Hacker News: poilcn

New comment by poilcn in "Hackers Had a Live Feed of Every ID Verification Company Scanned for over a Year"

poilcn — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 12:03:52 +0000

Isn't it turn on by default?

New comment by poilcn in "Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative"

poilcn — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 17:56:33 +0000

I was annoyed seeing unskippable "ad" within Cursor about it. Looked like a huge banner "give us control over all your code" with only one visible button to consent

New comment by poilcn in "Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin"

poilcn — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 14:17:23 +0000

I kept Firefox on one system for testing and had some non-popular extensions installed there. I rarely opened it and when I did it would spew me with a message that one of the extensions got malicious code installed

New comment by poilcn in "Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots"

poilcn — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 17:35:29 +0000

These humanoid robots would cost $10-100k to make and would require costly maintenance for them to do the job people in poor countries do for a dollar. I don't say we won't come to it eventually, but not in near future

More realistically it seems that llms in several years could help dramatically decrease costs of automation and make it available for more industries

New comment by poilcn in "Exercise intensity influences body composition in healthy older adults (2025)"

poilcn — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 12:44:21 +0000

Well, your body knows nothing about number of reps or the weights. You can also do your reps slower.

New comment by poilcn in "VPN ban update for UK households as government looks at 'age-gate'"

poilcn — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 18:19:42 +0000

Apps can read sim card info. Its country and whether the card is currently in roaming, you can't full them that way

You would need to get your sim card out of your phone and use wifi or buy one of them foreign esim

For vpns I actually found that websites that block vpns for some reasons are worse at detecting commercial vpns than when you deploy your own on vps

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Also I forgot about other things. When my phone for some unknown reason had its region set as GB, I had British ads in YouTube music

New comment by poilcn in "Midjourney Medical"

poilcn — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 07:16:37 +0000

Healthcare resources are very limited, you'd overwhelm it with lots of "yeah that's a defect, but 40% have it", things that would go away on its own, false positives, things that do not require urgent intervention, 10x increase of hypochondriacs and health deterioration caused by anxiety

You'd have a system where every resource is allocated for diagnostics, but no medical staff to treat it

Also a significant part of population avoids screening even if they are not required to paid anything from their pocket

New comment by poilcn in "πFS"

poilcn — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:31:43 +0000

That's kinda happen right now. Telegram's proxy produce huge amount of garbage data to hide and avoid blocking

New comment by poilcn in "Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users"

poilcn — Sat, 09 May 2026 06:09:14 +0000

"non-Apple", i.e. Android

The problem is that most popular apps for Android outside Chinese app stores rely on Google services (specifically, Firebase) for push notifications.

New comment by poilcn in "Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock"

poilcn — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 07:46:30 +0000

Gas.It is needed in lots of processes. It's very difficult and extremely expensive to transport gas. So the best solution is to use it at the place it's extracted.

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

poilcn — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 10:09:46 +0000

They are not supposed to intercept ballistic missiles anyway,it's THAAD's job

New comment by poilcn in "Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun"

poilcn — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 05:25:31 +0000

What are you talking about, 92% of Russian population has access to internet via landlines, the government subsidised building all the infustructre. The internet access is one of the cheapest in the world($5-10 per month for 100-500mbit/s), starlink with its $50-120 price tag is not affordable at all, ignoring the fact it doesn't even work here

New comment by poilcn in "Second Win11 emergency out of band update to address disastrous Patch Tuesday"

poilcn — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 05:56:34 +0000

While I personally use Ubuntu on my laptop for several years now, when I helped my relative with a brand new laptop (huawei) with Windows 11 I was suprised how fast it was despite being very cheap, I don't remember any version of Windows that had such a performance, at least visually. Out of curiosity, what model does your father have?

New comment by poilcn in "iPhone Pocket"

poilcn — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 16:54:57 +0000

My mom knitted a bag for my niece's iphone in 2024, so there already was a trend.

New comment by poilcn in "Baby is healed with first personalized gene-editing treatment"

poilcn — Fri, 16 May 2025 06:03:29 +0000

It only affects some cells, not the whole body.

New comment by poilcn in "Show HN: I made a Doom-like game fit inside a QR code"

poilcn — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 07:52:28 +0000

I kinda see that too. Basically, the way some authors use to increase content size with redundant words is the default behavior for Ai chats plus all the disclaimers to avoid possible litigations or negative public image.

New comment by poilcn in ".NET library MassTransit going commercial with V9"

poilcn — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 07:54:36 +0000

Damn. Hope there would be a viable open-source fork as there are non-financial reasons to exclude commercial licenses.

New comment by poilcn in "Australian Parliament bans social media for under-16s"

poilcn — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 07:23:31 +0000

Is it? You can see the actual harm caused by web sites.

Doomscrolling in all age groups. Going to bed very late at night.

Girls having body dysmorphia cause of instagram.

Young men having porn addition and having no ambition to interact with real women

New comment by poilcn in "Lies we tell ourselves to keep using Golang (2022)"

poilcn — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 10:01:39 +0000

>and the fact it's so tied to windows

Dotnet Core is not tied to windows except for certain frameworks like wpf (and there are alternatives for it that work everywhere), credential store.

And it's actually really good to use these days.

New comment by poilcn in "Tiny World Map"

poilcn — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 07:28:58 +0000

Love it! Wonder what is the logic behind having some lines ending with ";" in some cases and not having them in others. Is it just editor artefacts? i.e. the author had no intentions to put them, but the editor in some cases inserted them automatically.