Hacker News: grepex

New comment by grepex in "GoFundMe Ignores Rules Hosting Legal Fund for ICE Agent Who Killed Renee Good"

grepex — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 02:01:03 +0000

I would think that in order for a legal defense to be in defense of a crime, one would have to be charged with a crime, no?

In the current state of affairs this can be seen as funds being collected for a civil defense maybe.

New comment by grepex in "Nate the Lawyer breaks down the ICE shooting footage in detail [video]"

grepex — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 01:51:36 +0000

100% justified. We can Monday night quarterback it all day, but ultimately it comes down to having to make split second decisions based on training and experience. Many officers would have jumped out of the way, many would have taken the shot. There is no one size fits all.

New comment by grepex in "State of the Fin 2026-01-06"

grepex — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 16:52:20 +0000

For anyone with a Radar/Sonarr/Jellyfin setup - do yourself a favor and set up Jellyseerr too. It's a request system for other to request library additions. Install moonfin on your firetv/androidtv and downloads can be initiated straight from your TV!

New comment by grepex in "Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers, cutting memory 75%"

grepex — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 23:31:44 +0000

Unfortunately not, but it does support tab grouping which I use for basically this reason.Althought you can't do a group within a group.

New comment by grepex in "Germany: Amazon is not allowed to force customers to watch ads on Prime Video"

grepex — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 05:47:06 +0000

At the very least they could not increase prices while simultaneously putting ads.

New comment by grepex in "Ask HN: Anyone Else Noticed This?"

grepex — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 22:27:35 +0000

The way I think about it is that LLMs are just a tool, and if you trust the tool too much it can backfire. It reminds me of this video [1] that Louis Rossman posted regarding a police officer essentially trusting his AI tool (Flock cameras) too much and falsely accusing a woman of a crime, claiming "you can't take a breath of fresh air without us knowing about it".

[1] https://youtu.be/AoEQg1M92_E?si=A-XNXP_smH2I3hWj

New comment by grepex in "How to Read a Book"

grepex — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 22:01:45 +0000

A while back I joined this group called OnlineGreatBooks.com which placed you in a cohort of about 10 people who would have monthly seminars via Zoom to discuss the Great Books of the Western World. They started you off with How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler and it was such a useful guide for me, who had not read a book in about 10 years after graduating high school. Since then I read maybe 10 to 12 books a year!

I particularly enjoy the idea of writing notes in the margin. Adler describes this as "having a conversation with the author". I hope that my son one day picks up my books and writes his own notes to have a conversation with the author and me.

AI browsing in Brave now available for early testing

grepex — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 21:53:57 +0000

Article URL: https://brave.com/blog/ai-browsing/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46224416

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by grepex in "Zellij: A terminal workspace with batteries included"

grepex — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 20:23:05 +0000

This 100%. For me, the philosophy is not so much a terminal-centric design but a keyboard-centric design. Sure, this could be done in a GUI, but even GUIs with a keyboard-centric design are not as fluid as a TUI.

I'll also add that (like the parent comment) I did not get the appeal. Not until I forced myself to use it more and saw the benefits.

New comment by grepex in "Zuck Plans Deep Cuts for Metaverse Efforts"

grepex — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 15:04:39 +0000

I wouldn't say delusional. At the top of the decade it did seem like it was a plausible evolution as remote work became more popular, what with the pandemic and everything.

In Ready Player One, what made VR so ubiquitous was that the real world had gone to shit. Perhaps that is the true prerequisite for widespread VR adoption?

New comment by grepex in "[dead]"

grepex — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 22:53:39 +0000

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

New comment by grepex in "Launch HN: Tweeks (YC W25) – Browser extension to deshittify the web"

grepex — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 02:36:06 +0000

Yes ;)

New comment by grepex in "Launch HN: Tweeks (YC W25) – Browser extension to deshittify the web"

grepex — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 19:14:28 +0000

Honey by Paypal has entered the chat

New comment by grepex in "Steam Machine"

grepex — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 19:30:35 +0000

This is true. Battlefield 6 is in this boat

New comment by grepex in "Steam Machine"

grepex — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 19:10:05 +0000

I could see Steam creating the OASIS

New comment by grepex in "Keep Android Open"

grepex — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 17:17:03 +0000

I snagged a Pixel 8A for around 200 on ebay.

New comment by grepex in "Keep Android Open"

grepex — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 17:06:43 +0000

Could either of those be considered a major Android OEM? I was thinking Motorola.

New comment by grepex in "Meta will use AI interactions to personalize ads"

grepex — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 15:22:15 +0000

Honestly it's not surprising at all but it's worth discussing as they are the first AI service to announce this.

Meta will use AI interactions to personalize ads

grepex — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 15:19:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45682848

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by grepex in "Android's sideloading limits are its most anti-consumer move"

grepex — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 14:37:44 +0000

I understand what sideloading means, as I'm sure the rest of HN knows. But to the layman non-techie, it has indeed been marketed as a boogeyman.

Even in the Android developers blog post:

> We’ve seen how malicious actors hide behind anonymity to harm users by impersonating developers and using their brand image to create convincing fake apps. The scale of this threat is significant: our recent analysis found over 50 times more malware from internet-sideloaded sources than on apps available through Google Play.

The research paper that shows their methodology for discovering these results AHS not been published by Google, to my knowledge. Just a mere "trust me, bro".

Edit to include link to source: https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/08/elevating-...