Hacker News: The_SamminAter

New comment by The_SamminAter in "Running Wayland, X11, Gnome, and KDE Natively on an iPad"

The_SamminAter — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 15:23:30 +0000

Neat! I sent you an email about possibly making it work on older versions of iOS.

New comment by The_SamminAter in "Show HN: Firefox in WebAssembly"

The_SamminAter — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 03:05:28 +0000

Indeed. This is both the best and the only actively maintained way for older versions of iOS to use modern js.

New comment by The_SamminAter in "Show HN: GovAuctions.app now in US,UK,CA,AU with deal scores and bid estimates"

The_SamminAter — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 15:24:04 +0000

Wonderful! I’ll check that out.

For context regarding JS, this is what the site looks like on my phone (iOS 14): https://imgur.com/a/K0OGEma . While Reynard (browser) does make it work mostly, the sort by selection doesn’t - a minor complaint to an otherwise much better experience for accessing gov auctions.

New comment by The_SamminAter in "Show HN: GovAuctions.app now in US,UK,CA,AU with deal scores and bid estimates"

The_SamminAter — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 15:10:45 +0000

Thank you for adding more countries! Is there an API which can be exposed to the user? (For integrating into a personal TUI, no LLM funny business). I’ve looked into querying my local gov auction site, and it ended up being quite a pain and ultimately not successful.

On a bit of a more serious note, would it be possible to add fallback js to support older devices?

Thanks again

New comment by The_SamminAter in "I've built an iOS app to spoof location, no PC needed"

The_SamminAter — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 05:28:15 +0000

Sell it on ipa and jailbreak markets. Try twickd, Telegram and Discord for jailed. Maybe look into iota - they seem to be able to successfully monetize that sort of thing. Make sure you have decent DRM - and even then that may not save you.

New comment by The_SamminAter in "Reddit now blocks all free API access besides RedReader"

The_SamminAter — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 07:52:19 +0000

Dystopia still has API access as well

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...