<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: pull_my_finger</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pull_my_finger</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 01:58:52 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=pull_my_finger" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pull_my_finger in "I won't download your app. The web version is a-ok"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Spotify arbitrarily gatekeeps even basic function like accessing your Liked songs on the PWA</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:14:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47665492</link><dc:creator>pull_my_finger</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47665492</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47665492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pull_my_finger in "GrapheneOS refuses to comply with new age verification laws for operating system"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Age checks certainly won't be restricted only to porn sites. Tons of sites have 13+ ToS like Facebook & the various other social sites, Discord too iirc. The reason people are so adamantly against this proposal is that it ties the machine to a particular identity. So how does a public computer work? If age verification is implemented at the OS level, can we even have public terminals? All those interfaces in stores that are just a website in kiosk mode? Would they be illegally representing end users if it's set as an adult on a master account/login? This proposal is so stupid and poorly thought out it's alarming.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 17:29:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47492525</link><dc:creator>pull_my_finger</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47492525</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47492525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pull_my_finger in "GrapheneOS refuses to comply with new age verification laws for operating system"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I wonder how things like computers at the library will work. This whole thing is just so stupid and intrusive. I can't imagine anyone will benefit from this except advertisers, doxxers and Big Brother.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2026 23:26:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47483444</link><dc:creator>pull_my_finger</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47483444</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47483444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pull_my_finger in "Node.js needs a virtual file system"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>When you review code, do you spend 2 minutes per line? That seems like a huge exaggeration of effort required</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:29:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47420249</link><dc:creator>pull_my_finger</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47420249</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47420249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pull_my_finger in "Illinois Introducing Operating System Account Age Bill"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It WOULD be nice if it only got used appropriately. But in 2026 its just one more metric to narrow down your profile for advertisers. Wouldn't it be convenient if you could just opt-out of tracking with a convenient API like the literal "do not track" header in browsers? It exists, but none of the people who SHOULD use it pay it any attention except as, ironically, another metric used to track people.<p>Not to mention that computing is a global thing, and in order for this to be useful it would definitely have to be providing more specific information than just a bool. Maybe chats require 13+, but pornography requires 18+. Maybe those ages are different based on location. All advertisers would need to do is ping the various different checks to get your actual or at least very approximate age.<p>This kind of thing is a slippery slope, and its ripe for abuse by doxxers, advertisers and big brother himself. Burn this with fire. I'm totally in agreement with the others that suggest stuff like this should b just get banned from getting introduced and reintroduced constantly trying to sneak it in as a rider or hidden provision. The people DON'T want it.</p>
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<p>This was my thought as well. I'm surprised people are so easy to forgive and forget<p><i>Edit:</i> a link[1] for those that aren't familiar<p>[1]: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfish#Lenovo_security_incident" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfish#Lenovo_security_inci...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 03:33:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47242707</link><dc:creator>pull_my_finger</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47242707</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47242707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pull_my_finger in "I'm reluctant to verify my identity or age for any online services"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I use Cookie AutoDelete on Firefox and it's great. It works with Firefox Container Tabs (groups have their own cookie settings), and let's you greylist (allow cookies from a particular domain pattern until the tab is closed) or whitelist (always allow from the domain pattern). I set it up for my kids computers also. The default is to blacklist (cookies aren't set), and I can whitelist for particular sites where they need say persistent login.<p>Definitely in 2026 kids should be getting tons of education in public school about how to safely browse the internet, both for personal data privacy and for safety against stalking, doxxing, grooming etc in the same way millenials were grilled about source checking internet resources like Wikipedia.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 17:42:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47235928</link><dc:creator>pull_my_finger</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47235928</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47235928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pull_my_finger in "Show HN: I'm writing an alternative to Lutris"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm curious what short-comings you found with Lutris is particular, because the examples you listed are actually not hidden from the users at all.<p>Not that there's anything wrong with tailor-made solutions or hacking for the sake of hacking, but it sounds like a fairly big undertaking and it might just be a skill-issue (no offense) if those items in particular were your only gripes.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2026 23:15:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46726356</link><dc:creator>pull_my_finger</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46726356</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46726356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pull_my_finger in "White House Insists Trump Is 'Joking' About Canceling Midterm Elections"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You can find so many parallels to Trump's presidency and the presidency of Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippines. I wish there were some in depth political analysis of the similarities because just as a layman, there are many.<p>- Both used Cambridge Analytica heavily in their elections and terms.<p>- Both appealed to very macho/misogynistic bases.<p>- Both made wildly inappropriate jokes and threats, leaving their Press Secretaries to explain it away. "Locker room" talk for Trump, and "Bisaya humor" for Duterte.<p>- Both did basically anything they wanted, basically with impunity (although Duterte is captured by ICC now iirc)<p>- Both accused of being a foreign asset. Trump->Russia, Duterte->China.<p>- Both want to rewrite/dispose of their constitutions.<p>- Both wanted to end elections or remove term limits.<p>- Duterte declared martial law, Trump wants to.<p>- Duterte did door to door searches (under guise of War on Drugs), Trump doing it under guise of Immigration enforcement.<p>There's probably more, but those are off the top of my head. If I had a tinfoil hat to wear, I would almost believe this is all still Cambridge or other big data backed planned behavior. I admitted don't know much about Project 2025, but just knowing a) they worked with big data in Cambridge, and b) there is actually goals planned that accommodate expected responses from congress etc make things highly suspicious.<p>I wish a political scientist/independent researcher would do the leg work and investigate the two presidencies, because all of it is just really scary and prophetic.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 19:14:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46650763</link><dc:creator>pull_my_finger</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46650763</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46650763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pull_my_finger in "API Clients: Bruno betrays, Yaak yaks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Say what you want about Bruno and Insomnia, but $50/year is pretty steep for the lowest tier of commercial use when there are more mature free options available.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2026 02:25:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46521775</link><dc:creator>pull_my_finger</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46521775</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46521775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pull_my_finger in "Lua 5.5"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>5.1 (by way of LuaJIT) gets a lot of use, but to suggests no one uses the modern versions is just not true. Lua being an embedded language just takes the pressure away to upgrade. It's a feature, not a bug.</p>
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<p>I don't think they <i>are</i> needed. Cheaters will always find a way to cheat, giving game developers access to low level kernel features under the guise of anti-cheat is definitely not a trade-off I'd be willing to make. If game makers can't solve a problem with mechanics or moderation, I probably would just not play the game. Most of those issues revolve around MMO things, and could be solved with private lobbies, self-hosting etc - i.e. not playing with randos on the internet.</p>
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<p>I have the same issue, very frustrating. I thought it was a firewall issue, or Android's blocking LAN connections without a VPN, but at this point I'm pretty sure it's just some KDE Connect bug.</p>
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<p>There is a program called CT-Art[1], that uses "motifs" to train tactical sight for these sorts of things. Instead of next-move type puzzles where the moves are obvious, it gives you a game position several moves out from the targeted tactic, so you learn to recognize the conditions to be able to steer the game toward the tactical position. I think in it's current iteration it's broken out into separate courses or something but the older programs (v2 or v3 that I can vouch for) were really great for improving in these kinds of areas.<p>[1]: <a href="https://chesskingtraining.com/ct-art/" rel="nofollow">https://chesskingtraining.com/ct-art/</a></p>
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<p>I know everyone hates bringing up naming conflicts, but I'm just going to say I think it's pretty lame to name a language so deeply <i>inspired</i> by another language, a name that is also insanely close to said language. Even the logo... I mean there's paying homage, then there's whatever this is.</p>
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<p>I recalled the naming from Tarantool[1], which seems to be in a competing space. Upon checking the docs, it appears their "Vinyl" offering refers to the on-disk part of Tarantool, and not the in-memory component.<p>[1]: <a href="https://www.tarantool.io/en/doc/latest/platform/engines/vinyl/" rel="nofollow">https://www.tarantool.io/en/doc/latest/platform/engines/viny...</a></p>
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<p>I like the idea of loading all apps from the "root" user profile, and pushing them to sub-user accounts, that seems natural as an administrative feature, but when you do it that way, any kind of privacy you'd have separating apps from seeing each other seems like it would be lost. I don't want apps to know what other apps on my phone, that would be part of the promise of user profiles in the first place... I'm not sure how to remedy that, but I've seen this advice in TFA and also on a youtube channel @sideofburritos, that covers GOS and security stuff, and it seems counter-productive in that sense.</p>
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<p>I'm confused by your advice, honestly. Defold is definitely not ultra-light, it's a whole ide/studio engine. If I was recommending for ease of entry, I'd 100% pick a "fantasy console" like Pico-8[1] or one of the many alternatives[2] that are free and use a different language if Lua isn't the person's thing.<p>Second, Phaser[3] actually IS regular javascript. It's the opposite of Defold that is a whole node based editor thing. Phaser is just a an API you use in a script file, that you just splonk into your html page. I don't know how much more standard JS you can get than that.<p>[1]: <a href="https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php" rel="nofollow">https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php</a><p>[2]: <a href="https://github.com/paladin-t/fantasy" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/paladin-t/fantasy</a><p>[3]: <a href="https://docs.phaser.io/phaser/getting-started/set-up-dev-environment#hello-world" rel="nofollow">https://docs.phaser.io/phaser/getting-started/set-up-dev-env...</a> (linked to the hello world example)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2025 04:07:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44948168</link><dc:creator>pull_my_finger</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44948168</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44948168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pull_my_finger in "Ask HN: What toolchains are people using for desktop app development in 2025?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Are you shipping apps bundled with LÖVE or just expecting users to obtain it and drag the files onto it? I know there are some scripts out there to produce stand-alone apps, but I wish it were more straight forward or that there were a 1st party tool that did it.</p>
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<p>I thought I'd seen this posted just 2 days ago, it looks like that post is this post and the timestamp just got updated. I know HN boosts interesting posts that slips through the gaps, but I think it should be more transparent then just updating the timestamp and presenting it as a new post.</p>
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