Hacker News: eltondegenereshttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=eltondegeneresHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Fri, 13 Nov 2026 14:14:44 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by eltondegeneres in "Vibe Coding Keypad"]]>Landfill fodder

]]>Thu, 05 Nov 2026 17:43:43 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50381990eltondegenereshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50381990https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50381990<![CDATA[New comment by eltondegeneres in "How to grow a cacao tree at home (2024)"]]>This is notable because it's in an unheated greenhouse. Lots of botanical gardens around the world, like the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens in NYC, have fruit-bearing cacao trees in their (heated) tropical rooms.

]]>Mon, 26 Oct 2026 16:05:06 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50246110eltondegenereshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50246110https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50246110<![CDATA[New comment by eltondegeneres in "I've factored the RSA keys of a Certificate Authority from the 90s"]]>> A while back I helped a friend (read: dumped a bunch of compute power into it) brute force the SSL keys for Sega's "Phantasy Star Online" Dreamcast game.

Is there anything published online about this? It looks like the Sylverant website still requires patching the game.

https://sylverant.net/connecting-to-sylverant/

]]>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 14:15:13 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49610653eltondegenereshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49610653https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49610653<![CDATA[New comment by eltondegeneres in "Devices with GrapheneOS support should be available in 2027"]]>And you have to fill out a Google Form to get that link in the first place.

> I just want to get rid of forms. Like, I never want to fill out a form again.

The opening line from this interview with Sameer Samat on the Google for Developers YouTube channel in June.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvVsdZL2ogY

]]>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 16:12:45 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49363505eltondegenereshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49363505https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49363505<![CDATA[New comment by eltondegeneres in "How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026"]]>> Modretro agreed to publish the game as a physical launch title for their M64 (a modern N64 clone), complete with cartridge, packaging and manual!

The article says the game is published by ModRetro.

]]>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 15:45:24 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49198241eltondegenereshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49198241https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49198241<![CDATA[New comment by eltondegeneres in "How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026"]]>[flagged]

]]>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 14:11:19 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49196952eltondegenereshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49196952https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49196952<![CDATA[New comment by eltondegeneres in "Segagaga Has Been Translated into English"]]>The article says "Something important that should be clarified before we move on is that machine translation (specifically a combination of DeepL and ChatGPT 4o/4.5) was used during the initial hacking phase for testing purposes. Once it was time to translate the game proper, multiple human translators then took over."

Fan translations have used Babel Fish or similar during the development process for decades. If the final script isn't AI translated I don't see any issue with that.

]]>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 14:25:30 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47309531eltondegenereshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47309531https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47309531<![CDATA[New comment by eltondegeneres in "Netflix Animation Studios Joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron"]]>Unless the membership pages is locale-specific, I believe the Patron level fee is actually €240k, not USD.

]]>Fri, 30 Jan 2026 16:25:24 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46826320eltondegenereshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46826320https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46826320<![CDATA[New comment by eltondegeneres in "Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley"]]>> Masad, 38, has felt obliged to speak out about Gaza ever since, calling out those in tech who, in his view, have supported Israel’s “genocide” of the Palestinian people.

This sentence would be better without the scare quotes. Something like "calling out those in tech who support what he views as a genocide."

]]>Thu, 08 Jan 2026 19:10:07 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46545085eltondegenereshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46545085https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46545085<![CDATA[New comment by eltondegeneres in "US Passport Power Falls to Historic Low"]]>This is an example of a passport issued by a recognized sovereign entity without any associated territory:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_Military_Order_of_Ma...

]]>Wed, 15 Oct 2025 19:49:09 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45597517eltondegenereshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45597517https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45597517<![CDATA[New comment by eltondegeneres in "The old SF tech scene is dead. What it's morphing into is more sinister"]]>> It's possible to be gay and be far-right

It's not uncommon either. Ernst Röhm comes to mind, but there are plenty of contemporary examples too.

]]>Tue, 16 Sep 2025 15:55:17 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45263967eltondegenereshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45263967https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45263967<![CDATA[New comment by eltondegeneres in "The extraordinary rise in the wealth of older American households"]]>~"Minimum Wealth Cutoff for the 99th to 99.9th Wealth Percentiles" in that link reads to me as 1 in 1,000 households have a net worth over $13 million, not 1 in 100.~

edit: seems like I'm wrong

]]>Mon, 25 Aug 2025 19:18:33 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45017804eltondegenereshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45017804https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45017804<![CDATA[New comment by eltondegeneres in "The extraordinary rise in the wealth of older American households"]]>The survey defines the top one percent as "Net worth of $13,390,060 or more," which sounds greatly skewed versus what I assume is a lower median net worth at the 99th percentile. I don't think 1 in 100 Americans have over $13 million in assets.

]]>Mon, 25 Aug 2025 18:38:37 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45017333eltondegenereshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45017333https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45017333<![CDATA[New comment by eltondegeneres in "The Mira Pro Color is Boox's first color E Ink monitor"]]>Constant violations that they refuse to address. afaik they've never released any of the GPL code they use.

]]>Wed, 30 Apr 2025 19:12:33 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43849484eltondegenereshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43849484https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43849484<![CDATA[New comment by eltondegeneres in "CINC Is Not Chef"]]>You could use Chef in local mode and pull down the cookbooks from s3 or something.

]]>Fri, 04 Apr 2025 19:08:23 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43586517eltondegenereshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43586517https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43586517<![CDATA[New comment by eltondegeneres in "CINC Is Not Chef"]]>IMO Ansible is easier to get started with, but less powerful than Chef.

]]>Fri, 04 Apr 2025 18:23:38 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43586048eltondegenereshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43586048https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43586048<![CDATA[New comment by eltondegeneres in "Giving Up a $250k Salary to Retire Early Is Hard"]]>Someone in the article's comments asked about working part time and the author responded "veterinary academia doesn’t really understand <1.0 FTE." Is the same true of FAANG-ish companies? Can you (officially) work part time in a big tech job?

]]>Tue, 25 Feb 2025 17:15:19 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43174625eltondegenereshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43174625https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43174625<![CDATA[New comment by eltondegeneres in "US Park Service erases ‘transgender’ from website commemorating Stonewall riot"]]>The actual headline appears to be "US Park Service erases the word ‘transgender’ from website commemorating Stonewall riot"

]]>Fri, 14 Feb 2025 21:27:08 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43053234eltondegenereshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43053234https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43053234<![CDATA[New comment by eltondegeneres in "GitHub Linux ARM64 hosted runners now available for free in public repositories"]]>Your landing and product pages don't mention macOS, only the pricing page, but the docs make it look like the macOS runners are the same price as Github's.

]]>Thu, 16 Jan 2025 21:33:20 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42731182eltondegenereshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42731182https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42731182<![CDATA[New comment by eltondegeneres in "I have made the decision to disband Hindenburg Research"]]>I didn't watch this talk but I read the article it's based on.

When an Iraq War supporting Tory like Niall Ferguson criticizes the US military for being both bloated and stretched thin by underfunding, it gives away that the critique is just disingenuous contrarianism.

]]>Thu, 16 Jan 2025 18:34:18 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42729051eltondegenereshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42729051https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42729051