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sentrysapperon uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook

You anticipate a large language model to understand visual queues for an advertisement?

sentrysapperon U.S. debt-to-GDP ratio reaches 123%

Slaps the hood of a cybertruck

This bad boy can hold a LOT of debt.

sentrysapperon The noise we make is hurting animals. Can we learn to shut up?

I experienced this in Japan and Korea as well. There are of course, neighborhoods where noise is tolerated but while I was there I noticed most commuters whisper conversations on their phone. The thought of blasting a call or music on speakerphone is unconscionable.

sentrysapperon US and TotalEnergies reach 'nearly $1B' deal to end offshore wind projects

... was optimistic.

sentrysapperon Speed at the cost of quality: Study of use of Cursor AI in open source projects (2025)

Evergreen excuses for tech people desperately want to work. I get why, it would give you agency to do other things you WANT to do. I tried reviewing a colleagues agent-generated code and it was practically unreviewable. I watched him blame himself, saying he just needed to adjust a parameter. He tried everything except admit the machine does not conceptionaly understand what he was asking.

sentrysapperon Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story

It's not BS though? That's what companies like Chainalysis professionally. This was covered in graphic detail as to how they caught a pedo ring in Andy Greenberg's book Tracers In The Dark.

sentrysapperon Show HN: Hacker Smacker – Spot great (and terrible) HN commenters at a glance

Same here. Thought it was my firewall at first. Thanks for confirming.

sentrysapperon Data breach: DOGE 'accidentally' leaked the whole Social Security database [pdf]

Department of Government Exfiltration.

sentrysapperon Show HN: Craftplan – I built my wife a production management tool for her bakery

You can tell this was written with love. Regardless of what tools were used to make this, I think we could all do more of this for the people important in our lives.

sentrysapperon FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE

they way they are going about it very much is. update your understanding.

sentrysapperon Much of the World Facing 'Water Bankruptcy,' U.N. Report Warns

Trying not to think about _We Stand On Guard_.

sentrysapperon Epic fined €1.1M over manipulating children through in app purchases

it is unreasonably easy to make non-refundable purchases in these games. They deserve this and every lawsuit that follows.

sentrysapperon Tell HN: HN was down

What a rude thing to post. Hund, don't listen to this entitled nonsense. There is a reason it's called human error. Companies 100x your size and 10000x your revenue like AWS, Microsoft, CloudFlare, CrowdStrike can't figure out how to accurately provide status dashboards. At least you took the time to explain your mistakes. If anything you got another supporter for your honesty.

sentrysapperon Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions

Postman pulled this same stunt in 2022, limiting how many times you can run your own API class from your machine. To this day I've never reconciled with them or their product management decisions.

sentrysapperon Thousands of U.S. farmers have Parkinson's. They blame a deadly pesticide

My grandfather was a crop duster pilot in the 60s-70s. He died of Parkinson's almost 4 years ago today. He is the only one in my family to succumb to this disease. For a brief moment I was relieved to know there was some explanation for his suffering.

Then I read the HN comments. It is beyond infuriating to read a well researched paper with 1300 open cases legal with overwhelming evidence only to be met with "zero chance this is real."

sentrysapperon Thousands of U.S. farmers have Parkinson's. They blame a deadly pesticide

Why does that sound untrustworthy? Do you have any idea of what the tobacco industry hid about second hand smoke exposure? How is it somehow more plausible this nurse made up her condition than pesticide manufactures being honest about the impacts?

sentrysapperon Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz

I've been calling them the N2 trials. The evidence this administration willingly shares makes one shudder to think what they are not sharing.

sentrysapperon The Joy of Playing Grandia, on Sega Saturn

looks like the host is getting too many requests, anyone know of a mirror?

sentrysapperon 1GB Raspberry Pi 5, and memory-driven price rises

Starting to? Brother where hast thou been?

sentrysapperon Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues

What would that look like? A network with built-in rate & connection limiting?

The closest thing I can think of is the Gemini protocol browser. It uses TOFU for authentication, which requires a human to initially validate every interaction.

sentrysapperon Steam Machine

oh boy here comes the GabeCube

sentrysapperon Hiring a developer as a small indie studio in 2025

> You must ask candidates to solve problems directly related to the role. If you’re hiring a game programmer, knowing how to detect fraud in bank transactions is irrelevant knowledge if that task never appears on the job.

I wish more companies understood this. In all my years of interviews I never got a coding interview or take home programming assignment that even remotely resembled the work they needed.

sentrysapperon Meta projected 10% of 2024 revenue came from scams

There is. It's known as the Internet Crimes Complaint Center (IC3).

sentrysapperon Fly through your Windows 11 setup

I cherish the thought of a better Win10/11 upgrade process. Can anyone else vouch for this tool?

sentrysapperon Rectal oxygen delivery might soon be a real medical treatment

>Yes, they gave the animals enemas.

I am relieved for them.

sentrysapperon Solveit – A course and platform for solving problems with code

dang. thought this was a service for people tired of reading about AI.

sentrysapperon Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)

Working on a "Data Governance in a Box" solution for small businesses that are using out of data routers and security practices. Starting here in Canada, but open to collaboration.

sentrysapperon Calling your boss a dickhead is not a sackable offence, UK tribunal rules

'Sackable' was a great word choice. Well done Guardian.

sentrysapperon We'd be better off with 9-bit bytes

I will think about this post every time I hear the expression "it won't change things one bit".