Hacker News: The_SamminAter

New comment by The_SamminAter in "Honda Civics and the Evil Valet"

The_SamminAter — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 15:59:56 +0000

Hey, how did you obtain the update file? I’ve been trying to probe an Acura head unit from the same year, it’s also on Android 4.x, but have ran into a roadblock when it comes to obtaining an update file.

New comment by The_SamminAter in "Car headlights don't have to be this blinding"

The_SamminAter — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 19:25:12 +0000

Then why does every Tesla in front and behind me at night blind me? Some of the Hyundai IONIQs too, but there’s less of them out there.

New comment by The_SamminAter in "DuckDuckGo displays a special logo when you search for FreeBSD or OpenBSD"

The_SamminAter — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 04:02:24 +0000

Another: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=megamind&ia=web

Proxmark5: Professional RFID Research Platform for Hackers

The_SamminAter — Mon, 11 May 2026 19:56:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/rfidresearchgroup/proxmark5

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48099858

Points: 3

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New comment by The_SamminAter in "Rockstar Games Hacked, Hackers Threaten a Massive Data Leak If Not Paid Ransom"

The_SamminAter — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 23:47:38 +0000

The actual case is that GTA Online sessions are P2P. As such, when connected to a session, your IP is exposed to the other players. This doesn’t really qualify as a ‘doxx,’ as that in and of itself is not particularly PII. Furthermore, playing without a menu is possible and has been for years. It just helps to boot yourself into a new/empty session every once in a while.

New comment by The_SamminAter in "Show HN: Facebook Marketplace MCP"

The_SamminAter — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 02:24:25 +0000

Neat! Thanks for doing the legwork, I’ll reimplement this in bash for some personal projects.

I would have thought that Facebook would mind non-humans accessing marketplace. At least, that’s what previous research has lead me to believe.

New comment by The_SamminAter in "Asia's EVolution: How the Toyota Prius Comes to Die in Mongolia [video]"

The_SamminAter — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 05:26:33 +0000

Linked article: https://www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/toyota-prius-mongolia-e...

New comment by The_SamminAter in "Iguanaworks has closed and our products are no longer sold"

The_SamminAter — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 21:14:26 +0000

I love learning from and building that type of thing (plus have some musician friends who can never have too many gadgets). Would you be willing to share a link?

Note: if you don’t want to create a link to yourself, you could also email me at 0_AT_protonmail_._com

New comment by The_SamminAter in "Amazon is adding a fuel surcharge to fees it collects from third-party sellers"

The_SamminAter — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 23:00:48 +0000

How much does it pay on average? And how is the payment broken down/do you earn per mile or package?

New comment by The_SamminAter in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

The_SamminAter — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 23:42:13 +0000

> as long as

*except HP

New comment by The_SamminAter in "I'm a truck driver who built a privacy-first RSS and webcomic reader"

The_SamminAter — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 18:26:09 +0000

Neat extension! Two points of feedback with it:

1. It changes my browser theme frequently. Please do not. I've only taken a quick look at how/why, but you seem to apply the stock Firefox dark themes multiple times - in sidebar/sidebar.js, sidebar/theme-init.js, background/background.js, and possibly in sidebar/manage.js and sidebar/reader-page.js. This is just from a quick grep.

2. The authentication structure is quite easy to modify/bypass. Yes, you have server-sided authentication, but modules/auth.js does all of the work - and as such can be both taken offline and be modified to set arbutrary user information and return a valid, non-expired subscription. Though, isAuthenticated returning true is even easier.

You have made quite an interesting and useful extension, which I do plan on trialing once I fix the theme-changing issue. Authentication is hard and can never be perfect, but I do believe that it is robust enough for the vast majority of users. Thank you for sharing your work, and I await to hear how compliant/polite it is on rachelbythebay's rss reader test.

New comment by The_SamminAter in "3D printing my laptop ergonomic setup"

The_SamminAter — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 20:37:43 +0000

Tinkercad is what “clicked” for me. I found that it’s very easy to start making simple functional designs, but when you are trying to make something more advanced (pain point: triangles with rounded edges) it’s a bit lacking. Plasticity seems to be the next step in this direction, but it’s pricey.

New comment by The_SamminAter in "Adobe Photoshop 2025 Installer Now Working on Linux with Patched Wine"

The_SamminAter — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 23:53:52 +0000

Yes, I believe I’ve used DisplayCAL with a calibration puck.

New comment by The_SamminAter in "Adobe Photoshop 2025 Installer Now Working on Linux with Patched Wine"

The_SamminAter — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 23:50:12 +0000

Neat. Up to this point you’ve had to install it on a windows device, and copy it along with a handful of dlls over[0][1]. Notably, I’ve only gotten Photoshop to work via this method, other products (InDesign and one other) will not run.

[0]: https://forum.mattkc.com/viewtopic.php?t=336 [1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20251203093202/https://forum.mat...

New comment by The_SamminAter in "Morphe is an Android app modification tool"

The_SamminAter — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:38:39 +0000

> What apps can Morphe patch?

> You can patch any app you want. As long as you want YouTube or YouTube Music. We're constantly working on expanding support to more apps.

New comment by The_SamminAter in "Smart Glasses Would Adjust Focus on the Fly Based on Your Eye Movements"

The_SamminAter — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 17:33:54 +0000

That sounds like it could be rather nauseating

New comment by The_SamminAter in "The Siren Song – all about sirens"

The_SamminAter — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 07:51:36 +0000

I was planning on making a miniature model of the Yamaha sirens, so am interested to see that people have already made models. However I think that until/unless I get stumped I will ignore these and make my own, just for fun.

New comment by The_SamminAter in "Handheld PC Community Forums"

The_SamminAter — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 08:50:27 +0000

There’s this[0] one that seems pretty approachable, I’ve been considering making it

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46265015

New comment by The_SamminAter in "Valve reveals it’s the architect behind a push to bring Windows games to Arm"

The_SamminAter — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 01:56:51 +0000

There is this[0], but even with re-creating this patch on the latest wine-staging tree, I was unable to get Rekordbox (6, don’t try 7) to communicate with the board. That said, I was also unable to interact with Mixxx with the board, and that wasn’t running through wine. As a sanity check, I verified that the board runs fine on Rekordbox 6 on Windows. I was able to read the midi inputs from the board just fine from other programs on Linux, so I’m honestly not sure where the issue lies.

[0]: https://erhan.es/blog/using-pioneer-controller-with-rekordbo...

New comment by The_SamminAter in "PCB Edge USB C Connector Library"

The_SamminAter — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 08:16:33 +0000

Using with a little flux while tinning usually prevents the pads from bridging