Hacker News: endgame

New comment by endgame in "Order a burned CD of your own public GitHub repo"

endgame — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 04:29:45 +0000

How do we know this is real? Most online form providers will host all forms on their own domain, so it could just be a great way to get some data harvesting going on the .microsoft gTLD.

New comment by endgame in "AMD silently removes memory encryption from consumer Ryzen CPUs"

endgame — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 11:45:12 +0000

Yes.

New comment by endgame in "Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot"

endgame — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 22:33:48 +0000

Ashley is the canonical list of knots, so it's good for people who haven't heard of ABOK to hear about it since we're talking knots today.

Probably time to drop another coin in Ian's tip jar too.

New comment by endgame in "Childhood Computing"

endgame — Mon, 25 May 2026 05:03:43 +0000

Yeah, I spent more time than I cared to admit fiddling with DEVICE(HIGH) lines, tweaking FILES= and BUFFERS=, running MEMMAKER.EXE over and over as if that would do something, but it was never the real thing. The real thing is making the machine do something I wanted instead of what the manufacturer wanted. For a kid of this generation, I'd look for games with reasonable modding APIs, perhaps something like Lua, and ideally something where playing multiplayer lets him show his creations off to his friends.

From there, look to packages like LÖVE which still use Lua but give full control over the whole game, and help him explore and wrangle the things he needs to understand to make his programming real. And if the lower levels interest him, help him dig deeper. But I think modding and scripting is probably the best place to start.

New comment by endgame in "Do_not_track"

endgame — Sun, 03 May 2026 10:42:36 +0000

No. It shouldn't be an opt-out, and it is bad practice to write conditional settings in the negative.

New comment by endgame in "A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”"

endgame — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 04:19:11 +0000

I cannot even reliably press [Space] any more to page down through sites that are meant to be all about content!

New comment by endgame in "Ninja is a small build system with a focus on speed"

endgame — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 12:40:12 +0000

Why is a C++ project being distributed on PyPi at all?

New comment by endgame in "An unstoppable mushroom is tearing through North American forests"

endgame — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 12:58:55 +0000

The verb I've most commonly heard for this activity in English is "forage". What's the equivalent German word?

New comment by endgame in "MAUI Is Coming to Linux"

endgame — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:27:51 +0000

Making each one implement input handling was also a dazzlingly bizarre design choice.

New comment by endgame in "Dulce et Decorum Est (1921)"

endgame — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:52:03 +0000

The Australians have some incredible anti-war music. Redgum's /I was only 19/ is brutal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UYDKxxQ50o

New comment by endgame in "The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday"

endgame — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 01:25:05 +0000

And the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security definitely gave the literal thousands of submissions due consultation before recommending the original, un-split bill pass.

New comment by endgame in "Another GitHub outage in the same day"

endgame — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:44:35 +0000

Nobody. Nobody at all could have seen it. Microsoft is cool now, haven't you seen VSCode? They do Open Source, they run Linux, they've joined the fold, the tiger shed its stripes.

New comment by endgame in "Floppinux – An Embedded Linux on a Single Floppy, 2025 Edition"

endgame — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 06:47:58 +0000

You might have some luck applying isohybrid(1) to the period-correct .iso image, making it bootable by other means: https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/syslinux-utils/isohybrid...

New comment by endgame in "Ian's Shoelace Site"

endgame — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 06:05:06 +0000

So are your guides, by the way. Thank you for writing them.

New comment by endgame in "Lennart Poettering, Christian Brauner founded a new company"

endgame — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 11:24:01 +0000

That's not the intention, but how do you stop it from being the effect?

New comment by endgame in "TI-99/4A: Leaning more on the firmware"

endgame — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 12:32:25 +0000

The command to load a program in TI BASIC was actually "OLD ". Probably because they already had "NEW".

https://www.ninerpedia.org/wiki/TI-99/4A_system_usage#Loadin...

New comment by endgame in "Internet voting is insecure and should not be used in public elections"

endgame — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 04:42:39 +0000

Yes. Here's a 2014 BBC article about that:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-26487418

The article quotes one Mr Richard Mawrey QC:

> "Postal voting on demand, however many safeguards you build into it, is wide open to fraud… on a scale that will make election rigging a possibility and indeed in some areas a probability."

> "Now I know that there is a very strong political desire to keep the present system. What I'm saying is that if you keep the present system, then however many safeguards you create, fraud and serious fraud is inevitably going to continue because that is built into the system."

New comment by endgame in "Internet voting is insecure and should not be used in public elections"

endgame — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 04:37:45 +0000

There are some really clever systems that let you prove that you voted without leaking how you voted.

Unfortunately, explaining them to Joe Q. Public in such a way that he's going to trust your election is a very tough sell, whereas counting paper is a much easier process to explain.

And that's before you begin worrying that the developer of your whizz-bang mathematically-provable voting system is a) going to win the bid to build it for the government, b) implements it correctly, and c) isn't subverted while doing so.

New comment by endgame in "TerabyteDeals – Compare storage prices by $/TB"

endgame — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 23:19:58 +0000

The best-designed website on the internet.

New comment by endgame in "The gift card accountability sink"

endgame — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 23:54:56 +0000

https://hey.paris/posts/appleid/

This guy purchased a gift card which turned out to be dodgy, and Apple locked his entire account. So there's definitely some kind of shenanigans possible with the current supply chain.