Hacker News: Zren

New comment by Zren in "The state of Linux music players in 2026"

Zren — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 10:06:48 +0000

> less intuitive than I’d like it to be giant translucent strawberry in the middle of my screen at all times

You can disable the background image that in the options under Appearance. It's a holdover from Clementine's branding which I also find annoying. I also dislike the glow animation on currently playing track in the playlist which can also be disabled.

New comment by Zren in "Hollow Knight: Silksong causes server chaos on Xbox, Steam, and Nintendo"

Zren — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 16:27:33 +0000

Wait the original was only $15?! I got Hollow Knight in a Humble Bundle so I had no idea how cheap that amazing game was.

No wonder Silksong is only $20. I saw the memes about the devs asking for $20 and assumed it was $20 more like $60=>$80 or something like that.

New comment by Zren in "Is an Intel N100 or N150 a better value than a Raspberry Pi?"

Zren — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 18:03:09 +0000

Also, probably the price of the connector. USB A is also a simple standard and no one will expect to treat it as a display out.

New comment by Zren in "I tried to make something in America (SmarterEveryDay) [video]"

Zren — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 01:49:28 +0000

More comments at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44219598

https://old.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/1l6qxx0/i_tried_to_...

https://old.reddit.com/r/SmarterEveryDay/comments/1l6ntfg/i_...

New comment by Zren in "I tried to make something in America"

Zren — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 00:08:14 +0000

The video has covers how Tool and Die wages have dropped below the median wage. We're also importing the tools/molds from China and manufacturing the parts "in the US" instead of the reverse.

I remember another Youtuber Linus Tech Tips creating their own injection molds in BC so that it would be harder for copycats. The entire Screwdriver isn't made in Canada though. The shaft and bits are made in China or somewhere else in Asia IIRC. The reason they were able to do that though is because there already existed an injection molding company nearby for them to work with though.

New comment by Zren in "I tried to make something in America"

Zren — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 23:52:35 +0000

It's neat finding out that his earlier video on stamping sheet metal and bending it into shapes was actually him doing research for the handle of this scrubber.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDzBE6vz5r0

New comment by Zren in "Self-hosting your own media considered harmful according to YouTube"

Zren — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 15:36:12 +0000

Netflix has continually raised prices, and earns more from the ad plans than those paying more for zero ads.

Becoming a paying customer is just a negotiation with advertisers to raise their rates until Netflix concedes to what they want. Since they know you have more discretionary income Netflix can also charge more for ads. They're also incentivized into turning those customers into ad supported by increasing the no ad plan cost.

New comment by Zren in "Nintendo Obtains New Anti-Palworld Patent and Seeks Even More"

Zren — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 18:07:55 +0000

The patent mentions the ability to aim the pokeball which wasn't in the first 3 Gameboy games.

Does modern Pokémon start battles by throwing a pokeball to release a monster to begin fighting?

New comment by Zren in "Mkbsd: Download all the wallpapers in MKBHD's "Panels" app for free"

Zren — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 01:39:02 +0000

IMO, they should have made it a simple mailed print/postcard subscription with an email newsletter with the jpg wallpaper. You could even provide access to a private wallpaper app that changes it for you monthly if people want that.

LTT has the right mentality that supporting an influencer should give you something physical for your support or when asking a superchat on a livestream that may or may not get answered.

New comment by Zren in "I Hacked My Friend's Phone to Show How Easy It Is [video]"

Zren — Sun, 22 Sep 2024 16:28:36 +0000

Youtubers regularly swap the video thumbnail + title. Youtube even has tools to A/B test various thumbnails + titles nowadays for different users.

I can confirm that the title "I Hacked My Friend's Phone to Show How Easy It Is" was the actual title when the video was uploaded. However you're right that it now looks like it changed to "Exposing The Flaw In Our Phone System" a day later.

Watch an older Veratasium video about Youtube's title+thumbnail clickbait: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2xHZPH5Sng

New comment by Zren in "I Hacked My Friend's Phone to Show How Easy It Is [video]"

Zren — Sun, 22 Sep 2024 01:04:15 +0000

Feels like SS7 was deliberately left vulnerable from requests within the country for tracking purposes. A lot of the security seems to be done with firewalls within the walled garden so it's easier for the five eyes to track cell phones live without giving direct access to the databases.

That said, the real world example Veratasium used was chilling.

Having LinusTechTips as a 2nd example (whos showing off his new apple phone) was a nice counter too. I'm pretty sure LTT uses multi factor+user auth though so I'm guessing that sms 2fa email was an alt email for personal use.

Gonna have to watch that 2014 presentation on ss7 it seems.

New comment by Zren in "DOJ may want to break up Google"

Zren — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 03:52:33 +0000

Chromium/Chrome can also get ChromeOS and it's hardware division since most of the complications in chrome are there to reimplement a Phone/Desktop OS.

New comment by Zren in "DOJ may want to break up Google"

Zren — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 03:43:25 +0000

> What of the small, but important, products that Google hasn't killed yet? ... But what of say, Google Fonts?

Google Fonts can act as a tracking pixel, the bandwidth cost is probably offset by the slight amount of user data it obtains.

New comment by Zren in "Opinion: I'd rather have a headphone jack and a microSD slot than AI in my phone"

Zren — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 21:38:04 +0000

Samsung A15 has a headphone jack, 128gb storage, OLED screen, and SD card slot in the SIM tray.

It should have 4 years of updates too, which at $270 CAD is $5.63 per month of support.

New comment by Zren in "Reddit is cracking down on political talk tonight"

Zren — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 12:47:55 +0000

https://www.redditstatus.com/

> Comment tree processing is delayed

* 19:17 PDT Investigating - We are aware that newly posted comments are not showing up immediately in comment trees. We are currently investigating this issue.

* 20:26 PDT Identified - We've identified the underlying problems and are working on addressing them.

* 21:08 PDT Update - We are continuing to work on addressing the issues causing comments to be delayed.

* 21:31 PDT Update - A large spike in traffic caused some scaling issues, which delayed new comment display across the site. All comments posted during this time will be displayed as the servers work through the backlog.

* 22:05 PDT Resolved - Comment processing has now fully caught up. Thank you for your patience!

This makes sense why https://old.reddit.com/r/all/comments/ worked but the nested comments in threads don't.

New comment by Zren in "Biden-Trump debate breaks parts of Reddit, it seems"

Zren — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 04:23:30 +0000

https://www.redditstatus.com/

> Comment tree processing is delayed

* 21:08 PDT Update - We are continuing to work on addressing the issues causing comments to be delayed.

* 20:26 PDT Identified - We've identified the underlying problems and are working on addressing them.

* 19:17 PDT Investigating - We are aware that newly posted comments are not showing up immediately in comment trees. We are currently investigating this issue.

This makes sense why https://old.reddit.com/r/all/comments/ works but the nested comments in threads don't.

New comment by Zren in "Biden-Trump debate breaks parts of Reddit, it seems"

Zren — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 04:02:59 +0000

Not sure if this timestamp is when the topic was locked or when reddit broke. The thread has 56015 comments.

https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1dq5s2f/discussio...

Edit: New comments seem to be slowly appearing.

2024-06-28T02:26:10+00:00 = 22:26 EST (First loaded around 23hXX EST)

2024-06-28T02:35:37+00:00 = 22:35 EST (Loaded at 00h09 EST)

2024-06-28T02:35:41+00:00 = 22:35 EST (Loaded at 00h19 EST)

2024-06-28T02:41:17+00:00 = 22:41 EST (Loaded at 00h19 EST) This might have been when the topic was locked since there's a mod comment at the top now.

However it seems the "all comments" still shows the last few comments in a subreddit (without the context).

https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/

https://old.reddit.com/r/all/comments/

New comment by Zren in "Voyager 1 is back online: NASA spacecraft returns data from all 4 instruments"

Zren — Sat, 15 Jun 2024 17:05:35 +0000

https://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0996.html

> Leia: Chewie, get up here! We're going into an asteroid field! > Han: That's no problem. Just don't hit whatever asteroid might be within a hundred thousand kilometres. > Han: They're in nice stable orbits too, so it's easy to avoid them. > Leia: Okay, fine. We're going into a massive region of randomly moving, closely packed, enormous giant space rocks. > Han: Gaaaaaah!

New comment by Zren in "Cocoa surpasses $10k a tonne as shortages squeeze 'out of control' market"

Zren — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 21:05:45 +0000

LastWeekTonight w/ John Oliver did a segment on Chocolate 4 months ago btw. Cocoa production is definitely underpaid so it wouldn't be terrible for this higher price to stick. It's not like the chocolate companies will drop their prices after they mark them up for months.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwHMDjc7qJ8

New comment by Zren in "Expanding Our Partnership with Google"

Zren — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 21:57:27 +0000

They also announced a program for specific US based mods/users to buy stock at the IPO.

https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/1axhbye/announcing_...