Hacker News: drunkan

New comment by drunkan in "David Attenborough's 100th Birthday"

drunkan — Sat, 09 May 2026 02:00:14 +0000

You clearly no nothing about him which is ok - if you read the adventures he put himself through when he was younger and older you would understand he was not just a narrator but someone who lived the field. If you are interested read one of the books on his life.

New comment by drunkan in "Show HN: Atomic – Local-first, AI-augmented personal knowledge base"

drunkan — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 17:21:35 +0000

Lots of good ideas and divergent methods and sources here cheers for the link

New comment by drunkan in "PM Carney declares U.S. ties now a 'weakness' in address to Canadians"

drunkan — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 03:51:50 +0000

ah yes a perfectly reasonable explanation to start a trade war with your ally that hurts both economies.

New comment by drunkan in "PM Carney declares U.S. ties now a 'weakness' in address to Canadians"

drunkan — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 03:49:54 +0000

the reek of American exceptionalism. There is plenty of history out there you just have to realise america does not have much and there is allot outside of it.

New comment by drunkan in "PM Carney declares U.S. ties now a 'weakness' in address to Canadians"

drunkan — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 03:44:35 +0000

so Canada should just succumb to almighty bullies? i think not.

New comment by drunkan in "Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find live streamers who need views the most"

drunkan — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 15:01:45 +0000

Am I crazy or is this just social/financial charity roulette for streamers. Also is there not inherently an issue building the foundations of a friendship on the predicate of one person being watched and the other having to watch and potentially pay the other? If one side doesn’t like or subscribe are they friends.

The idea that people turn to streaming to either support themselves or make friends and people feel the need to help them do so is everything right and wrong with society. It’s nice people are willing to support someone else and wrong that the most supported are often the worst and really we should just support people socially and financially outside of the streaming charity system we have created. I find it all a bit mind boggling.

New comment by drunkan in "Reverse engineering of Linear's sync engine"

drunkan — Sat, 31 May 2025 11:50:20 +0000

Someone maintains a list here

https://www.localfirst.fm/landscape

LiveStore shows recreating linear as one of their examples though I haven’t tried it. It was on the front page recently https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44105412

New comment by drunkan in "Halide rejected from App Store because it doesn't explain why it takes photos"

drunkan — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 13:55:41 +0000

Don’t take the bait this guys clearly trolling

New comment by drunkan in "Telegram has launched a pretty intense campaign to malign Signal as insecure"

drunkan — Mon, 13 May 2024 13:28:59 +0000

Pure smear comment. Signal was and is the choice of personal messaging app for anyone I know who has ever worked in security or intelligence. That should say it all. Aside from apple, who did it because of them, it has set the gold standard for e2e chat. People moan about the phone number and “metadata” when in reality all this can be used for is to say yes x has a signal account and this is when they last used it. That’s it. It’s effectively useless to anyone. People moan about it leveraging the local social graph of the device it’s a necessary convenience for the adoption of any modern chat app. They go into great detail about how it is and isn’t used in a way that it cannot be used/viewed by others. Frankly I’d bet half the people smearing it have X and Facebook apps installed on there phones and really aren’t serious people. If I wanted to smear off topic I’d point out that telegram, along with the usual suspects, is a gold mine for intelligence gathering for what I’ve heard.

New comment by drunkan in "I Lost Faith in Kagi"

drunkan — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 17:34:37 +0000

If someone say "please don't email me about this anymore" after writing a hit piece on someone and there company without giving them an opportunity to respond they are being provocative, goading and a troll.

New comment by drunkan in "I Lost Faith in Kagi"

drunkan — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 17:33:08 +0000

New comment by drunkan in "I Lost Faith in Kagi"

drunkan — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 17:24:36 +0000

Honestly after reading this guys follow up rant about the CEO contacting him directly for an opportunity to address any of the points made in this post, this comes off as nothing more than a hit piece. Just saying ive said my piece and I have no interest in hearing any follow up or rebuttals is just classic modern day social media journalism. Suprised the CEO stayed so cool in his follow ups with this guys attempt to goad the CEO into loosing his cool in a private email so he could plaster it all over the web - he comes accross as nothing more than a drama troll.

New comment by drunkan in "Ontario school boards sue social media giants for $4.5B"

drunkan — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 15:35:24 +0000

You explicitly said tax dollars going towards and bought up public and private sector in a thinly veiled politically charged nonsense comment. Now your playing innocent. In my opinion of course.

The whole point of this lawsuit is that their jobs are being made harder with no additional resources.

Would you prefer the additional resources required to deal with the issues outlined in the lawsuit come from “your tax dollars” or from those causing the costs?

It’s a classic socialize the costs privatize the profits situation where negative costs caused by private sector are paid for by the taxpayer.

Ironically your viewpoint if it were to stand will inevitably cost you more “tax dollars” when we have to pay the increased costs of dealing with these issues in schools rather than those responsible paying.

New comment by drunkan in "Elegant open source project tracking, Trello like but self-hosted"

drunkan — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 23:07:51 +0000

This is the closest looking open source one I’ve seen to linear which is by far the best kanban I’ve used maybe one inspired the other, either way looks good though linear is so polished. Introduced it to a client and it gets heavy use and the cycles concept is well liked

New comment by drunkan in "Nvidia CEO: We bet the farm on AI and no one knew it"

drunkan — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 17:11:35 +0000

It was an observation of how every thread like this plays out not a “popular meta post”. I wouldn’t go as far as to say delusional I was more going for it’s naive to assign success purely to genius in the same way it’s naive to attribute a single cause or solution to climate change. In fact I think even that’s generous given that’s a future prediction that was not a guess or a gamble. Perhaps a better example would be for me to write a post about a massive successful stock trade or crypto where A) I had the cash to do it and B) things I gambled might happen went even better than I thought. There would be people assigning all the success to me when likely there were other similar plays I made that I lost big on as well as plenty of other people who saw it but simply didn’t have the means or timing to make it happen. So yes I think it’s naive to assign this and most to purely genius. You need a little luck and cash in reality on the way.

New comment by drunkan in "Nvidia CEO: We bet the farm on AI and no one knew it"

drunkan — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 15:33:11 +0000

Always a divide between people in these threads who assign pure genius as the sole reason for success and those who live in reality and accept that you also need allot of luck and cash on the way.

New comment by drunkan in "Nvidia CEO: We bet the farm on AI and no one knew it"

drunkan — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 15:26:59 +0000

The drivers have been fine for years now, anyone using a current or previous gen knows it, the only reason people think they are still bad is because people are still parroting it.

New comment by drunkan in "Unreal Engine will no longer be free for all"

drunkan — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 20:30:58 +0000

An unreal amount more. No - seriously. It practically has everything you need to build a game. I guess a clear and easy way to learn it though.. that it cannot seem to provide.

New comment by drunkan in "Iconic tree at Hadrian's Wall's 'Sycamore Gap' has been 'felled'"

drunkan — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 14:15:05 +0000

Ah yes a member of the ever growing "why should I care about anything unless it personally effects me" crowd.

May as well proudly bear a tatoo of the word selfish on your forehead.

I imagine if someone chopped down a protected tree in an act of vandalism that you grew up seeing every day, carved your names in, or proposed under suddenly you would be filled with outrage after personally being effected.

New comment by drunkan in "Kagi raises $670k"

drunkan — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 15:26:19 +0000

They have their own browser, the Orion browser, to funnel people onto their search engine.

Their search engine is also better than google for me for most use cases already, it has a clean and smart design with well thought out features that add value.

I hate that Orion is not cross platform and limited to apple ecosystem.

With that said it is native and my default choice for macOS and iOS.

No telemetry, ad blocker built in, performant and supports extensions from chrome and firefox - on iOS too.

Hands down the best native tree style tabs of any browser on the market on top of that and easy tab syncing.

It’s still in development but it’s stable enough for me to be my main browser.

These two products show some serious technical ability from a small team. I bet on companies who invest in and show technical ability over those with VC money, big names focused on marketing and growth.