Hacker News: Anonyneko

New comment by Anonyneko in "Using coding assistance tools to revive projects you never were going to finish"

Anonyneko — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 21:02:54 +0000

Russian too. There is a subset of words which are referred to as "it", but for most words "he" or "she" are used regardless of whether these are living things or not. With loanwords we just decide by similarity to other words. Claude is definitely a "he" as the word is the same as a common male name.

This trips me up occasionally when I'm translating things into English. Once, when I referred to an indefinite gender player character in a gacha game as a "he" (because the word "player" is a "he"), quite a few people got mad! Even though in my head I was never trying to imply one way or the other.

New comment by Anonyneko in "Investigation uncovers two sophisticated telecom surveillance campaigns"

Anonyneko — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:03:15 +0000

All I wanted to say is that things can get even worse if left uncontrolled.

New comment by Anonyneko in "Investigation uncovers two sophisticated telecom surveillance campaigns"

Anonyneko — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:01:28 +0000

The Russian leaked ones have proven to be legit many times over by investigative journalists cross-referencing those with other databases (e.g. flight tracking or leaked food delivery databases).

New comment by Anonyneko in "Investigation uncovers two sophisticated telecom surveillance campaigns"

Anonyneko — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:00:21 +0000

Yeah, that of course is a bigger concern for the government right now. I sometimes forget that it's neither 2019 nor even 2021 anymore.

New comment by Anonyneko in "Investigation uncovers two sophisticated telecom surveillance campaigns"

Anonyneko — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 13:02:15 +0000

This is just par for the course in Russia. Government has telcos track people, and that data ends up available on the black market for anyone to purchase, for a fairly modest fee. The government has been recently trying (with uncertain degree of success) to crack down on the latter, as this was frequently used by the opposition journalists and investigators to uncover the details of the government's own nefarious plots.

The data is cross-referenced with other telcos, other SIM cards, Wi-Fi hotspots (anonymous public hotspots are outlawed), street cams, and many other databases, so it's basically impossible to avoid being tracked.

Probably inevitable to become the norm everywhere in the world.

New comment by Anonyneko in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro"

Anonyneko — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 18:41:21 +0000

M1 and M2 models run Asahi Linux, M3 and M4 don't run anything natively I think (but not entirely sure).

New comment by Anonyneko in "IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark"

Anonyneko — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:03:51 +0000

And yet I still haven't ever connected to an internet provider that supports IPv6, across two countries I spend time in...

New comment by Anonyneko in "Good sleep, good learning, good life (2012)"

Anonyneko — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:05:25 +0000

If only I knew how to have full non-interrupted restorative sleep. It seems that my body started losing that skill about 20 years ago, and lost it altogether about 6 years ago. The falling asleep time is a lottery and I'm always waking up after the first stage, often a few more times after that.

Tried all kinds of sleep medication, but by now I've forgotten what it's like to not be half-asleep and unable to concentrate throughout the day (with loud tinnitus and a soupy feel in the brain to boot). Really sucks out any and all enjoyment from life, I can't even find the energy to watch TV shows anymore, let alone read books. I haven't learned anything fundamentally new at work for years too (inertia helps with daily routine).

New comment by Anonyneko in "Drop, formerly Massdrop, ends most collaborations and rebrands under Corsair"

Anonyneko — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:46:45 +0000

I'm still sad that the Drop THX Panda never took off (planar-magnetic cans that had 3.5mm passive mode, USB audio mode, and wireless mode, all of which sounded nearly identical thanks to great tuning). It had a physical design flaw with hinges that kept breaking after a few months of use (happened to both of mine), but surely that could have been easily fixed. These could have been the ultimate power user cans, but the production was very quickly stopped.

New comment by Anonyneko in "Show HN: A game where you build a GPU"

Anonyneko — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:53:26 +0000

This looks really cool, although I personally seem to lack the absolute basic knowledge that is required to make sense of the tutorial messages, so I couldn't even figure out the first level.

New comment by Anonyneko in "VNDB founder Yorhel has died"

Anonyneko — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:57:09 +0000

Worth noting that the VNDB code is also used to host other databases such as https://nepchan.org/ (a catalogue of indie Japanese or other similar-in-style RPGs)

New comment by Anonyneko in "VNDB founder Yorhel has died"

Anonyneko — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:51:50 +0000

By now the term "visual novel" got re-imported back into Japan so even Japanese creators have started using it for what they otherwise call "novel games" and VN-like "adventure games".

New comment by Anonyneko in "VNDB founder Yorhel has died"

Anonyneko — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 12:31:06 +0000

Brings back memories of how I did much the same for the PSP spin-off VN of the GA Geijutsuka Art Design Class manga/anime (that, of course, also originated from Manga Time Kirara and also had a big focus on art), although those were pre-LLM times. It even used Squirrel scripts too!

I second the condolences, tremendous loss for the people who knew Yorhel, as well as for the VN and open source communities.

New comment by Anonyneko in "Yorhel, founder of the Visual Novel Database (vndb.org) has passed away"

Anonyneko — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 17:40:25 +0000

Yorhel is also the creator of ncdu (a visual disk usage analyzer terminal tool which saved me countless times), as well as https://manned.org/ (a huge man pages index). And in the VN world he has also done a lot of non-public but equally vital work too. Tremendous loss.

New comment by Anonyneko in "Cloudflare flags archive.today as "C&C/Botnet"; no longer resolves via 1.1.1.2"

Anonyneko — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 16:44:15 +0000

I've been getting the endless captcha on my Finnish residential IPs, but I've also been getting that (or outright timeouts) when using VPNs, so I cannot use the site altogether. I wish there were alternatives.

New comment by Anonyneko in "Chuck Norris has died"

Anonyneko — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 18:16:15 +0000

I would even say that the connotation was more like "Badass Walker", which indeed further cemented his reputation.

New comment by Anonyneko in "Chuck Norris has died"

Anonyneko — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 16:55:32 +0000

It was extremely popular in Russian-speaking areas in the late 90s.

New comment by Anonyneko in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"

Anonyneko — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 12:53:03 +0000

Open phones are all fine and well, but good luck convincing banking and government applications to work on those (especially in countries where bank login is used to access government services).

New comment by Anonyneko in "Temporal: The 9-year journey to fix time in JavaScript"

Anonyneko — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 13:48:25 +0000

This is why I'm sticking with moment.js for now. I don't like that it's not immutable, but I value bundling timezone data into the app too much. Our customers are likely to use outdated browsers at their workplaces (we even had to maintain IE11 compatibility a bit too long for our liking).

New comment by Anonyneko in "Redox OS has adopted a Certificate of Origin policy and a strict no-LLM policy"

Anonyneko — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 10:50:42 +0000

For one, it makes your Github profile look more attractive to employers (superficially, at least).

Sometimes, I'd guess, it's also because your Github profile has some kind of an advertisement.