Hacker News: bl4kershttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bl4kersHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Thu, 27 Aug 2026 11:28:33 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by bl4kers in "Nebula Sans"]]>> The homepage and app isn't creepily algorithmically designed to optimize my engagement with the platform

A simple fix for YouTube is bookmarking the subscriptions page and making that your entrypoint: https://www.youtube.com/feed/subscriptions

]]>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 08:03:10 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49461413bl4kershttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49461413https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49461413<![CDATA[New comment by bl4kers in "'Not acceptable': Judge orders Google to make rival app store installs easier"]]>That's not a trusted source anymore: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-bans-a...

]]>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 19:28:37 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49303507bl4kershttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49303507https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49303507<![CDATA[New comment by bl4kers in "Zohran Mamdani's NYC Tech Team Is What DOGE Should Have Been"]]>That's not a trusted source anymore: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-bans-a...

]]>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 04:11:57 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49218837bl4kershttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49218837https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49218837<![CDATA[New comment by bl4kers in "Spotify just hit 300M Premium subscribers"]]>Podcasts are shoved in your face everywhere, and their official playlists have been flooded with AI music.

]]>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 18:04:42 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49172530bl4kershttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49172530https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49172530<![CDATA[New comment by bl4kers in "Trump says Greenland will be under US control by the time he leaves office"]]>Highly doubt. Denmark has been quietly moving in troops and supplies

]]>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 03:02:10 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49140649bl4kershttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49140649https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49140649<![CDATA[New comment by bl4kers in "Show HN: Descript wanted $24/mo, I built an open-source alternative in a weekend"]]>Yes, you can. Just pass in an image

]]>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:09:50 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49077486bl4kershttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49077486https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49077486<![CDATA[New comment by bl4kers in "Show HN: Brolly, a plain-text weather forecast site"]]>I don't see a way to change from F to C...?

]]>Sun, 26 Jul 2026 01:14:54 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49053613bl4kershttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49053613https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49053613<![CDATA[New comment by bl4kers in "Stripe closed my account with a 0.18% dispute rate"]]>Sounds like an unreliable company. Best to not work with them anymore

]]>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 20:42:30 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49051359bl4kershttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49051359https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49051359<![CDATA[New comment by bl4kers in "Pebble Mega Update – July 2026"]]>Some people just break screens

]]>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 20:42:39 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48952082bl4kershttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48952082https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48952082<![CDATA[New comment by bl4kers in "Meta data center water discharges suspended for contaminating water supply"]]>Oh, great. A group of men in black shirts and jeans are here to fix the issue

]]>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 22:15:23 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48789570bl4kershttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48789570https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48789570<![CDATA[New comment by bl4kers in "The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party"]]>Tweet from Proton's CEO last year: "10 years ago, Republicans were the party of big business and Dems stood for the little guys, but today the tables have completely turned."

He repeatedly said his statement was politically neutral.

]]>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 02:19:57 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48694524bl4kershttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48694524https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48694524<![CDATA[New comment by bl4kers in "Reddit now blocks all free API access besides RedReader"]]>My experience with Lemmy has been nothing but positive. Very glad to have switched three years ago

]]>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 19:06:38 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48649809bl4kershttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48649809https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48649809<![CDATA[New comment by bl4kers in "Ask HN: New clean macOS install. Must-have apps? Best browser?"]]>Whatever you decide it's useful to find things on Homebrew and record in a file. Then you can mass install next time around

]]>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 19:03:58 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48649778bl4kershttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48649778https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48649778<![CDATA[New comment by bl4kers in "Windows 11 New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges for Popular Video Codecs"]]>IINA is much better on Mac

https://iina.io

]]>Sun, 21 Jun 2026 01:24:15 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48614778bl4kershttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48614778https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48614778<![CDATA[New comment by bl4kers in "FCC wants to kill burner phones by forcing telecoms to get all customers' IDs"]]>Yep, just in different flavors based on ideology. For example, forced labor requires logging & tracking of pregnancies. Anti-trans folks want gender identity on the books to gatekeep who can teach in schools or enter bathrooms. Same for preventing same-sex marriage. Folks railing against voting rights want more and more checks to prove who you are and where you live

]]>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:07:42 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48466022bl4kershttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48466022https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48466022<![CDATA[New comment by bl4kers in "Waymo expands pause to four cities as robotaxis keep driving into floods"]]>When I was in LA they were consistently cheaper than Lyft

]]>Sat, 23 May 2026 17:16:55 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48249361bl4kershttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48249361https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48249361<![CDATA[New comment by bl4kers in "The FBI Wants to Buy Nationwide Access to License Plate Readers"]]>You sure that data is stored locally and not on a vendor's cloud offering?

]]>Tue, 19 May 2026 18:46:42 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48197544bl4kershttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48197544https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48197544<![CDATA[New comment by bl4kers in "Sam Altman's Business Dealings Under GOP Scrutiny Ahead of OpenAI's IPO"]]>I'm certain that's already been reviewed. There's diaries being read at the trial.

]]>Fri, 15 May 2026 00:10:45 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48142894bl4kershttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48142894https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48142894<![CDATA[New comment by bl4kers in "Empty Screenings – Finds AMC movie screenings with few or no tickets sold"]]>Pretty much all theaters have cameras, no?

]]>Tue, 05 May 2026 21:06:51 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48028569bl4kershttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48028569https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48028569<![CDATA[New comment by bl4kers in "The feed doesn't know you, and YouTube refuses to let you browse"]]>Is this a serious suggestion? Gave me a chuckle at least

]]>Sat, 02 May 2026 22:13:43 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47991114bl4kershttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47991114https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47991114