Hacker News: cropcirclbureau

New comment by cropcirclbureau in "Help Keep Thunderbird Alive"

cropcirclbureau — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:17:38 +0000

Gmail has ads inline that are hard to distinguish from real emails. What kind of self-respecting person uses that when they have the technical knowhow to spend time on hackernews (i.e. options)?

New comment by cropcirclbureau in "Session is shutting down in 90 days"

cropcirclbureau — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:13:44 +0000

Surprised to hear this since my understanding was that Session was run on a crypto coin based, user hosted onion routing servers. Do they mean the dev company behind Session is shutting down?

An anecdote I have: a friend once had narcotics shipped intl. through Session a few years ago.

New comment by cropcirclbureau in "GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder"

cropcirclbureau — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 19:42:12 +0000

Are you willing to put monies on that?

New comment by cropcirclbureau in "How Israeli actions caused famine in Gaza, visualized"

cropcirclbureau — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 10:52:03 +0000

How come you have an account from 2014 and this is the first time you're commenting?

New comment by cropcirclbureau in "How Israeli actions caused famine in Gaza, visualized"

cropcirclbureau — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 10:49:21 +0000

what are you talking about? The sheer number of 10+ year old hn accounts tirading to defend, downplay and whitewash the actions of Israel in the comments in this exact thread is simply horrifying. .

New comment by cropcirclbureau in "Dismissed as a joke, UK's first rice crop ripe for picking after hot summer"

cropcirclbureau — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 11:01:51 +0000

Science journalism has a lot of issues but I think those problems are across journalism and not especially unique to science. Over referencing familiar narratives, click bait headlines, piss poor editing...you'll find this in all types of news out there.

Should science journalist hold themselves to a better, special standard? True. Especially with the age old war that's waged on it by those who hold power through selling incredibly unscientific world views. But I think the overt actions these forces are more to blame than poor science journalism. People don't like inconvenient facts, people will forever be victims to a voice making a problem go away by denying the problem even exists.

New comment by cropcirclbureau in "Open Social"

cropcirclbureau — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 23:17:34 +0000

Community drama has always been the achilles heel of large, open-source projects which are volunteer driven. Focus on community is critical to delivering this, especially when your product relies on mind share.

New comment by cropcirclbureau in "Helium Browser"

cropcirclbureau — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 09:57:16 +0000

It's not just anyone, it's the folks at Igalia. I think people disregard Servo since it's no longer under Mozilla but Igalia aren't just random contributors picking up the slack, they're browser experts that also work on Chromium.

New comment by cropcirclbureau in "Nostr"

cropcirclbureau — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 14:36:48 +0000

Word of warning: was blasted with NSFW on the first page of that link.

New comment by cropcirclbureau in "Source code for the X recommendation algorithm"

cropcirclbureau — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 20:47:51 +0000

Iiirc, Twitter uses some mongrel version of React Native on the web. That's why you get the 3 seconds long loading thingie whenever you open a new tab.

New comment by cropcirclbureau in "Survey: a third of senior developers say over half their code is AI-generated"

cropcirclbureau — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 01:50:45 +0000

Google OAuth2 refresh tokens are definitely singe use.

New comment by cropcirclbureau in "AI is different"

cropcirclbureau — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 06:36:56 +0000

Yes but can the market not be wrong? Wrong in the sense that, failing to meet our expectations as a useful engine of society? As I understood, what was meant with this this article is that AI completely changes the equations across the board that current market direction appears dangerously irrational to OP. I'm not sure what was meant with your comment though besides haggling over semantics and attacking some in-expertise of the authors socio-politic philosophizing that you perceive.

New comment by cropcirclbureau in "How I code with AI on a budget/free"

cropcirclbureau — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 08:07:19 +0000

Note that the website is scrolling very slow, sub1-fps on Firefox Android. I'm also unable to scroll the call-out about grok. Also, there's this strange large green button reading CSS loaded at the top.

New comment by cropcirclbureau in "I tried Servo"

cropcirclbureau — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 22:04:47 +0000

Every day I login into Hacker News. Every day, I see Mozilla FUD.

Love – Online Procedural Adventiure Game

cropcirclbureau — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 03:13:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.quelsolaar.com/love/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44666501

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Cheaper AI does not mean greener AI

cropcirclbureau — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 02:45:09 +0000

Article URL: https://wimvanderbauwhede.codeberg.page/articles/cheaper-ai-is-not-greener-ai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44655285

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

The Tyranny of the Marginal User

cropcirclbureau — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 01:15:04 +0000

Article URL: https://nothinghuman.substack.com/p/the-tyranny-of-the-marginal-user

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44555438

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by cropcirclbureau in "Let me pay for Firefox"

cropcirclbureau — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 13:49:53 +0000

I'm curious, how capital intensive/wasteful were these aimless projects? Compared to their operating expenses? What better way could they have spent this money? (Development isn't exactly a good answer, if it's not a lot of money, it won't exactly buy a lot of R&D and even if it did, R&D doesn't necessarily translate to more income).

New comment by cropcirclbureau in "Show HN: HomeBrew HN – generate personal context for content ranking"

cropcirclbureau — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 15:38:40 +0000

Are you referring to what's in the textarea on the edit profile text dialog? Seems to be a simple concatenation of the titles according to how I tagged them. If it's indeed this what you're referring to, what did you find interesting about this?

New comment by cropcirclbureau in "IDF officers ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near Gaza food distribution sites"

cropcirclbureau — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 14:46:10 +0000

I was encouraged by yours and parents posts to look at some of the comments but I think I just got duped into wasting time with bots that are in fact astroturfing!