<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: sp0rk</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=sp0rk</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2026 13:21:16 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=sp0rk" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sp0rk in "I admire Fabrice Bellard. He is almost certainly a better overall programmer"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> There’s few things I find more pathetic than trying really hard to show who’s best and ranking things that have no business being ranked.<p>This seems like a strangely harsh response considering the person you're responding to is just restating the assertion that Carmack made in his tweet.</p>
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<p>You should check out "Counter-claims" section of your link, especially the last paragraph: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Size_Me#Counter-claims" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Size_Me#Counter-claims</a></p>
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<p>> Would love to see a metric switch to C en km/h<p>You can change the units and location by clicking the gear icon next to the city on the screen it shows in between broadcasts.</p>
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<p>> Fantasy book are a good example. A Games of Thrones was first released in 1996 but had middling success. It was only after 2011 that the series exploded in popularity. Good Omens main peak was ~15 years after release. Hell, some books like Handmaiden's Tale were published in 1985 but only reached their peak in 2010.<p>Using your example and the rules suggested in the grandparent post, GRRM's copyright would have been set to initially expire in 2024, where he would be able to pay $100k to renew it until 2038. Handmaiden's Tale works in a similar way, with the initial expiration in 2013.<p>This still seems very reasonable to me.</p>
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<p>> I do wonder though, because I have seen a dozen other brands of Amazon delivery vehicles, is Amazon being 'sponsored' by these manufacturers or just buying cars all the time? I am really confused why there's so many different brands.<p>Amazon runs a program called "Delivery Service Partners" which basically certifies small businesses to deliver Amazon packages. They are given the option of using their own fleet of vehicles if they don't want to lease the vehicles designed by Amazon.</p>
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<p>> Yet when NPR runs non-stop Walmart articles [1], often in a neutral to positive fashion, most are unaware that they've received millions of dollars from the Waltons.<p>The link your provided has 14 articles written in 2025. Topics covered: listeria outbreak, tariffs raising prices, radioactive shrimp, a stabbing at a store, and a shooting at a store.<p>Maybe two of the articles could be viewed as mildly positive towards the Walmart corporation, though they are basically just saying that the tariffs weren't impacting prices to the level that many people thought they were, and they were backed up with real-world data. I appreciate you providing an illustrative link to back up your post, but it doesn't really seem to agree with your point.</p>
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<p>> A lot of the news gives the impression that your world is over when 14th hits, not recognising that historically legacy software and hardware is a thing.<p>There was a lot of buzz in the cybersecurity world near Window XP's EOL about attackers potentially holding on to exploits until after support ended, so as to avoid having them patched. Sure enough, CVE-2014-1776 was found being actively exploited two weeks after support officially ended.<p>Using a closed source operating system after it will no longer receive security patches is just plain dangerous. I don't really think people should be advocating for it at all outside of the purposes of historical preservation.</p>
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<p>It works for me. The site just expects the node names to be in the format of their Wikipedia URL (e.g. "Binghamton,_New_York".)</p>
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<p>I'm not sure if this is an intentional design decision, but I think the results would be more interesting if it ignored all of the category links at the very bottom of the Wikipedia pages. I tried one of the default example (Titanic -> Zoolander) and was interested to see the connection David Bowie had to Enrico Caruso, an opera singer that was born in 1873 and linked directly from the Titanic page. It turns out that David Bowie is only linked on Caruso's page because they both won a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, of which all of the recipients ever are linked to at the bottom of the page.<p>By excluding the category links at the bottom that contain all the recipients, there would still be a connection, but it would include the extra hop between the two that makes their connection more clear on the graph (Titanic -> Caruso -> Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award -> David Bowie.)<p>Otherwise, this is a fun little tool to play around with. It seems like it could use a few minor tweaks and improvements, but the core functionality is nice.</p>
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<p>This page only contains links to about half of the backgrounds present on the page that is linked currently.</p>
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<p>> These days you've got Gambas for a free and open source VB, including the terrible language, but in my experience the looks are a bit off when you design on one desktop environment and run the application on another.<p>There is also Lazarus[1], which uses Pascal but feels closer to what I remember of the VB6 experience.<p>1: <a href="https://www.lazarus-ide.org/" rel="nofollow">https://www.lazarus-ide.org/</a></p>
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<p>Announcements like this typically contain information that will help users identify if they were compromised, such as the name of files that are dropped or modified when the malware is initialized, startup entry names, etc. Obviously the person with remote access can get in and manually start doing things on individual machines, but that doesn't mean there aren't indicators present from the programmatic actions the malware took before that point or on machines that weren't manually accessed.</p>
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<p>The author explains in the article that they previously gave a presentation outlining various techniques to achieve a "schizophrenic" zip file. The blog post discusses an additional technique that was not present in their previous presentation.</p>
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<p>Where are ads displayed in your Google Messages? I have never seen any ads and I struggle to even imagine where they would place an ad within its interface.</p>
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<p>As somebody that was using Windows XP up to its EoL, I am fairly certain I was in the minority (at least amongst home users.) I don't think anybody I knew was using XP by the time its end came. The only reason I was still on it at the time was a complete lack of income which meant using very old hand-me-down hardware.<p>The situation with Windows 10 feels quite different, because most people I know that use Windows are on Windows 10 currently.</p>
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<p>> There's a culture of indifference, an embrace of mediocrity. I don't think it's new, but I do think perhaps AI has given the lazy and prideless an even lower energy route to... I'm not sure. What is the goal?<p>I think pride in work has declined a lot (at least in the US) because so many large employers have shown that they aren't even willing to pretend to care about their employees. It's difficult to take pride in work done for an employee that you aren't proud of, or actively dislike.</p>
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<p>The SVG equation is very difficult to read if you're using a dark OS theme because the blog uses the OS preference for dark/light theme (and doesn't seem to give an option to change it manually, either.)</p>
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<p>This is a really bad faith interpretation of what he's saying. I think a more reasonable interpretation is that he's claiming the 2020 election was rigged (a claim he's made many times already), which in turn means he was able to run again for 2024.</p>
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<p>Do you have any examples of stories where one of the subjects was contacted, wanted to respond, but didn't have enough time?</p>
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<p>I witnessed a pretty alarming situation on TikTok surrounding the story about the Dalai Lama asking a young boy to "suck his tongue." Traditional news outlets ran the initial story, and then followed up shortly after to provide important cultural context, as well as the Dalai Lama's apology.<p>My girlfriend's TikTok For You Page, on the other hand, only showed her stuff about the initial story and then she never heard anything else about it. We both walked away from this news story with completely different views of reality.<p>Maybe it's a coincidence or caused by some less nefarious reason, like an algorithmic bias towards newer news, but it seems very suspicious given China's relationship with Tibet.</p>
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