Hacker News: gpas

New comment by gpas in "Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age"

gpas — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 18:44:01 +0000

It seems they are listening to potential buyers' wishes. Since the first evs appeared in the market, everyone wanted technologically upgraded classic models.

New comment by gpas in "An Italian town that built its own sun (2021)"

gpas — Sat, 14 Dec 2024 07:37:50 +0000

It's a small hamlet founded by iron miners, they were familiar with darkness. Foundries and blacksmiths also worked well in the shadow i think.

Here is a quick history of the village https://www.comune.borgomezzavalle.vb.it/en-us/vivere-il-com...

New comment by gpas in "Tesla Cybertruck's Race Against a Porsche 911 Was Apparently an 1/8-Mile Run"

gpas — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 08:51:58 +0000

Want to make a statement? Beat the 911 on the Nordschleife.

New comment by gpas in "A reality bending mistake in Apple's computational photography"

gpas — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 11:41:49 +0000

More like the poor masking algorithm interpreted the legs as background and blurred them.

New comment by gpas in "Exploding head syndrome"

gpas — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 10:12:25 +0000

Is this phenomenon similar to brain zaps? I've experienced something similar but without the pain described on the wiki page about antidepressant discontinuation syndrome. Also I've never taken antidepressants, but those zaps occured always after taking too much chemicals at parties.

New comment by gpas in "Google pays Apple 36% of the revenue it earns from searches in Safari"

gpas — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 08:23:01 +0000

In my day to day life Google as a search engine has completely failed. What once was a place to find informations is now a jungle full of traps. DDG is my default, but GPT on Bing is the future. The alternatives are there, even doing better for some tasks.

New comment by gpas in "YouTube's Ad Blocker Crackdown Spurs Record Uninstalls"

gpas — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 15:14:28 +0000

Fair point.

New comment by gpas in "YouTube's Ad Blocker Crackdown Spurs Record Uninstalls"

gpas — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 14:38:11 +0000

A whole article about adblocking and no mention of gorhill's uBO? DNS level filtering? Come on Wired...

New comment by gpas in "Ask HN: Where and how can I get a citizenship if I'm stateless?"

gpas — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 12:07:03 +0000

Without any further details it's difficult to offer advice. For example...from which country to which country? EU is vast and quite heterogeneous. What brought you from being an adopted child to being an adult without proper IDs? Please share more details if you can.

New comment by gpas in "New Requirements to Travel to Europe"

gpas — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 13:24:57 +0000

Stasi was active until 1990.

New comment by gpas in "New Requirements to Travel to Europe"

gpas — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 12:14:36 +0000

Germany recent past taught its citizens to value their privacy.

New comment by gpas in "Tell HN: YouTube disabling playback after 3 videos"

gpas — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 00:49:34 +0000

Invidious for the browser, newpipe, grayjay on mobile.

New comment by gpas in "As I get older, I just don't care about new technology"

gpas — Sat, 26 Aug 2023 13:46:42 +0000

I had the same feeling reading the title, I guess you are right about projecting. Just this morning I realized my old thinkpad is about to throw the towel, thinking about going to find a decent replacement in the current market depresses me.

New comment by gpas in "Google Maps has become an eyesore"

gpas — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 06:07:47 +0000

> Why can't we just click on the "man", and then click on a spot to drop it?

That's exactly how it works.

Click the man, roads with street view data are highlighted, click a road.

New comment by gpas in "People on TikTok are paying elderly women to sit in stagnant mud for hours, cry"

gpas — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 21:21:23 +0000

People on Twitch are paying young women to sit in hot tubs for hours, write usernames on their exposed skin.

New comment by gpas in "Intravenous Caffeine"

gpas — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 16:27:29 +0000

Caffeine, nicotine, thc and alcohol.

New comment by gpas in "The Analog Thing: an open source, educational, low-cost modern analog computer"

gpas — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 16:44:47 +0000

Reason?

New comment by gpas in "How to lose your work using Undo Copy in Windows"

gpas — Sat, 13 May 2023 12:52:04 +0000

Exactly what I was thinking. Copy = context to clipboard, paste = clipboard to context.

Undo copy should only remove the copied thing from the clipboard.

New comment by gpas in "Tell HN: Repurposing old iPads as home security cameras"

gpas — Sun, 15 Jan 2023 22:08:20 +0000

I've used Alfred some time ago on an old android phone to catch who was throwing cigarette butts in my backyard. The app worked flawlessly, the relations with my neighbors not so much.

New comment by gpas in "Ask HN: Are you boycotting Qatar World Cup?"

gpas — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 17:07:28 +0000

Sure, my team even failed to qualify to make things easier.

More seriously, I think I'll watch it nonetheless. FIFA and its subsidiaries are corrupted to the bone, but what can I do? I love football, and they'll run the game for a long time.