<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: nlitsme</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=nlitsme</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 14:52:32 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=nlitsme" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nlitsme in "Polymarket has flooded social media with deceptive videos by paid creators"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think when you voluntarily view ads, than you have to accept being lied to.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 11:59:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48643651</link><dc:creator>nlitsme</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48643651</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48643651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nlitsme in "I’ve built a virtual museum with nearly every operating system you can think of"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>quite a decent collection. and actual working osses.<p>one that i noticed missing: Novell Netware,  I spent several years in de 90s developing software for it. It was the main office network server software on those days.<p>3.x, 4.x ran on relatively regular 32-bit PC server hardware.
2.x ran on the 80286 in protected mode,  the only OS I know which did that.<p>Copies can be found at  archive.org.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 16:50:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48195880</link><dc:creator>nlitsme</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48195880</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48195880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nlitsme in "ATMs didn’t kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone did"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>ATMs came in the 90s, online banking in the 2000s, banks closed most of their branch offices in the 2010s i think. Gradually cash disappeared, so now you don't have ATMs either anymore. Than after covid they discovered that even the final bit of financial consultancy could be done via zoom, online.<p>Banking apps came later, long after banks had moved most interaction online.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 08:01:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47361732</link><dc:creator>nlitsme</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47361732</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47361732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nlitsme in "A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I will start making a list for linux then.<p>rm  - ok for all ages.<p>grep - 18+, you can obviously use this to search for porn.<p>find - 18+, see grep.<p>reboot - ok for all ages.<p>echo - ok for all ages.<p>cat  - 18+, prints the porn you found directly to your terminal.<p>sudo  - 18+, obviously.<p>kill - ok for all ages. This is the US, right.<p>ps   - 18+, no peeping at other processes.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 23:12:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47187277</link><dc:creator>nlitsme</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47187277</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47187277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nlitsme in "Flying with Photons: Rendering Novel Views of Propagating Light"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Well, this does the actual measurement. Measurement is how deviations from theory are discovered.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2026 18:45:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46736139</link><dc:creator>nlitsme</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46736139</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46736139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nlitsme in "Flying with Photons: Rendering Novel Views of Propagating Light"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Please define 'real'.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2026 18:44:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46736114</link><dc:creator>nlitsme</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46736114</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46736114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nlitsme in "Flying with Photons: Rendering Novel Views of Propagating Light"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is an improvement on a older technique:  <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/educationalgifs/comments/6wqwh1/light_traveling_through_a_bottle_and_visualized/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/educationalgifs/comments/6wqwh1/lig...</a><p>or see <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femto-photography" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femto-photography</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2026 15:25:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46733603</link><dc:creator>nlitsme</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46733603</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46733603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nlitsme in "The first new compass since 1936"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I am not a compass-nerd at all, and wonder: why don't we all use electronic compasses these days? Or, why use compasses at all?   easier ways of navigating have been developed.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2026 16:43:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46528630</link><dc:creator>nlitsme</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46528630</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46528630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nlitsme in "Some Epstein file redactions are being undone"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>ah, found it - this is from the 'Court Records' part.<p><a href="https://www.justice.gov/multimedia/Court" rel="nofollow">https://www.justice.gov/multimedia/Court</a> Records/Matter of the Estate of Jeffrey E. Epstein, Deceased, No. ST-21-RV-00005 (V.I. Super. Ct. 2021)/2022.03.17-1 Exhibit 1.pdf</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2025 00:39:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46371197</link><dc:creator>nlitsme</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46371197</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46371197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nlitsme in "Some Epstein file redactions are being undone"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Can you post the document numbers, I can't find where these texts are in the original pdfs.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2025 00:33:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46371160</link><dc:creator>nlitsme</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46371160</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46371160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nlitsme in "Solving Every Sudoku Puzzle (2006)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I was a bit disappointed that he did not in fact solve all billions/trillons of possible sudoku puzzles.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2025 23:22:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45870299</link><dc:creator>nlitsme</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45870299</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45870299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nlitsme in "First recording of a dying human brain shows waves similar to memory flashbacks (2022)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It is the brain uploading it's memories to the afterlife.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2025 08:34:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45797025</link><dc:creator>nlitsme</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45797025</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45797025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nlitsme in "How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Did anyone note that there is no cryptography involved in this way of extracting book contents?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2025 09:39:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45614827</link><dc:creator>nlitsme</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45614827</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45614827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nlitsme in "How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>After researching the webviewer, and finding basically the same as pixelmelt, I found someone else already made the script,<p>I've been using <a href="https://github.com/teticio/kindle2pdf" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/teticio/kindle2pdf</a> + tesseract to convert amazon books to text.<p>So that repo also disappeared.
Neither is mentioned in <a href="https://github.com/github/dmca" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/github/dmca</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2025 07:17:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45614079</link><dc:creator>nlitsme</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45614079</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45614079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nlitsme in "Signal Secure Backups"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This seems to be an unfortunate case where a feature has a misleading name.<p>You already had secure and encrypted backups on your phone, which you could copy and restore, <i>if</i> you remembered to copy them, and write down a very long password.<p>The new feature is apparently a way for signal to sell cloud services.<p>I do think cloud based backups are very useful for less technical people. But it does not really matter if your (properly encrypted) signal backup lives on a google drive/apple cloud, or on a cloud service managed by Signal.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2025 20:04:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45173241</link><dc:creator>nlitsme</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45173241</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45173241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nlitsme in "I made a floppy disk from scratch"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>there is no explanation on how to get the very fine black iron oxide powder in the video, it just appears out of nowhere.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2025 14:56:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44996443</link><dc:creator>nlitsme</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44996443</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44996443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nlitsme in "How ChatGPT spoiled my semester (2024)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think your 'group' is not communicating very well.  Just telling a groupmate 'Now I will take over your work' is not very supportive.  When  people start editing each others work out of the blue, there seems to be no healthy discussion at all.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2025 05:45:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44821006</link><dc:creator>nlitsme</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44821006</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44821006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nlitsme in "New battery has life so long you may never have to recharge"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>i don't think you can 'recharge' a nuclear battery.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2025 11:11:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44591952</link><dc:creator>nlitsme</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44591952</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44591952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nlitsme in "The hidden JTAG in a Qualcomm/Snapdragon device’s USB port"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I know it works on the quectel rm520 module</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2025 00:17:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44450259</link><dc:creator>nlitsme</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44450259</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44450259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nlitsme in "DDoSecrets publishes 410 GB of heap dumps, hacked from TeleMessage"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think this is abuse of the word 'publish'</p>
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