Hacker News: johnnythunder

New comment by johnnythunder in "Twenty One Zero-Days in FFmpeg"

johnnythunder — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 23:11:06 +0000

One chained sandbox escape away from compromise.

New comment by johnnythunder in "Let's compile Quake like it's 1997"

johnnythunder — Fri, 29 May 2026 14:29:36 +0000

This drips of nostalgia. Quake being the first "lan party" title at college definitely makes me realize my age, but I credit this game for my interest in understanding LAN topologies, networking, latency and learning about multiplayer real-time interaction.

New comment by johnnythunder in "The Agent2Agent Protocol (A2A)"

johnnythunder — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 15:08:54 +0000

I can envision a future where we maintain a set of AI agent subscriptions that can perform tasks for us based on what we pay for, with the best models and agents costing much more that the freemium ones. This along with a heavily tweaked and customized open-source community that maintains their own non-subscription capabilities.

New comment by johnnythunder in "A memory leak in Apple's Network Extension framework"

johnnythunder — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 15:08:59 +0000

base sudo leaks at.obdev.littlesnitch.networkextension | grep "total leaked bytes" Password: Process 310 is not debuggable. Due to security restrictions, leaks can only show or save contents of readonly memory of restricted processes.

Process 310: 314990 leaks for 967643488 total leaked bytes.

Ouch!

New comment by johnnythunder in "Show HN: A tool for creating chord charts on the go"

johnnythunder — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 15:01:49 +0000

Amazing - you've got my money! and a feature request to maybe add variations to each of the chords (inversions, arps, etc) when you edit them, and maybe a player/looper to preview the sketched ideas!

New comment by johnnythunder in "Show HN: A tool for creating chord charts on the go"

johnnythunder — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 14:46:14 +0000

Before I spend the dollars for this, does it play/preview the chord for you when you tap it or long press it?

New comment by johnnythunder in "How Australia’s ‘Bluey’ conquered children’s entertainment"

johnnythunder — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 16:44:58 +0000

Also interesting is the strangeness of the theme song time signature and game that goes along with it! https://www.businessinsider.in/entertainment/news/people-are... https://eightify.app/summary/music-and-performance/decoding-...

New comment by johnnythunder in "Hundreds of birds suddenly drop from the sky [video]"

johnnythunder — Tue, 15 Feb 2022 21:21:31 +0000

This exact same thing happened in my front yard, except it was on a much smaller scale. The cause - falcon chasing the flock of birds into the house. It actually chased them several times until it finally forced several to hit the side. The falcon then proceeded to fly away with the dead and injured one at a time.

New comment by johnnythunder in "DIY Boat Monitoring System"

johnnythunder — Thu, 06 May 2021 15:48:05 +0000

Brilliant work, my initial thoughts are that it might be significantly less work to patch/seal/address the leaks in the hull than to engineer, build, install, monitor the electronics for this. Is this not the case?

New comment by johnnythunder in "Is your son a computer hacker? (2001)"

johnnythunder — Tue, 04 May 2021 15:23:58 +0000

Did he ask for one of these for his birthday? https://surplus.gov.ab.ca/OA/ItemDetail.aspx?AuctionID=31633

New comment by johnnythunder in "Rendering Moana with Swift"

johnnythunder — Thu, 14 Jan 2021 21:40:14 +0000

Does anyone know of a project to convert this to an explorable d map in a game engine? It seems that it would be possible by simplifying the model and rendering it in real-time.

New comment by johnnythunder in "XVA1 – FPGA based synthesizer updated"

johnnythunder — Tue, 15 Sep 2020 14:19:15 +0000

The latest release candidate for the XVA1 FPGA synthesizer has been released. It offers a 32 voice virtual analog synthesizer.

XVA1 – FPGA based synthesizer updated

johnnythunder — Tue, 15 Sep 2020 14:19:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.futur3soundz.com/da-blog

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24481440

Points: 2

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New comment by johnnythunder in "Linux from Scratch"

johnnythunder — Fri, 21 Aug 2020 22:02:28 +0000

Nice! I know the project maintainer and he is really methodical about everything he does. Nice work Gerard.

New comment by johnnythunder in "Hackers use an ordinary light bulb to spy on conversations 80 feet away"

johnnythunder — Mon, 15 Jun 2020 16:20:00 +0000

If you want to even further back you can look at the side channel attacks shown in person at the CanSecWest conference in 2009 - https://cansecwest.com/csw09/csw09-barisani-bianco.pdf

The most interesting part might be the frequency analysis that was done after getting the signal. It was amazing to see the words get decoded in real-time.

New comment by johnnythunder in "Show HN: RegEx for Regular Folk – A visual, example-based introduction"

johnnythunder — Fri, 01 May 2020 21:47:05 +0000

This is literally the best RegEx tutorial that I've ever gone through.