Hacker News: Milpotel

New comment by Milpotel in "Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users"

Milpotel — Fri, 08 May 2026 19:42:43 +0000

Wouldn't a 1£ Linux VM as Wireguard access point suffice?

New comment by Milpotel in "A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking"

Milpotel — Fri, 08 May 2026 15:08:16 +0000

Same for me, also the "screen" size is off (just shows window size), the location is off by hundreds of kilometres and other information is quite generic (battery level "kept back", small set of standard fonts available...).

New comment by Milpotel in "Just Fucking Use Go"

Milpotel — Fri, 08 May 2026 14:56:03 +0000

What language/toolchain/platform are you talking about because C/C++/Python/... all have the same issues?

New comment by Milpotel in "Biology is a Burrito: A text- and visual-based journey through a living cell"

Milpotel — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 07:25:47 +0000

I can recommend "The song of the cell" as a starting point. If you prefer textbooks, maybe "Life: The Science of Biology". I have a translated non-english copy and besides some math issues it's a nice overview, but I'm not a biologist.

New comment by Milpotel in "Copy Fail"

Milpotel — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 07:00:03 +0000

  zgrep CONFIG_CRYPTO_USER_API /proc/config.gz

New comment by Milpotel in "UK to permanently ban future generations from buying cigarettes"

Milpotel — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 17:30:51 +0000

The net effect of smoking on healthcare and welfare costs. A cohort study. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3533014/ (Finland, 2012)

New comment by Milpotel in "A Boy That Cried Mythos: Verification Is Collapsing Trust in Anthropic"

Milpotel — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 08:42:04 +0000

Mozilla has: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/ai-security-zero-day-vul...

New comment by Milpotel in "LittleSnitch for Linux"

Milpotel — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 05:52:54 +0000

You mean like PiHole or AdGuard?

New comment by Milpotel in "FreeCAD v1.1"

Milpotel — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 11:11:10 +0000

I had the opposite experience. Creating the parts was easy with some tutorials but when I went to the assembly step it failed horribly. There are different plugins/ways how you can do it but none of them worked and the console solely gave cryptic error messages. I gave up and used pen and paper. :(

New comment by Milpotel in "Tony Hoare has died"

Milpotel — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 05:53:10 +0000

But the "references" in Euler seem to be close to references nowadays. There is no access to the address, no pointer arithmetic etc. such as in PL/I.

New comment by Milpotel in "Tony Hoare has died"

Milpotel — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 20:19:52 +0000

> the first language having pointers with explicit dereferencing was Euler, published completely in 1966-01

I could only find a manual for PDP-10 Euler with references. Do you have a source for an Euler with pointers?

New comment by Milpotel in "Tony Hoare has died"

Milpotel — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 18:09:32 +0000

Nice, and that was implemented and qualifies as high-level language?

New comment by Milpotel in "Tony Hoare has died"

Milpotel — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 16:04:41 +0000

I'm pretty sure that this is not true. I talked to Bud Lawson (the inventor of the pointer) and he claimed that they had implemented special behaviour for null pointers earlier. When I talked to Tony later about it, he said he had never heard of Bud Lawson. So probably both invented them independently, but Bud came first.

New comment by Milpotel in "Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable"

Milpotel — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 10:00:37 +0000

> The small form factor phones simply do not sell.

And still in every phone topic people complain about phones being too big... I'd love to have a smaller affordable smartphone.

New comment by Milpotel in "Libxml2 Enterprise Edition (AGPL, from the previous maintainer)"

Milpotel — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 13:56:29 +0000

I hope the code quality will improve and their "we don't need tests because we use fuzzing... sometimes..." attitude changes.

New comment by Milpotel in "Show HN: Tiny FOSS Compass and Navigation App (<2MB)"

Milpotel — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 12:27:25 +0000

Some projects offer the app for free on Fdroid and charge a small fee on Play. Might be an option as well.

New comment by Milpotel in "Twelve Days of Shell"

Milpotel — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 11:50:04 +0000

> Safari [..] The page stopped loading properly.

Who would've guessed...

New comment by Milpotel in "How I discovered a hidden microphone on a Chinese NanoKVM"

Milpotel — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 14:56:22 +0000

> [...] and runs a heavily stripped-down version of Linux that lacks systemd and apt. And these are just a few of the issues.

New comment by Milpotel in "Why we built Lightpanda in Zig"

Milpotel — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 11:05:45 +0000

Why? It's horrendously slow thanks to the wrong language choice and also required a rewrite (bedrock).

New comment by Milpotel in "Why we built Lightpanda in Zig"

Milpotel — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 09:34:58 +0000

These are the "famous" failed projects. All of them lost most of their user base or required a rewrite or lost to a faster competitor.