<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: sub7</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=sub7</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 11:06:29 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=sub7" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sub7 in "Some users have noticed settings that let Meta analyze and retain phone photos"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Xiaomi's HyperOS has many flaws but one great thing it does is have an app behaviour settings page that shows what app used what permission and when.<p>It allows you to toggle permissions on a per app per permission basis but sadly this toggle doesn't always work.<p>Still useful knowing how much you get spied on.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2025 20:51:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45069254</link><dc:creator>sub7</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45069254</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45069254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sub7 in "Copilot broke audit logs, but Microsoft won't tell customers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Windows and any softwaqre coming out of Redmond today is pure spyware with little to 0 utility.<p>This Clippy 2.0 wave of apps will obviously be rejected by the market but it can't come soon enough.<p>The higher $msft gets, the more pressure they have to be invasive and shittify everything they do.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2025 04:48:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44958705</link><dc:creator>sub7</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44958705</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44958705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sub7 in "Counter-Strike: A billion-dollar game built in a dorm room"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've played the WCG finals in Counterstrike 1.3 and what they've done to CS with the skin economy is tragic. The game got big because it was lightweight and accurate - a guy with better aim and low latency could take out 5-6 people on an opposing team with good strategy.<p>Today the hitbox and damage taken is all dependent on things that do not include aim i.e. if you're one game away from losing, you will likely hit jumping pistol headshots across a map and if you're 4 v 1 trying to close a round, the first person to engage will likely die and you will win with 2 or 3 left standing.<p>You're basically playing an RPG and paying Steam to make it look pretty. Good for Valve stock, bad for gaming</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2025 05:47:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44948614</link><dc:creator>sub7</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44948614</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44948614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sub7 in "I'm worried it might get bad"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>ok doomer the counter argument is obviously that it will be fine and keep getting better for the average person like it has for 100s of years</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2025 04:34:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44896756</link><dc:creator>sub7</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44896756</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44896756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sub7 in "GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Higher the mcap, higher the pressure for rev growth, higher the garbage pushed<p>All your code are belong to MSCodeLLMTrainer.exe now</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2025 18:17:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44867543</link><dc:creator>sub7</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44867543</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44867543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sub7 in "Visa and Mastercard: The global payment duopoly (2024)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I spend many months in India every year and I've been paying with RuPay and UPI for the past 5 years exclusively. It works, and India saved 1-2% of all digital payments going to some leechy foreign middlemen who do nothing.<p>V/M would love to "but fraud" us sadly the actual payment fraud % is much lower than claimed and easily dealt with by the issuing/receiving banks.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2025 02:29:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44678890</link><dc:creator>sub7</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44678890</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44678890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sub7 in "Electric cars produce less brake dust pollution than combustion-engine cars"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Has anyone modeled how much excess cement and asphalt pollution is generated by having a tiny car weigh as much as a giant truck? Or the water usage of increased lithium mining?<p>EVs are like an inferior product being shoved down everyone's throat when consumer cars don't even account for the most emissions globally.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2025 07:52:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44668132</link><dc:creator>sub7</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44668132</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44668132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sub7 in "Beyond Meat fights for survival"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The FDA already allows far too much salt and preservatives in US food supplies and this fake meat stuff is an absurd amount of salt that will 100% give you a heart attack very very early if you eat it regularly.<p>Just like the drug ads on TV, this is one of those situations where industry must be reigned in before the market discovers the truth.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2025 11:34:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44624164</link><dc:creator>sub7</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44624164</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44624164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sub7 in "Preliminary report into Air India crash released"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So many garbage takes here - this report wants to imply pilot error and without all the data/audio that remains a remote possibility but the truth is it is far more likely that this plane experienced a total electric failure following liftoff and the onboard computer entered some form a failsafe mode which set the fuel valves to a default closed state.<p>The pilots were likely immediately trying to relight the engines which is the correct reponse but sadly they didn't have the altitude to see the process through.<p>My guess is the truth here (i.e. Boeing equipment malfunction) or at least the framing of it is being used as a chip in trade deal negotiations which are active and ongoing.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2025 08:43:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44591118</link><dc:creator>sub7</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44591118</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44591118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sub7 in "Where's Firefox going next?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Firefox might as well rebrand to Mozilla365 Spyware Edition<p>Absolute disgrace the amount of telemetry and home phoneing bloat in the official releases<p>They are absolutely yesterday's browser and tomorrow's browsers are trying to be better/faster while they just keep pouring cement on the grave they're already in.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2025 11:41:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44581094</link><dc:creator>sub7</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44581094</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44581094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sub7 in "Mark Zuckerberg says social media is over"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Everyone relax - this moron Zuck still has Whastapp left to shittify and it's already begun with businesses spamming people en mass<p>Old firms that did sms spam as a service now all do whatsapp spam as a service - just one example of the process already inevitably started<p>I can't wait until people are communicating entirely via algorithms/OS clients with donations running server temp storage.<p>Then this 21st centure nicotine dealership that has created riches by extracting untold value from people's lives will finally be in history's dustbin where it belongs.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2025 08:10:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43791360</link><dc:creator>sub7</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43791360</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43791360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sub7 in "GLP-1 drugs: An economic disruptor? (2024)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My guess is there's also a long term explosion in liver/stomach/pancreatic cancers coming which might be the diabetes/heart attack/strokes of the 21st century.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2025 20:48:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43223534</link><dc:creator>sub7</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43223534</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43223534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sub7 in "US authorities can see more than ever, with Big Tech as their eyes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>BuT ChiNa Is TeH SuRvEiLlaNcE sTaTe</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2025 03:27:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43215485</link><dc:creator>sub7</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43215485</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43215485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sub7 in "Introducing a terms of use and updated privacy notice for Firefox"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you're not blocking your mozilla process from accessing firefox.com, mozilla.com/.org, and mozgcp.net, as well as turning telemetry settings off after every update and keeping a tight policy.json file - then firefox is just as bad as Edge or Chrome re: tracking<p>Also they actively take down extensions that unfuck websites without notice<p>Nice picture-in-picture implementation tho</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Feb 2025 06:53:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43202531</link><dc:creator>sub7</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43202531</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43202531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sub7 in "Tell HN: Y Combinator backing AI company to abuse factory workers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Overpaid software engineers here please spend a moment to talk about your 3pm massage and free omakase<p>Or just go work a real widget business and you will realize that optimizing worker efficiency is critical and useful</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Feb 2025 02:03:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43179822</link><dc:creator>sub7</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43179822</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43179822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sub7 in "After layoffs, Meta rewards top executives with a substantial bonus increase"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Zuck is single handedly responsible for the exponential decline in sex in society and exponential increases in depression/loneliness among younger people.<p>Fuck him, and fuck anyone who made their money at this dogshit 21st century nicotine dealership</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 22 Feb 2025 21:24:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43143396</link><dc:creator>sub7</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43143396</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43143396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sub7 in "Bybit loses $1.5B in hack"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>These are not hacks, just like Mtgox, Celsius, FTX etc etc etc were not hacks. These are crypto insiders supporting the stablecoin so they can print and set a floor on prices before/during potential mass sell off events.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 22 Feb 2025 09:05:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43137415</link><dc:creator>sub7</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43137415</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43137415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sub7 in "Musk-led group makes $97B bid for control of OpenAI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Musk is a Xi surrogate</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Feb 2025 02:48:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43008382</link><dc:creator>sub7</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43008382</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43008382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sub7 in "El Salvador abandons Bitcoin as legal tender"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They can buy 100 Lummis-es and 100 El Salvadors and bitcoin still won't have a use case outside of fraud and more suckers = number go up</p>
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<p>no because if there was ever real armed conflict, the list of higher priority action items would make this app banning nonsense look exactly as silly as it actually is today</p>
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