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epa··on Stripe is friendly to “friendly fraud”
Exploiters easily get around this. its a small group of people doing all of the abuse.
epa··on Show HN: isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of NYC
Amazing
epa··on California issues fine over lawyer's ChatGPT fabrications
$10,000 is nothing. Should be $200,000+.
epa··on Just How Bad Would an AI Bubble Be?
Grok fast..
epa··on Evidence that AI is destroying jobs for young people
Maybe its the secret recession?
epa··on Grok Code Fast 1
What about promoting renewable energy, space exploration, frontier physics and advanced engineering makes you concerned?
epa··on IQ tests results for AI
So Grok 4 scores 130 but they put Grok midway in the pack at 110. Bias much?
epa··on Gemini 2.5 Deep Think
Unfortunately we are still in the prompt optimization stage, garbage in garbage out
epa··on Ask HN: Can anybody clarify why OpenAI reasoning now shows non-English thoughts?
There are many users in India training these models. There is also a lot more content out there the models are consuming.
epa··on xAI's Grok 3 comes to Microsoft Azure
See how you get downvoted for your comment. Redditzation is complete.
epa··on BuyMeACoffee silently dropped support for many countries (2024)
One of the main issues with the margin business model (Profit of 5% of a payment for example) is that fraud is leveraged. This means that when you lose 100% of a transaction due to a chargeback or fraud loss, it takes you 20 non-fraud loss transactions to make up for it. The fraud leverage is a huge issue for platforms like this, and in certain countries half the transactions can be fraudsters.
epa··on Canada considering charging for road access from USA to Alaska
This is silly. US is Canada's biggest trading partner and one of the largest borders in the world. 80% of people live within 1 hour of the border. Free trade has allowed both economies to prosper. Canada has everything to gain with free trade. You are right on over reliance, but free trade benefits everyone.
epa··on DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data
Government employees already have access to every text, call, and email you have ever sent. Where was your outrage since the Snowden leaks?
epa··on Tesla Paid Zero Federal Income Tax in 2024, Despite $2.3B in Income
When you spend money on manufacturing and equipment, a company does not get to write off the full amount against their taxes when they buy it - they may have to spread it over a period of useful life of that equipment.
epa··on Launch HN: Karsa (YC W25) – Buy and save stablecoins internationally
Thats not fully true. These flows do have regulation that can be solved.
epa··on Doomsday Book (2006) [pdf]
Page 2, comic sans
epa··on Be a property owner and not a renter on the internet
Ctrl+F "Bitcoin", 0 results.
epa··on Autodesk deletes old forum posts suddenly
Should be already archived by archive.org?
epa··on FTC to launch investigation into Microsoft's cloud business
Blocking the sale of spirit airlines which resulted in its bankruptcy. Claiming that the sale of the Roomba makers would lead to a monopoly. Where is the ‘great’ you speak of?
epa··on Commercial Chapter 11 Filings Increase 70% in First Half of 2024
Lets check how many of these received PPP funding and year of incorporation.
epa··on Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., allowing him to go free
I hope he takes his future security seriously. They are always around the corner.
epa··on Own a weather station? We want your data
https://map.purpleair.com/
epa··on Show HN: gpudeploy.com – "Airbnb" for GPUs
DDoSaaS
epa··on I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
No you cannot. TN requires you to have specialized degree. You can only be sponsored for H1-B by an employer (hired and move same time).
epa··on Tips for linking shell companies to their secret owners
Not that simple - as in, a company that not yet does business but may. That may be financed for that.
epa··on Amazon and iRobot call off their planned acquisition
Governments giving large companies a bigger moat..
epa··on Historic strike called off after Klarna agrees collective bargaining agreement
See also: Credit Cards
epa··on California suspends Cruise's autonomous vehicle deployment
So you observed 21 cars with issues out of the 1000 you saw, a marginal hit rate.
epa··on Unity U-turns on controversial runtime fee and begs forgiveness
Thats the problem with expectations. When you have a free model you need to be freemium with additional features, not adjust pricing to the whole group.
epa··on Payment systems while working at a pizza place
Every few quarters a post like this shows up on HN from an engineer who has ventured into sales reporting. Always a good reminder on why project scoping is so important!
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