Hacker News: entelechy0

New comment by entelechy0 in "Hacking Super Mario 64 using covering spaces"

entelechy0 — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 02:10:00 +0000

This reminds me of pannenkoek2012's work on Super Mario 64: SM64 - Watch for Rolling Rocks 0.5x A Presses.

In particular, it makes me think about his "parallel universes" and QPUs.

New comment by entelechy0 in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2025)"

entelechy0 — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 21:49:37 +0000

Location: US

Remote: only

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: C/C++, Python, PHP, Rust, Go, x86_64, Javascript, sqlite3, git

Resume/CV: https://www.evildojo.com/resume.pdf

X/Twitter: https://x.com/evildojo66

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/darkmage/

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@evildojo666

Bugcrowd: http://bugcrowd.com/darkmagex6

Github: https://github.com/mikedesu/

I've been streaming development of a game I am making in C++ and Raylib for both desktop and browser! See me in action on my Youtube channel. I won't share email here, but I will if you reach out to me on LinkedIn or X/Twitter.

I have professional experience as an iOS Developer, Security Consultant/Penetration Tester, and as an online Computer Science tutor. I realize my intersection of skills may not appear united or even fresh, but I pride myself on my ability to learn new tech stacks and integrate into anyone's workflow.

I'm looking forward to hearing from you!

Thank you in advance!

New comment by entelechy0 in "High-severity WinRAR 0-day exploited for weeks by 2 groups"

entelechy0 — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 13:45:46 +0000

winrar has been around since I was in high school...21+ years 500 million downloads isn't unreasonable during that time frame real question is: how many windows boxes are up right now and how many have winrar installed

New comment by entelechy0 in "Llama.vim – Local LLM-assisted text completion"

entelechy0 — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 19:28:23 +0000

I use this on-and-off again. It is nice that I can flip between this and Copilot by commenting out one line in my init.lua

New comment by entelechy0 in "Botlib: C Telegram bot framework"

entelechy0 — Sat, 25 Nov 2023 18:04:35 +0000

Amazing project, and sorry to hear about your daughter. I wore a back brace from age 4 until ~10, when my scoliosis curvature took a turn for the worse. They did surgery on me back then (27-28 years ago now) and put a stainless steel (or titanium im not sure) rod on my spine and fused it. I've been stuck at 5'1" since age 11, and have had to deal with some teasing about my height, but otherwise I've been able to have a good career in software and tech.

If you want to reach out and ask me any questions about life with scoliosis (or anything else for that matter), feel free to reach out to me:

https://www.evildojo.com

https://www.twitter.com/evildojo666

Your project is pretty cool...I can see myself integrating IRC support so I can bridge communications between telegram and IRC. I already do a lot of bot-like stuff using Sopel (Python) and notify (golang), but love working in C/C++.

New comment by entelechy0 in "Othello Is Solved?"

entelechy0 — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 18:38:01 +0000

Because Othello is in PSPACE, and NP is in PSPACE, does this mean that P=NP?

New comment by entelechy0 in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2023)"

entelechy0 — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 07:01:49 +0000

Location: San Antonio

Remote: preferred

Willing to relocate: for the right job

Technologies: programming, penetration testing, security consulting

Resume: https://www.evildojo.com/resume.pdf

X: https://x.com/evildojo666

email: on request

New comment by entelechy0 in "The Best Pens for 2023: Gel, Ballpoint, Rollerball, and Fountain Pens"

entelechy0 — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 17:57:11 +0000

the uniball signo rt 0.38mm tip has been my goto pen since 2002 at least, to a degree that i do not purchase other pens.

New comment by entelechy0 in "Godot 4.0 Stable"

entelechy0 — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 18:58:22 +0000

I just don't understand why more gamedevs don't work in pure code like libsdl and C++, it is very liberating.

New comment by entelechy0 in "Archiving in the time of streaming"

entelechy0 — Sun, 05 Feb 2023 23:45:11 +0000

big fan of what you do, thanks again!

New comment by entelechy0 in "My Controversial Opinion: Ventura Is Apple’s Worst macOS Yet"

entelechy0 — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 04:40:08 +0000

load it up in a private tab my dude and thank me later!

New comment by entelechy0 in "Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023 – Show and tell"

entelechy0 — Sun, 22 Jan 2023 22:50:11 +0000

Hey man, I bought Steredenn on the PS4 like 5 years ago and it was one of the best shootemups I've ever played. I haven't beaten it yet but was considering picking it up again for the Switch. Thank you for making it. I am working on my own game and games like yours are an inspiration for me to keep going with it.

If I can ask a question, was there an initial design decision to build the game in Unity, or was that just your preferred tool out of experience?

(asking because I am fool-heartedly going in pure libsdl2 and C++)

Thanks again!

New comment by entelechy0 in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2022)"

entelechy0 — Tue, 03 May 2022 00:07:16 +0000

Location: San Antonio, TX, US

Remote: Required

Willing to relocate: Not atm

Technologies: C/C++, Python, Javascript, HTML5

Resume: https://www.evildojo.com/resume.html

I generally don't list my email and try to control who has access to it, but I've ended up in several recruiters' databases and can tell when people who email me are using some template or automated system. Oftentimes the positions they reach out about are a clear mismatch and they reveal that they never even read my resume to begin with.

New comment by entelechy0 in "State Bar of California addresses breach of confidential data"

entelechy0 — Mon, 28 Feb 2022 18:21:02 +0000

Right, which is why you would never XOR in this manner, and would hash instead. You don't want the password or content retrievable that easily.

New comment by entelechy0 in "Poll: How much time on average do you exercise in a week?"

entelechy0 — Sun, 02 Jan 2022 18:43:43 +0000

My god, he's still going!

Have you ever tried going more than a day without cleaning your teeth? Have you ever had so little energy, motivation, or otherwise give-a-care to just not-do-it when going to bed at night?

Why do you insist on this being the baseline when you've clearly never struggled to do this?

New comment by entelechy0 in "Poll: How much time on average do you exercise in a week?"

entelechy0 — Sun, 02 Jan 2022 18:42:10 +0000

You've never had true depression.

My teeth are rotting out of my head due to poor dental hygiene from years ago. The road back up sometimes begins in a deep hole vertical-ascent, and that can feel daunting, even hopeless at times.

You wouldn't talk on the Internet unless you had experience. Everyone loves to brow-beat.

New comment by entelechy0 in "Attrs – the Python library everyone needs (2016)"

entelechy0 — Sat, 25 Dec 2021 01:01:31 +0000

Agreed. There was some drama with twisted years ago involving python 2-3 interoperability iirc. The title reads like clickbait and having to hook me on an article this way only serves to repulse me physically.

New comment by entelechy0 in "Hacking the planet with Notcurses: a guide to TUIs (2020) [pdf]"

entelechy0 — Sun, 05 Dec 2021 19:17:23 +0000

TIL of notcurses

"Notcurses is licensed under Apache2, a demonstration that I have transcended your petty world of material goods, fiat currencies, and closed sources. Implement Microsoft Bob in it. Charge rubes for it. Put it in your ballistic missiles so that you have a nice LED display of said missile's speed and projected yield; right before impact, scroll "FUCK YOU" in all the world's languages, and close it out with a smart palette fade. Carve the compiled objects onto bricks and mail them to Richard Stallman, taunting him through a bullhorn as you do so."

This inspires me

New comment by entelechy0 in "Developing Games on Linux: An Interview with Little Red Dog Games"

entelechy0 — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 21:08:17 +0000

I'm actually dev-ing a game for Windows, Mac, and Linux entirely in C++ and libsdl and it has been a GREAT experience so far!

New comment by entelechy0 in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer? (January 2020)"

entelechy0 — Thu, 02 Jan 2020 19:01:12 +0000

SEEKING WORK - Jacksonville, Florida, or Remote (preferably)

Independent Computer Science Tutor with experience in iOS Development, Proof-of-concept scripting, and Penetration testing.

Technologies / languages / frameworks known or worked-with: C, C++, Java, Python, PHP, Perl, Objective-C, bash, Linux, Apache, Javascript, CSS, HTML, WordPress, node.js, iOS, Android.

A lot more about me is available on my social media links and resume, which are available on my website: https://mikebell.xyz/resume.html

You can reach out to me at:

https://mikebell.xyz

https://twitter.com/therealdarkmage

My rates are negotiable and extremely affordable.