Hacker News: joe_guy

New comment by joe_guy in "GOG's new owner can't stand Windows either: 'It's such poor-quality software '"

joe_guy — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 21:49:18 +0000

> would you like to purchase an Office 365 subscription? No? Okay I'll ask again tomorrow),

Ironic, given their website showed me two unrequested popups.

New comment by joe_guy in "Carrier Landing in Top Gun for the NES"

joe_guy — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 16:51:37 +0000

There was also that water level in TMNT https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PHiFNWJXWgI

New comment by joe_guy in "Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled"

joe_guy — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 03:06:10 +0000

And auto repeat, sadly.

New comment by joe_guy in "Never write your own date parsing library"

joe_guy — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 20:48:22 +0000

To that point: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20030822-00/?p=42...

New comment by joe_guy in "Mistakes Microsoft made in the Xbox security system (2005)"

joe_guy — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 13:59:07 +0000

What you're thinking of on the Nintendo switch is a recovery mode. Every (most?) modern systems have something like this. It's a lower level area that allows you to fix issues in the higher level areas, even when that's broken (ie, a failed system update). Your iPhone, android, and smart TV all have this.

That being accessible wasn't the mistake. It was all properly secured. It rejected your commands and everything has to be signed by Nintendo's private key. But Nvidia firmware had a buffer overflow bug inside of it that allowed arbitrary code execution.

More details: https://blog.gistre.epita.fr/posts/victor-emmanuel.provost-2...

Bunny, the person who originally hacked the Xbox also wrote a great book on the subject they've since made free: https://bunniefoo.com/nostarch/HackingTheXbox_Free.pdf

If you enjoyed that book they have written others.

New comment by joe_guy in "Making Explainable Minesweeper"

joe_guy — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 15:32:24 +0000

You might be thinking of Tametsi. If not, it's a fantastic game to checkout.

New comment by joe_guy in "Introducing tmux-rs"

joe_guy — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 15:52:00 +0000

tmux runs fine in WSL1/2

New comment by joe_guy in "US Supreme Court Upholds Texas Porn ID Law"

joe_guy — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 16:32:23 +0000

I am not a lawyer and am not behind a PC atm, but didn't Rowan v. USPS determine that the receiver of mail has sole discretion about if the material they received is pornographic or not?

A more limited context of course.

New comment by joe_guy in "Second study finds Uber used opaque algorithm to dramatically boost profits"

joe_guy — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 15:45:30 +0000

I wouldn't assume this is how it works. But it could know your time zone changes and assume departure/arrival times based on it not being able to ping a server, then link this between possible airports based on time zones then possible flights based on the times.

But I suspect the false positives on this would be huge and if you felt so compelled could easily test while at your desk.

New comment by joe_guy in "Rise in 'alert fatigue' risks phone users disabling news notifications"

joe_guy — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 16:01:37 +0000

This is built into Android. A program like Discord has very granular controls over each type (DM, server event, stage event, etc) of notification as well as controls for each source (You can set a specific users DMs to be priority messages, silenced, show/hide from lock screen, etc).

A program like Uber Eats has a bit less benefit to allowing such controls over what they send you. While they do still break down messages by type, their descriptions are a bit cryptic and after getting an unsolicited notification from it, I ended up disabling all of them.

New comment by joe_guy in "GPS Needs to Toughen Up, or Get Trampled Down"

joe_guy — Wed, 21 May 2025 15:43:05 +0000

> Newspapers are publishing AI hallucinated news

Is there an example of a reputable (subjective, sure) news source having done this?

New comment by joe_guy in "Trump exempts phones, computers, chips from ‘reciprocal’ tariffs"

joe_guy — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 15:45:46 +0000

You're likely seeing the effect of timezones.

It was announced at 11pm and American news companies didn't feel it urgent enough to report before their usual morning weekend staff's shift.

New comment by joe_guy in "Chat is a bad UI pattern for development tools"

joe_guy — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 16:58:11 +0000

There has recently been a pretty large UI inclusion for midjourney directly inside Discord which has the option of being used instead of the text input.

As is often the case in these sorts of thingsz your milage may vary for the more complex settings.

New comment by joe_guy in "Higher potassium intake at dinner linked to fewer sleep disturbances – study"

joe_guy — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 23:09:20 +0000

Thank you for this information. I'll either switch to a better brand or go straight magnesium.

New comment by joe_guy in "Higher potassium intake at dinner linked to fewer sleep disturbances – study"

joe_guy — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 18:40:25 +0000

Not OP but I've had luck with zinc and magnesium aspartate supplements commonly available on Amazon. I take two caps that each are a net about 500mg an hour before bed, along with 1mg of melatonin.

Been doing this for a lot of years now.

New comment by joe_guy in "Should you do a newspaper workout?"

joe_guy — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 17:41:54 +0000

(2013)

New comment by joe_guy in "Insurers rely on doctors whose judgments have been criticized by courts"

joe_guy — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 17:17:25 +0000

This goes back to what a parent commenter said

> I suspect because nobody can agree on what the new replacement system should look like.

New comment by joe_guy in "Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day"

joe_guy — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 17:41:15 +0000

2014

New comment by joe_guy in "Walmart Just Announced a Brand-New Way to Track Customers, & It All Starts Today"

joe_guy — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 01:33:26 +0000

They mention the old question of "Should commercial activity even be allowed online?"

Ironically, not long after, they had a video ad that locked to the viewport as you scrolled. It made the content less than 50% of what you could see.

I did not continue to read.

New comment by joe_guy in "Resume Tip: Hacking "AI" screening of resumes"

joe_guy — Tue, 28 May 2024 01:21:21 +0000

To further your point, what's actively developed now is called "dotnet" instead of the legacy ".net" (now ".net framework")