Hacker News Reader

monkey_monkeyon EmDash – a spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security

What does "While EmDash aims to be compatible with WordPress functionality" mean?

Compatible how?

monkey_monkeyon Ask HN: Founders of estonian e-businesses – is it worth it?

Oh boy, are you in for a shock..

monkey_monkeyon Kagi Small Web

"the effort involved"

Feels like your comment saying it was too much effort to cancel Kagi took more effort than cancelling Kagi.

monkey_monkeyon The 49MB web page

So just to check, instead of doing something you were told to, that you know is a stupid idea (after telling all concerned it's a dumb idea and being told to go ahead anyway, eg adding a crapton of video to a page), you would just resign, to protect your personal integrity?

monkey_monkeyon The 49MB web page

It's not a sign of their incompetence, it's a sign of the realities of many corporate environments.

But hey, if you want to rail against incompetent developers who exist in a make-believe world where they hold all the power are simply too lazy and incompetent to 'do the right thing' then go ahead!

monkey_monkeyon Accessibility Issues Are Often Usability Issues

What are the delineation methods in Mandarin and Cantonese and Hindi?

monkey_monkeyon Accessibility Issues Are Often Usability Issues

What?

Chinese, Hindi, Japanese, Arabic language systems don't use capital letters. They manage to parse the boundaries of sentences and thoughts just fine.

monkey_monkeyon 100M-Row Challenge with PHP

That's often a skill issue.

monkey_monkeyon Oracle to raise $50B as AI debt piles up

The thing is, you actually don't know that, you've just decided it's true.

monkey_monkeyon Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native

> I don’t know if this counts as activism,

I do. It doesn't.

monkey_monkeyon Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native

Couching nonsense in faux-politeness just makes you look even more googly-eyed.

monkey_monkeyon Norway EV Push Nears 100 Percent: What's Next?

Luckily in these situations it's likely that huge tax costs will be pushed onto private cars. Sign me up to that

monkey_monkeyon 2025 was the third hottest year on record

Honestly, you really should seek professional help, you're so far adrift from reality? What happened? How did you end up like this?

monkey_monkeyon Justice Dept. launches criminal investigation of Minnesota governor

I genuinely feel sorry for you that you're so utterly cut loose from reality.

monkey_monkeyon The chess bot on Delta Air Lines will destroy you (2024) [video]

They're absolutely not assholes. People who expect the world to revolve around them and cater for their every whim are probably more deserving of that title.

monkey_monkeyon Jeffgeerling.com has been migrated to Hugo

Why not go back to the version that your last post was published at, and stick with it?

monkey_monkeyon European Space Agency hit again as cybercriminals claim 200 GB data up for sale

OK, so nothing to do with the massive data breach. But hey, you just really want to make a point about how upset you are that Europeans having decent work/life balance, so there's not point continuing to expose your little agenda.

monkey_monkeyon European Space Agency hit again as cybercriminals claim 200 GB data up for sale

What does their comms team have to do with the massive data breach?

monkey_monkeyon Passing the Torch – My Last Root DNSSEC KSK Ceremony as Crypto Officer 4

The USA has shown, over the last 12 months, what a security-conscious country it is. The Defense Secretary's almost fanantical regard for messaging security should be held up as an object lesson for all future generations.

monkey_monkeyon 60k kids have avoided peanut allergies due to 2015 advice, study finds

All you're fucking doing is saying "Don't save a million people of 1 person is going to be harmed" OR the utterly trite point of "wouldn't it be great if everything was magical and no one was harmed by anything ever".

monkey_monkeyon 60k kids have avoided peanut allergies due to 2015 advice, study finds

People are misunderstanding your point because you are doing a terrible job of explaining it.

monkey_monkeyon 60k kids have avoided peanut allergies due to 2015 advice, study finds

Unfortunately everyone will ignore this comment and continue to respond as if peanuts were advised against because of allergy risk.

monkey_monkeyon You did no fact checking, and I must scream

> And that's what it's become.

Hilariously incorrect.

monkey_monkeyon Chess.com regional pricing: A case study

How, specifically, are chess.com limiting anyone using lichess?

monkey_monkeyon How can I influence others without manipulating them?

What does this even mean?

Do you think the earth is flat? Who the fuck cares about Telegram groups in this context?

monkey_monkeyon After getting Jimmy Kimmel suspended, FCC chair threatens ABC's The View

> If it did, my post above wouldn't be at -4, while the inflammatory answer above is still in the black.

Ah ok, so only your right to free speech is important and no one is allowed to react negatively to it and have their own free speech. Thanks for making that clear.

monkey_monkeyon Is 4chan the perfect Pirate Bay poster child to justify wider UK site-blocking?

They're not saying the Nazis are truly evil at all, they're just saying that the British people shouldn't have fought the Nazis or were hoodwinked by the govt.

The British were evil, the Chinese were evil, the Japanese were evil, the Belgians were evil, the Spanish were evil, the Incas were evil, the Mongols were evil, the French were evil, the Iroquois were evil, the ancient Egyptians were evil, etc etc etc.

monkey_monkeyon Is 4chan the perfect Pirate Bay poster child to justify wider UK site-blocking?

The revisionsism and one-eyed delusional rewriting of history is, almost, amusing.

monkey_monkeyon Is 4chan the perfect Pirate Bay poster child to justify wider UK site-blocking?

What insult? I quoted your hilarious profile bio, and then said you're parroting brainwashed tropes. I haven't insulted you...but you clearly feel offended, but as people like you tend to say "your feelings aren't my problem"