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Hmm, maybe for countries with strong consumer protection, yes.

I lost 3 credit cards INSIDE an airplane (hello AirAsia!). I only realized it when I turned on my phone while queuing at immigration and was bombarded with dozens of "Successful transaction" messages. That's ~30min from stepping off the airplane. When I checked my statements, I saw dozens of physical transactions (swipes/taps) with different merchants in different cities from the airport.

All 3 cards have different PINs. All require a PIN for transactions above ~USD200. Yet the banks rejected my disputes because "it's a physical transaction, so you must be the one doing it." Apparently, they all think I could fly to different cities, buy different items, and fly back to wait in immigration, all in 30 minutes.


I had missed the warning that this tech is now widespread. Must have not logged into Hacker News that day

https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/nfc-gate-relay-attacks-2026/5...


But but my CC literally said "it's more secure" (I asked and complained about the contactless feature because it interfered with my transit card)

If my bank did this to me I would immediately drop them.

Lawsuit time! Against your bank.

OpenClaw made the headlines everywhere (including here), but I feel like I'm missing something obvious: cost. Since 99% of us won't have the capital for a local LLM, we'll end up paying Open AI etc.

How much should we budget for the LLM? Would "standard" plan suffice?

Or is cost not important because "bro it's still cheaper than hiring Silicon Valley engineer!"


I signed up for openrouter to play with openclaw (in a fresh vm), I added a few $, but wow, does it burn through those quickly. (And I even used a pretty cheap model, deepseek v3.2).

"To run code written by agents" vs "What Monty cannot do: Use the standard library, ..., Use third party libraries."

But most real world code needs to use (standard/3rd party) library, no? Or is this for AI's own feedback loop?


Python code and resource-constraint device don't seem like a good combo in terms of performance. Is it just for prototyping?

Only in the same sense as interpreted BASIC in 8 bit home computers, with their 64 KB RAM, single digit MHz, tape loading.

Good for prototyping and introduction to programming, then you had to switch to Assembly for anything meaningful.

Here, you might switch to Assembly like in those days, or maybe C, C++, Rust, Zig, whatever.


Some I know use it in production for iot in remote factories where internet isn't reliable.

If anything needs to be fixed, anyone with a computer can connect on the USB port and push new pythons files, without the need of an up to date dev environment.

Usually performance isn't that important as those devices handle a few events per second.


Any free alternative that works for small team but not self-hosted?

Powershell

If you’re only 3 people or less just use a shared account .. or pay them if you use it significantly


Since we're in this topic, can anyone suggest good AI-based tool for exploratory (fuzzy?) web testing?

Personally, I hope EV adoption (in Indonesia) improves, as they mostly come from China and challenge the status quo of Japanese cars.

Chinese cars are a "better deal" because they give more bang for the buck. Japanese cars, on the other hand, are very "stingy" due to decades of near monopoly.


Just wondering: Does anyone here use Discord as a Slack alternative? Meaning for Work™. Why and why not?

I've been using it for a small startup, not in a regulated space (not defense, fintech). So far no issue, but I keep thinking I'm missing something (maybe it's just "You use gamerz tool for work lol???")


Lack of control over moderation. If a person says something spicy and other person in company reports it, it goes to discord moderation and be banned for few days (or at worst case, forever). Also no way to use enterprise auth.

But other than that it's better chat platform than any other I used and it is very versatile when it comes to programming it, if you need it. Making flow like "you need to go thru the rules, then you get access to rest of the server" is possible, I even saw cool stuff like "click this reaction to get subscribed to that group of channels"


First time hearing PARA, how does it compare to GTD? (Not looking for generic answer, but from experience as typical HN crowd)


PARA is more about data organization (it doesn't have concept of tasks originally) GTD is oriented on specifically on tasks


"These guys are much better than houseflies... ...They don’t transmit disease" -- My worry is for houseflies to sneak inside and cross-breed and "poison the well", is that possible?


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