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New comment by kikokikokiko in "'Backrooms' Stuns with $81M Debut"

kikokikokiko — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 03:09:22 +0000

I would rather go watch Weekend at Bernie's for the 100th time.

New comment by kikokikokiko in "What Is a Dickover?"

kikokikokiko — Sat, 30 May 2026 05:42:04 +0000

Yandex is great. When you want to see news/sites/whatever that does not conform to what the western mainstream powers "accepts as acceptable", you can go to Yandex and you will find it there. When Google search went to shit some years ago I discovered Yandex and found out how much of the web was being deliberately kept away from my eyes. You need search engines from every major power broker in the world to get a full picture of what we arrogantly like to call "truth".

New comment by kikokikokiko in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"

kikokikokiko — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 05:55:33 +0000

Bullshit. This was the reason the industry gave for why they were removing battery replaceability support. Everybody hated it when it was first introduced, and to this day I only buy phones which have easily accessible ways to put a new battery on when the day comes. Fuck this BS of "people wanted thinner phones".

New comment by kikokikokiko in "OpenAI's $852B valuation faces investor scrutiny amid strategy shift, FT reports"

kikokikokiko — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 04:24:28 +0000

Falling knife or not, if you own an index fund, or if your 401k owns one, you're buying a piece of it at IPO prices. The exit scam is almost complete.

New comment by kikokikokiko in "Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon [video]"

kikokikokiko — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 01:53:06 +0000

HN is heavily populated by and biased towards left left leaning west coast IT adjacent people. But it still makes me wonder for how long can the US keep it's dominance on the world stage with so many people that think this way in positions of power on the arguably most important econonomic/social area from now on.

New comment by kikokikokiko in "Nightingale – open-source karaoke app that works with any song on your computer"

kikokikokiko — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 14:12:45 +0000

Karafun is a paid service? I've seen their karaoke songs on Youtube for over a decade, I thought that was their business model.

New comment by kikokikokiko in "Are the Mysteries of Quantum Mechanics Beginning to Dissolve?"

kikokikokiko — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 01:21:25 +0000

If everything is deterministic, i.e. determined, there's no free will, so you/I are just a NPC. I prefer to live in a universe where my conscious decisions matter, or at least can't be predicted beforehand.

New comment by kikokikokiko in "Are the Mysteries of Quantum Mechanics Beginning to Dissolve?"

kikokikokiko — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:36:31 +0000

To me, the fact that quantum mechanics is intrinsically "random" and unknowable beforehand, is what makes living bearable in this universe as a sentient being. If we, two legged viruses that we are, could reach a level of understanding that could show the universe to be fully deterministic and every future state to be knowable given that you know the current states, then this human condition would be impossible to stand. I love the fact that we just can't predict the future. It's what makes existing be a good thing instead of a bad one.

New comment by kikokikokiko in "Review of 1984 by Isaac Asimov (1980)"

kikokikokiko — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 07:39:42 +0000

Yep, no rational argument can be used to make you (or me) see the same movie.

New comment by kikokikokiko in "Review of 1984 by Isaac Asimov (1980)"

kikokikokiko — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 07:19:31 +0000

These Minessota videos are classic examples of what Scott Adams used to call "two different movies being played on the same screen", in this case quite literally. From the point of view of a left leaning person, that movie shows a man being assassinated for no reason at all, nothing justify what happened. From the point of view of a right leaning person, Alex Pretti was actively interfering with law enforcement, and he entered a conflict situation while carrying a gun. If a cop is in the act of fighting you, and see a gun, you carry the risk of being shot, it's just reality. The right leaning person, just based on these facts, already reduces the charges from murder to manslaughter, max. Two movies on one screen, and there's NOTHING rational that can be said to change the mind of anyone. Everybody is watching the same damn screen, but the movies are completely different.

New comment by kikokikokiko in "Profession by Isaac Asimov (1957)"

kikokikokiko — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 16:01:17 +0000

Go create something original instead of tryingto destroy the greatness "created by a white guy" in the past.

New comment by kikokikokiko in "Bringing Sexy Back. Internet surveillance has killed eroticism"

kikokikokiko — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 06:02:56 +0000

Abnormal = non normal / non normative. Words have meaning. If for you it causes a bad reaction to it, you are the one that needs to deal with it. That's excatly the problem, normal people are tired of being called bad for seeing the world through normal, reasonable lenses. When a behavior does not follow the norm, it's abnormal.

New comment by kikokikokiko in "Bringing Sexy Back. Internet surveillance has killed eroticism"

kikokikokiko — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 03:24:44 +0000

Yes, the analogy to the bell curve doesn't fit this use case very well, I didn't noticed it before. But the point still stands: non heterosexual behaviour is a tiny minority compared to the norm. So, abnormal is a perfectly good word to describe non-heterosexual behaviour. Once again, it doesn't make it bad per se. I just can't stand word police, which is just another facet of thought police.

New comment by kikokikokiko in "Bringing Sexy Back. Internet surveillance has killed eroticism"

kikokikokiko — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 03:59:31 +0000

If something falls out of the center of the normal distribution, it's by definition abnormal. Once again, that doesn't make it bad per se. But trying to police perfectly good words just makes people become more antagonizing to the position you want to defend.

New comment by kikokikokiko in "Launch HN: Tweeks (YC W25) – Browser extension to deshittify the web"

kikokikokiko — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 21:43:40 +0000

I used to assume that the average Joe would be amazed at the way my Youtube/Facebook/whatever looks and works, with no ads and with a lot of annoyances removed. Then I saw, more than once, people complaining that THE ADS were gone, and then I gave up. The average of the whole population of humans is a very dumbed down version of what I always imagined the average would be.

New comment by kikokikokiko in "Jack Kerouac, Malcolm Cowley, and the difficult birth of On the Road"

kikokikokiko — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 07:00:48 +0000

Not a "guy novel" at all. I read it around 20 and just thought it was a waste of time, nothing happened, just wandering around aimlessly like 90% of my buddies on their teenage years. The whole beat movement was just style over substance, pages and pages of nothing.

New comment by kikokikokiko in "Old Stockholm Telephone Tower"

kikokikokiko — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 05:40:55 +0000

I believe the concept of multiplexing made the tower obsolete, orher than the subterranean cables of course.

New comment by kikokikokiko in "Betty Crocker broke recipes by shrinking boxes"

kikokikokiko — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 23:36:02 +0000

The most infuriating case of shrinkflation I've encontered yet is abot the "Oreo" style cookies, that were used to be sold on packages where each cookie was stacked on top of another, "laying flat". Over time, rhe packages started getting lighter, the cookies itself started getring smaller etc. Then, a couple years ago, those packages started having the cookies "side by side", instead of laying one on top of the other... I refuse to buy any brand that uses these types of shenanigans. Fuck shrinkflation.

New comment by kikokikokiko in "Everything from 1991 Radio Shack ad I now do with my phone (2014)"

kikokikokiko — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 01:28:08 +0000

For fixed radars, at least down here in Brazil, RadarBot is a lot better than Waze. For cops on the side of the road, maybe Waze can be better. RadarBot updates it's list of fixed spees cameras really fast.

New comment by kikokikokiko in "FreeDroidWarn"

kikokikokiko — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 06:17:41 +0000

All banks in Brazil now use the Google Play Integrity api. I've been on rooted phones for almost 15 years, and I'll never not main a rooted phone. But for a couple years now, I have to keep a separate phone just to be able to use tha f*cking banks.