Hacker News: kencausey

New comment by kencausey in "Ask HN: Why is Ask HN only showing me 14 posts?"

kencausey — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 21:45:59 +0000

I don't regularly check Ask HN so I'm uncertain that more should be listed, although I would expect so. But assuming you haven't, the correct place to contact is hn@ycombinator.com which can be found at the contact link at the bottom of the page.

New comment by kencausey in "The Early History of Smalltalk (1993)"

kencausey — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 20:34:08 +0000

s/Similar/Simula/

Cosmopolitan Libc Project Abandoned?

kencausey — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 17:51:29 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/discussions/1523

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49968070

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by kencausey in "uBlock Origin Lite is back on Firefox add-ons"

kencausey — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 17:15:22 +0000

I have to wonder what is the appeal of the lite version over the OG on Firefox. I had previously assumed that the lite version only existed for browsers that blocked the functionality of the full version. Meanwhile, I'm still running uMatrix in Firefox.

New comment by kencausey in "Borland Turbo Basic"

kencausey — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 16:07:46 +0000

I found 1.0, a German release, and German Turbo Toolbox here:

https://archive.org/details/000376-BorlandTurboBasic10>

https://archive.org/details/BorlandTurboBasic1.0German

https://archive.org/details/turbotoolbox

In the time I was willing to spend, I did not see a 1.1 release.

New comment by kencausey in "Limited Liability In Historical Perspective (1997) [pdf]"

kencausey — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 04:56:21 +0000

I suspect that this is the original source: https://scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?art... (PDF)

What Does This Assembly Code Do?

kencausey — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 19:48:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.pagetable.com/301

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49792395

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Apple Copland D11E4 booting in your Browser

kencausey — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:18:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.pagetable.com/?p=1874

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49727434

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by kencausey in "Thanks FedEx, This Is Why We Keep Getting Phished (2024)"

kencausey — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 22:37:51 +0000

As far as I am able to find Google does not provide an RDAP server for gle either.

New comment by kencausey in "Thanks FedEx, This Is Why We Keep Getting Phished (2024)"

kencausey — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 21:41:43 +0000

In a recent example my step-mother, who is constantly getting cloud storage full scam emails, received an email from Google about 75% full storage that appears to be fully valid. However all the links use a domain c.gle and whois c.gle errors with "getaddrinfo(whois.nic.gle): Name or service not known". whois gle however does work. I was not sure of the validity of c.gle myself, my step-mother would have no idea.

New comment by kencausey in "A requiem for Intel's Optane, which could have eased the RAM price crunch"

kencausey — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 16:17:06 +0000

Original title: _A requiem for Optane, Intel's KV cache killer that could have eased the RAM price crunch_

I had to trim it to fit.

A requiem for Intel's Optane, which could have eased the RAM price crunch

kencausey — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 16:17:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/storage/2026/07/29/a-requiem-for-optane-intels-kv-cache-killer-that-could-have-eased-the-ram-price-crunch/5280063

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49099447

Points: 9

# Comments: 1

New comment by kencausey in "The Cipher Behind QSYRUPWD: Reconstructing IBM i Password Hashes"

kencausey — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 21:38:14 +0000

Link stolen from calvin on lobste.rs. <https://lobste.rs/s/2dc0gb/cipher_behind_qsyrupwd_reconstruc...>

The Cipher Behind QSYRUPWD: Reconstructing IBM i Password Hashes

kencausey — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 21:38:14 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.silentsignal.eu/2026/07/28/the-cipher-behind-qsyrupwd-reconstructing-ibm-i-password-hashes/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49090268

Points: 16

# Comments: 9

New comment by kencausey in "A better way to tie your gym shorts. (Or any drawstring) [video]"

kencausey — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 13:45:09 +0000

I favor a technique I was taught by a nursing student almost 30 years ago. You basically use the usual technique but each time the lace crosses another do it one extra time.

So first you wrap one lace around the other and pull it tight, well before you pull it tight wrap it around one more time. This helps hold the laces tight for the next step where you fold the laces and wrap them around each other. Do that a second time as well before you pull it fully tight.

Without video or illustration I suspect this is not easy to follow. Oh well.

New comment by kencausey in "The Baffling World of Masayoshi Son's Presentations (2020)"

kencausey — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 07:09:10 +0000

(2020)

New comment by kencausey in "Building a UMatrix Replacement"

kencausey — Fri, 15 May 2026 23:55:19 +0000

Yes, I still use it and can confirm that I have had no concerns or problems with it. On the other hand, if I had to reinstall, without research, I'm not sure how I would reinstall it. Having alternatives is a good thing.

New comment by kencausey in "Int a = 5; a = a++ + ++a; a =? (2011)"

kencausey — Thu, 14 May 2026 21:19:56 +0000

https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/gawk.html#index-pre...

"When side effects happen is implementation-defined. In other words, it is up to the particular version of awk."

Manuals Plus: The Wrap-Up

kencausey — Mon, 11 May 2026 21:05:25 +0000

Article URL: https://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/5833

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48100672

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

Learn Something Old Every Day, Part XXI: VGA Memory Access Is Complicated

kencausey — Sat, 09 May 2026 03:29:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.os2museum.com/wp/learn-something-old-every-day-part-xxi-vga-memory-access-is-complicated/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48071548

Points: 3

# Comments: 0