Hacker News: sumalamana

New comment by sumalamana in "Hegseth gives Anthropic until Friday to back down on AI safeguards"

sumalamana — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 21:48:32 +0000

There are dozens of us! Dozens!

New comment by sumalamana in "Ask HN: Burned out from tech, what else is there?"

sumalamana — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 18:51:22 +0000

How about pottery?

New comment by sumalamana in "I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too"

sumalamana — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 11:54:11 +0000

Try CachyOS, it's based on Arch but with additional optimizations, better defaults, and is user friendly. The problems the author of the article had would not have happened if he spent some time using an user friendly distro before trying a hard distro.

New comment by sumalamana in "Vietnam bans unskippable ads"

sumalamana — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 07:25:34 +0000

Yes, kill it all. None of that is worth the panopticon that is being built.

New comment by sumalamana in "Web Browsers have stopped blocking pop-ups"

sumalamana — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 19:40:26 +0000

> Like, I hate the modern ad ecosystem as much as the next person, but I also understand the abstract need for the existence of advertisements of some kind. We used to have catalogs and yellow pages before ads were everywhere.

New comment by sumalamana in "Europeans' health data sold to US firm run by ex-Israeli spies"

sumalamana — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 13:53:46 +0000

Israel is gonna have a really big PR problem as the boomer generation ages and dies.

New comment by sumalamana in "South Korea – A cautionary tale for the rest of humanity"

sumalamana — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 23:14:11 +0000

The old addage is true. It takes a village to raise a child. It is therefore no surprise that our contemporary unnatural way of life and organization of society is not conductive to the continuation of the species.

New comment by sumalamana in "How I block all online ads"

sumalamana — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 10:38:12 +0000

May I suggest Cromite, instead of ungoogled-chromium?

New comment by sumalamana in "The C++ standard for the F-35 Fighter Jet [video]"

sumalamana — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 00:27:44 +0000

Why would the compiler do that, instead of just printing the error at compile-time and exiting with a non-zero value? What is the benefit?

New comment by sumalamana in "Schizophrenia sufferer mistakes smart fridge ad for psychotic episode"

sumalamana — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 17:11:04 +0000

Not all speech should be allowed.

> But who decides what is legal then?

Laws and judges.

New comment by sumalamana in "Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out"

sumalamana — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 15:44:35 +0000

Just deleted my ChatGPT account.