Hacker News: ChrisRR

New comment by ChrisRR in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

ChrisRR — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 09:07:29 +0000

> Even Trump must be able to put two and two together at this point, no?

How have you looked at the the last couple of decades of Trump and come to that conclusion? The man's a total idiot and that was even before his mental decline

New comment by ChrisRR in "The 1987 game “The Last Ninja” was 40 kilobytes"

ChrisRR — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:47:22 +0000

C64 games loaded from tape had to be loaded into RAM

New comment by ChrisRR in "The 1987 game “The Last Ninja” was 40 kilobytes"

ChrisRR — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:45:45 +0000

Well I would guess that all games on the C64 were under 64KB

New comment by ChrisRR in "We found an undocumented bug in the Apollo 11 guidance computer code"

ChrisRR — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:44:37 +0000

It's not setting off any LLM alarm bells to me. It just reads like any other scientific article, which is very often soulless

New comment by ChrisRR in "Men are ditching TV for YouTube as AI usage and social media fatigue grow"

ChrisRR — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 11:14:09 +0000

Those quotes read like the quotes you'd read from someone's facebook after they've committed an atrocity

New comment by ChrisRR in "UK Politicians Continue to Miss the Point in Latest Social Media Ban Proposal"

ChrisRR — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 07:57:13 +0000

Uk government has always been obsessed with spying on people's internet usage. They don't seem to know what to do with the data, but they want it

New comment by ChrisRR in "LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs"

ChrisRR — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 12:16:14 +0000

I hate sites that do that. I can only assume it's some webdev who ran out of tasks and is just trying to look busy

New comment by ChrisRR in "How did Windows 95 get permission to put Weezer video 'Buddy Holly' on the CD?"

ChrisRR — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 10:17:09 +0000

Yeehaw

New comment by ChrisRR in "Apple to soon take up to 30% cut from all Patreon creators in iOS app"

ChrisRR — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 12:56:28 +0000

Who's downvoting this? When you think online sarcasm is so obvious that no-one could believe it, someone's always there to prove otherwise

New comment by ChrisRR in "Ask HN: What recent UX changes make no sense to you?"

ChrisRR — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 12:39:54 +0000

All of the empty space in the reddit app. Redreader has the same amount of info in much less space and doesn't look cluttered, and yet the official app somehow manages to look empty and cluttered

New comment by ChrisRR in "Apple, What Have You Done?"

ChrisRR — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 12:47:41 +0000

I'd hardly call a different colour an extra mnodel

New comment by ChrisRR in "cURL removes bug bounties"

ChrisRR — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 12:48:04 +0000

They're very clearly AI when you're told that it's a list of AI. But when you're given a mixed list of AI and genuine reports, I bet it's not so simple and very time consuming

New comment by ChrisRR in "Nova Launcher added Facebook and Google Ads tracking"

ChrisRR — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 12:51:01 +0000

Why does facebook need to know what my launcher is doing?

New comment by ChrisRR in "Nova Launcher added Facebook and Google Ads tracking"

ChrisRR — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 12:49:14 +0000

I installed Nova way back when the default android launcher was crap, nowadays it's not really any different. I guess I may as well uninstall it now

New comment by ChrisRR in "Nova Launcher added Facebook and Google Ads tracking"

ChrisRR — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 12:42:34 +0000

cesspool*

New comment by ChrisRR in "The UK is shaping a future of precrime and dissent management (2025)"

ChrisRR — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 12:36:13 +0000

A single data point does not show a trend

New comment by ChrisRR in "Ozempic is changing the foods Americans buy"

ChrisRR — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 12:23:23 +0000

> to address a willpower problem, not a nutritional problem

I think those are one and the same.

New comment by ChrisRR in "UK Expands Online Safety Act to Mandate Preemptive Scanning"

ChrisRR — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 11:29:13 +0000

Preferably not scanned at all

New comment by ChrisRR in "UK Expands Online Safety Act to Mandate Preemptive Scanning"

ChrisRR — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 11:28:48 +0000

Oh this is a very loaded statement if I've ever seen one. What's your issue with the "demographic of your street" and what does it have to do with scanning your messages?

New comment by ChrisRR in "$27,000 a Year for Health Insurance. How Can We Afford That?"

ChrisRR — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 14:13:58 +0000

As a non-american this is the first I'm hearing of this. I would've thought if the majority of americans' health insurance had double overnight then there would've been massive uproar.

Can you explain what's happened?