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New comment by codezero in "Show HN: Moongate – Ultima Online server emulator in .NET 10 with Lua scripting"

codezero — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 17:53:55 +0000

Oh boy, you reminded me of the tag teamers where a pick pocket would steal your bag of runes (that you use to teleport to safety), then attack you while you try to fumble a teleport back home, only to find you can't locate your bag of runes.

The defense to this was to carry dozens upon dozens of nested bags, because each bag opening could trip the pick pocket detection.

Also the defense to your home was to literally circle it in tents/buildings creating an empty courtyard that you could only teleport into with a rune you kept safely in your bank box. There were some warping bugs that would allow you into a courtyard though, or even through the front door (circle of visibility bug, as well as floor tile warping).

New comment by codezero in "Show HN: Moongate – Ultima Online server emulator in .NET 10 with Lua scripting"

codezero — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 17:51:28 +0000

I say this unironically, but a lot of bugs. The bugs are what made UO fun, and the team often treated the bugs as features because the community demanded it. The most famous example (I think) is the "true black" dye. Another bug I ran into was when a certain shade of brown hair got turned "true white," I was able to petition a game master to let me keep my true white hair after the bug was fixed because I made it part of my "persona" at the time.

Also there was a whole niche industry of collecting non-droppable items which spawned in the game world but were not fixed on the map (we think they were added post map creation), so they could be "pick pocketed" off the surfaces they were on and taken back to your home every wipe. There was a huge rush after servers came back on after a wipe for folks to go find the most rare items to stock up their towers and keeps.

New comment by codezero in "Show HN: Moongate – Ultima Online server emulator in .NET 10 with Lua scripting"

codezero — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 17:49:26 +0000

My friends mocked me for spending months as a llama herder, until I could tame dragons and grief people by pulling them through portals.

New comment by codezero in "27-year-old Apple iBooks can connect to Wi-Fi and download official updates"

codezero — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 03:48:55 +0000

Last time I cracked out my blueberry clamshell iBook, it worked fine, though for what it's worth, I was using Linux, and it seems the main limitation for these connections are the SSL certs.

Whenever I think about it, I think that getting my old Mac up and running is easier than getting ANY modern PC up and running lol.

New comment by codezero in "Is Show HN dead? No, but it's drowning"

codezero — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 02:15:48 +0000

Maybe a good time to add a new section, Show AI?

New comment by codezero in "Luce: First Electric Ferrari"

codezero — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 07:17:23 +0000

We are here on HN are clearly not the target market for this product.

New comment by codezero in "I spent 5 years in DevOps – Solutions engineering gave me what I was missing"

codezero — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 01:27:59 +0000

I should probably date myself, most of this wasn't true 10+ years ago. forward deployed/field, yep, Palantir has kind of owned that. Solutions Architect has definitely been cross functional for a long time, but solutions engineer is a title that I am pretty confident was post-sales first. I A/B tested the title back in 2014 between Product Analyst (candidates too junior), Support Engineer (too much IT/back office support, not enough experience w/ paying customers). Solutions Engineer hit a sweet spot and brought in the best candidates: Generalists who aren't really sure what they want to do, but with broad access to code/product/engineers and customers eventually find a speciality they like.

Because these folks are problem solvers, the title brought a reputation which is exactly why the sales folks wanted to co-opt the title. It conveyed trust and experience. When used well, it's still a good fit in pre-sales for building out POCs and delivering value, but more often than not, it's just sales engineering where they're qualing out potential customers that aren't worth the time of the sales team. Which is fine, except that this is MY title :)

To be clear, I take this a little personally as I was an early adopter of the title. It's kind of like those folks that get annoyed when you're a fan of a band that they liked before you ever heard of them, I admit it.

New comment by codezero in "I spent 5 years in DevOps – Solutions engineering gave me what I was missing"

codezero — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 04:19:52 +0000

That title has long been used as a post sales analyst (custom work for $)

New comment by codezero in "I spent 5 years in DevOps – Solutions engineering gave me what I was missing"

codezero — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 21:04:51 +0000

I really loathe that sales engineers stole the term Solutions Engineer which was previously used to basically mean support/services engineer (technical generalist), a mostly post-sales role. It's pedantic, but I watched it happen in real time, my company's HR even asked if we could change our team titles to help out the sales team since they wanted the more appealing title to use.

The reason it annoys me so much is that it makes it harder to find post-sales technical generalists as the top of the funnel ends up filled with pre-sales people.

Congrats to OP for finding something they like though!

New comment by codezero in "CISA’s acting head uploaded sensitive files into public version of ChatGPT"

codezero — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 05:42:53 +0000

Because this is a thing I’ve heard. You can check and verify it yourself. I went to a CIA recruiting event when I was in university and this is what they told me, I assumed it was true but that’s why I caveated it. I shared it so the OP could do their own research since they seem to have even less information.

Can you clarify your own experience to help the OP?

New comment by codezero in "CISA’s acting head uploaded sensitive files into public version of ChatGPT"

codezero — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 18:08:54 +0000

I don’t have a clearance so someone can correct me, I believe you still have to have not used drugs in the prior year.

New comment by codezero in "Show HN: Xenia – A monospaced font built with a custom Python engine"

codezero — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 02:16:39 +0000

Hacker News is notoriously so. People who don't make things have a lot of opinions about things. I appreciate your work and hope the random negative folks here don't detract you from continuing to create and build.

New comment by codezero in "Show HN: Xenia – A monospaced font built with a custom Python engine"

codezero — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 02:14:06 +0000

same

New comment by codezero in "Show HN: Xenia – A monospaced font built with a custom Python engine"

codezero — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 02:23:19 +0000

I love it, just switched my terminal over to it from Monaco.

New comment by codezero in "Texas police invested in phone-tracking software and won’t say how it’s used"

codezero — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 02:02:48 +0000

you link to a page with convicted police numbering in the tens in a nation of 340 million people, with a police force on the order of a million. I wouldn't believe you in a second if you said that the police commit crimes at a rate of 0.0001 per capita. That's absurd. You're basically verifying the claim that the police are not held accountable for breaking the law. Great work. If that was your intent, please do more than post a link, and elucidate your opinion in the future please, if it wasn't your intent, well, next time just please don't post, it's not a useful contribution to the discussion in this forum.

New comment by codezero in "Lock-Picking Robot"

codezero — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 03:06:16 +0000

This is a fantastic idea for a community challenge! Would have to make some ground rules though or else the winning bot is just a diamond coated drill or a gallium squirt gun.

New comment by codezero in "FLUX.2 [Klein]: Towards Interactive Visual Intelligence"

codezero — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 01:16:29 +0000

I am amazed, though not entirely surprised, that these models keep getting smaller while the quality and effectiveness increases. z image turbo is wild, I'm looking forward to trying this one out.

An older thread on this has a lot of comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46046916

New comment by codezero in "Lock-Picking Robot"

codezero — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 01:13:37 +0000

Houses have windows, and bricks are widely available, locks don't protect you, they exist as a social contract: "don't go in here," if people want to go in there, they will, but we have a mostly civil society (fair to argue against this), and locksmiths exist, so this is just a tool, and a fun project.

New comment by codezero in "Lock-Picking Robot"

codezero — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 01:10:18 +0000

Almost every digital lock I've seen (I own about 5) have a keyway hidden under a rubber tab or plastic tab. I haven't built an EMP device yet, but supposedly that works on a lot of them too.

New comment by codezero in "Lock-Picking Robot"

codezero — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 01:09:41 +0000

I am pretty sure anyone building a lock picking robot is at least aware of some lock picking basics, and that's clearly not the point of a project like this. They could get a Lishi, a rake, a comb, almost anything, and we could also argue that this won't work with pin-in-pin dimple locks, tubular locks, and disc detainers, but again, obviously not the point.