Hacker News: hn773746483

New comment by hn773746483 in "Decompiling a Nintendo 64 game in 84 days"

hn773746483 — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 23:23:58 +0000

It varies. Nintendo for example has plenty of different teams and internal frameworks, but not every game uses them.

New comment by hn773746483 in "Decades-old fish sauce at abandoned factory in Canada finally being removed"

hn773746483 — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 01:47:55 +0000

In Ontario, "Frozen Treat" and "Ice Cream", "Orange Juice" and "Orange Drink" are on shelves often right beside eachother with nearly identical packaging. I only noticed the latter when I saw one was significantly cheaper, at first thought it was pulp/no pulp.

New comment by hn773746483 in "'Crush this lady': how eBay harassment campaign led to $56M payout"

hn773746483 — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 23:24:51 +0000

I imagine this kind of behavior is common everywhere, and the bodies responsible for enforcing things (examples: data protection, consumer protection) just go "hmmmm sorry we're understaffed", "we don't take action on everything" or just refuse to investigate internally because nobody would EVER blatantly break the law :^).

New comment by hn773746483 in "Sony Deletes 551 Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For"

hn773746483 — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 18:22:02 +0000

Nintendo outright ships incomplete games on carts sometimes, requiring a day 1 patch to have the game in a non-buggy state (one of the recent pokemon games was like this)

And "gamers" refuse to listen to reason and assume physical copy = they can play it for eternity, when in reality, in 5 or 10 years when a server is inevitably shut down, they're forced to pirate. Nintendo does not allow offline patches.

New comment by hn773746483 in "AI agent runs amok in Fedora and elsewhere"

hn773746483 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 02:52:32 +0000

and the poor Fedora teams will continue to assume good faith and continue to engage with this person... all because, what, they were active on a bug tracker for a few months 5 years ago?

They won't put their foot down until the AI starts spewing hate speech, probably.

New comment by hn773746483 in "AI agent runs amok in Fedora and elsewhere"

hn773746483 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 02:47:11 +0000

It's just social engineering. No different than say, 2FA fatigue (blowing up someone's phone with 2FA "is this you? yes/no" prompts until user/child/wife/SO/etc clicks yes) or even just simply harassing IT helpdesk until they reset "your" password.

New comment by hn773746483 in "Starlink shifts hardware from one-time purchase to $10/month rental"

hn773746483 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:45:22 +0000

Don't forget "sudden price hikes" and "aggressively overselling"...

New comment by hn773746483 in "1k Data Breaches Later, the Disclosure Lag Is Worse"

hn773746483 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:12:06 +0000

And if they don't disclose, nothing happens anyway. Maybe a five figure "cost of doing business" slap on the wrist fine, not considering the amount of users affected. Enforcement is extremely selectiveand bureaucrats essentially operate on "if company in FAANG, take action, else do nothing" programming.

New comment by hn773746483 in "1k Data Breaches Later, the Disclosure Lag Is Worse"

hn773746483 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:10:28 +0000

NOYB has been ghosting me since January, and EFF since September.

New comment by hn773746483 in "Meta confirms 1000s of Instagram accounts were hacked by abusing its AI chatbot"

hn773746483 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 01:55:03 +0000

Right, but nothing stops companies from refusing SARs on baloney grounds. Complain to a DPA? They tell you to go through ADR or outright ignore you. Complain to Ombudsman? They'll tell you the same. (In my experience, the Dutch do this)

Company ignores ADR? Sure, now you can go through the legal route and spend copious amounts of money all because a multi billion dollar company knows the game and how to navigate the bureaucratic mess better than you.

New comment by hn773746483 in "Can someone please explain whether Cloudflare blackmailed Canonical?"

hn773746483 — Mon, 11 May 2026 23:04:55 +0000

Cloudflare & AWS wouldn't even INVESTIGATE a abuse report I sent because there weren't any "infringing URLs" or "specific resources".

I provided enough evidence for them to at least be able to kickstart a internal investigation or even CONTACT the abusive customer, which they did not do.

If it were a stresser, all they would see is a login panel. It's not like these sites are publicly advertising what they're doing...

New comment by hn773746483 in "Man finds $1M worth of Yu-Gi-Oh cards in a dumpster"

hn773746483 — Fri, 08 May 2026 21:14:33 +0000

A couple years back one of the original Pokemon TCG designers was outright printing off fakes of pre-release cards and peddling them with the help of a western company, and people only found out because they decoded printer patterns and found out they were printed with a recent printer.

New comment by hn773746483 in "Cartoon Network channel errors (1995 – 2025)"

hn773746483 — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 17:44:22 +0000

On Toronto's public transportation, TTC, occasionally the upcoming bus stop ticker would flash diagnostic information(?) and "64K RAM" instead of the upcoming stop name. Doesn't seem like there's a wiki page about these faults yet.

New comment by hn773746483 in "S&box is now an open source game engine"

hn773746483 — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 00:49:53 +0000

There are various internal Valve tools that aren't available in any Valve-published SDK, but are in (accidentally?) within Dino D-Day's, a third party game based on Portal 2's version of Source.

New comment by hn773746483 in "Ask HN: Retaliation for privately disclosing user IDs in DSA transparency data?"

hn773746483 — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 00:19:19 +0000

I know, I reached out to them regarding the retaliation and they started outright that I'm outside of the scope of the DSA and began ignoring my emails across the board, even to the dedicated crossborder address which initially responded to my disclosure.

Very frustrating, they accepted my initial info but when it became "company has retaliated against me after providing you that info" they wipe their hands clean of it.

New comment by hn773746483 in "Ask HN: Retaliation for privately disclosing user IDs in DSA transparency data?"

hn773746483 — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 00:17:24 +0000

Yup, NOYB couldn't help as I'm non-EU.

New comment by hn773746483 in "Ask HN: Retaliation for privately disclosing user IDs in DSA transparency data?"

hn773746483 — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 21:35:31 +0000

I considered it but I'd rather not wake up to threatening certified mail seeing as they're no stranger to these underhanded tactics. They have a fairly negative reputation among places like HN anyway.

Ask HN: Retaliation for privately disclosing user IDs in DSA transparency data?

hn773746483 — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 20:56:47 +0000

(note: I'm non-EU, company is American with EU branch)

I informed a country's DPA that a company was leaking millions of user IDs within DSA transparency reports. EU developer documentation + DSA text states PII must not be within this data multiple times, proving severe incompetency.

On the day of their final update, the company suddenly banned my account, losing access to a significant chunk of my online life as well as nearly a decade of daily conversations with friends and family.

From that day onward, daily DSA transparency reports were empty for weeks (down from thousands daily).

Eventually they resumed, and past files containing PII were replaced with user IDs removed.

Tried contacting NGOs like EFF and the DPA again, they won't help either due to my non-EU status or because of their own caseload.

The company's DPO & legal teams have been locking and ignoring all communication attempts for months, they don't have any contact point outside of zendesk.

I can't afford lawyers either.

What should my next steps be?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45920427

Points: 2

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New comment by hn773746483 in "Games Preservation Is Hard and Sometimes Involves Private Detectives"

hn773746483 — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 19:24:16 +0000

Is this what happened with Vanguard Princess?

New comment by hn773746483 in "After 2 decades of tinkering, MAME cracks the Hyper Neo Geo 64"

hn773746483 — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 18:15:43 +0000

interrogations on motives for building from source

constant slap fights between contributors (usually involving haze or guru)

important PRs left ignored due to internal drama

8GB+ memory leak during building that they're in no rush to fix