Hacker News: jamesnorden

New comment by jamesnorden in "XCancel and Nitter are receiving C&D letters from XCorp"

jamesnorden — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 11:54:12 +0000

I think people try alternatives, turns out to be a ghost town, then they just go back.

New comment by jamesnorden in "EVE Online moves to Python 3"

jamesnorden — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 17:39:23 +0000

Had to check the date.

New comment by jamesnorden in "MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID"

jamesnorden — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 12:33:01 +0000

Oh that makes it totally ok then...

New comment by jamesnorden in "Bun 1.4"

jamesnorden — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 18:28:06 +0000

Me three.

New comment by jamesnorden in "Bun 1.4"

jamesnorden — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 17:59:43 +0000

If you want Node just use Node, complaining that something else is not Node is crazy.

New comment by jamesnorden in "Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin"

jamesnorden — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 00:32:26 +0000

It still sounds like you don't want browser extensions then.

New comment by jamesnorden in "France to ban unsolicited telemarketing calls"

jamesnorden — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 12:21:01 +0000

They are to me.

New comment by jamesnorden in "Google will expand age checks on Android worldwide till the end of the year"

jamesnorden — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 15:13:09 +0000

Anything age-restricted.

New comment by jamesnorden in "KOReader"

jamesnorden — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 14:23:16 +0000

I thought I was reading a summary about the Yakuza.

New comment by jamesnorden in "If coding has been solved, why does software keep getting worse?"

jamesnorden — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 11:31:59 +0000

He's saying the setting exists and does what he wants, how can you say his example is "wrong"?

New comment by jamesnorden in "Teardown: A Generic 7-Port USB 3.0 Hub That Wasn't"

jamesnorden — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 17:15:31 +0000

There was actually one I managed to find on Aliexpress, out of all places, that turned out to be legit.

It looked like that, I can't guarantee they're all created the same though, also it has RGB lights for some reason.

https://ae01.alicdn.com/kf/S6b270a53da9b4179af73036c5f6f9c89...

New comment by jamesnorden in "Teardown: A Generic 7-Port USB 3.0 Hub That Wasn't"

jamesnorden — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 11:23:11 +0000

There's a lot of "USB 3.0 hubs" on the market that have only one 3.0 port, I went back and forth buying/returning a lot on Amazon before giving up on getting one that had all 3.0 ports.

New comment by jamesnorden in "The git history command"

jamesnorden — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 11:03:02 +0000

Because people actually use Git instead of whatever you mean.

New comment by jamesnorden in "Tenda firmware (multiple versions) contains hidden authentication backdoor"

jamesnorden — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 10:42:39 +0000

There's claims of it being "the first home-grown router and wireless network device manufacturer in China".

New comment by jamesnorden in "Nintendo announces new product revisions in Europe with replaceable batteries"

jamesnorden — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 15:12:49 +0000

All li-ion batteries degrade over time, they may not fail completely, but the capacity will be diminished for sure.

New comment by jamesnorden in "Nintendo announces new product revisions in Europe with replaceable batteries"

jamesnorden — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 15:11:39 +0000

Props for using the Apple wording, I guess.

New comment by jamesnorden in "Windows 10 quietly gets one more year of support and updates"

jamesnorden — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 18:58:55 +0000

> so you will lack optimizations and features already in the current stable windows 10

Windows gets worse with each update, so this is actually a plus.

New comment by jamesnorden in "Using AI to write better code more slowly"

jamesnorden — Wed, 27 May 2026 11:56:57 +0000

Least delusional AI "coder".

New comment by jamesnorden in "Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down"

jamesnorden — Wed, 27 May 2026 10:21:32 +0000

Found the shareholder.

New comment by jamesnorden in "Fecal transplants for autism deliver success in clinical trials (2019)"

jamesnorden — Sat, 16 May 2026 15:00:21 +0000

Did you also think "treatment for cancer" caused cancer where there was none?