Hacker News: PearlRiver

New comment by PearlRiver in "Alberta to hold referendum on whether to remain in Canada"

PearlRiver — Fri, 22 May 2026 18:10:36 +0000

Lincoln disagreed. The good man even had the balls to let loose Sherman.

New comment by PearlRiver in "You can no longer Google the word 'disregard'"

PearlRiver — Fri, 22 May 2026 18:08:41 +0000

I use several layers of ad/tracking/privacy filters that I honestly have no idea what the internet is supposed to look like. It is still terrible I presume?

New comment by PearlRiver in "NPR finds "no sign" of Polymarket at its Panama HQ address"

PearlRiver — Wed, 06 May 2026 01:33:51 +0000

I would blame those on the middle class cocaine users who fund the drug gangs.

New comment by PearlRiver in "GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay"

PearlRiver — Tue, 05 May 2026 17:08:53 +0000

Spending days of negotiating on eBay with annoying strangers and packing it all up for a few lousy hundred is not my idea of a good time.

Let the workers at the recycling center sift through the stuff they are welcome to it.

New comment by PearlRiver in "GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay"

PearlRiver — Tue, 05 May 2026 16:58:32 +0000

Yep this is exactly it. So many people with their childhood nostalgia not understanding that GameStop are and always have been a pawnshop.

Deadbeat dad selling their kids videogames to buy meth.

The pawnshop industry is incredibly depressing but it has been around for millennia and they will always be around.

New comment by PearlRiver in "US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants"

PearlRiver — Tue, 05 May 2026 16:41:22 +0000

The government asking race questions on official forms would be rather unthinkable! We don't mention the war.

New comment by PearlRiver in "United flight collides with truck and pole as it lands at Newark"

PearlRiver — Mon, 04 May 2026 11:35:56 +0000

Lots of old airports are a clusterfuck. Those places were built in the middle of nowhere 70-100 years ago but now find themselves practically inside the megacity.

Increased traffic and incredibly complicated approach routes does the rest.

New comment by PearlRiver in "Maryland to ban A.I.-driven price increases in grocery stores"

PearlRiver — Sun, 03 May 2026 13:16:09 +0000

In my country prices are often wrong because supermarkets are run by a small team of literal teenagers (one of the downsides of having decent minimum wages is that nobody wants to hire anyone if they somehow can avoid it).

New comment by PearlRiver in "Investors pile into clean energy as Iran war drives push for energy security"

PearlRiver — Sun, 03 May 2026 12:44:42 +0000

The North Sea has given us free fish, trade with all corners of the world and now it's one giant windmill farm.

New comment by PearlRiver in "A statement about why RightsCon 2026 will not take place in Zambia"

PearlRiver — Fri, 01 May 2026 19:40:12 +0000

Just don't mention Israel.

New comment by PearlRiver in "A statement about why RightsCon 2026 will not take place in Zambia"

PearlRiver — Fri, 01 May 2026 19:38:53 +0000

Is there any other country that’s not this beholden to China? Welcome to 2026.

New comment by PearlRiver in "Pro-Iran crew turns DDoS into shakedown as Ubuntu.com stays down"

PearlRiver — Fri, 01 May 2026 19:33:14 +0000

Yeah when Americans talk about how bad a deal NATO is they always conveniently forget the military bases. Most of their wars tend to involve Ramstein for example.

New comment by PearlRiver in "Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants"

PearlRiver — Fri, 01 May 2026 04:45:35 +0000

No it is just that capitalism is a cancer. Nobody has actually cracked the code on how capitalism can work without perpetual growth.

Leaders are looking at Japan and they are panicking. Fascists are demanding more white babies.

New comment by PearlRiver in "Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants"

PearlRiver — Fri, 01 May 2026 04:37:27 +0000

I live close to the Belgian border. Some time ago there was concern about Belgian reactors (they are old and their concrete was fracturing) and they were distributing iodine pills. Keeping them open even longer just sounds peak Belgium.

New comment by PearlRiver in "Mozilla's opposition to Chrome's Prompt API"

PearlRiver — Fri, 01 May 2026 04:21:33 +0000

Stuff like Google Lens is nice. It solves an actual problem (me looking at Japanese and having a seizure).

New comment by PearlRiver in "For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions"

PearlRiver — Fri, 01 May 2026 03:55:05 +0000

The real advantage of Microsoft is that there is someone you can sue!

Linux like every open source project is just a bunch of people who are YOLOing it. Not something you use for your fortune 500 critical mission infrastructure.

New comment by PearlRiver in "Cybersec is a thankless job: expanding workload and shrinking pay packet"

PearlRiver — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 21:05:42 +0000

reputational damage

Ah but the thing is that every company sucks so there is nowhere for customers to flee to.

New comment by PearlRiver in "Cybersec is a thankless job: expanding workload and shrinking pay packet"

PearlRiver — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:58:15 +0000

Man I have been in 3 data breaches this year and it's only April! My spam folder is going crazy. Security indeed.

New comment by PearlRiver in "U.S. Considering Foreign Designs, Shipyards for New Navy Ships in $1.85B Study"

PearlRiver — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:53:52 +0000

The US has spent the last few years insulting everyone so good luck with that...

New comment by PearlRiver in "Why Not Venus?"

PearlRiver — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 23:56:42 +0000

Lots of people live in places were they will never see the stars! But luckily we can travel. I was awestruck visiting La Palma.