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abcd_f··on Show HN: Real-time privacy protection for smart glasses
Your solution does absolutely nothing to address privacy concerns with "glassholes".
abcd_f··on GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation
> he was certainly not thinking U.S. values

Damn. I wasn't sure if you were trolling above and now it's clear that you were.

abcd_f··on Content-Aware Spaced Repetition
Pretty much all spaced rep systems except for Anki structure their data this way - an editable data atom with flashcards auto-derived from it, on template or otherwise.
abcd_f··on My Ideal Array Language
> User-Extensible Rank Polymorphism

> IMO this is what makes something an array language.

Great to hear. So what is it?

abcd_f··on The Dollar Is Dead
* corollary
abcd_f··on Twenty Eighth International Obfuscated C Code Contest
In 135 bytes !

This is right there in the mad scientist territory.

Incredible, pure bananas.

abcd_f··on “No tax on tips” is an industry plant
Sales' commissions and servers' tips is an apples-to-oranges comparison.
abcd_f··on Donate to the Treasury to help pay down the $36.7T public debt
The most coherent thing to do would be to give out a spray-painted "gold" memorial Trump medal, made in China. And then charge for shipping.
abcd_f··on Show HN: Tinder but it's only pictures of my wife and I can only swipe right
Don't forget to add /s after every joke though. This is mandatory.
abcd_f··on Blip: Peer-to-peer massive file sharing
Sure. Still doesn't make "cheap price" a valid combo.
abcd_f··on Blip: Peer-to-peer massive file sharing
"High speeds"
abcd_f··on Blip: Peer-to-peer massive file sharing
Cheap means "low in price", so "cheap price" makes no sense.

Fast means "of a high speed", so it's the same here.

abcd_f··on Blip: Peer-to-peer massive file sharing
Cheap means "low in price". Price can't be "low in price", it can be just "low".
abcd_f··on Blip: Peer-to-peer massive file sharing
It appears that the data is relayed as a fallback, if there's no p2p connection possible. This is a classic transfer model for mediated transfers.
abcd_f··on Blip: Peer-to-peer massive file sharing
This is a minor OCD nitpick, but

> at super fast speeds

Fast speeds aren't a thing, just like cheap prices and wet waters aren't.

abcd_f··on Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to delist certain adult games
> credit is not really "your money"

Unless it's a prepaid credit card or a debit card, both of which are serviced by MC and Visa and fairly common in Europe.

abcd_f··on Overtourism in Japan, and how it hurts small businesses
After "beating" it with a translator, take a hint and don't enter still.
abcd_f··on A compact bitset implementation used in Ocarina of Time save files
How's this notable? It’s literally the most straight-forward, trivial bitset implementation.
abcd_f··on The chemical secrets that help keep honey fresh for so long
It's just fat.
abcd_f··on The chemical secrets that help keep honey fresh for so long
Pasteurization doesn't in any way prevent honey from remaining fermentable.
abcd_f··on What 'Project Hail Mary' teaches us about the PlanetScale vs. Neon debate
It ain't Neuromancer or Hyperion, but it’s a very interesting setup, it’s nicely written and easy to read.
abcd_f··on Is anybody using this private key?
The repo needs to be clean, but pre-built release binaries backdoored. It's classier this way.
abcd_f··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)
OpenAI on the back?
abcd_f··on More on Apple's Trust-Eroding 'F1 the Movie' Wallet Ad
Bah, my bad.

This happened in 2014 and Jobs passed in 2011.

abcd_f··on More on Apple's Trust-Eroding 'F1 the Movie' Wallet Ad
U2 stunt was Jobs' idea. He was a life-long fan of them.

Edit - it wasn't, my bad, see below.

abcd_f··on UK to buy F-35As that can't be refueled from RAF tankers
That's a low-effort jab.
abcd_f··on Biomolecular shifts occur in our 40s and 60s (2024)
Having kids greatly affects the quality and the amount of sleep, and the rest flows from that.

But! There's no shame in napping mid-day, even more than once. Even in the office :)

abcd_f··on Show HN: I'm a doctor and built a responsive breathing app for anxiety and sleep
> Why is there a premium version?

Oh, common, don't twist the question, that's disingenuous. Not "a premium version". Why is it a subscription.

Why do think making people make recurrent payments for an otherwise static non-service app is reasonable?

$60 for a "lifetime" version is super steep, considering it's in the walled garden of the App Store, can't be backed up, can't be re-installed if it somehow disappears from the store, etc. For a desktop software it could potentially fly, but not for an iOS app.

abcd_f··on Show HN: I'm a doctor and built a responsive breathing app for anxiety and sleep
Why is it a subscription?

* Why am I in gray? It's a reasonable thing to ask about an app with no server-side expenses.

abcd_f··on U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites
> And it’s similar in Iran.

Nice.

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