helsinkiandrew

This appears to be true and not an Onion story

> The man filed suit in a Moscow court asking for $15,000 after an incident this summer in which a cryptocurrency called “GayCoin” was delivered via a smartphone app, rather than the Bitcoin he had ordered.

> The GayCoin cryptocurrency arrived with a note saying, “Don’t judge until you try,” according to the complaint.

> “I thought, in truth, how can I judge something without trying? I decided to try same-sex relationships,” the complainant wrote.

And MCP requires OAuth 2.1 which covers some of his criticisms.

Hack my freezers once, shame on you, Hack my freezers twice shame on me.

And plumbers, pest control, heating, HVAC, ....

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-16/private-e... (https://wallhop.io/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2...)

Not exactly non descript but Bruce Dickinson, lead singer of heavy metal band Iron Maiden sidelined as a commercial pilot for a charter airline.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Dickinson

Noticed similar behaviour (request is processed, but don't get response due to connection error) in Claude app. Solution is to a) report to Anthropic (thumbs down button and send a message from help menu) b) after a connection issue don't retry. I don't use Claude design, but in the Claude app you can reload and often the completed task/chat will appear in recents when the network issue is resolved.

The comment said “putting 3 cups of coffee in a can we drink 4 or five of in a day” that would be 1,000–1,500 mg of caffeine. The FDA guidelines is 400mg a day and drinking 1200mg quickly can induce seizures

> Yesterday, Anthropic were compromised and Cursor extension used by tens of millions of developers for Claude access was delivering a remote access trojan via an SSH reverse backdoor

That's a bit hyperbolic: someone released a version of the Claude Code VS Code extension with a backdoor on the Cursor marketplace:

> a maliciously modified version of Anthropic’s Claude Code extension was made available in the Cursor VS Code extension Marketplace

https://cursor.com/blog/claude-code-extension-security-notic...

Presumably related:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/22/trump-atlant...

> Donald Trump said Google rejected his request to rename the Atlantic Ocean after himself or America. Speaking at a rally in South Carolina on Wednesday, the president said he had called Google’s CEO, Sundar Pichai, to ask whether the company could “handle” his proposal.

>According to Trump, Pichai rejected the latest proposal. Trump described the Google CEO’s response by saying, “No, no, no. This time I’m not doing it … Oceans are different, sir. They cover … a lot of countries. Please don’t ask us to do that.”

Ben Krasnow/Applied Science, built a "3D-printed, alcohol-powered, Einstein-Szilard absorption refrigerator" using one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doZ5e4YVdEs

[EDIT] coverage of the printer starts here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doZ5e4YVdEs&t=708s

> like proposing initial designs for new molecules

James van Geelen Of Citrini research brought up a good point on a podcast this week, that designing the molecules is perhaps 10-20% of the effort in bringing a drug to market. We have more possible drug designs than ever get developed.

Whilst AI drugs might be more likely to pass phase 2 tests than others and AI might be applied to the rest of the process there are still big bottlenecks in the way of AI creating a radical change.

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/monetary-matters-with-...

Gift Article: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-26/microsoft...

It mentions "humanity" 21 times.

A 50 year old spruce is about €50 in Finland - from the map the trees don’t look that mature.

You can buy a similar sized forest for €50-150K.

https://www.metsatilat.fi/en/osta?property_type=forest&area_...

The trees being cleared look like commercial forest - trees planted a few decades ago after a previous clearing

This isn’t necessarily about the loss of the trees, but cutting them down possibly without an environmental study. The logging and loss of a large block of trees might effect the nearby agricultural land, the water table, rivers/flooding, displaced wildlife might be forced into towns and crops etc

> Does it really matter so desperately if it takes your AI query an extra 10 ms to go to the middle of nowhere and we have to wait to build renewable or nuclear power to scale it?

The middle of nowhere in Finland is likely to be a forest (about 80% coverage).

The area being developed is roughly here: https://maps.app.goo.gl/f5vn3KaZ1eZEcNh67?g_st=ic

And some kind of bin holding attachment would be far more efficient than using arms and 'fingers'

In the Claude App on my mac with Opus 5.5 Medium - I asked it how to sign up to Duet, then to launch the signup page, fill it in and let me click submit.

All I had to do was say which type of phone I had and edit the 'what I'd do with duet'

In Finland, summer cottage rental self-cleaning (and bringing your own towels and bedding) is common - with an additional fee if you don't want to do it yourself.

It really brings down the price of a single night or weekend stay when you're just using the bed and bathroom and cleaning is a 10 minute job.

I've commented below but "due to the nature of your business" can be because its a newly formed company with few employees and no trading history trying to deposit £700K getting to many points on the banks "is this possibly a terrorist/money laundering/drug dealer" system and getting overzealously denied.

It's currently far more damaging to a bank to give someone an account to perform illegal activities than it is to deny one to a legitimate company. And accounts that are in the gray zone (where transactions keep getting flagged and have to be checked by compliance) are likely to cost far more than they make the bank.

> Having already secured financing of £700,000 and the support of the government, the former British Army officer was confident of being able to open a bank account for his fledgling business.

A very young company with £700,000, a few employees and no trading history would get heavy "Know Your Customer" scrutiny at any bank whether or not it was defence or not. "Due to the nature of your business" could be due to that rather than it being a defence company.

They could well just have ticked to many boxes on Barclays "possibly suspect" checklist and got automatically denied by someone in compliance with hundreds of accounts to check a day.

Matt Levine/Bloomberg has talked about this a lot - where banks can turn the dial from giving everyone an account (and get sued and large fines - Barclays faced litigation due to Epstein), or reject more and get accused of not giving bank accounts to legitimate companies/people.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/newsletters/2026-10-14/ban...

> I wonder if it wouldn't be better to have a Lowe level of constant military spending and have the ability and reputation to be able to quickly spin up and scale military production.

I think the issue is that you need different types of weapons for defence during peacetime and wartime (or when attacking).

For example, Stinger missiles are great for defending against the first wave of a drone attack or occasional rocket - they're effective and quick to use, but its immensely costly to maintain an arsenal of them that would last a year of sustained attack or even the production capability to replace used missiles. When you're under sustained attack it might be better to deploy more troops with lots of (previously warehoused) anti-aircraft cannon that can fill the sky with bullets for a few dollars to bring down drones and rockets and use your Stingers for those that get through.

If hacker news is a place to post feel good animal videos then my contribution is this live cam of a litter of puppies (mostly sleeping). Click on the "Katso suorana" button

https://areena.yle.fi/1-78104441

Misdirection

The art of deliberately guiding or diverting an audience's attention away from a secret action (such as sleight of hand) so the trick can happen unnoticed. Instead of forcing the audience to look away crudely, good misdirection makes the audience want to look at something else naturally.

> Tesla Sales Slump in Third Quarter

https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/tesla-sales-fell-in-third...

This 1968 British Pathe news real amusingly uses the inside for a fashion show:

https://www.britishpathe.com/asset/89082/

Finnish? They've only just started!

You can visit inside House number 1 at the WeeGee exhibition centre near Helsinki (select dates)

https://www.espoo.fi/en/futuro-house

Claude (Opus5.5Medium) with "Claude in Chrome" can scan your activities in Strava and Garmin Connect websites and download GPX files without use of an MCP (perhaps not as quick).

I've found it can also give quite good suggestions for what kind of run to do after looking at my previous weeks activities on the Strava website.