Hacker News: hoppyhoppy2https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=hoppyhoppy2Hacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Mon, 15 Jun 2026 04:12:54 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by hoppyhoppy2 in "Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything"]]>Right, but that doesn't solve the problem they brought up in the first sentence of their comment.

]]>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 01:11:08 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48535235hoppyhoppy2https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48535235https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48535235<![CDATA[New comment by hoppyhoppy2 in "Stanford grads walk out on Google CEO Sundar Pichai speech"]]>It was a commencement speech. Here's a transcript: https://blog.google/company-news/inside-google/message-ceo/s...

]]>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 23:33:43 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48534272hoppyhoppy2https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48534272https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48534272<![CDATA[New comment by hoppyhoppy2 in "Is Privacy the Latest Luxury?"]]>https://archive.ph/QYSl0

]]>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 23:15:21 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48522432hoppyhoppy2https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48522432https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48522432<![CDATA[New comment by hoppyhoppy2 in "Derbyshire Police officer accused of using AI to 'create evidence'"]]>Posted 3 hours ago with active discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48520807

]]>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 23:12:33 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48522414hoppyhoppy2https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48522414https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48522414<![CDATA[New comment by hoppyhoppy2 in "Leaving Mozilla"]]>If I couldn't use the ublock origin extension with Firefox, I'd leave for another browser. I consider it essential for privacy reasons as well as for adblocking, and I can't imagine it hurts battery life compared to all the ads and other crap it blocks.

Firefox's VPN service also has its privacy-related uses (yes, I'm aware of the limitations), but I think it mostly serves as a possible source of non-google revenue for Mozilla.

]]>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 11:21:11 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48516102hoppyhoppy2https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48516102https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48516102<![CDATA[New comment by hoppyhoppy2 in "Waymo Premier"]]>Why should I have to wield a gun myself? A self-driving car should be able to shoot at threats autonomously!

]]>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 02:26:51 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48499136hoppyhoppy2https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48499136https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48499136<![CDATA[New comment by hoppyhoppy2 in "Workers are spending over 6 hours a week botsitting AI, fueling job frustration"]]>As a former first responder, I'm interested in hearing more about how AI-powered ambulance services would work. (related question: will the 911 dispatchers be AI?)

]]>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:06:37 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48491382hoppyhoppy2https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48491382https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48491382<![CDATA[New comment by hoppyhoppy2 in "Massachusetts bans sale of precise location data in new privacy rights bill"]]>Sure, if the cops seize your phone from you and try to suck out its data, then they clearly already know your precise location. But in some situations you would've been able to avoid getting your phone sucked out by the cops if they hadn't been able to purchase precise location data about where you were in the hours/days/weeks leading up to that.

]]>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 01:30:24 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48455011hoppyhoppy2https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48455011https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48455011<![CDATA[New comment by hoppyhoppy2 in "Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers"]]>Google had already donated $1 million to Trump's second-term inauguration fund.

]]>Sun, 07 Jun 2026 03:50:43 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48431594hoppyhoppy2https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48431594https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48431594<![CDATA[New comment by hoppyhoppy2 in "How big tobacco helped shape the design of ultra-processed foods"]]>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48411190

]]>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 13:26:37 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48412244hoppyhoppy2https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48412244https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48412244<![CDATA[New comment by hoppyhoppy2 in "The desperation of NYTimes"]]>My US public library doesn't offer that. I'm glad yours does, though.

]]>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 11:47:59 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48411125hoppyhoppy2https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48411125https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48411125<![CDATA[New comment by hoppyhoppy2 in "AI outperforms law professors in Stanford Law study"]]>>Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag, please don't also comment that you did.

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

]]>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:49:17 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48378258hoppyhoppy2https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48378258https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48378258<![CDATA[New comment by hoppyhoppy2 in "Three Ways to Get Paid (2018)"]]>I'd rather have a short article than a short article that was fed into an LLM to be expanded into a long one that says very little.

But yeah, when I seek truly "intellectually gratifying" material I usually log off of HN and read a book.

]]>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:29:44 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48374238hoppyhoppy2https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48374238https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48374238<![CDATA[New comment by hoppyhoppy2 in "I'm So Tired of Ads"]]>Billboards are illegal in my state. Can't really avoid? More like they don't really exist (unless I travel).

]]>Sun, 31 May 2026 16:46:32 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48347225hoppyhoppy2https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48347225https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48347225<![CDATA[New comment by hoppyhoppy2 in "Cheese Paper: a text editor specifically designed for writing"]]>Yes, but the description of the differences is not particularly precise.

]]>Sun, 31 May 2026 15:37:01 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48346562hoppyhoppy2https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48346562https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48346562<![CDATA[New comment by hoppyhoppy2 in "United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert"]]>The Weather Underground often warned the targets of their bombings via phone call. (I guess their goal was to attack gov't institutions and make a political statement, not to kill lots of people.) This was in the late '60s-'70s.

]]>Sun, 31 May 2026 14:30:57 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48345962hoppyhoppy2https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48345962https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48345962<![CDATA[New comment by hoppyhoppy2 in "Cheese Paper: a text editor specifically designed for writing"]]>The first sentence of the first non-bolded paragraph of the webpage is:

>Cheese Paper is a text editor specifically designed for writing, particularly fiction.

I don't think the HN submitter is the author of the software, but if you're just referring to the HN submission title then maybe they'll take you up on your suggestion.

]]>Sun, 31 May 2026 00:39:34 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48342011hoppyhoppy2https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48342011https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48342011<![CDATA[New comment by hoppyhoppy2 in "Why the U.S. cattle herd is at a 75-year low"]]>Drought is one of the reasons mentioned in the third paragraph of the article.

]]>Sat, 30 May 2026 16:08:48 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48337752hoppyhoppy2https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48337752https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48337752<![CDATA[New comment by hoppyhoppy2 in "2026 HIPAA Security Rule Update"]]>I rarely give credence to opinions about HIPAA from people who don't spell it correctly.

]]>Mon, 25 May 2026 18:06:00 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48269820hoppyhoppy2https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48269820https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48269820<![CDATA[New comment by hoppyhoppy2 in "On The <dl> (2021)"]]>FWIW, the Wikipedia page on "HTML elements" says:

>A description list (a.k.a. association list or definition list)[...]

The "Definition list" Wikipedia article is a redirect to that paragraph.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_element#dl

]]>Sun, 24 May 2026 11:40:40 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48256467hoppyhoppy2https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48256467https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48256467