Hacker News: kernal

New comment by kernal in "Googlebook"

kernal — Wed, 13 May 2026 03:31:00 +0000

No. Android was just a JavaScript demo. The OS was developed at Google.

New comment by kernal in "Solana Drift Protocol drained of $285M via fake token and governance hijack"

kernal — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 20:11:20 +0000

Alright, time to fork this bitch.

New comment by kernal in "Palantir CEO Makes Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power"

kernal — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 23:09:45 +0000

The fascist pro assassination democrat party, of course.

New comment by kernal in "U.S. Tech Giants Flocked to the Persian Gulf. Now They Are Targets"

kernal — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 23:05:40 +0000

How exactly did you think Ukraine was going to pay back the hundreds of billions they borrowed from the US? Print more hryvnia?

New comment by kernal in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

kernal — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 07:45:06 +0000

How can you have WW3 when your opponent has the military power equivalent of a butter knife? Instead of wishing for a WW3, I suggest you look at all of the people celebrating in the streets of Iran and even the US.

New comment by kernal in "Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court"

kernal — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:15:57 +0000

Did you even see the press conference? There is now an additional 10% tariff. Like I said before, your short term victory was quickly extinguished with additional tariffs. The Supreme Court just ruled that this specific tariff tactic could not be used. So an alternative tariff plan quickly replaced it.

New comment by kernal in "Arm wants a bigger slice of the chip business"

kernal — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 06:19:24 +0000

Yes, ARM did lose the case, but I attribute that to an ignorant judge as the license wasn’t transferable to Qualcomm from Nuvia. Regardless, ARM will have their day when it comes time to license the next ARM architecture version.

New comment by kernal in "Arm wants a bigger slice of the chip business"

kernal — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 06:11:31 +0000

If ARM wanted a bigger cut then they should have been fabricating their designs years ago instead of licensing their IP. They would have owned the Android SoC market.

New comment by kernal in "Google Fulfilled ICE Subpoena Demanding Student Journalist Credit Card Number"

kernal — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 23:59:20 +0000

What about the consequences for the people that let in millions of illegal aliens with criminal records that harmed and killed Americans? Should those politicians be charged as accessories?

New comment by kernal in "Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android"

kernal — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 03:07:23 +0000

It’s not Android. The Camera 2 API is more than capable of building device independent apps. It’s the developer not using the API for whatever reason.

New comment by kernal in "FAA institutes nationwide drone no-fly zones around ICE operations"

kernal — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 22:46:52 +0000

No, blue state sanctuary cities do not turn over illegal alien criminals to ICE. They release them back into the community even though they have a ICE notice on them. ICE is then forced to track down these criminals themselves while being tracked and harassed by crazy far left agitators that do everything in their power to protect these criminals.

New comment by kernal in "Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android"

kernal — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 19:18:03 +0000

The Android audio latency issues were solved long ago with Pro Audio. Whether Android audio apps chose to use it is on them and the significance of latency on their audio app.

New comment by kernal in "Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android"

kernal — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 19:13:45 +0000

The iOS and Android app teams at Google don’t coordinate their releases. They ship it when it’s ready for publication. Why inconvenience the other base just because the other team has other priorities and schedules. That said, Google apps have always been superior on Android than iOS. Just look at Keep.

New comment by kernal in "Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android"

kernal — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 19:03:39 +0000

On the topic of looser app reviews on the Play store vs the App store. I can give you a long list of fake iOS apps where you enter a 4 digit code to watch free movies. People who think Apple is manually reviewing apps are delusional.

New comment by kernal in "Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android"

kernal — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 18:57:13 +0000

Android gets a bad rap because of security and Apple has exploited this in their marketing campaigns to the max. So the moment Google does something to address this glaring hole in their security model the 1% vocal minority throws a fit. You’ll still be able to side load, but because it has extra friction they’ll threaten to switch to iOS. To which I say - go for it. Google doesn’t care about people who side load apps like an automatic reloading the chamber. You’re an insignificant percentage of their base.

Personally, I would rather see Android only run signed and sanctioned apps to prevent the technologically illiterate from getting pwned. If you want to be able to side load then sign up to be a developer and go to town on your device.

New comment by kernal in "Show HN: JSciPy – SciPy-inspired signal processing library for Java and Android"

kernal — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 21:22:47 +0000

Very impressive. Thanks for your contribution.

New comment by kernal in "Apple picks Gemini to power Siri"

kernal — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 22:24:59 +0000

>Apple has the best edge inference silicon in the world (neural engine),

Can you cite this claim? The Qualcomm Hexagon NPU seems to be superior in the benchmarks I've seen.

New comment by kernal in "Why is the Gmail app 700 MB?"

kernal — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 18:14:11 +0000

The Apple vs Google app size comparison is so disingenuous. It doesn't take into account all of the preinstalled iOS dependency libraries used by these Apple apps.

New comment by kernal in "White House website mysteriously streams personal finance YouTube creator"

kernal — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 18:32:14 +0000

Yes, I'd like to see the financial losses of the instigator.

New comment by kernal in "TP-Link Tapo C200: Hardcoded Keys, Buffer Overflows and Privacy"

kernal — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 21:22:09 +0000

No, because it allows us to evaluate the type of person you are. For example, I can tell you're a member of Bluesky.