Hacker News: hiccuphippo

New comment by hiccuphippo in "US Rep Announces Congressional Legislation to Protect Video Game Ownership"

hiccuphippo — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 19:25:45 +0000

If you own it then it becomes inheritable.

New comment by hiccuphippo in "Using AI to reverse engineer hardware"

hiccuphippo — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 16:43:23 +0000

GPL is a means to an end. If all source code is available always, it becomes unnecessary.

The end goal was always that you could go and modify your printer drivers if you wanted to.

New comment by hiccuphippo in "Using AI to reverse engineer hardware"

hiccuphippo — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 16:24:05 +0000

Maths are just maths again!

Enough with patents, NDAs and trade secrets.

New comment by hiccuphippo in "Fingerprints are the new cookies"

hiccuphippo — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 15:25:58 +0000

I wonder how many websites use that header as part of their fingerprint mechanism.

New comment by hiccuphippo in "REA Reverse – Engineer Anything"

hiccuphippo — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 13:55:36 +0000

If the code is in a completely different language, what can Adobe do it's not gonna be copyright infringement? Derived work if the algorithm is the same? But at that point it's math.

I guess they can always sue over infringed patents?

New comment by hiccuphippo in "Triple-A Minesweeper"

hiccuphippo — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 21:15:36 +0000

It really does need a store with skins, several kinds of currencies, and loot boxes!

New comment by hiccuphippo in "Triple-A Minesweeper"

hiccuphippo — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 21:11:20 +0000

We need a day-1 patch to align the mines to the center of their tile.

New comment by hiccuphippo in "Orkut.com"

hiccuphippo — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 14:34:44 +0000

Another social media site owned by a giant corporation? Please no.

Why not build it as a non-profit foundation who's interests align with the users not the shareholders?

New comment by hiccuphippo in "Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?"

hiccuphippo — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 02:22:23 +0000

Does that matter when it can clone it today without the need to train on your specific code?

New comment by hiccuphippo in "Example.com just launched the biggest redesign in decades"

hiccuphippo — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 20:13:37 +0000

I wonder if it's injecting both through javascript to minimize breaking people's tests. Trying to reduce dealing with non-ascii characters and svg tags.

New comment by hiccuphippo in "How can this Amazon scammer keep going, not shipping any goods?"

hiccuphippo — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 18:08:39 +0000

You could report it to the domain registrar and the payment gateways.

New comment by hiccuphippo in "I said no and Apple said yes"

hiccuphippo — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 13:38:38 +0000

Maybe we should come up with a new definition for that because bricked definitely means unrecoverable.

New comment by hiccuphippo in "English: A vs. An"

hiccuphippo — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 05:20:20 +0000

So is it "a historic" or "an historic"? I've heard Stephen Colbert use "an historic" with a non-silent H.

New comment by hiccuphippo in "Comparing reflection capabilities of C++, Zig and C3"

hiccuphippo — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 04:32:27 +0000

If it's for debugging purposes, you can use `{any}` as the format and it will print `.BLUE`

  std.debug.print("{any}\n", .{color});

New comment by hiccuphippo in "AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible"

hiccuphippo — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 20:22:40 +0000

Exactly the video I was expecting it to be. Same herd.

New comment by hiccuphippo in "Don't Just Say Hello"

hiccuphippo — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 20:54:44 +0000

"Don't ask to ask, just ask"

New comment by hiccuphippo in "My temporary PHP fix from 2014 has nearly 20M installs. Today I'm deprecating it"

hiccuphippo — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 20:18:51 +0000

Yes, but also Wordpress still exists and keeps the old ways of doing things.

New comment by hiccuphippo in "Show HN: Hacker News, but only AI news"

hiccuphippo — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 19:19:46 +0000

For the complete opposite I saw this in a comment earlier: https://elijahpotter.dev/hnsansai

New comment by hiccuphippo in "Rust is tier-1 language at Microsoft"

hiccuphippo — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 18:28:00 +0000

> other two famous Handmade languages

Jai and... C3? FilC?

New comment by hiccuphippo in "Adult Film Producer Unmasks Prolific 'John DOE' Torrent Pirate as Meta Executive"

hiccuphippo — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 18:21:19 +0000

Hoarders gonna hoard