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jqpabc123on Google Pauses Open-Source Bug Bounties as AI Slop Reports Drown Reviewers

Just use AI for review --- problem solved.

The only reason not to do so is --- AI is not reliable.

jqpabc123on Privacy Guard: You Don't Need to Scan My Drivers License

Nice idea but unfortunately this is not legal in many (if not most) US states.

Most states have laws against altering state issued IDs. This includes obstructing the info on them in any way.

jqpabc123on Ask HN: My Apple ID is locked for a week, Apple is a single point of failure

Locking everything in one walled garden is a blatant and obvious security and safety concern --- but many don't think much about such things.

jqpabc123on QBasic in the Browser

Demo looks interesting but where is the VM and compiler?

jqpabc123on The AI Buildout Has Turned into a Doom Loop

"Cirrcular financing" is common in the AI arena.

Nvidia "invests" in companies up and down the AI Infrastructure chain because it leads to sales of more Nvidia GPUs.

In effect, Nvidia is buying a portion of it's own product.

You don't have to be a financial genius to grasp the fact that this can't continue indefinitely --- just like any ponzi scheme.

jqpabc123on IEA Expects EVs to Account for 29% of Global Car Sales in 2026

Meanwhile, the USA is rolling coal and paying through the nose for it.

jqpabc123on Musk says he will rename SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI

This reminds me of how "FSD" was renamed to "FSD Supervised".

In other words, it is another oxymoron.

jqpabc123on AI's 'Thought' Process Can No Longer Be Trusted

How are they supposed to filter out the fact that people "hide, cheat and lie to make money"?

This fact is an innate part of their training data.

jqpabc123on Micro Center requires RTX 5090 buyers to show ID and sign no-export declaration

resold to someone intending to take it outside the country.

Something that is technically impossible for the average end user to verify.

In other words, there is a big gaping hole in this ridiculous exercise.

jqpabc123on 98% of US households aren't paying for AI yet

contributing ~76% of the SP500’s total earnings growth in 2026 (as of late August).

The part that is missing --- a big chunk of these "earnings" are really driven by debt. Debt that is often not (yet) being reflected on corporate balance sheets.

https://techstartups.com/2026/07/23/five-big-tech-giants-hav...

Economists at the Bank for International Settlements recently described this financing approach as “shadow borrowing,” referring to capital raised through structures that avoid immediate recognition as debt under existing accounting rules.

jqpabc123on Musk explains why Tesla Robotaxi isn't running at night, and Lidar is the answer

You don't have to be an expert to grasp that a camera's vision can be degraded by darkness, snow, rain, fog, direct sunlight or simply dirt on the lens.

And that driving blind can be hazardous --- to the driver and anyone else in the vicinity.

jqpabc123on Musk explains why Tesla Robotaxi isn't running at night, and Lidar is the answer

Musk explains that he is not an engineer and his technical evaluations are as suspect as his predictions.

jqpabc123on MailDeskt – Manage multiple inboxes locally with native Resend and SMTP support

Ok, can it import messages from a pst database --- aka Outlook?

Also, can it use a network share for storage without corruption with multiple users --- aka a primary motivation to use MS Exchange.

jqpabc123on Big Tech's Capex Is Half of Wall Street's Profit Growth

in other words, the entire stock market is now being driven by "Enron" accounting where nothing is really as it appears.

jqpabc123on Trump's "super intelligence" naming problem

Trump posted Friday that China's Xi Jinping, "seemed to like" the idea.

"Never interrupt an enemy while he is making a mistake."

- Sun Tzu, The Art of War

jqpabc123on McDonald's Is Reportedly Using AI to "Dynamically" Price Its Burgers

As if a new reason to bypass McDonalds was really needed.

jqpabc123on Google breaks promise to provide 10 years of updates to Chromebooks

Since when has Google ever been trustworthy?

This is just standard operating procedure. Remember --- "Don't be Evil".

jqpabc123on The Beclowning of Scott Bessent

You get the leadership that you deserve.

jqpabc123on Tech's Trillion-Dollar Internal Inconsistency

Long story short --- it's a bubble.

Tech will capture lots of money by putting lots of people out of work.

But people without jobs means fewer "consumers" to buy all the products built with the shiny new AI.

It's capitalism run amuck and it puts the entire economy at risk. Basically, tech is building a rope that will ultimately lead to hanging itself along with the rest of the economy.

jqpabc123on Tech's Trillion-Dollar Internal Inconsistency

It could --- and it already does.

Nvidia is currently "investing" billions in the companies that buy and support it's products up and down the AI stack. And at the same time, Nvidia is "investing" directly in itself with plans to buyback hundreds of billions of it's own stock.

But as you might suspect, this "circular financing" can't continue indefinitely --- just like with any Ponzi scheme

jqpabc123on Bill Gates says unchecked AI could 'cause billion deaths' in call for regulation

Regulatory capture.

Will this include Chinese models?

If not, then it will be ineffective and serve no real purpose except to try and exclude cheaper models from the USA.

jqpabc123on Chinese AI models surge in global popularity

AI is already being treated as a commodity by China.

Their not so secret strategy for owning the AI market --- low cost power.

The good news, "The lion's share of AI spend is still going towards U.S. models"

The bad news, the US frontier AI companies are cash burning machines. And it looks increasing likely that they may never be profitable. US vendors are essentially serving as advertisers and unwitting promoters of cheap Chinese AI.

jqpabc123on Modern Object Pascal Introduction for Programmers

I think in many ways on par or ahead of other mainstream system programming languages.

https://github.com/rochus-keller/Are-we-fast-yet/blob/main/F...

jqpabc123on Privacy.com does KYC using Peter Thiel's Persona [video]

Signing up for privacy.com requires you to surrender access to your bank account.

Isn't this the *opposite* of "privacy"?

jqpabc123on Meta needs you to believe it cares about privacy

I believe --- that Meta and Google haven't proven themselves trustworthy.

I believe that the only way AI can be truly trustworthy is for it to be open source and run locally --- possibly behind a filtering firewall.

Does anyone really want their private, personal data to be used against them?

These companies were built on privacy invasion and I see no reason to believe their AI won't be an extension of this.

jqpabc123on Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges

So a "smart" refrigerator is actually kinda "dumb".

jqpabc123on Modern Object Pascal Introduction for Programmers

I was introduced a very long time ago --- aka Delphi 2. I really like the language but there are mainly 2 problems that stand in the way of using it.

1) The code isn't as "optimized" as it could be.

2) The talent pool is limited --- chicken or egg issue.

It has been this way for a very long time so I don't see it changing.

jqpabc123on Meta's New Muse AI Agent Read My Private Messages. I Never Asked It To

Reminds me of the quote, "The ranch isn't run to benefit the cattle".

Or maybe Forrest Gump, "Stupid is as stupid does".

jqpabc123on Microsoft Publisher will no longer be supported after October 2026

I assume the installed local desktop version will still work but without support.

jqpabc123on Amazon is trying to rehire workers it laid off, emails show

"Swami's Boomerang Reengagement Initiative."

In other words, Swami and company are starting to realize they f'ed up.