Hacker News: dpola

New comment by dpola in "Solving the “Zork” Mystery"

dpola — Tue, 19 May 2026 19:56:58 +0000

I looked into the well known triva about name of most popular text adventure.

Solving the “Zork” Mystery

dpola — Tue, 19 May 2026 19:56:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.dpolakovic.space/blogs/zork-part2

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48198615

Points: 64

# Comments: 25

New comment by dpola in "Show HN: Web Dead Drop"

dpola — Thu, 01 May 2025 15:26:59 +0000

The difference would be, that message could be shared in coordinates, not the link itself. This implementation on my site is just prototype.

New comment by dpola in "Show HN: Web Dead Drop"

dpola — Thu, 01 May 2025 15:25:00 +0000

Idea was, that just like with spies - if you have a medior component in communication, you can communicate without knowing who is on the other side. This medior would only tell you the location where the message will be hidden (stashed). Like when two spies exchange information without meeting each other.

Show HN: Web Dead Drop

dpola — Thu, 01 May 2025 15:10:09 +0000

A dead drop is a spy technique used for anonymous information exchange. I tried to create place to host such exchanges. Only requirement to stash or read a message is to know the location. I used What 3 Words grid system as it offers more precise locations and overall more than 50 trillion possible places to stash messages.

It ain't much, but I would like to hear your thoughts on it.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43858716

Points: 2

# Comments: 4

New comment by dpola in "Ask HN: What is your favorite rolling Linux distro?"

dpola — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 15:56:15 +0000

Hands down Debian.

From all I tested, it offers best synergy for all I wanted. Biggest package repo, every problem is nicely searchable and has nice community.

New comment by dpola in "Y292B Bug"

dpola — Sun, 30 Jun 2024 19:25:47 +0000

I hear your point. We truly don't know what will future bring, even less the future of year 292 billion. But again, I am proposing the software complete solution - even without current use case.

New comment by dpola in "Y292B Bug"

dpola — Sun, 30 Jun 2024 19:03:08 +0000

hello, truly, the code can use an optimization, that's why I presented it as an proposition or rather idea. E.g. the digits could be byte. However, the idea is no joke at all. Point was to offer complete software solution, dependable only on hardware. But I am open to any feedback.

Y292B Bug

dpola — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 16:26:25 +0000

Article URL: https://dpolakovic.space/blogs/y292b

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40801710

Points: 12

# Comments: 14

New comment by dpola in "Reproducing the printer hack of Windows 95"

dpola — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 18:47:41 +0000

I would like to thank all of you for reading my blog. It means a lot to me!

I think I need to address the many comments about my qemu/kvm rant... I think my experience could be best described by the user asciimov in his comment. I don't know what I do wrong, but I always get some error messages and barely make the virtualization work. Never even get to network the VMs.

New comment by dpola in "Reproducing the printer hack of Windows 95"

dpola — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 06:04:53 +0000

With .net ported back to 95, one should get his security ready too.

Reproducing the printer hack of Windows 95

dpola — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 06:04:53 +0000

Article URL: https://dpolakovic.space/blogs/windows-95-printer-hack

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40037486

Points: 89

# Comments: 46

New comment by dpola in "Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998)"

dpola — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 07:44:53 +0000

I must say that for myself, I still learn/reference many things from programming books... Mostly Perl and Java, but none of them have promise of teaching me programming in any time interval. Rarely do I ask for help online as I was ridiculed for most of the time. Nowadays, if paper is insufficient I consult with the AI, but I still refuse to use copilot.