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New comment by newscombinatorY in "Don't hijack my mouse pointer"

newscombinatorY — Tue, 12 May 2026 12:59:03 +0000

I'd add preventing text selection, right-clicking or pasting from the clipboard to the list. I hate when websites do that.

New comment by newscombinatorY in "Show HN: Free tool to see how much AI bots are costing your site"

newscombinatorY — Mon, 11 May 2026 15:51:57 +0000

Hopefully not by using another AI bot... ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

New comment by newscombinatorY in "Recall for Linux"

newscombinatorY — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 16:28:15 +0000

What irritates me most about all these unwanted "innovations" is that they always make them opt-out. "If it's opt-in, nobody's gonna use it - and it's such a flawless feature, we should be shoving it down everyone's throats"

New comment by newscombinatorY in "Not only am I losing my livelihood to AI – now it's stealing my em dashes too"

newscombinatorY — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 17:19:45 +0000

I understand getting triggered by em dashes in a comment section - nobody uses them like that, right? But in an editorial piece? That's where you expect to see them. At least that's what I thought...

New comment by newscombinatorY in "Why haven't PWAs killed native apps yet?"

newscombinatorY — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 09:06:16 +0000

Why? Because companies like Apple don't want to lose additional revenue they earn by forcing everyone to use their App Store. That's why we have stories like this one: https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/15/apple-confirms-its-breakin...

New comment by newscombinatorY in "AI won't use as much electricity as we are told (2024)"

newscombinatorY — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 15:43:11 +0000

Similar concerns were raised regarding the energy used to mine cryptocurrencies. It's basically wasted energy - no doubt about that. But this is different. Crypto's potential has been very limited all along, whereas generative AI has numerous potential uses, and we are seeing more and more companies, as well as ordinary people, utilising it.

Vivaldi 7.6 allows customizing the Tab Bar and adds a Tab Button

newscombinatorY — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 07:25:02 +0000

Article URL: https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-on-desktop-7-6/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45286605

Points: 4

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New comment by newscombinatorY in "Win10 Is Nearing End-of-Life: What Should You Do Next?"

newscombinatorY — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 09:59:10 +0000

Option C doesn't mention the Windows 11 LTSC version, which allegedly works on machines that don't support the regular W11, and it doesn't have most of the bloat. It is an enterprise version, but it's possible to obtain it legally. However, after using Windows 11 for many months on my new rig and hating every minute of it, I'm seriously considering Option D (switching to Linux) for my older machine.

New comment by newscombinatorY in "Full Moon: Seestar S50 vs. Samsung S25"

newscombinatorY — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 15:21:05 +0000

The telescope's result seems poor, especially considering its price tag and limited usability. Perhaps it's the image compression/post-production issue, but you can get much better results with an average DSLR and a budget 250-300 mm lens, which will offer much more for a similar price.

New comment by newscombinatorY in "The Rise and Demise of RSS (2018)"

newscombinatorY — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 15:14:23 +0000

RSS feeds can drown you in quality content you're not interested in 75% of the time. Social Media can drown you in content that seems interesting, but is worthless 75% of the time. But that's my experience - yours could be different (I totally made up the numbers, but you get the idea).

New comment by newscombinatorY in "I ditched Spotify and set up my own music stack"

newscombinatorY — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 12:20:42 +0000

In the meantime, Spotify still cannot handle two different artists using the same name. It's almost 2026, and they still haven't fixed the issue with recommending songs from irrelevant "artists" who "borrowed" their stage names from more popular ones.

New comment by newscombinatorY in "Aspects of modern HTML/CSS you may not be familiar with"

newscombinatorY — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 09:12:25 +0000

I think for such a trivial task as submitting a form with some data (such as CC info), JS was never required to begin with.

New comment by newscombinatorY in "Ask HN: Anyone else pretend to get a phone call to escape awkward moments?"

newscombinatorY — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 09:09:53 +0000

I wish I were creative enough to hold a natural conversation with an imaginary caller for more than 15 seconds, without feeling more awkward than I did in the actual situation I was trying to escape.

New comment by newscombinatorY in "In a first, Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses"

newscombinatorY — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 15:09:43 +0000

> One major question mark is the total number of queries that Gemini gets each day, which would allow estimates of the AI tool’s total energy demand.

Yeah, I was more interested in knowing the total amount. A "median" prompt without the information on the total number of prompts is kind of meaningless...

New comment by newscombinatorY in "The value of hitting the HN front page"

newscombinatorY — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 10:47:43 +0000

Most likely a network thing. Changing browsers will not help. Changing a network might. If you have a dynamically allocated IP, just restart the router. Or try connecting using your mobile data plan (if you have one).