Hacker News: 1905

New comment by 1905 in "Airfoil"

1905 — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 21:32:06 +0000

I'm surprised hang gliding doesn't get more attention. It's the closest human activity to flying like a bird

New comment by 1905 in "Stonelifting Etiquette"

1905 — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 21:39:35 +0000

What backend is your site made with

New comment by 1905 in "Lessons Learned from Payments Startups"

1905 — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 01:08:18 +0000

I believe a big part of the Musks twitter acquisition was to transition into payments, like WeChat in China.

How do you guys think that will play out?

New comment by 1905 in "“Wherever you get your podcasts” is a radical statement"

1905 — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 01:01:34 +0000

I wish podcasting was a simple open source RSS reader that alerted me when someone uploaded a new MP3 file

New comment by 1905 in "How Quora died"

1905 — Sat, 03 Feb 2024 18:35:50 +0000

> Every contributor-driven platform has eventually jumped the shark, and all in exactly the same way.

The one exception would be Craigslist

New comment by 1905 in "How paid Wikipedia editors squeeze you dry"

1905 — Sat, 03 Feb 2024 05:45:13 +0000

Wikimedia is about as unbiased as a legacy media news outlet. Every major issue on wiki has some kind of narrative slant

New comment by 1905 in "Pixel owners report problems after installing January 2024 Google Play update"

1905 — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 17:26:33 +0000

Imagine when this starts happening to cars

New comment by 1905 in "Only 90s Web Developers Remember This (2014)"

1905 — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 17:52:57 +0000

What about white text on white background to stuff keywords on the bottom of a page.....and it actually worked

New comment by 1905 in "Sports Illustrated implosion shows the ugly, ongoing collapse of U.S. journalism"

1905 — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 16:51:18 +0000

I wonder how much of this is related to the possible decline of mainstream sports? How many young 10 something year olds in this country really follow Baseball or Basketball? They seem to be more into gaming, among other things

New comment by 1905 in "The Minimal Phone pairs an E Ink screen with a QWERTY keyboard and Android"

1905 — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 16:46:25 +0000

Most people I know who use "minimal" tech, do so in part to stay away from the big TECH Co's like G

New comment by 1905 in "The Minimal Phone pairs an E Ink screen with a QWERTY keyboard and Android"

1905 — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 16:43:22 +0000

"the phone could ship with the Google Play Store and other Google Mobile Services"

Then why would someone want a dumbphone if you're going to load G services on to it?

New comment by 1905 in "Cutting Out the RSS Middleman"

1905 — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 03:53:10 +0000

If you're able to put up a simple website and already have hosting to add another site on, getting a ~$10 a year domain and making your own feed reader might be worth it.

There are Wordpress plugins to pull RSS feeds and also php scripts to pull and display rss feeds, like Magpie RSS https://magpierss.sourceforge.net/

New comment by 1905 in "Twitch to Cut 500 Employees, About 35% of Staff"

1905 — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 03:45:45 +0000

> Also not mentioned is the recent rise of Ad-Free ( yes completely AD-FREE as in not a single ad ever! ) platforms like KICK.com [1][2]

Their ad is pushing their own Stake.com gambling site and having contracts with streamers to gamble on stream

New comment by 1905 in "Ask HN: How many of you are consciously downsizing your devices/going retro?"

1905 — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 06:09:16 +0000

I've never owned a smartphone. I was always ahead of the tech curve in the late 90's and on. Before smartphones, I had a Nokia 770 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_770_Internet_Tablet) around 2008, its basically a wifi internet device. You could connect to any unlocked wifi network and surf the web (back then a lot of people left their wifi open or just used default passwords so it was easy to find free internet in an urban area).

Being aware of all the privacy issues in big tech, I just couldn't bring myself to carrying a smartphone on me at all times. As smartphones became the norm, I was considered crazy for not having one. Now all these years later I am proud of never caving in to the temptation or pressure of those around me.

I love new tech, but I am disgusted by 3rd party software and how intrusive it is

New comment by 1905 in "Red meat causes heart disease. Except when it doesn't?"

1905 — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 17:52:34 +0000

In the coming years we're going to see a war on meats as large organizations push their "environmentally friendly" patented protein sources. The small farmer will be pushed out with carbon taxes and other fees.

New comment by 1905 in "The Internet Is About to Get Weird Again"

1905 — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 18:53:12 +0000

The internet is about to get more censored

New comment by 1905 in "How to run a small social network (2019)"

1905 — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 18:34:04 +0000

Step 1:

Create thousands of fake accounts and create active daily engagement among users

New comment by 1905 in "Amazon receives FDA warning letter for supplements with undeclared ingredients"

1905 — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 18:59:36 +0000

> I'll go to Aliexpress and eBay first for: "kids toys, cables, generic keyboards, battery chargers, basic tools, and basic clothing."

I do too. I don't use Amazon Prime and can usually find the same products for cheaper on ebay with free shipping. The competition among other sellers is greater on ebay so the price will often be lower. It is difficult to do returns though

New comment by 1905 in "Amazon receives FDA warning letter for supplements with undeclared ingredients"

1905 — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 18:57:34 +0000

> - Bed sheets (oddly enough, you'll often get lies on materials and fabric)

It makes you wonder about all those masks people were buying online and wearing 14+ hours a day

New comment by 1905 in "T-Mobile introduce fines from Jan 1 for "Code of Conduct" violations"

1905 — Mon, 25 Dec 2023 17:50:59 +0000

Only 535 days away from being fined $100 for each of my offensive memes