Hacker News: tech234a

New comment by tech234a in "Gemini-3.5-Transcribe"

tech234a — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 02:06:35 +0000

I’ve noticed the some of YouTube’s auto-generated captions will sometimes hallucinate “Heat” during long music segments; probably an older model though.

Mojang is enforcing "inappropriate" MOTDs even on private whitelisted servers

tech234a — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 17:54:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/MinecraftServer/comments/1vwi3nb/mojang_is_apparently_enforcing_inappropriate/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49423511

Points: 27

# Comments: 6

New comment by tech234a in "OpenLogi"

tech234a — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 03:43:23 +0000

Logitech's offline installer is 1.2GB. This application's installer is 15.3MB.

Saying Goodbye to SMS Mode

tech234a — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 23:37:10 +0000

Article URL: https://groupme.com/blog/goodbye-sms-mode

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49339183

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by tech234a in "Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker"

tech234a — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 17:58:56 +0000

Already done by someone else: https://github.com/minh-ton/reynard-browser

New comment by tech234a in "Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin"

tech234a — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 00:25:41 +0000

Haven’t tried it but apparently there is an unofficial port of the full version of uBlock Origin to work on manifest v3, the largest challenge being that, on manifest v3, the webRequestBlocking permission is only available to enterprise sideloaded extensions: https://github.com/r58Playz/uBlock-mv3

New comment by tech234a in "Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin"

tech234a — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 00:22:02 +0000

Edge will lose it within the next few months: https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2026/08/07/moving-the-mi...

New comment by tech234a in "How Claude marks AI-generated content"

tech234a — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 23:40:26 +0000

Article specifically says "worldwide"

New comment by tech234a in "AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon"

tech234a — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 01:54:40 +0000

See also: Twitter statement from Taalas https://x.com/taalas_inc/status/2085458427757937097

New comment by tech234a in "Microsoft Redesigns the Windows Webpage"

tech234a — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 01:36:59 +0000

See also the announcement from the agency: https://x.com/itsoffbrand/status/2084940860366434728

Microsoft Redesigns the Windows Webpage

tech234a — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 01:36:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49204908

Points: 2

# Comments: 3

Fiddler Classic Changes License: Noncommercial Use Only, 45 Days to Comply

tech234a — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 21:31:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.telerik.com/purchase/license-agreement/fiddler

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49175467

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Virtual Mac on Jailbroken M1/M2 iPad

tech234a — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 02:53:11 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/nfzerox/VirtualMacOniPad

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49163896

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by tech234a in "Windows XP 2002 for the Itanium: Unbridled rage"

tech234a — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:41:18 +0000

I wonder if people are able to get Windows Server 2008 R2 to run on this yet as well. That was the last Windows OS to support Itanium, and it received updates until January 14, 2020.

EDIT: there was also an additional patch released in May 2020 according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Server_2008_R2#Itanium

Waxy Refresh: Supercut.org – 20% of Videos Hosted On Vimeo No Longer Accessible

tech234a — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 16:59:47 +0000

Article URL: https://waxy.org/2026/07/waxy-refresh-supercut-org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49136149

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by tech234a in "Minecraft: Java Edition now uses SDL3"

tech234a — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 05:14:30 +0000

They removed obfuscation last year: https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/removing-obfuscation...

New comment by tech234a in "Show HN: Firefox in WebAssembly"

tech234a — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 02:29:51 +0000

Loosely related to porting the Firefox engine in unusual places: here is a project that ports Firefox's Gecko rendering engine to iOS as a sideloadable app (normally Apple only allows its own WebKit rendering engine in iOS apps): https://github.com/minh-ton/reynard-browser

New comment by tech234a in "Cloudflare Drop"

tech234a — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 20:37:23 +0000

And BitBalloon before that (which Netlify acquired) http://web.archive.org/web/20131028083240/https://www.bitbal...

New comment by tech234a in "Aug 31st 2026: All Manifest V2 extensions removed from the Chrome Web Store"

tech234a — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 21:13:04 +0000

While these extensions are no longer usable in Chrome, other browsers can still run them. A third-party site [1] indicates about 16% or 45000 manifest v2 extensions remain as of today.

[1]: https://chrome-stats.com/manifest-v3-migration

Old Reddit to become available only to logged in users

tech234a — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 20:46:02 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/1ujtebf/logging_in_to_use_old_reddit/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48752877

Points: 17

# Comments: 3