Hacker News: impure

New comment by impure in "Bets on US-Iran ceasefire show signs of insider knowledge, say experts"

impure — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 21:32:16 +0000

People want to believe this war will end soon.

New comment by impure in "PC Gamer Recommends RSS Readers in a 37MB Article That Just Keeps Downloading"

impure — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 20:00:48 +0000

There are readers with a 'full text mode' which will fetch the website and display it in something like Mozilla's Readability view. It does not always work, especially if the page is paywalled but it works for most sites.

New comment by impure in "US national debt surges past $39 Trillion"

impure — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 18:07:33 +0000

Apparently the debt is keeping the Fed from raising interest rates as much as they did in 1979 when a similar crisis happened. Raising interest rates would increase the debt servicing costs pushing the US into a debt crisis.

New comment by impure in "US national debt surges past $39 Trillion"

impure — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 18:05:37 +0000

If Elon Musk hadn't sacked those government workers it would probably be less than 39 trillion as he had to pay termination packages and hire back people he accidentally fired.

New comment by impure in "UMD Scientists Create 'Smart Underwear' to Measure Human Flatulence"

impure — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:58:22 +0000

32 a day!?! I guess I’m not that abnormal after all then.

New comment by impure in "Grandparents are glued to their phones, families are worried [video]"

impure — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 20:22:59 +0000

This is the one I read: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266656032... which says how older participants benefit more from restricting social media use.

New comment by impure in "Grandparents are glued to their phones, families are worried [video]"

impure — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 18:19:23 +0000

I was reading up on some RCTs on social media and mental health recently and one of the surprising findings is that social media is actually worse for older people.

New comment by impure in "Maybe the G in AGI stands for Gemini"

impure — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 20:21:38 +0000

Gemini is also my favourite. It’s very smart and has a backbone. I don’t think the Gemini 3 Pro complaint is very fair as it was listed as ‘preview’. Although I should note Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is 2.5x the cost of the previous version and I’m quite annoyed by that.

New comment by impure in "this css proves me human"

impure — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 23:23:54 +0000

This actually makes me more likely to think it’s AI generated and you used a script to try to hide it.

New comment by impure in "You need to rewrite your CLI for AI agents"

impure — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 09:36:39 +0000

It’s always amusing when the all powerful agents need our help to work properly.

Them: Agents will write code 10x faster than a human.

Also them: You will have to dumb down your CLI for them to function properly.

New comment by impure in "Disable Your SSH access accidentally with scp"

impure — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 18:21:13 +0000

Ah, file permissions. My old friend. Good thing this happened on a 'local' server and not a remote VPS.

New comment by impure in "Stolen Gemini API key racks up $82,000 in 48 hours"

impure — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 13:59:56 +0000

Billing caps? Google? Ha ha ha ha... OK, I'm sad now.

New comment by impure in "Why Go Can't Try"

impure — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 17:25:10 +0000

I really hate it when people try to justify Go’s design decisions. Try would be very useful. The real reason why is because the Go team refuses to take any lesson from any other programming language except for C. That’s why there are so many questionable decision. Also I was a little disappointed there was no mention of panics which are one such questionable decision. Also the author stopped trying to cover up their AI written tracks at the conclusion because you already read it so who cares.

New comment by impure in "Enable CORS for Your Blog"

impure — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 09:46:29 +0000

I have noticed some sites block cross origin requests to their feeds. It’s annoying but I just use a server now so I don’t care. I very much recommend RSS readers to use a server as it means you get background fetch and never miss a story on sites with a lot of stories like HN.

New comment by impure in "The Hunt for Dark Breakfast"

impure — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 11:16:36 +0000

It has been speculated that over half of the breakfast in the universe is dark breakfast.

New comment by impure in "Colorado proposal moves age checks from websites to operating systems"

impure — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 16:27:13 +0000

Like the web attestation API Google tried and got so much backlash for? Good luck, I guess.

New comment by impure in "AI is going to kill app subscriptions"

impure — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 20:03:33 +0000

Making the app is the easy part. The hard part is getting users. Also I have doubts if AI can make a sufficiently complex app.

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

impure — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 01:37:11 +0000

I noticed the difficulty cleaning too. It's why I still consider a matte screen protector superior: you never have to clean it.

New comment by impure in "Reddit Has Become the Internet's Strip Mall"

impure — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 01:02:57 +0000

RSS still works, power users are still there.

New comment by impure in "Ask HN: What tech purchase did you regret even though reviews were great?"

impure — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 01:29:59 +0000

The MacBook Pro with Mini-LED has this terrible vignette effect. I do not understand how no one mentions it, it’s completely unacceptable at this price point. Also any backlit keyboard that isn’t shine through. Also linear switches but maybe that’s a preference thing.