Hacker News: 2malaq

New comment by 2malaq in "Ruby website redesigned"

2malaq — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 08:38:30 +0000

Also Fyre Festival

New comment by 2malaq in "Show HN: Forced to Give Your Password?"

2malaq — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 11:49:34 +0000

I feel like this answer only explains the concept and not how it _actually_ works.

Is it an app? Is it a framework? How would it be used when one is being forced to open up their phone, does it only work within the app itself, or would it boot the phone into an alternate partition? Etc etc...

Also the website is full of AI generated images, buzzwords, and little to no substance.

New comment by 2malaq in "Contra Chrome: How Google's browser became a threat to privacy and democracy"

2malaq — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 10:29:21 +0000

Explain who decides what a good media diet is.

New comment by 2malaq in "Starlink U-turns, will block X in Brazil after all"

2malaq — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 16:35:00 +0000

Easy now. I'm only speculating on optics here.

New comment by 2malaq in "Starlink U-turns, will block X in Brazil after all"

2malaq — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 13:01:16 +0000

I guess the fuss is about Bolsonaro being depicted as a dictator in the media and as soon as Lula da Silva takes over, authoritarian measures such as these are pushed forward?

New comment by 2malaq in "Show HN: XDeck – An ad-blocking client app for macOS, like TweetDeck"

2malaq — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 13:08:09 +0000

Bubbles, my friend.

New comment by 2malaq in "Thorium – Radioactive Chromium Fork"

2malaq — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 16:05:52 +0000

Like what? I'm genuinely curious.

New comment by 2malaq in "Firefox and Fastly take another step toward a privacy upgrade for the internet"

2malaq — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 04:53:04 +0000

So you think TCR is the best one, but you haven't really tried the other ones? How can you know?

New comment by 2malaq in "Gunung Padang"

2malaq — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 12:48:13 +0000

Well, if it says so on Wikipedia it must be true.

New comment by 2malaq in "Investing: Is ChatGPT outperforming the top most popular funds in the UK?"

2malaq — Sat, 06 May 2023 18:15:42 +0000

It's easy to feed current relevant data to ChatGPT.

New comment by 2malaq in "Vim users are better programmers"

2malaq — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 11:58:50 +0000

I like and use vim, but this is like saying BMW owners are better drivers.

New comment by 2malaq in "Sci-Hub Proves That Piracy Can Be Dangerously Useful"

2malaq — Tue, 25 Oct 2022 22:56:58 +0000

Needs a 2018 tag

New comment by 2malaq in "Kill-sticky, a bookmarklet to remove sticky elements and restore scrolling"

2malaq — Wed, 28 Sep 2022 08:06:53 +0000

> This might be targeting a minority of users - it’s design for power users. I’d expect HN to be supportive of this sort of design.

You'd expect.. But please listen.

New comment by 2malaq in "BlackRock suffers $1.7T loss in 6 months: Worlds largest asset manager"

2malaq — Thu, 21 Jul 2022 09:21:13 +0000

Genuine question; If they're competitors, why is Vanguard Blackrock's biggest shareholder?[0] Is this the norm? Or is there a link between the two? (I don't know anything about the stock market)

[0] https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/BLK/holders?p=BLK

New comment by 2malaq in "Facebook says Apple is too powerful – they're right"

2malaq — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 10:01:20 +0000

It's not a bad example when it's literally relevant to the article.

New comment by 2malaq in "Dato.rss: The best RSS Search experience"

2malaq — Sun, 19 Jun 2022 07:02:19 +0000

Which one do you think it is, considering both the functionality of the program and the high possibility of the author not being a native English speaker? For millions of people 'dato' simply means 'date', as in day of the month.

New comment by 2malaq in "Kagi search and Orion browser enter public beta"

2malaq — Thu, 02 Jun 2022 08:42:04 +0000

But as per searching for "rt.com" it seems they do.

Edit: But as soon as I changed the region to 'International' instead of my own region within the EU, it produced the relevant results.

New comment by 2malaq in "Searching for Susy Thunder"

2malaq — Thu, 27 Jan 2022 10:15:26 +0000

Gob

New comment by 2malaq in "No Severe Covid Cases Among Vaccinated Patients Infected with Omicron"

2malaq — Mon, 29 Nov 2021 07:15:56 +0000

The headline should've been "No Severe Covid Cases Among Patients Infected with Omicron"

New comment by 2malaq in "TrackerControl"

2malaq — Fri, 10 Sep 2021 14:00:33 +0000

But who is tracing the trackers tracking the tracers?