Hacker News: majorchord

New comment by majorchord in "Making big downloads resumable in Firefox"

majorchord — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 22:17:41 +0000

Another feature that has been left broken in Firefox for many years, is the modal search highlight function, the thing that would darken the rest of the page besides your results, so you could easily see where it is... I really liked that feature.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1872349

New comment by majorchord in "Fingerprints are the new cookies"

majorchord — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 20:33:15 +0000

IMO The EFF test is very flawed because it only tests your uniqueness among the other visitors to that site, not the total possible uniqueness from all the bits of data.

I would bet money that Brave cannot defeat CreepJS. The only thing I've ever seen do it, ironically, is Safari in private mode.

Also just using your computer normally and visiting regular websites already tracks you regardless of your browser's privacy abilities, and I promise data brokers don't care what browser you use, your overall online behavior is still unique.

Feds search Rep. Ilhan Omar's home in immigration probe

majorchord — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 14:33:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.axios.com/2026/10/12/ilhan-omar-search-immigration

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50057018

Points: 6

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New comment by majorchord in "I guess I'm using WebP now?"

majorchord — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 14:13:12 +0000

How is that "archaic"?

New comment by majorchord in "Platforms' Violent Content Rules Are About to Meet The Pentagon's Firing Squad"

majorchord — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 14:12:33 +0000

No, I don't, and I don't think your link proves anything.

New comment by majorchord in "I guess I'm using WebP now?"

majorchord — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 14:10:56 +0000

We must have extremely different definitions of the word "archaic".

New comment by majorchord in "Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from Norway, 2021–2025"

majorchord — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 14:02:14 +0000

Research tells us that most billionaires get to be billionaires by being mentally ill.

Very few normal, sane, and well balanced people are capable of doing the things required to become a billionaire. That level of wealth requires such a massive disregard for the well-being of the rest of humanity that it leads to some terrible outcomes. Being so wealthy that nobody can really do anything to get in your way is inherently bad for the human mind.

And you can't have democracy (everyone has an equal say) when you have large wealth inequality, because wealth is power. In practice we have a few billionaires who control everything... that's not democracy, that's oligarchy.

New comment by majorchord in "I guess I'm using WebP now?"

majorchord — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 04:02:18 +0000

> It is an archaic operating system

Do you have a reliable source you can share which supports that claim?

New comment by majorchord in "open-slopware – Alternatives to FOSS projects choosing to use LLMs/AI"

majorchord — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 15:08:25 +0000

> they are not fostering an inclusive environment

Neither is this list... there are very legitimate uses for LLMs that have nothing to do with copyright etc., such as handicapped or ESL/non-English-speaking users.

Funny how "inclusive" is always limited just to the people/behaviors they happen to like, and I'm not even talking about the paradox of tolerance.

Which by the way... the paradox clears itself up if you look at what tolerance actually is. It's simply not interfering with people's agency over themselves. Given that your right to self-agency doesn't entitle you to restrict others' self-agency, behavior that does try restricting others' agency is automatically not included in "tolerance."

I miss the days when project contributions could stand on merit alone and didn't have to get political just to be accepted... which to me is the opposite of inclusive.

New comment by majorchord in "YouTuber Says Cops Visited Him After He Built a Flock-Style Camera to Track Cops"

majorchord — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 01:02:02 +0000

> Am I missing something?

Just the part where you're supposed to be doing something about it, otherwise don't you think it's a bit hypocritical to call out others for doing the same thing?

New comment by majorchord in "Platforms' Violent Content Rules Are About to Meet The Pentagon's Firing Squad"

majorchord — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 19:23:29 +0000

Perhaps it will be streamed by Facebook or Reddit or some social media... they seem to like selective rule enforcement as it is. Or the government/Trump TV might host/stream it themselves.

New comment by majorchord in "The dawn of the age of the exoskeleton"

majorchord — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 15:14:39 +0000

I don't see any indication that he wears prosthetics... and it looks like he wears a diaper because he does. The weird standing may just be awkwardness of standing with a full diaper.

New comment by majorchord in "Yandex Takes a Second Data Center Hit in 48 Hours"

majorchord — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 14:36:47 +0000

I bet reddit and facebook are awfully quiet today.

New comment by majorchord in "Sub-1-Bit LLM Compression via Latent Factorization"

majorchord — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 13:57:33 +0000

there is also https://huggingface.co/prism-ml/Ternary-Bonsai-2-27B-gguf

New comment by majorchord in "Sub-1-Bit LLM Compression via Latent Factorization"

majorchord — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 13:55:48 +0000

> it is not possible to compress models to less than 4 bit per weight without severe loss of capabilities

https://prismml.com/news/bonsai-2-27b

New comment by majorchord in "AnyPS5: Port PS5 binaries to PC without emulation (87% system libraries mapped)"

majorchord — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 23:30:56 +0000

GTA 5 is the single highest grossing entertainment product in history. This overshadows every game ever made.

New comment by majorchord in "AnyPS5: Port PS5 binaries to PC without emulation (87% system libraries mapped)"

majorchord — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 23:12:40 +0000

> Normal people aren’t downloading a 100GB torrent to get this working. Nor would they setup an emulator.

As soon as someone vibe-codes a one-click installer that does all the work for them, they will.

New comment by majorchord in "Show HN: gtlds.fyi – All the proposed new gTLDs"

majorchord — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 21:07:16 +0000

I thought TLDs were sponsored/registered by corporations, and hence had a say in what can be registered on that TLD and by whom.

New comment by majorchord in "Show HN: Pointless but mostly-exact clone of Hacker News"

majorchord — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 20:00:09 +0000

> If you're particularly offended that this is copying your comments, claim your account by

Does this comply with GDPR?

New comment by majorchord in "Visa, Mastercard, Major Banks Facing New Litigation over 'Anticompetitive' Fees"

majorchord — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 16:36:51 +0000

IMO They (Visa et al) have been desperately clinging to the outside of their speeding gravy train for way too long, and it's only a matter of time before they run out of track underneath them, so they're trying every trick in the book to keep things running.

Any new competitor could spell the end for them, so making it astronomically difficult to onboard enough people is so far working out for them.