<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: explain</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=explain</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 13:52:21 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=explain" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by explain in "Google is intentionally throttling YouTube, slowing down users with ad blockers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Old news</p>
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<p>Those are some extreme limits.</p>
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<p>Which part exactly?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2025 17:24:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44128175</link><dc:creator>explain</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44128175</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44128175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by explain in "xAI to pay telegram $300M to integrate Grok into the chat app"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This makes Telegram a very minor owner of X.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2025 15:54:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44117382</link><dc:creator>explain</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44117382</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44117382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by explain in "Data breach exposes 184M passwords, likely captured by malware"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> The problem? The file was unencrypted. No password protection. No security. Just a plain text file with millions of sensitive pieces of data.<p>> Based on his analysis, Fowler determined the data was captured by some kind of infostealer malware.<p>Then the mere exposure of the file and whether it was encrypted is irrelevant. The data was already stolen, the damage was already done.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2025 17:50:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44099773</link><dc:creator>explain</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44099773</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44099773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by explain in "Wikipedia's Nonprofit Host Brings Legal Challenge to New Online Safety Act Regs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"The Wikimedia Foundation shares the UK government’s commitment to promoting online environments where everyone can safely participate. However, if enforced on Wikipedia..."<p>"The Wikimedia Foundation is not bringing a general challenge to the OSA as a whole, not even to the existence of the Category 1 duties themselves."<p>"We do not dispute the need for sensible online regulation."<p>Great to see those who support these regulations facing the consequences.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2025 12:02:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43925311</link><dc:creator>explain</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43925311</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43925311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by explain in "Bluesky restricts access to 72 accounts in Turkey amid government pressure"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> According to İFÖD, Turkish court orders led to the blocking of 59 accounts at the internet service provider level. Separately, Bluesky voluntarily made 13 accounts and one post inaccessible in Turkey, likely in response to legal pressure.</p>
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<p>> Abrego Garcia’s case has generated a national furor after the Trump administration acknowledged it had erroneously sent him to El Salvador on March 15 in violation of a 2019 court order that prohibited him from being sent to his home country because of potential persecution by a local gang.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2025 00:21:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43669016</link><dc:creator>explain</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43669016</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43669016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by explain in "Elon Musk hopes for 'zero-tariff situation' between US and EU"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Any other President would have left the EU's 26%* tariffs on America in place, while Trump is trying to get them all removed (or equal)<p>It's not like there was a zero-tariff situation before Trump's second term<p>* 5% avg tariff + then 20% avg VAT</p>
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<p>Bandwidth is dirt cheap. I do 30 petabytes per month.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2025 22:22:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43562404</link><dc:creator>explain</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43562404</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43562404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by explain in "Wikipedia, says its bandwidth costs have gone up 50% since Jan 2024"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Shouldn't be paying for bandwidth.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2025 21:51:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43562083</link><dc:creator>explain</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43562083</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43562083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by explain in "Amazon Submits Bid for TikTok with US Sale Deadline Nearing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>But a huge amount of propagation of Twitch content onto YouTube, TikTok and X. Influentially outsized.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2025 17:44:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43559243</link><dc:creator>explain</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43559243</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43559243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by explain in "Trump says he is not joking about third presidential term"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> "There are, there are methods which you could do it, as you know," he said. He declined to elaborate on any specific methods.<p>There are, though. No need to act naive.<p>I support President Trump, but I don't support a third term and he wouldn't be able to pull it off (on the basis that a third term is not a good precedent).<p>The 22nd Amendment clearly states you can't be elected more than twice, not that you can't serve as President more than twice.<p>The earlier draft of the amendment was that you cannot serve as President more than twice. The "elected" language was intentional.</p>
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<p>> Earlier, X had acquired eToro, a trading and investment platform.<p>False</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2025 00:51:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43520132</link><dc:creator>explain</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43520132</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43520132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by explain in "US administration revokes $11B in funding for addiction, mental health care"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Interesting that NPR tries to brand the funding as if its for addiction and mental health care all throughout the article.<p>For comparison, here's what CNN says:<p>"These funds were largely used for Covid-19 testing, Covid-19 vaccination and Covid-19 global projects, according to HHS, including for community health workers focused on populations most at risk from Covid-19."<p>And here's what the Trump administration says:<p>"The COVID-19 pandemic is over, and HHS will no longer waste billions of taxpayer dollars responding to a non-existent pandemic that Americans moved on from years ago"</p>
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<p>Makes sense. Eggs are far more common and less hidden.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2025 19:33:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43455250</link><dc:creator>explain</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43455250</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43455250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by explain in "Claude can now search the web"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>robots.txt is meant for automated crawlers, not human-driven actions.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2025 17:12:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43425944</link><dc:creator>explain</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43425944</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43425944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by explain in "Elon Musk's Starlink internet service installed in White House"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Considering it was provided for free, yes, probably the best bang-for-their-buck.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2025 18:09:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43402685</link><dc:creator>explain</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43402685</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43402685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by explain in "Elon Musk's Starlink internet service installed in White House"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Trump administration officials claimed that “some areas of the property could not get cell service,” according to the Times, with press secretary Karoline Leavitt describing the Starlink project as intended “to improve Wi-Fi connectivity on the complex.”</p>
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<p>These were the pardons that Biden gave out at literally the last moment, while standing next to President Trump at the inauguration on Jan 20.</p>
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