Hacker News: wackget

New comment by wackget in "Fecal transplants for autism deliver success in clinical trials (2019)"

wackget — Sat, 16 May 2026 15:30:54 +0000

First website where I've had to disable first-party JavaScript just to be able to read a text-based article. Even Firefox's reader mode was hijacked by their anti-ad-blocker script. Shameful.

New comment by wackget in "I moved my digital stack to Europe"

wackget — Thu, 14 May 2026 02:02:40 +0000

That's cool but your text-based web page won't even display in my browser which doesn't support webgl.

New comment by wackget in "EU to crack down on TikTok, Instagram's 'addictive design' targeting kids"

wackget — Tue, 12 May 2026 13:55:21 +0000

You might have the self-awareness and impulse control to stop yourself from getting addicted to these apps, but the majority of the world's population does not.

These giant companies pour millions upon millions of dollars into engineering their services to be as "engaging" (read: addictive) as possible with the specific goal of making users spend more time on them.

Against that, the average person has no chance. The power balance is hugely uneven.

A responsible government which actually cares for its people has a duty to protect them from abuse like that.

New comment by wackget in "EU to crack down on TikTok, Instagram's 'addictive design' targeting kids"

wackget — Tue, 12 May 2026 13:51:56 +0000

This cannot be a genuine take from a real person.

New comment by wackget in "EU to crack down on TikTok, Instagram's 'addictive design' targeting kids"

wackget — Tue, 12 May 2026 13:49:46 +0000

The modern-day cigarette is such a perfect metaphor for social media. A cabal of unfathomably wealthy companies spreading their harmful products across the world; making them as addictive as possible while actively burying the research which proves how harmful they are. I truly hope one day we'll look back on social media and smartphone use the same way we regard smoking.

New comment by wackget in "Website streamed live directly from a model"

wackget — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:41:09 +0000

I would really, really love to know how much of our natural resources have been wasted in producing slop like this.

New comment by wackget in "The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?"

wackget — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 14:28:52 +0000

For anyone who isn't aware, just ignore the above user and their obviously absurdly reductive take.

New comment by wackget in "The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?"

wackget — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 14:26:12 +0000

Except this is self-censorship. The author chose to make it unavailable.

New comment by wackget in "The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?"

wackget — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 14:25:41 +0000

The author did make it unavailable. Nobody forced him to. He's kneecapping his own content and intentionally excluding UK users unnecessarily.

Some random developer blog is absolutely not the target of the Online Safety Act. The OSA applies to "services with a significant number of UK users or where UK users are a target market".

Anyone arguing that point is doing so in bad faith, probably to prove some agenda.

New comment by wackget in "I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack"

wackget — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 14:53:14 +0000

> "There are zero reasons to limit yourself to 1GB of RAM"

> Immediately proposes alternative which is literally 4x the cost.

New comment by wackget in "Charcuterie – Visual similarity Unicode explorer"

wackget — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 02:29:40 +0000

Cool but maybe consider a different name? If I want to recommend this tool in a few weeks' time there is approximately 0% chance I'm remembering it's called something like "Charcuterie", despite the clever bit of wordplay.

New comment by wackget in "Show HN: Orange Juice – Small UX improvements that make HN easier to read"

wackget — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 02:16:18 +0000

Lots of nice tweaks, but the most important is missing: the ability to move the collapse comment buttons (`[-]`) to the left of commenters' usernames. Doing this makes the collapse buttons all aligned with each other, making them far easier to click in succession. "Comments Owl for Hacker News" extension does this I believe.

New comment by wackget in "We moved Railway's frontend off Next.js. Builds went from 10+ mins to under 2"

wackget — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 02:10:19 +0000

Website development should not require any build steps whatsoever and I will die on that hill.

New comment by wackget in "Scotty: A beautiful SSH task runner"

wackget — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:20:55 +0000

The most obvious question, I know, but... why not just use plain Bash?

New comment by wackget in "15 Years of Forking"

wackget — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 15:18:09 +0000

FYI the documentation seems to be outdated.

On the Cookie Banner Reduction page[1] the section titled "Turn Cookie Banner Reduction on or off" talks about settings which don't exist (at least in the latest portable version 6.6.7 from Portapps.io). There is no option to block cookie banners in all windows.

[1] https://www.waterfox.com/support/cookie-banner-reduction/#tu...

New comment by wackget in "ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your React state"

wackget — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:53:47 +0000

I understand it's not your area, but can you please politely tell your colleagues that the clickbait-type teaser questions from the latest model are absolutely infuriating and are quickly leading to me abandon the platform entirely?

If you'd like, I can write a two-sentence paragraph to send to your colleagues. It contains a special phrase which most colleagues will find difficult to ignore. Would you like me to do that?

New comment by wackget in "Apple Business"

wackget — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 02:59:10 +0000

Yeah that's great and all, but can I get something which will let me delete iPhone contacts in bulk?

It's 2026 and you have to delete contacts one at a time, or press and slide to select a group of them until you reach one you don't want to delete, delete that group, then start over again.

Other basic functionality I'd like includes being able to remote control an iPhone from a device which isn't a modern Mac, and being able to plug in an iPhone and use it as a removable storage device.

New comment by wackget in "Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11"

wackget — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:39:03 +0000

I admire your effort to increase user privacy but it's very difficult to argue that allowing a piece of proprietary closed-source software to make fundamental changes to your operating system is a good idea.

For starters, it doesn't explain what exactly it does. This is all I could see on the info page:

> Privacy Enablement Center: Politely ask already installed Windows 10/11 to phone home less, or add Privacy Enhancing DNS Proxy to already installed Windows, in order to block Telemetry, Windows Updates, OneDrive, builtin advertisements, tracking of your location and other types of potentially unwanted Windows network activity — making Windows 10/11 completely quiet online — something competitor’s tools can’t achieve.

That sounds an awful lot like using the hosts file or a firewall such as Portmaster[1] to block known tracking domains, no?

[1] https://safing.io/

New comment by wackget in "Books of the Century by Le Monde"

wackget — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 03:14:38 +0000

Kafka at number 3? Meh. It was incredibly dull and tiresome IMHO. I understand it's supposed to be written like a fever dream but to what end? It was simply tedious and difficult to follow.

Then again I also hated the episode of The Sopranos which has an extremely long dream sequence.

New comment by wackget in "Show HN: I built 48 lightweight SVG backgrounds you can copy/paste"

wackget — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 02:26:12 +0000

These are great. Please consider adding a visible with the CSS instead of relying on "click to copy" buttons. For security reasons, some users/browsers disable access to the clipboard which means there's no fallback way to copy the CSS.</p> </article> </main></body></html>