Hacker News: hansjorg

New comment by hansjorg in "An Introduction to Meshtastic"

hansjorg — Fri, 08 May 2026 21:17:07 +0000

Benn Jordan (The Flashbulb) has a good video on this and some other interesting related topics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_F4rEaRduk

New comment by hansjorg in "Monkey Island for Commodore 64 Ground Up"

hansjorg — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 09:17:58 +0000

There was no native text mode on the Amiga at least.

New comment by hansjorg in "Rob Grant, creator of Red Dwarf, has died"

hansjorg — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 21:09:38 +0000

He's dead Dave. At least he went peacefully in his Jeep.

New comment by hansjorg in "Flock CEO calls Deflock a “terrorist organization” (2025) [video]"

hansjorg — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 21:45:36 +0000

His work on this and similar topics is very good, he has deep technical insight and is a good communicator, but it's a bit funny seeing him referred to as a security hobbyist as in my mind he's a musical genius and one of the greatest living US musicians/programmers.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_SxlRQhHOA&list=RDZD8N9tDDQT4
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vzXHhRBLnA&list=RDTgoAgYR4584
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHCg47cWIUc&list=RDXHCg47cWIUc

Gadgets for people who don't trust the government

hansjorg — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 01:24:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_F4rEaRduk

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46714013

Points: 4

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Lake Nyos Disaster

hansjorg — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 01:35:27 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Nyos_disaster

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45941997

Points: 3

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New comment by hansjorg in "SIMA 2: An agent that plays, reasons, and learns with you in virtual 3D worlds"

hansjorg — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 09:07:25 +0000

"The Electric Monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder. Dishwashers washed tedious dishes for you, thus saving you the bother of washing them yourself, video recorders watched tedious television for you, thus saving you the bother of looking at it yourself; Electric Monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was becoming an increasingly onerous task, that of believing all the things the world expected you to believe."

New comment by hansjorg in "The Sagrada Família takes its final shape"

hansjorg — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 23:37:46 +0000

I kind of envy those who can so easily dismiss something like SF. Just try to imagine what they must have experienced to become so blasé.

New comment by hansjorg in "How did .agakhan, .ismaili and .imamat get their own TLDs?"

hansjorg — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 23:08:51 +0000

If you want a fun way to spend the rest of your afternoon, just prefix any of these with "nic." and enter in your web browser. Interestingly, for example, it seems that .ninja is ran by what appears to be actual ninjas.

New comment by hansjorg in "Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?"

hansjorg — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 20:32:33 +0000

If you want a tip my friend, just block all of Huawei Cloud by ASN.

New comment by hansjorg in "Weird Expressions in Rust"

hansjorg — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 22:22:17 +0000

Tough crowd.

A new album every two weeks: The story of Aleksi Perälä

hansjorg — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 17:15:44 +0000

Article URL: https://www.attackmagazine.com/features/interview/a-new-album-every-two-weeks-the-story-of-aleksi-perala/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44311647

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by hansjorg in "Brad Lander detained by masked federal agents inside immigration court"

hansjorg — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 22:45:11 +0000

> Why are the right libertarians and 2A folks not speaking up right now

It has been entertaining listening to the people at Reason Magazine lately. They have convinced themselves thoroughly that they're not actually racist authoritarians, so now that they're getting what they really want, but it's so diametrically opposed to what they say they believe, they have to contort themselves endlessly.

Do not expect any kind of help from those kinds of people. Their anti-authoritarianism is largely performative or reserved to their in-group. When it's not performative, it's just rich kids complaining they're not allowed do to whatever they want.

New comment by hansjorg in "Why Android can't use CDC Ethernet (2023)"

hansjorg — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 21:54:41 +0000

> CDC stands for Communications Device Class https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_communications_device_cl...

Why is this buried almost at the end of the article? Why even mention it at that point?

New comment by hansjorg in "Curtis Yarvin's Plot Against America"

hansjorg — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 21:00:52 +0000

Why are all the fascist tough guys so afraid of criticism, or even just of internet downvotes?

This is a central insight into their mindset. They are so incredibly mentally weak.

New comment by hansjorg in "Show HN: Live-updating version of the 'What a week, huh?' meme"

hansjorg — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 22:16:49 +0000

This is a "fun" idea, but I'm a bit troubled by the fact that you've chosen to release this right now.

Are you implying something? Not that subtle, truth be told. I'm not American, but hopefully there are someone here who knows the proper X-handle or other official authority to report this to.

New comment by hansjorg in "CIA now favors lab leak theory to explain Covid's origins"

hansjorg — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 21:43:57 +0000

So what you're saying is that we shouldn't put our trust into people who pride themselves on being master manipulators and deceivers?

New comment by hansjorg in "DOOM CAPTCHA"

hansjorg — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 21:19:38 +0000

As in the original, you can use alt + left/right arrow keys to strafe.

New comment by hansjorg in "The enduring power of kitsch"

hansjorg — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 01:16:32 +0000

Many people would say that coffee is an acquired taste. Are you saying that people who don't like coffee are in the wrong?

New comment by hansjorg in "We spent $20 to achieve RCE and accidentally became the admins of .mobi"

hansjorg — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 12:20:10 +0000

Why are tools using hardcoded lists of WHOIS servers?

Seems there is a standard (?) way of registering this in DNS, but just from a quick test, a lot of TLDs are missing a record. Working example:

    dig _nicname._tcp.fr SRV +noall +answer

    _nicname._tcp.fr. 3588 IN SRV 0 0 43 whois.nic.fr.

Edit:

There's an expired Internet Draft for this: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-sanz-whois-srv-0...