Hacker News: seritools

New comment by seritools in "The Road to MS-DOS 2.0"

seritools — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 12:56:04 +0000

no, Windows still leaves that to the program. Usually handled by the msvc runtime for argv/argc, but the base windows API is GetCommandLine, giving you a single string.

EDIT: https://nullprogram.com/blog/2022/02/18/

New comment by seritools in "Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full"

seritools — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 12:03:13 +0000

What's the point you're trying to make?

New comment by seritools in "uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook"

seritools — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:54:48 +0000

why not "just" do it for them?

New comment by seritools in "Tail-Call Interpreters in Rust – Jimmy Ostler"

seritools — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 15:27:33 +0000

on my screen it's the opposite: the glow makes it look like i didn't clean my glasses for a month, disabling that `text-shadow` makes it readable, and the slight scanline effect is nice

New comment by seritools in "Superoptimizer – A Look at the Smallest Program (1987) [pdf]"

seritools — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 16:41:38 +0000

(1987)

New comment by seritools in "Asymmetric Quantization: Near-Lossless Retrieval with 97% Storage Reduction"

seritools — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 14:58:01 +0000

near lossless refers to being 89.65/90.26 = 99.32% of baseline, i'm pretty sure.

New comment by seritools in "Windows 95 contained a workaround for a SimCity 2000 memory bug"

seritools — Fri, 29 May 2026 12:40:02 +0000

just look at that giant 8-line headline, insanity

New comment by seritools in "Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment"

seritools — Wed, 20 May 2026 15:51:25 +0000

then add a second r and it's suddenly piracy or torrent related!

New comment by seritools in "Make ZIP files smaller with ZIP Shrinker"

seritools — Tue, 19 May 2026 10:36:45 +0000

> This has the side effect of removing empty directories

yeah, this will inevitably break things. excluding those from the directory stripping shouldn't be too hard (TM)

New comment by seritools in "Your hex editor should color-code bytes"

seritools — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 14:13:33 +0000

as far as i can tell, no it does not. it only desaturates 00 in particular. the other colors you see in the screenshots come from matched formats/patterns. it does not do direct coloring based on byte value.

New comment by seritools in "Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux"

seritools — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:16:00 +0000

pretty sure 486 support only _just_ got disabled, and will be gone with 7.1: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Phasing-Out-i486

New comment by seritools in "Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed"

seritools — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 12:17:25 +0000

headlines often trade legibility for terseness, sometimes a bit too much though :)

EDIT: Headlinese: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headline#Headlinese

New comment by seritools in "Direct Win32 API, weird-shaped windows, and why they mostly disappeared"

seritools — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:45:45 +0000

> I miss the wobbly windows I had in Linux when we started playing with Compiz.

KDE still has them: Settings -> Window Management -> Desktop Effects -> Wobbly Windows

New comment by seritools in "Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability"

seritools — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 09:02:28 +0000

you can also just uninstall the "new" notepad, at which point Windows will let you run the old one again (which is still shipped!).

By using a version that is _that_ old you do lose out on some of the actually useful updates legacy nodepad received, such as LF line ending support.

New comment by seritools in "Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability"

seritools — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 08:46:30 +0000

You are mistaken:

> The malicious code would execute in the security context of the user who opened the Markdown file, giving the attacker the same permissions as that user.

New comment by seritools in "Rust at Scale: An Added Layer of Security for WhatsApp"

seritools — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 14:00:45 +0000

TIL I'm an AI

New comment by seritools in "Ask HN: Anyone have a good solution for modern Mac to legacy SCSI converters?"

seritools — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 18:38:13 +0000

not even opposite, as mentioned in my comment it does have Initiator Mode, allowing it to act as a host

New comment by seritools in "Ask HN: Anyone have a good solution for modern Mac to legacy SCSI converters?"

seritools — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 18:37:24 +0000

If the reason to connect them is to dump them, something like https://bluescsi.com/ in Initiator Mode might work: https://bluescsi.com/docs/Initiator-Mode

New comment by seritools in "I tried Gleam for Advent of Code"

seritools — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 18:54:18 +0000

For a quick fix: `font-variant-ligatures: none;` on body or similar.

New comment by seritools in "Microsoft makes Zork open-source"

seritools — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 18:37:27 +0000

Infocom was bought by Activision, ActivisionBlizzard was bought by Microsoft.