Hacker News: jamesnorden

New comment by jamesnorden in "Someone on Torrent Sites Kept Fucking with My Sonarr"

jamesnorden — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 11:20:19 +0000

It's complicated because there will always be multiple seedboxes seeding a torrent, which is excellent for keeping torrents alive, but then a normal user barely gets any chance to upload the torrent and maintain ratio.

New comment by jamesnorden in "Someone on Torrent Sites Kept Fucking with My Sonarr"

jamesnorden — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 10:55:20 +0000

"It even grabs your Sticky Notes for WHAT????"

People unironically put users and passwords in those.

New comment by jamesnorden in "Libreboot 26.10 "Ominous Olive" released with UEFI, Chromebook support"

jamesnorden — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 18:06:46 +0000

Well, maybe you can bring it into the future with your favorite LLM!

New comment by jamesnorden in "It took me nine years to hack my Xbox 360"

jamesnorden — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 14:34:32 +0000

If you can't interpret his post try asking an LLM.

New comment by jamesnorden in "It took me nine years to hack my Xbox 360"

jamesnorden — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 10:23:12 +0000

Why haven't you?

New comment by jamesnorden in "Firefox Enterprise"

jamesnorden — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 11:43:07 +0000

It's "The Internet Icon".

New comment by jamesnorden in "Agent erased full season of "The Challenge Swe": "Hundreds of days of work gone""

jamesnorden — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 11:25:53 +0000

It depends on which sectors have been overwritten, really.

New comment by jamesnorden in "Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 to Navanethem Pillay"

jamesnorden — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 14:37:38 +0000

You're just repeating yourself.

New comment by jamesnorden in "New gTLD Application for .lan"

jamesnorden — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 19:02:36 +0000

An update wouldn't change all the existing configurations.

New comment by jamesnorden in "Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back"

jamesnorden — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 12:55:35 +0000

So true, also unused RAM is wasted RAM!

New comment by jamesnorden in "Barcodes are about to go extinct"

jamesnorden — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 12:03:34 +0000

Fun fact: QR codes are about 80% depleted. /s

New comment by jamesnorden in "SvelteKit 3"

jamesnorden — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 10:46:14 +0000

This kind of post is basically spam.

New comment by jamesnorden in "SvelteKit 3"

jamesnorden — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 10:43:01 +0000

Is this what AI psychosis is like?

New comment by jamesnorden in "Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests"

jamesnorden — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 11:45:25 +0000

I don't know about that, political slop is sometimes manually unflagged here.

New comment by jamesnorden in "Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests"

jamesnorden — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 11:44:27 +0000

When every mod does the same it becomes the whole website.

New comment by jamesnorden in "Software occlusion culling in Block Game"

jamesnorden — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 11:43:09 +0000

unslop.news is a good tool

New comment by jamesnorden in "Grammarly will send unhinged messages to all your users if you try to cancel"

jamesnorden — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 11:29:29 +0000

The thing that didn't happen does sounds reasonable.

New comment by jamesnorden in "Disney+: New user agreement allows ads before movies in all subscriptions"

jamesnorden — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 10:51:36 +0000

They're turning streaming into regular TV again, absolute nonsense.

New comment by jamesnorden in "Ogre Battle 64 Recompiled Project at 99.05%"

jamesnorden — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 03:06:14 +0000

>They likely contain stolen or copyrighted code.

How would that be possible when it's trying to byte-match the original binaries

New comment by jamesnorden in "There's no point at which turning your brain off will work"

jamesnorden — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 18:05:56 +0000

>That’s what AI does.

Except it sometimes shows you a photo of something completely different than what you're looking at for or alters the landscape to "improve" it. Maybe that's not a good analogy.