<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: Winblows11</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Winblows11</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 12:29:20 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=Winblows11" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Winblows11 in "We're no longer attracting top talent: the brain drain killing American science"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> The Swiss are trying to cap population
> the UK no longer counts<p>Well the Swiss are not in EU either, but both are still in Europe</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 22:24:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47080485</link><dc:creator>Winblows11</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47080485</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47080485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Winblows11 in "Discord Rival Gets Overwhelmed by Exodus of Players Fleeing Age-Verification"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Like so many things from history, this is all Britain’s fault. The farcical UK Online Safety Act is forcing all social media platforms and adult-oriented websites to require age verification checks before its citizens can access them<p>I guess no other US state or country has demanded age checks, great journalism from kotaku...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 19:12:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47051696</link><dc:creator>Winblows11</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47051696</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47051696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Winblows11 in "UK's Ofcom fines porn site £800,000 for not rolling out age checks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's not for Kick.com but a porn site called motherCENSORED.com.<p>The full uncensored site name found in this PDF:
<a href="https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/48590/documents/254714/default/" rel="nofollow">https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/48590/document...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 22:49:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46996385</link><dc:creator>Winblows11</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46996385</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46996385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Winblows11 in "France's homegrown open source online office suite"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes I remember when UK regulator blocked Microsoft from buying Activision there were posts on r/Microsoft regarding their ability to send update to brick all Windows installs in UK and delete all Azure data of UK companies, how UK was a small insignificant market compared to BRICs so it wouldn't hurt MSFT stock price.<p>Given JD Vance obviously hates UK/EU way more than Trump, and he may be next US president, he may in fact threaten Microsoft to do it against UK and EU.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2026 14:46:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46924292</link><dc:creator>Winblows11</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46924292</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46924292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Winblows11 in "De-dollarization: Is the US dollar losing its dominance? (2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>But only 56% in a poll? Is that enough for another referendum and guarantee rejoin? EU politicians have made it clear, ALL UK opt-outs will be gone if UK rejoins, whether it is UK opt-out regarding budget (like paying billions less in annual EU fees like UK did before), to special fishing rights pre-Brexit, to forced to adopt Euro currency and drop Pound sterling.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2026 17:35:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46694980</link><dc:creator>Winblows11</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46694980</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46694980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Winblows11 in "The Walls Are Closing in on Tesla"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Is this important market?<p>Norway is just 5-6 million population. Does being number 1 in Norway even mean anything?<p>UK is near 70million. Germany 80million. What about the stats for those? How many Teslas were sold as percentage in UK?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2026 10:52:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46666714</link><dc:creator>Winblows11</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46666714</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46666714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Winblows11 in "UK government exempting itself from cyber law inspires little confidence"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The page you linked to ends with:<p>> The proposed Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Bill emphasised the non-justiciability of the revived prerogative powers, prevented courts from making certain rulings in relation to a Government's power to dissolve Parliament. It received royal assent over two years later, on 24 March 2022.<p>As some have said before, it effectively means in future the Supreme Court can't undo or interfere with prorogation like what Boris Johnson did in 2019. The Labour party have said they won't cancel this law, so Kier Starmer can now do same as Boris and courts can't stop him.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2026 17:41:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46567947</link><dc:creator>Winblows11</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46567947</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46567947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Winblows11 in "Imgur pulls out of UK as data watchdog threatens fine"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> pull all investment out of the UK.<p>Wow I didn't know big tech invested so much in the UK!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2025 19:04:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45429740</link><dc:creator>Winblows11</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45429740</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45429740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Winblows11 in "Pico CSS – Minimal CSS Framework for Semantic HTML"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There's also this site which allows easy switching/previewing of classless CSS themes:<p><a href="https://www.cssbed.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.cssbed.com/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2025 21:46:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45162466</link><dc:creator>Winblows11</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45162466</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45162466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Winblows11 in "Nepal Bans 26 Social Media Platforms, Including Facebook and YouTube"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not sure this is correct? It loads for me on Virgin Media broadband connection (although slow), also responds to pings at 70ms.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2025 18:14:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45160746</link><dc:creator>Winblows11</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45160746</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45160746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Winblows11 in "German Economist fined €16,100 for sarcastic X posts"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I wouldn't trust "reclaimthenet.org" after reading this HN post 9 days ago:
<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44953549">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44953549</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2025 16:30:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45066181</link><dc:creator>Winblows11</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45066181</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45066181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Winblows11 in "Germany considers removing 1200-ton gold stockpile from US in riposte to Trump"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Quoting: <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/gold-germany-conservatives-sound-alarm-over-reserves-usa/" rel="nofollow">https://www.politico.eu/article/gold-germany-conservatives-s...</a><p>> Already in 2012, Wanderwitz had unsuccessfully requested to inspect the gold holdings as part of an effort to pressure the bank to either take a more active role as a custodian, or to repatriate it to Germany.<p>Well that is worrying, what was he unsuccessful?<p>Surely that is going to be big world drama if it turns out Germany's gold is missing in New York?<p>> Today, over half of the Bundesbank’s reserves are stored on its premises in Frankfurt. Outside the U.S., the remaining 13 percent is held at the Bank of England.<p>I see Germany not asking for gold in London to be returned, I guess because required for trade in currency?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 05 Apr 2025 20:26:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43596561</link><dc:creator>Winblows11</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43596561</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43596561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Winblows11 in "Trump is making Europe great again"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Looks like US exports for same year less than half of EU:<p>> Exports were $3,053.5 billion
Source: <a href="https://www.bea.gov/news/2024/us-international-trade-goods-and-services-december-and-annual-2023" rel="nofollow">https://www.bea.gov/news/2024/us-international-trade-goods-a...</a><p>And UK exports last year were $1trillion
Source: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/uk-trade-in-numbers/uk-trade-in-numbers-web-version" rel="nofollow">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/uk-trade-in-numbers...</a><p>So unless I am mistaken, the UK+EU export $7.43 trillion whereas US just $3 trillion</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2025 00:50:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43541685</link><dc:creator>Winblows11</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43541685</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43541685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Winblows11 in "uBlock Origin dead for many as Google purges Manifest v2 extensions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I tried the Lite version of uBlock Origin (made for Manifest V3) but it failed to block all ads like the full version, for example I got black screen on YouTube, the ads seem to play in background, just with black screen and no audio (you still had to wait for the ad to run!)<p>I've since seen posts by others on Reddit and elsewhere with exact same issue, so looks like something affecting all Lite versions of uBlock, they simply can't block as effectively as Manifest v2 version.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Feb 2025 10:52:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43182591</link><dc:creator>Winblows11</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43182591</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43182591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Winblows11 in "In memoriam"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>From that list I don't see HN being affected, although I read somewhere that a report button on user generated content was required to comply for smaller sites.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 23 Feb 2025 21:49:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43153542</link><dc:creator>Winblows11</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43153542</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43153542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Winblows11 in "BrewDog's James Watt Launches 'Shadow DOGE' to Take on UK Government"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I recently read a report that with latest tax rises by new government, UK is now taxing and spending (as percentage of GDP) the same as mainland European countries like Germany/France. Traditionally both have been been less (not as low as US I think).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Feb 2025 18:54:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43039719</link><dc:creator>Winblows11</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43039719</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43039719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Winblows11 in "TSMC faces tough choices amid rumors for Intel foundry collaboration"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> U.S. government has proposed three potential cooperation options to TSMC<p>> 2. TSMC joining other firms as investors in Intel Foundry Services (IFS), a division being spun off from Intel, with TSMC transferring its technology as part of its shareholder role.<p>> On the other hand, if TSMC rejects the proposals, the U.S. government could impose a 100% tariff on chips made in Taiwan<p>When US can't compete, they have to blackmail/steal/sanction to rescue their failed corporations. The same stealing accusation they level at China.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Feb 2025 16:38:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43037840</link><dc:creator>Winblows11</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43037840</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43037840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Winblows11 in "UK hopes of security deal with EU hit by fishing dispute"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> member states’ demands over fishing rights and a youth mobility scheme<p>> without early assurances on fish and mobility<p>> bloc’s demands for continued fishing rights and a youth mobility deal<p>> The EU has made clear that a youth mobility agreement to allow for 18 to 30-year-olds to study and work in the UK — which Brussels is calling a youth experience scheme — is vital to any wider reset with the UK.<p>Why is the EU so desperate for EU people to go live and work in UK? I thought the EU was superior in every way and the UK was 3rd world gutter, a money laundering country that produces nothing with worse pay and living conditions inflation than glorious world super power EU?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jan 2025 16:24:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42867006</link><dc:creator>Winblows11</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42867006</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42867006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Winblows11 in "Does windpower still have a economic core in a world of hurricans?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I didn't read about any windfarms destroyed due to the windspeeds.<p>According to FT, so much energy was created because of the winds that briefly energy had to be exported to France and nuclear power generation reduced. Some windfarms in UK had to be paid to turn off otherwise there will be too much energy in the electrical grid (hence the export to France).<p><a href="https://www.ft.com/content/caac56de-d357-46e5-b2c7-49738ff0fcad" rel="nofollow">https://www.ft.com/content/caac56de-d357-46e5-b2c7-49738ff0f...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jan 2025 23:53:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42847264</link><dc:creator>Winblows11</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42847264</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42847264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Winblows11 in "How to improve your WFH lighting to reduce eye strain"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For those in UK you can get 98 CRI lighting from this company:
<a href="https://www.biaslighting.co.uk/collections/medialight-mk2" rel="nofollow">https://www.biaslighting.co.uk/collections/medialight-mk2</a>
Not cheap compared to the usual Amazon Chinese stuff though</p>
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