Hacker News: nticompass

New comment by nticompass in "A €0.01 bank transfer could compromise a banking AI agent"

nticompass — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:20:46 +0000

> There is no single control that solves indirect prompt injection

There is, actually. It's called removing the AI agent. Done.

New comment by nticompass in "Making Graphics Like it's 1993"

nticompass — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 12:00:26 +0000

I respect the amount of work that goes into projects like this; I can't wait to be able to play it.

New comment by nticompass in "Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot"

nticompass — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:20:52 +0000

I learned about this site from the TV show "Going Deep with David Rees" (episode 2)! I recommend that show if you haven't seen it.

New comment by nticompass in "HP re-releases classic computer science calculator: The HP-16C"

nticompass — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 12:19:25 +0000

I found an HP-12c at Savers for like $2 about 2 years ago! It's a "financial calculator" and I don't really know how to use it :-)

New comment by nticompass in "Evolving Webflow for the Agentic Web"

nticompass — Thu, 28 May 2026 17:14:37 +0000

Maybe it's just me, but I hate the word "agentic" so much.

New comment by nticompass in "Spotify CEO defends AI music, wants you to stop calling it 'slop'"

nticompass — Thu, 28 May 2026 17:07:02 +0000

Sorry Spotify, but if it's AI-generated then by [my] definition it's "slop." We - or at least I - don't want AI music, we don't care about your AI. I'm just so tired of hearing about AI and new AI stuff.

Also, one of my friends uses Suno to make "music" and put it on YouTube, and I just don't have the heart to tell him it's "slop" and I've never/won't listen to it.

New comment by nticompass in "Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore"

nticompass — Tue, 26 May 2026 12:30:25 +0000

I meant in general.

For whatever reason, I forgot that Go uses a gopher as its mascot. But like, their PHP books don't use an elephant.

I dunno, I was just curious if the author could pick an animal to be on the cover, or if it wasn't their choice.

New comment by nticompass in "Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore"

nticompass — Tue, 26 May 2026 12:12:51 +0000

I have a small collection of programming/technology books, some from O'Reilly, others from Manning and No Starch Press. I've read them and they have been very helpful, but I will admit that I been buying less books. They take up space, and my shelves are full of these and other books like novels and manga.

Also, now when I am trying to learn a language, I just work on a project and search in the docs (or just on Kagi) to find what I am trying to do. Maybe a physical book would be a quicker reference, and maybe I should buy some more of them.

P.S. I enjoy finding old computer books (like DOS/Win95 era) at the thrift store.

New comment by nticompass in "Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore"

nticompass — Tue, 26 May 2026 12:05:40 +0000

This has nothing to do with the article posted or anything, I was just curious... who gets to pick the animal on the book cover? Do you (the author) get to pick, or does the publisher (O'Reilly) pick?

New comment by nticompass in "We're testing new ad formats in Search and expanding our Direct Offers pilot"

nticompass — Thu, 21 May 2026 14:14:59 +0000

Are we still talking about ads?

New comment by nticompass in "Photo GIMP – A Patch for GIMP 3 for Photoshop Users"

nticompass — Tue, 19 May 2026 11:56:30 +0000

That's actually what I thought this submission was. Didn't remember what it was called, so I didn't realize PhotoGIMP wasn't GIMPshop.

New comment by nticompass in "Reverse engineering Android malware from popular Chinese projectors"

nticompass — Mon, 18 May 2026 11:58:17 +0000

Now that's just kooky! Sorry, I had to.

New comment by nticompass in "Hackers breach JDownloader's website to serve malware-laced downloads"

nticompass — Fri, 08 May 2026 14:59:31 +0000

I guess it's been a while since I used those type of sites. I admit that I used to, and I do remember those sites like megaupload or whatever that had a timer.

New comment by nticompass in "Hackers breach JDownloader's website to serve malware-laced downloads"

nticompass — Fri, 08 May 2026 14:57:54 +0000

Fair enough. I do remember using those sites back in the day, and the `.rar.000`, `.rar.001` file lists (or was it `.part1.rar`, `.part2.rar`?). I guess I haven't visited or thought about those sites in a while.

New comment by nticompass in "Hackers breach JDownloader's website to serve malware-laced downloads"

nticompass — Fri, 08 May 2026 14:38:20 +0000

I remember using download managers back in the day, and by "back in the day" I mean dial-up (and maybe early DSL). I liked being able to pause downloads and possibly split them up using multiple connections.

Nowadays, are download managers even needed anymore? At least for me, the internet is fast enough that I don't need a separate download manager, plus browsers support the pausing (and maybe multiple connections?) feature already.

I'm just curious why someone would need to use JDownloader.

EDIT: I hadn't thought about "warez" sites in a while and sites like megaupload where you had to wait for a timer. Those are totally "valid" uses for a downloader like this, thanks.

New comment by nticompass in "Show HN: Hallucinopedia"

nticompass — Thu, 07 May 2026 19:39:25 +0000

https://www.halupedia.com/blink-182

> Blink 182 is a species of subterranean fungus that exhibits a peculiar, rhythmic photoluminescence.

Sounds right to me.

New comment by nticompass in "Ted Turner has died"

nticompass — Thu, 07 May 2026 11:20:25 +0000

Last night on AEW Dynamite [1], Tony Schiavone and Sting had some very nice things to say about Ted Turner. I didn't know he'd died until then. They both talked about how Ted started WCW and how he defended pro wrestling when certain execs wanted to cancel it.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bXSILHvWe0

New comment by nticompass in "Setting up a Sun Ray server on OpenIndiana Hipster 2025.10"

nticompass — Wed, 06 May 2026 16:10:19 +0000

When I saw "Sun Ray", the first thing to come to my mind was clabretro :)

New comment by nticompass in "Auto Polo"

nticompass — Fri, 01 May 2026 19:36:56 +0000

Can someone add this as a new game mode in Rocket League?

New comment by nticompass in "Running Adobe's 1991 PostScript Interpreter in the Browser"

nticompass — Fri, 01 May 2026 17:03:15 +0000

I didn't have a PostScript file, so I had to find one. I downloaded the test files from here: http://users.fred.net/tds/lab/postscript.html

Minus the colors, they worked and look pretty good.