Hacker News: gorgonian

New comment by gorgonian in "Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers"

gorgonian — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 21:01:49 +0000

It was less related to the manifest issue specifically and more that I don’t think Mozilla is some great bastion of internet freedom, and chromium works better on many sites because developers design for it because it’s the most popular browser.

New comment by gorgonian in "Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers"

gorgonian — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:59:09 +0000

If that’s true it may be what finally pushes me back to Firefox.

New comment by gorgonian in "Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers"

gorgonian — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 15:51:34 +0000

I prefer ungoogled-chromium: https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium

New comment by gorgonian in "Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers"

gorgonian — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 02:44:29 +0000

As others have pointed out, bonds are barely (or not) keeping up with inflation. I would like to suggest a third alternative to stock index and bonds: stable dividend stocks. They should increase in value along with inflation but still pay out a steady dividend as long as the company is strong.

Show HN: Hacker News Dark Mode Bookmarklet

gorgonian — Sat, 09 May 2026 05:40:55 +0000

I love HN, but I also love dark mode. I wanted dark mode HN on my iPhone without any extension/third party app/proxy fuss, so I made this bookmarklet. One tap on news.ycombinator.com and dark mode sticks across page navigations. I'm sure this has been done before, but I couldn't find a solution that satisfied me. Thought I'd share in case anyone is in the same boat.

How it works: bookmarklets normally die on the first navigation. This one replaces the page with a same-origin iframe pointing at HN, then re-injects CSS on every iframe load. Since the iframe is same-origin, everything (cookies etc) should work normally. I've tested this in Chromium/Linux and Safari/iOS.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48072131

Points: 1

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New comment by gorgonian in "Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users"

gorgonian — Sat, 09 May 2026 05:13:04 +0000

Colluded how?

New comment by gorgonian in "Butterflies are in decline across North America, a look at the Western Monarch"

gorgonian — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 01:49:15 +0000

I visited the rainforest in Brazil (Iguazú Falls / Foz do Iguaçu) a few years ago and saw literally dozens of species of butterflies of every size and color. It was truly incredible. Not to mention the falls themselves and the rest of the flora and fauna. The rainforest is amazing!

New comment by gorgonian in "Meta removes ads for social media addiction litigation"

gorgonian — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 17:45:23 +0000

The bank stole his money, claiming it was theirs? That’s a surprisingly strong action considering there’s no way that could hold up in court…right?

There were penguins in America and Europe 200 years ago

gorgonian — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 17:42:22 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_auk

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47732476

Points: 9

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New comment by gorgonian in "France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app"

gorgonian — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 23:19:00 +0000

U.S. anti-submarine doctrine for surface vessels is pretty much just “run away”, that’s how dangerous subs are, so that’s why U.S. CSGs often include an attack submarine escort.

New comment by gorgonian in "Austin’s surge of new housing construction drove down rents"

gorgonian — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 05:15:59 +0000

The subject is “people”. Parent is suggesting that the equilibrium point of housing supply and demand naturally leaves some people unhoused.

New comment by gorgonian in "MacBook Air with M5"

gorgonian — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 19:23:25 +0000

Maybe they work for Apple

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

gorgonian — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 02:29:07 +0000

You may be surprised how cavalier some people are about their clearance.

New comment by gorgonian in "Notes on Apple's Nano Texture (2025)"

gorgonian — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 06:34:02 +0000

I HATE the oily squares on my MacBook Air screen. I think the real issue is that there is zero space between the screen and the keyboard when the laptop is closed. I’ve started keeping a piece of printer paper between the screen and keyboard whenever I close it, and that helps but it’s annoying to have to do. So much so that I looked into getting a MBP but they have the same problem.

New comment by gorgonian in "Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive.today"

gorgonian — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 04:33:14 +0000

> Just how stupid do you think lawmakers, judges, prosecutors, and police are?

Quite often pretty stupid, honestly. Or careless, ignorant, jaded, corrupt, etc etc

New comment by gorgonian in "Betty Crocker broke recipes by shrinking boxes"

gorgonian — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 22:59:17 +0000

Which recipe are you following? I found a few, including one on the Neiman Marcus website, but none had pecan flour and only one had walnuts.

New comment by gorgonian in "Disney's Internal Slack Breached? NullBulge Leaks 1.1 TiB of Data"

gorgonian — Sat, 13 Jul 2024 19:54:17 +0000

The company should pay for that phone

New comment by gorgonian in "Return to Office Is a Mistake"

gorgonian — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 06:18:48 +0000

Maybe it’s way way way way more profitable because they got rid of cubicles

New comment by gorgonian in "Austria rail operator OeBB unveils new night trains"

gorgonian — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 04:46:48 +0000

Yep!

New comment by gorgonian in "Austria rail operator OeBB unveils new night trains"

gorgonian — Sun, 08 Oct 2023 16:52:45 +0000

I recently took the train in Poland from Warsaw to Krakow and Krakow to Vienna and they never checked my ID.