<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: starkrights</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=starkrights</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 14:44:38 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=starkrights" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by starkrights in "Canvas is down as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Where did you find information on the nature of the attack?</p>
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<p>The source txtfile has since either been dos'd or deleted (at least it was when I tried to access)<p>Someone dumped the content into a google doc on reddit[1] if anyone's interested.<p>[1]: <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MTktVSwTUM5I_w7bKNGj94sTsluR_0XQ81Z0v_Lrd0g/edit?usp=sharing" rel="nofollow">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MTktVSwTUM5I_w7bKNGj94sT...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 23:44:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48056594</link><dc:creator>starkrights</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48056594</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48056594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by starkrights in "Tell HN: Fiverr left customer files public and searchable"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Can you actually explain why the phrase you cited from OP is wrong? You say that ~”files need to be linked to from somewhere” is correct. How is a file linked to from somewhere [on the internet] if it’s not being served on the internet that Google crawls (ie, HTML)? The only alternative is in… API calls? That Google probably isn’t crawling?<p>“Fiverr might be hosting public HTML somewhere” seems like an entirely reasonable alternative phrase to “these links must be linked from somewhere [that Google can crawl] “, at least to someone who is only superficially familiar with how search works.<p>The distinction you imply is obvious is not, and your point is thus rather confusing to someone who is not you.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 13:33:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47778748</link><dc:creator>starkrights</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47778748</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47778748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by starkrights in "Decompiling Xbox games using PDB debug info"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This site never ceases to surprise me with new username jumpscares (no negative connotation intended)<p>I had no idea you were an (ex?) sysadmin! Apologies for the offtopic driveby reply, but what a small world we live in.</p>
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<p>I'm entirely unfamiliar with the vr rendering space, so all I have to go on is what (I think) your comment implies.<p>Is the current state of VR rendering really just rendering and transporting two videostreams independent of eachother? Surely there has to be at least some academic prior-art on the subject, no?</p>
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<p>I think it depends on whether or not you have good 6ghz connectivity. The headset comes with a 6ghz usb dongle pluggable to your rendering PC for locales without a 6ghz router or good 6ghz penetration, but due to 6ghz lack of wall-penetrating capability, that's probably going to be more/less line-of-sight. The LTT video [0] does explicitly mention the ability to use either mode of connection though- over your existing wifi network, or via their 6ghz dongle. It's somewhat unclear if the headset would function over a non 6ghz connection (regardless of quality- supposedly 2.4/5ghz VR-over-wifi is pretty rough due to channel congestion and maybe bandwidth limits)<p>The headset is also capable of being its own renderer, ie, it can do 'mobile' vr games (android apks like on the quest, eg). That functionality wouldn't need a connection to your PC at all.<p>[0]: <a href="https://youtu.be/dU3ru09HTng?t=445" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/dU3ru09HTng?t=445</a> - timestamped at wireless segment</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2025 19:18:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45904812</link><dc:creator>starkrights</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45904812</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45904812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by starkrights in "Steam Frame"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Per the LTT video [0], the new Steam Frame controllers will have a (separately purchasable) accessory pack which includes a knuckles-like strap. Supposedly the controllers have enough capacitive-sensing ("on every input surface, and on the grips") for knuckles-like five finger tracking.<p>Linus says "just like" the valve knuckles a couple times, but who knows how they'll feel comparatively. I've personally never used the knuckles, but they seem like they'd have a different enough feel from these to maybe make a difference.<p>[0]: <a href="https://youtu.be/dU3ru09HTng?t=246" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/dU3ru09HTng?t=246</a> - timestampped @ controller section.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2025 19:10:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45904653</link><dc:creator>starkrights</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45904653</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45904653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by starkrights in "Linux gamers on Steam cross over the 3% mark"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Are you saying that windows users are supposed get the steam hardware once a month?<p>I’ve had steam installed on (and more/less used daily on) probably 4-5 different windows installs since roughly 2016, and I’ve never seen it more than once a year.</p>
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<p>It doesn't take being outside of the west for this to be relevant. Two places I currently frequent, A) the software development offices of a fortune 500 company, and B) the entire office & general-spaces (classrooms, computer labs, etc) of a sizeable university, have 1080p monitors for >80% of their entire monitor deployment.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2025 13:16:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45604960</link><dc:creator>starkrights</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45604960</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45604960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by starkrights in "Zed for Windows: What's Taking So Long?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The zed blog has an early post[0] talking some about their decision. Mainly just decrying their experience of impossible-to-meet timing deadlines for something as basic as 60fps on electron.<p>It doesnt really do a tech breakdown of why it’d be impossible CPU side, but mentions a couple of things about their design process for it.<p>[0]: <a href="https://zed.dev/blog/videogame" rel="nofollow">https://zed.dev/blog/videogame</a></p>
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<p>What a neat thing to see crop up on hackernews. I did a mini report on guédelon in one of my French courses in Uni. The name immediately threw me back to memories of trying to describe some of the ‘technical’ aspects of the project in my shoddy early French, haha.</p>
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<p>Not sure of the rest of the world, but at least in the US, patenting “software” is a pretty murky subject legally (at least it feels that way when trying to do some basic research on it) Something that seems common among sources discussing it is that “Software Related Inventions” (eg, a computer that does XYZ) can be patentable, but software/code itself is not literally patentable. Seemingly, because we’re talking about libraries that would be pure software, not a product for sale based on it, you wouldn’t be able patent libraries like you’re talking about.<p>I’d provide links to some discourse of this, but honestly I think it’s better to search “can you patent software in the US” and do a brief read of various sources, because the terminology between them can seem somewhat counterfactual to eachother.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2025 18:53:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44816081</link><dc:creator>starkrights</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44816081</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44816081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by starkrights in "Britain Is Losing Its Free Speech, and America Could Be Next"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A slippery slope is fallacious when the argument is made with little evidence or reasoning to connect the current state/action to the supposed bottom of the slope.
 Whether or not you agree with the reasoning is one thing, but there’s been a great deal of argument and discourse talking about the ways we are approaching worse and worse things, and the ways we have purportedly already progressed down the metaphorical slope.
Acknowledging fallacy is one thing, but categorically dismissing all arguments that discuss the (observed and/or potential) repercussions that can arise from current trends and actions on account “slippery slope is a fallacy”, with absolutely zero critical thinking applied to argue against the reasoning and/or alleged evidence of the slope is, well, unreasonable, I feel.<p>You can argue that the original comment just said “it’s a slippery slope!”, and so that specific conversation is not very valuable, but there’s a lot of surrounding discourse that makes “haha you’re wrong/your topic is invalid because you only said slippery slope!” Is obtuse at best.<p>And if I didn’t clarify enough, it’s not as if “slippery slopes” don’t and/or physically can’t exist. It’s just that frequently people claim there is one with no argument to support it, just that “it is” a slippery slope, and that it is scary/true just because of the way that it is. That’s fallacy.</p>
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<p>Why is that?</p>
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<p>It doesn’t capture the spirit of a group of friends getting together to play video games in a shared space? Or there’s a different definition of the LAN party spirit that somehow entirely precludes that aspect?<p>Like I could understand saying it misses out on the aspect of literally bringing your individual PCs, missing out on the neatness of everyone’s individuality as another commenter pointed out, but I don’t think they’d agree that the in person, gaming in the same place aspect is entirely precluded from “the spirit”</p>
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<p>Good faith clarification: you’re saying you believe that preventing chicks from being born causes an equal amount of suffering to an animal as the (what would otherwise be) physical extermination of those chicks?</p>
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<p>> a program that doesn’t matter anymore<p>The rest of this comment has, though gratuitously snarky, a point, but I don’t think claiming that 7zip is irrelevant as an independent statement is even remotely coherent.</p>
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<p>Never seen WAI before, all I can come up with is Works As Intended or Web Accessibility Initiative?<p>Anyways- jail breaking requires being or remaining on certain iOS versions on certain specific hardware models. You can’t “just jailbreak” your apple device that you daily drive/use regularly. If you’re not on an old version on the right hardware already, you’re fucked. And waiting for a new jailbreak exploit is a (anecdotally, for me at least) nondeterministic amount of time on the order of O(years), with a significant probability that it will not be relevant for whatever device you’re waiting on.</p>
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<p>I had the same reaction. Nano leaf is extremely cool for that.</p>
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<p>Is there a ‘right’ (or simple/direct) way to generate this using various buildchains? I remember setting this up so I could use Sublime with intellisense a while ago, and finding that I could only get it to generate with a specific compiler chain on windows (ninja I think?)<p>Minor annoyance to have to make my c make project generate buildchain files for a compiler I’m not using & copy that file into my project root to commit it- unrelated to the original question, but also annoying that I have to manually generate it every time I make significant codebase changes.</p>
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