Hacker News: Kikawala

New comment by Kikawala in "Flipper One Tech Specs"

Kikawala — Wed, 20 May 2026 20:39:53 +0000

The 3.5mm audio jack can be used to plug in an IR emitter.

New comment by Kikawala in "Ordinary Lab Gloves May Have Skewed Microplastic Data"

Kikawala — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 22:18:24 +0000

Previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47561711

New comment by Kikawala in "We broke 92% of SHA-256 – you should start to migrate from it"

Kikawala — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 19:11:45 +0000

We publish this work as responsible disclosure. While a full SHA-256 collision (sr = 64) has not yet been achieved, the tools and techniques presented here represent significant methodological advances that bring it closer. Organizations relying on SHA-256 for collision resistance should begin evaluating migration paths to SHA-3 or other post-quantum hash functions. The cryptographic community should treat the collision resistance of SHA-256 as having a finite and shrinking safety margin.

New comment by Kikawala in "The zipper is getting its first major upgrade in 100 years"

Kikawala — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 15:57:11 +0000

PDF catalog for the AiryString has a lot more details and technical information.

https://ykkdigitalshowroom.com/assets/AiryString_202507_en.p...

It looks like there is a core cord inside the zipper teeth. The specialized sewing machine stitches the cord to the fabric in between each teeth... tooth?

New comment by Kikawala in "Disrupting the DRAM roadmap with capacitor-less IGZO-DRAM technology"

Kikawala — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 16:56:24 +0000

> Through the years, imec has made considerable progress in assessing, understanding, and modeling reliability failure, paving the way to building reliable IGZO transistors with a target lifetime of five years

Replacing your DRAM sticks every five years may be okay, but what about for boards with soldered on memory?

New comment by Kikawala in "Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Is Down"

Kikawala — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 22:05:39 +0000

No updates on https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/

Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Is Down

Kikawala — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 22:05:39 +0000

Article URL: https://1.1.1.1/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44565845

Points: 49

# Comments: 12

New comment by Kikawala in "Radio Garden"

Kikawala — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 15:35:55 +0000

Their about page says they source the IPTV information from https://github.com/iptv-org/iptv

New comment by Kikawala in "Ground control to Major Trial"

Kikawala — Fri, 16 May 2025 17:04:04 +0000

They did reach out.

So we reached out.

They vaguely apologized and claimed they’d switch to using the source version instead.

Which — fine. Not ideal, but technically within the rules. What stung more was their complete disinterest in any kind of professional support — even when we simply brought up the idea of a volume discount (!). They shut it down immediately. Apparently, sending satellites into orbit is easier than entertaining the thought of paying for open source support.

And did they actually switch to the source?

Of course not.

They just kept going — now using personal Outlook addresses and incrementing the email handles like they were running a script.

New comment by Kikawala in "The Art of Managing Skunks"

Kikawala — Thu, 01 May 2025 20:49:33 +0000

https://web.archive.org/web/20250409175424/https://maheshba....

New comment by Kikawala in "Show HN: Add 'unlock' to booking URL to auto-compare the same hotel across sites"

Kikawala — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 21:47:53 +0000

Tried: <https://www.booking.com/hotel/us/best-western-plus-inn-and-s...>

Gives me a different hotel when adding unlock. From Best Western Plus College Station Inn & Suites to Best Western PLUS Hobby Airport Inn and Suites

New comment by Kikawala in "Ask HN: How did the internet discover my subdomain?"

Kikawala — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 00:24:15 +0000

Answered below, but https://crt.sh/ is what I use.

New comment by Kikawala in "Ask HN: How did the internet discover my subdomain?"

Kikawala — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 22:39:53 +0000

Is it available under HTTPS? Then it's probably in a Certificate Transparency log.

New comment by Kikawala in "Videogame firms hit with EU complaint over 'tricking consumers'"

Kikawala — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 02:33:32 +0000

https://www.digitaljournal.com/tech-science/eu-consumer-grou...

This one give slightly more information.

"Today, premium in-game currencies are purposefully tricking consumers and take a big toll on children. Companies are well aware of children's vulnerability and use tricks to lure younger consumers into spending more,"

Gacha games.

New comment by Kikawala in "13ft – A site similar to 12ft.io but self-hosted"

Kikawala — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 20:48:15 +0000

https://github.com/bpc-clone/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean or https://github.com/bpc-clone/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean

New comment by Kikawala in "Firefox 129.0"

Kikawala — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 19:38:49 +0000

  A tab preview is now displayed when hovering the mouse over background tabs, making it easier to locate the desired tab without needing to switch tabs.
  This feature is part of a progressive roll out.

Can be enabled by setting browser.tabs.hoverPreview.enabled to true.

New comment by Kikawala in "Scoped Propagators"

Kikawala — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 20:56:35 +0000

Firefox doesn't support H.265/HEVC.

bridging.mov and examples.mp4 are working as they are H.264/AVC, the other videos are H.265/HEVC

New comment by Kikawala in "The joy of reading books you don't understand"

Kikawala — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 23:34:21 +0000

The unreliable narrator doesn't help either.

New comment by Kikawala in "Ask HN: what are examples of successful "open-source alternatives"?"

Kikawala — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 20:35:49 +0000

Vaultwarden [0]. Bitwarden compatible server written in Rust

[0] https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden

New comment by Kikawala in "What You Get After Running an SSH Honeypot for 30 Days"

Kikawala — Sun, 16 Jun 2024 18:52:14 +0000

https://www.lockr.io/