Hacker News: hotsauceror

New comment by hotsauceror in "A custom virtual machine for the Stars 4X game"

hotsauceror — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 20:30:09 +0000

I know someone downthread already mentioned this, but if Stars!, deep complexity and native Windows UI is your cup of tea, then you should absolutely check out Aurora 4X. Native Windows UI cranked up to 11, dialog boxes with dozens of tabs, frames, buttons, the whole enchilada.

https://aurora4x.com/

New comment by hotsauceror in "Amazon pilots ad services in ChatGPT"

hotsauceror — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 14:53:01 +0000

The smartest minds in all of tech worked overtime to finally give computers the ability to lie to us. Excelsior!

New comment by hotsauceror in "Paramount Caught Using 'Astroturf' Group to Drum Up Fake Support for Merger"

hotsauceror — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 15:57:59 +0000

This seems very much in the wheelhouse of clandestine agencies like the CIA and the FSB. Use front companies to modify the perceptions of reality by doing things like shifting the Overton window of currently discussed topics, preparing custom datasets for future LLM training that bake in desired assumptions, manipulating or publishing public opinion polls and prediction markets.

New comment by hotsauceror in "Microsoft is using TPM chips to crack down on pirated Windows activations"

hotsauceror — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 15:26:27 +0000

It's been a long time, but when I built my Win 10 machine (~2016) it was possible to purchase an "OEM" install disc on Amazon. I believe that's the LTSC version. I do see one for Win 11, but the product listing is several years old now, so who knows?

https://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Windоws-Pro-OEM-DVD/dp/B09M...

New comment by hotsauceror in "Looking Ahead to Postgres 19"

hotsauceror — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 15:20:23 +0000

What are some of the add-ons that you run on the server? We run ours in a pretty bare-bones manner so I'm interested to hear what you're doing.

New comment by hotsauceror in "Map of Metal"

hotsauceror — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:40:45 +0000

Thanks! And in case anyone ELSE is still following this thread, I should have mentioned these guys from the outset. They're from Finland, naturally...

Turmion Katilot

New comment by hotsauceror in "Map of Metal"

hotsauceror — Thu, 21 May 2026 03:10:08 +0000

Holy shit, this is great. VAND3ST is beastly. Finishing Move too. Thank you so much.

New comment by hotsauceror in "Map of Metal"

hotsauceror — Thu, 21 May 2026 03:05:14 +0000

“System Overload” is a banger. If that had some Nile-style double bass drum programming, that’s where my head is heading.

New comment by hotsauceror in "Map of Metal"

hotsauceror — Thu, 21 May 2026 02:59:14 +0000

A friend at work got me into EC recently. I’m into it, they’ve got good sensibilities. Celldweller, is another group I have in mind. Less purely mechanical than Ministry or Fear Factory.

New comment by hotsauceror in "Map of Metal"

hotsauceror — Thu, 21 May 2026 02:56:26 +0000

Thanks! ‘Die By My Hand’ is close to what I have in mind.

New comment by hotsauceror in "Map of Metal"

hotsauceror — Wed, 20 May 2026 17:05:54 +0000

I've got a particular itch that's difficult to scratch, and I'm not seeing anything on this site that reflects the genre.

I've heard it as 'metalstep' but I'm sure there are other names for it. Very aggressive cross between metal and EDM. More of a metal sensibility than hardcore EDM; more of an EDM / trance sensibility than, say, Fear Factory. The drum tracks have more of a death metal vibe to them. It's probably easy to blend into other genres.

I'm thinking stuff like Invocation Array, Rave The Requivm, Follow the Cipher, even stuff like The Algorithm and Neurotech. I suppose Fear Factory would count here as well.

New comment by hotsauceror in "Show HN: Auto-identity-remove – Automated data broker opt-out runner for macOS"

hotsauceror — Mon, 18 May 2026 12:41:56 +0000

Very true, the act of unsubscribing itself signifies that the email is still live; more bad faith. As to why not sell it to a new vendor, because that would allow them to check a box that says “we offer a feature that allows users to opt out of data sharing agreement with the partners defined in the TOS and onboarding process.”

New comment by hotsauceror in "Show HN: Auto-identity-remove – Automated data broker opt-out runner for macOS"

hotsauceror — Mon, 18 May 2026 12:38:38 +0000

I refuse to believe that “someone just forgot” to implement a user-friendly feature whose omission coincidentally benefits their company. It is not a coincidence, and it was not done unintentionally. The same way that it is not a coincidence that the “unsubscribe” link is always in six-point font the same color as the rest of the email footer. Code does not happen in a vacuum. Code does not get pushed to production without vetting and approval. As I say, the assumption of bad faith is baked in.

New comment by hotsauceror in "Show HN: Auto-identity-remove – Automated data broker opt-out runner for macOS"

hotsauceror — Mon, 18 May 2026 12:17:07 +0000

Agreed. Any time I click an “Unsubscribe” link in an email, that takes me to a site where I have to provide my email or indeed, do anything more than click “confirm,” I leave. I assume it either resets some kind of consent trigger or sells my data to a new third-party vendor. The assumption of bad faith is now baked into my interaction with almost every corporate entity.

New comment by hotsauceror in "The first photo published in a newspaper, in 1848 (2023)"

hotsauceror — Wed, 06 May 2026 14:36:57 +0000

"I always liked the hand drawings of people referred to in the stories."

I did too. It was distinctive, tasteful, and understated. The style is called Hedcut:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedcut

New comment by hotsauceror in "The first photo published in a newspaper, in 1848 (2023)"

hotsauceror — Wed, 06 May 2026 14:35:02 +0000

"It would be difficult for modern readers to accept the text-only version of a newspaper."

I can think of few things that would give me more pleasure. Perhaps I am not sufficiently "modern."

New comment by hotsauceror in "Whistleblower claims ex-DOGE member says he took Social Security data to new job"

hotsauceror — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 15:43:55 +0000

Sorry. I started switching off of coffee this week...

New comment by hotsauceror in "Whistleblower claims ex-DOGE member says he took Social Security data to new job"

hotsauceror — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 15:36:38 +0000

If I recall, that was exactly what happened early on in DOGE's tenure. Senior personnel were explicitly directed to grant admin access to DOGE personnel, and auditing/logging were disabled. This was widely reported at the time. I don't remember whether there were threats of termination, but it would not surprise me.

New comment by hotsauceror in "LibreOffice Writer now supports Markdown"

hotsauceror — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 19:42:38 +0000

Obsidian does this. It displays the raw Markdown for the line under the cursor, and renders the marked down content everywhere else in the document.

New comment by hotsauceror in "Better to Skip a Year for Hardware Upgrades?"

hotsauceror — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 17:57:30 +0000

Agreed. Main box is 10+ years i5-4770K, I think. 16 GB RAM, GTX 1080. Runs Debian Trixie + KDE, Spotify, VS Code, docker, Steam, etc just fine.