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v5v3··on Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs
>What can be done to mitigate this?

Buy hardware used by government computers that are rivals to your country.

So if American, buy Chinese CPUs and install Chinese Linux or HarmoneyOS Assuming there is nothing you are doing of interest to them, as that will also have back doors

After Snowden, one can only imagine the worst and think everything has a backdoor.

But unless you are a high level terrorist or other person of interest, no state organization is going to target you at this level

P.s. you say no one can trust closed source, but a lot of open source is maintained by one or two people or a small group, just takes infiltration by one or two trusted contributors to push malicious code in and unless someone looks and finds that code amongst millions of lines of code, may never be discovered (more so as mainstream media won't publish any thing)

v5v3··on Bending Spoons makes first post-IPO acquisition with $1.3B Airtable deal
Bending Spoons IPO raised $1.68bn so taking away IPO fees and they have in effect spent all of it on 1 acquisition

https://www.axios.com/2026/07/01/bending-spoons-ipo-pricing

v5v3··on Apple is getting this wrong
A lot of negative comments, but I read it and said the usual social. media response of "damn they got the reciepts".
v5v3··on Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code
>Typing the code myself forces me to slow down, which means I'm more likely to detect hallucinations or bad design choices the LLM might have made.

I think this depends on your level of expertise with the task.

If I'm writing a language I am extremely familiar with and so second nature to me, for example SQL then I can instantly read llm code.

But if a new language or a new piece of software then llm generating huge amounts of code can make it difficult to improve yourself and also manage the quality.

v5v3··on Show HN: I made a private self-destructing image hosting site in Golang
>There are similar services to this one, but they are either convoluted with ads, or require sign-up, or expect you to fill out a survey or something.

So you just want to offer it free?

What about ongoing responsibilities if you get DMCA and take down for copyright/child porn/fake nudes and so on

v5v3··on Bending Spoons makes first post-IPO acquisition with $1.3B Airtable deal
>Make offers so low...

Yes, all the company execs at Airtable and the VCs and their lawyers and finance guys and advisors are stupid and were incapable of fielding rival offers...

Businesses tend to sell for their market value at that point in time.

v5v3··on Bending Spoons makes first post-IPO acquisition with $1.3B Airtable deal
Having read their IPO prospectus, my reading - They buy a company which they feel has a sticky product for its loyal userbase and then integrate as many of its common services into its in-house platform e.g. data

They then fire nearly all of the existing new companies staff and think of all the ways they can maximally monetise the existing userbase. Growing the product via investing in it isn't a priority, revenue stream is.

They get a lot of stick, but in fairness they are up front about their business model; they don't hide the fact that they are going to fire most people, unlike traditional private equity firms who make false promises.

v5v3··on Bending Spoons makes first post-IPO acquisition with $1.3B Airtable deal
It's used by non technical people so not sure AI is the competition.

Perhaps Notion and all the project planning apps like Linear, ClickUp, Asana?

v5v3··on Bending Spoons makes first post-IPO acquisition with $1.3B Airtable deal
>Bending Spoons said Airtable's current net cash position implies an equity value of about $2.25 billion.

Bending Spoons must have amazing negotiaters to strike such a bargain.

We should send them to Iran to negotiate the peace deal.

v5v3··on Zombie unicorns are haunting Silicon Valley
I'm assuming there is a lot of local competition to Cameo in other countries?

As it has a large potential market if it did dominate globally.

v5v3··on Zombie unicorns are haunting Silicon Valley
>By May 2026, 332 of the 1,900 unicorns in a database maintained by Ilya Strebulaev of Stanford University had raised money at a valuation at or below their peak (see chart). Of those, 212 were valued at under $1bn. As many as 383 had disclosed no new funding in the previous three years; 41 of these had lost unicorn status

332 out of 1900 isn't that bad?

Even the further 338 if confirmed would still be less a minority of the overall 1900

v5v3··on OAuth for all
Three main providers

(Apple login is in nearly every iOS app and most websites)

v5v3··on Cloudflare launched self-managed OAuth for all
"Ory Enterprise License: Unlock enterprise-grade features like security SLAs for CVEs, SAML, B2B organizations, multi-tenancy, and better scalability." [0]

Or just stick with KeyCloak that offers a full self hosted product... [1]

[0]https://github.com/ory [1]https://www.keycloak.org/

v5v3··on GTA 6 will cost $80
Awareness and for those who don't yet have a console?

Every shop selling it will be advertising it in their shop windows and on the shop floor. That's free marketing!

Also I imagine there will be bundle deals with consoles and other accessories.

v5v3··on OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom
>designed for initial deployment by the end of 2026 and expanding in the years ahead,

So after the IPO and will be featured heavily in the IPO sales brochure as a future promise?

I'm sceptical over any pre-IPO announcements.

v5v3··on How well does the money laundering control system work?
Bananas can't stand.
v5v3··on How well does the money laundering control system work?
Money laundering at the high level works as unless you are on the USA watchlist, it's the USA and it's allies that are the vehicle which facilitates it.

Offshore vehicles? Most are British islands.

Onshore vehicles? Delaware and similar

Unless the west puts you on a list, it's professionals will happily help anyone in the world.

v5v3··on Pixel 10 Phones
Yes.

As an example I think Androids have a single device ID which is given to all apps. But iOS has a per app device ID.

v5v3··on It seems like the AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges
Could it be a 'correct' continuation of Darwin's survival of the fittest?
v5v3··on Streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy
https://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/wiki/megathread/movies_and_t...
v5v3··on Neki – Sharded Postgres by the team behind Vitess
Yugabyte is a 'postgresql compatible' database.

These are forks or extensions of Postgresql.

v5v3··on Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act
Decisions need to be made by juries and not judges...
v5v3··on A ChatGPT Pro subscription costs 38.6 months of income in low-income countries
I think one step at a time.

There are still many countries where digital literacy is very low.

So first step is to ensure everyone has internet/mobile phone/laptop and knows how to use them.

v5v3··on Musk's Tesla applies to supply power to British homes
Tesla already buys wholesale electricity for it's charging network and so is leveraging that and it's brand/customer database to diversify and enter the reliable revenue stream that is domestic utility bills?

Perhaps Tesla share price isn't that silly if they are going to be so innovative in their thinking.

v5v3··on Battery charge limiter for Apple Silicon MacBook devices
As said, latest OS does have a smart 80% limit built in. It's hard to find though (have to click the i for information in battery section).
v5v3··on Ask HN: Would you get a CS degree today?
In many countries degrees are 3 years.

And the FAANGs employ them at their offices in these countries.

Your people could be saving a whole year of their lives not studying algorithms they will never use.

v5v3··on How I code with AI on a budget/free
Start with Qwen of a size that fits in the vram.
v5v3··on The Framework Desktop is a beast
Risk cannabalising sales from their other products?

For example Nvidia seek to ban consumer GPU use in datacenters as they to sell datacentre GPUs.

If they made consumer platforms that can take 1tb of ram etc, then people may choose to not buy EYPC.

Afterall many cloud providers already offer Ryzen VPS's.

v5v3··on The Framework Desktop is a beast
>I have been continuously baffled by the people that think that soldered on RAM is somehow "throwaway"

One of the primary objections to soldered RAM was/is the cost to purchase. As the likes of Apple priced Ram upgrade at a hefty premium to retail prices.

v5v3··on Anyclaude – Claude Code with Any LLM
Excellent!!

But suspect that Anthropic won't be happy at this. Can they sue/block you?

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