Hacker News: Zecc

New comment by Zecc in "TiddlyInstall: A universal, reusable, install system"

Zecc — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 04:29:56 +0000

Perhaps so you could spend more time with your loved ones, or doing literally anything else, instead of talking to a machine? Just saying.

New comment by Zecc in "Steam Frame starts at $1059"

Zecc — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 20:01:59 +0000

I can't believe you forgot the toilet.

New comment by Zecc in "Show HN: Everything a web page can learn about you, in plain English"

Zecc — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:56:03 +0000

If they are too aggressive with their bitcoin mining, you might not come back.

New comment by Zecc in "Mexican student creates an acoustic fire extinguisher to put out fire in seconds"

Zecc — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 08:56:22 +0000

Right. Because IP addresses uniquely identify people. /eyeroll

New comment by Zecc in "The Silo · interactive 3D cutaway"

Zecc — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 09:06:01 +0000

Bottom? Just the fact that there is that first selector button is a huge spoiler. Not to mention the title that briefly appears before fading out. Not going to be more specific than this to not ruin the show for people who haven't seen it yet.

New comment by Zecc in "The art of CHIP-8"

Zecc — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 01:43:42 +0000

The comic was last updated a decade ago. I've added it to my RSS feeder without getting my hopes up. I was really getting into the story too.

New comment by Zecc in "Death to px, long live ch"

Zecc — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 09:50:17 +0000

Maybe a website is selling screws and wants to show a 1:1 picture.

New comment by Zecc in "How a Texas student blew the whistle on a rogue AI hacking attempt"

Zecc — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 01:13:00 +0000

And? Are you suggesting the driving of bulldozers shouldn't be regulated?

New comment by Zecc in "Japan tried to build an operating system for the world, the US intervened"

Zecc — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 08:14:12 +0000

The title is certainly clickbait-y. But the content is still interesting. And not sloppy.

New comment by Zecc in "Intriguing stories in computer science"

Zecc — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 20:05:46 +0000

It's not a myth, as far as I can tell. Note I didn't say they invented the term (though, granted, I inadvertently did imply it I suppose). In any case it likely helped popularize it.

New comment by Zecc in "How does IKEA come up with names for its products?"

Zecc — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 12:06:39 +0000

Move further west, and "trampa" means "excrement" in Portuguese. Usually used in the figure sense, rather then literal.

New comment by Zecc in "Intriguing stories in computer science"

Zecc — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:45:44 +0000

1947: Harvard engineers working on the Mark II computer find a moth stuck to one of the relays. They tape it to a logbook and write "First actual case of a bug being found" and introduce the words 'bug' and 'debug' in the context of programming.

https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object/nmah_33466...

New comment by Zecc in "Gmail might partially be to blame for receiving emails from other Sean Conners"

Zecc — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 09:13:16 +0000

This reminds me of why I'm very nervous I've been able to login to LinkedIn by just click an email LinkedIn sent me; and to someone else's Netflix account from an email that was sent to me by mistake.

You _could_ blame the users for not setting up 2FA. But two wrongs don't make a right, and these websites should always ask for another means of authentication, even if it's just a password. Url parameters in links don't count.

New comment by Zecc in "Dithered QR Codes"

Zecc — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 01:32:56 +0000

I recognize the domain name from playing some of his daily puzzles, namely Ronin and Cell Tower.

https://www.andrewt.net/puzzles/

New comment by Zecc in "Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke"

Zecc — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 11:03:59 +0000

That was a pretty good car analogy. Thank you.

Edit to add: I'm unsure where assembly would sit in this analogy. Skateboard? Monocycle? Perhaps ice skates.

New comment by Zecc in "Alternate clock designs and time systems"

Zecc — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 11:11:39 +0000

> we have 8 fingers

In English. I'm Portuguese, so I have twenty fingers.

New comment by Zecc in "Triple Dragon Fractal (2020)"

Zecc — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 08:10:11 +0000

I take it he claims to have created these particular pictures of the fractal, which is likely true. And yes, the webpage containing them as well.

New comment by Zecc in "Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests"

Zecc — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 08:12:50 +0000

You underestimate what people are willing to do just for fun.

New comment by Zecc in "A bug which affected only left handed users"

Zecc — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 07:43:48 +0000

Trackballs are a thing as well.

New comment by Zecc in "Acronym Fatigue Series Introduction: why I'm wary of acronyms"

Zecc — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 07:46:03 +0000

Big Hairy Audacious Goal was a new one to me.