Hacker News: m132

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.

New comment by m132 in "Roblox Officially Supports GrapheneOS"

m132 — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 14:01:22 +0000

Don't get too excited, this still goes against the basic freedom to own the devices you've paid for.

Remote attestation is still there and only official builds of GrapheneOS are supported. While this is marginally better than being tied to a build from an advertising company, you're still out of luck if you want to build the OS yourself.

New comment by m132 in "LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps"

m132 — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 08:30:19 +0000

Hopefully nobody, but still—it takes just one

New comment by m132 in "Show HN: Super Dario"

m132 — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 21:48:29 +0000

Now all that's missing is being able to move and jump at once

New comment by m132 in "Microsoft Can Track Users via a Windows Device ID"

m132 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 10:57:32 +0000

Duplicate? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48807767

New comment by m132 in "Windows telemetry used to track web activity, link VPN activity to source IP"

m132 — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:24:53 +0000

From https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndil/media/1450651/dl:

[...]

23. According to ngrok records, on or about May 12, 2025, at 19:21 UTC, an ngrok account with the ngrok authentication token was created and assigned Account ID ac_2x0b16MSTJk4PvjLZMoqt4vOvZM (the “ngrok account”). Also, according to ngrok records, the IP address of the user who created the ngrok account was 68.235.46.168. According to public IP records, the .168 IP address is assigned to a server hosted by Tzulo. According to Tzulo records, that server is in Mount Prospect, Illinois, and that IP address is assigned to a VPN proxy service.

[...]

25. According to Microsoft records, the ngrok account was set up through Global Device Identifier g:6755467234350028 (“the GDID”). According to a Microsoft representative, a Global Device Identifier in the Windows ecosystem is a persistent, device-level identifier designed to uniquely identify an installation of a Windows operating system on a device, either a physical device (e.g., a mobile phone or laptop) or virtual machine, across certain Microsoft services and scenarios. A GDID is a globally unique identifier tied to the installation of Windows on a device. A GDID remains consistent across Windows operating system updates on a device, but a reinstall of Windows, either on the same device or on a different device, will be tied to a new unique GDID.

26. According to Microsoft records, on or about May 12, 2025, at 19:21 UTC—when, according to ngrok records, the ngrok account was created—the device with the GDID accessed, among other ngrok pages, “https://dashboard.ngrok.com/signup,” the ngrok page to set up an ngrok account.

27. Microsoft records also indicate: (1) the user of the device assigned the GDID accessed multiple sites from Tzulo servers in May 2025, including the .168 server (the IP address used to create the ngrok account) on May 12, 2025; and (2) the user of the device assigned the GDID, on May 12, 2025 at 22:47 UTC, a little more than three hours after the ngrok account was created, the user visited “[Company F].com” from the .168 proxy server.

[...]

29. On January 8, 2025, the device with the GDID used the IP address 213.35.168.50, geolocated to Tallinn, Estonia, where STOKES lived, to visit the URL https://login.growtopiagame.com/player/login/dashboard?valKe...

[...]

Windows telemetry used to track web activity, link VPN activity to source IP

m132 — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:24:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows-11-identifier-used-to-track-scattered-spider-perp-after-microsoft-shared-info-with-fbi-19-year-old-us-estonian-hacker-arrested-over-alleged-ties-to-infamous-extortion-group

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48807767

Points: 18

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New comment by m132 in "EU Council forces Chat Control via fast-track"

m132 — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 16:44:24 +0000

It's a strong signal to start building such an Internet and slowly withdraw from using anything centralized.

New comment by m132 in "EU Council forces Chat Control via fast-track"

m132 — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 16:43:07 +0000

They do, albeit it's a slow process:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfizergate

- https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/eu-secret-gr...

Ironically, those are two separate cases of one high-profile EU politician (in fact, the very head of the same parliament that pushes for mass scanning of private messages) BOTH involving secret text messages that the mentioned politician refuses to reveal.

New comment by m132 in "EU Council forces Chat Control via fast-track"

m132 — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 16:16:09 +0000

The central bank, council, and commission have to get thoroughly investigated. The amount of questionable decisions coming from those three in the recent (15) years is extremely unsettling. The parliament and courts are practically the only institutions preventing things from hitting the fan at this point, and struggling to do so, it seems.

New comment by m132 in "EU Council forces Chat Control via fast-track"

m132 — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 16:10:27 +0000

This is what made me disable JavaScript by default in 2018. I didn't even get this banner.