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Nintendo warns that it can brick Switch consoles if it detects hacking, piracy

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/05/nintendo-threatens-to-brick-switch-consoles-for-hacking-piracy/
21•voxadam•2h ago

Comments

mystified5016•1h ago
Sure, Nintendo definitely has the right to unilaterally and with no appeal or recourse, destroy a several hundred dollar device that you bought with your own money.

Nintendo claims the right to steal hundreds of dollars from you, permanently, with no notice or any hope of recovery.

Make sure to preorder switch 2!

kotaKat•1h ago
As the public has proven, time and time again: “It’s OK when Nintendo does it.”
1123581321•56m ago
They were already breaking modded hardware with firmware updates and banning accounts. The previous EULA covered it, just less explicitly. Just sharing what I learned researching this last week. My personal preference would be for the Switch to be flashable with any OS.
Funes-•46m ago
They're probably bluffing to an extent, but just picture the dystopian scenario we're all heading towards: you're watching anything that's not {MegaCorporation or Government}-Approved Content™ on your TV and all of a sudden the screen goes dark and displays an ominous message, "This device has been permanently disabled due to non-approved usage. It will be retrieved by authorized personnel in the following days. Failing to comply will carry a serious fine. Thank you." Then you say "McDonald's! I'm lovin' it!" out loud so you can unlock your phone and proceed to complain on X before you're swatted by the police for doing so.

PostgreSQL Workload Analyzer

https://github.com/powa-team/powa
1•klaussilveira•1m ago•0 comments

Tariffs Drive Honda to Move SUV Production from Canada to U.S.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/world/americas/honda-trump-tariffs-us-canada.html
2•koolba•2m ago•0 comments

How can I overcome an illegal termination given current geopolitics?

1•KOTWICA•3m ago•0 comments

Mind the Trust Gap: Fast, Private Local-to-Cloud LLM Chat

https://hazyresearch.stanford.edu/blog/2025-05-12-security
1•wolecki•3m ago•1 comments

Man jailed for 1986 murder acquitted after 38 years

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce809e3gd1xo
1•FridayoLeary•4m ago•0 comments

A Taxonomy of Bugs

https://ruby0x1.github.io/machinery_blog_archive/post/a-taxonomy-of-bugs/index.html
1•lissine•6m ago•0 comments

It Awaits Your Experiments

https://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=11511
1•pavel_lishin•7m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Page Replica" web scraping and caching tool built with Node.js

https://github.com/Page-Replica/page-replica
1•nirvanist•9m ago•0 comments

Native Brain-Computer Interface Integration with iPhone

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250513927084/en/Synchron-To-Achieve-First-Native-Brain-Computer-Interface-Integration-with-iPhone-iPad-and-Apple-Vision-Pro
1•gok•10m ago•0 comments

A Tale of a Trailing Dot

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2022/05/12/a-tale-of-a-trailing-dot/
1•dcminter•10m ago•0 comments

Biosensory Dome (Mycelium Panels)–A Space Created by the Power of Fungi

https://news.panasonic.com/global/group-magazine/articles/17350
1•bryanrasmussen•12m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Would You Use an AI Chatbot to Assess Your Cybersecurity Risk?

1•levidurfee•12m ago•0 comments

Pgwatch: PostgreSQL Monitoring Solution

https://github.com/cybertec-postgresql/pgwatch
1•klaussilveira•12m ago•0 comments

Pg_activity: Htop for PostgreSQL

https://github.com/dalibo/pg_activity
1•klaussilveira•12m ago•0 comments

Terminal Trove: $HOME of all things in the terminal

https://terminaltrove.com/
2•sundarurfriend•15m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Built a simple browser-based tool to chat with yourself across devices

https://www.textpc.com/
1•sferdeveloper•17m ago•0 comments

Apple Tried to Kill My Startup

https://blog.jacobstechtavern.com/p/apple-tried-to-kill-my-startup
1•jakey_bakey•17m ago•0 comments

Radiance Contrasts at Possible Lunar Water Ice Exposures Seen by ShadowCam

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/adb8d1
1•PaulHoule•17m ago•0 comments

What is foreign aid? How "Official Development Assistance" is measured

https://ourworldindata.org/what-is-foreign-aid
1•kamaraju•18m ago•0 comments

Brian Pontarelli on the Future of AI in Authentication and Education [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzpJfkXifsQ
1•mooreds•18m ago•0 comments

Handling Unhealthy Nodes in EKS

https://tensorfuse.io/docs/blogs/handling_unhealthy_nodes_in_eks
5•agam30•18m ago•1 comments

The Perverse Incentives of Vibe Coding

https://fredbenenson.medium.com/the-perverse-incentives-of-vibe-coding-23efbaf75aee
1•mecredis•18m ago•0 comments

We're not meant to do it alone

https://theresaaristarco.substack.com/p/were-not-mean-to-do-it-alone
1•mooreds•19m ago•0 comments

Will YouTube kill the podcasting industry?

https://justinjackson.ca/youtube-kill-podcasting
3•mijustin•19m ago•0 comments

Security for High Velocity Engineering

https://tldrsec.com/p/security-for-high-velocity-engineering
1•mooreds•19m ago•0 comments

Rust for IoT: Building an ESP32 Weather Sensor with MQTT, TLS, and OTA Updates

https://e10n.me/posts/rust-for-iot-building-secure-esp32-weather-sensor/
1•etrem•19m ago•1 comments

Deep Research on Qwen Chat is now live and available for everyone

https://twitter.com/Alibaba_Qwen/status/1922307096886051025
1•mfiguiere•20m ago•0 comments

Seagate Lyve Cloud: Transparent Pricing Meets Cloud Simplicity

https://www.storagereview.com/review/seagate-lyve-cloud-transparent-pricing-meets-cloud-simplicity
1•rbanffy•20m ago•0 comments

What Ever Happened to and Other Tech History

https://cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/what-ever-happened-toand-other-tech-history/
1•rbanffy•21m ago•0 comments

OpenAI wants to build subscriptions for an AI OS, with SDKs, APIs and 'surfaces'

https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/13/openai_ceo_altman_no_plans/
1•rntn•23m ago•0 comments