Hacker News: abawany

New comment by abawany in "Amazon is discontinuing Kindle for PC on June 30th"

abawany — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 18:31:58 +0000

I prefer it as I don't like the following things about the kobo: ads for their stuff on the front page, and cumbersome sync (they seem to use a sqlite db to scan the loaded books on each sync, which for my ebooks takes a long while.) By comparison, pocketbook is what I want in a device: a file manager like interface to access my library, no fuss sync (via rsync and usb, primarily - I use their cloud to store books to read across devices), a good ecosystem of third party installs, and a front page that just features my books instead of whatever they want me to buy.

New comment by abawany in "Amazon is discontinuing Kindle for PC on June 30th"

abawany — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 19:26:58 +0000

the drm is the reason why I never bought any kindle along with the relatively small non-expandable onboard storage, though the dx was tempting to me for a bit. I've stuck with Kobo, Pocketbook, and reMarkable and have been happy with them.

Reed Hastings to step down from Netflix board

abawany — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 06:53:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/apr/16/netflix-chair-reed-hastings

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47803174

Points: 2

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Elon Musk insists banks working on SpaceX IPO must buy Grok subscriptions

abawany — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 21:41:56 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/04/elon-musk-insists-banks-working-on-spacex-ipo-must-buy-grok-subscriptions/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47632687

Points: 21

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Vaping likely to cause cancer, new Australian review of evidence finds

abawany — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 06:42:02 +0000

Article URL: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/591096/vaping-likely-to-cause-cancer-new-australian-review-of-evidence-finds

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47583566

Points: 7

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Pentagon to adopt Palantir AI as core US Military system

abawany — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 23:58:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/technology/pentagon-adopt-palantir-ai-as-core-us-military-system-memo-says-2026-03-20/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47462491

Points: 65

# Comments: 8

The fiery, deadly crashes involving the Tesla Cybertruck

abawany — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 23:06:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/18/tesla-cybertruck-crashes-battery-fires

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47432513

Points: 7

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Film Review: The Plastic Detox

abawany — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 21:05:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/mar/16/the-plastic-detox-review-a-film-so-terrifying-you-will-want-to-change-your-life-immediately

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47404868

Points: 1

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Google sells Fiber stake to Astound, becomes minority owner

abawany — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 22:52:44 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/11/google-sells-partial-stake-in-fiber-becomes-minority-owner-in-venture-.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47371072

Points: 9

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Microsoft embeds Edge into AI assistant, ignores questions about optin

abawany — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 15:32:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/05/microsoft_adds_a_sidepane_for/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47324661

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by abawany in "Microsoft account bugs locked me out of Notepad – Are thin clients ruining PCs?"

abawany — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 03:26:55 +0000

macos has gotten worse about this in recent releases - I was astounded when I learnt that apple news, apple books, and apple music are uninstallable; these are still removable on ios but not on macos for some reason.

New comment by abawany in "Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help"

abawany — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 09:31:05 +0000

Hetzner offers managed nextcloud and storage instances.

New comment by abawany in "Framework Raises DDR5 Memory Prices by 50% for DIY Laptops"

abawany — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 19:06:08 +0000

I upgraded my laptop from 32gb to 64gb (should have gotten 96gb) over the summer and I'm considering the same for the leftover 32gb - fear of not having spares in case of defects holds me back though.

Troubled nursing chain sells itself to itself in controversial bankruptcy deal

abawany — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 18:17:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/01/metro/genesis-healthcare-nursing-homes-bankruptcy/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46150873

Points: 1

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New comment by abawany in "Ask HN: Quality of recent gens of Dell/Lenovo laptops worse than 10 years ago?"

abawany — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 00:10:50 +0000

I got a Lenovo Legion 7i with a i9-13 and a rtx gpu for work and I have been very happy with it. Build quality is solid imo, it is very upgradable, and the battery size is generous with easily configurable charge limiting. Lenovo also seems to have good support so far. All in all, a professional experience for a consumer device from my point of view.

New comment by abawany in "What's Hiding Inside Haribo's Power Bank and Headphones?"

abawany — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 22:16:39 +0000

One of mine bought in 2017 was recalled and replaced, which impressed me: how many of the word salad brands of today would even be around to handle a recall if their devices decide to spontaneously combust?

New comment by abawany in "Mozilla says it's finally done with Onerep"

abawany — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 20:18:37 +0000

I never said you endorsed the donations, just that it seems to me to pointless to mention, as a response to my original post, given the ad/search revenue. My question remains why Mozilla (not you) seems against taking direct donations when they engage in other donation collection activities. I don't think we are taking opposing points here - I would like Mozilla to take donations to provide a clean browser to its fans (including me). Further, it just seems strange that the ad/search revenue number seems to be some line in stone - can't they operate a browser without the hundreds of millions of ad/search deals?

New comment by abawany in "Mozilla says it's finally done with Onerep"

abawany — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 22:18:15 +0000

In one of your other posts, you talk about their merch sales and others also talk about their bundling of services such as vpn and etc., which all also sound like small potatoes. Does that not sound contradictory? Why bother with any of this if search licensing covers their costs many times over? And if merch and mozilla branded bundles work, then why not also let the users fund them like Thunderbird allows instead of enraging these users by signing them up unsolicited for things such as "privacy preserving ads" and such?

New comment by abawany in "Mozilla says it's finally done with Onerep"

abawany — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 20:46:36 +0000

it's particularly strange to see Mozilla engage in these silly machinations when the Thunderbird team has moved on to the model of direct user funding.

Kansas' Marion county pays $3M for forgetting the First Amendment

abawany — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 21:47:50 +0000

Article URL: https://freedom.press/issues/kansas-county-pays-3m-for-forgetting-the-first-amendment/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45932574

Points: 12

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