Hacker News: gu5

New comment by gu5 in "Aube – Node.js package manager in Rust"

gu5 — Sun, 24 May 2026 04:40:32 +0000

appears vibecoded which doesn't give me confidence, still interesting though.

pnpm has also moved a few of its components from javascript to rust in its latest release

New comment by gu5 in "Lix – universal version control system for binary files"

gu5 — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 02:32:44 +0000

Lix is also a soft fork of the official Nix package manager implementation: https://lix.systems/

New comment by gu5 in "Reverse engineering a $1B Legal AI tool exposed 100k+ confidential files"

gu5 — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 03:31:01 +0000

https://webcrack.netlify.app/ was made exactly for this, it's a really useful tool

New comment by gu5 in "Helping wikis move away from Fandom"

gu5 — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 13:29:47 +0000

Currently, every wiki they host is on its own domain (besides the meta one)

New comment by gu5 in "FTC Pushed to Crack Down on Companies That Ruin Hardware via Software Updates"

gu5 — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 05:50:44 +0000

Related to this specific example, WMR headsets are just open enough for linux VR software to work with them - https://lvra.gitlab.io/docs/hardware/#xr-devices (of course this is an uphill battle, ...)

New comment by gu5 in "You can opt out of airport face scans"

gu5 — Sun, 28 Jul 2024 16:38:46 +0000

I had to go through that same system recently, and noticed that families with children - in the same, nornal boarding group - were all called to a line to the side of the face scanners that had the normal boarding pass scan system. Maybe you have to ask to be in that line? It was very confusing in the moment because a sign implied that line was for the 'premium' members (or whatever the preboarding group is called) and the face scanners were for regular boarding... (+ zero information about opting out)

New comment by gu5 in "Randar: A Minecraft exploit that uses LLL lattice reduction to crack server RNG"

gu5 — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 16:45:25 +0000

Adding on to this, explosions deal significantly more damage if your whole player is exposed - so one block holes where the bottom half of the player hitbox is covered by bedrock on all sides are usually marked by hacked clients

New comment by gu5 in "Firefox will support at least 200 new extensions on Android this December"

gu5 — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 13:36:56 +0000

Have you seen SingleFile?

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/single-file/

https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile

I discovered a browser bug (2018)

gu5 — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 23:25:52 +0000

Article URL: https://jakearchibald.com/2018/i-discovered-a-browser-bug/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27598675

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by gu5 in "[dead]"

gu5 — Sat, 20 Feb 2021 01:15:30 +0000

Dupe

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26199410

Text-Only CNN

gu5 — Sat, 30 Jan 2021 03:13:35 +0000

Article URL: https://lite.cnn.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25965660

Points: 35

# Comments: 10

New comment by gu5 in "Ask HN: What resources are available for hacking victims?"

gu5 — Tue, 26 Jan 2021 17:29:32 +0000

First, shut off your computer. Deal with the problem (looking at HN, for example) on another device. From there, boot up your computer in safe mode (depends on your operating system). Get all the files you want to keep on a flash drive, and reset your device. That's the most secure way to do it, as it wipes all the files from your computer and deletes anything the hackers could be using to control your computer remotely. Change your passwords and be careful what you download.

New comment by gu5 in "Show HN: Prototype for a New Search Engine"

gu5 — Sat, 23 Jan 2021 03:07:30 +0000

I like the idea! There are a lot of websites that have so many ads the article is impossible to read.

New comment by gu5 in "I tried creating a web browser and Google blocked me (2019)"

gu5 — Wed, 20 Jan 2021 20:00:19 +0000

And then get a DMCA request which takes down your Github repo.

New comment by gu5 in "I tried creating a web browser and Google blocked me (2019)"

gu5 — Wed, 20 Jan 2021 19:41:38 +0000

I'm not the creator of this web browser, probably should clarify that. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19553941

Edit: Title changed from "I tried creating..." to "Someone tried creating..."

I tried creating a web browser and Google blocked me (2019)

gu5 — Wed, 20 Jan 2021 18:13:48 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.samuelmaddock.com/posts/google-widevine-blocked-my-browser/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25849800

Points: 479

# Comments: 186

New comment by gu5 in "Show HN: Dumbdown – A dumb alternative to Markdown"

gu5 — Wed, 20 Jan 2021 17:33:49 +0000

Markdown is better for many people that want quick formatting even if you have to remember the syntax. Dumbdown is for people that want easy formatting, even if it takes more keystrokes.

New comment by gu5 in "Hacker News Classic Ranking Algorithm"

gu5 — Tue, 19 Jan 2021 03:26:20 +0000

This page only counts votes from early users of HN

Hacker News Classic Ranking Algorithm

gu5 — Tue, 19 Jan 2021 03:25:34 +0000

Article URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/classic

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25829662

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by gu5 in "Google Safe Browsing can kill a startup"

gu5 — Sun, 17 Jan 2021 03:47:42 +0000

This reminds me of ugliest.app - there was a hn post on it a while ago. And then suprise, suprise, someone made a "paypal" login page which was hosted on the main domain. It was put on the blacklist, not sure if it still is.