Hacker News: nopakos

New comment by nopakos in "Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production"

nopakos — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 08:04:09 +0000

Nokia was the leader by profit until they weren't. They even experimented with hydrogen powered phones!

New comment by nopakos in "Shutting the Door on the XCPE Botnet"

nopakos — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 06:15:46 +0000

Videostrong had installed backdoors to millions of it's Android devices using them for ad-fraud, residential proxy networks, malware spreading etc.

Shutting the Door on the XCPE Botnet

nopakos — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 06:11:06 +0000

Article URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/shutting-the-door-on-the-xcpe-botnet

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50348649

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by nopakos in "Grim Fandango Puzzle Document (1996) [pdf]"

nopakos — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 20:09:10 +0000

My 8 year old, improved his English skills a lot from playing Spy Fox. It's a series of funny point and click adventure games from Ron Gilbert's (of Monkey Island fame) company after leaving Lucasfilm.

New comment by nopakos in "Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model"

nopakos — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 18:09:40 +0000

People where mocking EU for regulations and now this is happening in the US. I know that Europe is behind in AI but still...

New comment by nopakos in "The Simpsons Hit and Run Running in the Browser"

nopakos — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 16:30:34 +0000

Previous (Show HN) post with some wasm porting process information: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47783061

The Simpsons Hit and Run Running in the Browser

nopakos — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 16:30:34 +0000

Article URL: https://shar-wasm.cjoseph.workers.dev/?skipmovie

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48675831

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by nopakos in "Apple's weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness"

nopakos — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 17:59:30 +0000

Network permissions could be used to avoid ads on Android. The horror!

Playing Atari music on Amiga for free

nopakos — Fri, 15 May 2026 18:13:40 +0000

Article URL: https://arnaud-carre.github.io/2026-05-15-ym-fast-emu/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48151889

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by nopakos in "Generating a color spectrum for an image"

nopakos — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 06:41:30 +0000

Iteration 7 would be interesting as a video (for a video).

New comment by nopakos in "A truck driver spent 20 years making a scale model of every building in NYC"

nopakos — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 07:53:42 +0000

Artist who spent 20 years making a scale model of every building in NYC, makes a living as a truck driver.

New comment by nopakos in "Migrating to the EU"

nopakos — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 13:03:27 +0000

One concern is that if an EU company becomes very successful, it could easily be acquired by a large U.S. corporation.

New comment by nopakos in "Hide macOS Tahoe's Menu Icons"

nopakos — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 06:56:20 +0000

So it should be an accessibility setting. I don't mind if the default is on or off.

ZX Spectrum Basic controls a lunar lander in Kerbal Space Program [video]

nopakos — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 20:34:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQTh1Davsj8

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47471011

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Delphi 13.1 Released, with ARM64 support

nopakos — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 11:45:20 +0000

Article URL: https://blogs.embarcadero.com/announcing-the-availability-of-rad-studio-13-florence-update-1/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47453261

Points: 61

# Comments: 37

New comment by nopakos in "Roger Ebert Reviews "The Shawshank Redemption" (1999)"

nopakos — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 10:02:02 +0000

In Greece it was released as "Τελευταία έξοδος: Ρίτα Χέιγουορθ" literally "Last Exit: Rita Hayworth". People were saying, jokingly, that the title was a spoiler.

New comment by nopakos in "Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle"

nopakos — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 06:55:11 +0000

Hey, fellow civil-engineering-software designer here! [https://www.anadelta.com/en/anadelta-tessera/] Same story, same problems with dongles, perpetual & subscription licenses.

Robert Moreno and the use of ChatGPT that defined his time at Sochi

nopakos — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 12:57:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.beinsports.com/en-us/soccer/articles/robert-moreno-and-the-use-of-chatgpt-that-defined-his-time-at-sochi-2026-01-24

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46765085

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by nopakos in "'Fuck You, Make Me' Without Saying the Words"

nopakos — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 06:50:04 +0000

It's another sign that -by some measure- "America has crossed the line into competitive authoritarianism". There was this opinion piece some months ago in the New York Times by Steven Levitsky, Lucan Way and Daniel Ziblatt which I recalled when I read this. [https://archive.is/WZMpM]

'Fuck You, Make Me' Without Saying the Words

nopakos — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 06:00:45 +0000

Article URL: https://daringfireball.net/2026/01/fuck_you_make_me_without_saying_the_words

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46573068

Points: 14

# Comments: 24