Hacker News: f1reflyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=f1reflyHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Thu, 04 Jun 2026 07:57:54 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by f1refly in "Epic celebrates "the end of the Apple Tax" after court win in iOS payments case"]]>It's only a real "App-Store" if it has arbitrary restrictions and you must pay fees to a company, obviously.

]]>Fri, 12 Dec 2025 18:38:24 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46247182f1reflyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46247182https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46247182<![CDATA[New comment by f1refly in "Pebble Watch software is now open source"]]>"Not needing binary blobs" would be a start, wouldn't it?

]]>Tue, 25 Nov 2025 09:06:26 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46043897f1reflyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46043897https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46043897<![CDATA[New comment by f1refly in "GCC 16 considering changing default to C++20"]]>Right? I hope it never goes away, we should make the web more fun instead of sad and clean!

]]>Mon, 17 Nov 2025 13:45:49 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45953490f1reflyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45953490https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45953490<![CDATA[New comment by f1refly in "Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?"]]>I bet he's keeping it on some shelf because he think it's cute like only a true sicko would do

]]>Wed, 20 Aug 2025 21:58:25 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44966951f1reflyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44966951https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44966951<![CDATA[New comment by f1refly in "The effect of deactivating Facebook and Instagram on users' emotional state"]]>"Why don't people just stop taking heroin"

]]>Mon, 21 Apr 2025 07:11:39 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43749153f1reflyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43749153https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43749153<![CDATA[New comment by f1refly in "Sixos: A nix OS without systemd [video]"]]>Usually, it's the distributions problem to package software. You as a software developer publish documentation on how to build your application and then simply wait for other people to do the packaging for you. The creation of services is the same, you can maybe create a recommendation, but the service definition is part of the package file and thus not your problem.

]]>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 09:14:26 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42885981f1reflyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42885981https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42885981<![CDATA[New comment by f1refly in "The Origins of Wokeness"]]>That book exists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Being_Right

]]>Tue, 14 Jan 2025 07:08:49 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42694595f1reflyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42694595https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42694595<![CDATA[New comment by f1refly in "Ending our third party fact-checking program and moving to Community Notes model"]]>Vineyards are ripped up because they have become unprofitable due to decreased alcohol consumption in general. I'm not sure that has much to do with Americanization.

]]>Wed, 08 Jan 2025 06:12:49 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42631511f1reflyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42631511https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42631511<![CDATA[New comment by f1refly in "uBlock Origin GPL code being stolen by team behind honey browser extension"]]>Laws are just made up by people, we can make up new ones if we want.

]]>Fri, 03 Jan 2025 05:55:42 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42582943f1reflyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42582943https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42582943<![CDATA[New comment by f1refly in "Microsoft will soon let you clone your voice for Teams meetings"]]>Why? Microsoft is a proven bad actor while the startup might have good people of you're lucky.

]]>Sun, 24 Nov 2024 14:54:04 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42228213f1reflyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42228213https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42228213<![CDATA[New comment by f1refly in "GNU Artanis 1.0.0 Released"]]>What's not to like?

]]>Wed, 20 Nov 2024 20:53:29 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42197999f1reflyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42197999https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42197999<![CDATA[New comment by f1refly in "How good are American roads?"]]>It's also a legal taboo, fyi

]]>Wed, 20 Nov 2024 19:43:41 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42197395f1reflyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42197395https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42197395<![CDATA[New comment by f1refly in "The withering dream of a cheap American electric car"]]>Maybe because PHEV are a really dumb idea? You're lugging around two complete powertrains the whole time, a massive waste of energy!

]]>Mon, 18 Nov 2024 15:33:28 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42173295f1reflyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42173295https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42173295<![CDATA[New comment by f1refly in "A near impossible literacy test Louisiana used to suppress the black vote"]]>A that point you might as well flip off whoever it is you're grading, and I get that this is the point of the test, but it's hardly the questions fault. The question has one clear answer.

]]>Tue, 22 Oct 2024 05:39:44 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41911503f1reflyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41911503https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41911503<![CDATA[New comment by f1refly in "Please stop putting cookie pop-ups on your website (2022)"]]>it's like when we "found out" leaded gasoline is bad for every living being on the planet. the whole automotive industry and its associates really didn't want to change, but at the end of the day life goes on. maybe one day we'll be able to have an internet that is not financed by mass surveillance enabled psychological abuse.

]]>Wed, 18 Sep 2024 10:23:35 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41577951f1reflyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41577951https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41577951<![CDATA[New comment by f1refly in "Please stop putting cookie pop-ups on your website (2022)"]]>> - Browsers would come with the no tracking signal enabled by default (why wouldn't they?) so that tracking would become opt-in.

> - Nobody chooses to be tracked.

> - The whole industry built on tracking users collapses, namely advertisement

> - Web sites who based their business model on advertisement go under

This seems like the perfect outcome to me, but I doubt we'll be this lucky

]]>Wed, 18 Sep 2024 08:25:25 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41577225f1reflyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41577225https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41577225<![CDATA[New comment by f1refly in "The Lego Great Ball Contraption"]]>Fischertechnik is a great engineering gateway drug for kids

]]>Wed, 18 Sep 2024 08:15:24 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41577152f1reflyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41577152https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41577152<![CDATA[New comment by f1refly in "Things I've learned building a modern TUI Framework (2022)"]]>We have -L though, isn't that kind of what you're looking for?

]]>Mon, 12 Aug 2024 08:36:47 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41222392f1reflyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41222392https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41222392<![CDATA[New comment by f1refly in "The Linux desktop is self-destructive"]]>That's all stuff the systems package manager handles for you, no need to touch any package versions manually ever.

]]>Thu, 11 Jul 2024 18:14:54 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40939178f1reflyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40939178https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40939178<![CDATA[New comment by f1refly in "Polyfill supply chain attack hits 100K+ sites"]]>I think for some reason some people still buy cisco products, so this reasoning doesn't seem to be applicable to the real world.

]]>Tue, 25 Jun 2024 21:15:18 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40793698f1reflyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40793698https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40793698