Hacker News: phreack

New comment by phreack in "WWDC 2026: Apple is Folding"

phreack — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 15:36:43 +0000

Seeing this literally after my foldable full on broke through the axle after not even half a year makes me concerned for Apple

New comment by phreack in "The placeholder name for the Windows 8 experience was "modern""

phreack — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:15:16 +0000

I spell it KDE but it might be regional variance (:

New comment by phreack in "The California state assembly has passed the 'Protect Our Games Act'"

phreack — Fri, 29 May 2026 20:09:47 +0000

> The bill applies to digitally sold games. However, it excludes games provided via subscription services, free-to-play games, and games that are inherently playable offline indefinitely. It also prohibits the continued sale or distribution of games that have become unusable due to service termination.

I believe this is the key paragraph. I wonder if this will be an incentive towards making more games qualify for those exceptions. I think the previous cases where this act would apply are few but good thing they wouldn't increase under this act.

New comment by phreack in "When “idle” isn't idle: how a Linux kernel optimization became a QUIC bug"

phreack — Wed, 13 May 2026 23:04:36 +0000

Another LLM tell is that they penalize repetition so they'll use as many synonyms as possible. You may end up recognizing the same concept being rehashed with synonyms constantly. You can look up examples of thie as "elegant variation"

New comment by phreack in "Copy Fail"

phreack — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 19:06:20 +0000

The page itself seems vibecoded and a bit of an advertisement, but it does look like the vulnerability is real and high risk. It does explain the big security update I just got, guess I'll prioritize updating today.

New comment by phreack in "Your phone is about to stop being yours"

phreack — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 16:26:56 +0000

Not much, as it only works on very few high end phones not sold in most countries. Hopefully their Motorola partnership will expand its availability but I'm not confident that'll happen anytime soon.

New comment by phreack in "Claude Opus 4.7"

phreack — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 07:39:35 +0000

This has been the worst upgrade so far. Claude Code had been doing great for months, then the past week took a nosedive. And today I find that _continuing_ a session from yesterday that had nothing to do with cybersecurity (literally pasted a stacktrace from a rare crash and told it to help me find a reproduction case to be able to fix it, as we very regularly did) suddenly ran afoul of usage policies and stopped the chat entirely. It's kind of a joke phrase by now, but in this case it's 100% serious, such behavior has made Claude Code literally unusable.

As a bonus, it somehow ate my entire daily allotment in a single prompt, something which had never happened before. I'll try again on Monday and if there's no change cancel my subscription outright and demand a refund.

New comment by phreack in "Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th"

phreack — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 18:29:05 +0000

That was my immediate impression too! It feels like it's all AI maximalists who seem to have a need to filter their every interaction through an LLM. And the result looks and reads just like Moltbook.

New comment by phreack in "Senior European journalist suspended over AI-generated quotes"

phreack — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 16:50:59 +0000

> “It is particularly painful that I made precisely the mistake I have repeatedly warned colleagues about: these language models are so good that they produce irresistible quotes you are tempted to use as an author. Of course, I should have verified them. The necessary ‘human oversight’, which I consistently advocate, fell short.”

What? Irresistible quotes? This betrays a terrible way of thinking as a journalist. Basically an admission of wanting to fake news that'd sound good. At that point just write fiction.

New comment by phreack in "OpenAI Has New Focus (on the IPO)"

phreack — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 06:24:09 +0000

If I end up using ChatGPT for any reason, I always preface with something like "2 sentences maximum. No emojis. Be professional." at the very least. It tends to improve things a bit.

Disrupted Bitbucket Availability

phreack — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 03:15:04 +0000

Article URL: https://bitbucket.status.atlassian.com/incidents/kp6zgtgk83mc

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47270404

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by phreack in "In a genre where spoilers are devastating, how do we talk about puzzle games?"

phreack — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 06:07:44 +0000

I took something away from this article. While I enjoyed Blue Prince very much even though I played it alone, the surprisingly most enjoyable aspect of the game came externally - it was (and is) following my friends' journey through the game and being there to give them custom made consensual spoiler-free, hints when they needed. Some times simply being told you're barking up a very wrong tree or that you don't have enough information yet is exactly what you need to not get burnt out. I keep wondering if there's a way to have that baked into the game. Something to brainstorm.

New comment by phreack in "I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file?"

phreack — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 21:40:02 +0000

Wait what? Really? All caps is a bannable offense? That should be in all caps, pardon me, in the terms of use if that's the case. Even more so since there's no support at the highest price point.

New comment by phreack in "EmuDevz: A game about developing emulators"

phreack — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 20:43:52 +0000

There's links on the homepage to the soundtrack and credits, the artist is called Synthenia.

New comment by phreack in "EmuDevz: A game about developing emulators"

phreack — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 13:45:33 +0000

I'm amazed at the amount of work and love that's in this game, that you can play for free. I hope it helps more devs get into the retro scene!

AGP 9.0 is out, and it's a disaster. Here's a full migration guide

phreack — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 14:55:49 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/1qi110y/agp_90_is_out_and_its_a_disaster_heres_full/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46692427

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by phreack in "Nova Launcher added Facebook and Google Ads tracking"

phreack — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 14:43:37 +0000

I would honestly have stayed in version 6 of Nova because of the as yet unrecreated magical feature of allowing unread count badges on the home screen for many popular apps, that are not tied to notifications, via TeslaUnread. I've been trying to reverse engineer it a bit to see if I can recreate the functionality somehow, but all I've managed to figure out is that the icons are really widgets that look like icons and run _something_.

Features like that one, and browser text reflow, are such must haves to me that we used to have a decade ago and lost along the way for no good reason, it's frustrating.

New comment by phreack in "Apple testing new App Store design that blurs the line between ads and results"

phreack — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 19:26:50 +0000

If an iPhone is going to be as bad as an Android like that then what's the point. The "premium" feeling is eroded like this.

New comment by phreack in "Open Chaos: A self-evolving open-source project"

phreack — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 18:29:26 +0000

https://github.com/skridlevsky/openchaos?tab=readme-ov-file#...

Anyone makes a PR, there's a vote and highest voted one gets merged every week. It's marvelous.

New comment by phreack in "Microsoft denies rewriting Windows 11 in Rust using AI"

phreack — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 19:47:25 +0000

The "and _algorithms_" part of it even sounds like a parody.