Hacker News: x______________

New comment by x______________ in "LineageOS Statistics"

x______________ — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 16:34:28 +0000

Interesting to see 1 os install per country of millions of people (EG: last entry, 161 installs: 160 in Argentina, 1 in the UK)

New comment by x______________ in "LineageOS Statistics"

x______________ — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 08:43:30 +0000

> The phone is now a boring device made for scrolling and running apps that are mandatory to participate in modern society.

..a boring ¡spyware! device that tracks and listens to you!

Also you forgot to mention that you're sharing your personal and device details to our 1,893 e21 partners!

Really though, I'm just waiting for that AI agent that will help me shop online on my phone.. That's my vision of a perfect future!! /s

(how is this boring?:))

New comment by x______________ in "Microsoft Can Track Users via a Windows Device ID"

x______________ — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 08:35:13 +0000

Scary huh? What else aren't they telling us..

New comment by x______________ in "The family keeping watch over a 52-year-old pot of soup"

x______________ — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 15:05:46 +0000

One of the speculations as to how life was created on this planet: stable environments hosting hydrothermal vents over long periods of time.

Could perpetual stews over decades act in the same manner?

New comment by x______________ in "The family keeping watch over a 52-year-old pot of soup"

x______________ — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 15:00:50 +0000

When publishing, it's always important to get a fresh viewpoint from an unrelated account/device to ensure nothing looks amiss!

New comment by x______________ in "Companies hire more after AI adoption"

x______________ — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 11:42:52 +0000

Larger tech companies are in the process of changing recruitment to only hire positions for core AI roles.. Good luck out there.

New comment by x______________ in "Full Writeup of the Windows GDID"

x______________ — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 11:40:47 +0000

Gonna have to /s this one and say firstname.lastname @ icloud.com

New comment by x______________ in "Microsoft Can Track Users via a Windows Device ID"

x______________ — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 11:35:06 +0000

From the reply you're replying to:

> 27. Microsoft records also indicate: <...> a little more than three hours after the ngrok account was created, the user visited “[Company F].com” from the .168 proxy server.

New comment by x______________ in "Microsoft GDID telemetry includes full browsing and gaming history"

x______________ — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 05:30:12 +0000

by* - source was in comments:

https://x.com/vxunderground/status/2073427396535963967

New comment by x______________ in "I'm building a Space Cadet Pinball Machine! [video]"

x______________ — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 19:00:40 +0000

Make sure to keep a record of your work and blog it up for others to enjoy!

New comment by x______________ in "Tell HN: Delete Google"

x______________ — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 17:27:54 +0000

Many people go through this thought experiment throughout their lives.. The vastness of big tech is limitless.

Burner sim cards and dumb phones can solve alot of issues. VPNs and disposable VMs as well. Surf the net safely comrade.

New comment by x______________ in "Trump may be mystery patient in case of 79yo getting experimental obesity drug"

x______________ — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 11:17:55 +0000

Ars + buzzwords + health topic = Mrs. Mole. If it's not covid, it's buzzy.

I stopped browsing ars cause of these types of articles a few years back, the exposure to them wasn't healthy. And sadly they always appear on HN.. yet with less commentary at least... thanks for that. <3

New comment by x______________ in "Tell HN: Delete Google"

x______________ — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 11:13:53 +0000

De-anythinging from the average Joe uses gives you a more unique online fingerprint.

Do you own an ISP and an AS? Hardware to connect with? They'll get you if they want.

New comment by x______________ in "Tell HN: Delete Google"

x______________ — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 11:11:51 +0000

> i tried explaining to my relative that the result he got from google was an A.I. generated text

Maybe I tried explaining the wrong thing EG: showing real information that you found* from a website proving the location is not prone to flooding, rather than gaslighting them on their efforts and AI usage.

*Past results are not indicative of future performance.

New comment by x______________ in "More evidence is consistent with possible ancient life on Mars (2025)"

x______________ — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 17:51:01 +0000

Italian. Maybe their browser auto translates English to Italian and expects everyone else to have a browser functioning that way (translating any to their native language)?

Ask HN: Steam OS as a Windows Replacement?

x______________ — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 12:01:03 +0000

I've seen more and more chatter about Steam OS capability of being installed on more hardware after efforts from Steam but no one is actively promoting the idea.

Is it too soon? Does anyone have any experience with the OS and could advise of some its strengths and downsides?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48697503

Points: 2

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New comment by x______________ in "AI in mathematics is forcing big questions"

x______________ — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 08:55:32 +0000

>But denying a machine-valid proof just because it's incomprehensible with what a human being considers a reasonable effort made to unpack it just seems odd to me.

Why not just fork the original master branch of human science to an ai-enhanced one and see where that brings us?

New comment by x______________ in "What happened after 2k people tried to hack my AI assistant"

x______________ — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 23:36:19 +0000

> You should assume every email you send to another person will be made public

Sure, assuming the interests were mine and mine alone if I had entered..

I replied [0] a bit in line with another reply: this is a contest offering prizes with no tos or privacy policy. There is zero benefit for anyone (contestants, the contest or its results, contest owner, registered companies donating to the prize pool) for contest owner to publish partially redacted personal data.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48693374

New comment by x______________ in "What happened after 2k people tried to hack my AI assistant"

x______________ — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 23:30:23 +0000

Personal correspondence sure, but it's a contest: applicants don't gain anything from having a partially public entry of their credentials nor does the contest gain from exposing people's credentials.

> How It Worked

No setup. No registration. Just send an email.

There are no contest rules or terms of service to adhere to, while having corporate sponsors that should be complying with data regulations around the world, while having a prize (which is restricted in some parts of the world).

>Original prize pool: $100 from me + $200 from Corgea + $200 from an anonymous donor + $500 from Abnormal AI (+ $500 API credits)

Definitely a case in keeping all personal details from contestants.. private.

New comment by x______________ in "Thing that has ever happened for multiplayer games"

x______________ — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 11:26:37 +0000

> Starting today, Amazon GameLift Servers provides network bandwidth in and out of AWS at no additional charge for all instance types from generation 6 and later, including On-Demand and Spot, with no commitment required. You now pay only for your Amazon GameLift Servers instance hours; all network bandwidth is free.

This reads like an ad for amazon services with additional predictions saying other players will follow and the gaming community will benefit!

HN topic also truncated the word 'best' so title is awkward.