Hacker News: gpgnhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=gpgnHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Mon, 04 May 2026 08:39:32 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by gpgn in "Show HN: YouTube banned adblockers so I built an extension to skip their ads"]]>I saw the popup a month or so ago for the first time, and 10 days ago after that. Simply manually updating uBlockOrigin filters did it for me both times.

]]>Sun, 19 Nov 2023 14:25:40 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38332886gpgnhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38332886https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38332886<![CDATA[New comment by gpgn in "Life lessons from the death bed"]]>I'm on the spectrum and whenever I think about possible regrets I might have on my deathbed, I always end up thinking “Who cares, I'm going to die anyway. Everything I have experienced will vanish with me, including the regrets I might possibly have.” It's nihilistic but I can’t help it.

]]>Wed, 01 Nov 2023 14:40:53 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38098816gpgnhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38098816https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38098816<![CDATA[New comment by gpgn in "Show HN: Firefox add-on to open YouTube videos in alternative front ends"]]>I saw the popup just once, I updated most of the filters used by uBlockOrigin and I haven't seen it since.

]]>Sun, 15 Oct 2023 07:12:21 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37887613gpgnhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37887613https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37887613<![CDATA[New comment by gpgn in "‘I just assumed it would happen’: the unspoken grief of childless men"]]>A relevant documentary, although slightly more about women and the world in general, is Birthgap: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6s8QlIGanA, where they talk about "unplanned childlessness"

]]>Tue, 05 Sep 2023 12:50:35 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37390953gpgnhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37390953https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37390953<![CDATA[New comment by gpgn in "Ask vs. Guess Culture"]]>How does that work in dating? If you are afraid of making people uncomfortable by asking them out, escalating things and putting them in situations where they have to say no to you, you may just end up being single for life.

]]>Sat, 19 Aug 2023 08:01:11 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37186597gpgnhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37186597https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37186597<![CDATA[New comment by gpgn in "JWST spots giant black holes all over the early universe"]]>These are somewhated dated but well worth watching; the professor does all kinds of approximations.

Frontiers/Controversies in Astrophysics with Charles Bailyn: https://youtu.be/ZiK4lg3Tzfs?t=1628

]]>Tue, 15 Aug 2023 07:49:22 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37131318gpgnhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37131318https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37131318<![CDATA[New comment by gpgn in "Toki Pona: an attempted universal language with only ~120 words"]]>"Arm" and "hand" are two very different things (I guess?), but they are the same word (рука) in Russian.

]]>Mon, 14 Aug 2023 05:58:33 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37117937gpgnhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37117937https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37117937<![CDATA[New comment by gpgn in "The Fall of Stack Overflow"]]>I have noticed that Wikipedia is often pushed to the bottom of the page compared to a few years ago where it would always be at the very top.

]]>Tue, 25 Jul 2023 08:47:34 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36859662gpgnhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36859662https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36859662<![CDATA[New comment by gpgn in "Growing from engineer to manager"]]>Sounds a lot like the Peter principle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle

]]>Sun, 11 Jun 2023 18:21:57 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36284096gpgnhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36284096https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36284096<![CDATA[New comment by gpgn in "AI won't steal your job, people leveraging AI will"]]>yeah, no way "food will be handed out for free" when you can make a profit by selling it; they'd rather throw it away (as they do right now) than give it away for free

]]>Mon, 03 Apr 2023 17:18:22 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35427663gpgnhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35427663https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35427663<![CDATA[New comment by gpgn in "How to change the region on an HP OfficeJet printer in 57 easy steps"]]>Obligatory Oatmeal reference https://theoatmeal.com/comics/printers

]]>Sun, 02 Apr 2023 17:14:44 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35412770gpgnhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35412770https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35412770<![CDATA[New comment by gpgn in "Italian privacy regulator bans ChatGPT"]]>I'm too low-IQ to understand what this means.

]]>Sat, 01 Apr 2023 09:04:29 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35398599gpgnhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35398599https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35398599<![CDATA[New comment by gpgn in "Italian privacy regulator bans ChatGPT"]]>Not for me :(

]]>Sat, 01 Apr 2023 05:58:22 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35397546gpgnhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35397546https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35397546<![CDATA[New comment by gpgn in "Italian privacy regulator bans ChatGPT"]]>What pisses me off is that some legitimate websites like project goutenberg are all blocked by my Internet provider in Italy and I have to go through a VPN to access them. Same for scribd, vdoc, libgen and so on.

]]>Fri, 31 Mar 2023 13:19:22 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35386720gpgnhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35386720https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35386720<![CDATA[New comment by gpgn in "Hard truths I learned when I got laid off from my SWE job"]]>> This is an area where I have to give tptacek lots of credit.

Any specific thread that might be particularly enlightening/interesting?

]]>Wed, 28 Dec 2022 16:41:42 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34162762gpgnhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34162762https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34162762<![CDATA[New comment by gpgn in "All I want for Christmas is these seven TypeScript improvements"]]>"pure" in the context of functional programming often means "without side effects", so writing a log file, interacting with a database and so on would also make the function not pure

]]>Mon, 26 Dec 2022 06:42:58 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34135344gpgnhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34135344https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34135344<![CDATA[New comment by gpgn in "Looped Square Or ⌘"]]>Italian keyboards as well.

]]>Fri, 30 Sep 2022 11:41:48 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33033589gpgnhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33033589https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33033589<![CDATA[New comment by gpgn in "Responding to recruiter emails with GPT-3"]]>In some of the ones I get the filled data is all uppercase so they are very easy to spot.

]]>Fri, 02 Sep 2022 11:20:04 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32689298gpgnhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32689298https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32689298<![CDATA[Netflix effect: why Western women are heading to South Korea in search of love]]>Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/south-korea-western-women-seeking-love-intl-hnk-dst/index.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32468946

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]]>Mon, 15 Aug 2022 12:43:15 +0000https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/south-korea-western-women-seeking-love-intl-hnk-dst/index.htmlgpgnhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32468946https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32468946<![CDATA[New comment by gpgn in "The case for bad coffee (2015)"]]>Relevant clip from The Sopranos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLyn_feOptg

]]>Mon, 18 Jul 2022 07:11:17 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32135563gpgnhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32135563https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32135563