Hacker News: praisewhitey

New comment by praisewhitey in "Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold"

praisewhitey — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 22:04:37 +0000

They use react native

New comment by praisewhitey in "Goodbye to Sora"

praisewhitey — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 23:19:33 +0000

>If you look at US top videos on YouTube any given day, 40-60% of the videos are IP-based. Star Wars, Nintendo, Marvel, music, etc.

Where can I get this data?

New comment by praisewhitey in "Grok 4 answers controversial questions by searching what Musk has to say"

praisewhitey — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 00:01:47 +0000

Some other people were able to verify this

https://x.com/paularambles/status/1943453894589456624

New comment by praisewhitey in "Material 3 Expressive"

praisewhitey — Thu, 22 May 2025 23:12:35 +0000

There are demos on the Material Web website https://material-web.dev/components/button/

New comment by praisewhitey in "Try Switching to Kagi"

praisewhitey — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 19:07:29 +0000

>I just tried searching for “expedited passport renewal” in Google and in Kagi. Kagi presents as its first response the US State Department’s “How to Get my U.S. Passport Fast” page. Google has that same link listed 7th

It's the first result on Duckduckgo.

New comment by praisewhitey in "Anubis Works"

praisewhitey — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 01:07:54 +0000

Firefox with Enhanced Tracking Protection turned on is enough to trigger it.

New comment by praisewhitey in "Apple Debuts iPhone 16e"

praisewhitey — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 00:05:42 +0000

Not seeing examples of comments claiming it being "near-impossible" in your linked discussion. Most of those comments are just grumbling about eSIMs.

New comment by praisewhitey in "Mark Zuckerberg: This Man Is a Coward"

praisewhitey — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 06:01:39 +0000

Use hckrnews.com to read the HN front page and check "show dead" in settings. This will let you see threads that were active but flagged off the front page.

New comment by praisewhitey in "Pornhub Is Now Blocked in Almost All of the U.S. South"

praisewhitey — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 00:33:45 +0000

I'll add that there's plenty of porn easily accessible on Reddit and Twitter and those websites haven't implemented any age verification measures yet. Chat apps like Discord and Telegram host a lot too.

My guess is if the lawmakers are successful in making porn websites comply with age verification then all social media websites will have to next.

New comment by praisewhitey in "The Depths of Wikipedians"

praisewhitey — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 23:57:55 +0000

Take a look at the talk page for Havana Syndrome where one editor (Bon courage) keeps blocking new edits referencing 2024 NIH studies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Havana_syndrome

New comment by praisewhitey in "South Korean president declares martial law, parliament votes to lift it"

praisewhitey — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 23:28:19 +0000

That would require the median salary to be enough to support a family.

New comment by praisewhitey in "The Rise of the NormieNet – Echo chamber politics"

praisewhitey — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 03:28:09 +0000

Before social media no one was lamenting the people who read the same local newspaper each day and only discussed the news with their same handful of friends. Now that's seen as being stuck in an echo chamber and people should be forced to engage with every single view point under the sun. I can't say I agree.

New comment by praisewhitey in "Bluesky is on the verge of overtaking Threads in all the ways that matter"

praisewhitey — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 06:52:02 +0000

>It's a matter of time before large corporations start preventing their employees from using non-approved platforms. They'll probably use cybersecurity safety as an excuse.

Already happened with TikTok.

New comment by praisewhitey in "Please Don't Make Me Download Another App"

praisewhitey — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 05:01:03 +0000

But you don't have to.

New comment by praisewhitey in "Mozilla exits the Fediverse and will shutter its Mastodon server in December"

praisewhitey — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 06:44:07 +0000

In the early 2000s people were regularly banned from various phpBB forums because a moderator was a bit of a dick.

New comment by praisewhitey in "Google Has Officially Killed Cache Links"

praisewhitey — Sun, 15 Sep 2024 17:09:40 +0000

For some sites. For years many search results didn't have a cache link in the drop down.

New comment by praisewhitey in "Apps now block sideloading and force downloads through Google Play"

praisewhitey — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 04:43:08 +0000

My guess is it's to stop things like ReVanced patches which can remove ads in various apps like YouTube

New comment by praisewhitey in "YouTube deletes LTT video for teaching people how to live without Google"

praisewhitey — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 19:57:22 +0000

The actions of private companies are a fair target for criticism.

New comment by praisewhitey in "YouTube deletes LTT video for teaching people how to live without Google"

praisewhitey — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 19:54:35 +0000

This is the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsjHMzGl-VY

Right now it says "This video has been removed for violating YouTube's Community Guidelines"

New comment by praisewhitey in "Google Pixel 9 Pro"

praisewhitey — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 18:40:41 +0000

>when done correctly, the Pixel 8 Pro's temperature readings are very accurate. Clinical trials revealed that the Pixel 8 Pro could successfully calculate body temperatures between 96.9°F and 104°F to within a margin of error of ±0.54°F.

https://www.androidcentral.com/phones/google-explains-pixel-...