Hacker News: hexagonwin

New comment by hexagonwin in "Wikipedia deprecates Archive.today, starts removing archive links"

hexagonwin — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 20:36:41 +0000

they silently ran the DDoS script on their captcha page (which is frequently shown to visitors, even when simply viewing and not archiving a new page)

New comment by hexagonwin in "Tell HN: Ralph Giles has died (Xiph.org| Rust@Mozilla | Ghostscript)"

hexagonwin — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 05:10:19 +0000

RIP

New comment by hexagonwin in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

hexagonwin — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 18:59:12 +0000

Is this open source? Would be cool to self host this..

New comment by hexagonwin in "LineageOS 23.2"

hexagonwin — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 11:32:23 +0000

are there any examples of such device that got a recent version of LineageOS ported with the mainline kernel? it seemed like there's almost no android phone with mature enough support in the mainline kernel, and most android custom roms just backport needed functionality to old downstream vendor kernels.

New comment by hexagonwin in "LineageOS 23.2"

hexagonwin — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 11:28:04 +0000

Just noticed you mention already updating, in that case check for the bootloader version of the current firmware, if Samsung didn't bump the number (for anti rollback) yet you can get back to previous version.

New comment by hexagonwin in "LineageOS 23.2"

hexagonwin — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 11:26:09 +0000

you can use a treble GSI rom, I use one for two of my devices that lack community features and all the features work. Just make sure to not get OneUI8 that blocks bootloader unlock.

New comment by hexagonwin in "Oneplus phone update introduces hardware anti-rollback"

hexagonwin — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 22:20:20 +0000

true, but I believe these bricked oneplus devices can also be revived from 9008 (EDL) if they can find the qualcomm firehorse loader file.

New comment by hexagonwin in "Oneplus phone update introduces hardware anti-rollback"

hexagonwin — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 21:28:13 +0000

They can kill custom roms and force the latest vendor firmware. If they push a shitty update that slows down the phone or something, users have no choice other than buying a new device.

New comment by hexagonwin in "Oneplus phone update introduces hardware anti-rollback"

hexagonwin — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 21:26:34 +0000

Samsung uses this for their Knox security feature. The fuse gets broken in initial bootloader unlock, and all features related to Knox (Samsung Pay, Secure Folder, etc) gets disabled permanently even after reverting to stock firmware.

New comment by hexagonwin in "Oneplus phone update introduces hardware anti-rollback"

hexagonwin — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 21:25:01 +0000

iPhones already cannot be downgraded, they can only install OS versions signed by apple during the install time. (search SHSH blobs) They also can't run unsigned IPA files (apps). Not sure if they have a physical fuse, but it's not much different.

New comment by hexagonwin in "Instabridge has acquired Nova Launcher"

hexagonwin — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 11:00:58 +0000

i still use it.. how has it gone bad?

New comment by hexagonwin in "A decentralized peer-to-peer messaging application that operates over Bluetooth"

hexagonwin — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 16:47:17 +0000

> Its soaring popularity highlights how decentralised technology can offer a vital communication lifeline during natural disasters. Its soaring popularity demonstrates how decentralised tools can provide a critical communication lifeline when natural disasters knock out traditional infrastructure.

seems like the second article is written by AI

New comment by hexagonwin in "Go-legacy-winxp: Compile Golang 1.24 code for Windows XP"

hexagonwin — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 10:24:06 +0000

vxkex works really well, give it a try

New comment by hexagonwin in "The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from using any banking app"

hexagonwin — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 18:45:58 +0000

you can kill the ota nagging very easily without any side effects, try searching for tvos profile

New comment by hexagonwin in "8M users' AI conversations sold for profit by "privacy" extensions"

hexagonwin — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 23:15:01 +0000

weird, the addon (for firefox) still works btw. can connect to china and get datacenter IPs..

New comment by hexagonwin in "8M users' AI conversations sold for profit by "privacy" extensions"

hexagonwin — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 06:31:04 +0000

lol, this Urban VPN addon was available for Firefox too but got removed at some point. https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1jb4ura/what_happe...

New comment by hexagonwin in "Vibe coding is mad depressing"

hexagonwin — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 14:53:51 +0000

https://web.archive.org/web/20250513130958/https://www.pcuf....

New comment by hexagonwin in "Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktop"

hexagonwin — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 14:32:21 +0000

I seem to be able to access it just fine via ProtonVPN's Japan region tho.

New comment by hexagonwin in "Android/Linux Dual Boot"

hexagonwin — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 12:24:17 +0000

isn't uefi used for all the modern qcom devices..?

New comment by hexagonwin in "Android/Linux Dual Boot"

hexagonwin — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 12:23:22 +0000

For the N900, Maemo Leste <https://maemo-leste.github.io/> would be a good choice, if not even better.