Hacker News: captn3m0

New comment by captn3m0 in "Namecheap just seized and disabled all my domains"

captn3m0 — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 20:13:03 +0000

A namecheap bug got my domain suspended: https://captnemo.in/blog/2026/05/05/namecheap-whois/

I'm planning to migrate out.

New comment by captn3m0 in "Yandex outage: data shows that instead of going dark, malicious bots moved"

captn3m0 — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 22:07:51 +0000

I mostly saw the tomshardware.com link being the cause:

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/russ...

The word "disinformation" doesn't show up in the post, only in the URL.

New comment by captn3m0 in "Theranos.world"

captn3m0 — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 21:32:58 +0000

Took me a while to figure out why, till I opened Safari read "document processing" and it clicked. Good job.

New comment by captn3m0 in "Make Tmux the OS"

captn3m0 — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 10:20:37 +0000

s/recursive/nested? I don’t remember Tree style tabs supporting recursion.

New comment by captn3m0 in "RSS Feeds for Last.fm"

captn3m0 — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 11:58:15 +0000

Is the code public? I'd like to port this to https://rss-bridge.org/

New comment by captn3m0 in "What I did at Recurse Center"

captn3m0 — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 06:47:45 +0000

I did during the pandemic. Drop me a message if you wanna chat.

New comment by captn3m0 in "Show HN: Make math automatic with Mathy"

captn3m0 — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 21:06:24 +0000

I made something similar for my partner a while ago for math drills but this is way better (and more comprehensive). I gave up after 3-5 modules. Kudos.

New comment by captn3m0 in "Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived"

captn3m0 — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 10:37:40 +0000

RLHF. The reviewers that rated the models preferred it.

New comment by captn3m0 in "ZuckOff is a free app that sees Meta glasses before they see you"

captn3m0 — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 22:16:51 +0000

They could, by incorporating recent research: https://www.core77.com/posts/145408/KAIST-Develops-a-Way-to-...

New comment by captn3m0 in "ZuckOff Is a Free App That Sees Meta Glasses Before They See You"

captn3m0 — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 11:05:35 +0000

Does it beep louder as the BT signal strength changes and the camera comes closer?

New comment by captn3m0 in "Show HN: Restarted – a 2026 remake of the classic 2015 startup generator"

captn3m0 — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 22:00:21 +0000

I got Shopify: https://restarted.io/?z=3119517161

New comment by captn3m0 in "LG says we're fake news [video]"

captn3m0 — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 08:22:05 +0000

Basic mode is a feature across Google TV: https://support.google.com/googletv/answer/10408998?hl=en

So lots of manufacturers support this.

New comment by captn3m0 in "ElevenLabs, TwelveLabs, ThirteenLabs"

captn3m0 — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 05:37:07 +0000

I run a reverse engineering collective that is called 52 Labs: https://52-1ab.github.io/.

> 52 1ab (Pronounced 52 Lab) is a Software Research group dedicated to interoperabilty research in India. It is named after the Section 52(1) (ab) of The Copyright Act which states:

>> The following act shall not constitute an infringement of copyright:

>> the doing of any act necessary to obtain information essential for operating inter-operability of an independently created computer programme with other programmes by a lawful possessor of a computer programme provided that such information is not otherwise readily available.

New comment by captn3m0 in "Phones should have a 'guest lock' feature"

captn3m0 — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 08:36:26 +0000

iOS has a hidden album but the UX isn't great: https://support.apple.com/en-us/104987

New comment by captn3m0 in "GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities"

captn3m0 — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 08:15:40 +0000

I am guessing you are approved for the Cyber Verification Program. I also applied and got approved in an hour (on a Saturday!), but it only applies to Opus and Sonnet: https://support.claude.com/en/articles/14604842-real-time-cy.... It let me use Opus for cybersecurity work, pretty much everything except for Ransomware development. It would occasionally still trip and start saying no till I added a note about CVP in my claude.md.

No one gets to use Fable for Cybersecurity work, and Mythos is not available under CVP. Only for select few customers, and there isn't an application form?

Show HN: Porting Super Hexagon to the Playdate

captn3m0 — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 21:31:33 +0000

Article URL: https://captnemo.in/superhexagon/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49062624

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by captn3m0 in "Tell HN: Namecheap gave my account to an unverified third party"

captn3m0 — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 22:57:27 +0000

Namecheap also suspended my primary domain because of a bug at their end: https://captnemo.in/blog/2026/05/05/namecheap-whois/

tl;dr: Namecheap configured Domain Privacy on my domain, which isn't allowed by my Registry (.in), and then suspended my domain coz the whois info was redacted.

I know a few other people that were impacted.

New comment by captn3m0 in "Reverse-engineering is cheap now"

captn3m0 — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 06:58:46 +0000

I reversed Super Hexagon these last few weeks and ported it to the Playdate (the yellow console from Panic with a crank): https://old.reddit.com/r/PlaydateConsole/comments/1v1zxmt/i_...

The multiplier comes from being able to design arbitrary fast feedback loops - Claude wrote Python scripts to do decompilation matching for itself, and then use Frida traces from the original as a verification harness.

A Prototype Original iPod

captn3m0 — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 18:08:36 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.panic.com/a-prototype-original-ipod/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48896466

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by captn3m0 in "Web-based cryptography is always snake oil"

captn3m0 — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 10:05:20 +0000

There are a lot of other implementations of this idea that don't necessarily rely on trust-on-first-use. The securedrop team explicitly includes malicious JS served by the primary-domain in the threat-model and made WEBCAT[0] as an outcome of that research. Their article on webcrypto is much better than this one.

The solution obviously is to go out-of-band:

> When a user visits a website that has enrolled in WEBCAT, before the site can load the content is checked against a signed manifest to ensure that it has not been tampered with (more on enrollment later). If everything checks out, the page loads normally. If, however, any content does not match what’s expected, the page load is aborted and a warning is displayed, protecting the user from potentially malicious content before it can execute.

[0]: https://securedrop.org/news/introducing-webcat-web-based-cod...

[1]: https://securedrop.org/news/browser-based-cryptography/