customer reasonably assume that their purchase would be revoked for reasons completely outside of their control.
bilekas
·10 days ago·discuss
It used to be that streaming services were an excellent option even over torrenting because of the ease of access and use.

Now we're not even getting to retain what we buy, this is not a streaming service, these were sold to users individually.

We've gone full circle where I honestly believe pirating is a far better offering.

The root of the problem is these ridiculous content licensing agreements, it should be very very obvious to the customer when they're buying that "Hey, you will own this until X date when our content licensing agreement is finished"

Not hidden by design in some dense ToS.
bilekas
·10 days ago·discuss
Even more reason to call this out, they know the exact figures they need to create physical copies of, they're claiming a complete trend to reduce their expenses. I don't believe they have some agenda to simply turn off games for people for no reason, but needing to check in every few months to keep a game active is actively hostile to the customer.
bilekas
·10 days ago·discuss
There's an expectation that once the sale is finalised they should t be able to just take it back when they like. Agreements or not that's not how things are supposed to work.
bilekas
·10 days ago·discuss
This is ridiculous, and not long after they've been updating their ToS to require you to sign in and phone home in order to continue to be allowed access to your digital library.

> In response to shifting trends in consumer preference.

I hate this corporate speak. If buying isn't ownership, then pirating isn't stealing.
bilekas
·10 days ago·discuss
> It’s a common disgusting mentality wide spread across Europe.

Yeah it's such a disgusting mentality to appreciate a work life balance and not have work be your entire world. Such a horrible existence.

Anyway, I'm off on holidays now, enjoy!
bilekas
·10 days ago·discuss
But using AI is not the point of the article.
bilekas
·11 days ago·discuss
Can you define "serious programming"? Because I use it to implement things I COULD go and figure out like algorithms or test generation or evaluations etc, the "serious" programming I tend to do myself. That is what I'm paid for.
bilekas
·11 days ago·discuss
> The market is the AI boom and the US is the host, they can sell the exact same stuff to someone else.

In theory yeah, but not at the levels that the US companies are buying.. Last I heard OpenAI is sitting on 50% of the world useless wafers on their own for some reason, and Microsoft cant find a datacenter fast enough to plug their stock in.

I'm a customer, looking for a simple 32GB ddr5 6000 ram, I'm now competing with Microsoft because there isn't enough supply? I'm not sure about that.
bilekas
·11 days ago·discuss
I think they already know it's gonna take China a year or two to ramp up, so they're banking on that ?