Hacker News: freitasm

New comment by freitasm in "Texas man sentenced to 30 years for transporting pamphlets"

freitasm — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 15:30:58 +0000

Meanwhile, the Epstein files continue to be ignored.

New comment by freitasm in "Iran requires insurance on ships using Strait of Hormuz, fees likely to follow"

freitasm — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 02:00:50 +0000

So much winning.

New comment by freitasm in "Babel-USB: USB drive with every file"

freitasm — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:48:29 +0000

So you get a file. Any file. Not necessarily the file you want, unless you already know its contents and how to traverse the folder hierarchy to get to that specific point.

New comment by freitasm in "Babel-USB: USB drive with every file"

freitasm — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:25:00 +0000

So in theory you could have War and Peace somewhere.

Each folder represents the file content so far. So how to find a specific file without knowing its contents - by its title for example?

New comment by freitasm in "Thiel moves family to Milei's libertarian Argentina"

freitasm — Sat, 30 May 2026 20:54:32 +0000

Well, rather him and family go to Argentina, than come to New Zealand, where he's got his citizenship for doing... nothing.

New comment by freitasm in "After 20 years I turned off Google Adsense for my websites (2025)"

freitasm — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:49:43 +0000

I joined AdSense in 2003. At peak it was generating US$15k a month.

Nowadays it will be a miracle if it passes of US$800 a month.

I think the shift to a more localised audience (NZ), diversion of ad spend to large social networks are responsible. Our traffic is similar in volume but nowhere near as "valuable" apparently.

New comment by freitasm in "Setting up phones is a nightmare"

freitasm — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 18:23:16 +0000

Another annoying thing: very few apps are copied from old device to new devices and bring their settings and most importantly login. Of about 80 apps on my device, only five or so are ready to use after a migration.

Going through dozens of apps, doing logins, 2FAcand changing settings is a PITA.

Devs do a poor job on that front.

New comment by freitasm in "Setting up phones is a nightmare"

freitasm — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 18:20:47 +0000

Another thing that annoys me on Android is the setup experience itself. All my recent device presentcthe same behaviour: login with a Google account, transfer data, setup voice assistant and some other defaults,done.

Then after the first app updates is done, a notification comes with "let's finish setting up your phone" and again asks to setup voice assistant, check defaults and whatever else is in the flow.

Has no one noticed that the setup flow seems to run twice?

And it's not one specific device. I do it with eight to ten devices a year, from different OEM, writing reviews and testing. They all have the same behaviour.

New comment by freitasm in "Binance fired employees who found $1.7B in crypto was sent to Iran"

freitasm — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 19:42:40 +0000

Subscribers can share the link as a gift, so readers can see the original, not the proxied version.

New comment by freitasm in "US Gov Deploys Grok as Nutrition Bot, It Advises for Rectal Use of Vegetables"

freitasm — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 19:08:11 +0000

Their consitution says elections can't be hold in times of war.

New comment by freitasm in "US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere"

freitasm — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 21:19:23 +0000

"Portal team includes former DOGE member Coristine"

"...user activity on the site will not be tracked."

Ok, stopped reading right there.

IRS lost 40% of IT staff, 80% of tech leaders in 'efficiency' shakeup

freitasm — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 19:16:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/19/irs_job_cuts/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47077849

Points: 271

# Comments: 168

New comment by freitasm in "Microsoft guide to pirating Harry Potter for LLM training (2024) [removed]"

freitasm — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:28:29 +0000

And the original is gone.

New comment by freitasm in "Gallup will no longer measure presidential approval after 88 years"

freitasm — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 18:41:27 +0000

The rates are so low that they don't need to measure anymore. That's what they were told, probably.

New comment by freitasm in "Show HN: Adboost – A browser extension that adds ads to every webpage"

freitasm — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 18:28:13 +0000

No, it's not, as there are ads that pay per impression, not click.

New comment by freitasm in "Stanford's Fake Disability Crisis Is America's Future"

freitasm — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 18:27:40 +0000

Opera Mobile.

New comment by freitasm in "[dead]"

freitasm — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 17:50:12 +0000

But this government was just collecting the worst of the worst from the streets.

Or were they lying all along?

(Narrator's voice: they have been lying all along).

New comment by freitasm in "Stanford's Fake Disability Crisis Is America's Future"

freitasm — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 20:18:00 +0000

Can't read because someone on that website thinks Opera is "not acceptable":

"Not acceptable. Your browser is not supported. Please upgrade your browser to continue."

New comment by freitasm in "Show HN: Adboost – A browser extension that adds ads to every webpage"

freitasm — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 17:54:01 +0000

"-> Publisher is not harmed"

How? Publishers do need revenue and this can deprive them of this income.

New comment by freitasm in "Show HN: Adboost – A browser extension that adds ads to every webpage"

freitasm — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 17:49:06 +0000

Ads pay in different forms. Some pay per click (PPC), some pay per thousand impressions (CPM).

Clicking with the intention of helping doesn't help. Only clicking with genuine interest helps.