Hacker News: tchbnl

New comment by tchbnl in "Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo"

tchbnl — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 10:27:24 +0000

Mozilla went to shit after Brendan Eich was ousted.

New comment by tchbnl in "Microsoft Will Preload Windows 11 File Explorer to Fix Bad Performance"

tchbnl — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 15:33:06 +0000

This isn't a fix, it's a lazy bandaid.

New comment by tchbnl in "Helium Browser"

tchbnl — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 23:37:47 +0000

Having the option to set Kagi as my search engine right away is nice. I wish more browsers included Kagi as an option.

New comment by tchbnl in "Amazon to end commingling after years of complaints from brands and sellers"

tchbnl — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 04:48:49 +0000

This is an incredibly welcomed change. When I buy a product from a specific seller amongst a dozen, it's for a good reason. I expect THEIR inventory.

New comment by tchbnl in "The Gold Card"

tchbnl — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 14:34:09 +0000

I've edited it out after giving the word a more thorough review. I appreciate you raising it.

New comment by tchbnl in "The Gold Card"

tchbnl — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 13:41:21 +0000

Excuse me? I voted twice against him.

New comment by tchbnl in "Trump to Add $100k Fee to H-1B Visas"

tchbnl — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 19:52:17 +0000

So move to Bulgaria?

New comment by tchbnl in "Top UN legal investigators conclude Israel is guilty of genocide in Gaza"

tchbnl — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 09:32:40 +0000

Sure it does, if enough users find this interesting to them. I for one find this interesting.

New comment by tchbnl in "CVC acquires majority stake in Namecheap for $1.5B"

tchbnl — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 06:27:16 +0000

Private equity has been a cancer for the web hosting community. A single firm bought the top two control panels (cPanel and Plesk), the top virtualization solution (SolusVM), and the top billing software (WHMCS). And each year the prices are raised further and further with no real investment. It's forced a lot of smaller providers out and caused prices for customers to skyrocket. And you have to put up with it because the alternatives still aren't quite as good, or you're too locked in.

It's the same for hosting companies. A single PE firm (Endurance) owns over two dozen hosting and domain firms. The first thing they do is lay off the staff (because they already have outsourced agents) and strip the bits away until it's nothing more than a shell with a name for one of their other platforms.

PE is a cancer, and I don't even know if I can count one that has ever been a net positive for a company. All they care about is extracting more and more until all that's left is a stone.

New comment by tchbnl in "US Adds Surprise Gold Bar Tariff in Blow to Switzerland"

tchbnl — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 13:22:08 +0000

You, uh, want to explain what exactly Switzerland is doing that's wrong and why we've been "whacking" all our allies as of late?

New comment by tchbnl in "Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down"

tchbnl — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 15:13:39 +0000

I can find nothing about FedNow being replaced or even changed recently. Your source is the only one about this, and it's some no-name crypto junk site nobody's ever heard of.

New comment by tchbnl in "AWS deleted my 10-year account and all data without warning"

tchbnl — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 22:00:05 +0000

>Before anyone says “you put all your eggs in one basket,” let me be clear: I didn’t. I put them in one provider

Ah, but that's still one basket.

New comment by tchbnl in "Intel to boost gross margins – new products must deliver 50% gross profit"

tchbnl — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 04:59:14 +0000

> Maximizing shareholder value

Depressing. Intel is going to die under this guy's "leadership". I wonder what company will swoop in and buy them? I wonder how much his golden parachute will be.

New comment by tchbnl in "RFK Jr.'s health department calls Nature "junk science," cancels subscriptions"

tchbnl — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 01:42:51 +0000

I'm going to burrow into a hole under my shed and hope for the best when I emerge in four years.

New comment by tchbnl in "Cosmoe: BeOS Class Library on Top of Wayland"

tchbnl — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 15:59:02 +0000

AFAIK the only thing carried over from Be was Binder (from BeIA), which made its way to Android before being completely rewritten later on.

New comment by tchbnl in "Discord.com added to EasyList, the biggest adblock filter list"

tchbnl — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 11:47:55 +0000

It looks like the committer is a prolific contributor on there. I'd like to hear their explanation for why they have been repeatedly adding it.

New comment by tchbnl in "Microsoft is blocking Google Chrome through its family safety feature"

tchbnl — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 22:06:29 +0000

I think this is a legitimate bug. But also that Microsoft is taking its sweet time to fix it.

New comment by tchbnl in "Waymo rides cost more than Uber or Lyft and people are paying anyway"

tchbnl — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 15:17:43 +0000

I'll happily pay extra to never interact with another human. I'd live in a cave and yell at passersbys if I could.

New comment by tchbnl in "Trump's NASA cuts would destroy decades of science and wipe out its future"

tchbnl — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 17:39:36 +0000

It continues to be a long four years.

New comment by tchbnl in "Kagi Reaches 50k Users"

tchbnl — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 05:25:00 +0000

50K _paying users_ for a _search engine_. That's no small feat.