Hacker News: xacky

New comment by xacky in "Web Browsers on Video Game Consoles"

xacky — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:53:53 +0000

There was also the various attempts at TV web browsers back in the CRT era and also that some modern smart TVs ship an outdated Chromium build that doesn't work right.

New comment by xacky in "The complete IPv4 address space, mapped"

xacky — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 20:10:09 +0000

IP allocations are inaccurate due to all the VPNs, (CG)NATs and proxies spoofing everything now, the whole internet is tangled up like weeds.

New comment by xacky in "Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux"

xacky — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 18:48:41 +0000

Might as well say "Adobe, please ship an official creative suite for Linux", and will probably fall on the same deaf ears.

New comment by xacky in "Stablecoins Are Private Money. That's Why They're a Risk to the Economy"

xacky — Tue, 26 May 2026 13:55:14 +0000

Stop linking to malware sites please.

New comment by xacky in "Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops?"

xacky — Mon, 18 May 2026 10:52:27 +0000

It could be said vibe coded competitors to any proprietary software. If everything proprietary was "forced open" by AI what would be the economic effects?

New comment by xacky in "Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview"

xacky — Thu, 07 May 2026 20:31:12 +0000

I just hope they don't start ignoring human created bug reports, as there are still many that haven't been fixed for years.

New comment by xacky in "Chrome removes claim of On-device Al not sending data to Google Servers"

xacky — Thu, 07 May 2026 18:44:03 +0000

The trouble is that Mozilla has admitted they can't survive without Google's revenue. You are basically using Google by proxy unless you use a truly independent browser engine of they get blocked by Cloudflare for not having enough fingerprinting tech.

New comment by xacky in "RSS feeds send me more traffic than Google"

xacky — Thu, 07 May 2026 18:38:58 +0000

Firefox and Safari used to have RSS built in, but removed.

New comment by xacky in "I switched from Mac to a Lenovo Chromebook"

xacky — Thu, 07 May 2026 16:45:50 +0000

Might become more interesting if the Android powered laptop rumors are true.

New comment by xacky in "Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA"

xacky — Wed, 06 May 2026 18:34:57 +0000

The fact that mobile devices are now mandatory to prove "humanness" means that Google no longer trusts desktop/open platforms anymore.

New comment by xacky in "The world in which IPv6 was a good design (2017)"

xacky — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 13:10:10 +0000

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New comment by xacky in "Dependency cooldowns turn you into a free-rider"

xacky — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:49:17 +0000

This all looks like game theory, the more people delay the more likely a compromise will slip through. The same reason why I don't use LTS/ESR releases either.

New comment by xacky in "Microsoft isn't removing Copilot from Windows 11, it's just renaming it"

xacky — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:08:00 +0000

Copilot has been reduced to "Internet Explorer" status, where it is the "AI to download another AI".

New comment by xacky in "Entirety of Wikinews to be shut down"

xacky — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 19:06:51 +0000

Will this change AFD discussions over the commonly cited WP:NOTNEWS? Also Wikimedia has too many small wiki sister projects that are mostly being overrun with vandalism as there are not enough editors to monitor it, especially with AI bots making it trivial to make thousands of edits.

New comment by xacky in "15 Years of Forking"

xacky — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 10:37:27 +0000

There is no pure browser anymore. The little red hen of Google funds everything, and forks like Waterfox just change a few parts of the UI but still rely on the upstream for all actual browser code. Even Mozilla was bootstrapped by AOL-Time Warner Back in the day. If you look at Ladybird they already have lots of ad companies funding it as well and will demand its enshittification if it gets popular.

New comment by xacky in "I don't know anyone who uses Grokipedia, it will never work, says Jimmy Wales"

xacky — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 14:31:51 +0000

I use it, and if you don't like the point of view then make your own AI encyclopedia. I'm fed up of Wikipedia, it's no longer the encyclopedia that anyone can edit since all controversial articles are BLUELOCKed to people who have to make 500 edits outside of their field of interest before they can actually contribute, Wikipedia is doing the same gate keeping that Britannica did. Wikipedia keeps telling established academics and celebrities they are not notable and if you say otherwise they shout COI. Wikipedia needs competition, and they can't keep relying on the gravy train of donations anymore.

New comment by xacky in "Show HN: I built a small browser engine from scratch in C++"

xacky — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 17:49:00 +0000

I follow a lot of the alternate browser engines and am always looking for new ones outside of the big three. You should use your experience to get a career in the browser tech world as we are dangerously close to the Chromium only web.

New comment by xacky in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

xacky — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 16:21:29 +0000

Gnome comes with built in virtual machine support with the Boxes app, just download an ISO and try as many as you want.

New comment by xacky in "Google DeepMind Staffers Ask Leaders to Keep Them 'Physically Safe' from ICE"

xacky — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 16:10:33 +0000

If Google really cared they would ban ICE ip addresses from using Google services and stop ICE using Google Cloud. Google is a big enough company to force the issue, otherwise they secretly condone ICE.

New comment by xacky in "Text Is King"

xacky — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 10:49:50 +0000

I'm still a Slashdotter, I use it more than HN. Although Slashdot isn't as fun since they cracked down on trolling.