Hacker News: Vinnl

New comment by Vinnl in "uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook"

Vinnl — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 09:40:26 +0000

> I think people need to understand what the purpose of Facebook is in terms of its function and constituent parts

Given how many people do not yet use adblockers, I don't have much reason to believe that this will lead to significant amounts of people suddenly seeing this.

New comment by Vinnl in "Delta"

Vinnl — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 19:14:16 +0000

I can imagine this being useful, but unlike Zed, this looks like it'll come with some fairly significant lock-in. Great for the investors, but it makes me hesitant...

New comment by Vinnl in "Dutch Train Map Simulator"

Vinnl — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:22:17 +0000

And as far as delays go, I believe it is (or was, last I looked) nr 3 in the world, after Japan and Switzerland.

Of course, Japan's trains are world-class, but at least those are widely recognised as such. The Dutch rail network is much denser than Switzerlands, but catches a lot of flak.

(Which is not to say that it can't or shouldn't be improved, but it's also good to recognise what's going well.)

New comment by Vinnl in "The "Disability Dongle": Why Silicon Valley Hates Me and You"

Vinnl — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 19:27:44 +0000

For 1: https://killthecookiebanner.eu/

New comment by Vinnl in "Hop.earth – OpenStreetMap based car racing game"

Vinnl — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 19:22:53 +0000

https://cityrider.jpsmaps.com/

New comment by Vinnl in "Atom is better than RSS, in ways that matter"

Vinnl — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 07:28:35 +0000

tl;dr

Atom can do < or & in titles, and offer both a summary and the full text.

Some podcast apps (Apple Podcasts) don't support Atom, so then plain RSS is better.

So it doesn't really matter that much.

New comment by Vinnl in "UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions"

Vinnl — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 20:53:36 +0000

The Super League was decidedly not UEFA's - UEFA even announced sanctions against the organisers (though I think those were repealed by a court), because it was going to compete with UEFA's leagues.

New comment by Vinnl in "UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions"

Vinnl — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 20:46:37 +0000

CONCACAF statement: https://www.concacaf.com/competitions/concacaf/news/statemen...

Papers with open peer-review reports are less likely to be retracted

Vinnl — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 09:27:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02282-1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49107712

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Servo now passes 100% of WPT tests for the WebCrypto API

Vinnl — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 08:56:49 +0000

Article URL: https://floss.social/@servo/117002165161738219

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49094949

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by Vinnl in "Decathlon Germany adds Wero payment option to decathlon.de website"

Vinnl — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 21:43:53 +0000

ASN Bank has a website that allows you to set a browser-linked code once, after verifying both your email address and phone number. You can then use that browser+code as the 2FA device. It's pretty neat.

New comment by Vinnl in "Try the New Firefox Design in Nightly"

Vinnl — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 16:07:27 +0000

Like every redesign I'm sure there will be many complaints, and yes, the tabs are still buttons, but this should please quite a few HN'ers, I think:

> You’ll notice (...) the return of Compact Mode

Try the New Firefox Design in Nightly

Vinnl — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 16:05:07 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2026/07/27/new-firefox-design/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49071565

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by Vinnl in "Git rebase -i is not that scary"

Vinnl — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 13:07:48 +0000

I'm pretty comfortable with Git, but I've still done this a number of times, and in my experience this situation is very evitable. After I've completed my gnarly process (whether successfully or unsuccessfully), I just delete the folder I don't want to use.

New comment by Vinnl in "Git rebase -i is not that scary"

Vinnl — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 12:04:33 +0000

It's a super simple solution for which you can be certain that you have all the knowledge needed to perform the restore operation.

New comment by Vinnl in "The growing vigilante movement to knock out Flock surveillance cameras"

Vinnl — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 21:29:47 +0000

Laws are not perfectly moral, and future laws might be even less so. Same goes for governments - their power should not outweigh the governed's.

New comment by Vinnl in "The EU is about to sell our most sensitive data to the US for visa-free travel"

Vinnl — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:56:38 +0000

> There is no leverage so I fail to see how this could succeed.

Isn't there upside to the US too if more Europeans visit the US?

New comment by Vinnl in "The EU is about to sell our most sensitive data to the US for visa-free travel"

Vinnl — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:55:35 +0000

It's not clear to me if this would allow access to all biometric data, or "just" to that of people crossing the US border?

And for the latter, what data are we talking about? If it's mostly fingerprints, don't those already get collected upon crossing the border? And can't they already be read from a passport's chip?

New comment by Vinnl in "Bluesky Trademarks ATProto"

Vinnl — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 21:18:22 +0000

Mastodon.social is too big, but it is on a different scale: https://arewedecentralizedyet.online

(Though I do agree it's partially irrelevant, depending on what problem you're trying to solve.)

New comment by Vinnl in "Briar is in maintenance mode"

Vinnl — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 20:58:58 +0000

Doesn't Briar itself provide functionality to share the apk via Bluetooth? So you don't even need F-Droid (though it's still good to have regardless, of course).