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New comment by whynotmaybe in "PPWR lands another blow to an precarious tabletop industry"

whynotmaybe — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 02:26:57 +0000

I should search for similar articles when lead was banned in paint or CFC in aerosol cans.

New comment by whynotmaybe in "Boot a Virtual iPhone via Apple's Virtualization.framework"

whynotmaybe — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 02:19:09 +0000

The simulator doesn't have a camera. The android emulator allows to configure the camera and use a picture, it's very handy to test your qr/barcode reader without needing to use a physical device. Maybe this also allows to use an image as camera?

Moscow Turned AI into a Ghostwriting Machine for Global Influence

whynotmaybe — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 17:47:17 +0000

Article URL: https://united24media.com/world/how-moscow-turned-ai-into-a-ghostwriting-machine-for-global-influence-21980

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49453066

Points: 9

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New comment by whynotmaybe in "Incident with Github.com"

whynotmaybe — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 14:30:24 +0000

That's the reason why my build agent is self-hosted

New comment by whynotmaybe in "Grok Bot"

whynotmaybe — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 22:42:19 +0000

It should be studied how we reached a point where we trust more a Chinese company, that's well know for being state controlled, vs an American company because it seems they could do worse. Still no idea what "worse" it could do because we've reached the threshold where plague and cholera are intertwined and every possible outcome seems abusive.

New comment by whynotmaybe in "Show HN: iPhone app takes simultaneous images from 2 lenses, fuses into 1 photo"

whynotmaybe — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 22:07:00 +0000

You can rent a car without buying it

New comment by whynotmaybe in "France to ban unsolicited telemarketing calls"

whynotmaybe — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 12:58:03 +0000

The book Traction has identified 19 different channels to promote your products, they are explained many places, one example : https://growthmethod.com/traction-channels/

New comment by whynotmaybe in "Study links GLP-1 drugs to bigger jump in women's employment than a degree"

whynotmaybe — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 17:01:01 +0000

Fuck. Good thing I'm self employed.

New comment by whynotmaybe in "Force-Fed by ICE"

whynotmaybe — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:58:16 +0000

Just remember that most soldiers who worked in concentration camps in WW2 were never punished until very recently : https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-33533264

New comment by whynotmaybe in "Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's"

whynotmaybe — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 15:57:57 +0000

I guess you're not aware of the story about a guy that found a fly in his coffee at Tim Horton's

New comment by whynotmaybe in "Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM"

whynotmaybe — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 16:48:47 +0000

No, because you have to manage communication between different teams on "how" and "what" about the single browser, much easier to let every team do their "best" without any external interference

New comment by whynotmaybe in "Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM"

whynotmaybe — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 16:46:29 +0000

Back in my days, I had to remove the mouse driver from autoexec so that microprose grand pirx had 600kb of ram to start

New comment by whynotmaybe in "A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website"

whynotmaybe — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 16:16:30 +0000

> Revenue settles in $CLAW tokens

Yes, but no.

New comment by whynotmaybe in "Gpiozero Flow"

whynotmaybe — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 12:59:44 +0000

Should we call this luciana1u's law?

If BizTalk has it, why shouldn't my visual programming tool have it?

New comment by whynotmaybe in "Una GPS smart watch – Repairable, USB-C charging, developer-friendly"

whynotmaybe — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 22:32:12 +0000

Cue to younger me that discovered the difference between water resistant and water proof when I found out that my "7 melodies electronic watch" didn't survive after a few minutes in the swimming pool.

Will the UNA hint us with a little bit of fog on the window?

New comment by whynotmaybe in "The Strongest El Niño Ever"

whynotmaybe — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 20:10:31 +0000

Yes for temperature but what about CO2 ppm?

New comment by whynotmaybe in "Stolen Buttons"

whynotmaybe — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 20:57:56 +0000

https://jdan.github.io/98.css/

New comment by whynotmaybe in "Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team"

whynotmaybe — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 03:35:38 +0000

Maybe it's a Linux thing?

I've been using it on Windows for years with multiple devices and it's been working flawlessly.

New comment by whynotmaybe in "Qwen 3.8"

whynotmaybe — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 12:48:15 +0000

They use it in Babylon5 (supposedly) in 2260!

New comment by whynotmaybe in "How did Windows 95 decide that a setup program ran?"

whynotmaybe — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 17:24:37 +0000

I sometimes feel like Hal changing a lightbulb[1] when I'm trying to install an app on Linux, either I don't have the correct distro, I need to enter km long command line to add some repository to apt, I need to download 346 packages from I don't know where to the build the app, and finally find out that it's not what I wanted.

Yes, I know that's how Linux works and I know all the advantages of that, but when you see now that many install are just 'curl mywebsite.com/install.sh | bash', you start to wonder which is a "good" solution.

1. https://youtu.be/AbSehcT19u0