Hacker News: Natfanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=NatfanHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Wed, 20 May 2026 20:41:59 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by Natfan in "Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia, UAE"]]>also BLM, israel palestine

and the genocide in myanmar, that was definitely accelerated political action

]]>Wed, 20 May 2026 15:36:42 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48209500Natfanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48209500https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48209500<![CDATA[New comment by Natfan in "Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia, UAE"]]>famously the Arab spring

]]>Wed, 20 May 2026 15:35:35 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48209481Natfanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48209481https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48209481<![CDATA[New comment by Natfan in "American Agriculture Is Broken"]]>https://archive.is/BXPsU

]]>Mon, 11 May 2026 16:19:03 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48097030Natfanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48097030https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48097030<![CDATA[New comment by Natfan in "AI-powered hacking has exploded into industrial-scale threat, Google says"]]>https://archive.is/wVfU8

]]>Mon, 11 May 2026 16:15:06 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48096981Natfanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48096981https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48096981<![CDATA[New comment by Natfan in "ICE to Develop Own Smart Glasses to 'Supplement' Its Facial Recognition App"]]>i fail to see how for profit policing with less oversight would be a good thing for the general citizenry?

]]>Mon, 11 May 2026 16:14:19 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48096968Natfanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48096968https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48096968<![CDATA[New comment by Natfan in "Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career"]]>but moving to a lower COL area can reduce that amount of public and private services one gets access to, no? network connectivity will, for example, likely be worse out in the sticks

]]>Mon, 11 May 2026 15:44:47 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48096543Natfanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48096543https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48096543<![CDATA[New comment by Natfan in "OurCar: What I learned making an app for my family"]]>i have found a surprisingly large amount of success in uploading an .apk to Claude and asking it to extract all HTTP endpoint used and to display them as a Swagger document. most apps use HTTP(S) to communicate with their APIs, so reverse engineering is relatively trivial

]]>Thu, 07 May 2026 20:22:50 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48054410Natfanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48054410https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48054410<![CDATA[New comment by Natfan in "How David Sacks crashed and burned in the White House"]]>the people in the previous trump admin were perfectly willing to peddle a lie they didn't believe

the people in the current trump admin genuinely believe their own lies

]]>Wed, 06 May 2026 23:40:37 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48043367Natfanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48043367https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48043367<![CDATA[New comment by Natfan in "Credit cards are vulnerable to brute force kind attacks"]]>how is it not also your money when using a credit card? It's in the name, "credit" card. you have to pay it off, no? (i have never ever used a credit card)

]]>Fri, 01 May 2026 21:07:41 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47980344Natfanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47980344https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47980344<![CDATA[New comment by Natfan in "If Apple makes an iPad Neo, it's all over"]]>first gained general use in ~1991, so 35 years ago

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/OG

are these "kids" also in the young republicans group chat?

]]>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 20:11:31 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47967614Natfanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47967614https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47967614<![CDATA[New comment by Natfan in "Facebook Has a Health Scam Problem"]]>feels like a slippery slope to some eugenics bullshit

]]>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:36:03 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47951667Natfanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47951667https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47951667<![CDATA[New comment by Natfan in "Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data"]]>instead of "just asking questions", mayhaps you could answer them? what are you legitimate reasons regarding immigrants who lack documentation? do you have your documentation on you as all times, as a united states citizen?

]]>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 10:07:23 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47804274Natfanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47804274https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47804274<![CDATA[New comment by Natfan in "Claude Opus 4.7"]]>this comment feels pretty rude and disrespectful for no real reason?

]]>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 09:53:47 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47804201Natfanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47804201https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47804201<![CDATA[New comment by Natfan in "European civil servants are being forced off WhatsApp"]]>they were incorrect, it's ~450 million[0] (still 120 million more people than in the USA, i will note)

[0]: https://european-union.europa.eu/principles-countries-histor...

]]>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 09:10:13 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47803944Natfanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47803944https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47803944<![CDATA[New comment by Natfan in "Android CLI: Build Android apps 3x faster using any agent"]]>great! now let me know when your official app store transparently alerts users when an app they were using was sold to a third-party adtech surveillance company, please :)

]]>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 08:55:48 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47803872Natfanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47803872https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47803872<![CDATA[New comment by Natfan in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"]]>thinking of Popeye's Chicken makes me think of terrible american fast food. not everyone understands your cultural references, so please feel free to say what you mean with your whole chest, rather than cowering behind euphemism

]]>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 17:23:21 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47732310Natfanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47732310https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47732310<![CDATA[New comment by Natfan in "Polymarket gamblers betting millions on war"]]>we have armed police, just not all police are armed

]]>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 17:10:51 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47732200Natfanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47732200https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47732200<![CDATA[New comment by Natfan in "Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident"]]>a single wealthy white male person

]]>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 11:44:01 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47729741Natfanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47729741https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47729741<![CDATA[New comment by Natfan in "Wit, unker, Git: The lost medieval pronouns of English intimacy"]]>"my doctor gave me some bad news"

"oh, what did they say?"

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"the wait staff messed up my order"

"how did they do that?"

]]>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:38:28 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47721336Natfanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47721336https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47721336<![CDATA[New comment by Natfan in "Wit, unker, Git: The lost medieval pronouns of English intimacy"]]>male pronouns wouldn't be the default to a woman.

]]>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:35:55 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47721303Natfanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47721303https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47721303