<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: ck2</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ck2</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 14:52:21 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=ck2" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ck2 in "Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>whenever I can't access a website for various stupid blocks<p>I fire up cloudflare warp and walk right through it<p>use wireguard with wgcf in environments without cloudflare client<p>yeah it's stupid we have to do this in 2026 but I guess cloudflare is the new AOL garden</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 20:00:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48067979</link><dc:creator>ck2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48067979</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48067979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ck2 in "BYD overtakes Tesla and Kia as the best-selling EV brand in key overseas markets"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>steal this startup idea:<p>you can't buy BYD in the USA (thanks to Biden actually, not current admin)<p>BUT<p>there's a loophole to have a car from Canada in the USA for a year<p>so lease them from Canada to USA buyers for a year at a time</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 19:23:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48040498</link><dc:creator>ck2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48040498</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48040498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ck2 in "The first photo published in a newspaper, in 1848 (2023)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>the photos by kite in early 1900s are more amazing to me<p><a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2014/01/15/260152557/before-drone-cameras-kite-cameras" rel="nofollow">https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2014/01/15/26015255...</a><p>1906 "Ruins of San Francisco, 2,000 feet above San Francisco Bay overlooking the waterfront"<p><a href="https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2014/01/14/07823u-1-edit_custom-6f8722525c92ea8f30c4e0e6883f82cd5e65832c.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2014/01/14/07823u-1-edit_cu...</a><p><i>a 49-pound camera raised above the bay with a train of Conyne kites</i></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 17:02:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48025268</link><dc:creator>ck2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48025268</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48025268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ck2 in "Heat pump sales rise across Europe"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>imagine the President of the US and his "braintrust" accidentally making the world much more green and efficient by forcing a radical reduction in oil dependency<p>while they purposely end climate-change research including destroying billions in observation satellites by deorbiting them<p>the history written about this decade is going to be wild, if we survive it</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 19:10:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48013478</link><dc:creator>ck2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48013478</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48013478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ck2 in "Japan is building cardboard suicide drones"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>if another country towed a raft full of thousands of cheap drone off a US coast and launched them into the country we have absolutely no defense<p>they could take out all water and power utilities on the entire east coast over 24 hours<p>our million dollar missiles would be useless even if Whiskey-Pete was more than willing to use them over crowded cities<p>North Korea, Russia, China, et al<p>and considering we've depleted a decade's worth of weapons and half of the fleet is overseas, we're pretty darn vulnerable right now thanks to those in power<p>I wonder how far away we are from "dirty drones" where they don't even need a bomb, just radioactive material or toxic chemicals as dust</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 16:57:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47965273</link><dc:creator>ck2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47965273</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47965273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ck2 in "U.S. war in Iran has cost $25B so far, says Pentagon official"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>all their numbers are a lie<p>they've spent more than $25 BILLION on just weapons which have to be replaced so it's already twice that number<p>and for more examples we know now the true cost of militarization since 9/11 was $21 TRILLION<p>it's at least half the national debt if not more<p><a href="https://ips-dc.org/report-state-of-insecurity-cost-militarization-since-9-11/" rel="nofollow">https://ips-dc.org/report-state-of-insecurity-cost-militariz...</a><p>Remember, beyond the cost of war, every day the cost of gas is +$1 that's another BILLION dollars being siphoned out of the US economy, EVERY DAY<p>the strait is not opening this year, maybe not even before 2029 at this rate<p>that's TRILLIONS<p>time for a windfall profits tax on the US oil industry</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:30:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47950703</link><dc:creator>ck2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47950703</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47950703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ck2 in "Your phone is about to stop being yours"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>vaguely curious how this is going to affect Amazon's FireOS<p>which is basically android with their own app store layer<p>FireToolBox has gotten really powerful with workarounds<p>especially with the new Shizuku pseudo-root via adb</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:29:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47937640</link><dc:creator>ck2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47937640</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47937640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ck2 in "U.S. companies back Sam Altman's World ID even as much of the world pushes back"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Seems like a good point to remind that capitalism doesn't need democracy to function or survive<p>They have no problem helping to strangle democracy to death</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 21:37:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47927668</link><dc:creator>ck2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47927668</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47927668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ck2 in "US Supreme Court reviews police use of cell location data"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>if geofencing for all people in the area of a crime becomes legal<p>well then we know everyone who went to Epstein Island from their cellphone records<p>Congress must subpoena them ALL<p>especially the one that went all the way back to Trump Tower, who was it?<p><a href="https://www.wired.com/video/watch/we-tracked-every-visitor-to-epstein-island" rel="nofollow">https://www.wired.com/video/watch/we-tracked-every-visitor-t...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 16:13:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47923492</link><dc:creator>ck2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47923492</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47923492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ck2 in "Why has there been so little progress on Alzheimer's disease?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There's progress, just only for those with access and can afford it<p>The President is singlehandedly kept this side of functional via infusions of this drug each month<p><a href="https://beingpatient.com/fda-alzheimers-leqembi-nih-memo-trump/" rel="nofollow">https://beingpatient.com/fda-alzheimers-leqembi-nih-memo-tru...</a><p>They mysteriously rushed approval despite all other activity suspended the week after he was sworn-in<p>Watch how he disappears for a few days each month, that's why, it can only be done in a hospital and they have to do MRI for leakage</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 12:54:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47909937</link><dc:creator>ck2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47909937</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47909937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ck2 in "Aspartame is not that bad? (2022)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>phenylalanine is DLPA which many people use to deal with chronic fatigue and mild pain management<p>there's a reason why the President guzzles gallons of it per month<p>I'm not convinced large amounts of Methanol is harmless but DLPA is harmless, maybe even beneficial</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 14:40:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47890954</link><dc:creator>ck2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47890954</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47890954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ck2 in "A programmable watch you can actually wear"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>not sure if this will help you but there is a neat website that allows you to build free maps for older Garmin models that didn't have them at first like Fenix5<p><a href="https://garmin.bbbike.org/" rel="nofollow">https://garmin.bbbike.org/</a><p>1990s is going way back though, they didn't even have mass-storage mode then, it was their proprietary "garmin mode" for usb which only things like BaseCamp can talk to</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:54:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47878112</link><dc:creator>ck2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47878112</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47878112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ck2 in "A programmable watch you can actually wear"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>have wished for decades now there was an open-source Garmin on the level of Cyanogenmod / LineageOS for Android<p>not sure if it will happen this decade but definitely next decade<p>proper running/cycling metrics are hard as demonstrated by how many well-funded competitors are somewhat close but not there 100% yet (Coros, Amazfit, etc)<p>someone once hacked and decompiled older Garmins but newer ones are encrypted/signed/locked-down</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:26:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47877700</link><dc:creator>ck2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47877700</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47877700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ck2 in "How does GPS work?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What's interesting is the Chinese GPS called BeiDou is way more advanced than the now outdated American GPS system<p>Except BeiDou is banned on American devices unlike Russian GLONASS<p>Even though GPS is a read-only service and could not affect civilian devices and it's already built-in to most phone/watch chipsets<p>Biden admin tried to change policy but ran out of time<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47849174">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47849174</a><p>It will radically increase accuracy and availability the day it's allowed (like in Europe)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 17:18:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47866446</link><dc:creator>ck2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47866446</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47866446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ck2 in "3.4M Solar Panels"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>sorry didn't think it would have geo-block<p><a href="https://images2.imgbox.com/8b/e1/R6pnQUCr_o.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://images2.imgbox.com/8b/e1/R6pnQUCr_o.jpg</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 13:45:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47863557</link><dc:creator>ck2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47863557</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47863557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ck2 in "3.4M Solar Panels"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>it's from a US warehouse so there are no tariffs (or they've already been paid/included)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 13:40:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47863490</link><dc:creator>ck2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47863490</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47863490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ck2 in "3.4M Solar Panels"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>it's actually $33 because there's a $4 coupon available to everyone on the page<p>and if you buy 2 at a time there are multiple 10% codes available<p>so it's $67 USD for  200watts<p>100watt 18volt 5amp panels that can be put in series or parallel<p>for $33 each, it's crazy</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 13:39:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47863477</link><dc:creator>ck2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47863477</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47863477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ck2 in "3.4M Solar Panels"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>look how cheap now, it's crazy<p><a href="https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256809986804138.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256809986804138.html</a><p>I'm old enough to remember Carter putting them on WhiteHouse roof and they were thousands of dollars then (and less efficient)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 12:58:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47862917</link><dc:creator>ck2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47862917</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47862917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ck2 in "Fusion Power Plant Simulator"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>the PBS Space Time episode suggests to me the housing walls might be the biggest problem<p>it consumes itself or makes molecules that are destructive to the walls or insanely toxic so can never risk leaks<p>whatever solution they come up with I suspect it will require a lot of constant maintenance on the first generation</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:33:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47851097</link><dc:creator>ck2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47851097</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47851097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ck2 in "Fusion Power Plant Simulator"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>fantastic PBS Space Time on what the last steps are going to be to finally make fusion possible<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAJN1CrJsVE" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAJN1CrJsVE</a><p>(fusion is -always- just a decade away, perpetually, lol)</p>
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