Hacker News: hexagonwinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=hexagonwinHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Fri, 09 Oct 2026 10:13:02 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by hexagonwin in "F-Droid 2.0"]]>not the person you replied to, but i'm staying on Android 8 and 11 as long as i can.

]]>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 18:24:21 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49834817hexagonwinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49834817https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49834817<![CDATA[New comment by hexagonwin in "google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update"]]>would you mind sharing such other tool?

]]>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 08:04:19 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49670097hexagonwinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49670097https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49670097<![CDATA[New comment by hexagonwin in "We found a division by zero bug in FFmpeg with a vibecoded fuzzer"]]>it's putting full load on my 6core 11th gen i5 machine for more than a minute. i just closed it..

]]>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 08:31:56 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49475959hexagonwinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49475959https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49475959<![CDATA[New comment by hexagonwin in "Initial focus for our partnership with Motorola is a regular non-folding device"]]>i believe that's not this Motorola (the phone company under Lenovo)

]]>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 06:52:35 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49397277hexagonwinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49397277https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49397277<![CDATA[New comment by hexagonwin in "uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook"]]>video autoplay can be blocked in firefox with a builtin feature, though i can't test if it works for facebook

]]>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 11:14:54 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49284307hexagonwinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49284307https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49284307<![CDATA[New comment by hexagonwin in "Goodhart's Law Comes for Every Benchmark You Trust"]]>lmao, even GPTzero gives 100% on a snippet I copied. (from "Here is the constructive turn" to "and slower is what we can actually buy.)

]]>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 09:00:11 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49194243hexagonwinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49194243https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49194243<![CDATA[New comment by hexagonwin in "NetBSD 11.0"]]>wasn't that around gcc4 or something era? gcc12 is pretty new

]]>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 20:58:34 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49138421hexagonwinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49138421https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49138421<![CDATA[New comment by hexagonwin in "Reynard: A real Firefox web browser for iOS 13 or later"]]>it's already working really well on my iOS 13 iPhone SE. the safari on this version struggles to render any 'modern' website these days, this browser works perfectly and I can even use uBlock Origin with it.

]]>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 17:48:10 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48950151hexagonwinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48950151https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48950151<![CDATA[New comment by hexagonwin in "Teardown: A Generic 7-Port USB 3.0 Hub That Wasn't"]]>funny, but it seems false. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/made-in-usa/

]]>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 04:09:17 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48943250hexagonwinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48943250https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48943250<![CDATA[New comment by hexagonwin in "Ask HN: Any good replacements for "Refined Hacker News?""]]>the addon also seems to support firefox, switching the browser could be a solution

]]>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 14:42:18 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48846707hexagonwinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48846707https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48846707<![CDATA[New comment by hexagonwin in "Xsnow "protestware" in Debian"]]>it is in upstream. but the debian package maintainer is also the upstream maintainer.

]]>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 17:59:31 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48736593hexagonwinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48736593https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48736593<![CDATA[New comment by hexagonwin in "HN Returning "Sorry.""]]>same here. in my case it happens when accessing from a link of a specific item, the frontpage and login page opens without any issue. after logging in the issue is gone.

]]>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 12:58:01 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48598052hexagonwinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48598052https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48598052<![CDATA[New comment by hexagonwin in "Porting the ThinkPad X61 to Coreboot"]]>thanks. i just checked and it seems like i was mistaken, the one i own now is a t60 not a t61. seems like it's already supported, gotta try installing coreboot on it.

]]>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 13:38:47 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48461002hexagonwinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48461002https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48461002<![CDATA[New comment by hexagonwin in "Porting the ThinkPad X61 to Coreboot"]]>awesome! hopefully T61 can also get some support soon..

these machines are amazing, but sadly they're showing signs of age these days. mine's already kinda unusable due to dim CCFL backlight and fan grinding noise.

]]>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 08:11:43 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48458137hexagonwinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48458137https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48458137<![CDATA[New comment by hexagonwin in "Porting the ThinkPad X61 to Coreboot"]]>i don't think it's really "far behind", it just can't run on hardwares that require manufacturer keys (e.g. intel bootguard)

afaik all modern x86 chromebooks ship with coreboot based firmware

]]>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 08:09:01 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48458116hexagonwinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48458116https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48458116<![CDATA[New comment by hexagonwin in "Porting the ThinkPad X61 to Coreboot"]]>everything except graphics driver would probably actually work with 98SE..

Win2000 or WinXP would be a better choice due to numerous reasons though. Win2K with an SSD is absolutely going to fly on that thing.

]]>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 08:05:45 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48458095hexagonwinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48458095https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48458095<![CDATA[New comment by hexagonwin in "Porting the ThinkPad X61 to Coreboot"]]>most linux/bsd you can throw at it would just work fine. i personally like tinycore linux and porteus linux, they unpack the rootfs to ram so overall interaction with the system feels insanely quick on very underpowered systems with HDDs.

]]>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 08:04:50 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48458090hexagonwinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48458090https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48458090<![CDATA[New comment by hexagonwin in "Chuwi Minibook X"]]>hardware support is provided by the linux kernel, it should be fine. if there's issues one could just switch kernels..

8gb is plenty. i've ran tinycore on machines with 512MB or less

]]>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 03:54:53 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48365814hexagonwinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48365814https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48365814<![CDATA[New comment by hexagonwin in "Chuwi Minibook X"]]>maybe try a linux distro like tinycore or porteus? it puts the rootfs in ram so things run insanely fast, and sync changes to disk before shutdown

]]>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 10:42:26 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48355042hexagonwinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48355042https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48355042<![CDATA[New comment by hexagonwin in "Reddit Is Blocking Some Users from Accessing Its Website from Mobile Devices"]]>i legit couldn't tell it aside from the sketchy link. this is getting scary.

]]>Sun, 17 May 2026 16:35:04 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48170474hexagonwinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48170474https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48170474