Hacker News: indrora

New comment by indrora in "German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function"

indrora — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 07:47:06 +0000

My uncle has lost 4 Google accounts. Two to password loss, one to a fire, one to being banned for crimes against currency (having the audacity to live in several countries with different currencies)

The issue isn't the phone, it's that a __government__ is depending on an unregulated private enterprise.

New comment by indrora in "Samsung Magician disk utility takes 18 steps and two reboots to uninstall"

indrora — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 13:25:39 +0000

You might enjoy croc and other implementations of the Magic Wormhole.

New comment by indrora in "Google releases Gemma 4 open models"

indrora — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 17:54:46 +0000

gemma4-31b-it-claude-opus-4-6-distilled-abliterated-heretic-GGUF-q4-k-m

New comment by indrora in "Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features"

indrora — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 17:32:45 +0000

Skim through B&H and you'll find commercial displays but also various other display formats that are sufficiently stupid.

Show HN: Giftwrap, a simple go build and release tool

indrora — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:00:42 +0000

Article URL: https://indrora.github.io/giftwrap/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47503652

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by indrora in "VNDB founder Yorhel has died"

indrora — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 01:53:52 +0000

There's a whole team behind it running, so VNDB isn't going anywhere fast.

New comment by indrora in "FCC Updates Covered List to Include Foreign-Made Consumer Routers"

indrora — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 01:52:15 +0000

The founder puts regular updates on his YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/RS2igvW3DIk

Shortly put, they're going through hardware startup woes but will probably make it out the other end just fine.

New comment by indrora in "VNDB founder Yorhel has died"

indrora — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 16:44:18 +0000

This is probably a niche topic on HN, but for those of us who play Visual Novels, VNDB is a massive resource for getting the setup right for older and obscure ones that require odd hardware or configurations. The early days of VNs were all on DOS/V and Sharpx68000 systems with quirky configurations. VNDB catalogs so many of them and things that are "Mostly" VNs for historical purposes.

Without it, we wouldn't have the modern wave of VNs that have become popular today (Hatoful Boyfriend, Doki Doki Literature Club, etc.) nor some of the offshoot genres that have become popular.

VNDB founder Yorhel has died

indrora — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 16:44:18 +0000

Article URL: https://vndb.org/t24787

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47479362

Points: 206

# Comments: 28

New comment by indrora in "Ubuntu 26.04 Ends 46 Years of Silent sudo Passwords"

indrora — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 08:49:59 +0000

It was directly a result of some of the choices made by Bell and plausibly Teletype.

Early switching computer systems that had user accounts at Bell also didn't echo back for passwords as some terminals were mixed-duplex, from what I've gleaned in the very odd corners of ESS systems. I suspect the idea is that the model they were working from were touchtone telephones and rotary phones, so numeric passcodes were the standard, and you heard & saw those already? Less noise on paper tapes? The possible list of options goes on and on.

Bell Labs was... Different than your average office or telco environment, I should add.

But that's a swag at best today, without knowing the people that worked on it.

There's a class 100 semiconductor clean room in this backyard shed

indrora — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:13:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfSO-LCKmrA

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47311007

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by indrora in "No right to relicense this project"

indrora — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 18:09:14 +0000

> For example ReactOS won't let you contribute if you have ever seen Windows code. Because if you have never seen it, there can be no allegation that you copied it.

I've heard this called in some circles "The curse of knowledge." The same thing applies to emulator developers, especially N64 developers (and now Nintendo emulator developers in general) after the Oman Archive and later Gigaleaks. There's an informal "If you read this, you can NEVER directly contribute to the development of that emulator, ever."

This comes to a head when a relatively unknown developer starts contributing oddly specific patches to an emulator.

New comment by indrora in "Something is afoot in the land of Qwen"

indrora — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 08:26:32 +0000

Ostensibly, a mix of VC funding and that they host an endpoint that lets them run the big (200+GB) models on their infrastructure rather than having to build machines with hundreds of gigs of llm-dedicated memory.

Show HN: Toil, a go library for simple parallelism

indrora — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 16:26:40 +0000

I was tired of having to write the same basic primitive over and over again: A channel, some control logic, etc.

So I wrote toil -- A port of two of my favorite Python functions over into the Go world. It's very simple. There's optimizations to be made for sure, but this is the result of a couple of hours of wanting something that felt Go-Like in the right way.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47004506

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

Shitposting to Label Printers: Building an AirPrint Bridge for Cups

indrora — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 14:57:24 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.slowest.network/post/5

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46825117

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by indrora in "Retiring GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and OpenAI o4-mini in ChatGPT"

indrora — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 07:14:13 +0000

Will be?

I've seen four startups make bank on precicely that.

New comment by indrora in "Retiring GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and OpenAI o4-mini in ChatGPT"

indrora — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 07:13:34 +0000

Best I can do is [1] Sentient Lesbian Em-Dashes and [2] An AI hallucination made real for now.

The man's probably thinking something up though. "Pounded in the butt by Microslop Agentic Studio 2026" has a ring.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Sentient-Lesbian-Em-Dash-Punctuation-... [2] https://www.amazon.com/Last-Algorithm-Pounded-Claimed-Sun-Ti...

New comment by indrora in "STFU"

indrora — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 22:28:20 +0000

A friend of mine works AV at shows that have rotating DJs and one of the things she has on her mixer board is "The Suck Button."

It causes a mic at the other end of the room to get cut into the DJ's live feed monitor with a semitone shift down and some reverb. This causes all sorts of inner-ear chaos and usually clears a DJ off the stage when they're over time within a few minutes at most -- usually under 30 seconds. One time they were trying to figure out why it wasn't working and discovered that the DJ had muted their monitor feed, which explained why they were not only peaking the meters but over time: They hadn't heard the FOUR warnings from the back of house that it was time to wrap up.

New comment by indrora in "AI generated music barred from Bandcamp"

indrora — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 22:38:26 +0000

Better Plex than plex for music built by people who know what they're doing that uses a common API among different servers and clients, including ones that glue to Sonos, etc.

New comment by indrora in "AI generated music barred from Bandcamp"

indrora — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 22:37:40 +0000

oh my god thank you for showing me that

I had been using a combination of aria2 and a link scraper plugin for years to download bulk out of bandcamp because of how fast their API will time out.