Hacker News: kbf

US drops website wording on not supporting Taiwan independence

kbf — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 15:54:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/us-drops-website-wording-not-supporting-taiwan-independence-2025-02-16/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43080199

Points: 12

# Comments: 2

New comment by kbf in "What the Black Hawk pilots could see, just before the crash"

kbf — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 16:21:46 +0000

The sentence you highlighted holds the answer.

The European Vat Is Not a Discriminatory Tax Against US Exports

kbf — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 19:28:01 +0000

Article URL: https://taxfoundation.org/blog/trump-reciprocal-tariffs-eu-vat-discriminatory/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43040173

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by kbf in "Elon Musk Takes Aim at Reddit"

kbf — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 01:33:44 +0000

>(legally)

You’re operating on presumption that there’s still rule of law in the US. Elon Musk also has de facto control of the government.

New comment by kbf in "Website for USAID appears to be offline"

kbf — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 00:41:18 +0000

I figured linking straight to the site was good way to just show what’s going on and assumed most people interested would understand the context, but I see how it might not have been the best idea.

Website for USAID appears to be offline

kbf — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 20:31:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/website-usaid-appears-be-offline-2025-02-01/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42901954

Points: 87

# Comments: 11

New comment by kbf in "Tesla sales in Germany dropped 41% in 2024"

kbf — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 01:19:53 +0000

Not german, but my parents reason for getting rid of their tesla this week was Musk going crazy

Adrian Dittmann (Definitively Not Elon Musk) on Fortnite Friday

kbf — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 01:59:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2343534792

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42591601

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Fartcoin hits $1B market cap

kbf — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 13:46:16 +0000

Article URL: https://cointelegraph.com/news/fartcoin-crypto-memecoin-1-billion-market-cap-altcoin-bloodbath

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42461320

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by kbf in "Poké Transporter GB [video]"

kbf — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 17:32:38 +0000

I posted the video as it might be more interesting to most people. The Github page can be found here: https://github.com/GearsProgress/Poke_Transporter_GB

Poké Transporter GB [video]

kbf — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 17:30:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mSkGhEYBkg

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41370296

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by kbf in "Google is no longer claiming to be carbon neutral"

kbf — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 11:29:49 +0000

Google needs 5% of my country’s total energy consumption to run a single data center.

Mac users served info-stealer malware through Google ads

kbf — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 20:10:12 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/06/mac-info-stealer-malware-distributed-through-google-ads/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40814552

Points: 45

# Comments: 24

New comment by kbf in "YouTube experimenting with server-side ad injection"

kbf — Sat, 15 Jun 2024 08:09:56 +0000

This already happened after the “adpocalypse”. A lot of channels turned off ads on their videos and started doing direct sponsorships instead. After a while, YouTube decided they would just show ads on every video, even if the uploader had disabled them.

New comment by kbf in "Microsoft to delay release of Recall AI feature on security concerns"

kbf — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 08:16:59 +0000

>Yet, for all we know and ever will know, it's exactly how their feature might work.

We already know how it works, it’s based on App Intents. It’s how Shortcuts has worked for years, just instead of meticulously making your shortcuts for each automation you want to do, you essentially get an ML model to make one on the fly.

New comment by kbf in "Musk fired 80% of Twitter and everyone thought that Twitter was doomed"

kbf — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 03:52:52 +0000

The company might still be around, but the product has suffered major damage. I’ve been hopelessly addicted to Twitter for a long time, and couldn’t get myself to stop using it after the sale even if it went against my morals. But over time the site just got so unusably bad that I eventually couldn’t put up with it anymore and the problem solved itself.

New comment by kbf in "Researchers identify major driver of inflammatory bowel and related diseases"

kbf — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 19:01:47 +0000

I started on Remicade, but sadly I was one of the few who didn’t see results and I managed to get a lot sicker while waiting for it to do its thing. I got put on Upadacitinib and so far I feel a lot better, if it keeps working this well then I’m very happy to just have a pill to take daily. It’s pretty new, but from what I’m hearing it’s very effective.

New comment by kbf in "Google says no "African countries beginning with K" but Kenya has a "K sound""

kbf — Fri, 24 May 2024 08:45:21 +0000

Prominently displaying “AI” labels on all this garbage content is surely gonna bite them in the ass when it comes to the public perception of a technology they seem to be going all-in on…

New comment by kbf in "The beautiful dissociation of the Japanese language"

kbf — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 23:49:19 +0000

Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuru_Kuru_Kururin

How do MRI Headphones work? (2022)

kbf — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 13:39:06 +0000

Article URL: https://tomlingham.com/articles/how-do-mri-headphones-work/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39816152

Points: 212

# Comments: 194