Hacker News: elektor

New comment by elektor in "Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers, cutting memory 75%"

elektor — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 22:12:40 +0000

Kind of, but not really, the ublock origin app doesn't work on Orion. I tried both Kagi + uBlock versus Brave and their built-in ad-block and Brave had a much better performance.

New comment by elektor in "US attack on Venezuela raises fears of future Greenland takeover"

elektor — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 15:12:06 +0000

Putin can and has bought soldiers (Wagner Group and North Koreans).

Early Access to Perplexity's Comet Browser with Free Pro for PayPal/Venmo Users

elektor — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 20:22:13 +0000

Article URL: https://newsroom.paypal-corp.com/2025-09-03-Skip-the-Waitlist-PayPal-and-Venmo-Users-Offered-Early-Access-to-Perplexitys-New-Comet-Browser-with-Free-Perplexity-Pro-Subscription

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45119991

Points: 2

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New comment by elektor in "FFmpeg 8.0"

elektor — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 16:15:18 +0000

For those out of the loop, can you please explain your comment?

New comment by elektor in "Citybound: City building game, microscopic models to vividly simulate organism"

elektor — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 01:54:33 +0000

Yup, abandoned 5 years ago judging by the Github page.

New comment by elektor in "Show HN: OWhisper – Ollama for realtime speech-to-text"

elektor — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 23:06:34 +0000

Cool tool! Are you guys releasing Hyprnote for Windows this month?

Once a death sentence, cardiac amyloidosis is finally treatable

elektor — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 20:23:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/well/cardiac-amyloidosis.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44790944

Points: 151

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New comment by elektor in "Show HN: YouTubeTldw: ad‑free, login‑free YouTube summaries in a flash"

elektor — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 19:14:11 +0000

I tried it with a Russian YT video and it did not work:

Starting process... Processing URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtkgT6R2HtA Error: Failed to get transcript: Could not retrieve a transcript for the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtkgT6R2HtA! This is most likely caused by:

No transcripts were found for any of the requested language codes: ['en']

For this video (MtkgT6R2HtA) transcripts are available in the following languages:

(MANUALLY CREATED) None

(GENERATED) - ru ("Russian (auto-generated)")[TRANSLATABLE]

(TRANSLATION LANGUAGES) - en ("English")

If you are sure that the described cause is not responsible for this error and that a transcript should be retrievable, please create an issue at https://github.com/jdepoix/youtube-transcript-api/issues. Please add which version of youtube_transcript_api you are using and provide the information needed to replicate the error. Also make sure that there are no open issues which already describe your problem! --- End of summary ---

New comment by elektor in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)"

elektor — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 17:16:21 +0000

This may be of interest to you:

The Stanford Research into the Impact of Tobacco Advertising (SRITA; https://tobacco.stanford.edu/) collection currently contains 62,553 tobacco advertisements.

New comment by elektor in "Molecule produced by gut bacteria causes atherosclerosis"

elektor — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 17:22:35 +0000

"A team of Spanish scientists made a striking announcement 15 years ago: they were seeking thousands of volunteers among the employees of Banco Santander in Madrid: researchers wanted to study them in depth for decades, in order to understand the onset of cardiovascular disease in healthy people."

Is there a project like this one can join in the US? I've always wanted to contribute to a biomedical study.

The competition behind AlphaFold is at risk of shutting down

elektor — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 00:24:19 +0000

Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/article/exclusive-famed-protein-structure-competition-nears-end-nih-grant-money-runs-out

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44577391

Points: 2

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New comment by elektor in "Why acetaminophen works: New discovery ends longstanding mystery"

elektor — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 18:47:44 +0000

One just got approved in January 2025, called suzetrigine or Journavx.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzetrigine

As AI kills search traffic, Google launches Offerwall to boost publisher revenue

elektor — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 17:19:46 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/26/as-ai-kills-search-traffic-google-launches-offerwall-to-boost-publisher-revenue/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44389337

Points: 59

# Comments: 106

New comment by elektor in "Show HN: Report idling vehicles in NYC (and get a cut of the fines) with AI"

elektor — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 17:36:41 +0000

Now this is a practical use of AI, kudos!

New comment by elektor in "Using an $8 smart outlet to avoid brainrot"

elektor — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 16:17:47 +0000

It used the Shortcuts app to essentially be a middle man between you and the distraction. So everyone I open Safari, it triggers the other app (the 5 second timer), then redirects me back to safari.

New comment by elektor in "uBlock Origin Lite Beta for Safari iOS"

elektor — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 13:04:57 +0000

Is this any better than AdGuard?

I’ve heard it’s best to avoid running both but unsure whether this version of uBlock is worth it.

New comment by elektor in "Chatterbox TTS"

elektor — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 22:47:43 +0000

Yes, I've generated an audiobook of a epub using this tool and the result was passable: https://github.com/santinic/audiblez

New comment by elektor in "'Groundbreaking' potential cure for sickle cell in England approved for NHS use"

elektor — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 19:28:27 +0000

Correct, this is the same treatment.

However, it has reached very few of the 100,000 sickle cell patients in the US.

Story here: https://www.wired.com/story/the-worlds-first-crispr-drug-get...

New comment by elektor in "Cheap blood test detects pancreatic cancer before it spreads"

elektor — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 00:40:38 +0000

An update on that trial: https://www.bmj.com/content/386/bmj.q1706

It doesn't look great.

New comment by elektor in "Why employees smuggle AI into work"

elektor — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 14:03:25 +0000

Great article.

I think it may be the first time I saw Kagi mentioned in a major publication.