Hacker News: Cider9986

New comment by Cider9986 in "Ask HN: What Is the "Lore" of HN?"

Cider9986 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 02:45:18 +0000

Thank you—I've seen that one. It's interesting. I was wondering more about the history, though, like events that changed the website, past administrators, controversies, or anything of that nature.

New comment by Cider9986 in "Three men are facing charges in Toronto SMS Blaster arrests"

Cider9986 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 02:36:42 +0000

Ban civil asset forfeiture!

New comment by Cider9986 in "The Prompt API"

Cider9986 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 22:15:58 +0000

> - Eliminate ALL clickbait titles and ads. I only want to see a dry factual title.

DeArrow works for YouTube atleast. uBlock Origin or Brave browser works for ads. Not sure why you'd need an AI to remove ads...

New comment by Cider9986 in "I Went to Jail"

Cider9986 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 22:05:30 +0000

>whoever gave that live-streaming advice wasn't their lawyer.

It is not "advice", it is what they do.

FYI, you account seems to be shadow banned. I would recommend tightening up your comments and appealing to Dang or making a new account.

Ask HN: What Is the "Lore" of HN?

Cider9986 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 22:02:28 +0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47927986

Points: 2

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New comment by Cider9986 in "You have to have an account to read IMDB reviews now"

Cider9986 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 20:14:43 +0000

I recommend anyone to use email aliasing and perhaps the Mullvad browser (if every fucking website using browser fingerprinting is getting a little tiring). These companies are just trying to suck up as much data as possible and ruin the web.

Email aliasing prevents spam or linking of your emails by giving you a seperate email address to give to each service. When that service inevitably leaks your data, the leaked address can be shut off if it is being spammed and won't be linked to your other accounts or identity for fishing and hacking.

DuckDuckGo has a free one with great integrations into Bitwarden as well as a standalone extension[1] for managing them. If you have iCloud+ Apple has an email aliasing service called Hidemyemail. There are also some good paid options here[2].

[1]https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/qwacky/kieehbhdbinc...

[2] https://www.privacyguides.org/en/email-aliasing/

New comment by Cider9986 in "US Supreme Court reviews police use of cell location data"

Cider9986 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 20:10:04 +0000

Most people don't have your luxury of not worrying about government overreach.

It sure would have been useful for governments in the South to grab the location data of enslaved people trying to escape—would they, like the average user today, have known to turn off these settings?

It's great for Texas to buy data from brokers about women trying to access reproductive healthcare across state lines from apps carelessly sharing it. The courts don't pose a risk to you until the law changes and suddenly they do.

This is about the government getting data through a loophole that violates the 4th amendment—the difference between a society that collects everything and presumes guilt, and one that targets specific people when they're suspected of a specific crime.

New comment by Cider9986 in "US Supreme Court reviews police use of cell location data"

Cider9986 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 19:52:28 +0000

>they will never, and can never, have a positive impact on privacy or human rights. To do so would destroy them.

I dislike Google as much as the next guy, but, regardless of its intentions in making Chrome and Android open source and secure, it has a huge positive impact on privacy and human rights.

New comment by Cider9986 in "Men who stare at walls"

Cider9986 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 16:15:53 +0000

That is insane.

New comment by Cider9986 in "Crypto scam lures ships into Strait of Hormuz, falsely promising safe passage"

Cider9986 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:26:11 +0000

>payments in bitcoin or tether.

No one appreciates a good, clean, untraceable crime anymore.

Tether is actually an insane choice because billions of dollars of it is frozen every year. Maybe you need a Monero. (https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/crypto/articles/us-officia...)

New comment by Cider9986 in "The Last of the Lost Generation"

Cider9986 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 01:47:18 +0000

By one man named comment.

New comment by Cider9986 in "U.S. Mint Buys Drug Cartel Gold and Sells It as 'American'"

Cider9986 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 22:00:23 +0000

Which is more fungible, gold or Monero?

Google Uses Cox Ruling to Kill Last Copyright Claim in Textbook Piracy Lawsuit

Cider9986 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 19:34:58 +0000

Article URL: https://torrentfreak.com/google-uses-cox-ruling-to-kill-last-copyright-claim-in-textbook-piracy-lawsuit/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47913271

Points: 7

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Getting Gray with the Internet Liberation Front

Cider9986 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 19:26:33 +0000

Article URL: http://grayareasmagazine.com/ilf7.htm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47913149

Points: 4

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When "Hackers" Was Hacked

Cider9986 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 19:25:48 +0000

Article URL: https://ironicsans.ghost.io/when-hackers-was-hacked/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47913145

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Cellphone-Location Tracking Poses Privacy Test at Supreme Court

Cider9986 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 19:05:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/police-geofence-warrants-phone-location-17d7cbe4

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47912930

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

How the Kremlin's internet crackdown is frustrating Russians [video]

Cider9986 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 18:54:38 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c75kpx2w452o

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47912812

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by Cider9986 in "I Went to Jail"

Cider9986 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 18:00:51 +0000

The goal was not to avoid getting in trouble. The goal was getting as much attention to this issue as possible. I read that they livestream all of their "illegal" actions.

I Went to Jail

Cider9986 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 23:00:04 +0000

Article URL: https://lincolnquirk.substack.com/p/i-went-to-jail

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47905447

Points: 11

# Comments: 4

The Eurail Breach and the Digital ID Problem

Cider9986 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 22:19:42 +0000

Article URL: https://reclaimthenet.org/the-eurail-breach-and-the-digital-id-problem

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47905147

Points: 4

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