Hacker News: nticompasshttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=nticompassHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Fri, 23 Oct 2026 07:08:35 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by nticompass in "An ad-free Android TV"]]>When I moved into my apartment, I went to BestBuy and I was actually able to find a "dumb TV"! They had ONE in stock, it was Insignia (their house brand) and it was sold as "open box". I love it and have had no issues with it.

That being said, I use an Nvidia Shield TV Pro connected to it, and I had to do similar steps on that to replace the launcher and install my own apps. I use "ATV Launcher Pro" (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ca.dstudio.atv...) personally, and it's great.

I also use "Send Files to TV" (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.yablio.sen...) so I can download files on my phone and send them to the TV.

]]>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 12:21:35 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50165267nticompasshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50165267https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50165267<![CDATA[New comment by nticompass in "An ad-free Android TV"]]>What "project"? It's just some adb commands that you can run on your TV/streaming box to disable built-in apps and change settings. The rest are just Android apps that are safe/legit.

]]>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 12:18:58 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50165235nticompasshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50165235https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50165235<![CDATA[New comment by nticompass in "Nvidia's first GPU: GeForce 256"]]>"Geometry Force" sounds like it could be some old kids educational cartoon.

]]>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 12:34:49 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50102724nticompasshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50102724https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50102724<![CDATA[New comment by nticompass in "Wanted to download an ISO, ended up writing a kernel exploit"]]>Does TP-Link just make buggy stuff, or are we just unlucky? I used to have a TP-Link WiFi 6E router, that I used as an access point and a switch (the "routing" was disabled since I use another router).

For whatever reason, that device would drop packets if they were VLAN-tagged. Other packets were fine, but anything to do with VLAN just didn't work. Took me a while to figure out that was the issue and it wasn't with the machine I was trying to configure.

I sold that thing on eBay and replaced it with a "real" access point (and a PoE switch).

]]>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 12:29:27 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50102684nticompasshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50102684https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50102684<![CDATA[New comment by nticompass in "Apple's new 'Switch to Safari' campaign details why you should ditch Chrome"]]>I've seen plenty of websites with a "Works best in Chrome" banner, usually because they use some non-standard web API. Though, I've seen plenty that clearly just didn't care to test outside of Chrome, so they just assume you're using that.

My gripe about "Safari being the new IE" was more about how broken some websites can be in Safari and having no good way of knowing or testing that. At work, my boss said out website didn't look quite right on his iPhone and it took more work than I'd thought to track down the piece of CSS that Safari rendered differently for some reason.

Personally, I don't use macOS or iOS and I also use Firefox. Generally, things seem to work the same between Firefox Chrome and Safari, with Safari needing the most amount of "tweaks".

]]>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 11:27:04 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50085952nticompasshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50085952https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50085952<![CDATA[New comment by nticompass in "Apple's new 'Switch to Safari' campaign details why you should ditch Chrome"]]>There's TrollStore, but that's a hack not an official way.

https://ios.cfw.guide/installing-trollstore/

]]>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 20:12:39 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50077965nticompasshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50077965https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50077965<![CDATA[New comment by nticompass in "Apple's new 'Switch to Safari' campaign details why you should ditch Chrome"]]>As I like to say: "Safari is the new IE."

Also, you /can/ run macOS in a VM on Linux: https://github.com/Coopydood/ultimate-macOS-kvm

I use that to test our website at work in Safari, though without a GPU (there is no virto-gpu driver for macOS and my PC's GPU doesn't support vGPU) the performance isn't great.

]]>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 20:07:31 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50077888nticompasshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50077888https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50077888<![CDATA[Trump Mobile's latest problem: Hackers just released customer information]]>Article URL: https://san.com/cc/trump-mobiles-latest-problem-hackers-just-released-customer-information/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49979967

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]]>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 15:27:24 +0000https://san.com/cc/trump-mobiles-latest-problem-hackers-just-released-customer-information/nticompasshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49979967https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49979967<![CDATA[New comment by nticompass in "Sudo – A dedicated music player designed around listening to music"]]>Reminds me of the Tangara mp3 player: https://cooltech.zone/tangara/

My friend got a Tangara from their "Kickstarter" and I think it's pretty cool. Plus it's open source and you can just make your own.

]]>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 19:14:24 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49925866nticompasshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49925866https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49925866<![CDATA[New comment by nticompass in "Trump renames AI to 'super intelligence' and tells Americans they have no choice"]]>Yet america.gov still refers to it as "AI" ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

> America.gov uses AI to get simple answers only from official government sources.

]]>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 12:47:36 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49920918nticompasshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49920918https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49920918<![CDATA[New comment by nticompass in "Why 'What's Opera, Doc?' looks like that"]]>I can't hear "Ride of the Valkyries" without hearing "Kill the Wabbit" in my head. Also "Spear and magic helmet" :-)

]]>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 12:41:08 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49829810nticompasshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49829810https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49829810<![CDATA[New comment by nticompass in "Solitaire Alone Together"]]>Author's blog post about this project: https://eieio.games/blog/solitaire-alone-together/

]]>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 15:47:28 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49803234nticompasshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49803234https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49803234<![CDATA[New comment by nticompass in "Used ThinkPad Buyer's Guide (2019)"]]>I still have my T430, but I use my X270 more often now.

]]>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 12:17:36 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49800037nticompasshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49800037https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49800037<![CDATA[New comment by nticompass in "Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?"]]>Get mad at me if you want, but whenever I see a new program/project posted, my first thought is "that's cool, please don't be AI slop."

]]>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 15:38:34 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49660244nticompasshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49660244https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49660244<![CDATA[New comment by nticompass in "Don't let anyone take away your big box of cables"]]>I have a Bluesky account (that I rarely use), and I had no idea they used the term "skeet".

]]>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 15:14:33 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49659876nticompasshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49659876https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49659876<![CDATA[New comment by nticompass in "Stockfish 19"]]>Obligatory Tom7 video/papers: https://tom7.org/chess/

This was all I thought of when I read "Stockfish"

]]>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 12:17:49 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49657163nticompasshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49657163https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49657163<![CDATA[New comment by nticompass in "uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook"]]>Man, am I happy that I deleted my Facebook. No regrets.

]]>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:47:20 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49271579nticompasshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49271579https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49271579<![CDATA[New comment by nticompass in "Grok Bot"]]>they should probably kill grok

]]>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:06:09 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49271108nticompasshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49271108https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49271108<![CDATA[New comment by nticompass in "Grok Bot by SpaceXAI"]]>No thanks.

]]>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 17:38:05 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49261703nticompasshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49261703https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49261703<![CDATA[New comment by nticompass in "They Killed Old Reddit"]]>redlib is a thing and has been around for a while.

https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib-instances/blob/main/ins...

]]>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 16:03:14 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49260371nticompasshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49260371https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49260371