Hacker News: retox

New comment by retox in "Liquid Glass in the Browser: Refraction with CSS and SVG"

retox — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 04:05:50 +0000

Maybe technically impressive but please don't use this on your websites, it looks like shit (the effect in general, not this specific implementation)

New comment by retox in "A statistical analysis of Rotten Tomatoes"

retox — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 00:50:16 +0000

Obvious to anyone using the site or aware of is ratings, including the author, but it is good to see some analysis as evidence.

New comment by retox in "How much do electric car batteries degrade?"

retox — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 12:20:05 +0000

Please don't do this, you aren't adding anything to the conversation

New comment by retox in "Israeli gov. official arrested in Nevada internet crimes against children sting"

retox — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 10:09:25 +0000

Our greatest ally.

New comment by retox in "AWS Restored My Account: The Human Who Made the Difference"

retox — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 00:17:25 +0000

I am banned from all Amazon sites and services for turning on 2FA.

I was getting constant fake SMS messages about a failed login attempt, turned on 2FA thinking it was a good idea, 2 minutes later banned completely for 'abuse'. My case will not be heard or reviewed.

New comment by retox in "Ofcom will force payment processors and ISPs to stop doing business with you"

retox — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 22:18:40 +0000

What has Ofcom go to do with American Republicans

New comment by retox in "Belgium bans Internet Archive's ‘Open Library’"

retox — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 21:34:47 +0000

Yeah, a communist State would never

New comment by retox in "I saved a PNG image to a bird"

retox — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 00:41:58 +0000

The longer compilation videos are because of sleeping viewers. You can cram them with as many ads as you like.

New comment by retox in "Glass: Invisible AI Desktop Assistant"

retox — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 04:47:19 +0000

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44460552

New comment by retox in "High-Severity Vulnerability in Notepad++"

retox — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 22:13:01 +0000

If the problem is in the installer then this can't be 'fixed', affected installers should be fingerprinted as malware.

New comment by retox in "Voyager: Real-Time Splatting City-Scale 3D Gaussians on Your Phone"

retox — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 02:46:28 +0000

You're probably asleep but the site is down.

>This site was suspended as it reached the limits of the Free plan

Doom on the Oldest Digital Computer in America [video]

retox — Tue, 13 May 2025 06:20:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no0CkQk7id0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43970062

Points: 4

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New comment by retox in "The overlooked masterpiece full of coded messages about World War One"

retox — Mon, 12 May 2025 22:03:22 +0000

The oil painting Death of the Dragon by Evelyn De Morgan

New comment by retox in "Show HN: I made a web-based, free alternative to Screen Studio"

retox — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 02:14:21 +0000

Does the video get stored on your server at any point in the process?

Might be worth calling that out either way.

New comment by retox in "Vit D supplementation to prevent acute resp infections: review and meta-analysis"

retox — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 23:27:06 +0000

Mushrooms. You need to leave them gill side up in the sun for a day (behind a window is fine).

New comment by retox in "CVE-2024-54471: Leaking Passwords (and More!) on macOS"

retox — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 20:54:08 +0000

>NetAuthAgent has had a bug for years where you cannot connect to an FTP server if your username contains an `@` symbol.

Basic auth and FTP had a username password schema like

ftp://username@ftpserver.address.com and even

ftp://username:password@ftpserver.address.com

New comment by retox in "Unseen photos of U2 and The Smiths released as Maxwell Hall Archive is unveiled"

retox — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 12:31:26 +0000

"hacker news"

New comment by retox in "NIH insiders reveal process stalling grants"

retox — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 22:13:49 +0000

In isolation, I would bet that people from both ends of the political spectrum could read this as about the other and be in complete agreement.

New comment by retox in "GitHub reveals how software engineers are purging federal databases"

retox — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 04:01:31 +0000

>majority of america is very dumb

This attitude is another reason he won.

New comment by retox in "I bought a container full of Chinese electric excavators. Here's what showed up"

retox — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 04:30:29 +0000

The "Here's what showed up" is unnecessary; he bought a container of Chinese electric excavators.