Hacker News: gbil

New comment by gbil in "Sony Launches Bravia 9 II and Bravia 7 II with 'True RGB'"

gbil — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 08:56:43 +0000

I got a lot of ads related messages and I can tell you, this site works much better by actually disabling javascript!

New comment by gbil in "Danish pension fund excludes SpaceX citing governance and valuation"

gbil — Sat, 30 May 2026 09:04:54 +0000

More than 10times higher (possible valuation), 10+ years of Musk showing what kind of liability he is and at that time Zuck didn't have all the main CxO positions.

I don't think it is similar therefore.

New comment by gbil in "Danish Pension Blacklists SpaceX over 'Catastrophic Governance'"

gbil — Sat, 30 May 2026 08:47:35 +0000

>Akademikerpension also said the governance structure of SpaceX was "extremely deficient", adding that Elon Musk is expected to control more than 80% of the voting rights while simultaneously serving as chief executive officer, chief technology officer and chair of the board.

Their skepticism seems pretty valid to me

New comment by gbil in "The Problem with the Ferrari Luce EV Offers a Lesson for Every Leader"

gbil — Thu, 28 May 2026 10:14:55 +0000

I hope that at least they keep the one great thing from this exercise, the controls-UI bundle. Looks really great, intuitive and unique enough for the brand

New comment by gbil in "An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below"

gbil — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 09:15:57 +0000

> Now let's work together and improve the tooling at Railway b/c I have always LOVED the service stack and tooling

He learned NOTHING, that is my take. If he learned something it would be to have people that know how their provider works, that know how their API tokens work and above all to have people - starting with him - that acknowledge their mistakes so that they learn from them!

New comment by gbil in "Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine"

gbil — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 10:18:40 +0000

I use an Android tablet with detachable keyboard and works great also with Samsung DEX if you want something more for basic multitasking and there i want the shortcuts, I actually used it a lot, before firefox switched to Fenix base, for navigating tabs, opening closing them really really smooth but then....

New comment by gbil in "Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine"

gbil — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 04:03:43 +0000

If this means that they release a iOS version with the same Adblock features as brave then I’m sold. I use essentially all OSs and I want a browser with basic features like adblocking/custom filters on all the platforms and currently Firefox fails this on iOS devices. Still I believe the Firefox sync is much more robust than eg. Brave one , among various platforms. But then I will also need Firefox to fix keyboard shortcuts on Android which they had until the Fenix rebase some years ago and still haven’t fixed since

New comment by gbil in "Why Not Venus?"

gbil — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:24:27 +0000

This really struck a chord for me. The majority of the people I know - including me - want to be drawn into a topic somehow and that somehow is story telling. People like Sagan and Tyson are amazing story tellers, they will draw you in with their use of language, their voice and pace and will open the doors for everything else. This is how great teachers do it and this is what is missing for most of the people to be interested into a topic, no matter how basic it is.

New comment by gbil in "Some iPhone Apps Receive Mysterious Update 'From Apple'"

gbil — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 09:02:07 +0000

I saw this the other day in a couple of apps, I've checked other apps and didn't have that, did a quick check on HN frontpage and saw nothing and said wth I'll update to see if something changes in the app or there is a message. Got nothing, and didn't think more about it but I'm not sure why, is it the "trust in the process" thing or what?

New comment by gbil in "Run Linux containers on Android, no root required"

gbil — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 09:22:20 +0000

I can find it on my S25fe with exynos android 16/oneui 8.0 if I search for it in the setting but is greyed out. I wait for 8.5 to see if it is enabled then and is the only time I'm happy to have an exynos device!

New comment by gbil in "Run Linux containers on Android, no root required"

gbil — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 06:12:27 +0000

My understanding is that the integrated linux terminal is not supported on all processors like snapdragon ones and also is not available on all manufactures like Samsung. Therefore this approach covers a much bigger audience.

Sony and Tcl Sign Definitive Agreements for Strategic Partnership

gbil — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:23:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sony.co.jp/en/news-release/202603/26-0331E/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47588720

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by gbil in "U.S. stocks are set to deliver their worst quarter in nearly four years"

gbil — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 12:57:12 +0000

Sorry guys I don't follow US politics in such depth to get the sarcasm here. Well played by the OP in this context.

New comment by gbil in "U.S. stocks are set to deliver their worst quarter in nearly four years"

gbil — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 12:47:53 +0000

it was 50k in February but 45k today, S&P down to 6300 from almost 7k in February and the latest 401(k) reports are from Q4 2025 so your numbers are based on months ago before the Iran war.

New comment by gbil in "HandyMKV for MakeMKV and HandBrake Automation"

gbil — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 13:24:25 +0000

> Storage is relatively cheap

was! Even a plain - non NAS - HDD has increased 40%+ since 6 months ago

Dev implements HDMI FRL in AMDGPU, hence HDMI 2.1 on AMD Linux driver

gbil — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 16:13:10 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/mkopec/linux/tree/hdmi_frl_amd_staging

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47049098

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by gbil in "Nova Launcher added Facebook and Google Ads tracking"

gbil — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 13:39:08 +0000

What is your experience from a performance perspective? Nova Launcher was pretty light on that front, I'm using smart launcher since a few months and it is ok but Nova was lighter.

New comment by gbil in "Grok turns off image generator for most after outcry over sexualised AI imagery"

gbil — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 09:46:51 +0000

Is this some kind of a joke? People, children, are getting bullied every day by fake nude images of them ending even in suicide and you are asking what is "so terrible" ???

EDIT: op seems to have clarified in another reply that they are talking about fully generated computer images but this is out of context, the outcry here is that Grok generated fake images of actual people to start with!

New comment by gbil in "Pebble Round 2"

gbil — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 05:31:06 +0000

Isn’t this thread about the pebble round 2 which is the closest from form factor to a garmin ? Moreover, GPS is lacking on any pebble anyhow which is also a major use case and again therefore, garmin’s and pebble’s can’t be compared, 2 different use cases for me.

New comment by gbil in "Pebble Round 2"

gbil — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 05:05:06 +0000

No HRM on the pebble which makes it a totally separate use case and can't be compared at all with the Garmin ones.