Hacker News: AzzyHN

New comment by AzzyHN in "Google Fulfilled ICE Subpoena Demanding Student Journalist Credit Card Number"

AzzyHN — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 19:32:22 +0000

As a rule: don't bother with trying to "opt out" of data collection. Reject the collection entirely either by forcefully blocking it (ublock Origin for instance) or straight up not using the service.

New comment by AzzyHN in "Apple's "notarisation" – blocking software freedom of developers and users"

AzzyHN — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 16:49:56 +0000

If I try and run an unsigned program, the UAC window will be yellow, but I can run it with zero issue.

I cannot do the same thing on MacOS with the same ease, and that's the issue.

New comment by AzzyHN in "Michael Burry a.k.a. "Big Short",discloses $1.1B bet against Nvidia&Palantir"

AzzyHN — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 19:16:19 +0000

A bet against Nvidia is smart. A bet against Palantir is not. Palantir has become deeply integrated into the surveillance states of America, and won't be going anywhere anytime soon.

New comment by AzzyHN in "Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its tech in mass surveillance of Palestinians"

AzzyHN — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 01:57:48 +0000

Where does "most moral" come from?

New comment by AzzyHN in "PureVPN IPv6 Leak"

AzzyHN — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 16:54:12 +0000

Trustworthy enough to shitpost behind? Sure.

Trustworthy to break some actual laws behind? Absolutely not.

New comment by AzzyHN in "Show HN: Sosumi.ai – Convert Apple Developer docs to AI-readable Markdown"

AzzyHN — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 03:21:22 +0000

This is really cool, but also totally something you'd think existing AI agents should have zero issues with. _Especially_ if they're supposed to be for coding, I'd expect loads of documentation to be baked-in, so to speak

New comment by AzzyHN in "AMD CEO sees chips from TSMC's US plant costing 5%-20% more"

AzzyHN — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 03:04:23 +0000

On the consumer side...

Smart people know to choose AMD. OEMs heavily favor Intel for the brand recognition. It's the same on the workstation side, though AMD's market share has been rising quite fast (it's apparently at a 36.5% share) so I'm unsure if system integrators will keep pushing their Intel SKUs so heavily.

So they're not cooked, but they're certainly not doing well and barring a massive jump in performance or efficiency, they're not going to be making a recovery any time soon.

New comment by AzzyHN in "How Anthropic teams use Claude Code"

AzzyHN — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 02:58:12 +0000

Not to mention, if an employee could usually write pretty good code but maybe 30% of the time they wrote something so non-functional it had to be entirely scrapped, they'd be fired.

New comment by AzzyHN in "Anthropic, Google, OpenAI and XAI Granted Up to $200M from Defense Department"

AzzyHN — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 03:34:47 +0000

Lobbying, probably

New comment by AzzyHN in "Anthropic, Google, OpenAI and XAI Granted Up to $200M from Defense Department"

AzzyHN — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 03:33:06 +0000

Considering the DoD's budget, $200M is chump change

New comment by AzzyHN in "Xfinity using WiFi signals in your house to detect motion"

AzzyHN — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 02:54:53 +0000

What's the commercial use of having this data though? Or even law enforcement use? We all have our phones on us most of the time anyways, knowing where in my house I'm at doesn't really... change anything...

New comment by AzzyHN in "Xfinity using WiFi signals in your house to detect motion"

AzzyHN — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 02:53:46 +0000

People really like the Arris S33 and the motorola... god I think it's the SB8200? something like that.

New comment by AzzyHN in "Xfinity using WiFi signals in your house to detect motion"

AzzyHN — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 02:52:54 +0000

If you want to remove the 1.2TB data cap, you can either pay $25/mo and get Xfinity's gateway router "included" OR pay $30/mo to use your own modem/router.

New comment by AzzyHN in "Touching the back wall of the Apple store"

AzzyHN — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 04:05:42 +0000

I mean, yeah, an Apple store in the heart of downtown full of tourists is bound to be pretty busy

New comment by AzzyHN in "AMD's Freshly-Baked MI350: An Interview with the Chief Architect"

AzzyHN — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 04:02:50 +0000

On the consumer side, almost certainly not. Nvidia is a HUGE brand name, it doesn't matter how good and cheap AMD makes their consumer GPUs, people will buy Nvidia GPUs for the brand and prebuilts will stick with Nvidia for the name.

For AI chips... also probably not, unless AMD can compete with CUDA (or CUDA becomes irrelevant)

New comment by AzzyHN in "Samsung embeds IronSource spyware app on phones across WANA"

AzzyHN — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 04:00:11 +0000

Yes, but for most people (I'd guess 99% or more), they would never know to use the above, and I'm those who did find a guide might have issues using adb on their likely Windows or MacOS machine.

New comment by AzzyHN in "Microsoft is blocking Google Chrome through its family safety feature"

AzzyHN — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 01:37:40 +0000

Who needs unit tests? Push it to prod!

New comment by AzzyHN in "Estrogen: A Trip Report"

AzzyHN — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 21:20:55 +0000

I'm pretty sure you're being transphobic, but for the life of me I can't understand what this statement is supposed to mean.

New comment by AzzyHN in "Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3M peers"

AzzyHN — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 23:57:04 +0000

Think about how many other programs are written in not-rust. You're worrying over nothing (or, alternatively, you should be worried about just about everything)

New comment by AzzyHN in "Anker is recalling over 1.1M power banks due to fire and burn risks"

AzzyHN — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 16:40:44 +0000

It's unlikely, but not impossible. What's more likely is that they'll start to expand