Hacker News: tech234a

New comment by tech234a in "Build Adafruit projects right from Firefox"

tech234a — Sun, 24 May 2026 18:19:58 +0000

On iOS the page promotes the App Store version of Firefox, which is based on WebKit and doesn’t support Web Serial.

Images are not displayed in emails, newsletters or signatures in classic Outlook

tech234a — Sun, 24 May 2026 01:55:03 +0000

Article URL: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/images-are-not-displayed-in-emails-newsletters-or-signatures-in-classic-outlook-74600b12-905a-4f2c-9de5-ba295a675216

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48253565

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

Web Serial Support in Firefox

tech234a — Thu, 21 May 2026 19:05:39 +0000

Article URL: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2026/05/web-serial-support-in-firefox/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48227515

Points: 25

# Comments: 7

Searching "remove definition" on Google results in pointless AI text

tech234a — Sun, 17 May 2026 23:33:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.google.com/search?q=remove+definition

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48174109

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by tech234a in "Canvas is down as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data"

tech234a — Fri, 08 May 2026 02:02:42 +0000

A post on the official Canvas forum: https://community.instructure.com/en/discussion/666027/ranso...

New comment by tech234a in "App Store is hosting many clones of Google's discontinued Socratic app"

tech234a — Wed, 06 May 2026 23:03:38 +0000

The original app, discontinued in 2024/2025: https://web.archive.org/web/20241006083115/https://apps.appl...

App Store is hosting many clones of Google's discontinued Socratic app

tech234a — Wed, 06 May 2026 23:03:38 +0000

Article URL: https://apps.apple.com/us/iphone/search?term=socratic

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48043031

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by tech234a in "Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA"

tech234a — Wed, 06 May 2026 20:28:28 +0000

The QR code feature looks like it could be spoofed to become a Pegasus deployment method once people get used to them.

New comment by tech234a in "Google is discontinuing its free web search index for developers"

tech234a — Mon, 04 May 2026 20:42:45 +0000

The article suggests Common Crawl as a replacement which probably doesn’t make sense on its own due to low update frequency (monthly) and somewhat limited crawl scope.

(Looks like the sentence following the suggestion addresses this somewhat.)

GameStop Proposes to Acquire eBay at $125.00 per Share

tech234a — Mon, 04 May 2026 01:07:56 +0000

Article URL: https://investor.gamestop.com/news-releases/news-details/2026/GameStop-Proposes-to-Acquire-eBay-at-125-00-Per-Share/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48003441

Points: 8

# Comments: 7

New comment by tech234a in "Let's Buy Spirit Air"

tech234a — Mon, 04 May 2026 00:36:24 +0000

It seems to be an Instagram user: https://www.instagram.com/spiritair2.0/ and his own account is https://www.instagram.com/hitherehunter/

New comment by tech234a in "Ask.com has closed"

tech234a — Sat, 02 May 2026 05:48:55 +0000

You can also see the various rejected wordings for the page in the commit history.

New comment by tech234a in "Ti-84 Evo"

tech234a — Fri, 01 May 2026 21:52:00 +0000

My guess is that they are trying to encourage people not to use the various clones and unofficial emulators available for their calculators.

Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy

tech234a — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 02:45:54 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/agents-stripe-projects/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47957460

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by tech234a in "Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs"

tech234a — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 03:41:08 +0000

During mass layoffs, why haven't companies offered employees the opportunity to drop down to a four day work week? I'd think many would take the extra day off each week, even if it included a proportional reduction in pay.