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soaredon 216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video]

TVs have streaming services, those need internet to function.

What else does anyone (average consumer) use their TV for? I don’t want a separate device to plug in and remote just to stream things.

soaredon The Coldcard Disaster Gets Worse: The Hack May Have Reached $88.6M

Do we know how the attacker used this knowledge to access wallets? I’m not super familiar with crypto or wallets but that’s the last piece I’m missing

soaredon The Coldcard Disaster Gets Worse: The Hack May Have Reached $88.6M

An FDIC insured wallet would solve this, similar to bank accounts.

soaredon The Coldcard Disaster Gets Worse: The Hack May Have Reached $88.6M

Interesting topic, but I don’t like this writing style. It’s a lot of words to say very little and repeats sentence structure often. The author assumes the reader knows about this hack already, and doesn’t not provide context on what it is, or details like why the attacker is storing coins in 4,000+ wallets.

soaredon Starter Homes Are Piling Up While Luxury Homes Fly Off the Market

Pure clickbait to define a start home solely by the price and nothing else. The titles claim is correct overall, correct for some cities, but incorrect for many cities. No mention of volume - how many homes are in the large “start home” band v the small top 5% band?

Regardless, even calling them lower cost houses still supports the thesis: more data on the K shaped economy.

soaredon REO Trucks I4 4WD Pickup Truck Starts at $21,500

Except this company is brand new and 100% skipped the ceo and cmo steps.

soaredon Kaiser nurses say AI, surveillance are making their jobs and patient care worse

I’d rather have an NP 10 times out of ten for primary care

soaredon S&P downgrades Oracle to BBB – only one notch above junk level

A lot of internal stuff ends up on Oracle cloud since it’s easier, jira, confluence, etc

soaredon USAA closed 51% of home insurance claims without making a payment in 2025

You can’t really expect insurance companies to identify and support policies in areas where many homes may be at huge risk of flooding, while another has zero.

That’s massive operational overhead and is definitely not as simple as looking at elevation, and that overhead is reasonably not worth it for those companies.

soaredon USAA closed 51% of home insurance claims without making a payment in 2025

I would pretty much disagree with everything here.

Paying off a 3% mortgage means you could not invest that money, which would return 7% on average or like 10+% recently. That is a lot of lost money.

Anyone whos not L5 at bigtech cannot afford any home on a cash basis. That’s not a realistic bar.

That being said, insurance is wildly different by state and location and it sounds like it royally sucks in Texas.

soaredon Tell HN: Installing Cursor on iOS irreversibly changes your privacy settings

That support quote is from an LLM. If you have any escalation paths (twitter, or this thread lol) there may still be a way to change it back.

soaredon What Ozempic does to the gut-brain axis

Omeprazole is not great long term FYI - worth talking to your doctor or getting a second opinion to discuss.

soaredon Temporary Cloudflare accounts for AI agents

I’m going to need a wrapper for all these services offering this service.

soaredon Seven Perfect Shuffles Randomize a Deck of Cards. But How Many Sloppy Ones?

I don’t know on perfect shuffles but for the sloppy shuffles, the deck is cut at a random location between each shuffle.

soaredon Seven Perfect Shuffles Randomize a Deck of Cards. But How Many Sloppy Ones?

Upper limit of 14. I’m curious then - when playing cards with friends we start with a semi -random, but definitely clumped, deck. It gets shuffled a couple times.

How random is that deck? How many “cold spots” does it have? Just how not random of decks are people playing with, and ultimately does that even matter if players lack the knowledge or skill to change their play because of that knowledge?

soaredon Workers are spending over 6 hours a week botsitting AI, fueling job frustration

They are, eng makes 600k/yr and I make 2, so their times is worth triple mine. It’s cost effective to make me toil and drown in frustration if it reduces ticket volume.

soaredon Euro-Office: First version of the open-source web office is here

https://github.com/Euro-Office

I’m not familiar with the project, but can anyone clarify what it means that it’s not intended to be used standalone and instead built into other projects? What’s the intention / expectation?

soaredon Workers are spending over 6 hours a week botsitting AI, fueling job frustration

I spend at least 6 hours a week arguing with bots owned by other teams, as I’m unable to reach a human before I bypass their bot. 10k person company, clients are paying for my time.

soaredon Starlink shifts hardware from one-time purchase to $10/month rental

Agreed - this shifts large single time purchases into MRR which looks way better to investors.

soaredon Ask HN: Why hasn't there been a real competitor to Ticketmaster yet?

Artists want to make art, not sit on the phone coordinating with venues, vendors, promoters, insurance, marketing, etc.

soaredon Dell Unveils $699 Laptop with Features 'You Won't Find on a MacBook Neo'

Classic dell to compete on tech specs, but miss the idea of what makes Apple what it is.

I don’t need a neo, but I would get one because the hardware is the absolute best quality, and everything works with little to no issues. I don’t want windows hello, I want the metal body, great keyboard, screen, etc.

I like windows way better than macOS, but Mac hardware only ever is comparable to windows surface for me.

soaredon Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?

A 30% increase in one year, across only 3 companies, seems like a of a stretch. Especially given current economic/etc climates.

soaredon Toshifumi Suzuki, founder of Seven-Eleven Japan, has died

7/11 has always had hot pizza, fried chicken, rollers, etc in my area?

soaredon Show HN: Number Gacha, a gacha game distilled to its essence

3rd pvp round is 852 and seems quite difficult

soaredon Show HN: Number Gacha, a gacha game distilled to its essence

Fun! On iOS I can drag numbers into my battle team - it tries to refresh the page when I drag outside a very short range.

Edit - refresh fixed it?

soaredon WHO declares Ebola outbreak a global health emergency

I’ll solve the second to last one for you! I know multiple people who had Covid, and very quickly died, of Covid.

soaredon We are retiring our bug bounty program

Moving money is not free, and managing payments/etc can be a huuge headache. Sometimes it’s easy, but sometimes it’s not.

soaredon What happens when you post a real Monet and say it's AI?

Two interesting replies:

It’s not a physical painting made by a well known artist.

It’s trying to hard to be a late Monet.

How much of our opinions are driven by context, rather than the actual subject? If Monet’s work is not so great without the context, is it still great? Or is context a critical piece of the art itself? Do we need to view a Monet piece within the scope of other Monet pieces, other artists, time periods, blindness, etc?