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Baljhinon RSS Feeds for Last.fm

> "...Tell me your username and i'll give you (six) URLs..."

> (period can be: 7day, 1month, 3month, 6month, 12month or overall)

> Recent tracks

> Loved tracks

> Top tracks

> Top Artists

> Recommended tracks

> Recommended tracks in JSON format

https://github.com/xiffy/lfm

Baljhinon 28% of job postings on company career sites have been open over 90 days

It was definitely undisclosed self-promotion - and apparently also clickbait and ragebait: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49820340. It worked!

Extra benefit-- is now we cannot remove our upvotes - thanks HN! - so it'll stay high in the ranking, at least for awhile.

Baljhinon 28% of job postings on company career sites have been open over 90 days

My standard procedure when looking at job listings is to search references of the company on HN, to see if there's any chitchat about its services/products.

Just 2 months ago I found a LI listing for a company that even has a "Show HN" - "...one of the fastest-growing security and compliance platforms in history." Not much chatter about it, but enough I felt assured to apply to the listing.

It's only after I clicked Submit that I discovered a factoid on the LI listing: it had been open for NINE months. The company's ATS does not show time-of-posting.

Worse-- just right now, I went to both the company's ATS listing and Linkedin: the posting is still open, 11 months now and counting.

Oh, and no surprise-- no response to my application, two months later.

Baljhinon Farside.link has been shut down

> "Farside was created before the explosion of AI-driven scraping and bot traffic. As a result, querying instance status is no longer reliable due to bot-detection and challenge systems (which I understand and am in favor of, btw). Since the project is no longer practical to operate and maintain, it is being archived."

Baljhinon How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire

Want to block these and other AI trash sites? Both from websearches - via uBlacklist[1], and references within other sites - via content-blockers like uBlock Origin[2]?

Use this filterlist! -- https://github.com/alvi-se/ai-ublock-blacklist

(And others e.g. https://github.com/alvi-se/ai-ublock-blacklist#similar-proje...)

[1] https://ublacklist.github.io/docs/introduction

[2] https://wikipedia.org/wiki/UBlock_Origin

Baljhinon My practical approach to surfing the web safely

Cookie-AutoDelete is effectively dead, for both Firefox and Chrome, as seen from the many Issues on its repo, e.g. https://github.com/Cookie-AutoDelete/Cookie-AutoDelete/issue... -- and hasn't been updated since 2022.

There's a supposed spinoff @ https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/auto-clear-site-dat..., but apparently it's not ready for widescale use (and it's not open-source).

Baljhinon My practical approach to surfing the web safely

Try either https://github.com/kintesh/containerise (unmaintained), or a maintained fork of it, https://github.com/max-dw-i/container-redirect -- both have a settings-setup that mimics exactly a temporary container for every site (i.e. those that are not explicitly defined in custom rules).

Baljhinon Is 'The College Board' a Nonprofit or a $1.6B Testing Monopoly?

> Published May 26, 2025 ; Updated May 29, 2025

Baljhinon Polymarket has flooded social media with deceptive videos by paid creators

Seems the gift has already run its course - for me, still getting paywalled. Are such links rate-limited?

Baljhinon Global AI confessions: CEO edition 2026 – Dataiku

> Discover the five AI confessions shaping CEO leadership as AI shifts from innovation to accountability at the highest levels of the enterprise, based on a Dataiku/Harris Poll survey of 900 CEOs worldwide.

> 80% of CEOs say their role is at risk if they fail to deliver results by the end of 2026.

Baljhinon The Data Center Bankshot – David Karpf

> "People really hate the AI future right now. And people have no place to put that hatred. They see it coming. They see Sam Altman and Elon Musk and Dario Amodei being smug assholes, promising that no one will have a job and only a few dozen people will have any money and teehee maybe it will end the world but probably not and anyway you better let them do whatever they want because otherwise China will do it first and where is your patriotism anyway?"

Baljhinon Is AI putting graduates out of work already?

https://archive.ph/tnnmS

Baljhinon Tab Mix Plus Now Requires Monthly Payment for New Versions (Firefox-TabMixPlus)

Discussion on GitHub: https://github.com/onemen/TabMixPlus/discussions/445

Baljhinon China moves to regulate digital humans - Reuters

Seems to be the full (albeit short) article.

> The draft regulations would also ban the use of other people's personal information to create digital humans without consent, or using virtual humans to bypass identity verification systems.

Fair enough. Many can agree with that.

> Digital humans are also prohibited from disseminating content that endangers national security, inciting subversion of state power, promoting secession or undermining national unity.

Now you're asking too much!

Baljhinon Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce

> Personally, I think AI is just a convenient scapegoat for these mass layoffs.

Coincidentally, same day as your post, Forbes published an article stating the same: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48128765

Baljhinon The US is winning the AI race where it matters most: commercialization

There's a userscript that'll hide users, 'sources' (domains), and titles. The GH repo was deleted, so use the GF link instead:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43282379

Baljhinon CEOs Say Layoffs Are AIs Fault–But Some Experts Think Companies Are Lying|Forbes

Published: May 07, 2026 - seems to be full article.

Baljhinon YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken

Agreed! For Firefox, those features can be put back there with 'Awesome RSS' and 'RSSPreview':

https://github.com/shgysk8zer0/awesome-rss

https://github.com/aureliendavid/rsspreview

Baljhinon Ask HN: Where to Look for Civil Discussions?

Why are you even still on Twitter?? Especially if it's affecting your psychological health.

HN is 'good' {not 'very good'} for civil discourse.

I would suggest forums - yes, the good ole forum groups - and specific redds, that focus on broader but specific topics that you enjoy - and staying away from those that you don't.

I also suggest building a personalized network of RSS feeds to content that you like, and interacting the writers and other commenters.

> Is there a sane place on the web left?

Yes. But they're 'boring' compared to rage/race-baiting, pseudo-politicized gated media with masked--and often open--agendas to keep you continuously riled-up to keep feeding The Age of Stupidity.

Baljhinon The U.S. and China Have a Common Foe. Hint: It's Not the U.S.S.R

https://archive.ph/y2dGC

Opinion piece by Thomas Friedman, author of "The World is Flat"

Baljhinon The feed doesn't know you, and YouTube refuses to let you browse

Pity this setting is only for the mobile app.

Baljhinon You have to have an account to read IMDB reviews now

> moviechat is OK for old movies with old discussions

MC still has active discussions on new releases e.g. https://moviechat.org/tt1341338/Good-Luck-Have-Fun-Dont-Die.

They even have a forum for computer games: https://moviechat.org/bd0000053/Video-Games

It's a pity that MC and TMDB boards didn't become the equivalent of 'HN for visual media' and Reddit for the wider 'audience'. Today, Reddit is possibly the most popular site to read non-mainstream reviews.

Baljhinon You have to have an account to read IMDB reviews now

IMdb deleted all their message boards in 2017 [1], which also included ALOT of user reviews, more than the Reviews section on the site.

Fortunately MovieChat.org took up archiving as much as it could of the old content, and up to today providing the same 'style' of community engagement as the old boards. I wonder if they'll do the same for User Reviews.

There's even a userscript [2] that seamlessly puts an embed of the equivalent MovieChat board (if available) for each IMdb entry, right in the site section where the old IMdb boards used to be.

I assume you can make an account on MC and still participate in all those (their) boards.

I'll admit though-- probably like many, I came to the old IMdb boards just before the deletion, and to be honest they were kinda shitty. Sorry. Alot of trollposting and lack of seriousness when someone tried to have a serious discussion about some work. But it was overall and mostly Fun!

The MovieChat boards still have much of that old content - take a look and enjoy.

[1] https://wikipedia.org/wiki/IMDb#Message_boards

[2] https://greasyfork.org/scripts/27617-new-imdb-message-boards...

Baljhinon Palantir employees are starting to wonder if they're the bad guys

Consider that she's one of 'the good guys'-- someone who self-reflected on her ambition, saw the 'evil' in hers and other's, called it out publicly, and assumedly regrets hers, and is trying to do better.

Sadly, terrifyingly, for every one of her, there are hundreds who might also self-reflect - but >choose< to be comix-book villains.

Baljhinon Medical Student Created Top Influencer 'Emily Hart' Using AI, Making $ Thousands

Thank you, sincerely:-- I did do a cursory search to see if previous submissions had been made; I was genuinely shocked to get no results. My search-fu failed me.

Baljhinon Medical Student Created Top Influencer 'Emily Hart' Using AI, Making $ Thousands

WIRED article is quoted in the IBT article but not linked: https://www.wired.com/story/ai-generated-maga-girls/

Baljhinon Medical Student Created Top Influencer 'Emily Hart' Using AI, Making $ Thousands

{Title revised to fit length restriction; see article for original

and to reduce ragebait and low-effort comments (it won't work, but I tried)}

Baljhinon Kagi Product Tips – Customize Your Search Results with URL Redirects

--and Bing, Brave, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, SearXNG, Startpage, Yahoo! JAPAN, Yandex - and Kagi.

Baljhinon A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”

Agreed. I remember addons from the XUL Firefox era that did this.

I miss that feature. And that era.

Baljhinon A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”

What I do is put the link to the job listing in that field. haha, suck to be in HR if you think you're getting my profile info!

I've never seen any ATS that required Linkedin for login, but even having it as an option I've always thought of as weird.

Then again, I have see many an ATS that include Facebook and other slop sites, so welcome to another layer of jobhunting madness.