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EO Against Debanking

https://twitter.com/cremieuxrecueil/status/1953568360421327015
7•MrBuddyCasino•2h ago

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andsoitis•2h ago
Announcement: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/08/guar...

Seems like a good idea. I do wonder whether or how this will impact credit card companies who refuse to do business with certain categories of businesses who they consider too unsavory such as described in this recent story: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/29/mastercard-vis...

bigyabai•2h ago
This probably won't move the needle on that. Mastercard and Visa's assessments were risk-based and entirely apolitical, even if widely disagreeable (and imo against constitutional rights). Their fight will be settled separately, and I'm not holding out much hope for the right-wing willpower to defend incest video games. It wouldn't surprise me if the suggested remediation from this admin was to use crypto instead.
g42gregory•1h ago
> Mastercard and Visa's assessments were risk-based and entirely apolitical

Any support for this assertion?

theamk•1h ago
A very long, but also very good article I always remember when I hear "debanking": "Debanking (and Debunking?)" by Patrick McKenzie (patio11) [0]

> Perhaps a founder might ask a friend: “I run a legitimate business which happens to be in crypto and suddenly found my personal accounts closed. Why did this happen? I did nothing wrong.”

> Playing the odds? The bank thinks there is an unacceptable risk that you will use your personal accounts to launder money on behalf of the business (and/or its customers, etc). The bank has insufficient controls to give them an appropriate level of certainty as to whether you’re doing this or not. They are disinclined to find out the hard way, so they invite you to find another bank.

> Why do they think you might launder on behalf of the business? In part because of the extensive history of crypto companies laundering funds through the accounts of their founders and employees, specifically, and the banking industry’s highly-evidenced belief that businesses and their owners routinely commingle funds, generally.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42371476

The Potato's Mysterious Family Tree Revealed–and It Includes Tomatoes

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-the-potato-got-its-start-nine-million-years-ago-thanks-to-a-tomato/
1•petethomas•59s ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Other funny public mishaps like OpenAI bar chart?

https://old.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1mk5qy0/openai_did_not_use_their_most_advanced_model_to/
1•bkls•4m ago•1 comments

Blueberry Hill

https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2025/08/07/blueberry-hill/
1•interpol_p•7m ago•0 comments

Closing Thoughts

1•prairieroadent•9m ago•0 comments

Covid-19 vaccine and settler colonialism (2022)

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9790952/
3•karim79•18m ago•1 comments

Digital Pet ID with QR Code – Keep Your Pet Safe and Connected

https://www.petidgenerator.com/
1•alenguo•20m ago•2 comments

GPT-5 leaked system prompt

https://gist.github.com/maoxiaoke/f6d5b28f9104cd856a2622a084f46fd7
3•maoxiaoke•31m ago•0 comments

Convert your legacy liability into a competitive advantage

https://legacy-modernization.io/
1•mooreds•38m ago•0 comments

The Paranoid Style in American Politics (1964)

https://harpers.org/archive/1964/11/the-paranoid-style-in-american-politics/
3•mitchbob•45m ago•0 comments

3D Printing Radiance Fields

https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.00887
1•E-Reverance•49m ago•0 comments

GPT-5: "How many times does the letter b appear in blueberry?"

https://bsky.app/profile/kjhealy.co/post/3lvtxbtexg226
5•minimaxir•49m ago•1 comments

Visionaries Turn into Authoritarians

https://phys.org/news/2025-08-hubris-arc-visionary-politicians-authoritarians.html
5•gsf_emergency_2•54m ago•2 comments

Supernovas AI – All-in-One Tool to Chat with Every Top AI Model and Your Data

https://supernovasai.com
1•saljump•58m ago•1 comments

Rails queue adapter for mindful developers. Accepts all jobs, executes none

https://github.com/mensfeld/passive_queue
1•mooreds•58m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Other options for better resolution on macOS?

1•coro_1•1h ago•0 comments

How did a debate over housing become a call to end the anti-monopoly movement?

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/an-abundance-of-sleaze-how-a-beltway
6•jez•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Scheduled PC Tasks, automatically schedule simulations of actions on PC

https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/xp9cjlhwvxs49p?hl=en-US&gl=US
1•AmirHammoutene•1h ago•0 comments

Vibe Coding: The Hot Hand

https://twitter.com/steve_yegge/status/1953627751237484802
1•mmorearty•1h ago•1 comments

New executive order puts all grants under political control

https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/08/new-executive-order-puts-all-grants-under-political-control/
19•pbui•1h ago•4 comments

AI Art Resources

https://jonathandinu.com/writing/ai-art-resources/
1•clearspandex•1h ago•0 comments

Beyond Naive RAG: Practical Advanced Methods by Hamel Husain and Shreya Shankar

https://maven.com/p/945082/beyond-naive-rag-practical-advanced-methods
1•simonpure•1h ago•0 comments

Trump opens door for 401(k) plans to invest in crypto

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-opens-door-for-401k-retirement-plans-to-invest-in-private-equity-and-crypto
5•geox•1h ago•0 comments

Discrimination Lawsuit over Workday AI Hiring Tools Can Proceed as Class Action

https://www.fisherphillips.com/en/news-insights/discrimination-lawsuit-over-workdays-ai-hiring-tools-can-proceed-as-class-action-6-things.html
4•walterbell•1h ago•1 comments

I finally had the opportunity to drive the Seaglider prototype myself

https://twitter.com/billythalheimer/status/1953532342414279154
1•delichon•1h ago•1 comments

Law Isn't Code

https://www.artificiallawyer.com/2021/09/27/law-isnt-code-and-thats-a-good-thing/
2•ghssds•1h ago•0 comments

The New ChatGPT Resets the AI Race

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/08/gpt-5-launch/683791/
3•indigodaddy•1h ago•4 comments

As Ozempic Shrinks Appetites, Some Restaurants Offer Miniature Meals

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/dining/ozempic-appetite-small-meals-restaurants.html
11•mikhael•1h ago•5 comments

Augment Code model comparison: GPT-5 vs. Claude Sonnet 4

https://www.augmentcode.com/blog/gpt-5-is-here-and-we-now-have-a-model-picker
2•g42gregory•1h ago•0 comments

StaAgent: An Agentic Framework for Testing Static Analyzers

https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15892
2•PaulHoule•2h ago•0 comments

How Frank Lloyd Wright doomed his masterpiece

https://www.thetimes.com/us/news-today/article/frank-lloyd-wright-fallwater-leaking-roof-xqrt3h3wj
1•pseudolus•2h ago•1 comments