Hacker News: karim79

New comment by karim79 in "Apple introduces the new 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6"

karim79 — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 14:11:50 +0000

Exactly the same story here. I'm still very happily using an M2, which is just great.

New comment by karim79 in "Show HN: Encarta 95 Web"

karim79 — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 15:58:07 +0000

Oh God I remember running this on my dad's computer which had the first CD-ROM drive I had seen. I felt like I was in a spaceship

New comment by karim79 in "Hacker leaks 281 GB of data from Germany's far-right AfD party"

karim79 — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 15:45:00 +0000

I also worry that the AI summaries might miss out on some of or a lot of the "wink wink nudge nudge" parts of their interactions.

New comment by karim79 in "The No Kings Takedown Is Why You Shouldn't Rent Your Megaphone from Zuck"

karim79 — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 15:37:49 +0000

Techdirt changed my life and a fun fact for those not in the know, is that the Streisand effect was coined by Mike Masnick[0]:

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

New comment by karim79 in "SimCity, but with Permits"

karim79 — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:22:30 +0000

I loved SimCity 2000. But the game became nonsense (for me at least) when it came down to the pipes under the city. That stuff never made any sense to me and so I moved on to other stuff. Maybe I was just not doing good? Who knows such things.

Doom Running on a Bedside Monitor

karim79 — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 13:10:48 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/akifyanbak/status/2111853169105903678

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50152015

Points: 1

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New comment by karim79 in "Starcraft: Ashfall"

karim79 — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:10:16 +0000

The satisfying pop of the zerglings alone make it fun for me.

New comment by karim79 in "Starcraft: Ashfall"

karim79 — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:48 +0000

Cool game, but isn't this going to make blizzard bring out the big guns?

New comment by karim79 in "Nine-Inch Snails"

karim79 — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 15:44:44 +0000

I just searched that and it looks great! Will check it out, thank you.

New comment by karim79 in "Nine-Inch Snails"

karim79 — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 15:42:45 +0000

Hahaha I knew someone would drop this pun.

New comment by karim79 in "Tesla Roadster"

karim79 — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 03:10:37 +0000

See above

New comment by karim79 in "Nine-Inch Snails"

karim79 — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 02:00:37 +0000

My personal favourite parasite is the human botfly:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dermatobia_hominis

This bastard is a fascinating one. I mean there are others, but this one is close to my heart.

New comment by karim79 in "Tesla Roadster"

karim79 — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 01:31:30 +0000

About 700,000 people died because of Elon's DOGE cuts. I don't give a crap about his flying cars or promises of Utopia.

New comment by karim79 in "Tesla Roadster"

karim79 — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 01:04:08 +0000

I think this is just a matter of him wanting to heat up his sycophants and cultists, and he knows he can, and that's why he bought X.

I'm not denying that there's some cool tech going on in there but this approach just makes me cringe. He knows well what he is doing and that's why I used the term "meme stock". This shit will not make any revenue, ever, probably but the demo moves the stocks.

Does Tesla have value? Yes it does. The cars work. I've never driven one but everyone I've spoken to few people who have, all of which really enjoyed driving them.

Flying cars will not ever be a thing. At least for not the next 50-100 years. Goddammit this shit is so stupid.

New comment by karim79 in "Tesla Roadster"

karim79 — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:18:23 +0000

It's not a flying car. It's a meme stock marketing stunt. I mean, it looks cool and I enjoyed the video but this stuff is not happening and will not be available, ever, probably.

New comment by karim79 in "AdFection: Targeted ads turned into a pipeline for zero-click mercenary spyware"

karim79 — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 23:32:56 +0000

Taboola ads is zero click garbage which makes ones eyes bleed. This stuff is just a tad more sinister or a step further than that but along the same lines, more or less.

New comment by karim79 in "AdFection: Targeted ads turned into a pipeline for zero-click mercenary spyware"

karim79 — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 17:50:59 +0000

Y'all will be shocked at how much of the VPN space is owned/controlled by Israel.

https://share.gemini.google/DbWctQhiJXMh

New comment by karim79 in "AdFection: Targeted ads turned into a pipeline for zero-click mercenary spyware"

karim79 — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 15:16:19 +0000

Your comment makes no sense whatsoever. Moreover your account was created minutes ago. What time does your shift end?

New comment by karim79 in "AdFection: Targeted ads turned into a pipeline for zero-click mercenary spyware"

karim79 — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 14:32:49 +0000

Whenever I think of Israeli ad tech one company always springs to mind, which creates some of the worst garbage on the whole Internet.

https://www.taboola.com/

This crap is the worst of the worst.

New comment by karim79 in "Things to know when you get cancer"

karim79 — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 22:34:39 +0000

Been through this with my girlfriend who was diagnosed with TNBC in 2015. The second opinion amounted to "guys your doctor is a rock star, there's nothing here that's amiss and you are on a good path". She was cured and remains cancer-free to this day. This doctor had the confidence to say that he would cure it, and as you can imagine myself and my girlfriend were cynical but that's what actually happened. Was round about the time David Bowie died.