Hacker News: jamesy0ung

Leaving AI to Code 24/7 Doesn't Work

jamesy0ung — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 06:20:56 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/victortaelin/status/2027214947193679932

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47177181

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

New comment by jamesy0ung in "27-year-old Apple iBooks can connect to Wi-Fi and download official updates"

jamesy0ung — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 03:29:16 +0000

Apple’s EFI embeds an older version of wpa supplicant, possibly you are trying to connect to a network with a newer encryption standard like WPA3. I don’t that’s too unreasonable for a 15 year old computer

Phison CEO: Consumer electronics firms may fail by 2026 over AI memory crisis

jamesy0ung — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:55:00 +0000

Article URL: https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/memory/many-consumer-electronics-manufacturers-will-go-bankrupt-or-exit-product-lines-by-the-end-of-2026-due-to-the-ai-memory-crisis-phison-ceo-reportedly-says/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47055616

Points: 22

# Comments: 2

New comment by jamesy0ung in "We X-Rayed a Suspicious FTDI USB Cable"

jamesy0ung — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 20:51:31 +0000

I doubt you are going to fit a chip fast enough to snoop Thunderbolt traffic inside of a usb-c plug

New comment by jamesy0ung in "Hands-On with Two Apple Network Server Prototype ROMs"

jamesy0ung — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 20:45:24 +0000

Possibly off-topic, but for people that play with old UNIX operating systems, what do you run on the OS?

New comment by jamesy0ung in "I'll pass on your zoom call"

jamesy0ung — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 03:52:15 +0000

Yeah I have to use Zoom for work, but I wrote a little script that installs it without the background services and privileged helper tools

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jamesy0ung/zoom_grabber/re...

New comment by jamesy0ung in "Can you slim macOS down?"

jamesy0ung — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 22:30:52 +0000

> Why is Safari allowed to send me notifications begging the user to boot it up and try the new features?

For what it's worth I've been using macOS (and OS X) for 14 years, and you only get the notification once after a fresh install and you can click close and it's gone forever, sure Linux is better on this front, but I don't want to spend my whole life tinkering my os until it works. It's still a hell of a lot better than Microsoft consistently shoving Edge down your throat.

Leveraging Artificial Intelligence for Automated Reverse Engineering of Software

jamesy0ung — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 04:23:16 +0000

Article URL: https://zenodo.org/records/17196870

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45446298

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by jamesy0ung in "The SD Association has an official SD card format utility [Win/OS X/Linux]"

jamesy0ung — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 02:42:12 +0000

Amazing timing - I had it up in ghidra and stumbled on this comment through google!

New comment by jamesy0ung in "QEMU 10.1.0"

jamesy0ung — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 11:23:42 +0000

Yeah I also found myself curious as to how KVM actually works, I found these helpful

https://www.kernel.org/doc/ols/2007/ols2007v1-pages-225-230.... http://www.haifux.org/lectures/312/High-Level%20Introduction... https://zserge.com/posts/kvm/

New comment by jamesy0ung in "Raspberry Pi 5 Gets a MicroSD Express Hat"

jamesy0ung — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 23:10:43 +0000

Raspbian works perfectly fine. Most of those other operating systems don’t really have the best GPIO support which is where Raspberry Pi shines. I’d just get a cheap mini pc if I wanted to run something else.

New comment by jamesy0ung in "Let's Upgrade a 2010 iMac – The Retro Millennial"

jamesy0ung — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 22:28:43 +0000

I would not be relying on High Sierra, it's very out of date and probably has heaps of unpatched security flaws.

Face age and ID checks? Using the internet in Australia is about to change

jamesy0ung — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 05:11:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/20/face-age-and-id-checks-using-the-internet-in-australia-is-about-to-fundamentally-change

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44622166

Points: 9

# Comments: 6

New comment by jamesy0ung in "USB-C hubs and my slow descent into madness (2021)"

jamesy0ung — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 05:47:19 +0000

The charger included with the original Nintendo Switch charges my MacBook Pro at 40 watts.

New comment by jamesy0ung in "Young graduates are facing an employment crisis"

jamesy0ung — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 23:49:06 +0000

As an Aussie computer science student, I do wonder what they are actually looking for. I know full well that uni isn’t teaching anything useful (heck my uni doesn’t even allow compsci students to take C programming) so I try and extend my knowledge by working on projects in my own time. Recently I’ve been getting into reverse engineering, before that I was writing my own shell from scratch in C. Is this good stuff to do job-wise?

Get Android source

jamesy0ung — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 09:17:45 +0000

Article URL: https://source.android.com/opensourcerequest

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44308122

Points: 13

# Comments: 0

New comment by jamesy0ung in "My Mac contacted 63 different Apple owned domains in an hour, while not is use"

jamesy0ung — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 12:47:36 +0000

Apple is nowhere near as evil as Microsoft, so I’m willing to put up with it.

New comment by jamesy0ung in "Apple announces Foundation Models and Containerization frameworks, etc"

jamesy0ung — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 05:04:53 +0000

Just let me have JIT! My jailbroken iPad Pro can emulate Wii at 4k without getting warm. Unfortunately you have to hack around enabling JIT on newer ios releases.

New comment by jamesy0ung in "OpenPOWER Foundation – Open-Source / Open Hardware PowerPC CPU ISA"

jamesy0ung — Tue, 27 May 2025 11:42:08 +0000

What exactly is the selling point of the Power ISA? Why would I want to use it over RISC-V?

New comment by jamesy0ung in "Drawing power out of CCS port"

jamesy0ung — Mon, 26 May 2025 03:52:50 +0000

This is the type of content I come to HN for. Thanks for the insights.