Hacker News: bradyd

New comment by bradyd in "I Don't Have a Smartphone"

bradyd — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 19:45:32 +0000

I know at one point Vizio TVs required you to install the app and enable location to be able to setup a new TV out of the box.

New comment by bradyd in "Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results"

bradyd — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 14:28:10 +0000

Yeah, that loads right up for me.

New comment by bradyd in "Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results"

bradyd — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 14:25:42 +0000

> Reddit has recently blocked access to old reddit without an account

Old Reddit still works just fine without an account.

New comment by bradyd in "I'm Scared a Stranger Will Call My Novel AI, So I Built GitHub for Words"

bradyd — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 18:24:13 +0000

It's also possible to break the 50,000 lines up into multiple commits and fake the commit dates, so this does nothing to prove a human wrote them.

New comment by bradyd in "Apple targets dozens of OpenAI employees with legal letters"

bradyd — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 14:57:05 +0000

It was actually patent infringement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc._v._Samsung_Electron....

New comment by bradyd in "Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail"

bradyd — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:17:38 +0000

The book came out in 1990, the same year Windows 3.0 was released. Windows 1.0 was released in 1985 and 2.0 was released in 1987.

New comment by bradyd in "Malware developers added nuclear and biological weapons text to to their spyware"

bradyd — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:42:47 +0000

It's on Wikipedia.

New comment by bradyd in "Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones"

bradyd — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:17:11 +0000

> And now there are detailed locations of our cities

That has already existed for decades.

New comment by bradyd in "The Case for Free Online Books (2014)"

bradyd — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:54:56 +0000

The authors are "the press". So they somehow pay themselves?

New comment by bradyd in "MacBook Neo Is So Popular That Apple Doubled Production"

bradyd — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:11:53 +0000

Apple definitely still has products that cross into the luxury brand category. For example the Apple Watch Hermès, which starts at $1249.

https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-watch/apple-watch-hermes

New comment by bradyd in "Instructure pays ransom to Canvas hackers"

bradyd — Tue, 12 May 2026 18:28:33 +0000

> For the ransom group, it is better for them to be perceived as trustworthy.

They've already proved themselves to be untrustworthy simply by ransoming you in the first place.

New comment by bradyd in "The Science Behind Honey's Eternal Shelf Life (2013)"

bradyd — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 14:40:32 +0000

Veritasium just did a video on this.

https://youtu.be/ksn5yrsC3Wg

New comment by bradyd in "Anthropic Joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron"

bradyd — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:30:42 +0000

By that logic, Blender shouldn't exist because it devalues the skill of hand animated art.

New comment by bradyd in "Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones"

bradyd — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 21:20:17 +0000

That setting is available for each individual app.

New comment by bradyd in "Backpacks got worse on purpose"

bradyd — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:22:57 +0000

I have an Osprey backpacking pack that's about 10 years old. I had a squirrel chew through the zipper on the removable pouch. I sent it off to Osprey to be repaired and they sent me a brand new pouch.

New comment by bradyd in "EFF is leaving X"

bradyd — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:37:18 +0000

This is the exact opposite of reaching out to a broader audience.

New comment by bradyd in "Ask HN: Can I repurpose a Bluetooth voice remote as input device for a PC?"

bradyd — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:49:06 +0000

The PS5 controller (DualSense) has a built in microphone and a trackpad.

New comment by bradyd in "Google Safe Browsing missed 84% of confirmed phishing sites"

bradyd — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 16:18:43 +0000

The mobile app definitely has mark as unread. It's the envelope icon next to the trashcan (the exact same icon as in the web interface). Never realized there was a report phishing option. I just mark those emails as spam, which is available in the app.

New comment by bradyd in "How will OpenAI compete?"

bradyd — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 17:53:58 +0000

> Absolutely no enduser knows what 'GPT' stands for

But there is no need to know what it stands for.

New comment by bradyd in "WiFi could become an invisible mass surveillance system"

bradyd — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 17:51:43 +0000

The Nest smoke detector microphone was never really secret. It was part of the monthly self test to determine if the alarm was working. It would send you a notification telling you it was going to sound the alarm and that it would be listening for the sound to confirm it was working.

It was listed in the features for the 2nd gen units. https://support.google.com/googlenest/answer/9229922#zippy=%...

Edit: That article isn't about the Nest Protect (smoke detector), it's about the Nest Secure, an alarm system.