Hacker News: pogue

New comment by pogue in "System-level ad-blocking in Android"

pogue — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 20:47:19 +0000

Very cool. I hope they get some NA server locations as ControlD has them beat there. Hagezi's DNS only use their Pro list + TIF, but if you wanted to use Normal or Light ControlD would still be a good option. I keep their TIF list in adblock.

https://controld.com/network

New comment by pogue in "System-level ad-blocking in Android"

pogue — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 22:48:09 +0000

I used NextDNS for a long time, but they offer absolutely zero support for their customers.

I ended up just switching to Control D's free tier using the Hagezi blocklist. You can try Normal, Pro & Pro+ for typical usage (I stick to pro normally). That + Brave and I'm pretty much ad free.

https://docs.controld.com/docs/free-dns

Jevstiller: Open-source tool distills Jev so you can run it locally

pogue — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 18:23:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/09/29/open-source-tool-distills-jev-so-you-can-run-it-locally/5299856

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49912498

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New comment by pogue in "I switched to Brave"

pogue — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 18:16:46 +0000

It's really a shame Opera didn't open source the Presto engine.

New comment by pogue in "God's Eye UAP – documented UFO cases on a 3D globe, with the evidence"

pogue — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 13:18:17 +0000

I think this got posted here the other day and is a study with an interesting premise, which is to look at historical bluebook reports and see if there are correlation to known nuclear tests going on at or around the same time and I believe other astrological events (bright stars or etc - I forget exactly).

But, that could be other possibly freely available data sets you could add to your project, such as if there's known planets in high visibility, geothermal storms, SpaceX launches, satellite falls, maybe flight radar data if that freely exists, and so on.

Anyway very interesting! You might see what the ufo/uap community on reddit thinks about it.

Transients in the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS-I) may be associated with nuclear testing and reports of unidentified anomalous phenomena https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-21620-3

New comment by pogue in "Hubble Network Opens Satellite Coverage to All Bluetooth Devices"

pogue — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 19:38:00 +0000

Can someone explain this to me?? You can connect any Bluetooth device to a satellite for what purpose?

New comment by pogue in "Leaving Proton Mail"

pogue — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 21:38:17 +0000

What specifically is broken?

New comment by pogue in "XCancel service is suspended until further notice"

pogue — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 10:08:40 +0000

Any details about what's going on? Is Nitter/their Github still up?

New comment by pogue in "Security through obscurity is dead, and AI delivered the fatal blow"

pogue — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 15:25:55 +0000

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New comment by pogue in "BasedAgents: Give your idle AI agent a paying job"

pogue — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 09:52:07 +0000

How long is a typical task and what would be the payment come out to in USD for that amount?

New comment by pogue in "Trump promises $5k payout to U.S. adults if Republicans win election"

pogue — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 04:31:46 +0000

Since becoming president again, Trump has promised: -$5000 stimulus checks via "DOGE dividend" -$2000 stimulus checks via "tariff dividend" -$1000+ checks via "savings" from expiring ACA subsidies -$5000 "dividend" if Rs win midterms No checks have been issued https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-magically-disappearing-st...

Catherine Rampell / The Bulwark via Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/crampell.bsky.social/post/3mv4z7az4...

New comment by pogue in "Long-term melatonin use linked to 90% higher heart failure risk"

pogue — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 08:44:32 +0000

This has been posted & discussed extensively in the past

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45867371

New comment by pogue in "Play GTA Vice City in the Browser"

pogue — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 09:03:31 +0000

It's Vice City, not GTA3.

New comment by pogue in "Afterglow: Run classic After Dark screen savers on modern macOS"

pogue — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 03:36:44 +0000

That would be great, of course. I have found a ready made Flying Toaster screensaver floating around and used that. But, I figured if someone had done it for Mac, surely there'd be a Windows version out there.

New comment by pogue in "Afterglow: Run classic After Dark screen savers on modern macOS"

pogue — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 22:41:56 +0000

I appreciate the link, but as far as using it aa a screen saver, that's not what I'm looking for.

I would think if this mac After Dark project is open source, the assets would be available to use in other software.

New comment by pogue in "Afterglow: Run classic After Dark screen savers on modern macOS"

pogue — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 08:50:09 +0000

I need this for Windows.

The After Dark screensavers are on the internet archive, but obviously they look and run like crap since they're made for Windows 3.x to maybe 95/98.

New comment by pogue in "Qwen 3.8 27B Uncensored – Testing the Uncensored Qwen Model"

pogue — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 21:55:01 +0000

Can we just download the uncensored model ourselves?

New comment by pogue in "[dead]"

pogue — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 14:20:49 +0000

Cool story bro.

New comment by pogue in "A Decongestant Debate That Won't Clear Up"

pogue — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 19:10:51 +0000

There should be a class action lawsuit against the manufacturers of this stuff that have been defrauding us by claiming it works since ephedrine and pseudoephedrine was banned in 2005. They include it in countless formulas, like daytime cold and flu and so on and so forth.

Phenylephrine does, however, work when sprayed directly in the nasal passages, but like it's counterpart, Afrin (oxymetazoline hcl), it's addictive and only works for 4 hours.

New comment by pogue in "Can Anthropic's invisible watermarks curb AI slop? Researchers remain sceptical"

pogue — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 13:56:21 +0000

https://archive.ph/6Wwzg