<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: martheen</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=martheen</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 04:27:54 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=martheen" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by martheen in "'Not acceptable': Judge orders Google to make rival app store installs easier"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Android, at least those with Play Service, already have built-in scanning for APKs right now. The main problem is currently only Google can "trust" the dev signature for apps they release, so if an app or dev is in Google's naughty list, either for outright malware or for an adblocker, they're out.<p>At least there will be a setting for users to allow any app from any dev, which those who know about it will enable right away, and those who don't know about it have no business to use it anyway.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 07:38:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49295715</link><dc:creator>martheen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49295715</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49295715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by martheen in "uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Chrome is made by an advertising company that also fund almost entirely the budget of Firefox. Even Safari is made by an advertising company. FWIW most of them have <i>some</i> blocking for egregious ads, so they will happily kill someone's else goose.<p>Personally I think the easiest would be to support uBO or at least have a built-in engine that can load filters written for uBO. Anything else is just wasting development time.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 08:43:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49283227</link><dc:creator>martheen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49283227</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49283227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by martheen in "Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Search for it in the Start menu, right click uninstall. You can do the same with most other preloaded apps, or use whatever powershell incantation to do it in batch.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 07:27:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49240457</link><dc:creator>martheen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49240457</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49240457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by martheen in "Every fast write moves work somewhere else"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>UFS WriteBooster not only have a buffer that eventually need to be flushed, since it uses flash cells with pseudo-SLC behavior, the write amplification is even higher, to the point that they give it a special flag because using it all the time will just kill the media faster.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 02:31:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49238596</link><dc:creator>martheen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49238596</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49238596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by martheen in "Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Iris Xe in 12th-gen do this, no idea since when it's added. There's still a minimum configurable shared allocation option in the BIOS, probably for legacy OS, but after booting Windows it can take up to 8 GB of the system RAM.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 01:48:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49238338</link><dc:creator>martheen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49238338</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49238338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by martheen in "Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://www.eetimes.com/hot-25-wen-chi-chenvia-technologies/" rel="nofollow">https://www.eetimes.com/hot-25-wen-chi-chenvia-technologies/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 09:03:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49220047</link><dc:creator>martheen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49220047</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49220047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by martheen in "Why Estonians invite strangers into their back gardens each summer"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sikh's similarly serve communal meal, langar, which invite everyone to come and eat together. As a non-Sikh, being invited to such events is such an educational experience because they're a very small minority in my country so pretty much everything I see was new to me.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 06:11:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49206487</link><dc:creator>martheen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49206487</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49206487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by martheen in "Improving GPT‑5.6 Sol in ChatGPT, expanding GPT‑5.6 Luna access for free users"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Even the Philippines and Thailand are <i>lower</i> in per-capita usage compared to the US, most of the higher use are in Europe. Interestingly Australia & New Zealand are also pretty high, similar to Europe and far more than Asia & Africa in general, with the exception being Saudi Arabia (similar to US) and Israel (even higher than Australia). <a href="https://openai.com/signals/data" rel="nofollow">https://openai.com/signals/data</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 05:49:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49206326</link><dc:creator>martheen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49206326</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49206326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by martheen in "I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://developer.android.com/developer-verification/guides/faq#advanced-flow" rel="nofollow">https://developer.android.com/developer-verification/guides/...</a>, it's tied to the Google account so afterwards any device owned by the user can install F-Droid and any APK made by "unverified" devs.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 07:53:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49193796</link><dc:creator>martheen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49193796</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49193796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by martheen in "I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Even when I'm still using a "classic" bank with card and a website that don't even use JS, I can't afford to use Windows Phone as my daily because it doesn't have the ride hailing apps used in my country. My current and previous office use proprietary app for clocking in and out, that are also only available on iOS and Android. Even public servants in my countries in all levels have to carry either of those two for location tracking.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 03:58:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49192257</link><dc:creator>martheen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49192257</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49192257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by martheen in "Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are against LLM usage"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Only if the second LLM can be proven to never got trained/distilled from a model that trained on the original source code.<p>Probably impossible if the original code is publicly available since most code oriented LLM just gobble them all.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 03:22:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49192039</link><dc:creator>martheen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49192039</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49192039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by martheen in "Thanks FedEx, This Is Why We Keep Getting Phished (2024)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Wait, multiple messages get concatenated to MMS? In early 2010s I remember in my country it's still concatenated as regular text (so if one part is somehow missing or comes in very late, some phones will only show the surviving parts as one, others dump each parts separately), I guess they remove that functionality? Back then each part cost roughly one cent and plenty of phones in use still don't support MMS, then people just jump into WhatsApp entirely when Nokia support it in their feature phone.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 04:40:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49178639</link><dc:creator>martheen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49178639</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49178639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by martheen in "I wanted a clock that never needed setting. Things escalated"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Nokia proposed using SIB9 5G time transmission as time syncing in clocks, the idea being that transmission is available openly even for non-subscriber. Softbank later proposed commercializing the service, which is unclear to me since surely the public transmission would be enough for casual users and anyone requiring more would already use full 5G to control the device anyway.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 08:20:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49066592</link><dc:creator>martheen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49066592</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49066592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by martheen in "I wanted a clock that never needed setting. Things escalated"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I read up the manual before realizing the vaunted tech is simply a battery backup and setting the clock in the factory.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 07:56:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49066408</link><dc:creator>martheen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49066408</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49066408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by martheen in "I wanted a clock that never needed setting. Things escalated"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>At this point it is almost pure nostalgia. Having one in the classroom or living room was crucial in my childhood because almost nobody have watches or any electronics that can tell time for that matter (computer? pfft, the school don't even have a single computer).<p>Later on, when everyone has their own (which are also highly accurate due to tower/network regular syncing) on their phone, I noticed that moving to a new place/classroom/office no longer involve ensuring that we have a wall clock. Nice if there's one, but otherwise we don't care, and if the battery run out, we can't be arsed to buy one and just put it in the shelf.<p>At this point appliances with accurate clock would only be those connected to the internet (because otherwise TLS won't work if they drifted long enough), dumb devices won't have battery-backed clock because that will cut a single cent of profit which obviously a tragedy that must be prevented at all costs.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 07:46:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49066313</link><dc:creator>martheen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49066313</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49066313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by martheen in "AI bet goes awry: Oracle fires 21,000 employees"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Virtualbox is inherited too, originally by Innotek, then they got bought by Sun, and later Sun bought by Oracle. Oracle also let OpenOffice languish, restricted Solaris, restricted the Java framework (it was already open sourced by Sun before their acquisition, we got tons of OpenJDK build precisely because of Oracle hobbling Java licensing) and sit on the Java language development long enough that JetBrains comes up with Kotlin (is that "good"? Probably bad, just like if someone let a good restaurant crumble and others got fed up and start their own)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 06:23:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49031831</link><dc:creator>martheen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49031831</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49031831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by martheen in "HMD Touch 4G"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In theory, yes, a dedicated development team should be able to write a usable feature phone OS today, considering we had blazing fast feature phones in 2013 at even lower spec playing music seamlessly while browsing the web.<p>In practice this phone's YouTube reviews show it's running dog slow while lacking basic features, just like pretty much any other recently released feature phones at its price point.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:35:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48976889</link><dc:creator>martheen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48976889</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48976889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by martheen in "HMD Touch 4G"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This phone cost about one-fifth of India's minimum monthly wage, while proper new Android cost one-third of monthly wage. My country's economy is somewhat in the same ballpark as India and I doubt anyone I know would buy this. In an r/dumbphones reviews, comments by Indians shows nobody cares about these devices aside from those buying weird devices for curiosity sake.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 04:09:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48974242</link><dc:creator>martheen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48974242</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48974242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by martheen in "HMD Touch 4G"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A dedicated app that's only compatible with itself and only have miniscule install count means nothing. I tried downloading it and it only even support 4 countries prefix at the moment. It's also not that cheaper compared to "proper" smartphone from other brands in that area. Notebookcheck says it's launched with 3999 rupees while I see Itel Zeno 10 is just 4769 rupees. With India's unskilled labor minimum monthly wage about 20000 rupees I don't think anyone would care about the price difference.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 01:03:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48973283</link><dc:creator>martheen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48973283</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48973283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by martheen in "Why American ambulance rides are so expensive"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I can literally buy a nice house with that just outside the city. And we somehow have universal healthcare despite the average salary is not even one-tenth of American.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 10:27:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48858083</link><dc:creator>martheen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48858083</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48858083</guid></item></channel></rss>