Hacker News: efdee

New comment by efdee in "Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story"

efdee — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 15:54:58 +0000

Already banned in several European countries, mostly because of the betting on political events.

New comment by efdee in "Building a TB-303 from Scratch"

efdee — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 12:46:49 +0000

In his defense, he built the entire language :-)

New comment by efdee in "Building a TB-303 from Scratch"

efdee — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 11:16:25 +0000

The guy built the "shitty web app" (that's actually pretty cool, not shitty) from scratch.

New comment by efdee in "A list of fun destinations for telnet"

efdee — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 18:19:23 +0000

I hate to be that guy, but HELO/EHLO is smtp, not pop3

New comment by efdee in "FVWM-95 (2001)"

efdee — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 18:42:11 +0000

It actually still works to this day. Doubleclick the top left menu button (the one with the app icon) and your window closes.

New comment by efdee in "S&box is now an open source game engine"

efdee — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 15:52:07 +0000

"abusive", "silly", "couldn't care less", "nonsense", "literally illegal". I don't think you'll find many people want to join your cause if you are this aggressive.

More on topic, I agree that you should be allowed to do with your computer what you want. That includes defeating their anti-cheat measures. Your computer, your rules. In return, they can refuse to support you or ban them from their servers. Their stuff, their rules.

But this idea that you are entitled to tell them they have to provide you with a version that does not have their anti-cheat measures, that is pretty far out there. That is where most people will stop following your reasoning.

YMMV.

New comment by efdee in "S&box is now an open source game engine"

efdee — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 12:32:34 +0000

It's not clear what freedom you are sacrificing. Nobody is forcing you to play those games. If you don't want to let them run their anti cheat system, don't do it. This is not some unavoidable measure.

What a strange hill to want to die on.

New comment by efdee in "OpenAI needs to raise at least $207B by 2030"

efdee — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 19:19:24 +0000

Why would AGI not be possible?

It might be hard, it might be difficult, but it is definitely possible. Us humans are the evidence for that.

New comment by efdee in "I don't care how well your "AI" works"

efdee — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 19:18:34 +0000

I respectfully disagree, but disagree hard.

a) Nothing about letting AI do grunt work for you is "not being a craftsman". b) Things are subcontracted all the time. We don't usually disrespect people for that.

New comment by efdee in "I don't care how well your "AI" works"

efdee — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 19:15:53 +0000

For me, AI is definitely a table saw. YMMV.

New comment by efdee in "Async/Await is finally back in Zig"

efdee — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 15:52:31 +0000

C# had async/await long before Javascript/node. Not that big a revelation ;-)

New comment by efdee in "From Hollywood to horticulture: Cate Blanchett on a mission to save seeds"

efdee — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 09:57:51 +0000

The people destroying the seeds are not the ones building the vaults.

New comment by efdee in ""Your" vs. "My" in user interfaces"

efdee — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 14:54:40 +0000

Nowhere does anyone claim that "let's go" means "you should let us go". The discussion was whether "let us go" automatically means "you should let us go", which it does not.

New comment by efdee in "Man jailed for parole violations after refusing to decrypt his Tor node"

efdee — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 15:44:49 +0000

Maybe as far as you are concerned, but not as far as the law is concerned ;-)

New comment by efdee in ""Your" vs. "My" in user interfaces"

efdee — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 15:43:19 +0000

You can't always replace "let us" with "let's", but you can always replace "let's" with "let us".

New comment by efdee in ""Your" vs. "My" in user interfaces"

efdee — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 15:41:31 +0000

"Let us go" does not only mean "you should let us go" but it is also the first person plural imperative implying that we go. Whether you shorten it to "let's go" or not does not change this.

Same as how "let us pray" is frequently used as well.

New comment by efdee in ""Your" vs. "My" in user interfaces"

efdee — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 15:39:35 +0000

Let literally means a lot of things, one of them being "allow us to". But that is only one of many of its literal meanings.

New comment by efdee in ""Your" vs. "My" in user interfaces"

efdee — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 15:38:19 +0000

True, but the point was not that they were asking permission, it's the "let us do this together" meaning to which the OP takes offense. He feels like it implies he cannot do it on his own.

New comment by efdee in "Man jailed for parole violations after refusing to decrypt his Tor node"

efdee — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 15:36:07 +0000

You have a point. But on the other hand you have no idea of what tools the intruder possesses, only (at best!) what they used.

I think intent probably matters a lot more than the technicality of how you succeeded.

New comment by efdee in "Man jailed for parole violations after refusing to decrypt his Tor node"

efdee — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 14:56:12 +0000

Breaking in in a system, whether or not the password was easy to guess, sounds like a crime to me.