Hacker News: OptionX

New comment by OptionX in "PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article that just keeps downloading"

OptionX — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 06:18:36 +0000

>"how does it affect our revenue?"

Simple, you can serve a reasonable amount of unobtrusive ads and I and others might turn off adblock to support the publication or you can do what you're doing, I'll keep it on and see no ads at all.

New comment by OptionX in "GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple"

OptionX — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 14:15:22 +0000

"Break free from Google"

All supported devices are exclusively Pixels.

New comment by OptionX in "GPTZero finds 100 new hallucinations in NeurIPS 2025 accepted papers"

OptionX — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 20:14:26 +0000

The old create the problem and sell the solution shtick.

New comment by OptionX in "The latest Firefox version broke ChatGPT website"

OptionX — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 14:56:12 +0000

In about:config set network.http.dictionaries.enable to false to fix it.

source: https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues/201270

New comment by OptionX in "Is Firefox Firefucked?"

OptionX — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 18:45:38 +0000

Did you?

New comment by OptionX in "Is Firefox Firefucked?"

OptionX — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 18:43:34 +0000

I've personally used and still use FF for year and have now no intentions of switching.

I don't care about the Ai stuff as long is mostly opt-in or easily disabled at least.

Having said that I've been looking forward the Ladybug project as a another browser not part of the chromium swarm. I'm sure I'll give it a try when it's more mature.

New comment by OptionX in "Americans Are Holding onto Devices Longer"

OptionX — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 19:40:25 +0000

The article seems to try to conflate not upgrading your business sometimes for decades with not buying a new phone every year.

What a weird direction to go.

New comment by OptionX in "APT Rust requirement raises questions"

OptionX — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 19:17:01 +0000

If I don't see it it doesn't happen is the definition of anedoctal.

New comment by OptionX in "APT Rust requirement raises questions"

OptionX — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 15:26:59 +0000

Untrue.

New comment by OptionX in "Android developer verification: Early access starts"

OptionX — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 05:43:17 +0000

It'd just devolve into security whack a mole about what permissions need those special account or not, ending with basically all of them making it the same as just needing dev verification anyway for anything remotely useful.

And despite that, you assuming that dev verification means no malware. The Play Store requires developers to register with the same verification measures we're talkingand malware is hardly unheard of there.

Whitespace Esolang

OptionX — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 21:00:02 +0000

Article URL: https://esolangs.org/wiki/Whitespace

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45859919

Points: 2

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New comment by OptionX in "The 512KB Club"

OptionX — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 18:58:35 +0000

Or to be even more suckless it would require the user toboatch in whatever feather they need.

New comment by OptionX in "A Postmark backdoor that’s downloading emails"

OptionX — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 20:11:18 +0000

And we have decades of hindsight with sql injection to work with and make it obvious. No so much with all the fancy new AI tools.

Yes MCP has next to no security features, but then again is it even a year old at this point?

Not excusing it just pointing out something folks should me mindful of when using tool based on it, its an immature system.

And heck, I still remember a time when most of the internet traffic just flew around in plain text. Insanity to us now.

New comment by OptionX in "Nuclear: Desktop music player focused on streaming from free sources"

OptionX — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 23:22:29 +0000

So choose not to partake the discussion, dear god this conversation is awful.

New comment by OptionX in "This Month in Ladybird"

OptionX — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 13:52:38 +0000

Really really hope these guys get a foothold in the market. I'm a decades long Firefox user but even I have to admit things with Mozilla aren't looking bright so projects like this are the only things that can save us from the chrome clone wars.

New comment by OptionX in "VPN use surges in UK as new online safety rules kick in"

OptionX — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 15:02:13 +0000

I always find funny how the new, supposedly progressive, arguments in favor of mass immigration run so close to the ones given against when slavery was abolished, that society can only exist with cheap,exploitative, labor.

Who indeed will pick the cotton.

New comment by OptionX in "Linux on Snapdragon X Elite: Linaro and Tuxedo Pave the Way for ARM64 Laptops"

OptionX — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 10:17:27 +0000

Any word on a compibily layer project for x86/64 like Rosetta? Seems like an important thing to have imo.

The article mentions an emulator, but it seemed to be for running games.

I also heard MS had something similar in their arm dev kit, but haven't looked much into it.

New comment by OptionX in "QuakeNotch: Quake Terminal on your MacBook's notch"

OptionX — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 19:12:24 +0000

Windows terminal used the name quake mode for the similar functionality it offers and there of course the Yakuake that does the same on Linux. Haven't heard of anyone rattling the copyright chain about it yet.

New comment by OptionX in "Helix Editor 25.07"

OptionX — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 22:07:48 +0000

The editor is 10mb. It's the grammar files that are represent the bulk, and those are optional.

And yes. Complaining about 100mb nowadays is ridiculous. You probably have larger logfiles sitting somewhere in disk doing nothing right now, regardless of your OS.

New comment by OptionX in "Helix Editor 25.07"

OptionX — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 21:14:20 +0000

111mb is bloat apparently in a time where storage is in the terabytes.