Hacker News: OMGWTF

New comment by OMGWTF in "Amazon thought it could compete with Steam because it was much larger than Valve"

OMGWTF — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 14:55:07 +0000

I think what Valve gets right is how much value and respect it provides to both players and developers. Of course you can find some issues here and there. But in general, neither players nor developers are angry or frustrated with Valve/Steam.

It's no surprise that it's hard to compete with that.

On the other hand, I find it surprising that no one thinks there is a way to take operating system market share away from Microsoft with a better end user operating system. There is constantly new annoying stuff practically forced upon you and people are complaining left and right. Of course Microsoft has built several moats, but this level of disrespect against your own users has to backfire some day.

New comment by OMGWTF in "Microplastics in blood induce cerebral thrombosis&neurobehavioral abnormalities"

OMGWTF — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 03:57:54 +0000

in mice.

New comment by OMGWTF in "Mend it Mark gets suspect copyright strike for £25k audio amp repair"

OMGWTF — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 16:55:55 +0000

follow up video:

The £25,000 Pre-Amp Repair and the Copyright Strike

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPIrCaeVtvI

New comment by OMGWTF in "Microsoft stoops to new low with ads in Windows 11"

OMGWTF — Thu, 16 May 2024 21:13:22 +0000

evolution of windows: useful -> adware -> spyware -> tech-support-scam (this story) -> ransomware (automatic full disk encryption is said to be deployed soon)

New comment by OMGWTF in "Show HN: A WireGuard Powered Remote Shell"

OMGWTF — Sun, 12 May 2024 14:25:23 +0000

I guess you just need to configure `ListenAddress` in your `/etc/ssh/sshd_config` properly (see `man sshd_config`).

New comment by OMGWTF in "The X220 ThinkPad is the best laptop"

OMGWTF — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 12:15:11 +0000

The keyboard and keyboard layout are really great and primary laptop still is an X220T.

However, the resolution is horrible (1366x768), the CPU is slow, it's heavy, mine has no USB3 and the charger is quite bulky.

New comment by OMGWTF in "Why Conscious AI Is a Bad, Bad Idea"

OMGWTF — Sat, 13 May 2023 12:36:07 +0000

Conscious AI primarily would be a problem because we don't really have clear definitions and understandings of what we mean by that, and it leads to endless discussions.

The real problem is not whether an AI really "experiences" what happens to it or what it does, it's not even whether or not it gains "free will" (if that even exists).

The real problems start when AI gains motives/objectives and means to realize them. Or means to expand its means. I would find a completely stupid system that has the goal and ability to turn any matter into paperclips and more matter converters more scary than most visions of AI.

New comment by OMGWTF in "Putin grants Russian citizenship to Edward Snowden"

OMGWTF — Mon, 26 Sep 2022 18:46:30 +0000

> Snowden’s lawyer, Anatoly Kucherena, told Interfax that “since Edward didn’t serve in the Russian army and has no military service experience, he’s not liable for conscription.”

src: https://meduza.io/en/news/2022/09/26/putin-grants-citizenshi...

New comment by OMGWTF in "Ex-Twitter exec blows the whistle, alleging reckless cybersecurity policies"

OMGWTF — Tue, 23 Aug 2022 22:36:32 +0000

It wasn't just about incentives. The disclosure also says that while Musk asked for [spam bot accounts / total active acccounts], Agrawal's response didn't really address the question and was pretty misleading [estimated spam bots among mDAU accounts / total mDAU accounts < 5%].

("Argawal's reasoning might appear a bit circular since, by definition, mDAU is more or less Twitter's best approximation of the set of accounts that aren't bots. And Agrawal is not exactly trying to help readers understand the bait-and-switch nature of his answer." - page 13/84)

New comment by OMGWTF in "Minify your container"

OMGWTF — Wed, 03 Aug 2022 20:34:33 +0000

kkrieger (https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=12036) is an impressive 3D shooter in only 96 KiloBytes. As one of their optimization techniques they recorded all code paths and discarded unused parts. At least in the first version this was why you could only use CursorDown in the menus and CursorUp did not work.

New comment by OMGWTF in "The Programming Paradigm to Find One Solution Among 8,080,104 Candidates"

OMGWTF — Sun, 01 May 2022 22:52:10 +0000

  $ python3 -c 'import math; print(math.lcm(13, 19, 37))'
  9139

New comment by OMGWTF in "What a $500k grant proposal looks like"

OMGWTF — Thu, 24 Feb 2022 05:58:08 +0000

> No it does mean the overhead is 280% if defined the same way as the university (overhead is calculated as percentage of non-overhead costs, not overall costs).

But he said:

> That is my billing rate to the government is 2.8 times my hourly rate as determined by my salary.

Doesn't that mean that the government pays a total of 2.8x his salary, so overhead would be 180% (+100% salary = 280% total)? Or what mistake did I make here?

New comment by OMGWTF in "Ask HN: Which games do you recommend to improve thinking and reasoning?"

OMGWTF — Wed, 12 Jan 2022 22:38:54 +0000

The Witness

New comment by OMGWTF in "Former Ubiquiti employee charged with stealing data and extorting company"

OMGWTF — Thu, 02 Dec 2021 11:14:20 +0000

Are you aware that the CEO owns about 90% of all Ubiquiti shares?

New comment by OMGWTF in "Take a look inside Steam Deck"

OMGWTF — Wed, 06 Oct 2021 20:57:50 +0000

I wish more manufacturers would provide such disassembly videos.

HiveNightmare a.k.a. SeriousSAM – anybody can read the registry in Windows 10

OMGWTF — Sat, 24 Jul 2021 10:33:46 +0000

Article URL: https://doublepulsar.com/hivenightmare-aka-serioussam-anybody-can-read-the-registry-in-windows-10-7a871c465fa5

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27939728

Points: 171

# Comments: 175

Groundhog day: NPM package caught stealing browser passwords

OMGWTF — Wed, 21 Jul 2021 15:15:18 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.secure.software/groundhog-day-npm-package-caught-stealing-browser-passwords

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27907428

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by OMGWTF in "EE to reintroduce data roaming charges in Europe, following Brexit"

OMGWTF — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 12:51:50 +0000

See also: Patrick Stewart sketch: what has the ECHR ever done for us? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptfmAY6M6aA

New comment by OMGWTF in "Basic Telemetry for Audacity"

OMGWTF — Fri, 07 May 2021 08:22:49 +0000

Are we sure that window titles do not contain sensitive information? (E.g. file names, paths)

https://github.com/audacity/audacity/pull/835/files#diff-4bf...

New comment by OMGWTF in "Rockstar pays $10k to modder who fixed GTA Online loading times"

OMGWTF — Tue, 16 Mar 2021 17:43:14 +0000

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26469753