Hacker News: aquir

New comment by aquir in "EU to legislate about Chat Control behind closed doors"

aquir — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 15:50:15 +0000

What's to point of all this? Everyone will use Signal or some other E2E encrypted messenger, this is just bone tossing. Useless politicans spending time on useless things.

New comment by aquir in "Flock cameras track more than your license plate, and they're spreading fast"

aquir — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 15:28:16 +0000

I don't get why any of these devices are still intact...

Fisher Catches and Releases Great White Shark in Massachusetts [video]

aquir — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 05:58:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFIcUT8Q1RU

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48513815

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by aquir in "Ryanair dark UX patterns summer 2026 refresher"

aquir — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:23:34 +0000

The whole "digital boarding pass" is a lie. My dad don't have a smartphone so you check in at home and at the airport at the desk they print the boarding pass for you if you checked in. Sorted.

New comment by aquir in "The 29th International Obfuscated C Code Contest (IOCCC) 2025 Winners"

aquir — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 06:30:41 +0000

The website itself is obfuscated, it’s not easy to find the C sources at all!

New comment by aquir in "Mouseless – keyboard-driven control of macOS/Linux/Windows"

aquir — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 06:55:11 +0000

Thank you for this! I was looking for something like this for ages! Used very similar in browsers but never imagined to have a system-wide version!

New comment by aquir in "Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition for Its Smart Glasses to Phones"

aquir — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 06:25:04 +0000

Meta should be wiped from this planet...when I read sh*t like this I always say something like "this is the worse" until next week when something even worse comes out re Meta

New comment by aquir in "Dear Microsoft, enough is enough"

aquir — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 06:22:09 +0000

Internet Explorer all over again...they never learn. Edge was the last thing that pushed me away from Microsoft. The constant new - privacy invading - features, frickin' widgets and ad-filled home-screen-tab-thing.

New comment by aquir in "Meta enables ADB on deprecated Portal devices [video]"

aquir — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 06:12:09 +0000

How much telemetry goes back to Meta from these devices still? I’m already looking for one on Gumtree and they’re quite cheap! Quite a few sizes as well! I always wanted a customisable desk tablet thingy!

New comment by aquir in "Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min"

aquir — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:23:57 +0000

I mean I would want to do this when I do confidential stuff like HR and Payroll. I would be interested above what level are employees are exempt from this. I don't think Meta wants to train their AI on their own C-Level execs but who knows...it's Meta

New comment by aquir in "I am retiring from tech to live offline"

aquir — Fri, 29 May 2026 16:07:59 +0000

I would go offline but never retire from tech, I would miss music terribly. I would also move all my ebooks over to an e-reader and that's it. If I can live somewhere offline with my music player and e-reader that's fine.

New comment by aquir in "Google changes its search box"

aquir — Tue, 19 May 2026 18:50:02 +0000

Time to pay for Kagi everyone!

New comment by aquir in "California's Battery Array Is as Powerful as 12 Nuclear Power Plants"

aquir — Sat, 16 May 2026 07:47:34 +0000

We need something like this in the UK given the constant abundance of renewable energy.

New comment by aquir in "Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)"

aquir — Wed, 13 May 2026 19:41:33 +0000

someone has already registered all county.uk domains in 2019 :(

OpenAI DevDay 2026

aquir — Wed, 13 May 2026 16:38:43 +0000

Article URL: https://openai.com/index/devday-2026/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48124225

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by aquir in "Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)"

aquir — Wed, 13 May 2026 16:14:09 +0000

I wish there would be something like this in the UK but with county instead of state. E.g. swindon.wiltshire.uk or sheffield.southyorkshire.uk

New comment by aquir in "I let AI build a tool to help me figure out what was waking me up at night"

aquir — Tue, 12 May 2026 10:57:06 +0000

I know what is waking me up at night...my neighbour is going out to smoke weed at 0:30am and 3:00am and the smoke wafts into my room (it is warm enough to leave one window slightly open). He's also listening to some podcast w/o earphones and also coughing a lot because of smoking the weed.

New comment by aquir in "Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables"

aquir — Fri, 01 May 2026 10:06:11 +0000

Good stuff, but it's telling me that my USB-C Thunderbolt cable has been plugged in upside down but the connector handled this. I was not aware that you can plug in something into USB-C upside down!

New comment by aquir in "Maryland becomes first state to ban surveillance pricing in grocery stores"

aquir — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 18:31:46 +0000

This sounds crazy! Makes budgeting impossible! Imagine someone is on low income and doesn’t know how much the grocery shopping will cost! Whoever came up with this should be burned

New comment by aquir in "The Joy of Folding Bikes"

aquir — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 07:51:03 +0000

Thanks for the info, I did not know!