Hacker News: ddtaylor

New comment by ddtaylor in "Cloudflare Drop"

ddtaylor — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:56:23 +0000

Hi! I have been following n-gate.com a small bit over the years, because I found it very interesting and it was a rabbit hole I wanted to go down.

I actually setup "xor-gate" for a while, which was trying to be a similar thing co-authored by a friend, but it was too time consuming and we gave up.

Did the author pass? I'm not trying to be crass, but I don't know the details.

New comment by ddtaylor in "Cloudflare Drop"

ddtaylor — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:54:40 +0000

I think the HN rule for "curmudgeonly" applies.

> Don't be curmudgeonly. Thoughtful criticism is fine, but please don't be rigidly or generically negative.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I think HN should be a place where I am excited to see what others have to add. When I see a post I am excited to see what takes and spins others have on it. I do want real criticism and a lively debate about important things, but there has to be a balance.

I want to see other comments that seem like they genuinely want to help steer something or build people up. Sometimes I get the impression that's not happening on HN.

New comment by ddtaylor in "GloriousEggroll's Proton has been rebased on Proton 11"

ddtaylor — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 10:56:55 +0000

Back 4 Blood?

New comment by ddtaylor in "Five monitors on a Commodore 128 [video]"

ddtaylor — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 10:13:26 +0000

Thanks for sharing. I have been enjoying Davids content for many years and hope he keeps making awesome stuff. The Time Rift Arcade has been neat too.

New comment by ddtaylor in "Five monitors on a Commodore 128 [video]"

ddtaylor — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 10:12:15 +0000

I'm so confused.

New comment by ddtaylor in "Google Hits 50% IPv6"

ddtaylor — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 13:44:57 +0000

Not that it really matters because almost all the consumer roiter manufacturers are pretty bad, but TP-Link is really, really bad. I would highly recommend not using any of their hardware.

New comment by ddtaylor in "Show HN: I wrote a C++ ray tracer from scratch without AI"

ddtaylor — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 15:21:36 +0000

HN ongoing support and disdain for AI is perplexing.

New comment by ddtaylor in "GameBoy Workboy"

ddtaylor — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 03:17:28 +0000

I was given one and it had some fun gimmicks but if doesn't really last beyond a few sessions. The ecosystem is strange and I just went back to a "real" device a bit after.

New comment by ddtaylor in "ReactOS (FOSS "Windows") achieves 3D-accelerated Half-Life on real hardware"

ddtaylor — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 02:14:03 +0000

Wine has had many different DirectX backends over the decades, including one before Vulkan existed obviously.

New comment by ddtaylor in "The RCE that AMD wouldn't fix"

ddtaylor — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 20:27:05 +0000

They added CRC32 lol

New comment by ddtaylor in "Roku LT Operating System open source distribution"

ddtaylor — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 07:30:23 +0000

Does this meaningfully allow a person to push a modified version to their own TV without using a screwdriver?

New comment by ddtaylor in "The California state assembly has passed the 'Protect Our Games Act'"

ddtaylor — Fri, 29 May 2026 21:14:43 +0000

It seems similar to operating an arcade or a movie theater and saying that you can have thousands of people enter but then only having space for a couple while still taking everyone's money.

New comment by ddtaylor in "Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection"

ddtaylor — Fri, 29 May 2026 02:19:58 +0000

I actually am from this town and I have watched this play out over the last five years. I moved away from Oregon because of these exact kind of problems. My daughter's e-bike was stolen and we had a tracker in it and we attempted to get the police to help us recover it from a homeless encampment where it has been tracked to. We have ever possible way to prove ownership of the bike from beginning to end multiple times over.

The Keizer Police laughed at us and acted like it was absurd that we would try to get our property back or that they would help us in any capacity whatsoever.

I have a video of a KPD officer telling me that he's not going to arrest a junkie because only some spit landed on my daughter because the junkie was spitting on my daughter.

It sucks because Keizer used to be a really nice town and it's where people went to retire. It's where I went to retire as well and that's not how it works anymore.

Oregon is a failed trash fire now. I moved to rural Montana and don't regret a second of it.

New comment by ddtaylor in "BambuStudio has been violating PrusaSlicer AGPL license since their fork"

ddtaylor — Sat, 23 May 2026 13:22:02 +0000

Its pretty widely used on HN from what I notice.

New comment by ddtaylor in "80386 microcode disassembled"

ddtaylor — Sat, 23 May 2026 13:20:35 +0000

Here's a video of some guys de layering the chips for the Nintendo 64 lockout mechanism. It's pretty in-depth and it goes over a lot of different ways they do this.

https://youtu.be/HwEdqAb2l50?si=VFLed64PZvpCHfy1

New comment by ddtaylor in "Porting 3D Movie Maker to Linux"

ddtaylor — Thu, 14 May 2026 21:51:10 +0000

I remember this source was released a while back and some people hacked it together to run on modern Windows.

Yay!

New comment by ddtaylor in "Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools"

ddtaylor — Tue, 12 May 2026 18:55:40 +0000

Copilot charges a 27X multiplier on Opus 4.7 prompts.

New comment by ddtaylor in "Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged"

ddtaylor — Fri, 08 May 2026 20:51:32 +0000

What are these Chinese pirate devices? This sounds fascinating.

New comment by ddtaylor in "Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent"

ddtaylor — Tue, 05 May 2026 20:05:32 +0000

The problem is that some of us are still on connections that charge per GB in rural areas. Here in Montana it's very common to pay about $0.25 per GB regardless of how much you use, so this is a $1 additional cost per desktop device. Places like public school districts have hundreds of computers and this will be somewhat significant for them.

New comment by ddtaylor in "Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent"

ddtaylor — Tue, 05 May 2026 20:01:19 +0000

I think it falls more into the category of needing consent like a crypto miner would. If I use a piece of software to do X and it begins using more resources to do Y that can be a serious issue and is at the heart of this discussion.