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New comment by jimmydorry in "Dwarf planet candidate appears which takes roughly 280 years to orbit our sun"

jimmydorry — Fri, 13 Nov 2026 05:02:46 +0000

The comparison falls flat though if they were called "dwarf humans". Such a name would obviously invite comparison.

New comment by jimmydorry in "Show HN: Black Ops II statically recompiled to native ARM64 macOS"

jimmydorry — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 16:09:38 +0000

Moving to cloud gaming would mean cutting off any chance of selling to most of the world. >50ms for user input is very noticable, and >100ms people just won't pay for it. You also need very low packet loss and a reasonable amount of bandwidth. Those three requirements can be met for most (but notably not all!) of NA... but elsewhere? Not as much.

New comment by jimmydorry in "BYD sold more EVs last month than the US did all quarter"

jimmydorry — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 15:20:04 +0000

Absolutely, they have small margins with mind boggling government subsidy and other support.

New comment by jimmydorry in "BYD sold more EVs last month than the US did all quarter"

jimmydorry — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 15:18:31 +0000

Correct, the local car industry couldn't compete with cheap imports and was allowed to die a long time ago. Fast forward to today, and there is 0 potential of an ev car industry starting in these conditions.

>the margins are much better, no subsidies needed Ask your chat bot of choice. BYD received significant direct government subsidies, with direct grants still touching ~26% of their income (ignoring the many years the government kept the unprofitable BYD alive). Beyond direct cash grants, they also got cheap land grants, public procurement policies, subsidized raw materials (such as battery metals), and low-cost financing from state-owned banks.

New comment by jimmydorry in "BYD sold more EVs last month than the US did all quarter"

jimmydorry — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 00:07:35 +0000

As you look at those other countries (Australia) flooded with subsidised to below cost-to-make EVs, note how they are killing any chance of a sustainable local EV industry. It is a total governmental derreliction of duty to see how cheap Chinese imports played out with solar panels (and many other industries before that), and still welcome cheap EVs instead of attempting to kick start (or protect) a local option.

New comment by jimmydorry in "ChatGPT Keeps Telling People 404 Media Can Solve Their Tech Support Problems"

jimmydorry — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 05:06:04 +0000

Why is the default assumption that these attempts to contest parking fines are frivolous? Have you never received a fine for parking legally? The fines are created by a human after all. If the system was perfect, they wouldn't offer a way to contest them.

New comment by jimmydorry in "OBS Studio 33"

jimmydorry — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 03:00:03 +0000

Thanks for sharing the reasoning!

New comment by jimmydorry in "OBS Studio 33"

jimmydorry — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 08:44:45 +0000

> Updated CEF from 127/6533 to 150/7871

Finally... The CEF they used was 2 years out of date, and after RCE exploits [0] occuring in the wild getting big enough that they got picked up in the media [1], we finally have a fix 1 month later.

[0] https://blog.scrt.ch/2026/09/22/how-one-twitch-chat-message-...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49852143

[2] https://www.scworld.com/brief/vulnerable-obs-overlay-and-chr...

New comment by jimmydorry in "Epic Games Inc v Apple Inc"

jimmydorry — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 16:50:24 +0000

It also allows it to be much worse too. I can't wait to do tech support for my grandparents that followed the instructions to install ScamAppStore to install an app they saw on a Facebook ad.

New comment by jimmydorry in "The No Kings Takedown Is Why You Shouldn't Rent Your Megaphone from Zuck"

jimmydorry — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 16:59:06 +0000

The EU was actually on the path to forcing everyone to use micro-USB. Thankfully Apple (and others) pioneered USB-C (bringing what it learnt from developing the lightning connector) in the time it took the EU to go from making all of the phone makers sign a Memorandum of Understanding to making it legislation. Now the EU is frozen in time, stuck on USB-C for the forseeable future. The economics to make a device dual port (USB-C and something new) aren't there, so we're not likely to ever see an improvement on USB-C... in an alternative timeline, we could have been stuck on the even worse micro-USB.

Bringing it back to the topic on hand, this is very much an area I wouldn't want to see a heavy handed EU legislate something that just further cements the incumbants and makes everything worse forever... just like mandatory micro-USB would have been. I can totally see the EU legislating something like a mandatory Meta communication protocol with compulsory attestation from Meta servers.

New comment by jimmydorry in "ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026"

jimmydorry — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 15:28:06 +0000

People are spending more than 70% more on memory because that's all that is available. Everything seems to indicate that people will pay a lot more.

New comment by jimmydorry in "Tell HN: Codex Is Down [fixed]"

jimmydorry — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 23:13:15 +0000

This outage started a lot longer than 13mins ago. At least now I have an excuse to leave the office and have a long coffee break.

New comment by jimmydorry in "An update on Wayback Machine access"

jimmydorry — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 08:06:55 +0000

It's been posted multiple times of the last few months as they were removed from wikipedia and cloudflare. [1] [2] [3]

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46843805

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47092006

3. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47474255

New comment by jimmydorry in "Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO"

jimmydorry — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 22:48:17 +0000

And wikipedia runs off a tiny tiny fraction of what they raise. Almost all of the good on wikipedia comes in-spite of the organisation that owns it. Without the community pouring hundreds of thousands of hours into the project (unpaid) a year, wikipedia would be dead immediately. And if there was ever a time in its life that the project needed good leadership and innovative thinking, it would be now when AI is seriously threatening its survival. If people stop going to the site and instead go to the chat bots that scrape the site, there will be less and less incentive for the power users to continue maintaining wikipedia.

New comment by jimmydorry in "U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications"

jimmydorry — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 03:41:12 +0000

Canada effectively requires leaving and re-entering. It can take multiple months for an online visa to get processed, meanwhile leaving and reentering takes hours.

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

jimmydorry — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 14:06:48 +0000

You're being naieve if you don't think SNI will be fully deprecated in the future when a standard is settled on and reaches wide-adoption.

Scare prompt fatigue is real. If you're constantly blasting users with "XXX wants to do Y" which sounds scary, you're training them to just accept without thinking.

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

jimmydorry — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 14:01:09 +0000

Mozilla has frequently made questionable choices with its ad tie-ins and promotions. Mr. Robot ads, anyone? Unlike Chrome, Mozilla has also embedded full on data-collection schemes (Cliqz which tracked typing and browsing to test monetisation strategies).

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

jimmydorry — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 12:23:26 +0000

Security upgrades are never opt-in, and for good reason. The status quo would remain in-secure. Every encryption suite upgrade, SSL software version, DNS versions, etc. maintained backwards compatibility for a window then closed it... just like we have seen here with manifest v2 -> v3.

"Please stop looking at all network requests, especially when you don't need to."

doesn't result in action... while:

"You can no longer look at all network requests" requires extension makers to update to the new paradigm.

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

jimmydorry — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 12:18:56 +0000

A valid claim. The unfettered access to. etc.

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

jimmydorry — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 16:12:35 +0000

If you've run a site with CORS reporting enabled, you'd see that a significant fraction of your userbase have malware extensions running (prior to manifest v3). I was absolutely shocked when I looked at the logs a decade ago, and I bet the problem is far worse these days with the proliferation of malware buyouts of legit extensions.

Google has no shortage of options for serving up ads that can't be blocked by normal ad blockers across all their properties (youtube, search, etc.). They in-line the ads these days! And if they really cared about the fraction of a fraction of a percent of people that even install any kind of adblocker, they could make the served ad content un-blockable by serving it the exact same as the content.