Hacker News: slater

New comment by slater in "Show HN: We beat Anubis with our stealth MCP"

slater — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 02:19:15 +0000

(why is this something to advertise/celebrate..?)

New comment by slater in "Cancelled by your future self? The fear isn't censorship. It's permanence"

slater — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 16:16:03 +0000

I've yet to come across one person who got cancelled and didn't deserve to stay cancelled.

New comment by slater in "I have 21,492 views on YT"

slater — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 21:24:03 +0000

wrong link...?

New comment by slater in "The Two Waters, one extra-dimensional"

slater — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 01:34:20 +0000

are you ok...?

New comment by slater in "America's missing middle: The shrinking 45-64 population"

slater — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 17:50:59 +0000

65 and older: +16.2%

Surely not the reason we're in the current mess, nosirree, why would anyone even think that??

New comment by slater in "Show HN: Nordstjernen Web Browser 1.0.18"

slater — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 18:15:55 +0000

Ah OK, the wording is a bit strange: "one window per page, no tab strip"

New comment by slater in "Egypt's New Delta Megaproject"

slater — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:30:40 +0000

TIL:

In Egypt, the feddan is the only non-metric unit which remained in use following the adoption of the metric system. A feddan is divided into 24 kirat (Arabic: قيراط, qīrāt), with one kirat equalling 175 square metres.

New comment by slater in "Show HN: Nordstjernen Web Browser 1.0.18"

slater — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:29:34 +0000

No tabs? :(

New comment by slater in "Show HN: Small World – The "Preact" of 3D Web Engines (TypeScript, WebGPU)"

slater — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 16:48:33 +0000

The "showcases" link on the homepage 404s (in the main area; the link at the very top works)

New comment by slater in "Apple Hide My Email Reveals the User’s Real Email"

slater — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 18:56:35 +0000

Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48744606

New comment by slater in "Alexa+, the Next Generation of Alexa"

slater — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 16:16:17 +0000

(Feb 2025), according to the meta tags

New comment by slater in "AI Data Centers Use More Water Than Most Tech Giants Report"

slater — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 16:54:17 +0000

Corrosion, would be my guess.

New comment by slater in "The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party"

slater — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 21:10:03 +0000

i keep coming back to this... what's the difference between the countries listed vs. Sweden singled out further down? Recency and context?

And we're led to believe that Sweden has been under sustained attacks pretty much annually, except for the years between 1994 and 2002...?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_grenade_attacks_in_Swe...

New comment by slater in "Grabovoi Numbers"

slater — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 20:00:36 +0000

"He has claimed to be the second coming of Jesus Christ, to be able to resurrect the dead, teleport, cure AIDS and cancer at any stage, diagnose and solve problems of electronic devices remotely, to be clairvoyant and to be able to change reality"

so, a grifting jackass...?

New comment by slater in "The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party"

slater — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 22:15:32 +0000

> Sweden is the only country I'm aware of that has a Wikipedia page specifically about this incredibly niche local phenomenon

Scroll to the bottom...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Grenade_attacks_by_co...

New comment by slater in "In San Francisco, even $180k tech salaries are no longer enough"

slater — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 17:42:51 +0000

> I don't understand how $180k was enough in San Francisco at any time in the last 15 years

Inflation. $180k in 2010 USD is just shy of $300k in 2026 USD.

New comment by slater in "Reserve Your WhatsApp Username"

slater — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 16:46:07 +0000

wtf?

New comment by slater in "Xonaly – Canada's Independent Search Engine"

slater — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:48:40 +0000

Probably experiencing the HN hug

New comment by slater in "Ships keep moving through Hormuz despite strike"

slater — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 16:16:15 +0000

> I did not realize that "glass the entire country" means to use nuclear weapons.

what the...? where did you think the term comes from? o.0

New comment by slater in "Ships keep moving through Hormuz despite strike"

slater — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 05:46:24 +0000

> why is "glass the entire country" not an option?

> I never advocated attacking civilians.