Hacker News: m132

New comment by m132 in "MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch"

m132 — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 18:25:13 +0000

Please tell me the rounded corners at the bottom of the screen are just for the effect and they aren't actually physically like that. This would be worse than the current notch, you can even see them clipping the text in the LM Studio picture.

New comment by m132 in "Korea raises data breach fines to 10% of revenue"

m132 — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 21:50:58 +0000

Some hard to swallow pills for tech companies in 2026: data not collected in the first place cannot leak.

New comment by m132 in "South Africa is at risk of becoming a mafia state"

m132 — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 17:52:19 +0000

Well, sorry! Make the payment process and the website at least half as frictionless and private, and I'll be happy to pay!

New comment by m132 in "South Africa is at risk of becoming a mafia state"

m132 — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 16:07:27 +0000

And then you realize that, ironically, LLMs and archive.today, both actual bots, can scrape the site just fine. The latter also serving you the content with no paywalls, ads, JavaScript, permalinks that 404 after a year, and all the other anti-features. It's almost as if news websites looked at the pains one has to go through to legally play a video game in 2026 and all unanimously went "I want this!".

New comment by m132 in "Show HN: Copperhead – Cursor for circuit boards"

m132 — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 15:06:37 +0000

Fair. I wish low quality submissions received similar treatment to low quality comments, or at least had their own category, separate from the main page.

New comment by m132 in "Show HN: Copperhead – Cursor for circuit boards"

m132 — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 01:47:07 +0000

I'm sorry, but going on that website made me feel like I was being greeted by an AI support technician or recruiter.

I understand—these days, there are more reasons to vibe a landing page than not. To many, however, this page is going to be their first encounter with the project. While it sure is shallow to judge a book solely by its cover, in this case, the cover just blatantly screams "we haven't even tried"... Can you really blame people for not looking beyond it if even its own creator gave it a similar amount of attention? Especially in 2026, when everything preys on your attention and generating plausibly-looking low-effort projects has never been easier?

New comment by m132 in "Show HN: Copperhead – Cursor for circuit boards"

m132 — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 20:47:57 +0000

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New comment by m132 in "Iceland votes on whether to restart talks on joining EU"

m132 — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 12:03:56 +0000

Iceland is already part of Schengen, EFTA, and NATO. They're in the best position there is, having negotiated the best the EU has to offer but not the bad parts, such as the Euro, Pfizer deals, the migration and asylum pact, or age verification. I can't imagine them joining the EU being anything but a massive downgrade for them.

New comment by m132 in "Boot a Virtual iPhone via Apple's Virtualization.framework"

m132 — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 09:07:20 +0000

Note that, unlike Corellium, this isn't about emulating an iPhone. Apple is providing an iOS kernel for Virtualization.framework in PCC/cloudOS images and this project pairs it with the iOS user-space and patches to make everything run. Applications can very easily tell it apart from the real thing.

More details here: https://github.com/wh1te4ever/super-tart-vphone-writeup

New comment by m132 in "AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)"

m132 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 21:02:05 +0000

I like how some people take offence at that

New comment by m132 in "Every fucking website: 2026 edition"

m132 — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 00:13:12 +0000

It's not a Claude generated website without at least one `backdrop-filter: blur(1000px)` element that slows older machines to a crawl

New comment by m132 in "Show HN: We Implemented the IPv8 Internet-Draft in Linux, Libc, and BGP"

m132 — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 17:14:15 +0000

This. While I'm generally opposed to using LLMs to make changes in critical parts of systems, a vibed spec just naturally prompts a vibed implementation.

New comment by m132 in "Run Android ARM64 VR APKs on Apple Vision Pro"

m132 — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 06:39:57 +0000

I would appreciate an LLM usage disclosure

New comment by m132 in "Anthropic CEO reportedly worried new hires only care about money"

m132 — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 06:02:31 +0000

It's an industry where companies with "open" right in the name lobby against open models and training on stolen data is viewed as more ethical than training on existing models. It takes some time to catch up with reality there.

New comment by m132 in "GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability"

m132 — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 19:25:29 +0000

Hey, there's still plenty if you don't mind the leading 8

New comment by m132 in "GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability"

m132 — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 19:19:19 +0000

At this point maybe they should consider sending out announcements when it is working instead

New comment by m132 in "CP/M-386 – CP/M for 386 protected mode, derived from CP/M‑68K"

m132 — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 05:39:15 +0000

Chances are those hiccups weren't without a reason!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Allchin#Controversies

New comment by m132 in "CP/M-386 – CP/M for 386 protected mode, derived from CP/M‑68K"

m132 — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 05:25:31 +0000

First project of this kind on here in a long while that isn't complete AI slop. Well done, really happy to see some people still doing this!

New comment by m132 in "EU Age Verification Project Mandates Hardware-Bound Attestation"

m132 — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:49:12 +0000

Of course they won't. That's why there's precisely an exemption for government personnel in Chat Control.

https://europeanpirates.eu/chatcontrol-eu-ministers-want-to-...

New comment by m132 in "Android may soon restrict on-device ADB"

m132 — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 09:45:04 +0000

> This attack vector requires both that the user enabled developer settings and that they have remote adb enabled.

Not just that. A non-development Android build will also prompt the user when a connection is made to authorize the client's key.

This once again isn't about security of users, this is about security of the company's interests.