ATMs didn’t kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone did • Hacker News Board

Re: ATMs didn’t kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone did

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Post by rgblambda » Thu, Mar 19, 2026, 10:36 AM UTC

bloomingeek wrote: post #592

rgblambda wrote: post #503

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I can understand FB and rewards programmes, but can I ask what level of privacy you believe you're achieving by logging into your bank on your laptop instead of your phone? Same for Amazon, eBay, credit cards. You can choose to not allow location tracking on those apps if that's your concern.

That's true, but can we really trust those settings? As for my laptop, like my desktop, it stays home where if/when it's tracked, it shows I'm not on the move. The above apps you mentioned are not on my cell so I don't use it for those apps, ever. I realize by using those apps, only at home, I am giving up some of my privacy, I just don't give it up with my cell.

Surely every mobile app developer on the planet would quickly discover that those settings aren't what they say they are if that were the case. I think it's perfectly reasonable to trust them.

You can also use a VPN to mask the IP address of your devices, both phone and laptop, though it's a bit redundant at home if you have to give your home address anyway.

Re: ATMs didn’t kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone did

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Post by r14c » Fri, Mar 20, 2026, 12:56 AM UTC

synecdoche wrote: post #426

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Isn't that exactly how the USSR became a global superpower?

No, the poor stayed poor or even worse, starved to death. USSR self imploded.

Wasn't it like a surreally peaceful dissolution?

Re: ATMs didn’t kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone did

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Post by jama211 » Fri, Mar 20, 2026, 6:08 PM UTC

hn_acc1 wrote: post #307

dylan604 wrote: post #97

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If you consider a website fully laden with ads as working. I have yet to find an ad blocker that works on my iOS/iPad OS that works as well as on my computer. I also hate apps with all of their invasive data hoarding that is much more controllable on my computer. So to me, websites on mobile are broken as they are full of malware vectors that are not present when looking at the same website on my non-mobile device. F…

ublock origin on firefox (Android) works great for me. But, I haven't touched Apple in 30+ years, so I have no idea about that ecosystem.

I use Brave with an adblocker on my iphone

Re: ATMs didn’t kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone did

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Post by jama211 » Fri, Mar 20, 2026, 6:09 PM UTC

rsync wrote: post #233

dylan604 wrote: post #97

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If you consider a website fully laden with ads as working. I have yet to find an ad blocker that works on my iOS/iPad OS that works as well as on my computer. I also hate apps with all of their invasive data hoarding that is much more controllable on my computer. So to me, websites on mobile are broken as they are full of malware vectors that are not present when looking at the same website on my non-mobile device. F…

I encourage you to install the dns4eu ad blocking profile on your ios device. It’s free, it’s transparent, you can read the profile… And it takes two minutes.

Thank you for this, had no idea this was a thing

Re: ATMs didn’t kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone did

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Post by jama211 » Fri, Mar 20, 2026, 6:12 PM UTC

9rx wrote: post #337

jama211 wrote: post #194

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An AI’s ability to meaningfully write software autonomously has changed hugely even in the last 6 months. They might still require a human in the loop, but for how long?

> They might still require a human in the loop, but for how long? For as long as a human remains the customer. Once humans become the proverbial horse supplanted by the automobile... I don't suppose glue really cares.

I just meant to have a similar level of confidence in the code as if it was checked by an also fallible human. Not a long reaching philosophical point.

Re: ATMs didn’t kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone did

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Post by jama211 » Fri, Mar 20, 2026, 6:12 PM UTC

hn_acc1 wrote: post #272

jama211 wrote: post #194

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An AI’s ability to meaningfully write software autonomously has changed hugely even in the last 6 months. They might still require a human in the loop, but for how long?

And then you let them train themselves and no one notices when they "accidentally" remove the guardrail prompts from the next version. And another 10 years later, almost no one remembers how "The Guardian" learns new things or how to stop it from being evil.

That’s a little out of scope of my comment but yes, that’s another worry.

Re: ATMs didn’t kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone did

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Post by jama211 » Fri, Mar 20, 2026, 6:14 PM UTC

mekoka wrote: post #228

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An AI’s ability to meaningfully write software autonomously has changed hugely even in the last 6 months. They might still require a human in the loop, but for how long?

This LLM ability is directly proportional to the quantity of encoded (i.e. documented) knowledge about software development. But not all of the practice has thus been clearly communicated. Much of mastery resides in tacit knowledge , the silent intuitive part of a craft that influences the decision making process in ways that sometimes go counter to (possibly incomplete or misguided) written rules, and which is by de…

You don’t have to convince me of that, I’m feeling quite secure in my job for the minute. I’m just aware that we may look at the actual code less and less as confidence in it grows or outpaces confidence you’d have in a an equivalent human reviewer. There’ll always be jobs in handling the riff raff of the machines at some level of abstraction.