Hacker News: pogue

New comment by pogue in "GrapheneOS duress PIN could land a man in prison"

pogue — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 07:57:57 +0000

If he hadn't given the authorities the duress pin, and presumably they had seized it, would the encryption/protection GrapheneOS provides have been enough to keep them from accessing it's contents? I've never used Graphene so I'm unfamiliar with all it's features.

My Samsung phone has a feature to automatically format the device if the wrong code is entered X number of times, and I have security software that would let me wipe it remotely (if it still had internet access) so this whole situation brings up a lot of questions about features like this.

EDIT More discussion about it here, but it's quite technical. I was a bit confused about the rate limiting stuff and etc.

GrapheneOS protections against data extraction from locked devices - HN Post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49055169

New comment by pogue in "[dead]"

pogue — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 07:38:17 +0000

Looks like the script itself isn't doing much at all.

https://github.com/50YearsPhone/vision-50-years-phone/blob/m...

New comment by pogue in "Possible invasive species superspreader event near Strait of Hormuz"

pogue — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 01:44:15 +0000

Things just keep getting better and better with this war. I love reading the news.

New comment by pogue in "Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta warn against overregulating open-weight models"

pogue — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 15:50:11 +0000

Great, how about some frontier models like China seems to be doing on a weekly basis at this point. Give us a CoPilot variant that's open source & open weights.

New comment by pogue in "Indian govt orders GitHub to block Bitchat"

pogue — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 15:11:26 +0000

Thanks for this. This has to be one of the worst websites I've ever tried to use. I couldn't even scroll the page in half the mobile browsers I tried, despite turning off adblocking & etc. Absolutely abhorrent layout.

New comment by pogue in "Microsoft – Open Weights and American AI Leadership"

pogue — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 14:58:39 +0000

Ok, great, so Microsoft believes in open weight models. So... uhh, why not release a few?

New comment by pogue in "Miss the old web? Join us haywood.computer"

pogue — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 05:10:44 +0000

I like it. Is the music AI generated though?

New comment by pogue in "Better and Cheaper Than IPTV"

pogue — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 01:42:20 +0000

It's an alternative way to cast media to your TV by way of somehow ripping the streaming video off said website or service.

New comment by pogue in "Supplement that binds to microplastics may remove them from our body"

pogue — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 21:57:17 +0000

I did also come across this article on Ergo log detailing a study that a chitosan supplement may reduce microplastics absorption (small stud, caveats of course).

Concentration of microplastics in the body decreases due to chitosan supplementation https://www.ergo-log.com/chitosan-microplastics-body.html

New comment by pogue in "Briar is in maintenance mode"

pogue — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 14:00:53 +0000

Sounds like it's basically dead. The issue with messenger apps is that they're a dime a dozen, there are so many of them and they offer so much variability in security, privacy, but most importantly usability and uptime. If your friends won't switch to them, there's almost no point in having them or using them.

New comment by pogue in "Nuclear war survival guide reveals seven everyday items if disaster strikes"

pogue — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 05:43:37 +0000

There are a few editions of this guide, apparently, and the most recent is a 2022 edition, but it contains most information of the older editions but might have a newer foreword.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_War_Survival_Skills

This is the 2022 edition linked from Wikipedia: https://link.us1.storjshare.io/s/jxoqtjnsv35pbrrndvy3gifrqqo...

Here is a html version of the book that has clickable chapter links and so forth: https://www.oism.org/nwss/

New comment by pogue in "Spiel: Chrome extension that reads articles/PDFs aloud with local TTS"

pogue — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 04:11:42 +0000

Sounds like a very cool project. I often use the ElevenLabs app/extension to listen to articles, but I would love to have a local option to do this. I'm on Windows though, so I look forward to your future updates.

New comment by pogue in "DeepSeek-AI/DeepSeek-v3.2"

pogue — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 02:49:29 +0000

I came here to ask the same question.

There's some details here but I still don't fully understand.

https://huggingbay.xyz/start

EDIT So, I did a very preliminary search and it appears some people are concerned that HuggingFace is going to be banned for some reason or another are are building some type(s) of repository for open source models.

Here are a few mentions of it on reddit and twitter but really no in depth conversation about why it exists, what purpose it serves or how it's meant to be used. [1] [2]

There was another project mentioned called Tensorbay available at tensorbay[.]net and seems to have torrents for different models, weights, old scrapped websites that might be useful for training data & etc. But, I can't confirm the security or anything about it, so of course, visit all this stuff at your own risk.

I'd love to hear from whoever runs this project what it is and what it's for.

EDIT 2

*THE "PIRATE BAY" FOR OPEN LLMS IS HERE* [3]

[3] https://community.startuptalky.com/discussions/post/the-pira...

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1upmvb3/hugging... [2] https://x.com/RoundtableSpace/status/2073840584955994527

New comment by pogue in "How the terrorist group Boko Haram uses frontier AI"

pogue — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 19:33:59 +0000

I noticed the nytimes just published an article about this.

How Terrorist Groups Are Using A.I. to Gain an Edge in Battle https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/us/politics/ai-terrorism-...

New comment by pogue in "Transparency efforts behind the Helium Browser"

pogue — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 16:03:35 +0000

This seems to be the only way forward from what I can figure. Helium's main selling point is that it's essentially degoogled chromium + a few miscellaneous patches & full uBlock. But once Google completely strips all that out of Chromium project, that won't be a tenable option.

I'm not sure what Opera/Vivaldi/et al. use for their native adblocking, but Brave's rust adblocker makes the most sense to me. Really it's uBlock's filtering lists that keep the whole thing working anyway.

New comment by pogue in "Transparency efforts behind the Helium Browser"

pogue — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:10:32 +0000

How are they going to be adding uBlock Origin to Chromium going forward if manifest v2 gets completely deprecated/removed entirely?

New comment by pogue in "Amazon without the knockoffs"

pogue — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 16:58:13 +0000

How did you determine who was a no name drop shipper though? Based on what criteria?

New comment by pogue in "Amazon without the knockoffs"

pogue — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 13:17:02 +0000

I think you're going to have to standardize what you consider to be knock offs and what's not, or you're going to end up in continuous quagmires like this trying to make a determination based on vibes.

You might even end up getting together a team of volunteers to look through them or it'll probably get overwhelming.

What determination did you use to make the original list?

New comment by pogue in "Geosql: A Claude/Codex skill for geospatial data"

pogue — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 12:32:00 +0000

I wonder if this would be useful in OSINT stuff.

New comment by pogue in "Browser extension to filter out all unknown brands from Amazon search results"

pogue — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 12:11:39 +0000

So, how did you come up with the brand names and decide on what is a knock off and what is not? I looked over the Github and really didn't see any specific criteria mentioned.