Hacker News: zx8080

New comment by zx8080 in "Motorola phones have started hijacking the Amazon app to insert affiliate codes"

zx8080 — Tue, 26 May 2026 10:27:11 +0000

Vertical videos converted to 16:9 are bad for your readers, Mr Senior Editor.

> Ben Schoon is a Senior Editor

Thank you so much for being not able to consume the screencast video in the article.

New comment by zx8080 in "Flatpak Will Depend on Systemd"

zx8080 — Tue, 26 May 2026 10:19:41 +0000

> The current version of Flatpak will continue to see a ton of improvements, but at the same time, the limits of what can be done with its decades-old design have become harder and harder to work around. As such, they’re also planning for and working on what they call Flatpak Next, or perhaps Flatpak 2.0, which is effectively a rewrite of Flatpak based on what they’ve learned over the years, making use of modern technologies

Nit: on "decades-old", Flatpack is from ~2016 only.

Autonomous bus collided with tram on its first day of service in Sweden

zx8080 — Tue, 26 May 2026 08:24:27 +0000

Article URL: https://brusselssignal.eu/2026/05/tram-hits-self-driving-bus-on-first-day-of-passenger-service-in-gothenburg/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48276767

Points: 5

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New comment by zx8080 in "CVE-2026-28952: Apple macOS 26.5 Kernel Vuln found by Claude"

zx8080 — Tue, 26 May 2026 04:51:47 +0000

I thought one just get a new iphone when run out of storage.

New comment by zx8080 in "Memory has grown to nearly two-thirds of AI chip component costs"

zx8080 — Sun, 24 May 2026 18:02:53 +0000

What is the risk? Competition is good for consumers.

New comment by zx8080 in "Open source Kanban desktop app that runs parallel agents on every card"

zx8080 — Sat, 23 May 2026 02:42:01 +0000

Cost of generation is low, why review? Regenerate if not working. Rinse and repeat.

Maximize providers profits. What can go wrong.

New comment by zx8080 in "GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension"

zx8080 — Thu, 21 May 2026 01:42:46 +0000

> "Yesterday we detected and contained a compromise of an employee device involving a poisoned VS Code extension. We removed the malicious extension version, isolated the endpoint, and began incident response immediately,"

So great that they removed the extension! Do they do it only after their own employee was infected? And why "unnamed" extension?

New comment by zx8080 in "Colorado Amended SB051 (Age Verification Bill) to Exclude Open Source Projects"

zx8080 — Thu, 21 May 2026 01:25:50 +0000

It took almost 30 years for politicians to close down the openness of the internet. Not too bad.

New comment by zx8080 in "Apparently Google hates us now"

zx8080 — Wed, 20 May 2026 21:54:31 +0000

Gmaps always zooms out when I search. No idea of that happens for others or not.

New comment by zx8080 in "Map of Metal"

zx8080 — Wed, 20 May 2026 21:34:47 +0000

> popup ads

Have you open any US news website in 5 years? Usually there are 2 or 3 layers of popups: subscribe!, cookies box, and news video stream playing on top of everything.

New comment by zx8080 in "GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension"

zx8080 — Wed, 20 May 2026 21:09:01 +0000

> but apparently Microsoft has put way more effort into their Copilot slop than security.

Your security or their money (selling Copilot to enterprise customers): what would they choose, hmm? Surprise!

New comment by zx8080 in "Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud [resolved]"

zx8080 — Wed, 20 May 2026 07:54:09 +0000

For those who opened this link to read news about the real railway (with trains), it's not about it. Thank you for wasting my time!

New comment by zx8080 in "We let AIs run radio stations"

zx8080 — Tue, 19 May 2026 01:05:05 +0000

Money probably? That's the number of song licensed to maximize profit without hurting 80% listeners.

New comment by zx8080 in "Coding on Paper"

zx8080 — Tue, 19 May 2026 01:01:26 +0000

It's not the paper (and pen), it's some "paper screen" marketing.

Thank you so much for misleading me to click your link.

New comment by zx8080 in "The quiet renovation at Bitwarden"

zx8080 — Tue, 19 May 2026 00:46:30 +0000

Since it's authored by the vaultwarden collaborators, I would not trust the project any bit of my passwords.

New comment by zx8080 in "A 0-click exploit chain for the Pixel 10"

zx8080 — Sat, 16 May 2026 04:16:56 +0000

Google owns Android. Google does not care about you or other users. Their customers are ads publishers. 0days does not matter for them! Because there is hardly one alternative: iphone (and Huawei, but maybe not everywhere). Not much to care about.

We all need a new phone OS and hardware level. Urgently.

New comment by zx8080 in "CERT is releasing six CVEs for serious security vulnerabilities in dnsmasq"

zx8080 — Wed, 13 May 2026 00:19:39 +0000

> "All software has bugs" is the most meaningless statement ever.

It's not! It's the foundation of all dev AI products marketing.

New comment by zx8080 in "Googlebook"

zx8080 — Tue, 12 May 2026 22:34:12 +0000

> Adidas (german company, german person)

Brands fit for the country of the store. For example, you won't find anything for a tall but not wide person in Singapore, except a few special stores, that won't be Adidas for sure. Unless ordering from overseas (and that costs nice money).

Because market. 1% just isn't worth it.

New comment by zx8080 in "Google says criminal hackers used AI to find a major software flaw"

zx8080 — Tue, 12 May 2026 01:56:28 +0000

It's the narrative "For your own security in the internet (and children's safety), show us your ID now, please".

Tired of this trend.

New comment by zx8080 in "Gmail registration now requires scanning a QR code and sending a text message"

zx8080 — Tue, 12 May 2026 01:45:40 +0000

> They've essentially gotten roped into maintaining a huge chunk of internet infrastructure, for free.

Don't bullshit to us here, please.

Google scan billions people's emails (including very sensitive ones like medical record letters) to then show relevant ads AND sell the data to some partners (hundreds of them).

It's not called "public infra for free". It's the serious for-profit business. The surveillance capitalism on the march.