Hacker News: hurfdurf

New comment by hurfdurf in "Anthropic's Claude AI blocks video game cloning and reverse-engineering"

hurfdurf — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 14:41:08 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50304358

New comment by hurfdurf in "Anthropic Cracking Down on Video Game Rewrites"

hurfdurf — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 16:10:27 +0000

Oh the irony.

New comment by hurfdurf in "Show HN: Auto Dismiss Mac OS "Allow to find devices on local networks?""

hurfdurf — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 23:02:28 +0000

Swifties are everywhere

New comment by hurfdurf in "Manifestos, Fear, and 'Loser Thinking': Inside Proton's AI Reckoning"

hurfdurf — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 15:29:21 +0000

Proton to 'Re-Interview' Staff About AI to See Who Gets to Keep Their Job ( https://www.404media.co/proton-to-re-interview-staff-about-a... ) 85 points | 3 days ago | 42 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50251062

New comment by hurfdurf in "Harvey raised 500M for legal AI, I built the same and open sourced it"

hurfdurf — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 14:33:52 +0000

Harvey, Mike, but no Donna!?

New comment by hurfdurf in "New 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6"

hurfdurf — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 15:10:24 +0000

  And it's still $1999.

Because the price hike happened in June, in this case from 1699 to 1999.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48672732 https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/apple-raises-pric...

New comment by hurfdurf in "New 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6"

hurfdurf — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 13:34:30 +0000

Apple has had release-weeks in spring and fall, with some variance, for a while now:

https://buyersguide.macrumors.com/#mac https://buyersguide.macrumors.com/#ipad

New comment by hurfdurf in "The Exponential Time Hypothesis Is False [pdf]"

hurfdurf — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 11:51:18 +0000

Didn't Anthropic also come out with a paper just hours after OpenAI did, a couple weeks ago during that Navier-Stokes thing? Once is coincidence...

New comment by hurfdurf in "iPhone Duo Teardown"

hurfdurf — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 09:45:27 +0000

   The PS5 is, quite literally, a bargain bin product.

Which is why they are being sold like 50% over MSRP on the secondary market and Sony cannot ship them fast enough?

New comment by hurfdurf in "Root shell on Samsung TV"

hurfdurf — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 11:24:22 +0000

https://mrbruh.com/asusrouter/

  If you avoided downloading the app for whatever reason, you can be proud because it just saved you from potentially getting hacked.

Nice.

New comment by hurfdurf in "Your Phone Is About to Stop Being Yours: 70 Days Until Lockdown"

hurfdurf — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 09:55:35 +0000

Only applies to Google-sanctioned Android systems.

New comment by hurfdurf in "Caffeine-like utility to keep you MacBook awake with its lid closed"

hurfdurf — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 08:34:07 +0000

"Active Hours"? Who comes up with that kind of stuff? And you cannot even disable it, only out"smart" it. Unbelievable.

New comment by hurfdurf in "PHP 8.2.35"

hurfdurf — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 14:55:53 +0000

"Four diffs and seven lines ago..."

New comment by hurfdurf in "Secret trigger words could make AI-powered robots dangerous"

hurfdurf — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 07:27:38 +0000

Well... https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=binghamton.edu

New comment by hurfdurf in "Everything is going wrong for Muhammad bin Salman"

hurfdurf — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 10:28:01 +0000

That's what snap elections are for, except in the US.

New comment by hurfdurf in "Android apps running native on macOS"

hurfdurf — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 08:25:16 +0000

Niantic plans a “Large Geospatial Model” trained on Pokémon Go player data | https://nianticlabs.com/news/largegeospatialmodel | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42187494

430 points | 2 years ago | 338 comments

New comment by hurfdurf in "Steam Client is now faster than Epic's new vibe coded launcher"

hurfdurf — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 18:19:35 +0000

The switch from IE/Trident to Chromium happened in 2010 alongside launching support for Macs.

New comment by hurfdurf in "How Amazon pushes up prices all across the Internet"

hurfdurf — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 08:10:48 +0000

Amazon does (or did[0]) the commingling, not the seller. Wild practice, really.

[0] https://sellercentral.amazon.com/seller-forums/discussions/t...

New comment by hurfdurf in "How the Military Will Hack the Election"

hurfdurf — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 19:47:07 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49864642

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50082367 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50087140

New comment by hurfdurf in "Apple Keynote now showing ads in its UI"

hurfdurf — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 16:35:43 +0000

Prominent screen in the kitchen used as recipe stand showing ingredients etc.? The possibilities are endless, and I think we're going to love it.