Hacker News: Sardtok

New comment by Sardtok in "I built a vulnerable app and spent $1,500 seeing if LLMs could hack it"

Sardtok — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 07:20:37 +0000

Sorry, Dave. I can't do that.

New comment by Sardtok in "The Burning Man MOOP Map"

Sardtok — Thu, 07 May 2026 15:19:58 +0000

Read it again, it says right there in square metres.

New comment by Sardtok in "Porsche will contest Laguna Seca in historic colors of the Apple Computer livery"

Sardtok — Sun, 03 May 2026 18:34:21 +0000

Yummy pink pig liver. So livery.

New comment by Sardtok in "Uber wants to turn its drivers into a sensor grid for self-driving companies"

Sardtok — Sat, 02 May 2026 19:06:52 +0000

The biggest difference, is Uber has vehicles around the world. So there's more data from countries with different rules from the US. Signage is definitely different between the US and Europe.

New comment by Sardtok in "Zugzwang"

Sardtok — Sat, 02 May 2026 17:36:47 +0000

That nuke they are apparently working has been just around the corner for over 30 years according to Israeli propaganda.

New comment by Sardtok in "Ti-84 Evo"

Sardtok — Sat, 02 May 2026 10:34:29 +0000

What a shit teacher: "No, don't be creative and learn. Do only as you're told."

New comment by Sardtok in "How to be anti-social – a guide to incoherent and isolating social experiences"

Sardtok — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 21:08:50 +0000

I think you are mixing up asocial and anti-social. Anti-social basically means you don't care how others feel, their rights and social norms. Asocial means you don't want to engage socially.

And I'm pretty sure you are describing yourself as someone with an inferiority complex and social anxiety.

New comment by Sardtok in "Costasiella kuroshimae – Solar Powered animals, that do indirect photosynthesis"

Sardtok — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:24:12 +0000

An apartment inside an apartment complex is still inside the same building. Earth is in the Universe. There's a difference between "in the Universe" and "outside of Earth".

A superset also includes everything in all its subsets.

New comment by Sardtok in "The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: Safety"

Sardtok — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 17:45:13 +0000

Hennes & Mauritz is a Swedish clothing retailer.

On a serious note, I think they meant TN, as in Torment Nexus, but I could be wrong.

New comment by Sardtok in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

Sardtok — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 14:27:46 +0000

That sounds like you have your desk too low. You're going to get some major repetitive strain injuries in 10-20 years.

If you have your arms at your sides, elbows should bend 90 degrees. Then just move your arms slightly forward and you'll end up somewhere around 95 degrees. Now you can rest your forearms on the desk. This won't save you from all kinds of RSI, but it might help your wrists, elbows and shoulder joints last a bit longer.

New comment by Sardtok in "Expanding Swift's IDE Support"

Sardtok — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 22:46:49 +0000

I don't even see the code. All I see is blonde, brunette, redhead.

New comment by Sardtok in "LÖVE: 2D Game Framework for Lua"

Sardtok — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 23:29:44 +0000

The project predates Github, although the first official release came out about a month prior. So, yeah, not a lot of AI slop 20 years ago.

New comment by Sardtok in "LÖVE: 2D Game Framework for Lua"

Sardtok — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 23:04:52 +0000

The project was started by Norwegians. So I feel like you should apply juuuust the right amount of cheesiness and sort of push that Ø-vowel looong. Not sure if Ruud would agree, though.

New comment by Sardtok in "LÖVE: 2D Game Framework for Lua"

Sardtok — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 22:49:58 +0000

Well, it's kind of a machine code for a self-modifying compiler, so there's that.

New comment by Sardtok in "Antimatter has been transported for the first time"

Sardtok — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:38:13 +0000

Sounds like the start of research ending in antimatter bombs.

New comment by Sardtok in "PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article that just keeps downloading"

Sardtok — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 20:17:13 +0000

8 MB for an article about setting up an RSS reader is still ridiculous. Should be <1MB, the text itself is probably a few K, so all the rest is graphics and bullshit JS bundles.

New comment by Sardtok in "Malus – Clean Room as a Service"

Sardtok — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 18:00:03 +0000

Before I visited the site, I was really confused. First, the name means bad, as in evil. Second, I couldn't understand what CRaaS was supposed to be.

But I love it! The perfect response to the "clean room" AI re-implementation and re-licensing of whatever that library is called.

New comment by Sardtok in "Terminals should generate the 256-color palette"

Sardtok — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 08:23:56 +0000

Interesting. You could build a LUT from the 16 color palette to map the 24 bit color space to something 24 bits or less. A bit like mapping 10 bit HDR to 24 bit sRGB.

Perhaps instead of the application overriding the setting, it could be done with an environment var, so the user can easily override it if the mapping messes with the look/usability of the program.

New comment by Sardtok in "Modetc: Move your dotfiles from kernel space"

Sardtok — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 18:16:25 +0000

Always... Except for the decades before this became common. Never a bloated C: root directory. Microsoft even had games store stuff in My Documents\Games at one point. My Documents was a user dir that saw a lot of abuse over the years.

New comment by Sardtok in "“Food JPEGs” in Super Smash Bros. and Kirby Air Riders"

Sardtok — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 20:35:14 +0000

The PAL, JP and US versions are soooo different. Here's the PAL cover: https://i.redd.it/1sra7fk3bsgb1.jpg

That was the first video game I bought myself.