Hacker News: The_Rob

New comment by The_Rob in "Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent"

The_Rob — Tue, 05 May 2026 10:42:57 +0000

Google has invested significantly in security. I believe you are referring to privacy?

New comment by The_Rob in "Orion 1.0"

The_Rob — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 17:07:32 +0000

Yes, at least outside of the EU. However, companies don't seem to be developing for it yet, probably due to the investment not being worth it until similar laws are more widespread. However, Orion in also on macOS, which does allow other engines. And Kagi is developing Orion for Linux and Windows.

New comment by The_Rob in "GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT"

The_Rob — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 20:02:02 +0000

Comparing LLM responses to heroine is insane.

New comment by The_Rob in "ChatGPT Atlas"

The_Rob — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 20:26:19 +0000

So the world's most embarrassing data leak, but "catastrophic" is stretching it.

New comment by The_Rob in "Servo v0.0.1"

The_Rob — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 14:18:47 +0000

Firefox market share is so low, it really seems more like a Chrome and Safari duopoly.

New comment by The_Rob in "The Obsolescence of Political Definitions (1991)"

The_Rob — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 15:25:44 +0000

I agree with the point this article is trying to make. As political definitions change, we start to lose sight of what these terms actually mean. I believe a more helpful comparison than left vs right, is open vs closed.

https://unherd.com/2018/07/open-vs-closed-rise-fall-left-rig...

New comment by The_Rob in "Orion Browser"

The_Rob — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 20:17:46 +0000

The Kagi Search extension works perfectly well.

New comment by The_Rob in "A three month review of kagi search and the orion web browser (2024)"

The_Rob — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 18:14:02 +0000

What is it about Grok that you expect to be so much better? Not disagreeing necessarily, just want to know your reasoning.

New comment by The_Rob in "Firefox nightly is running an experiment featuring a Fakespot feed on newtab"

The_Rob — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 11:57:33 +0000

I agree, but this limited to macOS and iOS. Not helpful to most people.

New comment by The_Rob in "Google pays Apple $18B to $20B a year to keep its search in iPhone"

The_Rob — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 21:42:25 +0000

It’s trivial to change default search provider, not sure why Apple wouldn’t take the money. It’s still up to the user.