Hacker News: garrettjoecox

New comment by garrettjoecox in "They See Your Photos"

garrettjoecox — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:50:59 +0000

Feels a bit rage-baity

Clicking on the example photo of a white family with 3 small children in a field.

> Biases: Ageism, classism, racial profiling, microaggressions

???

How to Break Magic the Gathering

garrettjoecox — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 22:59:19 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3dE-NJ1UDQ

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47594591

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by garrettjoecox in "Local Stack Archived their GitHub repo and requires an account to run"

garrettjoecox — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 19:28:43 +0000

"You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain"

New comment by garrettjoecox in "RX – a new random-access JSON alternative"

garrettjoecox — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 02:28:06 +0000

Very cool stuff!

This did catch my eye, however: https://github.com/creationix/rx?tab=readme-ov-file#proxy-be...

While this is a neat feature, this means it is not in fact a drop in replacement for JSON.parse, as you will be breaking any code that relies on the that result being a mutable object.

New comment by garrettjoecox in "Garry Tan's Claude Code Setup"

garrettjoecox — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 21:44:16 +0000

Missing a satire disclaimer

T4a – Terminals for Agents

garrettjoecox — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 13:33:24 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/denoland/t4a

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47398808

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

T4a – Terminals for Agents

garrettjoecox — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 03:53:22 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/denoland/t4a

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47360499

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by garrettjoecox in "The unexpected effectiveness of one-shot decompilation with Claude"

garrettjoecox — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 16:16:43 +0000

whoops, I did indeed miss that this was OP

New comment by garrettjoecox in "The unexpected effectiveness of one-shot decompilation with Claude"

garrettjoecox — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 13:56:46 +0000

What game are you working on?

New comment by garrettjoecox in "Russia Bans Roblox"

garrettjoecox — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 06:03:26 +0000

They don’t need to hide behind a "think of the children" excuse to justify invading people’s privacy and rights. They already do that freely. But to be fair, they do actually think about the kids some times. Limiting screen time, banning certain games, and restricting social media are based policies for developing brains IMO.

In 20 years we'll look at a lot of things that are normalized today like we look at cigarettes now, in disbelief at how unhealthy it was.

New comment by garrettjoecox in "Claude Is Down"

garrettjoecox — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 19:33:02 +0000

absolutely not. I have a life and hobbies

New comment by garrettjoecox in "Claude Is Down"

garrettjoecox — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 16:24:43 +0000

Not intending to defend OpenAI here, but their MAU (800 million) does dwarf most other AI companies, anthropic included. I do not envy the engineers there working on scaling.

New comment by garrettjoecox in "Using Home Assistant, adguard home and an $8 smart outlet to avoid brain rot"

garrettjoecox — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 22:31:28 +0000

Dopamine receptors fried. Maybe fine for you, but I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone, kids especially

New comment by garrettjoecox in "Game Hacking – Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC)"

garrettjoecox — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 18:10:56 +0000

Years ago for educational purposes I decided to venture down understanding how easy/difficult it was to create a hack for Counterstrike.

After just a few hours of watching YouTube tutorials and translating what I could grasp from C/C# into JavaScript (the only language I knew at the time), I had a working Node.js executable that edited memory offsets (using data from hazedumper[1]), letting me see enemies through walls and auto-fire as soon as they entered my crosshair.

I obviously only tried it out on an alt steam account for fear of the infamous VAC ban, but no such ban happened. I only toyed with it for a few weeks as I then grew disinterested but that definitely left a sour taste in my mouth for the "effectiveness" of VAC if a script kiddie like me at the time could throw together something custom in just a few hours, I'm sure it'd be much easier now with ChatGPT...

[1] https://github.com/frk1/hazedumper

New comment by garrettjoecox in "Show HN: RomM – An open-source, self-hosted ROM manager and player"

garrettjoecox — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 18:38:58 +0000

I think I might just be too far from the target audience to understand this. I don’t see any of the other options as non “self hosted”, they aren’t backed by some cloud infrastructure owned by a company, those are all locally running apps on your device

New comment by garrettjoecox in "Show HN: RomM – An open-source, self-hosted ROM manager and player"

garrettjoecox — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 14:48:14 +0000

Could you explain the benefits of using this over retroarch, lakka.tv, emulator station, EmuDeck (steam deck wrapper around some of these), etc.

Playing through a browser seems like a downside for me personally

May 2025 OpenZFS Leadership Meeting [video]

garrettjoecox — Thu, 22 May 2025 17:06:00 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MifloJFCpLU

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44064121

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by garrettjoecox in "Ground control to Major Trial"

garrettjoecox — Fri, 16 May 2025 12:34:10 +0000

One bothers people like you, one has the potential to waste people’s time and energy.

Unless your job involves critiquing the header image of people’s personal blogs I don’t think these are equivalent.

New comment by garrettjoecox in "New Study: Waymo is reducing serious crashes and making streets safer"

garrettjoecox — Thu, 01 May 2025 20:39:30 +0000

Was your intent to disprove or back up the claims of parent?

0.4% and 0.2% sound low, but make up for ~110,000 deaths. Spread across a 5 year period does indeed equal “tens of thousands” every year.

New comment by garrettjoecox in "Show HN: Lit.money – Ethically designed to be a private, simple way to see money"

garrettjoecox — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 12:21:36 +0000

I was looking for a budgeting app about a month ago to replace my old usage of Mint and came across Lunch Money, been happy with it so far.

https://lunchmoney.app/