Hacker News: kirun

New comment by kirun in "Show HN: Buslens – where can I get to by bus? (UK)"

kirun — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 10:17:17 +0000

It seems to be showing a lot of school services here, which are taking priority over the buses open to the public.

New comment by kirun in "Ibis, a federated Wikipedia alternative"

kirun — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 15:33:30 +0000

The problem is that if you get hit with hivemind moderation in M1, then you're likely to see it rated as fair in M2. This is encouraged by the "Troll" and "Flamebait" options which can be slapped on any dissenting opinion.

New comment by kirun in "“This Is a Disaster:” Game Developers Scramble to Deal with Unity’s New Fees"

kirun — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 07:42:21 +0000

They claim to have their own processes to count installs which would counter spoofing attacks. As well as being opaque to developers on how their installs are counted, this may be scooping up PII of users.

New comment by kirun in "Cookie Clicker saved my PhD"

kirun — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 08:54:21 +0000

The HTTP and HTTPS pages give you different save slots, so you may have been switched between the two.

New comment by kirun in "Please stop sending me emails written by GPT"

kirun — Fri, 26 May 2023 17:25:49 +0000

I asked Bing what he would say about it:

> The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter. The artificial race has one really ineffective weapon, and that is imitation. - Mark Twain (paraphrased)

New comment by kirun in "Mobile Ad Networks as DDoS Vectors: A Case Study"

kirun — Mon, 28 Sep 2015 18:53:12 +0000

This looks like the original story for the photo:

http://news.yahoo.com/beijing-marathoners-don-face-masks-bat...

So... it's not?

New comment by kirun in "The geography of American left-handedness"

kirun — Wed, 23 Sep 2015 17:28:02 +0000

Landover is satire.

New comment by kirun in "Moonpig.com Vulnerability – Exposes customer data"

kirun — Mon, 05 Jan 2015 23:34:04 +0000

It would probably be more effective to update your account with nonsense details.

New comment by kirun in "The Inventor of the Browser Tab"

kirun — Fri, 09 May 2014 20:46:52 +0000

The linked "directly responsible" more or less meets my memory - MultiZilla first, Mozilla main later. The MultiZilla site of the time confirms it, the history links point to a 2001 start which would make 2002 in Mozilla itself reasonable.

http://web.archive.org/web/20010603123052/http://multizilla....