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csomaron The Highest Point in the Netherlands

It's either a bot or a meat proxy. I have answered another one to see if they are pro-active. I'd have expected that at least they should process the article but apparently tokens are so expensive in this economy.

csomaron The Highest Point in the Netherlands

Nice. Did you find hungry bears at that elevation?

csomaron Why are European countries moving their gold out of North America?

Localbitcoin is dead but there are still venues to trade bitcoin/crypto for cash. They have mostly moved to p2p on facebook and discord.

csomaron OpenAI begins rolling out GPT-6 Astra

Future of Software Development.

csomaron Claude Code reduces it's weekly limit by 17% – compared to today

It’s not clear how much each token costs and how much it’s being subsidized. It was never meant to last, at some point the music was going to stop and you have to pay full price.

csomaron Stripe said to abandon $50B pursuit of PayPal

I am not sure about the year 2007, but in 2026, they need to be under your monetary authority somehow. That's why most crypto exchanges do not offer service in Europe. Your monetary authority might have a form or an email for complaint and depending on how pro-active they are, they can make the other counter-party very proactive.

csomaron Stripe said to abandon $50B pursuit of PayPal

I don't see it as much as before but recently I had issues with paying z.ai with my card and the only payment alternative they have is PayPal. PayPal now requires an account with a verified phone number just to process your payment, so it's strictly a no-go for me.

I am guessing the millions of people they have on-boarded in the last decades are what makes the business worth something.

csomaron The turbulent AI era is here

Brave New Internet

csomaron The Dutch are filling gas wells with cement

> The remaining reserves, some 500 billion cubic metres, are worth around €200 billion at current wholesale prices – enough to pay every single resident of the province €150,000 as compensation and still have 110 billion euros.

So... not enough to buy them homes in Amsterdam and move their factories/schools/jobs? Good thing the citizens fought this. The activity is not economical without seriously endangering your home. I'd bet that if you were willing to give them a good enough deal, most/many people will take it. But there is no good deal here. It's just a collection of wealth (gas) at the expense of the Groningeniens.

csomaron Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B

They are sharing stuff that makes you consume their stuff. Their position with big ai companies is always vulnerable (asics/direct tsmc relations)

csomaron France reaches 94.9% fiber coverage in 2026

Is it really that expensive? Many poor places are now having optic fiber for even remote areas. Algeria is having its speed boom (https://www.speedtest.net/global-index/algeria#fixed). I have been through some remote poor areas in Asia who had optic fiber with "crazy" speeds (ie: 500mbs).

I wonder if the price of fiber now is just too low that it's very viable to install at scale even for low-density areas.

csomaron Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices

I rarely use it (you need an account, so I need to add cancel to the url) but last time I had a "guest" account was two years ago and it was pretty much all bots. That being said, some (important) people or companies still use it for announcement but these are usually linked and xcancel works just fine.

I honestly have no idea if there are real people who actually use it daily. Who can read that stuff?

csomaron Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded

GDP should be retired. It has become a very polluted metric. The average american is not making $100k of wealth per year, not even close.

csomaron Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded

So same as before?

csomaron Andreessen Horowitz is investing billions into a bleak future

> they expect global war

Based on the recent performance of the US and Russia, there is likely no "global" war. China might take out Taiwan and that will be that. Everyone else will just go/stay home.

csomaron New Worlds: We are living in the future of J.G. Ballard or William Gibson

china has something like 50million homeless people. You are seeing the Arasaka quarters. There are much dodgier areas in all of the big Chinese cities (though surprisingly safe as the Chinese are quite docile)

csomaron How Thailand Resisted Colonization

I think I should be more precise, a Modern nation state. One that imposes laws afar to all minorities/regions, establish some institutions (medical/education/tax/etc..) and raise an army (check some african countries armies or the lack thereof).

The reason why I mentioned the french is because they were the first to modernize at a significant scale (which enabled them to take over all of Europe?) during their revolution.

csomaron Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down

Yes, everyone know a modern economy statistics work by what you can see with your naked eyes out there on the streets.

csomaron How Thailand Resisted Colonization

They decided to “nation-state”. The border theory doesn’t hold since colonial nations border each other pretty much everywhere else.

The reality is, a nation state (a la french model) is much more powerful than the primitive kingdom structure or any other structure really. Most of these kingdoms/empires didn’t have education for the masses or mass levies.

csomaron Linux 7.2

Not really. I never had this less issues on Linux with hardware. I remember 15 years back when I wanted to install it on a Desktop/Laptop, many things simply didn't work. Now you can install Linux on a self-assembled box and 99% of things will work out of the box.

csomaron Harvest hikes bills by 1500% after purchased by Bending Spoons

People migrate at a different cadence but they eventually do. It happened to me before. You are busy with other stuff and just accept the $xx/month cost until you have free time to do the migration.

csomaron Harvest hikes bills by 1500% after purchased by Bending Spoons

It’s not habit. Some people build complex workflows on these and hold substantial data. Moving requires re-building these workflows which is both time and money consuming. Not everyone will have the proper time and capacity to move at a moment’s notice.

csomaron Pacing model development in an era of cyber-critical capabilities

In my opinion, the bubble is very close to burst and they need to move quickly. I have subscribed to Claude today as I wanted to work on some amateurish CLI and then realized how much Opus 5 sucks. Surprised, I checked reddit and found that my experience is not far off from the rest. It's a massive downgrade from 4.8.

I stopped using the Chinese models because even though they are workable, they are too expensive as they are not as subsidized as GPT/Claude subscriptions. Open AI use is particularly subsidized these days. A $20 sub, gives you roughly $400-500 of API use and quasi-unlimited chats.

There is no way people are paying $1.000+ for a chatbot. Most people don't even pay for search. And it is expensive to run these models as the Chinese models have shown that better performance is yielded mostly from the model size.

LLMs also fail spectacularly at making any decent software. I haven't seen any so far and they write fast. So we should have something by now.

Crypto is getting the heads up as capital is getting re-arranged. Bitcoin/Ethereum are up 10-20% today.

csomaron How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

You know you could declare your app screen sensitive and then a screenshot requires a face id?

Whatsapp also does this shit. You can’t screenshot a conversation (it comes back black). I am going Chinese for my next phone.

csomaron Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers

To add to your experience: It was also very hard, for me, to find the setting that disables this JavaScript.

csomaron GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities

I am talking about my general impression not this particular occurence. I have a suspicion that someone/some entity is buying old accounts to bypass the new accounts penalty. I even created (https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/hn-users-filter/ine...) to filter these accounts/comments (disclaimer: vibe-coded)

csomaron GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities

There should be some kind of moratorium on new accounts. HN's always had waves of newcomers, but their impact was always limited. The wave passes and people either get filtered out or adapt. That doesn't seem to be happening anymore, since bots can churn out endless gibberish.

He did answer you though. Native is x10 the non-native speed. 50/50 that's not a bot; though it could be a meat-proxy

csomaron GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities

Most of the money will come from companies/corporations who will be required to buy safe AI. The public will be just banned from buying which might make it hard (ie: site/payment blocked) but not impossible. It could be good enough for the big whales.

csomaron GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities

The car industry is also a trillion $$ market in the US. I don't see why that would go any differently from the Chinese cars ban.

csomaron Deutsche Bank becomes first foreign yuan clearing bank in Europe

https://ember-energy.org/data/china-cleantech-exports-data-e...

Meanwhile everyone is being confused with AI-slop.