<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: shakna</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=shakna</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 22:38:03 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=shakna" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shakna in "Windows 1.0 and the WinAPI, 40 Years Later"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Dark Messiah of Might and Magic, and a lot of other early Source games will just outright crash.<p>Crysis Wars, Word '03, the Saboteur are all in a similar boat.<p>They're not address aware, meaning they overallocate at launch, and Windows handling of 32bit compatibility is dead end code that hasn't been worked on in decades. These are 64bit executables, with 32bit memory mapping inside them.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 21:03:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48532684</link><dc:creator>shakna</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48532684</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48532684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shakna in "Windows 1.0 and the WinAPI, 40 Years Later"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Some games that ran on Vista, can run under Wine, but not on Windows 11. The backwards compatibility story has changed in the last few years.</p>
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<p>Half or more of the scientific research community live and breathe Python. Granted, it's Python 3.12, as 3.13 broke most of the C API, and everything COBOL and Fortran just about ground to a halt. But new projects are spun up constantly.</p>
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<p>In countries other than the US, most regulatory bodies are outside the government for exactly that reason - to take the power away from the political elite, whilst continuing to ensure safety and reason come first.<p>The new law the US is proposing here, is the exact opposite. A kingly appointed adjudicator to decide things.</p>
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<p>Isn't NC the absolute lowest in the sensitivity system?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 08:18:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48525271</link><dc:creator>shakna</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48525271</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48525271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shakna in "ReactOS (FOSS "Windows") achieves 3D-accelerated Half-Life on real hardware"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>ClickFix which used Windows Update, and LNK that used Microsoft's signing keys, would disagree. There are still large and ongoing attacks that exploit Windows, and they are a serious problem - its just the attackers are less pointed at the everyday person, and more at corps and govs.</p>
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<p>Just to expand... When the above user is comparing to Windows, who got most of the US government breached, I do think shade against AUR is uncalled for. Its just a community host for packages, comes with warnings, and isn't enabled by default, etc.<p>I can still happily upgrade via pacman without fear. Haven't been able to update on Windows without concern for over a decade - the malware comes builtin.<p>[0] <a href="https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/2024-03/CSRB%20Review%20of%20the%20Summer%202023%20MEO%20Intrusion%20Final_508c.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/2024-03/CSRB%20Revi...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 04:13:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48524110</link><dc:creator>shakna</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48524110</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48524110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shakna in "ReactOS (FOSS "Windows") achieves 3D-accelerated Half-Life on real hardware"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>WannaCry was able to successfully run on ReactOS in 2025. Most other virsuses do tend to crash, because the memory layout is just a tiny bit different, but yeah, compatibility means compatibility. Lots of malware comes along for the ride.<p>However, there is a permissions layer that is more nix than Windows, which means the first foothold is still better than XP - you have to choose to execute the file. Self-running things don't tend to infect systems.<p>Its not a panacea, and there is a risk factor. And there aren't a lot of antivirus systems that can run correctly under ReactOS, because they freak out and think the OS is the malware, because they're scanning hashes for Windows, not another system.<p>But for a hobby OS, keeping hardware and software accessible after the rest of the world broke access, it still works.</p>
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<p>They're taking people who were skilled in product dev, employed to be product dev, and then assigning them data entry and telling them to suck it up or get leave.<p>They're not isolated... But they're no longer doing what they were trained to do, what they were employed to do, or what they can eek some satisfaction out of. Sure, they're talking with explosive terms - but they're also social media employees. That goes with the territory.</p>
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<p>AUR got hit recently [0], by what looks like more work of TeamPCP and friends.<p>EDIT: Worth noting, Arch ain't hosted on AUR. That's the community side only.<p>[0] <a href="https://archlinux.org/news/active-aur-malicious-packages-incident/" rel="nofollow">https://archlinux.org/news/active-aur-malicious-packages-inc...</a></p>
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<p>This one [0]. Which German QA picked up and said 'no way', and so German customers didn't get the newsletter. But everyone else still did.<p>[0] <a href="https://www.pcgamer.com/games/gog-apologizes-for-emailing-nazi-runes-to-its-followers/" rel="nofollow">https://www.pcgamer.com/games/gog-apologizes-for-emailing-na...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 03:01:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48523786</link><dc:creator>shakna</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48523786</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48523786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shakna in "Israeli firm BlackCore suspected of meddling in New York and Scotland votes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Whilst that was certainly my gut reaction, looking at the report, they only count actual felonies where charges are laid. Protests and anti-Israel rather than antisemitic things do actually appear not to be conflated.<p>However... Between 2013 and 2016, when that rule came into play, reported hate crimes rose 18.9%.<p>This seems to be less a giant jump upwards, and more a slow and gradual increase. Concerning, but not the end of the world. Unsurprising in an environment where "hate the foreigner" is en vogue for the political elite.</p>
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<p>You might need to expand on that. Considering the CVE patches that are on the link I just shared.</p>
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<p>Don't aim forward. Jump the wall to the side, and you'll be in within shout of the hole.</p>
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<p>The "outdated" package, probably has all these security fixes [0]. That's why it exists - to maintain something safely. You step back from latest and greatest, to not get a compromised system the next time something goes wrong.<p>[0] <a href="https://sources.debian.org/patches/jq/1.7.1-6+deb13u2/" rel="nofollow">https://sources.debian.org/patches/jq/1.7.1-6+deb13u2/</a></p>
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<p>iOS was PWA-only to begin with, but at the same time, OS X didn't support them at all. It was a messy time, but has since changed. [0]<p>[0] <a href="https://github.com/mdn/content/issues/32969" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/mdn/content/issues/32969</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 21:16:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48496530</link><dc:creator>shakna</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48496530</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48496530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shakna in "FPS.cob: A first person shooter in COBOL"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The actual author of the project, has been putting out COBOL passion projects since before LLMs gained popularity. Because they write COBOL.<p>They've also written a couple dozen games in SQL over the years.<p>Accusing them of inexpertise with the tools is a gut reaction - but an unfair one in this case.</p>
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<p>It makes it easier to filter. Most LLM spam can be easily noticed. And those that aren't automatically filtered, can fairly easily be closed by the maintainer - when they don't have the weight to assess each on their validity.</p>
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<p>The amount of effort that goes into keeping Termux barely functional, has a lot to do with Android and the platform making it harder and harder, to access a dev environment on a phone.<p>Running `npm install` on Android isn't so easy.<p>(Caveat: The new Android Terminal that only works on a handful of models.)</p>
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<p>> Cloudflare will not let you run an image heavy site on its own, so I use this approach to massively cut the bills. Their policy says you cannot use it primarily for images; it must be used for HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and other site content.<p>Pages has a 20k-100k limit on static files, but if they just guide you to R2 to offload it, which is still Cloudflare.<p>Did you mean the CDN? In which case, I'm not seeing that in the terms. [0] Though, I would have expected they'd have a similar thing. R2 resources don't generally count towards your cache limits.<p>[0] <a href="https://www.cloudflare.com/service-specific-terms-application-services/#content-delivery-network-terms" rel="nofollow">https://www.cloudflare.com/service-specific-terms-applicatio...</a></p>
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