<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: ApolloFortyNine</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ApolloFortyNine</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:25:55 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=ApolloFortyNine" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ApolloFortyNine in "Arch Linux disables AUR package adoption"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>Disabling AUR package adoptions has been like the #1 thing recommended.<p>Do you have a solution to ever reenabling package adoptions? It's pretty much a must have feature for this to exist long term, at least in the AUR's current state where its a repo your not supposed to auto install from but pretty much all users do.<p>Really disabling adoptions is probably step 1 to just EOLing the whole thing.<p>The AUR by definition isn't to be trusted. That's what the official repos are for, you're supposed to read what the package install scripts are doing.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 19:18:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49127443</link><dc:creator>ApolloFortyNine</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49127443</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49127443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ApolloFortyNine in "Elevators"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Surely there's a dataset out there with elevator calls for an office building you could test on, instead of the poor random destination case.<p>Surprisingly, claude failed to find a good one.<p>Also, part of destination dispatch (I'm guessing based on experience) removes the 'stopping on every floor problem', so the real test would be total time including wait at that point I think.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 18:17:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49126756</link><dc:creator>ApolloFortyNine</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49126756</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49126756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ApolloFortyNine in "Kill The Cookie Banner"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is just a strawman, these aren't equivalent and I'm not going to waste time pretending they are. Might as well just compare ads to nuclear weapons at this point.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 03:07:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49064774</link><dc:creator>ApolloFortyNine</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49064774</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49064774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ApolloFortyNine in "US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The article seems to be muddying the water bringing up grapheneOS itself. Or maybe it's the EFF.<p>>Experts said the legal approach is unusual and may be the first time the law has been aimed at an operating system. "It's concerning – and sends the message that [GrapheneOS] is criminal by default," said Christophe Boutry, a cybersecurity and surveillance expert. Boutry and Bill Buddington, senior staff technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, both said they had not seen a similar case.<p>Is the actual case about banning the OS? Because it seems pretty clear the case is about the result (the phone being wiped with a special passcode).<p>The better defense imo would be one of those 'wipe the phone if you get the password wrong x times' and try and claim you forgot under pressure. At least if you wanted to wipe the phone without being accused of destroying evidence during a search.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 01:36:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49064227</link><dc:creator>ApolloFortyNine</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49064227</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49064227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ApolloFortyNine in "Kill The Cookie Banner"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>People want free content online. More than that, they just expect it.<p>Any future law in regards to this will likely just lead to the companies that already got consent (companies you already have accounts with) becoming even deeper entrenched.<p>Non targeted ads pay a small percentage of targeted ads.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 01:24:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49064157</link><dc:creator>ApolloFortyNine</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49064157</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49064157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ApolloFortyNine in "Kill The Cookie Banner"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What I hate about EU laws is they tend to word these things like this.<p>People act shocked when it leads to unintended side effects, but companies legal teams are just telling them they have no idea how a judge will interpret these broad wordings in regards to their business.<p>People say this fixes "future loopholes" but as you see with the cookie banner, it just leads to every company assuming the worst case scenario.<p>Going back years of conversation on cookie banners you'll see a constant argument on when they're required or not precisely because it's not defined explicitly.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 01:21:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49064139</link><dc:creator>ApolloFortyNine</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49064139</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49064139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ApolloFortyNine in "Kill The Cookie Banner"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How long did it take x user to navigate from x screen to y screen is one of the most valuable metrics for any site, and most people consider this to require consent. Or at least it not being worth the risk to not ask.<p>Acting dense like this isn't productive... And literally this information would be stores as anonymous user 12345, but that still would require consent (probably, or at least arguably).</p>
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<p>If you did this people would only use the same half dozen sites and competitors would emerge.<p>We're borderline already there today when the cost of switching is typing a different url at the top of the screen. You add some mandatory 20 minute wait and you'll never see a new site again.<p>Google and Facebook would love it though.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 01:14:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49064085</link><dc:creator>ApolloFortyNine</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49064085</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49064085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ApolloFortyNine in "Kill The Cookie Banner"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>YouTube is a site that pretty much everyone has an account already for (and therefore have already consented), but say you make YouTube 2, you can only make money if people allow personalized ads (they pay 10-20x untargeted ads). 90% less revenue means your business model doesn't work. The government in the area has decided you can't refuse service to customers that cost you money (people who don't consent).<p>You simply will have to go out of business.<p>This is also why you see many large companies fighting for more regulation. It's harder for a competitor to emerge if they have to navigate mountains of red tape.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 01:11:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49064066</link><dc:creator>ApolloFortyNine</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49064066</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49064066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ApolloFortyNine in "OverpAId – Fire your CEO. Hire the future"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You can still find articles lambasting the iphone for having a small screen, 'who would want to surf the web on their phone'.<p>The CEO is in large part responsible for picking what products have hope to grow the company. The iphone was far from a slam dunk, many thought it would fail. Now it's responsible for over half their revenue and they're one of the largest companies in the world.<p>>Then he became CEO and the company and was, finally, phenomenally successful.<p>I'm totally confused by your post, so you admit he became a good CEO then?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 14:10:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49007137</link><dc:creator>ApolloFortyNine</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49007137</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49007137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ApolloFortyNine in "Codex scraped the ICM website and discovered 2026 Fields Medal winner list"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Heartbleed, one of the worst bugs in terms of exploitability and reach, was a bug that many engineers would be able to spot, if they were explicitly looking for it.<p>That's the risk of tools like Mythos/Fable/any LLM. While a human's eyes would glaze over what looks like a standard memcpy, an LLM with the right context might instantly realize the payload length was never actually verified.<p>And since Heartbleed existed for years, despite the full bug existing in pretty much one file, in one of the most important libraries out there, it's right to be afraid of what other obvious bugs exist and are just waiting to be found.</p>
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<p>Well at this point the goal is for Iran to stop randomly blowing up innocent cargo ships. Or firing missiles at airports and cities in retaliation.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/iran-war-live-us-says-iranian-strikes-bahrain-kuwait-failed-2026-06-03/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reuters.com/world/iran-war-live-us-says-iranian-...</a></p>
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<p>Makes sense, drone technology has come an insane distance since these were developed.<p>Probably the biggest learning from the Ukraine war alone is the effectiveness of cheap drones. It was suspected for years but hadn't been put to the test yet.</p>
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<p>>Hacker news has a lot of owners, managers and what John Steinbeck called "temporarily embarrassed millionaires" (e.g. future failed startup founders).<p>This way of thinking is so depressing to read about. If we ignore the strawman argument and just look at what 'point' you're making, you're basically making fun of people for having high aspirations. A bit of a 'look at this guy, he thinks he can run his own business! Dummy' energy.<p>>I'm sure many of them are reaching for the downvote as they read this.<p>In a perfect world enough people would have hit flag by now where I wouldn't have had to read this at all.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 13:59:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48673540</link><dc:creator>ApolloFortyNine</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48673540</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48673540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ApolloFortyNine in "Founding a company in Germany: €9600, 152 days and I still can't send an invoice"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>Commercial airlines make heavy use of it, and serious failures are vanishingly rare.<p>Is this a joke? There's a major outage effecting flights at least yearly. The Delta one is from May...<p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Southwest_Airlines_scheduling_crisis" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Southwest_Airlines_schedu...</a>
[2] <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/airline-news/2026/05/05/delta-pilot-schedule-technology-upgrades/89950680007/" rel="nofollow">https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/airline-news/2026/05/0...</a></p>
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<p>I got one, it's pretty cool that it's small enough to just magnet to the back of your phone. If your someone who needs to use a large font on their ereader to read its certainly not for you, but the screen size is good enough for regular sized text.<p>It's also cool that it's chip is just an ESP32.</p>
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<p>I truly don't doubt it's possible for the AI to be 'racist'.<p>>If the AI had recommended Black and Asian candidates at the same rate as it recommended the most-favored group (typically white applicants), 40,000 more of their applications would have advanced to the next stage of hiring.<p>I don't think this is the right benchmark here, or at least, it would be very interesting if the actual outcome, offer or rejected, was considered at the end.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 20:45:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48651135</link><dc:creator>ApolloFortyNine</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48651135</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48651135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ApolloFortyNine in "The deadly rise of giant trucks and SUVs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>“Our estimate is that about 200 to 400 pedestrians a year would not have died if vehicles had remained approximately the same size over the past quarter-century,” the report continued. “That represents about 10 percent of the recent increase in pedestrian deaths.”<p>Am I crazy? The article itself points out that only 10% of the increase would have been 'saved' if cars had remained the same size. This goes directly against the title no?<p>There's certainly more than one reason, my gut would point to more smart phone use both by drivers and even by pedestrians themselves.<p>I wonder if one day using a smart phone while driving will have the same stigma as a DUI (and similar punishment). I struggle to argue it shouldn't, its sometimes a little crazy to think about that if the person in the other lane gets distracted on their phone, I might be involved in a head on collision at 60+mph.</p>
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<p>You can install whatever apk you want on your Oculus Quest.</p>
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<p>The calculus teacher I had had a 4.7 ap test average (it's a test score 1-5).<p>My physics teacher had a 2.2.<p>But even still, these teachers have 20+ students. If you struggle with a topic it can pay dividends to have it explained for you.</p>
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