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New comment by nope96 in "Scorched Earth 2000 – Web"

nope96 — Thu, 14 May 2026 03:12:38 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorillas_(video_game)

New comment by nope96 in "Nintendo Switch 2 account bans continue: warning after buying old copy of Bayo 3"

nope96 — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 21:18:03 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_N

"Nickname for Nintendo"

I remember it being frequently used as far back as the 80s by Electronic Gaming Monthly

New comment by nope96 in "Google Maps now shows the 'Gulf of America'"

nope96 — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 05:27:19 +0000

I see "Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)" when zoomed in all the way. "Gulf of America" when zoomed out.

Meta Acknowledges 'Software Update Issue' Affecting Quest 2, 3 and 3S

nope96 — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 21:33:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.uploadvr.com/bricked-quest-report-christmas-2024/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42517992

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by nope96 in "Veo 2: Our video generation model"

nope96 — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 00:22:26 +0000

This is a first step towards "the holodeck". You describe a scene and it exists. Imagine you could jump in and interact with it. That seems like something that could happen in 10-20 years.

New comment by nope96 in "PEP 750: Tag Strings for Writing Domain-Specific Languages"

nope96 — Sun, 11 Aug 2024 07:46:42 +0000

Does this mean I can write a print function and be able to print"hello world" without parentheses again, like in python 2.x ?

New comment by nope96 in "Ask HN: Interesting TUIs (text user interfaces), maybe forgotten ones?"

nope96 — Mon, 06 May 2024 17:48:20 +0000

https://www.ztree.com/ a clone of the old DOS Xtree. Quite the learning curve, but very powerful.

New comment by nope96 in "Apple reports second quarter results"

nope96 — Thu, 02 May 2024 21:28:47 +0000

"Apple announced that its board had authorized $110 billion in share repurchases, a 22% increase over last year’s $90 billion authorization. It’s the largest in history, ahead of Apple’s previous repurchases, according to data from Birinyi Associates." - https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/02/apple-aapl-earnings-report-q...

New comment by nope96 in "Getting rid of bed bugs: trickier than ever"

nope96 — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 22:53:48 +0000

Does the heat treatment damage electronics? Can you leave your computers in the house while your house is baking?

New comment by nope96 in "The Dark Forest hypothesis is absurd"

nope96 — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 23:39:43 +0000

If "the singularity" is a real thing that can happen, it seems like there is an incentive for species that fear "the singularity" to preemptively wipe out any civilizations they find which seem close to achieving AGI

SEC blames 'SIM swap' attack for compromising X account ahead of ETF approval

nope96 — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 21:16:36 +0000

Article URL: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/sec-blames-sim-swap-attack-for-compromising-x-account-ahead-of-etf-approval-210036744.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39095579

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by nope96 in "High-speed 10Gbps full-mesh network based on USB4 for just $47.98"

nope96 — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 00:16:16 +0000

How good is error handling on USB 4? The rare times I've had data corruption it was almost always when transferring lots of data using USB (this happened to me on multiple drives, computers, usb ports or cables. this was in the early USB 3 days)

New comment by nope96 in "Apple's Predicament – NSPredicate Exploitation on macOS and iOS [video]"

nope96 — Mon, 01 Jan 2024 03:08:29 +0000

Video's description : "Sep 15, 2023 -- In 2021 the FORCEDENTRY sandbox escape introduced the usage of NSPredicate in an iOS exploit. This new technique allowed attackers to sidestep codesigning, ASLR, and all other mitigations to execute arbitrary code on Apple devices. As a result, Apple put in place new restrictions to make NSPredicate less powerful and less useful for exploits. This presentation will cover new research showing that these added restrictions could be completely circumvented in iOS 16, and how NSPredicates could be exploited to gain code execution in many privileged iOS processes. This technical deep dive will be a rare instance of iOS security that anyone can comprehend without years of experience."

New comment by nope96 in "Bad Apple as MS-DOS Escape Sequences"

nope96 — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 22:18:16 +0000

As a kid I always admired AVATAR ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Video_Attribute_Termi... ) and wondered why more people didn't use it for art. It was far more efficient. I'd use it wherever I could, and it would feel like my modem got a 2x speed boost. But I'd never seen any BBS software convert ANSI art into AVATAR on the fly...

Also, displaying ANSI with ANSI.SYS was completely unsafe, as there were codes to redefine keyboard input (i.e. turn F1 into Format C:)

New comment by nope96 in "Raspberry Pi 5: available now"

nope96 — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 03:46:16 +0000

The first Pi (2012 release) was $35, this release is, when inflation adjusted to 2012 dollars, $44. So in the same ballpark-ish

New comment by nope96 in "The Ur-Quan Masters: Open-source remake of Star Control II"

nope96 — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 20:34:26 +0000

I am sad because Paul Reiche III has left the project, though it seems he did write a story before leaving -- https://pistolshrimpgames.com/2023/09/uqm2-update-summer-202...

From Fred:

"Well, after 30+ years working with Paul, I would never speak for him, but he got to a point where his focus was fractured and he couldn't do justice to any of his competing interests. He stuck it out with us long enough to deliver the story/worldbuilding side and now, as always, he's trusting me and the rest of us to bring it home. Will he be able to return? Unknown. Is he still my best friend? For sure."

https://old.reddit.com/r/uqm2/comments/16h50qp/uqm2_update_s...

New comment by nope96 in "Forty years of programming"

nope96 — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 00:13:34 +0000

I've been using computers since I was a pre-teen, it wrecked both my forearms (and later, my neck) in my early 30's. There was NO WARNING, the issues just happened out of nowhere. I always thought RSI, if it happened to me, would happen gradually and I'd know to stop/rest. The neck stuff has taken a decade to heal and it's still not back to normal.

New comment by nope96 in "Play Leisure Suit Larry free in DOS running in browser"

nope96 — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 06:31:00 +0000

Al Lowe (the game's author) is still kickin'! https://twitter.com/allowe/ https://allowe.com/

New comment by nope96 in "Lenovo PC boss: 4 in 5 of our devices will be repairable by 2025"

nope96 — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 22:32:23 +0000

Re: #2 - The UEFI bloatware/rootkit checked the Windows version: if you used Windows 8 or up it used the "feature" called "Windows Platform Binary Table", but Windows 7 didn't have that, so for Windows 7 it overwrote CHKDSK.EXE with a Lenovo loader on every reboot. So, yeah, they were overwriting OS binaries on disk, not just relying on WPBT. (But no reports of binaries being overwritten on on Linux)

Can You Boil an Egg Too Long?

nope96 — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 00:02:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/09/science/randall-munroe-question-eggs.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37759202

Points: 2

# Comments: 1