Hacker News: slowmover

New comment by slowmover in "Obsidian plugin was abused to deploy a remote access trojan"

slowmover — Sun, 10 May 2026 22:28:04 +0000

> The victim is prompted to enable the "Installed community plugins" synchronization feature.

Obsidian has the proper protections in place to prevent this type of attack, and the victims are being convinced to ignore them. This is just a successful social engineering event. I hate to see Obsidian dragged down by this headline, since this attack is not exploiting a vulnerability in it or its plugin system.

New comment by slowmover in "Bash startup config file behavior (diagram)"

slowmover — Tue, 05 May 2026 13:22:20 +0000

I took the time to construct this diagram a while back. Thought I'd post it here since it might be useful to others. AFAIK, it's complete and accurate, though any comments on it would be appreciated. Note that the bash startup process is even more complicated than this diagram indicates if bash is launched with certain command-line options. But trying to cover all those cases would make this diagram uselessly complex.

Bash startup config file behavior (diagram)

slowmover — Tue, 05 May 2026 13:22:20 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/rezrov/shellrc/blob/master/bash-startup.png

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48022210

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by slowmover in "How to be anti-social – a guide to incoherent and isolating social experiences"

slowmover — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 15:24:48 +0000

"dig in your heels when confronted with overwhelming dissent"

Sorry, sticking to this one.

Call me anti-social if you want, but facing overwhelming dissent may indicate you're the lone free-thinker in an echo chamber. Being that one guy who's always prodding the hivemind with a pokey stick has value in my opinion (though you will end up getting stung on occasion).

New comment by slowmover in "I fact-checked Scientific American, with accidental help from Anthropic"

slowmover — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 12:43:11 +0000

Reporting around this Claude Code CLI leak is rife with disinformation and hyperbole. Even sources we'd like to trust are getting it wrong. This article explains what was leaked, and why it doesn't really matter much.

I fact-checked Scientific American, with accidental help from Anthropic

slowmover — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 12:43:11 +0000

Article URL: https://iron.blue/blog/2026/apr-may-jun/the-claude-code-leak-is-a-huge-nothingburger

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47626037

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

Show HN: Images in Your OpenCode Terminal with Kitty

slowmover — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 12:45:04 +0000

I particularly enjoyed writing the installation "script".

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47453760

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Do Not Document Your Code

slowmover — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 12:29:38 +0000

Article URL: https://iron.blue/articles/do-not-document-your-code

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47322321

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by slowmover in "Farnborough Airshow: The Scorpion in search of a customer"

slowmover — Tue, 15 Jul 2014 18:24:04 +0000

Another US-built plane with comparable performance stats and an even lower price tag ($2.6M 2014 adjusted):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_F-82_Twin_Mustan...

New comment by slowmover in "EasyRPG"

slowmover — Mon, 30 Jun 2014 16:39:43 +0000

See mkxp (https://github.com/Ancurio/mkxp), an open-source replacement for the RPGMaker engine that was used by "To The Moon" for Linux/Mac support.

New comment by slowmover in "EasyRPG"

slowmover — Mon, 30 Jun 2014 16:36:20 +0000

Perhaps it's also worth mentioning mkxp in this thread: https://github.com/Ancurio/mkxp

mkxp is an open source cross-platform runtime engine for RPGMaker games and supports games made with RPGMaker VX. This is the engine they used to make "To The Moon" platform independent. From what I've read it's pretty easy to move games over to mkxp, but you have to be very careful not to use any RPGMaker-licensed assets in your game even if they are royalty-free because they're only licensed for distribution with the genuine RPGMaker engine.

New comment by slowmover in "Spinal cord work 'is a breakthrough'"

slowmover — Tue, 08 Apr 2014 19:34:21 +0000

Good point. Many (or most?) people do not understand the wide range of disability associated with SCI. No two injuries are alike.

New comment by slowmover in "Spinal cord work 'is a breakthrough'"

slowmover — Tue, 08 Apr 2014 19:31:40 +0000

A spinal cord stimulator was suggested to me several years ago to help treat the neuropathic pain [1] associated with my (complete) spinal cord injury. I'm currently trialing Prialt [2] for this, but if it doesn't work (or the side-effects are too nasty) I might pursue the stimulator.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuropathic_pain [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziconotide

New comment by slowmover in "Spinal cord work 'is a breakthrough'"

slowmover — Tue, 08 Apr 2014 19:24:56 +0000

Paraplegic here, can confirm (for myself anyway). After reading several discussions/polls online on the subject, it seems to me that the general order of importance is:

1. Resolution of neuropathic pain 2. Use of hands 3. Sexual function 4. Bladder and bowel function 5. (a few other things) 6. The ability to walk

I should note that the discussions/polls I've read are mostly from the United States. The U.S. is probably the most accessible country in the world, and as a citizen I don't miss walking so much because I can still do almost anywhere I want to. If the discussion was among people from undeveloped countries, the ability to walk might score much higher.

New comment by slowmover in "ASCII Delimited Text – Not CSV or TAB delimited text"

slowmover — Wed, 26 Mar 2014 18:23:28 +0000

> One might question why all control codes in the ASCII character set have low values, but the DEL control code has value 127. This is, because this specific character was defined for deleting data on paper tapes. Most paper tapes in that time used 7 holes to code the data. The value 127 represents a binary pattern were all seven bits are high, so when using the DEL character on an existing paper tape, all holes are punched and existing data is erased.

I love this, it shows just how old the roots of ASCII are.

New comment by slowmover in "Google gives UK government “super flagger” status for YouTube?"

slowmover — Fri, 14 Mar 2014 17:04:09 +0000

David Cameron must have recently watched the first episode of Black Mirror.

New comment by slowmover in "Why open floorplans are bad for programming"

slowmover — Wed, 12 Mar 2014 15:04:41 +0000

PSA - As an alternative to headphones I came up with "stealth" earplugs. Take regular memory-foam earplugs, cut them down so the outer edge is flush with your ear hole, and color the outside edge black with a sharpie. The cut out the background noise but let enough sound through that you can have a normal conversation with someone next to you. Sometimes I wear them all day.

New comment by slowmover in "Why open floorplans are bad for programming"

slowmover — Wed, 12 Mar 2014 14:57:32 +0000

This is exactly the issue I have in my current open floor plan. Developers are intermixed with project managers and business analysts and anyone else who happens to occupy the empty desk at the end of the row.

However, the worst distraction I have is actually another developer whose voice carries like buckshot out at 12 gauge. He's been asked to keep it down but it seems like he is physically incapable of understanding how loud he talks.

New comment by slowmover in "Show HN: SVG Clocks"

slowmover — Mon, 10 Mar 2014 17:52:57 +0000

TIL one can embed javascript in SVG. Can it be used to do more than just changing the positions and rotations of objects already defined in the file? (In other words, could someone write Space Invaders entirely in SVG?)

New comment by slowmover in "This Week in Rust"

slowmover — Mon, 24 Feb 2014 23:09:34 +0000

Java, C#, Ruby, and Python are all interpreted/VMed languages. I'm curious why you would liken Go to them. Other than garbage collection, I can't see any significant similarities in their design or usage.