Hacker News: ChiptuneIsCool

The Tabs vs. Spaces war is over, and spaces have emerged victorious

ChiptuneIsCool — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 18:03:01 +0000

Article URL: https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/tabs-vs-spaces-the-war-is-over/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44686209

Points: 113

# Comments: 230

Sam Altman Wants Your Eyeball

ChiptuneIsCool — Sat, 10 May 2025 16:14:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/05/10/sam-altman-wants-your-eyeball/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43946766

Points: 153

# Comments: 161

Privacy Pass: The New Protocol for Private Authentication

ChiptuneIsCool — Sun, 04 May 2025 09:07:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/04/21/privacy-pass/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43885535

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Minimal CSS-only blurry image placeholders

ChiptuneIsCool — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 11:11:35 +0000

Article URL: https://leanrada.com/notes/css-only-lqip/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43523220

Points: 470

# Comments: 75

Coding Adventure: Optimizing a Ray Tracer (By Building a BVH) [video]

ChiptuneIsCool — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 16:22:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1H4zIiCOaI

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40659850

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by ChiptuneIsCool in "Dotnet9x: Backport of .NET 2.0 – 3.5 to Windows 9x"

ChiptuneIsCool — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 14:06:57 +0000

There is also a video on his yt channel going through the process (and pain) of creating the backport. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTUMNtKQLl8

Dotnet9x: Backport of .NET 2.0 – 3.5 to Windows 9x

ChiptuneIsCool — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 14:04:39 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/itsmattkc/dotnet9x

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40002280

Points: 12

# Comments: 2

New comment by ChiptuneIsCool in "How did you make your first dollar online?"

ChiptuneIsCool — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 22:04:03 +0000

I'm quite young so this happened very recently. Me and my friend created an Android app for students that could let you view our school's online workbook (so grades, lessons, news etc) in the app without opening and logging in the website. Some time passed and the workbook gained popularity among other schools (mostly because it was open source) and so did our app. Then a school asked us to change the ui a bit and paid us 80€. I think I used my 40€ in pc parts and other stuff :) Soon after we stopped working on it and graduated.

There are still like 200~ users using the app even after 2 years since we stopped updating (and it crashes a lot).

New comment by ChiptuneIsCool in "PaperMC/Paper: The most widely used, high performance Minecraft server"

ChiptuneIsCool — Sun, 10 Mar 2024 20:14:25 +0000

https://pterodactyl.io/ Something like this maybe?

The Windows Context Menu – Is It a Lost Cause?

ChiptuneIsCool — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 22:41:24 +0000

Article URL: https://enderman.ch/blog/the-windows-context-menu

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39447947

Points: 70

# Comments: 33

New comment by ChiptuneIsCool in "Windows Ends Installation Path for Free Windows 7/8 Upgrade"

ChiptuneIsCool — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 20:14:23 +0000

The free upgrade from win 7 keys was used for years as a way to permanently activate any copy of windows using a tool called MAS[1]

[1] https://massgrave.dev/index.html

Windows Ends Installation Path for Free Windows 7/8 Upgrade

ChiptuneIsCool — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 20:07:10 +0000

Article URL: https://devicepartner.microsoft.com/en-us/communications/comm-windows-ends-installation-path-for-free-windows-7-8-upgrade

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37709475

Points: 5

# Comments: 3

New comment by ChiptuneIsCool in "Scrcpy: Display and control your Android devices connected over USB or TCP/IP"

ChiptuneIsCool — Sat, 29 Apr 2023 09:28:55 +0000

Try this https://github.com/pyamsoft/tetherfi It will route all hotspot traffic through your phone and vpn. Works even without root

New comment by ChiptuneIsCool in "How NAT traversal works (2020)"

ChiptuneIsCool — Sat, 19 Mar 2022 07:44:32 +0000

I wasn't expecting such a good written article. Good job Tailscale!

New comment by ChiptuneIsCool in "Ask HN: Any good alternatives to YT Vanced?"

ChiptuneIsCool — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 12:04:46 +0000

I tried but youtube from browser is too slow to load video

New comment by ChiptuneIsCool in "Ask HN: Any good alternatives to YT Vanced?"

ChiptuneIsCool — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 11:59:56 +0000

> i have to ask, why do you need newpipe to support google account login?

Because i like what yt recommends me, and since i disabled search and video history it only recommends me channels similar to my subscriptions with a mix of trash/clickbait video (that sometimes helps me get away from my phone). With newpipe i would be stuck with the same channels and wouldn't discover new channels or content

New comment by ChiptuneIsCool in "Browser in the Browser (BITB) Attack"

ChiptuneIsCool — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 09:23:37 +0000

I don't think this attack can be used on a large scale because if the browser has a custom theme you will quickly notice that the popup is not from the browser. If it is used on one person, customizing the popup for his specific browser is almost impossible to notice it

Ask HN: Any good alternatives to YT Vanced?

ChiptuneIsCool — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 08:32:09 +0000

After Google killed YT Vanced, Google could make it incompatible with Youtube at any moment. So im searching for an alternative client

What i mean with client is a client where i can login with a google account and see video recommendations, for example NewPipe is great but does not support google accounts. Im asking this because im thinking of creating an alternative to vanced myself, but i want to see other alternatives first

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30719822

Points: 2

# Comments: 4