Hacker News: GranPC

New comment by GranPC in "iPhone Duo Jailbreak"

GranPC — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 17:54:40 +0000

https://xxcancel.com/calif_io/status/2113570095549337977

New comment by GranPC in "Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program"

GranPC — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 18:52:02 +0000

That reminds me of the Richards Tip episode from Nathan for You, in which, in order to fulfill a legal requirement for a name change, they started printing a newspaper called The Diarrhea Times.

New comment by GranPC in "PS5 Relapse Exploit"

GranPC — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 23:29:58 +0000

Flash didn't use JS, but rather ActionScript. Which was very much inspired by ECMAScript, especially AS3 -- but Flash's security holes were all of Adobe's doing. Good times.

New comment by GranPC in "Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP"

GranPC — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 19:37:19 +0000

Did you work on BB10?

New comment by GranPC in "This Code Is CRAP (2011)"

GranPC — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 16:54:15 +0000

It's more of a gut feeling than anything else. I don't know what the normalization rules are, but I think we mostly notice the normalizer when it mangles something [1], and not when it's just quietly humming along. Someone with more spare time could probably figure out a dataset of original to normalized titles and measure that.

[1]: Example from the frontpage right now: "How Big Are Factorials?" probably got normalized to "Big Are Factorials?" originally, based off other previous manglings I have seen previously.

New comment by GranPC in "This Code Is CRAP (2011)"

GranPC — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 16:45:18 +0000

In its (admittedly weak) defense, if the submitter edits the title back during the few-minute window after submitting where this is possible, the normalizer does not kick back in. But it is a bit opaque, in the sense that the poster needs to: realize that the title has been changed; know that they can edit the title (but not too slow!); and know that it won't be filtered through again.

I have no idea what the website would look like without it, but I have a feeling it does more good than harm.

New comment by GranPC in "This Code Is CRAP (2011)"

GranPC — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 16:34:22 +0000

I believe the "This" might have gotten swallowed by HN's title normalizer.

New comment by GranPC in "Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher"

GranPC — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 22:34:42 +0000

I am trying very hard to find an original version of this cipher with no luck. It almost sounds like this whole thing is a hallucination...? Can anyone point me to a PDF of the original Cyphral Distich as printed?

New comment by GranPC in ".gitignore Everything by Default"

GranPC — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 14:35:50 +0000

Couldn't you put !.gitignore et al in your global config file?

New comment by GranPC in "Fixing miss-aligned monospace text in Android browsers"

GranPC — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 02:07:23 +0000

FWIW, the Original version looks misaligned on my Linux phone running Firefox. Fixed is, well, fixed.

New comment by GranPC in "GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17"

GranPC — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 22:57:46 +0000

It means they rebased all their changes on top of the new version. This is usually time-consuming because AOSP is not developed in the open, so you can't do this incrementally as things change -- you just get a massive drop sometime after release.

New comment by GranPC in "Haiku OS runs on M1 Macs now"

GranPC — Mon, 18 May 2026 18:43:12 +0000

No, they got it booting on bare metal a few posts down.

New comment by GranPC in "A Tale of Two File Names"

GranPC — Sun, 17 May 2026 03:30:18 +0000

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9690703

A Tale of Two File Names

GranPC — Sun, 17 May 2026 03:29:01 +0000

Article URL: https://tomgalvin.uk/blog/gen/2015/06/09/filenames/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48165814

Points: 4

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New comment by GranPC in "Halt and Catch Fire"

GranPC — Sat, 16 May 2026 22:40:56 +0000

You should probs edit out the spoiler, or encode it somehow for others who haven't watched it yet!

New comment by GranPC in "Space Cadet Pinball on Linux"

GranPC — Sun, 10 May 2026 12:26:00 +0000

It was bundled with XP.

New comment by GranPC in "Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged"

GranPC — Fri, 08 May 2026 16:41:10 +0000

Wrong link. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48039362

New comment by GranPC in "Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license"

GranPC — Thu, 07 May 2026 01:59:52 +0000

What does that have to do with Americans specifically?

New comment by GranPC in "New research suggests people can communicate and practice skills while dreaming"

GranPC — Sat, 02 May 2026 01:59:28 +0000

Sorry for the off-topic, but I was curious about Affectable so I opened the website. I saw it's very thin and light and comfortable, but I struggled to find out what "it" is and what it does for me. It's kinda buried.

I was interested enough to click through the different links in the footer. And just as I reached the purchase page, I see that it requires "an iPhone running iOS". Unsure why it requires an iPhone; and no info on a timeline for iPhone-less customers. But that immediately rules me out as a customer.

I feel like the landing page would be a lot better if it started out focusing on what it is & how it can help me.

Apologies again for the unsolicited advice. Just wanted to share my impressions in case it's helpful.

New comment by GranPC in "For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions"

GranPC — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 19:18:55 +0000

Just for what it's worth, I just pushed an eBPF-based workaround for people who are running kernels in which AF_ALG is linked directly into the kernel and not as a module: https://github.com/Dabbleam/CVE-2026-31431-mitigation

I am running this in production right now and it mitigates the attack, with no unexpected side-effects as far as I can see.