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polonbike··on Who Is Planting Backdoors in Ledger Crypto Wallets?
Even if it is still possible to do, doing it at scale becomes a lot more complex
polonbike··on Lobbying is corruption
Probably because you missjudge the bottom line. We're still at the beginning because we will go down far bellow anyone's expectation.
polonbike··on Anecdotally, programmers dislike "reduce"
If you can smell it, there's something fishy in the neighborhood
polonbike··on The American Age Is Over
The same was said about W. Also elected twice. We then saw 8golden years, before the orange president. So I would wait a bit before being able to say "good riddance, everything will be ok now, USA is saved"
polonbike··on Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?
Thank you so much for sharing this
polonbike··on Omakase Computing
Please use standard hamburger menu icon or equivalent. The bookshelf icon does not represent a menu or a navigation indication.
polonbike··on A 25-year-old video patent just expired, ending a legal headache for Linux
The fact that they don't use it has nothing to do with the availability of the patented process. I don't think Amazon will just say : "You guys can have it, we don't use it anyway"
polonbike··on PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform
Yes. But a click on the link will provide a more detailed answer.
polonbike··on Launch HN: Minicor (YC P26) – Windows desktop automations at scale
Congrats on the launch. One complaint: RPA this, non-RPA that, but you never explain what it means. I would write down the acronym fully once at the first mention on the landing page.
polonbike··on Chezmoi introduces ban on LLM-generated contributions
I am wondering why you are posting this link, then asking this question to the HN community, instead of asking the project directly for more details. I does look like your intent is to stir some turmoil over the project position, and not to contribute constructively to the project.
polonbike··on Six months into tariffs, businesses have no idea how to price anything
My point of view , from Europe, is that political violence is already there in the US. As well as state violence (not just on political opponents, but also on all minorities and "people who have a different opinion"). The next step is indeed a second civil war, with 21st century characteristics (hybrid war, etc...) I am not enthusiastic about the near future for the US nor for the world.
polonbike··on His psychosis was a mystery–until doctors learned about ChatGPT's health advice
A-Idiocraty
polonbike··on Show HN: A color name API that maps hex to the closest human-readable name
N>1, proportion of colourblind people depends on the origin, but there are many of us. In Europe, nearly 10% of males are impacted by one of the colourblind variant, aka millions of people. Some of those people are dev, designers, or working alongside some sort color requirements, but none of them are graphists and can choose colors. Having a tool to provide a name instead of an hex code is useful to discuss colors with other stakeholders (customers, colleagues, etc...)
polonbike··on Autonomous drone defeats human champions in racing first
Well .. it depends on other assumptions, like the amount and type of energy allowed (continuous gigawatt electricity access during the trip ?), amount of "roughness" the human can sustain during the trip (canonball a human packed in an big airbag ?), actual budget limit for the project, etc ....
polonbike··on Hydra: Vehicles on the island – 'After the works they abandon them here'
Bikes, even muscular ones, can be annoying to pedestrians on thin hiking paths. My take is that even if they allow one/a few/a capped number, then it's out of the bottle, and people will try to game the system one way or another
polonbike··on Avoid ISP Routers (2024)
Same here (except Chile). It's weird/sad/expected because of Comcast & others that the US are still not reliably connected everywhere. From the country that brought us the internet!? In my (European) country, you have to live in a swamp far away from everything to not have FTTH legibility, in the same ballpark prices as the comment above. Static IP as a (free) opt-in.
polonbike··on Ask HN: How can I realistically change careers?
Basketball ?
polonbike··on The Free Movie: Frame-by-frame, handrawn reproduction of "The Bee Movie" (2023)
Same here. If you skip to a random part of the movie, and move frame by frame, it becomes a game of "spot the penis". Just one or two can be "tolerated", but we're far from that here, so ... My opinion is that it does not really belong in HN
polonbike··on Hammer Looking for a Nail, AI Drone Looking for Business Case
If you're targeting first responders, you could approach private ones first (festival, big event, fairs, etc..). They have basically the same needs as the public ones, but their operation theatre is sometimes/often a private one (private property) with a lot less regulatory overhead.

Obligatory IANAL here, but (not US) event organiser.

polonbike··on Eko Health scores $41M to detect heart disease earlier and more accurately
In many countries, health is not a business, but a research topic. As a result, databases, cohorts, studies and other data collections can exist without being monetised, or being monetised within some contractual bounds stricter than what happened with LLM training data. So, to get a head start, you would connections in the medical world, and cardiologists, to get access to this data (that already exists). And you would need those professionals for analysis and feedback of your product too
polonbike··on Ask HN: What movies changed your perception of reality or life?
This one has moved me a lot, and talked to me in so many ways. I came here to post this movie, that HAD to be in the list. No spoiler.
polonbike··on Launch HN: PointOne (YC W24) – Automated time tracking for lawyers
I'll allow it
polonbike··on Launch HN: PointOne (YC W24) – Automated time tracking for lawyers
Sounds like you're trying to dodge the question a bit here, but this is a real yes or no question, that I will rephrase: Is my data sent to any unidentified partner that is not listed explicitly on the contract ? I understand that, as a cloud based solution, it is sent outside my network, but can you guarantee (and write down) that no other third party will have any access to it, even partially ?

If you can not answer with a firm YES here, and have to lawyer wriggle out your answer, then this is a non starter.

Edit: formatting

polonbike··on Random Walk Simulation
It does work on Firefox on my side.
polonbike··on Nokia Tells Reddit It Infringes Some Patents in Lead-Up to IPO
But Nokia already owns it on mobile !
polonbike··on Why are there suddenly so many car washes?
Did the serie Breaking Bad inspire a trend, showing a seemingly innocent/efficient way to clean money ?
polonbike··on Google asks me daily for my location to improve connectivity even if I say no
Same with cookies settings, on many websites. I decline/refuse every time, while logged in, but they continue to ask every time, probably until I misclick. Some browser extensions help a bit to manage this, but the burden is still here.
polonbike··on It was almost impossible to make the blue LED [video]
Having blue allowed creating white, and anycolor (RGB) LEDs, so I would not dismiss them just because you don't like the blue color
polonbike··on Remote access giant AnyDesk resets passwords and revokes certificates after hack
Teamviewer is a no brainer, cross platform, to handle my retired dad's computer on the other side of the country and/or customer's screens on the other side of the world.
polonbike··on When I got started I debugged using printf() today I debug with print()
Unfortunately, not all languages/systems have an efficient and useful debugger. This becomes especially true when multiple stacks are involved. But the print statement remains possible across almost all tools, technologies and systems
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