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New comment by Phui3ferubus in "Acetaminophen vs. ibuprofen"

Phui3ferubus — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:09:03 +0000

The priorities have drifted. In the middle of night I don't care about getting healthy, I need to get rid of fever, so I can fall asleep and able to got to work/school in the morning. And somehow there is never right time to be sick and everyone just want to supress syndromes here and now.

New comment by Phui3ferubus in "Acetaminophen vs. ibuprofen"

Phui3ferubus — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:03:06 +0000

Plus caffeine, for those who don't drink coffee. Quite standard combo for people suffering from migraine. I stick to 500mg+200mg and I find it suspicious adverts for painkillers somehow always show 2 pills while dosage recommend in leaflet is just one.

New comment by Phui3ferubus in "America Lost the Mandate of Heaven"

Phui3ferubus — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 09:48:56 +0000

I don't expect anything from the guy who declared self driving cars are easy, everyone is just doing it wrong, and he could do it better in a just a year; 5 years ago. The fame totally went to his head :P It is somewhat common issue for Nobel award winners, in this case the scope is limited "I am great at security and reverse engineering, that makes me an expert for anything IT related".

New comment by Phui3ferubus in "Show HN: PHP 8 disable_functions bypass PoC"

Phui3ferubus — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 08:06:11 +0000

> Does PHP just not care about memory corruption

They didn't in the past, it "freed" memory by killing the (per request) worker. Such legacy takes a long time to overcome.

New comment by Phui3ferubus in "It looks like the status/need-triage label was removed"

Phui3ferubus — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 19:05:57 +0000

> 4610 remaining items

Normally I would complain about people spamming in GitHub issues but I don't think it will matter this time

New comment by Phui3ferubus in "10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him – bad idea"

Phui3ferubus — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 19:05:56 +0000

There are diminishing returns. Just look at bike locks. Anything higher than trash tier, and the issue is finding a dedicated bike stand, since anything else will get destroyed by the grinder faster than the lock.

New comment by Phui3ferubus in "Offline card payments should be possible no later than 1 July 2026"

Phui3ferubus — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 11:23:46 +0000

This is just reenabling existing technology. Card chip already has everything required to verify the card and PIN[0], the only thing internet access is required is checking if account is not empty/over limit.

[0] That also means that after changing PIN on bank site, you have to visit ATM, so new PIN is actually stored on card - but that it only required for that offline mode.

New comment by Phui3ferubus in "Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android"

Phui3ferubus — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 17:35:52 +0000

> To combat malware and financial scams, Google

Not 75%, not 80% and not 90% but literal 100% of adds YouTube served me for a week were financial scams. It sounds to me the quickest way to fight it, is to make ad publishers finally take responsibility for taking part in crime.

New comment by Phui3ferubus in "Citybound: City building game, microscopic models to vividly simulate organism"

Phui3ferubus — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 13:12:59 +0000

It mostly illustrates the trap that captures many new game developers. The existing game engines are too difficult so I will make new one, and then somehow they spend all the time working on technical side while the actual gameplay never realises. In this specific case I think the main goal was to show how Rust is superior tool for gamedev :D

New comment by Phui3ferubus in "GPT-5"

Phui3ferubus — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 19:37:34 +0000

Top 3 links in HN frontpage are all about GPT-5. I don't remember when was the last time people were so excited about something.

New comment by Phui3ferubus in "Facts will not save you – AI, history and Soviet sci-fi"

Phui3ferubus — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 18:04:04 +0000

> they are acts of interpretation that are never recognized as such by outsiders

And that is exactly why translators are getting replaced by ML/AI. Companies don't care about quality, that is the reason customer support was the first thing axed, companies see it only as a cost.

New comment by Phui3ferubus in "OpenAI's ChatGPT Agent casually clicks through "I am not a robot" verification"

Phui3ferubus — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 16:03:49 +0000

In case of YT it is likely a mix of multiple reasons. They stop playlists on this screen: https://www.hollyland.com/blog/tips/why-does-this-the-follow... . Apparently music is no longer advertiser friendly. Detecting ad-click fraud is easier when users are at least pseudo-anonymous. Warnings about "ban for using adblock" is also not very effective when people could watch video in new private window.

New comment by Phui3ferubus in "Allianz Life says 'majority' of customers' personal data stolen in cyberattack"

Phui3ferubus — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 13:36:25 +0000

> All these endless data breaches could be reduced if we fixed the incentives, but that's difficult.

EU fixed the incentives with GPRS and DORA, that was the easy part. In theory company that doesn't follow "secure by design" will end up bankrupt by (revenue dependent) fines. In practice the enforcement is lack luster, courts are lenient and international cases take ages, even if both countries are in EU.

New comment by Phui3ferubus in "YouTube No Translation"

Phui3ferubus — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 07:49:51 +0000

Can I get the same for Google Play store? I will always take original version over shit-tier automatic translation.

New comment by Phui3ferubus in "Self-hosting your own media considered harmful according to YouTube"

Phui3ferubus — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 15:06:34 +0000

TYT has to mark the ad segment, they are required by law to do it. And no matter how they try to obfuscate it, their own webpage must be able to extract that info, and present it to user. So it is pointless to integrate ads if you are going to provide the timestamps to skip.

Just look how Facebook does it, there is no "Sponsored post" anywhere in HTML, the literally place entire alphabet multiple times, each letter in separate span/paragraph tag, and then use CSS to actually style that into a message of their choice. All of that work just to prevent simple adblocking rules to work.

New comment by Phui3ferubus in "Why are banks still getting authentication so wrong?"

Phui3ferubus — Tue, 13 May 2025 19:20:04 +0000

> TOTP Support: Let users use any standard authenticator

How many of them allow to generate a code related to specific operation (provide a context for what is being "confirmed")? This is the EU requirement that killed everything but SMS and bank mobile apps.

New comment by Phui3ferubus in "Trump announces 100% tariffs on movies ‘produced in foreign lands’"

Phui3ferubus — Mon, 05 May 2025 11:10:12 +0000

> Sign-in Required

> This user has requested that their content only be shown to signed-in users.

Oh great, a Twitter replacement that implements worst of it's predecessor features.

New comment by Phui3ferubus in "My Book's Pre-Sale Just Barely Succeeded"

Phui3ferubus — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 12:03:33 +0000

I think the quoted Reddit comment is very ironic. People are allergic to self-promotion but hand complain that no one writes blogs anymore (beside the corporate ones).

I am not sure what can be done about strong luck impact on HN submissions or publishing Amazon books. It really feels like you have one attempt and the end result is mostly out of you hands.