Hacker News: amenghra

New comment by amenghra in "Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months"

amenghra — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 16:50:07 +0000

Apple could release a new on-device LLM model every year and keep the hyperconsumerism going...

New comment by amenghra in "Design 3D-printable parts by talking"

amenghra — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 09:57:48 +0000

Cupertino-designed you mean? Everything is made in China…

New comment by amenghra in "Prepare yourself tonight and do not miss the eclipse"

amenghra — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 22:17:08 +0000

Thanks for building this / sharing it. Wednesday is also when Perseids meteor shower peaks, so you get to enjoy two celestial events in the same night!

New comment by amenghra in "Show HN: Elevators"

amenghra — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 08:10:31 +0000

It's fun that the same algorithm applies to two different problems. In the disk case, the only unpredictable thing is future requests. Elevators have to deal with two unpredictable things, future requests as well as how long humans take to get in and out of the elevator. So it's doubly fun that the same algorithm works in both cases!

New comment by amenghra in "Breaktheprompt.xyz"

amenghra — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 13:06:47 +0000

There's also https://gandalf.lakera.ai/baseline. Note: I'm the author of neither, just enjoyed playing the former.

New comment by amenghra in "Breaktheprompt.xyz"

amenghra — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 10:01:47 +0000

A prompt-injection CTF-like game

Breaktheprompt.xyz

amenghra — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 10:01:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.breaktheprompt.xyz/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48829943

Points: 1

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New comment by amenghra in "Reparaible and open source paper printer"

amenghra — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 21:42:43 +0000

An open source all-in-one-printer would be a great device to have. For eg I would love to have the scanner include a camera. So I can get “instant scans” most of the time, and a higher res scan when needed. Maybe the camera could also notice when the person making copies or scans forgot their original and ping them?

New comment by amenghra in "You need a webring"

amenghra — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 19:08:49 +0000

Using a Cloudflare Worker to implement a web 0.9 feature

New comment by amenghra in "Show HN: Chess-Inspired Roguelike"

amenghra — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 21:26:38 +0000

Well done. I think it's deterministic, i.e. playing the same board + same moves again spawns same enemies.

New comment by amenghra in "LastPass notifies users of yet another data breach"

amenghra — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 13:44:22 +0000

For personal use, Bitwarden + a Raspberry PI should work perfectly fine. Your devices will sync when you are home. If they get out of sync, your fallback is to password reset. Or use your browser's built-in password manager which also syncs in most cases. I prefer to be browser-agnostic since it gives an easy solution to handle non-web passwords.

New comment by amenghra in "LastPass notifies users of yet another data breach"

amenghra — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 12:02:52 +0000

Password managers (whether it's Lastpass or your browser's built-in password store) also protect against phishing since they tie passwords to domain names.

I don't think password managers which store encrypted vaults are less safe than trying to have and juggle strong unique-per-domain passwords, even if you think that the password manager is becoming a target.

New comment by amenghra in "I need your clothes, your boots, and your motorcycle"

amenghra — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 11:07:02 +0000

Grapher.app is different from Graphing Calculator. It came via an acquisition. All the details are here if you want to read the backstory (assuming the info is correct: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grapher)

New comment by amenghra in "Humiliating IIS servers for fun and jail time"

amenghra — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 09:32:06 +0000

It's from Hackers: https://www.scifiscripts.com/scripts/hackers.txt#:~:text=Any...

New comment by amenghra in "Meta enables ADB on deprecated Portal devices [video]"

amenghra — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 06:25:02 +0000

I loled (in case it was sarcasm). It’s “Android Debug Bridge” if it wasn’t.

New comment by amenghra in "Experimental Evaluation of Software Inspection (2011) [pdf]"

amenghra — Fri, 29 May 2026 08:47:09 +0000

Isn't this research applicable to today's AI agents?

Experimental Evaluation of Software Inspection (2011) [pdf]

amenghra — Fri, 29 May 2026 08:47:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Shuji-Morisaki-2/publication/266855911_Experimental_Evaluation_of_Effect_of_Specifying_a_Focused_Defect_Type_in_Software_Inspection/links/5476e1110cf29afed6142f07/Experimental-Evaluation-of-Effect-of-Specifying-a-Focused-Defect-Type-in-Software-Inspection.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48320694

Points: 2

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New comment by amenghra in "My new obsession: A horse-racing board game of pure luck"

amenghra — Thu, 28 May 2026 07:00:42 +0000

+1 to Camel Up. If you haven’t played the 2nd edition, they added two crazy camels going the wrong way. Lots of fun and playable from age ~6-7 onwards.

New comment by amenghra in "WriteUp: 16 Bytes of x86 that turn Matrix rain into sound"

amenghra — Mon, 18 May 2026 07:34:34 +0000

There are several tiny demos on pouet.net, such as this 32 bytes dragon fractal: https://m.pouet.net/prod.php?which=63522

Very impressive what people can craft in an order of magnitude fewer bytes than this comment!

Show HN: I vibe coded a music box

amenghra — Sun, 17 May 2026 12:42:05 +0000

It uses webgl to render a mechanically accurate music box and spatial web audio so the sound direction and volume changes as you move around the virtual world.

It was extremely easy for me to get a AI to generate most of the js/html/css. It was impossible for me to get an AI generate the 3D model so I did it by hand. It was very frustrating to get the tune right (still not 100% happy with the sound but I’m giving up trying to further improve it).

Best enjoyed with headphones!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48168410

Points: 1

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