Hacker News: acd

New comment by acd in "Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools"

acd — Sun, 17 May 2026 09:01:51 +0000

Actually with data fusion VPN does not fix privacy. Ad networks does data fusion of Javascript browser finger print. So you are de cloaked any way on a VPN

New comment by acd in "I love Linux, but I can't quit Windows"

acd — Sat, 16 May 2026 10:40:26 +0000

Use Winpodx and run Windows apps as a container in Linux

https://github.com/kernalix7/winpodx

New comment by acd in "Waymo updates 3,800 robotaxis after they 'drive into standing water'"

acd — Sat, 16 May 2026 07:59:47 +0000

But as soon as what happens is an unusual event that is not in training data it get dangerous.

Think of any abnormal weather events that would make news headlines such as Lightning, blizzard, snow storms etc

This need to be simulated

Or the litmus test would the developers ride in such a product at such an event?

New comment by acd in "NIST scientists create 'any wavelength' lasers"

acd — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 06:53:19 +0000

Sounds useful for display purposes

New comment by acd in "Foxing aspires to be an eBPF-powered replication engine for Linux filesystems"

acd — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:31:13 +0000

How does it compare to drbd?

"Distributed Replicated Block Device (DRBD)[3] is a distributed replicated storage system for the Linux platform. It mirrors block devices between multiple hosts"

Which I think may be technology used by clouds

New comment by acd in "Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March"

acd — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 08:21:53 +0000

Go Linux. Gamers will have a better experiance in Linux. Predict that Windows will become an legacy emulation layer.

New comment by acd in "Philly courts will ban all smart eyeglasses starting next week"

acd — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 17:23:44 +0000

The problem is when people wear "smart" aka dumb privacy glasses in public restrooms. Should be banned or geofenced

New comment by acd in "Wired headphone sales are exploding"

acd — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 09:19:27 +0000

Will wired speakers make a come back? Stereo separation vs mono pods?

New comment by acd in "You can turn Claude's most annoying feature off"

acd — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 06:50:19 +0000

Claude code once said verb it was "Slithering" I then changed the verb.

New comment by acd in "GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple"

acd — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 17:17:14 +0000

I want to break free - Queen :)

Lyrics https://genius.com/Queen-i-want-to-break-free-lyrics

New comment by acd in "Why is Singapore no longer "cool"?"

acd — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 21:06:35 +0000

I think low fertility rate is related to high Internet use. You could argue its about high education.

New comment by acd in "Volkswagen Brings Back Physical Buttons"

acd — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 22:44:44 +0000

The aviation industry has spent decades researching cockpit design, running simulator studies, and learning from accidents. They still use physical buttons for critical controls. If touchscreen-everything was safer or better, they’d have adopted it by now. The main reasons cars are removing buttons are cost savings and aesthetics—not driver safety.

New comment by acd in "Tell HN: Azure outage"

acd — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 21:47:44 +0000

Putting all your eggs software in one basket

New comment by acd in "Kagi News"

acd — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 16:32:47 +0000

Any payments to journalists and news sites?

New comment by acd in "Denmark's Justice Minister calls encrypted messaging a false civil liberty"

acd — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 15:58:18 +0000

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

"Article 12

No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks."

New comment by acd in "Social media promised connection, but it has delivered exhaustion"

acd — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 08:30:37 +0000

Social media is actually anti social. Meeting real people and making real connections is social.

New comment by acd in "Lenovo Legion Go S: Windows 11 vs. SteamOS Performance, and General Availability"

acd — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 18:30:47 +0000

When gamers get better FPS on Linux they will switch os.

New comment by acd in "Kiro: A new agentic IDE"

acd — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 18:25:06 +0000

Not amazed! Tell me one good reason I should use it?

Lets see EU US data privacy shield gone. Aws a bunch of open source tools gobbled together with proprietary source. Trust in made in US cloud platform tools is gone!

New comment by acd in "Proton joins suit against Apple for practices that harm developers and consumers"

acd — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 17:53:55 +0000

No the US Sherman anti trust law prohibit monopolies. Its not a corporate right but right by citizens not to be affected by monopoly by rule of law or until tried.

"The Sherman Act broadly prohibits 1) anticompetitive agreements and 2) unilateral conduct that monopolizes or attempts to monopolize the relevant market. " source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherman_Antitrust_Act

New comment by acd in "Data centers contain 90% crap data"

acd — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 18:48:24 +0000

Thats why human brains forget