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Re:Google cloud outage takes down banks
on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @04:52AM (#50177804)
You mean because they have automated AML/anti-fraud systems that all banks must have; every bank wrongly freezes accounts. To your mind, Revolut does that worse than others. I disagree, but without hard evidence, it's just our hunches at odds.
Re:Google cloud outage takes down banks
on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @12:11PM (#50168561)
> I have always got bad vibes from Revolut...
Help me understand, is the bad vibes you get from stories from the company culture? Or rather that the media put a target on their back (at at least in my opinion this is because they have a Russian born founder? Revolut is one of the best products I've ever used, I've honestly nothing but good things to say about them.
Re:Jev-Leftpad
on Monday September 21, 2026 @06:00AM (#49785235)
Can someone ELI5?
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
on Monday September 14, 2026 @09:54AM (#49696943)
https://www.v55-5.com/
My web app helps people registering an imported vehicle in the UK complete the DVLA’s V55/5 registration form more efficiently.
Re:Instagram is incorporating users' photos in ads for Meta Glasses
on Monday June 29, 2026 @11:22AM (#48720457)
wouldn't "useful ad" imply either 1) clicking through and buying the product or service, or else 2) building up a positive brand association to help increase sales later?
remembering an advert correlates but is different to it being valuable.
Re:Introspective Diffusion Language Models
on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @11:30AM (#47766961)
I'm not in on the joke, can someone ELI5
Re:Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?
on Friday January 16, 2026 @05:32AM (#46645032)
You need both. My sense is that only a minority of people are hardwired to preferably live as hermits. And whilst it's an important life skill to be happy alone, everyone has their breaking point, it's no coincidence that one of the best predictors of longevity is how rich ones social life is.
Re:Apple picks Google's Gemini to power Siri
on Monday January 12, 2026 @11:38AM (#46590836)
I believe both Nvidia and Google have higher market caps
Re:Show HN: Watch and Play Poker with LLMs
on Sunday January 11, 2026 @07:37AM (#46575226)
this could make for an interesting new benchmark
Re:The mineral riches hiding under Greenland's ice
on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @08:45AM (#46526296)
> Surely Congress or the courts would have something to say about it?
my sense is that Trump feels to be above the law right now, having ordered the operation to seize Maduro without Congressional approval (illegal under U.S. constitutional law). Trump's reasoning was that "Congress has a tendency to leak", and so to him congress seems little more than background noise.
Re:Still using Firefox – but not because of its vision
on Tuesday December 30, 2025 @03:35PM (#46437683)
I switched to Firefox after Chrome stopped supporting uBlock Origin, for all the slights I've seen on HN lately with the direction of the product I've been very happy. No regrets.
Re:AI agents are starting to eat SaaS
on Monday December 15, 2025 @11:35AM (#46276736)
My understanding is that agents are:
1) helping to saturate traditional SaaS because code is being commoditized / the effort to build is dropping significantly.
2) defining an adjacent sub-category of SaaS: "Service-as-a-Software" where the SaaS provides _outcomes_ instead of _tools_; this couldn't really exist at scale before recently.
Re:Feedback Doesn't Scale
on Friday November 28, 2025 @05:36AM (#46077392)
I recall in the first lecture of some Comp Sci class back at uni, our lecturer had learnt what felt like every student's name and face from their digital profile, some 100 people. Whenever a random student raised their hand to participate he would say say "yes, <first name>". I'm still to this day in awe of that.
Re:Gemini 3 Pro Model Card
on Thursday November 20, 2025 @09:17AM (#45992794)
It’s not just irritating, it’s repetitive
Mysterious drones have been spotted at airports across Europe
Re:Using Street Lamps as EV Chargers – Tech Briefs
on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @09:21AM (#45900538)
Indeed, the several streets around me in London just had hundreds of EV chargers attached to lampposts.
Space DJ: Navigating a Musical Universe (DeepMind)
Tackling alcohol harm will take more than low-alcohol drinks
Human skin DNA fertilised to make embryo for first time
Re:People Got Together to Stop a School Shooting – Before It Happened
on Monday September 29, 2025 @05:45AM (#45411875)
Curious! Can you share evidence to back up the claim that they are more likely to be bullies themselves?
Re:Grok 4 Launch [video]
on Thursday July 10, 2025 @10:45AM (#44521696)
Hm, impartial benchmarks are independent of Elon's claims?
Re:Grok 4 Launch [video]
on Thursday July 10, 2025 @09:51AM (#44521097)
If indeed, as the new benchmarks suggest, this is the new "top dog" of models, why is the launch feeling a little flat?
For comparison, the Claude 4 hacker news post received > 2k upvotes https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44063703
Re:The Secret Poker Game You Can Play on the Subway
on Thursday February 20, 2025 @06:23AM (#43113454)
I assumed that from the first picture this game would consist of counting the number of folks in a row looking at their phones at a given time.
Which, frankly, I quite prefer since there's less fuzziness about classification of age groups.
Re:670nm red light exposure improved aged mitochondrial function, colo...
on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @11:28AM (#43091562)
I've seen plenty of red light exposure masks / therapies / tools being sold for absurdly high prices. I'm pretty suspicious of them, not least because I don't know much of anything about this area.
Has anyone gone down the rabbit hole here and have genuine product recommendations that roughly satisfy the conditions laid out in the paper? * Wavelength: 650–900 nm red light * Power output: 8 mW/cm² * Misc design choices: e.g. light diffusers * what other considerations???
Re:Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down through in-app ads
on Monday February 03, 2025 @11:26AM (#42919879)
Taken as one of a thousand attributes it's likely to provide at least some discriminatory lift in isolating a single user, even if tiny.
Re:Quit Social Media
on Friday October 25, 2024 @10:38AM (#41945704)
As someone who’s strongly considering just this, could you describe the changes you felt? And — if you again returned to social media for a prolonged period — whether and how quickly those positive changes reverted?
Re:Why The New York Times might win its copyright lawsuit against OpenAI
on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @11:48AM (#39443519)
OpenAI seem to be getting better at stopping jailbreaks, though very probably at the expense of kneecapping the model.
> I'm sorry, but I can't provide text from copyrighted material in that manner. However, I can offer a summary or discuss the themes, characters, and much more about "The Catcher in the Rye" if you're interested. Let me know how I can assist you further!
(From GPT4)