Hacker News: yownie

New comment by yownie in "Gnutella: A Protocol Outliving the World That Created It"

yownie — Mon, 25 May 2026 18:26:38 +0000

I'm shocked! used to work for him ages ago.

I swear I think we're living in the episode of TNG with the brain worms every day now.

New comment by yownie in "Gnutella: A Protocol Outliving the World That Created It"

yownie — Mon, 25 May 2026 18:16:24 +0000

~~who?~~

holy smokes you're right!

New comment by yownie in "Gnutella: A Protocol Outliving the World That Created It"

yownie — Mon, 25 May 2026 18:14:44 +0000

this is great!

I often wonder why we don't go back to systems like WASTE now.

We all finally have the bandwidth.

New comment by yownie in "I got infected with a crypto-miner via misconfigured qBittorrent"

yownie — Mon, 04 May 2026 13:24:01 +0000

don't be a snooty shithead please.

New comment by yownie in "Seven countries now generate 100% of their electricity from renewable energy"

yownie — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 20:01:42 +0000

most people from abroad do, but most of that geothermal goes to home heating and not power generation too.

New comment by yownie in "Where to host leaked Claude Code source?"

yownie — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 09:06:07 +0000

Anna's Archive, no?

New comment by yownie in "Europe takes first step to banning AI-generated child sexual abuse images"

yownie — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 06:34:14 +0000

this entire source is exclusively talking about Britain.

New comment by yownie in "Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story"

yownie — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:23:54 +0000

wonder no further!

New comment by yownie in "10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips"

yownie — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 20:40:50 +0000

this exactly the type of stories I come to HN to read, thanks!

New comment by yownie in "Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS"

yownie — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 17:02:00 +0000

if you truly dig down it's the US and of all people Ashton Kutcher (https://mullvad.net/en/why-privacy-matters/going-dark) who are pushing this. So they can then point to the EU and say ”they do it so why not do it here?”

New comment by yownie in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

yownie — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 16:21:27 +0000

our groups are discussing [stoat](https://stoat.chat/).

I don't know it well yet.

.......yet.

New comment by yownie in "[dead]"

yownie — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 13:51:22 +0000

let's just see if they wake up fast enough for it to matter.

New comment by yownie in "EU–INC – A new pan-European legal entity"

yownie — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 13:43:06 +0000

>Which is just German culture as much as food is Italian.

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20250227-is-there-no-such...

New comment by yownie in "Have Taken Up Farming"

yownie — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 08:57:28 +0000

from one extreme to another, notice the pattern.

New comment by yownie in "Rapid Serial Visual Presentation (RSVP) reader for speed reading"

yownie — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 06:40:54 +0000

A [reddit post](https://v.redd.it/bmzdeicni7dg1) showing speed reading at various WPM counts, this nice fellow created a tool for exactly this in the thread comments. Enjoy

Rapid Serial Visual Presentation (RSVP) reader for speed reading

yownie — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 06:40:54 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/thomaskolmans/rsvp-reading

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46613065

Points: 3

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New comment by yownie in "Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt accused of rape, surveillance by ex-mistress"

yownie — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 19:52:28 +0000

surprising no one

New comment by yownie in "Urban Surveillance"

yownie — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 23:54:08 +0000

well written comprehensive article of the current state of LEA surveillance industry.

New comment by yownie in "Meditation as Wakeful Relaxation: Unclenching Smooth Muscle"

yownie — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 19:15:32 +0000

yes. why don't you bother to look some up instead of antagonizing others?

New comment by yownie in "Meditation as Wakeful Relaxation: Unclenching Smooth Muscle"

yownie — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 19:09:40 +0000

This has been my answer too, to more analytical minded friends who asked (sardonically).

I-ching / tarot can be looked at strictly as systems for structured introspection.