Hacker News: jammaloo

New comment by jammaloo in "Wax motor"

jammaloo — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 19:56:34 +0000

Perhaps you would consider adding that information? That's would be an interesting addition!

New comment by jammaloo in "Hister: A private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep"

jammaloo — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 16:51:21 +0000

A recent discussion about this tool

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49351802

New comment by jammaloo in "The Great Steam Deck Crash of 2026: How the New Pricing Decreased Demand by 80%"

jammaloo — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 13:56:00 +0000

Loss leaders only work if they can make the customer spend money to make up for that loss. Commodity hardware can't be sold as a loss leader, because companies will just buy it up at the discount, and then not use it for gaming.

An example of this was the PS3, being able to run linux. The US Air Force bought ~1700 PS3s, and built a supercomputer. At launch, the PS3 reportedly lost Sony about $300 per console sold, so that one example alone could have cost a half million dollars.

New comment by jammaloo in "Show HN: Opening lines of famous literary works"

jammaloo — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 16:56:07 +0000

"The moon blew up without warning and for no apparent reason." - Seveneves

"All this happened, more or less." - Slaughterhouse-Five

New comment by jammaloo in "Show HN: Analog Watch"

jammaloo — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:09:08 +0000

Similarly, when I moved from the UK to Canada, people often didn't understand what I meant when I said it was "half ten", which is the common way of saying ten thirty, at least where I grew up.

New comment by jammaloo in "Snowboard Kids 2 is 100% Decompiled"

jammaloo — Sat, 30 May 2026 03:08:30 +0000

What was the game?

New comment by jammaloo in "Haunted Paper Toys"

jammaloo — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:53:24 +0000

That's the chromostereopsis effect, that is caused by how our eyes refract different wavelengths of light https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udpEnJXVWEk

New comment by jammaloo in "Bubble Sorted Amen Break"

jammaloo — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 10:29:23 +0000

You said it wasn't from Synthet, but they did release a video ~2 weeks ago which talked about exactly that. Super interesting, whether it's the correct video or not!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K71XefOlJh0

New comment by jammaloo in "Moss is a pixel canvas where every brush is a tiny program"

jammaloo — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 20:15:30 +0000

Click "Editor", then click "Add a brush".

New comment by jammaloo in "Thought-Terminating Cliché"

jammaloo — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 14:03:02 +0000

That's an interesting one, because it's misused more often than not, to mean what you are suggesting.

It's actually meant to say if someone provides an exception, e.g. "No parking on Wednesdays", then that proves the existence of another rule, e.g. "Parking is allowed". Since an exception, without a rule, makes no sense.

But, in my experience, people do use it to mean "Oh, this one thing is wrong, but that proves everything else is right", which does not track.

New comment by jammaloo in "List animals until failure"

jammaloo — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 05:39:47 +0000

267, I was going pretty strong and had about 2 minutes racked up, until I hit a wall, and couldn't think of anything else. Thinking in groups helped the most, e.g. reptiles, flightless birds, african animals, etc.

Extinct animals also work, including the dinosaurs!

New comment by jammaloo in "Claude Opus 4.5"

jammaloo — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 20:24:27 +0000

Is there any chance you'd be willing to share that tool? :)

New comment by jammaloo in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)"

jammaloo — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 14:41:17 +0000

A tool that uses face-api to find the movie character you look the most like. Everything runs in browser, without any data being sent to the server.

https://movie.jammaloo.com/

New comment by jammaloo in "The Beginner's Textbook for Fully Homomorphic Encryption"

jammaloo — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 18:18:45 +0000

Moore's Law roughly states that we get a doubling of speed every 2 years.

If we're 6 orders of magnitude off, then we need to double our speed 20 times (2^20 = 1,048,576), which would give us speeds approximately in line with 40 years ago. Unless my understanding is completely off.

New comment by jammaloo in "Use Bayes rule to mechanically solve probability riddles"

jammaloo — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 13:27:38 +0000

It seems to me that it comes down to how the day of the week was picked.

If they picked a random day of the week, and there was only one boy, then there is only a 1/7 chance of a boy being born on that day.

If they have one boy, who was born on a Tuesday, and that is why they picked the day, then there is a 100% chance of a boy being born on that day, so no additional information is conferred.

New comment by jammaloo in "Show HN: I built the most over-engineered Deal With It emoji generator"

jammaloo — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 15:27:16 +0000

Hell yeah, this is great. I made a similar, but much worse, thing a while back

https://jammaloo.com/DealWithIt/

It uses face-api.js to find the face, and then move the sunglasses over it. It's about a 5 meg model, so it's pretty slow to load. You can customize with a URL, or drag and drop an image on. Resizing the browser also moves the glasses around.

Very happy to see someone take the idea way way way further!

New comment by jammaloo in "Show HN: Dimity Jones in Puzzle Castle: An Electronic Escape Novel"

jammaloo — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 15:02:43 +0000

Add the -n flag to echo

echo -n "To begin with, for example, and to make sure your SHA-256 hash function is working, the hash value or checksum of this sentence, from capital 'T' to concluding colon, expressed in hexadecimal, is:" | sha256sum

Echo is automatically adding a newline

New comment by jammaloo in "SMTP Smuggling – Spoofing Emails Worldwide"

jammaloo — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 01:37:38 +0000

Not disclosing it to postfix is the biggest issue I'm seeing people talk about. From the article they reached out to three of the biggest individual vendors, but there's no indication of them disclosing it to postfix or any of the other providers of mail server software.

In the article they even mention that postfix is affected, and show it as being the most used mail server online, by a large margin.

New comment by jammaloo in "The Horror Game of the Year Is a Doom II Mod"

jammaloo — Sat, 08 Jul 2023 12:17:40 +0000

Worth noting, that the myhouse.wad file, at least for me, does not contain the full level. You instead need to use the myhouse.pk3 file.

New comment by jammaloo in "The Docker+WASM Technical Preview"

jammaloo — Tue, 25 Oct 2022 03:38:52 +0000

As a heads up, the download links to the technical preview builds of Docker seem to be incorrect on that page https://docs.docker.com/desktop/wasm/. The Windows, Mac OS Intel and Silicon each point to https://www.docker.com/download/wasm-preview/linuxamd64deb which is the linux build.

The article linked by the OP has the correct links.