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Re:Cannabis and driving? Studies reveal big risks on Thursday May 14, 2026 @08:41PM (#48143108)
TL;DR Nonsense "study"

A study for real world risks based on a videogame, of all things? Its impossible to directly map the experience of being behind the wheel in real life to a game, and the article doesn't even mention whether it's an actual simulation (like beam.NG), game-like (as in Assetto Corsa), or plain arcade fantasy (GTA, Need for Speed) OBVIOUSLY people are gonna play games in a more fun/different way under the influence They even admit that inhaled usage showed little to no consistency in driving difference Bias disclaimer: I stopped consumption some time back

As if voting changes anything beyond the color ("red"/"blue") of the paid-off figurehead in power Voting hasn't been anywhere remotely close to real since the 20th century
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026) on Monday May 11, 2026 @03:38AM (#48092106)
No offense, but why doesn't anyone suspect these types of posts to be some corporate data farming?
Re:Why Does a Single Firefox Tab Take Almost 1.5GB RAM? on Tuesday May 05, 2026 @02:43AM (#48018907)
Although I'd like to read and respond to the reply made by Emre_Ozkan, it is unfortunately [flagged] and [dead]

Quite disappointing whenever I see this type of...of censorship, would this be considered??? I am sure there are many interesting perspectives and this is not the first occurrence of burying comments and/or responses that I have observed as a longtime lurker

Re:Why Does a Single Firefox Tab Take Almost 1.5GB RAM? on Tuesday May 05, 2026 @02:37AM (#48018855)
For a single tab? I wonder how much the telemetry takes up...
Re:Why Does a Single Firefox Tab Take Almost 1.5GB RAM? on Tuesday May 05, 2026 @02:36AM (#48018848)
Truly intriguing! A core2duo+4GB RAM in 2026?!?!!!

Can you elaborate on your experience? I can't imagine 20tabs being smooth on 8GB with the modern "web" being whst it is today, let alone 4GB! Unless there is only text files and plain HTML in those 20 tabs???

Why Does a Single Firefox Tab Take Almost 1.5GB RAM?

There are no extensions besides uBlock Origin and Saka Key running Only a single message with some short text and code is open This is on a "cold start" after installing updates 16GB is definitely nowhere near enough anymore, it's almost like how 2GB was in 2016

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Re:One town's scheme to get rid of its geese on Sunday April 26, 2026 @01:24AM (#47907611)
Canadian geese, invasive pests? American white buff geese, who get ran out by aforementioned?
Re:Wife Acceptance Factor on Monday April 20, 2026 @01:11PM (#47837361)
Maybe it was meant as humor rather thsn a jab or insult?
It really is true... Die a hero or live long enough to become a villain

Somebody please kill this cancer

We need open-source+extensible and maybe a federated BLOCKS-focused building/game platform alternative (ie LEGO rip) with the best legal team possible so it can blow up without worry

Free our boi he's no arsonist
Re:Systemd has not implemented age verification on Thursday March 26, 2026 @07:02PM (#47536972)
> This is a lie: the facts are simply that the systemd users database has gained an optional "date of birth" field, which the desktop environments may use or not as they deem appropriate. Of course there is no "identity verification" or requirements to provide any data, which in any case would not be shared beyond authorized local applications.

I understand this might lack nuance, but this looks like the setting up of a groundwork for an age verification system

I get and agree the point ( that its the families that should be managing access), but how much further are we willing to allow these circus festival clowns called "politicians" to restrict freedom of access to the internet under the guise of "oh noesss we must protecc teh chillren!!"?

All these acts like Stop child abuse exploitation or COPPA or whatever nonsense, Im sure all of us in the hacker news crowd understand and can agree that its just pretend/fictional names to gather public consensus/approv to furtjet lock down the internet

Re:Systemd has not implemented age verification on Thursday March 26, 2026 @06:51PM (#47536862)
Poetteringware!!!1 Lol
There's still people out there that believe the west is a "democracy"? People really think voting, elections, politics in general is even real and not a reality show/circus act put on for the masses?
Even after you pointed out specific mistakes, I fail to understand how the writing is indicative of AI over-reliance?
Re:Italy Railways Sabotaged on Saturday February 07, 2026 @05:33PM (#46928900)
At least on this Materialistic app available on F-Droid, all those comments are flagged and unable to be seen

Its absolutely senseless to take on a position on something when not knowing what's coming from both sides

I'd presume this place to be frequented by those who would also find it similarly foolhardy to be taking a stance on an issue when not all parties are privy to the same objectivity/impartiality (in terms of information and the different sides of the story)

Better make your own powerplant Unsurprising if they steal from the same source as taxpayers' electricity, get subsidized for it because "jobs" (that no one gets), finally resulting in raised bills for the rest
Is it really the "few people" ruining it for the "rest of us"? Or is it moreso that the "rest" of the people are ruining it for the "few of us"?
The only people who wouldn't agree with what brudgers is saying are obviously people who didn't have bad parents (bad, as in, resorting to any type of abuse because they are incapable of even sorting out their own thoughts and emotions)
A bit of a harsh sentiment, no?

Tbf after reading the article, it doesn't mention why thorium was abandoned in the 50s/60s Article doesn't mention how China's new thorium reactors are different and/or how they extended existing designs

Yeah, true, article doesn't really tell us anything new

Taxation without representation could not be juvenile thinking, it's a founding concept of my country which seems to be lost today
Russia and/or China prosecute their citizens for boycotting a foreign parasite state?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Antibds_laws.png

I can't explain it, no unfortunately

But what about someone maintaining and developing, say, an obscure e-mail client?

Re:Old Timey Code and Old Timey Mono Fonts on Wednesday May 07, 2025 @05:24AM (#43913664)
Spotted my kin!

What is it that makes slashed zeroes so nuch more appealing than the other kinds of "zeroes"? Slashed zeroes are definitely much better than those nasty dotted inverse donut zeroes

How does a dot in a zero even make any kinda logical sense? It's like a piece of dough floating in midair in the center of a donut

Dotted zeroes [insert copypasta] bad

I don't even know why I'm so obsessed with the slash in zeroes

but we do live in such a world tho?
Re:mIRC: Internet Relay Chat Client on Friday April 18, 2025 @12:40PM (#43729687)
HexChat dies, mIRC lives?!
WHAT?! Given a lack of air resistance (i.e. ideal conditions in a vacuum), they should fall at the same rate
Re:Apple needs a Snow Sequoia on Friday March 28, 2025 @01:18AM (#43501805)
The actual argument would be people voting with their wallets and moving away from the Apple ecosystem, but this something impossible at least in the USA due to these bullshit "blue bubbles"
Re:Show HN: A personal YouTube frontend based on yt-dlp on Sunday March 16, 2025 @10:24AM (#43379291)
Can you iterate on that? I would like to understand what you are saying. By jail time, do you mean advertisers on YouTube have done such a malicious thing? YT did not block these efforts?
Re:Deanonymization of owners of anonymous Telegram channels on Saturday November 16, 2024 @01:06PM (#42157872)
After that bullshit police state arrest in France, I doubt Durov cares enough to fix holes like this

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