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Re:Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy? on Monday November 02, 2026 @10:30AM (#50338193)
LG and Samsung TVs are known to record and transmit audio of everything said in their vicinity as well as scan your network and upload the scans.
Re:Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy? on Monday November 02, 2026 @09:46AM (#50337549)
This worked great for me for years until a dog sitter stayed over and hooked up the TV to the Wi-Fi.

Now the TVs MAC address is banned from the router, so this particular edge case can't happen again.

Agreed.. and what is going on with the `!` syntax? The docs are not exactly clear on the purpose in all cases.

https://tibleiz.net/copper/documentation.html#basic-syntax

Re:Artificial Analysis v5 and the benchmarker's dilemma on Friday October 30, 2026 @12:17PM (#50306085)
It is variable, why would independent implementations be highly similar?
Re:Anthropic Cracking Down on Video Game Rewrites on Friday October 30, 2026 @11:34AM (#50305400)
Recreating a game is also fair use.
Re:Amazon's "Digital Pacifier" for Toddlers on Sunday October 25, 2026 @03:26PM (#50235182)
Parenting before the age of tablets and phones was a thing that seemed to work fairly well overall.
Re:No Source Code? No Problem on Friday October 23, 2026 @07:08PM (#50216619)
Re:Meta to Pay Zuckerberg's CA Wealth Tax on Thursday October 22, 2026 @08:30PM (#50203022)
Previous discussion:

Meta strikes deal with Zuckerberg to protect him from California wealth tax

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50193581

Sounds like a software problem.
Yes, this is ridiculous. When Chrome first came out I thought it was weird and resisted using it because of abuse concerns, but Google's perpetual investment has captured the market and Chrome is now the standard. Disgusting.
Yes, upload your clipboard to us and we’ll tell you if it’s safe. Trust me, bro.
Re:PHP2Shell on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @10:59PM (#50175557)
Why mention your info site without providing a link? It's a little frustrating to read comments like this. Thank you.
Mythbusters busted ice bullets. IIRC, the ice didn’t tolerate being shot out of a barrel and disintegrated.
Re:Phloem: Git history grown like a slime mold on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @03:52PM (#50094047)
Blocked for me too. If you want to hear it open a a phloem repo url and click play in the lower right corner.

e.g. https://phloem.stemdeck.app/?repo=kubernetes/kubernetes&t=1

Re:Windows 11½ on Monday September 28, 2026 @02:28PM (#49882312)
Win XP was peak computing for the masses, and most didn’t have a clue!
Re:Eating Fruit Skins on Saturday September 12, 2026 @03:30PM (#49676264)
It depends on the variety, some kiwi skins are tick and hairy, while others exteriors are thin and smooth.
Re:No Man's Sky Cosmos on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @07:27PM (#49636075)
Totally agree. But I'm still wondering why was Escape Velocity so fun yet NMS is a nothing burger? They are very similar, except EV was goofier.
Re:Muse Spark 1.3 on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @05:49PM (#49543036)
It's more like Anthropic present themselves in a deceptive way. I was confused at first too until someone on HN clued me in!

Humans naturally want SOMEONE to be the good guy! Sad story, in this instance.

Nice.. and how many toks/sec?
Re:GLM-5.3-Flash on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @12:31PM (#49451875)
Qwen 3.8 27B is around Opus 4.8 level of capability on the Agentic Intelligence Index (52 vs 57). In my testing the locally hosted Qwen is good enough that looking at a given piece of work output I couldn't tell you which model was behind it.

https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/qwen3-8-27b?models=gpt-...

Re:The entire city of San Francisco as a video game on Monday August 24, 2026 @06:49PM (#49426902)
I checked some obscure buildings and I found every one of them in-game, but you're correct that it's not 1:1 topographically.
Re:The entire city of San Francisco as a video game on Monday August 24, 2026 @04:05PM (#49425167)
That was actually Watchdogs 2. Great game, basically GTA but you are a hacker.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watch_Dogs_2

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTbDzFt...

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