Hacker News: deafpolygon

New comment by deafpolygon in "Phantasy Star IV – 1993 Developer Interviews"

deafpolygon — Tue, 26 May 2026 11:08:59 +0000

Oops. Yea. It works great as your first game. I recommend PSIV->PSII->PSIII and maybe skip the original unless you're really into it. It's quite outdated.

New comment by deafpolygon in "Phantasy Star IV – 1993 Developer Interviews"

deafpolygon — Tue, 26 May 2026 10:49:41 +0000

Not sure if it was on PS (except as part of the Sega Collection disc), but I played it on the Sega Genesis. Loved it.

New comment by deafpolygon in "Vivaldi 8.0"

deafpolygon — Thu, 21 May 2026 11:12:16 +0000

> This is Vivaldi. It always has been.

Wonder if the site dev was thinking of the astronaut pointing a gun at another astronaut meme when they put this in.

New comment by deafpolygon in "Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian"

deafpolygon — Tue, 19 May 2026 05:53:17 +0000

Isn’t that a text editor?

New comment by deafpolygon in "Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian"

deafpolygon — Tue, 19 May 2026 05:52:42 +0000

load times… much easier to deliver a small html page quickly, then allow progressive downloads on images.

New comment by deafpolygon in "Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian"

deafpolygon — Tue, 19 May 2026 05:45:01 +0000

> In Word, you hunt through menus for the word 'cut' or 'paste' and click it.

What you just described is discoverability. Something that terminal applications and modal editors tend to do quite poorly.

New comment by deafpolygon in "Microsoft surprises with its first server Linux distribution: Azure Linux 4.0"

deafpolygon — Tue, 19 May 2026 05:38:35 +0000

Are we at the ‘extend’ stage now?

New comment by deafpolygon in "Iosevka + Berkeley = Ioskeley"

deafpolygon — Tue, 19 May 2026 05:36:07 +0000

If you use homebrew, you can use `brew install font-ioskeley-mono`.

Looks nice!

New comment by deafpolygon in "I Bought a “Junk” PSP From Japan"

deafpolygon — Sat, 16 May 2026 14:41:59 +0000

Reads like LLM wrote it.

New comment by deafpolygon in "Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format"

deafpolygon — Sat, 16 May 2026 07:40:36 +0000

Unrelated, but does anyone find this site incredibly hard to read?

New comment by deafpolygon in "The bird eye was pushed to an evolutionary extreme"

deafpolygon — Sat, 16 May 2026 07:10:27 +0000

It is theorized that they had vision like eagles or possibly exceeded that of eagles that enabled them to see prey at great distances. Then using their legs optimized for locomotion, they would chase them down.

It feels like most people mix the two things up: excellent vision and predatory response. An eagle can absolutely see a mouse hiding in the bushes, not moving. But a moving prey is what triggers their predatory response. Plausibly… they probably don’t attack a non-moving mouse because it could be a dead mouse.

Human vision evolved for different things. Our ancestors were tree-dwelling and optimized for depth perception, social cues and color acuity. So it’s just a different strategy.

New comment by deafpolygon in "LLMs are breaking 20 year old system design"

deafpolygon — Thu, 14 May 2026 11:35:19 +0000

Written by AI…

New comment by deafpolygon in "Neanderthals drilled cavities to treat a toothache 59,000 years ago"

deafpolygon — Wed, 13 May 2026 21:14:06 +0000

Maybe this is proof of time-travel.

New comment by deafpolygon in "Obsidian plugin was abused to deploy a remote access trojan"

deafpolygon — Tue, 12 May 2026 15:37:35 +0000

Isn’t that nearly the same thing? It depends on the presence of a particular plugin which was abused to run remote commands.

New comment by deafpolygon in "Linux kernel maintainers pitch emergency killswitch after CopyFail, Dirty Frag"

deafpolygon — Mon, 11 May 2026 17:46:12 +0000

This seems like a bad idea, but.. I’m no kernel dev.

New comment by deafpolygon in "Obsidian plugin was abused to deploy a remote access trojan"

deafpolygon — Mon, 11 May 2026 14:06:07 +0000

What’s misleading?

"Novel Campaign Abuses Obsidian Note-Taking App to Target Finance and Crypto Professionals with PHANTOMPULSE RAT”

It’s novel (new), an abuse of Obsidian, specifically targeting a group of people.. and the RAT is embedded in the vault.

New comment by deafpolygon in "Obsidian plugin was abused to deploy a remote access trojan"

deafpolygon — Mon, 11 May 2026 10:27:21 +0000

It does.

> It enables malicious versions of legitimate Obsidian plugins ('Shell Commands' and 'Hider') that are present in the shared vault.

New comment by deafpolygon in "I switched from Mac to a Lenovo Chromebook"

deafpolygon — Thu, 07 May 2026 21:22:52 +0000

On the other hand, I found it quite pleasant and subsequently forgot about it. It’s out of my way and I focus on the task at hand.

New comment by deafpolygon in "I switched from Mac to a Lenovo Chromebook"

deafpolygon — Thu, 07 May 2026 21:19:41 +0000

> Apple's software incompetence is absolutely universally hated

Weird. Maybe he spent too much time on ChatGPT and got AI psychosis.

New comment by deafpolygon in "Underwater robot tracks sperm whale conversations in real time"

deafpolygon — Thu, 07 May 2026 19:47:52 +0000

After letting Mulder go early, I’m not surprised.