Hacker News: borbtactics

New comment by borbtactics in "Rats learned to drive"

borbtactics — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 07:55:18 +0000

I have a new casino idea.

New comment by borbtactics in "In ‘The Book Against Death,’ Elias Canetti rants against mortality"

borbtactics — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 04:36:15 +0000

Time to revisit Mitchell and Webb’s brilliant immortal kids skit

New comment by borbtactics in "Zero regrets: Firefox power user kept 7,500 tabs open for two years"

borbtactics — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 07:00:43 +0000

Chrome and Firefox’s reading list is perfect for this purpose

New comment by borbtactics in "Research into homeopathy: data falsification, fabrication and manipulation"

borbtactics — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 21:08:10 +0000

I still don't understand why these can be sold in American pharmacies.

New comment by borbtactics in "Things the guys who stole my phone have texted me to try to get me to unlock it"

borbtactics — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 21:32:52 +0000

>“hackers” might “contact my family” to, what, send them thousands of photos of my dog??

I'm confused. The attacker doesn't have access to the author's photos or family contacts, right?

New comment by borbtactics in "Raspberry Pi Ltd is considering an IPO"

borbtactics — Wed, 15 May 2024 14:10:20 +0000

I use my 3B solely for adblocking via Pi-hole and it works fine most of the time

New comment by borbtactics in "Show HN: I made a simple daily word puzzle"

borbtactics — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 20:18:24 +0000

Cool game. Would be nice if entering a wrong answer clears the input field so it doesn't need to be cleared manually. The wrong answer can be moved to a history guesses list elsewhere so the player doesn't need to memorize their past attempts.

New comment by borbtactics in "How to center a div in CSS"

borbtactics — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 19:47:07 +0000

The demo containers and their animation are so cool and useful.

New comment by borbtactics in "American VC Firms Investing Billions into PRC Companies Fueling the CCP Military"

borbtactics — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 19:38:42 +0000

Is it just me or does selectcommitteeontheccp.house.gov have a very suspicious design including stress-inducing red and black colors, weird layout, low-res header images, and "Click HERE" links that look like social engineering?

New comment by borbtactics in "Show HN: Daily price tracking for Trader Joe's"

borbtactics — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 19:34:20 +0000

Time to wishlist those strawberries

New comment by borbtactics in "[dead]"

borbtactics — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 18:22:02 +0000

My coworker and I had exactly the same thought about that VPN ad.

New comment by borbtactics in "How we turned the tide in the roach wars"

borbtactics — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 19:13:59 +0000

I have a legitimate fear of cockroaches and sometimes I wish editors would refrain from putting a gigantic roach picture at the top

New comment by borbtactics in "Sturgeon's law (90% of everything is crap)"

borbtactics — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 19:46:12 +0000

So by increasing the amount of crap by ten times, we get ten times more noncrap as well. What a deal

New comment by borbtactics in "Prince Harry wins phone hacking case against British tabloid"

borbtactics — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 20:48:50 +0000

Or, he won a phone case that hacked his phone

New comment by borbtactics in "My doomed career as a North Korean novelist"

borbtactics — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 21:42:47 +0000

This story reminds me that education is a privilege and I'm probably not enjoying it as much as I should.

New comment by borbtactics in "Visualizing Pokémon Red and Blue Connections (2020)"

borbtactics — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 20:59:25 +0000

After all these years, the Silph Company is still one of the more confusing RPG dungeons I've encountered. Glad to finally see it explained.

New comment by borbtactics in "Unix Time reaches 1.7 billion"

borbtactics — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 22:08:36 +0000

We get to celebrate every three years? Nice

New comment by borbtactics in "Krita fund has no corporate support"

borbtactics — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 13:24:39 +0000

Same here. I want a Photoshop alternative that has built-in tate-chu-yoko but I've never seen one