Hacker News: j0hnyl

New comment by j0hnyl in "GitHub Copilot is now available for free"

j0hnyl — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 19:48:48 +0000

I need to try it again. When I tried it I found it was kind of overblown and went back to copilot. I also wasn't sure whether to maintain two IDEs - Cursor for scaffolding new projects, and VScode for daily driving.

New comment by j0hnyl in "Show HN: SmartHome – An Adventure Game"

j0hnyl — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 01:40:41 +0000

He has had this theme in multiple works, the idea of paying your door to open was so on point. I think of it all the time when I see things like auto makers charging subscription fees for remote start, etc.

New comment by j0hnyl in "Show HN: SmartHome – An Adventure Game"

j0hnyl — Sun, 15 Dec 2024 18:03:24 +0000

I had the pleasure of trying this out before it was released. I think it's one of those things I can imagine might have a high bounce rate, but I would really like to encourage anyone checking it out to really give it at least 10-15 minutes. There are so many details and easter eggs and the frustration that's baked into the game design compounds quite nicely given some time.

EDIT: it's also more rewarding if you delay looking under the hood for a while.

New comment by j0hnyl in "Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell"

j0hnyl — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 15:33:21 +0000

Your GPU infra is a local server?

New comment by j0hnyl in "Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell"

j0hnyl — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 15:30:50 +0000

How did you go from "I built my own" to making your first few sales?

New comment by j0hnyl in "QwQ: Alibaba's O1-like reasoning LLM"

j0hnyl — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 16:15:28 +0000

How many tokens per second?

New comment by j0hnyl in "SSH Artwork"

j0hnyl — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 16:12:05 +0000

You can always artify the qr code.

New comment by j0hnyl in "Backdoor attempt on Exolabs GitHub repo through an innocent looking PR"

j0hnyl — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 23:53:30 +0000

When I saw the screenshot I almost laughed out loud at the thought that anyone would say this is innocent looking.

New comment by j0hnyl in "FDA proposes ending use of oral phenylephrine as OTC nasal decongestant"

j0hnyl — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 18:46:31 +0000

Maybe you're feeling relief from the other ingredients like if there's also an inflammatory or caffeine, etc. bundled with the pill.

New comment by j0hnyl in "ChatGPT now on chat.com"

j0hnyl — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 19:39:26 +0000

Are you suggesting that chatgpt is as popular as it is because it's propped up by google in the serps?

New comment by j0hnyl in "Using Ghidra and Python to reverse engineer Ecco the Dolphin"

j0hnyl — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 17:09:37 +0000

--- By analyzing a memory snapshot from the flycast emulator, I found that the buffer at 8cfffb34 holds the visible portion of the initials you type in. But if you keep typing, the characters you put in before get pushed into the buffer at 8c3abf18.

After loading the memory snapshot into Ghidra, I found that the function at 8c0334d8 reads this buffer. It performs a transformation on the buffer and then checks whether the transformed value is a list of six special ones. ---

How?

New comment by j0hnyl in "Using Ghidra and Python to Reverse Engineer Ecco the Dolphin (Dreamcast)"

j0hnyl — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 16:39:21 +0000

I wish there was more detail on "how" this was done as opposed to just the "what"

New comment by j0hnyl in "Trump wins presidency for second time"

j0hnyl — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 19:58:24 +0000

You're probably right, but I think the popular vote stats tell a more realistic story of how the population actually sees things.

New comment by j0hnyl in "Trump wins presidency for second time"

j0hnyl — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 18:27:28 +0000

Trump is at 71.8 million votes compared to Harris at 66.9 million votes according to AP. That's somewhere between 7% and 8%

New comment by j0hnyl in "Trump wins presidency for second time"

j0hnyl — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 16:58:52 +0000

How is ~8% (eyeballing) of the popular vote a narrow majority in politics? It's a pretty substantial majority. Apathetic non-voters don't really count because they don't care.

New comment by j0hnyl in "Trump wins presidency for second time"

j0hnyl — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 13:20:42 +0000

They do have an instantaneous effect. The unemployment rate is toggled using interest rates and the impact is seen immediately.

New comment by j0hnyl in "Hacking 700M Electronic Arts accounts"

j0hnyl — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 17:56:56 +0000

There is even more here:

https://pentester.land/writeups/

It gets updated every few weeks/months.

New comment by j0hnyl in "ChatGPT Search"

j0hnyl — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 15:56:56 +0000

I think the promise of search was to be able to do confidence-ranked "grep" on the internet. Unfortunately we departed from this, but it's what I desperately want.

New comment by j0hnyl in "Ask HN: Is patio11's salary negotiation guide relevant in today's market?"

j0hnyl — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 13:01:01 +0000

I'm not sure how this works in practice. This means that timing of the offers needs to align pretty closely. How long will a company let you sit on an offer before they move on? I've only ever interviewed or worked at companies that are at most a few hundred people. When I get an offer, I'm pressured for an answer within days. Once or twice I've been able to stretch that to like 2-3 weeks.

New comment by j0hnyl in "Ask HN: Is patio11's salary negotiation guide relevant in today's market?"

j0hnyl — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 12:59:02 +0000

Strange, I've never had a company not go up from their initial offer. It's almost like it's baked in.