Hacker News: Vortigaunt

Tim Cook Stepping Down as Apple CEO, John Ternus Taking Over

Vortigaunt — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 20:58:08 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/20/tim-cook-stepping-down-as-apple-ceo-john-ternus-taking-over/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47840570

Points: 52

# Comments: 1

Nandgame – Build a Computer from Scratch

Vortigaunt — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 19:38:22 +0000

Article URL: https://nandgame.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47642552

Points: 9

# Comments: 0

New comment by Vortigaunt in "Predicting OpenAI's ad strategy"

Vortigaunt — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 04:47:26 +0000

Yeah some form of google's Web Integrity API will be forced one of these days

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/googles-web-integrit...

CentOS Hyperscale

Vortigaunt — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 22:35:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.centos.org/hyperscale/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46609331

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by Vortigaunt in "Ubuntu LTS releases to 15 years with Legacy add-on"

Vortigaunt — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 06:14:32 +0000

From what a quick google search told me, RHEL caps out at 13 years.[0] I'm curious what caused Canonical to offer 2 more years of lts support than Red Hat?

[0]https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata

New comment by Vortigaunt in "No adblocker detected"

Vortigaunt — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 03:26:22 +0000

The FBI also makes a good argument that adblockers prevent scammers from directing people to malicious sites.

https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/22/fbi-ad-blocker/

https://web.archive.org/web/20230219020056/https://www.ic3.g...

New comment by Vortigaunt in "Firefox-patch-bin, librewolf-fix-bin AUR packages contain malware"

Vortigaunt — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 19:18:27 +0000

Looks like someone archived the page of firefox-patch-bin[1] and the only thing that stands out about the package itself is that it's supposedly the "Extended Support Release." Besides that it looks like it's depended on by 183 other packages/metapackages. While that seems more interesting, there isn't an archive of all of those packages.

[1]https://web.archive.org/web/20250718140411/https://aur.archl...

New comment by Vortigaunt in "Man 'refused entry into US' as border control catch him with bald JD Vance meme"

Vortigaunt — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 20:04:48 +0000

Isn't it interesting how this post has more votes than anything else on the first page, is one hour old, and is currently on page 4. Seems like there's some interesting censorship going on in this website outside the consistent flagging of material deemed wrong-think.

New comment by Vortigaunt in "Twitter's new encrypted DMs aren't better than the old ones"

Vortigaunt — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 20:04:42 +0000

First thing that pops up on google:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/09/25/elon-mu...

Anyone still swayed by his vision is painfully naive

New comment by Vortigaunt in "Future of OSU Open Source Lab in Jeopardy"

Vortigaunt — Thu, 01 May 2025 03:06:10 +0000

I ctrl-f'd Oregon State and didn't find it in the link you provided. I think you found UofO's endowment: University of Oregon - $1.651

Wikipedia states that OSU's endowment is $829.9 million (2023).[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_State_University

New comment by Vortigaunt in "Wikipedia’s nonprofit status questioned by D.C. U.S. attorney"

Vortigaunt — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 00:14:41 +0000

"Geeks like to think that they can ignore politics, you can leave politics alone, but politics won't leave you alone."

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman

New comment by Vortigaunt in "RFK Jr. Set to Launch Disease Registry Tracking Autistic People"

Vortigaunt — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 05:07:40 +0000

If we were back in the 1930's would you be worrying about the rate[0] of people being diagnosed with left-handedness?[1]

[0]https://media.springernature.com/lw685/springer-static/image...

[1]https://archpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/...

New comment by Vortigaunt in "How 'Careless People' is becoming a bigger problem for Meta"

Vortigaunt — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 21:19:02 +0000

Glad you reminded me of this:

ZUCK: yea so if you ever need info about anyone at harvard

ZUCK: just ask

ZUCK: i have over 4000 emails, pictures, addresses, sns

FRIEND: what!? how’d you manage that one?

ZUCK: people just submitted it

ZUCK: i don’t know why

ZUCK: they “trust me”

ZUCK: dumb fucks

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/apr/17/facebook-...

New comment by Vortigaunt in "Bill prohibiting police from lying to children passes Virginia Senate"

Vortigaunt — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:04:43 +0000

Every time I see this pop up it reminds me of this part of an epsiode of This American Life [0]. At parts its quite difficult to listen to, however it seems like an important thing to be aware of. If they're willing to do this to children, what are they fine with doing to adults? It's beyond words how someone can imagine that this is moral behavior in the pursuit of justice. I don't see how anyone can harass a child like that - already distraught by the death of his sister - and to treat some kid like a murderer for hours on end.

[0] https://www.thisamericanlife.org/210/perfect-evidence/act-tw...

New comment by Vortigaunt in "The OBS Project is threatening Fedora Linux with legal action"

Vortigaunt — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 00:56:56 +0000

From what I've read the Fedora project has an interest in providing solely open source and non patent encumbered software like codecs. Which sounds like something OBS may infringe on