Hacker News: yreg

New comment by yreg in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

yreg — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:24:40 +0000

The takeaway from this article should be to consider modifying your tools to your needs even in unconventional and controversial ways. I love it.

The flame war on whether the original chassis design sucks or rocks is not that interesting.

New comment by yreg in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

yreg — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 05:36:42 +0000

And yet they would be responsible.

New comment by yreg in "Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones"

yreg — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:51:04 +0000

I've recently visited the southern US (Texas, Louisiana and such) and I was very surprised about the lack of honking. When I returned to Europe I've felt like in India.

I myself pretty much never honk. I understand honking makes sense on narrow bendy roads like in the mountains, where you need to alert the drivers behind the corner, but I don't see any other legitimate reasons to be honest.

New comment by yreg in "Git commands I run before reading any code"

yreg — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:41:39 +0000

> It's a small minority

Is it really a small minority? I have never worked on a project that didn't have commit messages that at least tried to be descriptive (sometimes people fail at it but its very different to an outright "changed stuff").

I don't remember any friend mentioning to me them encountering a work project where the messages were totally neglected either.

New comment by yreg in "European alternatives to Google, Apple, Dropbox and 120 US apps"

yreg — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 21:50:37 +0000

It obviously was listed when this was posted.

New comment by yreg in "How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?"

yreg — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 21:46:03 +0000

Most corporations have Microsoft already greenlisted as a vendor.

Making it possible to buy something from Anthropic might require tedious paperwork for many of them.

New comment by yreg in "How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?"

yreg — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 21:41:31 +0000

Which is unusually simple. I would expect Google to use 10 more marketing names simultaneously without any logic to the product lines.

New comment by yreg in "European alternatives to Google, Apple, Dropbox and 120 US apps"

yreg — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:09:59 +0000

I found it super suspicious that this post has raised to the very top of the frontpage when it was posted.

Not sure if baseless accusations of vote manipulation are ok here though, so I didn't comment on it.

New comment by yreg in "European alternatives to Google, Apple, Dropbox and 120 US apps"

yreg — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:07:10 +0000

Yes, either you consider them based in EU (because they are) – then why are they on this list?

Or you consider them to be EU-Panama which to try to protect user privacy – then why are they on this list?

New comment by yreg in "Show HN: European alternatives to Google, Apple, Dropbox and 120 US apps"

yreg — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 10:51:08 +0000

> If you want to actually be helpful, contribute to any of the 50 websites about the exact same concept that have been posted on HN over the last year.

The goal here is to earn on affiliate links.

New comment by yreg in "European alternatives to Google, Apple, Dropbox and 120 US apps"

yreg — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 10:44:38 +0000

NordVPN claims to operate under Panama jurisdiction (but is otherwise still based in Europe).

The specific reason why they want to operate under Panama law is that there's no mandatory data retention.

So it seems misguided to claim that purely-EU-based alternatives to NordVPN are 'safer' and 'more private' than Nord due to the location alone.

New comment by yreg in "Artemis II Launch Day Updates"

yreg — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 23:40:54 +0000

Everyday Astronaut's tracking was perfect.

New comment by yreg in "Show HN: 30u30.fyi – Is your startup founder on Forbes' most fraudulent list?"

yreg — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 23:23:14 +0000

I know several 30u30 people in my country's list and I highly doubt they paid for anything.

New comment by yreg in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"

yreg — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 11:49:56 +0000

We really do need more new isometric grid based games. They are less realistic but it is _so_ satisfying to build in them.

I've commented on it before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39810716

New comment by yreg in "Wikipedia was in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise"

yreg — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 18:21:03 +0000

The antinuke

New comment by yreg in "Iraq suffers power grid blackout due to technical fault"

yreg — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 06:32:18 +0000

It seems that the entire grid is down.

Iraq suffers power grid blackout due to technical fault

yreg — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 06:31:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/iraq-suffers-power-grid-blackout-due-technical-fault-2026-03-04/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47258283

Points: 5

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New comment by yreg in "Making Firefox's right-click not suck with about:config"

yreg — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 18:42:36 +0000

I mean "Set as Desktop background" seems to definitely be an overkill to have on a speed dial.

Unfortunately that one is not removable through about:config.

New comment by yreg in "Making Firefox's right-click not suck with about:config"

yreg — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 18:40:03 +0000

The opening rant is quite fun to read. It's nice that it's possible to clean up the context menu in the config.

New comment by yreg in "New iPad Air, powered by M4"

yreg — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 10:24:49 +0000

You need to get an MDM Vendor certificate from Apple.