Hacker News: yur3i__

New comment by yur3i__ in "Ferrari Luce"

yur3i__ — Tue, 26 May 2026 07:12:07 +0000

Feel like this is an answer to the Lamborghini Urus which, at the time, I remember the internet not being fond of either. But in the real world, they are now a massive status symbol

New comment by yur3i__ in "The fun has been optimized out of the Internet"

yur3i__ — Tue, 05 May 2026 15:32:20 +0000

I as a Gen-Zer mourn the "old internet" of the 2010s. I agree and feel like nostalgia is kind of a lie.

In my own generation for example, I've seen a transition from "no good music has come out since 2000, we missed the GB/N64 era of gaming" to deep nostalgia for PS3/Xbox and Linkin Park era metal as the golden era.

New comment by yur3i__ in "Popcorn Time 0.5.0"

yur3i__ — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 20:24:55 +0000

260M households does not equal 260M satisfied with Netflix alone. Almost everyone I know with Netflix also has at least one, if not both, of Disney+ or Prime Video

New comment by yur3i__ in "The Sad Bastard Cookbook"

yur3i__ — Sun, 06 Aug 2023 09:10:13 +0000

Because I got bills lol

New comment by yur3i__ in "How to start a Go project in 2023"

yur3i__ — Wed, 24 May 2023 07:45:02 +0000

It is boring, that is the appeal for most of its proponents I think. Obviously that doesn't appeal to the nerdier side of programming, but if your goal is to "write programs" as opposed to "do programming for programmings sake", it gets out of your way most of the time to enable that in my experience.

New comment by yur3i__ in "First early gameplay trailer for “UNRECORD”"

yur3i__ — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 07:46:21 +0000

While impressive technically I am very curious how well these kinds of hyper-realistic games will work in terms of gameplay compared to their more arcadey counterparts, I'm not convinced people will prefer them to regular shooters after the shock of the graphics wears off. I think this kind of thing could be crazy for VR though where more natural movement is preferred.

New comment by yur3i__ in "LastPass breach could've been stopped with a 3-year-old Plex update"

yur3i__ — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 08:22:38 +0000

> Maybe don't install crap on your dev machine if you're not going to keep it updated.

If only there was some way lastpass could ensure that crap wasn't installed on corporate network connected dev machines...

New comment by yur3i__ in "'Tradwives' promote a lifestyle that evokes the 1950s"

yur3i__ — Fri, 30 Dec 2022 16:53:10 +0000

> I know that the story isn't new: college grades move to large cities for jobs and exciting opportunities, but these friends are young! Plus, we are witnessing our siblings who are about to leave college balk at the idea of paying rent in large cities (NYC, SF, Chicago, Austin, et al) and are looking more fondly at smaller, more affordable cities.

I've had much a similar experience, moving to a smaller town after university. Since my role allows me to work mostly remotely there's no reason to bother paying crazy rent in the city rather than occasionally commuting as necessary. There is a decent cohort of other people here in the same boat so I'm not just surrounded by older folk and its nice being closer to nature if I ever want to get out of town for a while.

New comment by yur3i__ in "The FBI alleges TikTok poses national security concerns"

yur3i__ — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 16:57:51 +0000

Thinking this change of "technocratic authoritarian overlords" is as much of a non-event as you seem to or that the Chinese level of control over the citzenry is equivalent to that of the USA is a crazy level of naivety that I can't even begin to unpack

New comment by yur3i__ in "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II breaks record with $800M sold in three days"

yur3i__ — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 17:02:32 +0000

Costing more per unit than every other call of duty release probably helps

New comment by yur3i__ in "Ask HN: What social media site could replace Twitter?"

yur3i__ — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 08:38:18 +0000

> Personally I think Twitter would work best if it was left to be just that. I don't think anyone really cares about what I have to say, for example

This hasn't been my experience of twitter at all, I follow far more unverified people than I do verified and I know I'm not the only one that does. Communities like football (soccer) twitter aren't built on a few large verified accounts but, as far as I can tell, by mass participation more akin to reddit.

New comment by yur3i__ in "If India's Ruling Party IT Head report a post, Meta will take it down"

yur3i__ — Tue, 18 Oct 2022 09:57:57 +0000

I would if it were true however I don't think India has been particularly friendly to Sikhs or any other minority community.

New comment by yur3i__ in "Man plays his saxophone through 9-hour complex brain surgery to remove tumor"

yur3i__ — Sat, 15 Oct 2022 14:19:41 +0000

I don't imagine it was 9 straight hours but like a song an hour or every half an hour

New comment by yur3i__ in "Signal’s Founder on GPG (2015)"

yur3i__ — Thu, 13 Oct 2022 07:50:53 +0000

I have GPG for if theres anything that actually needs a level of assured security that I send to close friends and immediate family, but as a day to day thing end-to-end encrypted instant messaging is a good compromise between your own security and not convincing everyone around you that youre scared of the federal agents living in your walls.

New comment by yur3i__ in "If India's Ruling Party IT Head report a post, Meta will take it down"

yur3i__ — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 07:40:22 +0000

So many Sikh pages in India get banned on such a regular basis its incredible to see in real time. Considering Sikhs are a somewhat secondary target to Indian Muslims I cannot imagine the scale of operations against them.

New comment by yur3i__ in "Tell HN: Instagram app turns on camera while browsing"

yur3i__ — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 18:35:38 +0000

The web interface is the only way I interact with Instagram. Unless you rely on DMs for communication (you can DM but without notifications and stuff its a hard sell as a primary method of using Instagram) or post stories there's pretty much nothing missing.

New comment by yur3i__ in "Ask HN: Why are privacy coins like Monero not seeing wide adoption?"

yur3i__ — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 16:22:01 +0000

> Monero are not seeing wide adoption Because it us marketed with an actual use and not as a way to make money

New comment by yur3i__ in "Met Police UK Live Facial Recognition"

yur3i__ — Fri, 08 Jul 2022 11:43:28 +0000

> It's gotten so bad that if I were to write some offensive rap lyrics here I could be visited by the police to "check my thinking", or worse I could prosecuted.

If you ever listen to drill music from the UK you'll see how bad it is, all the censored parts are not for radio suitability as they don't censor swear words they're from police orders..

New comment by yur3i__ in "TikTok updated privacy policy to collect faceprints and voiceprints (2021)"

yur3i__ — Wed, 29 Jun 2022 14:48:19 +0000

Worth noting that this article is from June 2021, still terrible but not a brand new change.

New comment by yur3i__ in "NASA wants nuclear reactor on the Moon by 2030"

yur3i__ — Tue, 28 Jun 2022 07:52:22 +0000

I feel like NASA wants a lot of things. Maybe its a symptom of Musks over exaggerations re SpaceX but I don't believe this will happen