Hacker News: super256

New comment by super256 in "Commission fines Temu €200M for breaching the Digital Services Act"

super256 — Thu, 28 May 2026 13:37:07 +0000

Not a breakdown, but this comment reminded me of a recent play sand test by Stiftung Warentest:

They tested play sand for asbestos, and four of these positive tested play sands were ordered on Temu. The play sand is for kids!

https://www.test.de/Deko-Spiel-und-Bastelsand-Asbest-Alarm-i...

New comment by super256 in "Stripe is friendly to “friendly fraud”"

super256 — Wed, 27 May 2026 18:01:44 +0000

Just force 3d secure, as it shifts the liability to the customer's bank. Most people don't mind opening their banking app on the phone for confirming the transaction if they really want the product for itseprice.

New comment by super256 in "Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence"

super256 — Tue, 26 May 2026 16:13:54 +0000

Maybe we should ban the stock market too.

In 2017 someone tried to bomb the bus of the BVB soccer club, after he bought puts options on the BVB stock.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borussia_Dortmund_team_bus_bom...

Ds.shadcn – Components for building design tools like Framer, Canva, and more

super256 — Tue, 19 May 2026 16:07:28 +0000

Article URL: https://ds.shadcn.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48195218

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by super256 in "Security researcher says Microsoft built a Bitlocker backdoor, releases exploit"

super256 — Sun, 17 May 2026 19:42:12 +0000

Oh hell, no. Does anyone remember Sandboxescaper/Polarbear? Very skilled researcher, but also crashouts and mental problems.

Had a job at MSFT once, but is now struggling to earn money at all and is posting heart breaking stuff on Twitter. https://x.com/WeirdQuadratic

Hope she finds a way out and a more stable and fun job in the future.

New comment by super256 in "Omnisearch – A lightweight metasearch engine written in C"

super256 — Fri, 15 May 2026 18:47:08 +0000

A meta search engine queries other search engines and aggregates the results. See searx or dogpile.com.

New comment by super256 in "Gmail registration now requires scanning a QR code and sending a text message"

super256 — Mon, 11 May 2026 11:56:10 +0000

With which workspace solution did they end up with?

New comment by super256 in "YC's Biggest Scandals"

super256 — Sun, 10 May 2026 23:08:04 +0000

http://30u30.fyi

http://termsofservice.fyi

http://ycombinator.fyi

All their sites are similar slop.

New comment by super256 in "Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX"

super256 — Thu, 07 May 2026 01:43:06 +0000

In space you get bit flips fairly quickly when using very small transistors. You would have to run stuff on fairly old hardware, which probably makes the whole thing economically inefficient for serious "computation in space".

New comment by super256 in "Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA"

super256 — Thu, 07 May 2026 01:32:58 +0000

Looks like Cloudflare has the only user friendly captcha of them all.

New comment by super256 in "Shadcn/UI: A set of beautifully designed components that you can customize"

super256 — Sat, 02 May 2026 10:27:35 +0000

You can easily change the theme by changing the css variables. You might want to take a look at https://tweakcn.com/

New comment by super256 in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro"

super256 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:42:19 +0000

Some laptops do become unusable once they start thermal throttling. I have an Matebook X Pro (2020, the one with i7) which throttles to the point where I can't even properly write code in VSC anymore (I do only light web apps).

New comment by super256 in "Meta employees are up in arms over a mandatory program to train AI on their"

super256 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:36:25 +0000

80 characters limit in the title.

New comment by super256 in "ChatGPT Images 2.0"

super256 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:26:47 +0000

I tried using it for creating 2D logos, which many tools suck at (except mid journey).

Looks like ChatGPT Images 2 is now good at this too!

New comment by super256 in "Ransomware Is Growing Three Times Faster Than the Spending Meant to Stop It"

super256 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:01:14 +0000

That is true! The sums got bigger and the market for crypto is more liquid than for PSC.

New comment by super256 in "Ransomware Is Growing Three Times Faster Than the Spending Meant to Stop It"

super256 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:32:03 +0000

Don't worry, ransomware already existed before BTC. The ransomware demanded Ukash and Paysafecard instead.

Google removes "Doki Doki Literature Club" from Google Play

super256 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 19:53:08 +0000

Article URL: https://bsky.app/profile/serenityforge.com/post/3mj3r4nbiws2t

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47743730

Points: 524

# Comments: 298

New comment by super256 in "Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI"

super256 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 10:22:20 +0000

>It isn't a product-led acquisition, but more a talent one.

I am pretty sure OAI mostly cares about their virtualization IP for MacOS. They already extensively use WSL2 for sandboxing Codex on Windows, and I imagine they want something similar for Codex on Mac.

New comment by super256 in "Moooooonitoring the Cow.txt Herd"

super256 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 09:09:27 +0000

It's a chain mail for server admins.

Microsoft terminated the account VeraCrypt used to sign Windows drivers

super256 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 07:23:39 +0000

Article URL: https://sourceforge.net/p/veracrypt/discussion/general/thread/9620d7a4b3/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47686549

Points: 1297

# Comments: 501