<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: akaij</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=akaij</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 14:10:06 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=akaij" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by akaij in "Intel Arc Pro B50 GPU Launched at $349 for Compact Workstations"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My guess would be video encoding/decoding and rendering.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2025 09:40:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45166308</link><dc:creator>akaij</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45166308</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45166308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by akaij in "Typr – TUI typing test with a word selection algorithm inspired by keybr"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Looks nice! Reminds me of a similar program (a bbs door, really) named ‘yogurt’ by @sedatk — I remember using it to improve my fast-typing around 2002-2003. This brings back memories :)<p>“Time it needs time to win back your love again”</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2025 00:20:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44392741</link><dc:creator>akaij</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44392741</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44392741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by akaij in "Signal – An Ethical Replacement for WhatsApp"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>1. I’ll give you one guess why that is.<p>2. It is possible, and you better believe it. They haven’t updated it, because there is no need for it.<p>Signal is simply not interested in your messages. It’s also not interested in your metadata, because it’s not an ad platform or a SIGINT front masquerading as a free messaging service.<p>If all this sounds hard to believe, you should donate.<p>(I’m not affiliated)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2025 02:13:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44351938</link><dc:creator>akaij</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44351938</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44351938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by akaij in "Apple and Meta fined millions for breaching EU law"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Even 15% would probably have been universally accepted.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2025 18:41:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43775327</link><dc:creator>akaij</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43775327</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43775327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by akaij in "The Web Is Broken – Botnet Part 2"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Useful as a for-profit cryptocurrency? I think zero chance.<p>The only way I see anything like that incorporated is a folding@home kind of thing that could help humanity as a whole.<p>Of course, if someone makes it work like you suggested, and it catches on, I will personally haunt your dreams forever. Don't give them any ideas.</p>
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<p>To me it’s just another decision rooted in greed, to take away more Agency from the User Agent.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2025 18:18:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43323790</link><dc:creator>akaij</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43323790</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43323790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by akaij in "Noam Chomsky 'no longer able to talk' after 'medical event'"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think you mean that he is <i>mainly</i> a linguist.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2024 10:49:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40644722</link><dc:creator>akaij</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40644722</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40644722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by akaij in "Golden Gate Claude"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>About as accurate as Google Search AI.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2024 21:26:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40460097</link><dc:creator>akaij</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40460097</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40460097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by akaij in "Companies Say They're Using Microphone Audio to Target Ads [audio] (2023)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have always denied Instagram access to my camera, microphone, photos, and location, on top of disabling background refresh. Sometimes, upon switching to the app, I get this screen: <a href="https://i.imgur.com/Sj8Dikg.png" rel="nofollow">https://i.imgur.com/Sj8Dikg.png</a><p>This has always struck me as odd, because it means the app would have started both the camera and microphone if it had permissions, without me clicking the right buttons to get to it.<p>I'm too lazy right now to see if I can trigger the screen, and whether iOS would show the microphone/camera activity icons, but maybe there's a bug that's actively being exploited by Meta. I don't know how active the microphone stays if it has permissions, but I wouldn't put it past them to send all the data captured by the sensors even if I'm not posting a story. They did it with "status updates" on Facebook back then, when they gathered the data even if I deleted whatever I wrote without posting.<p></faraday cage hat></p>
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<p>Depending on the flavour of the linguist, they could say "as long as the correct meaning is conveyed, go wild" :)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2024 21:12:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40252453</link><dc:creator>akaij</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40252453</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40252453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by akaij in "John Carmack on Meta Horizon OS"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So that they can sell a service?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2024 22:10:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40163699</link><dc:creator>akaij</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40163699</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40163699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by akaij in "John Carmack on Meta Horizon OS"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> I'm still waiting for the damn iPhone to be the gaming platform they promised over a decade ago.<p>They have a different definition of gaming than we do. The games they're interested in are the ones with in-app purchases.<p>Except the design department, "good enough" is their motto for everything. "iPhone is the most popular gaming device" and "iPhone is the most popular camera" are two technically correct statements that don't sit right with me, but that's just me.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2024 21:21:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40163187</link><dc:creator>akaij</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40163187</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40163187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by akaij in "Dedoimedo reviews Wayland in 2024 and comes to sad conclusions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Wayland? Sure does. I have been using sway for a while with three monitors; two of them 1080p, one 1440p.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2024 19:08:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40161716</link><dc:creator>akaij</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40161716</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40161716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by akaij in "The man who killed Google Search?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm talking about the difference between making money off a good product, and being on a quest to enrich yourself at all costs, even if it's detrimental to virtually everyone on the planet, and the company in the long term.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2024 22:23:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40138070</link><dc:creator>akaij</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40138070</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40138070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by akaij in "The man who killed Google Search?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I thought it was a very good description. The person mentioned is responsible for turning one of the most important pieces of software used by billions, into user-hostile experiences that's better for only a few, including himself, just for profits.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2024 18:26:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40135352</link><dc:creator>akaij</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40135352</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40135352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by akaij in "The Rise and Fall of 3M's Floppy Disk (2023)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I bought a Transcend ESD310C specifically because of this. Really performant, too!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2024 16:28:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39919473</link><dc:creator>akaij</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39919473</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39919473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by akaij in "Commission opens non-compliance investigations against Alphabet, Apple and Meta"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It feels like some people don't imagine these companies to be ready for compliance. As if they don't have all the knobs ready to turn on a per-region/country/state basis as soon as the law changes and it becomes possible to lose even the smallest amount in stock value.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2024 18:59:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39820045</link><dc:creator>akaij</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39820045</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39820045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by akaij in "Commission opens non-compliance investigations against Alphabet, Apple and Meta"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Google didn't 'fully' move out of China; it still has offices there, doing some business as usual.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2024 18:36:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39819776</link><dc:creator>akaij</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39819776</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39819776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by akaij in "Ask HN: What would make you say "I want to hire this devloper?""]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>And you thought this would be a meaningful contribution to this post?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2024 17:14:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39618190</link><dc:creator>akaij</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39618190</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39618190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by akaij in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2024)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Maybe you missed the last link in the post?</p>
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