<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: epanchin</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=epanchin</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 13:06:24 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=epanchin" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by epanchin in "4Chan Lawyer publishes Ofcom correspondence"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Is there a solution where we can compel parental control to be enabled by default on kids phones?<p>That would seem to be least intrusive option.<p>Using the internet in the UK/EU is such a horrible experience, every cookie pop-up is a reminder how badly thought out these rules are.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2025 08:43:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45614514</link><dc:creator>epanchin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45614514</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45614514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by epanchin in "Solar energy is now the cheapest source of power, study"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In the UK, wind is primarily in Scotland away from most of the population - people don’t build where it’s windy.<p>So transmission of solar should be less, as the sun shines everywhere, and people like to build houses where it shines the most.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2025 19:00:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45507292</link><dc:creator>epanchin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45507292</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45507292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by epanchin in "Hosting a website on a disposable vape"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They’re already illegal in places, eg UK</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2025 02:18:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45257306</link><dc:creator>epanchin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45257306</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45257306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by epanchin in "Microsoft to force install the Microsoft 365 Copilot app in October"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I would love to see a chart of how long it takes windows to load by year.<p>It power on instantly, and now it’s minutes.<p>Bloat bloat bloat.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2025 19:59:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45254256</link><dc:creator>epanchin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45254256</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45254256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by epanchin in "How can England possibly be running out of water?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The Town and Country Planning Act 1990.<p>Responsible for putting a pin in development and turning Britain into a museum, with insufficient water or power.<p>It should urgently be reformed.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2025 12:14:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45180869</link><dc:creator>epanchin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45180869</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45180869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by epanchin in "FCC bars providers for non-compliance with robocall protections"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It’s important to make it clear to Americans that this problem is mostly solved in other countries. It should be possible to end this tomorrow in the US.<p>Spam calls in the UK for example, are rare. All of the spam calls I get are from my US desk number.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2025 19:00:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45017608</link><dc:creator>epanchin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45017608</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45017608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by epanchin in "Facial recognition vans to be rolled out across police forces in England"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The vast majority of newspaper articles/videos about this tech relate to innocent black people being flagged.<p>Racism is certainly the biggest concern of the media, which may or may not reflect the publics general concern.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2025 14:53:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44889250</link><dc:creator>epanchin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44889250</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44889250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by epanchin in "Show HN: Use Their ID – Use your local UK MP’s ID for the Online Safety Act"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ideally you would save them as they were generated, and deliver the saved version the second time?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2025 08:38:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44720732</link><dc:creator>epanchin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44720732</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44720732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by epanchin in "Menstrual tracking app data is gold mine for advertisers that risks women safety"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>CNN: “A West Virginia prosecutor is warning women that a miscarriage could lead to criminal charges”.<p>A gap in periods followed by their resumption could theoretically be enough to lead to prosecution.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2025 22:04:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44252333</link><dc:creator>epanchin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44252333</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44252333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by epanchin in "Apple introduces a universal design across platforms"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So, windows Aero?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2025 20:41:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44229226</link><dc:creator>epanchin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44229226</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44229226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by epanchin in "How Sony's Forgotten Computers Helped Shape the Playstation"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>More than 12” of text sounds fairly inconvenient for the average user.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2025 20:37:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44229185</link><dc:creator>epanchin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44229185</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44229185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by epanchin in "VPN providers in France ordered to block pirate sports IPTV"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That’s what it’s like in the UK now. Legal streaming is much more complicated than satellite back in the day.<p>As a consequence people have gone back to illegal streams where you can find all the sports on one menu.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2025 17:09:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44202929</link><dc:creator>epanchin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44202929</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44202929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by epanchin in "Doge software engineer's computer infected by info-stealing malware"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This article is reaching.<p>I’ve logged onto secondary email accounts from PC’s that weren’t mine and could well have been infected. That’s what 2FA is for.<p>I wouldn’t use a PC which isn’t mine to login to anything sensitive. A password in a leak isn’t evidence of anything.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2025 09:16:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43935087</link><dc:creator>epanchin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43935087</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43935087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by epanchin in "Getting forked by Microsoft"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ideally a list of other projects they have since found and attributed.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2025 23:17:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43757546</link><dc:creator>epanchin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43757546</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43757546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by epanchin in "Microsoft Copilot shows AI increasingly appears like an unwanted party guest"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Click upgrade -> previously free features now paywalled.<p>Far too common.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 19 Apr 2025 19:12:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43738685</link><dc:creator>epanchin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43738685</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43738685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by epanchin in "UK's hardware talent is being wasted"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Fast internet, communal office space, and a fast cheap train to London is just as good as a factory. Build new towns.<p>Get a grip of bat and heritage protections which slow everything down by months or years.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jan 2025 21:35:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42773329</link><dc:creator>epanchin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42773329</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42773329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by epanchin in "Google's Results Are Infested, Open AI Is Using Their Playbook from the 2000s"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm happy to pay for ChatGPT, and I would happily pay for a clean Google search experience without ads. How much are they making per visitor a month?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 28 Dec 2024 17:48:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42532800</link><dc:creator>epanchin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42532800</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42532800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by epanchin in "Show HN: App that asks ‘why?’ every time you unlock your phone"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Surprisingly I find it most useful on my email app.<p>I pick up my phone to check email a lot, then go onto other useless apps. By catching email usage, I also stop myself going on the rest.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 27 Nov 2024 15:30:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42256801</link><dc:creator>epanchin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42256801</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42256801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by epanchin in "UK will give sovereignty of Chagos Islands to Mauritius"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Based on the UKs failure to retake HK despite the broken agreement, how long do you think that base will be there?<p>They could take it back whenever they wanted and we’d do nothing.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Oct 2024 19:44:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41734207</link><dc:creator>epanchin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41734207</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41734207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by epanchin in "alphaXiv: Open research discussion on top of arXiv"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>“I place the blame on Google because I didn’t update my recovery address to one that worked”</p>
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