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bryceaccon Cops Can Bypass iPhone's Automatic Reboot to Get into Locked Phones

this sounds exactly like the chilling effect and fear the US government wants to instill on people these days. They want us to know big brother is watching, they have the power to stop and search you, and you can't do anything about it

bryceaccon Cops Can Bypass iPhone's Automatic Reboot to Get into Locked Phones

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/09/immigration-advo...

>CBP only searched the electronic devices of 55,318 international travelers,” the agency wrote, or 0.0013%.

would suck to be one of those 55 thousand people. I've never been bitten by a shark but I sure care about people that have?

bryceaccon ChatGPT Images 2.5

and then as you look back at that wonderful night you "remember" with all your friends, you will reinforce a false picture and reality strays further

bryceaccon Peppermint oil reduces blood pressure by 8.48 mmHg in small study

>50 µL of supplement diluted into 100 mL of water

pretty tiny amount of peppermint was consumed

bryceaccon Show HN: iPhone app takes simultaneous images from 2 lenses, fuses into 1 photo

demonstrably incorrect, it is very easy to find apps with "last updated" dates 2+ years ago. Paid example:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/a-dark-room/id736683061

bryceaccon Federal agents track down woman, demand she remove Instagram post about ICE

>Or are you saying people should be free to write whatever they want on social media with no repercussions?

no repercussions from the government, yes, people should be free to write whatever they want

bryceaccon Organic foods are not healthier or pesticide free

>Pyrethrin is poison

to whom and at what dose? It's a paralytic nerve agent, so scary!! But mostly to bugs...

"mammals are able to process pyrethrin quickly and have higher body temperatures which prevent pyrethrin from working effectively"

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3550062/

bryceaccon RTX 5090 and M4 MacBook Air: Can It Game?

>I corrected it with links

it should be reasonably expected that you can give a source and fix an error in the AI output.

I would even go as far as to say if a human directly told the AI "no, use 7.6 as the latest version", the AI should absolutely follow direct instructions no matter what it thinks is true. What if this human was working on a slide about the upcoming release of 7.6 that has no public documentation?

bryceaccon Apple, Intel have reached preliminary chip-making deal

If you can't read, why comment?

>It is unclear which Apple products Intel would make chips for, according to the report. Intel and Apple declined to comment.

bryceaccon I want to live like Costco people

I do agree that Costco's can be laid out pretty differently and I get confused. My home Costco flows in a circle where you first see:

1. appliances/bedding/toothbrushes 2. alcohol 3. refrigerated foods with the bakery/meat department 4. cleaning products and flats of drinks 5. dry foods

when this cycle is broken or changed in a different Costco I am visiting, I feel VERY lost

bryceaccon I want to live like Costco people

are you not describing "toxic and superficial" ? I specifically take issue with pre-judgement based on clothes, cars, and logos.

bryceaccon DIY Soft Drinks

Greatly detailed here:

https://youtu.be/odhVF_xLIQA?t=338

In this case, Pepsi has reduced promotions and increased wholesale cost for "small groceries" which in this case was a regional grocer with ~1000 of stores across 10 states. If Pepsi is strong arming regional giants like that, imagine how the ant of a real local grocer feels. They are algorithmically getting destroyed

bryceaccon My astrophotography in the movie Project Hail Mary

I assume that is on purpose, you have to buy prints. Curious if the full res digital would be for sale but I am guessing not

bryceaccon How Invisalign became the biggest user of 3D printers

I think your definition of excellent and perfect teeth is in reality just "perfectly adequate" for their job of eating. If you don't care about the optics of your smile then sure, your body is going to find a way to place your teeth and jaw so you can still eat...

bryceaccon Google Street View in 2026

Mission statements are only there to resonate with people, so that part is working. If the mission doesn't make money, they aren't gonna do it just because it matches a statement

bryceaccon Man accidentally gains control of 7k robot vacuums

cooooorrect

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/02/ankers-eufy-admits-p...

bryceaccon Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments

>if that is even possible

yes.... any administration can be found guilty of violating law, and should be dealt with accordingly.

bryceaccon Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids

as a 31 year old, I only just last year learned that what I have thought were floppy disks and everyone calls a floppy disk are indeed a stiffy...

bryceaccon Ask HN: What's the best hackable smart TV?

This is also the coolest thing you can do for a rooted webOS tv:

https://github.com/satgit62/How-to-Install-and-set-up-Ambili...

doesn't need to go through another device to capture the HDMI, it's built right in!

bryceaccon US cities pay too much for buses

unbelievably in depth channel, love all of the local business interviews (from other videos with restaurants and such)

bryceaccon Charting Form Ds to roughly see the state of venture capital “fund” raising

what tariffs started two years ago? And how might those compare to the current tariffs being threatened/pulled/enabled in the past few months?

bryceaccon Toyota is recycling old EV batteries to help power Mazda's production line

that is remarkably different from building your own CELLS. You are building your own pack in whatever series and parallel configuration you want. Which i agree is fun and a good skill

bryceaccon Steve Wozniak: Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about happiness

huh, does everyone forget this happened?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25330613

bryceaccon Steam, Itch.io are pulling ‘porn’ games. Critics say it's a slippery slope

If you think (insert thing here) is genuinely evil, you might be inclined to rid the world of it. It may even make you seem like a better person (to god, to others in the same camp) because you are "cleansing" or "healing" the world through those efforts. It's self righteous

bryceaccon High Levels of Arsenic Found in Rice Sold Across the U.S.

link to the actual report:

https://hbbf.org/sites/default/files/2025-05/Arsenic-in-Rice...

This rang my "fraud" detector in my head:

1. a random .org site that sounds too much like rah rah save the children

2. spammed across many news sites and reddit and now hacker news all in a short time span

but after reading the report it seems pretty good

The take-away I got was buy rice grown in California, Thailand, or India. Soak beforehand if you really want to reduce bad stuff

bryceaccon Design and evaluation of a parrot-to-parrot video-calling system (2023)

uh.. AI/LLMs were created to be smart, and they sometimes meet that expectation. We did not create parrots, we just get surprised when they show off intelligence

bryceaccon Questions censored by DeepSeek

that is a crazy read, thanks for the added links. I wonder if these effects are all because it was trained on the internet, and the internet is generally outspoken on the left side?

bryceaccon The protester's guide to smartphone security

how have you been able to use it at festivals? I tried it once and maybe the default settings are terrible but no communication could be achieved. There were dozens of other nodes that it found in a tight space and I think the entire network was saturated with pings/messages that I couldn't get mine to work. Are there settings to change that get around network saturation issues?