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Finnucane··on Inside a tech company's secretive plan to destroy millions of books
Rare and unique books usually end up at specialty dealers, not generic websites. But it is possible that some hard-to-get items could be lost, and there's no way to know without an inventory.
Finnucane··on Windows 11's Patch Tuesday nightmare gets worse
Every version of Windows released was an unusable piece of garbage, back to the beginning. MS put it out, it was crap, but somehow managed to convince users that they needed to have it, patched it until it was marginally usable, then, when users were used to it, forced them to move on to the next.
Finnucane··on What Are the Greatest Sequels of All Time? A Statistical Analysis (2025)
A list of supposedly great sequels that doesn't include Paddington 2 isn't worth shit.
Finnucane··on [dead]
well, [redacted] did say he would drain the swamp—directly into his own pockets.
Finnucane··on When employees feel slighted, they work less
If it’s a known company policy and people know it’s supposed to happen, they’re going to notice when it doesn’t. So it highlights that the managers priorities don’t include you.
Finnucane··on Everyone's a Gangster, Till You Get Bundled in G-Suite
"The Netflix case shows the might of capitalism driving [greater quantities of quickly-produced slop] to users at [higher] cost."
Finnucane··on Mammals have evolved into ant eaters 12 times since the dinosaur age – study (2025)
In evolutionary terms, that's a pretty recent development.
Finnucane··on Mammals have evolved into ant eaters 12 times since the dinosaur age – study (2025)
Hunter-gatherer societies got a lot of calories from seeds and nuts, which are about the same calorie content as insects, and we did come up with a farming system for them.
Finnucane··on Mammals have evolved into ant eaters 12 times since the dinosaur age – study (2025)
There's a pretty wide gap between 'eats insects' and 'eats only insects.' Other primates eat ants, and there are human cultures where ants and other insects are routinely eaten. Other food may also be involved. Hunting large animals doesn't preclude eating other things. HUmans will eat anything they can get into their pie-hole.
Finnucane··on Fix macOS 26 (Tahoe) exaggerated rounded corners
If AI does this, it's because it's ingested the last 25 years of bad internet headlines. Written allegedly by humans.
Finnucane··on Dead Internet Theory
Here is an image of the original manuscript page:

https://www.edickinson.org/editions/1/image_sets/12174893

Dickinson's dashes tended to vary over time, and were not typeset during her lifetime (mostly). Also, mid-19th century usage was different—the em-dash was a relatively new thing.

Finnucane··on ‘ELITE’: The Palantir app ICE uses to find neighborhoods to raid
Yeah, this is no different from IBM setting up punch card tabulating machines to help Nazi Germany track its victims.
Finnucane··on Jeff Bezos hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud
Sure, why not? A lot of them are already heavily invested in ms services. Where I work, laptops are on three year leases, they’d be easy to switch if the IT suits thought it would be cheap enough.
Finnucane··on Jeff Bezos hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud
The year of Linux on the Desktop will happen because it will be the only choice for the desktop.
Finnucane··on Why have death rates from accidental falls tripled?
The article did address differences in the rates of 'same level falls' vs. stairs, etc. So they accounted for that too.

We just finally got my 85-yr-old mother to move out of her house into a nice apartment near us with elevator access. She has already had some bad falls. Now we just have to worry about her driving. She shouldn't need to drive as much in her new place, but she probably will anyway.

Finnucane··on Former NYC Mayor Eric Adams rugs his own memecoin just 30 minutes after launch
I know it’s not right to blame the victim when someone gets scammed, but really.
Finnucane··on Ask HN: Iran has now been offline for 100 hours. What can we "technically" do?
It's not the biggest problem, but if your government is shooting masses of its own people in the streets and they are trying to keep the rest of the world from seeing it, it is a problem.
Finnucane··on Ask HN: Iran has now been offline for 100 hours. What can we "technically" do?
Sure, but that's not exactly the situation in Iran right now.
Finnucane··on Calculated Risk ends daily posting after 21 years
I haven't followed it that closely in recent years, but during the great housing bubble (and its collapse) CR & Tanta were voices of sanity and clarity in the crazy times.
Finnucane··on Keychron's Nape Pro turns your keyboard into a laptop‑style trackball rig
I've been using trackballs since the early 1980s (that was a custome-built thing attached to a DG Nova, but still). Can't go back to a regular mouse. But yeah, I don't see what this does that my current trackballs don't do, or at least that I would ever use. And it looks really awkward to use. I also don't really care that much about the half-second it takes to move my hand. I don't touch-type or type nonstop. So practically that means nothing to me.
Finnucane··on You are not required to close your <p>, <li>, <img>, or <br> tags in HTML
For ebook production, you need to use xhtml, the epub standard is defined that way. And it is indeed useful to be able to treat them as xml files and use xslt and xquery, etc. with them.
Finnucane··on I released an app a year ago and I'm struggling to get users
Doesn’t Spotify already have shareable playlists? it seems like the app would have more value if it could work cross platform. Most of the discussion about Spotify I see online is about how to get away from it, not so much how to use it more.
Finnucane··on Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards
Those guys announced which side they were on on inauguration day, and let [redacted] line up them like subservient vassals. They’re not afraid of Musk, they’re aligned with him.
Finnucane··on How did TVs get so cheap?
Our TV is c. 2010, and still works fine. And given the current offerings, I have no plans to replace it any time soon.
Finnucane··on How did TVs get so cheap?
I suppose it would take a seperate article to dig into the financial aspects—advertising and data collection as revenue for the manufacturers.
Finnucane··on Eat Real Food
"inflammation"! It's always "inflammation". What a crock.
Finnucane··on Eat Real Food
RFKjr, the guy who feeds roadkill to his brain worm, thinks more saturated fat = good, 'seed oil' = bad.
Finnucane··on Wikipedia Donation Destroyer
does it really need the link to grokipedia? i mean, grokipedia is just wikipedia with donut glaze.
Finnucane··on Yet another fake AI Varoufakis
More AI fake video, I think--look at the books on the shelf.

HIs actual Youtube channel is here:

https://www.youtube.com/@yanisvaroufakis

Finnucane··on Show HN: I made a tool to strip GPS and EXIF metadata from photos client-side
but if it runs entirely client side, why not just distrubute it as a standalone app?
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