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S-Config
Personal blog · s-config.comculturehardware
S-Config is a personal blog at s-config.com about culture and hardware. Since 2015, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Microslop”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link S-Config posts on smart TV tracking and privacy, including a page on stopping the smart TV being used against you, and on 3D modelling primitives, which one commenter explains.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A blog of the lost! S-Config A.K.A. "S" is a blogger. Phew! That was easy! Pack it up, boys, we're done here! Oh, wait, you want more? Wow, okay! Welcome to this little slice of the net known as S-Config. Here's hoping that you have a wonderful day wherever you are in the crazed yet delicious w
Most-linked posts?
- Microslop3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-03-15
- Stopping the smart TV from being used against you2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-08-28
What Hacker News says?
1787648954 | Ads and tracking infiltrated TVs. Now they're coming for monitors | https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/08/ads-and-tracking-inf... | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49430960 | 1 comment 1787769410 | Ads and tracking infiltrated TVs. Now they're coming for monitors | https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/08/ads-and-tracking-inf... | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49453736 | 1 comment 178785714…
Comment linking /stopping-a-smart-tv-from-being-used-against-you/
on “LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby”Submitted Stopping the smart TV from being used against you as a story · 205 points
HN discussion> https://www.s-config.com/microslop/ For that link only TFA is worth it.
Comment linking /microslop/
on “Stopping the smart TV from being used against you”Submitted Web 3.0 is pretty much unproven marketing hype as a story · 32 points
HN discussionShort for "primitive", a building block. Can be a box, sphere, torus, etc. Comes with a bunch of parameters. It results in very particular looks because prim counts are limited and the parameters are not flexible enough. So you get things that look like this: https://www.s-config.com/core/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Rio... The point of prims is that they're mathematically generated. You have something that says "Sphe…
Comment linking /core/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Riot-Ornitz-SL-Gen1-Gryphon.jpg
on “Silicon Valley doesn't understand the concept of fun”Submitted Goodbye Pi as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Comments Removed as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Advanced Bootleg – Samsung SSD 870 Evo as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Microslop as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Microslop as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Wireless Antenna mod for the Ouya as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
