Hacker News: 3x35r22m4u

New comment by 3x35r22m4u in "Migrating the American express payment network, twice"

3x35r22m4u — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 04:12:57 +0000

Norton Antivirus for Android doesn't allow me to access the site. Hmm.

New comment by 3x35r22m4u in "New York’s budget bill would require “blocking technology” on all 3D printers"

3x35r22m4u — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 16:34:01 +0000

I can more or less understand where the legislator might be coming from: laser printers and copiers are already mandated to include fingerprinting in the output and disrupt any attempt of copying money.

New comment by 3x35r22m4u in "IDEs we had 30 years ago and lost (2023)"

3x35r22m4u — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 17:09:20 +0000

SideKick had the ability to take "screenshots" of the text shown in other applications. Being a TSR was cool, but stealing text from another program interface was mind blowing!

New comment by 3x35r22m4u in "Morse Code Translator"

3x35r22m4u — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 20:07:52 +0000

I've been waiting for maybe some 15 years for some statistical method or (more recently) AI model able to decode live Morse Code in HF radio (CW as ham radio operators usually refer to it). This has been challenging not only because radio transmissions SNR is always changing and, just like handwriting, each operator sends Morse in its personal way (unless, of course, they use a PC keyer).

New comment by 3x35r22m4u in "Windows 11 is a minefield of micro-aggressions in the shipping lane of progressl"

3x35r22m4u — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 14:59:10 +0000

Yup. Home version is full of gadgets with news, weather, offers, AI stuff in the task bar... feels claustrophobic.

New comment by 3x35r22m4u in "Thunderbird 140 “Eclipse”"

3x35r22m4u — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 16:29:45 +0000

It'll sound crazy: I've never used Macs, but the IMAP-based client was Outlook Express back in 2005-2010.

100% multi-thread download and synch of folder contents, instantaneous display of messages, super-responsive.

I've tried a lot of clients on Windows and Linux and none of them get near the experience I had 20 years ago.

New comment by 3x35r22m4u in "More thoughts on the 1670 modem's weird noises"

3x35r22m4u — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 18:49:34 +0000

I used to work at an ISO in 1997 and we tested Mototola Sufr 28.8 and USRobotics Sportster 33.6 modems this way, just a short pair between them back-to-back. ATX1D on one side, ATA on the other, connection established.

However, recently a friend of mine tried to use the same trick with two USB modems from Trendnet and it failed. It seems they either don't have oomph enough or they rely on 9vdc off-hook carrier voltage to work.

New comment by 3x35r22m4u in "Brazil's X ban is sending lots of people to Bluesky"

3x35r22m4u — Sun, 01 Sep 2024 02:57:27 +0000

Please stop. The moment you mentioned started mixing the Executive with the Judiciary ("has support of sitting president") it became clear you are not providing pure facts, but an opinion.

The way I see this: the Supreme Court asked X to remove content and accounts that main purpose were to promote hate and aggression towards the electoral system and institutions; X didn't comply; fines were issued; fines were never paid by X; the justice started using all available legal tools to fulfill the previous mandates (content removal and/or pecuniary penalties).

New comment by 3x35r22m4u in "Brazilian Constitution Forbids Anonymity"

3x35r22m4u — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 08:12:54 +0000

Because the answer to a defamation and asking for its compensation are also constitutional rights.

New comment by 3x35r22m4u in "Arctic temperatures soar 50°F/28°C above norm in long-lasting heat wave"

3x35r22m4u — Fri, 02 Aug 2024 21:23:52 +0000

> 50⁰F/28⁰C

50⁰F is 10⁰C

> Temperatures are expected to remain up to 36 to 50 degrees (20 to 30 Celsius)

36⁰F to 50⁰F is 2⁰C to 10⁰C.

TWP can't Celsius.

Japanese web design: weird, but it works. Here's why [video]

3x35r22m4u — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 02:40:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vi8pyS076a8

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41001655

Points: 20

# Comments: 18

New comment by 3x35r22m4u in "I Received an AI Email"

3x35r22m4u — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 06:02:18 +0000

Do you work at Zoom by chance? :)

https://youtu.be/dKmAg4S2KeE

New comment by 3x35r22m4u in "The Rise of Packet Rate Attacks: When Core Routers Turn Evil"

3x35r22m4u — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 02:50:49 +0000

> Indeed, a great part of these IPs are known as MikroTik Routers

I wonder why they decided not to include the exact percentage of the attack coming from Mikrotik devices or a list of the top 10 vendors and their share.

Like, did Mikrotik generate 50% of the high packet rate DDoS? Or was it like 10% coming from Microtik, 10% from major vendors and 80% of others/unknown?

New comment by 3x35r22m4u in "What is going on in Argentina?"

3x35r22m4u — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 13:42:58 +0000

"In Brazil, there is a frequent rhetoric about “we don’t want to become like Argentina” or “this politician will turn us into Argentina”. So I was left wondering: how bad is it over there really?"

In the 80s Brazil, there was a TV ad from Orloff vodka[1] where the guy talked to future-himself. The catchphrase was "Who are you?" "I'm you, but tomorrow".

That was it. Every news outlet started using the term "Orloff effect" to scare viewers and readers about brazilian government policies that would, in their opinion, inevitably make Brazil become an Argentina.

1. https://youtu.be/r5-Tsp1nLJU

New comment by 3x35r22m4u in "The failure of self-checkout technology"

3x35r22m4u — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 23:33:32 +0000

Back in 2006 IBM already had predicted how self- checkout should work[1].

Their TV ad made was so cool, so well done and so "I want to live in this world" that became one of my favorites even today:

https://youtu.be/wzFhBGKU6HA

[1]https://mashable.com/article/ibm-predicts-amazon-go

New comment by 3x35r22m4u in "Netscape 1.x"

3x35r22m4u — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 00:44:00 +0000

When they installed a gopher client at our local university Vax system, it was a thrill. So many hours using Veronica search stuff. And I remember kept using gopher during the Mosaic and Netscape 1-2 era.

New comment by 3x35r22m4u in "IDEs we had 30 years ago"

3x35r22m4u — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 02:23:46 +0000

If any dev out there is looking for a challenge/cool thing to do, here it is: a TUI DE following the practices of TurboC/TurboPascal, CUA visuals and keybindings from edit.com and support for multiple languages and LSPs.

New comment by 3x35r22m4u in "IDEs we had 30 years ago"

3x35r22m4u — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 02:19:50 +0000

It allowed to copy text from screen and paste into its editor, had a modem terminal app, contact app and a calculator. It was a joy to use!

New comment by 3x35r22m4u in "Oi (Interjection)"

3x35r22m4u — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 05:50:05 +0000

Oi! (with this enthusiasm you'd be friends with a Brazilian in a second :).)

New comment by 3x35r22m4u in "Get started with technical writing"

3x35r22m4u — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 07:02:41 +0000

The first time I had contact with a book from O'Reilly was some point in 1997 with their "Running Linux".

One of the things that I still reckon is the small section describing the book pipeline, the editor used by the author, typesetting and DTP. IIRC they used Emacs, LaTeX and Quark Xpress. I loved that tidbit.