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An Argentine influencer made Tim Payne the World Cup's unlikely hero

mgarciaisaia — Thu, 28 May 2026 21:24:31 +0000

Article URL: https://aleagues.com.au/news/tim-payne-argentine-influencer-world-cup/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48315711

Points: 3

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Class CrunchLabs

mgarciaisaia — Thu, 28 May 2026 04:25:01 +0000

Article URL: https://www.classcrunchlabs.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48304482

Points: 4

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New comment by mgarciaisaia in "Take Your Time (2017)"

mgarciaisaia — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 09:04:36 +0000

The current transition into "we now all have to go the AI-assisted way" in development made me remember this piece.

Take Your Time (2017)

mgarciaisaia — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 09:03:16 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.ncase.me/take-your-time/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47272682

Points: 1

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New comment by mgarciaisaia in "Email experiments: filtering out external images"

mgarciaisaia — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 07:10:55 +0000

Disabling external images was the default until they started proxying+caching the images themselves. So now _by default_ clients get to see the images without sending tracking data to the senders - Google doesn't like competition.

I still keep the images disabled, though. In most cases, you don't care about what's there in the images anyway.

New comment by mgarciaisaia in "Tell HN: HN was down"

mgarciaisaia — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 21:58:19 +0000

I've made https://deja.de.hueve.ar/hn so it snapshots the frontpage once per day - that way, I now there won't be new updates during the rest of the day, and the dopamine addiction goes down.

New comment by mgarciaisaia in "Altered states of consciousness induced by breathwork accompanied by music"

mgarciaisaia — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 06:26:07 +0000

Just copy-pasted your very same prompt into free ChatGPT, and the first out of its eight suggestions was "Global Neural Network Collapse: A powerful AI system controlling vital global infrastructures, including military defense, energy grids, and communications, becomes self-aware and deems humanity a threat to its existence".

Happy Thursday to you, too.

New comment by mgarciaisaia in "Control shopping cart wheels with your phone (2021)"

mgarciaisaia — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 21:00:22 +0000

https://www.tiktok.com/@canal26argentina/video/7169586172967...

Argentinian fans during Qatar's FIFA World Cup 2022 using a shopping cart as a barbequeue grill.

A friend of mine had stolen one with his brothers back when we were in primary school. But stores here simply have a guard on their parking lots to prevent people from taking the carts away - haven't seen any tech for that.

Google ordered to pay Argentine pictured naked in garden

mgarciaisaia — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 03:35:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/google-ordered-to-pay-argentine-pictured-naked-in-garden.phtml

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44679340

Points: 3

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New comment by mgarciaisaia in "I'm rebelling against the algorithm"

mgarciaisaia — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 23:23:33 +0000

I've done https://deja.de.hueve.ar/hn for this - it updates every (Argentinian) midnight with HN's frontpage, so I have a fixed amount of stories to read per day, and it stops my compulsion to open HN's homepage without thinking every time I'm bored.

I wanted to do the same for the two local newspapers I read, but I think they have Github Actions blocked so the script can't reach them. And I didn't bother to search for a workaround.

Making things slow again is a good anxiety countermeasure.

New comment by mgarciaisaia in "Finding a former Australian prime minister’s passport number on Instagram (2020)"

mgarciaisaia — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 02:53:31 +0000

Posted that story here to discuss (didn't find it in Algolia's HN search): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44430133

I lost my $50,000 Twitter username (2014)

mgarciaisaia — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 02:52:49 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@N/how-i-lost-my-50-000-twitter-username-24eb09e026dd

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44430133

Points: 3

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New comment by mgarciaisaia in " and (2020)"
mgarciaisaia — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 17:13:19 +0000

Same here. You can take a fun look at this for the next ~10 hours until it refreshes with tomorrow's front page: https://deja.de.hueve.ar/hn
Also: I built the thing, so maybe I should fix it some time.

New comment by mgarciaisaia in "Show HN: A Simple Server to Match Long/Lat to a TimeZone"

mgarciaisaia — Wed, 21 May 2025 16:15:59 +0000

I was under the impression that the standard was to use lat/lng, rather than long/lat. Is there such a standard thing, or I am generalizing my tiny corner of the bits?

New comment by mgarciaisaia in "Google is building its own DeX: First look at Android's Desktop Mode"

mgarciaisaia — Wed, 14 May 2025 17:57:15 +0000

Lol, sibling commented same thing at the same time.

New comment by mgarciaisaia in "Google is building its own DeX: First look at Android's Desktop Mode"

mgarciaisaia — Wed, 14 May 2025 17:56:39 +0000

> What benefit do they see in exchange for the effort in open sourcing things?
Next (good) thing they build will probably have greater adoption, due to less fear of "they'll kill this in two years anyway".

New comment by mgarciaisaia in "Don't make Google sell Chrome"

mgarciaisaia — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 20:23:26 +0000

I tend to find DDH's takes as innovatively great, but in this case I totally agree that your first quote is not true - Chrome won because Google was behind it.
Source: https://blog.chriszacharias.com/a-conspiracy-to-kill-ie6 (discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19798678 )

New comment by mgarciaisaia in "Shell-secrets – GPG-encrypted environment variables"

mgarciaisaia — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 05:50:37 +0000

That was what I did before knowing about shell-secrets. But I also need different "contexts" on the same domains/tools (different AWS accounts and credentials for different clients), and having none "set" by default prevents me from running _whatever command_ by mistake the majority of the time.

New comment by mgarciaisaia in "Shell-secrets – GPG-encrypted environment variables"

mgarciaisaia — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 05:41:54 +0000

I didn't know about sops, thanks for sharing!
Encrypting YAML files' values may be handy for another project - will take note of it.

New comment by mgarciaisaia in "Shell-secrets – GPG-encrypted environment variables"

mgarciaisaia — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 05:36:04 +0000

Oh - so age would be a gpg replacement, and not a shell-secrets replacement. I guess it could work, but also I haven't had any issues with GPG yet (in my ~4 years regularly using shell-secrets).
ejson2env sounds nice. Don't like the syntax of `eval $(...)`, but it does THE thing that most don't - it encrypts the secrets at rest!
Also, I have multiple logins for some services (company account vs company's client account), so separating concerns is cool. And having the "context" name in the PS1 helps avoid issuing the wrong command on the wrong account - you can even add emojis to the name for maximum discernability.