Hacker News: Rygian

New comment by Rygian in "HTML-in-Canvas Demos"

Rygian — Wed, 20 May 2026 09:17:48 +0000

How long until a canvas is used to render the full chrome of a web browser (e.g. including the TLS padlock), showing a fake benign URL in the (fake) address bar while having the user interact with a malicious page?

New comment by Rygian in "Click (2016)"

Rygian — Tue, 19 May 2026 07:11:34 +0000

> we include it in our terms and condition and privacy page, but I don't think users truly grasp how those tools work

Since you did collect the metrics, you had direct knowledge of how many users opened the T&C and scrolled down to the place where you mention you're recording their session.

Would be interesting if you can share an aggregate statistic of that.

New comment by Rygian in "Ask an Astronaut: 333 hours of Q&A footage with astronauts"

Rygian — Mon, 18 May 2026 08:51:13 +0000

All the questions about sneeze are either about open air, or Newton's third law. Did really no one ask what happens if you sneeze while wearing a spacesuit helmet? Does the visor have a windshield wiper on the inside?

New comment by Rygian in "Kraftwerk's radical 1976 track"

Rygian — Wed, 13 May 2026 06:05:08 +0000

I'm glad we don't have exclusion zones like that one in France either.

New comment by Rygian in "Spain has become one of Europe’s cheapest power markets"

Rygian — Mon, 11 May 2026 06:23:54 +0000

You misread my comment.

If someone can deliver the same greater value to society using less electricity than you, they should be rewarded.

New comment by Rygian in "Spain has become one of Europe’s cheapest power markets"

Rygian — Sun, 10 May 2026 20:19:34 +0000

Punitive pricing is a great thing.

The less energy you spend to deliver value, the better for everyone.

New comment by Rygian in "Killswitch: Per-function short-circuit mitigation primitive"

Rygian — Sat, 09 May 2026 18:29:28 +0000

As addressed in the article ("Choosing the right target"):

> Pick the *highest-level* entry point that contains the bug

New comment by Rygian in "You gave me a u32. I gave you root. (io_uring ZCRX freelist LPE)"

Rygian — Fri, 08 May 2026 22:24:18 +0000

That's not prevention. That's remediation.

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

Rygian — Fri, 08 May 2026 18:15:20 +0000

In my case, the site reports "The technique is called browser fingerprinting. It is legal everywhere."

It is definitely not legal in Europe, when used to track individual users. The consent pop-ups are not only about cookies.

Custom Music Boxes, Mechanisms, Movements and Discs

Rygian — Mon, 04 May 2026 12:27:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.musichouseshop.com/store/custom-music-boxes-and-tunes.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48007845

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by Rygian in "Apocalypse Early Warning System"

Rygian — Fri, 01 May 2026 19:50:02 +0000

I'll ask the obvious: wouldn't the aircraft just take to the skies directly, without bothering with the formality of setting their transponder, if they were knowingly escaping an apocalypse scenario?

New comment by Rygian in "Laws of UX"

Rygian — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 18:31:45 +0000

Law #0: don't reflowb or otherwise move around the UI element I'm going to click on.

KDEConnect

Rygian — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:29:28 +0000

Article URL: https://userbase.kde.org/KDEConnect

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47933604

Points: 15

# Comments: 1

New comment by Rygian in "The Free Universal Construction Kit"

Rygian — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 18:53:44 +0000

Mickey mouse is in the public domain, at last!

New comment by Rygian in "SFO Quiet Airport (2025)"

Rygian — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 19:51:24 +0000

There is apparently 10000 people every day who learn about it for the first time, according to https://xkcd.com/1053/

New comment by Rygian in "A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”"

Rygian — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 07:28:14 +0000

That's not a fix. It's a workaround.

New comment by Rygian in "Zero-build privacy policies with Astro"

Rygian — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 08:41:00 +0000

I wonder how often do privacy policies change, for the average site, to merit investing in a dedicated library that renders them dynamically. Assuming that the default solution is a static page.

New comment by Rygian in "Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)"

Rygian — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:35:23 +0000

The article does mention a very specific choice of vibration equipment.

New comment by Rygian in "Are We Idiocracy Yet?"

Rygian — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:59:02 +0000

Is there any strong relationship between IQ scores and innate intelligence, as opposed to mental agility gained through education?

How to Make a Complete Map of Every Thought You Think (2003) [pdf]

Rygian — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 08:41:15 +0000

Article URL: https://users.speakeasy.net/~lion/nb/book.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47672314

Points: 2

# Comments: 0