Hacker News: pferde

New comment by pferde in "AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42"

pferde — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:47:01 +0000

There are many, many such great communities hidden all around the Internet - on half-abandoned forums, IRC channels, even Matrix rooms. One just has to wade outside the mainstream fascist asocial networks, and look for niche topics.

New comment by pferde in "Google changes its search box"

pferde — Wed, 20 May 2026 11:52:28 +0000

Haven't they tried doing Step 4 already? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knol

New comment by pferde in "U.S. Cybersecurity Agency Leaves Its Digital Keys Out in Public on GitHub"

pferde — Tue, 19 May 2026 17:30:47 +0000

Getting tired of complaints about trump means what he's doing and who he is is being normalized, bit by bit. Don't get tired, get angrier.

New comment by pferde in "Show HN: GlycemicGPT – Open-source AI-powered diabetes management"

pferde — Fri, 15 May 2026 10:51:51 +0000

I think you're being too optimistic about your fellow humans' judgement. "Death by GPS" is a quite common occurrence: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S13550...

New comment by pferde in "America Lost the Mandate of Heaven"

pferde — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 10:46:57 +0000

Its owner being a nazi white supremacist is "silly political reason" now? Oh my...

New comment by pferde in "Show HN: Stage – Putting humans back in control of code review"

pferde — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 17:42:13 +0000

Translation: we're hoping for an acqui-hire from some rich company, and will opensource this thing if it flops.

New comment by pferde in "Bluesky has been dealing with a DDoS attack for nearly a full day"

pferde — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 11:00:59 +0000

One possible purpose is marketing. Owners of the botnet are merely demoing the capabilities for prospective customers.

New comment by pferde in "Battle for Wesnoth: open-source, turn-based strategy game"

pferde — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 22:37:28 +0000

I tried it on my tablet last month, and it's pretty unplayable. The touchscreen input needs a lot of work, half the time it does something completely wrong and random, like selecting a tile halfway across the screen from where you touched.

New comment by pferde in "Moving from GitHub to Codeberg, for lazy people"

pferde — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 15:00:55 +0000

I was shaking my head in disbelief when reading that part too. I mean, git's whole raison d'etre, back when it was introduced, was that you do not need online access to the repo server most of the time.

New comment by pferde in "Waymo Safety Impact"

pferde — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 10:20:30 +0000

We all know it would end up just as rigged and as useless as Google's Play Integrity system for Android phones.

New comment by pferde in "Measuring progress toward AGI: A cognitive framework"

pferde — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 13:03:18 +0000

That is exactly what civilization is about - for new generations to start not from scratch, but from some baseline their parents achieved (accumulated knowledge and culture). This allows new generations to push forward instead of retreading the same path.

New comment by pferde in "How I write software with LLMs"

pferde — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 11:04:12 +0000

Did you thank your keyboard for letting you type this comment?

New comment by pferde in "/e/OS is a complete, fully “deGoogled” mobile ecosystem"

pferde — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 12:10:31 +0000

Sure, but I was only responding to the reservation you expressed about Pixel: "I don't like the Pixel and deep integration with Google."

New comment by pferde in "/e/OS is a complete, fully “deGoogled” mobile ecosystem"

pferde — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 11:36:30 +0000

Pixel's "deep integration with Google" is in the OS, so if you replace the OS with GrapheneOS, there is no deep integration anymore.

New comment by pferde in "Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS"

pferde — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 08:35:05 +0000

Indeed you can: https://grapheneos.org/install/web#verifying-installation

New comment by pferde in "Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS"

pferde — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 08:29:48 +0000

The misspelling of "GrapehenOS" in the tags below the article does not bode well for Motorola... :)

New comment by pferde in "Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS"

pferde — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 08:25:06 +0000

I've had a Motorola smartphone for four years before moving on to a Pixel with GrapheneOS and was mostly satisfied with it, so this announcement sounds rather good to me. Can't wait for the product(s)!

New comment by pferde in "Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed in Israeli strike, ending 36-year rule"

pferde — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 11:31:45 +0000

Ok, call it a "special military operation" if you want. A war by any other name would smell just as bad.

And what is Congress - or any other part of the US government - going to do about the pedophile not following rules? Stop him? How? Every potential check and balance has either been defanged or is controlled by his supporters.

New comment by pferde in "Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed in Israeli strike, ending 36-year rule"

pferde — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 11:25:24 +0000

Wow, this comment is so bigoted and xenophobic, I don't even know where to begin. First of all, we're far from being "overrun by muslims".

And equating following Islamic faith with being supportive of Khomenei's regime is like saying all Christians support Trump's dictatorship.

Be better than this.

New comment by pferde in "OsmAnd’s Faster Offline Navigation (2025)"

pferde — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 12:06:37 +0000

Start fixing it in Openstreetmap yourself, or even better, get in touch with active OSM mappers in Utah, and talk to them about this.

OsmAnd merely makes use of the data from OSM.