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lucasban··on Judge rules Trump administration’s blacklisting of Anthropic was illegal
Hyperbole gets attention, which is useful
lucasban··on Rethinking Database Programming
Or just let the language be the database like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPS ;)
lucasban··on Book Corners: Community map of neighborhood book exchange spots
You might see if you can incorporate the data from https://littlefreelibrary.org/map/ as well
lucasban··on Herdr: Agent multiplexer that lives in your terminal
Short version, yes, but herdr is more mouse / touch friendly in my experience. I was using tmux for my mobile access before and after tweaking things it worked well, but herdr worked out of the box for me.
lucasban··on U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6
It’s likely that this would slow down the rate of advancement at the Chinese labs as well
lucasban··on Anthropic updates their terms to verify age or identity
What about a signed attestation of your identity based on your passport? I don’t particularly want a future where we need to present ID for any online service, but for certain high-risk services (e.g. financial services, medical records, government portals) I’d rather a proper identity system than cobbling something like this together.

As an aside, when traveling internationally it’s not uncommon to need to provide your passport information if you want to get a sales tax rebate. I’ve never purchased something expensive enough abroad to bother with it.

lucasban··on Changing How We Develop Ladybird
Why do you care if they want to put stickers on their laptop? It’s not my taste, either, but it’s subjective.
lucasban··on Intelligent Terminal 0.1
Nice to see that they are using ACP.
lucasban··on A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro
Not that I agree with them, but your tone could be more constructive as well.
lucasban··on Brazil's Pix payment system faces pressure from Visa and Mastercard
They can federate the systems, I know Singapore’s PayNow connects to Malaysia and Thailands systems
lucasban··on South Korea introduces universal basic mobile data access
During COVID in Singapore, music in restaurants was banned, as people may talk more loudly to compensate.
lucasban··on Anthropic drops flagship safety pledge
I’m not a lawyer, but my understanding is that HIPAA wouldn’t apply to consumer use of Claude or ChatGPT in most cases, even if you’re giving it your health data. Look up what a HIPAA covered entity. This is another reason why the US needs a comprehensive data protection law beyond HIPAA.
lucasban··on The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from using any banking app
This should be enforced by the backend, why should you ever trust the client to tell you what access you have?
lucasban··on It's ~2026 –. ChatGPT still doesn't allow email change
Phone either, I’ve moved countries and no longer have access to the phone number I signed up with. I was hoping they’d address this before that number came up for reassignment but maybe not at this rate.
lucasban··on Meta Segment Anything Model 3
I thought it was a joke about YAML
lucasban··on Building more with GPT-5.1-Codex-Max
The fun one for me is that I moved countries and last I checked there’s still no way to change your phone number on ChatGPT short making a new account, so now my account is associated with a phone number that I no longer have access to and will eventually be reassigned to someone else.
lucasban··on Dark mode by local sunlight (2021)
My understanding is that white on pure black can be troublesome for people with a certain level of astigmatism as they will experience halation, which can make things appear blurrier.
lucasban··on Dark mode by local sunlight (2021)
I believe most OS that have an option to do this by location also allow for manually specifying the schedule
lucasban··on Using AI to negotiate a $195k hospital bill down to $33k
One thing also to keep in mind, is that this experience is not uniform throughout the US. Many Americans like -their- employer based insurance, even if they don’t like the system. I personally pay nothing for visits and nominal fees ($1-10) for prescriptions. I have not been hospitalized while on this insurance, but my understanding is that it is relatively low cost. I also have no monthly premium. Meanwhile, my mother works at a small business, pays a significant percentage of her income for insurance from the ACA marketplaces (the public marketplaces created during the Obama administration) with the current subsidies, subsidies that are in question under the current administration. The American healthcare payment system is broken, but we aren’t all living through the worst case scenario experiences that get the attention. Add to that the amount of money and effort that went into turning healthcare reform into yet another partisan issue, and there’s a good recipe for maintaining a broken status quo for a while yet.
lucasban··on The AirPods Pro 3 flight problem
For what it’s worth I did not experience this issue on my most recent overseas flights, but I also only wore them at full altitude
lucasban··on It's not always DNS
I wish it had a little bit more padding on mobile, but I agree otherwise
lucasban··on OpenAI acquires Sky.app
Yeah the closest thing I recall using is tasker but that relies on mostly private intents, the nice thing with shortcuts is it uses the same intents developers use for things like Siri Shortcuts so there’s first class support
lucasban··on RFK Jr pushes fringe claim linking autism to circumcision
Right - if it results in fewer children having body parts removed unnecessarily, at least something positive will have come of this.
lucasban··on Social anxiety isn't about being liked
I mostly agree but I think the nuance with comedy is that there can be a mismatch in audiences, sometimes the others participating are not the intended audience, but are instead used as props. In that case it could be successful comedy independently of if they enjoyed it. Whether or not that’s ethical in a given situation is a separate question.
lucasban··on Meta will listen into AI conversations to personalize ads
Why not both?
lucasban··on ChatGPT Pulse
How is blockchain technology mutually exclusive from being able to take legal action against e.g. fraud?

Sure there are implementations that can be used that way, but the core idea of a blockchain could be used to do the opposite as well, for example by making transaction information public and verifiable.

lucasban··on Microsoft PowerToys
The new PowerToys command palette is looking promising as well, still very worthy of the beta label but I like where it’s going
lucasban··on My phone is an ereader now
On a related note, I have a Korean friend who’s name sounds similar to a floor number in the parking garage I use. When I use Siri or VTT to record where I parked, I often end up with his name instead.
lucasban··on Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?
I’ve set this up for friends in fairly heavily censored countries before, it has been working well so far, but as others have said, this is a cat and mouse game
lucasban··on AI Mode in Search gets new agentic features and expands globally
The phrasing was a bit ambiguous but I’m pretty sure that they meant: “when it appears, it answers my question 50% of the time”
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