Hacker News: ZiiS

New comment by ZiiS in "CBP Directive 3340-049B: Border Search of Electronic Devices"

ZiiS — Mon, 25 May 2026 22:38:48 +0000

NANDroid dose the exact flash image, but with modern hardware rooted encryption it stopped being useful.

New comment by ZiiS in "CBP Directive 3340-049B: Border Search of Electronic Devices"

ZiiS — Mon, 25 May 2026 22:35:59 +0000

I agree they could be better; though I do get my home screen restored.

New comment by ZiiS in "Ferrari Luce – Designed with Jony Ive"

ZiiS — Mon, 25 May 2026 21:18:47 +0000

If the brief was to make an ipad stuck to the dash of a Ferrari not ruin the rest of the car then that is certainly one way to do it.

New comment by ZiiS in "CBP Directive 3340-049B: Border Search of Electronic Devices"

ZiiS — Sun, 24 May 2026 21:23:48 +0000

All backup apps work, no special requirements. Seedvault for my LiniageOS.

London Mayor Blocks Palantir

ZiiS — Thu, 21 May 2026 16:35:01 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/may/21/london-mayor-sadiq-khan-blocks-met-police-deal-with-palantir

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48225489

Points: 194

# Comments: 65

New comment by ZiiS in "Ask HN: Shouldn't Google need to give a public statement about Railway incident?"

ZiiS — Thu, 21 May 2026 13:52:45 +0000

Yes, court would be better, and totally justified here, but that also seems extremely unlikely given the contracts.

New comment by ZiiS in "Flipper One – we need your help"

ZiiS — Thu, 21 May 2026 12:22:11 +0000

Really worried about the pricing, will make or break.

New comment by ZiiS in "Flipper One Tech Specs"

ZiiS — Thu, 21 May 2026 06:28:18 +0000

Much prefer a sub-$100 optimisation of the Zero; tbh you probably wouldn't need change much.

New comment by ZiiS in "Ask HN: Shouldn't Google need to give a public statement about Railway incident?"

ZiiS — Wed, 20 May 2026 17:49:53 +0000

I really don't see how they can. The business and usage details of their clients are confidential. We have their word that ToS where violated, I don't really think they should say more. This needs to go to arbitration.

New comment by ZiiS in "Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk used AI while writing her latest novel"

ZiiS — Wed, 20 May 2026 15:41:59 +0000

If you generate work enough above average to be awarded major international prizes they you are. If everyone produces the same quality from the same AI it will simply move the bar.

New comment by ZiiS in "Japan is gripped by mass allergies. A 1950s project is to blame"

ZiiS — Wed, 20 May 2026 09:05:56 +0000

It required imported wood come what may, which opened up regulations and economies of scale that would have made importing wood expensive.

New comment by ZiiS in "OpenAI Adopts Google's SynthID Watermark for AI Images with Verification Tool"

ZiiS — Wed, 20 May 2026 07:29:50 +0000

A better way of looking at it is you only need to introduce a .5 bit error.

New comment by ZiiS in "Mini Shai-Hulud Strikes Again: 314 npm Packages Compromised"

ZiiS — Tue, 19 May 2026 14:18:06 +0000

It is your development machine's AWS keys they want. The server's keys should be too finly scooped anyway.

New comment by ZiiS in "Ploopy Bean: a trackpoint for every computer"

ZiiS — Sat, 16 May 2026 07:57:10 +0000

Yes my QMK Keychron can easily compile and flash modified firmware.

New comment by ZiiS in "Image-blaster: Creates 3D environments, SFX, and meshes from a single image"

ZiiS — Fri, 15 May 2026 17:42:08 +0000

So Blade Runner's Esper photo analysis went from ruining the suspension of disbelief to reality quicker then most magic.

New comment by ZiiS in "UK Government Kicks Out Palantir"

ZiiS — Fri, 15 May 2026 06:58:06 +0000

Replacing one tiny contract, on what sound like performance criteria, is not close to kicking them out.

New comment by ZiiS in "Man finds $1M worth of Yu-Gi-Oh cards in a dumpster"

ZiiS — Fri, 08 May 2026 22:22:55 +0000

For many people not paying the artists is less fun, for nearly everyone paying 10x the price is not fun. Obviously a brillian game might overcome this but it can easily cause someone to move on.

New comment by ZiiS in "GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay"

ZiiS — Mon, 04 May 2026 12:12:02 +0000

It is different. You need somewhere to live. Buying a second home with what would presumably need to be at least a 90℅ mortgage is at best questionable.

New comment by ZiiS in "OpenAI's o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of ER patients vs. 50-55% by triage doctors"

ZiiS — Mon, 04 May 2026 07:48:33 +0000

Triage deliberately diagnoses rarer conditions that would be more serious or require more urgent treatment so they can be ruled out.

New comment by ZiiS in "Apple Says Mac Studio and Mac Mini Will Be in Short Supply for Months"

ZiiS — Fri, 01 May 2026 07:34:35 +0000

I think you can at $50/month