Hacker News: xacky

New comment by xacky in "The world in which IPv6 was a good design (2017)"

xacky — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 13:10:10 +0000

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New comment by xacky in "Dependency cooldowns turn you into a free-rider"

xacky — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:49:17 +0000

This all looks like game theory, the more people delay the more likely a compromise will slip through. The same reason why I don't use LTS/ESR releases either.

New comment by xacky in "Microsoft isn't removing Copilot from Windows 11, it's just renaming it"

xacky — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:08:00 +0000

Copilot has been reduced to "Internet Explorer" status, where it is the "AI to download another AI".

New comment by xacky in "Entirety of Wikinews to be shut down"

xacky — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 19:06:51 +0000

Will this change AFD discussions over the commonly cited WP:NOTNEWS? Also Wikimedia has too many small wiki sister projects that are mostly being overrun with vandalism as there are not enough editors to monitor it, especially with AI bots making it trivial to make thousands of edits.

New comment by xacky in "15 Years of Forking"

xacky — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 10:37:27 +0000

There is no pure browser anymore. The little red hen of Google funds everything, and forks like Waterfox just change a few parts of the UI but still rely on the upstream for all actual browser code. Even Mozilla was bootstrapped by AOL-Time Warner Back in the day. If you look at Ladybird they already have lots of ad companies funding it as well and will demand its enshittification if it gets popular.

New comment by xacky in "I don't know anyone who uses Grokipedia, it will never work, says Jimmy Wales"

xacky — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 14:31:51 +0000

I use it, and if you don't like the point of view then make your own AI encyclopedia. I'm fed up of Wikipedia, it's no longer the encyclopedia that anyone can edit since all controversial articles are BLUELOCKed to people who have to make 500 edits outside of their field of interest before they can actually contribute, Wikipedia is doing the same gate keeping that Britannica did. Wikipedia keeps telling established academics and celebrities they are not notable and if you say otherwise they shout COI. Wikipedia needs competition, and they can't keep relying on the gravy train of donations anymore.

New comment by xacky in "Show HN: I built a small browser engine from scratch in C++"

xacky — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 17:49:00 +0000

I follow a lot of the alternate browser engines and am always looking for new ones outside of the big three. You should use your experience to get a career in the browser tech world as we are dangerously close to the Chromium only web.

New comment by xacky in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

xacky — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 16:21:29 +0000

Gnome comes with built in virtual machine support with the Boxes app, just download an ISO and try as many as you want.

New comment by xacky in "Google DeepMind Staffers Ask Leaders to Keep Them 'Physically Safe' from ICE"

xacky — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 16:10:33 +0000

If Google really cared they would ban ICE ip addresses from using Google services and stop ICE using Google Cloud. Google is a big enough company to force the issue, otherwise they secretly condone ICE.

New comment by xacky in "Text Is King"

xacky — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 10:49:50 +0000

I'm still a Slashdotter, I use it more than HN. Although Slashdot isn't as fun since they cracked down on trolling.

New comment by xacky in "Vibe coding kills open source"

xacky — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 09:48:26 +0000

This is also the general threat to books and encyclopedias. Grok for all its point of view flaws still generated a full encyclopedia in two months that Wikipedia by humans took 25 years and Britannica over three centuries. The only remaining issue is when we can finally trust AI to be correct more than expert humans and be aligned with human moral consensus.

New comment by xacky in "US administration to require app, social media, possibly DNA for travelers"

xacky — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 09:38:45 +0000

All this effort for legal immigration and then US wonders why they have so many illegals.

New comment by xacky in "Mozilla Pioneers"

xacky — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 09:27:09 +0000

I don't care about Mozilla anymore and I was a passionate Firefox user back in 2004. The rest of the world just standardized on Chromium. The vast majority of the remaining Firefox users are just using it for ublock origin which is not a sustainable business model.

New comment by xacky in "40M Americans Live Alone, 29% of households"

xacky — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 12:59:28 +0000

Then again how many more people would live alone if they could afford to rent or buy on a single income?

New comment by xacky in "LWN is currently under the heaviest scraper attack seen yet"

xacky — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 19:21:47 +0000

Residential proxies need to be classed as malware and added to antivirus definitions and kicked off of app stores. Mass ban evasion needs to be cracked down on.

New comment by xacky in "FIFA Arrives on Netflix Games"

xacky — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 20:41:22 +0000

Reminds me of "The World Is Not Enough" for the N64, which tried to capitalize on Goldeneye's success.

New comment by xacky in "Nvidia plans heavy cuts to GPU supply in early 2026"

xacky — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 20:36:24 +0000

Nvidia is chasing trends again, they did it for crypto mining, and I bet some new fad will come up soon. It looks like the gaming industry needs to move to something else than the current GPU ecosystem in the long term. Intel Arc and Moore Threads have tried, but we really need a new way of designing and rendering graphics.

New comment by xacky in "Firefox to create AI Window: Built for choice and control"

xacky — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 15:16:37 +0000

I remember when some browsers made social networking modes or crypto/web3 modes, they all disappeared quickly.

New comment by xacky in "Block all AI browsers for the foreseeable future: Gartner"

xacky — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 21:06:45 +0000

All the major browsers have AI features now, the horse bolted years ago.

New comment by xacky in "ISPs more likely to throttle netizens who connect through CG-NAT: Cloudflare"

xacky — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 17:28:34 +0000

It's almost impossible to edit Wikipedia on mobile networks due to ip hopping vandals on CGNAT.