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hmate9··on Instant Checkout and the Agentic Commerce Protocol
In a way this was kind of inevitable, but I had hope that it was still 1-2 years away. This likely degrades brand value and begins to shift the incentives of the AI's responses.
hmate9··on AWS launches Kiro, its Cursor clone
From the little I’ve played with it so far, its spec-driven format seems to give better results when making large changes to code.
hmate9··on Cloudflare Introduces Default Blocking of A.I. Data Scrapers
Isn’t this only useful for blogs, news sites, or forums? Why would I want an AI to know less about my product? I want it to understand it, talk about it, and ideally recommend it. Should be default off.
hmate9··on Gemini CLI
I’ve found the experience pretty underwhelming so far. Maybe they’re under heavy load right now, but nearly every time I try to use it, it takes about 20 seconds before it automatically switches from 2.5 Pro to 2.5 Flash due to delays. Unfortunately, the Flash output just isn’t good enough.
hmate9··on WWDC25: macOS Tahoe Breaks Decades of Finder History
The entire UI redesign of "liquid glass" looks horrible in its current state. Right now the readability factor on iOS is at an all time low. It feels like a change just for the sake of change. How is it better?
hmate9··on Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview
Probably the best one right now, their deep research is also very good.
hmate9··on Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison
It obviously deters crime. Look at it this way. If maximum prison sentence was 5 minutes, would you see more or less crime happening?
hmate9··on LLM Visualization
This is a phenomenal visualisation. I wish I saw this when I was trying to wrap my head around transformers a while ago. This would have made it so much easier.
hmate9··on Neuralink Raises an Additional $43M
Serious question: Why wouldn’t Elon just fund it all himself? $43M is 0.02% of his net worth.
hmate9··on Stripe live dashboard
Now multiply that number by 2% which is about what stripe charges per transaction. Pretty nice revenue
hmate9··on Fair coins tend to land on the same side they started
You have to take into account how much it rises and how much it falls too. It might be you win more often but when you lose you lose more.
hmate9··on Reverse-engineering Google’s "Skip Button Guarantee"
I feel like this is kind of an open secret and the analytics about an ad that google or facebook give to advertisers must be taken with a grain of salt.

That is why every serious advertiser runs their own analytics about how many people visited their site from the ad, return per ad spend etc.

Of course this is harder to do on broader, brand awareness campaigns but can still be tracked to an extent.

hmate9··on Apple Vision Pro: Apple’s first spatial computer
External battery with a cord, and even with that only 2 hours performance. This has to be improved before mainstream appeal. (and the price of course)
hmate9··on YouTube suspends a YouTuber's Patreon-exclusive account for self-impersonation
If that’s the case then it will very quickly be known that spending this money is useless.

This is supposed to be a win win for both the platform and the user and not a source of revenue.

Of course if google decides to try and squeeze a couple of extra bucks of profit from this then it is useless.

hmate9··on YouTube suspends a YouTuber's Patreon-exclusive account for self-impersonation
Allow people to pay say $50 in order to get someone to actually review all the facts about the case and refund the user the money if they were right.
hmate9··on Entrepreneurs who regret starting businesses
Stress + neglected diet and exercise definitely puts a strain on your body.
hmate9··on Italian government seeks to penalize the use of English words
Context: "Prisencolinensinainciusol" is a song by Italian singer Adriano Celentano, released in 1972. The song's lyrics are intentionally gibberish, meant to sound like American English to an Italian audience. The song is a commentary on the globalisation of language and culture, and the ways in which language can be manipulated and distorted for commercial purposes. It became a hit in Italy and later gained popularity worldwide, and has been seen as a precursor to modern forms of global pop culture.
hmate9··on Automatically enable or disable end-to-end encryption
Does anyone have a tldr of why it took this long?
hmate9··on As part of their investment, Microsoft gained access to the full OpenAI codebase
While I don’t think Musk is saying OpenAI agreed to give them the source code but that because they’re hosted on Azure they have access to everything.

He clarified in a reply to the tweet: “ChatGPT is entirely housed within Microsoft Azure. When push comes to shove, they have everything, including the model weights.”

hmate9··on ChatGPT Plugins
Giving an AI direct access to a code interpreter is exactly how you get skynet.

Not saying it’s likely to happen with current chatgpt but as these inevitably get better the chances are forever increasing.

hmate9··on Show HN: ChatLLaMA – A ChatGPT style chatbot for Facebook's LLaMA
Heads up: The UI is not usable on iOS safari if the URL bar is set to be on the bottom. The bar covers up the text area and send button and if you scroll down it jumps back up to be hidden again.
hmate9··on Ask HN: How do you start over with 2FA after losing your phone?
If you’re reading this and don’t have backup codes for Google auth stored somewhere offline then this is your wake-up call to do it now.
hmate9··on OpenAI and Microsoft extend partnership
This blog post offers no specific detail about the partnership (dollars involved and terms). Are those details public somewhere else?
hmate9··on ChatGPT scores 80% on SAT reading/writing with collective chain of thought
It’s interesting how HN likes to hate on GitHub copilot but loves chatgpt.
hmate9··on How Apple names things
iPhone naming will have to be restarted soon. Purely from marketing I feel going from iPhone 14 to iPhone 15 doesn’t sound as impressive as going from iPhone to iPhone 2.

After a while these large numbers feel like minors on a software patch and not big leaps that drive sales from average consumers.

hmate9··on Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]
By the way twitter dropped this policy change during the World Cup finals, trying to minimize the amount of attention it gets. Doesn't seem to be working for them.
hmate9··on Paul Graham is leaving Twitter for now
This twitter policy change is the greatest thing that could have happened for Mastodon. They couldn't buy better advertisement than this.
hmate9··on Songtell
Here is something fun to do with this: copy the description of a song from songtell (like Bohemian Rhapsody) and ask ChatGPT to write a song that matches that description.
hmate9··on SEC awards more than $20M to whistleblower at unnamed company
As someone who knows nothing about how they operate it would greatly surprise me if they didn’t obfuscate the time these announcements are made. Otherwise what’s the point of not saying the name of the company if you announce at the same time? So probably just a coincidence (I hope).
hmate9··on Ghana plans to buy oil with gold instead of dollars
1) it was much stronger in 1985

2) just because it’s strong now doesn’t mean it cannot ever fail. Ray Dalio’s new book might interest you as he breaks down past world powers and how their currencies (which were global reserve currencies at the time) collapsed

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