Hacker News: RockstarSprain

New comment by RockstarSprain in "Google Chrome is killing all uBlock Origin bypasses, Edge, Opera to follow"

RockstarSprain — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 07:17:24 +0000

AdGuard works fine for me, on YouTube as well.

New comment by RockstarSprain in "Vivaldi 8.0"

RockstarSprain — Thu, 21 May 2026 12:58:01 +0000

I am not sure how this is relevant?

I am talking about limited width of the address bar (when it’s part of the right column with tabs, taking a third of screen’s width at max), not its height or any other elements.

New comment by RockstarSprain in "Vivaldi 8.0"

RockstarSprain — Thu, 21 May 2026 09:12:25 +0000

Looks better than expected.

I just wish the address bar were expanding fully to the right when selected, with the "Show Full Address" setting on and right-side vertical tabs. Otherwise, one has to jump around the visible part of the address bar in order to find the right part.

Edit: details.

New comment by RockstarSprain in "The Quiet Renovation at Bitwarden"

RockstarSprain — Mon, 18 May 2026 15:03:26 +0000

Proton Pass. Not ideal but actively developing and IMO its UX is way better than what I had with Bitwarden.

Perplexity Computer for Professional Finance

RockstarSprain — Tue, 05 May 2026 21:40:12 +0000

Article URL: https://xcancel.com/perplexity_ai/status/2051693893473935372

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48028981

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Data theft: Teen arrested over hacking of French government website

RockstarSprain — Sat, 02 May 2026 14:46:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.france24.com/en/data-thieft-a-15-year-old-minor-arrested

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47986848

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Estimating Black-Box LLM Parameter Counts via Factual Capacity

RockstarSprain — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 09:38:42 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.24827

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47960159

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Possible Apple Weather Outage

RockstarSprain — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 16:39:05 +0000

Article URL: https://statusgator.com/services/apple/weather

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47936852

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Personal data leak: French document agency ANTS hit by cyberattack

RockstarSprain — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 09:29:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.connexionfrance.com/news/personal-data-leak-french-document-agency-hit-by-cyberattack/784573

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47846557

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Ask HN: How do you find motivation to do stuff?

RockstarSprain — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:08:18 +0000

Not sure how to put it better but the more I read about AI the less motivation I have to either keep up with the tech advances or to try doing new things... I wonder how others keep or even foster the kind of motivation necessary to try new things and actually stick to doing them long enough? I would appreciate input on this in the most general sense possible.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47780185

Points: 26

# Comments: 25

New comment by RockstarSprain in "Tinnitus Is Connected to Sleep"

RockstarSprain — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 16:48:50 +0000

Personal anecdote: removing a lower wisdom tooth that was close to the jaw nerve nearly cured my tinnitus back in the day.

The surgeon dentist was really surprised by this and could not evoke any similar cases in their practice before mine.

New comment by RockstarSprain in "Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements"

RockstarSprain — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 06:32:32 +0000

I wish there were some updates about PWA support. Haven’t heard about progress on this since last August. Is it still in beta and only available on Windows?

New comment by RockstarSprain in "Toyotas and Terrorists: "Why are ISIS's trucks better than ours?" (2023)"

RockstarSprain — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 15:49:31 +0000

Remarkable how by the end of the third video it really starts to resemble the Cybertruck.

New comment by RockstarSprain in "Russian Watchdog Starts Limiting Access to Telegram"

RockstarSprain — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 14:35:29 +0000

https://archive.is/Jv6nr

Russian Watchdog Starts Limiting Access to Telegram

RockstarSprain — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 14:34:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-10/russian-watchdog-starts-limiting-access-to-telegram-rbc-reports

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46960189

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by RockstarSprain in "Matrix messaging gaining ground in government IT"

RockstarSprain — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 15:20:47 +0000

One thing I heard from some of my friends as a reason why they don't like using Matrix (via Element clients) was inability to use "stickers" like one can on WhatsApp, iMessage and other messaging apps. Apparently, this was important enough for them to lose interest in the platform over it.

I guess the bar is pretty high for consumer messengers these days?

New comment by RockstarSprain in "France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc."

RockstarSprain — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 17:47:57 +0000

+1.

I am running a Galene instance via the YunoHost self-hosting package on a small dedicated server (2 cores, 4gb of RAM).

So far it’s much better than I expected, both in terms of latency and the overall video/audio quality. Feels better than Jitsi and even a FaceTime / WhatsApp call.

New comment by RockstarSprain in "Firefox extension to redirect x.com to xcancel.com"

RockstarSprain — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 14:49:47 +0000

Was just looking for a more general extension like this, thanks!

Just a small nitpick / feature request: I try not to install extensions that require "Read and change all your data on all websites" permission, so may I ask you to change it to something less general, such as requiring access to specific websites once the corresponding new URL is added to a white list?

I saw some Chrome extensions doing this as of late.

New comment by RockstarSprain in "Telegram hit by $500M Russian bond freeze"

RockstarSprain — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 11:24:37 +0000

A few interesting quotes about (unaudited) financials:

> According to previously unreported half-year disclosures, Telegram had $910mn in cash and cash equivalents at June 30, up from $142mn a year prior.

> Telegram’s revenues in the first half of 2025 jumped more than 65 per cent to $870mn, compared with $525mn in the same period the previous year.

> Nearly a third of Telegram’s revenue — or $300mn — came from so-called exclusivity agreements (probably related to the toncoin cryptocurrency)

> Advertising revenue was up 5 per cent to $125mn in the first half of the year. Meanwhile, premium subscriptions jumped 88 per cent to $223mn, compared with $119mn in the same period in 2024 as the number of paying users rose.

Is it me or the remaining 25% of the revenue sources (222mn of 910mn) are not detailed at all?

The EU is finally blacklisting Russia for money laundering

RockstarSprain — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 14:58:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.politico.eu/article/the-eu-is-finally-blacklisting-russia-for-money-laundering/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46135222

Points: 7

# Comments: 0