Hacker News: dobin

New comment by dobin in "The Future of SCIP"

dobin — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 05:21:21 +0000

New comment by dobin in "Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft"

dobin — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 17:15:20 +0000

Like Microsoft Defender, which is now Defender Antivirus, or Defender for Endpoint if you have a real license. You will also get Defender for Identity, and maybe Defender for Office 365, which is probably not ASR. And Defender for Cloud, not to be confused with Defender for Cloud Apps.

I built an OS by vibing with Claude

dobin — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 14:40:01 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/vibecoding/comments/1qf46sc/i_built_an_entire_os_by_vibing_with_claude/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46658418

Points: 1

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New comment by dobin in "Microsoft please get your tab to autocomplete shit together"

dobin — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 11:51:28 +0000

Nobody at Microsoft has ever used this with WSL, and doing a "cd /", and getting autocomplete for "$RecycleBin" and other windows paths? It completely breaks bash autocomplete, and every single suggestion is completely wrong, in every single command i type.

I, and probably most uses, just hoped this going away as soon as possible again.

New comment by dobin in "Printing Petscii Faster"

dobin — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 11:14:44 +0000

I also having a side project optimizing draw calls to french Minitel terminal. Instead of letting the generator create their own draw calls, just let them print in a buffer/array.

Drawing the array means finding out what changed, and then create optimized draw sequences: Like using delete-till-end-of-line, vertical cursor moves, or repeat-character-x. Very noticable on 1200/4800 baud.

New comment by dobin in "How the “Kim” dump exposed North Korea's credential theft playbook"

dobin — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 09:34:53 +0000

No tolerance for the intolerant.

New comment by dobin in "Show HN: Nash, I made a standalone note with single HTML file"

dobin — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 09:42:11 +0000

I am also creating a Log viewer in a single HTML file (like Splunk, but a bit smaller). Pure JavaScript with no dependencies makes it runnable and integratable everywhere, which is nice.

https://github.com/dobin/SemiDataSieve

New comment by dobin in "Anyone can push updates to the doge.gov website"

dobin — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 09:59:28 +0000

Its not just this website. Since DOGE, China probably canceled all vacation days for their hackers, as its a free for all. Firing of most so many people including security departments and most likely the (good) femboy furry hackers.

Is the newly created user with name "bigballs" who downloads whole government databases a foreign TA or just DOGE? Who knows. Who cares, certainly not the Government.

The data and access gained currently by China, Russia, NK and SA will continue to be useful until and way after the next war.

New comment by dobin in "Show HN: A Better Log Service"

dobin — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 15:26:32 +0000

Pretty unrelated, but i like how it displays large amount of potentially diverse JSON events. Would need some better filtering and sorting, hiding of keys etc. Products which do this well are Elastic and Splunk, but are too heavy for my taste.

New comment by dobin in "Nvidia and its partners built a system to bypass U.S. export restrictions"

dobin — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 06:46:59 +0000

Its not ideological, its to break out of the physical constraints setup by the US, to gain access to the pacific, and to the rest of asia. Simple geopolitics, just check a map.

New comment by dobin in "How Discord stores trillions of messages (2023)"

dobin — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 11:23:57 +0000

So the TL;DR is: Cassandra and ScyllaDB have bad performance when reading. So they put a cache in front.

New comment by dobin in "Total War: Rome II and Creative Assembly – My Statement Ten Years On"

dobin — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 06:55:45 +0000

> This is an approach that is sometimes taken when planning game projects, that you design your production plan so that as many parts of the game as possible are made in parallel, and then it all gets put together near the end of the development timeline, hopefully with enough time to fix bugs, balance gameplay, and add polish.

I feel like all AAA games are developed this way: Not playable till very late. Thats why they generally suck.

While a normal board meeting style development, i feel completely bamboozled by this approach. Indie games in contrast usually start with an MVP, a Minimum Viable Product, to test the basic concept. Then make the basic game loop fun. Then do the rest of the game like maps, sound, graphics, to support the central idea.

AAA do all the graphics and maps and sound and AI first, somehow merge it together and just hope that it will be a "good" game, that it will be fun. Even if there is internal QA or playtesting, feedback gets consequently ignored.

And people still preorder.

New comment by dobin in "More and more German trains are not allowed to enter Switzerland"

dobin — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 16:21:51 +0000

Maybe you are not aware, but swiss trains dont go back to sleep after they arrive at a destination. They stop for 3-5 minutes, and then continue to their next destination. All day long, from morning till evening. Geneve to St. Gallen with like a dozen stops is pretty long way. Especially when you drive it 6 times a day.

Also generally the length of the tracks dont magically change. It is possible to create a timetable: which train should be where when, and then stick to it.

Note that before the DB, SBB were anoyed with some models of french or italien trains, which broke down regularly, putting too much pressure on the integrated timetable.

New comment by dobin in "The accidental tyranny of user interfaces"

dobin — Sun, 26 May 2024 12:06:58 +0000

This, and the other examples, reek of lacking knowledge by the users.

Tall building are expensive. The taller, the more available floor space to rent. The taller, the more elevators you need. More elevators mean less floor space. People need to move between floors.

Buttons outside means that an algorithm can dispatch elevators most efficiently, combining people who want to go to the same floors, or follow up floors. So the throughput of people thru the building is maximized.

Its tyranny of capitalism. Or the tyranny of efficiency.

New comment by dobin in "The scarcity of the long term"

dobin — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 11:33:00 +0000

Many cathedrals took hundreds of years to build. The following around 500 years: Cologne Cathedral, St. Vitus Cathedral and Milan Cathedral. Sagrada Familia was started in 1882, and Gaudi is dead for 98 years. If the emperor demands, it will be built.

New comment by dobin in "The KGB, the Computer and Me – The Cuckoo's Egg Story (1990) [video]"

dobin — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 15:01:30 +0000

I am currently reading "CYBERPUNK: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier" and can recommend it if interested in pre/early computer hacking (Phreaking, BBS, VAX/Digital). First third is about Mitnick and friends, second about Pengu and CCC friends.

New comment by dobin in "revng translates (i386, x86-64, MIPS, ARM, AArch64, s390x) binaries to LLVM IR"

dobin — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 14:15:14 +0000

I once had the idea to do malware-similarity analysis. The X86 should first be lifted into a IL, so it gets "normalized" (e.g. register independant). The problem with all lifters is though that even a trivial "add rax, 1" generated a lot of IL code (probably 50-100 lines in LLVM IL), as the lifter had to implement all side effects of the X86 instructions in a fake memory space (i used remill if i remember correctly).

Does this lifter have a similar implementation, or will a "add rax, 1" be lifted to something like "register1 += 1"?

New comment by dobin in "Ask HN: What to do with text from old, unarchived, online forums?"

dobin — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 16:26:16 +0000

Related, I have a lot of IRC logs form 1997-2004. Is there somehow an IRC archive project?

New comment by dobin in "HTTP/3 adoption is growing rapidly"

dobin — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 13:01:01 +0000

Full inspection of user traffic is required to implement:

* Data leakage policy (DLP; insider threat, data exfiltration)

* Malware scanning

* Domain blocking (Gambling, Malware)

* Other detection mechanisms (C2)

* Logging and auditing for forensic investigations

* Hunting generally

I dont see how this breaks security, and of course you also didnt elaborate on why it should be. Assumed TLS MitM is implemented reasonably correctly.

Dont worry tho, zero trust will expose the company laptops again to all the malicious shit out there.

New comment by dobin in "μMon: Stupid simple monitoring (2022)"

dobin — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 08:11:22 +0000

I was also overwhelmed by Grafana and co. In the time required to install it, i coded a simple monitoring alternative DMSR "Does My Shit Run" in python. Each agent has plugins which basically just sends a data structure to the monitoring server, which will display it as yaml. No persistence, history, graphs or similar. uMon looks like a behemoth in comparison.

Github: https://github.com/dobin/dmsr

Live: https://mon.yookiterm.ch