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Re:The $6.3B Binance Hack Was Pulled Off in Just 20 Minutes
on Friday October 30, 2026 @11:11AM (#50305042)
Outside of being money for criminals, there is some value for investors. For them, it is a way for their portfolios to get exposure to the booming criminal economy.
Re:SS United States to be sunk as largest artificial reef
on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @10:50PM (#50268795)
We are running out of metaphors.
Re:The US Government Is Hiding Secret Court Ruling About How It Spies ...
on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @04:11PM (#50265094)
Gonna take a wild guess that this has to do with the purchase of privately (and lawfully) collected bulk data for the purposes of mass surveillance. Who needs PRISM or xKeyscore when people willingly purchase TVs and install weather apps that spy on them 24/7? The open legal question has been whether the government is free to do whatever it wants with the data it purchases.
Re:Canadians Are Running Out of Time to Oppose the Dangerous C-22 Surv...
on Saturday October 24, 2026 @10:25AM (#50221546)
France has much lower per capita debt and deficit compared to the United States. I find it very funny to hear American media talk about the dire situation of French public finances.
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on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @05:51PM (#50173190)
One more carrier ought to turn things around.
Re:Mistral Large 4
on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @02:27PM (#49982213)
Just tried Space Bunny and it gave me the same word...
Re:Mistral Large 4
on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @10:06AM (#49978723)
A conspiracy to make the US look bad by being better at producing all the goods and services the world needs at a reasonable price. Have they no shame?
Re:Canada fast-tracks Pacific oil pipeline to reduce US dependence
on Thursday October 01, 2026 @01:20PM (#49924461)
The democrats have shown little desire or ability to reverse GOP foreign policy once they get into power. They normalize those policies and keep the seat warm for the next mad man.
Re:Canada fast-tracks Pacific oil pipeline to reduce US dependence
on Thursday October 01, 2026 @01:19PM (#49924440)
Whatever it is, it wont be under the thumb of the US. That is all anyone cares about now. Canadians want off the sinking ship.
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
on Monday September 14, 2026 @08:40AM (#49695877)
A CLI first, GUI second video editor that can emulate the style of any filmmaker or film you direct at it.
It was surprisingly easy to build.
It's also just a half decent basic video/audio editing suite that works on the desktop.
Re:Flock Wants a Closely Surveilled World with No Exit
on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @08:52AM (#49625754)
Without any real privacy laws, Americans should not have the expectation of privacy in private spaces either. Your search history, real time location, biometric data, consumer habits etc. are all for sale to anyone who wants it.
Re:I resigned from Anthropic today
on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @01:16AM (#49621358)
No one seems to ever point out the actual, likely negative outcome of this technology.
It eventually works well enough that these companies are able to capture and divert the wages of hundreds of millions of workers. We end up with a dozen or so trillionaires and massive structural underemployment and unemployment.
That's it. If you can't make rent, you wouldn't really care if CloudFlare got hacked by an AI swarm every Monday.
Re:US Blocks SSL Security Certificates for Iran's Fars News Agency
on Friday July 24, 2026 @11:45PM (#49044314)
That ought to turn things around.
Re:“We have information that Moonshot distilled Fable for the developm...
on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @02:57PM (#49011714)
IP protections for me, not for thee.
Re:Who Is America's Homer?
on Monday July 20, 2026 @06:37AM (#48976916)
Matt Groening.
Re:Mac gaming is finally getting the overpowered upgrade it deserves
on Saturday July 18, 2026 @12:52AM (#48955338)
The example they give is a frame rate boost on GTA V - a game released 16 years ago.
Re:Canada's only watchmaking school still ticking after 80 years
on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @06:21AM (#48830069)
The Canada hater has logged on.
Re:Behind the scenes with the Midjourney scanner [video]
on Monday July 06, 2026 @05:10AM (#48802347)
Does this whole thing seem fishy to anyone else?
Re:Why I'm Forced to Say Farewell: Google Management Has Lost Its Mora...
on Thursday July 02, 2026 @09:32AM (#48761354)
I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!
Re:Anthropic Accuses Alibaba of 'Illicitly' Accessing AI Models
on Thursday June 25, 2026 @09:42AM (#48673264)
Where did Anthropic get all their training data? Funny that these companies care about the sanctity of IP all of a sudden.
Re:Elon Musk is expected to become the first trillionaire
on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @11:17AM (#48385265)
Not sure it is a coincidence that this comes in the same year the the government is deploying a massive military presence and national domestic surveillance noose. Almost no one thinks that any human being should have a trillion dollars, or the commensurate political power that comes along with it.
12M analyzed GPS messages show military rekeying on public channel
Re:Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC
on Monday June 01, 2026 @08:30PM (#48364343)
Webcrawler was faster than both!
Re:Domain expertise has always been the real moat
on Saturday May 30, 2026 @06:36PM (#48341270)
What some people here are missing, is that domain experts or hobbyists are mostly vibe coding tools for themselves -- not as a SAAS product. They tend to work good enough to do the thing they want it to do. It runs locally or on some VPS, and is held together by string and duct tape.
The work product probably offends real software engineers in the way that a normal home cooked meal would offend a Michelin star chef. Yet, before last summer, these people never contemplated the ability to cook their own meals before. The fact that they can do this now is a very big deal.
Re:Leo's first encyclical attacks technological messianism
on Saturday May 30, 2026 @11:36AM (#48337356)
So is the next phase of "Democracy" electing who controls technology?
Political power has always about who controls economic production, and the tools of economic production.
Re:Can we have the day off?
on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @10:23PM (#48303625)
Different countries are going to distribute the benefits of automation in different ways. Northern European states will pursue shortened work weeks and lavish social services. China will reinvest the productivity gains into its industrial capacity. The United States will have five trillionaires.
Re:Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait
on Thursday May 21, 2026 @10:55AM (#48223805)
It looks like they tested the strait and had to turn around. The US has not been back since.
Compare this to Iraq wars I and II. In Desert Storm, the US and its allies operated a half dozen carrier groups and hundreds of ships in the gulf.
https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/hc34dk/map_of_all_...
In Gulf War II, the US had three carrier groups inside the gulf. In between wars, the US fifth fleet was unchallenged in those waters, with its headquarters at the massive naval complex in Bahrain.
In the last 4 months, they have completely evacuated the gulf. They have attempted to run the strait twice and left immediately. The naval base has been severely damaged, and their long range radars destroyed. Even if the radars were somehow restored, it is unclear they would have the munitions to defend their fleet or bases for longer than a few days/weeks.
It is impossible to overstate what a strategic disaster this has been for the US military. In their wildest dreams, Iran couldn't have imagined this situation unfolding the way it did.
Re:AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale
on Thursday May 21, 2026 @10:28AM (#48223244)
I am old enough to remember when the US insisted that it was superior to China because they believed in the rule of law and sanctity of intellectual property.
Re:Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait
on Monday May 18, 2026 @04:33PM (#48185215)
The Iranians (and their Houthi proxies) have made sustained attacks on them and don't seem to have hit anything.
That's because the US has kept the surface combatants far back from the Persian Gulf for the duration of the war.
As far as we know, they have attempted to run the strait twice and had to turn back because they were under sustained attack.
I assume these ships can defend themselves for some period of time, but eventually the munitions run out, and they become sitting ducks. There is a reason the US Navy fled the Persian Gulf on Feb 26 and has not returned since.