Hacker News: thesdev

New comment by thesdev in "Show HN: Uruky (EU-based Kagi alternative) now has Image Search and URL Rewrites"

thesdev — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:08:47 +0000

> We won't have Generative AI, sorry.

You're taking a stance? In this economy?

This is a bug plus in my book, and it is, besides being Europe-based, the reason I've been donating to Vivaldi for the past 18 months. I signed up for Uruky just last week, but I sense I'll stick around for much longer. Please continue being awesome!

New comment by thesdev in "GitHub Actions down again today"

thesdev — Tue, 26 May 2026 12:39:58 +0000

Next thing you're gonna tell us you're SRE at GitHub.

New comment by thesdev in "Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore"

thesdev — Mon, 25 May 2026 14:33:30 +0000

It does appear that way, but when you click on register you get an account valid for one day, without having to fill in any data whatsoever.

New comment by thesdev in "Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore"

thesdev — Mon, 25 May 2026 14:20:54 +0000

Just this morning I was helplessly looking at r/ecosia for a way to get rid of the new AI tab they've added (there's no way). Signed up for Uruky, let's see how it fares.

New comment by thesdev in "Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI"

thesdev — Mon, 18 May 2026 21:09:49 +0000

If anyone can afford burning cash for his ego it's the richest man in the world with the biggest ego in the world.

New comment by thesdev in "Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI"

thesdev — Mon, 18 May 2026 18:25:29 +0000

I hope he appeals. Not cheering for Musk, cheering for the fight.

Utah data center is causing a ruckus [video]

thesdev — Fri, 15 May 2026 22:36:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/k5igEBeMLho

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48154838

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

Sam Altman: the deal with the Pentagon "was definitely rushed"

thesdev — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 10:36:55 +0000

Article URL: https://xcancel.com/sama/status/2027911640256286973

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47216161

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by thesdev in "How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?"

thesdev — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 10:13:36 +0000

Didn't a judge order they need to keep all chats because of the NYT case? Has the situation changed?

Commit on Firefox repo: When an agent commits, don't add itself as author

thesdev — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 21:00:26 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/commit/71cc24b6a400dbd434e4df37087960d94b764791

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47185541

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by thesdev in "Claude Opus 4.6"

thesdev — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 18:33:25 +0000

What's the password? I only see ****.

New comment by thesdev in "Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft"

thesdev — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 15:01:55 +0000

Copilot is anything you want it to be inside Microsoft. Heck even Office is Copilot nowadays.

New comment by thesdev in "From stealth blackout to whitelisting: Inside the Iranian shutdown"

thesdev — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 10:12:39 +0000

What the parent said. Our government has the right to kill its own people, and in thousands at that, nothing for you to see here /s

Parent is what we call a cyber soldier in Iran. They probably were on the streets in the past weeks shooting at protesters.

New comment by thesdev in "Just the Browser"

thesdev — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 16:56:47 +0000

And then in the same article he goes to write that Firefox "will evolve into a modern AI browser", which makes AI sound like an intrinsic trait. Doesn't exactly inspire confidence if you ask me.

New comment by thesdev in "Iran Goes Into IPv6 Blackout"

thesdev — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 18:28:25 +0000

Yep, everything connecting to the Internet goes through the TIC.

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

New comment by thesdev in "Show HN: My not-for-profit search engine with no ads, no AI, & all DDG bangs"

thesdev — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 09:12:08 +0000

Searching for "DOMContentLoaded" gives me an error "'noresults' is not valid JSON" and the page gets stuck in an infinite refresh loop.

Edit: It's actually unrelated to the search term, I get this for anything I search for. I'm using Vivaldi Android with adblocker on, maybe that's the problem.

New comment by thesdev in "Anthropic acquires Bun"

thesdev — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 19:50:15 +0000

Why didn't they have the AI write a JS runtime instead of this acquisition?

New comment by thesdev in "Is Germany on the brink of banning ad blockers?"

thesdev — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 14:48:08 +0000

I wonder how AI has survived Germany's seemingly strict copyright law.

New comment by thesdev in "Fight Chat Control"

thesdev — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 20:00:04 +0000

The individual MEPs' positions are wrong, it's not 1:1 with the national government's position as the website suggests.

New comment by thesdev in "Microsoft Introduces 'Copilot Mode' in Edge"

thesdev — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 18:03:45 +0000

> For decades, the way we’ve used browsers has remained linear: open a tab (or 20), search for something, read a page, repeat. It’s a model that’s worked well, but it hasn’t fundamentally changed.

Maybe it doesn’t need to change if it's working well? Have you considered that?