Hacker News: kyriakos

New comment by kyriakos in "Xbox continues its “reset” with dramatic restructuring"

kyriakos — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 20:07:05 +0000

bought an xbox series x + gamepass at the start of covid lockdowns. been playing since. before that i hadn't played video games in like a decade. maybe there aren't a lot of people in my category but to me gamepass + xbox is the closest thing to netflix for games. series x brought some nice things like quick resume which is fantastic for someone who only can dedicate a little time per day on gaming. for people who are not hardcore gamers it really ticks a lot of boxes.

New comment by kyriakos in "Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy"

kyriakos — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 15:22:56 +0000

I am either blind to ads or i see no ads in android (samsung). of course many apps have ads, at least not in the actual OS.

New comment by kyriakos in "Canada welcomes EU proposal to become 'associate member'"

kyriakos — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 17:40:06 +0000

*Cyprus

New comment by kyriakos in "When I worked at Apple, I remember seeing code that was 15 years old"

kyriakos — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 10:24:57 +0000

Especially with windows backwards compatibility it's not possible to rewrite it with every release

New comment by kyriakos in "Ask HN: How do you keep up with HN these days?"

kyriakos — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 05:02:37 +0000

Those have become rare recently

New comment by kyriakos in "The brain may be about to have its Ozempic moment"

kyriakos — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 20:50:33 +0000

general question: is there an alternative to archive.is ? it seems to be blocked in my country.

New comment by kyriakos in "OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment"

kyriakos — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 03:18:28 +0000

It doesn't work with tailscale. Won't prompt you to go through the web sign in.

New comment by kyriakos in "OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment"

kyriakos — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 03:17:32 +0000

I don't use it for work I use it for my private projects and this allows me to work on them even when I'm commuting which used ti be wasted time.

New comment by kyriakos in "OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment"

kyriakos — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 03:16:20 +0000

I frequently use openchamber on the go. It's very good at this.

New comment by kyriakos in "MiniMax H3 Day-0 Support in ComfyUI: Open Weights, Native Audio, and 2K Video"

kyriakos — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 14:25:50 +0000

Unfortunately Hollywood been feeding us human generated slop for a long time already. Transition won't be hard.

New comment by kyriakos in "Twenty-five years ago it was cryptography, today it's model weights"

kyriakos — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 07:27:06 +0000

I think you are either pretending that you don't understand or can't understand what I'm saying.

At which point did I mention apps?

Anyway this discussion is over.

New comment by kyriakos in "Twenty-five years ago it was cryptography, today it's model weights"

kyriakos — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 05:32:03 +0000

I don't think I said anything about trust. I was talking about content delivery. All the things you mentioned before are avoided using this method of delivery.

New comment by kyriakos in "Twenty-five years ago it was cryptography, today it's model weights"

kyriakos — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 04:31:45 +0000

They are making money out of this. Subscription is like a month's Netflix for a year's access to everything. Multiple "providers" offering this which means there is money to be made.

New comment by kyriakos in "Apple Will 'Watch Everything Burn' When AI Bubble Bursts"

kyriakos — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 04:12:04 +0000

It hasn't plateaud but the generational leaps are definitely getting smaller.

New comment by kyriakos in "Twenty-five years ago it was cryptography, today it's model weights"

kyriakos — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 04:09:33 +0000

No there are services that provide global cdn access to torrents. Your provider sees https traffic from your closest cdn edge. You don't share back at any point. These things are a couple of steps more to setup than getting a Netflix subscription and work almost an any device.

New comment by kyriakos in "Google will expand age checks on Android worldwide till the end of the year"

kyriakos — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 14:10:28 +0000

post refers to apps. how about browsers? will this allow browsers to block content based on the user's age ?

New comment by kyriakos in "LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps"

kyriakos — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 06:12:59 +0000

I've seen a lot of open networks in stores, cafes and malls in my country too but on most occasions they at least take you to a captive portal to accept their TOS or ask you to enter an email address to spam you later, they are not just connect and browse with zero interaction.

New comment by kyriakos in "LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps"

kyriakos — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 11:33:32 +0000

interesting. any idea why?

New comment by kyriakos in "LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps"

kyriakos — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 08:29:29 +0000

Who runs open WiFi networks in 2026?

New comment by kyriakos in "LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps"

kyriakos — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 08:28:46 +0000

Don't connect your TV to the network. Use an external device for smart features like firestick, Apple tv, Google streamer etc (there are open source options too if you look around and don't mind missing some polish).

I have yet to receive a software update on any of my smart TVs that brought in any positive feature.