Hacker News: skiman10

New comment by skiman10 in "Suica, Japan's First IC Transit Card"

skiman10 — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:21:03 +0000

All Pixels have the hardware, it's only activated on Japan-based skus. You can root and change the sku to the japanese model and it works. Allegedly the Pixel 11 is only the US sku and the international sku, so all international 11s should have it activated unless they do some serious shenanigans.

New comment by skiman10 in "CBP signs Clearview AI deal to use face recognition for 'tactical targeting'"

skiman10 — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 20:10:27 +0000

Are we the same person?

I subbed to Wired last year during a sale and uh... I was never given a premium account linked to my email and support would never answer me. I signed up for the print edition as well and never received any of those. I was getting their newsletter though and that was new. Then I emailed to cancel when I got a billing notification to my email and they were able to cancel it just fine so apparently I did have an account? And then like two weeks ago I received the latest print edition.

Truly have no idea what that was about, but anyway glad to see someone else out here supporting almost all the same news orgs as me (404media is amazing!)

New comment by skiman10 in "Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability"

skiman10 — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 16:21:08 +0000

Samsung trackers also use their own network.

New comment by skiman10 in "Galaxy XR: The first Android XR headset"

skiman10 — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 20:10:24 +0000

The Pixel Slate actually did run ChromeOS and then could run Android apps in a VM haha.

And those aren't rumors, there is a pretty big effort to get Android ready for ChromeOS and get feature parity. Which to me is really unfortunate, CrOS has such a nice linux base.

New comment by skiman10 in "Google Pixel 10 series review"

skiman10 — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 23:11:57 +0000

This only happens if the AICore app is installed. Since it isn't on Graphene then the full 16gb allocation of ram is available for the entire system.

A new layer of security for certified Android devices

skiman10 — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 17:48:30 +0000

Article URL: https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/08/elevating-android-security.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45016602

Points: 8

# Comments: 0

New comment by skiman10 in "Android 16 Is Here"

skiman10 — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 19:45:02 +0000

And just to clarify, Material 3 Expressive is not shipping in these builds, that will be in a quarterly release build in probably in the first week of September.

New comment by skiman10 in "Android and Wear OS are getting a redesign"

skiman10 — Tue, 13 May 2025 20:29:03 +0000

You can expand or shrink every tile now instead of only being able to swap position of the tiles. So more tiles per page.

New comment by skiman10 in "Blog hosted on a Nintendo Wii"

skiman10 — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 03:01:56 +0000

Haha what? I simply must know more about how you achieved that!

New comment by skiman10 in "The Egg (2009)"

skiman10 — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 17:43:02 +0000

New comment by skiman10 in "Two new PebbleOS watches"

skiman10 — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 19:17:49 +0000

The Daylight computer DC-1 isn't e-ink it's a reflective LCD by the way. Different screen technology.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40457491

New comment by skiman10 in "Top links on Bluesky, Updated Hourly"

skiman10 — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 21:13:37 +0000

I had the same question and I found the repo link in an about page linked at the bottom!

https://github.com/georgemblack/blue-report

New comment by skiman10 in "All Kindles can now be jailbroken"

skiman10 — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 21:34:40 +0000

It runs a custom Android 13 based skin with access to the Play Store.

The First Beta of Android 16

skiman10 — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 20:29:36 +0000

Article URL: https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/01/first-beta-android16.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42807756

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by skiman10 in "This website is hosted on Bluesky"

skiman10 — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 19:30:59 +0000

Cool yeah. I think the thing I was most interested in was interacting with Bluesky through rust. Is there a decent sdk for that?

New comment by skiman10 in "This website is hosted on Bluesky"

skiman10 — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 17:05:37 +0000

Do you have that code posted somewhere by chance? I would be interested in browsing through it!

New comment by skiman10 in "The Onion Buys Alex Jones's Infowars Out of Bankruptcy"

skiman10 — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 14:44:55 +0000

I actually have a copy that I stumbled across recently at a book store near me. I'm sure it won't be like the old days, but it was really cool to pick a hard copy up while out and about in town.

What's new in Android 15, plus more updates

skiman10 — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 17:02:32 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.google/products/android/android-15/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41850620

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by skiman10 in "Moments in Chromecast's history"

skiman10 — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 17:44:18 +0000

In 2021 they praised the device as having good performance at a price point that is ~$30-40 less than what Google is launching their device at. The second gen of that Fire stick is selling for $40 right now on sale with Wi-Fi 6E. I saw some benchmarks posted of this chip and some others (with a Pixel 6 thrown in arguing that using a bunch of older Tensor chips might have also been a good idea.) And also a Shield TV which is 5 years old at this point.

Single core:

Fire Stick - 140

Shield TV - 279 (99% faster, twice as fast).

Tensor G1 (Pixel 6 Pro) - 1007 (619% faster, seven times faster)

A15 (Apple TV) - 1684 (1103% faster, 12 times as fast).

Multi-core:

Fire Stick - 491

Shield TV - 971 (98% faster, twice as fast).

Tensor G1 (Pixel 6 Pro) - 2541 (418% faster, five times faster)

A15 (Apple TV) - 4489 (814% faster, nine times as fast).

New comment by skiman10 in "Moments in Chromecast's history"

skiman10 — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 14:51:26 +0000

Twice the price with a chip from 2021.

https://www.androidauthority.com/google-tv-streamer-processo...