Hacker News: SmashDan

New comment by SmashDan in "U.S. sanctions against the A/I Collective"

SmashDan — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 03:21:53 +0000

The Pirate Bay has had legal issues, been raided and taken down in the past. Has 4chan has any issues like this?

New comment by SmashDan in "fx :Tiny, open, native coding agent."

SmashDan — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 22:57:31 +0000

I'm not in the tech industry. Could someone explain why there are so many new coding agents, and why they're commonly upvoted on HackerNews? It seems like there's a new one in the top 10 every other day.

New comment by SmashDan in "Which web browser has no AI?"

SmashDan — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 01:45:01 +0000

LibreWolf - Firefox without all the bloat, you'll just need to change the settings so that it doesn't delete cookies when you close the window.

New comment by SmashDan in "Tell HN: Old Reddit now requires login"

SmashDan — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 20:44:07 +0000

https://www.piratewires.com/p/the-terrorist-propaganda-to-re...

Archive link: https://archive.is/aSdCI

Here's an interesting article on just that

New comment by SmashDan in "Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days"

SmashDan — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 23:17:04 +0000

semi-colon will have me thinking you've typed up your comment in Microsoft Word

New comment by SmashDan in "Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days"

SmashDan — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 23:15:33 +0000

I just use a hyphen. It's easier to type, easily understood and you won't be accused of using an LLM.

New comment by SmashDan in "Windows 10 quietly gets one more year of support and updates"

SmashDan — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 20:16:17 +0000

It's much less fiddly for games is the only reason for me.

New comment by SmashDan in "PowerFox Browser"

SmashDan — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:23:46 +0000

I remember spending ages as a kid fine tuning my scrollbar css