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rancidcrabon Ask HN: How do you keep up with HN these days?

Harmonic has a keyword filter. I just put all the AI buzzwords in there, plus some political ones.

But those are ok. They (usually) don't have sound, auto playing videos, shock content or cover something I want to look at.

rancidcrabon Nepal moves to block Facebook, X, YouTube and others

Doesn't signal automatically proxy your traffic if it detects that the domain is blocked? I assume signal will just continue to work in Nepal despite their DNS block.

rancidcrabon Search all text in New York City

That's been changed (again). Iirc most swear words are now fine wherever they are in the vid.

rancidcrabon Dyson, techno-centric design and social consumption

Additionally the comparison of the hand dryers is pretty unfair imo. Those V-shape Dyson dryers are so much better than any others I've tried ever. All the other seem downright anemic (or rather asthmatic in this case) and take much longer than those advertised 20s.