Hacker News: maxvu

New comment by maxvu in "Orthodox C++"

maxvu — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 16:47:33 +0000

How about one of the C unorthodoxies that use typedef everywhere? (Namespaces seem suitable, too.)

New comment by maxvu in "Don't throw away your old PC–it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy"

maxvu — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 16:46:42 +0000

Running a home server seems relatively popular for all kinds of things. Search term "homelab" brings up a culture of people who seem largely IT-adjacent, prefer retired DC equipment, experiment with network configurations as a means of professional development and insist on running everything in VMs. Search term "self-hosted", on the other hand, seems to skew towards an enterprise of saturating a Raspberry Pi's CPU with half-hearted and unmaintained Python clones of popular SaaS products. In my experience — with both hardware and software vendoring — there is a bounty of reasonable options somewhere in between the two.

New comment by maxvu in "Ocarina of Time Randomizer"

maxvu — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 22:19:37 +0000

There's another that combines Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask into one game, joined by a portal connecting the Happy Mask Shop and Clock Town. It's possible to scatter every bush and box and pot from both games across both worlds.

What I like most about it is the "Container Appearance Matches Content" option, which specifically colors every randomizable element and makes the run-throughs feel very dynamic. The last time I tried Ship of Harkanian, I was disappointed to see it missing.

https://ootmm.com/

New comment by maxvu in "Pierogi in Space"

maxvu — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 20:12:05 +0000

/r/polandball has a running gag about Poland and space.

https://www.polandballwiki.com/wiki/Poland_cannot_into_space

New comment by maxvu in "Murder is a pixel art ECS game engine in C#"

maxvu — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 18:20:05 +0000

I think ECS here is "entity-component system", a design pattern that seems related to data-oriented design.

<https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1024001/-Overwatch-Gameplay-Ar...>

New comment by maxvu in "PCSX2 is an open source PS2 Emulator"

maxvu — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 02:20:18 +0000

Did you get pressure-sensitive face buttons working? I couldn't get dog tags and lost interest.

New comment by maxvu in "LXD is now under Canonical"

maxvu — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 02:51:02 +0000

I recently transitioned on the desktop from Debian then-testing to Alpine edge. I switched for a newer kernel (4.9 to 6.1 for recent fixes to busted microcode -- little annoyances around charging and the touchpad) but I like a lot of things about it: quick install, up-to-date repos, easy-to-understand init, battery lasts longer...

New comment by maxvu in "Extracting the GameBoy ROM from photographs of the die"

maxvu — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 05:46:58 +0000

I'm guessing it's the ROM for the system. Poke various hardware bits, map the cartridge and jump to a certain address within it.

If memory serves, it also checksums the Gameboy logo-intro at the start of every game cartridge -- subjecting non-licensed game publishers to additional copyright claims.

New comment by maxvu in "Vectis IP Announces Call for Patents Essential to the Opus codec"

maxvu — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 06:44:27 +0000

I'm skeptical. The Constitution says "to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts".

New comment by maxvu in "Asset-Level Transition Risk in the Global Coal, Oil, and Gas Supply Chains"

maxvu — Sun, 03 Jul 2022 16:59:07 +0000

Reiterating from memory of his lectures on YouTube:

  - The Russians consider some nine-odd geographic boundaries of the former union to be crucial to defense (e.g. between mountains and deserts, certain ports). Without fortifying there, a lot of the Rus land area is open and hard to defend. Interestingly, Ukraine contains only one in Crimea (which they already had) but is on the way to ones in Romania, Poland, etc.
  - With the fall of the union, there was not only a baby bust but also the collapse of technical training programs. The "demographic cliff" means that not only will the army half in size but, e.g. the rail lines and electric are also in danger.
  - While Ukrainian resolve and EU unity were a surprise to even the US, he also sees a leadership failing not unlike the Chinese one - authoritarian that drives out opposition too harshly also drives out the people in the room that push back on bad ideas. FSB had intelligence that overwhelmingly, UA would accept occupation?

An older summary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkuhWA9GdCo

New comment by maxvu in "DarkSide ransomware gang quits after servers, Bitcoin stash seized"

maxvu — Fri, 14 May 2021 19:15:08 +0000

Already-mounted SMB?

New comment by maxvu in "Show HN: CS Weapons – Counter-Strike weapon data comparison app"

maxvu — Wed, 05 May 2021 20:37:08 +0000

In a very recent update, Valve's added what looks like some kind of dashboard to consume game statistics (for a small monthly fee...).

New comment by maxvu in "2020 Transparency Report"

maxvu — Thu, 25 Feb 2021 19:33:02 +0000

I don't. I think the gist of it was a YouTuber instructing probably-younger, less-experienced people to issue spammy PRs (e.g. small update to READMEs).

New comment by maxvu in "Stranger Things, JavaScript Edition"

maxvu — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 03:23:02 +0000

In the second scenario, I don't think it's the pre-increment operator that's shown but the unary-plus.

New comment by maxvu in "Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?"

maxvu — Sun, 22 Mar 2020 03:51:02 +0000

Yeah, IIUC, HAM dedicates its lower-fidelity bands to Morse.

New comment by maxvu in "‘Spiderman’ Hacker Daniel Kaye Took Down Liberia’s Internet"

maxvu — Fri, 20 Dec 2019 18:24:31 +0000

I think https://www.levels.fyi/ gives these classifications.

New comment by maxvu in "If Software Is Funded from a Public Source, Its Code Should Be Open Source"

maxvu — Mon, 04 Feb 2019 18:07:49 +0000

I think that's a poor application of tragedy of the commons.

Also, in your example, I don't know how other cities' use would impede the funding city's use.

New comment by maxvu in "Story of a failed pentest"

maxvu — Sat, 17 Nov 2018 16:33:59 +0000

He's making a joke. I thought it was clear.

New comment by maxvu in "Why Static Websites Need HTTPS"

maxvu — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 21:22:44 +0000

Cryptographic verification?

New comment by maxvu in "Developing a viable cannabis breathalyzer"

maxvu — Sun, 05 Aug 2018 23:25:56 +0000

Almost. Yes, you may still be charged. Yes, they may use the evidence of your refusal. As far as equivalence, no: the test itself is just one piece of evidence. Because refusal should ordinarily make it more difficult to prosecute DUI (for what is, comparable to the stop, a very small inconvenience), I think most states have an automatic license revocation penalty attached to it - usually around six months. Field sobriety tests (e.g. walk in a straight line), I think, are much less conclusive and do not have such requirement.

IANAL. Search for James Duane.